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Wild Wild West E13: Goodbye to Friendswood · The Multiverse Collective

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So we're doing. West Days is that me, Kyle and
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Matt just get to turn the brain function down to 1?
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Yeah, it is really nice. Not individual.
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To to come home after a long hard day of work and not have to
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think when I'm playing, it's great.
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Where do we keep finding these weirdos?
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We met a man called Preacher King Curtis, who can see but
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can't see because he uses the sight.
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He has tanks filled with rattleback rattle, diamondback
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snakes, whatever the fuck they're called, and he used
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those snakes to bless our weapons and maybe my hands.
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I don't know. And shortly after that, Itchy
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had a breakdown when some guy shut a blast off right in in the
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front of the flaps. So where we last left off, you
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gentlemen, we're in friends with Texas, which I've actually since
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learned, and I do need to publicly apologize to our
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audience. It's a suburb of Houston, not a
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suburb of Dallas. I'm a liar and stupid, so this
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is my public apology. I'd like to apologize to all of
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you, to God, to my family, and to everyone.
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I'm disappointed here today. I'm sorry from the bottom of my
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heart. I still think your town is dog
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shit, but that's not the point. We find ourselves in friends
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with Texas in the Preacher King Curtis's pop up church revival
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tent, and there's a surprise visitor who has emerged from
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betwixt the flaps I. Welcome to Wild West.
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Welcome home, gentlemen. He is brandishing a gun, and he
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has it pointed straight at the back of the tent where Preacher
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King Curtis's gigantic figure looms.
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What do the three of you do? And as a reminder of your
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surroundings, there are pews that are lining this tent.
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There's not a lot of them, but there are.
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There are pews, so there's theoretically cover available.
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And then obviously there are probably 10 or 12 stock tanks
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full of Western diamondback rattlesnakes.
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Does this guy look like a demon or a human?
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Can itchy tell? Yeah, if you use the site you
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can tell. Yeah, I'll use the site.
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Yeah, with, without any sort of hesitation, you're able to tell
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that this is not human. He certainly doesn't give you
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the aura that the demon you encountered in Holy Cedar gave
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you. Much more like the one at
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Amadeus Springs. Sort of much more like the one
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at Amadeus Springs. Easily killable.
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I think at that, I think HE will pull out his his newly blessed
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Colt 45 and I think he's just going to start shooting.
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Great. So if you guys are deciding
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under combat, we're going to do it in the cow puncher's way,
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which is first everybody's going to go around and declare what
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their movement is. After we've all declared how
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we're moving, we're going to declare what our targets are.
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And then finally, we will make our roles to attack.
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And the order of attack will be decided based on who has the
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most successes. OK.
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OK. Yeah, so slick.
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I mean, he's got his arm cannons that are blessed, so he's going
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to take a step to the side to stand in front of King Curtis
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and he's going to take a shot at the Stevens leg that is 2 fives.
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Two fives. OK, cool.
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Who be next? Ichi is going to try and draw
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aggro from this demon, so he's going to run along the side of
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the tent and just take a couple of shots at center Mass with his
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blessed Colt 45. OK, since you are moving while
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you are trying to get shots off, I will have you roll one die
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with disadvantage. All right, well I rolled A1 on
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one of the die. All right, well, I rolled 2 ones
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and a six. OK, cool.
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So 1 success. Kyle has two successes.
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So as of right now, Kyle will be taking his turn first.
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I think Arthur will like move into cover where Pew is and then
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I will pull out my blessed Smith and Wesson Modern Model 3 and
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I'm going to try and shoot him in like the arm, which is like
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his gun arm, so he can't take any shots.
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OK. Which is 246 dice. 6 dice.
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Yeah, that tracks. That is 4 fives and two ones.
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Heard. So 4 successes.
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OK, 4 successes. So with four successes Arthur,
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you will be taking your turn 1st and then a demon is going
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second. Kyle, you're going 3rd and
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Itchy, you'll be moving last. Tell me what happens, Arthur.
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OK so so this this bullet flies through from the demon.
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I will say the demon did roll close enough to you to have an
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opportunity to dodge, so I just want you to describe your
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actions because he might be able to get out of this with a
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Vanessa check. So the bullet, the bullet comes
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through and without even think about it, Arthur, just like dive
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rolls in front of the Pew to get cover.
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Jesus, Excuse me, I'm drinking Coca-Cola.
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It's it's so fucking gassy. And he pulls out his Smith and
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Wesson. And just, I'm aiming for like,
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like this area. OK, so.
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It's like where his nerves that hold that hold that to the gun
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is. You can roll the your pistol
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damage because this guy did not dodge.
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He only got 1 success on his finesse check.
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Two D 6 + 2. That's a nine, my friend.
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That is a nine. Excellent.
