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You weren't here for it earlier. What do you think of Riley's
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vibe? Like the new new setup.
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I dig it. Yeah, scale of 1 to 10. 69.
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False button. Yeah, nice.
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I, I, I can't, I can't, I can't do it.
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Gary. This is supposed to be a 69.
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You're a pretty good vibrator. Yeah.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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That's what my wife says. I'm going to.
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Kill myself. We say our goodbyes to the good
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preacher and made our way out of Friends Wood to Houston.
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After a bit of looking around in a little bit of retail therapy,
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we grabbed our tickets to New Orleans and headed to the bank.
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Here's hoping that she's a rat of a brother left and more than
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two nickels rub together. Arthur's been acting a bit
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stranger than usual, too. The.
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Yeah, we find ourselves back at the bank.
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You, the three of you are standing in the lobby.
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It's fairly empty. It's, I mean, it's the middle of
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the day, so they're businessmen coming and going.
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But you know, there's nobody of no tear.
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The three of you are certainly able to communicate mostly
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privately while this teller is off looking into the Blankenship
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account. I think Slick's probably just
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got he's just like leaning up on the counter, just looking
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around, not really doing anything, making sure there's
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nobody suspicious around. Arthur is perplexed, to say the
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least. Perplexed.
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That's all right, Arthur. I don't really understand these
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money things anyway. Are you going to tell your
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friends about anything? When I figure out how to word
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it, I will. I'm going to like pull slick to
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the side, itching. You just stay there.
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You'll be back with your with your account in a second.
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Yep, no problem. Slick, slick.
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What up does does does does that man seem off to you?
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Itchy. He's felt off since we found
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him. Man, no.
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No, no, no, no, not itchy. That's a that's a whole
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different kettle of fish. I.
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Love that. The the teller it some something
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about him is do you remember that bartender when the fiddler
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was playing and. The one that had like 3 lines of
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dialogue that repeated on Luke. Yeah, that that guy who who are
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underpaid and asked for change back and he had an error four O
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4 message come up on his eyes. No, I don't remember.
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That that. Do you think it's at all
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possible that the demons have just brainwashed set people to
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find potential targets? To find potential targets.
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Oh, you mean of deals? Yeah.
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Oh, easy, Yeah. I mean, they've got spotters all
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over the place. So so run that back.
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This bank teller is off. I'm pretty sure I could tell him
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I have £4,000,000 in my. Mr. Blankenship.
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Yes. It seems as though in your
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account there was a significant withdrawal last week.
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How much in by who? $50,000 by your brother it
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seems. Guess.
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Guess we didn't give him the memo that he's no longer an
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authorized user on this account. I mean, I don't think there's
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nothing we can do with that, but how much is left?
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You still have $8000 available. Oh, fuck yeah.
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All right. I'm going to take.
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Could you give me $100, please? And would you be able to make a
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note that Ezekiel Blankenship is no longer allowed to withdraw on
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this account? Itchy, itchy.
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Take the 8000 man. Or if you don't take it in cash,
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at least get a banker's check so we can bring it with us in New
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Orleans because they have a bank system in this time frame.
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So it's only in this. I have I have associated with my
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compadres here. I would like to take the full
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$8000 please. Not a problem, Sir.
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You can take traveler's check because I think that was like
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how they moved money back then, right Was banknotes.
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I think it was bank, so it was like.
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So like you can take 100 in cash and then like the Banknote's
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only good. Like it's a secured check kind
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of thing. Not a problem, Mr. Blankenship.
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See. See, it's.
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Looking. Behind those eyes.
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Look, I don't understand money too much.
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Whatever, whatever this tall guy is saying behind me, that's what
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I want to do. Not a problem, Mr. Blankenship.
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I'll, I'll pull Arthur back a little bit and just be like,
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look, I, I get what you're saying.
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I see it too. I'll just give you the heebie
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jeebies. Look, you're going to find a lot
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of these people and ultimately they don't really do you no
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harm. They're not.
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Out. Here's your check, Mr.
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Blankenship. Thank you very much.
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And your $100 cash, Mr. Blankenship?
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Great, look at this and Itchy's going to like look over his
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shoulder. Look at this service, y'all
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service with a smile. I appreciate you.
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Is there anything else I can do for you today, Mr. Blankenship?
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No, but I'm feeling a whole lot better now.
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Thank you very much. What's your name?
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Arthur, Thank you, Mr. Blankenship.
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I knew when Arthur at one point. Common name.
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Have a good day, Mr. Blankenship.
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You as well, Arthur, and he's going to flip the hat, turn back
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to the two guys. That was weird.
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I know when Arthur. Have a good day, Mr.
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Blankenship. Thanks again, Arthur.
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Itchy, please please please tell me you didn't tell me.
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Tell him your full name. I mean, I didn't say it.
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He said he only said last name. He never said full name.
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Hey Arthur, what? What's your last name?
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Have a good day, Mr. Blankenship.
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Ha, that's a really odd last name.
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It must sounds Swedish to me. Where are you from, Mr. Arthur?
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Have a good day, Mr. Blake. Just Blake.
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'S just going to put his arms around the guys.
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I mean, let's get out of here. Let's just get out of here.
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Don't. Want to I have so many questions
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I'm going to I'll. Explain it to you outside,
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Arthur. I forget it's outside and just
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sits on the ground for a second. It's like I'll sit next to you
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and just kind of be like, This is why you need to not keep it
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on all the time. You're going to go insane if you
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see the truth around you at all times.
