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Hunter's Haven: Trick or Treat, Fight or Flee - Episode 2 · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

• 0:16
  >> Skylar: M last time on hunter's haven. Trick
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  or treat, fight or flee.
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  >> Cameron: Is it the extra tales whispered
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  among children and adults about a local legend of a haunted
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  house? Is it the local troublemaker,
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  Miss Douglas, that tells everyone that trick or
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  treating is getting more dangerous? There are four houses, and then at the end
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  of the street, you're going to see
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  a weathered looking house.
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  >> Cameron: I'm going to walk up to this place and knock on the
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  door.
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  >> Cameron: Tricker three, he's going to hold out
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  the bucket. There's a limited amount of candy
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  in there. And then at the bottom of it, you're going to see
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  what looks like an old fishing net.
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  Oh, score.
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  >> Cameron: Where are those originals?
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  >> Mikayla: I'm 100% taking it.
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  >> Skylar: I push open the fence, and I stride
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  confidently up.
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  >> Skylar: do they by chance have a bucket of
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  candy sitting out?
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  >> Cameron: They actually do. Have you ever seen those clear plastic
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  travel bags? Actually just a
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  collection of self care
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  things. In each one, there's a little plastic toothbrush, travel
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  toothpaste, little pack of sunscreen. And
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  you have a disposable camera.
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  >> Cameron: Ella would be for sure the only reason she would go up to a house
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  by herself is that she was forgotten by the rest of the group.
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  Trick or treat.
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  >> Cameron: He just hands you the half box of
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  popsicles you hear from the window, go away.
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  >> Skylar: And I knock on the door, and.
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  >> Skylar: Then I hide on the side.
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  >> Cameron: So the guy's just immediately
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  weirded out. Todd, just call the police.
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  >> Cameron: Todd.
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  >> Cameron: I don't know what's going on.
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  >> Skylar: Oh, crap. The fan. We gotta get out of here. He's calling the police.
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  >> Cameron: It starts to get chilly, starts to get windier.
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  And a gust of wind howls through the branches of the
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  trees, carrying with it a faint sound of what
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  appears to be frying.
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  Just draws your attention to the last house in this cul de sac.
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  You catch sight of a weathered, obviously old
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  for sale sign swaying at the front of it. And this
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  house linked to many urban
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  legends, going as far back as
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  to the infamous anti Halloween
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  crusader that has been telling everyone to get rid of it.
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  >> Skylar: We gotta hide.
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  >> Skylar: I'm gonna just straight up because I'm confident that,
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  you know, there's no person's gonna be
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  here. I'm just gonna grab the knob.
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  >> Cameron: So I'm gonna have you roll.
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  let's just roll.
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  >> Cameron: Roll. Cool.
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  >> Cameron: We're gonna show off. Hey, let's see how you do
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  moderately.
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  >> Skylar: Good at cool
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  seven.
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  >> Cameron: so seven. Is that seven with your modifier? Yes. Yeah. Okay.
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  So it doesn't happen as dramatically as you
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  want. It. Sure, yeah. You know, there's, We're not. We're not
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  holding one, but you're not getting your full intent. It's
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  the door opens, but it's almost like you grab, you
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  open the door and you're gonna drag through this dramatic thing and it just kind
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  of flops over. Door just kind of falls.
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  >> Cameron: Falls in.
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  >> Skylar: I like to think that it scares him a little bit.
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  It spooks it, just like he wasn't expecting it to, like, just fall
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  open.
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  >> Skylar: all right. That was easier than I thought.
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  See, the problem is when they're locked, that's where
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  it gets annoying.
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  >> Cameron: Are these themed Halloween houses typically
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  locked?
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  >> Skylar: they shouldn't be, but, you know, everyone's.
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  >> Cameron: Do they typically do that? That's pretty cool.
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  >> Skylar: Oh, that was clever. Yeah, that was a little bit different.
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  >> Cameron: Was that animatronics or.
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  >> Skylar: I'm not sure. Let's go in and see.
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  >> Cameron: Okay, so if you want to investigate the
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  door, you're welcome to investigate. Oh, I'm, sure.
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  >> Cameron: Why not? Let's do a.
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  >> Cameron: So you're gonna roll plus sharp, and you're gonna investigate a mystery.
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  >> Cameron: Seven.
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  >> Cameron: So a seven. really get it rolled. And just to
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  be clear on traditional monster of the week, you would be probably dig into this
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  and you'd get to pick certain things. I'm kind of, for the interest of time, just gonna
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  tell you. Yeah.
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  >> Cameron: Ah, I just asked.
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  >> Cameron: Yeah, it's a door.
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  >> Cameron: Normal door.
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  >> Cameron: Okay. Yeah, there's. You could. If you had done
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  a little better, you probably could have noticed some other
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  stuff, like some more details about, you know, the door
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  itself. Yeah, but, like, it's a door. It fell open.
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  Like, you know, can I look it.
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  >> Cameron: Into why it fell open so
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  specifically?
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  >> Cameron: Then you're trying to do what kind.
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  >> Cameron: Of investigate the cause of the
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  door falling open? Because that seems like something.
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  >> Cameron: So you're trying to read a bad situation if you look at questions.
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  So you're trying to be like, wait a second, this seems sketchy.
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  >> Cameron: Yeah.
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  >> Cameron: Why is it so sketchy?
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  >> Cameron: Oh, that nervous Nelly.
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  >> Cameron: The nervous Nelly who's a skeptic of
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  ghosts.
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  >> Cameron: Yep. Okay, let's do it. Woo.
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  >> Cameron: that's a five.
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  >> Cameron: That's a five xp in a one
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  shot. Then this is.
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  You've failed. Like, this is definitely a, You're
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  gonna. It's a door. Not only is
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  it a door, but, like, getting close to it. You
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  actually, like, get some dust. Like it, like, poof.
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  Some dust on you, and you actually get dust in your eyes. Like, definitely,
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  if you have some asthma. You're uncomfortable right now.
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  >> Cameron: Oh, Ella. Warren
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  Warner brother. Next time.
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  >> Cameron: So are there any other door adjacent, you
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  know, investigations we want to do?
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  >> Skylar: Oh, no, I'm just walking in.
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  >> Cameron: I'm following, like, wow, they really
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  outdid themselves on this place. Look at these authentic
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  coblips.
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  >> Cameron: so you're now inside of it. And the two of
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  you that have not yet rolled, right?
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  Because both of you guys, it was a failure and kind of a mixed
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  success. Just you two, I would like you to
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  investigate a mystery that's gonna be rolling plus sharp. Unless you have
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  another character specific. like, I'm good at
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  sharp, so.
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  >> Skylar: I'm all for it.
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  >> Cameron: So if there's a specific movie you wanna do instead, you can do that as
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  well. That'd be a plus
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  sharp. I got
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  1111, and you've got
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  a seven. Seven. So you,
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  We'll do this one first, and then we'll come to you. Cause you're gonna really be
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  the. So you walk into this house
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  and you are going to
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  see, just a dilapidated
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  old. What would probably be considered now a living
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  room, a parlor, a sitting room, something like that. Right. It
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  just. It's dusty. And
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  what you see with your
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  mixed success, is going to be,
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  You see
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  some, You see some footprints through
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  the dust. And these are normal footprints. I'm going to
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  emphasize this more. You see some normal footprints
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  going from a door,
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  further going up the stairs. So it's coming from a
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  room that's further into the house than you are walking around and
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  up a staircase.
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  >> Skylar: Got it.
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  >> Cameron: And these are. These are steps in the dust.
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  >> Skylar: Yeah.
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  >> Cameron: Yeah.
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  >> Cameron: So you can track that. So I want you to remember that. And you can
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  decide what to do with that here in a second. That's one kind
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  of a piece of success. Perfect. You can't tell anything else from them
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  other than human feet through the dust. So,
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  Maya, you see a book.
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  Now, you. I'm assuming you kind of walked in a little bit in your
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  investigations. And you kind of split up a little bit.
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  Maya, in this book, it's almost. It looks like almost like a
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  scrapbook. So in this scrapbook, as you go through
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  it, as I'm assuming you're doing. Because, again, this is kind of your
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  thing, right? You've leaned into your finding of
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  things. You're gonna find, like clippings from
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  the newspaper of scary things that have been
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  happening in the community. And, all of them
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  are centered around this house, the McGovern house.
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  And inside of that, you find some
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  information, you know, about who Mister McGovern was.
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  McGovern house. You find
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  that he owned the house. He was a
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  famous, I guess, philanthropist in the community.