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So amazing. You have hit him in the arm that
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he was holding, his holding his gun in, and he drops it to the
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ground. And with his movement, he is
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going to change his mind from moving forward.
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And he's going to use his turn to pick his gun up with his
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other hand. And he is going to resume
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pointing it at Preacher King Curtis, whom Slick has stepped
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in front of like a good, good gentleman.
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He still gets to fire a shot. He fires, but he fires wide.
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He's not used to firing with his left hand, and his arm is
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shaking a little bit. You can't quite tell if it's
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from the pain or if it's from something else.
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Based on this fight in the last fight, I've determined that's
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like has plot armor and cannot be hit by bullets.
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Because yeah. Yeah, because he walked.
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He walked straight out last time.
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To be fair, none of us got hit by bullets.
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And like, Arthur was just literally.
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But I'm the only one that's been technically shot at.
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Yeah, true. Yeah, well, the problem is too,
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if you get hit by a bullet in this game, you have to go get
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it. I'm.
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Squishy as hell. Yeah, we're all, we're all very
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squishy and Arthur just did 11 days of the single shot and I
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will remind you all what your HP is.
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So what I want to do is I my point of shooting him in the leg
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was I don't want to kill this thing outright.
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I want to keep it alive for a minute, sure.
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So I'm hoping to just disable him basically.
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So if, if there's a way that like if my shot would kill him,
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I can bring him to one, I'd rather do that.
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But I don't know if that's possible just based on the
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mechanics of the game. I mean, the mechanics of this
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game don't allow for that. But I'm the ranch boss here.
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That's technically the term according to the rules that I
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read again today. I don't like calling myself the
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ranch boss. We're going to workshop that.
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I think Hidden Valley queen. Yes, prefer that fastly, and not
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just because I was also playing a lot of Stardew Valley today.
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Yeah, we'll say within our funky little blessed and cursed
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weapons rule set and the use of silver bullets, you're able to
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make that decision if you would like to inflict non deadly
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damage. OK.
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And I like, I like I said, I'm shooting him in a generally non
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lethal spot, you know, like unless I hit his like.
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Moral Artery. For moral, yeah.
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Yeah, that would be unfortunate, wouldn't it?
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Because he he doesn't get a dodge or anything from this.
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I'm just hitting right? No, he he used his attempt at
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dodging on. So that's just a 1D6 from that
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guy. That's only one anyways, so.
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Nice one Damage. Damage is damage with this guy.
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It's not a bad thing. He looks.
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I mean, he's sweaty, he's bloody, he's shaking a bit.
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And oh, you do notice that his blood is not red.
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You can't quite tell what color it is.
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It's not red, nor is it another earthly color.
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Well, that's nice. But before my turn ends, I'm
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going to shout to Itchy as he runs around disabled.
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Don't kill. All right, well, I hope I can do
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that. Be 1 success we let's hope.
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And tell me what you would like to do.
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Ichi Ichi. With one success.
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Well, I said it was going to shoot for center mass.
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I think with one success. I think that with even though he
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hears that, I don't think Ichi is able to to change his shot on
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the fly. If he dies, he dies.
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Yeah, roll, roll your damage for me.
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I am going to have him probably do one more finesse check
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because your successes were so low he could plausibly still get
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out of your way all. Right, that is 8.
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Do I add anything because it's blessed?
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No, you just have the ability to do damage to demonic entities
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now that it's blessed. Got it.
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Then it is going to be 8 total damage. 8 total damage.
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He's only going to take half of that.
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He got 2 successes on his finesse check, but he doesn't
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have any sort of cover. So we'll say you did hit fairly
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close to center mass, but you kind of winged it a little bit
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and clipped him in the arm. We'll say the same arm that
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Arthur had already hit him in that he was favoring carrying it
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over his or so and with eight damage, I'm sure it went
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straight through and went in because that's, those are some
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big bullets you're using, aren't they?
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They're 40 fives. They're pretty big.
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Yeah, yeah, that fucking hurts. OK, we will be starting our
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second round of combat. Isn't that exciting?
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You guys made it to another round of combat, but Peter King
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Curtis throughout all of this has slipped back through the
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flaps and back retreated to his office wordlessly as to not
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distract you from the fight. Almost like you know something
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that you don't. I mean, I just wanted to get out
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of the way anyways so we can be safe, so that that would have
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been that. That's totally fine.
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Then he dips. How close are we to this thing?
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Like how big of an area? Is this 4050 feet away?
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He's at the very entrance of the tent.
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He has not moved an inch and you guys are closer to the pulpit.
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Is that in yards? That's what, like 10 yards, 1012
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yards? So about a movement speed.
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Yeah. OK.
