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Terror at Camp Roanoke E4 - 2025 Monster of the Week One-Shot · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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To whom it may concern and especially to the Craven scoundrel
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responsible for the disturbing scribblings found within my dwelling.
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Let it be known throughout this fledgling colony that I, Frederick Barnaby, have had the peace of my family most
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grievously disrupted by the discovery of a vile and
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unsettling poem hidden within the very floorboards of the cabin allotted to us.
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My daughter, a child of tender years, was subjected to this...
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this
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nonsense!
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And has been left in a state of considerable distress.
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I will not repeat the contents of this dreadful verse here, lest it further poison the minds of our community.
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Suffice it to say, it speaks of shadows, of souls departed, and of a most unnatural hunger.
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Such morbid pronouncements serve no purpose, but to sow fear and discontent amongst us,
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who have come to this land with hope and a desire for honest labor.
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Therefore, I,
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Frederick Barnaby,
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to hereby demand that the author of this malicious drivel
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cease and desist from any further such actions.
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Let your idle hands find more constructive pursuits than the tormenting of innocent souls with your ghostly fancies.
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This is a new beginning, and we will not have it tainted by such dark and unsettling pronouncements.
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Consider this your only warning.
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Should these disturbing missives continue, I will take such measures as unnecessary
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to ensure the safety and peace of my family and this community.
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Frederick Barnaby.
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[Music]
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You guys
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peek out from the supply shack to see
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Hazel
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desperately trying to pull the door closed as the scrungest digs its claws into the wood doors,
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trying to pull the
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chapel wide open to get to this damsel in distress.
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What do you guys do?
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You already know Sophie Jo's filming this thing.
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Okay.
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So you, yeah, you zoom in, you zoom way in so you're getting like close-up footage of her trying not to be killed by the scrungest.
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Yes, well like making her wait.
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Oh, oh, so you're rushing there.
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Oh, like he like recording.
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Oh, okay.
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That was there for research purposes later.
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Oh, sure, sure.
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What about, I mean, I guess, okay, so you guys are all rushing over there to help.
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You arrive with the giant massive hulking figure of the scrungest
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slashing and tearing at this door trying to get inside.
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Hazel, of course, doing everything in her power to try to keep it closed.
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She's got maybe a couple of pews that she's tried to slam over top of it, but they're just not doing much.
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You seal this.
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Maybe it's like a cabin thing where it's like a screen window or something.
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That's for you guys to figure out.
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Yeah, I'm just gonna say you're obviously not here.
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You're telling us the interior.
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Sophie Jo does have a thermal camera.
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Okay, thermal cameras don't seat through walls.
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They're not fired, dummy.
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They're not ghost.
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So what are you guys doing?
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You guys are standing there.
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The scrungest is smashing through.
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You're getting a really good look at the scrungest.
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It's just this disgusting, it's bear-like, but the more you look at it, the more you realize it has this almost monstrous,
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non-bear, non-natural visage to it, especially from the sort of gooping gray ooze that sort of just comes off of its body.
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And of course, Hazel is inside shouting, "Help, help, help!"
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Please, oh my gosh, please help!
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Is the scrungest's full attention on her?
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Oh yeah.
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Okay, so how close could Sophie Jo get to this thing?
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You can get as close as you want.
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He's gonna just be warned if you poke the bear.
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Poke the-
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If you poke that, we're changing it.
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We're changing it to poke the scrungest.
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Don't poke the scrungest.
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It's still kind of like herring from the four times you shot him.
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You can't see where it's been shot, but I would say there's an element of the couple of times that you've experienced it,
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and one time that you've already fought it, it does seem like it's a little bit weakened.
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Maybe the oozy gooeyness of it seems to be slightly like the mass,
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the mass that existed of it seems to have minimized ever so slightly.
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Not a lot, but somewhat.
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Mmm.
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So he's gonna just try and get point blank.
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Okay.
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And just...
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Bah!
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Right in the back of the scrungest.
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Back of the scrungest.
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Alright, we'll go back of his head if he can reach.
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Sure.
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How tall is this bad boy?
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Oh man, he's pretty tall, but he's on all fours, right?
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He's using his front claws very bear-like to smashing at this door, so you could get out.
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If he's on all fours then, I think Sophie Jo will get to the side and just try and aim for the side of his face.
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Sure.
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I'm gonna say do a kick some ass.
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Ooh, that's I believe a 6.
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A 6.
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You pull out the gun and you hold it right up to the head of this creature,
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and all of a sudden a small portion of the gooey ooze that comes off of it
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splurts out and hits the tip of your revolver,
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and you can see the metal on it start to corrode almost instantly,
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and you pull back the pistol, hoping not to get any more on this, so you don't take the shot.
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Well, that's not good.
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At least it's attention's not on me.
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Yeah, that's true, that's true.
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But if he's close enough, he does have one of the axes.
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That's true.
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Just might try and throw an axe.
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Okay, so you take a couple of steps back and you go to hurl one of your axes at it.
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Roll me that kick some ass.
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Go.
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So that's a 7.
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A 7, okay.
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So you do successfully hit the scrungus with this axe, it flies forward,
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jamming itself into it.
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The scrungus reels back, obviously angry from this damage that it's just been dealt,
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and it turns towards you, and you watch as the axe itself that you just embedded into it
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starts to sort of sink into its flesh and disappears beneath the gooey ooze.
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You probably won't be getting that axe back, but you have damaged the scrungus.
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Unfortunately, the scrungus turns around and its attention is now on you.
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Which, I guess, is to Hazel's favor.
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What about the others that are in this group?
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As the scrungus turns towards you guys, what are you guys doing?
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I think Grieve is going to pull out one of his bolos,
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because I'm assuming that the scrungus turning his attention is going to then charge at Scuba Steve over there.
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I think it's a little surprise seeing everybody.
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It hasn't decided who to charge at just yet.
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So you have, I mean, this is amidst his turning.
