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a [Music] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] how we doing welcome back to the game and for those of you in the back who didn't get it the first time my name is nobody I'm your Storyteller for the evening this is officially without a shadow of a doubt ah the dark of Bethany season 3 episode three picking up from where we left last episode seconds from when the codery and their attempt to reroute themselves somewhere safe after the following demise of their former coder mate arrive at the truck stop at the Oasis at the halfway point between the two locations victim in hand we dive into the night in question starting in alphabetical order this is officially without a shadow of a doubt hungry barking Mad Dogs so with victim in hand Annabelle where does that leave you that leaves [Music] me oh I remember what we were doing we were bringing this victim to try to feed the gooey man in the back of the truck oh that's right yeah the gooey man the gooey man so she just uh she comes back with this guy um and uh she's like hey you guys uh ready for this party yeah we doing this here looks to everybody else um probably not smart yeah let's uh actually I think we parked in a private kind of area which is why I had to bring this guy back here some let's see convinced them that our car was broken down and we needed help maybe uh that's we're going to go with that uh so yeah yeah so let's see this guy isn't gonna live right so we can just stab him do we do we need to kill him I don't know there I are you guys hungry this is this is clearly a conversation we had before this happened obviously obviously be very awkward to have this in front of him yeah no that's that's not a yeah so Annabelle is not hungry um I'm hungry but it's not going to drive me insane well you don't need hunger to drive you insane I'm funny we had come to the conclusion that um he was behaving strangely for somebody that was in sober but for the most part we couldn't tell for sure and all we could do was try to Rouse him and see if it works but we're kind of leaning towards he's possibly gone going all right let's say that we brought a glass from your house India so I'm going to like so if nobody else is like super hungry then I'm going to like take this guy uh kind of off the side while he's um you know like open the the hood of the car you know when when he starts looking in I just kind of like lean in behind him and bite him on the neck and uh and I kind of do this half bite so he he's bleeding into this glass while still being like really really into this um so like he doesn't notice what's going on um and then I I'll like hand off the glass before I lick the wound closed y thank you um do I just that is quite the feat of physical subterfuge would you be so kind as to go ahead and roll your dit it plus subterfuge uh contested in this particular case as luring a in for a kiss well I be perfectly honest most men are in fact very much pigs so that's a little easy but pulling off the bite the emptying of a vein and the passing it all off without their notice is another matter entirely yep uh so I am using lingering kiss on him oh so uh he's going to be extra out of it um and let's see Dex Plus sube I okay one oh I'm not very it's okay oh [Music] oh it's fine it's fine he notices a little bit just barely so as you all are India Joi Lita as you all are resting hiding sking present near enough at hand to be of some assistance as Annabelle's victim begins to freak the [ __ ] out because you know a little strange a little dirty by this roadside with added benefits is all fine and good but where the [ __ ] is the jelly glass for what are you doing hold on wait wait wait wait uh I I a get no plans to be Nobody's Baby Daddy use from now like and he's literally freaking out not to the point where he's physically pushing her away but holding her at Arms distance like trying to figure out what the [ __ ] is the cup for why the look I I don't know what like this is just it's just so very very it is a comedy of errors it is the post nut Clarity hitting before the nut actually happened it is the very real confusion and I I I can't hit a girl but I I I feel like I'm oh oh God and it is that stumbling stammering not into this any longer because now there's something at a left field that doesn't seem or feel right quick hookup he didn't mind whether you were you know a guy or a girl or any stuff in between that was all fine and good A little dirty strange but why do we have a wel just jelly glass wait this um like maybe I'm not so into this like do you got protection uh God protection just calm down you'll be fine you like you're going to really love this I promise and she uses a him um oh no he she has his full attention yeah she is the center of everything that is titilating about a random hookup and everything that has the alarm Bells when people think back to what happened with dmer and gayy and how could you go along with that person how could you put yourself in that and it's all of those moments happening at once the pull towards strange the pull towards oh my God this this is how movie started not even the good ones like where is jigsaw or leather face or is this Am I Dreaming what like something so an near the center of the storm takes her shirt off and she's like come on wuss you know you want a good hookup you can't just be afraid of it look at it's not there's nothing in it it's just a [ __ ] jar thought we'd catch some fireflies or some [ __ ] but no you have to [ __ ] freak out come on baby it'll be fun and she just like leans in for another kiss and she's trying to like um and she leans in and she's like tell me what you what your deepest desire is right now and in the midst of this fumbling seduction in the midst of these two square pegs attempting to fit into a triangular hole what if anything are the other members of the Cod doing um yeah I'm just gonna I'm just gonna keep an eye out and try and make sure nobody accidentally stumbles upon this burgeoning cluster [ __ ] all right which be can let's go ahead and roll your um wits plus aspics yeah that works for me uh no awareness Edition no all right India keeping an eye on the body in the truck bed yeah [ __ ] it we ball and leer was just sitting in the back kind of back up waiting for us to get again so prob why what why and the grand scheme of things there is a well-known aphorism a mantra if you will it is man plans God laughs and in a different reality in a different plane of existence in a different version of this moment Joi was weily aware of the forces moving not just in this plane of existence but every fimile of plane that's touching budding rubbing against and lightly penetrating this particular spectrum of awareness in another situation in another time in another version of this reality sadly in this version of reality as Lita and India watch as anabo all but physically a cost to drive home the fact that she's trying to keep this particular victim alive Joi is caught with a spiraling understanding that you are never alone there are beings that once were never had been things that covetously watch and are aware of our existence the bright flame of our emotions the dark doldrums of our unrealized and un mitigated expectations he is aware that in the wide spectrum of all possible things that quite quantumly and actually no one is ever alone and no one is ever singular in their existence the clouds above moving with all due electric charge threatening to deposit all of their moisture upon the ground beneath them the ants crawling across the pavement marching to a beat of Their Own Drum and it is late it is night they shouldn't be out but yet though they there they are the night birds whispering and screaming in the distance the waying electric lights filing across the darkness to where you all are hidden from Easy View that strange melodic sound of a city in motion the cacophonous den of person's beings all sorts of Flora and FAA across the various Dimensions the second dimension the Third Dimension the fourth the ad nauseum Dimension caught up in the teleplay that is this moment such a beautiful fractal of reality that he's able to perceive and at this exact moment as that plays out it's been two weeks Maddie two solid weeks 14 nights 15 technically since that horror that was The Awakening and reising of the bruha premag of bethan two weeks since hell came to Earth and used her body as as its instrument two weeks since you've all been a sconed in treport settling in finding your place finding where you all stand and in that two weeks in that wild wondrous cour night of headyy activity you all being settled you all realizing that well to be perfectly honest you are here as potential scapegoats you are here as tools of the will of the people of the Court the mom in all that time having given one sermon one teaching one education after another in the olden