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I really want to try and talk to this thing instead of killing
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it. So Slick's going to walk towards
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him and because he's still got a gun, he's still going to try and
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shoot. He's just going to say, I mean,
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he'll say to the other guy is like, just disable him, don't
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kill him if possible. He is looking not so hot.
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But he's also not running right. He is not running, he's standing
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His actually. Let me see.
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He won't be able to run very far anyway because he's been shot in
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the legs, so it's not like he's going to be able to run fast.
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Actually, he turns. This moment that you start
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moving towards him is like he turns and he starts going as
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fast as he can out of the flaps of the tent.
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Can I try and pop him in the other leg?
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Sure. You'll roll one die at
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disadvantage because you're both moving.
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OK, so disadvantage if I get a success I roll that one again.
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Is what that? Is.
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We'll just say that. Well, I had two successes
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rerolled. Now I only have one success, so
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it's a six as well. It's a six.
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Yeah, he succeeded on his finesse check bike by quite a
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bit. He he rolled 4 successes on a
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finesse check to dodge out of the way.
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He is just moving inhumanly slick.
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This is not the kind of opponent that you're used to shooting at
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a man running away. The way that he runs makes
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sense. You can predict his patterns,
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but this is not human. It's almost like his legs extend
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themselves farther than they should, and his movements are
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jerky and snappy and the blood that's dripping out of him that
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would leave a path is. I was also using my sleep guns
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so. Yeah.
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Less accurate at the range anyways, so that makes that
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tracks. And the blood path that you
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would normally follow is evaporating.
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The moment that it hits the ground, it sizzles and almost
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burns through the earth. Lovely.
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He'll he doesn't have anything to reholster, so he'll just turn
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around and go. Well, I have a feeling that's
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not the last, if you've seen of that guy.
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We're not done here. I'm going to How far away would
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you say he's from me? Because I was slightly further
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forward, obviously I know he's hobbling, so he's not going to
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have like the full speed. I mean he's he's fully left the
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tent at this point. You'll have to pursue.
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Did I give him a movement speed? No, of course they didn't give
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him a fucking movement speed. I think default is 12 and. 1/2
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default is 12 1/2. Yeah, we're going to rock with
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that. So he was like 12 1/2 away.
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He was 12 away from you initially, yeah.
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I could get 12 1/2, but then he'd still be 12 1/2 away.
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Yeah, he's moved another 12. He used his turn to move 12 1/2.
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So as of this moment, he's 24 1/2 away from you.
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I mean. Itchy was closer, right?
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Can I run to the flaps, which I'm assuming are still open so
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we can still see like daylight through them?
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And then can I just take a shot? Yeah.
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Absolutely. Yeah, again, roll at
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disadvantage. That is, that is the most lucky
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lucky I've ever been. I had three successes and I re
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roll one dice and I got another success with that one dice.
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Or do you want me to re roll all three?
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No that's OK. I think in the future I'm just
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going to make disadvantage being subtract 1 success instead of re
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rolling it OK. But that's free fights this.
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Is fine for now, yeah. Yeah, with three fives.
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Roll your damage for me. And I'm aiming to disable, not
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kill, because that's what Slick's been jabbering on about.
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But actually, Arthur, before you do this, you've been rolling
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with your special die, have you not?
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I have, yes. I want you to roll a sanity
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check for me before you roll this.
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I want to. See if that fucking.
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Rage takes over you before you make this decision.
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Where the hell is my? What is my?
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There we go. I believe we decided it's just
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straight smarts. My worst.
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Yeah. Oh my God, it's almost like I
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did that for a reason. Wow.
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It's it's cool because I got 2 successes.
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OK. I got 2 fives.
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Yeah, you hear Clarice's voice in your head and not slicks,
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reminding you that this creature, whatever it is,
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doesn't deserve to be shot in the back.
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OK, right. Yeah, sick.
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And the role I got for the damage, the full amount would
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have been 11. Yeah.
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OK, the role of nine. With an 11, he's going to drop
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to the ground. And then I'm just going to, I'm,
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I'm assuming combat's over now. Yes, yeah, He's unable to
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continue fighting. You're more than welcome to, you
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know, kill him where he weighs. But his his time in combat is
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over. I'm going to walk to him.
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I'm not going to like speedily walk and I'm going to like pick
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him up. I'm assuming he's wearing like a
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jacket or a shirt or something. Loincloth.
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Yeah, he's wearing clothes. And I'm going.
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To like this. This scruff of his neck and if
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there's people like walking about, which I'm assuming there
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is going to be people outside after hearing gunshots.
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Yeah, actually it's the opposite.
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Everybody hears gunshots in Texas in the 1870s, and they
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sort of disappear inside because it's none of their.
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Business. OK yeah.
