Mayday Plays - 🧛🏻‍♂️ Vegas By Night one-on-one session with Vince/Raguel (patreon vault release)

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello, mate, A. Rowlplay, and welcome back to another edition of these Vampire the Mask Grade origin stories we've been telling in preparation for our very exciting new Vampire the Mask Grade game we call Vegas by night. I'm sure you've already heard of sure if you're here you have already seen all of them of course because you're a good good little patron who does exactly as I tell them to. Meaning you've already seen our session zero that's on Patreon. You've already seen the one with Sergio where I bumbled through that session. You're about to see me bumble through another.

Starting point is 00:00:45 As we tell the origin story of my good friend Vince who you've probably never seen before. Vince is not in a lot of things in the TTRPG space. He's not in black project gaming. He didn't run all of Orpheus for us. He's not the scariest agent Charlie you've ever seen in the world. Hey.

Starting point is 00:01:03 Vince, introduce yourself. Say a big hello, a big welcome to everyone of Patreon there. Hell yeah, absolutely. Hello everyone of Patreon Land. Great to see you all. Thanks for joining us. I am super, super frickin' excited for this. A, to have you Caleb as storyteller,

Starting point is 00:01:21 and B, to join the rest of the crew as a player, like, dream come true man dream country this is so awesome yeah I'm sort of realizing that this is like the first real like voyage for Vince's a player with Mayday that's crazy yeah yeah I'm so happy that it's happening here yeah me too me too I'm so sure that I like scar you as a person. I have zero pressure. Zero doubt you'll do that. Absolutely. This is all in preparation for our first stream with Vegas by night, which may have already happened if you're watching this on VOD or whatever is happening, it probably already has, but it starts July 2nd and it will

Starting point is 00:02:06 continue by weekly every Saturday in the same time slot we've been doing for a while on our Twitch. You can catch us at 10AM PST and all other various times in the other ones that don't really matter. I'm sorry, the West Coast is more important. Yes, exactly. West Coast best. 10 a.m. PST on Saturdays at our twitch.tv handle, which is Mayday RP. Please check us out. We're really excited to tell these stories and these origins should give you a really good interpretation of who these people are, what they have to offer, and what Vince is trying to show us. So without further ado, we're going to get kicked off here.

Starting point is 00:02:47 We're going to tell our Vegas story here. We're going to jump right into our vampires. You ready Vince? Ready. Let's do this. Beautiful. It is a Sunday just past 8 o'clock at the Las Vegas Sun, the most reputable journalism institution within Las Vegas, Nevada.

Starting point is 00:03:15 And you are staying overnight, over time, over everyone. Not a soul is left in the building except for yourself in your corner office. The lights are dim across the sea of desks that make out the lobby floor. And you alone have this nice little windowed area to look out on what is the south of the Las Vegas strip. You're out in paradise, baby, as they call it, right by Henderson Nevada. Closer to the edge of Las Vegas where they keep the Las Vegas sun, you are far from the glitz, the glamour, the torus, the terrible traffic, the trunks, the gamblers, the sharks, the whales, everything off of the strip is just a memory north of you. You're in local, local town where you've always been, where you really belong.

Starting point is 00:04:07 You're seeing the parts of Las Vegas that no one really becomes acquainted with without living here. The streets that are not paved in neon. The streets that are nothing but common, the Vata, suburbia, with most people, not even under the age of 55 and most of them non-retired. But you are here in the Las Vegas sun, shadowed in your corner office. What does this work day look like? What do you look like? Who are you? What has this Sunday Ben like for you? Yeah, so Ethan, Ethan Cantor is 32 years old, early 30s.

Starting point is 00:04:50 Probably about 5'11, around 180 pounds, give or take. Dark brown, almost black hair, kind of curly. And has gotten a little long. He's got it kind of brushed and combed back. Green eyes, definitely bags under his eyes. When's the last time he, you know, at this point, probably difficult to remember the last time he got a solid good night's sleep. He has been consumed by this assignment, which is exactly what he's working on now.

Starting point is 00:05:17 Compiling all the notes he's taken from all the interviews, beginning to write up this piece exposing, you know, corruption in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, you know, going through all these little flip notebooks of shorthand notes and getting it all in one place so that way he can start making sense of all these puzzle pieces and putting it together to to bring that knowledge and shine that light for the people of Las Vegas. Right. I think that it is a flurry of paperwork. It's going from handwritten notes to napkins. You dirtyed up in a Starbucks when you finally thought

Starting point is 00:05:54 of someone to contact or what lead to follow up on. They're little blurbs and sentences you picked up while writing on the bus and you thought, this would be a great example. This is the perfect interpretation metaphor, the perfect analysis, right? And you've compiled all of these things, you're putting them finally into this computer to hopefully prepare what will be a damning piece of evidence that will shed light on the fact that Las Vegas PD has not been up to snuff. They've been digging a little too deep into the money that runs through this city and deciding that maybe the gambler shouldn't be the only ones walking away with millions.

Starting point is 00:06:36 But you, Ethan, you've made a decision for yourself that this is enough. Let me ask you this. How far along is this case? Is this nearly done? Do you have everything you need here? Oh, he's got, you know, it's like they always say in some of those, you know, legal procedural shows, like a bunch of circumstantial evidence,

Starting point is 00:06:56 but no nail in the coffin. Nothing definitive to show one way or another that who he thinks is calling the shots is actually calling the shots. Definitely a lot of smoke though. Definitely a lot of smoke and hoping that maybe if he has the opportunity, maybe this is the shot across the bow, that'll cause them to slip up and give him that nail in the coffin. He sees this as just the opening salvo, right? This is the first in a multi-part exposé. And once this hits the press, he is counting on them,

Starting point is 00:07:30 getting sloppy. You're hoping that people will be called to action with this, too. That someone else will think the same way that Ethan does. That it's not OK that they could get away with this just because they're wearing a badge, carrying a gun. Absolutely. City counselors, senior investors, people with the money,

Starting point is 00:07:49 internal affairs, somebody in the police department that decides that this warrants further looking into. Right. I'm sure there's a twin Javanger there too, thinking in the back of you that they could get away on all of this simply because of their station. Yeah. Is he then someone who believes in the law as he's writing down these notes? Is he's compiling documents? Is he someone that believes that the law is necessary, that the law enforcers necessary?

Starting point is 00:08:21 To an extent, but even he's worldly enough to know that the system, as it stands, is broken. And as long as men like these continue to call the shots and hold the reins, no true change will ever happen. No true change will ever take place. And the law that people need is not the law that they are most often served and protected with. Right. So you have any experience? Of course it does. You're pulling at the bags on your eyes.

Starting point is 00:08:56 Outside there's darkness looming over you. Is this full moon is starting to peak up over the horizon of Las Vegas. Is it starting to, to forebode a longer night for you? Oh, yeah. How much longer do you expect, expect to spend here in the office? Is this, is this an all night routine? Yeah, I think, I think for now it is. Uh, he's definitely, he's on that second pot of coffee and he's got those, those caffeine slash sleep deprivation jitters where like he's just running on pure adrenaline caffeine at this point and like every like any time he

Starting point is 00:09:31 holds up a piece of paper he's caught he's conscious of his hand vibrating just a bit too much but it's just is just intent he's a man on a mission and just intent to just push through until this is where it needs to be for the morning. Right. Well, the reach for the next coffee cup just as you're going for it, there's a ring of your landline. It's not familiar ring, not many people call through the traditional sign of landline and not certainly at 8, 10, at night, when people are sure that the doors are closed, but it rings all the same right across from you. You check your cell phone for that phantom vibration and realize that it is indeed the desk in front of you.

Starting point is 00:10:15 Yeah, reaches out and picks it up. Yeah, this is Canter. There is stillness on the other side of the phone for a moment. Almost the sound of rerouting, similar to any time you'll call like a pay phone and you'll get an automated message before or you're calling someone and then you get routed out to a new extension. This sort of click and hitch in the audio, and then after that stillness, you wait for just a few seconds for anything that comes after the transfer noise. And eventually, you hear on the other side, Ethan, Ethan can't do it. Yeah, I figured that was who I was calling.

Starting point is 00:11:05 I'm glad I got the right individual. Ethan, how's your night going? Uh, it's going. Who am I speaking with? An interested party. Okay. Ethan, you know, you are a hell of a journalist, you know that? Much obliged. Thank you. How long you've been with the Las Vegas sign?

Starting point is 00:11:36 Few years now And you're enjoying yourself you think the sun takes care of you. You think the sun respects what you're doing here. Who is this? I've been up way too long to be playing these games. I'm not playing any games. I'm asking you a question. And if you're as interested in the things that you are, if you think what you're doing matters in Vegas,

Starting point is 00:12:03 I think you'll stay on the line., I think you'll stay on the line. And I think you'll answer the question. They give me an outlet. Yeah, they let me say what I need to say. You think they're gonna back you when you start coming after the cops? I mean, if, if, let's stick to his right situations when I go after the cops yeah they'll back me it may be the only ones this city it doesn't have a great history with uh well one honest cops and two defending the people looking for the truth.