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He had four lines of dialogue. Four and three of them were.
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The same thing and he has my name.
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Yeah, honestly, that's just a common name at this point.
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Like that's I'm not even also surprised.
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I have, I have, I have been in the States for eight years and I
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have not met another single alpha.
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I know 15, I don't know what you're talking.
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About fuck my head, Yeah, Arthur turns the site off for a bit.
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He just, he just needs a moment. Living the reality.
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You know, five days ago life was normal.
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I was depressed because I couldn't find the man I wanted
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to kill. And now I'm depressed and
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slightly going insane because everything's changing.
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But the good news is we're making progress on finding the
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man you need to kill. I can try and say that where
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we're going, shit, it's going to get a whole lot weirder, just in
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a different way. I'm not human.
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Weird. Alpha pulls out a cigarette and
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you're just like, fuck my life. Can you spare one of those?
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Yep, take it. I didn't know you smoked, did
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you? Nobody ever asked.
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It's a lot of questions you guys don't.
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Ask he has a smoking pipe, so he does smoke.
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It's the 1870s, everybody smokes.
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Yeah, 9 out of 10 doctors agree it's good for your health so.
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That that is very true, but let's go and get this fucking
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train because if I set aside this bank for one more 2nd I'm
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going to have to go in there and ask this man some questions that
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will not be fruitful in any way all.
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Right, let's go. Train's awaiting.
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Yeah, I'm just going to start heading towards the train
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station. Yep.
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Arthur, roll me a sanity check really fast.
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Yeah, that's that's two threes. OK, here's what's going to
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happen, boys. Take your headphones off for one
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second. Oh boy.
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Fuck. You have a flash.
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There was a house that you robbed once.
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You were passing through London. OK, You're passing through
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London, and there was this beautiful palatial home that had
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all of this creepy stained glass.
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And the back door was just left open.
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And there was an office that was close to the servants quarters,
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shockingly close to the servants quarters.
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But you wandered your way in and on the desk you found this
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sterling silver stamp. It's like the kind of stamp that
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somebody would use to like Mark a letter, to mark the wax on a
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letter. And you pocketed the stamp and
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you remember that is the last time that you saw the same stamp
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that's on the back of your coin. And you took that stamp and you
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pawned it, OK. I feel so bad for you Dial.
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I feel like you're getting tortured in every angle.
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He is and is so premeditated. I've been waiting with that
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little tidbit for months. Months.
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Get fucked. Right guys, I'm calling it a
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nice deal later. Hey ya monkey.
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You look a little pale there, friend.
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Do you tell them, Arthur? Do you tell them what you
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remember? Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope.
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I'm not. I'm not believing it.
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I'm not believing it. I'm not believing.
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It. Oh boy.
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You're just dealing with the realities of the world.
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Is she? At least we got a several day
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train ride of first class luxury to look forward to.
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I'm sure nothing bad will happen.
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Don't jinx as man Everything's bad, everything's bad.
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Well, I don't know about luxury. I'm I'm sitting pretty in second
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class AM. I going to get the first class
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ticket with us. No, that's all right.
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I'm trying to be frugal on account of my good for nothing
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brother spent a good 85% of the money of the net worth that we
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had. Now what would he spent it on?
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It's weird. I'll be real with the itchy
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before. Before we bought these tickets,
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I had $54 in my pocket. Now I have 12.
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I'm going first class. I'm fucking $3 now you have 15.
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So generous. Yeah, not with the with the
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amount I've got. I say I'm like a million money
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earlier. I was thinking about it before
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and I was like, I didn't share any of that $200 I got for the
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weekend with you. No, you intentionally didn't
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share it. So yeah, dude.
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I'm assuming outside the train station there's going to be a
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newspaper boy. Yeah, I'm sure.
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I'm just going to grab one that's some light reading while
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on the train. Solid choice.
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You know what, I'll grab one too.
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Great. Yeah.
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Great. I'll just read theirs.
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Yeah, it's fair. I don't.
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Are you trying to read the newspaper right now or are you
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going to give me 30? Seconds to think, I'll give you
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that. I'll give you time.
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I'll give you time. I appreciate that.
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Don't worry, I'll come up with something sufficiently evil.
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Great. Yes, Dick, thanks.
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As if the last two got away went sufficiently evil.
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I don't know what you're talking about.
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I'm having a great time. But you are.
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I'm also having a great time. Look, I'm not the target of
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Riley's ire, so I'm I'm chilling.
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I don't know what I did to deserve this.
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One day you'll have your day. Be traumatic is what you did.
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Everything about Arthur's traumatic.
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Don't worry, everybody's going to get their turn, yours just
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happens to be a little early. Although I have tortured Ichi
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Itchy pretty sufficiently, I did.
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That's true. You have you have gotten me
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pretty good. Well, let me rephrase.
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You have facilitated me getting myself pretty good.
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Yeah, yeah, I don't know. You guys are in the train
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station, You're waiting to board Itchy, you're waiting with the
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second class passengers and Arthur and Slick, you're waiting
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in the first class lounge. It's quite luxurious, actually.
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There's a bar. Arthur walks straight over.
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Give me a shot of the good stuff.
