Mayday Plays - 👻 ORPHEUS, Book 2: Crusade of Ashes - Chapter 3: "A Knock At The Door"

Episode Date: September 23, 2023

Crucible 12 arrives in Baltimore to find Virgil Lincoln, a man whose connection to Next World may offer the Crucible a chance at clearing their names. As usual, nothing goes according to plan. Cast: Vince @suddenlyvince - Storyteller Amanda @amandadomenech - Mia Castillo-Benet Caleb @ginsbergsong - Colette Sawyer Eli @aghostofeli - Nakoa Ka'Uhane Lev - @lego2mrs - Logan Rio Mercado Sergio - @surgettrpg - Lavinia Aileen Dyer Zakiya - @zakthedrak - Viv "515" Aaker We've got merch! https://ko-fi.com/maydayrp (t-shirts and stickers) Thanks for checking out our channel! We offer a bunch of art, music, and behind-the-screen access including Vegas By Night 1-on-1 sessions on our Patreon; https://www.patreon.com/maydayrp including access to our discord server! We started as a podcast! Listen to us @: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mayday-plays/id1537347277 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5vdTgXoqpSpMssSP9Vka3Z?si=73ec867215744a01 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/mayday-roleplay Here are some of our other socials; Twitter: https://twitter.com/maydayroleplay Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maydayrp/ Website: https://maydayroleplay.com/ Thanks for your support! Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/maydayroleplay

Good morning, good afternoon and good day folks. Allow me to welcome you to another episode of Orpheus. I'm Vince, your host and storyteller for this campaign. I'm Amanda and I play Mia. I'm Caleb James Miller and I'll be playing Collette. I'm Eli and I'm playing Nikoa Kahone. I'm Lev and I'm playing the coa Kah-ohane. I'm Lev and I'm playing Logan Rue Micado. I'm Sergio and I'm playing Levinia Eileen Dyer. I'm Zikia

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Speaking of learning things, I believe it is our very dear Caleb's turn to educate us on what happened last time with another beautiful recap, so Caleb, if you would be so kind. Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure. This isn't even for Orpheus anymore. I've just realized that if I don't get this shit out, I may never process this at all or I'll die. So the world is ending in the most low key way, and it's all because of government-sponsored corporate greed. So I feel like I should get points for prophecy

or something. I'm just saying it's a good time to be an artist who loves and I told you so. With the Orpheus gone and this massive terrorist free fall fall out starting to fill the room like mustard gas the group is Scramble or splitting or going through some form of really fucked up semi gay mitosis Team one is made up of these really hot horned up revenge balls that want to see the perpetrators bought brought to

Righteous justice and where their enemy spaces. And team 2 is the living leftovers of flesh that team 1 has decided falls directly under their protection. I sound ungrateful. I sound bitter. I know, but you should have been there watching your dead friends swear vengeance around a kitchen island like we were gearing up for war. They're dead sure but sometimes when the light is right there's a glow in all of their eyes that makes me convince they're more here than I ever could be. Some bizarre v9 engine that won't

quit for shit that keeps repelling them forward. I don't know what that is, but it's cosmic, it's beautiful. There's a power in the grudge that Lavanya can hold. Sometimes I worry that I won't have that when I'm past. I worry I'll be like AB, that I'll fade with nothing more to say, that there won't be fuel enough to continue on. At least me and the beanman will have some rest that way in the quiet corners of what comes next. Anyways, Vin went to the library and researched into the jack boot flavor of Orpheus and found some interesting leads from her old Matrix cosplay group. In a name, a virtual Lincoln called him Price of Admission.

My bet's on a snuff film. Me and the one and only Viv Acre went and snitched to my DEA guy on the situation to try and suss out whether we were going to end up on America's most wanted or if we had any chance of making it out alive. Good news is we do, at least for now. Kola and Logan went in on a full-ride scholarship to the crater left where Orpheus campus used to be

and just came back with more dead memories. The carnage Kola described when she came back was horrible. I couldn't imagine being in that building when it happened and I only know what she would tell us. I felt like she was holding back even more for out of her respect of the dead. But if you could believe that any more could have happened to those poor people.

But worse, they ran into evil co-a twirling mustache and all. It came with that same lead, this Virgil kid out, Baltimore. Just don't know why it helped us. What does it have to gain by giving us any lead at all? Mia, well, we all know where Mia went and from the look on her face when she came back, it seemed to have gone okay. She came back from her majesty with a week-long leash and the same warning I received. We came back together and decided that we needed to clear our names. And if we were going to do that, we'd have to have a damn good reason for the world to believe us. And then one thing, late night drive into Baltimore,

only on the way that familiar white noise kicked on to the radio and portended our death again. The traps set for us in Virgil. There's nowhere else we can go and in a week to make any sort of sense of what's going on to happen. What's going to happen to us? So what are we to do? We drive head first at it, unbothered by the consequences, unafraid of death. Knowing that anything that could have happened to us would just usher us into the next kind of happening.

Here's to having fuel enough for that journey too. I had a coffee, a croissant sandwich, one of those nasty fucking cliff bars and two salads. Collette. Absolutely amazing. As always, thank you Caleb. So with that, I believe when we last left off, we were actually beginning or already on our way into Baltimore proper. What do we do? That's a long

drive. So what's what kind of happens on the way over if anything? Cool. I believe I'm driving. I can't. I gotta be taking turns. Rotate into your turn. Yeah, yeah, it's a long drive, right? Yeah, it is. Yeah, Colorado out to Baltimore, which across the country. Yeah. It's like 26 hours or something like that. Thereabouts. That's right.

Yeah, I think the discussion was had to like let the, let the, let the spirits do most of the, you know, Jesus take the wheel, so to speak. Let them do the do most of the, you know, Jesus take the wheels, so to speak. And let them do the drive and while the livis still slept. But is there any, like, I wore any stops made was where any supplies picked up. What's the, yeah. Collette takes like 50 fucking bathroom breaks like

Every hour on the hour we need to stop incredible incredible question can't uh Oh, no, we're in a we're in a BMW right you're in a BMW SUV. Yeah, courtesy of Matatou yes, okay Does it always have to be at a gas station or do we just pull off the road and just did your business behind the sumbushes? Oh no. No. Collette is pretty enough. We got to be clever. Half the time it's not even so that Collette can use the restroom. It's just so Collette doesn't have to be in the car. That's fair.

Can I drug you so we can get there faster? Can I drug you? That's pretty friendly. At least she asked. Can I drug the addict? Yes, can. It's an interesting question. Please don't.

It's like we've got to get to Baltimore. You know, it's like some time before the week is over over and I got a week we might as well take our time This is a good chance. I just like if Levin is driving at some point that you know Just will say things like oh this exit doesn't have one hold on and just like Just lie Yeah, just lie. Yeah, I don't love that. We eat too. We're headed to Baltimore.

We know what address we're going to, right? Sure, no. We know we're looking for a name. Dove name. We have two names, right? We have Virgil and Virgil's supposed to lead us to someone else, right? Derov.

Derov. No, I'm Lincoln. No, Virgil Lincoln. Yeah, fine Lincoln, find Derov. Find the Blasphemer's, they? Derov. Derov. No, I'm Lincoln. No, Virgil Lincoln. Yeah, fine Lincoln, find Derov. Find the blasphemers, they have flat line. The blasphemy. Ken, Levinia just do all the obvious searching on the internet for Virgil Lincoln and Address,

some way of tracking them down. Absolutely, yeah. We'll assume that you, at some point, stopped off at a best buy and picked up like a laptop with like a Wi-Fi buck or something, it's super easy to get access to those sorts of things now. Enough to get you up and running.

I mean, it's obviously not your typical, are we cool yet, set up, but it'll get the job done for the time being. So yeah, go ahead and make for me a, what role, what role do you think? Right, well Wits makes sense Though an intelligence role to know where to look would make sense to me, okay, and then

Maybe security in the sense that I'm trying to like break person's security and figure out where I can find them. Otherwise a computer... Yeah, I would say, yeah, get away with intelligence, and either something like computer security, investigation, any of those. I'm gonna go with security, because I got a decent amount into that before it. If my PDF would stop flashing, I could find out how I should have it. There we go. Three. All right, so with a loop six, here we go. That's four successes. Perfect. Yeah, beautiful. So you're able to find kind of a decent amount

of information. Thankfully, you have a little bit to go on, right? Virgil Lincoln, Baltimore Maryland employee of Next World. And you do find some information on Virgil. Yes, he was indeed born in Baltimore, a veteran of the Marines, and obviously an employee of next world at this point. You do know he has a brother named Poet and there is a family address in West Baltimore.

