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EP 4 | Best Leave Them Ghosts Alone | Unofficial Old Gods Story · Maia’s Game Room

• 0:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: Before we begin family, a quick heads up.
• 0:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: This story is a horror game and as such, it is full of things that might disturb your dreams, follow in your footsteps, and haunt your waking hours.
• 0:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Please check the episode description for a full list of content warnings before proceeding.
• 0:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Take care of yourselves, and thanks for listening.
• 0:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: At the old fort, Adelaide's ghost has appeared.
• 0:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: Rabbit Rabbit has returned, and the debt from childhood is now due.
• 0:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Is Adelaide still there?
• 0:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Adelaide is still there.
• 0:45
  [SPEAKER_03]: Or fuck's he?
• 0:46
  [SPEAKER_03]: He's freaking out like he's just slowly like reaching, for like, it's the sling, a sling of his rifle, and just like,
• 0:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to roll a D6 as you guys take stress from this entire situation up to all these years.
• 1:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that makes sense.
• 1:06
  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm all the six and that also makes sense.
• 1:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: You both take six points of stress from this situation here as you kind of magically relive
• 1:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: in your childhood.
• 1:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: But rabbit rabbit is there.
• 1:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Andrew, is there anything you would like to say for W?
• 1:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Sounds like you had something.
• 1:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I just wanted to send a fuck.
• 1:37
  [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah, I'm not sure how much himity hit points you have W, but that put that I had five and this dropped me down to zero and did one to my control.
• 1:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: OK, I'm going to ask all my HP.
• 1:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: OK, I'm going to ask you both to make a control
• 1:56
  [SPEAKER_03]: I got a 9 under 11.
• 1:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Success.
• 2:02
  [SPEAKER_03]: I got a net 20.
• 2:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh no.
• 2:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: That is a critical failure.
• 2:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: The one game you don't want that.
• 2:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so you are going to take fallout.
• 2:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
• 2:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: It is a sort of representation of the horrors they're starting to have a more tangible effect on you as a person in this game.
• 2:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so what I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna roll a D12 and I'm gonna tell you which fallout you get my friend.
• 2:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh no, he's not happy good.
• 2:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: What you get is, there is something called the hunt.
• 2:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: It becomes harder to ignore the primal impulses that burn deep inside of you.
• 2:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Your attacks are enhanced, and but you also become the primary target of otherworldly horrors.
• 2:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: So they will see you first, and their attacks against you are also enhanced.
• 3:02
  [SPEAKER_03]: Ooh, I guess that's not the worst.
• 3:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to say because I was holding my witches ward in my hand at this moment.
• 3:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: That is a thing I drop.
• 3:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: We get this lovely condition.
• 3:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: Something that I always held in my pocket for longest time since that summer day as kind of the ward off evil.
• 3:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
• 3:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: The one day that I would kind of
• 3:33
  [SPEAKER_03]: that just the way.
• 3:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: What does that feel like?
• 3:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because like your mind is just deteriorating slowly, but you also feel your body become a little bit stronger.
• 3:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: So what does that look like?
• 3:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's faithful day.
• 3:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's summer day.
• 3:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: When Adelaide came back to us and I was
• 3:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: that veil now has been completely ripped back with rapid rabbit standing right in front of us again and they can no longer deny the fact facts of what happened that day and as a trauma sinks in to W.E.
• 4:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: is hand this begins to shake and quiver uncontrollably so much so that he's the little wood chip is which is word as lucky charm against evil just drops to the forest floor
• 4:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: And as he looks upon this rabbit rabbit, there's first recognition and fear and an anger.
• 4:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I just feel that anger building up inside my chest and I just want to ring this little rabbit's head.
• 4:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: But he ain't little.
• 4:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: Rabbit rabbit sees all of you.
• 4:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Your O is now due, as I said, I would return.
• 4:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: For your friend, he is second in final death.
• 5:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: An Adelaide looks at both of you, and nods, and kind of like confirmation.
• 5:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Your O has come due.
• 5:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: Fuck you, rabbit.
• 5:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna pull my machete out and lunge at him.
• 5:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: You ain't taking none of me.