Starting point is 00:12:52 What side of the equation are you on? That is a good question. I don't play sides. I don't play favorites. I don't play anything unless it feeds my pocket. This whole situation, everything that you're getting into, Ethan, I don't feed my pocket anymore. So this is the obligatory back off here and make my life miserable, ruin my career. No, no, this is the exact opposite, Ethan can't do this is an opportunity. You see, my people called No, no, this is the exact opposite Ethan Cantor. This is an opportunity. You see, my people called me, right? And they tell me that someone's been running a riot of permission to access some properties of mine. You know,

Starting point is 00:13:37 people coming around asking questions, people that look a lot like Ethan Cantor of the Las Vegas Sun. Properties that he's been checking out are usually preceded with a big ol' private on the sign. So had me wondering, who thought they had the authority to hop some gates and ask questions of the fucking single cell organisms I employ to look over the warehouses? Who would think that they had the authority

Starting point is 00:14:04 to speak to my idiots? And lo and behold, the Ethan Cantor shaped shadow. It seemed to be the very one in the same. Yeah, got me. Then it became uniquely obvious. You're not interested in me. You're interested in a friend of mine, a dear friend, a friend that you and I share, one that if I had any chance myself, I'd hang them from the fucking rafters, but I don't so it them.

Starting point is 00:14:41 Underwood. That's a man. So I gotta ask, what is it that you have against Captain Underwood? Are you sure you don't wanna tell me who you are? I am fucking positive. Let's say I got a lot of smoke. I ain't got fire. Okay.

Starting point is 00:15:11 And you're sure you want to go through with this? Listen, it's, uh, sometimes he's got to shake the tree, see what falls out. Oh, you're shaking fucking trees, brother. You're shaking fucking skyscrapers. You're shaking all the Vegas and asking if anybody's corrupt, you know what the fuck that means, right? Yeah, I do. I also know what it means when guys like Underwood

Starting point is 00:15:39 have certain people in their pockets, and they're doing fucking drive-by's in residential neighborhoods and killing fucking kids and leaving them bleeding out on the fucking sidewalk. I got you. I understand the play. I'm not saying it's a bad one. I'm saying it's dangerous. But if you're in it, then I have an opportunity. Do you want to hear the gift I'm going to lay at your feet, the strange but fortunate confidant that you have just earned? Yeah, yeah, sure.

Starting point is 00:16:17 Why not? Okay. It's free to listen. Oh, you're going to do a lot more than listen if you stick with me. There's a road off a slone. It's just past the Army Reserve Center. It runs through the canyon. You're gonna follow that road north until you see the chain link fencing.

Starting point is 00:16:38 There's a drainage act says building past the fence entrance. You're to arrive at 1.30 a.m. if you show up at 1.31 a. to arrive at 1.30 a.m. if you show up at 1.31 a.m. or 1.29 a.m., we're not gonna fucking talk, 1.30 a.m. And as long as you're there, I'm gonna tell you something that's gonna blow this whole thing out of proportion.

Starting point is 00:17:04 Oh, uh, so that is what makes sure I'm understanding. You want me to drive out to the middle of nowhere, 138 night, working the case on work and, and expect nothing bad's gonna happen to me. The fact that you're scared means you're smart. Hey, he, bear in the way if you got something to be afraid of, right?

Starting point is 00:17:29 It's very true. And let me tell you, Ethan, you got a lot in this world to be afraid of. Yeah, what assurances do I have in my safety? None. In fact, I could kill you a second you show up, but I could have done that already. All right, well, just we're on the same page.

Starting point is 00:17:53 Everything I've written, something happens to me, it goes hot, first thing in the morning. I don't give a fuck. But you know what? Let that be your insurance. All right. Listen, Ethan, if you want to know the truth about Las Vegas, you'll be at that drainage center. I'll teach you everything you need to know. What do I call you?

Starting point is 00:18:27 He kinda just, he just, he listens to the dial tone for a little bit and then like looks down at the phone before kind of just gently resting in the cradle like what the fuck just happened. That was a very surreal conversation like Hard not to like that guy But also just a little bit terrifying. I love it. So yeah, you would get caller ID on this So I feel like I have to give you that okay. Yeah

Starting point is 00:19:04 It would be these two oh go ahead. Sorry. Oh, yeah. It would be to, oh, go ahead, sorry. Oh no, no, you go first. It would be to a on target guns and accessories. That's what it reads on the caller ID. Your mind does search back to that moment where it shifted calls, but did give you a read and the caller ID comes up as on target guns. Yeah, he's gonna call it, honestly.

Starting point is 00:19:33 He's gonna call it real quick. Yeah, real quick, you go back in. I mean, I know that star 69 is probably no longer a thing, but you star 69 it, you call three, you try and get onto on target guns. And it is 830 so About that time it's closed But you get the voicemail that comes through you know offering for you to call back during their shop hours

Starting point is 00:19:55 And it just sort of rings through it has this disgusting like Americana Esk Like country music jangle on the background while you're waiting. And then after about 30 seconds of that jangle, go straight back to the voicemail. And maybe you're thinking that just on the other end, he'll pick back up. And this will be real again, but nothing ever comes.

Starting point is 00:20:16 Just that disgusting guitar. Yep. Yeah, just hangs a backup. So you can, yeah, go ahead, go ahead, sorry. Oh, no, no, it was just going to say he knew he knew it would be it. It was it was jumping. He was jumping lines. So yeah, sitting in that corner office, it's it's getting dark.

Starting point is 00:20:35 It's eight 30s. I mean, Moon is fully in the sky. You're in this dark office and you're just thinking about that dial tone noise and the jangle of that country guitar and this place feels just eerily quiet. And you've become accustomed with that feeling, that feeling of, I'm the only one moving when everyone else is resting. And it begins to sit on you. Enough that the shadows seem to lengthen in the lobby of that room and you get that feeling that you can only get in places that are designed for many, but only one person is occupying at the

Starting point is 00:21:14 moment. You feel that touch on your back like someone's watching, but you also get a text message. It's from Genevieve, and it reads, did you forget? Oh, fuck, he immediately just shoots up and grabs like the wrinkled blazer that hasn't seen a dry cleaner in way too long, throws it on and it bolts for his car. Beautiful, you run out, you're're down the stairs fast as you can. You still have to lock up the building on your way out. You're the only soul left.

Starting point is 00:21:50 But you get out to the parking lot. Go ahead and give me a roll of wits in perception, please. Let's do it. Yeah, so that's going to be a four-and-perception is OK. Wits in what now what now awareness or no? Oh yes, I'm sorry, not perception. Awareness, what's in awareness? I'm thinking dnd.

Starting point is 00:22:14 Yeah, so I'll write there with you. All right, let's see, first roll. So that's, oh, that is two successes. Oh, beautiful. Okay. You push open the double doors, you're stepping out into the parking lot,

Starting point is 00:22:33 you've got your briefcase and your jacket so long over yourself, you know, put yourself together and just out of the corner of your eye, you see a cross from the street, a sedan that's parked in this sort of like business park residential area, turns on immediately as the door opens and you walk out, it pulls out and then drives away. Got it. Okay. Yeah, he clocks it and kind of as it drives away, he holds up a big metal finger.

Starting point is 00:23:06 The car feels unperturbed by your metal finger. Yeah, of course, makes him feel better though, right? Which is what's important. Yeah, he'll just still kind of watch the tail lights recede and kind of navigate to his own car. We'll start making this way to the restaurant. I'm assuming the restaurant, I think that's what they said they were going to meet.

Starting point is 00:23:26 Yes. Do you have any idea where you would be taking Gen of Eve out? Are you guys a strip couple? Is this like a nice enough night that you're actually going to brave the traffic of Las Vegas to get down there? Or you stink somewhere local? Is this a diner spot? You guys have only been to? What are you thinking here? spot you guys have only been to. What are you thinking here? Yeah, I think I think it's at this point. It's definitely a diner spot. Genevieve is not the wine and dine, fancy, schmancy, you know, tight. More like, you know, where can I get a good burger at, you know, 11 o'clock at night kind of kind of place. So yeah, definitely kind of just a

Starting point is 00:24:05 spot that they can that is right. Sunday at, you know, 830 at night, this south of the strip near Henderson by Paradise. It is bone, bone, bone quiet out here. It's the only thing you have is the music you're pumping through

Starting point is 00:24:27 your own car if you do or maybe use a talk radio type and the sound of your car sort of rolling through these streets occasionally you'll see someone you know dark in the corner of an intersection to cross and that will be the first person you've seen in five minutes, 10 minutes, whatever it may be. And it takes on a sort of loneliness that feels like that office, a lobby that is supposed to hold many, but only holds more. Yeah, and he's definitely, I would say he's definitely keeping on his rear view and aside me, he's trying to see if, you know, there's cars turning with him. If a sedan is following you. Yeah, yeah. Go ahead and give me a, yeah, let's go with Witts

Starting point is 00:25:10 and awareness again. Or actually, you know the sedan, you've seen the sedan. Let's see investigation. Maybe you can pick it out while you're driving. So Witts and investigation. Beautiful, beautiful. That is one, two, three, four, five successes. So wit to investigation. Beautiful. Beautiful. Eric. That is one, two, three, four, five successes. She's us, Christ.

Starting point is 00:25:31 Um. You do pick up that maybe two intersections back. There are familiar headlights. That normally anyone off the street would not have recognized as something that was familiar but the paranoia that is set in the reason for the bags under your eyes the stuff that keeps you up at night the shadow that you've always thought was the captain that you always thought was someone deciding that your work was too important to see the light of day, you know, or at least

Starting point is 00:26:06 your paranoia does, that this is for you, that he's for you. The familiar headlights of that sedan does not seem aggressive. It's not pursuing you at length, but you're familiar with police tactics when it comes to tailing. And this would be, maybe it's not. I don't know. I, it doesn't know. But in this world, this would be absolutely in line with, with trying to keep a pace with

Starting point is 00:26:31 this target. Absolutely. Absolutely. Definitely driving not to be seen, but to follow. Perfect. Okay. Yeah. He'll, he'll just clock it and go about business, business as usual.