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So, being familiar with the bull as the Australian enthusiast I am,
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I know what's probably not going to do a lot of good to chuck it at a stationary target.
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Okay.
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I don't know if I can talk to anyone there.
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Right.
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Sounds a good pointer.
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Stationary.
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So he's probably going to like ready an action.
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Okay.
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For when he starts running.
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Okay.
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Yeah, that sounds good.
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I would call that, you know what, here, this is going to be a weird situation.
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You hold this action, but let me, because you're taking time to sort of analyze this,
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I'm going to call this a help out and you're essentially helping yourself.
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You're helping yourself prepare.
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So roll with cool for the possibility of getting yourself a plus one when you actually go to
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throw this.
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Five.
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Five.
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Okay.
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Wait.
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Oh, oh.
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Because a help yourself out is plus one.
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So six.
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Six.
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So close.
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So close.
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But it's not going to cause you any kind of a problem, right?
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You take some steps back.
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I think your heart starts beating super intensely as you see this creature that just attacked
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you guys not too long ago, maybe about an hour ago.
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And you're nervous, right?
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You are trying to push past that feeling.
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And I mentioned before, you've trained by capturing other animals, other dangerous animals,
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for the purposes of education and things like that.
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You've had a lion run right at you and you stood your ground and you managed to subdue
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it before it could hurt you.
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But this last time you did the same thing for the scrungus and it slammed into you and
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caused you damage.
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So you're a little nervous.
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This isn't what you're used to.
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This isn't normal for you.
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And you're a little bit terrified.
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So it doesn't give you an opportunity to potentially get a little bit more focus on this thing.
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But that doesn't mean that you can't still throw the bull as the second it charges.
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Is Martin Fresh doing anything?
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He started his weed wacker and he's pulling it above his head like a Tuscan ranger.
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Oh, get out of here.
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Are you scrungus?
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No, I'm just out of here.
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This is an interesting situation where I'm going to have you do a manipulate someone.
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Being the scrungus.
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Nine.
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Nine.
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Okay.
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So on a nine, they'll do it.
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But only if you do something for them right now to show that you mean it.
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So you're saying get out of here.
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Pull in the thing that makes the loud weed wacker.
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And then he moves it and he cuts the grass in front of us to show that you mean it.
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Okay.
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It backs away.
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I don't think it's fully intimidated to run away entirely, but it's definitely made
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nervous.
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I'm not pointed at it.
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Okay.
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Hold it on in front of you.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Back off.
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Please.
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Back off.
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And as you as you move towards it, sure enough, it does start to step back.
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It seems a little cautious of this, this weed wacker.
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Where are you sort of getting it to and where are you going?
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I'm going to get away from the door.
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So it stops.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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It is definitely doing that.
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You managed to back it away so that is, it's back on the ground.
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It's not leaving the area because again, it's only staying about a weed wacker's distance
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from you, right?
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But it is away from the door at the moment.
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So you guys have an opening to get inside or whatever it is that you're trying to do.
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I think Greve will take that opening and run for the inside.
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Okay.
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So we're all a leap inside where Hazel is waiting and she at this point, she, she's
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just kind of crumpled next to the pews that she has kind of barring up the door.
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She looks exhausted.
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She says, I went out to the beach and it chased me all the way over here, but it didn't come
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into the sand.
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I think it doesn't like sand.
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I know that sounds weird, but I, it wouldn't come and get me.
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I just, I freaked out and I, I got onto the grass and then it started to chase me, but
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it wouldn't come over to the sand.
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How far is the beach from here?
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So you guys are at the chapel, which is kind of that center spot.
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There's a beach south of you towards the lighthouse and then there's the, the North
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Beach, which is where like the volleyball and stuff like that is all set up at.
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You know, there's a net over at the ball.
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There's a net at the volleyball court.
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You haven't given up on that net gun.
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It hasn't been super effective, but it's due now.
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The exact, our sand traps in the golf course, there is sand traps in the golf course that
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we established is right here.
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Well, that's also still a little ways from you, but I digress.
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All things considered, you're on an island, so you're completely surrounded by sand.
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She says, or anything, anything dry really.
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I mean, I don't know.
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So soapy Joe's going to call back to his days of watching King of the Hill and he's
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going to grab some sand and put it in his pocket.
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Just sand from where?
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Are we not like on a beach?
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No, we're out.
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No, no, no, sorry.
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When I said you're surrounded, I meant like you're on an island.
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So technically you could go in any direction.
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Eventually you'll find some sand from the holy sand.
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Ah, yes.
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Yes.
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The, the holy sand.
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They don't use holy water at this, this chapel.
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They use holy sand.
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So I soapy believes we should go to the North Beach.
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Do you all want to go to the North Beach?
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Is this just to collect something or is this to like take refuge on the beach?
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Yeah, as we have an actual end game, are we just trying to go to the beach because that
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is a weakness that I didn't make the other thing.
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How can we give off this island or signal for help?
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Well, I wasn't, what was the whole totem thing?
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That's just how this all happened.
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I didn't give us all of his footage from like the campfire.
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So because he's been recording this.
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Sure.
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I would say in the moment with, with the current situation, the scrungus is not gone.
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Oh, it's not gone.
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I 100% support you investigating the mystery, but I'm just kind of asking is now the time.
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You know what I mean?
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Yeah, you're right.
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You're right.
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I would love nothing more than you investigate the mystery.
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So with that being said, Martin Fresh is still outside just kind of like, yeah, I've been
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talking to you guys through the door, the open door is I'm just holding the thing off.
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Well, guys, I like the strategizing we're making here.
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But how about we head to the beach that discuss further if it doesn't like seeing Justin, Justin
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steps out and he says, well, maybe, maybe this would help.
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And he pulls out an equally massive Costco, not a sponsor size container of the salts
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that was originally sitting right next to the pepper when you grab that.
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And he says, what about this?
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This is sand, right?
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I mean, it's a mineral, but it's, it's close.
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You think this will work?
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And to be clear, do I still have the pepper since I only got a brief little cloud versus
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the actual and I think you technically dropped it.
