{"id":158,"date":"2020-09-25T18:36:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T18:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghostpuncher.net\/a\/?page_id=158"},"modified":"2020-09-28T23:48:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T23:48:37","slug":"episode-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ghostpuncher.net\/a\/corps\/transcript-hub\/episode-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcript &#8211; Episode 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"158\" class=\"elementor elementor-158\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-307d398 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"307d398\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fe19a63\" data-id=\"fe19a63\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-32f713e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"32f713e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">TRANSCRIPT - EPISODE 3<br>\"Ah, Nuts\" vol III<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3a6f35e elementor-hidden-phone elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3a6f35e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">(Transcription by Micha Cavaseno, contact for transcription work\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ghostpuncher.net\/corps-transcripts\/transcript-3-ah-nuts-vol-iii\/mcavaseno@gmail.com\">here<\/a>)<\/span><\/p><p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/5741306\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/1b1b1b\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p><p><b>[Music Fades In:\u00a0 Skagos \u2013 Blossoms Will Sprout From the Carcass]<\/b><br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Hello everyone my name is Lucifer. Welcome to this the third edition of Ghostpuncher Corps. This week the gang are closing in on the testicular spectre haunting Poulton, Texas. They have finally learned to start leaning on their new friend Mikey and his peculiar skills.<\/p><p><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I only ever met one ghost. It was weird.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Oh!<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Well oh, hey wait, that\u2019s more\u2026 That\u2019s a lot of ghosts, relatively.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I just, like, fixed\u2026 her. With my brain!\u2026 Can y\u2019all not do that?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0That might be a \u2018You\u2019 thing.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Mikey just sort of starts rocking in place\u2026 Then he opens them and you notice his eyes are pitch fucking black\u2026. Those balls there\u2019s something wrong with them.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>That\u2019s good, it really bothered me that they left him in the winnebago. It\u2019s just\u2026 rude.<br \/><br \/>As they close in on their first mark as hunters under my employ, we\u2019ll see how the gang do in closing the deal. Hopefully they don\u2019t make too much noise. Wouldn\u2019t want to attract any unwanted attention.<br \/><br \/><b>[Musical interlude]<\/b><b><br \/><\/b><b><br \/><\/b><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Alright y\u2019all. When we last left off, you were outside Jackie\u2019s Customs. You were\u2026 Mikey was behind the van. Mikey just watched as the glowing object that he saw under the street just scurried into the building and out of sight.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0By object you mean the shapeshifting truck nuts.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, the shapeshifting truck nuts-<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0The\u00a0<i>haunted<\/i>\u00a0shapeshifting truck nuts.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>The Haunted shapeshifting truck nuts, thank you for clarifying.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:\u00a0<\/b>The<i>\u00a0killer<\/i>\u00a0haunted shapeshifting truck nuts.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[Laughter]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0You don\u2019t know that yet!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, probable cause, right?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Probable ca-? Oh my god.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy<\/b>: At very least, the truck nuts were a witness.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I think we spent too much time in that police department.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0God\u2026 Alright. So\u2026 so you see the haunted truck nuts go in. It\u2019s about 11 o\u2019clock so the custom shop is closed up for the evening. All the lights are off\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Oh uh, what time is it? Like, you say evening.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Eleven.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Oh, so like night.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, yeah. Like super night.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Like full on, like it\u2019s dark outside, ok.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Yeah. It\u2019s dark outside, it is closed.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Well, I think that we should break in! Unless it\u2019s not locked in which case, that wouldn\u2019t be necessary.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019d like to check for traps AKA Alarm systems.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[building laughter]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0W-Wait. Hey, y\u2019all are still in the car!<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Ok<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Oh oh, alright, I\u2019d like to- I\u2019d like to retcon all that then.<br \/><br \/>[Assorted Laughter]<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Let\u2019s get out of the car.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019d like to check for car alarms\u2026 OK, let\u2019s get out of the car.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK, everyone\u2019s out of the car. Good job.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[stammering] So, about how far from the location are we?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Hey, you\u2019re right in front of the door. We\u2019re moving this along. We did it.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Great\u2026 Ah, fantastic.<br \/><br \/><strong>Syd<\/strong>: [whoops]<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>I guess we should probably make a perception check just to see if there are any obvious cameras, security alarms, that kind of shit, right?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Go ahead.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, that\u2019s a\u2026 7. [groans]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Seven? You do not see any kind of cameras or anything like that.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, do I have to roll perception to notice a sign for an alarm company in the window?<br \/><br \/><strong>Syd:<\/strong>\u00a0Well\u2026<br \/><b><br \/><\/b><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0I mean\u2026 I guess you don\u2019t since you specifically asked about it? There is not a sign for an alarm company in the window. However, I\u2019m really interested to hear why Mikey would be thinking about that.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, that was kind of out of character. It was just\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Our helpful game wizard to the side, Mikey\u2019s twin\u2026 alter-ego or something, fuck.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0[chuckles]<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Sometimes Mikey gets divine psychic inspiration. The uh, the sasquatch hive mind.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0That\u2026 is\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0In the form of me meta-gaming.<\/p><p>[Assorted Laughter]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Ok, well, fuckin\u2019 cataclysmic extraplanar event that none of you can see cuts of Mikey\u2019s immediate connection to the sasquatch hive-mind that helps him cheat so, Electra! Gimme a perception check.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Oh, perception check\u2026 I\u2019ll just accept-<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Or whatever check you want to give me.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, it doesn\u2019t matter. I mean, I rolled the die\u2026 It\u2019s perception at 16, investigation at 17.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK, fantastic. You\u2019re investigating the shit out of all this stuff. You super don\u2019t\u00a0 see any cameras.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Ok.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Alright.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0You guys, there\u00a0<i>aren\u2019t<\/i>\u00a0cameras.<br \/><b><br \/><\/b><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Great, great. I feel like even if there were by the time that we get in here and start wrasslin\u2019 with whatever this thing is, it won\u2019t matter if there were cops also, so\u2026 Shall we break into this building?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Are we around the back, or do we come up to the front?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, I-<\/p><p><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0It\u2019s probably best that we\u2019re not facing the street.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Actually, the front door, it kinda has like a weird\u2026 it\u2019s one of those things where you come off into the driveway and the door is still facing away from the street? Uh, it\u2019s actually not visible at all from the road.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0[mutters] Ok.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0So all the lights are off inside the body shop?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, all the lights inside are off.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Does it look like anyone\u2019s around?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Does not.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Well what about outside, on the street?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Outside on the street? People are driving by\u2026 It\u2019s late at night so the roads are pretty clear.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019ll just try the door, to see if it\u2019s unlocked, y\u2019know? Stranger things have happened.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0It\u00a0<i>is<\/i>\u00a0locked.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Ok.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Alright.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019ll pick the door.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Hell yeah, yeah, roll me a lock pick check.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Ah\u2026 That\u2019s a, oooh boy, that\u2019s a 20 without a modifier.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK! You\u2026 Yeah, yeah it is. That lock, like\u2026 it is unmade. No, the door opens up and you see inside. It is the same sales floor area that you saw before. Very dimly lit, doesn\u2019t seem to be anybody inside. And yeah, there are two doors; one of them behind the counter that you saw before? And the other one, the double glass doors leading to the sound room that you were in before.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I think that it probably will gravitate towards that room where the murder happened? That was kind of the vibe that we- That was where we landed on that right? That room was definitely the most weird and probable for y\u2019know, supernatural occurrences or whatever?<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I mean that does\u2026 that seems to reason.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Alright. I mean I think that we should just head right there. Everybody, y\u2019know, ready yourselves or whatever but that\u2019s probably where we should go.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I turn on my gear.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Hell yeah.<br \/><b><br \/><\/b><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0What\u2019s the timeframe between us, like\u2026 we basically just ran right over from that woman\u2019s house.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yep!<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Oh, ok, so yeah there was no rest time or anything?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0No, no. Two doors; one of \u2018em glass, one of them is just a regular door leading to the back. It does say \u201cEmployees Only\u201d.