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So I'm just going to grab him by like the scruff of their neck
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and like, you're coming with me, son, and then just drag him back
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into the tent. And then when I get in, I'm
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going to like throw him so he's like SAT on like with his back
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up to the stage. Well, while you're dragging him
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back, Slick's going to be reloading his guns and when he
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gets back in he's going to sort of squat down in front of this
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thing. Did did you pick up it's gun?
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No. OK, but I'm assuming he hosted
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it when he started running. That's what I was assuming.
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Obviously it it was never explicitly said.
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Well, if if he has his gun, he's going to take it out of the
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holster and just toss it away so that it's not on him and he's
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just going to squat down in front of this thing and look it
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in its blank face and go. Who sent you?
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He's just going to smile at you, that smile that goes a little
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bit too far up his face, and he's going to spit his blood
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into your face, slick. OK, I, I think Slick is, is just
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not going to react to that. And he'll look at this thing and
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he'll look at Ichi and he'll look at Arthur and he'll look
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back at it and goes, well, whoever sent you, we're going to
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send you back. But I need to give you a
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message. Tell whoever your boss is that
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we're coming for it, and then I'm going to shoot this thing in
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the head. Sick.
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His head lulls to the side and just like the last demon you
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watch die, he slowly begins to turn to ash and it blows away
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gently, and King Curtis comes out of the back office.
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Slick will stand up and he'll look at Arthur and goes, well,
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we're in it now, they know we're coming.
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Sure are. I mean, I assumed they knew we
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were in it when they they sent this motherfucker to come and
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kill us. So.
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And he he points at King Curtis and goes, but he was here for
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him. I'm going to look up at the the
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fucking tower of a man and be like, it is kind of freaky how
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he can see when he's blind. And I feel like that's having a
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sight and no eyes is probably a bit of a advantage for him to
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see through things. Which is even more confusing as
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to the fact why he disappeared when he could have fought with
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us. I can see, but I can't see that
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you understand. No.
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I can see what will be, what has been, what may or may not come
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to fruition, but I cannot aim a gun.
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I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so confused.
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I'm blind, son. What's confusing about that?
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How many fingers am I holding up?
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I don't fucking know. How many fingers was I holding
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up 7 seconds ago? That's not how it works.
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Any size exhausted. How many fingers will I be
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holding up in about 6 months? He's going to direct his voice
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at Slick without necessarily turning to him.
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And can you tell him to pipe down?
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Shut the Hatch. Edgy.
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The answer was 4. You boys should get out of here,
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it's not safe. Is it safe for you though?
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How would you have fought that thing off if we hadn't been
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here? I have my ways, but it's not
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anything that you can know about just yet.
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He's also got at least 4 tubs of holy snakes, so I feel like he's
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all right. Son that before we go preacher
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I, I need to ask you a question. Ask away.
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How, how did you speak to Clarice for the for the coin
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it's? Not quite like talking.
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I can get a general feeling if that makes sense to you.
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I don't know specifics really, but I can tell how she felt when
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she was alive about you. I can tell you were important to
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her, the things that she'd hoped for.
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But it's not communion per SE. It's just a man looking through
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the window of a life. OK, OK, well Arthur's going to
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look at she's like, she's like, where the fuck are we going
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next? So I've been thinking about this
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just in free time. What exactly is the order of
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things that we need to do? Because my thought process is
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our first trip is to go to New Orleans to see Esmodius, but I
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don't know if there's something that we would need to do here
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that would benefit Itchy more before we left the state.
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And I can't honestly remember like do we need to just go start
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doing things to get to Itchy or? I'm right here.
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I mean. To Ezekiel.
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I, I, I mean like to do like to get to like stuff you need to do
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here or do we need to go there and then come back?
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Because I'm down to just start headed to New Orleans, but I
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don't, I don't know. I It's been so long I can't
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remember exactly what our order of things.
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One thing that we never covered, who the fuck do we get our
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orders if we're part of this like fucking troop to to kill
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demons? No.
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No, because no, because Chicken is said when he was in the cabin
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that he has orders to stop what was going on.
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Yeah. But who do we get our orders
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from because there's obviously somebody higher.
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I'm going to Le Maine Noir, that's why, yeah.
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You guys aren't official members of the Guild, You're not
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beholden to anyone. Oh OK yeah I'm so confused.
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I thought we were. We're associates.
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We're associates. Yeah, yeah, we're associates,
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but you've not been jumped in, so to speak.
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They know of you, but they don't trust you by any means.
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I mean, you have made deals with demons.
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That takes a lot to overcome for a group of people who are
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actively fighting against the very thing that made you who you
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are. So if there's nothing else we
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need to do, I I guess our first stop would be New Orleans,
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right? Yeah, I mean, I reckon from my
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end, Ezekiel knows I've been looking for him for a few weeks.
