Latest / Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling / Hunter's Haven: Trick or Treat, Fight or Flee - Episode 3
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- 0:15>> Skylar: M last time on Hunter's haven. Trick
- 0:18or treat, fight or flee.
- 0:20>> Cameron: You are going to see just a
- 0:23dilapidated old. What would probably be
- 0:26considered now a living room. And what
- 0:29you see with your mixed
- 0:31success, hm. is going to be
- 0:33footprints going up the stairs. Maya,
- 0:36you see a book. Looks like. Almost like a
- 0:39scrapbook. So in this scrapbook, as you go through
- 0:42it, you're gonna find, like, clippings from the
- 0:44newspaper of scary things that have been
- 0:47happening in the community. All of them are centered
- 0:50around this house, the McGovern house. You find
- 0:53some information about who Mister McGovern
- 0:55was. He was a famous, I guess, philanthropists in
- 0:58the community. Well, known for loving the holidays
- 1:01and loving, you know, doing nice things for the children around the community
- 1:04until he dies in tragic
- 1:07circumstances. A sharp breeze
- 1:10blows in through and opens the door to
- 1:12whatever this room is. Further into the house.
- 1:15It slams a shred. It's kind of that wind effect of
- 1:18slams. Slam.
- 1:19>> Cameron: Once again, these modern day animatronics
- 1:22doing wonders. Follow my light. He just
- 1:25leads the way into the room with his sword and shield
- 1:28in front of him.
- 1:29>> Cameron: Cause you're leading the way with your, you know, sort of sword of the spirit.
- 1:32>> Cameron: Sword of the spirit and the shield of faith.
- 1:35>> Cameron: Something flies at you out of the deer. And
- 1:38you hear that shrieking noise you heard, but it's
- 1:41a lot louder this time.
- 1:42>> Cameron: Oh, gosh.
- 1:43>> Cameron: And you see this just glowing, ghostly thing flying
- 1:46at you. It hits you. It hits you square in the face.
- 1:50>> Cameron: So I will use my oops.
- 1:53Ability.
- 1:53>> Cameron: You're literally going to trip and
- 1:56fall, and you're gonna land face to
- 1:59face with a teddy bear.
- 2:02>> Cameron: She, like, starts to examine it.
- 2:03>> Cameron: All you notice on the bottom is the name Rosie. All of a
- 2:06sudden, you hear the windows start rattling
- 2:09in a scream.
- 2:12>> Cameron: Someone's in danger.
- 2:13>> Cameron: I've run into the room. All right. You find yourself in
- 2:16a child's playroom.
- 2:18>> Cameron: Maya, where's Ella? Oh, she's gone again.
- 2:20>> Cameron: Ella.
- 2:21>> Cameron: I start walking out of the room.
- 2:22>> Cameron: Oh, wait for me.
- 2:24>> Mikayla: I guess I'll follow you.
- 2:25>> Skylar: Okay.
- 2:25>> Cameron: Okay.
- 2:35>> Cameron: So you're gonna. You rolled a nine?
- 2:37>> Cameron: Yes, a nine.
- 2:37>> Cameron: Okay. In this room, you,
- 2:40see, this is what appears to be
- 2:43child's, a child's bedroom, right? They have the playroom, and
- 2:46then they have a bedroom, as one does in this time. So you can
- 2:49infer that maybe there's just the one kid, the one girl that you saw.
- 2:52You, see a ladder going
- 2:55up, probably, you could presume to the attic the
- 2:58same as the other one would be. This, appears to be,
- 3:01again, relatively recently
- 3:04opened. there's. Dust has been kind of disturbed.
- 3:07you could infer that those footprints coming upstairs have
- 3:10come into this room. other than that, nothing
- 3:13notable. There's a bed, there's no pictures. There's.
- 3:15Yeah, nothing that you would consider to be of, you know, of
- 3:18note.
- 3:19>> Cameron: Well, that's peculiar.
- 3:21>> Cameron: So your question here is really no
- 3:24question. You have one place to go. You have, you know, you need to find a
- 3:27key and you see a place to narratively keep going up.
- 3:30>> Cameron: Nowhere to go but up. let's do it.
- 3:32>> Cameron: Who's taking the lead? Ella?
- 3:35>> Cameron: Yeah, what's up?
- 3:36>> Cameron: Oh, pig. My head into the door.
- 3:38>> Cameron: Yeah, I'm going up this ladder.
- 3:40>> Cameron: Oh, great idea. The, only way to find knowledge is
- 3:43up. Okay.
- 3:45>> Cameron: Yeah.
- 3:46>> Cameron: Why'd I say just the
- 3:49truth?
- 3:49>> Cameron: So you all. Are you all going up the ladder?
- 3:51>> Skylar: I don't want to go last.
- 3:52>> Mikayla: I will go last.
- 3:53>> Skylar: Okay, that's perfect.
- 3:54>> Cameron: Well, Ellie, you're already there. Lead the way.
- 3:56>> Cameron: Yeah, I also don't want to go.
- 3:57>> Cameron: Just to clarify, I've, like, been here.
- 4:00>> Cameron: Yeah.
- 4:00>> Cameron: Where have you guys been?
- 4:01>> Cameron: Trying to find the way up the track, but it looks like you found another
- 4:04way up. This is perfect.
- 4:06>> Cameron: Okay, Ella's already up there. when you get up there,
- 4:09it's your standard, like, old, old style
- 4:12house. Like, you. You guys can also. I mean, you're kids, right?
- 4:15You're not full grown. Probably, what, below
- 4:185ft tall? Yeah, I mean, you're probably relatively
- 4:21okay. I don't think any of you really have to duck. any of you wearing costumes that
- 4:24are you. You probably need to make sure you don't get snagged on stuff. Yeah,
- 4:26it's like, the crowd, probably, like, freaks you out a little bit.
- 4:30You see some boxes in front of
- 4:33you. that, again, appear to have been walked up
- 4:36towards, like, you see some dust that's been
- 4:38disturbed. What do you want to do?
- 4:41>> Cameron: Let's try those boxes.
- 4:43>> Cameron: I'll shine my light towards them and I'll
- 4:46going to open them.
- 4:47>> Skylar: Point my nerf gun in that direction just in
- 4:50case something pops out.
- 4:51>> Cameron: All right, so I'm assuming you want to investigate. Who wants to roll the investigate? I mean, you're
- 4:54in the front, so I assume this would kind of be your taking
- 4:57your lead. Huzzah.
- 4:59>> Cameron: Nine.
- 5:00>> Cameron: Okay. Hey, with a nine, you are going to
- 5:03find at the bottom of this box,
- 5:06you find, what appears to be a
- 5:09diary. Sorry, I gotta make sure.
- 5:10>> Skylar: I. Dang it.
- 5:12>> Skylar: I could have saved that bit for the diary.
- 5:14>> Skylar: A diary in the Adam diary in the third
- 5:17person. I don't know if that would have made sense.
- 5:19>> Cameron: As you are looking at it, as you're reaching and
- 5:22you're, like, half in this box. This isn't even a box. It's like an old truck,
- 5:25almost like, you know, one of those old, like, toy trunks, you
- 5:28know, you. And I'm assuming everyone else is
- 5:31kind of gathering around you because you said, hey, look what I found.
- 5:34you are going to.
- 5:38You know, there's. Again, there's. The only light is the lightsaber in your
- 5:40light behind you. You hear the
- 5:43step lightning up and latching.
- 5:46>> Cameron: The one we just came up.
- 5:46>> Cameron: The one you just came up.
- 5:48>> Skylar: I spin around and I point my nerf gun over there.
- 5:51>> Cameron: What was that?
- 5:52>> Cameron: What was that? Well, you can't see anything. There's no light over there.
- 5:54>> Skylar: I know.
- 5:55>> Cameron: That's.
- 5:55>> Cameron: Why was that? What was that?
- 5:57>> Cameron: Oh, that's not good. Oh, by the way, I didn't see.
- 5:59>> Cameron: what's in the.
- 6:00>> Cameron: Just so you know, there was, like, a picture of a
- 6:03guy.
- 6:03>> Cameron: Oh, let me take a look.
- 6:04>> Cameron: And his. I guess I hand him the picture.
- 6:06>> Cameron: Oh, look at that. And by the american gothic.
- 6:09>> Cameron: And the, the little girl in that picture. I I don't
- 6:11know, but I think I saw
- 6:14her.
- 6:15>> Cameron: What?
- 6:15>> Cameron: I think her name's Rosie. Or maybe this bear's name
- 6:18is Rosie.
- 6:19>> Cameron: Oh.
- 6:20>> Cameron: But I think.
- 6:20>> Cameron: I. I don't think it was a ghost, but
- 6:23she did kind of faces theft. It could
- 6:26have been. It could have been the old
- 6:29mirror trick.
- 6:31>> Cameron: I didn't know they had employees working this hot mirror trick.
- 6:34>> Cameron: The, mirror trick. Can you describe the mirror trick that you,
- 6:36>> Cameron: It was even in an episode of the magic school
- 6:39bus.
- 6:39>> Skylar: Where'd you say, scooby Doo?