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Absolutely. And the bartender is just, you
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know, a well dressed guy, slicked back hair, he's got
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suspenders on. He looks very professionally
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appointed, like this is clearly like a high end operation.
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And he pours you 2 fingers of some top shelf rye.
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Yeah, Arthur just froze it straight back.
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I'd like to petition for this episode to be called 2 Fingers
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of Top Shelf Rye, Donnie. The things that I want to say in
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response to that, I can't say because this is going to be
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public and if I say them it will be the cold open and I don't
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need that smoke in my life I've. Already got the cold open, Don't
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worry. About it.
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OK, Thank God. Good Lord.
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Yeah. Yeah, Slick will order a whiskey
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on ice. Yeah, absolutely.
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He pours you? Yeah.
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A glass of whiskey on the rocks. It's lovely whiskey.
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I tip a dollar. It's very generous of you,
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Arthur. I'm assuming you tip nothing.
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I'm. I'm at that point Alpha's so
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like self inflicting damage to himself at this point in time
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that he's not even paying attention to like.
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My dollar recover his. Yeah, that's fair.
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Itchy. Is there anything you're doing
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in the second class line it you truly are being treated like a
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cattle here and it's just a lot of people, dusty travellers.
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I think Itchy might be trying to make some conversation.
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Yeah, absolutely. I think people are willing to
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make idle conversation with you, but you creep people out.
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You always, you always creeped the public out.
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And you know, most people are just trying to shift away from
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you. There's something about you that
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they can't put their fingers on that makes you unsettling.
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Yeah, that sounds about right. Yeah, I think Itch is just
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making some water cooler conversation, making friends.
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Yeah, I mean, people are, people are friendly.
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There's no one here that's that feels off, so to speak.
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Cool. But you board the train at 5:00
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PM without incident. Arthur in Slick.
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You're escorted to your seats. Your bags are taken by the valet
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or the usher. I guess I don't really know what
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the terminology would be for the person, The Porter.
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There we go. Yeah, the Porter takes your bags
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and stows them in your cabins because this is first class and
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you are going, I believe it's like a 2 or a three day train
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ride. We're going to, we're going to
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call it 2 1/2 days. Arthur's just going to sit there
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and cover his face with his hat and lean back.
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You know, we, we booked, we got sleeper rooms.
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We don't got to. I'm not sleeping, son.
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I, I just got to, I just got to work this out, man.
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Yeah, I guess, you know, I never really understood how it feels
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to suddenly get to side after not doing it because I just sort
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of grew up around it, you know what I mean?
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I get you, right? I'm going to be my own devil
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right here. Can I force another sanity check
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to see if I can see any more to remember any more of that place?
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Yeah. Another two threes.
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Another two threes. I think the thing that you
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remember the most about the place, because you didn't spend
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a lot of time there, is the stained glass.
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And I think the thing that you remember the most, and the
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reason that you got out of there so fucking quickly was because
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there was a stained glass window in the office.
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And you looked at it one time and it was a woman on her knees
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in front of a man on a throne. And after you took what you
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took, you looked back at it, and she had slit his throat.
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Oh yeah, sick. Yeah, that that would that would
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make any regular human being just run away.
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But it didn't stop you from pawning that.
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Oh no, no, I'm going to take the hat off my face and like lean
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onto the table. I'm assuming like slicks SAT
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directly in front of me. Yeah, I think I'm probably idly
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shuffling cards. Slick.
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What? Up before all this happened and
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you know, I got got my nice little arm band here and became
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the the cursed man I am today. I may have fucked up real big.
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Who hasn't? No, no, no, no, no.
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There's this woman that we are actively hunting.
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I'm not going to say her name because there's a lot of people
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here and I'm going to like, pull out a coin and like, hide it and
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just show like the, the six eyes.
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Yeah, I, I, I may have stole something from her and and sold
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it back in the day. Something important or something
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small I. Don't.
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I don't know what the significance of it is, but it
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was, you know, like a wax sealing stamp.
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Oh, yeah, like, made of, like, sterling silver with six eyes on
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it. And when I was in in her office,
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there was like, a stained glass window that when I looked at it
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the first time, it was a man on a throne and a woman kneeling
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before him. And then I stole a stole.
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Then I looked up again, and the woman had slit the throat of the
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man on the throne. If that's not bad juju, I don't
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know what it is. And you don't.
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Did you just now remember this? I did, yes.
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Do you think that's why she went for Clarice?
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Could be. Man I wish it was 5 days ago and
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I was just dumb to the world man.
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I wonder what Slick and Arthur are doing up in first.
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Class. Can I upgrade it chair?
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Sure. I'm going to like get the the
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Potter and she'll be like, there's a man.
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You'll know who it is because he has a voice that could drown a
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cat. He paid for the regular ticket
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which was $24.00. I'll give you the extra $11.00
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to to bump him up. Not a problem Sir, I will take
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care of it imminently. Thank you very much.
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I'm itchy. Within 10 minutes of this
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conversation, someone comes back and excuse me Sir, you've been
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upgraded to 1st class. Upgraded first.
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Well, butter my ass. All right, let's go.
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I feel like everybody else in the cabin is just like, yes,
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thank God. Yes, there is an audible sigh of
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relief when that door. Shut after a couple minutes.
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After a couple minutes? You guys just here hey on the
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upgrade. I wonder who would have done
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that? Some kind of diplomat maybe?
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Athlete Sports *. Hey, it's.