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I assume that if he wasn't at Amadeus Springs, he's probably
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out either, I don't know, hiding with Don Ramon or one of his
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other weird friends that. So I reckon, I reckon he'll be
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around when we come back. All right.
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I guess our first stop then is to head back to New Orleans.
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I got I got some people to see and I think we can get some more
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help there. Sick.
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Let's do it. Sounds good to me.
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Preacher Curtis will stop stop you before you leave and he'll
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look towards the three of you and he'll, you know, tense up
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for Mom and she knows that you're coming.
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You're all very lucky that she only sees you as a pest in her
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house. It gives you an opportunity and
27:01
an opening. But be careful that she doesn't
27:04
see you as a problem. You are not ready for her wrath
27:08
yet. Slick smiles a little bit and
27:10
goes. That's sort of the idea, Sir.
27:13
Safe travels. You as well.
27:15
Stay safe out there. It you just.
27:18
Flicks the brim, yeah. Flicks the brim.
27:22
Yeah, sorry, continued walking. He wasn't paying attention.
27:27
He knows what he knows. He has to go.
27:30
After we leave the tent, it's like a look around and be like,
27:32
well, I guess we got two options.
27:34
We can take the long way and we can ride our horses there or we
27:36
can take the train since the station's opened up down here
27:39
now. Well, normally I would say, I
27:43
would say I'd be taking the long way on a counter, you know who.
27:46
But seeing as that doesn't really keep me terrestrial so
27:52
much anymore, I guess I could take a train did.
27:55
They have. I assumed they would have had to
27:57
have horse cars back in the day, Right?
28:00
Yeah. Like a way for people to take
28:01
their horses on trains. Yeah, it would have just like a
28:04
stable 1 is like a stable car, yeah.
28:06
Yeah, I mean, they've got cattle cars and shit, so I assume they
28:09
can just have a barn car and it's yeah, we can take our
28:11
horses with us. I don't think that's an issue.
28:13
Maybe the technology didn't get to my neck of the woods.
28:16
I wasn't familiar. I'm just assuming.
28:19
I don't actually know that for a fact.
28:20
I'm just, yeah, it would have to be right.
28:23
Yeah, fully. Do we do we know where the
28:29
nearest station would be? It would be Houston.
28:33
Houston was one in Holy Cedar. Yeah, but that's back the other
28:36
way. We think we're close.
28:37
That's like a. Four day ride away now.
28:40
Yeah, I guess we are pretty close to Houston.
28:42
How far is the ride? And do we really want to go back
28:45
there in the state that we've left it?
28:49
I wouldn't mind seeing Piss ball one more time, see how he's
28:55
taking control of the place. Well, you see, actually the
28:58
problem is if we go back there, we might run into chicken.
29:00
And the problem is Noodle ain't here to play chicken no more, so
29:03
you can't really run into him at the moment.
29:06
So I guess we got to take the train in Houston.
29:08
I hunt, I owe 100%. No, we could just go yo noodle,
29:11
jump on and drive, yes. Yeah, Arthur's just going to go
29:19
wherever he's he's told he he knows he can't now he know now
29:23
knows he can't commune with his his dead wife.
29:26
So he's just sort of mulling that fact over.
29:30
Is it still morning or like should we wait a day before we
29:33
like? Should we rest here overnight?
29:34
I don't know. I don't remember what time it
29:35
was when we got here. It was quite early in the day
29:38
when we got there. Yeah, I think it's probably like
29:40
mid morning now all. Right.
29:42
We can probably make it to Houston in time, all right.
29:44
Yeah, we can. We can still make it there
29:45
today. If, when, what's the last train?
29:47
Then we'll just stay there. Yeah, you're probably like a 2
29:50
hour ride from Houston. Oh no, that's not bad at all.
29:55
Yeah. And as you guys set out, the
29:59
town is quiet, Placid, normal. A weird, a weird quiet or like a
30:06
regular quiet it. Just feels quiet, like a sleepy
30:11
Little Texas town. OK, OK, so the good quiet, not
30:16
the everybody's gone and there's something weird going on Quiet.
30:19
Yeah, I just, I think the only weird thing is, you know, about
30:22
this otherworldly shit that's happening in the rest of the
30:27
world is just ignorant, despite being, you know, totally,
30:32
totally vulnerable to it. All right, boys, settle up.
30:37
Let's roll out. I'm more than that word.
31:15
And I think is there anything that you guys want to talk about
31:19
on your little ride? Arthur's going to like pull back
31:24
to Slick and let she go ahead a little bit and be like, do do
31:30
you think we should tell him about his horse?
31:33
Fuck no. Oh, I have a question as well.
31:40
So Itchy's technically made two deals, right?