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  Well, known for loving the holidays and loving, you know, doing
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  nice things for the children around the community. until,
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  as in the last article, the very first article says, you know,
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  he dies in relatively.
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  It's, you know, they, you know, newspapers, old time newspapers,
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  they don't tell you what happened. They just. In,
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  tragic circumstances. And then from there,
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  you start to see these vaguely
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  ominous things happening, always centered around this house.
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  So you could probably infer that
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  whatever this is, whatever's haunting this
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  house is related to old Mister McGovern
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  from, you know, call it 50 years ago.
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  >> Cameron: Like before your parents would have been born. That's your
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  reference point? Like before your parents.
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  >> Skylar: Okay, guys.
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  >> Cameron: And you tell everybody about this and show
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  them.
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  >> Mikayla: yeah, and I'm gonna keep it in my candy bag.
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  >> Skylar: Nice. Guys, do you see those footprints over
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  there? Oh, they're in the dust. That means they had to
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  have been recent.
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  >> Cameron: Yeah. Whoa. I mean, if this is a haunted house
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  that all kids on Halloween go through, it's probably just previous
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  attendance.
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  >> Skylar: Do I notice how big these feet are? Like,
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  based on the shoe size, but.
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  >> Cameron: Not with what you roll?
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  >> Skylar: well, if anything, I compare my shoe
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  size to this shoe.
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  >> Cameron: You actually muss it up bad enough you can't tell anymore.
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  >> Skylar: Dang it.
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  >> Cameron: But you, by you putting your foot in it, you've actually
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  messed it up. Like you actually scuffed more dust into it. So how would you. How
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  would you know the difference?
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  >> Skylar: Dang it. Oh, gosh. sorry. sorry.
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  >> Skylar: Anyway, they were going up the stairs. Oh, from that
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  room right there.
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  >> Cameron: That must be the next location we go. Maybe that's where
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  the,
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  >> Cameron: So, well, that's the question, though.
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  >> Cameron: Candy might be.
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  >> Cameron: Do you go to the room where the. Where the feet came from, or do you go
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  up the stairs?
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  >> Skylar: I think we should go to the room the feet came
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  from. Cause maybe it's like the pantry. Maybe the candy's in there.
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  That's assuming there's candy in there. I mean, we're just hiding from the cops. That's
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  the important thing.
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  >> Cameron: What? I thought we came into here because of the Halloween
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  tweet.
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  >> Skylar: What? No, the guy was threatening to call the
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  cops on us.
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  >> Cameron: But, you said that these houses aren't the end of every cul
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  de sac and that it's a Halloween
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  tradition.
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  >> Skylar: I mean, yeah, it is, but I'm just saying, like, we
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  didn't have to come in here. We came in here because he was gonna call the cops.
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  >> Cameron: Wait, but you didn't want to come in here?
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  >> Skylar: Well, I didn't say I didn't want to come in here. I figured we'd end up
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  in here at some point. Yeah, because the second I saw this house,
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  I said we should go in there. Yeah,
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  but I was gonna save it until after we had candy,
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  and then you guys, you know, had your.
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  >> Cameron: As the grand finale for me and Ella's first Halloween.
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  >> Skylar: Exactly.
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  >> Cameron: As you're talking about this and arguing, a
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  sharp breeze blows in through and
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  opens the door to whatever this room is further into the
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  house and slams a shinier. It's kind
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  of that wind effect of slams, slam.
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  >> Cameron: Once again, these modern day animatronics, doing
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  wonders.
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  >> Skylar: Yeah.
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  >> Mikayla: Where the footprints came from.
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  >> Cameron: Yes. From where the footprint, because the footprints are coming from inside the house,
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  and then they go up the stairs.
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  >> Skylar: I like to think that there's, like, a slight fear growing
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  inside of James.
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  >> Cameron: I am not scared.
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  >> Skylar: What's right, and that's the beauty of it, is that you've
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  reassured yourself that this is just all, like, a bit
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  reassured.
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  >> Cameron: You never even considered that this place. He's like,
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  oh, the stuff he's heard about this place
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  was just the Halloween lore.
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  >> Skylar: Right, right.
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  >> Cameron: Comes with this. For every Halloween, the child raised on.
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  >> Cameron: Predestination believes that he's fine.
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  >> Cameron: So it's like he's heard of haunted houses, right?
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  Yeah. And he's heard a haunted houses are, like, fake
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  things that people go to. To.
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  >> Cameron: Yeah.
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  >> Cameron: Scared. And so when you said it's a typical
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  thing on ends of cul de stocks, he's like, oh, so it's just your
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  typical haunted house. That's pretty cool. I'm gonna go
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  check this place out. So, zero. He is not
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  even scared at all.
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  >> Cameron: He's like, hey, guys, how about we go down there? I mean,
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  it looks like it's just the pathway that. The
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  route we're supposed to take to explore this, haunted
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  house.
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  >> Skylar: Okay.
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  >> Skylar: And he lets you lead the way.
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  >> Cameron: Oh. Because he.
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  >> Skylar: James is just seeing way too many similarities to the horror
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  movies he's watched. And now he's starting to get kind of what?
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  >> Cameron: I'm more than finding the lead away because I
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  have a light.
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  >> Cameron: And he clicks a button, and
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  his. His lightsaber starts
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  glowing in front of him, and he starts waving
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  it in front of.
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  >> Cameron: Actually called a lightsaber.
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  >> Cameron: No, it's called the.
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  >> Cameron: He says, I have my sword in the spirit.
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  >> Cameron: And he clicks the button and lights up. and he holds up
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  his shield as well in front of him. And he's,
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  like, standing and leading the way very
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  dramatically.
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  >> Cameron: And he's like, right this way, my compatriots.
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  >> Skylar: Yeah, James definitely falls in behind him.
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  >> Cameron: Ella.
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  >> Skylar: Maybe even a little close, like, just cause he's starting to get kinda nervous.
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  >> Cameron: And right before he goes into the room, he turns around and he goes.
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  >> Cameron: Ella, stay close to me. I can't afford to lose you. Like
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  last time. That zoo trip did not end well for me
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  because you kept wandering off.
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  >> Cameron: I didn't wander off. You just forgot me.
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  I went to the bathroom, and then everyone was gone.
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  >> Cameron: That's what you keep saying, but we.
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  >> Cameron: All know you wandered off.
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  >> Cameron: Anyways. Stay close to me. Follow my light.
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  >> Cameron: And he just
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  leads the way into the room with his sword and shield
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  in front of him.
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  >> Skylar: All the while, James is humming to himself,
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  and occasionally you'll hear some lyrics.
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  >> Cameron: I'm not.
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  >> Cameron: Okay.
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  >> Cameron: So you're actually getting real scared.
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  >> Skylar: Yeah, he's getting pretty creeped out.
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  >> Cameron: How does Ella and Maya, feel about all this?
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  >> Cameron: well, Ella's just like, you know, the
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  door. Door probably opened, a window probably
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  cracked. I mean, it's just
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  the dust that's kicking up is honestly the biggest of her
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  concerns.
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  >> Cameron: She's got allergies.
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  >> Cameron: M so as you walk into this
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  door, something weird's gonna
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  happen. So as
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  you cross over the threshold, because you're leading the way with your,
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  you know, sort of, sort of God.
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  >> Cameron: Sort of the spirit, sort of the spirit and the shield of
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  faith.
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  >> Cameron: Something flies at you out of the, out of the. And
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  you hear that shrieking noise you heard, but it's
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  a lot louder this time.
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  >> Skylar: Oh, gosh.
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  >> Cameron: And you see this just glowing, ghostly things flying
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  at you.
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  >> Cameron: Two ones.
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  >> Cameron: Oh, no. I didn't even,
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  I don't even know.
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  >> Cameron: What I'm rolling, but I failed.
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  >> Cameron: So I was actually gonna give you one of your, I was
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  gonna ask you to roll. Cast out evil, because, you know, you have
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  your sort of, sort of the spirit. so
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  I was gonna allow you to potentially, you know, banish
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  this unnatural creature from your presence. You know, by swinging
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  a plastic lightsaber at it. You
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  whiff, you have rolled the worst possible role.
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  >> Cameron: Be gone, Falvista.
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  >> Cameron: You made me start to yell that.
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  It hits you. It hits you square in the face,
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  and you're doing one of those.
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  >> Cameron: I feel like it hits me in the face of my helmet, pops off.
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  >> Cameron: And I go, oh, no, my helmet.
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  >> Cameron: Salvation I start just chasing it further.