Starting point is 00:26:44 Right. And he definitely doesn't, he's not going to try anything slick like run red lights or drive down one way streets or something because then that's probably cause for a stop, baby. And then they can really fuck his night up. So you are giving yourself no reason to be pulled out. Absolutely. Yep. Exactly a speed limit on that five-five over business. Just nice and steady. Well, the person that was so paranoid before has now engaged just a secret muscle he keeps, especially for reasons like this. And you engage that paranoia enough to make it physical and drive through these streets without causing any reason for pulling over. And it seems as though for now he just seeks to watch. And you pull up into the parking lot,

Starting point is 00:27:34 the diner that you and Genevieve have agreed to meet at. It is a sorry site of those big 1950s sort of retro panel windows where you can see absolutely everyone dining at the front. It would be kitschy if it wasn't so dilapidated from years of lack of upgrade and you can see in the third booth right against the window with a single cup of what you can only assume is cold coffee. Is this person you've spent so much of your time, so much of your existence and vagus with someone you've become all too familiar with with cold coffee and late dinner dates. This is Jannevieve. What does

Starting point is 00:28:19 Jannevieve look like? Do you want to describe her for for everyone here? She is yours. look like do you want to describe her for for everyone here she is yours yeah yeah so she's probably five nine five ten uh very likely built dark skinned woman close close clop cropped black hair um you know very uh not dressed up for it just very kind of beautiful in a very plain way. Right, like just very, the longer you look at her, at least in Ethan's mind, the more beautiful she gets. And definitely has that quiet strength and integrity that kind of attracted him to her to begin with.

Starting point is 00:29:04 And he almost kind of catches himself stop and just a little bit and watching her through that window, maybe just a sketch too long before kind of making his way into the diner. Right. I don't think she notices. She sits there with that sort of, it's never been gaudy, but it's always been purposeful beauty. Something that comes with a lot of clean, neat preparedness of soul. And she does look perturbed. It's an obvious sort of look on her face and it's one you become very familiar with.

Starting point is 00:29:36 And even as you push through the double doors, you come into the diner here. She looks up from her coffee and she gives you a knowing look a look that has become imprinted on your soul That is to say God you made me wait again Yep, yeah, and he just kind of does the the As he walks over and he just said immediately that the apologies and the platitudes start like I am so sorry I just I lost track of time. I'm so sorry

Starting point is 00:30:04 She says nothing, does nothing. She just, she calls over the waiter and she orders a coffee for you the way you like it. She looks over at you. She says, did you get any closer? Yeah, you know, a little bit, just, just a little bit steady, you know, a little bit, just a little bit steady, you know. Somebody's following me, so I'm freaking somebody out. She looks scared immediately or her whole body shifts forward as she looks out the window as if she's going to take on the threat head on She says, what are you talking about? There's someone after you. I I'm sorry. Look, I don't know what I'm saying. I'm just tired that dinner We'll take you somewhere. We got to talk to somebody. No, no, I

Starting point is 00:31:06 Know I got someplace to meet tonight. I mean, obviously, obviously here. But, Genovie, I got this phone call. That's why I was late. They want me to meet them and they say that they've got... They can offer him up on a platter. She gives you a look. You're expecting the world out of this reaction. You want her to go, oh my God, we got her.

Starting point is 00:31:35 You want her to burst with joy here and she deflates you immediately. She gives you a look that is, oh my god, not again. She looks at you, she says, they, who's they? I don't know, some guy, he knows what he's doing. I think he was, he was calling from another line, but looked like it was going butt someplace else. Like the tradecraft is there, he knows what he's doing. Keith and, Ethan, would you just take a deep breath, please?

Starting point is 00:32:10 Yeah, I, yeah. You know how all this sounds, right? You sound crazy. There's somebody following you. There's people calling you from other lines. They want you to go meet him with her at this time of night. You don't even know who they are. All I know is that they can... If what he says is true, it's done. This whole thing is blown wide open for everybody to fucking see.

Starting point is 00:32:41 It's not done. You keep acting like this is the end. This is step one, Ethan. You sell these people out the entire Las Vegas police department. You tell the world what they're doing and you think that ends? No. That's just the beginning, you know. Writing a think piece, writing a pipe bomb doesn't send them to jail.

Starting point is 00:33:12 It strings you up high. You know how this city works. You're never going to work again. And if someone really is chasing you, I can't see something happening to you. I know. I'll be all right. You know I have to see the street, Jen. I can't not go.

Starting point is 00:33:43 You could? You could. You could listen. You and I, we have been tiptoeing around this for a long time, and I know I act like I hate you all the time. But that's only half of it. I want this. You could slow down at the sun a little bit. I want this. You could slow down at the sun a little bit.

Starting point is 00:34:08 You could work with me. At the shelter, we could work together. There are so many people that need our help, that we could help directly. Not years of fighting in the courts to see anything happen, and to let everyone else decide that another cop is okay. But you could change something. At a local level, you could feed people who need feeding, how is people that need housing.

Starting point is 00:34:34 And at the end of the day, you could come home to me. I want that. You know what I do. I just... Let me see this. Let me see this through and then I will step away. All right, I just... I need to lift the lid, Jen, because if I don't then who? I have this information. I have these pieces of this puzzle and somebody needs to put it together. Somebody needs to get it out there and open everyone's eyes,

Starting point is 00:35:12 Jen, because if I don't, it's just gonna go right back to the shadow where it started and then all there's gonna be are just rumors and whispers and out and just nothing, nothing concrete. And everybody's saying saying cops are bad But man, they can't be that bad. They can't be that yes, they fucking can't gen and I need to If not me then who? And you know they want me to have this conversation they want me to have some who tell

Starting point is 00:35:41 To put this down to not take it any further they are counting on that fuck them I just think you could be really happy with me if you go tonight I can't do it anymore Ethan I can't do it anymore Ethan Jen don't I'm being so sorry I can't

Starting point is 00:36:21 Look I'm sorry I was late. I mean it's not about that You've always been late It's about if if I, what I lose, what you lose, if we obsess, you know why I got into this, right? And why I started working for the sun, why I got into this, right? And when I started working for the sun, and why I started...

Starting point is 00:36:47 The truth matters. Jen? Doesn't it? Do you know, I think it does. I just... I wish it mattered. I wish I mattered more. I wish you mattered more.

Starting point is 00:37:16 You deserve better than this. If not me, then who? I don't know. Look, oh, God. She moves to pick herself up from the table. It looks like she goes to form three different thoughts that never solidify. And she gives you a look that is familiar to you. You've seen this look and back when you first met Genopy,

Starting point is 00:37:55 when you were working for the homeless shelter of Las Vegas, when you were working with the Alliance put together to house and clothe these individuals. It is a look of desperation when you have reached the end of all option. And she is looking at you with that in her eyes. And she looks like she's going to make for the door. Please, please, just, please don't go.

Starting point is 00:38:22 Don't go. And I won't go. Please don't go. Don't go, and I won't go. That's not... That's what I thought, Ethan. Please stay safe, and she puts a hand on your shoulder, reaches in and kisses your cheek, and she just sort of lingers her forehead against the

Starting point is 00:38:46 side of your face for a moment and sort of clutches you to her and then breaks and goes for the door. He cannot even bear to watch her go. He just stares down into that dark kind of reflection and the coffee. That diner all feels like a joke and it feels like every light but the one over your booth has shut down and you are now sitting in the spotlight of fake fluorescent glow and the parking lot outside seems overwhelmingly dark but it's where the audience sits and they sit and they watch the sad man with the bags under his eyes sit alone at his

Starting point is 00:39:30 booth and wait for Genevieve to get into her sedan with the keys in the ignition. She pulls out and she goes away into the darkness. Way from you into a world you will never see again. He can feel himself start to get angry maybe, maybe a little indignant. Like, how can she ask that of me? It's unfair. That's, that's, she knows who I am. But then he just quickly kind of surprises that and just tells himself, you made your choice. You weren't this.

Starting point is 00:40:13 Whether you wanted or not, you weren't it. And now you have to live with it. And he'll pay for their coffees and just go drive, kill time. Right. You pay for the coffees and there's plenty of time to kill. You get into your car as soon as you start the ignition. Almost as a greeting flag. Almost in conversation, a sedan in the parking lot across the street turns on in your headlights zoom in on each other and it's

Starting point is 00:40:50 as though they're not even they're not even hiding. They're hiding it yeah. The one thing he will do is look for a mailbox. Okay and there's absolutely a residential area off the side of this diner. It's probably like the local spot. You can find a mailbox at the first place. Yeah, like one of those old blue ones that the drop things often. And he pops open his briefcase and he pulls out the the thick brown envelope address to Rabbi Sam and you know drops it in, you know, as his insurance policy. At it. Just, you know, if something were to happen to him,

Starting point is 00:41:34 then Rabbi Sam at least has, has the main discrep. He's got the backups, right? Yep. Perfect. It's all done. The sedan watches as you do it. You get back into your car.

