S2 Ep1: Heartbroken, in Disrepair

[00:00:30] Speaker A: Hello, I'm Aubrey, and I will be playing Isabelle. [00:00:34] Speaker B: Hi, I'm legacy, and I will be playing Rosanna. [00:00:39] Speaker C: Hi, I'm Scott, and I will be playing Arthur. [00:00:43] Speaker D: Hi, there. I'm termite, and I'll be playing Piper. [00:00:47] Speaker E: And I'm bloodied porcelain. I will be your storyteller for the evening. When mad men are created, a sense of time and urgency becomes their constant companion. Either because they feel the weight of responsibility that every delayed minute is another human life put in jeopardy, or because they are running from the otherworldly beings they have made. Enemies they have made along the way. Every grain of sand through the hourglass is a bullet not buried in the enemy. Every pass of the hour hand is some unnamed horror preying on a companion. The slow breakdown of their fragile but intensely bonded units. But even the most driven and devoted require rest and respite. They require time to lick their wounds, to heal, to grieve. Sometimes, in those quiet moments when the mad men begin to remember that there is more to life than the hunt, time catches up to them and reminds them rest is a luxury the madmen cannot have. Horrors rise. Innocents die. Mad men fall. Tonight, let's tell a story about the mad men. Good evening, players. When last we spoke, Rosanna and Arthur had stumbled across the mangled body and ruined home safe house, really, of Victoria. You found her beloved pet gozer, alive, but badly wounded and starving, and an apartment with more damage than answers and more trauma than you had time to deal with. In the moment you gathered what you could of clues, you called in Dietrich and his contacts that are, let's just say, less than legal to clean up the mess left behind. Knowing that there was no way that you could identify what killed Victoria yourselves. You called in help from a medical examiner that you knew back in California who had helped you with hunts when you were still just looking into blank bodies. Vampires. You called in a hacker friend who has a gift for figuring out things they're not supposed to be able to figure out and finding things no one's supposed to find. Both of them agreed to come on to help. You sent them money for plane tickets, wrapped up Victoria's body, and left the apartment in time to see what might have been the cleanup crew on their way in. Leaving there, you found your way to an abandoned restaurant that another contact of Rosanna's managed to get the information from the realty. Information from so that you could get in through the combo lock on the door, turned on the power so that you could use the deep freeze to store the body until your new ally could arrive. Isabelle and Piper, on their way out of the city and to the airport, were tailed by a car. But thanks to some handy driving skills and quick thinking between the two of them, they managed to shake the tail. Look at the evidence, pictures that Arthur gathered and had sent and eventually went and caught their plane. It is now 09:00 p.m. It is a Friday night. Isabella and Piper have landed in Jacksonville, Florida, have gathered or piled into a rental car, and have headed to the address provided. Gozer, inside with you, hears the car pull up and gives a warning bark. He is not really settled since you got here. It's been a day, but he's maybe slept a couple of hours. In that whole time. He is anxious and pacing and looks like for all that, he could be fearsome and terrifying. He doesn't know what to do with the situation at hand. But he has alerted you to the presence of the car outside. [00:06:20] Speaker B: That might be them. [00:06:25] Speaker C: Well, just going to look out the blinds or the curtains or whatever it is that keeps the windows closed, because who would have open windows and watch and see what happens? Can I see them from the window? Who's ever in the car? [00:06:46] Speaker E: You can see the car. You can kind of make out the outlines of two female figures. It is really dark. So you don't see specifics. [00:07:04] Speaker C: Well, I presume there would be some way for them to let us know that they'd arrived. So Arthur's just gonna play it safe and watch and see what happens. Because last thing he wants to do is just throw open the door, and then something comes in. [00:07:21] Speaker E: Understood. Out in the car, Isabelle and Piper. What are you guys doing? [00:07:33] Speaker A: I'm taking a moment to slowly collect all of my things. Very long flight, followed by a car ride, I imagine. I'm also taking the moment to stretch and just kind of like, pop the middle of my. Know, it's been a bit. And I'm not exactly short. I don't fit very well into our planes. [00:08:02] Speaker D: Yeah. Piper is trying to gather all of her things up because there's a lot going on. [00:08:09] Speaker E: There is a lot going on. Are either of you going to reach out to the people that you are supposed to be meeting with? [00:08:19] Speaker A: Yeah, I imagine after a moment or so of I've just collected myself, I know where all my stuff is, made sure I have everything. I'll pull out my phone and send. We're outside. Text to the number I was provided. [00:08:41] Speaker C: Cool. So that, I assume, is my phone, right? [00:08:46] Speaker E: Yes. [00:08:48] Speaker C: So there's this little chirp. Arthur's burner flip flown thing. Ah. Okay. Looks like it's them. Do you want to stay inside with Gozer and I'll go check it out? [00:09:04] Speaker B: Yeah, I'll make sure to try to calm him down before they get inside. She's going to reach into her bag and take out a couple of just, like, dog treats, hand these over to them to give to the dog when they come inside so he doesn't outright try to attack them. [00:09:26] Speaker C: Sure. Give them the chance. Makes sense. Okay. [00:09:35] Speaker A: Right. [00:09:35] Speaker C: Hopefully this doesn't go badly. [00:09:40] Speaker B: Well, you're limited in our options. It's this or. Well, you know. [00:09:52] Speaker C: Yeah. Okay. Taking his book, even though he doesn't need it anymore, Arthur will take the dog treats and head out the door. Make sure to close it behind himself. [00:10:07] Speaker E: Okay. [00:10:09] Speaker C: As know vampires actually need to be invited in or anything. [00:10:16] Speaker E: You make your way outside. The car that they are in is a fairly nondescript four door sedan. It looks like there is a fair amount of luggage piled into the backseat. It looks like a lot of hard plastic luggage that is designed for carrying electronics and the like. [00:10:40] Speaker D: Sure. [00:10:43] Speaker C: I mean, we did ask them to temporarily uproot their life to help us out. [00:10:47] Speaker E: You did. And as you get closer to the car, I'm not going to make you roll for this. You can very clearly see the distinct green hair of Isabelle. I don't know if it was green the last time you saw her, but she's never had normal hair coloring in the time that you've known her. [00:11:11] Speaker C: Yeah, some off color hair sitting in the driver's seat. Tall person. This tracks. All right, so he'll just approach. [00:11:25] Speaker D: Not. [00:11:25] Speaker C: In a great mood, so somberly, I guess. [00:11:30] Speaker A: And seeing you approach, he kind of just does the solemn nod as I stand up and sort of pull on one of my. Have a backpack that has a bunch of stuff in it along with a small carry on. So pull that on and give you the nod as I look around and I know that outside is not really a good place to converse. [00:11:56] Speaker C: Hey, thanks for coming and helping us with this, I guess. And he reaches out the dog treats. These are for you two to give to Gozer so that he doesn't, I don't know, try to tear out your throats, I guess. Best way to describe it, I guess. [00:12:20] Speaker A: I get to see if my not great luck with animals continues. [00:12:26] Speaker C: If it. Well, if it doesn't, it's fine because Gozer loves Rosanna and doesn't like me, so we'll all just be in the same boat. It'll be fine. [00:12:44] Speaker A: Right? [00:12:45] Speaker E: We may have an inverse from last season. [00:12:49] Speaker D: A dog that potentially wants to murder three of us. [00:12:53] Speaker C: He had the chance to tear me apart recently and didn't. So I guess I have to accept that as a tentative truce, I guess for lack of a better understanding of what's going. [00:13:09] Speaker D: Well, I'll be totally honest, I guess. How long are we planning on setting up shop here? Should I bring everything in? [00:13:21] Speaker C: For now. [00:13:22] Speaker E: Worth noting that you are not in the nicest of neighborhoods, so it might be worth taking everything in just to be safe. [00:13:27] Speaker D: Cool. [00:13:28] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:13:28] Speaker D: I'm not going to have any free hands. [00:13:34] Speaker C: I can carry some stuff. I have two hands. [00:13:40] Speaker A: Can carry something. [00:13:44] Speaker E: Okay, the three of you, there's much juggling of these hard, plastic, like, briefcase and suitcase style things, but eventually get most of the stuff because none of you is the type of person to make multiple trips. That would be ridiculous. [00:14:03] Speaker D: No, absolutely not. [00:14:05] Speaker C: All in one shot or not at all. [00:14:07] Speaker E: Right? All in one shot and still are somehow, like clutching dog treats between two fingers while you're carrying all of this luggage, like on your arms and tucked under arms and things like that. Rosanna, this is the admittedly fairly comical sight that you witness as these three walk in the clacking and clanking of these suitcases. They struggle with the door for like a solid 3 minutes and you just let it happen. Because at some point they're going to have to learn that it's okay to make more than one trip. [00:14:50] Speaker D: No, it's not. [00:14:52] Speaker B: Well, congratulations. The three of you, you've defeated man versus door. [00:15:01] Speaker C: To be fair, it's a solid door. [00:15:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:09] Speaker B: Congratulations. And she's got gozer by the collar, kind of like two fingers, like loop underneath. And she's just like scratching the back of his ear to kind of keep him still. [00:15:26] Speaker E: He is tense, but not moving. You can tell that before her demise, Victoria took pretty extensive care with making sure that he got more training than she had managed when you guys were on the road. [00:15:48] Speaker C: He's also injured still, right? [00:15:51] Speaker E: He is still injured. I'm assuming that over the last day, Rosanna has taken the time to patch him up the best that she can. He's not in great shape, but he's not bleeding actively right now, so that's something you all walk in. This is, like I said, it's a restaurant that hasn't been in use for a while. There are still a couple of scattered tables in the front, though. It looks like Arthur and Rosanna haven't really been using that because they're also windows but there is a door through which you can see light that leads into what you would assume is a kitchen gozer is watching you both very intently, but is not moving for the moment. [00:16:48] Speaker A: I guess I'll be the brave first one to attempt to approach the dog. [00:16:52] Speaker E: Okay, tell me how you are going to approach the dog. [00:16:59] Speaker A: Well, if I have the treats in my hand. [00:17:03] Speaker E: You do. [00:17:04] Speaker A: I'm going to sort of take that moment and take a bit of a knee, get down, and gently hold out the hand with the treats in a way that is close enough and is kind of going to let him smell me, and then sort of come over and come for the treats. [00:17:26] Speaker E: Okay, I do have a question for you. Are you in any way, shape, or form, like, afraid of animals? Are you intimidated by particularly large dogs? Because he is big. He's, like, wolf sized, more than dog sized. [00:17:46] Speaker A: I think there's a bit of a surprise in the beginning because it's just like, oh, a dog, maybe german shepherd. That's bigger than a german shepherd. [00:17:56] Speaker E: That's way bigger than german shepherd. [00:17:59] Speaker A: I don't think I've ever had any bad experiences with dogs. They just tend to avoid meat. Same thing with most other animals. They've kind of always done that. I'm not really sure why. [00:18:10] Speaker E: Then I'm going to say roll me. Composure. [00:18:16] Speaker A: Anything else or just. [00:18:17] Speaker E: You don't have animal ken? [00:18:18] Speaker A: I do not. [00:18:19] Speaker E: So we're just going to go with composure. [00:18:22] Speaker A: Sure. Yeah. It's a pool of three, and that's. [00:18:34] Speaker E: Well, it's not a botch. You do have the option to roll willpower if you would like. [00:18:40] Speaker A: I think it's important enough to. Well, I think it might be important enough to make a good impression on this dog, because I may be traveling with this dog, so, yeah, I will spend a willpower. [00:18:49] Speaker E: Okay, go for it. Hit the reroll failures button. [00:18:54] Speaker A: Two successes. [00:18:56] Speaker E: Yeah. So you kneel down at first, and that's the moment that it hits you just how big this dog is. And that if he wanted to, he could probably bite most of the biggest part of your arm without really trying. And there's a moment where you hesitate because you realize that you've just put yourself down on level at a distinct disadvantage against a creature that is as big as you are, probably close to, if not heavier than you are. And then you sort of take a deep breath and let it out real slow, and you hold out your hand, staying, giving him decent distance. And he kind of starts to look like he wants to go for the treats. And then he pauses and he looks up at Rosanna, who gives him a little nod and lets go of his collar. And he takes a couple steps forward. He sniffs at you very tentatively, and then he licks the treats out of your hand. So your hand's gross, but he takes them out of your hand. And he kind of sits there and eats them. And then sort of. [00:20:14] Speaker B: Roseanne, after watching him for a little bit, will just raise two fingers and let out a little whistle and beckon him back to her side. [00:20:25] Speaker E: He'll kind of, like, lean in and give Isabelle one more little sniff and kind of bump her cheek with his nose. And then he'll turn back to Rosanna. [00:20:33] Speaker A: And sit very tiny little scruff behind the ears before he leaves. [00:20:40] Speaker E: He looks pleased with the interaction. [00:20:43] Speaker B: He is a very good boy. He's just a little bit traumatized right now. [00:20:48] Speaker C: Me and you're already doing better than I did. [00:20:53] Speaker E: Piper, would you like to attempt to approach the pupper? [00:20:57] Speaker D: Yes. [00:20:59] Speaker E: Piper and the pupper. Let's do it. How are you going to go about approaching the animal? And are you in any way, shape or form afraid of particularly large dogs? [00:21:14] Speaker D: It's probably going to be very similar to how Isabel did it. [00:21:18] Speaker C: I mean it. [00:21:19] Speaker D: So, yeah, best way to get close to something is to make it seem like you're not a small. [00:21:27] Speaker E: You do not have any fears of big animals? No, not really. All right. Composure, then. You don't have animal. [00:21:38] Speaker D: Don't. Oh, hell, yeah. [00:21:44] Speaker E: Very well done. Again, pauses for a minute. Checks with Rosanna to make sure that it's okay. She lets his collar go and he immediately comes over. He's less tentative with you than he was with Isabelle. He just walks up and takes the treats out of your hand, chomps them down, and then gives your cheek like this. Lick from, like, jaw to hair, and then sits very obediently, like, directly in front of you. We're friends now. Yes. [00:22:18] Speaker D: You can pet him underneath, by the chin, under the ear. [00:22:25] Speaker E: He accepts it happily and you can't be sure, but you swear he's side eyeing Arthur. [00:22:39] Speaker C: We simply accept the coexistence of the others. So it's fine. [00:22:49] Speaker B: He's really into women. [00:22:53] Speaker D: Apparently. [00:22:58] Speaker E: He's really into women. Okay. [00:23:03] Speaker C: Sure. We'll roll with that. For now, it's not like my feelings are hurt or anything. [00:23:09] Speaker D: That's probably the best way to make you not feel terrible about the dog hating you. [00:23:15] Speaker C: I mean, I'm more concerned that at some point in the middle of the night, I'll wake up to the dog standing over me, trying to decide whether need to be removed. But I think that Rosanna's been doing an okay job of keeping Gozer over there. [00:23:35] Speaker B: And then she'll summon Gozer back to her side. [00:23:39] Speaker E: He will return to her side. He looks a little sad that he does not get to continue to get scritches from Piper, but he will return. [00:23:47] Speaker B: Obediently and sit and get scratches from Rosanna instead. [00:23:52] Speaker E: That mollifies him. Okay, so what are you guys going to do now that you're here? [00:24:03] Speaker A: How long can we stay here? Move soon. [00:24:09] Speaker B: We have a friend of Victoria coming to pick up the body at the end of the week. So