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But he does hand you this big giant thing of salt, which is significantly heavier than
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than pepper.
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Hmm.
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I'm not a believer in densities.
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Yes, I will take the salt.
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Okay.
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And he says, I don't do we just like, he's looking at Hazel and he's like, do we just
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do we just throw it at him?
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Or like, I mean, what are we supposed to do?
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He's like, I don't know.
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Just get the salt on him.
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I guess.
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I don't know.
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I don't even know.
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I don't even know if this will work, but try it works for me.
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Can you load up that salt into your net gun?
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How about that?
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Even a good or a giant potato gun?
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I was just thinking actually today that a net gun is basically just either a potato
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gun or like a t-shirt gun where it's just pressurized and you could really shove just
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about anything in there.
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Because isn't the guy like right outside?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I think it'll probably take that option is just hurl it.
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Hurl it.
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Okay.
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So you run outside.
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I'm going to have you act under pressure on this one.
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So you're rolling with cool because obviously you're just trying to make sure that this
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salt hits the scrungus.
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And eight.
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And eight.
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Okay.
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You pop the top on this container of salt and you rear back and you hurl it towards
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the scrungus.
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Oh man, this is the tricky thing with act under pressure is they leave it very broad.
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Her choice or price to pay.
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You're going to lose the salt, which is a huge sacrifice.
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Oh, I have an idea.
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Okay.
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You rear back, you have the top popped off of this massive container of salt and you
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hurl it towards the scrungus.
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It flies through the air and it hits the ground just like a foot or two away from it.
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Filling salt all over to the ground.
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That's right there.
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And that's you had this like nice pile of salt.
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It's out of the container.
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It's sitting there on the ground, but it didn't directly hit the scrungus.
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Okay.
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So it is in front of it or to the side?
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Kind of to the side.
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Yeah.
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Kind of to the side.
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Now is that all the salt that's gone?
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Yeah.
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So there's just a huge pile of salt sitting next to the scrungus, but not actually touching
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the scrungus.
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Big pile?
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Yep.
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Okay.
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So it's just sitting there in the angle.
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Oh, interesting.
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And just send it flying in every direction.
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Okay.
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You jam the, you pull the weed eater away from the monster and it sees an opening, but
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just as it does, you jam it into the salt.
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I'm going to have you do an act under pressure as well.
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Just because you're taking your focus, a nine.
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Okay.
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You, you might get harmed by the monster, but you will hit the salt and spray it everywhere.
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Or you can, or you can redact.
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Full send.
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Full send.
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So I should say the scrungus slashes out with its massive clawed hands.
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It hits you just ever so slightly dealing one harm, but your weed eater jams into this
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pile of salt that grieves just sent flying over to you.
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And it just starts spraying salt everywhere, every which direction.
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Some of you guys start like closing your eyes as you're getting kind of hit with it from
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over at the chapel.
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That you watch as the salt hits the scrungus, that ooey goo that makes up its body starts
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to almost disintegrate like a dry up like a snail, sizzling practically as the salt is
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hitting it.
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It lets out a horrible, horrible screen as it starts to just rush away, being horribly
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harmed by this salt, this drying agent, if you will, leaving you guys safe for now from
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the scrungus.
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Where'd it go, Myrtle?
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Now stay on!
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Now keep in mind, Sophie Jo was reporting, or recording on this.
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Yes.
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So he would like to investigate the mystery and fix it in post again.
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Okay.
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And then just remind me, so what does fix it in post like do?
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Does it enhance your investigative history?
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Does it give you more questions?
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It says you can use anything you conceivably have recorded as evidence for investigative
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mystery allowing you to check previous interviews, attacks, life.
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Oh, okay.
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So basically it's saying that no matter where you're at, you have content that you can use
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to investigate a mystery versus like, oh, I have to go to a spot to try to investigate
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the mystery.
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He's recording, which is why.
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Which you have been, yeah.
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Been recording this whole time.
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Absolutely.
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For his 50,000 YouTube blog.
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That's right.
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Okay.
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Go ahead and roll that investigative mystery.
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Nine.
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Nine.
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Okay.
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So you get one question from the list.
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You can kind of keep this one a little bit more broad if you'd like to.
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Just tell me what it is that you want to attribute it to.
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So we know what happened here.
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We know what kind of creature it is.
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We sort of know what it can do.
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We know what can hurt it.
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We don't know where it went.
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What was it going to do?
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We probably know that.
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I'm going to ask what can the scrungest do?
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What can it do?
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Okay.
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Like the acidic stuff that's spurred it off of it's kind of, is kind of like, you know,
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yeah, something strange.
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That's a good question.
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Okay.
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So you look back at footage that you've gotten of the scrungest.
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And one thing that you notice from the video where Greaves shot it with a net gun, you
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actually saw there were chunks of the body that completely oozed out between the little
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squares in the net and sort of reestablished itself outside of the net.
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So basically this thing can turn into an ooze almost entirely to escape, for instance, a
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net.
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And obviously you see that everywhere that it goes, it also kind of leaves behind the
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sort of acid burn.
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As you look through some of the video and you see like where it had its footprints, you
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even go look out at the door of the chapel and you can see these almost like acid burn
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marks that it left behind while it was trying to get inside.
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So its skin itself is incredibly caustic, which is actually really good that Greaves
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didn't capture you and the scrungest when he shot the net gun, which I think you joked
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about as we'd be in a confined space with a...
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Yeah.
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So wait, didn't Martin just like fight this thing like hand to hand?
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Didn't you fight this thing?
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Right, right in the ale?
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No, but before you fought the scrungest at your campfire store.
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No, no, no.
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Not at all.
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He just, he literally just saw it.
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He just offered in some hand.
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Yeah.
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Hand off.
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So he doesn't like hand.
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Which is funny because in the first episode you kept trying to give him hand.
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Oh, because you were trying to get him to go away.
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I don't know, I just, I got some hot dogs and he wasn't there when I came back out.