days countries watched other countries for stockpiling of meat and salt and various other small nothing ingredients that would be used to feed an army on the moon that's how countries nearby would realize we're in trouble we should have been doing the same we don't know who they're going after and the fact that we don't know whom they're going after it most assuredly means us let's make sure all of our allies are prepared make sure and it was that sort of weariness that helped certain Nations and certain Empires Li as long as they did and because of that methodology and in that ideology you realize that's exactly what the jier are doing here are stockpiling salt the jir have their feelers out as many places as possible and it's quite difficult considering that the prince to whom everyone is sharpening their knives is in fact a member of the ch Chantry it's an interesting position to be in because one of the foundational principles of the Chantry of the chir as a whole of the pyramid is not actively moving against any other member yet while they're not actively involved in the plotting the planning the carrying out the J have pretty much thrown their lot in with the rabble with the soon to be new body politic the new government the Forerunner of course being Ali Smith Johnson's CAW Blue Bloods always Scrabble and crave power there's the idea of the scorge the sheriff Samantha and her Army of thin Bloods her SWAT team of thin Bloods who carry out her will against Rogue members of the Court as a whole all Kindred of the city being considered part of the Court there's the Imam who must be perfectly honest as region is Lord and Master of everything that happens inside of the Chantry and connected with it fail there's also Maggie Blake the Sate pervert of a toor who runs the entirety of the blood trade in shreport and as vital as shreport is controlling the flow of blood the donors the juice shops the low minded poor taste Baggers having a strangle hold on the trade means that she is a power even as she seems to not pursue it two weeks it's settling in with the understanding as to the lay of the land what has that meant for Maddie Maddie are you there okay it seems as if we're experiencing some technical difficulties for m so while that is hopefully shorted out we'll Circle back around in a moment while that is happening while that is yet to be rectified as you force yourself on your victim because it literally come to that Annabelle would you be so kind as to roll a dexterity and Athletics um minus two why you been having nothing let's find out I got one success on one day you know honestly you've got a pretty good success rate yeah sure yo welcome back there is a there is an understanding as to how bad things can be we all have an expectation as to this is the absolute Rock Bottom you can't get any worse than this this absolutely sucks but I can survive this I will Outlast this I will not give into and that's usually when the Rogue is pulled that's usually when we find out that hell has a basement that's usually the moment moment when our senses of self are sorely tested as your fangs finally you just [ __ ] this we're just going to have to do it the rough way bare chested holding him gripping him as if he was exactly that food damn your nebbish stumbling fumbling resistance to this your fangs pierce his skin that's salty unbelievably vibrant red begins coding your tongue doesn't take all that much for that delicious iron rich just essence of life begins to flow the magic of the kiss doubled and redoubled by your efforts at the lingering kiss pouring more of the monster and your heart into him then the rug pole and then the hole of where you all are and what is actually out there in the dark reveals itself in the most garish and obliterative way possible oh good your back feels as if it was literally broken into two as if it was split in Twain as the member of the SE rat reveals himself in the midst of you all coming to save the day or more accurately for you all in this moment coming to ruin this moment he you hope it to he standing at just under 65 wide enough that he would quantif it would quantify as a door it's flesh a garish color of bruised dead slack on one side as if the skull was two sizes too small on that particular half of the face sunken in the eye protruding not because it's actually larger than the other but because the flesh around it is sunken into the very socket of the skull which itself again appears to size is too small on that half of the face the one thing that is not two sizes too small are its overlarge shark like row of fang sharp little needles curv like snake fangs along the top of its mouth bottom teeth these nebbish chicklet squared things row after Row the tongue resting against those several rows of teeth cutting and marring itself causing this black ior licorish thick V to constantly well up in its mouth and you only know this because it's it stes it unveils and unmask itself the fingers bent as if it was a arthritic elephant's hand the cloes sagging and flailing with the faint wind and that stench how could you not recognize that stench how was it able to hide that stench because it smells absolutely awful it SM SMS as if you all are bathing in the last vestiges of a corpse emptying its stomach as the 21 gram of its Soul lits away muffled strangled Roar of it as it bats Annabelle away from it her victim something you won't forget Swamp Thing has come here to fight climate change one Kindred at a time all right well um I guess just as Joi comes back from his his trip around the rainbow notices this thing he's from wherever he's at just oh [ __ ] God what is that oh God oh God it's we need to run that's a good idea she's trying not to throw up um you driving or what who the [ __ ] are you Jo's just gonna make his way over to annal and try and interpose seeing that she's been hurt pretty severely from Mortal standpoint she has indeed the voice that poers out out is a p muffled thing the words garble together the syllables blending into One Singular solitary thing as a watcher of people as a study of emotions all of that academic [ __ ] Falls by the wayside it's angry but most Kindred are is having a hard time communicating but so does everyone the Curiosity as to whom it might have been or who it thinks it is dancing there at the tip of your tongue spurring you forward to try to embrace this moment to get something from it some draw of wisdom or knowledge Joi as you stand for it you realize how short you actually are as you stand before it you realize how massive it actually is as you stand before it trying to find the beauty in this moment because there's Beauty in every moment no matter how horrific and coming up empty is is a painful thing the many rows of teeth the viscous thick V Ting saliva that seems to be gumming up its mouth as it spittles and roars its size and girth massive and you know that with all of that mass all of that presence there's got to be something there that is remotely non hideous there's got to be something there to keep that depressing elitist sense of what beauty is at Bay and for the life of you and the life of all of your victims this is the first time in several dealings with theu where you are coming up empty is it and is flailing and swinging and seeking to further attack and ah L India as it very much looks as if this is a parable from the Bible you all grew up with various different iterations and takes on the battle between David and Goliath and that's very much what Joi looks like hopefully he'll be as lucky unfortunately doesn't have a slingshot doesn't have a sling doesn't have anything in the way of weapons save well his pretty little face so decisions decisions decisions and as you all come up with your battle plan if there is one if your battle plan is not to Simply Escape by all du means while you consider that that's Maddie do you have premonition do you have politics an etiquette do you have wasy or sleep wise so the minations that are very much bold out in the open when you are around when you are associating with your sire and the cabal of and the viser to the primagen when the advisor to the upper members of the Chantry because unlike most places the Kion here is actually the segundus of the Chantry regie is the second most learned and politically Savvy Shamir in all our stre for which is saying quite a lot Carl her enforcer her bodyguard is and has been in your position the right Hand of Doom the pre-aging of the ragens anger fire Marcus of course the advisor to everything that happened above his status the inner Circles of mystery and the Imam the Regent of the Chantry he has been sitting in the presence of the most educated learned members of the Chantry he has been in the presence of the ball of those who are seeking to overthrow Smith Johnson and while they talk as people EMP power talk as if it's a foregone conclusion as if in set of hypotheses these