• 5:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Let me look up the stamp blocks for Rabbit Rabbit.
• 5:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: Looks like you're going to die right now.
• 5:28
  [SPEAKER_03]: Zik was like slowly like getting his gun ready.
• 5:31
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's kind of like has it low to the ground.
• 5:33
  [SPEAKER_03]: He has prints the dog.
• 5:35
  [SPEAKER_03]: I imagine prints is probably growling or actually, you tell me if prints is growling or is like scared, too.
• 5:42
  [SPEAKER_03]: Should I real control for my dog?
• 5:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: No.
• 5:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: I would say for the doggy, the dog is scared of rabbit rabbit, not reacting to
• 5:58
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but yeah, he sees rabbit rabbit.
• 6:02
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think he's hiding behind me.
• 6:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: And yeah, it doesn't, I think just like when we were kids, Zeke would always hit, despite Zeke having bravado over W, Zeke would always hesitate.
• 6:16
  [SPEAKER_03]: And as he sees his friend lunge towards this abomination from a childhood nightmare.
• 6:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: OK, so you go to lunge at Rabbit Rabbit with your machete, right?
• 6:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: And as soon as you do that, it is going to hop back and from its body.
• 6:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Other rabbits are starting to detach from him, and they're pulled out.
• 6:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like all the visser you see, it's like you can hear it to like the squelching noises of other rabbits being formed and pulled from his body.
• 6:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 6:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I think love that word.
• 6:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, in this era.
• 6:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, they're so big pair of well, so well, so well.
• 7:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: So you can go ahead and try to attack rabbit rabbit.
• 7:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm in order to be successful and try to, I'm just gonna need a deck save as there's like dozens of more rabbits being detached and in between you both now.
• 7:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: There we go.
• 7:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: a four hundred twelve.
• 7:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, perfect.
• 7:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Go ahead and roll damage as you go as you you reach rabbit rabbit.
• 7:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Alright, I lunge at the thing and I'm going sister chop.
• 7:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's bloody head off.
• 7:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: I got three damage.
• 7:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Three damage is inflicted on the rabbit, and it goes to step back after you hit it, and it's bleeding now, and you can see all of the rabbits that detach from its body, eyes glow red, and they go to hop on your body, and you feel the bites and the nine, as they go to crunch, crunch, crunch, on you as well.
• 8:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's a, that's a, that's an eight.
• 8:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's an eight.
• 8:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: That isn't eight.
• 8:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, perfect.
• 8:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm going to give him back at seek when I land this close.
• 8:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: You see, Vic, this mother fucking die.
• 8:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: You ever so can you?
• 8:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: As you yell, as so can you, dozens of rabbit go, rabbits go to hop on to W. And I'm going to roll a D12.
• 8:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: Oh boy.
• 8:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh no.
• 8:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I rolled a 10, so you take 10 damages.
• 8:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: All of these rabbits start to knot and bite.
• 8:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: And rabbit rabbit is standing there.
• 8:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Do not be foolish, child.
• 8:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: You hear?
• 8:58
  [SPEAKER_03]: Holy rabbits, often.
• 8:59
  [SPEAKER_03]: Please.
• 9:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: I do not wish to fight.
• 9:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: And oh was made.
• 9:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: You will see it through.
• 9:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: Andrew, I do need to know that goes to your strength.
• 9:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that was 10 points against my strength.
• 9:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm down to three, so I guess I may get strength.
• 9:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: Save.
• 9:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, you do.
• 9:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no.
• 9:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I roll in 11.
• 9:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: that's over three, so yeah.
• 9:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, you are going to take a wound and the wound also takes up an inventory slope.
• 9:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: And this had moxie.
• 9:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is going to be a major injury as they start to bite all around your wrist and your legs.
• 9:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so it's just puncture wound after puncture wound all over your body and I think even you fall to the ground and it's just continuing to bite.
• 10:04
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, here you go, just call them off, please.
• 10:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: They received, and they slowly get sucked back into his body, all the rabbits that he detached.
• 10:35
  [SPEAKER_03]: Derby, like he'll run over to him and help him up.
• 10:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that attack, because I took that major wound, I was holding onto my mishetty, that's the thing that I dropped.