- 6:41>> Cameron: doo. God, I can't remember what it was, but
- 6:44you shine a light on someone, on a mirror that
- 6:47bounces to another mirror, and it basically makes someone
- 6:49look like they're a ghost.
- 6:51>> Cameron: Oh, yeah.
- 6:51>> Cameron: Because the light in the reflection.
- 6:53>> Cameron: I can't, believe you.
- 6:56>> Cameron: I trust you. So you found a book. Who's
- 6:59gonna read into the book? I
- 7:02would like to read Pepper's ghost. Okay.
- 7:05Okay. Well, both of you guys are into this thing, so, like, I'm
- 7:08assuming you guys are gonna get into it. I'm gonna let both of you
- 7:11guys roll. Whatever you want to roll.
- 7:13>> Cameron: So I just take the book out of my hands?
- 7:16>> Cameron: Yeah. And the candle and the couch.
- 7:19>> Skylar: I have an ability that's lore library. And it says, when you
- 7:22hit the books, take plus one forward to investigate the mystery. It's
- 7:24part of my haven, but I'm guessing that because we're not.
- 7:27>> Cameron: Yeah.
- 7:28>> Skylar: In a situation yet.
- 7:29>> Cameron: So rule for it. Like, rule for, like, prior knowledge.
- 7:32Basically. Basically you're trying to say, what am I gonna
- 7:35get out of this? Right?
- 7:36>> Skylar: And this is sharp, right?
- 7:38>> Cameron: Yeah. You'll remind me where I. Yeah, you're not gonna get anything.
- 7:41>> Skylar: I was gonna say three, four, five.
- 7:42>> Cameron: You actually dropped the book.
- 7:43>> Skylar: I was close. Oops, sorry.
- 7:45>> Cameron: You have a plus.
- 7:46>> Skylar: Yeah, I have a plus two in chart then five. Yeah,
- 7:49total five.
- 7:49>> Cameron: Yeah. So.
- 7:50>> Skylar: Yeah, well, technically six, because I'd get the plus one from lore
- 7:53library.
- 7:54>> Cameron: But I digress. You kind of lost the plot on.
- 7:56Yeah, you dropped the book. I'm assuming Maya is a little
- 7:59bit annoyed. Like, just let me do my thing. I already found the other book.
- 8:02>> Skylar: Right.
- 8:02>> Cameron: I already found the scrapbook. So using
- 8:05what you already know from the scrapbook I'm going to give
- 8:08you, I don't want. Let's call it advantage. This isn't usually a
- 8:11thing you do, but you already have a prior knowledge of some of the things
- 8:14this family is probably going to talk about. So if you want to skim
- 8:17this book to see if you can find any information that would tell you what it is and
- 8:20maybe connect some dots for you, you can do that.
- 8:23So roll two dice twice and take the higher of the
- 8:26two. Roll. Yeah, roll both. Roll them
- 8:29twice. Roll twice. What do you get?
- 8:31>> Mikayla: Four.
- 8:32>> Cameron: Roll again.
- 8:34>> Mikayla: Twelve.
- 8:35>> Cameron: Okay. Wow. So you're probably gonna keep your twelve. Yes.
- 8:37So on your just hitting it big.
- 8:41You realize this is a
- 8:43diary. of the little girl.
- 8:46this is Rosie's diary. you were
- 8:49right. Rosie is the name. that is the name of the
- 8:52girl, not of the doll.
- 8:53>> Cameron: She'll just say like, it's Rosie's diary. I'll chime in from the side.
- 8:56That's the name on the bear.
- 8:59>> Cameron: I'm gonna give you that one. That's so loud.
- 9:00>> Cameron: Owl jeez.
- 9:01>> Cameron: I'm gonna give you that one for free. There's a dot you can connect.
- 9:04Toy belongs to Rosie. so in this,
- 9:07you're gonna find a little bit of information about the little girl.
- 9:10Ah. Rosie's father
- 9:12was, the McGovern, that owned the house.
- 9:15He was in charge of putting on the, Halloween
- 9:18festival for the town. You know, back in the
- 9:21before yous, he
- 9:24was again famous for philanthropy and,
- 9:27you know, the cheer and love of the holidays and of a
- 9:30little bit of mischief and you know, light hearted scaring
- 9:33of children. He was just that guy. He's that guy in the town, right? Well
- 9:36respected, well loved. never made someone do a trick. It was always
- 9:38treats, you know, that kind of guy. M. then he
- 9:41died while putting decor. And again, this is back
- 9:44in, like, the fifties, you know,
- 9:47probably the earlier first generation of, like, let's decorate for
- 9:50this holiday. You know, the war is over. We don't have to be scared.
- 9:53>> Cameron: Right.
- 9:53>> Cameron: and, you know, he was well known as being the first person to decorate
- 9:56and do a haunted house. And that, you know, they would haunt the little
- 9:59area around their house. And it was well known for being spooky,
- 10:01and he actually died in that process.
- 10:05that that was. That was it. So as
- 10:08you read this, you realize pretty
- 10:10quickly that Halloween's what
- 10:13killed him, if you want to think about it that way. Right? This was. This man
- 10:16was a victim of. And you can tell from the little girl that
- 10:19there was definitely some resentment of that.
- 10:22She went from being, you know, a couple entries of
- 10:24Halloween's coming. It's my favorite holiday to,
- 10:27I will never. I will never celebrate this holiday again. You
- 10:30know, this holiday took the most. Maybe she didn't like her mom much. Maybe
- 10:33her mom was a little more severe and against,
- 10:36the ridiculousness of the holiday.
- 10:39So making those connections here.
- 10:42You found out that the daughter resents the
- 10:45holiday. You found out that the daughter is Rosie. You found out
- 10:47that the, holiday isn't really
- 10:50popular in this family anymore after old man McGovern
- 10:53died. So you now are
- 10:56upstairs in the attic, in that trunk, you have found
- 10:59a diary. Inside of the diary as a paper, as a
- 11:02bookmark for that page, the section you found on the family history
- 11:05is this key. You have found the key. You have what
- 11:08you assume would be the ability to go into that room.
- 11:11>> Cameron: If we could get.
- 11:12>> Cameron: If you now have to find your way out of it. So you are
- 11:15a bunch of young, intrepid sleuths. You know there is
- 11:18at least two exits from this room. You know one of them
- 11:21has been slammed behind you, but you
- 11:24also know there's another one somewhere that must open from the top
- 11:27because it doesn't open from the bottom.
- 11:28>> Skylar: No, I thought you were gonna say. And then there's the window that just drops.
- 11:31>> Cameron: And then you can throw 20ft to the ground.
- 11:34The most expensive.
- 11:37>> Cameron: Ella, while we're, while they're reading that book, how about you trying to find
- 11:40a way down?
- 11:40>> Cameron: Okay?
- 11:41>> Cameron: Do we want to go the way we came or. There's the alternate
- 11:44exit.
- 11:44>> Mikayla: I can investigate a mystery.
- 11:47Aka the room.
- 11:48>> Cameron: Yes.
- 11:49>> Mikayla: To try and find you can't.
- 11:51>> Cameron: I would say you might want to consider, while they're
- 11:54doing that, you may want to consider your. Well, we kind of just did your connect the dots.
- 11:57I kind of gave that to you without you asking for it. let's. I
- 12:00think one of you will have a move that will kind of help you with that.
- 12:02If I recall, I would look through your sheets really quick, and let's see if we can't give
- 12:05you your quote unquote special moment.
- 12:08>> Cameron: Oh, can I use panic button?
- 12:09>> Cameron: Yeah. for the crowd at home. Read that to
- 12:12us.
- 12:13>> Cameron: When you need to escape, name the route you'll try and roll.
- 12:15Plus sharp. On a ten, you're out of danger. No problem. On
- 12:18seven to nine, you can go or stay. But if you
- 12:21go, it's going to cost you. You leave something behind,
- 12:24or something comes with you. On a miss, you are caught
- 12:27halfway out of.
- 12:30>> Cameron: You know what? I'm gonna have fun with this, no matter what.
- 12:31>> Skylar: That would be all right.
- 12:32>> Cameron: So you tell me how you're breaking out. Consider
- 12:35this a partner thing. You get to use him as a prop
- 12:38if you want to.
- 12:39>> Cameron: I will go.
- 12:40>> Cameron: I am your light. My light's your way.
- 12:42>> Cameron: I will take Alex and just kind
- 12:45of, you know, play into, you know, he's the
- 12:48big, brave man, and I just have the light source, and I just
- 12:51have the idea. Cause he asked me for the idea, and we are
- 12:54going to look for that ladder thing
- 12:56together. And if we find it,
- 12:59my idea is to make
- 13:02Alex basically jump on it
- 13:05to try and dislodge the
- 13:07ladder.
- 13:08>> Skylar: He's wearing armor.
- 13:09>> Cameron: He's got armor. Is that how you sell it to him?
- 13:12>> Cameron: Yeah.
- 13:12>> Cameron: Yeah.
- 13:12>> Cameron: It's like, hey, Alex, I'm too scared to do it.
- 13:15>> Cameron: Wait a second.