are foundational aspects of the Universe At Large the sad truth most of it has in fact gone over body language and facial ticks the subtextual understanding of it is well in line with everything that she is but as she's spent a good deal of time there she's managed to meet Mary Ella Marella Marshall she's some hot shot trir from out east and while Maddie is expected to be the muscle expected to be the brute there as when they tell you when when they snatch away your leash you are to attack as they tell you to you're there to put your body in the way when they tell you to but until then you're much like children of old expected to be seen and not heard they Marella who makes nice you understand the situation and ask for your your opinion and your input keep talking about this place of yours this borderline Watchtower City Bethany I I'm trying to understand why would you even want to be there like it'ses nothing seems to be happening like everything comes here like where I'm from it is more like sh report than everything that you mentioned about Bethany is everything happens there but I think like and and don't get me wrong I think that the remedial course Remo City like Bethany would probably help give you time to study to create rituals not just memorize what everyone else has already done have you had the opportunity of of of making something or building something CU you know that's how Cara found her way free she was stuck out there as the region and the Pagen because the city because Milwaukee so small and you spent all of that time studying do you do the same are you trying to get back there or you what what they're doing like I've never heard of the chain free being split like this they're not actively doing anything but they're doing so much they're not stopping and they know that there's the attempt going to be made on the princess's life oh that's the fact look at them putting their hands together look at the fact that they're Gathering so many ritual components look at the fact that they're looking the would you deal with that it's clear we are what we do or what we don't do we are what we tell ourselves we are and that's what we end up being you know that book um a couple years ago the secret that whole idea what you put out into the universe is what you get back that the Universe do not stands what you put energy into what you've willed into being through action and the word and focusing your spirit I hear that was put out by some um well inspired by some anarch out out east somewhere in the suburbs of Chicago portion of it but I do know that it's true just between you and me um not tying himself so very closely locked up with Miss Blake that her enforcer her the harpy Miguel is probably going to set up his house to be a victim of a random arson attack tonight I shouldn't say anything the what the tors do is none of my business but I've I don't like bullies and Miguel seems like such a bully to me but luckily I don't know him so I don't owe him anything I don't need to go tell him anything or keep him from going home tonight but the plan is somewhere around the neighborhood of 3:00 a.m. Miss Haven is going to go into a good for nothing else I think it'd be good to go take a picture if I knew one but I don't I need to get to the casino Shane is making me work as a Pit Boss in the last few hours of the evening you have a good night he waves and disappears from sight moving down one Hall then the next quickly moving on to get to the casino to make her nightly bread as the saying goes leaving you with hours to kill and as you grab another two by two to begin whitling and creating some piece some object the art we turn our gaze back to the remainder of the coder on their way to Jo Haven standing before one of the members of the sewer rat of sh Fort who was taken a particular interest in them this evening the muffled and snarled is annoying if nothing else as the attempt to keep a stiff upper lip and not succumb to the very emotional dread of staring into the face of such a thing because that's what it is in this particular moment it is a thing it isn't a harbinger of R it is a foraging Oracle of Doom and it's targeting Annabelle Joi standing between them so long story short what do gang what do Annabelle like immediately holds up her hands and she's like I'm sorry I didn't know this was yours you can have him we'll leave get in the car get in the car apologize I'm apologizing uh if IID known this this was a this was your domain I would not have uh have uh um yeah any sense of appetite is gone you no longer even want to feed the Beast has been quelled by the presence of a Noor so anyway please accept my apology and let's part as ow I I'm very sorry as Annabelle's apologize Jo um what he's he's still interposing himself but he's like since she is attempting to go the route of nonviolence he's just kind of one hand extended backwards into side point pushing her back as he's just ready to Mr President should [ __ ] get real all the while just like looking at the ground in front of its feet and not directly at it because my God why actually this thing is proof that God doesn't exist that seems accurate it's just like oh my god let's let's just get out of here and I'd be happy to leave if you want us to leave it's up to you that she's yeah do you have your uh fate casting lot uh Channel open yes um all right so I'm adding off because I can and it's on um it lets me add um my dots and presents to my persuation for I got six did you use a willpower on a check that you already got five successes on I sure did guy he already tried to murder me I I don't know how to feel about that look I feel very strongly about apologizing all right now all he has to do is roll six and we've got the Unholy Trinity aha God damn it I think that one's for me okay so he just really likes you he Powers through me to get to you Jesus well um as the attack actually as the conversation for such a Outsider thing because yes that's very much what it is at this point there's not really a gender to it it is a monstrous example of what isolation might bring it is a monstrous example as to what the BET of Nas veratu might bring it is being nice the unspeaking all singing all dancing group that even the most unloved of things craves contact craves it so much that in the situation of protecting it Touchstone from a distance would unveil itself to the horror of its own heart and those who cast eyes upon it it very much is a arbiter of single-minded focus of mind and as it lashes out clubbing Joi into Annabel the normal cries of pain as orbital sockets are shattered doesn't happen luckily for you Joi you're already dead the problem being is as it clubs you across the face seeing you spiraling back into Annabel the apology getting choked somewhere in the air between cracking of facial bones is it touched you you are sure that that cold almost slick slime that you felt on your cheek was its skin of that huge humongous oblong shaped hand again it looks as close to an arthritic elephant's hand as is possible the fingers melted into these large tubular things swollen at the joint and looking at as if they are in fact very rusly locked into that claw-like position luckily for you it was in fact a backand unluckily for you as many have found when standing toet to Toe with a naratu is they are supern strong even above and beyond the natural endless strength that you all have the opportunity of tapping into beyond the strengths that naturally come with the vat and the Beast that allows you to do things that your mortal human breathing selves might not even hold a possibility of dreaming even beyond that the sheer crushing strength of a naratu is the stuff of nightmares many people have literally been hugged to death even the pleasure of the kiss not quite me meeing up to the sheer pain of the Embrace would you both be so kind as to take the half damage increasing your superficial damage to one as you all go tumbling back into the body of the truck as you to go flying as if you were rocketed through the air y you've been shot before this very much feels like that this very much feels worse than that you've been shot with a n a 9mm a 22 a 25 a 380 this feels worse than that unfortunately Annabelle you have not been shot before so you have nothing to compare this paint to except for the fact that it is the very definition of pain with the capital P and N India L watching your Cod mates be crumbled like used drinking cans what if anything are you all doing foret kind of good with guns I'm gonna actually take out my gun and take a pot shot at this guy excellent shooting from the HP would you kind go ahead and roll your dexterity and Firearms all right the back of the bed go drop the hood because if we drive away the hood being up it's going to be a problem and then she'll grab whichever of the two is closer as she's coming around the and try to drag them back into the truck I think we're