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Hey, somebody uprighted me, so now I'm here with you all.
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We've got a long couple days on this train ahead of us.
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I'm going to read my newspaper. Fuck you.
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OK, Yeah, you read the newspaper.
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This is why you get all the trauma.
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Hey, Riley, before you, before you.
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I'm. I'm giving you another second
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before you have to figure out what the newspaper says.
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I think Ichi just hands a $20 note to Arthur.
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Thanks. They, the portal gave me the
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name of the person who upgraded me.
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I was just doing that for show. You didn't have to do that for a
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little old me, but you did so so for your troubles.
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It it's better to travel together, you know, a safety in
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numbers and all that shit. Yeah, I reckon you're right.
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Yeah, and then pulls the fucking newspaper out and does one of
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those like old man shakes, which I don't understand why people do
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because it folds it out perfectly, but they just fucking
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shake it for no reason. Yeah, absolutely.
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And the front page of the newspaper is talking about some
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mysterious illness that's been sweeping through W Louisiana.
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The route that you're travelling, I believe it's it's
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Lake Charles, LA. There are thousands of head of
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cattle dead, mysteriously dead. And the town itself has emptied
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out. And that's the front page.
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It doesn't sound very good. No, no, it it doesn't.
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Thank thank God we're not staying there because that that
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sounds awful. If if there's ever going to be a
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a territory field of Damons, that that sounds seems like the
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kind of place it'd be. Yeah, not really something I
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want to stick my nose into. Nah, better just stay away.
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I mean, unless we want to go snooping around once we got a
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little more juju on our side. But.
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We can get more juju on our side.
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That's where we're going, man. I mean, I don't think the city's
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going anywhere. Anywhere too fast.
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Maybe once we're once we do our business in in New Orleans,
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maybe we can swing all back. If I actually told you guys
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about what we're going to do in New Orleans.
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Nope, I think I have. Nope.
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Are we in a private cabin or are we just in like a lounge?
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Car You are currently hanging out in a lounge car, but you do
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have access to your private cabins.
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OK, let's let's go somewhere a little bit more secluded and I
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can tell you about what what the plan is going forward.
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OK. I didn't think we were at that
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level quad yet, but all right. Calm down, calm down.
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Yeah. So in the in the cabin, we'll
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we'll get comfy and let's. So we're going to go and first
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of all, we're going to talk to my people and we're going to see
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if we can get some answers about Byron Black.
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I don't know nothing about him, but if he's got some connection
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to our organization, then somebody's got to know.
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And then following that, we need a little bit more horsepower on
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our side. So we are going to go and talk
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to a very powerful friend of mine, the reason why I have the
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site and not a deal under my belt to suffer for it I should
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say. Oh, OK.
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All right then. I don't know what we're going to
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need to trade. We're going to need to make some
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sort of deal. But as far as I can tell, he's
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one of the more understanding of the of the big guys.
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OK, so all we know so far is this woman who seems to have
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some sort of monopoly on the soul coin business.
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Do we know any of the other players in the game?
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Obviously your friend. Riley, how much would I know
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about non ismodius demons? You definitely would have heard
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names. You don't have faces to names,
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but you've heard whispers. You know people saying to stay
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away from Balam, to stay away from his Crossroads demons, to
27:53
stay away from Lilith. You would know that Balam
27:56
answers to her, that he's her stooge.
28:00
I feel like we're probably gonna have to get answers for what
28:02
exactly the hierarchy is. So Balam controls the crossroads
28:05
demons, but then Balad Balam works for Lilith so all of the
28:09
crossroad demon deals become her coins with her symbol on them.
28:13
Basically is how it's working out.
28:15
That's how it's been working. I don't think you would know
28:18
specifics, but I think you would know that Balam controls the
28:22
Crossroads demons and Balam answers to Lilith.
28:25
OK. That in this power vacuum that's
28:28
been created in the last 40 years, she has assumed almost
28:32
total control of the market of reaping here.
28:37
You don't know about her dealings elsewhere, but you do
28:39
know that here in the American South, she is far and away the
28:42
most powerful demonic entity in play.
28:46
OK. All right.
28:47
You also know that Asmodeus isn't only active in the
28:50
American South, that Asmodeus has been known to travel the
28:53
world, and that. Oh yeah, I'm sure because he
28:57
likes to meddle in things, but marginally less nefariously.
29:03
Yeah. From what I can tell.
29:05
Balum's a not balum. Asmodius is a hedonist.
29:09
Truly, he's a He's a hedonist. And that's sort of where I've,
29:13
I've been sort of trying to figure out what exactly I'm
29:16
going to offer him for this deal.
29:17
But we'll figure that out when we get there.
29:21
Stupidest. Thought.
29:25
You get all of them. Fuck your horse, Ichi. 7 minutes
29:30
in the closet with all ichi. So yeah, I'll, I'll, I'll give
29:39
them just like a, a the most basic primer that I know, the
29:44
like that of the information that I know.
29:48
OK, OK, you've told me this now. And Riley, you told me several
29:52
sessions ago that the man on the on the horse that killed the
29:55
sheriff had a sense of familiarity which would only be
29:58
which would only be linked to somebody who had a crossroads
30:01
demon linkage. OK, I'm, I'm putting, I'm
30:06
putting pieces together. For all of you listening at
30:10
home, he has flexed and retracted his fingers without
30:14
speaking about 7 times. So now that we sort of know a
30:25
little bit about the hierarchy, it's safe to assume then that
30:32
the man on the horse that killed the sheriff back in Holy Cedar
30:34
was Balham. I mean, I can't think of a
30:36
better reason of who would be. Anybody else rather familiar?