West Baltimore, okay. Yeah, I'll let us know. I'll probably update the GPS to head there to the family location. Okay. He has a brother, poet. I can't say I've ever met a poet named poet. That's a baller, neither.

A poet, come on, call, even you have to know. A poet? A poet named poet, come on. No, wait, we don't know he's a poet. Wait, wait, are you serious? Are you his poet? Sounds like a voice to your brother. Yeah, you guys are shitting on a veteran. Just remember that when you go in Veteran right here. Well, then you should not be participating in friendly fire soldier.

That the back of that hole. Oh my God. First of all, I can give shit to anyone who I want at this point, because you're a veteran. And I'm on the run at this point. Well, I know one person you can give shit to. Yes, because she's usually got your mouth closed, but usually the other way around, but you know what? Oh, is it weird for an American soldier to serve the monarchy? Is that still weird? I think that'd get better. I don't- I don't- Which you said the other way around, and I don't believe it.

I thought from my freedom to make basically where I can literally say, fuck the police. To make a woman scream. You fought for your freedom so she could take away yours. I get it. Oh. Cool. Air now. Okay.

Okay. Raw. Raw. Say for fun. Um, you know, Viv, I just thought of something. You had some dots in, was it Arsenal? Yes. Yes, I have a little storage facility. Did we happen to make a stop on our way over before leaving?

No, no, I have to remember what's in that storage facility, but I have that. I hope. Well, we'll learn Baltimore now. So I think that's, that ship sailed. Do I still have my bloody axe that was in my chest at one point? You know, I put all my camping stuff in the back of this BMW. Sure, absolutely.

Yeah, yeah, did he, did he stop in the guns? I know, that's what I'm thinking. No, no, no, no, don't read too much into it. I just want, I'm trying to generate discussion about maybe some things we should have brought with us might have with us. I just answered don't reach too much into it, but you should have guns. We've already finished reading it. We have we should have books two guns that are separate. I am also gone. You are also gone. That's right.

I am also. Ghost is a gun. That's right. I am also gone. So does a ghost is a gun. Yes. Yeah. I am also gone. Mia always has a gun. Mia is strapped in more ways than one. What's that? Oh, this is not a family friendly,

just a friendly family episode of. I'm happy now. So I flew my back back. What am I supposed to do? It's friends. Jesus Christ. Oh, I love you all. Okay, so let's get this trade back on the tracks.

That was Logan speaking not love. Oh, no, no, no. I know, me as just like, you're not supposed to announce your fucking business like that, Jesus. And someone draws you off of your office. I mean, what does it mean? Oh, we're there watching the business, or were you? We haven't heard from off a girl. We're all gay. Yeah, it doesn't mean we're there watching the business or were you, we haven't heard from Cohen in a minute.

What's Cohen doing is all this chaos is in public since shooting around them. I'm essentially people watching. In the back. Love it. Just keeping an eye on everybody. There's nothing in anything I can particularly do while we're driving.

You could try to foreboat if you wanted to maybe. I think because especially now that you have an address you've got some information you can try to maybe get some insight into where you're headed. I'd give that to you. Sure I'll always spend one for it. Okay. Yeah PC may see into the past of their immediate vicinity or into the future with relation to specific potential events So I'd say you got enough information to go off on this point You're not necessarily looking to the past more kind of what you're walking into That's empathy manipulation. Yeah, indeed

And at this point because you all have been driving for so long any expended vitality is as more than Recharge at this point and will power Yeah, yeah, we'll get a little better. I'll be generous. Thank you, Phoenix. That's four successes. Beautiful. All right. With four successes, you can see a probable future, and at least one possible alternative future clearly. So what are we focusing on? What are we thinking about?

What are we trying to glean insight into? Well, it would be a finding Virgil, right? Maybe just leaving what's up with him or like, we could be a little more into. Knowing exactly where he is would be helpful, but I'm, Lavini is particularly worried about, he's gonna be surrounded like. Yeah, there's going to be some kind of force

trying to get him before we do. Yeah, my thought is like, they are, maybe focusing on the trap too. like the trap portion of it. Yeah, it literally said it's a trap. Yeah, like what dangers of foot? Not just dangerous. Not just pursuing, yeah, in pursuing Virgil. If it's like a week, you said,

should you also like, is it possible for you to, oh, a day? I'm normally doing a day. Oh, okay, nevermind. We have a week to get. We don't have to get there, but I'm only doing a day. Oh, good, nevermind. We have a week to get there. We don't have a week to get there, but I'm only using a day because we should be right. I'd like to do the forebow like when we're as close to lost in as we are, getting, love it.

Yeah. So some of the, it's all kind of not necessarily a blur, but it's like fast forwarding and rewinding and rewatching the same tape over and over again, but every time you hit play again after rewinding it, it's a different movie. It's very strange. It's a different outcome. You see, firstly, you know, You see explosions and a row house on fire. You see all of you standing in a room surrounded by men, everyone screaming at each other, some to calm down, some to get on the ground.

You see, you can practically smell the fear in the air at that point. You see bodies on the fear in the air at that point. You see bodies on the ground, not dissimilar from your vision prior to the attack on Orpheus. And you see smoke everywhere. You see a door off its hinges. You see windows broken and you see a team moving through the house, training their barrels on the bodies lying on the floor,

one of which is Collette's and then checking her two shots of the chest one to the head before moving on to the next. I have a question. Yes. How does Nikola look to everyone else during this foreboding? That's a good question. What would they say? I think if Nicole's foreboding, then they're probably

in the back row, the back is row. And they're just like sit cross-legged with their hands out on their lap. But I think they're just widely staring. And when Nicole uses their, though they have like all white in their eyes when they use for bowed, it turns all black. So it's just them kind of just blankly staring off and you probably, they're generally always in a very neutral disposition, but you can probably see they're like expression, like furrowing at places as they're reading through all of this. But it's just silence and just those bit of expressions on their face. Okay, cool.

I think this is just paying attention to that. And that's all centered around us pursuing Virgil. Correct, yeah. Most of it around like in that immediately of that house, which with little Google Street View action, you confirm is Virgil. Or at least the address on file for Virgil. Where we're heading.

Yeah. Or at least his family. always his family. Okay, that's all I can get from from that then I'll come out of it. Well, at least I know we're most likely walking into a trap if we go any further finding Virgil but we knew that anything what kind of trap like a government's coming after us trap or like

home alone booby trap that is very important more trap Home alone booby trap. Oh, that is very important More trap Mm also good Yeah, yeah More or less we just get our hands caught in the cookie jar essentially like mouse trap Sure mouse trap Well, that's one possibility, right? You don't always see the exact future.

Yes, but patterns, there's enough patterns there to just suggest that any pursuit towards that will lead to a similar outcome. Maybe we can divide and conquer. If we just watch the house see if anyone important comes out and then catch them somewhere else. That's one. I was thinking maybe if we can't bring ourselves to Virgil, we find a way to bring Virgil to us. And maybe we can trap him instead of the other way around. What if we run down his brother, the poet? Is he local? And what do you hope to accomplish with that? if we run down his brother, the poet. Is he local? And what do you hope to accomplish with that?

Well, he is. We could get poet to call Virgil. I mean, maybe they're close. Maybe they, you know, are close enough that we can convince this guy to bring Virgil to us rather than, you know, Hunter Dennis. I'll make friends to make a friend. Yeah, I know it's not a strong suit in this group and I was not suggesting that we like We could just say for his protection or for us.

I mean, it's basically exactly what we would be doing i did think we were gonna just get that and not poet but use poet to kidnap virtually i don't have eyes on that we're already wanted that's not ideal i don't think it's a bad idea to lure him out what my main concern is is that whatever organization is on our heels the moment they see him step out, they're simply going to

arrest him and throw him in a van. Like, concern is we need to get to him before they get to him and it might require just being sloppy about it. Can you hijack him for a little bit? I suppose I could, yes. I suppose I could, yes. Could be. I know that's going to be a lot and a lot of power, but you could feed off me in a way. And if you just, they'd say grab homeboy and just walk him in. Yeah, I mean, you've got battery pack options.

