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The Vampire With No Name 1.25 - Hit The Trail · Dubious Creatures Presents

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The. A highway wanders through the
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desert. A tumbleweed drifts past a dusty
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dive bar. A coyote shrieks out to no one
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in particular. Someone's bleeding out in a
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bathroom stall. The stars tonight are bright,
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but not nearly bright enough. This place does not exist, and
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yet here you are welcome to San Arroyo Kindred.
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We here at Dubious Creatures present to you the vampire with
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no name. Meanwhile, Ash Astor, you 2 just
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booked it out onto the open tarmac.
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You didn't even know where you were going for a minute there,
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and now that you're finally both of you, catching a breath that
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neither of you really need they. Hate the spooky shit.
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Oh, that was not for me. God.
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I'm. That was it was wrong.
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I feel it. In my brain.
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In. My vision.
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Like. Nope.
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Even OK. Truthfully, no, but that's
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that's not that's neither here nor there.
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I we're, we're we're finishing this all.
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We're. Can't wait till this is over I.
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Can't wait, yeah? I don't even know how to heal
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myself. In my experience he sort of just
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billets, then the blood does the rest.
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We'll. Try that later and in that
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moment you Ash would get a a serious sense of a deep bubbling
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rage that is that is festering within her.
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Ash is going to put her hands on her shoulders.
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It's like going to get through this.
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We're going to get out of this and we're going to start getting
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answers to questions. Yeah.
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Yeah. We're fucking better.
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Shit feel like every fucking night we learn something new
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that is like this makes all this worse so.
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Much. Worse.
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I'd known what I was fucking agreeing to.
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I would have said no. I'd have rather died in that God
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damn bathtub. I didn't know it was going to be
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like this. I didn't know I was going to be
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fucking abandoned. Ash is going to switch it up and
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pull her into a very tight hug and say you might have been but
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I promise you, you are not alone.
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Thanks. No worries, it's all five of us.
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We are. None of us are alone.
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We're we are in this unfortunate mess and trust me, I would kill
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for any of you. The feeling is quite mutual.
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In fact, I'm hope, I hope we didn't kill the toad.
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I'm so worried about it. It's been on my mind for since I
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watched his face burn. Somehow I think that that dude
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is tougher to kill than you think.
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Hope I don't need any more problems.
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Fuck this place. Let's.
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Burn it to the ground. Yeah, you knew you didn't like
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this place. The only time I've been here
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before, like this past week, was when I was in, when I was in
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high school, me and a couple, me and a couple of people in the
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football team went and did Donuts in the on the tarmac.
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Hell yeah. One of many, one of one of many
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of my youthful indiscretions. And don't ever ask any law
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enforcement officer here what Ash Crawford did in their high
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school years. We'll have that talk sometime.
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I don't know. Be great.
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So let's get back to the the car.
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They're probably wrapped up by this and like as as they start
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heading back, I hit a a dude hit like hard in the state like
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tonight. Oh yeah, I I had to name drop.
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Oh. God.
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Oh, you can't drop Zach. I used the last name have.
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You checked your phone or? Chan purposefully avoiding it.
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Ash is Ash is going to laugh and it's like, how'd you feel doing
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it? It Like it's like a little
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dirty, but it's also a little fun, right?
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God, OK, so I always avoided it when I was when we were actually
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married. Like I always avoided it.
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I I didn't even take the name. Like I don't even know that Zach
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was super butthurt about it. I was doing a lot of drugs in
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college so I really didn't notice but.
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I don't blame you, I did a lot of drugs in college too.
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But yeah, so, so like, yeah, how'd it feel?
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I've never I've again, I've always tried to avoid it, but it
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actually felt kind of good. It was, it was a little like,
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yeah, fuck off, don't annoy me. There's power in it.
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Right. There's a power in it.
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I get it. Yeah, it, it, it's you get to
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like you. You get to put the screws on
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somebody who'd normally be like sweating you out.
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I look up like fear, like, oh, I'm going to.
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I'm going to get in trouble if it that flashes in the eyes.
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That's actually it's kind of nice.
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Kind of nice to to make a pig sweat every once in a while,
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especially with these new these new folks.
