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The Vampire With No Name 1.22 - A Lick and a Promise · Dubious Creatures Presents

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  The. A highway wanders through the
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  desert. A tumbleweed drifts past a dusty
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  dive bar. A coyote shrieks out to no one
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  in particular. Someone's bleeding out in a
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  bathroom stall. The stars tonight are bright,
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  but not nearly bright enough. This place does not exist, and
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  yet here you are. Welcome to San Arroyo Kindred.
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  We here at Dubious Creatures present to you the vampire with
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  no name. So let's start from the
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  beginning. Church discovered.
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  Wake attended incredibly problematic situation involving
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  crows long lasting and deeply ingrained blood bond to her
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  incredibly shifty sire. Explored arguments had hostages
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  released, fistfights very nearly avoided, faint praise damned
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  with and brands administered. And now you're here and he's
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  here, The one that, in a very real sense, set all of this into
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  motion. And he looks just as strung out
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  as the rest of you. Yeah, well, at least someone
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  else should suffer. Yeah, I agreed.
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  As previously stated, has kind of just collapsed into one of
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  these pews. The five of you are the only
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  people within this Chapel Crow has run out to where you're not
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  quite sure the leader of this congregation think you heard him
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  called Padre. Bran and Carmen, his assistant
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  have both, presumably to retrieve the journal from the
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  church archives. That Brazier is still burning
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  every so faintly in the background, casting even more
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  flickering shadows in this otherwise entirely candlelit
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  space. 1st going to check in on Astor because you know, being
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  branded is a lot. I want to make sure that she's
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  doing all right. It does smell ever so faintly of
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  cooking meat in here. Astor, how are you feeling
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  physically and otherwise? Basically, it's a really good
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  thing I I can't vomit anymore. The pain was so sharp and so
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  intense. You know when you experience
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  that when you're alive and it just, like, clenches your
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  stomach? Yeah.
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  Yeah. Emotionally, I don't know,
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  Aster. Aster doesn't know where she's
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  at. Emotionally, I think there's a
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  very big part of her that retreated into a place in her
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  mind and is focusing purely on the tasks that they need to
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  accomplish because anything outside of those tasks, they
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  don't deserve. My fucking tears.
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  Give me a, we'll call it Composure plus Resolve check as
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  Raleigh comes up and very gingerly inspects the area of
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  still hissing skin behind your ear where this crude Crescent
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  shaped mark has been permanently etched into the side of your
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  head. That would be 3 successes.
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  Riley, you've been in a set accidents where people of with
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  worse injuries and this have been wailing and screaming.
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  She's obviously in a lot of pain, but she's holding it
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  together far better than you might have expected.
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  And I just softly say, I am so sorry that they did this to you.
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  It wasn't right, but we're almost done.
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  Just hold on for a little bit longer, Astor, just.
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  Looks up and like there is there is just the smallest here and
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  she is hiding it from everyone but you.
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  Fuck these people. And then she turns to Ansem.
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  You got us into this fucking mess.
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  You're going to help us get out of this fucking mess.
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  You owe all of us something. He doesn't respond at first, and
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  at first that infuriates you. Even a just a even an iota bit
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  more than you realize. He's not deliberately ignoring
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  you, He appears to be focusing on something else, and you
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  realize it's because when he sat down on the Pew he started
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  holding at his stomach. And he slowly sits back up and
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  those like lank strands of iron streaked hair freed from the
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  usual ponytail come back. And you see the pained
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  expression on his own face as he pushes something back into his
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  abdomen with a very faint but noticeable sound of sliding
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  viscera. Like getting up close to them,
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  Like rounding him on this he he looks almost as worse for wear
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  as you do right now. Outfit's torn, it's bloody,
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  there's dust caked in the legs of old pants.
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  What are you hiding in your stomach?
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  Instead of answering, he just starts unbuttoning the front of
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  his shirt and he opens it up to reveal most of his abdomen is
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  missing. Oh my God.
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  You see, what he pushed back into himself was his intestines
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  as something, something with very long, sharp claws has
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  disemboweled him. Did your friend do that?
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  Zinc, you already know the answer.
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  Bill think he's not beyond saving.
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  Really doesn't matter what I think at this point, does it?
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  No, that's. That's true sort of beyond
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  reason at this point. I tried, thanks to you.
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  He's just going to be one more notch on Langford's belt.
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  Sen You, you can't fucking put that on us.
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  It's not our fault he chose to go off the deep end.
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  He. Didn't he didn't choose this
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  since something happened these past few years?
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  I It's hard to describe how isolated 1 feels when one has
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  lived in the same place for over a century and everything and
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  everyone has changed but you. We leaned on each other toward
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  the end. We were the only ones who really
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  remembered what this all was. But it was supposed to be.
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  I should have. He trails off.
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  And it doesn't matter. It happened.
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  It is happening. It's happening to this city.
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  Yep. Wow, you certainly asked the
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  wrong group of people. Yeah, yeah.
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  Doubtless you'll take this personally, but I'll make it
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  very clear you were convenient. Because that softens the blow so
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  much. Yeah, that's what you know, my
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  last boyfriend said. You have a tendency.
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  Do you think that people around you are not going to act in
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  accordance with their best interests?
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  No, I I think that. I just think you shouldn't be
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  surprised when when all that's left are the pissed off
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  cockroach motherfuckers. You have definitely lasted
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  longer than I expected. And here of all places, how did
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  you even? How did you even find out about
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  the church? We asked nicely.
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  It's true, we did actually ask nicely.
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  You know wonderful the amount of things you learn when you just
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  ask. Yeah, and they individually did
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  ask. I suppose they just offered this
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  information gratis. It was convenient for him.
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  What did you promise them in return?
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  Well, we'd we'd initially agreed to be part of a very nice deal
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  involving a heist. But as it turns out, we didn't
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  need to deal. We didn't need to do that heist.
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  We got what we came for. What do you think happens when
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  they discover that you didn't fulfill your end of the bargain?
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  I don't think he's going to be really much in much of a place
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  to follow through on any of that for a bit.
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  And there it is. You assume that we're rational
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  as anything you've experienced over the past few nights struck
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  you as sane. No, not at all.
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  Then if I might impart some advice from a very old man,
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  don't be surprised when this person takes it personally,
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  because they will and they have all the time in the world to
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  find a way to get back at you for this.
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  Yeah, yeah, and a half of Los Angeles.
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  You know, there's nothing new under the sun or moon, I guess
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  in this case. Not to sidetrack the
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  conversation or anything, but I'm going to sidetrack the
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  conversation. What?
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  What do you know about? A.
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  Creepy bone scythe. More importantly, why has it
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  killed me in my dreams ever since I was embraced?
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  You dream every night. Nightmares, horrible ones.
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  I die every night. Suddenly I'm actually not that.
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  I'm not that perturbed that I don't dream anymore.
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  Handsome blinks a few times. Whatever query he was expecting,
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  that was definitely not it. But eventually he leans forward.