we have a couple of days that we can kind of lay low here, but then after that, I suggest we get at all. [00:24:28] Speaker C: Yeah, we have just long enough to find out what we can find out, and then we have to do the next thing. [00:24:38] Speaker E: Your companion that helped you get this place and kind of quietly remove it from rental listings did say that it has to be temporary. Somebody's going to notice eventually. So you've got a couple of days at most, and then you're going to have to make sure that it's cleaned and leave. [00:24:58] Speaker C: The RV might be our best permanent location, but I don't think it's good for what we need to do right now. So that's why we came here. [00:25:08] Speaker A: If you want, I can get started. Less time we have to spend here. [00:25:15] Speaker C: Yeah. I'll show you where we're keeping it and where we can potentially do this. Forensics or whatever we can do to find out what we can find out. [00:25:32] Speaker A: Yeah. As author is talking, Isabel sort of takes off her. Takes off jacket, rolls up sleeves, because she's moving into work mode. [00:25:42] Speaker E: Gotcha. [00:25:43] Speaker A: I have a thing to do. Not even really mentally preparing. I know what I need. [00:25:49] Speaker E: You have a pattern that you go into? [00:25:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:52] Speaker C: Pull out the gloves, et cetera, et cetera? Yep. [00:25:55] Speaker D: And while all that's happening, Piper is going to somewhere in the kitchen, pop open one of the cases, and then set up her little drone. And the screen, it's got the screen in the case and set that off to just keep some Overwatch, just in case. [00:26:14] Speaker E: Gotcha. All right, so you head into the back. I'm going to assume that Piper is going to set up kind of. You did say you're going to set up, like, in the kitchen, but close to the door. Oh, we lost a legacy. It wouldn't be an HHS stream if there wasn't at least one technical problem. [00:26:40] Speaker D: It sure wouldn't. But, yeah, essentially, somewhere that's out of sight of the windows is the biggest. [00:26:51] Speaker E: Thing you're going to set up in the kitchen near the door so that you can kind of keep an ear out, look through the window on the door quickly if you need to, but you're not near any of the big windows where somebody could actually see in. Arthur leads Isabelle into the walk in fridge. And the body, I'm assuming, is still covered and in the plastic. Yeah, they've set up a tarp, and you can smell like, bleach. Like, they probably cleaned the tarp really good before they put the body on it. But there is a tarp spread out on, effectively, a long prep table that's been moved in. [00:27:55] Speaker C: My mind was in the same place. I was like, there's got to be, like, a stainless steel prep table somewhere. [00:28:01] Speaker E: And there's one out in the kitchen itself that's got, like, tarps out that are on the floor just in case there's a mess. But the one that the body is actually on is on, like, a stainless steel prep table that's been covered with a tarp. It's still wrapped in trash bags, which you assume they probably put it in when they collected the body because they didn't have anything else to keep the blood from getting everywhere. [00:28:29] Speaker C: Yeah. And Arthur's going to assist in any way that he can, even if that just means throw this piece of garbage away. Whatever. [00:28:39] Speaker A: Coffee. [00:28:41] Speaker E: There's a coffee maker? There's absolutely a coffee maker. [00:28:44] Speaker C: Yeah, I can make some coffee. [00:28:46] Speaker A: It might be for a while. [00:28:49] Speaker E: At the very least, you probably moved the one that was in the rv. Inside. [00:28:55] Speaker C: There'S coffee. We can make that for you. [00:29:01] Speaker E: Okay. Isabelle, I'm assuming that you're going to want to move the body out of the cold. [00:29:11] Speaker A: Yeah, it'd be easier to take a look at. [00:29:14] Speaker E: Yeah. So the two of you kind of pick her up and move her out into the kitchen where that second prep table was set up. And Isabelle is able to kind of strip the garbage bags away. Isabelle, I've already kind of given you the rundown on a lot of the damage to the body, but for our viewers, the only identifiable thing at first glance on this body is, what do you call it? Victoria's black hair with those signature white streaks through it. Her face, it doesn't look like her face was, like, mauled in any way, but was hit so hard and repeatedly, or just really hard one time. You've seen this kind of damage from people who have a particularly powerful airbag go off in their face. There's very little that's identifiable afterwards. There are huge bloody gashes and smaller, not quite as deep lacerations everywhere. There's bruising there. Looks like there might be some sort of burnt skin around her fingertips, which could have come from anything. But given that Arthur. Some of the photos that Arthur sent were like, of bullet holes and walls, probably from the gun being too hot in her hands at some point or something of that sort. She's a mess. So where would you like to start? What questions would you like to ask? I'm obviously going to have you start. [00:31:21] Speaker A: Rolling, but I think is I want to figure out what did this. [00:31:35] Speaker E: With. [00:31:35] Speaker A: The way this body has been savaged, for lack of a better term. Is this something I recognize? Do I recognize the signs of what did this? It's kind of starting with, okay, what exactly of this killed her? And then work back from there. [00:31:56] Speaker E: Okay, that's a big question. It's going to be hard to tell right away, but you could start to get some clues that can maybe help you narrow it down. Part of the issue is at a glance, there are so many different types of injuries. Welcome back, legacy. At a glance, there are so many different types of injuries that it is genuinely hard to narrow it down. Like, you could see maybe something with claws. You could also see the possibility that it could have been some. You know, that there are places where it looks like she was almost stabbed and there's a lot of bludgeoning damage. It's really hard to be sure considering the. Considering just the wide breadth of damage. However, some of those could be false flags. Some of those could be things that at a glance, you attribute to one thing, but not necessarily, but aren't necessarily that thing. They could be caused by something else. So I'm going to have you make me an intelligence, and let's do intelligence and medicine first to get you some initial answers. And then maybe we can do like an int and occult and you and Rosanna can kind of put your heads together because, although I don't know what. [00:33:31] Speaker C: I can help with that, too. [00:33:33] Speaker E: Yeah, and we've lost her might. Now, what is going on with discord tonight, you guys? [00:33:38] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:33:39] Speaker C: Discord broke in, but no, Arthur. Arthur does have a decent amount of occult he's been studying. From the whole last season he's been studying. [00:33:49] Speaker E: Okay, well, the four of you can put your heads together, but Isabelle's got to get some initial knowledges going. I will say that your specialty in pathology will absolutely come into play here. [00:34:04] Speaker C: Good. [00:34:06] Speaker E: If. [00:34:06] Speaker C: If not, then why did we fly her all the way out here to look at our body. [00:34:10] Speaker E: Great question. Her int in medicine is still higher than most of your int in anything else. [00:34:22] Speaker A: Five successes. [00:34:23] Speaker E: Five is very good. Okay, so some things that you can tell there were claws. They are the biggest fucking claws you've ever seen, like, you've studied, like, animal wounds and whatever. And these are bigger than what you would expect from, like, a bear attack. A lot of the puncture wounds that you would normally have put to a knife don't have upon closer inspection, because the wounds are older, too. They were obviously made a few days before the body was found, and she was in Florida heat, as rosanna informed you guys. So the breakdown of the body is a little bit more advanced than it normally would be because of all the humidity and heat. But you can tell that some of what you would have assumed were knife wounds look like they may have actually themselves been made by claws or just a really weirdly shaped blade, because it's like they went in and then immediately got pulled back out rather than scooping, like you would expect to see from a claw mark. There are. There are a couple of what look like graze wounds from. From a gun, like, maybe somebody was shooting at her at some point. But none of them managed to hit enough meat to really leave behind any fragments of a bullet. It just looks like it passed on the outside of an arm, skimmed, like a knee, that sort of thing. There are a lot of broken bones. Like, a lot. Weirdly, despite how mangled the flesh is from cuts and gashes and whatever, the number of bone breaks that you are finding that didn't pierce the skin is kind of alarming. You would expect this kind of, like. I don't remember what the medical term is, but, like, the kind of break where the bone is sticking out of the skin, you would expect the bone to be sticking out of the skin with a lot of these breaks. And there's a lot of places where it's not, which means that whatever did that managed to do it without breaking the skin. Um, one of the most alarming things, you realize as you are working, is that you think based on the level of. Based on how some. You know, the number, the amount of blood that is obviously passed through some of these wounds versus others, you think Victoria was probably alive for most of. [00:37:37] Speaker B: It. [00:37:39] Speaker E: And that her face was actually one of the last things that was seriously damaged. [00:37:49] Speaker A: Yeah. And as I work, I'm getting incredibly focused on doing this. And for better or worse, I'm probably talking through my process of all of these things I am making notes of on a sort of a small journal as well, and look up after I've made most of these notes at whoever's in the kitchen with me and just go, this. Something about this seems a bit personal. They wanted her to stuff her. Almost feels like. [00:38:52] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:38:57] Speaker E: There'S a lot of. What, from your experience, there is a lot of rage. Kind of bundled up in all this damage they did want her to suffer. But the thing that stands out to you the most is that this was not torture. On the face of it, this was not methodical. [00:39:14] Speaker A: Yeah, it is something of. I wouldn't say pure rage, but someone who's very angry, say, as I just dim drinking a cup of coffee. [00:39:31] Speaker C: Yeah. They destroyed her personal items, too, for no reason other than obviously, to target her and everything that she does. [00:39:47] Speaker B: And whoever or whatever destroyed her knew what was important to her. [00:39:57] Speaker C: Yeah, and also spared gozer, whom we can tell, clearly tried to defend her, which is strange. [00:40:22] Speaker E: One of the things. Aubrey. I'm sorry. Isabelle. Getting used to the new names. One of the things that you also notice as you are looking through all of this and talking to them. You've hunted and helped cells find blank bodies before. There are blank bodies. You know for a fact that are incredibly strong. If this was a blank body, it had to have been one with those enhanced strength powers. Normal people couldn't do this. They don't have the strength to do whatever did this. [00:41:16] Speaker A: I think it goes without saying that this wasn't a normal person that did this. Could it be their specific length may have the kind of strength to do this, but I would also wouldn't think there would be as much blood at the scene if there was. [00:41:43] Speaker C: Yeah, we're not sure. We've been trying to think through it, and. I don't know. I don't know. That's why we brought you here, because I don't have enough clues. But there was a lot of blood, and I would imagine that the blank bodies, the vampires or whatever, that they would probably take some. I don't know. [00:42:11] Speaker B: There just seems to be way too much blood loss, but not lack draining of the blood. You should have seen what we saw when we went into her apartment. [00:42:26] Speaker A: I saw whatever video you sent me and wish I could have actually taken a look at the scene. That would have told me a lot, but, yeah, it definitely feel like there would be less. Do we have any idea of what she might have tangled with recently and royally pissed off? Any notes or anything? [00:42:56] Speaker C: Well, we split up for a little while. And so we don't know, but we made enemies. There was some people that we've been worried about for a little while. [00:43:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:43:13] Speaker E: Can I get from anybody who would like to make it? Whether you are part of the conversation or just listening in, like certain somebody who is being shady off in her little corner, she's watching anyone who shows that anyone who would like to can roll Int. Plus occult. Your. Anyone who has specializations in occult can use them, but you're going to have to tell me what your specialization is that you are applying to the role. [00:43:52] Speaker B: I've only got a specialization in wraiths. [00:43:55] Speaker E: Okay, you can still apply it. Wraiths do all kinds of weird, crazy stuff. You learned that last season. [00:44:03] Speaker C: Wait, hold on. Is it just slash h? It doesn't want to do hunter h based roll. Okay, got it. [00:44:24] Speaker E: We have a one 30 and a four. Would you like to roll willpower, Arthur? [00:44:33] Speaker C: Yeah, why not? Okay, because zero is two. Now that's better. [00:44:41] Speaker E: Okay. 1324. Interesting. 1234. All right. For the person who rolled one, she. [00:44:57] Speaker C: Was only partially paying attention. [00:44:59] Speaker D: She also know occult? [00:45:02] Speaker E: Yeah, that's fair. You are aware of various kinds of supernatural, but more than that, the things that you are most aware of are actually the other humans who hunt supernatural. And there are a wide variety of those humans, and some of them have really weird powers. So while Isabelle seems quite sure that normal people couldn't do this, are some of those hunters who might be tied to major organizations and religions really normal? Who rolled two? Do you have a specialization? [00:45:53] Speaker C: I do not. Or Arthur hasn't picked one of those up yet. [00:45:56] Speaker E: Okay, well, you have a couple of things that you guys know that you have tangled with. You know that you've tangled with wraiths and ghosts of various kinds. You have seen ghosts do things that should be impossible. You also know that at least once Zephyr did the really stupid thing of contacting the cult and then hanging up on them. And you're not entirely sure what the extent of the speaker's powers are, but you would assume that anything that can do the things that you have seen left behind by the speaker being exceptionally strong probably isn't a far cry from what's possible. And of course, there are always the concerns of the werewolves that you guys tangled with and you think failed to kill. However, comma, you haven't seen anything that suggests that you've been being followed. You had a couple of moments when you were first fleeing California, but it seemed to shake out to nothing. [00:47:28] Speaker C: Right. Doesn't mean Arthur isn't paranoid. [00:47:32] Speaker E: Oh, yeah. No, that's why I said it's there. But you don't necessarily have enough evidence to suggest for sure that that's what it is. Because you haven't seen any other signs that the werewolves continued to follow you after the explosion. That killed. Well, was. You thought it killed Jillian who rolled three? Isabelle. Well, I already pointed out that there are certain types of blanks that have those crazy, crazy strength powers and that have exceptionally sturdy and strong bodies. And they did mention the bullet holes in the walls. If Rosanna was shooting at something or someone, you would expect there to have been a sign that whoever that was got hurt. And other than there being a lot of blood, which doesn't necessarily mean that anybody else got hurt, it just means that there was a lot of blood. And given that they don't know how long the body was there, it's really hard to know just how much blood there was without having been to the scene yourself. They couldn't tell you. They said that half of it was dry, but because it was humid, the other half was still kind of semi liquid. It was really gross, hard to be sure. So there is definitely a possibility that this could have been a blank body, especially if she was shooting at somebody. And there's no sign that somebody got shot there because blank bodies, some of them can just. Most of them can just take bullets, but some of them can get hit by bullets and barely feel it, and they don't bleed, so that hits you. You've heard stories of other types, of other types of supernaturals. You've certainly heard about ghosts that were exceptionally powerful. You've