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The fucking fucking new sheriff is real fascist.
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Wait, wait, Sheriff, are you talking about the the.
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Human sheriff or the human? Does the human suck?
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Yeah, they both suck, but like the human one.
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OK, yeah, I haven't actually interacted with them yet, but.
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You know, which fascist sheriff are you talking about?
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Seems to be going around lately. The.
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Ugo the Ugo 1. Of course the Ugo fascist
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sheriff, as opposed to the classic fascist sheriff, or the
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sheriff who maybe was at least fascist adjacent but well seem
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to be a nice guy to get a beer with.
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The sheriffs are merging. Eventually it'll just be 1
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Constabulary singularity. You know, if they made the
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sheriff a thin blood they could technically do that same.
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Oh, I think that is so many things that we should not give
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these people ideas. So the five of you.
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Yeah, I'm probably just sitting on the hood of my car waiting
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for the rest of it to show up and just making sure I have no
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emergencies going on. And you're tricking your phone.
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Yeah, yeah. Well, no more texts from Olivia.
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No missed calls or texts from Taylor either.
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I hope he's OK. I don't have this, the mental
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power to devote anything to that right now because that, that
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could really get me distracted. We got to, we got to get this
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done. Because once I get this done,
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I'm fucking home free. I'm almost there.
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Just got to get this done. So I have you congregate once
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again. Do we know where we're going?
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Do we know where we're supposed to be going?
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Yeah, well, Storm Destiny finds a massaf, Yeah.
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And then we're supposed to tell the sheriff?
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I mean, we can tell after we deal with him.
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We actually have to tell him in favour of letting the two people
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who are closest to MASAF deal with Masaf, because that just
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feels right. Yeah, yeah, well, they can back
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them up. And at least it's not like we
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have the sheriff's phone number. I don't think we have.
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I don't think there's exactly a BAT signal for him.
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Bat signal well. Yeah, not a bat, but you do hear
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the flapping of wings. Your feathered friend appears to
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have returned while you were inside of the hangar Bay.
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He kind of lands on the hood of the car near where Raleigh's
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currently sitting. Gives out another croaky call at
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Crow. I'm assuming that's good news,
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bud. He, by way of reply, shits on
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the car. It's a rental, that's fine.
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And then immediately begins to speed off.
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Not out of sight. He heads past the fence
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surrounding the exterior of the airport and lights atop a
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lamppost. OK.
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Well, either he wants us to follow him.
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Or. He just doesn't like us.
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But. Is this is like a follow with
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car or follow on foot? I would.
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Assume follow in car. Faster we'll.
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Get in the back. Seat So you believe that O is
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attempting to follow the instructions that you gave him,
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although you're not entirely certain the how it works
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sometimes. It's not like you can suddenly
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speak bird. It's just Poe seems to be able
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to intuit what you tell him, verbally or otherwise.
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Go ahead and give me a call this wits or manipulation plus animal
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Ken we. Build power 3 successes.
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Possible beastial if it needs to be higher than that.
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It's a little difficult to track him.
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There's a lot of stopping them starting trying to figure out
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where he went next. Maybe a few, maybe a couple of
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times. Someone needs to hang AU, but
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eventually PO takes you back into the guts of little
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Hollywood. Not terribly far, you realize
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from the old laundromat. You see one of the signs say
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Alvarado St. As you pass by, there's an open
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storm drain. Oh.
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Almost triumphantly, a lights on the top of the car once again
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begins pecking at the recently replaced windshield.
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Going down. We should not do this, but I
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guess we're going to. I should not have done many
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things like cocaine. I.
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Think cocaine was that bad? It was going to clamber down,
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clamber down into it. So is booze.
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Yeah, it was great, but, you know, kind of ruining my life.
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Yeah. You know, take a leap of faith.
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I said that once it blew up in my face.
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Pastor will head down. That I wear boots tonight.
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Me too. Heading down, most of you aren't
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from here, but some that you've heard about the flood tunnels.
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A lot of cities out in the desert have flood tunnels
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because the place is hot and is dry.