- 13:16>> Cameron: I'm gonna actually have you roll charm, and if. If you hit
- 13:19it, he'll do without even worrying about it.
- 13:22>> Cameron: Eight.
- 13:23>> Cameron: That's your plus, including your plus charm. Well, that's that.
- 13:26>> Cameron: I have a zero charge.
- 13:26>> Cameron: Yes. So you have to convince him. You have to give him
- 13:29a really convincing reason why he's not gonna get hurt,
- 13:32Alex. And he has to be the one that tells you it's convincing.
- 13:34>> Cameron: You've got the chest plate.
- 13:37You've got the armor of God.
- 13:40You've got all this protection. You're the
- 13:43only one who can
- 13:45survive this fall. If you fall.
- 13:48>> Cameron: What?
- 13:49>> Cameron: What?
- 13:49>> Cameron: I just climbed down the ladder.
- 13:51>> Cameron: Well, yeah, but if it dislodges, you.
- 13:53>> Cameron: Know, it's not real armor, right?
- 13:55>> Cameron: No, that's real cheap.
- 13:59>> Mikayla: The armor of God is real.
- 14:00>> Cameron: Only armor I've got is real. Thank you, Maya. But, we're talking
- 14:03about Maya costume.
- 14:06>> Cameron: but I'm sure if you. You need me. What, knock this
- 14:08or something?
- 14:09>> Cameron: Yeah, I start, like, slamming my.
- 14:13>> Skylar: I have something.
- 14:13>> Cameron: Oh, snake eyes.
- 14:15>> Cameron: So you failed. You failed your,
- 14:18Do I need to roll you? Just. No, no, this is you.
- 14:21He rolled a charm to convince you. Yeah,
- 14:25that was eight.
- 14:26>> Cameron: So you.
- 14:26>> Cameron: Yeah, so he starts kicking, which is assuming what he.
- 14:29>> Cameron: That was the panic button roll on a miss,
- 14:32you are caught halfway out.
- 14:34>> Cameron: Yeah. So I'm gonna assume that that's actually a. Transitive properties to him
- 14:37because you got him to do it. I guess. Yeah.
- 14:40So basically what this means is
- 14:42you're the. You know, this is a ladder.
- 14:45Like, coming up, going down.
- 14:48You, have gotten towards the middle ground of it, and you just
- 14:51start jumping. Stomp, stomp, stomp. Well, it goes.
- 14:54Your feet are now caught in it. You go head first.
- 14:57And you are caught with your feet in
- 15:00the rungs, looking straight, going straight
- 15:02down, coming from here, all the way down,
- 15:05upside down, swinging in. And I'm
- 15:08going to have you roll three
- 15:11dice. You are going to roll for
- 15:13an, Let's call it invest. Like, really a bad
- 15:16situation. You can use. You can substitute for another roll if you have something you would
- 15:19do under. Under, you know, duress. Roll three. Take your
- 15:22bottom two. So you've rolled a three
- 15:25plus whatever your sharp is. Four.
- 15:28So you have a four. You, don't see anything important?
- 15:30>> Cameron: Well, that's because I hit my head a little harder.
- 15:34>> Cameron: I did it.
- 15:35>> Cameron: I am dangling upside down from this ladder. I'm like,
- 15:38ah. Emma. Ella. I, appear
- 15:41to have found, myself in a precarious situation right
- 15:43here. I need some assistance.
- 15:46I have dropped my saber.
- 15:48>> Skylar: Oh. Ella, grab one arm and I'll grab the
- 15:51other one.
- 15:52>> Cameron: You can pull him up or you can push.
- 15:54>> Cameron: Why don't we push him down that way? We're out of the
- 15:56attic.
- 15:57>> Skylar: Let's. You take the ladder.
- 16:00>> Cameron: He's gonna hurt himself.
- 16:01>> Cameron: He's got armor.
- 16:02>> Cameron: Let me. Let me just rearrange myself here. And I start to
- 16:05try, like, turn my body so I can, like, kind of, like,
- 16:08earth crawl my way down the ladder. Instead
- 16:11of going down on my back.
- 16:12>> Cameron: I can go down on my side. That's gonna be a tough,
- 16:15It's bro plus tough.
- 16:16>> Skylar: That's exactly why I was saying six.
- 16:19>> Cameron: Hey, six plus, what's your tough?
- 16:21>> Cameron: Nothing.
- 16:21>> Cameron: Nothing. So, like, yeah, you fall, but, like, probably
- 16:24make it look kind of what your version of brave would look
- 16:27like.
- 16:27>> Cameron: What's my version of brave?
- 16:28>> Cameron: Whatever your version of it is very close.
- 16:30>> Cameron: Well, it's not brave. It's very clumsy. As I'm trying to turn,
- 16:33I dislodge my feet mid turn. Like, trying to
- 16:36turn, but instead of me turning while
- 16:39keeping my hold, I lose my hold and I mel just go and
- 16:42I go down sideways. I go down my side, and I think I,
- 16:45like, crash right into the wall.
- 16:47>> Cameron: Okay, take two, harm. Hey, is that your
- 16:49first time taking harm? Nope.
- 16:50>> Skylar: No.
- 16:51>> Cameron: Second time.
- 16:51>> Cameron: So what do you have for harm?
- 16:52>> Cameron: A, three.
- 16:53>> Cameron: Wow.
- 16:54>> Cameron: Okay. If you get one more, you're on the
- 16:57road to,
- 16:57>> Cameron: Okay. Oh, look, guys, I found my
- 17:00sort of spirit.
- 17:03>> Cameron: Yeah. In the family friendly version of
- 17:05this, you're at the point of not feeling
- 17:08very,
- 17:09>> Cameron: I think I'm gonna be out for concussion protocol.
- 17:14Guys, the way's clear.
- 17:16>> Cameron: Let's be honest. Your dad probably doesn't believe that's real.
- 17:18>> Cameron: This is the early two thousands.
- 17:21Concussions aren't a real thing.
- 17:22>> Cameron: Keep calling him.
- 17:26>> Cameron: so, you're down. Does everyone else fall? Yes.
- 17:29Well, since you guys can see it, obviously it's the
- 17:32letter.
- 17:32>> Cameron: Appropriately, please, guys.
- 17:35>> Cameron: so you have a key, you have some information.
- 17:38>> Cameron: Oh, guys, look at that. My helmet is completely
- 17:40shattered.
- 17:42>> Skylar: Oh, dude, you broke your helmet.
- 17:43>> Cameron: Yeah, I think it actually. Ah.
- 17:45>> Cameron: Saves the fall.
- 17:48This is why my parents told me they were always wearing your helmet when you go
- 17:50biking.
- 17:51>> Cameron: I guess that probably is actually very
- 17:54accurate.
- 17:54>> Skylar: It's also why they're only meant for, like, one time use.
- 17:57>> Cameron: Well, you know what? One time, one and nine, and I
- 18:00toss it onto the.
- 18:01>> Cameron: Actually, you know what? You're right, because you had the helmet. Take one of your arm away.
- 18:04>> Cameron: Okay.
- 18:04>> Cameron: Yeah, because I didn't even think about that. You had the helmet. You had the helmet. Which
- 18:07would have prevented half of that damage.
- 18:08>> Skylar: He was very adamant about keeping it on, too.
- 18:10>> Cameron: Yeah, because I lost it earlier and.
- 18:12>> Cameron: I had to go.
- 18:13>> Cameron: I apologize. I didn't even think about it. so again, you now have
- 18:16a key. You have one room left. You have a slightly
- 18:19less concussed.
- 18:20>> Cameron: I'm still woozy. All right,
- 18:23guys, did we find the, any way to get into
- 18:26that final room?
- 18:28>> Skylar: Yep. We have the key, don't we?
- 18:30>> Cameron: I didn't know that.
- 18:30>> Skylar: It was in the book.
- 18:32>> Cameron: Yeah, see, I.
- 18:32>> Cameron: Who's got the key?
- 18:34>> Cameron: Everything I do, everything that happened in the attic, I
- 18:37forgot about. It's totally gone.
- 18:38>> Cameron: Did you? One could ask question if you guys even know about the
- 18:41book yet, because the light went out, y'all got. You two started
- 18:44stomping around. You guys found the book, right?
- 18:48>> Skylar: Yeah, we found a diary.
- 18:49>> Cameron: Oh, in the attic.
- 18:50>> Skylar: Yeah, it's diary of
- 18:53Jane.
- 18:55Sorry, that was. I was trying to make.
- 18:57>> Cameron: I don't even think that song jokes.
- 19:00>> Cameron: So you could probably infer. By the way, this is Rosie
- 19:03McGovern, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, what about if I said her
- 19:06last name, but the McGovern fan.
- 19:07>> Cameron: Oh, what? Her diary thing?
- 19:09>> Mikayla: basically she's mister McGovern's
- 19:12daughter. He died trying to make a
- 19:15haunted house around Halloween, so now
- 19:18she basically hates Halloween. That's just.
- 19:22>> Skylar: Yeah, I'm pretty sure at the
- 19:24very end of it, it said
- 19:27that I can live without you, but
- 19:30without you.
- 19:31>> Skylar: I'll be miserable at best.