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So I can only assume he doesn't care much for him.
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He did chase after the hot dogs though, didn't he?
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Well, maybe he likes them.
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Maybe he will stay if I came back out with him.
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As you guys are discussing this, you can overhear Justin and Hazel are just kind of walking
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around the room and Justin is explaining to Hazel and Braden everything that he showed
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you guys from the letters from Richard Ancock and anything that kind of related to the totem.
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Basically explaining to them that the totem is sort of behind these monsters.
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And as they're looking around, does anybody else want to do anything while you guys are
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in here?
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In this chapel, which is a non-exported space.
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You might have come in here at some point like doing some cleaning and stuff like that,
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but otherwise as far as the mystery goes, this is the first time you've come in here.
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What's our plan of attack your game?
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How are we going to get off this island?
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Are we going to find a radio and radio to that one fella who's got the car or are we
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just going to run across the bridge?
22:22
They would grab some golf carts and make an escape across the bridge.
22:27
Where's the bridge?
22:29
Basically it would be like you go through the forest, you follow that road and then inevitably
22:33
you'd get to the bridge.
22:34
But you do remember that Willie, the owner of the park, had mentioned to you that the
22:38
bridge was going to be unavailable.
22:40
What does that mean?
22:42
I like to think that, and technically this is totally fictional, I don't think this is
22:45
technically how it's set up, but it's one of those raised bridges.
22:48
A drawbridge?
22:49
Yeah.
22:50
Or there's a section of it that's a drawbridge to help let ships through and things like
22:54
that.
22:55
Oh, okay.
22:56
Yeah, I mean is there anything in particular you guys want to do while you're in here?
23:02
Ellie ideals guys.
23:04
And just as you guys are kind of coming to a dead end, Hazel speaks up.
23:09
She says, "Hey, what's this?"
23:12
And she holds up what looks like an old book.
23:16
And you come over and look and you see that obviously each pew has an old Bible and a
23:22
hymnal book in each one of those little like sections on the back of each of the pews.
23:28
This one had a hymnal book and another book that doesn't look at all like a Bible.
23:34
And as she opens it up, you see more of sort of those old letters.
23:39
Or rather the book itself looks like it was written in the same handwriting with that
23:43
old English style as those letters that you found earlier.
23:48
And on the front cover on the inside, you open it up and it reads, "The Diary of Richard
23:54
Hancock."
23:55
My sweet, my ambitious jewel across the churning foam, know that fortune's cruelest hand has
24:20
led us to a haunted home.
24:23
These simple souls, they lack the spine to seize what fate decreed.
24:29
Their whispers weak, their spirits thin, a paltry frightened breed.
24:36
But fear not love, for in my grasp a relic now resides, a totem that hums with ancient
24:44
hungers where wicked power hides.
24:47
It speaks to me in fevered dreams a voice both cold and vast.
24:52
It calls me servant, it craves the souls that life has cast.
24:59
For every breath that fades away, a shadow takes its hope.
25:05
And from the ether nightmares bloom in stories yet untold.
25:11
A headless night with spectral stride, a beast with shadowed frame.
25:17
I stalk the night, untamed and wild, and whisper my dark name.
25:25
Fourteen they were when Drake did sail a meagre flock indeed.
25:30
But one by one the darkness calls and plants a fatal seed.
25:36
The totem swells a hungry heart with every stolen breath.
25:43
Though I conjure terror's vast, I dance with chilling death.
25:49
I dreamt of riches, lands untold, a dynasty to claim.
25:53
But now the horrors walk the earth and chant the totem's name.
26:00
I hide in shadows, watch them hunt, the monsters of my mind, praying that at every soul consumed
26:07
some mastery I'll find.
26:11
Some swiftly love across the waves and bring your strength to bear.
26:17
For soon I fear the beasts I birth will find me in their lair.
26:24
Perhaps with more to feed its moor, this hunger will abate.
26:29
And we shall rule this haunted isle, enthroned by cruelest fate.
26:35
[Dramatic music]
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Whoa, look!
26:43
Those books were written by Anton Shetkoff!
26:46
It says Richard Ankoge.
26:49
Aren't you a teacher?
26:50
I just thought of his name.
26:52
We did that so first time.
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I know.
26:55
I'm like looking over at you guys like, "Yeah?"
26:56
Yeah, yeah.
26:57
It just hit me.
26:59
There you go.
26:59
I'm glad it hit you at least.
27:01
Inside you flip through the pages, there's only three entries to this journal.
27:06
And then the rest of the pages are completely blank.
27:08
They're obviously very worn, very yellowed.
27:12
You can still read at these three entries that are in here.
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The first one says, "October 22nd, Anodomini 1586.
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The power, the terrible power of this thing.
27:30
I tested it, Elizabeth.
27:31
I confess I did."
27:34
There was fourteen fools who remained.
27:38
I spun tales around the fire, dark imaginings of beasts and shadows.
27:44
And they manifested horrors born of drunken whispers and fearful thoughts.
27:52
They tore through the camp, Elizabeth, savagely, indiscriminately.
27:57
Both follow me.
27:59
It was just the beginning.
28:00
Now, now there are none left but me.
28:05
And they hunt me too.
28:08
My own creations stalk the woods, their eyes burning with a hunger I myself ignited.
28:16
This island, it has become a cage of my own making.
28:21
I must flee.
28:22
I must take a pin.
28:23
I must go back to the mainland.
28:25
Perhaps there, away from this cursed soil, I can find some respite from the nightmares
28:29
I have unleashed.
28:30
Hell, Justin, that's some impressive voice work you're doing there.
28:35
How are you throwing your voice like that?
28:37
That sounds like a completely different person.
28:39
Oh, well, I did a lot of theatre when I was in school.
28:42
Oh, wow, that's impressive.
28:44
Can you do any other crazy voices?
28:47
Uh, no, I pretty much just had the one.
28:50
Oh, okay.
28:51
Do this one in my Italian accent?
28:54
No.
28:55
How about a nice cockney accent?