Starting point is 00:41:48 You do have some hours to kill or to lose a tail. Is there anything you'd like to do before one o'clock? Yeah. What do you want? 30. I think he will try to, he will after a certain point try to lose the tail as, as legally as he can without being too provocative or, you know, so yeah, he's gonna, he's gonna try to ditch him because he does, especially if whoever it is on the other side of that

Starting point is 00:42:16 phone is probably not gonna be super happy if he brings company. Right. So, in that mind, how are you losing this tail? Are you doing it through sheer driving? Ackiman is this stealthy lost? You park somewhere and hope they lose you? Is it a talking your way out of this situation? You choose to, you know, stock up in a Porto Mag place and wait for six hours, you know, whatever you're thinking. Yeah. I think definitely try to lose them quietly, try to be stealthy about it, try to be, you know, just, just maybe turn one corner to many and lose them, go, you know, duck into a parking garage,

Starting point is 00:42:56 um, something. Yeah, he, and especially, in fact, he may actually drive towards the strip and get lost in the traffic. The harder for them to maneuver, the easier for him to kind of break away. I love that. And this strip to anyone that has experienced Las Vegas, they know how terrible it is to drive the strip. It's just the easiest way to lose an evening. And for sure, it does kill some time for you as well as you get stuck in with this traffic. And all these drunks crossing the street, you get caught between those seas or bridges and the people off the crosswalk there. Just past the strip malls across from Paris and you drive in from the strap and hope to God that this tale doesn't come around the strip too long. Let me get a dexterity and stealth from you just to indicate how well we I see three successes.

Starting point is 00:44:10 Three successes, awesome. Three successes. Okay. You eventually drive through the strip long enough that you are bathed in the neon lights and in the flash and the sea of people that are providing haven for your car here. And the sign of that tale, your eyes are good, you've seen them three times now, you know, exactly the make, maybe you've even scored the license plate, whatever it is, you know enough to know when he's behind you.

Starting point is 00:44:43 And for as many times as you're looking over your shoulder for as many time as Jen's voice is in your head talking to you about how far you're going and just how much you'll lose you can imagine behind you that he's gone you're almost sure of it you cannot make out for any sediments in your direction. And after pulling off from some of the main access streets past the casinos, you brought yourself back into the local district, just south of the strip there, and you feel as though you're alone. There's no guarantee in this world, but whatever the predator was, he's not hunting any longer. Got it. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I think he'll just find a place to sit and maybe go get some coffee. Right. Get some more coffee. And he'll actually

Starting point is 00:45:39 call if he's still got time. how should he call the rabbi? Absolutely. Okay. You get rabbi on the phone there. You have his personal line, so it's not difficult for you. It comes up absolutely. It's a little late for rabbi. You know that he is the perfect specimen for going to bed early. He perfect element for it. So you do feel his voice is roused as he comes to speak, but he absolutely answers on the other side. So is that, hello? Hey, Rabbi Sam, it's Ethan.

Starting point is 00:46:24 Oh, oh, my boy, can't her, how are you? I'm good, Rabbi, how are you? I'm sorry, it's so late. I, uh, I'm sorry, I'm constantly. It's fine, I was only sleeping. Yeah. Um, do you have a minute? Well, of course I always have a minute?

Starting point is 00:46:45 Well, of course I always have a minute for you, my boy. What is it that you're bringing at my feet here? Is this how important is this? I am in my bathrobe. Not too important for you to get up and get dressed, Rabbi. All right. Just a, maybe about to do something really, really stupid.

Starting point is 00:47:06 Oh my boy, what if that could mean anything? What do you mean? What are you bringing to me? You know I've been working on something, right? Oh, this kind of stupid, I understand. This kind of stupid. Somebody came to me with an offer of information, and I can't say now, and I've already, Genevieve has decided she's done. And I can't blame her. I want to, but I can't, you know.

Starting point is 00:47:47 In the experience with the woman, she's only ever wanted your best. But we can't fault her for disagreeing. No, no. And this is important, right? What I'm doing is, this is important, right? The truth is more important than anything. The truth of our God, of our life, everything that we do here is a test for what is to come. And of course, what you're doing is important. What everyone does is important. And do you believe that this is something, that this will be the end?

Starting point is 00:48:36 Well, this has been some time, Ethan, that we have been chasing through. And is this it? Something Jennifer has said just kinda has, it's rattling around, and she's right, I don't think it is the end. I think it is just the beginning, but I think it might be, I think it might be the end of my role,

Starting point is 00:49:03 and it'll be me, maybe passing the torch on for somebody else to give their pound of flesh. Well, there is a good precedent on people keeping a flame lit. Yeah. If this is yours to pass, let it be a righteous decision. What you're giving yourself over to, this is something you want, and something you believe is right. Just, correct? Yeah. Yeah, I just... I don't know at what point. I wanted to... I don't know at what point I wanted to. I don't know at what point I was doing this simply because it was the truth and it was

Starting point is 00:49:49 the right thing to do. And at what point it became about me being right. Oh. Right boy, it is a very difficult thing to remove pride from the occasion. Yeah. to remove pride from the occasion. Yeah, but sometimes they coincide, it is possible to be doing the right thing and doing the right thing for yourself. It is possible to be both prideful and good. I appreciate that. Thank you. I mean that that helps. I think this is for the best. I think this is for the best. Ethan, you have always been a good judge of character and a greater eye for justice for

Starting point is 00:50:52 what is right in this world. And if you believe there is injustice, then it is part of your job here on earth to deliver to do right by people who need it. Yeah, that is. And if Jen does not believe in this lifetime, then there is always the second. and there is always the second. Thank you, Bravai. Of course. This is the best thing I have ever said in a bathroom. I imagine it is. Look, just so you're not shocked,

Starting point is 00:51:40 I dropped something in the mail for you, just... I don't think anything's going to happen, but just in the off chance, I get arrested. Somebody tries to keep this story from running tomorrow. I emailed you everything I have. Make sure somebody at the sun gets it. Ethan, this is... Are you sure? Okay.

Starting point is 00:52:07 I will, I will. But you have to promise something to me. Always. You'll go with God and you'll let me pray over you. Of course I will. And I think that there's a portion here where Of course it will. And I think that there's a portion here where Rabbi goes through traditional blessings and you basically go through every prayer that might fit this book and there's even an

Starting point is 00:52:39 portion where Rabbi goes to get the Holy text and come back and speak through to you and make sure that you feel comfortable. And he goes through all of this and then wishes you good luck. And I think he gives you a good night there. And by the end of that call, it is nearing just enough time to get you down to to Sloan and just pass the Army Reserve. Is there anything else you'd like to accomplish? Are we moving forward with a very important meeting? We're moving forward. He even just kind of steals himself and still second-guessing at this point. Wondering if it's not too late for him to turn around. But what the rabbi said and what he's been feeling all along, like that reconciling, that sense of pride,

Starting point is 00:53:37 with that sense of truth telling, he just, he continues on. Right. It's a drive, especially from being just at the strip now, you're driving out basically into the boonies. Sloan is obviously into Sloan County, or I'm sorry, Sloan Canyon, which is this big outcropping just at the lower half of Vegas that empties out to this canyon. And it sends you through some winding roads and everything, and it does indeed, after about 15 minutes of driving under this big moon and the darkness that is sort of

Starting point is 00:54:17 enshrouding your vehicle there and the headlights that are illuminating everything out here because there's no real street lamps. You do see the darkened Army Reserve center off to your right. A huge military presence in Las Vegas and this is just one of those calls. And it's closed up for the night, obviously, but plenty of cars parked out and it's parking lot.

Starting point is 00:54:41 This feels like the goal post, essentially, because passing through this is going down This feels like the goal post, essentially, because passing through this is going down Sloan Road, which doesn't even officially become a road. And the one you've sort of mapped out from the phone call given to yourself is absolutely not a road. It's sort of like an access port that's off

Starting point is 00:55:01 of the main Sloan Canyon road that extends out full dirt all the way up through the canyon essentially. So your car comes to a stop there and you're looking out. This is maybe if you had any opportunity, this would be your last chance to turn back. would be your last chance to turn back. Does he see any other lights? Like does it look like there's any one or anything else out here right now? Go ahead. What are you looking for in specific?

Starting point is 00:55:37 Are we looking for cars? Are we looking for shapes in the distance? Yeah, maybe cars, like, cause obviously somebody would have to drive to get out here. So just seeing if there's any sign of another vehicle being out here. Yeah, so I think you flip on your brights. Let's take a look.

Starting point is 00:55:54 Give me a whiten awareness. Okay. All right, awesome. That is, is two successes. Two successes? You don't feel as though you can see anything in the immediate distance. The nature of this road is that it's sort of climbing up into the canyon itself. So there is this sort of peak about 30 feet from where you are now where it's sort of levels over. So you can't really see past that point to begin with.

Starting point is 00:56:26 But in your immediate sight, it's just you out here. In fact, that's the feeling you get is the rumble of your own car and not a whole lot outside of it. All right. Yeah, this crests that peak. You press that, that peak. You press that peak, you start to drive through and it starts to wind out even more until eventually you run into the road that that strange accident, man, warned you would be your strange, fortunate, uh, confidant as he described himself. Um, and you pull out onto the actual dirt that extends out into the canyon and now

Starting point is 00:57:07 you're truly driving off-road and but what is Ethan drive? I didn't really even think about this. Maybe this is like a real bounce and through the desert. Yeah, it's like a 10-year-old honoursific at this point. Yeah, it is not doing well right now. Yeah. So for sure, the civic has never been off-roading before. At times, the dirt road has obviously not been serviced in a very long time or paved through and the people that are coming out here are prepared for that. Obviously, the government's going to know how bad their own road is. So at times, you're not even sure whether you can get past these potholes so you have to slow down to sort of ease the civic in and then out. But you're making good time. Go ahead and give me a composure plus awareness. Oh, okay. Don't that pull here?