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As the Inland Empire region, Southern California, Even the
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slightest bit of precipitation can result in a flash flood.
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The environment simply isn't prepared for it.
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Supposedly, one of those flash floods caused one of the biggest
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disasters in this city's history, not even a few scant
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years after it was officially named San Arroyo all the way
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back in the 19th century. And these tunnels, they were
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built shortly after that, and they show their age.
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The moment you descend down here, the general noises,
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traffic, barking dogs, the buzzing St. lights and other
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electrical outlets, it all fades into the distance.
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You find yourself in a world of bare, echoing grime St.
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concrete, dark and so terrifyingly silent, save for
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the scuffing of your own boots against the ground.
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Turn on the phone flashlight to see a little bit better.
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Some of the walls are some, some of it's graffiti, some of it is
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you probably don't want to know what it is.
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Yeah, probably. Granted, these aren't sewers per
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SE. They do in some places connect
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to the sewer systems. It's a faint but noticeable
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smell of rot and sewage emanating from further down.
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You dumped the body down here not too long ago.
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If you wander far enough, could you find it?
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Oh. I don't want to think about
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that. Passage that you're in Denny's
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down a ways as you shine your flashlight and then immediately
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forks at AT junction. One passage to the left, one
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passage to the right. Anyone good with?
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Tracking. Absolutely not.
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Yeah, well, I'm LA girly. Jeremy is going to tilt his
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head, sigh, and step up, and then I'm going to listen in both
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directions. I'm listening for his music.
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Listen to the music of the night.
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All right. Listening to the horror.
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Give me well say give me wits plus all specs.
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Oh, and well, we were all failures.
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Only two successes and I get hungrier.
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Unfortunately guys, dude, you've never tried to use this strange
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tinnitus intuitively before. It's always, it's always
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happened to you. You've never really tried to
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make it happen, and the more you try to.
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Strain your hearing to try and detect something, the more it
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seems to retreat almost. It's frustrating the one time
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where you're seeming ability to wander into situations
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completely unprompted could actually be useful, and it just
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doesn't seem to want to cooperate.
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Yeah, like sit stands there and listens and you can actually see
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him getting frustrated as he. Says.
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The music's gone. Maybe that means it's already
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done? Something something performance
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anxiety. There's no way we'd be that
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lucky. Yeah, flip a coin.
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Sure. Yeah, we're definitely not
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splitting up. OK, so here's a wild idea.
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What if we just throw a rock down one of the tunnels and just
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wait for it to come to us? I think I'm good 5050 with
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instead of doing that honestly. All right, somebody please roll
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for me a single dice say. On me this time.
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My apparently my luck isn't great tonight.
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We'll say even's left odds, right all.
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Right, I got it. Oh, it's right.
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Going right. Five of you take the right hand
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path. Only real illumination coming
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from Raleigh's phone Light means you're only able to see a little
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bit of the area ahead of you. Granted, it's not cramped per
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SE, the tunnel is wide enough for you all to potentially even
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walk side by side in a line without immediately grading
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against either wall. But it is also, again, eerily
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quiet. Yeah, they're supposed to be
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like people down here. You see bits and pieces of
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things every so often. Things that might have just
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found their way down here. Bits of trash, crumpled beer
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cans, shards of broken glass. Old, almost completely
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disintegrated bits of cardboard. Then it starts to get a little
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stranger. You see old pallet boxes,
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discarded lawn chairs. One point a trash can full of
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old chipped plastic flamingos, a passenger side door from a car,
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the glass not shattered but completely removed.
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More strange odds and ends, the I don't even really sure how
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they'd wind up here in the 1st place.
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Who's essentially leading this expedition?
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I assume it's you, Rolly. Yeah, yeah, it would.
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Because I've got the. Light as well.
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I have eyes the beast so I would probably be trying to position
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myself closer to the front. All right, fair enough.
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So then I'm going to say about Raleigh and Crow.
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Could you both give me wits plus awareness checks?
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3 successes you. Start to get a little bit
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further in and you see signs of what you might tentatively call
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civilization. Bits and pieces of cardboard and
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wood and other material set up to form small embankments above
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the filth and the grime and the trickle of sewage water that
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runs through the center of the concrete path.