30:42
I mean, if that's the case, I feel I mean, I feel like that
30:45
makes sense from from Balham's side.
30:48
If if he's trying to, you know, make a play for any kind of any
30:52
kind of leadership or promotion, killing, killing like the last
30:58
remaining virtue or whatever Chicken was talking about.
31:01
I was kind of hinted out for that conversation.
31:03
But if he. That wasn't.
31:05
That wasn't chicken. That was King Curtis.
31:07
All right. Well, I was still kind of in and
31:09
out for that conversation. Several of those I feel lately.
31:14
But irregardless if if Balam's trying to make a play either for
31:19
Lilla's favor or for his own dealings, killing killing the
31:26
last remaining virtue would be a pretty solid way to way to go
31:31
about things I feel like. Remind me, Riley, do we know who
31:34
the last remaining virtue is? You don't know who the virtues
31:38
were. You knew that they were all
31:40
killed on the day that essentially that you all met,
31:45
they were all killed. They were all killed, so there
31:47
isn't a. Remaining virtue.
31:50
Did I say that there was a remaining virtue?
31:52
I don't think I did. I don't remember you saying
31:54
that, but what was the what was the guy of the guy?
31:57
What was the name of the guy who died that night, the first day
32:01
we met each other? Oh, oh shit.
32:05
The first day we met each other was because we were looking at a
32:08
dead body. Oh my God.
32:14
Oh, it all comes full circle. Holy shit, holy fuck.
32:24
Wait, so that means that Byron Black killed him, Killed the
32:29
virtue? But we know that Byron Black has
32:33
dealings with Jebediah Rainey and we know he has a dealing
32:37
with some sort of demon to be able to be in the position he is
32:40
now. He wasn't this kind of crafty
32:42
back in the UK. In England it was called.
32:46
Was it called the UK back in 18? You would know better than us.
32:50
You'd tell me Great Britain. Great Britain.
33:00
He wasn't that crafty back then, so I assume he he's made
33:05
dealings with some very powerful.
33:07
Demons Oh this is so much fun for me.
33:10
And one of those deals was probably the payoff was.
33:13
Yeah, he had to get rid of the virtues.
33:15
The guy's the dead body's name. Cedric, it's in.
33:18
No, it's not Cedric. Yes.
33:20
Is it Cedric? It's it's in the actual notes
33:23
that she's gave. Us one second.
33:25
Hold on. Sorry, I should.
33:27
I think it is Cedric. Is it actually Cedric?
33:29
This was before, was it Cecil? Cecil.
33:33
Cecil, there we go. Sorry, I'm thinking about Hill's
33:36
character from Norsena. Aren't we all?
33:41
Cecil Yes. Yeah, Cecil, about Hill.
33:44
So that means Cecil was one of the virtues.
33:47
A newspaper man, he was staying at a room in the in the saloon.
33:55
Well, I guess that it kind of messes with my idea, but I guess
33:59
if that is if that was balun. Back in there to find to recover
34:03
his coins that got lost in the shipment that we interrupted.
34:07
Which makes sense, He. Was there to get the coins from
34:09
the judge. It now makes sense why Chicken
34:14
was there, because if one of the virtues died in Holy Cedar, they
34:19
would have to send somebody to recover whatever information he
34:21
could. Riley, it's too late for me to
34:27
be using my brain. All right, I'm gonna, I'm gonna
34:33
drop the, I'm gonna drop the voice 'cause I'm losing my
34:35
thoughts here. I think.
34:38
I think that either way, if if Balham came to collect other
34:43
information or the remainder of the soul coins from the deal
34:47
gone bad, if he got a sniff of the fact that a Guild member was
34:52
sitting in the jail cell bleeding out, then it makes
34:55
sense that he probably went in and killed her.
34:59
She was dead before that though. She died the.
35:01
Night before, No, she was alive in the she was alive when we
35:03
left in the set, yeah. And then, and then we found her
35:08
dead afterwards. So I think I I assume Balham
35:11
probably killed her while we were.
35:14
This. Off fucking around.
35:16
This also makes sense because when I asked the sheriff about
35:20
Byron Black, he went white like he'd just seen a ghost, so he
35:24
must have knew that Byron Black was the one who killed him.
35:28
Which then full circle again means he knew about being in
35:33
cahoots with Balham. Which?
35:37
Means, which is why Balham had to kill him.
35:38
Yeah, because he let the 200 Colts all coins disappear from
35:43
Judge Coolidge's house. Well, 'cause he was there with
35:46
Coolidge, yeah. Yeah.
35:47
When they got stolen by. But there was no.
35:50
When they got stolen by the widows.
35:51
Yeah, but how would he have known to go to Judge Coolidge's
35:54
house? There's no he.
35:56
Yeah, it's I did. I just.
35:59
Went threads on the sheriff, right, 'cause that's what you
36:01
said earlier was that I didn't see any threads to anybody but
36:03
Coolidge. I mean, so he, he, he had
36:06
dealings, but he didn't have threads.
36:08
So we wouldn't have known that at the time.