31:43
Technically because he he traded his demon horse for a wheel of
31:46
cheese. Does that mean he has two ties
31:49
when I look at him at the site? No, the thing that he traded was
31:54
another living being. He traded that living being
31:57
sold, not any part of his own. OK, OK.
32:02
Is there anything to talk about I.
32:04
Don't know, I didn't think we'd get this far.
32:06
I don't know, feels like, I know we've been together this whole
32:11
time, but it feels like we haven't really talked for like
32:13
months. You know, sometimes time just
32:19
feels like it stretches on and on days can feel like months.
32:23
You know what I mean? Months can feel like years.
32:26
I know how that is. Is there anything we need to go
32:30
over? You, you fellers, play the stock
32:35
market at all. What?
32:38
No. I don't know.
32:42
That was all I had for small talk.
32:44
OK, you know, I, I was thinking about it and we need, we need to
32:50
come up with a, a better name than than Pete.
32:54
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you. That's right.
32:57
Listen, I've been doing some thinking about that, and since
33:01
like you're using your hands and all, what do you think of the
33:03
name Monk? I, I, I can, I can fuck with
33:07
that. We do it as the last name Arthur
33:09
Monk. Yeah, sick.
33:12
Let's do it. You know, I did get taught how
33:18
to strengthen my fists by one of those Chinese monks a few years
33:22
back, so I feel like it's a fitting title.
33:26
Works for me. Is that I can't remember
33:29
anything we need to talk about. I feel like there's nothing.
33:34
Yeah, I mean, that's OK. You guys don't have to talk
33:35
about anything. I just wanted to give you the
33:37
opportunity to unpack if you so chose before I set my next
33:43
blight up on you. Oh.
33:45
Great. Yeah, let's go.
33:46
I love. Blights.
33:47
Yeah, who doesn't? Blight me, mommy.
33:49
Aw. Without incident, the three of
34:04
you arrive at the Houston, Texas train station.
34:08
It's huge. It's fuck, I'm going to sneeze.
34:19
God damn it. Bless you.
34:23
I. I was saying this, I, I, I was
34:25
saying this yesterday to to Kyle, but it's insane how much
34:29
you sneeze. It's like you saved them up just
34:32
to the fucking recording session.
34:33
I. Wish I saved them up for just
34:35
the recording. When I'm at work and I'm like,
34:37
in the past, my kitchen is completely open.
34:40
I just, like, drop to the ground and start sneezing while I'm
34:43
squatting. Yeah, you arrive at the Houston,
34:48
TX train station. It's colossal, it's expansive,
34:51
it's modern, everything is brick and done and you know, to the
34:56
highest standard of building that's available here.
34:59
It's beautiful. It's a testament to all of the
35:02
money that's here now. And then you see that there's a.
35:07
Train line, right? Didn't didn't Jebediah Rainey
35:11
sell land for a train line? That's how I knew that there was
35:16
a train line coming through here, but if that was a recent
35:20
thing, they wouldn't have built the tracks yet, so that might
35:22
still be. No, but he's he's got money from
35:25
trains. Yeah, because it was it was what
35:27
like 6 months ago ish that I seen the paper saying that he
35:33
just like sold two and a half £1,000,000 worth of fucking land
35:38
to to to the train line. Is there any?
35:41
Like is it worth me going on a little side question here to try
35:45
and find information or is it? You only care.
35:48
Is there? I'm assuming there's going to be
35:50
someone who owns the train line in Houston's got to be massive,
35:54
right? It's got to be like when you go
35:55
to fucking like, Stillwater or something in Red Dead Redemption
35:59
and it's just like a fucking massive town.
36:00
Yeah. Yeah, let me look what the
36:02
population of Houston was in 1870s.
36:06
Yeah, there's almost 10,000 people in Houston in the 80s.
36:09
Yeah, it's not worth it. It's not worth it.
36:11
It's too many people, too many questions to ask.
36:15
Arthur's not like got that kind of patience.
36:18
It's like 3 people maxed and nobody gives the answer to his
36:21
stars. He starts throwing hands with
36:22
whoever comes next, so. You see, I was thinking you just
36:24
try and go and see if there was like a donor board or something
36:27
like a dedication board. In the train station is is is
36:32
Arthur really that smart? He's a bounty hunter, he has to
36:36
track somehow. That is true.
36:39
I feel like he just used that that exact method.
36:41
I just said ask 3 people and if nobody has to, start beating
36:44
somebody up. Yeah, I mean, that fully tracks.
36:50
Would there be like what? What's the name of the train
36:52
station? Because I feel like if someone's
36:55
sold so much land. I feel like it's probably just
36:58
like the Houston Central Station.
37:01
Because like here we have like set of stations where they have
37:04
like they are named after people.
37:07
No the. Best that you do.