both about the same because we both because uh I think Jo's kind of on top of me I am in fact the top thank you didn't for noticing you're welcome what a good therapist does indeed indeed very P perceptive of you if only you could convince the Swamp Thing from [ __ ] clubbing us I tried to apologize it's a good apology he accepted your apology and and sent you packing at me as you all land in the truck and hear the hood closed there's the only connection between the two is that you hit the truck bed and a squishy remains of your former Cod mate with sufficient Force to cause the hood to slam them closed uh oh no no Joi it's just get in the truck get in the truck I'm getting in the truck uh oh there is a um understanding that only a poor carpenter blames his tools when things don't match with the way that you would like them to it's a poor men that would blame as tools but as you pop up deare to WR an automatic sneak attack on this monstrosity of a thing literally attempting to beat your ceran paste the fact that your gun simply goes no fireworks no firing pin striking the cartridge in the sh and sending it forward in an explosive manner causing all sorts of physical pain as the slug buries itself into your target nope just a simple it is beyond infuriating it is beyond every sense of what the absolute [ __ ] and while you ler are very composed you're subtle in everything your other half is not your intrusive thoughts are not your Beast is not what's your strength uh I believe too would you be so kind as to tell me how you would feel looking down into your hands as you abstantly stem and just are trying to control your temper with your hands shaking your forearms tense and the barrel of your gun being bent by sheer frustration at it failing you in this moment I think those infive thoughts are gonna happen pretty easy time yeah yeah but luckily for you the click draws its attention luckily for you the click draws its understanding you pointed a weapon at it you pointed a weapon in the same general breathing space as its Touchstone which is laying day staring up in horror at what's become of its life you you you you would turn your back on your own kind you would threaten something more valuable than the entirety of the world who cares about the cowboy the Eddie Oakley who circling around the vehicle dragging the two who ATT attacked its touchdown no you you trembling there with the weapon of Destruction aiming at the Touchstone and anyone with any awareness understands the many hundred very violent thoughts even without being able to make out a raised eyebrow a clinched jaw or any of the tell tell physical signs of such belabored consideration The Roaring and the one step as tall as as it is that one step covers far too much ground as it turns and pivots taking a step putting itself firmly between you and its Touchstone as India is yelling to get in the truck get in the truck and attempting to grab both Annabelle and Joi into the truck it sets its eyes on you speaking of setting his eyes on you would you be so kind Maddie as to go ahead and roll your dissolve and craft what were you trying to Widow okay would you be kind let go ahead and roll your resolve and craft sure that is interesting you're not sure how you you made it possible you're not entirely sure but you don't really care either somehow you've taken a 2 by two and carved a brown pelican it's long neck and extraordinarily long Bill the WIS could use a little work they look more ego like than Pelican like but it with this build tucked against his neck a great example you got to Pat yourself on the back it's a great example of a brown pelican of course you know color would make it pop more but there defitely something you could sell by the roadside or put it in your window make a gift to someone probably need to sand off the edges a little bit but for rough whittling a moment of just absent-minded carving that's good the question is as you look at it why don't you make it flying with this build down normally the bill is pointing forward as it Soares through the air on its way to hunt or mate or both as they typically do they're not quite as bad as Ducks but they're pretty damn close any port in a storm and then some okay Small Things big results big things small results unlike the usual image of the white is a specific Louisiana thing it's a weird sort of bird they used to call them squadrons or a pouch back in the day because it's bill can hold up to about three gallons of water which is massive considering the size three gallons that's you know the average gallon is about 8 pounds so that's 24 pounds of water it could carry around of all the things not that it actually does but the water is used when it when it hunts it can Gul down that much and carry that much in its build to make sure that the fish that it so ravenously craes typically don't realize that they're actually dead already there's nothing worse than it's build and staring down his throat at it's attempting to Gorge itself on fish flash anything more inspiring about the Pelican is the fact that here well further south of where you are uh it's aonomus it's all over the state but it's so ordinary and average that most people don't realize how strange the bird is it's everywhere it's like how most New Yorkers feel about pigeons and rats even with it's you know elongated wingspan and great height in comparison to other birds and Flor and of the area dive bombs its prey F that is able to find its prey from soaring above head to what it feeds on beneath the water's surface it's a miraculously strange bird always out of its element but able to blend in anything in particular that Maddie is studying e okay so she targeting any member in specific or just another member of the Chantry understandable Marcus as is his nature bent towards understanding the wide many worlds that about and abound clears his throat Smooths his mustache his beard and watches as you approach Tunes out the rest of the meeting the rest of conversations going on and focuses on you and what you brought and as you uh map out which ritual you are attending to next step to approach that end goal is it is 31 after the hour yeah a quick 10 and I'm back here at 41 after right like the rash you got in your third year at Sleepaway Camp we're back wait that wasn't the rash oh no where I surreptitiously contracted several STDs surreptitiously of course those toilet seats will get you every time um when we stepped away it them they whatever it is nasu was closing was turning towards Lita when we stepped away Maddie was Consulting with her sire the advisor to the primagen of the entire trir nation of shreport because let be perfectly honest the trir really earnestly believe that they are a nation unto themselves the trir as a whole as a monolith is as isolationist as you can be and involved in everyone else's business in one shape fashion or form in most cities and most domains the chir are akin to the National Security Agency they are Homeland Security the postal police and border control their fingers and nebulous webs of intrigues wrapping round the domain interspersing itself through every strata of Kindra Society while I would like to say that the chir of sheveport are less that the truth of the matter is as a whole they are the very definition of that they have eyes ears Sentinels and worse in every corner of Kendra Society usually no once more from the top with the feeling as India rushes around the truck to get inside to pull Annabelle and Joi to safy as it they then theu closes on Lita to protect their touchdown and as Maddie widows time away though it doesn't need to be said it is what do get in car vehicle four-wheel go broom Brom good plan the the small neglected child in the back of my head that is playing with with toy cars desires for go room room who's driving um oh that ain't me India I'm so glad you volunteered it's going to have to be heard CU everybody else got their bell wrong or they about to be hit so when she drags them in to the car she slides behind the wheel and say all right let's [ __ ] go and that wait wait is Lita in the vehicle she never got out she was in the back seat and she pointed the gun out of the back seat okay I just all right this this truck has back seats oh my God that is not the right question right now let's go um so as the driver India which be so kind as to roll your composure plus Drive contested by its attempt to smash through the car to get to Lita to destroy all of that made in America by way of being made in China and then ship to America to the plant where it is assembled country toughness of your truck oh this thing good I don't got I see what Fate has let's see what Fate has in store I'm pretty sure fate hates us trying to decide if I should do something stupid kind of always do stupids all right remember you said that and what is your stupid um so Annabelle is gonna grab her little small mirror and try and