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  He holds out his hands in front of him.
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  About this long made of bone. Sort of weird inscriptions on
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  it. The Reaper, that's what we
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  called it. Chattery figure leans behind
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  you, kills you. It wasn't my station to deal
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  with that sort of threat at the time.
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  It was my sobs. He tangled with that creature
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  more times than many of us, and it's dead now.
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  Very dead, asked Langford sometime about it.
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  No hard pass. So what was what was up with
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  that fire? Why did it make our friend go?
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  Well, I mean, at least on my end, I feel a very, very
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  instinctual fear of fire the times I've been around in the
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  last month, like crippling fear. But that was a little bit more
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  than that. I say it brings clarity.
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  I say there's nothing desperate people won't do to try and prove
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  that they're harder than the world.
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  You might have noticed the pomp and circumstance, the church,
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  whatever you believe that the ultimate progenitor of our kind
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  rebelled against a jealous and controlling God, and in so doing
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  cursed Cain and all his descendants with inherent
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  weaknesses, fire being among them, to attempt to get him and
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  his progeny to finally bend the the knee.
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  Or maybe they just like the imagery. 5050 you know, half a
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  dozen to 1/2 a dozen to the other.
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  I don't know. I wasn't for it a little parish,
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  but I haven't had a seat at the table for quite some time.
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  Yeah, my, my parents were Roman Catholic and, you know, never
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  really vibe with that either. Catholics, my condolences.
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  Yeah, something you know about our Scotch Irish heritage.
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  So do you even know what pushed him over the edge?
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  What moment exactly? I wasn't there for the exact
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  moment that Lassail overcame him now, but I could make an
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  educated guess. All his former compatriots are
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  either dead or missing. His only child hates him.
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  His mortal connections are tenuous at best.
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  His people have been reduced to a shadow of their former selves,
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  barely clinging to lands that have ancestrally been theirs.
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  Take your pick. Oh, life.
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  Yeah, On life. I don't know if it was like
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  specific because, you know, that beast inside kind of wells up
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  when specific things happen. Where This will be item number
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  three of five. We've got two more to find.
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  Yeah. Do we have any leads on any of
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  those? Like the scythe is something
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  that we need to look into. Where to start with that?
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  I have a fucking clue, but. I mean, apparently we got to
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  talk to the sheriff. Please no.
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  Can I be? Can I sit this one out?
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  You can sit this one out, absolutely.
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  Thanks I. Don't want to talk to the
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  sheriff, I don't particularly want to talk with him either,
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  but I will collectively talk to him in your your stat.
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  Yeah, Sam, maybe, maybe you and Jeremy can follow up.
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  I don't know if we can find another lead or something, but
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  yeah, yeah, shrugs. It's like better than you having
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  to go through that again. Yeah.
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  Just an obvious little sycophant, but talk to him about
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  his glory days, maybe before he was a sewer dwelling troglodyte.
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  Yeah, he did. He did have a real bad skin
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  condition. He touched me.
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  I really want to shower. Maybe acquaintance of the
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  Nosferatu? I see.
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  My sincere apologies. Yeah, we met.
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  We met Toad to and it really took yeah, you were such a
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  trooper my all of my willpower to not quote the X-Men in that
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  moment. It's a bit of a confused
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  expression from Anselm. You don't think he gets that
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  reference either? That's fine.
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  But yeah, no, there there's something out of curiosity and
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  kind of kind of walk towards that fire just a little bit,
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  'cause it's weird. It smells ever so faintly of
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  gas. You're not sure if there's some
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  mechanism that's feeding the flames, but it seems to be
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  whatever it is, it's burning down even still as a part of you
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  that you have to Force One foot in front of the other at a
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  certain point just to get within a certain radius of it.
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  Especially recalling what happened to Crow.
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  Yeah. It's at this point that as
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  you're all standing there, some of you sitting, Carmen, dark
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  haired, serious looking young woman, walks back into the
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  chamber with a positively dire expression.
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  I don't like that. Are you OK?
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  The journal is missing, I am mother fucker, and the postern
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  that connects to the flood tunnels has been sabotaged.
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  It would appear that while the commotion was occurring out
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  here, someone took the opportunity to break in.
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  Where did the flood tunnels lead?
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  The better answer is where don't they lead?
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  No. The tunnels that Nosferatu
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  territory. Can.
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  Just ask. Them.
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  Well, I think we can know who's responsible.
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  Yeah. This is a serious violation of
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  our domain. If you had something to do with
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  it, Hastor. Yes.
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  Charisma Subterfuge 2. Successes.
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  The glowering does not cease. If anything, it deepens
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  slightly. Ansel, despite the clear pain
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  he's in, looks like he's holding in a laugh.
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  I'm. Going to slap him on button.
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  Oh, we may at least have an idea of who's responsible and can
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  deal with them. Then I suggest you do so and.
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  Quickly, Yeah, we're going to do that.
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  I'm going to like start walking back to the group of just being
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  like the day I look on my faces. We should go.
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  Until then, she raises her voice a little bit.
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  The Padre has requested you not return to this spot under any
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  circumstances. We understand that your
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  situation is not ideal, but this is nonetheless a violation of
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  our hospitality, and the Church takes matters such as that quite
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  seriously. ERD we understand.
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  She nods very profunctly and then walks at a brisk pace back
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  into the corridor she just came out of.
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  Yeah, let's let's discuss things in the car.
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  Let's also make sure we're collecting a certain Pence
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  Toothpick boy on the way out. Where is Jeremy?
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  It's. A good question.
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  Where is Jeremy? Where the sheriff left me.
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  You're still in the corridor. That's.
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  Where I was, that's literally where I was literally told to
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  wait. And I'm not going to piss off
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  the sheriff by not being there when he comes back.
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  Are you obfuscated or you just waiting?
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  He's just waiting. OK, in that case, you see Carmen
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  walk back in, She noticed you on her way out.
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  She walks back in, notices you again, just stops it, looks at
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  you. Have you been helped?
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  The sheriff told me to stay here.
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  The sheriff has departed shit. OK.
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  You've caused enough spectacle for one night.
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  I suggest you take the rest of your coterie and depart.
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  OK, kind of like lifts an eyebrow and then kind of shrugs
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  and I guess I'm going to head back in for the rest of the
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  coterie. You see Jeremy come out of the
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  entrance that Garmin just went into a moment later.
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  Ash is going to do like the gesture of like balling with two
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  fingers. It's like, come on, we're
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  hitting the road. It's there is there any blood
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  left anywhere that I can maybe snag on my way out?
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  Unfortunately, you kind of missed your opportunity.
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  Yeah, unfortunately. Anselm also staggers to his
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  feet. You're not sure if you
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  necessarily want him following you, but at this exact moment in
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  time, you're all headed in the same direction.
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  Yeah, well, I don't think we can stop him if he decides to follow
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  us. I don't know.
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  Right now he looks kind of limp noodle.
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  I'm I think I could push him down the stairs.