Which to say, I mean, would it be the worst thing if we win in ghost? All of us that can, and then Mia just hangs is Getaway Driver, which I feel shitty for like just making you be outside of all the action because... I think now that I am basically out of commission, I am the default Getaway Driver at this point. We don't know exactly what is coming for us. There are people who can inhabit unused bodies and it poses a vulnerability if we just go in all at once. Well, we've also got to think that at Orpheus,

they were throwing reapers down, right? There's no telling that we're safer being ghosts than we are being before, right? Yeah, I think we gotta meet outside of the house. Just take him off our home turf somehow. We need to make contact with him then and get him out of the home. His brother, Poet Lincoln, makes the most sense

in terms of the convincing him urgently, someone that he trusts, someone that he knows. Even if it's just him saying that there isn't, if we can ask Poet to like stage an emergency, something that would just catch him off guard where he doesn't think he needs to roll with backup. I mean, speaking of inhabiting, I can inhabit his brother and give him a call. Yeah, that's exactly true. Call him to lunch. Just to make sure we get the tone right.

We don't know if they're close. Do we? We just know the name. We know the name. We know that we have a familial address, which means they either live together or they know each other well enough that they share an address of some kind.

Cola, do me a favor, roll perception plus alertness, just to see if you can glean some additional details from the visions you add. Okay, hold on. I'm trying to put something together. I like it. Find her. She's got only one success. With that, I'll at least tell you that,

because success still success. The one thing you remember seeing that stood out as odd to you is that there were sandbags in front of all the windows. Hmm. there were sandbags in front of all the windows. Her case. Her case. Or yes, I'm kind of flooding. Or use Brady for the salt, right? Yeah, before can somebody check the weather for me?

Sure. Like any iPhone app. Off the coast. Some maybe some rain over the weekend nothing crazy. Okay, not a hurricane never mind. Sorry My thought was he's ready for an assault, right? That makes sense too He's waiting for someone to break down the door Well, he's maybe he needs a friend to barrier. Oh

300 that's funneless and one-spot location. I mean, he's, I don't know if we're going to be able to get him out of the house then if he's that, if he's acting that paranoid. That's, that's fair. Yeah, I'd be able to call him enough to make him complacent. We can establish trust with him, you know. You think I could do that? Is his brother or do we have to do that in person? I mean, Cohen, I can do a whale.

Might call him down a little bit. Although I don't know if we can whale that many people, if there's, like you said, if there's a bunch of them. Well, the... the... the... the... the if we can extract Virgil before any of this happens That's an option as well What's the fastest way in one of us walk through a wall another one blows the door or a Wall down and then another one drags him into a car, right? I mean What's more direct than that? I mean? I thought we were talking about not shows, not having shows of force. I thought we were just talking about being chill. What does it matter when your lives are on the line? We need this man to prove your innocence. I get that, but I don't think he's going to be super, you know, receptive

to anything we say if he, if we blow his house up. this is me talking I'm the king of like running in and doing dumb shit but in this instance I think it might be who of us. Ew I've never said be who. He was going to be nice. God I lost it because of the blue ball. I'm very proud of you. In the last of real maturity right there. It might be who wants to be nice. I think Logan's right. We can definitely try it and then have the blowing up of a wall and throwing him in a van

as a second option. Yeah. I'm still in that option. Please go back. I still, I like, and then if in worst case, the video just my puppet. My biggest concern is some of the tactics that have been previously used by whoever might be on at the end of our attack I guess. I'm connected to him because he's sure what might be fine. He

failed. He failed. Next one. Right. What I'm trying, what I'm trying to say is that how they had executed their attack is something that is not necessarily out of their wheelhouse when approaching us, meaning an inhibitor or an inhibitor on a building, keeping us from leaving things of those nature.

I think we would feel coached this more delicately, not have all of our eggs in one basket, not all of us going at one time. I think that's fair. I think we also gotta think that maybe it's not that he's being hunted by someone, but maybe this was all set up for us. I mean, the only, the two leads we got was from

mustache, coa, and from the internet. Anonymous from me. Yeah, so what if it was just planted, what if the other side of the sandbags is for us? I mean, it's something to consider. No, I'm thinking it's something we consider. No one to get into something we should. You can't like trace IP addresses or like back channel hack. I don't know anything about this stuff.

You know, someone else do me of another favor or quick, let's roll. Let's just make a straight intelligence rule. I love that shake of a head. I got one. Yeah, I'm amazing. Okay, you recall that if these guys are next world, most if not everybody in next world were also trained projectors.

He's ghost, so we can assume the same tactics for sure, which means one will inhabit the house, one will probably try to inhabit Virgil, then they'll come in with their SWAT team, execute anyone they come across. And if we leave bodies around for them, they'll try to inhabit us. Right. So I'm looking at you. You know, leaving on bringing him out of the house is better just because next world isn't gonna try that

tactic. We know they're gonna try our tactic, blown down the door, but I don't think, you know, the ghost Nazis are gonna make a lot of house calls first. And if this is really all a setup to grab us, which I am starting to believe it is, then yes, we have to throw them off their feet. We have to do something they're not expecting. If we can lure him out. So why the fuck us?

Like, is it just because we survived? We can really be survivors, yeah, that's it. That's so dumb and lame. Well, that's, it's what it is. I know, I know it's what it is, but God, that sucks. Just because we're good enough to survive. That's ass. Yeah, it does kind of feel peculiar that they're so gung-ho about us in

partake. I mean, Kate got out too. I guess they're going for Kate too, but I'm I don't know. Something feels like we're missing something. I don't know what yet, but I don't know. Survivor's a deal. It's definitely a lot we're missing. Yeah, I'm always missing something if I'm being honest. I only just figured out the connection between Virgil and next world from being really, really honest. Oh, oh, oh. Yeah, sorry.

I'm with it. I'm with you guys all the way, but sometimes it just takes me a minute to catch up. You don't have to tell us that. You can keep that up. You've been going through a lot. Don't worry. You could play poker with that just a little. Oh, well, I was just trying to be honest and like, I don't know.

Also, even if we don't succeed, I think Kate has fully gone off the grid and hid and we've driven into the city that we've been told as a trap. So I think we just seem like more of a loose end. You're using a lot of logic there. I don't appreciate it in this space. I, it's yeah, it's just, I need the extra vitality if I don't use the skill. Let's start by doing a drive by the neighborhood. We'll see the house, we'll see that's condition, then we'll decide whether we go after his brother or not. Also, if we can see if he has backup nearby, I, that just happened to be in a van

or anything like that. Just look for anything. Sure. Yeah. So for you, Mia, I'll ask you to do a little perception plus an awareness. My one die. I succeed. Okay. One success. So we do a drive-by. So for those two maybe have anybody from Baltimore characters or anybody anybody from Baltimore. Zach is from Baltimore. Cool. Yes. Zach is from Baltimore. Okay. You know West Baltimore. Zach is from Baltimore. Cool. Yes. Zach is from Baltimore. Okay. You know West Baltimore. Enough. I've been there like three times, but yes. And yeah, not great. It's not in great condition, unfortunately. It is in very dire straits economically, socio economically, from a crime standpoint, and the environment unfortunately reflects that very much. As you drive, you can see the effects of,

would be a transfer of vacation on some spots. You can see where white folks haven't come to spend their money yet. And it's pretty bad. The neighborhood in particular that you have the address for the Lincoln family is in particular a rough shape. It is in a row of houses. It's a row house among many.

You of course see vehicles in all manner of conditions alongside the side of the street. But nothing that stands out to you, Mia, is being some kind of surveillance or counter surveillance, at least a vehicle-based type. But there's plenty of other buildings around that somebody could ostensibly take up. Residents in could possess an avid. I mean, you're dealing with dead folks, the sky's kind of the limit as to what you can use as a surveillance platform. And does the house seem like a co-estona thought side where it was like boarded up and with the sandbags?

So yeah, so you do see drawn blinds closed curtains, so it's hard to see exactly what's on the other side. I just realized they called it a building I think. No, I was like, how are you? Are we crossing over Universal already? No, I'm realized they called. I was like, are we crossing over Universal? I'm sorry. She's here. Oh, sorry. Oh, I'm just on the death. I'm going out. Yeah, it's it's dark. It's not in great shape, the house itself, the blinds are closed, the curtains are closed, it's kind of hard to see anything that's going on inside, especially during the daytime, but it doesn't look like there's any lights on. It's hard to tell.

You could probably set the house on fire. That'd be a good way to get them out. That would be nice. That's been, you have to stop saying shit like that. That is why I'm just saying shit. I'm just saying shit. I'm just saying shit like that. Well, I almost seem someone just having to smoke a cigarette.