- 19:32>> Cameron: Modern poet.
- 19:33>> Cameron: That actually seems like it would fit about a little girl talking about her dad.
- 19:36Yeah, that might be the first topical.
- 19:38>> Skylar: Mayday parade is pretty good about making them sound
- 19:41so sound like a girl with a dead dad, huh?
- 19:43>> Cameron: We found ourselves a modern day poet.
- 19:45>> Cameron: All right, everybody, let's make sure that that band finds this podcast. And here's
- 19:48that point of them, because.
- 19:49>> Skylar: I think they'll sue us.
- 19:51>> Cameron: No, I think Mayday Parade should put us on
- 19:55our music. Sounds like you'd think after your dad died.
- 19:58>> Skylar: That's right.
- 19:59>> Cameron: Who's gonna put in the key then?
- 20:01>> Mikayla: I will.
- 20:02>> Cameron: Okay.
- 20:03>> Skylar: I'll be ready with my nerf gun.
- 20:04>> Cameron: Okay. Is there anything else you want to do while you do it?
- 20:07>> Skylar: Is.
- 20:07>> Cameron: Is there any other special moves? Is there any else, anything
- 20:10specific you want to do where you just want to open the door?
- 20:12>> Cameron: I prepare myself with a teddy bear.
- 20:14>> Cameron: My shield is up.
- 20:15>> Skylar: I have my gun at the ready for a
- 20:17precise strike, if that's
- 20:20necessary.
- 20:21>> Cameron: Okay, what do you do? Are you going to
- 20:24open it?
- 20:24>> Mikayla: Open it.
- 20:25>> Cameron: Okay.
- 20:25>> Cameron: You open the door and immediately
- 20:28something comes flying out of you.
- 20:32This is not a little spirit, a.
- 20:34>> Skylar: Bat of a big bat, a big spirit.
- 20:37>> Cameron: This is a, what would appear to be a
- 20:40full sized, to you,
- 20:42gigantic person because you know, your kids. Yeah, this
- 20:45is, you know, it's a full sheet. it's a big old ghost
- 20:48looking thing in it. All you hear is,
- 20:51again, you have the same kind of ghostly light and you
- 20:53hear, get out of my house
- 20:57and just screaming it again, being loud.
- 20:59>> Skylar: Yeah.
- 21:00>> Cameron: but it is. This is full on, you
- 21:03know, ghost shrieking, thing
- 21:06flying adjacent to you. Not flying into you, but flying,
- 21:09like floating in front of you get out of
- 21:12here.
- 21:13>> Skylar: I hold up the
- 21:16gun and I say,
- 21:19I'll be your number one with a bullet.
- 21:22>> Cameron: A loaded, God complex concrete
- 21:24bullet. And I.
- 21:25>> Skylar: And I pull the trigger. That's another
- 21:28fallout boy.
- 21:29>> Cameron: So I'm gonna need you to roll. Kick, smash.
- 21:35>> Skylar: You said tough.
- 21:36>> Cameron: Yeah.
- 21:36>> Skylar: Oof. That's just a raw six.
- 21:39>> Cameron: And then what was it? What was your move?
- 21:41>> Skylar: so it's precise strike. When you inflict a harm on
- 21:43a monster, you can aim for a weak spot. Roll plus tough. on a ten.
- 21:46Plus you inflict two harm. On a seven, nine. You inflict one harm. On a miss,
- 21:49you leave yourself open to the monster.
- 21:51>> Cameron: Okay, I'm gonna have you roll again. Okay, let's roll. Just
- 21:54roll for that specific. So that's
- 21:57gonna be five. plus, man, my rolls have been terrible.
- 22:00Okay, so you miss, and as you
- 22:03miss, off to the side again. Doesn't
- 22:06even touch this thing. you,
- 22:09like, slip, like you. You, like,
- 22:13fall over, and you are on your back, looking up at
- 22:16this thing. Looking at this thing billowing in the wind.
- 22:18>> Skylar: Oh, my gosh.
- 22:20>> Cameron: Questioning there. What do the rest of you do?
- 22:22We have the sword of the lord. We
- 22:25have, And then the two of you, I don't think have much,
- 22:28marshal, but, you know, I have a teddy bear. You have a teddy
- 22:31bear. and then I guess a big old heavy key.
- 22:34But that's probably in the door. Or you have the diary.
- 22:36>> Cameron: I'll walk in the door.
- 22:37>> Cameron: Okay, so between the three of you, who wants to go next?
- 22:39>> Mikayla: Wait. I want to use my move.
- 22:42Often overlooked. Okay, so when this thing's coming
- 22:45out. So basically, that move is when you
- 22:47act all crazy to avoid something real weird. On ten.
- 22:50Plus, you regard it as unthreatening and unimportant on
- 22:53seven to nine. Pick one. Unthreatening or
- 22:56unimportant.
- 22:57>> Cameron: Okay, what do you do to look unimportant here? To look weird?
- 23:00>> Mikayla: To look weird. I'm acting all crazy, so this thing is
- 23:02flying at me, and I'm just basically doing a
- 23:05crazy dance, flailing my arms, kicking my
- 23:08legs.
- 23:09>> Cameron: With a swim cap, half on your hair and dress.
- 23:12>> Skylar: You try to, like, do, like, the jurassic park where the guy's trying to get
- 23:15the T Rex's attention and he's got the flares.
- 23:17>> Mikayla: He's like, over here. Yeah, like, I'm just being
- 23:20overdramatic in my,
- 23:23performance. Performance to try and get away from whatever this
- 23:26thing is flying at me.
- 23:27>> Cameron: Roll plus weird. What's your weird score?
- 23:29>> Mikayla: plus two.
- 23:30>> Skylar: Okay, that's our strong.
- 23:32>> Cameron: .9
- 23:35okay. And remind me what you get for nine.
- 23:37>> Mikayla: So I get to pick one. I can become unthreatening or
- 23:40unimportant. so
- 23:43I want to be probably
- 23:46unimportant so this thing doesn't think that it needs to come after
- 23:48me.
- 23:49>> Cameron: Okay, so you're just getting yourself. You tell me
- 23:52what is unimportant when it comes to this thing is
- 23:54flying. At least appears to be flying at you guys.
- 23:57You know, it is flying adjacent to you guys. What do you
- 24:00do to get out of the. Get out of the line of
- 24:03sight, get out of being important?
- 24:06>> Mikayla: I probably just make myself pretty small, less
- 24:09noticeable. Kind of hide in the shadows
- 24:12like a naked moran.
- 24:14>> Cameron: Literally do a naked robot.
- 24:18Somebody reads.
- 24:23>> Skylar: Pretend to be in naked rock.
- 24:25>> Cameron: And does that provide any advantages going forward or is that just. It's
- 24:28not gonna come hit you.
- 24:29>> Mikayla: It's just not. It's overlooking me, basically.
- 24:32>> Cameron: All right, that leaves you too.
- 24:34>> Cameron: I'm walking in the door.
- 24:35>> Cameron: Ella, this, Ah.
- 24:37Oh, we have to play along with the actor. you gotta give her the
- 24:40bear. And, we gotta tell her how much we hate Halloween
- 24:44too.
- 24:45>> Cameron: But I didn't mind Halloween too. Mike Myers was
- 24:48inspired in that movie.
- 24:50>> Cameron: Okay, maybe the.
- 24:51>> Cameron: You just started cackling like you're on the floor and you
- 24:54just. That was a good movie.
- 24:56>> Cameron: Okay, that might be true, but clearly
- 24:58this lady hasn't seen Halloween with Mike Myers.
- 25:01She's seen her. She's seen her. Thank
- 25:04you.
- 25:05>> Cameron: she's saying, can we.
- 25:09>> Cameron: She's seen her poor daddy to be.
- 25:11>> Cameron: I told you to leave.
- 25:13>> Cameron: We will leave one moment, lady. Anyways, she
- 25:16thought our poor daddy to be die on this terrible
- 25:19day.
- 25:19>> Cameron: Daddy, this generate.
- 25:20>> Mikayla: Get out of my house.
- 25:22>> Cameron: All right, thank you. Daddy. That was.
- 25:24>> Cameron: This is the dad, is it not? Is it the
- 25:27girl?
- 25:28>> Cameron: Ask her. Are you the dad or Rosie?
- 25:33I'm asking the ghost, are you a dad?
- 25:39>> Cameron: And it just billows and it's very aggressive. You do something
- 25:42or you think, this thing's coming out.
- 25:43>> Cameron: I'm holding up my sword at it and I say,
- 25:46back off. Back off. Spirit of the Lord, defend me.
- 26:07>> Cameron: In an almost, like irritated way. It's going
- 26:09to swat up the sword. I'm going to need you to roll whatever your plus tuff
- 26:12is. that's going to be a plus. Whatever you roll. Plus one
- 26:15plus.
- 26:16>> Cameron: Can I counter one of my abilities?
- 26:18>> Cameron: Yeah, absolutely.
- 26:19>> Cameron: Which is called smite, which is my body imbues
- 26:22with divine weaponry.
- 26:25>> Skylar: It's happening. The sword of the
- 26:27spirit and it.