28:57
Nope.
28:58
The second entry.
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November 15th, Anodomini, 1586.
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They follow, even here.
29:07
On the mainland the shadows writhe with them.
29:10
Sleep offers no escape, only visions of gnashing teeth and fiery eyes.
29:15
Desperate, I sought one of their priests, a wizened old man from a tribe further inland.
29:23
I showed him the totem, babbling of the horrors.
29:28
He merely laughed, Elizabeth.
29:31
A cold, mocking sound.
29:34
He called it a demon, residing within the wood, said my suffering was punishment for
29:40
my transgression against the aquasca cock.
29:45
The original sin, he called it.
29:48
The theft, the blame.
29:50
He spoke of a ritual, a way to sever the connection.
29:53
I must take the silver cup, the source of that first sin and the totem to a holy place.
29:59
Only then, if I beg for repentance, if I confront my greatest sin, perhaps then the horrors
30:07
will cease.
30:09
He turns the page to the final entry in the notebook.
30:14
The first, anodominy, 1586.
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The cup, the silver cobblet.
30:23
I hid it, buried it near the fledgling gardens we tried to cultivate on the edge of the forest.
30:31
I cannot bring myself to return to that cursed island, Elizabeth.
30:37
Not of them waiting.
30:39
But the priest's words, the only hope.
30:45
I have drawn a map, my love.
30:48
A crude thing, but it should guide you to it.
30:52
Should you ever arrive on these shores with the next company.
30:58
If I am not there, if the monsters have claimed me, take the cup and the other treasures I
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buried there, Elizabeth.
31:08
Take it and the totem to that sanctuary rock the natives called it.
31:17
Confess your greatest sin, your darkest secret that you hide within your heart.
31:25
Perhaps you can find the peace that now eludes me.
31:32
I have marked a map of the island on the next page.
31:37
May God have mercy on my soul.
31:41
And of course, you turn the page to find it torn out.
31:45
Just as you finish these last words, Justin looks like he's about to say something when
31:53
suddenly you hear another scream.
31:57
And you look outside to see off in the distance the lighthouse.
32:05
The big giant light kind of comes across you guys blinding you for a moment.
32:10
And as it passes by, you regain your focus to see a giant massive alligator like creature
32:20
leaned up against the side of the lighthouse.
32:24
It's tails still sticking into the ocean behind it.
32:28
And up in the window of the lighthouse up in the top, you see Ophelia and she is currently
32:36
holding a giant burnt out lighthouse bulb.
32:41
And she's hurling them down at this gator source.
32:47
What do you do?
32:50
It does exist.
32:53
My gosh, even from here that thing looks massive.
32:57
Oh, well wrestle it.
32:59
Yeah, shorts.
33:01
You're hitting it.
33:03
Taking off running at the moment.
33:04
Okay, he's just running right towards it.
33:07
What are the rest of you guys doing?
33:08
Hey, so where's that male?
33:11
This is you guys are saying this as you're running.
33:13
Not running.
33:14
You're not running.
33:15
You're just standing there in the chapel looking for the map.
33:16
Okay, Justin says, I don't know.
33:19
It looks like he got torn out.
33:20
Oh, is he look right here and he shows you the frayed edges.
33:24
You gotta be around here somewhere and Martin gets on his knees and he starts looking under
33:29
all the pews crawling around.
33:31
Okay, do a let's call this a investigate a mystery, I suppose.
33:38
Four.
33:39
Four.
33:40
You, you find nothing there.
33:42
This floor has been swept clean.
33:44
Keep in mind that people have come in here and they have cleaned prior.
33:49
This was just something that was like slightly defining the journal in general was just something
33:53
that was slightly out of place.
33:55
So you guys found it sure, but you don't see a page that's just kind of hanging around.
34:01
You even take some of the the Bibles and the handles and stuff and you start kind of shaking
34:04
the pages to see if maybe exactly nothing, nothing inside.
34:08
Okay, it's probably in the back and he starts walking through the back of the chapel.
34:13
Okay, the closets and stuff.
34:15
Sounds good.
34:16
I'm going to set you aside for the moment.
34:18
You're searching diligently for this map that's gone missing.
34:22
The other two of you, you guys have rushed out.
34:24
I think Braden has rushed along with you.
34:26
I'm going to say Justin stayed behind with Martin Fresh and Hazel.
34:31
Hazel just stops halfway in between.
34:33
Like I don't know what to do.
34:35
She's looking at this giant alligator, this kaiju sized creature practically.
34:41
Maybe not quite full kaiju, but like a bit, let's say baby kaiju.
34:47
It's like leaned up and trying to bite at her.
34:51
No, no, no, no.
34:53
Okay, that's right.
34:54
That's what I'm saying.
34:55
Like baby kaiju.
34:56
Let's say it's a baby kaiju.
34:57
It's still really big.
34:59
Oh yeah.
35:00
No, I know.
35:01
I know.
35:02
Yeah.
35:03
So this is like 20 feet.
35:04
Yeah.
35:05
Just for comparison, a quick Google search shows that the largest confirmed alligator
35:09
is 19 feet long.
35:10
What is this?
35:11
Like double that?
35:12
This is like like 30, 30.
35:14
Here's what I'll say.
35:15
It's not that it's just in a gator.
35:18
It's got like features that like a dinosaur-esque features to it that allow it to basically
35:24
be standing on its hind legs and almost reaching up with its maw to try to get Ophelia out
35:31
of the top of this.
35:32
Could you define a maw?
35:34
Like its mouth.
35:35
Yeah, sorry.
35:36
And you're the alligator expert.
35:39
Allegedly, he is.
35:41
So as you rush up to it, Braden falling along behind you guys, again Hazel stopping about
35:46
halfway, just not sure what even to do.
35:49
What are you doing?
35:51
Well, Sobie Joe, we already know.
35:54
He's filming.
35:55
Okay.
35:56
Sobie Joe is filming.
35:57
This creature, it bears a resemblance to a gator, but it's it's got even more prominent
36:05
features of like a dinosaur, even more armor.