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Old tarps, hungover small alcoves, chairs, At one point a
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whole pool table. Almost like a small shanty town
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that begins to slowly collect on either side of the corridor.
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But no people you could have shined your light around you see
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someone appears to have hung a banner across the top of this
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tunnel. I mean duct taped the ends to
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either side. It's one of those banners that
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says happy birthday. Only somebody has spray painted
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onto it. Abandon all hope ye who enter
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here. I don't know the fact that we
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haven't seen anybody use a good sign or a bad sign.
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The water's also getting a little deeper.
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He's trying to splash through it now.
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Are you on a level maybe, maybe it's draining somewhere you're
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not entirely certain to have. The mechanics of these places
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are supposed to work. But regardless, really, you may
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be trying to investigate a little further.
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Kind of step forward tentatively, and underneath the
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water level you feel your foot clip onto something and you see
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something immediately rise up out of the water in a splash,
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just feted liquid. Can you please give me a
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explicit athletics roll? Yeah, yeah, I can't.
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And I think I would definitely reflexively activate fleetness.
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As you choose. Hunger 4 Welcome back.
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We missed you. I didn't.
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My success is messy, critical. It is you managed to avoid this
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trap. As you all see, Raleigh just
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barely managed to sidestep a very simple lever device that
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was seemingly set up just underneath the waterline as a
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looks like a rake with a trio of wooden dakes very crudely duct
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taped to each tine stand up out of the water nearly at chest
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height. The bad news is that as you
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stumble backwards, you kind of collide with one of these lean
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twos that immediately just topples down, and the echoing
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sound of bits of timber and pieces of metal just echoes
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throughout the entire tunnel. So, so much for the element of
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surprise. Yeah, well, that could have been
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bad, I think. It's just so much worse.
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I'd like to grab one of those steaks like on duct tape.
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One of those steaks off the trap.
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Yeah, not hard to do. Yeah, it might be a pretty good
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idea for everyone is to take them all.
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Let's take them all. They don't.
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The woods kind of warped, might have been in the water for a
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little while, but they seem to be functional.
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They certainly would have given you a bad time had you not
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managed to dodge out of the way. Yeah.
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So Jeremy, I think we're maybe you can see if the music calls
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to you again. Stop sneeze, sighs.
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And like rubs his temples. OK all.
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I mean, you can try. You can.
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Give me the same role. Difficulty is a bit higher now.
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5 successes and I don't get hungrier.
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I guess my beast is happier this time.
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You, you try and focus. It got you to the rave just
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before everything went pear shaped.
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It got you into that alleyway where Raleigh was confronting
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Olivia, even though you had no way of knowing.
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You can make this work for you. You have to.
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You grit your fangs and you concentrate and you try to
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listen for that sour note and you hear beginnings of an
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operatic piece. String instruments, high tension
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rising action. It's very faint.
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You have to strain just to pick it up, but it's there.
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It's the sort of thing, sort of classical type tune that you'd
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associate with, well, you don't know why, but you kind of
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associate it with Anselm. That's the first thing that pops
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into your brain. Like him and the music are the
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same from the same era of history.
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And your eyes snap open and you know something's happening
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further down this way and you don't know how much time there
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is left. He kind of Jeremy's like
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concentrating and listening and he like frowns and like tilt his
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head like closer, like he's leaning in for the.
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Noise and then. His eyes kind of like bolt open
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and he says. Anselm.
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We should hurry that way. Yeah, yeah, of course.
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It's nearing the climax of the peace.
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Good job. He just.
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Nods. Gonna gonna hustle.
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Yep. Little pap in the step.
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Starts to head forwards and that's when you see the first
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body. At first it looks like some
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person slumped in a chair not far from an old tent that's been
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set up nearby. You get a little closer and you
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see, and then you smell the rot that's quickly set in.
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This poor man, clearly a denizen of these tunnels, judging by the
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ragged dress from the caked on layers of wilth, but still a
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person. His throat's been savagely
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ripped out and he was just left there in that sitting position.
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And you find another one. And another, and another.
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All clearly have been here for a while.