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0That was the same \u201cEmployees Only\u201d room that we tried to get into last time. Because I remember that there were two right? There was one inside the spinning rims room and then there\u2019s the other one? But I\u2019m pretty sure-<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0There\u2019s a lot of doors that say \u201cEmployees Only\u201d. This one\u2019s out on the sales floor, which is kind of separated away from any doors that you have tried or succeeded to get through.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Gotcha. And, the other one, I remember now, so it was through\u2026 We were in the room with all the speakers and the \u201cEmployees Only\u201d room in there was\u2026 where the truck nuts were.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yep\u2026 Yes.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0So, does everyone want to head through the glass doors, and into that room?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I mean Mikey\u2019s just kinda waiting for someone else to take the lead. He\u2019s not an investigator.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Alright. Ok yeah\u2026 So I walk over to the glass doors and\u2026 push on them? Are they automatic?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>They\u2019re push doors. They do have a \u2018swoosh\u2019 thing, but that\u2019s been turned off.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Mkay. I push on them.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Ok. You open up those doors and you walk in the room. The room is again it\u2019s very very dimly lit, just enough where you can safely find your way around. But you do see a button that says \u2018Demo\u2019 in the center of the room. It\u2019s kind of on a pedestal.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0That wasn\u2019t there the last time we were here, was it?\u00a0<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0[hesitantly] It\u2019s just a\u2026 just a lone pedestal?\u2026 Alone in the middle of the room?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah it\u2019s a lone pedestal. This place has a flair for the dramatic.<\/p><p><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>OK.<\/p><p><b><br \/><\/b><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0OK well Mikey is gonna push that button unless somebody stops him\u2026 Like I\u2019m walking towards the button right now.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>I could\u2019ve called that.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019m fine with this.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I don\u2019t know if we should\u2026 press that. We should maybe-<br \/><b><br \/><\/b><b>Cassidy:\u00a0<\/b>K, well he\u2019s at the button. He\u2019s about to push it.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0\u2026 Oh no.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, unless somebody physically stops him. Or tells him not to.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[in the background] I think this is gonna happen.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Ok, Mikey has pressed the button. I\u2019m just calling it.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0There was enough time for somebody to say that.<\/p><p>[Music starts to fade in]<\/p><p><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0You all it\u2019s\u2026 it\u2019s like a crushing wave of sound goes over all of you. You hear this horrible horrible racket penetrating your skull. And actually each of you hear kind of distinct\u2026 there\u2019s a lot of different things playing like radio broadcasts, songs you never heard before\u2026 Kevin, you hear, what was that um\u2026 the band that you have a tattoo of their logo? What was that band?<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Oh uh, I don\u2019t know, I made it up.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Oh you made it up? Come up with a name.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Come up with a name now? Ah shit, uh\u2026 ah\u2026 \u201cEvil Circus\u201d.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0\u201cEvil Circus\u201d, that\u2019s\u2026 That\u2019s perfect. And would you be able to come up with one of Evil Circus\u2019 hit jams?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Oh my god\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Uhm\u2026 \u201cDad Slayer\u201d!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>\u201cDad Slayer\u201d! Hell yeah, ok, so! You specifically hear in this horrible cacophony\u2026 Coldplay\u2019s cover of \u201cDad Slayer\u201d that they did for the Vampire Diaries soundtrack? It\u2019s like your least favorite song in the entire world. Mikey? You hear Raffi played at half-speed, and it\u2019s one of the most scary things that you\u2019ve ever heard of. Electra, you hear a track from your Myspace page circa 2007, that you have tried to bury. And Petua, you hear both Norah Jones and Babylonian ritual chants that have never been recorded before? And I need you all to make Constitution saving throws.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0The fuck\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[rolling dice] Ah fuck, um\u2026 I critical failed.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Alright. Let\u2019s hear how everybody else did!<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0A 5\u2026?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Oh, I got a 15.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0I got a 9.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK, everyone except for, ooh\u2026 That\u2019ll be interesting. Except for Mikey, you now have Disadvantage on all skill checks you can make while you hear this horrible, horrible noise. Mikey? It\u2019s loud and it\u2019s weird and disturbing but you\u2019re good.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:\u00a0<\/b>I\u2019m good.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Do I get anything for critical failing?<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0God I forg-\u2026 Yeah, yeah. I mean, what do I- Oh, you know what? That\u2019s easy. You take 3 damage.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0THREE!? Okay\u2026. Damn, sorry, that was melodramatic.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0[laughs]<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, I\u2019m going to guess that you have like, 8 hit points total.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, I\u2019ve got 19 typically but\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:\u00a0<\/b>Wait, nineteen?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Wait no, that doesn\u2019t sound right. No, 9, sorry.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>Cassidy:\u00a0<\/b>Nine, ok, I\u2019m like \u201cHow do you have more health than I do?\u201d<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>There\u2019s not supposed to be a one there, sorry. Yeah, great, lovely, 6 hit points going on here. Sorry about that. Electra, you were going to dive for this button.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019m going to dive to press the button and hopefully stop this racket\u2026. And this god awful Fruity Loops song that I made 10 years ago.<\/p><p>[Music stops before slowly fading back in]<\/p><p><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0You kinda hear like\u2026 You hear everything just kind of start over.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Oh no\u2026<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Everyone except for Kevin, you see a little cable running underneath\u2026 It kind of goes from the wall to underneath one of the housing sections for the speakers? And yeah, the sound is continuing. And it\u2019s horrible.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I want to\u2026 destroy\u2026 I have a knife in my boot. So when I grab that cable? And take out my knife and just fucking, cut that fucker in half.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0You just cut the cable in half?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, just pull the cable and run the knife under it and just yank\u2026. I\u2019m just desperate to get rid of this\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Hmm, ok!\u2026 Ok.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0That doesn\u2019t seem like a good idea.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0The knife is insulated, it\u2019s fine.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, yeah good thing that that knife\u2019s insulated so\u2026 You see there\u2019s like a spark and everything like that. And as you pull back on it, you see a little, black, like a box that this cable was connected to? And on it in big white letters is \u201cSAFETY INHIBITOR\u201d and now I\u2019m going to need all of you to run another Constitution saving throw.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Oh fuck.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>What the\u2026 ?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Oh, phew, 18.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Eighteen.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a07.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:\u00a0<\/b>11.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a010?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK. So\u2026<\/p><p>[Music shifts to an abrasive breakcore track]<\/p><p><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Petua and Kevin\u2026 You guys together are alright. Everybody else just took 2 damage as you just kinda feel, it just digs deeper in your ears. It is just like, pulse pounding, like loud, loud, loud. And you see the speakers and they are just like, shaking.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Is like a\u2026 switch anywhere, a power\u2026 something\u2026 anywhere?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0You do see a switch on the Safety Inhibitor that reads \u201cON\u201d that goes from off to on, it was in the off position.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019m just gonna run to the closest speaker to me? And just straight up, put my fist through it.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Actually just roll me a d10?\u2026 No modifier.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0OK [rolls dice] No modifier? Then I got a 6.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK so you like\u2026 smash your hand through this speaker and you actually see 6 other ones kind of short out and they stop working and the audio is marginally less terrifying.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I think that I should do something about this, so\u2026 I would like to cast a spell. I would like to attack the speakers as well, this time.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Hell Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019m going to cast \u201cEldritch Blast\u201d, it is a cantrip, can I do that?\u2026 Alright, great<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah!\u2026 Cool, roll me a d10.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>[Rolls Die] Oh nice\u2026 It is. An evocation cantrip\u2026. It\u2019s an 8.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Is that a cantrip for you?\u2026 Wow.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0It is\u2026 It\u2019s an eight? Perfect. 8 speakers just fucking explode, it\u2019s getting quieter.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Oh, well I also think that\u2026 Can I put a little bit of spice on this since it\u2019s the first time my character has cast a spell?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yes.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0OK\u2026. So Petua is still being assailed by this wave of sound, right? And I think that she closes her eyes and focuses on how disgusting it is to hear Norah Jones and these Babylonian chants and this ridiculous pop music altogether\u2026 And her eyes just kind of roll over, and she closes them and listens for a second and then summons this\u2026 very, very intense wave of eldritch energy.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Hell Yes. Hell.\u00a0<i>Yes.<\/i>\u00a08 speakers, ka-blam. They are no longer doing it. Anybody else wanna take a swing?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019ve got my bat out and I\u2019m just fucking\u2026. Going wild.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Swingin\u2019? Alright. Yeah. Just roll me a Damage roll for that.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>[Rolls dice] 4.