like reflect it at him or her or it uh um I'm muttering something um so she's she's trying to like kind of distract it with its own horror of itself and uh setting up a little prayer as she does because you know we need some prayers right now as any good Ministry would do minister be kind just go ahead and roll your charisma and persuasion as high as you possibly can at this point at this point this fucker's gonna get a grudge we're going to leave them behind they like you know what no uh I'm I don't think a applies here [ __ ] you willpower I got three I'm telling you leave better enough alone I no the whole go everything is everything is possible you may certainly attempt whatever it is that you might dream of the problem with dreams they don't have any bounds there aren't any rules or laws that can be violated in reaching towards them there aren't any social taboos or stigma attached to whatever happens inside one's own mind normally India floors the vehicle as anel opens her compact the reflective service inside catching all sorts of lights and layers of reflected light as the very real push and drive towards some otherness some offer some intreaty is made a brief flickering moment out of India's periphery out of Le's periphery plainly for annabal and yoi you all see reflected in the space of the mirror Jo's home you see filing lighting a cigar with a USB charged lighter you see a gang of yous you see Home Bethany sitting alone in the middle of nowhere the highway is Expressway it's Main Street leading through town you see the children crawling up out of the Tall Grass there near the creek you see the shimmering reflective surface of the light that you all partied around and you see what it looked like as little as 27 years ago PA statu as Beauty broad of back narrow of waist firm of hip legs that went all the way up toned and T you see the night where it Happ where everything ceased to be Beauty caught it's sire's eye every flickering moment you see what that death was like it was not quick it was not pain you see the roomy watery remains of its eyes before it became as it was now melting away into what remained tooth after tooth puncturing through the roof of its mouth tearing up from the soft pet of its beneath its tongue limbs being swollen and calcified and whereas normally that would cause anyone to have a tear in their eye whereas normally that would cause anything to pause you strike a blow for for the crest of freedoms and sharing that moment with it bringing it to the present and instead of causing a pause or a stoppage of animosity and aggression as India floors the truck and you all begin to slightly Twist and Turn as the torque literally attempts to tear the engine out of the vehicle it surges forward like c a Unleashed it's swinging clubs of an arm through the back portion of the truck that causing the truck to jerk and Lurch it's bed bent and crumpled the body laying there beneath all of the covered squishing like an overripe tomato the jerk and the slamming of the vehicle left and right inside the cab no one having the opportunity to throw on seat belt would everyone be so kind to increase your superficial damage by one as as the truck damaged and yet not completely broken continues keming and Coring off of the guard rails down the road away from the slower moving naratu that was terrible never again never again ow say how I [ __ ] hate this place no [ __ ] [ __ ] everything about this place ah [ __ ] you going have tell me where to go I don't know where your place is yeah yeah just take that exit no no not that one uh three exits down I'll work you through it Jo we don't have your reaction speed tell us like 30 minutes ahead of time oh uh okay I'll speed it up uh yeah just just tell us early okay uh uh well we should have taken that turn yeah I know ah there there's a there's a way to get around it though we can redirect uh anyways du does anybody have an explanation for why the [ __ ] um God seems to hate us of all the people that we could have picked that oh no oh [ __ ] we just passed it of all the people we could pick we just so happen to go after the one that's got a [ __ ] no Fatu following them I don't know probably the same God that oh was the one oh my God can you be more careful like 300 feet you're going to want to take a right she follows that direction but it's cuz creeps hang out together that guy was creepy he thought he was going to get some free side of the road [ __ ] and then you got [ __ ] crazy ass s r too you know just from like a psychoanalysis POV maybe the nose veratu was attached to that person because you know in the core of their being they just want to be loved that is probably true and it is it was probably someone they loved before all that [ __ ] happened to them did you see that I don't want to remember any of it I can't help but do it but I don't want to poor thing yeah I know thank you for the road what what about the road ahead of us I said I ain't seen nothing but a road in front of us and I had already taken your turn so where am I going now I just just you'll see it there's going to be like some railroad tracks and then right past the railroad tracks Jo what those ones the ones we just passed no no no no no no no no no no we didn't pass the ones I'm talking about so um he kind of looks at the the the puddle of Clint I'm I'm guessing he's just dead let's yep dead enough oh oh there it is there it is you see that big flashing yellow sign there I take that turn oh no no no no no you're supposed to go the opposite way at that s a okay we can work this out stop stop pull over what what's wrong here this this is a map and I I pull a [ __ ] map out of this out the glove box and I a point point to where we're supposed to turn I could just point you to where my PL not right now just just show us the the route so there's not on the Fly stuff I really oh everything hurts okay so we are okay the fact that we fig out is no longer actually amongst us and it's probably body paced in the back of the trunk I am not okay with it whatsoever I am not okay with that whatsoever and and we've we've pretty much figured out that it was one of those [ __ ] trir that did that so we just got to figure out who and then put them in the ground deep in the ground I really pull back into traffic and carefully follow directions to get us Jo hopefully it'll be easier now that you know the route the problem is how we've got so much [ __ ] going on are we are we still on board with the plan kill the prince I don't know man I'm not sure I ever was but sure yeah let's yeah okay right you know what it's fine I in the meantime while we're planning and plotting for I need to figure out what the [ __ ] happened to Clint or more specifically who happened to Clint and we can add that on the to-do list um so you want me to bring him inside your place or we leaving him out here I it's it's fine I'll clean up his mess when we're done um and it would be a lot less worrisome for the Neighbors if I didn't have a jellified human being uh parked outside my place I think you are wise okay not too there is the cost of doing business that every Kindred understand true death upon second death upon the final death that you all face all of the years of your life all of the years of your unlife all of the time spent as an ambulatory corpse which is up to you relatively quickly the the older the longer you've outrun death the faster as the one of its kind your Cod May survived through several approximate portions of a life different epochs of their existence holding different faces they presented to the World At Large there's no way that a kindred who had been a kindred before you all were even dreamed of should be wet moist squishy it shouldn't be a moldering splotch of semisolid viscous matter underneath all of the camouflage you all put into the back of that truck yet the truth of the matter lays plain as part of that splotch that didn't go forward out of the bed of the truck out of the rear of the truck onto the nas veratu splashed and splashed against the interior rear window of the truck cab they K goopy bits of semi solid flesh sliding down the window and into the rest of the camouflage material at the back of the truck the problem with that is that it doesn't make any sense they'd been dead longer than each of you had ever been and yet all the years of their existence seemed to leave them in an over ripened State like a whale beached seconds moments days from exploding as the gases of the respirating meat compounded upon itself the gas expanding the flesh until it was as dangerous or is as dangerous as of bone and meat blubbery flesh and the entire conscience of its stomach and the mirror always a problem for each of you to the point where India much like Joi does not have a rearview mirror inside there yeah yet flashing the mirror you all were privy to its existence how it came to be another impossibility compounding one on top