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  >> Cameron: Into this room a little bit because it
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  comes from the side and it hits you almost like, you
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  know, and then it grabs you and it drags you a
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  little bit. You actually get caught.
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  >> Cameron: Oh, no.
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  >> Cameron: And then shoot. So you're gonna take some harm.
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  Oh, you're gonna take, jeez, one harm
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  to gain an experience, but
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  you gain a point of experience if this was a longer campaign. So it's
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  gonna drag you a solid 3ft. You're gonna have some rash,
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  you know, road rash on.
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  >> Cameron: Oh, my.
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  >> Cameron: Also, I get dragged on the ground.
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  >> Cameron: Yeah, like you're getting dragged.
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  >> Cameron: Like a trail of tracks.
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  Bible tracks being lefty.
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  >> Cameron: Bible tracks flying everywhere. So just to paint the
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  picture, you know, the picture of our minds,
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  you walk in, everyone's behind
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  you. You turn the doorway, start to say bagai.
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  And then you get smoked by a screaming
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  ghost looking thing that then just.
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  >> Cameron: Takes you with you.
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  >> Cameron: And there's tracks flying.
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  >> Cameron: There's tracks everywhere. Your lightsabers
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  somewhere. You're clattered to a corner.
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  It's still glowing somewhere. So all you. You don't really see what
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  happens. None of you do because you. You see a
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  slightly glowing something, grab
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  him, hit him, drag him
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  6ft. You hear thunk, thong, thunk.
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  And then it spins away. You are
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  left, sitting there with your epic failure.
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  What. What happens next?
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  >> Cameron: Talk about immersive.
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  >> Cameron: You have a bloody elbow. What was that? What? What
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  was that?
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  >> Skylar: What was that?
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  >> Cameron: Had to be some sort of animatronic ghost or something.
• 16:22
  I think I got in the path of its, Ah, it's, animatronic ah
• 16:25
  line that. That was on me. Had to do this thing.
• 16:28
  >> Cameron: I gotta ask as the keeper. just. That's the term for the
• 16:31
  leader of this is keeper. Do you think this is
• 16:34
  real or do you just think this is all,
• 16:35
  >> Cameron: I don't.
• 16:36
  >> Cameron: Alex does not believe in ghosts.
• 16:38
  >> Cameron: Okay?
• 16:39
  >> Cameron: So he is chalking everything up to
• 16:42
  just animatronics. So he thinks he just got in the
• 16:45
  way of an animatronic that moves through this room.
• 16:48
  >> Cameron: Okay, so the true believer believes it's
• 16:50
  fake. The skeptic.
• 16:53
  Absolutely.
• 16:54
  >> Skylar: I'm not the skeptic.
• 16:55
  >> Cameron: You're the skeptic.
• 16:56
  >> Cameron: So I would have probably think the same way.
• 16:59
  I. I think it's. There's got to be some sort of explanation.
• 17:02
  It's got to be like an animatronic or it's got to be.
• 17:04
  >> Cameron: He just fell or for 6ft,
• 17:08
  I.
• 17:08
  >> Cameron: Am a bit of a clutch.
• 17:10
  >> Skylar: Best I'm the desensitized. But I'm
• 17:13
  also, like, the most knowledgeable, and therefore, I
• 17:16
  would assume the most influenced by something like
• 17:19
  this. I've seen so much stuff
• 17:22
  that. Yeah, like, in my mind. And also the
• 17:25
  goth thing, I think, registers as, this stuff is
• 17:27
  legit. I just have to find a way to tap
• 17:30
  in. And now I'm tapping into it, but it's against
• 17:33
  my control, and I'm freaking out.
• 17:35
  >> Skylar: Okay.
• 17:36
  >> Cameron: How are you feeling about it?
• 17:37
  >> Mikayla: I'm very curious. So,
• 17:40
  I read a lot of, like, the r l stine
• 17:43
  books. I don't know if anybody knows what that is, but
• 17:45
  goosebumps, basically. Yeah. but they have a lot
• 17:48
  of murder mystery, whatever, teenage
• 17:50
  stuff. and so I am just
• 17:53
  very curious about the whole situation.
• 17:55
  >> Skylar: Because you're Nancy drewing this, basically.
• 17:58
  >> Mikayla: Basically.
• 17:59
  >> Cameron: So you're coming alive. This is the best of you.
• 18:01
  >> Cameron: Yes.
• 18:01
  >> Mikayla: This is like, I'm getting excited. I'm kind of curious.
• 18:04
  Like, obviously, there's a part of me that's a little bit fearful
• 18:07
  because you're.
• 18:09
  >> Cameron: In a haunted house.
• 18:09
  >> Mikayla: I don't know.
• 18:10
  >> Cameron: Yeah.
• 18:10
  >> Mikayla: And I don't know exactly what's going on, but, like, that's part
• 18:13
  of the thrill, is to figure out what is
• 18:16
  going on.
• 18:18
  >> Mikayla: Is it a monster? Is it fake? Is it like, what
• 18:21
  is it?
• 18:22
  >> Cameron: That's funny how the one who is most interested in exploring this
• 18:25
  place is immediately like, I want to. Everyone else is like,
• 18:28
  this place is cool. Let's go.
• 18:30
  >> Cameron: I want to find out more. Is there anything more childhood than being
• 18:32
  confronted by the things you want most?
• 18:34
  >> Skylar: Exactly. And then being unable to handle it.
• 18:38
  >> Mikayla: He came unprepared.
• 18:41
  >> Cameron: I just gather my things. Does anyone see my,
• 18:44
  helmet of salvation?
• 18:48
  >> Skylar: Where's your sword of the spirit?
• 18:50
  >> Cameron: It's over there in the corner, glowing.
• 18:51
  >> Skylar: I run over there and grab it, and I'm just, like, holding it in front
• 18:54
  of me.
• 18:55
  >> Cameron: Excuse me, sir, but that's part of my accost.
• 18:58
  >> Skylar: Just stay close.
• 19:00
  >> Cameron: I was planning on it. I typically thought you
• 19:02
  go through haunted houses as a group.
• 19:05
  >> Skylar: Yeah, yeah, I think that's a good idea.
• 19:07
  >> Cameron: So, James, with being quote
• 19:10
  unquote the expert, what are
• 19:13
  your moves that are march for you?
• 19:15
  >> Skylar: I have. So I have two things. First of all, there's the moves, and then there's my
• 19:18
  haven. And my haven kind of offers me some things, but I'll go through the
• 19:20
  moves. So my moves are often right. So
• 19:23
  when a hunter comes to me for advice, about a problem, I can
• 19:26
  give them my honest opinion, and then they get a plus one
• 19:29
  ongoing if they follow that advice.
• 19:32
  I have precise strike. So
• 19:35
  when I inflict harm on a monster, I can aim for a weak
• 19:38
  point. Because, you know, I've watched a lot of horror movies, so I know that zombies got
• 19:41
  to get shot in the head. I roll tough. And then
• 19:44
  there, like. So basically, I would do more damage,
• 19:47
  potentially, to the monster.
• 19:48
  >> Cameron: Let's m add ah, that to dark past because I think I. Narratively
• 19:51
  your character is all about the things that he. That he
• 19:54
  understands, right? That he's seen and, like, his whole worldview.
• 19:57
  Is that right?
• 19:58
  >> Skylar: Right.
• 19:58
  >> Cameron: So I want you to roll plus weird.
• 20:01
  >> Skylar: Okay.
• 20:01
  >> Cameron: And I want you on a ten. Plus. You get to ask me two questions
• 20:04
  from the list below. And we'll go over that in a second. Seven to nine, you
• 20:07
  add one on a miss. You can ask it anyways, but that means
• 20:10
  you're complicit. It's your fault that you're
• 20:12
  there. You're now dealing with. So as you're kind
• 20:15
  of going around and doing this, I want you to.
• 20:19
  Yeah, roll and tell me what you got.
• 20:20
  >> Skylar: I actually just rolled a ten.
• 20:21
  >> Cameron: Pretty even.
• 20:23
  >> Skylar: so I guess my first question, probably would
• 20:25
  immediately be, what black magic. Do I know that could
• 20:28
  help here?
• 20:31
  >> Cameron: So you have watched
• 20:33
  a bunch of these movies. Yes, now and again.
• 20:37
  This is not narratively like the answer because we're
• 20:40
  not trying to do a monster mystery. We're just trying to do
• 20:43
  this. Kids getting scared. So your only frame of reference
• 20:46
  is, probably
• 20:49
  your generic, like, like horror movie.
• 20:52
  Like generic, like slasher movie. Like kids break into a
• 20:55
  house.
• 20:56
  >> Skylar: Yep.