• 10:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: And you just see my wrists and my ankles.
• 10:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're almost not off my hands and my feet.
• 10:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: You just see like the muscles and you can see the bone through.
• 11:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Hello, you were thinking, where do you want rabbit?
• 11:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: There is a corporation called Langley Cole and Navigation Company.
• 11:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: they are getting ready to construct a dam about 50 miles north of here.
• 11:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: If construction begins, it will destroy not just the mining town of Langley, but also a large natural habitat.
• 11:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Worse, it will also create an opening for something ancient and powerful to enter this world.
• 11:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I know that some powerful entities have been dealing with LC and NC to get them to stop building or at least move the dam elsewhere.
• 11:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: But it's not enough.
• 11:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: We also need the river itself to reject the project.
• 11:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: So you need to go figure out why the river is not helping.
• 12:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: Let me try to understand that.
• 12:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: and communicate with the river as to why it doesn't, why it's not helping get rid of a dam that LC and NC are trying to put there.
• 12:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: Not to you.
• 12:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I do know that for ages, the river has protected itself against such incursions, mostly by working side by side with the mandor witch.
• 12:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: you likely have heard stories of this woman, a powerful witch of water and wind, but she has gone missing from her protected place along the water of North.
• 12:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: I fear something has happened to her, so find out what happened to her so she can once again help the river protect itself.
• 12:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so we're going to add fondant witch to the itinerary.
• 12:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is your O.
• 13:01
  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, what the first time you said, oh, in this moment, I, I'm thought similar to what W was thinking that you were coming just kill us, didn't think it was going to be a task of some sort.
• 13:13
  [SPEAKER_03]: But hell, I was a stupid ass kid for agreeing to something, but a man enough to admit, I got to own a what I promised.
• 13:22
  [SPEAKER_03]: And he looks at the ghost of Adelaide.
• 13:25
  [SPEAKER_03]: We made a promise.
• 13:26
  [SPEAKER_03]: And the,
• 13:27
  [SPEAKER_03]: I know Welcher, but can you please, can you forgive my friend W if you're thinking more with his heart and not his head?
• 13:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: I did not come here to wound, but I was provoked.
• 13:42
  [SPEAKER_03]: Can you at least give me some time to get him something to take care of his situation?
• 13:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's a... Well, the travel up north might take a while, and we don't have much time.
• 13:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: Right.
• 13:56
  [SPEAKER_03]: Do you have an idea of what that time is or is that just a cryptic statement?
• 14:02
  [SPEAKER_03]: Just trying to get my head wrap around this.
• 14:04
  [SPEAKER_03]: I know the roads around here.
• 14:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: I know how to get up there, but to get into the river and the witch.
• 14:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Langley Call and Navigation Company is moving fast.
• 14:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: If they get what they need to construct that dam, like I said, ancient and powerful.
• 14:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: will enter.
• 14:26
  [SPEAKER_03]: Something that even you're afraid of.
• 14:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's something that you would not want to ask about.
• 14:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: For not only do I not know, I do not wish to know.
• 14:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: And neither do you.
• 14:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: Right, right.
• 14:42
  [SPEAKER_03]: Doobia, I don't think we can talk a way out of this one.
• 14:46
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think we got to do what we got to do.
• 14:50
  [SPEAKER_03]: Try to hit the pharmacy on the way out and get you something.
• 14:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to try and stand as best I can, like, not ankles.
• 15:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Do I, is Adelaide still there?
• 15:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Adelaide is still there.
• 15:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: Looks straight at her and say, as if it's right.
• 15:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: I, no squelter either.
• 15:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: We'll do as we promised.
• 15:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: Even if it is with a deal with a demon,
• 15:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Adelaide says, after all these years, you're still helping me out.
• 15:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: Will, I appreciate it.
• 15:33
  [SPEAKER_03]: You're going to be able to come with us or you sort of bound here.
• 15:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: She looks down at herself.
• 15:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm actually not sure.
• 15:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: I can try.
• 15:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: She starts to step out of the forest and you see she's walking out.
• 15:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: You feel as coming?
• 15:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, let's clean off these rabbit bites in the water for a second, and I'll want him getting infection.