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  I could quite easily kill one of you before you put me in torpor,
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  if that's what you're thinking. No, I don't actually want to
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  kill you. Actually.
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  Just wanted to make sure we know where we all stand.
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  Yeah, yeah, Grandpa. So why did the I'm going to say
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  schoolgirl looking lady looks so pissed?
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  I'm long. Stolen.
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  Shit. I got a couple options here.
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  Do we really want to trade? Do like we really got to go
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  trade with them because like we're not going to be like the
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  we can't get back in there and I'm not a thief.
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  Let's. Go talk to the guy.
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  Of anything right now, yeah, yeah, it's.
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  Not like he wanted the rosary or anything, he just didn't want
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  her to have it. I don't know how the journal
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  ties into that though. But he was supposed to get that
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  peresic. SI guess he did I.
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  Mean it's even him. I mean, it's probably him.
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  It's probably him. And he did.
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  Mention he knew a way into the church.
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  Yeah. And he did just get confirmation
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  of what the flood tunnels are. And Nosferatu, you know, stuff.
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  So yeah, it's, it's probably, you know, good old Mr. Toad.
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  And some has been kind of following along.
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  This conversation says you've engaged the services of Mr.
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  McLeod to steal a rosary. He wanted us to steal the rosary
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  off some that off that old weird, creepy old lady.
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  Primogen. That would have been poor lane.
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  Yeah, yeah. After seeing all the heavy
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  hitters there, I've, I think aborting the mission was pretty
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  good. Yeah.
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  Well, you got off easy. There's one more option.
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  What's that? Mesab's Child.
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  That is. Like as an item or as a means to
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  get this back? A long time ago now, I gave her
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  something that her sire wanted her to have.
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  Talking about Sarah. Miss White Bird, yes, she, well,
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  they had a falling out, but we've remained in contact and
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  the four of you were responsible for, in a roundabout way,
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  liberating a compatriot of hers. Though she owes us, I don't.
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  Think she owes? Us.
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  I think she might feel. I think she might feel more
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  receptive to us then. Yeah.
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  You know we, we, then, then we, then, if we might have, then if
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  we had been cold calling. Her.
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  Yeah, well, you know where we can find the Miss White Bird?
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  And they a workshop. We talk sometimes.
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  She occasionally comes in to get her bike repaired.
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  All right, all right, this doesn't happen to be a grim
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  bastard shop, does it? Please.
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  I just needed to make sure that I wasn't walking into hell.
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  I can assure you that any automotive repair that may take
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  place within my haven is purely for the purposes of recreation
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  and not whatever it is those roustabouts do.
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  All right, let's let's go meet Masaf's kid then.
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  And then we can as eventually cycle back and try to talk Tod
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  into giving us the book. As I understand it, this ritual
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  that the Regent talked to and to, from what I was able to
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  glean from the back and forth back there, you require these
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  artifacts for it, yes. Yes.
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  How many do you have? The book would have made it 3,
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  but currently 2. How many do you need?
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  5. 5. So the Journal, Sarah's Good
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  luck, John and the Reaper's Blade.
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  That's three What? We have is a bottle of Jimsen.
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  What is it Bottle? Of Jimsen weed and we've got the
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  cold and the journal makes 3. Yeah, we know everything that we
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  need. We just need to acquire all
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  these things. Esther, is there anything else
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  about your visions that you can tell us?
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  Like are they in the same location?
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  Anything like that? This last one was particularly
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  strange and she looks to Ansem and was like you were there the
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  the park Zach took me to it translate John Doe Park.
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  Is that what she's like? Tapping her forehead trying to
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  like think what is it called again?
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  Max Musterman. Yeah, that, that one, the the
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  there's a statue there that in my dream, it was all broken and
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  crumpled and you, you were in front of it trying to put it
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  back together. I have no idea what I don't know
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  if it means. I'm glad to see some of my
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  contributions to the city's beautification I still
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  appreciate. It wait, you made the statue
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  that looks like a woman crying? Among other things, what do you
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  think that Park is named after? It was a pseudonym of mine in
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  the 60s. Rooster man, I presume?
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  All right. Do we want to split up?
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  I think we should split up. Yeah, unfortunately.
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  And what each each one of you should take one of us that's
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  good at fighting, fighting just in case.
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  So Asher and I, one of us goes with Jeremy, the other goes with
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  Esther. And it will take some time,
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  especially given recent events, for my usual means of
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  communication to reach Sarah SO. I can see if I can expedite
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  that. I make 0 promises, this'll work.
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  But, and As for the sheriff, well, likely he'll be with the
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  Trimmier. No doubt he'll want to know more
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  about the particulars of this ritual you've all been roped
• 35:19
  into. Yeah, yeah.
• 35:21
  Well, they'll probably go to the airport.
• 35:26
  Why don't Ash and Jeremy go deal with the sheriff?
• 35:36
  All right. Yeah, We can take on the the law
• 35:38
  enforcement and two can take the others and try to get, we'll try
• 35:44
  to get, we'll try to see how much we can do at the night we
• 35:46
  have left. Divide and conquer.
• 35:49
  Divide and conquer. I did not have getting banned
• 35:53
  from vampire church on my 2025 bingo so.
• 35:56
  No, I wasn't a church person anyway.
• 36:00
  We're a science first household. I just kind of shrug and say
• 36:05
  it's complicated. Yeah.
• 36:09
  I haven't. I haven't been a Catholic since
• 36:12
  1812 so. OK, you have us all beat.
• 36:19
  All right, let's hit the Ash is going to Ash is going to unlock
• 36:23
  the car. Yeah, go, team go.
• 36:26
  Team, thank you for dealing with that, Ash.
• 36:34
  No worries. Don't don't even think twice
• 36:36
  about it. So who's going where?
• 36:44
  I don't have a car. God, I have a rental car that's
• 36:49
  back at the hotel. OK.
• 36:51
  I also I think Olivia has a car can always call if you wanted to
• 36:58
  go that direction. You'd trust her like that?
• 37:04
  I have no fucking clue, but apparently, you know, she she
• 37:11
  did smash the computer that had all, all the all the damning
• 37:16
  information on me on it. Yeah.
• 37:19
  OK. If not just we can go back to
• 37:22
  the hotel and I can grab the rental car that we have that I
• 37:26
  have there. Let's, let's do that, that that
• 37:30
  feels so much safer than, yeah, having a someone who's trying to
• 37:36
  ruin your life drive you around. Yeah, yeah, it's easier to
• 37:41
  explain as well. I mean, I guess you could carry
• 37:43
  up a snack and ask her. It like stops and it's like oh
• 37:47
  bad joke, never mind. I'm so hungry.
• 37:55
  I should have taken some of that blood earlier but I didn't trust
• 37:57
  it. I.
• 37:58
  Didn't trust it either. I pretended to drink, drink in
• 38:02
  the Kool-aid. It really felt like a Kool-aid
• 38:05
  moment. It was a Kool-aid moment.
• 38:07
  That's why I was scared to drink it.