• 20:56
  >> Cameron: so the number one thing, and you
• 20:59
  asked. Can you ask that question again? Yeah.
• 21:01
  >> Skylar: So what black magic do I know that might help
• 21:04
  here?
• 21:04
  >> Cameron: What you know is that you're immediately supposed to split up.
• 21:08
  >> Skylar: Oh, yeah, that's kind of the rule.
• 21:09
  >> Cameron: Yeah.
• 21:09
  >> Skylar: The rule that I'm the guy that doesn't get killed?
• 21:12
  >> Cameron: Yes.
• 21:13
  >> Skylar: The one that's left.
• 21:14
  >> Cameron: Exactly. So. And then you still have one other
• 21:17
  one.
• 21:17
  >> Skylar: Yeah. what? Who do I know that could help
• 21:20
  us right now?
• 21:22
  >> Cameron: well, you know that in most of these movies, they're
• 21:25
  too late, but usually the police break in.
• 21:27
  >> Cameron: Oh, yeah.
• 21:27
  >> Cameron: Save somebody, guys.
• 21:30
  >> Skylar: I mean, if we think about it, the police are technically
• 21:33
  on their way.
• 21:34
  >> Skylar: In the meantime, we gotta stay alive.
• 21:38
  >> Cameron: Can we gotta stay alive or I.
• 21:40
  >> Cameron: Have to stay alive?
• 21:41
  >> Cameron: No, no.
• 21:41
  >> Skylar: I say we have to stay alive. And I say, sorry, and
• 21:44
  I run off.
• 21:46
  >> Cameron: Can I grab him?
• 21:47
  >> Mikayla: Idiot. I mean, idiot. The
• 21:50
  first rule is to never split.
• 21:53
  >> Cameron: Just to be clear, he still has the light source.
• 21:56
  >> Skylar: No, no.
• 21:57
  >> Cameron: Did you take my light source? did you ever give it back?
• 22:00
  You went and got it.
• 22:01
  >> Skylar: I didn't. You said give it back and I just said
• 22:04
  let's stay close.
• 22:05
  >> Cameron: That's true.
• 22:05
  >> Cameron: So like, if he has to
• 22:08
  run.
• 22:09
  >> Cameron: Off, can I try and grab him? Because I was seeing, he was starting to freak
• 22:11
  out and it narratively works with one of my
• 22:14
  abilities.
• 22:15
  >> Cameron: Well, okay, well, first I need to catch him.
• 22:18
  >> Cameron: So do you want me to roll? Catch him?
• 22:20
  >> Cameron: so what is he, first off, what's he.
• 22:21
  >> Cameron: My ability is called soothe, which is ability that lets me
• 22:24
  calm someone if they look like they're starting to freak out.
• 22:26
  >> Cameron: So I'm gonna let's.
• 22:27
  >> Cameron: What's happening?
• 22:28
  >> Cameron: I'm gonna let you roll for that. And depending on like, just grab them and like
• 22:31
  slap him across the face, he's part of that. So you have to be able to get there before
• 22:34
  it's ah, twelve. Yeah, you
• 22:37
  stop. It.
• 22:40
  >> Cameron: Says this works even if the thing that's currently
• 22:43
  present is freaking them out. As long as that
• 22:46
  my voice can be heard, they'll be sued. Okay, so I grab
• 22:49
  his arm as he's starting to run away and go.
• 22:51
  >> Cameron: James, James, calm down, calm down. We're perfectly
• 22:54
  safe, okay? As long as we stick
• 22:57
  together, nothing can hurt us. Plus, like he said, the police
• 22:59
  are on their way. Wait, but why would we even have to worry?
• 23:02
  Okay, this place is a typical place
• 23:05
  that, people have gone through. And what's the worst thing that can be
• 23:08
  here? That probably was just them. If it.
• 23:11
  >> Cameron: If I'm here, the screen as you say that you're.
• 23:15
  >> Cameron: I hear that and I go, hey, calm down.
• 23:17
  >> Cameron: Okay? If it's not animatronics, you know what? That probably was
• 23:20
  a bat. Bats are typical in these haunted
• 23:23
  houses. Right?
• 23:24
  >> Skylar: Right.
• 23:25
  >> Cameron: Okay, okay. Nothing wrong with a bat. Also, I know
• 23:28
  my, my bats. No, bats are dangerous,
• 23:30
  okay? Some might cate dangerous diseases, but
• 23:34
  I mean, I'm finding nothing that modern medicine can't take.
• 23:36
  >> Skylar: Im fine.
• 23:36
  >> Skylar: If I become a vampire, that's fine. I just don't want to get grabbed by
• 23:39
  a different kind of undead.
• 23:42
  >> Cameron: Different kind of undead? Well, the only undead here is
• 23:45
  you killing the spirit of this room. Okay, so.
• 23:50
  >> Cameron: Just.
• 23:51
  >> Cameron: So how about we, you give me back my sword of the
• 23:54
  spirit of.
• 23:55
  >> Cameron: And put, I put
• 23:58
  back on my helmet and I said, how.
• 24:00
  >> Cameron: About you give me back my sword of spirit and we make our way
• 24:02
  upstairs and that's probably where the candy is. Okay?
• 24:05
  >> Skylar: Okay.
• 24:05
  >> Cameron: Okay.
• 24:06
  >> Cameron: Okay.
• 24:06
  >> Skylar: What, what?
• 24:07
  >> Mikayla: can I use my move connected odds?
• 24:10
  >> Cameron: Absolutely.
• 24:12
  >> Mikayla: So, based on.
• 24:13
  >> Cameron: So read. Tell us what that is. And.
• 24:14
  >> Mikayla: Okay, so I'm listening. At the beginning of each
• 24:17
  mystery, if you look for the wider
• 24:20
  patterns that current events might be a part of, roll
• 24:23
  sharp on a ten plus hold three.
• 24:26
  On a seven and nine, hold one. Spend your hold during the mystery to ask
• 24:29
  the keeper any of the following questions. So, basically,
• 24:32
  with the door and the footprints and whatever, the glowing
• 24:35
  orb.
• 24:35
  >> Cameron: So you have to.
• 24:36
  >> Mikayla: That's what I want to connect the dots.
• 24:38
  >> Cameron: You have to roll to tell me how many of these you get to ask. Right,
• 24:41
  so you need to roll two, d, six plus, what was it?
• 24:44
  Sharp. you need to roll plus sharp right now.
• 25:12
  >> Mikayla: Ten.
• 25:13
  >> Cameron: So you have. So you get to hold three
• 25:15
  questions, just for. So you at any time,
• 25:18
  get asked me any of these questions and all,
• 25:21
  you know, so you get three, three times. So mark that up,
• 25:24
  make a little tally somewhere on your sheet next to it, and just mark off one, two, three,
• 25:27
  and then circle or something every time you do it. So if you would
• 25:30
  like to ask me a question, any of these questions now, feel free. And
• 25:33
  if you want to, honestly, this is. Yes. And podcast. Like, if you want to
• 25:36
  tweak one of these a little bit, you would kind of start asking about connecting
• 25:39
  the dots between a couple different things. Ask away.
• 25:42
  >> Mikayla: I think I'm gonna wait.
• 25:43
  >> Cameron: Okay. so, because you ruled, I'm just
• 25:46
  gonna give you a recap. So you went to Gary House. You found. You
• 25:49
  have the scrapbook that has the information necessary, that
• 25:52
  talks to you about these events happening, and, you know, who owned the
• 25:55
  house. you know that he died in a mysterious
• 25:57
  circumstances. So going forward,
• 26:00
  I would assume you're gonna continue to look for other pieces of
• 26:03
  evidence throughout this house. and when you find a piece of
• 26:06
  evidence, that would be where it would be appropriate to ask any of
• 26:09
  these three questions, any of these questions, any of the three that you get to
• 26:12
  kind of narratively do it.
• 26:13
  >> Skylar: Nice.
• 26:14
  >> Cameron: So we are. You have one place you can go, left. this is
• 26:16
  kind of a, you know, front parlor through. Into the
• 26:19
  kitchen, through the dining room, into the kitchen kind of thing. You have
• 26:22
  kind of narratively gotten through anything you. Anything you can get to in this
• 26:25
  house. Maybe try an extra door. One of them is
• 26:28
  blocked up at the back. You know, there's another door, can't
• 26:31
  budge, you know, so really, narratively, the
• 26:34
  only way you can really go is
• 26:37
  going to be up, the stairs. Yep.
• 26:40
  >> Cameron: All right, guys, well, as long as we stick together, we'll
• 26:43
  be safe. Okay?