37:10
The best that you'll do in in the US is like a Union Station
37:13
or a union terminal, I think. Like like New York does.
37:18
Yeah, but that's New York. Yeah, this is just called Union
37:21
Station. Yeah, I'm just going to.
37:22
I'm just going to leave it. I'm just going to leave it.
37:24
It's not worth, not worth the aggro.
37:28
We're in a town full of 10,000 people.
37:30
And if anything that Riley has said tracks, every powerful
37:34
person is beholden to a demon, which there's a population of
37:40
10,000 people in a rich city, there's got to be a lot of
37:42
powerful people, which means there's a lot of demons with
37:45
contracts there, so. It's like that.
37:50
What is it they live where you're just walking around with
37:52
those glasses on and just everybody is a fucking alien?
37:57
I mean, I know that was not necessarily in character, but
38:04
that is certainly a good point. Well we all know Itchy has the
38:07
ability to break the 4th wall. It happens every episode so.
38:10
That's all right. I'll take my damage.
38:14
Good boy. And it's -1.
38:20
Yep, I'm. Just going to.
38:24
Blood come out of Itchy's nose. I'm just going to keep the site
38:27
activated. Yeah, I mean, and as as you have
38:31
your site activated in this colossally busy city, you just,
38:35
you notice threads, people just have them.
38:40
Not a lot of people, but more than you would think.
38:43
And none of them are particularly strong here, but
38:48
they exist. It's not just you, Arthur.
38:51
You're not the only one who made this kind of a deal.
38:57
Slick. Yep.
38:59
Is this the shit you've been seeing like the whole time with?
39:03
It helps to turn it off, you don't got to use it all the
39:05
time. I feel like I'm on edge now man,
39:08
but. You're getting edge.
39:11
Actually, yeah, I just if you, if you don't pay attention to
39:15
it, it doesn't bother you as much.
39:18
But how how many people have we passed over the last three like
39:22
3 weeks that how long have we been in this game?
39:26
I don't have a proper Spencer moment right now.
39:32
How many people have have we passed in the last five days
39:35
that have threads that we didn't, well, me and Itchy
39:39
didn't know about? I think, I think I asked this
39:42
question a long time ago, but I think in Holy Cedar, the only
39:47
two people that had threads were these two, wasn't it?
39:50
Other than yeah, so yeah. So I'm just going to go.
39:55
So it's sort of why I settled in Holy Cedars, because it's just
39:58
you guys that had the threads. There wasn't a lot of influence
40:01
there until, you know, the whole demon came to town.
40:03
But yeah, that wasn't a. Fact right off when that
40:06
happened so it's all good that was.
40:09
Yeah, actually, you know, retrospectively roll, roll 1,
40:14
analyze, check. For me, Slick, there is somebody
40:16
that you may have noticed, but it was a character that you all
40:19
interacted with collectively. One success.
40:23
One success. OK, Judge Coolidge gave you a
40:26
weird feeling. OK, see I was thinking I didn't
40:30
count Coolidge because he lived outside town.
40:32
Yeah. And we only had the 1
40:34
interaction with him and that was after I met these guys.
40:36
That's. That's kind of like why I
40:37
wasn't. I thought it was a given when
40:40
we. I kind of I, I had a feeling
40:42
like he did, but I wasn't counting him in the.
40:45
And I think that was my reasoning at the time, but I
40:47
just, it felt dishonest to not at least give you the
40:49
opportunity to have noticed. Yeah, no, I I definitely would
40:52
have assumed that he he definitely because he had the
40:54
soul coins and everything. So.
40:56
Yeah, that that's what I was thinking because we we figured
40:58
out he was like transporting soul coins for this demon that
41:03
was like connected. But then I also assumed that
41:05
like the the sheriff that got shot and killed would have had
41:11
one because he had dealings with him.
41:12
But. I think he specifically didn't
41:15
because he wouldn't have gotten shot and killed if he had been
41:17
cooperating. No, that's true.
41:20
So and obviously Piss boy didn't so.
41:23
Yeah, Piss boy's clean. I set up piss boy for failure.
41:28
Sterile. Sterile, yes.
41:33
So I settled there was because I was trying to get away from all
41:35
the influences. Well, sorry about that.
41:41
It happens. I mean, one thing you'll find
41:44
out real quick is that you literally can't get away from
41:46
it. Oh great, great.
41:49
And with that, the three of you noticed that your train will be
41:52
leaving at 5:00 PM and you can go get tickets from the counter.
41:57
Oh God, how much? I think I have How much?
41:59
OK, thank God I have money. That's right, I want money from
42:01
gambling 'cause I was very broke for a while. $24.00 Are your
42:06
tickets 20? $4.20. 4 to New Orleans.
42:10
OK, I think that's everything I made from gambling.