• 38:10
  Yeah, just two of you can drop us off at my hotel.
• 38:15
  I'll craft a rental car and we'll be good to go.
• 38:21
  So once again, carpooling. Eventually I'm going to get a
• 38:26
  car, I promise. My car is back in LA.
• 38:32
  May have dogged the certainty of death, but the certainty of
• 38:36
  commuting still sadly bedevils you.
• 38:40
  I'm going. To get in a car, I'm going to
• 38:43
  get a car. This is driving me nuts.
• 38:46
  So who's in the driver's seat? Not me.
• 38:51
  In my if it's the rental car, I will be at the driver's seat
• 38:54
  because you know. Insulin doesn't pile in with
• 38:59
  you, instead gives you an address.
• 39:05
  Does it Meet him there? Specific time.
• 39:11
  Shrugs and says an hour, maybe 2.
• 39:15
  It honestly depends on how she takes these recent developments.
• 39:22
  There, that gives us time to get our other chores done first.
• 39:28
  I will omit the part where you are indirectly responsible for
• 39:34
  putting a blood hunt on her sire.
• 39:37
  She didn't like him. But she did not survive this
• 39:41
  long. She did not survive this long
• 39:43
  without being excessively informed.
• 39:48
  So don't be surprised if the reception is frosty.
• 39:55
  My fucking life. With that, he just stands up,
• 40:02
  begins limping into the distance.
• 40:08
  Between you and me, kind of feel sorry for him.
• 40:13
  In a way, but it also feels like he brought the shit on himself.
• 40:18
  Oh for sure 100% still feel sorry for him so we going.
• 40:25
  Yeah, yeah, we're, we're going busy night.
• 40:31
  Will you please give me the Wits plus awareness or Wits plus
• 40:37
  drive? Oh.
• 40:39
  That is 1 success. One success?
• 40:44
  OK, if you want to stick with that.
• 40:48
  I, I super don't. We're going to reroll some
• 40:51
  failures. Willpower.
• 40:53
  Let's go. All right, so Saint Francis is
• 41:00
  located in what's described as the quote UN quote historic
• 41:05
  district of San Arroyo. The name makes the neighborhood
• 41:11
  sound more grandiose than it actually is.
• 41:13
  In reality, it's a bunch of slightly larger shabby buildings
• 41:21
  clustered around a town square, which is demarcated by this
• 41:27
  large cast iron statue called White Gold Rush, which depicts
• 41:35
  some 49er holding a loft pickaxe as a group of other migrants
• 41:46
  shuffling behind him. You think it's supposed to be of
• 41:49
  Karl Streiber. You're not really sure.
• 41:51
  You're not a history buff, but the reason I mentioned this
• 41:56
  statue is because as you're kind of driving around it, you notice
• 42:03
  another Yorkshire County Sheriff's Department vehicle
• 42:08
  parked just on the opposite side of it.
• 42:14
  And the moment pass it, suddenly the siren it it's siren doesn't
• 42:23
  go off, but the lights do and they begin to pull around
• 42:29
  towards you. Yeah, yeah.
• 42:32
  We're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna follow.
• 42:35
  We're not gonna do anything rash.
• 42:37
  We're gonna follow the rules. Oh God.
• 42:45
  Pull over to one side. You see behind you in the rear
• 42:52
  view mirror, passenger side door opens.
• 42:58
  You see a man, the deputy's uniform, stand up, walk over to
• 43:03
  the driver's side and knocks with the back of his knuckles on
• 43:08
  the window. Before I roll down the window,
• 43:12
  I'm going to activate all and then when I do, I'm going to
• 43:15
  give him my, you know, movie star smile and say I'm sorry.
• 43:23
  Is there something I can help you with?
• 43:26
  Sorry to bother you, ma'am. We're only here because we're
• 43:30
  keeping an eye on the wake over at Saint Francis Gross's special
• 43:36
  request to the parish. A lot of folks are
• 43:40
  understandably nervous, you know, given everything that's
• 43:44
  happening. The reason I pulled you over is
• 43:49
  because we got a report of a lone female running off near
• 43:57
  church graveyard. Just curious if you 2 have seen
• 44:02
  or heard anything. And before Aster could say
• 44:06
  anything, I was just saying, no, I can't say we have officer.
• 44:10
  We went and paid our respects at the at the vigil.
• 44:16
  Raleigh give me charisma plus subterfuge.
• 44:19
  Charisma plus subterfuge. Can I Add all?
• 44:22
  Absolutely. 2 successes. This deputy, His impassive
• 44:30
  expression doesn't change, and he's starting to get a little
• 44:34
  nervous. Like, this is not the first,
• 44:37
  It's not the first 10 standoff you've had with the Sheriff's
• 44:42
  Department, and you've been seeing more and more of their
• 44:47
  vehicles in and around the city, which has done nothing for your
• 44:55
  paranoia. Say that again.
• 45:02
  It's done nothing for your paranoia.
• 45:08
  Eventually says just get back from Vigil, huh?
• 45:14
  Yeah, paying our respects. You're you're that movie star,
• 45:22
  right? Yeah, Riley Raleigh.
• 45:28
  Raleigh, right? You know any of the victims?
• 45:32
  Can't say that I have, I just I've been around.
• 45:36
  Why are you at the vigil? You don't mind me asking?
• 45:39
  Just no offense. But not your town.
• 45:44
  Not but you know, I wanted to help out in any way that I could
• 45:48
  all. Right, it was your friend.
• 45:53
  Look over at asked her. I asked her.
• 45:57
  Just kind of waves like oh, hi. You from LA too?
• 46:05
  Yeah, this is my personal assistant.
• 46:10
  So. Yeah.
• 46:13
  Can I get your name miss? Tiffany.
• 46:18
  Got a last name? Tiffany.
• 46:21
  I I. She freaking out.
• 46:24
  Asher is freaking out, right? Yeah, this guy seems you might
• 46:31
  have actually found a competent law enforcement officer.
• 46:36
  He seems unusually good at detecting bullshit.
• 46:41
  I'm going to take it. She's going to take it.
• 46:42
  Hi. Sorry I used a name that most
• 46:47
  people don't. My real name is Aster Crawford.
• 46:54
  As in JJ Crawford. As in Zach Crawford's wife.
• 47:00
  That gets a reaction. You're not really sure what
• 47:02
  kind, but it gets a reaction. So you said you were from LA?
• 47:08
  Back and forth. And if I call Mr. Crawford,
• 47:13
  he'll confirm that. Mm.
• 47:14
  Hmm. He certainly will.
• 47:20
  If he picks up, he's a busy man. One of you's got to give me
• 47:24
  manipulation of charisma sub refuge.
• 47:26
  I'll add I'll let you add a bonus die for invoking the
• 47:29
  Crawford name. Is that and.
• 47:32
  We're going to, we're going to reroll some failures, OK.
• 47:34
  We're we're, we're rolling in with five successes.
• 47:38
  Yes. Digest that information for a
• 47:41
  second. You know what?