- 26:30>> Cameron: Doesn'T even say if the hit.
- 26:31>> Cameron: It just says my body and
- 26:34divine weapons is a weakness to the monster I am
- 26:37fighting. So if it tries to hit my thing
- 26:40when it get hit by, I. Divine.
- 26:42>> Cameron: You have divine smite. Where's this one? On the divine?
- 26:45Yeah, smite.
- 26:45>> Cameron: Smite, right there.
- 26:46>> Cameron: Always count as a weakness against a monster fight. That means
- 26:49that it says my unarmed attacks.
- 26:51>> Cameron: But in this case, would you recount my.
- 26:53>> Cameron: Yeah, obviously. So that means you have to roll
- 26:56your unarmed attack. Plus sharp. That means the same as seven to
- 26:59nine and ten.
- 27:00>> Cameron: Plus seven.
- 27:01>> Cameron: Okay, so you smack it in
- 27:04the. Like it's hand. Well, I'm just like, defending myself.
- 27:07So as it comes through and the reef is like, hitting
- 27:10it, and it's like one of the weirdest.
- 27:13>> Cameron: It does not look like a natural sword swing. I'm just, like,
- 27:16flicking at it, like, you hear.
- 27:18>> Cameron: So as you do that, like, again, you're hitting a ghost with a plastic
- 27:21sword. You hear, like. And you hear
- 27:24just a little.
- 27:27You've made contact. You've done to harm something.
- 27:30You hear a crunching noise.
- 27:34>> Cameron: This gus doesn't seem to be asking.
- 27:40Back off, back off. We just wanted to celebrate the spooky
- 27:43holiday, like you, good sir.
- 27:46>> Cameron: Both of you assume gender.
- 27:50>> Cameron: I mean, she's a skeptic. She doesn't think it's a ghost. So
- 27:53I want to ask him questions. I want to.
- 27:55>> Cameron: I don't know if it wants to answer questions, but you can. You can
- 27:58try whatever you want.
- 27:59>> Cameron: Can I roll with cool? Act under pressure.
- 28:02>> Cameron: Okay. So very specifically, you're trying to do
- 28:04what? Well, I want the pressure.
- 28:06>> Cameron: I just want to ask, like, why are
- 28:09you yelling?
- 28:10>> Cameron: You're gonna have to actually roll charm because you're trying to manipulate it. You're
- 28:13trying to get this thing to say something you like. You're trying to get it to
- 28:16talk to you when it obviously wants to scare you.
- 28:18>> Cameron: Yeah.
- 28:18>> Cameron: So you've got to manipulate it into doing.
- 28:21>> Cameron: I'm just gonna yell. Why are you yelling so
- 28:23loud?
- 28:25>> Cameron: Okay, roll, roll. Plus strength.
- 28:27>> Cameron: Eleven.
- 28:30>> Cameron: I could have asked a way better question,
- 28:32but it's funny because that's the best question. Just think about this, though. You're
- 28:35a child.
- 28:36>> Cameron: Where are we all?
- 28:37>> Cameron: Shout. Set
- 28:39the tone. Right. This doofus just fell
- 28:42over, is currently rolling around on the floor like
- 28:45a.
- 28:45>> Skylar: Crow trying to get away.
- 28:47>> Cameron: The naked roll red balled into herself and is now
- 28:50hiding in the corner. You
- 28:52smacked in the hand with a plastic
- 28:55lightsaber, and then you scream. Why are you
- 28:57yelling so loudly? Why are you yelling?
- 29:01>> Mikayla: Cause you're in my house late.
- 29:04>> Cameron: This is getting a distinctly more shrill. The voice has gone
- 29:07from ethereal to.
- 29:11>> Cameron: Yeah, do you want, like, can I check out this
- 29:14room? Are you a pepper's ghost?
- 29:17>> Mikayla: Do you live here?
- 29:19>> Cameron: Do you.
- 29:20>> Mikayla: I said it's my house.
- 29:22>> Cameron: Oh, yeah.
- 29:23>> Cameron: Wait. Who are you? Who the heck are you?
- 29:26>> Mikayla: Does it matter to you?
- 29:27>> Cameron: Yes, it matters. We're trying to come to the conclusion of
- 29:31this haunted house.
- 29:32>> Cameron: Are you old man McGovern? No, it's. Now it's
- 29:35pissed. Like cringing on the hand a little bit. It's like.
- 29:37Like favoring this hand a little bit on the one side that you hit with
- 29:40a lightsaber. and it's, I
- 29:43want you out of my house.
- 29:48>> Skylar: I I don't know you ages.
- 29:50>> Mikayla: You broke into my.
- 29:51>> Cameron: Does it try to attack Ella?
- 29:52>> Cameron: Is it.
- 29:53>> Skylar: Yeah, I was gonna say, is it trying to attack anybody?
- 29:55>> Cameron: You know, you'll notice it hasn't swung on anybody. It hasn't.
- 29:57>> Cameron: Except for my weapon.
- 29:59>> Cameron: It was like, get out of here. And then you hit it in the.
- 30:02>> Skylar: Hand, I think, from the floor. I
- 30:05see when, when Alex hits it in the
- 30:07hand. And so I pull the
- 30:10little trigger thing back on the nerf
- 30:13gun, and I try to take another shot. But I'm feeling a little more confident
- 30:16at this point. I'm gonna use. Can I use home theater,
- 30:19which you wrote in here?
- 30:20>> Cameron: Yep.
- 30:21>> Skylar: So, I have every horror movie
- 30:24ever made. So I get plus one to a familiar action.
- 30:27Any familiar action once per encounter. I imagine
- 30:29that James has messed around with a nerf
- 30:32gun quite a bit.
- 30:33>> Cameron: Yeah. It's that iconic moment where someone that's injured shoots
- 30:36the bad guy.
- 30:37>> Mikayla: Yeah.
- 30:37>> Skylar: Yeah, exactly.
- 30:38>> Cameron: During the evil monologue.
- 30:39>> Skylar: And as I'm on there on the ground, I'm like,
- 30:42I never meant to brag, but I got him where I
- 30:45want him now. And I take the shot. That's paramore.
- 30:48Four guys. Seven, eight. And
- 30:50then. Plus.
- 30:52>> Cameron: No, maybe. Plus.
- 30:53>> Skylar: Plus tuff, right? Yeah, plus, which is zero. But that's still an eight.
- 30:56>> Cameron: So.
- 30:56>> Cameron: An eight. It wings off into the.
- 30:59Into, like, where, like, the head of the spirit would be,
- 31:02which you don't really see. Cause it's like this, and it just.
- 31:05And it just sticks there.
- 31:09>> Skylar: Yeah. So a suction cup nerf gun.
- 31:10>> Cameron: Yeah, it just sits there. So you. And I was speaking to. It's
- 31:13just like, can I.
- 31:15>> Cameron: Like, I found another lyric that might help. So I wanted to,
- 31:18like, shout something at Jane.
- 31:20>> Cameron: Give me 1 second. Let's let you take your move, because all you have done
- 31:23is really would go shot it. Yeah. You now have. You were in the middle of the
- 31:26room. No one's paying attention to you because you were harmless.
- 31:28>> Mikayla: Okay. So why they're having their. They had their whole
- 31:31conversation with her.
- 31:32>> Cameron: Yes.
- 31:33>> Mikayla: Him really shaking.
- 31:37read a bad situation to try and figure
- 31:40out if there's anything else
- 31:43going on with this so called ghost. Cause I'm still not
- 31:46convinced it's a.
- 31:47>> Cameron: Ghost because you're looking at it from behind or underneath.
- 31:50It's not facing towards you.
- 31:51>> Skylar: Yeah.
- 31:51>> Mikayla: So is there something that is giving
- 31:54it this glow or.
- 31:56>> Cameron: Yep. Absolutely.
- 31:57>> Mikayla: Or whatever.
- 31:59Nine.
- 32:00>> Cameron: So you got a nine. Okay. so
- 32:03you can't see where
- 32:06specifically, but you can see that. That glowing,
- 32:09that glow effect is maybe happening from underneath,
- 32:12pointing up. Like, if, like, if you've ever seen a
- 32:15flashlight underneath something, you can see what direction the light is
- 32:18shining towards. You can definitely see it's not coming
- 32:21from the thing out. It's coming from underneath up.
- 32:23>> Mikayla: I just remembered I have a net.
- 32:26>> Skylar: Oh, yeah, the net.
- 32:27>> Cameron: Oh, yeah. You all have
- 32:30cameras with splashes.
- 32:31>> Skylar: Cameras.
- 32:32>> Cameron: That's true.
- 32:33>> Skylar: Well, except for one person.
- 32:35>> Cameron: I have the sword of spirit.
- 32:37>> Cameron: So how.
- 32:38>> Mikayla: How far away am I from everybody? How far away did I.
- 32:40>> Cameron: It's not a big room. You're in
- 32:43throwing distance. Like, if you want to throw the net over the top
- 32:46of something from where you are, you could, if
- 32:49that's what you're asking.
- 32:50>> Mikayla: The ghost person is not facing me, so I would
- 32:53assuming they catch it unaware.