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Four? Alright. Four more speakers explode and you actually start to see a few other ones are just kind of shorting out. And let\u2019s just say, hey, Kevin, do you want to take a swing?<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah\u2026 Actually I was gonna ask about electricity concerns? Because I got a metal sword-<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>That is true.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0But I don\u2019t think Kevin would\u2026 I don\u2019t think he would be smart enough to wonder that, so I\u2019m not gonna\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>[laughs] Also if you bought it at the mall, it\u2019s\u2026Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:\u00a0<\/b>I feel like Kevin would just get caught up in smashing.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:\u00a0<\/b>Yeah, he\u2019s just gotta smash\u2026 What am I rolling again?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Hell Yeah. Uh\u2026 You\u2019re just rolling the Damage roll for your sword which, I think I have that written down there as a one d6 +4 or something? I don\u2019t\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0That\u2019s a 3.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Three? Ok, cool. So, three more speakers explode. You feel just a slight jolt of electricity, it doesn\u2019t do any damage, but you definitely\u2026 It just makes your arm feel all weird? So just write that down on your character sheet, arm feels all weird.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:\u00a0<\/b>Ok.<br \/><br \/>[Assorted Laughter]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0And the speakers, they all just like in a giant crackle of static and sparks they all just stop. And the room is once again quiet.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019m still smashing.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0[bursts into laughter]<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019m just very upset.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[In a concerned tone] Uh, Electra, Electra? I think y-\u2026 You probably don\u2019t have to do that anymore. I think you did it\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah\u2026 Still feels good\u2026. We should probably get into the garage. Whatever.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I know\u2026 Uh, the room, right?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>So\u2026 There are three doors going from this room there is, or actually I should say there are four. There is the set of glass doors you came through, there is one to your left marked \u201cEMPLOYEES ONLY\u201d, one in front of you also marked \u201cEMPLOYEES ONLY\u201d. That\u2019s the one that you\u2019ve put together is the stock room. And then one to your right that says \u201cCUSTOMS\u201d which, you\u2019ve went through before.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>Did anyone else hear\u2026\u00a0<i>particularly<\/i>\u00a0strange things?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, from the music? It wasn\u2019t\u00a0<i>great,\u00a0<\/i>I\u2019ll give it that but\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Anything out of the ordinary.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I definitely heard something that was so ancient that even I haven\u2019t heard it so, I\u2019m not really sure what that was up with, but it was-<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0It was like a song that you used to know\u2026 ? But like you\u2019re hearing it in a dream. But it doesn\u2019t sound right.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Right, like you can\u2019t put the song to what the song is, almost.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Right.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0[affects twang] I knew what I was hearing. It was from that Vampire Diaries movie, I hated it.<br \/><br \/>[Assorted stifled laughter]<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Is that a new accent, Kevin?<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:\u00a0<\/b>Hm?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0I love it! I love it.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Did you, did Kevin get electrocuted so hard that now he sounds like\u2013<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0[twang maintains] I\u2026 This has been my voice this whole time!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0[Laughs]<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Right, no, of course! It must have been me, we were hearing so much awful shit that we just don\u2019t remember what anything sounds like anymore. Great.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0\u2026 Is the door\u2026 open?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0It is still locked, but I will let Kevin take another crack at a lock-picking check.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0A 20.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Hell yeah. OK. That door just pops right open.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0[whispered] Yes.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0OK. I think that I would like to make an Investigation check\u2026? Into like, the room specifically. I want to kind of look into the room, I think I have Dark Vision but I want to look into the room and check out that spot. If I can see it from the threshold of the door without going in yet. Like kind of peer over there\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Ok, Ok. Yeah go ahead.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[Rolls Dice] Nice\u2026 Hmm, Perception\u2026 14?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Fourteen?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>No wait, with Investigation is\u2026 is 15, sorry.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Fifteen, perfect. You see just sort of a dimly-lit room. You\u2019re kind of starting to feel those same kind of vibes you were feeling before. But it\u2019s just kind of a dark stock room.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0How about how big is it?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0It\u2019s\u2026 I would say maybe 300 feet wide? 100 feet back?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Ok.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I turn to, I guess to Mikey\u2026 Do you feel anything in this room? Oh wait, is Mikey\u2019s Detect Magic still going? Probably not, right?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0No, it\u2019s long expired.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Damn, ok\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0It only lasts 10 minutes.<br \/><b><br \/><\/b><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, it\u2019s still polite to ask. Mikey, what do you think?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0What do I think about what?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Should we go in, do you feel anything? I-I\u2019m getting some serious vibes from that corner of the room where the blood was?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Oh, I dunno, it looks spooky though.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah\u2026 I mean, I think that we should go in. What do you guys think?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Absolutely\u2026 I\u2019m ready.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Alright\u2026. Okay, I guess we\u2019re all as ready as we\u2019ll ever be. I walk into the room.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Oh wait, is it dark?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0It\u2019s very dark, yes.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Like\u2026 Ok, I\u2019ll cast Produce Flame. You all look away for a second and before you know it Mikey\u2019s hand\u2019s on fire.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[laughter]<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0[concerned murmuring]<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:\u00a0<\/b>He doesn\u2019t look very perturbed by it.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Uh\u2026 does that happen often?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0\u2026 Does what happen? Oh, this! Nono, this is just something I can do. Don\u2019t worry about it, I just figured so we could see better.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0\u2026 Can we see better?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah. Oh, absolutely.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0OK.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>What do you see, what do you feel, all of these very important questions\u2026 The first thing that you see, reflected with the fire in their eyes, you see just rats. Rats eyes lining the shelves, and they are watching you.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>Just some friends.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Can anyone, and this is not something that I would normally ask on a regular day, but this is not a regular day\u2026 Can anyone talk to animals?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019m gonna just assume that everyone turns and looks at Mikey?<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[Chuckling] I think so.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0[Laughing]<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, that\u2019s a pretty good assumption.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0What\u2019re you guys looking at me for?<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Can you talk to animals?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:\u00a0<\/b>No! Of course not. Animals can\u2019t talk!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Well, you can set your hand on fire, so y\u2019know, we thought we would just check. Um, alright, I-<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I guess I see the logic in that.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I address the rats in\u2026 the common tongue, I suppose.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0[cackles]<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0WHAT!?<br \/><br \/><strong>Syd<\/strong>: The rats?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, in English, yeah\u2026 Yeah, yeah that\u2019s fine.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I dunno, I was looking at the list of languages that I speak and\u2026 I-, Okay, Okay. Alright-<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:\u00a0<\/b>Galactic basic.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Well, I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s like some Dr. Who shit going on where we can just speak whatever the language everybody else is speaking here. Like if we were in France we\u2019d just be chillin\u2019 too, but like alright. I am going to address the rats. In English.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Ok. [snorts]<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[Bursting into laughter] I forgot what I was going to say, ok, great. Now that we know what language I\u2019m speaking\u2026 What do you want?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>They just, they kind of skitter around.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Fucking of course they do.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Ah, the \u2018normal\u2019 rats.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0They skitter around? They were sitting still a little bit, before.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, yeah, one of them kind of just goes over to a thing of cheese and \u2026 There\u2019s cheese!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[snickers]<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Wait.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:\u00a0<\/b>There\u2019s just some cheese lying on the floor?\u2026 No wonder they have rats. Jesus!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Rats love cheese.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, yeah! There\u2019s car cheese and the dragees so these rats are eating like- You notice, they\u2019re a little bit bigger!<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Oh, I forgot about dragees.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, yeah. They\u2019re a little bit bigger than your average rat.<br \/><br \/>[various murmurs]<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Well, a diet of dragees will do that.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Would you go so far as to say that they\u2019re rodents of an unusual size.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0[Laughter] I- I wouldn\u2019t, but I would say-<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I get that reference<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Let\u2019s all stop beating around the bush, they lunge at you and let\u2019s roll for Initiative\u2026! Yaaaay.