And it just, when they have all the options in the world, I'm just trying to think of all the options we have. All of the windows are closed. Does it seem like there's like a air conditioner or something? Like, I'm looking for an opening that's like hand size. Oh, okay, all right, yeah, go ahead. Go ahead and make your own perception plus alertness awareness investigation security,

whatever you got, that would be relevant. Okay. I wanna do one thing too, let me drive by. Okay, absolutely. Yes, if anyone has better perception, go ahead and look around me. I'm worried. That's two successes. That. Oh, you're on mute. Some of it, sorry. You do see kind of those window air conditioner units. Mm-hmm. And like some of the one like kind of where you presume a living room or like a front room would be and then like some of the one like kind of where you presume a living room

or like a front room would be and then like upstairs on the second floor. I mean I can float a camera in there or someone's phone. Maybe the burner phone. I mean if you start it like an audio, that's the thing it'll probably be destroyed but they won't know who did it. I can be kind of far away or behind something. Can you just, can you destroy it if they find it? Is the thing like, if they find it, they might be able to contact Batsu, which will lead them back to Orpheus,

which will lead them back to us. We, we could go stop, I mean, in the fall to moron, I'm pretty sure they've got electronics. We could just go buy another one. Oh, we've got GoPro and just like come back. We could get a GoPro. I'm I can chatter it. I'm thinking I can chatter it. Pro. Oh, you can't destroy things. Okay. that's great. No, I can't. Wait, whatever, have you thought of just like ding dong ditching the door And see if someone will be useful if we wanted to grab him and pull him out immediately I thought he's gonna answer his own door if he's that paranoid. He's not gonna answer his own door Yeah, if he's sandbagged behind the windows, he's not gonna chase the neighbor's kids. I'm gonna follow my is there like a best buy or an electronic store nearby?

That's Baltimore sure thing. Why don't we got let's just get a cheap knockoff those little mini cameras and I told you go pro hit me not a bad idea and they also have Wi-Fi capabilities you can send it to the phone. I told you. I told you. I told you. I told you. I told you. I told you. I told you. I told you. I told you.

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projectors have so all of you have this ability you can perceive hopefully living in the dead with equal clarity don't necessarily activate it but but you can, I mean, here's a thing, anybody that can project, which means anybody that which means the next world can see people in ghost form. They can see them living. They can see the dead walking around as easily

as you can see the living walking. Just the only exceptions to this ability are those spirits that are inhabiting an object or business in a person, in which case they are invisible unless they choose to reveal themselves. So if somebody was possessing the building, you wouldn't be able to tell. Okay. All right, I still think it's worth using this to do a healing, a jol- A lot of osman vision.

Okay. I mean, yeah, there's dead folks walking around. I mean, there's ghosts, there's a few. Well, do any of them seem like grouped in a particular home? Do they seem tactical in any way? None that you see walking around. A lot of the ones you see walking around are kinda on their own, they're blips, really.

They are very low vitality spirits, none that are like the old man you met on your last assignment who was very cognizant of the fact that he was dead. These are these are very much like your first encounter with a spirit. They're just kind of repeating what they did in their living days. There's absolutely no sign of next world. Would it... Which confuses me. Would it be worth trying to like... break them out of their little cycle,

like their life cycle to... I don't know, see if they've noticed anything? You sing, speak to the dead around here. Yeah, yeah, just see if that helps them or if it helps us. Maybe it would, whatever we do, we have to move fast because if we do have any kind of advantage right now, we have to utilize it. We're then being around is a good sign that there isn't any presence from somebody from next world or something like that. That's true. Because when they just take them out, yeah, yeah, reapers want to eat in them. Okay, well maybe maybe not now. So, but we look for poet and then we come back and that's our one time we stay here a little longer. But

if we do it twice, it's weird. I mean, we could switch cars. The only address I had was this one. I don't know if Poet lives there with him or in a different place. It's gonna take time to figure that out. Then, can you get contact information? Can you, like, look into it? I keep asking you things that I don't even know if you can do, like hacking wise? With enough time, I can do anything. It's just we don't have time.

I mean, unless we want to seize an opportunity now. Wing it. That's saying wing it. Right. I'm saying that we see that there's no sign of somebody potentially here. Their spirits here that kind of seen that there's a relative normal going on. We risk coming back and that's not the case. Well, what if...

I mean, we have no sign of next world, right? There's no sign of reapers, there's no sign of... anything fucked. So what if one of us just goes and knocks on the door? Like, like we said with the ding dong ditch, not ding dong ditch necessarily, but like... I don't know, if we'll turn to like... ditch, not ding dong ditch necessarily, but like, I don't know, if we're gonna be like,

oh, Mormon or something. Wait, wait, wait. We have a plastic bag. Let's just go, I pretend I'm an Uber driver, and I'm like, here to drop off something, or we can get a pizza and be like, I'm a pizza delivery driver. You see, I'll come to door.

But what does this gain us? We either extract him in that moment, or we, or this is all completely useless We know that he's in there one way or another Well, but like he's got and he might be holed up like You know like he's ready for war. I mean what if he shoots the first person at the front door? What if he's expecting next world as much as he's not expecting us? Canvas I've done that a bunch of times trying to get people to sign What if he's expecting next world as much as he's not expecting us? We can... Canvas.

I've done that a bunch of times trying to get people to sign whatever signatures to make whatever happen. Yeah. We just say we have a petition. If he goes with it, we get a name and a number. If he doesn't and shoot someone through the stomach, then it should probably be someone who's already dead that does it. But yes, I was going to make that suggestion.

More knowledge isn't a bad thing. And what if we park around the corner so we can't see us? Then only one of us is kind of weirdly compromised instead of all six of us. I just don't understand what we gain by learning that he's in the home. If he's in the home, we just... And that's what I'm saying. I'm saying that we just, we can't, we knock on the door and we see if Virgil will answer the door.

And if he answers, we talk to him. Or we go, or we just go through. I'm saying that we have an opportunity before anything else comes up. We don't know what we're walking into is the thing. Okay, so, so then how about this? Why don't we have somebody at the door,

definitely not alive, and then we have somebody also who's not alive, maybe projecting like Logan, and you go into the house and get a quick view while he's distracted. Sure. I'm gonna make my hand into a clipboard. Yeah, I'll go in.

I don't mind. I'll be at the door with Viv. Just what are we saying? So are we just going with this canvas and group? Are we going to reveal that we are from Orpheus? Are we going to say anything that invites him to have a conversation with us? Or are we... Here's our acting bit now. We're kidnapping maybe

If I go in and I look around and I see no one there Then I'm all for us being like hey, what's up? We're or if he has talked to us But if I go in and there's like fuckers waiting for us then maybe we don't and we just have the information and then we have the information to plan So maybe just like keep them tough. I think if he's alone, it's because he's afraid of next world. And so I'm with love. If he's alone, we should take a chance and say, just talk to him.

Sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Okay, the normal people know about ghosts, right? We can say that it's about just looking at the population of specters in the area. You can come up with anything you'd like to buy. Well, he's not even normal, right? Well, no, but if he's terrified of ghosts, he might, he won't be super excited about it. The main thing is also maybe it's just, well, maybe it could be a distraction. And so therefore we, because we can't move in exactly until we know

we're not already just gonna walk into a trap. If we can distract him, that's intel, that's good. And we can adjust and make calls until then we can make the right call. But we just need to know the info. Yeah, I'm with Mia. I think we've talked too much about our college improv show. We just need to go and do it.

Thank you. No one's going to clap. That's good on stage. Mia has already pulled, while this was all around the corner, is kind of like sitting there with the drum and the fingers like, yeah, I did. All right, if anyone tries to eat my body You kill my body you got it. Oh

Absolutely okay Not you I won't eat your body No, it's just gonna be me that comes in that tries to like live in my butt, you know, yeah Yeah, I already said I got you. I didn't want Call to think I thought everyone was gonna be a cannibal, is that it? I don't think anyone's gonna cannibalize me. Cannibal? Sure the record. I don't know if you know what it's gonna be.

Those of us, we first came across, they were gonna come get you. Oh. You think that ghost dogs are coming back? So just Just from my edification And I'll have a lot may have lost the plot a little bit. Okay, who's doing what? I'm opening out to go sneak into the house your ghost clipboard. Okay. Yeah me and one other person are also I might be showing with you, yeah, okay, Vin and Viv are canvassing and Logan is speaking into that

Beautiful, all right, what do you want to do? I am in the car with Mia because we said that this was a ghost operation Unless you want me to go Yeah, and also battery if anyone needs extra vitality or anything like that. What's remember, you can only you can only do it when you're in spirit form. Well, I'll go be with. Okay. But I'll stay in the car. Beautiful. Okay, so I'm just gonna throw away. I don't know what you guys need me. May one. Yeah, definitely have a band sheet. Probably having a band sheet with you're being.