• 47:44
  You're right. It's Crawford.
• 47:46
  It's a busy guy. All right, well, going to leave
• 47:53
  a card with you too. It's got our hotline number on
• 47:57
  it. Just in case you do see any
• 47:59
  suspicious activity. We got a dedicated line set up.
• 48:04
  Especially if you happen to see anyone wearing the Insignia or
• 48:11
  affiliated with the Grim Bastards Motorcycle Club.
• 48:15
  You aware of who they are? Yeah, encountered a few of them
• 48:20
  before. All right, well, don't hesitate
• 48:25
  to give us a call like he hands you the card.
• 48:30
  Thank you. You too, Sir.
• 48:31
  Have a good night. You too drive safe.
• 48:35
  You too. With that with that, he goes
• 48:39
  back to his vehicle. Oh, I feel like I'm going to
• 48:42
  vomit. And to do the thing where you
• 48:46
  put your forehead on on the the steering wheel, it's like Yep
• 48:50
  Yep, Nope. Feelings mutual.
• 48:53
  I had that. I had that 2 days ago when they
• 48:55
  fucking showed up my hotel room. They oh great.
• 49:00
  Huge. After the laundromat, Yeah,
• 49:03
  yeah, I was, I was real hungry. And it's it's a wonder I didn't
• 49:07
  eat one of them. Yeah, Oh, I hate pulling that
• 49:14
  card. Oh, I don't like pulling that
• 49:17
  card. Hey, at least you know Zach will
• 49:20
  back you up, right? Just in case they call.
• 49:27
  Let's hope on that she's going to message Zach and be like hey,
• 49:36
  so unfortunately I name dropped to get a creepy guy creepy cop
• 49:41
  off our our case. OK, thanks bye take call.
• 49:46
  Oh, it's that Kate's. Me.
• 49:49
  No, I'm pretty sure that man is head over gills in love with
• 49:51
  you. I hope.
• 49:54
  Oh, I hope. From meeting him last night I'm
• 49:59
  pretty sure. OK, let's get the fuck out of
• 50:01
  here. Yep, Yep.
• 50:02
  We're going to go. We'll go find Toad.
• 50:05
  And you know, OP has found Mr. Frog and you know.
• 50:12
  While this altercation is happening, Jeremy Ash, how are
• 50:20
  you getting back to Mira Loma? Driving.
• 50:26
  Then who's in the driver's seat and which one of you wants to
• 50:30
  make me that same it's awareness or what's drive role?
• 50:36
  I think we've just, I think we, I think we've determined that
• 50:41
  Ash is the only, is the only driver here.
• 50:45
  I know how to drive. Yeah, but you're not driving
• 50:48
  Ash's car. That is 1 success unfortunately,
• 50:53
  and with the with the with with the possible issue of failure.
• 50:57
  The dice. The dice really are trying to
• 51:01
  tell a story here, aren't they? Fuck the dice.
• 51:06
  OK, so I'm going to make a roll like I did with the girls and
• 51:12
  we'll see. Oh, this is not going to go
• 51:17
  well. So, Ash.
• 51:22
  Mm hmm. You, as you're driving to Mira
• 51:30
  Lomo, which is effectively on the opposite side of the city,
• 51:34
  so you're pulling onto the Interstate just to save a bit of
• 51:37
  time because there's not a huge amount of traffic this time of
• 51:40
  night. You see near the actual entry
• 51:46
  ramp, there looks to be some kind of altercation between two
• 51:54
  different branches of law enforcement.
• 51:55
  Looks like you see Sheriff's county car and an SAPD patrol
• 52:02
  car both pulled up on side street.
• 52:10
  Not sure what's going on, but they're two people gotten
• 52:12
  outside of the car from each one and they appeared to be engaged
• 52:16
  in some kind of argument nearby, kind of parked on the curb with
• 52:27
  his hands handcuffed behind his back.
• 52:30
  As a young, you want to say maybe 20 something kind of
• 52:37
  scruffy looking guy in a biker vest.
• 52:43
  He sees these two arguing. You're just pulling alongside
• 52:47
  them, full intention of just passing this by and letting
• 52:50
  whatever this is resolve itself. Suddenly this handcuffed biker
• 52:58
  makes a run for it, just fully dashes right across the street.
• 53:10
  And I need you to make a dex plus drive rule.
• 53:15
  Oh oh Oh no, Oh no. Two successes.
• 53:20
  I cannot re roll anything like Kane.
• 53:24
  Kane take me or Kane take the wheel in this case.
• 53:32
  Which side of the car is he about to dive into?
• 53:35
  He literally ran across the street just as you were
• 53:38
  accelerating to get on to the Interstate.
• 53:42
  So just at the worst possible time.
• 53:43
  So he's like right in front of the hood of your car.
• 53:46
  He badly mistimed this and Jeremy, you don't know why, but
• 53:51
  why does everything suddenly sound like a 80s cop show?
• 53:58
  Oh no. This guy gets caught by the hood
• 54:02
  of your car, comes up onto the hood, cracks into the windshield
• 54:09
  hard enough to send spider webs. Ross.
• 54:15
  The glass then immediately rolls off.
• 54:19
  Ash will stop because she because they do not want to be
• 54:25
  like they yeah, they they don't even want to even like, like
• 54:31
  approach the possibility of a hit and run.
• 54:33
  It was like going to once the car is set to stop, turn off the
• 54:36
  car, hands up. Yeah, immediately you hear
• 54:40
  somebody say hey, hey, don't move, don't fucking move.
• 54:43
  Another person running up to this guy, you're not sure how
• 54:49
  injured he is. You were accelerating and he
• 54:52
  did. Well, that windshield's
• 54:54
  definitely going to need to replace.
• 54:55
  So imagining not in great shape, certainly not in any shape to
• 54:59
  try and keep running. As you see, the SAPD patrolman
• 55:04
  pulls him back up and off of his feet.
• 55:08
  Hey, hey, you in the car? Yeah, yeah.
• 55:12
  No, no, out of the car. Hands where I can see him.
• 55:17
  Ash is going to like very purposefully keeping like like
• 55:24
  raising their hands and like unlocking the door, closing it,
• 55:30
  keeping like elbows raised so they can't do anything and will
• 55:37
  exit the car. Hands still up.
• 55:44
  Derry ask what Jeremy is doing. That's a good question.
• 55:47
  What is Jeremy doing? I bet that he's actually
• 55:49
  probably getting out of the car as well, yeah.
• 55:53
  This county officer is screaming at you both to put your hands on
• 55:58
  the roof of the car, not to move media officer hauling this biker
• 56:07
  into the back of her vehicle, which is probably what she
• 56:11
  should have done in the 1st place.
• 56:14
  But then she turns around to deal with this whole situation.
• 56:18
  She sees you and she does a little bit of like almost a
• 56:23
  double take, like, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, wait, wait.
• 56:26
  I think, Ash Crawford, that you. Yes, officer.