36:11
Could he have had a deal, I mean.
36:13
You can make a deal without having threads.
36:14
It's just that's. What I mean, maybe it's maybe it
36:17
was purely like a like a platonic deal, like a like.
36:22
AI there was an exchange instead of.
36:24
Yeah. Yeah.
36:24
Souls. Yeah.
36:26
Oh my God. Riley, I I have a question for
36:29
you. Yes, absolutely I would.
36:31
Love to answer your question. We're aware of threads and how
36:35
people who have threads to varying degrees have soul coins,
36:37
correct? Yes.
36:39
Are there any other distinguishing features that I
36:42
would know of for other kinds of deals?
36:44
Or is threads for soul coins the only visible markings?
36:48
You would only know about threads for soul coins at this
36:52
point. And I will remind the three of
36:54
you that while Judge Coolidge had a thread that you saw Slick,
36:59
or, you know, at least took note of it, that doesn't prohibit him
37:04
from making a monetary deal with somebody who doesn't have a.
37:07
Thread with a demon. Yeah, yeah.
37:10
That's what I'm thinking. I think the deal between the
37:13
sheriff and the judge was purely monetary.
37:15
Right. Yeah, no, I'm on the same page
37:17
with that. Fuck do.
37:24
You guys want a second? I I need more than a second
37:28
drive? I'm just like, I'm just like,
37:32
where does this put us? Like.
37:34
Right, that's what I'm trying to think of is where.
37:37
So if you've got this information, but honestly, what
37:39
does it change? Like I don't think it changes
37:42
anything other than I guess now we have another.
37:46
Piece of the puzzle I guess. Maybe.
37:48
I I guess now we know how, like how and why things happened.
37:52
And this could be some information we bring to Asmodeus
37:56
for some sort of deal as well. Maybe he doesn't know this yet,
37:59
but I don't know what he knows. I would assume that he probably
38:02
knows at least the gist of what's going on.
38:06
Maybe we could bring this to him and maybe we can either a ask,
38:13
ask Asmodius like where to go next or I don't know, I don't
38:19
know him like that. Yeah, I, I have a lot of
38:22
questions when we get there and I don't know how many I'm going
38:24
to get answers to for how much. So I I've been sort of
38:27
stockpiling things for when we get there because I don't know
38:31
what else can be planned, but. I feel like I feel like I like
38:38
not only as itchy, but I as myself.
38:40
I have played this to where I have voluntarily not listened to
38:47
crucial information. So I like this is as far as I
38:52
this is as far as I go, I mean. I don't know if any of the the
38:55
information that I know that you've missed, it's not like
38:58
game changing or anything like that.
39:00
So. It's no, I just, I feel like I,
39:02
I understand the gist of like what happened, but like I don't,
39:07
I don't know, I I still don't like fully understand 3.
39:10
Sessions ago for us, for me to turn my brain on to every
39:13
possibility of everything. But now I regret it.
39:16
I also feel like while while we're having this conversation,
39:18
the three of us are just sort of sitting and staring at the wall.
39:21
Yeah. I think there's a lot of that.
39:25
Can I order can I order alcohol on this on this train?
39:28
Yeah, absolutely. You have to leave your like
39:31
private area and back to the lounge car.
39:32
But there is a a fully stocked bar in the lounge car.
39:35
Yeah, I think I, I imagine there's, I imagine there's a
39:38
good like 30 seconds where we're all just like staring at a wall
39:42
ahead, like heads in our hands, like, oh fuck.
39:46
And I think Ichi's just like, hang on.
39:50
I think I think we need to drink all this and what can how much
39:57
how much would like a a nice like 1/5 of like top shelf
40:01
whiskey be? $10.
40:04
A whole bottle just getting a whole.
40:05
Bottle $10 a. Piece like top shelf?
40:07
Top shelf, yeah. All right, Yeah, I'm gonna, I'm
40:10
gonna grab one of those. I'm gonna bring it back with.
40:13
I assume they'll give me. Well, yeah, absolutely.
40:16
They'll give me. They'll give me.
40:17
Glasses to take it. You're on a train.
40:19
Where? Where are you gonna do them?
40:22
I'll bring that back and I'm just going to be like, all
40:25
right, this one's on me. Drink up failures.
40:29
Yeah, I have to just full on froze it back.
40:32
Lord knows we need this. Yeah, I'll definitely take a
40:37
nice big so we get that. I'm going to take my I don't
40:41
know why I'm just like pretending I have my actual
40:43
fucking jacket on then take me notebook out and just be like,
40:48
OK, so if this is how things work, I'm going to like point
40:53
out red herring gun Johnny boy Ramirez, Michael Paulson and be
40:59
like these could be good guys that I have not killed yet
41:05
because. Byron Black's gang though,
41:07
right? Isn't that?
41:08
No, Byron. Black and Byron Black isn't.
41:10
Chicken is associated with Ramirez and with Paulson.
41:16
All right, so they are. So I think they're probably good
41:18
guys then. I feel like it's safe to assume
41:20
for the moment that they're probably members of the Guild.
41:23
We don't know that for a fact, but it's at least not shoot on
41:26
sight. Yeah, did.
41:29
Did Byron put out the hit or was it just like through the
41:33
sheriff? Which hit.
41:36
Like the hits on on like Ramirez and Paulson and.
41:40
Well, they just said. Just law bounties.