I am a band sheet. That's right, but you're sneaking in a band sheet too, right? Is there a way that we could have like active foreboding going on in the event that like you see something the split second before it happens? I'd be tough. Yeah. I don't know how that works. Nothing like that, unfortunately. I mean, could Koa go with to, like, chill him out if things get...

Fuck her? Yes, I think you should be there, Koa. I mean, you could join the canvassing group. Okay, I said that you can't be this. And Logan, go in only if you feel like it's safe safe because I feel like it won't be safe. And we find! Come on Ghost! You know what? You know what? We talked about a danger word earlier and we're gonna bring it back.

Just yell or say or communicate, shit bird when things go bad. And then we'll know the things are bad. No. Logan writes shitithbird on there. Oh fuck I'm not gonna be able to see it when I'm dead. Okay it's fine I'll remember. How about... That is not... that's leaking to better than shithbirds at the world. That's good.

We can workshop shithbird. That was just helpful. We don't have time to workshop shithbird. It's been decided. If we get to the point where he's talking and we need to convince him of anything, if you can get him close to me, I can do my sexy little ball of energy thing and convince him of just about anything. So just keep that.

Oh yeah, if it, oh, that'll work! Because I'll be inside and if I hear that he's kind of vibing with it, then I can just snap back and tell you to go. Okay. Okay, yeah, cool. Brad. Brad. Brad, I don't think I like a plan. All right, let's get it.

And as they say, no plan survives first contact with the enemy. Um, so... What enemy? We're all friends here. What enemy? Um, so we've got Zach, sorry Viv and Levinia heading up to the door with the ghost clipboard. And your hand is in fact a clipboard, correct? And Kola. Yes, it turns into a clipboard.

I put my other hand in front of it, so it just seems like you don't know where the other appendage is going, but I'm holding a clipboard. Okay. You, anybody kinda keep an eye out as you head up to the, walk up the path to the house? Yeah. Hi. Yeah, I think me and me are a lot of those of you actually approaching the house.

Oh, I've got my head on a swivel. Okay. Do you have anything in security there, Logan I doubt it. No. Survival. Survival I have hella. All right roll perception plus survival for me. Difficulty on this one's going to be seven. Seven? Okay. Let's go. E of these at least one seven success, right? one seven success, right? Yep. Seven is a success, yeah. Two successes.

The first thing you notice as you kind of start making your way around the house is there are these motion detectors that are set up about one foot and then five feet off the ground. How? Do they? Okay, so I've had experience with the curling camera. Does it seem like they have? Curlion. Okay. No.

Next question. Are they? By that, by that look, does it look like they're covering everything or they're like blind spots? So it looks like they're covering the main entries, like the main avenues of approach to the house. So you all were already broken the plane when you opened the gate to step into the yard and then make your way up to the door.

So like side of the house is... There's some on the side as well. Okay. Yeah. Kind of they're kind of staked to where they're against the side of the house facing out. So if you were to walk down like a side alley or the side of the house, it would trip. When you have special dead eyes, can you see special dead eyes through like a nice phone or a security camera? Oh shit, that's a real question. I never mind Because they might be still I would say yes because it's your perceiving energy and if it's yeah

fuck maybe not Because it doesn't Yeah, it's an electronic. I'm sorry if I just shit No, you just you can pick it up. Yeah, no, if unless it's a special device. I'm sorry if I just shit on your phone. Yeah, no, you just you broke you can pick it up Yeah, no, if unless it's a special camera. It's why there's Korean cameras So no, yeah, you wouldn't see that in the camera. Yeah What if you download an app that can do the heat? I do stuff Can I just don't give off heat?

No, what if he's done go to go in your verse a lot that you pick up on ghosts or the Carillion camera or the Carillion camera So ghosts don't have phones they can't develop it up don't have phones Go they don't come back to go all come back to ghost phones it does So Viv and Livini head up to the door. What is the plan? I'm just gonna ring the doorbell. It's sweet. Okay, yeah. If I'm gonna let you take the lead on this,

I'm not very good at talking with strangers. I got it. This is all I did in college. Let's go. You hear this harsh buzz of a doorbell ring from somewhere within the house. You hear some shuffling on the other side. The door does not open, but you hear what do you want?

Hi, we're with the public defense of spirits. We were hoping to conduct a little survey. We just need some signatures really quick. You don't need to listen to the spiel. Just sign the clipboard. What is in Logan, you're heading around to the back? Yeah, I think I'm just looking for like a chink in the armor of the motion sensors.

I know they can't technically see us, but I think Logan's looking for like the least position, I guess. The problem is is that from what you can tell and you're not sure if it's unsettling or not, but it's pretty well, they've got this place locked down. Okay, then I think I'm gonna come back to the front and go through the front

because we've already tripped the motion sensors going up the front path and I'm not gonna trip them somewhere else. Okay. So I think I'm gonna, does it look like there's a basement here? Yeah, that it does. Then I'm going to go down to the basement rather than like through the front where anyone who might be able to see ghost might see me. Okay. Yeah, you go down into the basement. There's a, you know, one of those little,

those little slivers of a window, just above ground level, and you're able to kind of slip in through there, facing into the house and down. And you're in a basement, it's pretty filled with, you know, junk old items, old furniture, things like that, doesn't look like anybody's actively living down here, but you can hear voices and movement on the floor immediately

above you, where it sounds like more than one person. A.M. A.M. Does it sound like... So we're assuming that Poet and Virgil... Just running on the assumption that Poet and Virgil both live here, does it sound like more than just the two of them? A.M.

This one will require... Let's do Perception Plus Alertness. and virtual both live here. Does it sound like more than just the two of them? This one will require, let's do perception plus alertness. Great. Two. Pull. Two. One, two. Three, four. I got four successes, one of them is a 10.

Hey, beautiful, okay. Yeah, it of them is a 10. A beautiful, okay. Yeah, it sounds like more than two. Okay. Okay, here's a bullshit ghost question. Go for it. I love bullshit ghost questions. If I climb up on something that is high and close to the ceiling, can I stick just my head through the floor?

If you expend the vitality to be able to safely phase through objects, what you did again with the house, and absolutely. Absolutely, then that's what I'm going to do. Just find some old boxes or a cabinet that's in there, climb up the side and just stick, like nose up. We'll come back to that. Fifth, the voice on the other side of the door says, since one, sorry, I'm still

since when do dead people take the census? It's not for dead people, sir. It's, it's, well, I suppose it is for dead people, but it's for living people to sign. It's what you're dead. You're dead. You, your friend, the one in the basement. What do you want? Yeah.

Well, I just... It would have her of ghostly hands reaches through the door and grabs on to you. Okay. Viv, I need you to make a strength plus brawl role, please. Oh, snap. And Logan, as you poke your head up through the floor, you are staring down the barrel of a ghost arm gun. What the hell those?

That's three successes. They've manifested one. Um, they got five. So you go one. They got five. So you go rocketing through the door and onto the ground and see yourself staring up at three men. One of whom is in the flesh, two of whom are most decidedly not. Okay, um, to which I then say correct, um, may I know with who I'm speaking? I'm Viv by the way What is uh, what is Lavigne doing at this my very moment? Lavigne is not going to stand for this. I think she will probably probably I'm looking up my ability of juggernaut because I'm not sure if I can use it on the dead because if I can I will. So yeah let's take a look at juggernaut there. So with juggernaut specifically you essentially can enhance your physical attributes.

I mean yeah they'll affect your ability to impact the dead as well. Yeah. Okay. I think I'm going to go into using Jagrna and I am going to let me read the rule here. So I have it right. Reflexive Act requires no dice rolls can spend 0 to 5 atality receiving vitality spent plus one dots to spend on enhancing physical attributes. I'm going to spend 5 vitality which is all the vitality I have. I'm going to pop a willpower to bring my vitality up to 3 I believe. But that's five is going into, I'm going to just put an immediate five into strength.

Okay. And I'm going to walk through the wall and I'm going to try to just judo chop this hand that is on our, that is on my friend Viv. Okay. Kola, what were you doing there in this time? I was standing back allowing the the plan to be executed Yeah, you see Viv go flying through the door and then you see Olivia going like Jack yeah, and then jump in there too.

I don't wanna go in there, because I feel like it's not a good idea to go inside. Fuck. Fuck, I don't know. Fuck. I'm giving you a chance to think about it. Yeah. Logan, what do you do? Do I see Viv get yanked through the door? No, you're looking in what is probably like the kitchen of the house. Yeah. Fuck. I... Wow.

Okay. We're gonna roll a sequel about Gintus. Yeah. Okay. They even jumped through the floor odds they dropped back down. Okay. It's a five-day drawback down. Logan's gonna just kind of like drop their head back in.