• 26:43
  >> Cameron: So don't worry about it.
• 26:45
  >> Skylar: Just.
• 26:45
  >> Cameron: Long as we stick. Where's Ella?
• 26:49
  >> Cameron: You just turn around.
• 26:50
  >> Cameron: She's been behind you this entire.
• 26:54
  >> Cameron: I was, like, segueing for you to be gone.
• 26:56
  >> Cameron: All right, so you, are heading
• 26:59
  upstairs. You, have, you
• 27:02
  know, led by your fearless protector, Bible
• 27:05
  man. Bible man? Is
• 27:08
  this. I gotta ask. I've been wondering this since the beginning. Is this,
• 27:10
  like, a legit Bible man costume, or is this, like, a knockoff your mom
• 27:13
  made?
• 27:14
  >> Cameron: No, it's legit.
• 27:15
  >> Cameron: So they actually went to the christian bookstore and bought.
• 27:18
  That's right, they did.
• 27:20
  >> Skylar: And they also have one rack, and it's called the
• 27:22
  fall festive section. And it's
• 27:25
  just Bible man costumes? no, in
• 27:28
  biblical based costumes. Like, there's a Jesus costume.
• 27:30
  >> Cameron: I could've been Moses.
• 27:31
  >> Cameron: Okay. I feel like that you would. You would. It'd be risque in the community.
• 27:34
  I don't think you would think so.
• 27:36
  >> Skylar: But it's not like they still would have back
• 27:39
  then.
• 27:39
  >> Cameron: Yeah.
• 27:40
  >> Skylar: Or maybe they set them aside for Moses when
• 27:42
  Christmas comes around.
• 27:44
  >> Cameron: Yes.
• 27:44
  >> Skylar: Or Easter.
• 27:45
  >> Cameron: Yes. You would dress up as Jesus for, like, nativity scenes.
• 27:48
  >> Cameron: They only, like. That's a historical recreation costume.
• 27:50
  Yeah. Ah.
• 27:51
  >> Skylar: They only have Jesus adult
• 27:53
  costumes because that. That's all they would trust to
• 27:56
  represent Christ.
• 27:57
  >> Cameron: They would not have kids. Kids dress up as Moses or
• 28:00
  David or, like, shepherds. Yeah.
• 28:02
  >> Skylar: Or shepherds, the wise men.
• 28:05
  >> Cameron: That's the baby. Yeah. so as you walk in, led by.
• 28:08
  I'm assuming led by Bible man. what order are you going up the
• 28:11
  stairs after Bible man?
• 28:13
  >> Skylar: I'm following close behind Bible man.
• 28:16
  I am hiding behind his shield of faith.
• 28:19
  >> Cameron: I'm just, like. I'm picking up the caboose.
• 28:22
  >> Cameron: Just.
• 28:22
  >> Cameron: No one remembers, Ella.
• 28:25
  >> Cameron: Oh, Ella's gonna be abandoned in this place.
• 28:27
  >> Cameron: Well, we're gonna. Ella's gonna have make a mark
• 28:30
  here.
• 28:34
  how's the sugar high doing? Is the sugar high still going strong?
• 28:37
  >> Cameron: Oh, she's. She's doing good. She's. She's chilling.
• 28:39
  >> Cameron: This is a kid that knows how to, like, ride the wave. Yeah.
• 28:43
  >> Cameron: She is armed with her Miss frizzle. What is Miss
• 28:45
  Frizzle?
• 28:46
  >> Cameron: Carry a
• 28:48
  lizard.
• 28:49
  >> Cameron: She has a lizard, and she just has, like, dresses that pertain
• 28:52
  to whatever lesson she's teaching. She doesn't have, like, a bag or anything?
• 28:54
  >> Cameron: No, I don't think so.
• 28:55
  >> Cameron: But she's armed with the barbell and
• 28:57
  405 actual pounds
• 29:00
  of olympic weights.
• 29:02
  >> Skylar: She's got to have the bus keys.
• 29:04
  >> Cameron: Oh, yeah.
• 29:04
  >> Skylar: She's got to have that be the only other thing I can think of.
• 29:07
  >> Cameron: So you get to the top of this landing and you're
• 29:09
  gonna find it going in a couple directions.
• 29:12
  You know, you've been in an older house. You know, you have the
• 29:15
  living area down below, and then you have the bedrooms upstairs.
• 29:18
  So you really have some choices where to go. These
• 29:21
  footprints end kind of
• 29:24
  ambiguously, right? they're kind of maybe sort of pointing towards
• 29:27
  one, but it's almost like a broom or some wind swept them
• 29:30
  away. So you don't really know which door you're supposed to go in.
• 29:33
  You have three options. and I'm going to let you
• 29:36
  guys decide what you do for from here.
• 29:38
  >> Skylar: Okay?
• 29:38
  >> Cameron: I don't wanna. You're upstairs. depending on where
• 29:41
  you go, and what you find will be
• 29:44
  there in front of you.
• 29:45
  >> Cameron: Can I do an investigate a situation to see
• 29:48
  what might be the best option?
• 29:50
  >> Cameron: Sure. so you're gonna try to investigate a mystery.
• 29:53
  My question to you. Do you have any
• 29:56
  moves that you would like to do? Cause I'm just looking at your sheet right now.
• 29:59
  >> Cameron: I've come to find out that two of them are kind of useless. Cause they
• 30:02
  only pertain to ad experience. So I just have trust
• 30:05
  me and panic button. Because these are the only ones that, like, whenever monster
• 30:08
  captures you had experience or whenever you go off
• 30:11
  by yourself. Mark an experience.
• 30:13
  >> Cameron: Okay, let's pick one of those to get.
• 30:15
  >> Skylar: Yeah.
• 30:15
  >> Cameron: Do you have. Don't worry. Do you have the bottom?
• 30:17
  >> Cameron: Yeah.
• 30:17
  >> Cameron: So that one will then mark experience. I. When
• 30:20
  I picked that for you, I thought that was, a little bit different. Get, rid
• 30:23
  of one of those and pick one of those of your choice to keep. if
• 30:26
  you have one you'd rather have just switch one out.
• 30:28
  >> Cameron: I kind of like oops. If you want
• 30:31
  to stumble across something important, tell the keeper you will find
• 30:34
  something important and useful, although not necessarily
• 30:37
  related to your immediate problem.
• 30:38
  >> Cameron: Okay. Then you will,
• 30:41
  let's say I'll take.
• 30:42
  >> Cameron: Away always the victim, and I'll switch it
• 30:45
  with oops.
• 30:46
  >> Cameron: Okay.
• 30:46
  >> Mikayla: What? You'll switch it with what?
• 30:49
  >> Skylar: Oops.
• 30:50
  >> Mikayla: Okay.
• 30:50
  >> Cameron: so I will use my oops,
• 30:53
  ability. Do I need to roll?
• 30:55
  >> Cameron: No. that's the fun thing with the midnane, is you just kind of get to fall into
• 30:58
  things. so you're
• 31:01
  like scooter, you know, xander from Buffy. Like,
• 31:04
  you are. You literally fall into things.
• 31:07
  So you're literally going to trip
• 31:09
  and fall and you're gonna land
• 31:12
  face to face with a
• 31:15
  teddy bear. So you literally
• 31:18
  land on top of this teddy bear that,
• 31:21
  is remarkably less dusty
• 31:24
  than the rest of the landing around it. Oh, you can
• 31:27
  infer that it has been teddy bear far more recently than
• 31:30
  anything else.
• 31:31
  >> Cameron: Small guy. Let me. Let me see this. So she picks up the
• 31:34
  teddy bear, and she, like, starts to
• 31:37
  examine it, kind of look around, see if there's
• 31:39
  anything weird with it. But she's the skeptic, so she's like, oh, it's
• 31:42
  just. Just a teddy bear. And she'll just kind of
• 31:45
  carry it along with her.
• 31:47
  >> Cameron: All you notice on the bottom is the name, Rosie written
• 31:50
  across the bottom. So if you make a note of that somewhere, I'd appreciate it.
• 31:53
  >> Cameron: Rosie the teddy bear.
• 31:54
  >> Cameron: Rosie the teddy or rosies. Like, it's like a. Ah.
• 31:57
  Like you put your name on your toy, so either
• 32:00
  could be. Either. Yeah, exactly.
• 32:01
  >> Cameron: You don't know.
• 32:02
  >> Cameron: Yeah, I would infer it's more toy story style. Like
• 32:05
  it's the name of the person that owns it.