heard about werewolves, although you've never actually encountered one and never had to deal with one on one of your hunts. It's not your area of expertise. So people haven't really gone to you for help with that. You've mostly just heard about it from having worked with other cells who mention. Oh, yeah, no, we know that there's a pack over in this area, but we don't tangle with them. They're murder machines. [00:50:22] Speaker A: Yeah, murder machines is enough to keep me away. [00:50:25] Speaker E: Yeah. So you have a number of potential things in mind that it could have been, but it's really hard to know for sure. Even with the body here, Rosanna, it would take a ghost that is so hyped up on the kind of energy that comes from beyond the veil that there's no way you would have missed it. If a ghost did this, it would cause all kinds of problems. More people would be dead. Unless it was an exceptionally powerful wraith. Like the types of wraiths that you encountered in season one. It would just have to be stronger than any of the ones that you guys met. Even Jillian wasn't that strong. We're talking, like, Jillian's boss, maybe based on the way that she had talked about him. That said, you guys did hunt a few blank bodies before you accidentally hunted werewolves. So you know for a fact that you have enough. Maybe not as much knowledge about vampires as Isabel does, but you know enough to know that she's not shitting around when she says there are some that are strong enough that they could do something like this. And, of course, the natural inclination. You do have the natural thought that, well, you guys did try to blow up werewolves. That's why you guys ran. And you saw one of those just go through a wall without trying. A cement wall. Just broke through it like it was nothing. So if it can do that, it can definitely break a body. Um, as you guys kind of talk about this and compare notes, the thing that stands out to you guys the most, putting together what Isabel saw in her examination and what you know about things, is that, again, while you can't be positive because there are types of spirits and entities that you guys know about but don't necessarily have words for yet, your werewolves do seem like they are at the top of the list. Because werewolves would have claws big enough to do this. [00:53:22] Speaker B: I can, when we get the chance, poke into my library and see what else I can find out about these werewolves. My resources are a little bit limited again, but I can see what I can do. [00:53:50] Speaker A: Any information is good at this point. If we know what we're tussling with, that'll help us in the long run. [00:54:03] Speaker C: Out. I mean, we went from vampires to encountering. Encountering one that nearly. Well, as you remember, didn't go so well, then. We've been focusing on ghosts so much lately that if it really is werewolves, I don't know that we're ready. So we better see what we can find out. [00:54:30] Speaker B: I'm going to be completely honest. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a werewolf. I mean, you remember. Look at what happened with Jillian in the building. [00:54:44] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:54:47] Speaker B: But that was all the way down in California. We're in Florida. There's no way that they could have tracked her that far. Unless there's some luck. [00:55:02] Speaker D: It's not hard to track somebody, especially if they're ever anywhere near a city. [00:55:11] Speaker C: Yeah, I don't know enough about them to know whether or not they're the kind that will hunt you to your death kind of thing. Vampires might have a grudge, and they might be coming after you, but I think that you go out of there, if you go far enough away, they kind of just go. It's not worth risking being in the daylight or whatever to come after you. But I don't know. Maybe they followed us the whole time. Maybe they were always just kind of a day behind. [00:55:49] Speaker A: Possibility. As I was going over the body, did she have any personal effect? Anything that might tell you what she might have been up to or anything? [00:56:02] Speaker E: Um. [00:56:05] Speaker A: Anything in her pockets or anything? [00:56:08] Speaker E: Roll me into an investigation. Well, Romi wits an investigation. [00:56:15] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:16] Speaker E: See if there's Isabel, because she's taking a closer look at pockets. [00:56:25] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:56:27] Speaker A: We were kind of too evan successes. [00:56:30] Speaker E: Holy cow. Okay, well, all right, there are a couple of things that you definitely find. The first is that tucked into a. She's wearing these, like, what were, like, cargo pants. So they have, like, the pockets on the side and whatever. And tucked into one of those pockets is a long. Those necklaces that are basically just, like, bead chains, like the metal beads, and then they clip together at the end. It's one of those cheap, not terribly expensive, but what stands out to you is what's hanging from it. And it is a bullet from, like, a rifle. It's big. You met Victoria a couple of times in California. You've never seen this before. This is something you would have noticed if she wore it. [00:57:56] Speaker A: Definitely hold it up for people to see and look around. Does this ring a bell for anyone? [00:58:03] Speaker E: It does not. Yeah. Another thing that you find is a. There's, like, a wadded up receipt that is mostly soaked in blood. So it's hard to tell what most of what. Most of what it was. But the top of it, you can make out that it was from a bookstore. Um, trying to think. I'm sorry. I know I had all of this stuff written down somewhere, and now I can't find it. One of the other things that you find is that it looks like on a. On a patch of skin that is somehow bloody but miraculously not damaged. It looks like there is a fresh tattoo that looks like it was still in the process of healing when she died. Very fresh. [00:59:20] Speaker A: Can I make out what the tattoo is of? [00:59:25] Speaker E: It is a small. It's one. It's a wolf. And. And the coloring is very distinctive. Gozer. And then there's a crescent moon that the wolf is kind of, like, standing on. Like, it's been turned onto its side. So the crescent. The points are up on the two sides, and the wolf is standing in, like, the curve of it. Does that make sense? It does. And it's got a stylized g kind of looped around it. In the opposite pocket to where you found the bookstore receipt, you find it's a key ring, but there's only two keys on it. One of them looks like a front door key, and the other one looks like it might be a key to a storage locker or safety deposit box or something like that. It's one of those small keys. [01:00:53] Speaker A: It's something to definitely look into. [01:00:59] Speaker C: Yeah. I guess we could call Dietrich and see if he knew she had any payments to, like, a storage facility or something. Yeah. Not that she would necessarily tell him everything. But you knew Victoria. [01:01:16] Speaker B: She kept her secrets. If he doesn't know, nobody would. [01:01:22] Speaker E: Yeah. Isabelle, how many successes did you get? [01:01:29] Speaker A: Seven. [01:01:30] Speaker E: Right. Okay, sorry, one more thing. I had a whole list. How many you got was based on how many successes you got. The last thing that you find is actually on her hand, and you almost miss it. You have to use the nail on your thumb to kind of scrape the dried blood away. Because if you use water, you risk wiping what's underneath of it away. There is a phone number and a name on the palm. And you recognize the name Zephyr. [01:02:11] Speaker A: Zephyr. Okay. [01:02:15] Speaker E: Who was the other member of this cell when you worked with them in California? If you show that to either Arthur or Rosanna, they can both immediately say that that's not a number that they have for Zeph. [01:02:36] Speaker A: Might be another lead as well. Especially. Probably. Fairly. [01:02:47] Speaker C: Maybe she knew where Zephyr was. Because we know that Zeph's hiding somewhere or doing something underground. [01:03:05] Speaker E: So while all of this has been going on, these conversations have been happening. The body has been getting examined. Piper, what have you been up to? Other than watching for. [01:03:21] Speaker D: Oh, she's been getting things set up. Cases have been coming open, computer parts have been coming out, monitors getting set up. [01:03:35] Speaker E: This little it hub being set up in the corner of what used to be a kitchen. Is there anything? Because I could assume you could probably do that relatively quickly. It takes time to examine a body. Is there anything else that you would have wanted to do during all of that? [01:03:54] Speaker D: Trying to think. I can't remember. Are we fairly close to where Victoria's place was? [01:04:07] Speaker E: Not at the moment. You're about an hour away. They went back up. Towards where? Not to where Rosanna was staying, but closer to where Rosanna had been. [01:04:20] Speaker C: A. We took a brief stint. Know another state and then came back. [01:04:25] Speaker E: Yeah, basically. [01:04:31] Speaker D: Then, yeah. Not really. Only thing I was thinking is maybe trying to get into some security systems and start looking back on some stuff. [01:04:39] Speaker E: I mean, that's something you could certainly try. Let me look at your sheet. You have. Oh, baby. You have global access and watching big brother. Yeah. [01:04:56] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. [01:04:58] Speaker E: You can look into most things. Can you be more specific about what you'd like to look at? [01:05:07] Speaker D: Yeah, I completely forgot. It's called global access for a reason. [01:05:11] Speaker E: It is, yeah. [01:05:13] Speaker D: If I could potentially get the street by where Victoria's place was and watching for in particular the same vehicles multiple times over that don't seem to be her, but essentially just a few blocks around that area, just to see if I can start finding anything. [01:05:44] Speaker E: Okay. All right, well, this is an edge test. At difficulty four, your pool is int plus tech. [01:06:01] Speaker D: Would my specialty in surveillance systems apply? [01:06:05] Speaker E: Yeah. And you guys do have one danger. One desperation. Just so you are aware. [01:06:14] Speaker C: Yeah, but I'm not in direct opposition of anything supernatural right at the moment. [01:06:20] Speaker E: I'm aware, but I'm not talking to you right now, Arthur. [01:06:26] Speaker D: I don't know. I think I'm good with my pool of eight. [01:06:31] Speaker E: Yeah, that's understandable. [01:06:33] Speaker D: Five successes. [01:06:34] Speaker E: That's pretty good. Pretty good. Okay, so the first thing that you find is that one. There aren't a ton of surveillance systems directly around because it's a residential area. However, she was living on a street with a red light camera. Well, I should say that her apartment complex, the street outside, had a red light camera. So that's something, especially if anyone was speeding. You stand a decent chance of getting something from that. So we will start there. You rolled five, so you pass, you get one. You got one extra success. Let's see. Make me a wits and let's go with wits and awareness to see if you can, as you are, skimming through all of these various things, various images and whatever, if you can pick up on something that would stand out to you enough to catch it. [01:08:07] Speaker D: All right. [01:08:13] Speaker C: That'S cool. [01:08:15] Speaker E: Two is not bad. It's not awful. Still a success. The big thing that you notice, it would be easier if you had a more precise time of death. But everybody's kind of having to go on estimations. Even Isabelle, with all of her knowledge. Just because of the circumstances that the body was in when it was found. You don't know exactly how long she was dead. You don't know exactly how much of that decomposition that it's suffered was because of the heat and things. You find a number of people. There's a lot of speeders on this road for whatever reason, and people who blow through red lights, which is really frustrating for one. Who the hell wants to live in an area where everybody just blows through the red lights because they want to? But also really handy for you because these cameras don't tend to save any of the pictures unless it was specifically because they clock somebody who was blowing through the red light. So you get a number of potential cars in the rough time. Estimate that Aubrey or Isabel. I'm so sorry. I'm going to get it. I swear I am. That Isabel manages to give you, based on the state of the body, you've got about, say, ten potentials over the course of about four or five days. So an average of about two people per day. You obviously can't make out anything specific about them on the camera, but you do have pictures of their license plates. [01:10:19] Speaker D: Oh, excellent. [01:10:23] Speaker E: So it'll take some time, but with enough time, you can go and get life stories on a lot of these people. Assuming that the license plates were theirs and not stolen and everything else, this is not difficult for you. It's just going to require. Yes. Okay. Rosanna, is there anything that you would like to have been doing while they were examining the body? Before you were really a part of the conversation? You have a little window of time that you could have been doing something with, or were you just hanging out with Gozer and keeping him away from the body? [01:11:20] Speaker B: I think I'm going to send an email, okay. To my friend. [01:11:27] Speaker E: Okay. [01:11:35] Speaker B: She's going to stay by Gozer's side and just kind of keep him company too, while she's writing off this email. And there is no greeting that I can give to you right now that will make the situation that I find myself in any easier. V is dead. We found her body. Remains and all on the floor. Bloodshed was everywhere. Whatever happened was break in and was done by force with sheer anger. A and I have been slightly beside ourselves. And we don't know where Z is. We know he's hiding, but that's about it. I know that you are on business right now, but I could use a little bit of guidance. It's a hard situation, considering that we just found ourselves in the same predicament not too long ago. It seems like whatever is out there is making our lives more and more difficult. And I am afraid when my time is next, is there any way that you and I can meet up at some point? I could really use some comfort. Comfort that I can't find from anybody else right now, and she'll send. [01:13:35] Speaker E: Okay. All right. You do not get an immediate answer, but that's not uncommon for him. It can sometimes take a day or two. Sometimes it only takes minutes. So if you leave the laptop open, you will certainly know if there's an answer immediately. [01:14:07] Speaker B: Then she's going to just look at Gozer and scratch under his chin and go lean in and whisper, I know I ain't your owner, honey, but I got your back. For now, she'll lean in. Just kiss his nose. [01:14:30] Speaker E: Gozer puts his head in your lap. Like he can tell that you're not feeling great and he's not feeling great. So he's just going to put his head in your lap and kind of nose at you. Whenever you're not petting him. So that you will pet him, he does that thing that dogs do where he tucks his nose under your hand and then kind of like, nudges it upwards. Like, come on, do the thing. You know what to do. Come on, human. That's what these appendages are for, is for petting me. [01:15:09] Speaker B: Anytime that she feels like she's about to cry and she just gets that little, like, that little nudge, she'll just look down at him and a tear might fall out. But she knows that right now he's probably hurting more than any of us combined. So she's just going to focus on petting. [01:15:29] Speaker E: Awesome. Arthur, you were helping with examining the body, so I'm assuming that you don't have anything extra that you would have wanted to do. Okay, cool. So we are post body examination. People have put their heads together to start coming up with lists of potentials. Werewolves, I assume, is at the top of the list. Blank bodies is a close second. And there is, of course, the possibility of wraiths, even if Rosanna is not entirely sure whether or not that could truly be the case. Just because of the. She knows about ghosts and can see and interact with them. But she was not the one who could interact with the veil. Victoria could do that. So it is hard for her to know, at least right now, what the state of the veil is. That's something that she could potentially look into later, once she has time to center herself and do some rituals and get out of her own head, so to speak. [01:16:42] Speaker C: Literally. [01:16:49] Speaker E: Okay, does anybody else want to do anything? What do you guys want to do next? [01:16:59] Speaker C: Well, so Rosanna's library is back at her house, isn't it? Yes. We'd have to travel back. [01:17:09] Speaker E: She doesn't live far. [01:17:12] Speaker C: How far? [01:17:15] Speaker E: Maybe 30, 40 minutes. [01:17:17] Speaker C: Okay, that's not very far at all. [01:17:19] Speaker E: No, it's