36:10
I never in my wildest dreams did I expect it to be this massive.
36:16
The rumors are true and more, but how, how do I, how do I capture this?
36:22
How do I subdue it?
36:25
Maybe it's like a Pokemon where you have to weaken it and then try to capture it.
36:30
If it's anything like the other stuff we fought, they can apparently withstand getting shot
36:34
multiple times.
36:35
So kind of got a work cut out for us here.
36:38
That's a very good point.
36:40
And Sobie Joe's only got three bullets left.
36:42
But I'm sure it is just a misunderstood creature.
36:45
Why did I come with him?
36:47
Well, whatever the case, it's trying to eat.
36:50
It is trying to eat Ophelia right now.
36:53
And I obviously, if you got its attention, there's a good chance it might try to eat
36:57
you.
36:58
So, how about it is just like recording.
37:01
Okay.
37:02
I don't think that's going to stop it from eating you.
37:04
Well, no, it's not eat us or try and eat Ophelia.
37:06
Well, I'm just saying if you draw its attention, I'm going to, I'm going to fix it in post
37:10
with this guy because I've been recording.
37:12
Oh, yeah.
37:13
Okay.
37:14
Okay.
37:15
So you're saying you're in.
37:16
See what I can't see.
37:17
Okay.
37:18
Sounds good.
37:19
12.
37:20
12.
37:21
Okay.
37:22
So you get to ask two questions.
37:24
Now, technically speaking, 12 plus gives you it's an advanced thing that's separate.
37:29
But I digress.
37:30
You do get to ask two questions of the various things that are here.
37:34
Can I be more specific or like more broad or is that to be still specific to the situation?
37:40
What do you think?
37:41
Like, what are, why are all of these monsters here?
37:44
I mean, you kind of have an answer to that already with the totem, right?
37:47
Well, yeah, I guess is there a way I can look through the footage and see if there's a specific
37:53
area that they're trying to get to?
37:55
Because if they're trying to get to the totem odds are they all trying to be kind of converging
38:00
on the same place.
38:02
So you're saying like, what was it going to do?
38:04
Is there a be one pattern?
38:06
Is there anything that all of these monsters seem to have in common?
38:10
Okay.
38:11
And they're tying here?
38:12
Oh, yeah, I could answer that.
38:15
They all and I you're going to think that this is a sarcastic answer.
38:18
I promise it's not.
38:19
They're all trying to get you.
38:23
They're all trying not you specifically, but I just mean like your at least the three of
38:27
you in the other campers, they're trying to get somebody kill somebody or whatever you
38:33
want to call it.
38:34
Is it a specific?
38:36
Are they targeting one individual?
38:38
No, because you have seen them target multiple different people.
38:41
One of them tried to get or the scrungus was trying to get Justin before.
38:46
Obviously was trying to get all of you at the campfire.
38:48
Bigfoot was trying to pull the plug, which suggests that I mean, Bigfoot has some level
38:54
of intelligence.
38:55
Let's let's say that.
38:56
So his was more of, I could stop them from getting access to things which would increase
39:02
our chances of getting them.
39:05
This one is trying to get Ophelia at the moment.
39:07
The scrungus was just trying to get Hazel.
39:09
So it's really anybody is fair game, but it's just the fact that they're not the only thing
39:14
they're after essentially is violence.
39:16
I have one more question.
39:18
Yes.
39:19
And I converse with my.
39:21
Yeah, absolutely.
39:23
You can at the very least converse with Greaves because he's here.
39:27
Greaves.
39:28
What should I be looking for?
39:30
Or you could talk to Braden, which is me.
39:32
I mean, should we get it's good to try to eat Ophelia?
39:36
Shouldn't we like get rid of this?
39:38
Well, yeah, we're trying to figure out how to do that.
39:41
Yeah.
39:42
Well, what about you Gator expert?
39:43
What do you know about Gators?
39:44
What's their weakness?
39:45
How do we get rid of it?
39:46
None.
39:47
They are.
39:48
Well, you can get them from the back, right?
39:49
I think it's the underside technically, but I see what you're getting at.
39:52
The underside.
39:53
They're their nose is very sensitive.
39:55
I think that sharks were going to play that their nose is very sensitive.
40:00
You punch them in the eyes.
40:01
What?
40:02
I think the sharks.
40:03
That is sharks' nose.
40:04
Yes.
40:05
Because divers will like push their nose away.
40:07
Gators, they can like close their mouth really strong, but they can't open it.
40:11
So like a trickle tape will keep their mouth shut.
40:13
That's a fair point.
40:15
But yeah, he is right now seeing that this Gator is like kind of leaned up against the
40:20
lighthouse.
40:21
So in essence, it is already kind of opened up eyes to the poles.
40:25
You just need to some way to fasten it to the pole.
40:27
And then that would be trapped or already rassled to said pole being the lighthouse.
40:33
So I will look around for like a big chain or a rope or something that you assume a ship
40:40
would more to the lighthouse.
40:41
Sure.
40:42
Yeah.
40:43
With that being said, you do.
40:44
I wasn't sure.
40:45
Sorry.
40:46
Were you trying to figure out which question to ask?
40:48
I'm still trying to figure out which question to ask.
40:50
Right.
40:51
So I can't keep that in the back pocket for now.
40:53
Sure.
40:54
Okay.
40:55
So it retains to the, yeah, the Gator source, but okay.
40:59
So you're looking for a chain.
41:01
I would say, I mean, it makes sense to me that there would be some kind of chain close by the
41:07
lighthouses typically set up to obviously keep boats from crashing into the shores.
41:13
That's the purpose of it.
41:15
But as a seafaring related structure, I would say that, yeah, there's probably some chains
41:21
lying around or at the very least some rope.
41:23
So what I think we need to do, this is just like when I captured that saltwater crocodile
41:29
on the Panama Canal.
41:31
Wow.
41:32
The Suez Canal.
41:33
Now we're at least on the right continent.