• 32:07
  >> Skylar: Are you sure you want to be messing with that? Be some kind of
• 32:10
  Chucky situation?
• 32:11
  >> Cameron: Messing with what?
• 32:12
  >> Cameron: Who's Chucky? Touchet Finster from the rugrat.
• 32:15
  >> Skylar: Oh, rugrats is a no,
• 32:17
  like, Chucky. Like the dollar that's
• 32:20
  haunted by the spirit of a serial killer
• 32:23
  guy.
• 32:24
  >> Cameron: It's just a teddy bear.
• 32:25
  >> Cameron: It's tasteful decor games.
• 32:27
  >> Cameron: If you don't.
• 32:28
  >> Cameron: You don't know what.
• 32:29
  >> Skylar: Like, you don't know what spirit might reside in it, though.
• 32:32
  >> Cameron: The whole spirit, spirit of fun.
• 32:35
  >> Skylar: Maybe. Maybe you should exercise it there, Alex,
• 32:39
  just in case.
• 32:40
  >> Cameron: I mean, he's a little fat, but.
• 32:43
  >> Cameron: Some, like, jumping jacks or something.
• 32:45
  >> Cameron: Make him do some, jumping jacks.
• 32:47
  >> Cameron: I'm just moving the hands
• 32:50
  up and down very
• 32:52
  fast.
• 32:53
  >> Cameron: There you go. Work it.
• 32:54
  >> Cameron: Work it.
• 32:55
  >> Cameron: All right. All of a sudden, you hear the
• 32:58
  windows start rattling in a scream
• 33:02
  louder than you have heard before. You can infer that's
• 33:05
  coming from what would be the front room of this
• 33:08
  house.
• 33:09
  >> Cameron: M one of these three doors up here.
• 33:11
  >> Cameron: Yes.
• 33:12
  >> Skylar: whip out my.
• 33:13
  >> Cameron: I want to run directly towards the door.
• 33:16
  >> Cameron: Someone's in danger. I have to protect them.
• 33:19
  >> Skylar: All right.
• 33:19
  >> Skylar: Bible man calls, then I'm backing him
• 33:22
  up. I'm coming from a distance, but I'm backing him up. I got my nerf
• 33:25
  gun out at this point. Just makes me feel better.
• 33:27
  >> Cameron: Loaded?
• 33:28
  >> Skylar: Yeah, of course.
• 33:29
  >> Cameron: Okay.
• 33:29
  >> Cameron: But this time, when I run into.
• 33:32
  But I'm ready this time. Last time, surprise
• 33:35
  attack. This time, I'm coming in, shield up.
• 33:38
  And I go, evildoers, beware.
• 33:41
  It's like, open. Throw open the door and go
• 33:44
  running in with my shield up and my sword in
• 33:47
  front of me.
• 33:48
  >> Cameron: All right. You find yourself in a child's
• 33:50
  playroom. You will
• 33:53
  be shocked and know, and hopefully notice that
• 33:56
  this room is, while
• 33:59
  not clean by the standards
• 34:02
  of, you know, your house, it's not
• 34:04
  dusty. It's not. There's no
• 34:07
  cobwebs. It looks like it has
• 34:10
  been taken care of. You
• 34:12
  know, someone's dusted someone. It looks like a, like
• 34:15
  an occupied room. Like, not like someone lives in it, but, like,
• 34:18
  someone spend. Someone goes in there and visits.
• 34:21
  So inside of this room, you're
• 34:24
  going to. You know what? I'm not going to tell you what's
• 34:27
  in here. You're going to have to decipher it. But I'm going to tell you
• 34:30
  that you see, children's toys. This teddy bear that
• 34:33
  you have found would definitely fit in this room.
• 34:36
  Right? one thing you do see,
• 34:39
  and I'll let you figure it out from there, is you
• 34:42
  do see some electronic
• 34:45
  candles sitting in each of the windows. And you realize these are the
• 34:48
  windows facing the outside. So this is
• 34:50
  the. If you're in, like, an old style house, it's like a long but
• 34:53
  shallow room.
• 34:54
  >> Cameron: Yeah.
• 34:54
  >> Cameron: The child's room or the playroom or something like that. Right. So there
• 34:57
  are like, what looks to be like those electric candles that
• 35:00
  can be on a switch.
• 35:01
  >> Skylar: Are they on?
• 35:03
  >> Cameron: Not at the moment. There's no light. You have yet to
• 35:06
  be. You have yet to see any form of electricity in
• 35:08
  this house. And you're being whipped by the saber
• 35:11
  of God. Guys.
• 35:13
  >> Cameron: Sort of the spirit.
• 35:16
  >> Skylar: Guys, I think I think we should all take one
• 35:19
  of those. I think a little bit of extra light could
• 35:22
  do us a lot of good.
• 35:23
  >> Cameron: Oh, you need, like, I can lighten the mood. Here. I got my popsicle sticks.
• 35:26
  >> Cameron: This is an interesting addition to this content.
• 35:28
  >> Cameron: We're actually gonna listen to a popsicle stick joke and just see how it. We'll see how
• 35:31
  it lands.
• 35:31
  >> Cameron: Yeah, lighten the mood. Get it?
• 35:33
  >> Cameron: What? What did the oregano's name? Their
• 35:36
  son?
• 35:37
  >> Cameron: What did they.
• 35:38
  >> Cameron: Herb.
• 35:39
  >> Cameron: Oh, that's pretty good.
• 35:42
  >> Cameron: See, it's lightening the moon. I got plenty. What's
• 35:45
  a computer's favorite snack?
• 35:47
  >> Cameron: What is the computer's favorite snack? Probably like something
• 35:50
  like micro. Micro, chip.
• 35:52
  Microchips.
• 35:53
  >> Cameron: Micro chips.
• 35:54
  >> Cameron: Hey, look at that.
• 35:55
  >> Cameron: See, the mood is lit.
• 35:56
  >> Cameron: Are you sure it wasn't mega?
• 35:57
  >> Cameron: The mood is lit.
• 35:59
  >> Cameron: This room is getting so lit.
• 36:01
  >> Cameron: One more. One more thing.
• 36:03
  >> Cameron: One more.
• 36:03
  >> Cameron: Take it home, Ella.
• 36:04
  >> Cameron: why did the hipster burn himself on the
• 36:06
  coffee.
• 36:07
  >> Cameron: Probably because, he's hip with it.
• 36:10
  >> Cameron: He drank it before. It was cool.
• 36:12
  >> Cameron: That's quite funny. That was pretty
• 36:14
  good.
• 36:19
  >> Cameron: Yeah.
• 36:21
  >> Cameron: Relates a little to you, James, huh?
• 36:23
  >> Skylar: Yeah, I guess it makes me feel.
• 36:25
  >> Mikayla: A little bit better.
• 36:26
  >> Cameron: Yes, absolutely. so are you gonna. Are you
• 36:29
  looking to connect dots or are you looking to do an
• 36:31
  investigation? Like investigate a mystery
• 36:34
  or.
• 36:34
  >> Mikayla: Okay, wait, time out. Yes, rewind a little bit. So
• 36:37
  this scrapbook that I found, you said I had shenanigans
• 36:40
  around the town. And this mister
• 36:43
  govern's death.
• 36:45
  >> Cameron: Yep. It has an article about Mister McGovern,
• 36:48
  notable community philanthropist.
• 36:51
  you know, someone that would always put on a festival for kids. Doesn't say
• 36:54
  anything more than that.
• 36:55
  >> Mikayla: but is it anything about what kind of family he would have?
• 36:58
  >> Cameron: Nope.
• 36:58
  >> Mikayla: In the house?
• 36:59
  >> Cameron: Nope. It's not an obituary, it's an article about him dying.
• 37:02
  So yeah, there's definitely information missing
• 37:05
  from that document.
• 37:07
  >> Mikayla: Well, one of the questions that I could ask with my
• 37:09
  connect the dots is, is this
• 37:12
  person connected to current events more than they are
• 37:15
  saying?
• 37:16
  >> Cameron: Okay.
• 37:16
  >> Mikayla: Which means, I mean, we can change it slightly
• 37:19
  too.
• 37:21
  >> Cameron: Why the heck is there baby stuff?
• 37:23
  >> Mikayla: Yeah, what? Does this room have
• 37:26
  meaning to him?
• 37:27
  >> Cameron: I guess.
• 37:27
  >> Cameron: Okay, so you can infer that in Mister McGovern's
• 37:30
  house, that there is
• 37:33
  a child's playroom. And an
• 37:35
  obviously still cared for room, more
• 37:38
  so than the rest of the house, including a child's
• 37:41
  doll that was out of place. So
• 37:44
  you can probably infer that there was, at the very least, kids in
• 37:47
  this family. And from there, someone's
• 37:50
  being more attentive to those areas than to the
• 37:52
  rest of the house.