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But all the same, the resemblance to the bloodbath of
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the rave is uncanny. Something tore through these
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people and despite their state, there's so very little blood and
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you keep going and that's when you hear the first shot rang
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out. Oh.
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Well, crap it. Looks lovely.
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Too good to be. And in a place like this, a
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gunshot carries quite a distance.
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You all almost duck instinctively.
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But no. Wherever the shot came from,
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whoever was aimed at wasn't aimed at any of you.
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But you hear it all the same, bold by the sound of swearing,
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multiple feet shuffling to the darkness, and then a low,
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guttural roar. You've heard that one before.
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Oh yeah, I think. I'm going to pop.
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Toughness, Jeremy. That music, it's getting louder.
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So are the sounds of some kind of combat.
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In a hurry, Jeremy's actually going to start walking quicker.
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Yeah, I will. I will hustle too.
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Hurry, hurry, hurry. You keep on in that direction,
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following Jeremy as like a man possessed.
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He seems to know where he's going.
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Even the rest of you don't turn another corner and you appear to
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have reached some kind of larger junction, maybe where the flood
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tunnels naturally meet the sewers.
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You can hear the sound of rushing water somewhere.
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You can see a large metal grate extend out over what appears to
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be a larger, more free flowing source of this water noise.
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And you see, well, there was clearly some kind of
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confrontation. You see Anselm holding his
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ground at one end of this bridge.
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Essentially. You see Nick and that woman
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Frida, and you see Langford and you see the blood.
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Anselm is holding his ground on one end.
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On the opposite side, Layingford is directly in the middle, Nick
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and Freda appear to be taking up the rear, and then all 5 of you
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come barreling into the situation.
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I hope we're not interrupting something.
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Or maybe appropriately interrupting something that
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needs to be interrupted. That too.
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Nick looks at you and says, oh kid, you have the worst timing.
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It's my secret superpower. More interruptions, the sheriff
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growls. And you, you think anyone will
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shed a tear? You die in the pursuit of your
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old colleague. Ansel just stands there.
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You don't get this one. You appear to have rushed into
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some kind of stand off where Mossad might be.
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You don't know. You can see signs of some kind
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of struggle that splatters of fresh blood everywhere.
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A couple of gunshots perforate the far wall.
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You're not sure who by? OK, back into the supernatural
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tick measuring. Kind of look at Nick and see if
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he gestures in any particular way that things might have gone.
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It is at the moment kind of between you and Langford, and
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you could tell that he's very deliberately placed himself
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there. See look in any particular
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direction. Give me a Wiz plus insight. 3
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successes. 3 successes. He looks at you and just ever so
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slowly shakes his head. And give him like, a tiny shrug.
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Nick knows the stakes. I don't really have a lot of
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choice here. What's everybody else doing?
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Question is Sarah here? You don't see her, but give me a
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wits or intelligence plus either awareness or survival.
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That's two successes. You don't see her anywhere, but
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you see something in the water below.
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You see Coyote, soaking wet and miserable, but pulling itself
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back up onto the concrete embankment, seemingly
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unbeknownst to everyone, and slowly trying to make its way
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back out and up towards the gathered kindred.
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I would like to possibly try and shift myself in Lankford's
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direction without, you know, drawing too much attention to
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myself. Sure, give me composure plus
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stealth. Does my specialty against
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Kindred help here? Yeah, he's kindred. 7 Success,
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messy, critical. OK, we'll get to the
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complication of that messy critical in a moment, but for
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now you feel like you've managed.
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Everybody's trying to keep track on everybody else, so at this
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exact moment in time, you're able to inch forward just a bit.
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Which just leaves Ash and Jeremy.
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I think Jeremy looks to ash and like indicates for them to to do
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their thing. Ash lacking anything to hit I I
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think is actually going to go to like maybe like try to cover the
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like how many exits are in this area like theoretically.
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There's the way he came in. There's the way that Hanselman
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is blocking and then looking at the small waterfall that's sort
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of collecting down, you can see there might be another way out
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under there, like wherever the water's headed, but you're not
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entirely certain. So at least three exits.
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I'd like to investigate the waterfall.