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Oh god. Jesus. Thank you. [Groans and Rolls Dice] I got 14.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I got a 20. Ok.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I got a 12 for my Initiative.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah I got fourteen.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Electra was a twenty\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Yep\u2026 \u201cNatty Twen\u201d<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0I like your\u2026 Are we gonna be starting some new tabletop lexicon like, are we coming up with some words? Hell Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, that\u2019s\u2026 That\u2019s my original. Y\u2019all can use it.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Get some knuckle tats that say \u201cNatty Twen\u201d on \u2018em\u2026 It\u2019s gonna go down real well.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0[Laughs] Uh, Robyn, did you get an Initiative roll?<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Oh, yeah, 12.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Twelve, cool, alright. So there are three rats, and they\u2019re all kind of poised on the shelves.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Like regular sized rats?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, I mean they\u2019re a little bit bigger.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0But it\u2019s not unusual.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, it\u2019s\u00a0<i>slightly<\/i>\u00a0unusual.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>They\u2019re showing a level of tactical organization that is unusual for rats, I\u2019m assuming, yeah\u2026? Gotcha<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah yeah, I mean, they\u2019re coming for you but Electra you\u2019re going first.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Where, which shelf?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0It\u2019s like, eye-level?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Ok. I\u2019m just gonna swing at \u2018em. I still have my bat after that last incident.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Holy Shit, yes, absolutely. Swing at \u2018em, roll to hit.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Just take a wack at \u2018em, with the ol\u2019 trusty Wendy.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Oh god.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>So that\u2019s a\u2026 Is Electra a lefty? Probably. Sure. Why not?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Aren\u2019t we all lefties out here, really, deep down?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah. Left Path, etc.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>Just swing from the left, so I guess the left rat\u2019s gonna get it.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Ok.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0[Dice Roll] That\u2019s a 23.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0That\u2019s a-\u2026 Jesus, yeah, that hits. Uhm, yeah, roll for damage.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0[Dice Roll] That\u2019s a 6.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>That\u2019s a six? Ok. You just like\u2026 that was, oh my god. That was Babe Ruth in the final inning. Like, you just launched that fucking rat. And it is G-O-N-E gone! Petua\u2026 [restraining giggling]<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Well I\u2019m so glad that my thing won\u2019t seem like overkill now. I cast Chill Touch [Laughter].<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>[Laughing] Oh god, you cast Chill T- Okay. Is that a Saving Throw?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0It\u2019s a Cantrip. No, I think-<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Oh, Chill Touch? That\u2019s a good one.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah Chill Touch it\u2019s a\u2026 It\u2019s a good \u2018un. Uh, I don\u2019t think so, I just have to see if it\u2019s a hit or not. So I\u2019m going to see if it\u2019s a hit!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Ok.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[Rolls Dice] And that is a\u2026 It\u2019s a 16!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Sixteen? That is a hit.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Well, uh, a hit. Target takes 1d Necrotic damage and uh, can\u2019t regen any hit points starting the next turn and- There\u2019s an undead hand clinging to this rat, is what I\u2019m saying.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Well you that, I\u2019m glad you did that. Because these rats are renowned for their healing arts. So that was gonna be a real problem!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[Rolls Dice] I meaaaan uh\u2026 I do 4 damage.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK. That rat just kinda keels over. Like you overfed it, just\u2026 and it\u2026 There\u2019s One Rat Left. Kevin! It\u2019s your turn.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0I-I just, I hit it with my sword!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Ok! Roll me an Attack Roll.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0OK cool that\u2019s a 14?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Fourteen? Awesome. That hits, and now you roll that d6.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Now the d6. And that is 6 damage!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Six damage, ok, that rat, that rat has been cleft in twain. Um, yeah, yeah. It\u2019s gross, honestly! And so yeah, now y\u2019all have three dead rats. [Breaks into the Final Fantasy battle victory theme]<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0And where are the Other rats doing?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0No that was, there were three rats.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Wait, you said that there were LOTS of rats, in there.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0I mean three is a lot of rats!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0That\u2019s a very normal amount of rats! I thought, I was expecting, I was thinking like we just entered the Bat Cave and they\u2019re just like LINING THE WALLS. The Rats. Really!<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah I was like-\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>[Laughs] I\u2019ve seen Three Rats in my whole life, three rats is a lot!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>[Laughs] This is a fantasy role-playing game!<br \/><b><br \/><\/b><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I think I\u2019ve got three rats in my bedroom, right now.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, same!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Ok, fine! I-<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0I imagined like\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah yeah, y\u2019all like fighting rats so fucking much!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Oh my god\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0You\u2019ve got more rats! Mikey, it\u2019s your turn there\u2019s 3 more rats.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Whose turn is it?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0It\u2019s Mikey\u2019s turn.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:\u00a0<\/b>Oh ok, where are, what are the rats doing?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0They just climbed up on that same shelf and they\u2019re just sitting there looking menacingly. \u2018Cause you just killed three of their brethren.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:\u00a0<\/b>Ok. [Rolls Dice] So they\u2019re just sitting there then?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, yeah, \u2018cause it\u2019s not their turn yet.<br \/><br \/>[Assorted Snickering]<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Oh, OK. Well I just like, I don\u2019t know, Three Rats is like, not a combat encounter\u2026 I dunno I guess I\u2019ll attack one of the rats. I mean, I don\u2019t have a weapon or anything so I\u2019m just gonna\u2026 swing at it?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Like, punch a rat.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>[chortling] Punch a rat.<br \/><b><br \/><\/b><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, I don\u2019t even think Mikey would necessarily strike with like, closed fist? I\u2019m sort of just imagining like a\u2026 Like a spastic kind of palm strike?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>S-So what you\u2019re saying is, we should change the name of this podcast to \u201cRat Slapper\u201d.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Yeah! Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, I\u2019m not saying that but\u2026 I\u2019m saying that\u2019s definitely more what Mikey\u2019s doing than like-<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0My tattoo is actually for a band called Rat Slapper.<br \/><br \/>[Assorted Laughter]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0That\u2019s, I-\u2026 I want the magic element of Kevin\u2019s tattoo to be that this band keeps changing their name, and it just keeps changing with it.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Oh God! That\u2019s very good.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:\u00a0<\/b>Definitely\u2026 Every time he thinks of a cool phrase it changes.<br \/><br \/>[More Laughter]<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0It\u2019s honestly a pretty sick power.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I know\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, right? So, Cassidy, what\u2019s the Attack Roll for-<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I got a 15 on my Attack Roll.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK, you slap the shit out of that rat. What is the damage on an unarmed strike? I think it\u2019s just a d4?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I got\u2026 Well, plus my strength modifier?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Yeah, yeah!<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Uh, then I got 6 damage.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Six damage, OK. Mikey, the rat just like\u2026 Kinda goes, flying. I dunno, what, was Mikey going for more of a \u2018squash\u2019 or more of an \u2018away\u2019?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Nonono it\u2019s more of just like a swat. Like it just, y\u2019know, sent it sailing straight across the room.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:\u00a0<\/b>It\u2019s probably even fine, realistically? It just probably doesn\u2019t want to play anymore.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0There\u2019s two rats left and it is now their turn. One of them bites Mikey on the hand and\u2026 Oh! It just rolled a 20. This rat\u2019s really good at biting. It just did 3 damage to Mikey.<br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Damn.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah! I mean it did roll a Crit so like\u2026 Good job, rat. And the other one like, jumps at Kevin? Tries to bite him, and it misses! Yeah, it just kinda, faceplants on the ground. But then it kinda skitters back up to its feet and runs away. We\u2019re back to the top of the order, Electra there is one rat that ran away and there is one rat that just bit Mikey on the hand.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Is that rat attached to Mikey\u2019s hand?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0No, the rat did not try to latch on.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Then I will swing\u2026 yeah, then I will swing at that rat. [Rolls Dice] 23.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK, the rat\u2019s dead like-<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>[Laughter]<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>That\u2019s awful man.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0[Laughs] OK, all of the rats are dead. We\u2019re past the rats. You solved my rat puzzle, congratulations.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Oh my god\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0We should investigate that corner, again\u2026 I\u2019d rather not this time.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0So\u2026 Ok. Yeah you look back at that corner, the caution tape is still up. And you look at it and actually getting the same, like\u2026 Before the vibes, I know I keep using that word, but the vibes were concentrated over there, but they don\u2019t really seem to be over there right now.