• 56:34
  Oh Dick, you fucking cowboy. Put that down, Ash, not.
• 56:39
  Sure where they know the voice from.
• 56:41
  Like the shoulders almost pop, they unclenched so hard.
• 56:46
  You turn around and look at this woman and oh, you think you
• 56:52
  might have fed on her at one point.
• 56:55
  Ashapon like the memory like sort of percolating in their
• 56:58
  mind is going to clear their throat up.
• 57:03
  And yeah, no, I, I didn't mean to hit that guy.
• 57:09
  I swear I, he sort of ran into my car.
• 57:13
  I got hit by him. It's it's fine.
• 57:16
  It's fine. What are you doing out here so
• 57:20
  late? Ash deciding to they're they're
• 57:25
  going to say taking a night time drive with my friend helps clear
• 57:31
  the head. See, the deputy is just looking
• 57:36
  to be the two of you like, you know this clown.
• 57:39
  Like will you just fuck off and deal with your suspect?
• 57:45
  Sorry about this that they get. They look in your sheriff and
• 57:49
  suddenly they feel like they fucking own the place.
• 57:53
  Yeah, definitely been a a a surge in things like Ash is
• 57:58
  going to glance down at the nameplate on the county officers
• 58:06
  badge trying to remember anything.
• 58:12
  It says Orozco give me intelligence plus was overall.
• 58:18
  OK, yeah, let's do it. We're going to pop Will again 0.
• 58:24
  Successes you feel. Like, wow.
• 58:28
  You feel like there's something there, but in the moment you're
• 58:31
  just a little too flustered by both this whole situation and
• 58:35
  everything that you just came from to really deal with that.
• 58:40
  There's Orozco guy. He does move away, muttering to
• 58:45
  himself the entire time, clearly just steamed at the whole
• 58:51
  situation. Policewoman, meanwhile, just
• 58:54
  sort of hands on her hips, looking maybe a little kind of
• 58:59
  faintly embarrassed almost. Listen, I'm, I'm sorry you got
• 59:05
  caught up in all this. It it's been a night.
• 59:10
  As I can, I can see yeah, yeah, no, I, I mean, I'm, I know he
• 59:16
  like fleeing suspect, but I'm very sorry.
• 59:22
  Ash looks back at their car and winces a little bit.
• 59:26
  The guy going to be OK? Who gives a fuck?
• 59:31
  Are you going to need me to stay here and make a statement?
• 59:35
  I can. I can come in tomorrow night and
• 59:38
  like give it all. I I just, I noticed that I was
• 59:42
  driving around, but I, I like, if you can give me some time to
• 59:46
  like, you know, not be freaking out of the fact that I hit a
• 59:51
  dude and I'm going to pop awe to, to try to charm this cop.
• 59:58
  Yeah, go ahead and give me just charisma plus persuasion.
• 1:00:02
  Well, that's six successes with a critical.
• 1:00:06
  You can tell that this, this woman, she clearly she too
• 1:00:13
  appears to be having a time and clearly this whole the incident
• 1:00:20
  report that this whole situation is going to require, she is
• 1:00:26
  already dreading it. It's like, look, it, it's fine,
• 1:00:30
  it's fine. Clearly it was an accident
• 1:00:34
  because some Jackass decided he needed to flex his new
• 1:00:38
  authority, yells back to Orozco. Ash is going to smile and plague
• 1:00:48
  into it. It's like, yeah, the new dog on
• 1:00:50
  the block's always got to piss on the fire hydrant.
• 1:00:53
  Yeah, just look, between you and me, I wouldn't go on more.
• 1:00:59
  I wouldn't go on more midnight drives in the near future.
• 1:01:06
  The switchyard six thing, I mean, technically we're supposed
• 1:01:13
  to be cooperating with the Sheriff's Department, but well,
• 1:01:21
  you can see how that's going. Some some bullshit about a
• 1:01:27
  series of disappearances just outside the city limits,
• 1:01:30
  connected to, I don't know, it's the whole thing, the whole
• 1:01:38
  interdepartmental cluster. You mean disappearances?
• 1:01:46
  That assumed you would have heard by now.
• 1:01:50
  I mean, like it's all over the news.
• 1:01:54
  I just got. Out of rehab, I'm not really
• 1:01:56
  tracking super well. Oh, well, I guess you should
• 1:02:01
  know. I mean, if you're going to be
• 1:02:03
  around amusement park Jackalope gyms, yeah, a bunch of a bunch
• 1:02:12
  of, I think like burners or something went missing in that
• 1:02:18
  area almost a month back now. And yeah, well, they connected
• 1:02:24
  that to at least what they're saying is that their department
• 1:02:31
  connected that to string of other missing missing persons
• 1:02:36
  cases track back to here. And commissioner says we all
• 1:02:43
  going to play nice. Also says the least we can do
• 1:02:47
  with the additional manpower is maybe get the guys who are
• 1:02:50
  actually, you know, gunning down our kids in the streets.
• 1:02:54
  But apparently they're just too good for that sort of thing.
• 1:02:58
  Cry and Shane now Officer Asheville Trail for a name.
• 1:03:07
  Laramie Laramie. Officer Laramie, if you've got
• 1:03:11
  like a scratch pad or something that I can write down my number
• 1:03:14
  and I can make a statement to you tomorrow night and like, you
• 1:03:18
  know, when everything's a little bit more clear and I don't have
• 1:03:24
  my friend here. Yeah, yeah, sure.
• 1:03:28
  That probably for the best, honestly.
• 1:03:30
  I mean. Ash will give a beatific smile
• 1:03:34
  as they write down their phone number.
• 1:03:36
  They take it down and just might want to get that windshield
• 1:03:41
  looked at or head anywhere else. I'd normally I'd offer you to,
• 1:03:45
  I'd offer to drive you, but as you can see right now, I got a
• 1:03:48
  suspect in custody so. You happen to know any place
• 1:03:53
  that's open this later? It's San Arroyo, so basically
• 1:03:58
  anywhere in Little Hollywood to where people are looking to get
• 1:04:01
  fucked up. All right.
• 1:04:05
  Thanks. And again, sorry for hitting
• 1:04:09
  your suspect. Should buy our dinner to make up
• 1:04:14
  for it. Ash Ash like looks over at
• 1:04:19
  Jeremy and is like like and gives him the look of you dog.
• 1:04:27
  Jeremy is looking very impassive and.
• 1:04:29
  Innocent Jeremy, where is that saxophone coming from?
• 1:04:35
  Yeah, right. Yeah.
• 1:04:38
  There's a there's a moment of awkward silence for under the
• 1:04:44
  streetlight, you see like just the faintest baby touch of a
• 1:04:48
  blush on Officer Laramie's cheeks.
• 1:04:52
  And then eventually, she's just OK.
• 1:04:55
  Yep, bye. Drive safe as.
• 1:04:58
  They get back into the car, Ash says you weren't dead, I'd kill
• 1:05:03
  you. And they're and they're going to
• 1:05:07
  head over to Little Hollywood to try to get the undie witch
• 1:05:10
  killed. Yeah, but.