Starting point is 00:58:05 All right. That is one success. It hits you at the last second. Yeah. There is a flash of headlights off of the right coming up from this in slope off the canyon road. And that flash of the headlights is enough for you to look and see this three panel band as it revs up as fast as it can through the road there

Starting point is 00:58:36 and then joins you in. Clipping the side of your vehicle, you can hear the crunch in as the Civic starts to waver nearly falling from the very gently paved road as it is. And you manage to keep yourself in the front seat driving. It's not as though your car implodes, but you've been knocked to the side there. The Sedan is threatening to fall deeper into the canyon off the left-hand side, and maybe tip. Go ahead and give me a drive and dexterity to see how well you can pick yourself up from this collision with this

Starting point is 00:59:08 white panel there. That was that that was a dice pull of two and that is two successes. Two successes will be enough is you can feel the whole car start to lean back and forth as you're struggling and overcorrecting and overcorrecting until finally you feel like you have a grip. It's still swaying left to right and you can feel the clip on your back right tires is causing serious damage for keeping yourself straight. So now your your arms have to, you know, overcorrect to make sure that you're accommodating for that side.

Starting point is 00:59:45 What's the plan? This white panel van is clearing into view. It's now whipped itself around so much that it's bouncing up onto the ground, and you can see that it's pursuing you, and you can see just behind it two other lights have picked up just peeking past that hill you'd went through. Yeah, at this point, he's gonna try to whip it around and just go try to go back the way he came play because there's really no place else for him to go, really. Right. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:00:15 Okay, so you're halfway through to that drainage ditch, that drainage center, you can even see it passed up through the hill, but you've realized just how defeated this situation is. You pull yourself around, go ahead and give me a, let's do composure and drive. You're trying to keep yourself cool. You're trying to focus on the situation, even though you're driving towards these lights instead of away now. No successes. No successes. You get hitched halfway through the Civic dips into one of the new changes in terrain that has been caused by that massive dent in your car.

Starting point is 01:00:54 And the back right wheel starts to sputter through as you can feel half of your car sort of lifted off the road and no longer touching the road itself. And you're sort of perfect position for a T-bone there as you're caught in the middle. That white panel van catching up to you is going to attempt to take you there. Just try and knock you off the road, basically.

Starting point is 01:01:20 I'm going to give you a let's call this, Wits and Drive versus my Dex and Drive to see if he can finally pin you for that T-bone. One success. Unfortunately, you feel the white panel van hit the square center of that Civic, and for a moment it's slow moment, it's, it's slow motion, it's frozen in time. For a moment, you're back in the diner, you're sipping cold

Starting point is 01:01:51 coffee with Jen, and you're wondering just how much you'll lose. And then life comes back into view, and your car spins through the air, it's not full over back onto its side. The top of your car has now fit the bottom of the road and your wheels are spun up into the sky. The glass collapses through. You take a lot of bloody superficial damage. In fact, let's call that, by the way, I just want to make sure that the viewers understand right now.

Starting point is 01:02:23 Vince is very human. So superficial damage absolutely matters here. That hurts. So let's say that you took three superficial damage here in the health category, okay? Unlike in the future when things will change for you. Superficial damage is very official here. Yeah. So if you take your full health, you will unfortunately die before you even get to play the game and I'll have to rewrite the whole story. Great. We'll see. So

Starting point is 01:02:57 you're not over. You are still strapped into the cart self. It's crunched in. You can feel the compression. The air leave your body is your pressed into the car itself. It's crunched in. You can feel the compression, the air leave your body as you're pressed into the dashboard itself. And you can see that the panel van is sort of stalled out from its engine hitting you so hard as it did. You can tell that those people are trying to get out of their cars now to pursue you. But you have an opportunity here. What's the play? Uh, get out, get out and can you see the drainage where the meat was supposed to happen? Absolutely.

Starting point is 01:03:32 It's, it's honestly, if you were a fast runner in high school, maybe you can make it. Okay. It's up the hill. I would say maybe 120 feet from where you are now. Um, is that the only structure out here? Yes. the hill, I would say maybe 120 feet from where you are now. Is that the only structure out here? Yes. So to put it in perspective, this is almost like

Starting point is 01:03:57 there when you turn down this dirt road, there was probably a sign that said authorized access only right, you know, official access only. This is one of those the government sets up these drainage pipes out here and this is how they access them, but it's really only designed to get to this one. So there's plenty of like cloud field to the left and you imagine you've probably run the right side around the canyon to get back to the service roads, but that would probably be longer than the drainage itself. Yeah, yeah. He's not, I mean, he's not sure at this point, like, was the call what just happened? Was the whole point to get me here for this to happen?

Starting point is 01:04:36 Is somebody still waiting for it doesn't matter. At least if he gets to the drainage ditch, the drainage tunnel, he can get in there and maybe lose them. Because he's not losing anybody out here in the wide open. Right. So, he's just going to try to get out and make a break for it. Let's get your dexterity plus athletics, or I would also accept survival, maybe even know something we don't about these sort of situations. Meanwhile, they're going to roll to pursue.

Starting point is 01:05:08 Yeah, that is a big, fat, no successes. Okay. Well, you make it out of the car quick enough, and you get this illusion that maybe you can make it if you make a run for it. But just as you start to take off, you collide with the corner of the car itself as the sticking out piece of the fender trips you completely and you fall face first into the asphalt, the sort of, I'm sorry, the paved sort of dirt on the road there and you kick up all this dust that's come with you you can feel it get into your lungs

Starting point is 01:05:44 and then you can feel or hear rather the heavy footfalls of the individuals who have just stepped out of the panel van. There's one door as you're first climbing out of the car and then two more as you're stuck into the dirt there on the side of the road. And you can hear them start to move up against you. You're on the ground. They're coming up against you. The first form is maybe 10 feet away from you. You haven't got a good look at him yet. And then the others are maybe 15 feet behind him. Is there any last-ditch efforts you're crawling through the dirt, you're hoping to God, you can get away. What's the play? Looking for any kind of object he uses a weapon, big ass rock, something he can just slug one of these fuckers with the minute they get in striking distance. I fucking love it.

Starting point is 01:06:33 Let's do wits and melee to find something along with everybody. All right, that's not a bad thing. It's full of ass. Oh, and that's what I'm talking about. Four successes. Four successes, absolutely. The lovely thing about a car turning over and having this delicious spray debris

Starting point is 01:06:54 is that there is this clear piece of muffler that is broken free from your sedan. Hell yeah. Piping hot, but just enough off the end, you think you could probably pick it up. You'd burn your hands, but you would definitely get a chance at knocking the first one that comes at you. Yep, that's the plan. Great. He just grabs it and just grits his teeth and just through the pain. Maybe it's just the sheer adrenaline of having just been in the car wreck as well.

Starting point is 01:07:20 And just he gets ready to fucking deck the first guy he sees. I love it. Absolutely. You turn around you take a swing Let me get on guessing this is absolutely strength and melee. Yeah, yeah, okay That's not definitely not his his best dipole there And one success. I'll take it all right, one success. Yeah. You turn and immediately you clock the captain as you smack him across the jaw with this big piece of muffler and a sheer shot of blood goes straight from his jaw off the side and he grabs to it. This is the man who you have been hunting

Starting point is 01:08:05 towards with the Las Vegas sun for the last God knows how many months to try and bring to justice. Captain Underwood, the man who has changed your life forever. And clearly you changed his as he spitten teeth off the side of the road. He is a blonde bearded individual with this long sort of shoulder length blonde hair itself that's gone dirty and gray at the roots itself. He's probably in his 50s going on 60s. Real red neck sort of vibe to him. He's probably even got like some late stage sunburn on his neck there. And he's starting to show his age. Maybe years ago, he could have looked like a handsome man,

Starting point is 01:08:53 but now he's missing teeth in places. He's got a bad shave on his face. He's sun blotched and freckled from Las Vegas sun. He's wearing this sort of utility jumpsuit, like you might have at a mechanic shop, that has been drawn two buttons down to reveal this sort of hairy chest and cuffed at the forearms where it's showing more of this wild man's hair. And the shuck that he gets smacked with that pipe, he turns to the side, he spits, and you can see a molar fly to the floor. He turns around, and he reaches from his hip to pull a nine millimeter down at you and said, it looks at you and says, you just made the worst fucking mistake of your life. And he primes it directly at your face.

Starting point is 01:09:42 life. And he primes it directly at your face. He just tosses the muffler and puts his hands up. Get this fucking piece of shit up. Let's take a walk. It gestures back to two others. One of which you recognize it. It's a cop of which you've interviewed before. This was back in very preliminary cases. Clearly off duty here, he's wearing the same

Starting point is 01:10:13 mechanics jumpsuit and odds are you probably recognize the other. These are our cronies under captain and they come over to pick you up by the elbows and sort of drag you along the dirt road. It has Captain Underwood again tends to that smash on his face, you've given up, as he begins to walk down the dirt road out in front of you. You're being dragged, or at least they're going to drag you. Is there anything you'd like to do in this position? I honestly, I feel like I feel like a lot of the fight has maybe gone out of Ethan just a bit, because definitely was not expecting to see them here.

Starting point is 01:10:55 And then the fact that they're all wearing jumpsuits, he's not walking away, like he's gonna die in this desert. Like he is, he knows exactly what's about to happen. Right. And so as he's making, trying to make sense of that revelation, he just, there's almost like, he just, it almost like shuts down to an extent. And he just deadweights it.