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Where are they then?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Well, you\u2019ll have to find out, won\u2019t you?<br \/><br \/>[Dice Rolls]<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Mikey- Oh, sorry\u2026 Electra, you were rolling an Arcana Check or something? Investigation?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I was making an assumption of what I have to roll\u2026. So<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Oh.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, you can roll an Arcana Check here, yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0So that was a 13.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Thirteen? You feel\u2026. It\u2019s nothing directional, but you do feel a prickle on the back of your neck<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0There\u2019s definitely something still here. It\u2019s just not, quite\u2026 there. Where it was before.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I, okay. Mikey?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Yep?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I think that you should look again. I think this will go faster if we have you looking for whatever is out there. Do you think-<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Oh I don\u2019t think I can do that again. No.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0You don\u2019t think you can do that again?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0No, I\u2019m way too tired. I can only do that like, y\u2019know, maybe a couple times a day.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>No, alright. Hm. Well-<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0And after healing Electra too like I just\u2026 don\u2019t got it in me.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0No, no, that\u2019s ok, I understand. Alright. I guess, should we\u2026. Does anybody else have anything that would help us search for whatever this thing is? Or should we just go back out and look around?<\/p><p>[Faint Feedback starts, soon developing into Creedence Clearwater Revival played from another room]<\/p><p><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>You hear the crackle of a radio turning on. And you hear from well behind you, it looks like it\u2019s coming from the area where the garage is, you hear the fabled words of John Fogerty ringing out. He seems to hear that a bad moon is rising.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0God\u2026.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Oh boy.<\/p><p><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Well, I guess, going towards that. Anybody else want to do anything else besides go towards that\u2026 music?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Trouble\u2019s on the way\u2026.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:\u00a0<\/b>[With a nervous chuckle] Seems hard to do anything else, in this situation. I\u2019m pretty curious.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Alright. I think that we all run out, I mean, I dunno, I\u2019m speaking for myself. I think I run out towards the garage, does anybody else want to come with me?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Mikey advances tentatively, staying behind at least one or two other people.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Alright, yeah, no, I\u2019m just gonna go into the shit, I guess. I\u2019m probably in the front of the group.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Ok, Ok. So you walk in, you burst into this fucking room and\u2026 You just see the radio, it\u2019s an empty garage. Both the garage doors are closed\u2026 And yeah, you are\u2026 Whatever fucking vibe, you were feeling? It\u2019s just like going absolutely like, you feel-<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Bonkers.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, it\u2019s going bonkers, exactly. But you don\u2019t see anything! Other than this radio.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Alright.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>That\u2019s what I say, Electra just says \u2018Bonkers\u2019 as I enter the room.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Um, hear me out\u2026 if they can hear me over. This is the radio, hopefully. I turn to the other three, I say: I think, I\u2019m not sure if the rats were involved in this, but I think the radios were. And I think every time that we destroy something that has this in it, it moves. So\u2026 Maybe we should proceed with caution and not smash it immediately if we can avoid doing that, yeah?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>Sounds like a plan.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Ok!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Right.<br \/><b><br \/><\/b><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Fair enough.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I guess, can I roll an Arcana Check?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, sure, go ahead.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0And that\u2019s a\u2026 ooh! 17.<br \/><br \/>[Radio Music Cuts Softly After Roll]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Seventeen? Ok\u2026 Yeah you feel\u2026 There\u2019s something underneath you, you feel some deep like, Necromantic shit going on\u2026 It seems like it\u2019s coming from underneath one of the lifters?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Alright\u2026 I look around. I think it\u2019s coming from underneath one of the lifters!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0[Laughs]<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019m assuming Kevin knows how a lifter works.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yes, absolutely he does. There\u2019s a lever that makes it go up, and makes it go down.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Nice.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Let\u2019s make it go up.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>[Dark Ambient Music slowly enters the mix]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Ok, ok. You make it go up and this lever, this lifter, you see it kinda looks like in a cartoon, the way that cheese sticks to the roof of a pizza box? You know what I\u2019m talking about?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Wait, in what cartoon does cheese stick to the lid of a pizza box?<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0It was in A Goofy Movie, right?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, it probably- Yeah! Yeahyeahyeah<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Didn\u2019t Ninja Turtles have that effect?\u2026 You\u2019re just talking about like,<i>\u00a0really\u00a0<\/i>gooey cartoon pizza.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Ohhh Ok.<br \/><br \/>[Music Builds into Tense Metal]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Yeah, really really gooey cartoon pizza, but it got stuck to the top? And it\u2019s just like, you just see\u2026 that, but a lot pinker than cheese. You just see a kinda goop rising up, and suddenly you just see like, it almost looks like an arm reaching out from the goop and it lunges at Kevin. It tries to hit him in the face and is not successful. But now we\u2019re rolling Initiative again!<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0What. The Fuck.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Electra you\u2019re at the top of the order. What\u2019re you gonna do?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Oof. This is the big moment. Gonna bust out Dissonant Whisper.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Hell Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah there is no Attack Roll. It\u2019s just a Wisdom Save.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Oh it\u2019s just a Wisdom Save? Ok, ok.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Uh\u2026 OK so then it does not successfully save.<br \/><br \/>[Sound Effects]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Hell yeah, what do these beautiful tones do?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Target must make a Wisdom Saving throw, on a failed save it takes 3 d6 Psychic Damage and must immediately use his reaction\u2026 if available.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Fuck Off! Damn Ok\u2026 !<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0\u2026 use his reaction, if available, to move as far away it\u2019s Speed allows, away from you.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Goddamn.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0It doesn\u2019t move to obviously dangerous ground. Uhm, yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK, Ok. R-Roll that\u2026 [Dice Rolls] Wait, you have a level one Bard Spell that does like 3 d6 damage?<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Ouch.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, shit.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah Dissonant Whispers is dope. [Dice Rolls] So that\u2019s a 6\u2026 8\u2026 9. That\u2019s about 9 Damage. So not a whole lot but, it has to fuckin\u2019 flee.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK\u2026. Yeah, yeah, it super does have-\u2026 So it kinda recoils away from you. It takes all that damage and then it just kinda like slides beneath the lifter and just kind of, you just kind of see it flow across the ground away from you? And it\u2019s about 30 feet away\u2026 Kinda coiled up in a corner. And it is Petua\u2019s turn!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Alright, I think that I\u2019m going to cast Eldritch Blast again.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Hell Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Love it! Alright, I\u2026 [Rolls Dice] Oh! That um\u2026 plus 5, so 16!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Sixteen hits!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Alright, I roll that one d10 force damage [Rolls Dice] Oh! Nice, 7.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Seven, ok\u2026 Alright, another just, chunk is taken off of this blob which, you actually see it\u2019s starting to kind of reform itself? It looks like sort of\u2026 just an incomplete pastiche of a human, like someone tried to put together\u2026 A very unskilled sculptor made this little pile of flesh. And Kevin! It is your turn.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0K, I\u2019m scared of running up to it? And I don\u2019t have any spells or nothin\u2019. I think in this situation Kevin\u2019s gonna just guard himself\u2026 Is that a thing I can do?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK!\u2026 Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0You don\u2019t wanna attack it?<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0I only have a sword! I don\u2019t know, I\u2019m scared if I\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0You should try and cult it in half!<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Just try to cut it in half? OK. Screw it, let\u2019s cut it in half.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK! You run up to it and you try to cut it in half. Roll that d20 to attack.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0That\u2019s an 11.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Eleven? That just hits. And so you roll the damage die.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0And that\u2019s 1 Damage.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0One Damage. Ok. You just, like, take a little sliver off. Just about enough to make a Starburst.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Alright\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Tasty\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0And now it is Mikey\u2019s turn.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0So it\u2019s just like\u2026 basically pressed up against a wall in fear?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Mm-Hm!<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0OK, I do nothing then.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Oh! Alright. Um\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0So it\u2019s just a blob with arms?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I mean it\u2019s not obviously trying to attack us anymore. If, even if, it was necessarily trying to attack us to begin with.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Ok!<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Hmm.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0It definitely tried to hit Kevin, but yes.