• 1:05:13
  Yeah. Because they might be.
• 1:05:15
  Because they might be vampires, but glass hurts.
• 1:05:21
  That's true. I would say normally a lot of
• 1:05:25
  auto repair places aren't open this late, but if you're willing
• 1:05:33
  to sacrifice A dot of resources you can definitely persuade
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  someone. Definitely.
• 1:05:39
  Just do a real quick patch job. Yeah, maybe, maybe, maybe
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  somebody here is a friend of Diego's.
• 1:05:47
  Diego does have a lot of friends.
• 1:05:50
  Diego is one of those people who knows a guy who knows a guy who
• 1:05:54
  knows several other guys. Yeah.
• 1:06:01
  And I think as as they are getting the this quick patch job
• 1:06:08
  on the windshield over done, like I think Ash is just going
• 1:06:13
  to wait outside the shop and probably just like probably just
• 1:06:17
  like loiter around with them like the like near the lights of
• 1:06:21
  the shop so that like one of the sheriff's over zealous fuck
• 1:06:26
  heads doesn't doesn't try to arrest them.
• 1:06:31
  I'm just going to lean up on a wall someplace that feels safe
• 1:06:35
  and it'll pop a cigarette and offer one to ash.
• 1:06:39
  Yeah, Ash will take it light up. Enjoy it you.
• 1:06:43
  Going to call her. I mean, I gave her my number.
• 1:06:49
  I, I, I, I will go to the I will go to the precinct tomorrow.
• 1:06:53
  I will make a statement. I will, I will lay on the charm
• 1:07:00
  and well, que Sarah. Sarah.
• 1:07:04
  It'll take another very slow pulse.
• 1:07:06
  Oh, I'm a cigarette. That kind of loo over an ash and
• 1:07:09
  say she likes you. Yeah, she has eyes.
• 1:07:16
  I mean, like, I don't know, like between you and me, like like a
• 1:07:24
  lot of other, the other four feet a lot easier.
• 1:07:31
  I don't know why, but it's like only certain types hit the spot
• 1:07:34
  for me and don't make me want to retch.
• 1:07:37
  And cops seem to really do it, so you know.
• 1:07:42
  Well, a little less wholesome than my impulse, but it's fine,
• 1:07:46
  yes. I haven't even thought about
• 1:07:50
  doing that since death. Well, that's just there's a lot
• 1:07:55
  of mechanical and plumbing questions I have to ask, but
• 1:07:59
  that's frankly not not a conversation I want to have
• 1:08:03
  while smoking behind an auto shop at midnight.
• 1:08:07
  There a worse time or a better time?
• 1:08:10
  I mean like a Denny's at 2:00 AM, that's like the only, that's
• 1:08:15
  like the only better and worse time.
• 1:08:18
  There, did you see if he had a Grim Grimmaster's match?
• 1:08:24
  Yeah, yeah. No, no, no, he, he, he had one.
• 1:08:27
  So I mean, hey, one off the street and the fuck?
• 1:08:31
  I guess I'll just give him another reason to hate me.
• 1:08:35
  They aren't going to like you. They don't like him.
• 1:08:39
  I mean, yeah, but I wasn't even trying for this one.
• 1:08:44
  It's like he hit me. Granted, like physics mean means
• 1:08:51
  that I won, but like he hit me. And the cops didn't seem too
• 1:08:55
  choked up about it. Yeah, well, I mean, that's
• 1:08:59
  that's cops for you. So real.
• 1:09:05
  How long have you been at a rehab if you don't mind me
• 1:09:09
  asking? Six months.
• 1:09:12
  How long have I been in Santa Romeo I?
• 1:09:16
  He actually like stops for a moment and thinks I am.
• 1:09:20
  Time's kind of fuzzy there. They get that.
• 1:09:24
  Just a rehab, nice rehab place in New York.
• 1:09:28
  Fancy. Yeah, checked myself out and
• 1:09:33
  just started heading West and eventually ended up here.
• 1:09:36
  Well. All roads lead to hell.
• 1:09:41
  So you ended up here and well, guess what?
• 1:09:44
  You're we're, we're stuck here. And as somebody who has spent
• 1:09:51
  good 3/4 of my life here sucks. And but you already know that
• 1:09:55
  doesn't take long to figure it out.
• 1:09:57
  It's not hell, it's purgatory, the place you're stuck.
• 1:10:02
  There's no ever any hope to move anyplace else and it just kind
• 1:10:05
  of drags you in and then just more people slowly get absorbed
• 1:10:08
  in. See, I was raised Protestant and
• 1:10:13
  that didn't even stick, so that this is good information, I
• 1:10:16
  know. Also it's some vague
• 1:10:19
  supernatural stuff. Yeah.
• 1:10:23
  Well, I can probably tell you more, believe it or not.
• 1:10:25
  Yeah, just the appeals above. Shit, you OK?
• 1:10:32
  Don't don't, don't fucking tell Raleigh this, but I fucking love
• 1:10:39
  Bill Zebub. I like that used to be like I
• 1:10:42
  went, I went to Berkeley and like I would just get like high
• 1:10:46
  and binge watch that show for like 12 hours at a time.
• 1:10:50
  It was great. There is.
• 1:10:54
  And if you tell her this, I will kill you.
• 1:10:59
  I have like fan fiction but I have like bookmarked and shit.
• 1:11:04
  Is that any good? It takes some of that stuff.
• 1:11:10
  I mean, what is good? Like you, You, you, you're like
• 1:11:16
  you. You make art.
• 1:11:17
  You like good. Good as good as good as
• 1:11:21
  subjective. It's make me feel.
• 1:11:24
  Trash but it makes me feel good. And it's that it's good.
• 1:11:31
  That's all. That's all it is.
• 1:11:33
  It's about making people feel something, sometimes yourself,
• 1:11:36
  sometimes others. I used to really like making
• 1:11:38
  people smile. That was that was the whole
• 1:11:41
  thing. I wasn't very artistic, you
• 1:11:48
  know, I'm, I'm like 1/2 decent writer, but in the sense of like
• 1:11:51
  that, like like journalism, non fiction sort of thing.
• 1:11:55
  I I did really good work on essays.
• 1:11:59
  Only art or craft I was really good at was Ash holds up their
• 1:12:07
  fists. He's really good at that.
• 1:12:11
  No, I mean. Kind of shrugs and says, I mean,
• 1:12:16
  someone will probably tell you that's art, but I'm not one of
• 1:12:20
  them. I mean it, it was athletic.
• 1:12:25
  I mean, like, like if you're like normal kids do team sports,
• 1:12:32
  psycho kids do solo sports and I wasn't going to fucking do
• 1:12:36
  tennis or golf. So I don't know.
• 1:12:39
  I from like an early age, I learned how to like punch
• 1:12:45
  people. I wonder sometimes what sport
• 1:12:49
  I'd have played. I got to go to school.