Starting point is 01:11:21 Right, you go dead in their arms. One of them allows the other to take the weight while he rifles through your pockets. Do you have anything in your pockets when he goes through? Probably just his cell phone and his wallet. Yeah. He immediately takes his cell phone. He removes the SIM card. He takes the battery.

Starting point is 01:11:39 All three pieces get snapped. Then he tosses it out into this paved sort of area off the government lot. And then he takes the wallet, he starts rifling through the IDs, all of those gets get pocketed into that uniform he's wearing, and then he tosses the wallet back at you as it starts to get, as you start to get dragged straight through the dirt, you can see the pathway that boots are making as they take you through to get dragged straight through the dirt, you can see the pathway that boots are making as they take you through to this drainage center. It's solemn, there was no speaking,

Starting point is 01:12:11 it's not as though this is a jovial situation for them. Even Captain Underwood who threatened your life a few minutes ago with that nine millimeters is silent in this situation. It is an execution. You can see the sedan and the van that have been all but totaled off the side there. As the lights are still blinking off your sedan and the van has gone quite completely, it looks like an absolute wreck. And you can see that two more cars have

Starting point is 01:12:40 pulled up to the crash site area. One of them. The sedan that was following you early. So they drag you up to the drainage area. It is like this. Think it's almost built like a park restroom that sort of weird like concrete structure out of nowhere. And there is an office door in and then there is an auxiliary entrance that you can only imagine is actually to the drainage pipe itself. There's also a few of these little manholes off the side there and this chain link fencing that pulls it all in. Captain Underwood stands underneath this big spotlight that sits outside the office and the two men that are holding you bring

Starting point is 01:13:27 You right up to them and set you down Nelt underneath this only source of light in the middle of this desert You can barely even see the horizon of Las Vegas off the side and they haven't backed your face. They haven't done anything to bind you But they stand behind you and captain underwood nurses that nine millimeter service pistol in his hands and just sort of crouches down, heaving both elbows on his knees and and using the barrel of the gun he picks up your chin to look at him. I don't know what I was expecting. It wasn't you though. I can almost say the same.

Starting point is 01:14:18 You know, I think I remember talking to you. Yeah. I think I remember talking to you. Yeah. I don't think I like that conversation, did I? No, I didn't. I don't think you liked the, uh... implications I was making. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:14:46 There's a lot of implications go through Las Vegas. A lot of people who think they know the truth of it, right? Well... Looking around, I, uh... Looks like maybe I was right. Maybe. You were just a dirty piece of shit cop. Yeah! You are just a dirty piece of shit cop. Yeah? Yeah, I guess that's true, huh? Do you mind if I ask you something before I blow your fucking brains out on the side of dirt?

Starting point is 01:15:19 Yeah. What exactly did no one who I am get you? Nothing. Thanks. And he reaches back with a 9mm. He presses it into your stomach just lower and shoots you clear through what you can imagine as maybe your kidneys, your intestines, something, but the shock of that pain, sending through that center of your organs is immense

Starting point is 01:15:56 as the blood already begins to flow. And they hold your hands back behind you so that you can't even rush to hold the wound there. Captain Underwood presses the barrel in the second that he shot just to twinge more of that hurt out of you. It's screaming, just not even trying to be stoic, not even trying to be tough, just these hot flashes of just nothing but sheer agony through his entire abdomen and he is just head back screaming. Captain Underwood says nothing more. He reaches into one half

Starting point is 01:16:36 of the uniform he has and hands a pair of cuffs to one of the individuals on your right and then hands a second pair off to the gentleman you remember interviewing you remember asking about his kids About his daughter's back home you remember asking whether he enjoyed being a cop and you remember the answer being yes And now you remember him binding your hands back behind you as the other Tristocrossing in your ankles with two sets. And you can feel yourself bound there now underneath the light as you can feel the innards of you leaving your body or at least draining the blood within. The other two, with this done, begin to move down the dirt road. Captain Underwood still crouched there in front of you.

Starting point is 01:17:27 Tries to meet your eyes, but you're now sort of collapsed into the dirt. But he does his best. Yeah. It was great meeting you, Ethan. Your damn fine reporter. Shame your story won't get out. He stands up. He leaves down the dirt road, and you can feel your body leaving you.

Starting point is 01:17:52 Sure, anything you'd like to do? He's making down the road. You can see him leaving. He's making that 120 yard walk. He even feels that odd sensation of warm blood kind of spiraling up his throat and beginning to drain out of his mouth and just he can't help but we always this what it's like to die. And I think shock at this point like obviously, obviously, like with the blood loss and everything, and just his body is entered shock and just he just thinks of Genevieve. Right. Thank you, Shane. How we should have stayed?

Starting point is 01:18:37 You imagine that coffee shop again, that diner. You imagine the booth you were sitting in, that diner, you imagine the booth you were sitting in, and her asking desperately to be happy. And that is sort of a last vision that enters into you is the pain sort of subsides that adrenaline that shock brings to you. Now all you feel is cold, like there's something missing from you, like they took something from your body. And you're vaguely aware in the fading twilight that is your mind that they're gone. Time feels weird. Time feels like you have

Starting point is 01:19:15 been sitting here bleeding out for a century and at the same time, like you haven't gone anywhere in the last few seconds. You have been here since the beginning, but also only for a blink. And you sit there waiting for death. And you know, or at least you have How easy it is to die from a good shot. Yeah. It doesn't come. Not easy. You're stuck there waiting for death, waiting for Jen to be right, waiting for the rabbi to be wrong, waiting for Captain to get away with everything he intended to.

Starting point is 01:20:06 But something appears to the end of your vision, just as you feel as though life is leaving you. There's an individual just past the shadows of the light on that road, watching. You can only really see him out of one eye because the other is closed and half-dazed and dizzy. You can barely pick yourself up and look, but there's someone watching you die. He's half-dressed. His body is gone, but incredibly fit above. And there are these tattoos that line every inch of his body. Black, tribal, language, something, it's inscribed into every inch of who he is,

Starting point is 01:20:57 with these strange geometric pauses between each, as though each single vowel was properly placed on his body. And this extends on his eyelids across his features, across his bald, shorn head, all the way down until that halfway point, where he wears these cascading long fabric skirts and robes that extend past his feet enough that it looks as though he's floating out of the shadows there. His eyes are as big, open, and bagged as your own. There's something different there, just above.

Starting point is 01:21:38 His eyebrows are cut, completely shaved, and just above where they would be, the center of his face, is this triangle of flesh that has been removed, peeled back like a window. And in there is full organ of an eyeball, this flash of white that extends across the entire triangle that extends across his entire forehead, and at the center, this long, big, black, iris staring in from the shadow. And for a moment, you feel as though it's just a trick of the light. It's the last dying embers. It's what the brain believes God to look like. Until you never leave, you sit there for what feels like an hour, Ethan, with him watching you die.

Starting point is 01:22:39 Is there anything you would like to attempt here, a fading twilight of your mind? you would like to attempt here, fading twilight of your mind. Choke out, maybe a help. Just, yeah, you gargle it. And some of the blood that has been sitting in your belly seeps through and you can feel yourself just struggling to form the word, and the word itself causes the symbol in that shadow to smile.

Starting point is 01:23:11 And the eye smiles with him, as if the lid grows larger, as if the triangle encapsulates more of his face. And at that moment, you can feel him start to move towards you. And then everything heads to black. You die, even. There's no doubt about it. But on the other side of that twilight, in the second life that your rabbi told you of, there's something else, There's something else, like a dream. And the cold that you once were turns to hot, steam, that emptiness that Captain left you with, is now filled you back up as you can feel warmth rushed through your body, and you awaken in cathedral. You are in temple as a boy, and you're with Rabbi

Starting point is 01:24:20 Levy. They're standing at the back of the temple and you're both looking at the Aeron Kadesh which is sort of the capsule that they'll keep the sacred texts inside it. It's also considered to be the gates to heaven, right? God is kept on the other side of the Kadesh, right? It's larger than you remember. Massive. These huge golden cabinet doors that extend all the way to the top of the temple. And it's bizarre because those are supposed to hold books, cloth, gates, right? Rabbi Lavy turns to look at you. And to your surprise, he's grown a third golden eye that begins to drip this molten gold down his face, enough that it streaks past his features, and levy looks unbothered as the gold begins to steam and burn across him. His now molten third eye drips down into his normal orbs and streaks them in golden tears.

Starting point is 01:25:28 But he looks straight to you. Is there anything you'd like to do? Ooh, where am I? Ethan, what are you talking about? You're in temple, my boy. What happened to your head? You're playing tricks again. I understand sometimes that temple can be boring. I understand that we lose focus, but please, we have an issue. You said you would help. but please, we have an issue, you said you would help. Uh, uh, uh, help, help, help with what? Oh, Ethan, my boy, you think of all people that you and I

Starting point is 01:26:18 would be the last to be locked from the Shemoyam, from the gates of heaven, but here we are, and you're the one with the key. So open it. He says all of this with a shocking sense of non-Shalances. His skin begins to blister and peel. It smells of like fried pork as he leans in a little too close and you can see some of the skin start to peel back red and then

Starting point is 01:26:48 Straight through and you can see the teeth beneath What do you say boy open heaven for us? Yeah, they'll go it. He'll go to the to the gates You try to move to that gate and instead, Levy goes to grab you on the shoulders and push you towards his face there. Are you, what's the reaction here? Yeah, like shock and fear, like this.

Starting point is 01:27:19 He, a man that he loves, he doesn't wanna see him like this, like this is, he doesn't wanna see him like this. Like this is, he may not be shocked, but Ethan sure is sure is. So, like Rabbi know, what's wrong, Rabbi? No, something's wrong. There's a grip to your shoulders. As he posits you to look directly at his face.