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0It tried to, tried to, yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0And it tries to do that one more time. It is successful, uh Robyn, what\u2019s your character\u2019s A.C.?<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:\u00a0<\/b>13.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Thirteen, ok yeah, it is successful and it does\u2026 uh 4 Damage.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Oh.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, yeah. It just like, smacks like a weird\u2026 It definitely feels kind of rubbery as it touches you. But just like an uppercut into Kevin\u2019s chin. And we are back to the top of the order. Electra!<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>Ok. I\u2019m using Vicious Mockery.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>There\u2019s no music, it\u2019s just the power imbued within me\u2026. Since it is a Cantra, so\u2026.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK. I am feeling that power. I do, since it is Vicious Mockery, I do want you to specifically say what it is you mock.<br \/><br \/>[Music Fades Softly]<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>Yes, right\u2026 You\u2019re an abomination, and not even in a cool way!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0You see just like, an exaggerated cartoon frown just stretch across its face. And that does damage right?<br \/><br \/>[Assorted giggling]<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah if\u2026 if it fails, a Wisdom Saving Throw.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK\u2026 Actually looks like, what\u2019s the D.C. on that?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Oh right\u2026 12?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Twelve? Ok. It does pass that.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0So you\u2019re just very mean to it?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Yes.<\/p><p>[Music slowly fades back in]<\/p><p><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0So the frown turns upside down. Again it just kinda weirdly, like\u2026. Like somebody\u2019s pushing it around with their fingers? It\u2019s just like-<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Wow.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, yeah. It\u2019s truly upsetting. Petua, it\u2019s your turn.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Alright, before I do anything else, I want to address it in the Demon Tongue. And I ask it-<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Yeah. I ask it, \u201cWhat are you, who sent you here?\u201d\u2026. Does it respond?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Um, you just kinda hear\u2026 *growling noises*<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[Laughs]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Which is not in Demon Tongue, by the way!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0No, but it definitely responded to me. Hmmmm. And I don\u2019t understand the language, obviously.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019m just going to yell at it one more time, though\u2026. \u201cCan you understand us?!?\u201d<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>They just, it just, you just kinda see\u2026 That hand that clocked Kevin in the jaw? You just kinda see it extend forth? In kind of a, it\u2019s sort of like a Stretch Armstrong thing, where it\u2019s kind of stretching across the room? And then you see, you don\u2019t see \u2018fingers\u2019, you see one finger and it\u2019s in the middle. And it just kind of raises up. Right in your face.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Alright, if you\u2019re gonna be like that. Great, great, Uh, hey! Other question! Really quick, can I assume this is the same entity that did damage to me through the speakers earlier? Or is that not the thing.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0I-it, yeah it is.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Alright! In that case, I\u2019m going to cast Hellish Rebuke.<br \/><br \/>Lilith: [Laughs]<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Oooh shit. Nice. Hell Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Fun name.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0It is a fun name. It\u2019s a<i>\u00a0very<\/i>\u00a0fun spell.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, alright. Here! I look at it, say \u201cYou know what? That is really unnecessary and I can point fingers too.\u201d And I point my finger, and I- Oh god, let\u2019s see if it hits otherwise that would really be all talk and no\u2026. HA! Alright sorry that was great. It\u2019s a 20, not a natural twenty, but with my stuff it\u2019s a twenty.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK, ok, it definitely hits.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Alright, I point my finger, and it is surrounded by flames and it takes 2 d10 Fire Damage.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0So wait\u2026 You have shit talk so powerful that you can make things catch fire?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Oh no, the shit talk was entirely additional, it was not necessary. Although, I do- Look, I will say that I, Petua, doesn\u2019t look like she was- I think she was kind of talking herself into doing the spell as much as she was trying to shit talk this creature.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0[Laughter]<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0If that makes any sense. Yeah, so, it\u2019s surrounded by hellish flame\u2026 And that\u2019s oooh! That\u2019s 10\u2026. And 13 Damage!<\/p><p>[Music Fades]<\/p><p><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Thirteen damage, ok! You see, just that arm that was like, reaching out to you? It just melts away like a fucking candle. And you see this thing, it\u2019s just kind of on the ground, now kind of looking quite a bit more pitiful and less disgusting? But still very disgusting than when you started and suddenly you hear this rattling as both of the garage doors begin to open.<br \/><br \/>[Guitar Doors Whirr]<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0God.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0And all you can see behind them is bright white light.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Hmmm.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0That\u2019s not supposed to happen at night.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0You see two green darts. One of them actually misses, the first one, but the second lands right in the neck region of the weird blob that you were fighting? And it kind of freezes.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0\u2026 Thanks!<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Like freezes as in stops moving or freezes as is-<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0It just stops moving!<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0OK.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0\u2026 uh, can we see where it came from? Or at least track-<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0It seemed to come from outside!<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Hmm.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Thanks for the assistance, but who the hell are you I guess?!? Should we ask?<\/p><p>[music starts]<\/p><p><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>So, a woman in a beautiful white turtleneck-<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Nice.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0\u2026 walks out, yeah I knew that\u2019d be all Petua\u2019s jam.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0It\u2019s SO her jam.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Walks out from the light, she\u2019s holding a gun in one hand. It kind of looks like a dart gun. And she is looking at the four of you, she\u2019s not pointing the gun at you. And she says \u201c\u2026 Hello? Who are you?\u201d<br \/><br \/>[Various murmurs]<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Hi I\u2019m Mikey.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Hi Mikey!<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019m Kevin.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Kevin.<br \/><b><br \/><\/b><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>Electra\u2026 and same question.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Okay\u2026 Um, hold on. OK; Electra, Mikey, Kevin, fantastic. You! And she\u2019s looking at Petua particularly interestedly, what\u2019s your name?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[audibly flustered] Um\u2026 H-hi. Um\u2026 M-my name is Petua. That was really great, what you just did there, that was really really good it was-<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Thanks!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I did the, the earlier, yeah-<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Glad you were impressed.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, no, very impressed. I did the other stuff that you saw earlier, that was me.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Well, I wasn\u2019t watching so\u2026.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Oh\u2026 it was really good, trust me, so good\u2026. Uhm, what\u2019s your name.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0I believe you! I believe you. She offers out a hand to Petua specifically and she says My Name is Anja St. John. And her hand\u2019s kind of held out there.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I shake it enthusiastically. Anja! Very nice to meet you. Nice to meet someone who is alright with killing blobs, I guess.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Well he\u2019s not, that\u2019s not\u2026 That\u2019s not important. What are you doing here, again?<br \/><br \/><b>Mikey:<\/b>\u00a0We were following the truck balls.<br \/><br \/>[snorts]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Ok, so we\u2019re here for the same rea- Did somebody tell you to go after the truck balls?<br \/><br \/><b>Mikey:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, they all told me. I just kinda had a feeling that this was what I\u2019m supposed to be doing.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0That\u2026. I admire your sense of purpose in life Mikey. That\u2019s really\u2026 admirable.<br \/><br \/><b>Mikey:<\/b>\u00a0Thank you! Mikey looks like he actually is taking this compliment very seriously.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0So everybody else, especially Petua, what\u2026 who\u2026 why are you here?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Well, uh, well, we are\u2026 investigating a-<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0You\u2019re with Luci, aren\u2019t you?<br \/><br \/>[Music promptly stops]<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[relieved sigh] Oh, thank christ, yes, we are definitely with Luci. Yes, that\u2019s definitely who we\u2019re with.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK\u2026 Ok\u2026 Hmm. That\u2019s interesting. Didn\u2019t know that her goons would be out here.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Oh.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Back up, back up, just\u2026 chill. You must be new, I haven\u2019t seen y\u2019all before. Again, Anja St. John, I\u2019m with the Lazarus Foundation? If you don\u2019t know who we are, that\u2019s actually\u2026 quite probable. We spend a lot of money to make sure you DON\u2019T know who we are, but\u2026 um, but anyway\u2013<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Well why did you tell us then?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0That\u2019s a good question Mikey.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>[Laughs]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Keep that- keep that mentality about you, it\u2019s going to get you far in life. And she like\u2013<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Ok.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>[snorts] I really, I really like this kid Mikey. Uh, Petua? She actually pulls out a little business card, and it says on it \u201cLazarus Foundation, Anja St. John, Head of Security\u201d and it has an email-address and a phone number. Petua, let me know um\u2026. Just let me know, and she just hands you the business card. Then she just kind of turns and calls back, but she calls back to the lights\u2026 Alright, bag him, tag him, let\u2019s do this bullshit. And two guys in HAZMAT suits come in, and they like trying to figure out how to get the kind of liquidy body into a bag. It\u2019s very\u2026 there\u2019s lots of pratfalls and really good physical humor that nobody can see right now.