of the next and that Maddie is how this particular ritual should be carried out it is much like attempting to find a butterfly's tear phenomenally impossible but very easily done if you know how you Gras the basic components that you need and how best to carry the imagination into the reality of of where you are ready support and inspiration yes each of the facets of the ritual are part of a mental Pursuit as well the ingredients the components help to focus those energies within your V in the ghost of what we once were into the reality of where we are now I'm sure you've heard quite often several members of the Chantry remark on the Bess dead we have bodies and yet are still dead we are not alive and so the power of our thoughts equals the power of our actions we need some Focus some folky that helps us to generate the energy necessary to draw itze that so that we might find where the victims of our query originated you can discern whether one was a child of the moon or the earth born Spirits given flesh or or the creatures of dream the imagined realities made manifest or worse yet you can find if one of us such as yourself or me or any of the others the point of origination where the V that has hoped transfix Us in this moment of Frozen time carried through each night originated from with enough practice and enough Focus you might be able to even discern which tree which branch that the Day originated and trace it back to its Route One Step Forward at a time through the woods through the city streets across the veil in some cases there are places where the dragon well we'll get to that that's more of an advanced study I believe but yes you made track your prey your Hy within range of course there was this tracker some years ago originally from the Seattle area uh was profound or respected at least as a Tracker of s thing mastered this one particular ritual to the point where as for you for instance this may take anywhere from five to 45 minutes to to the first few times until you have it down pat as they say and but this particular kred she was in line to be a regent of of of her pantry and things went sideways they were asleep at the wheel as it were no matter the potential one has it's all very much what one applies oneself towards and well she had the gift of tracking and sourcing quaring nothing was done with it of course and their Chantry fell and last I thought they haded Somewhere Out East Northeast to be it's like you know carpet bag sticking to carpet bag areas of the in which we live yes yes you could track your victim because that is what they would be your focus making them the prey this is a relatively midling sort of ritual why why why are you interested in at this particular moment considering all that might uh you might be privy to considering all the information that you've been allowed to absorb why this particular ritual now I see are you sure there isn't a ulterior motive you're not confident in your associat drive to be assistive in what needs doing how you whose ties in particular are you worried over Ali's enforcer is your code remate s or your prince yes good leverage when there is belief and faith and anothers good standing is not necessarily a factual consideration as you understand the vast majority of bethan knites are considerably lower on regard there's no reason to overly worry over what Prince Carlson Garcia might eventually get up to there's not a political Drive in them they're Prince because it is be honest as high as they might reach a small nothing Village masquerading as a town it's good to be prepared of course but do you think that we might need to utilize that leverage with more control so let you don't have to hunt them across the land liability to put a very fine point on the matter if you believe that they are liability will stand in the way of progress will stand in the way of the betterment of stre its outlying domains it falls to you to protect the will and wish of the Chantry you know them you're able to utilize your knowledge of them to ensure that you are successful in laying them you have brought this to my attention and is my unfortunate responsibility to bring this notice to both the pigin and the Regent I can perhaps save you and Grant you a full night so that you might tie up all assurances but that would be the most that I can do this is a matter of great import that we are successful in allowing the others to dispatch Smith Johnson have no doubt that this is for the betterment of the Chantry and the city in differing values of course so what resources do you need to either assure their loyalty to the plan and their position within it or dispatch them yes but then we would be sparing potential enemies so this is a matter that must be rectified before we move forward either verify their loyalty to the pl and assurances that they will complete their portion of it or dispatch them what happens at that point is of course left to your judgment as you know them better than we might youve spent enough time Gathering Intelligence on their behaviors and their pressure point do go find them this is your mission this is your task and I will provide a stall before the Imam and before the Regent and the primagen decide to take notice directly upon you to so long as the challenge doesn't require you to apply yourself never digging deep is not something that comes natural to anyone no one wants to fight everyone wants to win it's a natural compunction even amongst us the truly deserving of forever one day soon I hope to that we might be able to discuss how we came into being which hermatic order was the foundation of all of that lovely Glory within this static reality that's another matter for a different conversation for now are there any resources you need to complete your task has to be understood the city is quite large and easily confusing to others but as you've associated with them and you've been into their Havens here in the city it's suspected that you would understand where they might be wasn't there central location of one of your members that you all utilize and didn't you understand didn't you what you were seen at the toy do businesses here as well as the hakas so the Cho of which Haven or which location you would be pursuing is entirely up to you do you need any other Assistance or tools to assure your success excellent so I look forward to hearing your report no later than midnight tomorrow as Maddie leaves her sire to which hate assciates of her friends of her codery which she had it sounds like a plan heading to joi's Haven here in stport there little comparatively small shop of operation his foothold into and onto the grand stage of inur societ as you had there India Joi Lita and Annabelle finally arrived the squished portion of their Cod remember laying in the back of the Spade what do uh I I spent the last like several miles [Laughter] healing I I am going to you know pull out the good old key ring and kind of just all right uh go around the go around the side there I don't want to be bringing this to the front door and uh he'll kind of hop out the back of the the bed of the truck and walk his way up to the kind of larger side door meant for bringing in [ __ ] that can't really go through the front prop it open I've got some uh plastic tarping that we can wrap him in I guess wa we should have left him on the [ __ ] roof on the roof yeah for the sun he's already I don't I don't think the sun does anything to us once we're like dead dead can't hurt maybe it'll purify him or something uh sure we can test that theory but like what happens if one of the harp first we we'll get him in I I'm not sleeping with that thing in the same place like the same building well certainly not inside the the same uh he kind of just rolls up the uh the door it's like look you're not gonna have to [ __ ] spoon the corpse okay you really want that to be in your ha with you I have you have you paid attention to how [ __ ] we've been lately I I want to bring your attention to the fact that I have seen something far worse comparatively tonight yeah but that fucker's not staying in the house I'll I okay fine I'll uh I'll get a container for him or something until we can bury him thank you [ __ ] weird people he says as he walks into the building oh [ __ ] [ __ ] what [Laughter] move do I need to come back outside is everything okay okay finger move wait what he say he comes back out he moved you see what I mean not sleeping in the same place as me wait if he moved that's great that's actually a great sign here uh help me get him in oh my God I I don't know either but as far as I'm aware like Clint was I mean unless this isn't Clint but it looks too close to Clint yeah I don't think get them anymore I remember when I was uh saying last time this is not your friend this is a trap um yeah yes still true okay are you is it going to start like is the corpse going to get up and start attacking me is that