Um, and... Pick a vote. How fuck am I supposed to be smart about this? I'm supposed to be smart about this. What the fuck do I do? Uh, shit bird! I'll just yell shit bird. Can I call you a shit bird?

You hear shit bird, hear shit bird? Yeah Okay, okay, so wait hold on Eli. Do you know what you want to do? To feel like I need to if if no one's going back for me and collect then I should go back I will say before this shit pops off gives me on the safe side I will say before this shit pops off, gives me on the safe side. Just make a perception plus awareness role for me, and honestly, Lavigne. Perception, awareness? Okay.

Because Lavigne, just we were a Jenkins their way into the home. Yeah. I'm sorry, perception plus awareness. Awareness. Yeah. Or even empathy. I'll even give you empathy. You got four successes there, Viv. there. Yeah, I got two successes. Okay

Nobody's attacking Okay, then The person that pulled me in there's no weapon on me No, that well there there one has is appeared to Well, their one has appeared to enlarge in size and musculature similar to Lavania, and one has appeared to manifest what appears to be some kind of combat knife at the end of one of their arms. Okay. I sense that. Can I sense a lack of escalation in this area?

Even though I saw Viv get dragged in and all of that stuff. Let me let's do this. Roll perception plus empathy. Two successes. You're picking up on a lot of fight or flight, not necessarily blatant blind aggression, more fear and survival instinct or anything else and lots of adrenaline and lots of exhaustion. Okay. Then I want to use whale. I don't know how many people are in here, but I will use it enough to try to assist calming down the situation. Are you actually going into the house? Yeah, if I know if I sense that it's not planned or it's not like, you know, it's more of exhaustion fear a not like an instinctual need to defend oneself and I know that this is something we can work with so then I'll come in but I'll come in with the whale going to

hopefully just bring a wash of like a breath for a second. Okay. Ah, fuck, how many vitalities should I spend? Let me do three for now, because I just don't know how many people are in the house. Okay. The number effective is going to largely depend on successes as well. Okay. And that's going to be manipulation plus empathy. That's five successes. Hell yeah, okay. You step into the room and through the door and immediately the two look up to two men look up at you and they are very clearly not in the flesh. You've got Viv on the ground, you've got Livinia just inside the door.

You've got more individuals at least two more in the kitchen. They don't seem to be affected as much, but you can definitely tell that just your very presence is starting to even Viv and Livinia, you're even affected by this a little bit. You're just the force of this calming nature is this kind of cascading over you. The closest thing you could probably like in it too is when you're alive, stepping into a hot shower after a very long day and just feeling that some of that aggression just kind of work its way out of your bones a little bit. But immediately, one of the men is looking up at you. We're looking down at you, Viv, one looking at you. And they say, what the fuck do you want?

Who are you? Are you with them? We're not next world. If that's what you're asking. I do the fuck are you with? How do you know where to find us? We're really, yeah. Would you believe me if I found it out myself?

Her name on the radio. Yeah Free death. Yeah Can we talk without all this? There's be normal people for like two hours seems like you guys had a rough go about anyways maybe a Breath is in order. One of the men looks at you. Maybe a chair in your scenery? We're not leaving this fucking house and at this point

another are you. But we can talk. Have you recognized any of these fuckers? The other guy says, never seen him before in my life. They're not next-worn old. We're with Orpheus or we were at least. We're trying to clear the names of the remaining survivors. We were led to you, Virgil. So they fucking dead it, huh?

Yes. God damn it. Keep your hands on where you can see him, no funny shit. Right, when he says no funny shit can I try to helter skelter something in the car where both Colet and Mia are so they know that something has happened. I just want to like lock the doors and open them again. Little far, little far to be able to do that.

Yeah, but they do say until the two out in the car to come in. Okay. There are two men, one alive, one out of his body. They look very similar way they could be brothers. One has both their African American, one has this black hair cut very short in a high-end tight. The other is bald, go teed. They kind of look you over. What do we call you? I'm Nicola.

The one with the high-end tight says I'm virtualist, and my brother Poet. Okay. Work Crucible 12. Not that that matters too much anymore. We need to find a way to get our people inside. We don't have phones. So...

I'll go tell them. I'm going to pop another use of dexterity if you consider this a new round. I'm going to spend five vitality. I'm going to raise my dexterity to five and my stamina to three because dexterity's at one so it's four and then one extra for stamina. And I'm just going to like race out of the house and towards the car. Okay. Yeah, you're gone. You've never seen Levin move that fast, Vith. Yeah.

And Logan, at this point, you actually watch somebody come through the door. So I take that back. I take that back. I only have three vitality right now. So I can only burn three, which means my dexterity is four. So there you go. That's the only change. Then you're about you're hitting another willpower to put that back up. Yeah. I can

I can buy your face to you if you need. Then uh yeah what's the one I want to yeah when I approach the car like Levinia starting to like steam but the steam looks like fratballs, like they're kind of changing, ever-changing, and ever-growing. But yeah, I'll race to the car. Uh, Logan, as soon as they dropped down and said shitbird, I think they ran to like the furthest opposite side of the basement so that they were conceivably in a different room,

um, and then tried to just jump and hoist themselves through the floor just to see what else is going on. Can this be right next to where Viv is currently still on the floor? Yeah, in fact, part of Logan's head gums up through your chest. And, oh, fuck, sorry!

No, it's a shame. Who would have known? So, just maybe a little to the left Logan fully climbs through sorry sorry sorry sorry. It's fine. It's fine. Do we need do I know do we? They they know they know Yeah, they the virtual poet Logan. Are you a poet? Yeah, the Virgil poet Logan. Are you a poet? What the fuck you talking about? Get the fucking use it down. Oh, you have to speak in the car if you were a crazy shit.

This is so crazy shit. Get Jesus. Are you or not? Virgil, what the fuck is going on? Anyway, back outside. We've got Mia and Collette, you look up and here's the fractal steaming, Livinia. I think that's having completely hit good. I think that Collette has to turn down hand in my pocket by Oana's morisette that she's been just fucking screaming

for the last two minutes. Love it, love that. Things haven't completely hit the wall, but I need Collette in there to keep these gentlemen calm. Oh, so they're talking? They're talking. Shit, good call, Vin! Look at you, negotiator! I didn't do much of the negotiating. I'm getting ready for war if anything.

Oh, well, fuck. I take it all back. Let's go. Hey, am I going or staying? I think you fuck. I think you should maybe pull up closer. I don't know. You shouldn't. They did say they wanted both, but. All right. Yeah, they want both. All right, man. I'm just gonna, can I just drive us there?

Sure. Okay, you know, safe. I end up running faster than the car back in the town. That's totally fair. And with that, as we all gather inside the living room of this, of this residence, to talk about the future of the survivors of Curstable 12 and this group of survivors themselves,

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You watch as some of the projecting individuals kind of snap back to their bodies and the bodies themselves begin to sit up and you realize that based on your surroundings, it looks like all of these men, there's five total that you can see. Have essentially been living out of the living room and the kitchen. The house smits just reeks of sweat and urine and unwashed clothes and it is not good at living conditions at this point. It appears that every entry and exit other than the ones that they can

control have been utterly just closed off. This place, as definitely, looks like it's been prepared for some kind of siege. You notice it actually colette and honestly, we'll have any at this point make a perception just plus alertness forming. No successes for me. Perception alertness, you said? Yeah. I have one success. You spot pigment on one of the coffee tables in the living room. But everyone kind of, as you all kind of set up in this living room, which is now

a makeshift barracks, are sleeping bags and better and like air mattresses on the floor that these guys have been sleeping on for what appears to be at least a couple days. They all have exhausted tired and and what's like the atmosphere? Oh, they might be sleepers using the pigment to, yeah. At this point, like, Virgil has kind of introduced you to everybody so far. There's Virgil, his brother poet. And then you've got he introduced you to Paul, Javier and Steve, who are

two of the three others with them. Virgil just kind of looks you all over and again asks, how did you find us? I'd even know to look for me. We have our forces. We are trying to prove the innocence of these people. And in my searching, I came across your name, as an anonymous person gave me your name, and said that you would know about things

that we're looking into. You know who he field is over at Next World? Yeah, I know who he field is. He's our COO now after the coup. How long have you all been held up here? About three days now. Since the fall of Orpheus or did something else trigger this? It's about the day before. We weren't going to take the contract. Next world wasn't going to take

the contract and then I'll I'll broke loose. The contract to take out Orpheus. Yeah. You're saying next world didn't want to do this? You're saying next world didn't want to do this? Originally no, not the original shock haulers. But the scene. Heath Cliff made the express decision or. He failed. Yeah, his name is Dura of Alexey Dura of. Let's see.