really not. And it's late, so you're not likely to run into traffic. [01:17:26] Speaker B: Yeah, well, we have a couple of options. We can stay here in an abandoned restaurant with the dead body, or we could go back to shelter. An Internet connection and she looks directly at Piper. [01:17:53] Speaker E: Piper looks like an Internet connection is not a problem. [01:17:57] Speaker C: That she's having two little satellite antennas, like, on computer stuff. [01:18:02] Speaker D: Her setup is fucking massive. There's a reason she had, like, a dozen cases. [01:18:09] Speaker E: That'S picked you up. [01:18:11] Speaker C: Izzy, do you think there's anything more to gain from this body? Do you think looking at it would help more? [01:18:21] Speaker A: I can take another look, especially after I've not been traveling for multiple hours. [01:18:28] Speaker C: Sure. [01:18:29] Speaker A: I can take a look again later, see if there's anything I missed, but I think we got the majority of everything and can at least start working on whatever clues were left. [01:18:43] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:18:44] Speaker B: Should I call Dietrix and tell him that the body might be ready a little bit faster than we had anticipated? [01:18:55] Speaker C: That's sort of what I was thinking. We can take another look at it if Izzy thinks that there's going to be more to find, but if not, then I'm reluctant to just abandon the body here and head back to your place. So someone would have to stay because. Not that I think anyone would find. [01:19:19] Speaker A: It, but, like, I can stay. I'm probably the one least creeped out about sleeping near a dead body. [01:19:26] Speaker C: It's not about her. Creeped out. She was my friend. So it's more like a random jogger passing by, looks just at the right time in the right way, and sees a body laying on a table. [01:19:42] Speaker B: Have a full, functioning freezer. [01:19:44] Speaker A: Yeah. Imagine just back in there. [01:19:48] Speaker C: I guess so. If that wouldn't mess up your next examination or anything. [01:19:53] Speaker E: It would not. No, you don't put it in the freezer. You put it in the fridge. Freezer would mess things up. [01:20:01] Speaker C: The walk in cooling area, yes. [01:20:06] Speaker B: But I don't think anybody should be alone. Remember that talk? [01:20:10] Speaker D: Absolutely not. [01:20:12] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:20:13] Speaker B: Especially with the body that has been messed with by. [01:20:21] Speaker C: Right. So either we're splitting up, or we're just going to spend the night here together as the four of us. And then. [01:20:35] Speaker E: You could very easily have the rv outside as an. [01:20:42] Speaker C: If we. The rv is at Rosanna's place, last I checked. [01:20:48] Speaker E: Right. I'm just saying you could have very easily picked it up because, remember, you had to go all the way up to Georgia and then come back down. It is not unheard of that you stopped and got the second vehicle. I'm saying that there was downtime between your .5 and now. You had plenty of time. [01:21:09] Speaker C: But we were trying not to leave the body. We were trying not to be alone. So it would have been right. [01:21:14] Speaker E: You could have swung by the. [01:21:17] Speaker C: Okay, we've got the rv. It's fine. [01:21:20] Speaker B: Only mildly. Smells a cigarette smoke. [01:21:24] Speaker C: Okay, well, I mean, we have a place to sleep. That's fine. [01:21:29] Speaker E: Just not going to grace that with a response at all, Arthur. [01:21:34] Speaker C: No, listen. You left him alone with an rv for a couple of months, plus stakeouts. It's a thing. [01:21:43] Speaker B: She's just going to take her pink vape out of her pocket and just hand it over. If you're going to smoke in this van, in this rv, you're doing it like this. It's menthol. [01:22:04] Speaker D: Yeah, that's also non negotiable. I don't do cigarette smoke. [01:22:10] Speaker C: I don't. All right, so you're saying I have to have to quit now onto all of the other stuff happening. I've got a. [01:22:23] Speaker B: Hey, you can either. Listen, you can smoke them outside, but if you want to smoke in the van, in the RV and the cars, it's got to be the vape. I could buy you one of your own. They sell them in pink and sparkly blue, too. [01:22:45] Speaker C: Yeah, that doesn't surprise me since something for children marketing, blah, blah. I don't know. I see the signs every time I go in to buy cigarettes. There's something about that. I don't know. I haven't done any research into it, but sure, I can agree to that. [01:23:04] Speaker D: As they're slowly pulling out a soapbox. [01:23:11] Speaker B: I do think that it might be worth it to cut them off our trail. We might want to look into selling the rv and getting something a bit more. Not falling apart. [01:23:29] Speaker C: I see. [01:23:30] Speaker B: Listen, that thing got us from California to here, and it was a beautiful. [01:23:40] Speaker C: I understand it doesn't function as well as you think it should, but it's fine. Maybe we get a better one. For sure, but it came in necessary when it mean we can stay here the night, see if we can do one more run on the body, and then we go. We call Dietrich. Maybe that's the best. [01:24:05] Speaker B: Yeah. I'll probably give him a call at some point tonight, if you all don't mind. I'll see about doing it. From which phone does he have the number? Two. And she's like. She pulls out, like, three cell phones. [01:24:31] Speaker E: Out of her purse. [01:24:32] Speaker B: One of them has one of those really pink, sparkly. You know, the charms that I'm talking about? The ones that used to attach to the Antenna of your phone. This one. This one is the hello Kitty charm one. [01:24:48] Speaker C: I was going to say. It wasn't the one with the cat on it. [01:24:51] Speaker B: Yes, I'll give him a call. [01:24:59] Speaker C: Yeah, it's probably a good idea. I'll help you get the body back into the cooling area. Busy. [01:25:11] Speaker E: Okay. Interesting. Arthur and Isabelle move the body back into the walk in fridge. Going to assume afterwards, Isabelle at least takes a little bit of time to clean up the area she's used to sanitizing. Arthur is going to lead people out to where the, like, show people where the rv is, unlock the door so that people can get in, that sort of thing. [01:25:56] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:25:57] Speaker E: Okay. Very cool. [01:26:01] Speaker C: And it's very obvious that he's been sleeping on the couch and the bed is made. He hasn't been sleeping on the bed because it was his spot. [01:26:14] Speaker E: Interesting. Okay. [01:26:17] Speaker C: Just been waiting for the time when. [01:26:18] Speaker E: Everyone else comes back and Rosanna, you are calling. [01:26:25] Speaker B: Yes, ma'am. [01:26:27] Speaker E: Okay. You call and it takes two or three rings before he picks up. Hey. [01:26:37] Speaker B: Hi. Sorry to bother you. [01:26:40] Speaker E: No. Is everything all right? [01:26:43] Speaker B: We think that the body will be ready a little bit faster than the estimated time that I gave you. We kind of pulled whatever clues we could. We have a couple of suspicions. I don't want to talk about them on the phone. [01:27:02] Speaker E: Understand? [01:27:06] Speaker B: When you come to collect the body, is there any chance that you and I can meet up to talk about things? [01:27:14] Speaker E: I assumed we would have to, considering I have to come get her. I assumed I'd have to, or we'd end up meeting up at some point. Anyway, you weren't just going to drop her off like she's in a doggy bag or something for me to pick up? [01:27:36] Speaker B: No. And I'd hate to ask this, but if you have anything for Gozer. Poor thing was left to his own defenses for days, and he's not doing too good. [01:27:54] Speaker E: When you say anything for Gozer, what do you mean? Are we talking? Does he need medicine? Does he need food? [01:28:02] Speaker B: Yes. [01:28:07] Speaker E: All right, I guess I will make some calls and see if I can find a vet to come with me or something. [01:28:16] Speaker B: At least things to tide him over until we figure out what we can do with him. I love Gozer and he was Victoria's, but I'm not a great pet owner. I'm not like Victoria. She had a weight with dogs. And I'd love to keep him, but I don't know where to start? [01:28:51] Speaker E: All right, here's what you're going to do. In the morning, go to the store, get him a couple of cans of adult dog food. Make that four. He's a big boy, so he's probably going to want two a day and a small bag of dry food. [01:29:10] Speaker B: Okay. [01:29:12] Speaker E: And they should have chews. They'll look like they're in a little canister. And they should have some that are specifically for anxious dogs. That'll help calm them down. [01:29:26] Speaker B: All right. [01:29:28] Speaker E: In fact, you might be able to find something. If there's any weed shops, they might have some that are specifically for pets. And that'll at least help with the anxiety. Once I get there, I'll help you figure it out from there, whether it's I take him or we find a rescue that can take him. He's wolf blooded, so different states have different rules about that sort of thing. Yeah. [01:29:59] Speaker B: Dan, out of mild curiosity, do you know how to maybe get dogs to like people a little bit better? He has a problem with Arthur for some reason. [01:30:20] Speaker E: That's OD Arthur. Arthur always seemed like a nice guy to me. Some people just aren't good with animals, though. And some animals, we don't know what kind of background goes ahead. [01:30:36] Speaker B: That is understandable. All right, well, we'll see what a couple of treats can do. [01:30:42] Speaker E: But generally, the only thing you can really do is just to be around them and show them kindness and patience and give them the space that they need and they'll warm up. Sometimes. Not always, though, right? [01:31:02] Speaker B: Well, I don't want to eat up too much of your time. I'm sure you have some arrangements that you'll have to make, but, yeah, I. [01:31:09] Speaker E: Got to go figure out if I can get that casket in sooner. That's fine. I appreciate you calling and letting me know. [01:31:17] Speaker B: Yeah, just when you're close. My phone's always at the ready for you. [01:31:24] Speaker E: Two more times. Out of an abundance of caution and curiosity, whoever did this to her, is that something I should be worried about? Is that from my world or your world? [01:31:41] Speaker B: Most definitely my world. [01:31:44] Speaker E: So hopefully it won't come out. All right, cool. [01:31:50] Speaker B: It shouldn't. [01:31:52] Speaker E: Good. Well, then I will see you in a couple of days unless you call and tell me otherwise. [01:32:00] Speaker B: Yes, sir. She'll be ready. [01:32:04] Speaker E: Good night. [01:32:05] Speaker B: Good night. [01:32:06] Speaker E: He will hang up. All right, what's happening next? Nothing. Okay. As you hang up the phone, Rosanna, you turn to put it back with the collection of phones that you have next to your laptop. And there is an unread message in your. [01:32:35] Speaker B: I'll stare at it for a second and then do I see who it's from? [01:32:41] Speaker E: From your friend. [01:32:45] Speaker B: I will open it. [01:32:48] Speaker E: Dear Rosie, I'm sorry for your loss. I know V was a good friend of yours and A's. I also know you're a strong woman and will pull through with time. The world is, as you know, a cruel place and does not allow for most to take breaks. However, I think a break might be a smart idea. Rest, collect your thoughts, but also make sure that you do so in a safe locale. Whoever or with your line of work, whatever took V's life may come for you in a next. As for meeting up, I'm busy the next couple of days, but I'm off on Sunday if that works. My work has me almost entirely nocturnal with global operations, but I owe you some good tea, so I will make time if need be. And Sunday does not align with your schedule. Keep fighting. Keep eating. I believe in you. Sincerely, Peter. [01:33:47] Speaker B: She puts her phone away and heads back in. I assume Gozer was probably sticking by her side the entire time. [01:33:59] Speaker E: Yes, until the body is back in cold storage, at which point he does what he has been doing basically since you got here. He goes and he lays down in front of the door. The door cold storage. If that wasn't clear, I'm sorry. [01:34:25] Speaker B: Well, Detrix will be here in a couple of days to collect the body he's expedite in the casket. [01:34:39] Speaker E: Is there anything anybody else wants to do? [01:34:45] Speaker C: I mean. [01:34:49] Speaker A: If you have an idea, go ahead. I'm still formulating mine. [01:34:52] Speaker C: No, Arthur was just going to let everyone know that there's not much in the RV and show the mini fridge full of little pre made sandwiches that he bought at a convenience store. And the half finished drive. [01:35:04] Speaker E: Peanut butter. Lord. Okay, so upon entering the RV, anybody who goes to have a look, the first thing that you notice is that it does, in fact, smell like cigarettes. The second thing that you notice is that it smells like stale fast food. [01:35:25] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, absolutely. [01:35:27] Speaker E: And stale greasy food. There are a number of hopefully empty, like gas station coffee cups in the sink. Not thrown away. No, no, in the sink. As if, you know, over time, Arthur just kind of tosses them in there. And when he realizes that the sink is full, then he puts them in the trash and takes the trash out. The couch is made up into a bed. The other beds look untouched. Rosanna, you lived in this thing for a week with the cell. The blankets and sheets and everything are exactly the way that they were the last time you stayed in it. He's not been sleeping in the beds. He's been sleeping on the couch like he usually does or like he did when you guys were all on the road. [01:36:44] Speaker B: I think it's time for us to do a little bit of a litter removing, maybe window cracking to air out the smell a little bit. Not that I have a problem with. [01:37:01] Speaker A: It, but just feel like I'm back in my college dorm. [01:37:07] Speaker B: I would say the same for mine, but it's missing the smell of weed and overworked 19 year old. [01:37:17] Speaker C: That's because it was overworked 40 year old. [01:37:22] Speaker E: Um, Rosanna, can you make me a wits awareness, please? [01:37:32] Speaker B: Yes, ma'am. [01:37:43] Speaker D: Having flashbacks to mention of a college dormitory. [01:37:52] Speaker C: Can't really get out and throw away your coffee cups when you're supposed to not exist. And you're watching people who might kill you. So, you know, just throwing that out there. [01:38:01] Speaker B: I spend a willpower to reroll my failures. [01:38:05] Speaker E: You don't need to. [01:38:06] Speaker B: Okay. [01:38:09] Speaker E: When you walk in and it hits you that very little has changed in the spaces that weren't immediately Arthur's, you realize that that includes the conspiracy board is still here. The only thing that looks like that has changed from that is that some of the old news articles have been taken down. And a note on the flight that Piper and Isabelle took is on there. And in Victoria's little bunk is her picture of Gozer. And one of the pictures that she had of all of you that was taped up on the wall at the foot so that she could see it when she was laying down. And you realize that Victoria really only took some changes of clothes with her when she left. She left a lot of her really personal possessions here. Because the plan was that you guys were going to meet back up once everybody had a break. [01:39:46] Speaker B: In the bunk that Victoria slept on and take the picture of the group of them. And she's just going to kind of, like, look down at it for a minute. Stupid bitch. You weren't supposed to. [01:40:21] Speaker E: Um. Arthur, you recognize the near breakdown almost immediately because you know Rosanna. You've spent enough time with Rosanna in the midst of trauma to know what's happening. Isabel, you recognize it because you and your line of work make you intimately familiar with grief. [01:40:47] Speaker A: Yeah, no good at dealing with it, but I am very familiar. [01:40:53] Speaker E: You recognize the sides. You don't know what to do about it, but you know what's happening. [01:40:57] Speaker A: That's when I turn to funeral directors and say, this is your job. I'll be back there making sure the body's okay. [01:41:09] Speaker E: I love that. [01:41:12] Speaker C: Arthur will approach and sit down next to Rosanna. Hey, listen, I'm here for you. And I know it's tough. She wasn't supposed to die. She was supposed to be there for you, right? [01:41:38] Speaker B: It's not that. Arthur. We had plans. She was supposed to go and be with her people, and I was supposed to help her. And I feel like I failed her. I wasn't. It's there for her. [01:42:14] Speaker C: She. You didn't fail anyone. Don't. Don't think like that. You. We all needed a break, right? We all had something to pursue, and she needed one, too. We were gonna meet up later. So you would have fulfilled