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I feel like a snow shovel is the right answer there.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Anja is like, Mikey you\u2019re so full of good ideas. Really, wow. OK, Mikey? Here\u2019s another card. Here you go. Kevin, Electra?<br \/><br \/><b>Mikey:<\/b>\u00a0OK.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0You can get my contact information from those two I guess if you need to\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I don\u2019t.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0I get it, Ok.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Um, look, look, wait, hey. I think Petua incidentally, when Anja handed her the card I think I was like halfway into my wallet to give her mine and then I think better of it. But uh, I definitely went up to her and kind of nervously bobbing around whatever the two people are doing. I-I I don\u2019t think can do that, I think that\u2019s ours, right? That should be ours, you can\u2019t just take it away!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Oh, I absolutely can. That is an interesting misconception, Miss Petua, but no, no. Absolutely can\u2019t do that.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0How did you know about what was transpiring here?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Mmmm. Hmmm. Good question, Electra. She\u2019s now kinda helping shovel, into the bag.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>[sighs] Well, well look, if you\u2019re not going to tell us anything at least take us with you!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK, Petua, as tempting of an offer that is, I am going to have to decline. You are\u2026 Hm, how do I\u2026 ? Hm\u2026 I guess it kind of depends on whose laws you\u2019re following here, but you don\u2019t have jurisdiction here.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I-<br \/><b><br \/><\/b><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Tell Luci I said buzz off? Um\u2026 Aaaand, yeah. And she\u2019s now gathered up all the things, all the blob parts into the bag and she\u2019s carting it back outside.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>I kinda look back at Electra and Kevin like, Are you cool with this?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>No.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0No, but I\u2019m not sure if we have much recourse here?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[sighs] I\u2026 I\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>Jurisdiction? Since when?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I mean\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>What does that even mean?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I, I, y- [huffs] Mikey what do you think of all this?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I don\u2019t think she likes you very much!<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>Well I don\u2019t like her.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0She seems to like me.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, she does. Well we all like you.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>[muttering to herself] Lazarus\u2026 Lazarus\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Thanks!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Mikey you\u2019re doing a great job! That was just Anja just yelling out.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[laughs]<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Lazarus\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:\u00a0<\/b>Thank you!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, look\u2026 If we fucked this up, I mean what if Lucifer never contacts us again? What if this was our last chance to, I don\u2019t know, do right by this world, what we\u2019re supposed to be doing? I don\u2019t want to just let this go. What do you think we should do, should we run after her?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I think she\u2019ll understa- well\u2026 She\u2019ll probably be upset. But this is probably something that happens. I\u2019m not happy about it. It\u2019s very\u2026 unnerving.<\/p><p>[Soft music fades in]<\/p><p><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0The lights all shut off, those lights that were outside, the floodlights? And you just see there is a nondescript 18-wheeler outside and Anja is in the passenger side seat. And she\u2019s just waving through the glass as the 18 wheeler\u2013<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Mikey waves back.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0[Laughs]<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Petua kind of, I kinda wave back like, really weakly, as if I didn\u2019t have any idea what my hand was doing like, bye\u2026.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Mikey\u2019s on full-on like kindergartner meeting his mom on the first day of school kind of wave. It\u2019s a whole body movement.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[under her breath] God.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>The 18-wheeler pulls away and drives off into that warm Texas night.<br \/><br \/><b>[Skagos \u2013 Blossoms Will Sprout From The Carcass fades in]<\/b><b><br \/><\/b><b><br \/><\/b>[Outro \u2013 Music Break<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>(untranscribed lyrics)<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>It\u2019s the fury of the storm<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>It\u2019s the endless falling rain<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>It\u2019s the growing of the dark<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>It\u2019s the thrive of decay<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>It\u2019s the voice of woe<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>It\u2019s the call of the moon<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>It\u2019s the cold retribution<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>The dark rider known as death]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Hey there folks, Luci there again with a couple post-show production notes. If you liked this week\u2019s episode, feel free to stop by iTunes or Podchaser and leave us a review. Post about the show on Twitter with the hashtag #GhostpuncherCorps and Lili might name a character after you. All support for Ghost Puncher Corps. Comes from the Ghost Puncher Patreon, which you can join at patreon.com\/ghostpuncher and gain access to a host of exclusive content where you can get early access to new episodes for as little as one dollar a month. All music used in this episode of Ghostpuncher Corps was used non-commercially and with attribution, and all links can be found in the description of this episode. Thank you to Skagos for \u201cBlossoms Will Sprout From The Carcass\u201d the intro and outro of our show. See you again soon!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d3c11b0 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d3c11b0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">(Transcription by Micha Cavaseno, contact for transcription work\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ghostpuncher.net\/corps-transcripts\/transcript-3-ah-nuts-vol-iii\/mcavaseno@gmail.com\">here<\/a>)<\/span><\/p><p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/5741306\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/1b1b1b\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p><p><b>[Music Fades In:\u00a0 Skagos \u2013 Blossoms Will Sprout From the Carcass]<\/b><br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Hello everyone my name is Lucifer. Welcome to this the third edition of Ghostpuncher Corps. This week the gang are closing in on the testicular spectre haunting Poulton, Texas. They have finally learned to start leaning on their new friend Mikey and his peculiar skills.<\/p><p><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I only ever met one ghost. It was weird.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Oh!<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Well oh, hey wait, that\u2019s more\u2026 That\u2019s a lot of ghosts, relatively.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I just, like, fixed\u2026 her. With my brain!\u2026 Can y\u2019all not do that?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0That might be a \u2018You\u2019 thing.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Mikey just sort of starts rocking in place\u2026 Then he opens them and you notice his eyes are pitch fucking black\u2026. Those balls there\u2019s something wrong with them.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>That\u2019s good, it really bothered me that they left him in the winnebago. It\u2019s just\u2026 rude.<br \/><br \/>As they close in on their first mark as hunters under my employ, we\u2019ll see how the gang do in closing the deal. Hopefully they don\u2019t make too much noise. Wouldn\u2019t want to attract any unwanted attention.<br \/><br \/><b>[Musical interlude]<\/b><b><br \/><\/b><b><br \/><\/b><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Alright y\u2019all. When we last left off, you were outside Jackie\u2019s Customs. You were\u2026 Mikey was behind the van. Mikey just watched as the glowing object that he saw under the street just scurried into the building and out of sight.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0By object you mean the shapeshifting truck nuts.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, the shapeshifting truck nuts-<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0The\u00a0<i>haunted<\/i>\u00a0shapeshifting truck nuts.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>The Haunted shapeshifting truck nuts, thank you for clarifying.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:\u00a0<\/b>The<i>\u00a0killer<\/i>\u00a0haunted shapeshifting truck nuts.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[Laughter]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0You don\u2019t know that yet!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, probable cause, right?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Probable ca-? Oh my god.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy<\/b>: At very least, the truck nuts were a witness.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I think we spent too much time in that police department.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0God\u2026 Alright. So\u2026 so you see the haunted truck nuts go in. It\u2019s about 11 o\u2019clock so the custom shop is closed up for the evening. All the lights are off\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Oh uh, what time is it? Like, you say evening.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Eleven.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Oh, so like night.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, yeah. Like super night.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Like full on, like it\u2019s dark outside, ok.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Yeah. It\u2019s dark outside, it is closed.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Well, I think that we should break in! Unless it\u2019s not locked in which case, that wouldn\u2019t be necessary.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019d like to check for traps AKA Alarm systems.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[building laughter]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0W-Wait. Hey, y\u2019all are still in the car!<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Ok<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Oh oh, alright, I\u2019d like to- I\u2019d like to retcon all that then.<br \/><br \/>[Assorted Laughter]<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Let\u2019s get out of the car.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019d like to check for car alarms\u2026 OK, let\u2019s get out of the car.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK, everyone\u2019s out of the car. Good job.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[stammering] So, about how far from the location are we?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Hey, you\u2019re right in front of the door. We\u2019re moving this along. We did it.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Great\u2026 Ah, fantastic.<br \/><br \/><strong>Syd<\/strong>: [whoops]<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>I guess we should probably make a perception check just to see if there are any obvious cameras, security alarms, that kind of shit, right?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Go ahead.