• 15:58
  [SPEAKER_03]: That's going to cost me an arm and a leg, and I think Zique will help get W down towards where the water is and kind of clean up the wounds a little bit as best he can.
• 16:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: And rabbit, rabbit will hop off if there's no further questions for him.
• 16:20
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, I think if anything, you'd be like, you got any idea where in the river that we could find, this witcher, calling Carter, address.
• 16:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a small house along the river.
• 16:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: Travel up north to follow the river.
• 16:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: You'll see it.
• 16:39
  [SPEAKER_03]: I imagine a witch's house is probably going to stand out.
• 16:43
  [SPEAKER_03]: Right?
• 16:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now he tells me there's a witch.
• 16:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Zek, how do we go about talking to a river?
• 16:53
  [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, may we ask the witch.
• 16:56
  [SPEAKER_03]: Rabbit rabbit, when we have done this, or at least we have tried to stop this, how will we know we have satisfied our O to you?
• 17:06
  [SPEAKER_03]: Will you come tell us?
• 17:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'll find you.
• 17:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: Right, right.
• 17:12
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well,
• 17:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: As you ask that question, something does happen, actually.
• 17:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: Uh-oh.
• 17:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: You ask about if you complete it and things like that, what happens, you see rabbit rabbit gets closer to you.
• 17:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: And you see something absolutely terrifying, Zeke.
• 17:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: There is a massive, blood-dripping entity with branching antelope horns.
• 17:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: It starts to approach you, and it's scooping away parts of what makes you human.
• 17:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: And it starts to bite into you, but it doesn't take away flesh, and you start to feel less human with each bite, and I need a control say from you.
• 18:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry.
• 18:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: What?
• 18:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: I asked the question.
• 18:12
  [SPEAKER_03]: All right.
• 18:12
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, let's do it.
• 18:14
  [SPEAKER_03]: See what happens.
• 18:16
  [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, no.
• 18:18
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, I was going to be a six, but it tilted to a 20 over 11.
• 18:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: You take a D4 of stress and I rolled a four.
• 18:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: Say, take four stress from the sheer mind-bending horror of this vision he projects into your mind.
• 18:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: If this, oh, is not completed.
• 18:41
  [SPEAKER_03]: OK.
• 18:43
  [SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, that drops me down to seven control.
• 18:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to need a control save.
• 18:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: That's a five under seven.
• 18:53
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, that's success.
• 18:56
  [SPEAKER_03]: I've been doing OK at the saves themselves,
• 19:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: You do not take a fallout, but that is what you see when you ask that question.
• 19:13
  [SPEAKER_03]: I got no more questions.
• 19:15
  [SPEAKER_03]: We'll do what we have been tasked to do.
• 19:18
  [SPEAKER_03]: Let me get W up and running and we'll leave as soon as he's able.
• 19:30
  [SPEAKER_03]: did not expect to deal with this Stravanapur.
• 19:33
  [SPEAKER_03]: I expected some pain, but this is a quite a different kind of pain.
• 19:45
  [SPEAKER_03]: I guess I shouldn't be saying pain around you right now, W. Let's get you cleaned up.
• 19:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: No, no.
• 19:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: I just need some whiskey, man.
• 19:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: I just want whiskey.
• 19:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: No, I can get my bag for me and I'll just fold my wrists.
• 19:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: And there's like, you can just put the bones again.
• 20:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: Adelaide said, I'll get it, don't worry.
• 20:04
  [SPEAKER_03]: Can she pick it up?
• 20:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: You see her go towards it and she picks it up?
• 20:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Goes to hand it to you, W. I know this is weird, but here you go.
• 20:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Why you got to be so hard-headed, W.
• 20:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: This stuff just, I'm sorry, Adley, I love you the death, but it's just ain't right, just ain't right.
• 20:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: And that brings our time in the woods to a close.
• 20:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: A massive thank you to our players Andrew Park as W.E.
• 20:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: and Michael Gilbert as Ezekiel Green.
• 20:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: My name is Maya and I have been your gay master and narrator.
• 20:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much for listening.
• 20:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Take care of yourselves, family, and remember.
• 20:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's always best to leave them, go solo.