that promise? [01:42:43] Speaker B: It's happened to all of the women in our cell, Arthur. [01:42:55] Speaker C: That you're next? [01:43:00] Speaker B: Kind of, but not really. I've never been good at grieving. I wasn't good at it when Jillian died. I wasn't good at it when my sister went missing. I don't know if I'm good at it now. All I know is I'm angry. I am beyond angry. But I'm not gonna throw bats at televisions and kick dumpsters. And we need to figure out what happened to her. And I don't know how I'm going to do. [01:44:28] Speaker E: It. [01:44:29] Speaker D: You're not going to do it. You can't do this alone. [01:44:38] Speaker C: Yeah, we're going to do it. [01:44:41] Speaker D: We are going to do it. [01:44:46] Speaker C: We're going to figure this out. We're going to find whomever, whatever did this, and we're going to send it straight back to hell. [01:44:58] Speaker A: Exactly. [01:45:07] Speaker B: Thank God. [01:45:10] Speaker E: Victoria's body has been stored in cold storage again. The area where Isabelle was doing her examination has been cleaned up and properly sanitized. You all have recognized that Arthur does not take care of himself when there are not people around. Rosanna has nearly broken down and had her moment of anger that was a little bit for her. Reminiscent of Victoria being angry when Jillian died. And now here you are with a mini fridge full of pre made sandwiches from what looks like a gas station convenience store. And chips up in cabinets and a coffee maker, but no coffee. What little coffee there was is in the restaurant. And Rosanna, you are starting to realize with somewhat dawning horror that that might be the same coffee that was in here the last time you were in here. Because Arthur seems to be buying his coffee one cup at a time. [01:46:28] Speaker B: Arthur? [01:46:31] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:46:35] Speaker B: No supplies. Only chips and gas station sandwiches. [01:46:48] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:46:50] Speaker D: How are you still alive? [01:46:52] Speaker A: As a medical professional, I say seek help. [01:46:58] Speaker C: I mean, I assume that if it were my time, the Lord would take me away. So obviously it's not my time. [01:47:11] Speaker B: The Lord or high cholesterol. [01:47:16] Speaker D: He may think they're the same thing. [01:47:21] Speaker B: All right, well, I think groceries are due in order. [01:47:27] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:47:28] Speaker B: So I know where the local grocery stores are. Two people go to the grocery store. Two people stay here and keep watch. [01:47:42] Speaker D: That works for me. [01:47:44] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:47:47] Speaker B: I'll go. [01:47:48] Speaker D: I'm going. [01:47:51] Speaker B: Did you want to go, Arthur? [01:47:53] Speaker C: No. [01:47:56] Speaker D: Do we need to make it a group outing? No, I can make a list of the things I need. [01:48:06] Speaker B: Let him go. I'll take you next time. You and I have to do some talking in a little bit. [01:48:14] Speaker C: Okay. [01:48:15] Speaker E: All right. So the newbies are staying in? [01:48:19] Speaker D: Yes. [01:48:21] Speaker E: Piper's going to make a list of groceries. Yes. Okay. There is something about the shady bitches that makes them exceptionally good cooks. Apparently, because this is the second season in a row that it's been the underground creed hunter, who is also the group cook. Love that. [01:48:42] Speaker D: Love that for us. [01:48:43] Speaker E: Okay, so Rosanna and Arthur pile into Rosanna's car and they roll out, leaving Isabelle and Piper behind. Do you two want to do or talk about anything while they are gone? [01:48:59] Speaker A: There is something I did want to do, though. [01:49:02] Speaker E: Yeah, absolutely. [01:49:03] Speaker A: I would like to reach out to one of my contacts. [01:49:08] Speaker E: Yeah, which one? [01:49:12] Speaker A: I have two deaths in contacts specifically. Probably another hunter. One that. Probably Dr. Langley asking about blank body stuff because she knows more than I do. And questions about what kinds of blanks can do damage like this. [01:49:37] Speaker E: Okay, so you pick up your phone and you call. It's late here, but it is, thankfully, pretty still relatively early over there. And this is me opening up books I didn't think I was going to need tonight for completely different systems, but she answers the phone. Is he okay? [01:50:10] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm fine. I'm just working. [01:50:17] Speaker E: Working or working. Gotcha. All right. [01:50:26] Speaker A: Yeah, I had an interesting vic come in to on my table tonight. I could use an extra set of ears. Just sort of talk through what I've my notes and figure out if you might be able to tell me anything that I might have overlooked. [01:50:56] Speaker E: Okay, give me a sec. And you could hear her heels clicking on tile floor. It looks like she's also working late. And you hear a door shut in the background. Okay, I am weird. There shouldn't be anyone to overhear. What do you got? [01:51:20] Speaker A: And I'll sort of just take out my notebook and sort of give a quick cliff notes of what I have sort of seen from the body. Like, could be claws or a weird shaped blade. And the bludgeoning and the broken bones, but not pierced the skin. And the. The fact that there was a lot of blood. [01:51:52] Speaker E: Okay, well, the fact that there's a lot of blood suggests that it might not be a blank. [01:52:00] Speaker A: That was my thought as well. [01:52:03] Speaker E: But there could have also been something wrong with the blood. Not all blanks drink all blood. [01:52:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:52:11] Speaker E: We do know that some of them are really picky. [01:52:15] Speaker A: Yeah. Noticed on a job last year. [01:52:24] Speaker E: The damage, the strength that you talk about. We don't know everything that there is to know about the blanks, but we do know that there are a couple of. Oh, God, what do they call them? Bloodlines. Families, whatever. Groups. There are a couple of groups that are known for being particularly strong, physically powerful. One of them is a group that the best I can tell is usually gangbanger biker types. They're angry a lot and they hit really hard. Most of the ones that we have found like that are involved in different sorts of rebel groups. You'd find them a lot in motorcycle clubs, that sort of thing. They tend to have that you can sometimes find, the really shady ones. Do you remember when I told you about that underground network that got taken down? Private network that got taken down a few years ago? [01:53:48] Speaker A: Yeah, I remember something about that. [01:53:50] Speaker E: I don't know all of the details, but I know that it was put together by these blanks that are so hideous that most of them live in, like, sewers and shit because they can't pass in normal society. [01:54:07] Speaker A: Yeah, I encountered one of those before. That is putting it lightly. [01:54:21] Speaker E: But I'll tell you what I find more interesting. There are a couple of groups that can have claws like the ones that you've described. Like, that's one of the things that they're known for, is the ability to grow claws and see in the dark and shit. They're some of the ones that our guys are the most nervous about, because some of them. But rumor has it some of them can just straight up turn into fucking animals. [01:54:57] Speaker A: That is interesting. Yeah. Could definitely be behind some of those wounds. [01:55:08] Speaker E: Yeah. We have seen recently, we have seen that the different types of gifts can show up in groups that wouldn't normally have them. It's a little less common, but it's not unheard of that the guys who can turn into animals. Some of them might be particularly physically strong. [01:55:39] Speaker A: Makes me even more nervous. But. [01:55:45] Speaker E: Like I said, it's not super likely, but it's also not impossible. So it's something to keep in mind. And if there was something about her blood that is about your vic's, blood. That is a turn off, so to speak. They may not necessarily have wanted to eat them. [01:56:10] Speaker A: Yeah, I really know them very well, so I couldn't say. [01:56:17] Speaker E: If you can get me a sample, I might be able to do some testing. But I also can't promise that we're going to pick up on something that a blank might not like unless it's really obvious. [01:56:34] Speaker A: I can get you the sample. It's pretty easy. I can send it off in the morning. [01:56:42] Speaker E: Yeah. [01:56:43] Speaker A: Any kind of information that I can get about this, the more prepared I'll be for everything later. [01:56:51] Speaker E: Okay. I know we don't typically do this, but are you in your area or are you ranged out? [01:57:05] Speaker A: I'm ranged out helping some friends and panhandle. [01:57:14] Speaker E: Okay. All right. Let me make some calls and see if we've got any teams in the area. We may be able to get you some backup if things go really badly. [01:57:25] Speaker A: Yeah, some backup or some extra toys would definitely be helpful. [01:57:31] Speaker E: I'll see what I can do on the toys. They are not super keen to give freelancers access, but I'll see what I can come up with. [01:57:39] Speaker A: Yeah, if I come across anything from blank site that's not going to fall apart when they're dead. I'll send it your way. [01:57:53] Speaker E: Yeah, absolutely. Honestly, any research you can get me at all would be great. You know how it is, politics. They like to play over who owns what piece of information. Lately. [01:58:12] Speaker A: I stay freelance. [01:58:17] Speaker E: Yeah, it definitely has its perks, but so does be it on my side of things. [01:58:24] Speaker A: That's true. [01:58:26] Speaker E: Listen, stay safe. Call me if you need anything. [01:58:30] Speaker A: Yeah, you, too. Everything's doing good where you are? [01:58:37] Speaker E: Yeah, for the most part. We're still trying to figure out what the hell happened with that explosion. We know there was something weird, but we're having a hard time putting it all together. [01:58:53] Speaker A: If I learn anything, I'll send it your way. [01:58:56] Speaker E: Thanks. I'll talk to you later. [01:59:01] Speaker B: All right. [01:59:03] Speaker A: Yeah, I'll update you whenever I can. [01:59:08] Speaker E: Yeah, get that sample in the mail, and as soon as I have it, I'll let you know what I find. [01:59:15] Speaker A: Yeah, I'll talk to you later. [01:59:19] Speaker E: Okay. Bye, hon. And she hangs up. [01:59:26] Speaker A: And then we're still parked at the. [01:59:29] Speaker E: Oh, yeah, you're still there. You're not going anywhere. [01:59:32] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:59:32] Speaker A: Then I will leave Piper to do whatever Piper's doing. Head into the restaurant to collect the samples I need. [01:59:41] Speaker D: Did Piper hear that whole. [01:59:45] Speaker B: Mean, did. [01:59:47] Speaker E: You do it inside or did you do it out in the. [01:59:51] Speaker B: If? [01:59:52] Speaker A: He probably would have. Not necessarily hidden it, but tried to go into a different area. Probably if you were in the rv. I probably went into the restaurants to put in the call. [02:00:09] Speaker E: Okay, so Piper did not overhear everything. All right, Piper, what are you up to? [02:00:19] Speaker B: I think she's going to send a. [02:00:21] Speaker D: Quick message to one of her touchstones. [02:00:24] Speaker E: Okay, who are we reaching out to? [02:00:28] Speaker D: Melanie, her partner. [02:00:31] Speaker E: All right. [02:00:32] Speaker D: Essentially just letting her know hey. Had to move again. Long distance this time, but I'm doing okay. [02:00:46] Speaker E: Man, discord is having a time tonight. Really? [02:00:53] Speaker B: It's an HHS stream. [02:00:54] Speaker E: Now, listen, I don't think that this is hhs. Usually hhs is that there's a problem on my end, but I'm not the one who's having problems. This is discord. [02:01:04] Speaker D: No, discord has lots of problems. [02:01:06] Speaker C: Yeah. I don't know what just happened. All of a sudden I disappeared and came back. [02:01:10] Speaker E: You're going to have to restart your camera. [02:01:14] Speaker C: I did. [02:01:15] Speaker E: You're not showing up for me. [02:01:20] Speaker D: Oh, that was weird. Yeah, because I was seeing them just fine. [02:01:26] Speaker C: Am I still gone? [02:01:31] Speaker D: Discord. [02:01:32] Speaker E: Now I can see you. [02:01:33] Speaker C: Okay. [02:01:35] Speaker E: Yay. [02:01:37] Speaker C: It's weird. Yeah, discord just closed on me and then opened it back up again. [02:01:41] Speaker E: Yep. It probably updated. Sometimes it does that without permission, or. [02:01:46] Speaker D: Sometimes it does sometimes just crash on you. It's a pain in the ass. [02:01:50] Speaker E: Okay, so you send off your message to Melanie, who comes back with the dash period, dash smiley of just the. Okay. I'm glad you're safe. I guess. Let me know when I'll get to see you again. I miss you. [02:02:20] Speaker D: She'll send back. Hopefully it won't be too long. Miss you, too. [02:02:27] Speaker A: Okay. [02:02:31] Speaker E: And then about 10 minutes later, you get another message from her. I don't want to worry you, but there's been this car parked out front kind of off and on for the past couple of days. I thought it was the neighbors at first, but the neighbors just got back from their trip and they're in their own car, so I guess this isn't a new car. [02:03:14] Speaker C: Um. [02:03:17] Speaker D: If you see them again, try and get me their license plate number. Otherwise, stay away from them. [02:03:26] Speaker E: Okay. Love you. [02:03:29] Speaker B: Love you. [02:03:32] Speaker E: That's that. Now, Rosanna and Arthur, you are going to the store. Please tell us how the romance subplot advances. [02:03:46] Speaker C: Well, actually, Arthur was going to talk to Rosanna and say, hey, so I know that we called them in, but you should. We know Izzy. I know Izzy. We as a cell know Izzy. But Piper seems like they come from Victoria's side of things, if that makes sense. [02:04:18] Speaker B: Actually, Piper comes from my side of things. Her and I've worked together a few times after we all split. I can vouch for her. She's good at not getting caught, if you know what I mean. [02:04:44] Speaker C: That is helpful. [02:04:47] Speaker B: Yeah. She's very rich in knowledge and very rich in getting people off of our trail. That's why I kind of thought about her before anybody else. If it gets to be too much with her, though, I can set her up with a plane ticket and send her anywhere she wants to go. I'd prefer to keep her, though. [02:05:25] Speaker C: Sure. I was just trying to work out what kind of worries we should have. And if you thought that they were. Well, if we're going against the kinds of things that can take out Victoria, are they the kind of person that we should leave in the rv when we go look into something kind of situation? [02:05:57] Speaker B: She might be better on a computer than on the field. I'm not going to lie. I don't know her fight style, though. I don't know if she can fight. I do know that she's very intelligent, very witty, very quick to figure shit out that we can't quite grasp. You doing all right? [02:06:35] Speaker C: I'm not going to lie. Finding Victoria reminded me of Jillian. And there's some part of me that still hasn't quite got over the. Even though we saw Jillian again, there's still this constant reminder that death is around the corner that I can't quite fake. Guess that's why I'm wondering if Piper can handle themselves. Or if we need to be worried. Because obviously, Victoria was the strongest of us that were still around. Jillian was the strongest, and then Victoria. And now it's you and me. And I know that I have to protect you. [02:07:46] Speaker B: I think we need to protect each other. [02:07:51] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:07:54] Speaker B: Because, honey, at the end of the day, it don't matter how strong you are. Anything that wants to can come and take what they want. And that can be our lives. We made a mistake. We separated for maybe just slightly too long. I like Isabelle. I like Papper. But you and I have been through hell and back together. And if I lost you, I don't know what I would do. [02:09:10] Speaker C: Same. That's. That's why I have to protect you. [02:09:17] Speaker B: That's why I gotta protect you. [02:09:21] Speaker C: I'm pretty sure that if I were to find you like I found Victoria, I would just start tearing the world apart. And the first scary supernatural thing that I came across that I wasn't prepared for would take me. [02:09:43] Speaker E: Download. [02:09:54] Speaker C: Well, I was just going to say, but I'd see how many of those sons of bitches I would take down first? [02:10:03] Speaker B: Yeah, I know that it's scary. And I know that I haven't had the best grip on my emotions these last couple of days. And I wanna. I wanna. You know, I want to protect you. I want to do what I can to keep you safe. I know that you and I have our own ways of dealing with it. And I know that you and I have our own