- 32:56>> Cameron: Yeah. You're from, like, the side.
- 32:57>> Skylar: Yeah.
- 32:58>> Cameron: You're not behind them, but you're on the. You. You scuttle away to the corner.
- 33:00So, like, like you're facing the side of the ghost from
- 33:03pick right or left.
- 33:05>> Cameron: We've kind of. Me and Elle kind of scooted into the
- 33:07room.
- 33:08>> Cameron: The side.
- 33:08>> Cameron: And the ghost is now turned. Kind of looking at.
- 33:10>> Cameron: You're almost kind of, like, pressing in on it, and it's kind of like,
- 33:13yeah, you're definitely not, but you're not doing what
- 33:16you're supposed to. And now has a suction. Come on. It's for.
- 33:19>> Mikayla: Okay, I'm gonna scurry over to James.
- 33:22>> Cameron: Okay. So.
- 33:22>> Skylar: Yeah, that's me.
- 33:23>> Cameron: Yeah.
- 33:24>> Mikayla: He's not in line with the ghost, correct?
- 33:27>> Cameron: No, he. Well, he'd kind of be. He's kind of enough so that he
- 33:30shot in the forehead. So you'd be coming into view, doing.
- 33:34You could go behind it. You can go two ways. You can go forward over to
- 33:37James. You can go further behind the. The opposite direction. Go behind
- 33:40the thing.
- 33:40>> Mikayla: Well, I want to discuss with somebody, so I
- 33:43would have to go in front of.
- 33:46>> Cameron: Yeah, and we'll. We'll see. If you guys keep distracting the
- 33:48ghost that's gonna use one of my abilities. If you don't
- 33:51distract the ghost, she's gonna get.
- 33:53>> Cameron: Can I use one? My. Can I use.
- 33:55>> Cameron: Sue? Sue, are you trying to soothe the
- 33:57ghost?
- 33:58>> Cameron: Nice. I'm going to start,
- 34:00like, waving my hands in the air, and I'm gonna be like,
- 34:03yeah, look, we're just here to help,
- 34:06okay?
- 34:07>> Cameron: Yes. But it's gonna take multiple rounds of it to actually
- 34:10calm.
- 34:11>> Cameron: I'm not trying to come.
- 34:12>> Cameron: You can keep the ghost from noticing and start to de escalate.
- 34:16>> Cameron: That's a ten.
- 34:17>> Cameron: Okay.
- 34:17>> Cameron: Yes. I'm like, hey, look, look, we're not
- 34:20here to hurt you, and we're planning on leaving, but we wanted to help
- 34:23you, you know, complete this, you know, complete
- 34:26this, quest that we are on, this haunted house quest.
- 34:29And we, just want to help you, whether it's. You,
- 34:32need your teddy bear, Rose, their teddy bear that
- 34:35my cousin here has. Or, maybe you
- 34:38just need us to show you the wonders of Halloween, because we have lots
- 34:41of wonderful candy. Look at this. And I show.
- 34:44I show the ghost my bag of truth filled
- 34:47with good candy. And I'm like, look at this. Look at all this wonderful candy
- 34:50I have.
- 34:50>> Cameron: Okay, I'm gonna bear towards
- 34:53her. Is that happening? Are you just saying? Is he just saying,
- 34:55yeah, I'll hold.
- 34:57>> Cameron: Out the bear, and. But I'll just kind of whisper to the ghost,
- 35:00like, just don't take any werther's originals.
- 35:06>> Cameron: You're gonna have to share. Okay? Sharon is caring, and today
- 35:10is a wonderful day.
- 35:11>> Cameron: Okay,
- 35:14so you have thoroughly. You have partially
- 35:17calmed this ghost down. You have distracted the ghost.
- 35:20It's now concentrating exclusively on you, the candy, and the
- 35:23bear. What are you guys gonna do? You have the ability
- 35:26to talk briefly, and then you can decide.
- 35:28>> Skylar: You come squirming over to
- 35:31my position, screaming over to my position, and as
- 35:34you approach, I look over, and I go, I'm
- 35:37in too deep, and I'm trying to keep up above my head
- 35:40instead of going under.
- 35:41>> Cameron: God, I can imagine having you as a student
- 35:45be rooting for the ghost.
- 35:47>> Mikayla: I really appreciate what you're saying right now, but you need you
- 35:49focus.
- 35:51>> Cameron: What?
- 35:52>> Mikayla: I.
- 35:53>> Cameron: Is that a song lyric?
- 35:56>> Cameron: What?
- 35:58>> Mikayla: I have a net, and I need you
- 36:01to help me catch the ghost.
- 36:05>> Skylar: Okay. What do you need me to do? Grab one
- 36:07end.
- 36:08>> Mikayla: Yeah, go for it. We're gonna throw it on the
- 36:11count. Three.
- 36:12>> Skylar: Oh, okay. In that way. It's open. Okay, I get.
- 36:14>> Cameron: I am gonna tell you. If you do this,
- 36:17if it works, you've captured the ghost. If it doesn't, you've
- 36:19enraged the ghost.
- 36:20>> Mikayla: Yes.
- 36:21>> Cameron: Just be clear. You guys are, like, calming it down enough that this is
- 36:24possible, but you could, theoretically calm it down all the
- 36:27way.
- 36:27>> Cameron: Hm.
- 36:28>> Cameron: But they don't know that.
- 36:28>> Cameron: Yeah, they're scared, and
- 36:31we're trying to.
- 36:32>> Cameron: I'm trying to keep my worth.
- 36:34>> Cameron: Yeah. You two are the bullshit. The B's
- 36:37brigade. You two are.
- 36:38>> Mikayla: I'm trying to scooby do this.
- 36:40>> Skylar: You're the Fred.
- 36:43>> Cameron: I'm just gonna be clear. Like, there are.
- 36:45>> Mikayla: I feel like I don't have enough,
- 36:47toughness.
- 36:51>> Cameron: Is it toughness? I think this is an act. Under
- 36:54pressure. You're not directly, like, punching the ghost in the back of
- 36:57the head. Right. You're trying to grab it either
- 37:00way.
- 37:00>> Mikayla: I still like smell.
- 37:03>> Skylar: I'm the one with a plus one in. Cool. So that works for me.
- 37:05>> Cameron: If it's narratively. I'm going
- 37:08to have you both roll.
- 37:11I'm gonna have you roll plus. Cool. to start
- 37:14it, if you have something adjacent.
- 37:16>> Skylar: Oh, no, no.
- 37:17>> Cameron: Okay, so that hasn't gone well. You're gonna
- 37:20have to have something good here, or you're gonna have to succeed on
- 37:23this roll. Yeah. You're acting under pressure. Like, you're rolling. You're
- 37:26running in opposite directions with it. With a. With a net
- 37:28between.
- 37:29>> Skylar: Like, I just pull it really
- 37:32hard to, like, rip it out of her hands.
- 37:34>> Cameron: No, but, like, you're both running opposite ways around it.
- 37:38So you can still make this at least a partial success.
- 37:40>> Skylar: Okay.
- 37:41>> Skylar: Okay.
- 37:41>> Cameron: It's failed on one side, but you can make.
- 37:44>> Skylar: Okay, okay. I know exactly what I'm doing. I. So she
- 37:47runs, right? Which would be, I think, closer to where the bed is in
- 37:50this room. and then I imagine, I don't know, maybe she trips on the bed or
- 37:53something.
- 37:53>> Cameron: She literally doesn't see the bed and just goes flying over the bed. Yeah.
- 37:56Boom. Yeah.
- 37:58>> Skylar: I, on the other hand, run the left side, which is right
- 38:01alongside the wall before you hit the closet. I run
- 38:04up the wall. Like, not. Like, not
- 38:06unnaturally. Like, I'm just saying, like, I kind of jump off the
- 38:09wall, to be honest. It probably doesn't look as impressive.
- 38:11>> Cameron: Okay, we'll roll. And let's see how impressive it is. Let's go. Act under
- 38:14pressure on it. Whoa.
- 38:16>> Skylar: That's a pressure. That's like an eleven.
- 38:18>> Cameron: Okay, well, you. You've owned that, so you're gonna get a do look.
- 38:21>> Skylar: Kind of cool.
- 38:22>> Cameron: Yeah, you're gonna get a partial success here. A full success would be you
- 38:25literally both succeeded. You both at least partially succeeded. You
- 38:28wrapped around things, trapped. You
- 38:30essentially, like, she goes top wing, but she still has a hold of the
- 38:33net a little bit. You essentially just like clothesline it from
- 38:36below. I was gonna say, yeah, you guys are
- 38:39calming it down. You're holding the teddy out to it. All of a sudden the legs
- 38:42are just taken out.
- 38:45You in here.
- 38:49>> Skylar: And I stand up over it and
- 38:51I look down on him and I say,
- 38:54you're gonna need a body bag. I'll
- 38:57break bones you didn't know you had. When
- 39:00I'm done, there will be nothing left of you for
- 39:03your friends to hold on to. Okay, okay,
- 39:05calm, calm down.
- 39:07>> Cameron: Come on.
- 39:07>> Cameron: This is clearly a.