• 37:53
  >> Mikayla: Okay, so, like, looking at the walls.
• 37:57
  >> Mikayla: Is there anything off about them?
• 38:00
  Like, I'm thinking trap doors.
• 38:04
  Like, are people living in the walls? That's what I'm trying to figure
• 38:07
  out.
• 38:10
  >> Cameron: If you look, is this your second question? Your
• 38:13
  second connected odds? So the first one is, is there
• 38:16
  a connection to this person? Like, is it more connected to
• 38:19
  modern? I would say you should infer yes, there's
• 38:22
  something going on here that's connected to current events. So yes
• 38:25
  to your first one. And then you're asking
• 38:27
  specifically, do you want to do an
• 38:30
  investigation? Like investigate a mystery from there?
• 38:33
  >> Mikayla: Yeah.
• 38:33
  >> Cameron: Okay. Cause it really, none of those questions really fits what you're asking. Do
• 38:36
  I see anything in this room? Right?
• 38:38
  >> Cameron: Anything hidden?
• 38:39
  >> Cameron: Yeah. You've made a connection already to like, hey, there's kids here. And this
• 38:41
  is different. This is. So I'll let you roll
• 38:44
  for investigate a mystery.
• 38:47
  That's my place. You're sharp.
• 38:49
  >> Mikayla: Seven.
• 38:50
  >> Cameron: Okay, so on seven, you can
• 38:52
  see in the ceiling. let's say it's a
• 38:55
  normal. It's an upstairs room, so it's a little bit higher,
• 38:58
  more vaulted ceiling. But you can see in the middle of the room what
• 39:01
  would be kind of a crawl space going down the length of
• 39:04
  the house. You can see a trap door, like the
• 39:07
  outline of the trapdoor. But since you only got a seven,
• 39:10
  you can't see how to open it. You can just see that
• 39:13
  there's. There's a.
• 39:14
  >> Mikayla: So it's not like one of those. Attic. Pull the string.
• 39:16
  >> Cameron: It looks like that, but you don't. You can't see the string.
• 39:19
  So imagine that exact same thing where you pull it down. There's a little
• 39:22
  staircase, but there's no string.
• 39:24
  >> Skylar: I. James looks up and sees the
• 39:26
  trapdoor, and he says, well, I
• 39:29
  pointed out. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I figured you pointed out.
• 39:31
  >> Skylar: And he says, sometimes
• 39:34
  I get the feeling she's watching over
• 39:37
  me. And other times I feel like
• 39:40
  I should go.
• 39:41
  >> Cameron: Okay, James, you're just creeping yourself out. Okay?
• 39:45
  You gotta go.
• 39:46
  >> Cameron: Stop brooding. Yeah.
• 39:48
  >> Cameron: so, guys, I have a couple questions.
• 39:49
  >> Cameron: If this old man, McGovernor, or whatever his name
• 39:52
  was, Was an old man, why the heck does
• 39:55
  he have a children's crib, cribbage and all this
• 39:58
  stuff in here?
• 39:59
  >> Cameron: You'll know he wasn't old when he died.
• 40:01
  >> Cameron: I don't know that.
• 40:02
  >> Cameron: But you would know that.
• 40:03
  >> Cameron: I'm probably know he wasn't
• 40:06
  old when he died.
• 40:07
  >> Cameron: The house is old. He wasn't.
• 40:09
  >> Mikayla: Ditto. did that. I mean, the house is old. Did he still
• 40:12
  have old? He wasn't.
• 40:15
  >> Cameron: Oh, he wasn't an old Mandev. How old was he
• 40:18
  when he died? How do you know all this
• 40:21
  stuff?
• 40:22
  >> Cameron: You don't know that.
• 40:23
  >> Mikayla: I told you I had a scrapbook earlier.
• 40:25
  >> Cameron: Oh, you found the lore book.
• 40:28
  I didn't realize. I didn't realize they had a pamphlet at
• 40:31
  the front for us, to read about this haunted house.
• 40:34
  >> Cameron: So you're still convinced that it's. Absolutely.
• 40:36
  >> Cameron: Of course.
• 40:37
  >> Skylar: Can I take a look at it?
• 40:40
  >> Cameron: So.
• 40:40
  >> Cameron: Okay, let him look at it. Ow.
• 40:42
  >> Cameron: There's a dirty look at it for the listening.
• 40:45
  >> Skylar: I don't know what that was.
• 40:47
  >> Cameron: Pamphlet.
• 40:48
  >> Mikayla: Okay, I'm good. Take out my teeth.
• 40:52
  So now I probably look more like Gollum for the week.
• 41:00
  I mean, I'm sure my hair is coming out of my wet wig cap. You
• 41:03
  know, it's pretty. It's pretty golden, you know?
• 41:06
  No, but you seem like you're kind of a little
• 41:09
  crazy. what are you gonna do with the book?
• 41:11
  >> Skylar: I just wanna look, if it's the lore book, I don't
• 41:14
  like everything about horror movies. Maybe I can piece some
• 41:17
  things.
• 41:17
  >> Mikayla: Well, you're gonna give it back to me?
• 41:18
  >> Cameron: Yeah.
• 41:19
  >> Skylar: I mean, yeah. Okay.
• 41:21
  >> Skylar: I just started flipping through. I just kind of.
• 41:22
  >> Cameron: Anyways, this guy, he, died. How old was he when he
• 41:25
  died?
• 41:27
  >> Mikayla: To be determined.
• 41:28
  >> Cameron: What do you mean? Didn't look. Not safe.
• 41:30
  >> Mikayla: No, it wasn't that specific.
• 41:31
  >> Cameron: It just said he died.
• 41:32
  >> Mikayla: Yeah.
• 41:33
  >> Cameron: How did that.
• 41:34
  >> Mikayla: It didn't say that either. It was, mysterious.
• 41:37
  a mysterious death.
• 41:38
  >> Cameron: It was basically under mysterious circumstances.
• 41:41
  >> Mikayla: Yeah, under mysterious circumstances.
• 41:43
  >> Cameron: Definitely wasn't house fire. Let me.
• 41:47
  >> Mikayla: Does it say anything about, like, his funeral? Obituary?
• 41:49
  >> Cameron: Nope. It is not an obituary. It's an article about his
• 41:52
  death. There's an article saying notable
• 41:54
  philanthropist dies under
• 41:57
  mystery. That's all it is. A short little blurb. First
• 42:00
  thing on there.
• 42:00
  >> Mikayla: There's no proof of body. Okay, got it.
• 42:02
  >> Cameron: No proof of. Did they say anything about his next
• 42:05
  of kin?
• 42:07
  >> Cameron: Again, that's not information that's provided in
• 42:09
  this book. You can investigate around the house
• 42:12
  to see if.
• 42:14
  >> Mikayla: Can you shine your little sword light up to
• 42:17
  this. This little hatch in this. In the ceiling.
• 42:19
  >> Cameron: So we're gonna do an invest.
• 42:20
  >> Cameron: So you step this man.
• 42:22
  >> Cameron: I want you to look around like. Do you have a light?
• 42:25
  Yeah, of course.
• 42:27
  >> Cameron: I don't think what this.
• 42:28
  >> Cameron: I've got like a little school bus with headlights.
• 42:31
  >> Cameron: What does this man do for a living?
• 42:34
  >> Cameron: Packs that you got earlier.
• 42:36
  >> Cameron: Oh, cameras with flashes.
• 42:38
  >> Cameron: I don't know if that's enough light to see with, but you can.
• 42:41
  >> Cameron: Well, for a split second.
• 42:42
  >> Cameron: Yeah. Enough to illuminate to see if there's pictures. Right? Yeah.
• 42:44
  >> Cameron: I guess we'd have to develop the film so we couldn't see what I took.
• 42:47
  >> Cameron: Oh, man.
• 42:48
  >> Skylar: What is this rear window? You're gonna sing and then it's gonna
• 42:51
  bright flash and then all of a sudden, black. And then you're
• 42:54
  quickly trying to.
• 43:00
  >> Cameron: You could just grab one. Since we don't pay attention.
• 43:03
  You could grab one of those lights that's on. He said the
• 43:05
  light.
• 43:10
  >> Cameron: No one pays me any attention, so.
• 43:11
  >> Cameron: I just know where to. He's reading the book, and she's
• 43:14
  telling me to shine my light up on the track.