reasons as to why we fat the fat that we do fat. If I saw you in that state, this whole fucking city would burn to the ground. Probably. Take me with it. You're important to me, Arthur. And with the protection. And at that point, she grabs a thing of spinach and puts it into one of those plastic bags, looking at him in the eye as she does it. We're going to get you on a better eating schedule. [02:11:53] Speaker C: Yeah. I've had to spend a lot in tums and pepto these days. I think I'm just starting to get a little older. [02:12:06] Speaker B: I guess I think it might be because you're eating a bunch of crap. [02:12:10] Speaker C: No, that's fine. Truck drivers can handle it, right? Why wouldn't I be able to handle it? [02:12:18] Speaker B: Are you really playing this game with me right now? [02:12:20] Speaker C: Boy, I'm playing the game of. Look, some peanut butter. [02:12:30] Speaker B: We have enough peanut butter at home to let us survive a small nuclear war. [02:12:38] Speaker D: Just. [02:12:39] Speaker C: It's only half a jar, so I don't know how you use peanut butter in a nuclear war, but. [02:12:55] Speaker B: We should get the rest of the stuff on Popper's list. I'm really hoping that her cooking is as fulfilling as Victoria's. It wasn't necessarily great cooking, but it helped when it needed to help. [02:13:13] Speaker C: I going to be honest. If any cooking is done, it will be better than it's been for the last couple of months. [02:13:22] Speaker B: You should have called me. [02:13:26] Speaker C: I. I knew you needed to get down here. There was someone waiting for you. [02:13:34] Speaker B: Would you believe that? He's still waiting for me? [02:13:41] Speaker D: We drove you all the way to. [02:13:43] Speaker C: Florida and you left this man waiting? Listen, we're going to have to talk about your relationships. [02:13:49] Speaker B: My relationships? Him and I are not dating. [02:14:03] Speaker C: I guess I didn't understand that. [02:14:06] Speaker B: Yeah, him and I were pen pals. I cared deeply for the boy. But we're not. We're not romantic, as far as I am aware. At least. I've never been romantic with anybody before. Never quite had the time. Yeah, to a lot of people. Make assumptions about me, and I know what I do as a side gig. You would think. But no, that was the one secret. That was the one secret Victoria took to her grave, though. I'll give her that. [02:15:25] Speaker C: So all of that is a facade, then? And you're still looking for the one. [02:15:40] Speaker B: I'm looking for someone who doesn't want to waste my time. [02:15:46] Speaker E: You. It? [02:15:49] Speaker C: Yeah. Our life is far too short for that, isn't it? [02:15:58] Speaker B: Maybe. Also haven't met somebody who's had the guts to make the first move. So. I don't know. I guess I intimidate people. [02:16:13] Speaker C: Yeah, I could see that you are. Well, you know, everyone sees you when you walk into places and approach anyone. They see you. They can't not see you. [02:16:40] Speaker B: Is this Cheerios? [02:16:41] Speaker C: I can't quite read. What did Piper write here. [02:16:51] Speaker B: That doesn't say Cheerios? Oh, I think that says hamburger. I think you need to learn how to read, Arthur, and not be so distracted. [02:17:07] Speaker C: Maybe my eyes are going bad. Or the old age. Yeah, a lot older than you. And so, hamburger then. [02:17:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:17:30] Speaker E: Okay. With the most gloriously awkward shopping trip ever. Which did, in fact, further the romance subplot. Even though people were like, actually, that's not what this is about. With that firmly out of the way, Piper, how would you describe your cooking style? Are you, like, the get the good food and do the good things, or are you closer to what Victoria did, which was take all the crap food and somehow make it taste like a feast? [02:18:00] Speaker D: No, she's very much more of the get the good stuff and make it. [02:18:08] Speaker E: Good. Arthur, you and Rosanna did grocery shopping for the group in the past, when Victoria would give you a list, you've never actually had to buy some of the things on this list, there are green things that you're not entirely sure you even know the name of because you know you didn't grow it at the compound. Probably not native to Florida or California. [02:18:45] Speaker C: What is Borzin cheese? I don't understand. [02:18:49] Speaker D: The hell is a Bach choy? [02:18:56] Speaker B: I'm gonna bach this choy. [02:19:02] Speaker E: Oh, don't do that. [02:19:03] Speaker A: That's what they're calling gut these days. [02:19:10] Speaker E: All right, you all wrap up your shopping. You don't manage to get absolutely everything on the list, but you get plenty of what's there, of what Piper had listed. You get the feeling some of this stuff you're going to have to go to, like, a specialty market or a higher end grocery store that isn't open at eleven, midnight. [02:19:34] Speaker D: The kind of thing only available at, like, a whole foods. [02:19:38] Speaker E: Yeah, basically, you're going to have to go to whole foods. You're going to have to find, like, one of the asian markets in the city, that sort of thing. But you get enough that you know that Piper can make at least a few solid, good, filling meals from what's here. Arthur still doesn't know what half of the stuff on the list is or how to cook. [02:19:58] Speaker B: Yep. [02:20:00] Speaker C: Do you boil or mash this? I'm not entirely sure. [02:20:04] Speaker B: Well, those are two different, very different things in cooking here. And she's going to hand him the bag of hamburger. Why don't you go give Piper her cheerios? [02:20:17] Speaker E: Piper, you hear this? You did not put Cheerios on the list. [02:20:23] Speaker D: I swear to God, if one of you comes in here with a box cheerios, I'm throwing it away. [02:20:31] Speaker C: Nothing's wrong with Cheerios. They're made of oats. You put milk on them, so that's proteins and fibers and the like. But anyway, this is hamburger. [02:20:47] Speaker E: Inside. [02:20:47] Speaker C: John, you would have had a better. [02:20:49] Speaker D: Yeah, I don't even want to know how you got both confused. [02:20:56] Speaker C: I suggest that you maybe improve your penmanship. [02:21:00] Speaker B: I could just gonna lean in and whisper. He was a little distracted. [02:21:08] Speaker D: Piper just glances down. Gotcha. [02:21:13] Speaker E: Piper, too, is frequently distracted when Rosanna is around. All right, does anybody else, anybody have anything they want to do tonight, or are we letting everybody go to bed and picking up in the morning? [02:21:33] Speaker A: There's nothing else I need to do, so I'm more than happy to find a spot to curl up. [02:21:39] Speaker D: Yeah, I think I'm good for the night. [02:21:44] Speaker E: Okay. Are you guys all going to sleep at once? Are you sleeping in shifts? What's happening? [02:21:52] Speaker B: Rosanna's going to stay up for a little bit and she's going to watch the door to the RV, but she's more so looking down to her tablets to see if she can pull any information. [02:22:12] Speaker E: Okay, information on what, exactly? [02:22:18] Speaker B: I know that she has already done research into werewolves. I want to dig a little deeper and see what else I can find. [02:22:33] Speaker E: Okay, let's go ahead and make your role. [02:22:37] Speaker B: All right. [02:22:38] Speaker E: I believe that edge has a specific. [02:22:42] Speaker B: It is resolve and occult. [02:22:44] Speaker E: Let's do it then. [02:22:46] Speaker B: All right. And I will be adding our desperation die because it's research. [02:23:00] Speaker E: Okay. [02:23:23] Speaker B: M mmm. [02:23:26] Speaker E: You want a willpower? [02:23:27] Speaker B: Yeah, I figured. All right, there we go. Four successes, which is enough to pass. Okay. [02:23:40] Speaker E: Well, I've told you a lot of the big stuff already your last season. Let me see what else I can give you. [02:23:59] Speaker B: I would like to more so I want to see if I can find any pictures of their claws, any diagram stuff, like pictures of these things. [02:24:19] Speaker E: Got you. Give me a second. Part of this is I don't know what changes are being made in fifth edition. Exactly. So I have to look at what's in this book so that I have some idea what I can tell you. In fact, I think we will be playing this when the book comes out. [02:24:49] Speaker D: Almost like that was planned. [02:24:51] Speaker B: It's almost like this is totally not. Sponsored by a show that we're going to be doing later on in the year. [02:24:59] Speaker C: Absolutely not. Sponsored by a show that we're doing. [02:25:01] Speaker D: Later on by Hollowedhaven Studios. Is brought to you by Hollowedhaven Studios in about two months. [02:25:11] Speaker C: Streamline the holiday universe process. Yeah, it's very good. [02:25:20] Speaker E: Okay, so you go to look up diagrams and pictures and things, hoping that maybe somebody has killed one of these things and either drawn what the body looked like or something of that nature. The first thing you find is that it seems like when they die, even if they're in their big, nasty form that you saw, they tend to revert to another form. So the body is basically never what you saw, which would have those big, nasty claws. The other thing that you find that may explain why you can't even find pictures of one running around is that there are reports that almost every single human who has ever had to face one down, like close up, has been reduced to utter sheer terror. They can't function well enough to do it. And the fuse that can function are mostly just trying to stay alive because they're usually being attacked. Usually. Not always, but usually. The couple of descriptions that you can find is that they tend to have hands that are kind of human like, but kind of like knobby. You know what I mean? They've got really long fingers, and the joints on the fingers are a little bit bulbous. And the claws come out where they would normally have nails. And they tend to almost hook and curve like a dog or a wolf's claws would. But they're so much bigger and so much longer that they extend out much further from the tip of the finger, whereas, like, a dog's claws kind of curve almost immediately straight down. Does that make sense? [02:28:03] Speaker C: It. It wasn't just me then. No. Okay. [02:28:07] Speaker A: I was like, uh oh, Discord coming for everyone's throat tonight. [02:28:11] Speaker C: Everyone. [02:28:13] Speaker D: You're next, Aubrey. [02:28:15] Speaker B: You're next. [02:28:19] Speaker A: Do not tell that to my wired gigabit Internet connection. [02:28:26] Speaker D: To be fair, your Internet connection doesn't matter if Discord just decides to die. [02:28:34] Speaker E: Man, I can't even. I'm waiting for discord to reboot. I'm sorry. Guys, it's taken a minute. Can somebody get into the chat and let them know that I'm on the land? [02:28:46] Speaker B: I'm sorry that the fucking stream ended. Technical difficulties, everybody. I don't even know where our chat went. [02:28:57] Speaker D: I'm on it. [02:29:00] Speaker A: You just need, like, a little technical difficulties. Music. You can play. [02:29:09] Speaker E: It. [02:29:10] Speaker B: But they were so nice and provided us with a it guy. [02:29:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [02:29:19] Speaker B: Rubbing his temples. [02:29:28] Speaker D: Casually throw my microphone at myself. [02:29:30] Speaker B: This is fine. Join us. Scott. [02:29:46] Speaker E: Discord not only crashed, it took obs with. So I have to reboot because everything is acting weird now. [02:30:04] Speaker B: So no bitches. [02:30:06] Speaker C: No bitches. [02:30:07] Speaker B: No bitches. [02:30:08] Speaker D: So no have. [02:30:10] Speaker C: Oh, no, the whole thing has ended. Yeah, it just dropped. [02:30:16] Speaker E: Yeah, just tell them I'm on my way. I'm literally watching windows start back up right now. [02:30:22] Speaker C: Oh, I can't tell them anything. The stream dropped. [02:30:26] Speaker D: Chat still works. [02:30:27] Speaker B: Oh, is it? [02:30:28] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, it was working right up until it dropped. [02:30:32] Speaker D: Not twitch chat is active all the time. [02:30:35] Speaker B: Twitch chat going to pop off like this. So, Aubrey, I hope you're enjoying streams with us. [02:30:45] Speaker C: Welcome. [02:30:46] Speaker E: They aren't usually. [02:30:48] Speaker B: They're not usually this bad, but I've. [02:30:52] Speaker A: Been doing this, doing the actual play streaming for, like, three years. I'm used to technical difficulties. [02:30:59] Speaker E: It's just not normally this bad. I don't know what the hell is going on today. [02:31:03] Speaker B: I think Discord is doing a mass update right now. [02:31:07] Speaker C: They must be. Yeah, there's no explanation otherwise. [02:31:11] Speaker D: I'm pretty sure they're doing shit for their quote unquote birthday that they've been rolling out over the past few weeks. [02:31:23] Speaker E: Everything. And they need to fucking stop. [02:31:25] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. No, every update, discord pushes out, breaks things infinitely. But, yeah, I think another big thing comes out tomorrow, so they're probably tonight. [02:31:40] Speaker C: However, in the time that we were dealing this, I figured out what I'm going to do with Arthur for the season. [02:31:54] Speaker B: It's so cute. It's just a little guy. [02:31:58] Speaker E: It's just a little guy. [02:32:00] Speaker C: Yeah, it's fuzzy. Too fuzzy. [02:32:03] Speaker A: Mothman. And then I have Mothman. [02:32:07] Speaker D: Hell yeah. And I have a little guy. [02:32:13] Speaker A: Award. It would truly ruin the goth vibe with how many plushies I have right back there. [02:32:29] Speaker B: I love it. [02:32:31] Speaker A: Ruin. [02:32:31] Speaker C: I think that just kind of goes hand in hand with the goth vibe experience. [02:32:36] Speaker E: Yeah. Yes. [02:32:39] Speaker B: I love it. [02:32:41] Speaker D: Hell yeah. [02:32:42] Speaker C: That's what I come to expect from a goth girl bedroom. That's what I come to expect. [02:32:48] Speaker B: Yeah. We're not going to talk about how many fucking plushies I have in my bed. [02:32:52] Speaker C: The other side is, if it's not plushies. Then it's like a bunch of pillows. Right? Either way, it's basically the same thing. [02:32:58] Speaker B: I got both. [02:32:59] Speaker E: Don't come for me like that. [02:33:02] Speaker D: I have the two plushies and two pillows. I'm a reasonable person. I've got, don't ask how many sweatshirts I have. [02:33:11] Speaker C: I also have way too many sweatshirts. Way too many. [02:33:15] Speaker D: I have gotten five hoodies in the last year. [02:33:20] Speaker B: See, I got a lot of, I've been keeping up with my crystal collection. Although somebody, last time I brought this one onto a camera was like, wow, that's a really weird looking dildo you got there. [02:33:36] Speaker D: Listen, I'll be totally honest, I didn't say it, but that is definitely what I first thought. I was like, what? And then I was like, why do you have a giant joint? And then I realized, oh, no, it's a big rock. [02:33:51] Speaker B: Giant dildo. No, a giant joint. No rock. It's not a boulder, it's a rock. [02:33:59] Speaker D: He used to rat these babies for miles. [02:34:06] Speaker E: Yeah. [02:34:06] Speaker B: So I've decided that Rosanna is just going to become a crystal witch now. Thank you. [02:34:10] Speaker C: I mean, that's a neat direction to. [02:34:14] Speaker A: Go, crystal, if you can't change the energies, you can beat them with them. [02:34:18] Speaker B: Like I said, I'm going to beat the chakra alignment into you. [02:34:23] Speaker A: Maybe that's what Arthur needs. [02:34:25] Speaker B: Okay. [02:34:29] Speaker C: Now, when you start the stream again, does it come back or does it go to a different stream? [02:34:33] Speaker E: It'll probably start a new stream. [02:34:36] Speaker D: There is no continuity. Here's. [02:34:51] Speaker E: Why can't I see anybody? [02:34:52] Speaker D: Right? [02:34:55] Speaker E: I have to show remove non video participants and I have to pop out this window. Hey, we're, here's. Okay. Are we up? [02:35:17] Speaker D: Looks like it. [02:35:19] Speaker E: Sorry about that, everybody. Discord crashed and it took obs with it. And then there was just a domino effect. So we're back. Okay. I'm going to reopen everything that I had open. So I apologize if this takes me a minute. Wow. The chat room didn't drop to nothing. Y'all are so sweet. [02:36:02] Speaker C: Thanks, everyone. [02:36:04] Speaker E: Okay, so I believe that the last thing that I told Rosanna is that people don't typically manage to get close enough to these things to be able to sketch them or take pictures. Yes. [02:36:30] Speaker D: I think you got through a bit of a description about their claws, too. [02:36:34] Speaker C: Yeah, you were talking about the novelty claws. [02:36:36] Speaker E: Right. Their claws come out further, whereas a dog's claws kind of immediately curve downward. And I think that's where I left off before everything died and took my whole computer with it. Can I just say how ready I am for us to not be in the middle