42:13
Wait 24 total or 24 each? 24 each and that's to ride
42:18
second class, let alone bringing.
42:20
You how much first class just. Just we'll save 35 for first
42:25
class and then it's $5 per horse, all right.
42:30
Let me, let me do. Slick rolls do I?
42:34
Do I have some time to offload some some weapons?
42:39
Yeah, it's it's like 3:00 PM right now.
42:42
Yeah, you've stolen some against it.
42:44
You it's like 3:00 PM right now. Your train doesn't leave until
42:46
5:00. All right, I'm going to see if I
42:49
can sell a couple of a couple of weapons.
42:54
Did you grab the demon's gun from the tent or no?
42:58
No, no, no one grabbed that one. It's too bad.
43:01
It was a fun one. That's fine.
43:03
Damn. I am trying to do things other
43:06
than just cold peacemakers, even though I love them and they're
43:10
easy for me to do. The damage counts on.
43:12
That's not the point. But yeah, itchy, I'll money up
43:18
after this session is over. I'm just send me a message with
43:22
the guns that you want to sell. Is it I can I can do the math
43:26
myself? What's the like?
43:28
What would be the exchange rate for selling them?
43:31
We'll do $4.00 less than what their value is in the on the
43:36
sheet. OK, got it.
43:38
Then I'll just Yep, I will just sell those.
43:42
OK, cool. I pay for first class by the
43:44
way. I'm just letting you know.
43:46
Great. So you're going to sit
43:47
separately? I did too, don't worry about it.
43:51
OK. I was going to pay for the full
43:53
but by all the boys to do it, but I was like, I'm not.
43:56
I'm not spending 220 a $120.00 just so everyone can sit for the
44:01
class. I assume Itchy's rich, so I
44:05
assume he's. Not right now.
44:07
I'm a little down on my luck only after selling these guns.
44:13
I only got just slightly less than $50.00 to my name with that
44:16
second class ticket. So I think for time being, I
44:19
think I'm going to slum it. Sickle, sickle, Look at Ichi and
44:24
he'll say, have you been to a bank since your farm burned
44:27
down? Do you know if Ezekiel took all
44:29
your money? Because you might have a lot of
44:30
money in the bank. You know what?
44:33
I don't think I have, and I'm very much hoping that he was not
44:38
smart enough to think about that.
44:40
But I guess, well, I'm here, I may as well, right?
44:43
Yeah, absolutely. There is a large bank in Houston
44:46
and you know that your parents frequently did dealings in
44:50
Houston. I mean as long as you have a way
44:52
to verify your identity and I'm sure that you're able to access
44:56
your parents account. I would assume that Ichi
45:00
probably has some form of identity on him.
45:04
I don't know what. But you might have your own bank
45:06
account. You may actually wait.
45:08
Yeah. No, no, I don't think he would.
45:13
No, you didn't bury it. It wasn't in your.
45:15
It wasn't in what you buried. No, I think it probably burnt
45:18
down with the house. Your ID and and everything or
45:22
your identification. I would.
45:25
Assume did they even need ID or was it like a password?
45:29
I genuinely don't know Let. Hang on.
45:35
Actually I think. I feel like I need a bank number
45:38
and password. Yeah, yeah.
45:40
Let's just say it's bank number, password.
45:42
I feel like Ichi would know that then.
45:44
Yeah, great. Of course.
45:46
Yeah. So then Ichi's going to walk in.
45:48
Cool. I think Ichi's going to walk in
45:50
and he's going to approach the teller when able.
45:55
Yeah, absolutely. You wait in line for just a
45:58
quick. Second, he's going to, when he
46:00
when he gets up there, he's going to slap the old suspenders
46:05
and he's going to be like, good afternoon, good Sir.
46:10
Just looking to understand what kind of a balance we have in the
46:15
in the Blankenship account. Absolutely.
46:19
One moment, let me pull the records.
46:21
Do any of you want to do anything while you're here?
46:24
While you're waiting. I don't.
46:28
I might just look around. How are you looking around?
46:32
I still have the site activated by the way, I'm just letting you
46:34
know. Yeah, Arthur, you still have the
46:36
site activated. Everybody else, mute yours.
46:38
Mute the audio. There is something wrong with
46:51
this teller, Arthur. There's something wrong with
46:54
this man. He is.
46:57
He reminds you of the bartender that you met in Sweetwater in a
47:00
way that you can't quite put a finger on.
47:02
He's not possessed, so to speak. He doesn't have a thread to
47:08
speak out. But he is not right.
47:11
OK. So it's one of those where I can
47:12
be like, OK. Problems.
47:21
I don't like the sound of that. Actually, that's where we're in
47:25
the episode. Oh great, yes.
47:28
I really don't like the sound of that.