41:44
What Chicken said is like most members of the Guild have
41:48
bounties on the head because. They pissed off the people in
41:51
power. Yeah, the the, the demons are in
41:53
power and. Yeah, that tracks.
41:56
That's what I thought. So that's what I'm only going to
41:58
assume from now on, the bounties on our heads are going to go up.
42:04
Yeah, I ain't worried about that.
42:06
However, this does give me an idea for when we get to New
42:08
Orleans, and maybe not necessarily New Orleans 'cause I
42:11
feel like I I don't know how many Guild members we're
42:13
necessarily gonna find there 'cause it's mostly the main wire
42:15
territory. But when we go to a new place,
42:17
it might not be a bad idea to check out the body board to see
42:20
if we can fight any Guild members.
42:22
It's not a bad call and I feel like if we're going with this
42:25
train of thought, the bigger the bounty, the.
42:28
The bigger of a pain in the ass they are for the demons.
42:30
Exactly. I don't know if that's gonna be
42:33
necessarily true. I mean, there are just some
42:35
regular ruffians out there, but at the very least we can check
42:38
the top and see what's going on with them.
42:40
I'd also be curious to see, maybe I should have thought of
42:43
this while we were in Houston, if if we're on the bounty
42:46
boards, maybe we want to change our looks up a little bit while
42:50
we're while we're in town. Slig just sort of gives you a
42:55
little smart because don't worry about it.
42:56
I'm way ahead of you on that one, but.
43:00
I I can handle myself, son. All right, well, let me
43:04
rephrase. Maybe I will want to change my
43:07
look when we get to New Orleans. When we get to New Orleans,
43:09
don't worry about it, I think I think we'll be in good company
43:11
there 'cause it's going to be mostly my people.
43:14
As long as you're with me, you should be fine.
43:17
Fair enough. I'm not.
43:19
I guess with that, I'm not so much worried about New Orleans.
43:21
I'm worried about coming back to Texas.
43:23
Other places, yeah, we can. We can discuss it.
43:25
But New Orleans, I wouldn't worry about it.
43:28
It's as Modius territory. What else?
43:32
Is there anything else we want to do?
43:35
I don't know. Arthur's going to take another
43:40
slug of whiskey and then he's like, I'm going for a smoke and
43:45
like walk out and sit in the lounge and have a smoke in the
43:48
lounge, but I'm going to turn the sight on while I'm in the
43:52
lounge. Sure.
43:55
I think Ichi's going to look too slick when it's just the two of
43:57
them and he's going to be like, hey, I, I know Arthur's been
44:02
acting weird like since we got into Houston with with the bank
44:08
and looking is is there anything that I should know with that?
44:15
Yes and no. Honestly, you're doing a pretty
44:17
good job. Ichi Ichi has the site, but has
44:22
he actually used the site yet? Not yet.
44:25
I don't even think you used it in Chicken's cabin.
44:28
No, you did. All you did was get your
44:29
memories back. Yeah, that and get stabbed with
44:33
a fork. Well, yeah, that was that was
44:35
before, yeah. No, the the reason I'm asking is
44:38
because I, I, I missed the what Arthur, I heard something about
44:44
stained glass. I just wanted the gist of that
44:46
because I I should have been there but.
44:48
No, no, no. Decided not to be.
44:51
I can get that after recording. Too.
44:52
Well, that's also more his story to tell.
44:55
It's he, he might have had some more dealings than he thought
44:58
of. But either way, one thing you
45:02
should probably at least learn to do itchy is to open up your
45:07
eyes to the sight. I call it looking with intention
45:13
if you if you try. And I guess the only thing
45:15
around that you could really see at the moment would be your own
45:18
threads on your arms. But if you can see those, you
45:23
can at least learn how to look around and see the world for
45:26
what it really is. Fair enough.
45:28
I may as well give it a shot and I think Ichi is going to give it
45:32
a shot. Yeah, Ichi, you're fully capable
45:36
of seeing the thread wrapped around your arm, the way that it
45:39
pulses and moves with you, like it's part of your body but also
45:44
not. It's like a Leech.
45:48
Does this feel at all similar to when I'm like doing the mind
45:53
reading stuff? I mean, not really.
45:56
That mind reading stuff is a little different.
45:59
This is you focusing on a different part of your
46:06
connection with this. OK, but it is still like a
46:11
demonic in nature. Yeah, yeah.
46:13
It's demonic in nature to make a hunter Hunter reference.
46:16
It's like you versus you actually channeling your power.
46:23
It's like you're focusing on your eyes to see what's actually
46:27
happening. Using Yunnan.
46:29
Exactly. Is there a is there a window on
46:32
the on like out of our private cabin?
46:36
Why yes. There is why yes there is out of
46:41
the door and out of the train as well.
46:43
You have a window all. Right.
46:47
I think Ichi is gonna like look through, look through from the
46:52
cabin into the lounge and try and use the site.
46:55
Because I know Arthur was going to do that.
46:57
So I think Ichi's going to try and see what he can without
47:01
being too. The lounge is like a different
47:03
car. You're in a, you're in a
47:04
different car right now. But if you.
47:06
Follow him to the lounge, you can clearly see his thread.
47:10
All right. Do I see?
47:12
Do we see anything else? I want to circle back to that.
47:21
So the answer is. Yes.
47:22
Like, is there anything that you're doing while Arthur and AG
47:25
head to the lounge, or are you gonna follow them?