of Discord's birthday anymore. [02:37:03] Speaker D: Oh, anything to not have updates every damn week. How I the player. I'm getting a soapbox. [02:37:18] Speaker E: Okay, Rosanna, that's what you got from your search. A lot of the stuff that came up for you was stuff that you already knew. They're particularly weak to silver. Fire can hurt them, but they can heal from it. Silver is the thing that they can't heal from. There's a lot of stories about them just being hulking, menacing monsters that tear through everything and terrify everybody around them. There is a note that somebody makes on one of the little article things that you're looking at. They're not really articles. They're kind of like an underground Wikipedia kind of style thing that gets passed around and hosted by a ton of conspiracy theory touters. And in fact, you've hosted it briefly before passing it off to the next person so that it could never really get taken down or removed. One of the notes that's on there, it's just a little comment that said, heard there might be more definite information on there on physicality and makeup, but it's in a Book. Nobody seems to be able to find where people find it and then they disappear. And I'm going to get you the name of the book here in a minute, scrolling back through all of the things that I had opened that went away. The book is called the darksome anatomies, but it's spelled really weird. It's darksome and anatomies is spelled anatomyes. The physical discomfort that caused me. The note is supposedly this book has information on every kind of supernatural you can think of, but when people find it, they tend to go missing or they lose. [02:40:10] Speaker B: It's. She's just going to keep a bookmark on that name. Okay. Then after a while of just kind of poking around and hitting up some of her chat rooms, she's been sitting at the kitchen table doing this. She's probably going to pass it out at the kitchen table. [02:40:57] Speaker E: Are you at the table in the rv? [02:41:00] Speaker B: Rv? Yeah. [02:41:02] Speaker E: Okay, cool. [02:41:04] Speaker C: So Arthur's sleeping space. [02:41:06] Speaker E: Yep. [02:41:08] Speaker B: The kitchen table is Arthur's sleeping space. [02:41:11] Speaker C: You're seeing an rv. The couch and the kitchen table are the same space. [02:41:15] Speaker B: It takes up this much space. [02:41:20] Speaker C: Just saying. [02:41:21] Speaker D: Okay, so anyway, Arthur and Rosanna are sleeping together now. That's covered. [02:41:29] Speaker A: Had to happen eventually. [02:41:36] Speaker B: Yeah, no, she's like, face down. Like, faced on the table. Some of her hair is, like, slumped over. Yeah, she's looking in typical drunk person fashion, except it's like she's not drunk drunk person, but also like, you ever stay up to like three in the morning to study for a test and fall asleep at your desk? [02:42:00] Speaker E: Yes. [02:42:02] Speaker B: That kind of sleepy. [02:42:08] Speaker D: So she's a drunk college student. [02:42:14] Speaker E: Okay. [02:42:15] Speaker B: No. [02:42:16] Speaker E: Anybody else want to do anything in the evening? [02:42:20] Speaker A: I will have collected my samples and backed them accordingly. [02:42:24] Speaker E: Okay. [02:42:25] Speaker A: We'll try to get them shipped out in the morning. [02:42:29] Speaker D: Yeah. Piper will start on her bullshit the next day. [02:42:36] Speaker C: Arthur will just go to sleep after a cigarette and then wake up early. Because that's what he's been doing for the last couple of months and is typically what he does anyway. [02:42:45] Speaker E: All right. In the morning, Arthur is the first person up. Wakes up with a cigarette. Anything special you would like to do? [02:42:58] Speaker C: Who's the next person up? [02:43:04] Speaker E: Who is the next person up? [02:43:06] Speaker B: That would typically probably be Rosanna, because. [02:43:12] Speaker E: Isabelle works nights a lot and piper is almost all nights. [02:43:17] Speaker A: Yeah, I think it's probably closer to like, eleven or noon when isabelle actually gets up. Unless he wakes her up before then, because that's when it's like, her body's like, okay, you would have a shift in 2 hours time to get up. [02:43:32] Speaker D: Piper's either up at noon or she got 4 hours of. [02:43:37] Speaker E: Gotcha. Gotcha. Gotcha. So roseanne is the next person up? Unless you guys decide to wake other people up. [02:43:44] Speaker C: No, I think arthur would probably just wait and hang out. He had his discussion with rosenna. Now he's waiting for these new people to wake up at a reasonable time to fight monsters. [02:43:58] Speaker A: Monsters only come out at night. [02:44:00] Speaker C: Sunlight being your friend against them. Mostly. [02:44:04] Speaker B: Most monsters don't come out until about noontime. It's okay. [02:44:08] Speaker C: Yeah, exactly. So you get an early start, and then when they start to wake up, you're already burning their nest to the ground. That's the best way to do it. But it's fine. Arthur wanted to talk with piper and get to know more about what to expect from this new person in the cell. But if it's not till noon, then I guess he's just going to do this normal daily morning workouts and stuff, and read a newspaper and figure out just what to do about the body and whatnot. [02:44:44] Speaker E: Okay. Well, about four or 5 hours after you wake up, isabelle and piper finally. [02:44:52] Speaker A: Start to wake up all out of the bed to just, like, need coffee. [02:45:00] Speaker E: Isabelle looked about as human as victoria tended to look when Victoria would wake up in the mornings. [02:45:07] Speaker C: Yeah, but victoria would wake up in the mornings. [02:45:14] Speaker D: Yeah. [02:45:14] Speaker A: No, I have kind of that pale pallor about my skin of somebody who doesn't get sunlight. [02:45:21] Speaker B: Well, good morning. You need coffee? [02:45:28] Speaker A: Yeah, I would be dead if I. [02:45:32] Speaker D: Didn'T have a near constant influx of caffeine in my system. [02:45:35] Speaker B: All right, well, I make coffee this morning. Feel free to help yourselves. It might be slightly cold, but doesn't matter to me. Just throw some ice in it. Problem solved. [02:45:49] Speaker C: Exactly. [02:45:52] Speaker A: I'll just have black iced coffee. [02:45:57] Speaker E: Love waffle. [02:45:59] Speaker A: It's just cold chalk is what it tastes mean. I wonder how much of her sense of taste that she's lost being around formaldehyde and chemicals like that. [02:46:12] Speaker E: I mean, that's all of it. That's fair. Okay, Isabel has cold, black coffee. Piper, if you want decent coffee, you're going to have to brew your own, which isn't hard. [02:46:25] Speaker D: Yeah, she has no problem doing that. [02:46:29] Speaker E: So the mental image that I have is that Isabel goes over, just makes an iced coffee, just goes through the motions without thinking about it. Piper walks over, looks at her like she's committed a war crime, takes the coffee pot, dumps it out, and starts a new pot of coffee? Yeah, pretty much. [02:46:47] Speaker D: No. Absolutely not. [02:46:50] Speaker B: Are you insane? [02:46:53] Speaker A: Works for me. [02:46:56] Speaker E: Arthur, there are voices coming from inside the rv. People are finally awake. [02:47:00] Speaker C: It's about time. But I have to teach these young ins, these two new people, the get up at the crack of dawn, kill the monsters before lunch concept. [02:47:14] Speaker B: When have we ever done? [02:47:18] Speaker C: Uh, yeah, no, I guess that's. But Victoria was up before I was every morning, and that was impressive. [02:47:28] Speaker B: I was usually up before Victoria was. Who do you think woke Victoria up half the time? [02:47:33] Speaker C: And she would make me breakfast. It was a good teamwork. That's fine. They're new. We'll have to work on the teamwork. [02:47:46] Speaker B: Before anything else. [02:47:50] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:47:52] Speaker B: Should we tell them about this? [02:47:59] Speaker C: Well, I was kind of thinking about feeling them out before we start talking about that, or about opening the veil or about the fact that I can apparently reach in and pull ghosts out of people. [02:48:25] Speaker B: Yeah, you can pull ghosts out of people, and I can shoot them into. [02:48:30] Speaker C: Wherever it is that they go. When you do that thing where you transform into something else, I mean, you make a bow out of your skin. [02:48:41] Speaker A: Right? [02:48:41] Speaker C: It comes out of your skin. [02:48:43] Speaker B: Doesn't really actually come out through her skin. Yeah, it does this thing where these kind of spread out, and then they go down the arm and kind of through the fingers and. Yeah, it's not out of the skin. It's just kind of like. I sound absolutely fucking crazy right now. Don't I just for clarification, they don't. [02:49:13] Speaker E: Come through your fingers, they come out of your palm. [02:49:16] Speaker C: That's what I'm saying. So I wanted to feel them out before we. And it might just be that we don't really say anything until what we need to. [02:49:29] Speaker B: Wraiths and werewolves and vampires are coming after us and I have to play. [02:49:37] Speaker C: No, you're right. We should tell them. But I guess maybe feel out how this. [02:49:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:49:47] Speaker E: I am reminded of something before this continues and you guys start another art piece scene, which I'm very excited for. Rosanna, you have a role you need to make. [02:49:57] Speaker B: I do have a role I need to make. [02:49:59] Speaker E: Because you did sleeps. [02:50:01] Speaker B: I did do a big sleep. [02:50:09] Speaker E: Roll that nightmare. Roll. [02:50:11] Speaker B: Nightmare. Nightmare. Okay. [02:50:19] Speaker E: I just thought that you had an eight die pool for your nightmares. I was like, shit. [02:50:27] Speaker D: Hello? [02:50:29] Speaker B: Yes, five. [02:50:35] Speaker E: You are fine. No nightmare. [02:50:37] Speaker D: No, she apparently does have an eight. [02:50:38] Speaker C: She does have an eight pool. [02:50:40] Speaker E: Holy shit. Okay, well, no, you're fine. No nightmares. Okay. [02:50:51] Speaker C: Yeah, so, I mean, you're right. We should probably tell them before we get confronted by something that's going to kill us and we need to gin bow this thing. [02:51:06] Speaker B: Right. Well. [02:51:16] Speaker C: But my concern is that if they know that we can do these things, do they think that we're too far over the edge? Because we're not quite sure why you can do these things, are we? [02:51:39] Speaker B: Well, Arthur, I mean, they're going to find out one way or another. [02:51:43] Speaker C: Yeah, that's why we just feel out. Make sure they don't stake you the next possible opportunity. [02:51:52] Speaker B: Well, considering I can. She looks up at the sky, do this. Don't think staking me is going to do what they want it to do. [02:52:08] Speaker C: You can also see ghosts and talk with them stuff. So there's something going on. And I'm just making sure that they don't try, because that just means I'm going to have to see how far I can reach. And I don't want to do that if I don't have to. [02:52:37] Speaker B: We'll just take it by ear. And if they decide that it is my time to die, we'll cross that bridge. [02:52:54] Speaker C: Fair. All right. [02:53:00] Speaker B: You want to go talk with. I think it's time that I. Yeah, no, you go. [02:53:08] Speaker C: I think maybe it's time I talked with Piper to get to know them. [02:53:13] Speaker B: Her. [02:53:14] Speaker C: Her. Oh, I'm just trying to use the pronoun action. [02:53:21] Speaker B: Proud of you. That's awesome. But it's her. [02:53:28] Speaker E: Okay. [02:53:29] Speaker B: I worked for. For a while, so we got the whole who we are, what we want to be called by what? Our preferred pronoun things. Think we got that all that way. Like month or two. Maybe it's time that I go have a nice talk with Isbell. Okay. [02:53:59] Speaker E: Arthur. [02:54:00] Speaker C: Yo. [02:54:02] Speaker E: Piper is in the rv and looks to just be taking her first sip of a fresh cup of coffee. [02:54:16] Speaker C: I could use some of that. I was drinking last night's coffee. [02:54:27] Speaker B: It's right there. [02:54:32] Speaker C: Thanks. So I don't know much about you. [02:54:40] Speaker D: Piper, to keep things that way, but if we're going to be working together, I suppose I can let a few things out. What do you want to know? [02:54:53] Speaker C: How long have you been at this and? [02:54:56] Speaker E: Four years. [02:54:57] Speaker C: What have you seen? [02:55:02] Speaker D: Vampires, mostly. It's a lot of what I've been focused on, but. [02:55:10] Speaker C: What? You don't have to tell me the details, but just briefly. What woke you up? To all of us? [02:55:24] Speaker D: I'd rather not talk about it. Let's just say I had ended up with a dead body in my apartment. Blobby. [02:55:31] Speaker C: The dead body blew up? [02:55:34] Speaker D: No, apartment blew up. First I was running away. [02:55:38] Speaker C: Okay. [02:55:38] Speaker D: Then body hit the floor, then dead body. [02:55:43] Speaker C: Okay. And there was a supernatural thing at the cause of it? [02:55:50] Speaker D: It certainly seemed like it. [02:55:53] Speaker C: Yeah, I get that. I was in a religion for a. [02:56:00] Speaker A: While. [02:56:03] Speaker C: Obviously, if you could tell. [02:56:07] Speaker E: Yeah. [02:56:09] Speaker C: But I began to realize that the person that I thought was the spokesperson for the Almighty might have actually been supernatural. And just using their abilities to influence and manipulate. [02:56:30] Speaker D: Yeah, there's a lot of that going around these days. Even when we're not dealing with supernatural thing. [02:56:39] Speaker C: Yeah, it kind of makes me worry because I was on the fringe. I'm a hunter now. [02:56:50] Speaker A: But. [02:56:53] Speaker C: What about all those people that are right on the fringe and don't realize it, don't have any control over it? [02:57:03] Speaker D: I think that's what people like us are here for. Saving them from realizing it. Save them. Exactly. [02:57:14] Speaker C: Yeah. It's good motivation, priority. To save and then destroy the supernatural. [02:57:34] Speaker D: Yeah, something like that. [02:57:37] Speaker C: Got a lot of computer stuff. I guess that helps with the hunting and finding and the killing. [02:57:46] Speaker D: Helps with the finding a lot. They think they're real good at covering up their trails. [02:57:53] Speaker E: They're not. [02:57:57] Speaker C: I might have you look into something for me. Not right now. I think we're a little busy at the moment, but maybe soon. Yeah. [02:58:06] Speaker D: Give me what you need. As long as I don't need to deal with any bank accounts, I can get just about anything you could ever dream of needing. [02:58:19] Speaker C: Bank accounts might be part of it, but I'm looking into that bigger scheme of manipulate people hide as their leader. But I'll get you some details later about that. We'll talk more about that. [02:58:37] Speaker D: Yeah, I'm real good at dealing with that. That's what got me into this in the first place. [02:58:45] Speaker C: Well, so you don't go in and do the fighting. Other people do that. [02:58:50] Speaker D: I've never been much good at fighting. I can find things. She'll have an earbud she's got in. I can find things pretty well, but I'm no good in a fight. [02:59:13] Speaker C: Yeah, I. Not super. Not really that great either. When it comes to physical. [02:59:21] Speaker E: I'm. [02:59:21] Speaker C: I'm getting better. But, you know, the Lord has many other ways to deal with these kinds of things, and I just draw from that energy. It's been working out for us so far. [02:59:44] Speaker D: As long as it gets rid of the things that are drawn to take over, kill us, whatever the hell they're trying to do and you're not working for. I don't even know how many there are. But you're not working for any of the orgs. I don't fucking care. [03:00:03] Speaker C: Yeah, well, hopefully your skills and abilities will help us find whomever did this. And we can. [03:00:17] Speaker D: I got to go around some license plate numbers, see if I can. [03:00:20] Speaker C: All right, track. I won't get your way in that. [03:00:23] Speaker D: You're not getting in my way. [03:00:26] Speaker C: I'll just quietly drink my coffee over here. So you can do that. [03:00:32] Speaker D: Feel free. Give me that information whenever you need it. People taking advantage of gullible people that need hope. Anything like that. That doesn't fly. [03:00:46] Speaker C: No. Right. [03:00:50] Speaker E: Okay. While that was happening, I'm going to Assume isabelle is back inside the restaurant. Maybe getting ready to go over the body one more time, but hasn't quite gotten there yet because she's still going through the motions of attempting to be a person. [03:01:11] Speaker A: She goes through those motions most days. [03:01:17] Speaker E: When Rosanna walks in. [03:01:24] Speaker B: How's crap coffee treating you? [03:01:27] Speaker A: It's better than the stuff they serve in the morgue. [03:01:36] Speaker B: Hey, thanks again for coming down on such short notice. I know that you've got