- 39:08>> Cameron: This is clearly a person, okay?
- 39:10>> Cameron: We don't need to be decapitated.
- 39:12>> Cameron: Come on.
- 39:12>> Cameron: Just might see a guy.
- 39:13>> Cameron: You need help.
- 39:16>> Cameron: Feminine. You're hearing a feminine voice.
- 39:18>> Cameron: You need help. Late ma'am, and I hold my hand
- 39:21out to like offer a helping hand.
- 39:23>> Cameron: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't touch squatters.
- 39:26>> Skylar: Don't touch squatters.
- 39:26>> Cameron: The squatter you gotta be asking about.
- 39:28>> Skylar: It's a squatter.
- 39:32>> Cameron: What?
- 39:33>> Cameron: Are you the young Miss Rosie?
- 39:38>> Mikayla: Yes, I'm Rosie. Why are you in my
- 39:41house?
- 39:42>> Cameron: Well, we thought he told.
- 39:43>> Cameron: No, we were clear. Are you gonna take the mask off
- 39:46or nothing?
- 39:47>> Cameron: Well, I'm helping her up and I'm assuming I figured it
- 39:50could be one of those cases where I help her up. And if it's the
- 39:53cot, if she's wearing a sheet or something, it probably.
- 39:55>> Cameron: Gets m stuck on something as I help her underneath.
- 39:58You see, Miss Douglas, who, if you recall, was the anti
- 40:01Halloween woman from the very beginning.
- 40:03Misses Douglas.
- 40:08>> Mikayla: I don't know why you kids couldn't be like the others and just
- 40:11listen. This is a dangerous holiday. You're supposed
- 40:14to note being scared isn't funny.
- 40:17It hurts people. Like you hurt me
- 40:20pointing at you.
- 40:21>> Cameron: You were trying to scare us.
- 40:23>> Mikayla: This is my house.
- 40:25>> Cameron: This is your house?
- 40:26>> Cameron: It's got a for sale sign up.
- 40:28>> Mikayla: Well, no one's bought it yet.
- 40:30>> Skylar: Why are you wearing a sheet?
- 40:32>> Mikayla: Cuz I wanted to make kids so scared of Halloween
- 40:35that they didn't go out. That nothing bad happens to
- 40:38other people.
- 40:39>> Cameron: We stayed in this house.
- 40:40>> Cameron: Yes, they were.
- 40:41>> Mikayla: Well, no, I have a nice condo down by the lake.
- 40:43But this is. This is the family house.
- 40:47>> Skylar: Oh, that's a nice place. On Ocean Avenue, I used to sit
- 40:50and talk.
- 40:50>> Mikayla: So this is why everyone hates you,
- 40:53James.
- 40:54>> Cameron: So.
- 40:55>> Skylar: So I'm just trying to understand, though. So
- 40:57you think scary? Actually, hold on. Ellen's gonna say exactly
- 41:00what I'm about to say.
- 41:01>> Cameron: Your whole plan was to sit in this house all night.
- 41:04That was your Halloween plan? And just wait. If kids
- 41:07came in this house or a potential buyer.
- 41:10>> Mikayla: Ever since Halloween, my father loved
- 41:13it, and he would make a big to do about
- 41:15Halloween. Then he died because of it. When I
- 41:18was a little girl, and my mother
- 41:21always said it was Halloween's fault that we lost him, and she
- 41:24would never. She just wanted the holiday to go
- 41:27away. So after she died,
- 41:29I. I started a campaign against
- 41:32Holly, but no one would listen. They just want to go out and
- 41:35have their candy. So I started trying to scare people
- 41:38into it.
- 41:39>> Cameron: I can tell you a lot of people in my church agree with you.
- 41:42>> Mikayla: Yeah, I know. I'm. I actually
- 41:45said three pews behind you.
- 41:47>> Cameron: Why did you just go?
- 41:48>> Skylar: Oh, that's weird.
- 41:49>> Cameron: I recognized you.
- 41:50>> Cameron: I know.
- 41:51>> Mikayla: Your mother is a very nice lady.
- 41:53>> Cameron: Well, yes, my parents are charming.
- 41:55>> Cameron: Indeed.
- 41:55>> Mikayla: The women's group has actually been a big help to me after losing my entire
- 41:58family.
- 41:58>> Cameron: Good. I was gonna say a thing that could help you in these trying times is the
- 42:01Lord.
- 42:03>> Mikayla: You might have broken my hips, so I think we're gonna be starting a meal
- 42:06train.
- 42:06>> Cameron: But, I mean, would the lord approve of you scaring children?
- 42:09>> Skylar: Yeah. Why couldn't you have just gone and helped with hell house? with,
- 42:12like, the rest of the church?
- 42:13>> Mikayla: Have you read the Bible,
- 42:15Alex? There's lots of things there to
- 42:18scare children.
- 42:19>> Cameron: Well, you know. Yeah, like hell.
- 42:22Well, I'm sorry. I'm not supposed to. H e double hockey.
- 42:24>> Mikayla: Well, you know, we will talk more about that as you get older,
- 42:27but, yeah, there's a lot of it there.
- 42:28>> Cameron: Yeah, I'm still, like, 2012.
- 42:30>> Mikayla: Well, you broke my hip like a 15 year old.
- 42:32>> Cameron: I was down. Not me. I'm. The worst I did was hit your
- 42:35hand, and that was in self defense.
- 42:36>> Mikayla: I don't think my hips actually broke.
- 42:38>> Cameron: And you just tripped me pretty good.
- 42:39>> Mikayla: I'm m not young anymore.
- 42:41>> Cameron: She's standing up now.
- 42:42>> Cameron: Yeah, she's, like, massaging her hip. You probably broke
- 42:45her.
- 42:45>> Mikayla: Are you married?
- 42:46>> Mikayla: Why, yes, I got married. M. Do you want
- 42:49my whole family story?
- 42:50>> Cameron: A little.
- 42:51>> Mikayla: Are you. What are you, like, young lady?
- 42:54>> Mikayla: Naked.
- 42:55>> Cameron: She's naked.
- 42:57>> Mikayla: It's better than you're probably gonna wear in a few years.
- 43:00Whatever. yes, my
- 43:03husband's dead, too. Do you wanna hear any other
- 43:06details of my life?
- 43:07>> Skylar: so I've heard of this situation.
- 43:09>> Cameron: The Halloween again?
- 43:10>> Cameron: Was it Halloween?
- 43:12>> Mikayla: That's a deeply offensive thing to say to an old
- 43:15widower.
- 43:15>> Skylar: Well, and your dad's dead, too.
- 43:18>> Cameron: Gee.
- 43:18>> Cameron: Yes.
- 43:19>> Mikayla: That made my mother a widow.
- 43:20>> Cameron: Geez, James, you're just a damper on the spirit.
- 43:23>> Cameron: You know what? I'm. James, I think you need Dan. James? Is that his name?
- 43:26You need to leave before I call the police.
- 43:28>> Cameron: Ah.
- 43:29>> Cameron: that's why we're here in the first place.
- 43:32>> Skylar: They said they were gonna call the police.
- 43:34>> Cameron: If I had a nickel for every time the police were calling us tonight.
- 43:36>> Cameron: I'd have two nickel. I'd have two
- 43:39nickels here, kids.
- 43:41>> Cameron: Wait, what?
- 43:42>> Mikayla: You're not the good guys. You vandalize.
- 43:45You vandalized people's houses. You vandalized and broke
- 43:48into mines.
- 43:49>> Cameron: All of these ideas work.
- 43:50>> Mikayla: We didn't vandalize your house. We did literally
- 43:52nothing.
- 43:56>> Cameron: James told me it was a haunted house, okay?
- 43:59He told me these are commonplace things. and on
- 44:01Halloween.
- 44:02>> Skylar: In my defense, I assumed no one was living
- 44:05here.
- 44:05>> Mikayla: because you listen to people like this
- 44:08all the time.
- 44:09>> Cameron: I've never gone.
- 44:10>> Skylar: My parents offense.
- 44:12>> Cameron: My parents have never let me go out on Halloween.
- 44:14>> Mikayla: I know, and I think very highly of them for that.
- 44:17>> Cameron: Well, wait. We just were out here for candy and stuff, but
- 44:20he said that haunted houses on the end of cul de stacks
- 44:23are a regular thing.
- 44:24>> Mikayla: Can you please walk me out the front?
- 44:26>> Cameron: Of course.
- 44:26>> Mikayla: Help me out.
- 44:27>> Skylar: Of course, yes. What's out in the front?
- 44:30>> Mikayla: I'm pretty sure I could have you go to jail tonight,
- 44:33James.
- 44:33>> Mikayla: You shouldn't do that.
- 44:34>> Cameron: was that your white sedan?
- 44:35>> Mikayla: No, I was asking what was out there.
- 44:37>> Cameron: Was that your white sedan parked out front?
- 44:39>> Mikayla: Yes.
- 44:40>> Cameron: Oh, yeah. You should park. It's a cat on the house.
- 44:43>> Cameron: Oh, okay. Oh, money bags.
- 44:46She has old double
- 44:49widow already.
- 44:50>> Cameron: All right.