41:35
I was thinking, man, this is going to just go into the lore of Grieve's character that
41:41
he has never done any.
41:42
He was with geography.
41:43
So it's so many canals.
41:45
He got his Suez and his Panama Canal mixed up.
41:47
Gotcha.
41:48
Okay.
41:49
So what is Suez Canal?
41:50
Yes.
41:51
But he's going to look for a rope and then he's going to basically just run around the
41:57
lighthouse.
41:58
Yeah.
41:59
In essence, fastening the alligator to the lighthouse.
42:01
Wow.
42:02
Okay.
42:03
He's going to require a distraction to which he is going to request that from either Justin
42:09
or Joe.
42:11
Justin's back at--
42:12
Braden or Joe.
42:14
Joe--Sopey Joe.
42:15
Soopey Joe.
42:16
Oh, Sobes Joseph?
42:17
Yeah, Sobes Joseph.
42:19
Okay.
42:20
So Braden is more than happy to assist.
42:25
Would you like--I'm going to give that to you as a plus one.
42:28
He's assisting you.
42:29
He's helping out by creating a distraction.
42:31
I'm going to say that his distraction is that he runs up to the top lighthouse and joins
42:37
Ophelia.
42:38
It's like that would be the best distraction.
42:39
Yeah.
42:40
But fascinated with the top.
42:42
Exactly.
42:43
Not looking at you guys.
42:44
Exactly.
42:45
So with that being said, you've got the two--are the two of you doing the ropes because I'll
42:51
let him help you with that.
42:53
But he'll have to roll for it.
42:55
To be fair with help out, I don't think--well, there technically is a negative.
43:00
So I'll try now.
43:02
Okay.
43:03
Six.
43:04
Six.
43:05
Okay.
43:06
You kind of fumble around with the ropes awkwardly and honestly it's really just taking up more
43:11
time than it's worth.
43:12
That camcorder won.
43:13
Yeah, it's because he won't put the camcorder down.
43:16
Oh my god.
43:17
Get the footage.
43:18
All right, mate.
43:19
You're going to just hand that rope over to me and I'll do a couple of loops around this.
43:23
It's when he's dealing with gators, man.
43:24
It really comes out.
43:25
We'll see if we can wrestle this beautiful beast.
43:29
All right.
43:30
Sounds good.
43:31
So I'm going to have you act under pressure as you start to just--is it--you're like a
43:37
hot speeder trying to wrap up the legs of this ATT.
43:41
Except instead of a giant imperial ship, it's a giant gator sore.
43:46
And you have a plus one on top.
43:48
I do.
43:49
Yeah, from Brayden helping you out with the distraction.
43:52
That makes it a 12.
43:53
Holy cow.
43:54
Okay.
43:55
So you do exactly what you set out to do.
43:56
You start rushing around this lighthouse and occasionally you'll kind of like throw a loop
44:01
up there to kind of get it hooked around some of its--what are those?
44:06
Protrubrances.
44:07
Protrubrances, which is--yeah, okay.
44:10
And get a higher angle on it.
44:12
But otherwise you manage to wrap up basically the entire lower half of this monstrosity to
44:18
the lighthouse.
44:19
And you do it without it really noticing because Brayden's doing a really great job at creating
44:23
a distraction above.
44:24
But by the time it does notice, it's already too late.
44:27
Its whole under half of its body has been wrapped entirely.
44:31
It starts just kind of struggling, but it's very awkward as it does.
44:36
It's splashing its massive tail in the water below.
44:40
You do feel a little bit of rickety movement on the lighthouse.
44:44
There's some rope left.
44:46
I mean, you just wrapped up a whole monster.
44:48
If you want like a separate chunk of rope?
44:50
Yes.
44:51
Like this one would be a smaller rope.
44:53
Okay.
44:54
I'd say there might be more inside the lighthouse.
44:57
People will search for one.
44:58
Okay.
44:59
So, we're going to get into the lighthouse.
45:01
What's Soapy Joe doing?
45:02
He's filming this thing.
45:03
He's like, "Crikey guys, look at that monster."
45:07
And speaking of monsters, I wanted to remind you guys that Monster Mash Energy Drinks has
45:12
been the sponsor of this channel for two years.
45:15
And you just kind of hear like, "Jay, what's going on with this ad?"
45:19
All right.
45:20
You run inside and I think Ophelia comes running down some of the stairs and she looks down,
45:25
you know, it's like one of those spiral staircases.
45:28
She looks down through the center and she's like, "Um, oh my gosh, what are you doing?"
45:32
"I need more rope.
45:33
I'm trying to save your life and rattle this Gator-saurus."
45:37
There's some rope up here in Willy's office.
45:39
I found Willy's office.
45:41
I know we weren't supposed to go in there, but I went in there anyways.
45:44
Desperate times called for desperate measures.
45:47
And she said, "Do you want me to throw it down for you?"
45:49
"On the double."
45:50
"Okay."
45:51
And she disappears and then moments later, just this chunk of rope just comes flying down
45:57
and slams into the floor below you.
45:59
"You're built."
46:00
"Are you talking about me or the rope?"
46:02
"Both of you.
46:03
Thanks, Sheila."
46:04
I mean, I think I should.
46:05
I told you before, it's not Sheila, it's Onyx.
46:10
My gosh.
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How many times do I have to tell you guys that?
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You now have another chunk of rope, another spindle, if you will.
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With his death wish at hand, Grieve Gershwin is going to run to the base of this Gator-saurus
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with all of its protrubarances that look strikingly similar to a rock wall.
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Oh, absolutely.
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Attempt to scale the back of this Gator-saurus.
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What?
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Wow.
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Okay.
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Once again, I mean, really act under pressure, really kind of falls under what we're looking
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for here.
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And you're climbing up, thing called, this is one of my moves, it's Killer's Wisdom.
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Okay.
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And says, "You've learned how to study your prey very well after three rounds to observe.
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Roll plus two sharp."
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Okay.
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So does that apply?