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OK, give me Intelligence plus investigation or Intelligence
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plus St. Glides.
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Either way, this is going to be a very not fun check, so let's
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do this one success. Our cells really lacking brain
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cells. You're not an engineer.
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You want to say maybe some kind of drainage channel, but you
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don't know where it's coming from or where it's going to, and
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you don't really even know where this much water would reasonably
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end up. There, so that'll offer a little
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shrug and I think Ash will then go to the exit that Anselm was
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covering. Yeah, the problem is that's on
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the other end of this bridge, so you have to get past Langford.
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To get there, yeah. Like I said, it's a bit of a
41:14
stand off you. The sheriff's not giving ground,
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but neither is your Toriador friend.
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I guess I will pop AWE and approach and try to get to
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Langford. See the the woman Freda, also
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armed with a 12 gauge shotgun, doesn't stop you, but at the
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same time makes it very clear that if you try anything funny,
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well, you can probably guess. Ash will tug on their tug on
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their gloves they're wearing and just and hold their hands palms
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up as if like got nothing up my sleeve so.
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Now we have Ash on one end of this essentially bridge,
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Langford in the center and some on the far end.
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Jeremy, that music isn't stopping.
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If anything, it's ramping up like some sort of climactic duel
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over a waterfall. Langford looks over shoulder.
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You Ash at that hideous not quite half grin of his, says.
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I believe you were told explicitly what would happen.
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Less Sam, I'm just here to fight one person and not here.
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You are a member of the Kamaria. This one is impeding A
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sanctioned blood hunt of the Kamaria.
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You wish to prove yourself, Ventru.
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You can start now. Can I use that opportunity to
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try and stake him? You see, this is where the
43:17
complication comes in. This is a positive God damn it,
43:24
but. You see?
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Can I assist by? Distracting.
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Oh no, please go ahead and roll me the strength plus melee.
43:39
Here's where the complication comes in.
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He is distracted. The moment that final shot that
43:49
you heard that rang out, you weren't entirely certain where
43:52
it impacted. And if you were maybe paying a
43:55
bit more attention, if anyone here might have been paying a
43:58
bit more attention, might have noticed, have this old rusty
44:04
grate probably is not in the best condition, has a rather
44:10
sizable hole in it now, one of its corner pieces that anchors
44:15
it to the concrete ash. Ysicro move.
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She's very fast, what she wants to be.
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She rushes Langford. Langford doesn't quite realize
44:29
what's happening, but he pivots all the same.
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One of his boots steps back heavily, hits that corner.
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There's a shrieking of metal. Nick turns around and that
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coyote asked her that you were keeping track of.
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Leaps bites into his wrist, holding the gun.
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Ashy, you have a you're closest, you have a split second to do
45:02
something. So what's it going to be?
45:05
So sorry, So what is what is Langford is lunging for Crow
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correct? Yep, and it looks like as the
45:14
two are lunging at each other, that bridge is about to come out
45:16
from under both of them. I'm going to rescue Crow.
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OK, give me give me dex plus athletics.
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Can I assist? I also reaching for Crow.
45:33
You can certainly try. I did have 4 successes on my
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attempt to stake. You did.
45:45
I mean, it's 4 successes. We're going to pop will 5
45:51
successes with a. Critical, bro.
45:57
You rush forward, you feel the stake bite in somewhere, but
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then suddenly you feel the ground give out from underneath
46:05
you. You see Langford go tumbling
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down. Nick yells out in pain.
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You hear the sound of a shotgun blast go off.
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Anselm blurs into motion himself.
46:27
You see Langford go under the water and he lose sight of him,
46:30
but you and Riley both grab Crow by the back of her jacket, pull
46:39
her up just in time as the rest of that old rusted grate goes
46:45
crashing into the water with him.
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Lots is. Happening.
46:51
You see that Coyote is now a person.
46:58
You see Sarah having clearly been hit nearly point blank with
47:05
a shotgun, but rearing up, Nick, swearing, grappling with her.
47:12
Ansel having somehow cleared the distance over as the bridge was
47:17
falling, wrestling with Freda for the shotgun.