- 44:51>> Skylar: You can have some generation of wealth curriculum down
- 44:53here.
- 44:56I'll do the right thing.
- 44:58>> Cameron: Only air. Of the only air. You know what I mean? And
- 45:01you know on both sides. There you go.
- 45:02>> Cameron: So we help her down the stairs.
- 45:05Do you just come to this house on Halloween
- 45:08and then go back to your condo?
- 45:10>> Cameron: Yes.
- 45:11>> Mikayla: Yes, I do. Because I have to keep the tradition
- 45:13of scary things happening. Otherwise
- 45:16kids won't believe it. And every year, it gets better because there's less and less kids
- 45:19trick or treating.
- 45:20>> Cameron: I did see how many kids up this
- 45:23year.
- 45:23>> Mikayla: I know. It was great, wasn't it?
- 45:25>> Cameron: I mean, yeah.
- 45:26>> Skylar: I mean, it meant more candy for us?
- 45:28>> Mikayla: Yeah, exactly.
- 45:29>> Skylar: I mean, Ella got, like, a whole box of
- 45:31popsicles.
- 45:32>> Cameron: You want to hear one of her jokes? Hey, yeah, I saw a few
- 45:35jokes.
- 45:35>> Cameron: Sorry.
- 45:36>> Mikayla: Let's hear the joke.
- 45:36>> Skylar: Oh, yeah.
- 45:37>> Cameron: how many tickles does it take to make an octopus
- 45:40laugh?
- 45:41>> Cameron: I just. Look at James.
- 45:42>> Mikayla: If you touch me, I'm going to sue you.
- 45:44>> Skylar: I'm not doing anything. What the heck?
- 45:47>> Cameron: Ten tickles.
- 45:48>> Cameron: Oh.
- 45:51>> Cameron: So many popsicles.
- 45:54>> Cameron: Are you.
- 45:55>> Mikayla: Just help me to my car.
- 45:57>> Cameron: Wait. She's kind of like taking off this robot. She
- 46:00goes. Her finger is very obviously, I'll just keep.
- 46:03>> Cameron: I deeply apologize for that, ma'am. That was in self defense.
- 46:06>> Mikayla: You know, I. Looking back, I could. It
- 46:09appears like I was trying to hit you. I get
- 46:11it.
- 46:13>> Cameron: I've taken a lot of damage in that house. It
- 46:16broke my helmet.
- 46:16>> Cameron: M. Did you hear that loud,
- 46:19shattering sound?
- 46:22>> Mikayla: I thought about it as soon as I closed the thing up. when
- 46:25you were in the attic, I thought about, gee, Rosie, what
- 46:28happens if they fall out of the attic?
- 46:29>> Cameron: Yeah, you shut the door in a pitch black attic. What did you think?
- 46:32>> Mikayla: Well, I knew you had lights.
- 46:34>> Skylar: Yeah. How are we supposed to leave your house if you lock us in
- 46:37an attic?
- 46:38>> Cameron: Then lock it. She just shut the.
- 46:40>> Mikayla: You could have opened both of them. They both
- 46:42opened. None of them were locked.
- 46:44>> Cameron: I did that.
- 46:45>> Skylar: Fell through.
- 46:46>> Cameron: I didn't know how to open them properly. That's partly on me.
- 46:48>> Skylar: Well, I don't know. Lack of education seems unfair to blame
- 46:51you for.
- 46:52>> Mikayla: I need to be clear.
- 46:52>> Mikayla: No one invited you to the house.
- 46:54>> Cameron: James invited us,
- 46:58so don't say no one.
- 47:01Anyways, I hope you have a great night. Hey, I'm glad it
- 47:04wasn't a real ghost.
- 47:06>> Skylar: Miss Dougal's.
- 47:09Douglas.
- 47:11Douglas. out of
- 47:14curiosity, did you have any candy
- 47:16to hand out in there? Because we can
- 47:19go get it for.
- 47:20>> Cameron: You.
- 47:20>> Skylar: Don't have to get it for us. Like, we can do the right thing.
- 47:22>> Cameron: She's just maintaining eye contact. She reached. Whoa, whoa,
- 47:25whoa. She closes the door while
- 47:28maintaining. I kind of turns the car on.
- 47:31>> Cameron: Did you just ask a la who hates Halloween if she has candy
- 47:34to give out?
- 47:34>> Skylar: Oh, candy's not strictly associated with Halloween.
- 47:37I mean, that one guy was handing out Christmas tree Reese's.
- 47:40>> Cameron: James, you're an idiot.
- 47:43>> Skylar: Oh, that's the meanest thing I've ever heard you say.
- 47:46>> Mikayla: Alex, I deeply rubbing off on you.
- 47:50>> Cameron: Probably that high five.
- 47:51>> Skylar: And he's like, nice.
- 47:55>> Cameron: That concludes our story and
- 47:58Halloween, adventure. just to recap, you have found
- 48:01out the mystery of who's doing this. I mean, you maybe not have
- 48:04solved it. Nothing says she's gonna stop.
- 48:06But you deciphered it. You get to keep your candy.
- 48:09I don't think anyone called the cops on you. I mean, you did
- 48:12us all bluffs. Yeah.
- 48:13>> Skylar: Smoke.
- 48:14>> Cameron: No one actually wants to call the police on children.
- 48:16>> Skylar: No.
- 48:16>> Cameron: Especially on Hollow. No. You just want the kids to
- 48:19stop.
- 48:19>> Skylar: They'll just laugh at you.
- 48:21>> Cameron: Yeah, but, like, you know, you did assault an elderly woman.
- 48:23>> Skylar: Well, I mean, I did what I had to do.
- 48:25>> Cameron: She did lock us in the attic.
- 48:27>> Cameron: You did break into her house.
- 48:33>> Skylar: I just want to establish that. Scooby and the gang beat up
- 48:36all kinds of crazy villains, and the police always show up and who they
- 48:39arrest.
- 48:39>> Cameron: but the villains are also breaking the law. Yeah, that's true.
- 48:42I mean, it's usually something to do with real estate, so it's
- 48:45usually something.
- 48:46>> Skylar: Which, ironically, this was, too.
- 48:48>> Cameron: It's her house.
- 48:49>> Cameron: Yeah, again, it's her real house. Get out of it. Still her house. Still
- 48:52nobody's invited. Gets to walk around creepy in front of it
- 48:55all Halloween. If she wants any different than a haunted house. Yeah, all these
- 48:57people with decoration. She's just doing it herself.
- 48:59>> Skylar: Yeah, I was gonna say. The irony is that she's leaving this derelict house
- 49:02to just basically look like the ideal
- 49:05haunted house to go walk into and get scared
- 49:08at.
- 49:08>> Cameron: Yeah, just like her father intended.
- 49:11>> Skylar: That's right. As, as this
- 49:13quadruple group of characters walks home,
- 49:17each to their respective houses. But before they do that as a
- 49:19group, they're walking down the sidewalk, and James
- 49:22reaches into his pumpkin, thing.
- 49:25Bucket. And he pulls out the extra pack
- 49:28that he got from the dentist guy. And
- 49:31he hands it to Alex. He
- 49:34says, I don't know about you guys. That was a lot
- 49:37of fun.
- 49:37>> Cameron: Ella's already left.
- 49:39>> Cameron: Ella, you're supposed to stay with me. Ella. Hey, guys.
- 49:43>> Cameron: That was us.
- 49:43>> Cameron: that was a wild night. But you know what? That was
- 49:46the best Halloween ever. Let's take a
- 49:49big old group pic with our my new Kodak
- 49:52camera.
- 49:52>> Cameron: Oh, and it's got a key, it's.
- 49:54>> Skylar: Got a timer on it. So you set the, like, three second timer,
- 49:57and then you. You word up, and I'm like, okay, guys, let's do this. One,
- 49:59two, three. And we all jump into the air.
- 50:02>> Cameron: And we freeze frame.
- 50:03>> Skylar: High five. As the camera goes off, and as.
- 50:05>> Cameron: It goes off in the corner, you see Ella walking the other direction.
- 50:08No one noticed there.
- 50:11Like, as you raise your arm up, you see underneath the arm,
- 50:14under. Just walking like half a block away.
- 50:16>> Mikayla: I'm so gonna regret, like, our suit choice in high
- 50:19school. I look like Gollum at this point.
- 50:22>> Cameron: Let'S be honest, I think the cab's like three quarters off just hanging off.
- 50:25>> Skylar: The back and that's how the scene fades
- 50:28out.
- 50:33>> Skylar: Thank you all for joining us for another episode of our
- 50:362024 Halloween season one shot
- 50:39continuing our annual tradition of our Hunters
- 50:42Haven Monster of the Week series, we hope you are
- 50:45enjoying it. If you are, we encourage you to check out some of our other
- 50:48series, such as our avatar Legends long term
- 50:50campaign benders and brews, which is set in the in the world
- 50:53of the Last Airbender, or our Dungeons and
- 50:56Dragons long term series Criminals of Isla
- 50:58numis. If youre looking for more spooky
- 51:01Halloween fun, you can check out last year's Hunter
- 51:04Haven series Music Mayhem, which was written and
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