Starting point is 01:27:43 And as that gold starts to drip again, there is this disgusting sloth of skin that is falling from him. And as he begins to speak again, he tries to formulate sentences. You believe he's trying to talk about the doors again. Wasps, one by one, begin to climb forward through his mouth, extending out until they start to climb across the gold and die themselves along his skin. And they are

Starting point is 01:28:12 beginning to spit out and droves across him as he's trying desperately to tell you something, but can't seem to make it out. And the longer that you look at this, the more you try and look away, the brighter his golden eyes are becoming until they turn into the sea of white and it's all that you can see. That white encapsulates you until your vision is gone completely and you're in a sea of white. You shock yourself back into standing, you feel more in control of yourself than you were just in that moment. But all you can see for as long as you can is white. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:29:02 He just kind of tries to get his bearings. Is there pain? Is there any sensation? Is there, is he bleeding? Is there anything in his gut? There's no bleeding. Nothing in your gut. You check your body.

Starting point is 01:29:17 It feels as normal as you remember. You feel in yourself as whole as you did at 8 p.m. in your office on Sunday. Hello. The noise begins to echo throughout this place. It doesn't seem to be any physical response, but there is the sound of music that begins to bleed in, almost as soon as you say it, as if someone's just turned on the waiting room track.

Starting point is 01:29:53 It's familiar, not in a way that is reminiscent of your time, much more of your parents, or loved ones, maybe a younger uncle, who knows, but it's song called, Heaven or Las Vegas by the cocktail twins, begins to feed in very low and subtle. It's enjoyable, but you never expected it to be, you're welcome to the gates.

Starting point is 01:30:21 Right. Yeah. welcome to the gates. Right. Yeah. Yeah, he just starts, I guess, is the music coming from all around? Is it coming from a direction? It sounds like it's coming from a second room.

Starting point is 01:30:36 Like if you've ever walked past a house party or someone in the bedroom next to yours is playing music as loud as they can. It's almost thumping through a membrane, through some barrier that is preventing it from being full of sound, but it does sound like it's coming from all around. Okay.

Starting point is 01:31:00 He's gonna pick a direction and just start walking. Okay. You begin walking and you walk for as long as you feel that you can muster. Is there anything you're thinking about or talking about? There's anything that you offer during this walk? He's thinking about those last minutes. He's thinking about Catherine Underwood. He's thinking about Captain Underwood.

Starting point is 01:31:26 He's thinking about the way he shot him, dug that barrel and, he's thinking of how he was made to feel powerless and afraid and with that comes the anger. Right, and with the rage and just, like almost like digging his nails and do his palms, just wanting more than anything else to be alive so he can make them feel what he felt. Right. In your walking, you spy something gray just in the outside of your vision.

Starting point is 01:32:05 It's the first splash of color you've seen in this place. Are you pursuing it? Oh yeah, yeah, we immediately starts. Yeah, perfect. You appear and you find that the fleck of gray was a stone, a stone that is about the size of a, we'll say like a soccer ball sized stone, one that you could hold in two hands, big enough that it seems hefty to hold. And it's actually died in the very familiar unmistakable dark crimson of dried blood.

Starting point is 01:32:48 Even from the standing position to the floor there, or what you could call the floor, because truly this all feels like floating, you can see that there are strands of hair and flesh still pressed into the craggy surface of the rock, and it sits alone in this sea of white. Yeah, he's kind of just reaches, so he said bits of hair, like, is it like a skull? The stone itself for sure is rock, from where you're looking now without picking it up, this looks like a flex of hair in that the skin has brought the hair with it. Oh, got it. Okay. Yep. So this brings somebody. Okay. Um, he reaches down and picks it up. Just get a closer look. You pick it up. Are you moving it around in your hands? Okay. And this investigation, you flip this over. It's very easy to find. In the bulk of that dried blood, there is a single word sort of etched

Starting point is 01:33:55 in. It looks almost like like like clacked in almost. What's that word engraved in chiseled chiseled. That's the word. It reads keeper Yeah, he gets he kind of mulls over that and then He's looking at that like what colors color's crazy question? What color's the hair? The hair looks ginger in nature like light red. Okay, light red, got it, okay. I think at this point Ethan's getting, he, he, he, he,

Starting point is 01:34:42 he, first he drops the stone like what happens?, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, So picking it up made absolute sense and in your hands it absolutely looked as you'd expect it to but The second that it leaves your hands it goes back to its original state Yeah, I can't wait just starts What the fuck is going on spare am Just just What the fuck is going on fair? Am I just just just shouting at this point right? You're shouting you're screaming you're trying to get some attention here. You're trying to get some response from this emptiness and Eventually there's an answer a

Starting point is 01:35:42 Figure as you're scrambling around as you're moving your eyes all about this place, as you're trying to get an answer, a figure appears just behind you and as you term you find him. It is a little boy wearing a shirt that is proudly displaying a geyser like hole in the ground that reads, have you been to the pit, 22? And it almost looks like a camp shirt or something. Like you went to a gift shop sort of place and it was what you got to celebrate your vacation, right?

Starting point is 01:36:20 So it reads, have you been to the pit, 22 in bold letters? He wears swim trunks, So it reads, have you been to the pit, 22, in bold letters? He wears swim trunks, like little kids, bright fluorescent red and white, straight swim trunks. He wears a set of swim goggles over his forehead and a star of David around his neck. You know him well. You have an awareness of this kid. This is you at about age 12.

Starting point is 01:36:56 I don't need to laugh. Like I did this thing. I'm loving how surreal this is. This is I love it. Yeah, I love how surreal this is. This is first off, just this is fucking incredible. You're doing such a, that's so Jesus. I am so much. Thank you so much. Anyway, hopefully I'm not talking too much. I know I haven't let you know this is amazing.

Starting point is 01:37:19 This is amazing. Ethan is as incredulous at that point. It's like, can you tell me what the fuck is going on here? What do you mean? Am I dead? Yes, of course. You were shot. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:37:40 But you won't be dead forever. What do you mean? You won't't eat forever. What do you mean? You won't be dead forever. That's what I mean. I said what I mean. What do you mean? Are you me? I'm pretty sure is your name Ethan? Yeah, and I'm you. And I'm Ethan. And I'm Ethan.

Starting point is 01:38:06 And I'm Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Ethan.

Starting point is 01:38:14 Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Ethan.

Starting point is 01:38:22 Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Listen, do you know what's up with that rock? Oh, I wouldn't go anywhere near it. Who too late I picked it up? Well, it has a habit of repeating. Yeah, yeah, I went right back. What's up with that? Well, some things are fixed.

Starting point is 01:38:46 Like us dying. They're supposed to happen. And some things are so powerful, Ethan, that they have to happen again. And again, and again. Otherwise, the world just isn't what it's supposed to be. You know? No, I don't know. Um...

Starting point is 01:39:11 I need a Genevieve. I need a Genevieve and Rabbi Sam, are they safe? Are they gonna be safe? Oh, they'll be fine. He's not going for them. No! He got what he wanted. That was the you dying part.

Starting point is 01:39:25 Do they find me? He doesn't answer smiles. He does stop from him. He stares at you. And that weird sort of fearful curiosity that a kid will do when he doesn't want to ask a question he's not supposed to. Ethan, what's that on your forehead? Immediately his hands go to your hands go to your forehead and you begin to feel the blood start to rush past your hands and then

Starting point is 01:40:05 flood your vision. But as your hands go to touch that new place on your forehead, you can feel shifting in your body. Like you're making new space, like the bones are moving to accommodate. Like something bigger than you is becoming a part of you. And you can feel, as you're touching it and the blood begins to run, you can feel your perspective shifting. So much so that you can now see the fingers touching

Starting point is 01:40:39 at your forehead and you're vaguely aware that you're touching in at a new organ place adjustable above your eyebrows. And immediately your memory surges to that man you saw across the shadow there. There is a feeling there. And it's blinking, touching at your hands. You can feel eyelashes, eyelids, who knows what the fuck that is. But you can see how you can see forward. You now see in this fisheye lens a version of your 12 year old self looking up at you, making direct eye contact afraid of you in three different

Starting point is 01:41:15 perspectives. He reaches in to his pockets and wrenches free, this handed piece of sharded glass and holds it up to you. You can see the first his shirt, just thinking of that shirt. What the fuck does that even mean? Have you been to the pit? You've never seen a pit, but then it climbs up your arm into that mirror and you can see yourself. There's a third eye placed directly on the center of your face. Vince, what does this third eye look like? It is a black pitch black with a blood red iris. The people itself, a horizontal slit. Iris the pupil itself a horizontal slit Love it

Starting point is 01:42:16 Sorry blood red pupil. I apologize so the pupil is is blood red the rest of the eyes Yeah, black black sort of like a scalera look Right, yep, and then yeah, it's got that horizontal slit pupil, like some animals do. Right. Almost like a reptile, yeah. Yeah, like I love it. Perfect for being. You get a vision of this new part of yourself. And if it was anything else,

Starting point is 01:42:40 you'd think it would be a trick of the light or the fact that you're dead, the fact that this is heaven. But there is true sight. You can see yourself through and out and you're aware uniquely of this new perspective. And just as you're looking into this pitch black blood red iris, horizontal eye that now sits right on the center of your face. It blinks, and everything goes to black. And you're awake. Even more so, you're back on earth. I shudder to say, alive. Instead, you feel something entirely different. Dead, but still moving. You wake up and what you can only assume is a cobblestone basin, maybe two feet high. That's what you can judge

Starting point is 01:43:39 from the cone of light that's sitting over you. There's a single industrial lamp and light bulb that sits in the center of the ceiling secured by a strong pipe. The light sends this cone of amber light over you, but it shutters for you to even look at, especially with this new third appendage, whatever you were in that dream, in that heaven, in that life in between, in your second product with you sitting here on the front of your face and you can see in this odd new dimension with all three eyes. And you have this intense warmth inside of you, but also this burning sensation that you need something. You need something. You need something. You don't know what that something is, but it's an intense emptiness you've never dealt with

Starting point is 01:44:30 in your life. Continuing around the room in that lamp light, you are in a pool of blood that's maybe two inches deep. And you can feel that cold liquid sort of slosh over your skin. It's running along the clothes that you wore that Sunday night to go see the captain, to go see your collar. It's the same thing,

Starting point is 01:44:51 but now doused in this new liquid. In fact, you can see where it's starting to touch new fabric as though you've been put in here recently, not as though you've been here forever as it felt in your dream. Across from you is your guest, the man who watched from the horizon. Only this time he's brought you a gift.