We'll really gather that information as well. Yeah. He's a Russian expat. He's uh, you know, J.R.U. Nope. Main intelligence director at their military intelligence. Guys know G. Shock Hall are for the fucking Soviets for the Russians. He defected back in the what was it? Early odds came over. No shit. Yeah.

And you're concerned about him taking over enough that you would lock yourself up? You think that he's going to be a dead person? Or so? They're really dead. What do you know about next world? We're the buggy men, yeah, we know. But I mean, what do you know about next world? What do you, what, um, we're the boogie man. Yeah, we know, but I mean, what do you know about us? Well, just so you guys are the jackboots, the, the PMC that you take ghost hunting to mean

that you arm them with M16s and send them into foreign countries that aren't exactly begging for it. Yeah, we identify, we identify the gap in the market and we felt it great. Anyway, anybody else who doesn't want to fucking take up a peaceful protest in the middle is conversation. No, I'm with her. Just for this. Sorry, you testy about the situation didn't you guys just commit the largest terrorist operation in the United States. Hey, I think we're getting off course. So we can per personal feelings aside,

and I'm going to glare. I think a little bit of conjecture shows some familiarity. We're getting a lot of time. You can really take your ego out in this very particular moment in time. So pretend just take us to the beginning and just why don't you tell us because obviously as you could tell, we're kind of kind of stuck at the moment. So free death, right? Radio free death or whatever. They're the

ones that brought you here. There's another one of us running around out there another ex next world or Covax he's been dropping tidbits here and they're trying to lead people to the truth, but he's a little more subtle, I guess Covax yeah Are you guys ready to go back to the next week? Are you guys ready to go back to the next week? Are you guys ready to go back to the

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Yeah, that's how he operates. I was going to... What is the truth that he wanted to get out? So you know we were founded back in08, right? Eric Vaughn was our founder, him and this break out, Alfred Williams, right? They met and the service Vaughan was a seal. Williams was British Special Boat Service. They got together after the war and we're like,

hey, let's go in a business. They set up shop here in the States. They formed Triton. That's when I joined up. I joined up with them right around the same time. We were just a typical private security outfit. And then this guy, Derov, shows up. And that's when all this bullshit about projecting

and ghosts and spirits and near-death experiences started to really take off with or fiercely in the charge. And next thing we know, we were in the fucking business by 2010, they're abouts. And Derov is the one who brought it with them. It's all based on research. He did back in the Soviet and in the Russian Federation, I guess, but apparently it should start back in the Soviets. What else? Wait, did he find something?

Yeah, he found a way to do what Orpheus did. Why did he bring it here, not just stay in Russia? Oh, Russia didn't see the value in the program. They thought it was a failure. They weren't willing to fund him any further, and so he took it and left. Putin was moving money around and manpower around and purging those. He didn't feel we're bringing any value to the institution. So I guess I guess Duraft saw the writing on the wall decide to pick up shop and leave.

I'm shocked that Duraft could not want to become those. The pinion. Did Duraft create project flatline? I don't know what flatline is. They called it, he called it's me, there's my something like that. What is that besides snake? It's that was the name of the project and started in the 90s projects mine. It was this Russian thing to create psychics and they ended up creating projectors. He ate them? Well, right, I mean, what's the common denominator that lengths everybody who projects

in your dog experiences, right? Sometimes copious amounts of fucking drugs. So he's been creating projectors using pigment? No, well, he three guys, I've been through some shit overseas and then he sent them to steal some research from Orpheus and that's how he unlocked the code I guess. Oh good, so he's praying on Betrace. Yeah. Well, Williams and Vaughn refused to contract to hit you guys. So Darov organized a coup and he put his little fucking, yeah, we don't have to raise hands around class. Well, you were talking and I just wanted to make a known that I had a question. I wasn't trying to be in class.

The question is though, who made the contract? Oh, we don't know. Don't you don't know? So we don't know how can you validate the, uh, the funds for it then. That wasn't us. We were just the trigger colors. So you really were just operating as a PMC? There's someone else that orchestrated that. As far as we can tell, yeah.

Somebody took out a contract. Me and anything to you. How do you know that name? Because he was our contact at Orpheus. Yeah, that guy's somebody's contact everywhere. Do you think if Poppy had been involved, he put forward the contract? No, the amount of money the government's

poured into this shit, do you think they'd really do something like this? Absolutely not. Did they say why they wanted Orpheus hit? We were in preview of those discussions, so I know was that Vaughn and Williams were dead set against it. They were ready to force Heathfield. Sorry, they were ready to force Duraugh out. The Raven talks about fucking... How? How did Duraugh, I'm just curious.

How did... how did he just come in and just absurd like that? Well, he had Tyler, one of his little fucking lackeys and then this other guy named Malikov, somebody he brought over from Russia. They had enough people, what's that? So we had support basically, it's what you're saying? Yeah, he had enough people in the right place and the leadership came to engender enough

of their own support to get more people on board. And yeah, they fucking executed Vaughn and Williams. And we ran. Oh, like, and that's why you're here. Oh, yeah, no, they fucking, they fucking killed him. Yeah. And that's why your whole team is coming for us. So, so as far as we know, Yeah. And that's why your whole team here. Yeah, these are coming for us.

So as far as we know, we are both independent survivors of coups for the companies we worked for. Yeah. Okay, great. I just wanted to get that out in the air. Certainly a reason for us to collaborate. We need to protect each other, obviously. Well, that's what we've been trying to figure out out do we go to the Bureau? Do we disappear? Do we?

I mean, how do you know now is you did it? That pulled the contract it wasn't the government Are you sure they had too much money? Fuck right any involved. What's the return on investment? Anytime you tie up any amount of money into it, you find different ways to bring it out. I mean, come on. You don't have to, you don't have to explain capitalism to me. And you can control it.

So we have to figure out who would gain the most out of one of the largest companies in the world dropping off. Well, if you're the main supplier, then two, we can hit Terrell and Squib two. So now that you're the main supplier, then two exquisite. Well, we hit Terrell and Squib too. So now that if you're the main supplier of this, you control a lot and not just. And that would be an argument for this company, right? But they're saying they were called

to buy a higher benefactor. So sure, we see the benefit for them, but there's someone else in play here. So, you know, big silhouette in an executive chair stroking a cat. Is there anything I heard was an in Bishop Bishop Bishop. No, I think I heard him before. Yeah, that sounds really familiar. No, that was sharp. I just have to ask before you left, did you have anything as a protection and it kind

of files to try to know? The fact that all five of us in this room can reflect, well, not poet, poet's a city. We can get the test to it. I get it. And we figure next world's in show bodies at this place eventually. So if you decide to go to the law, we're gonna be able to bring corpses with us. But honestly, we're thinking, my vote's to run. We ain't got no skin in this game.

We've got nothing on the east world away that we can get out of here. The problem is, if you run, it kind of leaves us in the cold. If I can be like really frank with you right now, because I think you can see that I'm maybe the less formal of everyone in this room. You are all of our only leads in clearing our nays in front of the government. And if you run out of town, we have nothing to tell the FBI to inform any of them as to the fact that we had nothing to do with that bomb that went off. Can we, can you record, can we, can we record a message and actually if you don't feel comfortable

we can go ahead and deliver this to the FBI. And I can, if you don't want to come with, and I can be the one to guarantee that as well. So you don't, if you don't want to go near. I can't do that. We've already put our next out online just bringing you all in here. I mean you guys you know there's still an open contract on you all Yeah, yeah, yeah, no I'm not talking wanted by law enforcement. I'm talking you still got next world fuckers around with your fucking pictures Take the dash once wait time. Why don't you allow us to record this conversation?

You can make a statement and then make a run for it if you want. You don't have to stick with us. You can do whatever you like. Listen, Virgil, they already want you. They already want everyone in this room and they're not going to want you any less because you helped us. Dead is dead on both sides, but if you help us, we have an opportunity to do something about this. There are a lot of people that died for no reason other than someone thought it was enough money running around to make it happen. And they deserve to be honored for how they

left us, how they lost themselves. We had people who never even got the chance to ghost on the way out. And we, everyone in this room has an opportunity to speak to their names. You are a real idealist, aren't you? Yeah, that's my whole fucking thing. Make a charisma or manipulation plus empathy role, I'd say, but I'd say between you, Collette, and Mia.

Oh, trust me. I'm going to lean over. I'm going to lean over to Coa and just say, ask them about the blasphemers. There's something about blasphemers and flatline. They don't know anything about flatline, but they might the blasphemers. There's something about blasphemers in flatline. They don't know anything about flatline, but they might know blasphemers. And then I'm gonna, is this one story house or two story house?