what you're assuming yes what do you want me to just set it on fire out here yeah you got a fire pit we're in Texas everybody has a fire pit okay that's fair you never know what this free Port [ __ ] all right uh [ __ ] I well at least help me carry him around back and then we can just I guess [ __ ] light him up uh Hey India do you think you'd go inside and look for my petroleum can it's a kind of brownish was once red but is no longer can in there the metal one okay well um me to help you sure I'll take an ankle like Annabelle is like the weakest person you know what exactly what exactly do you think I am doc I'm not I'm not like you know [ __ ] oh I should be DB you should have you should have sent me in for the petroleum and had India carry this thing she's have India [ __ ] manhandling a corpse it's nasty oh really I mean oh my God at least they'd be able to lift it I mean you can participate I I'm I'm yeah if it's gonna get this thing out of here I will participate I who knows like it might fall a pieces and then you can transport it bit by bit I either way just come on like you gotta [ __ ] move it before it wakes up all right and she she attempts to help um with her one strength and her zero Athletics yay she just kind of oh what is this what is this a no no no I don't like that result wait a second when did I roll yeah you got rolled four oh no it is a lovely night despite how the beginning and the middle have worked out for you all and despite the slos of v and semisolid bits of person that's left because as you go for to take the arm and pull the the chest and whatever you can of the wholeness of the body forward the forearm separates from the elbow the moist sweaty vat tinged and soaked hand and yours is surprisingly warm it's not that cold snail like gel of mucus it's the very warm sweat of exertion in the palm of your hand holding on to the left forearm with the wrist connected to the rest of the hand and the Senus and tendons that were once connecting the forearm to the Elbow down the rest of the arm swinging freely droplets of blood emptying the vessel that you're holding onto the ground Beneath Your Feet luckily for you you know it's not hard packed dirt and it's not growable it's actually a concrete drive that you're standing at top of and thankfully that's a little easier to spray down and hose down save where it hits the concrete there's almost an immediate brown staining as if the blood is older than the concrete itself has been allowed to sit for years in the sun baking into the concrete outside of that it's an easy to fix thing the scent of kindri f it's irony melon sweetness reaches your nose and there's a understanding as a there really is no point in it all going to was after all it is still still mostly crashing drip drip drip of it how did the body get so much of a in it normally when you all see when you meet your final moment everything begins to dry and desiccate much like the body would have been or would if it had been allowed to sit where you where you all take your last and final tour around this mud ball so as if the body had been there the entire amount of time that the Kindred had been around yet this this holding what you're holding in your hand there's these like I know five six pints of the stuff just splatter it all over the bed of the truck dripping from separated from forearm in your hand yeah we where's the fire pit it's that little deviation in the dirt over there the ones run up Stones I I I guess all right let's let's drag it over there and we'll come back for the arm yep you know you being a doc I thought you'd be a bit more used to this than I am I'm not that kind of doctor when have I ever taken you apart except you know mentally I was about to say okay well anyways um it you said you can't really do too much on this side so if you just want to go get the arm I'll try and Hoist the rest of him over there why does it smell good uh he's weirdly like I think is plushy the word no plushy's not the word looed no I don't know how to describe it I'm I'm going to stop thinking about describing it and I'm just going to power through it that sounds like one of the smarter things you've ever said Jello there we go that's a good descriptor that the gas can [ __ ] you India oh damn um yeah so I I grabed the arm doing my part with his Parts with his Parts well just kind of loosely with the like the the open end up to like maybe contain some of the gross blood that's not gross enough it should be much grosser have you thought about trying it no I mean yes but it really should be it really should be more disgusting it should be more offputting than it is the constant blip blip blip as the droplets land on the concrete and onto the plastic canvas that you the tarp that you all have is far too intoxicating because it reminds you of when you were far younger than you are now and the ice cream truck really wasn't an ice cream truck it was more of a slushy snow conb truck and so you get your your flavor of choice and that thick sacin sweet syrup hitting that ice with caused you to get hotter the excitement of the truck and the the vendor in and of itself the run across someone's lawn or down the block to where it was sitting and serving its snow cones and ice cream treats with the bubble gum inside it was the syrup it was the sweetness of the syrup with the heat of the world around you knowing that you're dissipate instantly the moment that you had that snow cone the moment you had that cup and could sip all of that cold Frosty syrup that sweet goodness that would cause your fingers to be sticky for hours afterwards the syrup that would stain your tongue all sorts of color based on which syrup you had that delicious sweetness but yeah as Annabelle makes it back to the fire pit Joi is licking one of his fingers Joie what what what why why did you eat it I mean we're going to burn it might as well taste it a little bit uh listen remember when I said this is a trap now you you uh you go over there and tie yourself up or something oh okay getting the body into the fire pit shouldn't be as easy as it is luckily with it falling apart from being splattered by the naratu makes things easier all too easy like cords of wood you just stack and arrange into the fire pit and India what many people don't realize about the animals around you all that avoid you all is that each group each swarm of rats has a different accent each grouping of raccoons they carry a different dialect and each group of white tailed deer have a different pwa that they use it's their Regional dialects and vernacular and the language is the same but completely different from one portion to the next for instance the the horses that have grown accustomed to you that let you near they speak with more of a French style draw [Music] it's versus the more the ones that you've all imported from Texas and Oklahoma and farther west speak a little slower and it's things like that that you notice in the language of the night around you all it makes certain understand a little more more difficult because occasionally you'll get a owl or a bat or night thrust that has come from Oklahoma or Arkansas or has come west from Mississippi or Alabama it has a different dialect and the sounds of the night those animal noises that everyone looks past are things that you notice free Port sitting where it is having a hodge podge of night languages and the animals around you is nothing new you've grown annoyed by it and you've noticed it but there's nothing you could do about it but why are you hearing the best you can put your finger on it East Coast like movie New York east coast from the late 60s and 70s with the what what that would make her stop and look around like the [ __ ] say something again now do you try to return in the language of that particular animal which was a night Bird yeah she's uh it's weird because like we you go to a Japanese restaurant if you speak Japanese you got to speak Japanese real good before they give you any sort of respect but animals is just like oh she's trying so yeah she tries to answer back so as you all pile bits and pieces of your former codery mate on into the fire pit and andabo You Begin chewing joji away because he's licking all that Melanie sweet goodness and Lita as per her pocketbook and the life that she's grown accustomed to watches as you all work India begins whistling but it's not a whistle so much as it is the call of a Black Crown kn Ken though her pronunciation is little it's a little off and it's the oh look at you you're trying yo uh you understand what and the conversation begins to pick up who you talking who you talking to lucky I don't and so they're going back and forth her and whatever bird is out there that she's whistling and warbling and interacting with the to the Everglades and and so as India is warbling and whistling and you're stacking and this party parts are squishing like bags of water that are