47:22
Just hear him yell. He's further down, he's wounded.
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You can do this. You can stop.
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This. Fuck it, fuck it, let's go and
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I'm going to go look at Nick. Feel like I'm so sorry.
47:37
Nick doesn't know what's happening, he just knows that
47:42
right now Sarah is trying to claw his head off and right at
47:46
this exact moment in time he's not a fan of that particular
47:49
order of offence. It's a bit of a gap to clear
47:53
though. He'd everybody give me Dex plus
47:56
athletics. I am going to stay on this side
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until most everyone else has crossed because I can, I don't
48:06
know, attempt to help. Hey, 2 successes.
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I I think Jeremy takes a look at the jump and just shakes his
48:15
head and and and gesture and gestures for Raleigh to go over.
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3 successes for Crow. 2 successes. 5 successes all.
48:31
Right. So Crow Raleigh managed to clear
48:33
it no problem. Ash you managed to get across,
48:39
but Aster maybe a little slow on the uptake.
48:43
She immediately goes plummeting in.
48:45
You grab her, but you nearly go plummeting in yourself and it
48:49
takes a moment for you 2 to rebalance and not drag both of
48:54
you over the precipice. Jeremy on the other side, you
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see Freda puts a fist into Anselm's guts, where you know
49:05
his guts are currently exposed, and he keels over and he and she
49:10
rears up with a determined expression, and she levels the
49:17
shotgun across the way at the rest of them.
49:20
You don't know who she's aiming at exactly, but she's aiming at
49:23
someone. I think she's not paying any
49:26
attention to Jeremy, right? Nope.
49:29
I got a, I got a Gremlin. Play it here.
49:34
I, I think Jeremy's just gonna kind of look left, look right,
49:36
and then just push her into the water.
49:39
You gotta try it. I'm literally, I'm literally
49:42
just gonna do the thing. You know when you're like kids
49:44
next to the side of the pool and you just gotta like casually
49:47
walk by and push somebody in as you walk by?
49:50
Completely nonchalant, just. Oops.
49:53
OK, give me strengthless athletics.
49:59
Another. Great pull for me.
50:01
I try a few Dexter athletics. I'm just doing it quickly.
50:05
I'll allow it, but she is going to get the opportunity to try
50:08
and not go into the drink. I'm.
50:13
Just you. Know just a little guy.
50:15
It's not like she actually thinks I'm going to do anything
50:17
stupid like this. We'll see.
50:22
Hey, we'll find out. All right, All right, That's 4
50:25
successes. Actually a pretty good showing
50:29
for scrawny little guy. Yeah, never underestimate the
50:34
power of just a little guy. Oh OK so she got 4 successes on
50:47
a messy critical. I feel like I'm about to give
50:52
shot here. I will make you a deal, Jeremy.
50:58
One of two things can happen. Either your plan works, but
51:04
you're going with the you're going for a swim with her.
51:08
Your plan works, but not before she manages to squeeze off that
51:13
shot she was lining up directly into your sternum.
51:18
So either I take the gunshot or we both go into the drink.
51:22
Pretty much. Let's both go in.
51:26
So Ash, you see as you're trying to haul Astor back up on the dry
51:31
land, you see Jeremy, you see the barrel of the gun levelling
51:38
at you where you have no chance, where Astor has no chance.
51:45
See Jeremy look over at you, almost give you a little shrug,
51:51
and then just fully tackle this woman and they go into the
51:57
rushing water as well. Ash is going to scream but is
52:08
definitely not fast enough. He has to keep moving.
52:13
He'll be fine. He's scrappy.
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He's a fuck. Oh.
52:22
We'll get your twink later. Go.
52:26
Had to be a fucking here loser. That's a fucking book in it.
52:34
Running, running, running. Dude, you hear the sounds of
52:41
more combat, more gunshots. Nick, you.
52:46
You didn't tell him, but you didn't have any way of
52:50
contacting him. But how could he have known you?
52:55
He's the only person here who hasn't treated you like shit
52:57
since day one. And now no time for that.
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You got to finish this. We'll apologize later.
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We'll rush down the corridor and Anselm was guarding.