• 43:16
  >> Cameron: Which narratively amazing piece with them. M with the mundane. And mundane
• 43:19
  does that. They just sneak off on their own and do stuff yeah, I rolled
• 43:22
  a.
• 43:23
  >> Cameron: Seven to do it.
• 43:23
  >> Cameron: Seven. Well, you're investigating. So
• 43:26
  you have plus shark.
• 43:28
  >> Cameron: So eight, you can also be doing.
• 43:29
  >> Cameron: Don't worry, I'll check it out.
• 43:30
  >> Cameron: Like, I mean, yeah,
• 43:33
  it just says mark, experience.
• 43:35
  >> Cameron: There you go. Mundane. The mundane, like
• 43:37
  farms experience. And then they just get, they can do.
• 43:40
  >> Cameron: Well, he just leveled.
• 43:41
  >> Cameron: So really, that's what the mundane
• 43:44
  gets is they just do weird. They do stuff and they get things. But that's not really
• 43:47
  the point of this game.
• 43:48
  >> Cameron: Yeah.
• 43:48
  >> Cameron: so when you're looking at this. So you're going out and you're
• 43:51
  investigating for family
• 43:53
  photos. Pictures. All right, so you're
• 43:56
  gonna see a picture
• 43:58
  of probably
• 44:01
  someone that looks like they're from the
• 44:04
  eardies. It's before you. Right?
• 44:07
  Like thirties, forties, fifties. You know, be the
• 44:10
  certain aesthetic.
• 44:11
  >> Cameron: Right.
• 44:12
  >> Cameron: and, you know, dad's in the suit, dressed up.
• 44:15
  We've got a big, nice mustache. You know, he's
• 44:18
  wearing, you know, just, just, you know, a
• 44:21
  gentleman, man of whatever, he is with him
• 44:23
  is a very unhappy
• 44:26
  woman. appears to be his wife. Just severe
• 44:28
  and, you know, looks like resting
• 44:31
  beef. It's not resting. It's an
• 44:33
  active, active face. This
• 44:36
  is by choice?
• 44:37
  >> Skylar: Yes.
• 44:37
  >> Cameron: and then there is a little girl
• 44:40
  standing next to the
• 44:42
  dad, very purposely away from the mom.
• 44:45
  Does not appear. Wants to be next to the mom
• 44:48
  holding a teddy bear.
• 44:50
  >> Cameron: M so I kind of look down at the teddy bear that I'm
• 44:53
  holding.
• 44:54
  >> Cameron: M this looks, this looks like.
• 44:57
  >> Cameron: The teddy bear that she's got. And, so
• 45:00
  I'll pick up the picture. Do I see anything else before I hit head
• 45:03
  back?
• 45:04
  >> Cameron: so looking at the
• 45:06
  picture. So, you have
• 45:10
  come off by yourself. Yes.
• 45:12
  you turn
• 45:15
  looking. Turn probably towards the rest of the
• 45:18
  room, and you see what appears
• 45:21
  to be a child,
• 45:23
  slightly glowing, looking back at you before a door
• 45:26
  closes.
• 45:27
  >> Cameron: I'm gonna go try that door.
• 45:29
  >> Skylar: I mean, I think we all jump too.
• 45:30
  >> Cameron: Like, well. Cause again, you don't realize she's gone.
• 45:33
  >> Cameron: Yeah, you're.
• 45:35
  >> Cameron: You left the room in, kept
• 45:37
  talking.
• 45:38
  >> Skylar: Just went over to the window sill.
• 45:39
  >> Cameron: To get a no thing. Like in real life. You didn't even know
• 45:42
  that we're conversing about the.
• 45:47
  >> Skylar: I was reading the book. In the book, I got a whole
• 45:50
  passage I found that I'm gonna share with you guys.
• 45:52
  >> Cameron: I'm gonna go try opening that door
• 45:55
  because, you know, she's the sketch. She doesn't think it's a ghost. She just think,
• 45:58
  oh, it's. That was weird. I need to
• 46:01
  go check out what's going on.
• 46:03
  >> Cameron: So jiggle, jiggle. There's. There's no rule for this. You get there,
• 46:05
  the doors are locked. Jiggle, jiggle.
• 46:10
  PG podcast.
• 46:12
  >> Mikayla: It just sounded like the start of a don't stop.
• 46:19
  >> Cameron: So you get there, you try to open the door.
• 46:22
  No dice. you can see a calm,
• 46:25
  almost like, to what seems to be the kid, almost
• 46:27
  comically oversized keyhole, like one of the old timey big
• 46:30
  keys that goes into it. And you still
• 46:33
  have one door left, so one more avenue to go to
• 46:36
  explore. You think there's something in this room, but
• 46:39
  you can't get to the room right now. M so.
• 46:42
  >> Cameron: So I'll walk back up.
• 46:43
  >> Cameron: and I'll back to the child's.
• 46:44
  >> Cameron: Room or back to. Back to where everyone's at. I'm just like, okay,
• 46:47
  has anyone seen
• 46:50
  large, comically sized keys anywhere?
• 46:53
  >> Cameron: Again, to you, it seems like that, but this is just, like a normal size. Like,
• 46:56
  you've never seen a key like that. But it's a
• 46:59
  skeleton key.
• 46:59
  >> Cameron: Oh, I have the key and not the key hole.
• 47:02
  >> Cameron: No, you have. You've seen the keyhole.
• 47:04
  >> Cameron: Oh, but we need the big key.
• 47:05
  >> Cameron: Yeah. So, to you, it just looks, like, way bigger than you're used to.
• 47:08
  >> Cameron: Okay, so has anyone seen keys anywhere?
• 47:11
  >> Skylar: No, but I did find a article about the
• 47:14
  guy that used to live here in the book.
• 47:16
  >> Cameron: Is this gonna be more my chemical romance lyrics?
• 47:19
  >> Skylar: What? No. Not everything about me is
• 47:21
  my chemical romance.
• 47:22
  >> Cameron: Okay, no, definitely no
• 47:25
  panic. Definitely flip. Not.
• 47:28
  >> Skylar: What. What is that I don't listen to.
• 47:30
  >> Cameron: Definitely gonna be third eye blind.
• 47:32
  >> Skylar: Look, it says right here. It says
• 47:36
  he woke up from dreaming and put on his
• 47:39
  shoes, started making his way past
• 47:42
  two in the morning. He hasn't been sober
• 47:45
  for days. Leaning.
• 47:47
  >> Skylar: Okay, just be clear.
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  >> Cameron: There's no evidence, and it's a drinker.
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  >> Skylar: It's an all time low.
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  >> Cameron: All time.
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  >> Mikayla: Oh, yeah, I was gonna say, I did not read that in the
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  book.
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  >> Cameron: I didn't think that was in the book.
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  >> Cameron: Anyways, I'm shining my light on the trap door.
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  >> Cameron: Okay.
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  >> Cameron: To, like, investigate a mystery. That's a
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  ten.
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  >> Cameron: I was just gonna walk into the other room.
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  >> Cameron: If you try to get him. They didn't listen. Yeah. Is anyone going with
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  Ella?
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  >> Cameron: No one knows.
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  >> Cameron: Well, I was going to get to.
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  >> Cameron: It, but I wanted to check out.
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  >> Skylar: This trap door first.
• 48:16
  >> Cameron: Okay, so we're gonna do a quick roll on that, and then I want to
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  follow along with this because. So, real quick, what do you want?
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  >> Cameron: I got ten.
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  >> Cameron: And you're investigating.
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  >> Cameron: Yeah, I just wanted to find out more about this trapdoor that she asked
• 48:27
  me to check.
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  >> Cameron: So you got a ten? I mean, to you. you can tell it opens. You can
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  tell it's been opened. in that you can see that there's a
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  nice, crisp holes. Maybe you can see a spot on
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  the floor where the little legs from the
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  trapdoor have come all the way to the ground and hit. Like, you can see that it
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  comes down. You cannot see away from where you
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  are to get it open. Ah.
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  >> Cameron: well, looks like this is a dead end, for us.
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  Maya, where's Ella? Oh, she's gone
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  again.
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  >> Cameron: Ella.
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  >> Cameron: I start walking out of the room.
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  >> Skylar: Wait for me. I just pushed the
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  book back over to Maya.
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  >> Cameron: I'm done with this.
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  >> Mikayla: I said I'm gonna grab it. I guess I'll follow
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  you.
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  >> Cameron: Okay.
• 49:06
  >> Cameron: Okay.
• 49:09
  >> Skylar: Thank you all for joining us for another episode of our
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