Starting point is 01:45:15 You're still caught by the triangle eye on his face, but you drag yourself away for just long enough to see that he holds in one hand the reins to the last guest at the basin. It's a tall quarter horse shimmering brown under the lamp light. The type that you might take on on a Vegas hike or for horseback riding or to keep as a house pet if you own farm property. America's traditional horse trapped in this underground room, strapped in by the reins of this half-sharded tattooed individual.

Starting point is 01:45:57 And it is kicking and bragging and naying, and it is fighting the walls, it's fighting him, but he is standing completely still, unmoving, unblinking, staring directly into you. The questions start coming, where am I? Who are you? What is this? Holy shit, there's blood everywhere. What's happening? Just panic, panic. Nothing.

Starting point is 01:46:26 He is calm, unbothered, undelivered. Nothing to say. He grips tighter the reins of that horse and stares into you. And the smell of everything that's around you, the blood underneath, the smell of him, the smell of the horse all becomes so acutely aware in your senses. And the emptiness you were feeling before, it has a purpose now. It's this you've been waiting for. This formerly sickening thought

Starting point is 01:47:07 Is now satiating everything that you are if you could just drink this If you could just drink him if you could just drink it anything if you could just take if you could consume If you could breathe in what makes them living, then maybe you would never have to go back to that place in the white. Is there anything here? The questions they go on to answer, they bounce off cobblestone walls. You're vaguely aware you're underground somewhere, at least that way. ground somewhere, at least that way. Yes.

Starting point is 01:47:44 Just as that realization kind of comes in, and the thought of like he thinks of scooping up this blood that is surrounding him and drinking of it, does it second him? It's sickens, Ethan. But there's a voice that speaks in small and slow and sweet. It says, not that, it drink it, and you can feel your heart sort of pull it this voice, or at least what used to be, this vacuum that the voice is operating inside your chest is pulling you

Starting point is 01:48:33 towards the beast. And that part of you, the other person, whatever that voice was to you, that isn't sickened at all. It's ready. And Ethan, it feels really easy to say yes, as easy as it was to come out to that drainage ditch. As easy it was to say no to Jen, it would be easy again. This is the right choice.

Starting point is 01:49:02 You know what's right. You have always known what's right. You have known what is the truth, and the truth is that this is the right choice. You know what's right. You have always known what's right. You have known what is the truth and the truth is that this is you now, drinking whatever this is. And your guest on the other side, he looks to you. For the first time, he speaks as if he's noticed something in you, another blink of that triangle to eye. He says to you, it is time. You are the sixth of Enoch, angel of Salah, and chosen of Samuel's fleet. You take name this day that it might give you sight, that it might save these from strife. You mark the beast, Ra-Gel, and he takes in his hand this long ceremonial curved dagger that looks almost built of bone, dagger that looks almost built to bone, and he extends it, blade forward to you. Ethan slowly reaches out, eyes flicking from the horse to this man and back, and accepts it.

Starting point is 01:50:23 man and back and accepts it. Man nods, seems pleased, though you don't sense that from his face, you sense it from his eye. It soans in on you like dilation of the iris, but instead it's this awareness that he is pleased accepted this. The horse begins to kick even harder, pray and nay and everything, but he holds the reins forward and pulls it towards you, and bears it enough that even with the kicking the brain, the side of this big magnificent beast is extended out to you, full canvas, and

Starting point is 01:51:08 he looks to you. And he says, you are regal. You will name yourself this and drink now, that its sacrifice is not wasted on your name. This beast is yours to blood. Ragale. Ragale. And almost as, almost like muscle memory of a memory he doesn't remember having. That curved blade, he's looking at the horse's neck and he can practically smell the pulse. And he can see in its panic how there's like one patch of skin that's just vibrating rapidly in fear. And that's where the knife goes. That's where the blade goes.

Starting point is 01:51:59 And he cuts and almost immediately his mouth is on it. Right. It is a fountain of fortune. It is the blooding of regal. You pick yourself up to the spigot, you drink deep. And there is that voice in you as it is quenched. She speaks back again. You will be great. You will deliver. You will prove. You will give justice to the people as you drink deep of this blood. And she sings sweet nothings into your ears

Starting point is 01:52:34 though you've done well by her. You drink deep and deep and deep. How much of this beast do you take, Raga? I don't think he would know to stop. You know, I don't. I think he would just, he would go until he was satiated. And if that meant, that meant training it, that meant training it.

Starting point is 01:52:59 And indeed your guest, your new confidant does not dissuade you from this action. You drain the beast, leaving it for dead, hearing whatever hole you have found yourself in. And the body is left before. And in one sweeping motion, the person on the other end is already behind you, faster than lightning, moving quicker than you can even track until he is right there at the knife at your hand. He seeks to take it, or anything you would like to do in response. is the is the this the sensation of having fed as he kind of like like satiate like is he almost what's sort of looking for like days does there like almost like a it is the closest thing

Starting point is 01:53:59 you get to pleasure to say stability. It is a beautiful feeling that is almost orgasmic in nature. It is the most blissful situation you've ever found yourself and every piece of yourself that used to feel empty is now full. And for the first time, there is a dizzying effect to so much splendor. I think, yeah, and I think that's it, right? Like he's just so awash in these new, not only just these new sensations and emotions, but these new degree, like the new degrees of emotions that are almost like, obviously unlike

Starting point is 01:54:36 anything he ever felt while living. And so just there's no resistance when when he goes to take the blade, right? He takes it and then along the side of the rib cage of this beast you both have felt, writes in a sort of script that at first you don't recognize. The very human part of Ethan Cantor can't see what is written here. But once it's in full effect, this third eye recognizes innately in the blood of who you are, your name,

Starting point is 01:55:09 Ra-Gel, inscribed along the side. This man then sweeps up a portion of it into his palm, the blood that spills forth, and he comes to you and drench his both hands along your face if you're willing. Yeah, he recoils slightly. What is this? I am Mokr. I am to be your guide. You are to be your guide. You are to be my warrior. We fight in the longest war that has ever been known in living history and dead history in history and carnage. You are to be a warrior of peace of peace and to know the true sight of Golkonda. And that is the Nirvana of blood. The essence of soul, you are a gal, and I am going to teach you everything. You wipes it across your face.

Starting point is 01:56:22 You wipe sit across your face Shhhh And I think that's where we'll end Holy fucking shit dude Oh man Incredible Thank you Thank you, appreciate man This was a lot of fun. Thank you so much for what amazing

Starting point is 01:56:42 Talk for so long. I feel like I. No. Thank you. I hope I, no, I hope you felt, I hope you didn't feel like I was, I was just indecisive. No, no, absolutely. All right. No, that was perfect. I had an incredible time. I hope that you like it. Mo Kure and what we're putting together here.

Starting point is 01:56:58 Yes. I hope the patrons got the same amount of like out of this situation. Thank you guys for joining us here. Hopefully this gives you a taste of many things to come for Regal. We had a lot to set up there in terms of sort of the trajectory for him. So don't expect all of these to be so narrative

Starting point is 01:57:19 in situation, but hopefully you got a good feeling for what I'm going to do for Regal in the future. With him playing a salubri, we're dealing with a lot of these visions. I wanted to one thing me and Vince talked about a lot was putting him through one of these dreams for the first time. That took a lot out of it. I know. But hopefully you enjoyed it. There are more orange in sessions coming your way. I believe the next one will be with Zakia and then Eli. We've got Leg down the way too, so everyone's getting their turn.

Starting point is 01:57:50 And then tune in as well on July 2nd or every biweekly Saturday after that for the actual game of Vegas by night where we'll be putting all these folks into a lovely little coderay and you'll get to see more of Virgil's crazy dreams. Yes. And see some of the incredible things he's capable of as a celebrity. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 01:58:11 Vince, thank you so much for playing, man. I had such a good time. But he thank you. So did I. Thank you so much. And thank you all for watching. And this was great. Can't wait for all to see what other stuff Caleb gets up to, man.

Starting point is 01:58:22 I'm so stoked. I'm sorry. I got a lot in store, especially for Regal here, so it's gonna be great. Yeah, buddy. Let's do it. We will see you guys soon. Thank you again, patrons.

Starting point is 01:58:32 We'll see you in the next one. See ya.

Mayday Plays - 🧛🏻‍♂️ Vegas By Night one-on-one session with Vince/Raguel (patreon vault release)

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