47:27
I I mean I feel like I would just follow just.
47:29
To. Help guide him through or
47:31
explain whatever he might see. Yeah, absolutely.
47:33
I'll turn my sight on too, obviously, just so I can see it.
47:36
The three of you have your sight on.
47:39
I I wouldn't know anything about that.
47:41
The three of you have your sight on, and you do notice out of the
47:47
window, this land should be lush.
47:50
This land should be full of life.
47:52
But this is a wasteland. There is nothing.
47:55
It is dirt and it is dead grass and it is dark out.
48:00
So you can't quite make out what this is.
48:05
And you're still very early on into the train ride.
48:07
I mean, this is your first night.
48:08
You've probably been talking for a couple of hours.
48:10
It's maybe 8:00 at the latest, maybe 9.
48:15
But with the sight, the three of you can tell that there was
48:20
something there, that there's something that did this.
48:26
Something sucked all of the life from this land and left it
48:29
barren and desolate. I have, I have questions.
48:36
I'm going to thrive like a Potter.
48:40
And she's like, who, who did the railway buy this beautiful piece
48:45
of land off that, you know, is quite a large amount of acreage
48:47
here? And, you know, I'm, I'm sort of
48:50
in the business of buying some land and I just want to know if
48:53
there's a person I could go to to get something like this.
48:57
Oh, I wouldn't know anything about that, Sir.
49:00
I'm just a Porter. Mr. Mr. Porter, Sir, I didn't
49:07
realise this train took a detour through Indiana.
49:10
I mean, it just looks very desolate out there.
49:16
No, Sir, this is recent. Last couple of weeks, everything
49:22
this way is dried up. I mean, they've been having some
49:26
problems with cattle around here too, just dying.
49:33
I'm going to use the site on the part of.
49:36
Sure. Because you said if we have the
49:39
site we can see that it's desolate and he was agreeing
49:41
that the the land is desolate. Yeah, the site you can, you can
49:44
see that it's not natural. I was going to say for
49:49
clarification, with the normal site, we can see that the land
49:52
is wasteland, right? And then with the site on, we
49:54
can tell that how it's been. We can tell that it's been.
49:57
Blank. You can tell that it's not.
49:58
Natural. Yeah, I was going to ask that
50:00
earlier, but I didn't get a spot.
50:01
Yeah. I just wanted to mention.
50:03
It was like when you look at it without the site, it looks
50:05
regular and lush and green. And then when you look at it
50:07
with the site, right, never mind.
50:08
I'm not going to use the site on the part of them because my
50:12
point is now new. Interesting though.
50:19
Because because my original thought is this could be the
50:21
600,000 acres of land that Jebediah sold, which would make
50:28
sense if he's got dealings with demons.
50:31
Either that or just something about bowling coming this way,
50:33
but yeah, I'll just sort of nudge itchy and just like close
50:39
my eyes a little bit, just like signal, like hey, turn it off.
50:46
Yeah, do you Itchy turns it off. Are you able to turn off itchy
50:51
roll me insanity check really fast?
50:52
Oh. What is that?
50:54
Just two D6. You're smarts and I'm going to
51:01
roll something really fast. That is 1 success.
51:07
With one success, you can't quite get it all the way off.
51:12
And I think you specifically Itchy, you're more familiar with
51:16
this area. You've travelled on, I mean this
51:19
exact route probably several times with horses going to and
51:24
from places to sell animals, to buy animals, with your parents
51:29
for arts events. And you know that the last time
51:33
that you were here, it wasn't very long ago, it looked nothing
51:35
like this. This is otherworldly.
51:39
This is famine. It's very interesting you use
51:44
that specific choice of. Word.
51:45
Wow, isn't it? And then you are able to turn
51:47
your side off. Yeah, I think Ichi's going to
51:54
like shake, shake his head and like go back to the port and
51:57
he's like, yeah, I, I was hearing about it just, I mean,
52:02
it's terrible what's happening, you know, some kind of wave, a
52:05
disease. I mean, I was probably, I was
52:07
probably through here not, not more than like 2 months ago.
52:11
It happened fast, the rain dried up and it's like everything was
52:17
just gone. You know, there's no real
52:20
explanation for it. Not that, not that they're
52:22
telling us, but I'm sure God's going to God's going to take
52:26
care of this beautiful country. We'll be right back as soon as
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the rain comes again. Don't be so sure of that,
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partner. I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It's All in all in God's plan. Ain't that right?
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Have a blessed day. And he makes his way off and I
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think that's where we're going to.
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Lead it. The conductor punched my ticket,
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he said. Son, you better listen.
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Don't get caught up in reminiscing.
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You wind up going missing. So I keep rolling on, rolling
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on, rolling till the break of day.
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I keep rolling on, rolling on, I'll be on my way.
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I keep rolling on, rolling on, rolling till the break of day.
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I keep rolling on, rolling on. I'll be on my way.
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None. So I hid in way I was, with a
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little lighthead left harping in my chest.
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No time to stop and rest, locking ancient desert drifter,
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seeking hidden wisdom in the sun.
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And in the scripture, I found out what I was.
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So I keep rolling on, rolling on, rolling to the break of the
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day. I keep rolling on, rolling on.
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I'll be on my way. I keep rolling on, rolling on,
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rolling to the break of the day. I keep rolling on rolling.