leaking all over your hands and all over your fingers that Melanie goodness tickling and tingling the nose it's one of those things you're know your tongue knows what this tastes like your soul knows how good it would be to well it's going to go to waste anyway the five or six points that were spilling out and dribbling all over the place are down to like three maybe three and a half pints that are actually in those various Limbs and parts but that's still three pints that you could oh Fu not let go to waste and Maddie arriving at Joi and the scent of kindrick V all over the place what would be the first thing that you consider oh you can definitely hear them yeah you can hear them around the side of the building the in the backyard Joi being [ __ ] handcuffing himself to to one of the drains coming down the back of the building a kind of like metal pipe like oh you're I did not expect to see you tonight the click click click click click as he tightens the the cuff uh welcome yeah the doctor asked me to I mean I have the keys we'll bring him in I also have the keys oh that's Clint or what's left of Clint that is the reason for the handcuffs he honestly he really it's a weird sensation what did he taste like anyway did he taste good give it a try what I mean you are weird but we all are honestly it's uh um India should be out here soon with the with the gas and then we can just say goodbye to Clint is the bird telling me anything interesting they trying to get to the Everglades wanted to stop by and see his family uh on the Gulf Coast and decided to swing this way cuz there was uh something calling into the area and it's been 5 days and it still can't really quite figure out like should it go to the to the left go back the way they came but then the there's all of the owls that were you know working with the Ravens in the area which you know it found really weird they thought they had blood blood debt between them but the ows and the Ravens have been making sure that no bird flies up out of the area so no sense of being ATT tag just you know being [ __ ] visitor like I'm mind my own [ __ ] business and then all of a sudden they just come out and he's going on and on and on that's crazy have you ever thought of just getting in like on a car or something and just like riding in the back of the car or on the the the the trunk of a car so that you're not flying and then they can't attack you you think a a 4 and a2t Tall me going to get on the back of a guy not [ __ ] noticing it's bad enough they [ __ ] lay low here with all of these ows and Ravens working together to make sure none other buds leave the area it's just just ridiculous the bats I don't mind they're just noisy but the the owls they could be anywhere they just pop out of nothing that is weird uh well I got something to do but it was nice meeting you and she turned to towards the back of the uh house gets back there I first not noticing that Maddie's here but she looks to the other two so did you know the owls and the Ravens are [ __ ] working together somehow to keep other birds from leaving the state once they come into the state they're like attacking things it's crazy I mean notice that been attacking other birds I did not notice well the thing would be is if gu if they were attacking he's some sort of like Heron thing if they're attacking herand and then they're probably attacking Pelicans too do we have pelicans around here I don't [ __ ] h i mean no actually Maddie we there is like a singular Pelican up here it's owned by Ed up the street he takes care of a bunch of birds I honestly think he captures them in the wild and then brings them back I feel kind of he's like a crazy bird guy that's [ __ ] up it is especially being as Maddie is a bethan night and what that means hunting comes natural and and not natural in the way that you would think it's not something passed down through the genes though there is that genetic memory all times as your old man went hunting all clean the catch the clean the kill there is the understanding of the very fragile nature of the Eco systems around you so the growing anger at someone misusing an ecosystem the growing anger as to what that might mean that's effectively cheating Ravens are smart enough to actually stalk their prey as a group to use tools to Har grass and brain they never work with species outside of themselves not bird wise anyway they'll work with Wolves they'll work to help the wolf succeed in their hunt but they won't work with other birds birds as far as they're concerned are for the birds and then combining with the skill of owls to silently swoop through the air having Ravens give out strike locations guiding other birds into traps laid by owls who can seemingly appear out of nowhere soundlessly that's the exact sort of thing that is the definition of cheating it's the definition of playing outside of the boundaries of the rules so that small scent of fire of an ember the cordite of Flesh reaching your nose having you look left and right and slowly taking in your surroundings is inciting it's effectively you stubbed your mental emotional spiritual toll as if someone set a group of spiritual Legos out for you and made you walk across them with freshly exfoliated Souls you understand the very real attacking from an angle throwing a rock and hiding your hand you very also understand you are at Joi house joi's a tood door a new tood door the new torod door that you heard so much about not more than a few hours earlier very nearly 256 in the morning can I uncuff myself now um I don't know are you feeling like you're going to turn into goop no because Clint is goopy or was goopy because he ate some [ __ ] goop I tasted I sampled no I do not know I don't also know well either way unclips himself from the metal bar that was an interesting experiment because he's a trap he's not Clint anymore well he smells [ __ ] delicious for one uh it is have you seen much blood is coming out though he was supposed to be toer he Ain act toer he uh yeah so here's the thing uh he's already dead yeah he kind of got further he got further splattered by a angry noat too so even if he was tored what do you mean not that kind of permission if you're you're you're talking about destruction I'm saying he's already dead yeah he was quote unquote torped when we got him and then he was kind of further [ __ ] up by anos Fatu that we were trying to escape so like he was already dead dead I mean if you want to go check I don't really give a [ __ ] I'm going to give my friend a funeral in the only way that I really can all right here's the thing you want to go uh test it you should test it if you can somehow wake up that he kind of points to the armless corpse go go [ __ ] do your thing that all right what do you need for that I mean you know what maybe you're right maybe maybe maybe the Trap is that we are not supposed to get rid of what's left of him I I I I don't know I don't know I don't know [ __ ] magical [ __ ] look uh Maddie if you can talk to Clint in some way or his Spirit or whatever the [ __ ] that thing actually is if it's not Clint then please figure this out for us or if you've got to go I don't know talk to some of your buddies okay uh doctor hey I'm not touching the thing again okay India we grab the barrel yeah yeah wait whoa oh you don't have to fight for it so as you all move towards the fire India you haven't set down the gas can which is filled with premium high grade UNL petrol and petroleum based products in other words it's just gas inside you both cross the distance from where you were standing closer to the building putting you all further closer to the fire pit slightly closer to the fire pit just a half set behind you all is Anabel closest to the building is Joi and leita high for Aid distance from the actual building so as you all get closer to the fire bit and begin Gathering the chunks and pieces and the smashed in and well splattered portions of your former Cod M someone's eye home or stereo th on there is a click click click click click click click click click as the security lights on the homes nearby come up there is the beginning chords the strings of sprinklers go off the scent of kerosene is not coming from the gas can in India's hands and joi's business goes on the upbeat of um the home that was his Haven and place of business strikes and a lights in this beautifully Almost White hot pink orange and blue flames oh [ __ ] you all are unfortunately close enough to be bedazzled and almost blind especially those with Tien senses as the building goes up as promised as mentioned earlier as the Flames immediately engulf the building and you realize that the kerosene being sprayed from the sprinkler system for the lawn the fumes of which cause the fire to grow as if it is a demon arising from the skeleton and spine of Bald Mountain I'd like to thank you all for a lovely episode and I'll see you guys next time good night everybody