Two story. Three including the FM, including the basement. Then I'm gonna go up to the highest point that I can get to in the house and just be on the lookout, just to be aware of our surroundings. I'm gonna give that bin on the shoulder as I pass by and give her like four vitality.

Oh wow, okay. Oh, excellent. Where are you, Seiko? I'm gonna use my benefit from my fur bow to lessen the the the dice. Oh, for this one. Okay. Sure, I got that right. Yeah, I can't.

I want the difficulty of, oh, it's a horror in our mind. Okay. Um, so did we roll? What do we do? I got two. Okay. I have five fucking beautiful six total. Yeah.

Um, Virgil says, all right, tell you what, idealist, you help us kill the fuckers that are coming to kill us, and then we'll talk. Okay, we'll talk about you all. I don't know. I don't know. Some real bad mother fuckers who killed some specters.

Yeah, thank you very much. Turn your hand into a gun one time. I have a question though. I thought, so you plan, I'm all for this, but are you planning on staying here and just join this shit or didn't you not, or do you still plan to high-tail it out? No we don't know where they are so they're gonna have to come we're gonna make

them come to us, be control the environment. Why? This house, the one that smells like art school. You do really think it also burn it. That's a big thing too. I don't think it's a good idea. We were about to burn it. Exactly. Why don don't think it's a good idea. We're about to burn it. Exactly. Who we are. Why don't we think it's a good idea? Because of the amount of force they're willing to bring upon here. Especially because they know two groups are here. I've seen it. I don't think it's a good place for you to stay here. I think you have an opportunity to move on to better pastures.

All right, there's saving. Also, maybe the opportunity that they don't know that we've talked yet. They know that we were on our way, but maybe not that we made it. We could put them on their back foot if we act like you all are on the run and spring a trap of our own. Counter-trap somewhere else in the city of Baltimore. Make it seem as though you guys are going for the plane with them not knowing that Crucible 12's... knowing that Crucible 12's. You can scatter and that splits resources and makes less of a target for one of us and we can hope for something better. I think us coming together was a path, but so that we both can get out. But if you help us, we can help make that a possibility for you.

How about that be the train? Marry. Good. Sure. I mean, I guess we just have to figure out where all of this is going down. I mean, we have a good history with zoos. If you guys have a good zoo around here. It should be open, though.

Somewhere open that can't be possessed. The home field advantage doesn't exist anymore. Opening, here's the thing, opening good. I mean, these guys can reach out and touch you from a mile away. What's stopping from touching you here? We make them come to us, you got funnels in and out, one way in, one way out, we fucking mow them down as they come in

and we go down fighting. It just feels like that's just you're trapping yourself in a corner when I feel like there's other options. I mean, we can hurt, they don't like to be seen, right? We don't have to, you know, do it in the middle of the street, but something that would put them on their back foot, like Collette was saying a little bit, a little bit of a stage.

Well, they're gonna, if you think this new regime has any component, any fucking qualms about, but in bullets and civilians to show you guys, you can go ahead and get that idea right out of your head. They'll move down a bushole or if it's just a fucking get a shot at you. Got it. Jesus.

Yeah, they made a point to purge anybody with a conscience after they fucking smoked. Vaughan and Williams. That's why you guys are here now. You're the ones that can think for themselves. Yeah. I mean, think about it, right? I mean, they can get to anybody at any time.

That's how they got Williams and Vaughan, Vaughan, fucking heart attack. That guy ran fucking 15 miles a day before breakfast. Williams was in the car accident. Well then before we make some planned part, we need our evidence, we need our statement from you, Virgil. Somebody grab a phone. I'm gonna take out the phone and start recording. My name is Vercil Lincoln. I am a contractor with next world. I am joined here by my compatriots, we've got Paul Stanley, my sole virgin link in Javier Rodriguez, and Steve Hill. We are all ready to swear or affirm that there was a coup organized within next world after a contract was accepted to kill any and all individuals

affiliated with Orpheus. On behalf of a benefactor, we have been able to identify our chief operations officer. Dr. Richard Heathfield is in fact a Lexi Derov, a known intelligence officer for the Russian military intelligence directorate and he continues and kind of goes on just filling everything knows about me about the history of next world. As this is going on, one of the one of the men actually looks kind of at you all are kind of whispers. How many of you are sleepers? I'm me. Just you?

They teach you how to burst transmit. I'm sorry. You know, project without a pod. Uh, that's a thing. You gotta get wet to do it, but yeah All right, wait, what's it called again burst what burst transmit burst trans what is that the fuck up Logan From upstairs you hear a single bark of laughter. Yeah Yes talking about using pigment.

Oh. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. You can take a hit, you give a little bit of yourself and you can essentially force yourself out of your body. Yeah. I'm

kind of, I have yet to do it in that way. So. It's an option. First transmit is a much cooler way to say you're taking heroin. I mean, listen, if you gotta drop and go zero real quick, it's the only way to do it. listen if you got to drop and go zero real quick you know what we're doing?

I personally, it's just a personal choice of I can, I would ideally like to not shoot something into me but you can snort it, you can fucking oh no no, you can lick it good fuck it you're not helping me. You can pop it. Do you have a sample?

Can we take some? Yeah. Get a little like dime bag worth of. Just hold on to it me and I'll toss it to her. You don't have to use it, but it's a get out of jail in case we need it. Breaking case of emergency. Exactly. Yeah. Fair. Fair. Fair. And still pocket it. Logan, what are you doing during during during this time? Um, Logan is just like,

German shepherding upstairs, flick through a blind, check out front, go to the next room, flick through a blind, check out front, side, back, just kind of like a constant roundabout. Make a perception plus either alertness or awareness for me. Giver's higher. I've been running this game for how many sessions now, and I still don't understand

the diversity in alertness and awareness. I should probably read that. Okay, six. I don't know. Awareness to me is perception. Alertness is like when something's fine. That's right. Awareness is knowing that someone is playing baseball.

Next to you, alertness is telling that a baseball is flying towards your face. You know, I like that. I like that. I rolled five successes, but I also rolled one so four. Okay. It takes you a moment because it's dark on this street. There's not a lot of light. But eventually you see them. You count a group of four moving in one direction than another

group before, then four more, sorry. Three groups of four, so twelve. Okay. Math is hard. You see them moving and from what you can tell, one of them is dead in each group. So, okay. So, projecting at a minimum. So, all of them but one in each group. So nine of them are likely physical bodies, three of them are projectors. Correct. Okay. I'm gonna put eyes on the car to check on my body and colette's body.

Okay. Okay. I'm a person. Oh, you're your full? Okay, then I'm just checking on mine then. Yeah. Yeah, your body is still, well, did you move it into the house? Didn't you like stuck back in?

I know she never they never brought back. I think I don't I don't think Logan thought about pulling their body in. Let me go and then we pulled the car up closer to the cars like right next to the house basically. Yeah, let me go and make a roll. closer to the cars like right next to us basically yeah let me go ahead and make a roll because that can just things a little bit I have a plan for either but yeah okay I have a preference for which I'd rather do okay all right you're good they begin they're moving tactically across the street. And college. Are they all in one group? Like, is it like, blah, blah, blah, three coming

from toward the front, like one from the side, one from the back, one from the front? Like, you see them peeling off and you see some one group making its way up the front walk to the house and then one making its way around the side, some possibly making their way around the back and I'm so impossibly making the way around the back and looks like they're very quickly gonna have this building surrounded. What do you do?

As soon as I see them beginning to pale peel off, I drop through the floor, land in the middle of everyone. I don't care if they're still talking. We've got 12. They're surrounding us. Shit. I think it's a good place to end No, it's not That's a great place And we will pick up with the ambush on this house in Baltimore with our next session and see what the fuck happens next. All right, there we go.

I hope you all enjoyed that. There's a lot of build up to this one, so it was fun to see I reach a little bit of a climax, but yeah, next season, next session's gonna be a doozy. So thank you all for joining us, thank you all for another amazing job. This was great, and yeah, we session's gonna be a doozy. So thank you all for joining us. Thank you all for another amazing job. This was great. And yeah, we'll see you next time. I will just say that my shirt says Bible belt heathen and it just doesn't just say Bible belt because I realize all you can see is the Bible belt part of it and I had to like

that's a funny religious coincidence because mine says Jesus saves all others take half damn Christian stream Yeah, I love that Okay, as we end all things All person to flames if we do eight pound five ounce baby Jesus put our hands together Our father All right, all right. Bye, guys.

See you all. Bye, y'all.