• 1:12:53
  And you're tall. You're ridiculously skinny, like
• 1:12:58
  soccer. Soccer.
• 1:13:01
  Maybe basketball. Yeah, maybe.
• 1:13:04
  Maybe. I don't know.
• 1:13:05
  Maybe like, I don't know. No, Maybe tennis got long.
• 1:13:09
  Heads gangly. Are you seriously now imagining
• 1:13:13
  me playing tennis? I don't have the the face for
• 1:13:17
  it. I can't do the thing.
• 1:13:20
  Ash, thanks for a second. It's like, I can imagine you in
• 1:13:23
  like the little 10 of shorts. Yeah, he.
• 1:13:30
  Takes another smoke cigarette and it just like pictures him of
• 1:13:34
  like like really. Ash.
• 1:13:38
  Ash shrugs. And it's like, yeah, I, I'm
• 1:13:41
  mostly did it to get the laugh out of you because I don't, you
• 1:13:43
  know, but. Did you?
• 1:13:47
  Ash. I mean, they say lying, thanking
• 1:13:53
  Sawyer for being my internal narration.
• 1:13:56
  That's. Literally my only job.
• 1:14:00
  Little shrug and say and like. All joking aside, you don't have
• 1:14:05
  long term like accommodations do you?
• 1:14:09
  He kind of like thinks for a moment about that actual
• 1:14:12
  situation and after like a long like couple second pause, like
• 1:14:20
  he's kind of shrugs and says, I mean, pastor offered me a place
• 1:14:23
  to stay. I mean, I know my place isn't
• 1:14:27
  like huge, but I mean, if you if you want like offers open like
• 1:14:33
  just everybody else has a thing going.
• 1:14:39
  Yeah, you know I'm going to cause you problems, right?
• 1:14:45
  It kind of takes another like swig of the dump, you know,
• 1:14:48
  popping the cigarette. As if I'm not problems.
• 1:14:52
  I I had someone text me for a Seminole while and said
• 1:14:56
  apparently I was on Twitter or TikTok or something like doing
• 1:15:02
  like that impromptu concert in the hotel lobby.
• 1:15:08
  Ash will pull out their phone and like try searching for it.
• 1:15:17
  It doesn't take very long, Jeremy Reed, piano man.
• 1:15:25
  Sure, sounds good. Jeremy's like looking down at it
• 1:15:30
  like what's the actual like caption?
• 1:15:32
  Like what's the context that like the video has like, you
• 1:15:35
  know, like it has like the like 2 lines of what's going on?
• 1:15:38
  It says surprise at the Palmdale Jeremy Reed making a comeback.
• 1:15:48
  So I mean we have somewhere between hours to like a week
• 1:15:54
  before my parents and or manager show up trying to find me.
• 1:16:02
  I see. Haven't been in contact since I
• 1:16:07
  left rehab. Now on a scale of I just don't
• 1:16:13
  want them to find me or I need them to not find me.
• 1:16:17
  Where are you? He kind of gives like a pain to
• 1:16:22
  look and thinks back to what happened to some people he knew
• 1:16:27
  who tried to help them over the years.
• 1:16:28
  And he says they completely ruined some people's lives.
• 1:16:33
  To keep them away from me so that I'd keep working, including
• 1:16:39
  like some people who were just like teenagers, like when I was
• 1:16:42
  a kid to up to more recently well.
• 1:16:49
  The good news is your parents and your manager might be scary
• 1:16:54
  people, but we're also scary people.
• 1:16:58
  I'm just a little more direct. What are you offering?
• 1:17:04
  To punch my manager for me? He takes a little puff of the
• 1:17:06
  cigarette. I mean, man, you've seen how I
• 1:17:09
  punch people. You might not want that.
• 1:17:13
  Jeremy, like, actually like, snuffs out the cigarette and
• 1:17:17
  just kind of like, looks at him and says, no, I know.
• 1:17:22
  Ash, they will like they drop the cigarette because I want to
• 1:17:27
  know. It's like, trust me, you hang
• 1:17:29
  around Santa Royo long enough, you're going to you're going to
• 1:17:35
  hear about my dad. And it's not, I'm maybe not
• 1:17:39
  quite at like, murder where you are with your manager.
• 1:17:42
  But like brawls and police cars, is a Crawford family tradition
• 1:17:49
  for the holidays. I think it was like a slow nod
• 1:17:54
  and kind of just like reaches out, like not really sure if Ash
• 1:17:58
  is going to let him, but then just kind of like Pat's Ash on
• 1:18:00
  the shoulder and give him kind of gives us a squeeze.
• 1:18:04
  Yeah, Ash will return the gesture and like, they'll put a
• 1:18:08
  hand on shoulder, give a little squeeze as well.
• 1:18:12
  Little nod. Jeremy yeah, give me a whit
• 1:18:16
  split inside rule. Yeah.
• 1:18:20
  What are your successes? Question for Ash now, what do
• 1:18:31
  you say Ash's favorite genre of music is?
• 1:18:35
  It is generally it's. It is generally like 70s, like
• 1:18:47
  soft 70's rock. So like Fleetwood Mac, maybe
• 1:18:53
  like a little bit of Bon Jovi. It's it is perennially like just
• 1:18:58
  it's the most dad rock shit ever.
• 1:19:01
  But it's what played at the gym all the time.
• 1:19:10
  So that's what you start hearing in this moment, and it kind of
• 1:19:15
  drowns out all of the ambient noise for just a second, just a
• 1:19:27
  blissful little second. Jeremy kind of like gets like a
• 1:19:32
  quizzical look on his face for a second and you see like his head
• 1:19:35
  tilt, like he's listening to something as he's looking like,
• 1:19:38
  right, Drew Ash, like his eyes are like focused on the ashes,
• 1:19:42
  but like also like Drew. And then he kind of chuckles and
• 1:19:47
  he says the chain, really. Ash grin.
• 1:19:52
  This is like you're not allowed to listen to my Spotify playlist
• 1:19:57
  because you'll think that I'm you.
• 1:19:59
  You will call me incredibly cringe.
• 1:20:03
  Fair enough, though I think you're forgetting I can already
• 1:20:08
  hear it. He kind of like indicates like
• 1:20:12
  above and to the right of Ash's head, like there's that's where
• 1:20:15
  the noise is coming from. Oh.
• 1:20:17
  That's so unfair. I hate that I have a white
• 1:20:19
  motif. That's just my thing I guess, or
• 1:20:25
  if that's what it's seeming like is it's not giving me a headache
• 1:20:28
  like it usually does. So thanks for being.
• 1:20:33
  Non headachy. Good backing.
• 1:20:38
  Anytime. All right, let's go check on the
• 1:20:42
  car before that really, really high looking guy gives us
• 1:20:46
  another look. Yeah, that guy across the street
• 1:20:49
  has been giving you eyes the entire time.
• 1:20:54
  Yeah, that's a let's go from the.
• 1:20:58
  Inside, just another night in Santa Royale.