your day job. [03:01:52] Speaker A: A day job that I kept telling me I needed to take time off for like, six months, so I think they're just glad I did. [03:02:02] Speaker B: Guess it doesn't really matter what you're doing if you're taking the time off. [03:02:08] Speaker A: Yeah, the time off. Not that I'm taking an actual vacation, but makes them happy. Time away. I needed away from California anyways. [03:02:28] Speaker B: Yeah, me too. I hadn't even been living in Cali all that long and it's too badly, girl, for my. [03:02:44] Speaker C: Mean. [03:02:45] Speaker A: That's fair. There were a lot of those there. [03:02:47] Speaker B: A lot of those there. Yeah. [03:02:51] Speaker A: I think it was just easier if I had put some distance between me and a very specific person. I think we both needed it. [03:03:02] Speaker B: I feel you there. You know, this is going to sound a little bit od, and I apologize if you've told me this story before, but what got you into this line of work? [03:03:21] Speaker A: Like I told you, I really worked with you too much. Kind of all started after I got the job at the ME's office. I kept noticing. I kept noticing bodies coming in with strange injuries or completely drained of blood. [03:03:51] Speaker B: Mmhmm. [03:03:56] Speaker A: And eventually you put two and two together. Or your best friend gets attacked by a blank and is completely denying it, but you see all the signs and nobody believes you. She's just the weird goth chick who works at the Emmy's office. [03:04:24] Speaker B: It's because they haven't had the chance to lift the veil from their eyes and see the true horrors that walk amongst us. [03:04:38] Speaker A: Yeah, I got real lucky. I knew somebody who was a doctor, and I didn't realize it at the time, but they worked for some group that is powerful and planks to take down creatures like that. And she listened when I kept reporting the things like, hi. Yes, this body is missing quite a bit of blood, and I have not done an autopsy yet. There's very few wounds. This is a problem. And then they get tossed away, and somebody noticed. Somebody came asking questions, and next thing I know, I'm helping people stake some blanks, and some of them for study. And some of them are just to make sure there's one less monster in the world. [03:05:45] Speaker B: Yeah. So you mainly do vampires, then? [03:05:54] Speaker A: Mainly. I encountered a few other things, but mostly blanks and anything else? I try to pass up the metaphorical chains of somebody who might be a little bit more qualified. [03:06:12] Speaker B: Yeah, I. Ideals ghosts. [03:06:25] Speaker A: We like the medium. Psychic Ouija boards, things like that. [03:06:33] Speaker B: Not really Ouija boards. They don't actually work. Who knew? The thing created by a popular toy company doesn't work. [03:06:43] Speaker A: It doesn't actually summon ghosts. Call me shock, I know. [03:06:52] Speaker B: But I've dabbled here and there in a little bit of witchcraft every now and again. We've dealt hand in hand with ghosts in the past, and it's always been something that interests me. You work at a morgue. I'm sure you are curious about the afterlass. [03:07:21] Speaker A: Yeah. What happens after we die? A little curious about that. Yeah. [03:07:28] Speaker E: You. [03:07:29] Speaker B: You ever seen any ghosts before? [03:07:37] Speaker A: I will turn to the storyteller and be like, have I seen a ghost before? [03:07:42] Speaker E: No, you did a few months ago have a couple of weird deaths come in that you couldn't figure out and most of your hunter friends that you talk to. This probably has nothing to do with your line of work, but. And they reported an uptick in active hauntings, but the weird deaths kind of stopped really abruptly about two months ago. [03:08:19] Speaker A: Can't say I've ever seen a ghost, but there was a time a couple months ago where local hunters were talking about increased amount of hauntings that stopped rather suddenly. [03:08:37] Speaker B: Yeah. Then I assume you heard about what happened in Texas. New Orleans. [03:08:47] Speaker E: They wouldn't have heard about New Orleans because you guys stopped what was going to happen in New Orleans. But they absolutely know about the cruise liner blowing up. Everybody knows about the cruise liner blowing up. [03:09:02] Speaker B: Then everybody wants to say that they've seen a ghost before. But until you've met one eye to eye, that's when fear really can track you. [03:09:20] Speaker A: I believe it's. [03:09:29] Speaker B: Sorry that people don't quite understand what it is that we do. [03:09:42] Speaker A: I've gotten used to it. Always will be the weird goth girl who works in the Emmy's office. Some people are into that. [03:09:55] Speaker B: Hey, listen, it's badass. [03:09:58] Speaker E: Thank you. [03:10:00] Speaker B: Are around the most natural thing all day, every day. Not to mention the whole goth aesthetic thing. Think you would have really liked my sister. I get it a lot, too. Everybody likes to poke judgment at you for having pearsons and tattoos and loves them, but no, I just can't thank you enough for. Victoria was very important to me. And her death is very important to me. [03:11:03] Speaker A: I don't usually get calls. I knew it had to be kind of important. [03:11:13] Speaker B: If you ever need any help from a hand. [03:11:25] Speaker A: Yeah. Going to be sticking around for a bit, so I'll let you know. [03:11:32] Speaker E: Good. [03:11:34] Speaker A: Do you know where a post office is? [03:11:38] Speaker B: I can bring you to one. [03:11:39] Speaker A: Cool. I have a friend who has actually high grade lab equipment who has agreed to take a look at some samples for me. Maybe they'll get us some more information. [03:11:50] Speaker B: Say no more. We can head down. I have to finish doing some grocery shopping anyway for Papper, and I got distracted yesterday, so I wasn't able to finish. [03:12:08] Speaker A: That's fair. There were some very strange items on that list. [03:12:16] Speaker B: That'S why. [03:12:21] Speaker A: Sure, Durian is supposed to be healthy for you, but have you actually smelled that stuff? [03:12:27] Speaker B: It smells like garbage. [03:12:29] Speaker C: Yeah. [03:12:30] Speaker A: I really hope she knows what she's doing with that stuff because it's going to stink up the rv. [03:12:36] Speaker B: Yeah, well, if I have my way, and Arthur agrees and I give him the puppy dog eyes, we won't be staying in this place much longer. I've got plans of Guinness. A little bit of an. [03:12:56] Speaker A: I wouldn't mind, actually. A little bit more legroom in those bunks would be nice. Kind of slept like a pretzel. [03:13:05] Speaker B: I'm sorry, this is kind of a. We bought it in case we had to get away. And unfortunately, we had to get away. [03:13:16] Speaker A: Yeah, I guess it does its job. [03:13:21] Speaker B: But let me get you to that post office. [03:13:26] Speaker A: Thanks. [03:13:28] Speaker E: Okay, Rosanna, please roll me wits and occult. Okay, four. As you two turn to walk out of the restaurant and out towards the car, isabelle gets close to you for just a moment. It's like literally just in passing, and you get a full body chill from your feet to the top of your head and right back down your spine again. [03:14:32] Speaker B: I think we're gonna be very good friends. [03:14:41] Speaker A: I guess. If you say so. I never been too great at the friendship thing, but who knows. [03:14:54] Speaker B: Boy? Hmm. I'm sure it'll be fine. If anything. Like I said, a good source of information to bond over that. [03:15:29] Speaker C: Yeah. [03:15:36] Speaker B: And now she's going to walk to her car trying to hide this little shit eating grin of. That's going to be good. It's going to be good. [03:15:51] Speaker E: Okay, well, you two very easily make it to a post office. You can overnight the parcel relatively easily. You, thankfully, given your credentials and whatnot, are able to expedite it and get them to take something that they wouldn't normally take from just a random person. Because you're not just a random person. [03:16:32] Speaker A: Yes, I am bringing biological things to the post office, but I am a medical professional who works for the ME's office. [03:16:42] Speaker E: Right. It's kind of one of those things where you actually think that there might be a problem and that they might tell you. [03:16:51] Speaker B: Oh, and another one gone. And another one gone. And another one bites the dust. [03:17:03] Speaker E: I'm pretty sure Aubrey was the only person who hadn't had a disconnect yet. [03:17:07] Speaker C: We just have to check all of the boxes. [03:17:09] Speaker E: There it is, everyone. [03:17:10] Speaker A: I was like, I saw my camera freeze up and I was like, well, it's my turn. [03:17:13] Speaker D: I didn't do. I saw freeze and I was like. [03:17:16] Speaker E: Well, there we go. So for a second there, you walk up to the thing and you realize that, yes, you're an Emmy, but you're an Emmy from California and this is Florida. And how are you going to get them to take this and not go through any scans or whatever. That could potentially, one, give away what you're shipping to potentially degrade the quality of it. And Rosanna does this thing where she sidles up beside you and puts her elbows up on the counter and presents the twins. And the poor man behind the counter barely looks at the little badge that you pull out that very clearly states that you are from California. He doesn't notice. All he sees is the badge and takes that at, like, face value. And while he is trying to flirt with this beautiful woman, he's also trying to do his job. And it takes about three times longer than it really should to get through this whole process because he keeps getting distracted. But in the end, he doesn't ask any awkward questions. He puts the appropriate stamps on it to market as special delivery, yada, yada, yada, and it gets shipped off without any problems. [03:18:49] Speaker A: I love to see it. [03:18:53] Speaker B: Their way out of the post office. She's just going to wink at Isabel. [03:19:02] Speaker A: You certainly have a way with men and women. I mean, that's fair. Yeah. [03:19:13] Speaker E: Excellent. Are Piper and Arthur doing anything while they are out shopping and sending things through the mail? [03:19:23] Speaker D: I think Piper is going to get started on those license plates. [03:19:27] Speaker E: All right, roll your global access perk or die pool. I believe that has a four success threshold that you need to be 14. [03:19:47] Speaker D: All right. [03:19:49] Speaker E: You manage it? Barely, but you manage. [03:19:53] Speaker D: Yeah. [03:19:56] Speaker E: Most of the license plates are local. As it turns out, they're from people who live within an hour of here. The pictures on the ids kind of vaguely match the shitty camera picture of them in the car when they blow the red light. There are three out of those, ten that are not local. [03:20:27] Speaker D: Okay. [03:20:31] Speaker E: One is a license plate from Texas, one is a license plate from Georgia, and one is a license plate from Montana. [03:20:52] Speaker D: Do any of these belong to cars that are known to have been stolen? [03:20:59] Speaker E: I was getting there. [03:21:01] Speaker D: All right. [03:21:04] Speaker E: None of them belong to cars that were marked stolen. However, two of the three were reported that the license plate themselves were stolen, that they were taken off of a car. And that is the one from Texas and the one from Georgia. The one from Texas was stolen from a family vehicle of a family that was traveling through Tallahassee. [03:22:10] Speaker D: She's going to look up at Arthur. Well, whether these people are aft or not, there were some people driving around near Victoria's place that stolen license plates. Not the cars, just the license plates. [03:22:34] Speaker C: So someone took the plates off the cars. So that. Interesting. It means they didn't want to get detected, which. Do you have any footage of the cars in case we see it again. Or any images of the drivers. I don't know how any of this works. [03:23:04] Speaker D: I've got some pictures of the cars. Street cameras aren't very good, so can't really see the drivers in them, though. [03:23:13] Speaker C: Did any of them get any tickets? I got a red light ticket once and a speeding ticket once. And where they had a picture of my face that they sent me in the mail. [03:23:27] Speaker E: So, Piper, there are. [03:23:31] Speaker B: Are. [03:23:34] Speaker E: Effectively notices that people get sent in the mail. It is a picture from the person's driver's license. The problem is that the picture is the person who owned the plate. The images from the red light camera aren't good, but you can tell they're not the same person. So these notices would have gotten sent back to the homes of the people who owned the plates back in Georgia and Texas, not to the actual driver. [03:24:16] Speaker D: Yeah. [03:24:21] Speaker E: You do, however, have making models. Well, maybe not specifics. Yeah, but you have pictures of the cars, so you can at least kind of identify them. [03:24:37] Speaker C: That's a Ford logo or something on it, like that? Kind of, yeah. Yeah. Okay, well, at least that's something to work with so we can keep an eye out. Because if they're stealing plates, that means they're not abandoning the car. [03:24:53] Speaker D: No. [03:24:54] Speaker C: Means they're not just stealing the car. So the car might show up again. Yeah. [03:24:57] Speaker D: Essentially what they're doing to. My best guess is they're moving from place to place, stealing plates from other states, and essentially just ditching the ones they already had. That way, ods are. They won't get flagged, because obviously, after a time, people realize, hey, these things were stolen. And if I can find the information in an afternoon, then the people with the actual access to the information can probably do it a hell of a lot faster if they try, which they usually don't. [03:25:48] Speaker C: Yeah. All right, well, that's at least something to work with. We can go with that. It's not conclusive. [03:25:56] Speaker A: Right? [03:25:56] Speaker C: I mean, if we find someone with an out of state plate or whatever, doesn't mean anything. [03:26:00] Speaker D: But we're in Florida. What time of year is it? [03:26:06] Speaker E: It is. One moment, because I don't want to give you incorrect information. It is late, late summer, so it's hot outside. [03:26:28] Speaker D: Okay. [03:26:30] Speaker C: I mean, I know there's traveling. [03:26:32] Speaker E: September. Yeah. [03:26:34] Speaker C: Okay, so we know not out of state plates don't necessarily mean anything, is what I'm saying. But if enough dots come together, that makes a right. [03:26:44] Speaker E: Yeah, it's. [03:26:45] Speaker D: It's enough for us to be cautious. Right. Isabelle and I were followed on our way to the airport. [03:26:57] Speaker A: I'd have to. [03:26:58] Speaker D: Assume they were after me, but it's anybody's guess on who it was. [03:27:05] Speaker C: Yeah, and how much reach people have. [03:27:14] Speaker D: Like I said, it depends on who it was. If it was like the vampire stuff like that, supernatural, we probably got some time. Otherwise, just be careful who you talk to. [03:27:43] Speaker C: I'm always careful who I talk to. I have a phone that legitimately has three phone numbers on it, and one of them is Rosanna's. [03:28:00] Speaker D: Yeah, I mean, I've got dozens of hard drives set with kill switches, so never be too cautious doing stuff like this. Yeah, especially when we end up on the wrong side of some bad people. [03:28:18] Speaker C: Yeah. [03:28:23] Speaker E: So while Arthur becomes more familiar with just how shady Piper is. [03:28:31] Speaker C: Shady at the moment. [03:28:32] Speaker E: Anyway, you're kind of shady for right now. Isabelle and Rosanna pull up outside of the restaurant next to the rV. And Rosanna's kind of like grabbing her phone, making sure she has everything out of the car, putting stuff in her purse. Isabel pops out to go get the groceries out of the seat. And Rosanna, the world around you goes dark. And you see a sky above you. And you're not sure how you know this because there's nothing to compare it to, but you are looking at a pitch black, starless sky. And then there is a ripple of deep blues and purples over it, like somebody has dropped a rock into an ocean. And then you see a single bright streak shoot from the ground up towards those ripples, and it hits them. And you see the ripples like an ocean, like water around it. And that light sticks there and it doesn't move. And you don't know how you know this, but you can know what this is like, but you can taste magic on the air around you. It is so thick that it is like breathing in that deep Florida summer humidity. But it's raw power and it's wild and untamed. And then you hear a woman's blood curdling scream. And there's a flash of a very, like an antiquated, very fancy roman style cross. And then you wake up. And that is where we are going to call it for the evening. Thank you, everybody, for joining us for the premiere of season two of Wayfair. Thank you for sticking with us through all of the technical difficulties. Hope discord will have sorted itself out.