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Does that take a plie?
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Does that apply?
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Yeah, I'd say so.
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What is it?
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I mean, is it giving you something?
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On a ten plus hold stuff?
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What am I holding?
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So that's kind of like your help, right?
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So you're getting those pluses.
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Does it say how much?
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You can on a ten plus hold two, on a seven nine hold one, and then you spend your holds
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to do either par.
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It could be this exact situation.
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Okay, very cool.
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Okay, yeah, absolutely.
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So roll your sharp.
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You have studied Gators all your life.
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Alligators.
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You studied crocodiles.
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You know exactly what this Gatorsaurus would be all about.
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So that would be, I add my sharp to this, right?
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Yep.
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So that would be an eight.
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An eight.
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So you do get plus one.
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Okay.
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And then now you're going to go scale it.
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Do you want to, I mean, I guess you could decide when you want to use the plus one.
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Give yourself or another hunter plus one ongoing.
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Oh.
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Versus the monster until the, oh, you do two plus harm.
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Very nice.
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Okay.
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Would be the ongoing plus one.
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Sure.
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Yeah.
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So you do plus one to do anything really to this, this Gatorsaurus.
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You want to level up.
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Absolutely.
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Okay.
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So now they're going to act on your pressure.
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Yes.
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As you start to grab onto the scales and the protrusions and start to scale this creature.
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Protrusions.
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You used it so many times now it's canon.
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That's right.
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I think that's a 12 again.
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Holy cow.
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Okay.
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You, I mean, you easily nimbly.
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I mean, this thing is huge.
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It's got the protrusions are so big.
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Um, it's, it's easier than a rock climbing wall with or without cause you've got this
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rope around your back and you've got rope to kind of help you climb up as well that
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you've already wrapped around it.
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It's like, it's practically like walking up a steep cliff at this point.
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And with this rope in his mouth as he's scaling, this is for you, Steve.
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Okay.
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Zero.
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And you make it to, I mean, basically the head of this creature, which is flailing pretty
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proudly, but you're holding on tight like Legolas hanging off of a, an LF.
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What do they call them?
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Alley font.
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Alley font.
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Yes.
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All right.
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So you're on top of its head.
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What are you doing?
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Uh, he is going to use that little perk of information that soapy Joe had reminded him
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of that he probably should remember.
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Does that gators cannot open their mouth with excessive pressure?
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Right.
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It can only close.
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Gotcha.
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And you have to attempt to secure the maw of this Gators shut.
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Very nice.
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Okay.
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So you start to throw this rope around them and have you do one more act under pressure.
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I know I'm making it like just adding to the thrill, but you do still have the plus
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one on top of it.
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All right.
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I think that's another 12.
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Another 12.
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Okay.
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You start to throw this rope around, lassoing around the mouth of this giant Gatorsaurus,
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closing it up just in time as it has it open, it slams it shut at some point just in its
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frustration.
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You rope it off and it just does not seem to be able to open its mouth back up.
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So now it's just wriggling, uh, awkward, even more awkwardly than before.
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It cannot open its mouth and you scale back down easily.
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Much like the Legolas.
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Much like Legolas.
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Yes.
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It just slides right off of it.
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Absolutely.
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You slide all the way down the tail and then at the end, the tail kind of flicks up and
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you just hop off and roll onto the ground and declare if I, uh, Grieve Gershwin is probably
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way too cool to make all these Lord of the Rings reference.
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This is strictly fatty.
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Yeah.
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I will say, I will say that because you did so well with all of this added bonus, Sobie
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Joe got all of that on camera.
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It's all going on his YouTube channel, but he'll shout you out.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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You'll get, you know, shout out and link in the description, but you'll get a shout out.
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Well, see now you had to make an account and then that way everybody that sees his video
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will go check out your videos.
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Maybe with all that exposure, we'll be able to educate us onto why this creature was so
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distraught.
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There may be some type of habitat destruction that we can remedy.
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Hmm.
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This poor lass.
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This poor lass girl.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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There it is.
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It's decided as you stand there with the entirety of the Gator sword is completely wrapped up
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in rope.
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We will close out this episode.
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September 18th, Anno Domini 1588.
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The days grew shorter.
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The air colder and with them comes a terror that gnaws at the very soul of our settlement.
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The attacks, they have become relentless.
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Scarcely a night passes without some poor soul being dragged from their dwelling.
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Their screams swallowed by the oppressive darkness.
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We bar the doors.
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We keep watch, but it is not enough.
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I saw one father last night by the meagre light of the moon.
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A shape hunched and crooked, leaning forward as if borne down by some unseen weight.
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It moved with a horrifying speed.
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Its limbs are naturally long and jointed and its hands.
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Oh sweet Mary, its hands claws I tell you, fully a foot in length, black and wickedly
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sharp.
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I watched, frozen in terror as it fell upon one of our hogs.
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It tore it in half with a single swipe, the force of its sending entrails scattering in
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every direction.
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The sound, the wet, tearing sound.
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It will haunt my dreams forever.
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Only three dozen souls lost now.
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Three dozen!
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Our numbers dwindle with each passing night, and the faces of those who remain are etched
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with a fear that mirrors my own.
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Winter is fast approaching and our stores are still meagre.
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Hope, once a flickering candle, now threatens to be extinguished entirely.
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In their desperation, the elders have taken to carving.
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On that large rock by the northernmost palisade, the one they say the first company used for
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prayer, they work tirelessly.
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Holy runes they whisper, ancient symbols of protection.
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They carve them deep into the stone, their knorled hands moving with a frantic urgency.
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They pray, they chant.
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Their voices hoarse with fear and supplication.
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They call it sanctuary rock, our last hope against the encroaching darkness.
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I pray it is enough, Father.
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I pray that these markings, these desperate pleas to a higher power, can shield us from
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the horrors that stalk our knights.
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My fear, with every fiber of my being, that they cannot...
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Elinor.
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Hey everyone, Skylar here, creator and creative director at Session Zero Heroes.
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