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, that\u2019s a\u2026 7. [groans]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Seven? You do not see any kind of cameras or anything like that.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, do I have to roll perception to notice a sign for an alarm company in the window?<br \/><br \/><strong>Syd:<\/strong>\u00a0Well\u2026<br \/><b><br \/><\/b><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0I mean\u2026 I guess you don\u2019t since you specifically asked about it? There is not a sign for an alarm company in the window. However, I\u2019m really interested to hear why Mikey would be thinking about that.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, that was kind of out of character. It was just\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Our helpful game wizard to the side, Mikey\u2019s twin\u2026 alter-ego or something, fuck.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0[chuckles]<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Sometimes Mikey gets divine psychic inspiration. The uh, the sasquatch hive mind.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0That\u2026 is\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0In the form of me meta-gaming.<\/p><p>[Assorted Laughter]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Ok, well, fuckin\u2019 cataclysmic extraplanar event that none of you can see cuts of Mikey\u2019s immediate connection to the sasquatch hive-mind that helps him cheat so, Electra! Gimme a perception check.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Oh, perception check\u2026 I\u2019ll just accept-<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Or whatever check you want to give me.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, it doesn\u2019t matter. I mean, I rolled the die\u2026 It\u2019s perception at 16, investigation at 17.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK, fantastic. You\u2019re investigating the shit out of all this stuff. You super don\u2019t\u00a0 see any cameras.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Ok.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Alright.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0You guys, there\u00a0<i>aren\u2019t<\/i>\u00a0cameras.<br \/><b><br \/><\/b><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Great, great. I feel like even if there were by the time that we get in here and start wrasslin\u2019 with whatever this thing is, it won\u2019t matter if there were cops also, so\u2026 Shall we break into this building?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Are we around the back, or do we come up to the front?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, I-<\/p><p><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0It\u2019s probably best that we\u2019re not facing the street.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Actually, the front door, it kinda has like a weird\u2026 it\u2019s one of those things where you come off into the driveway and the door is still facing away from the street? Uh, it\u2019s actually not visible at all from the road.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0[mutters] Ok.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0So all the lights are off inside the body shop?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, all the lights inside are off.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Does it look like anyone\u2019s around?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Does not.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Well what about outside, on the street?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Outside on the street? People are driving by\u2026 It\u2019s late at night so the roads are pretty clear.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019ll just try the door, to see if it\u2019s unlocked, y\u2019know? Stranger things have happened.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0It\u00a0<i>is<\/i>\u00a0locked.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Ok.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Alright.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019ll pick the door.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Hell yeah, yeah, roll me a lock pick check.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Ah\u2026 That\u2019s a, oooh boy, that\u2019s a 20 without a modifier.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK! You\u2026 Yeah, yeah it is. That lock, like\u2026 it is unmade. No, the door opens up and you see inside. It is the same sales floor area that you saw before. Very dimly lit, doesn\u2019t seem to be anybody inside. And yeah, there are two doors; one of them behind the counter that you saw before? And the other one, the double glass doors leading to the sound room that you were in before.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I think that it probably will gravitate towards that room where the murder happened? That was kind of the vibe that we- That was where we landed on that right? That room was definitely the most weird and probable for y\u2019know, supernatural occurrences or whatever?<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I mean that does\u2026 that seems to reason.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Alright. I mean I think that we should just head right there. Everybody, y\u2019know, ready yourselves or whatever but that\u2019s probably where we should go.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I turn on my gear.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Hell yeah.<br \/><b><br \/><\/b><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0What\u2019s the timeframe between us, like\u2026 we basically just ran right over from that woman\u2019s house.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yep!<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Oh, ok, so yeah there was no rest time or anything?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0No, no. Two doors; one of \u2018em glass, one of them is just a regular door leading to the back. It does say \u201cEmployees Only\u201d.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0That was the same \u201cEmployees Only\u201d room that we tried to get into last time. Because I remember that there were two right? There was one inside the spinning rims room and then there\u2019s the other one? But I\u2019m pretty sure-<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0There\u2019s a lot of doors that say \u201cEmployees Only\u201d. This one\u2019s out on the sales floor, which is kind of separated away from any doors that you have tried or succeeded to get through.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Gotcha. And, the other one, I remember now, so it was through\u2026 We were in the room with all the speakers and the \u201cEmployees Only\u201d room in there was\u2026 where the truck nuts were.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yep\u2026 Yes.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0So, does everyone want to head through the glass doors, and into that room?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I mean Mikey\u2019s just kinda waiting for someone else to take the lead. He\u2019s not an investigator.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Alright. Ok yeah\u2026 So I walk over to the glass doors and\u2026 push on them? Are they automatic?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>They\u2019re push doors. They do have a \u2018swoosh\u2019 thing, but that\u2019s been turned off.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Mkay. I push on them.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Ok. You open up those doors and you walk in the room. The room is again it\u2019s very very dimly lit, just enough where you can safely find your way around. But you do see a button that says \u2018Demo\u2019 in the center of the room. It\u2019s kind of on a pedestal.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0That wasn\u2019t there the last time we were here, was it?\u00a0<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0[hesitantly] It\u2019s just a\u2026 just a lone pedestal?\u2026 Alone in the middle of the room?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah it\u2019s a lone pedestal. This place has a flair for the dramatic.<\/p><p><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>OK.<\/p><p><b><br \/><\/b><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0OK well Mikey is gonna push that button unless somebody stops him\u2026 Like I\u2019m walking towards the button right now.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>I could\u2019ve called that.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019m fine with this.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I don\u2019t know if we should\u2026 press that. We should maybe-<br \/><b><br \/><\/b><b>Cassidy:\u00a0<\/b>K, well he\u2019s at the button. He\u2019s about to push it.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0\u2026 Oh no.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, unless somebody physically stops him. Or tells him not to.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[in the background] I think this is gonna happen.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Ok, Mikey has pressed the button. I\u2019m just calling it.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0There was enough time for somebody to say that.<\/p><p>[Music starts to fade in]<\/p><p><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0You all it\u2019s\u2026 it\u2019s like a crushing wave of sound goes over all of you. You hear this horrible horrible racket penetrating your skull. And actually each of you hear kind of distinct\u2026 there\u2019s a lot of different things playing like radio broadcasts, songs you never heard before\u2026 Kevin, you hear, what was that um\u2026 the band that you have a tattoo of their logo? What was that band?<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Oh uh, I don\u2019t know, I made it up.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Oh you made it up? Come up with a name.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Come up with a name now? Ah shit, uh\u2026 ah\u2026 \u201cEvil Circus\u201d.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0\u201cEvil Circus\u201d, that\u2019s\u2026 That\u2019s perfect. And would you be able to come up with one of Evil Circus\u2019 hit jams?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Oh my god\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Uhm\u2026 \u201cDad Slayer\u201d!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>\u201cDad Slayer\u201d! Hell yeah, ok, so! You specifically hear in this horrible cacophony\u2026 Coldplay\u2019s cover of \u201cDad Slayer\u201d that they did for the Vampire Diaries soundtrack? It\u2019s like your least favorite song in the entire world. Mikey? You hear Raffi played at half-speed, and it\u2019s one of the most scary things that you\u2019ve ever heard of. Electra, you hear a track from your Myspace page circa 2007, that you have tried to bury. And Petua, you hear both Norah Jones and Babylonian ritual chants that have never been recorded before? And I need you all to make Constitution saving throws.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0The fuck\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[rolling dice] Ah fuck, um\u2026 I critical failed.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Alright. Let\u2019s hear how everybody else did!<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0A 5\u2026?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Oh, I got a 15.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0I got a 9.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK, everyone except for, ooh\u2026 That\u2019ll be interesting. Except for Mikey, you now have Disadvantage on all skill checks you can make while you hear this horrible, horrible noise. Mikey? It\u2019s loud and it\u2019s weird and disturbing but you\u2019re good.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:\u00a0<\/b>I\u2019m good.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Do I get anything for critical failing?<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0God I forg-\u2026 Yeah, yeah. I mean, what do I- Oh, you know what? That\u2019s easy. You take 3 damage.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0THREE!? Okay\u2026. Damn, sorry, that was melodramatic.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0[laughs]<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, I\u2019m going to guess that you have like, 8 hit points total.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, I\u2019ve got 19 typically but\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:\u00a0<\/b>Wait, nineteen?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Wait no, that doesn\u2019t sound right. No, 9, sorry.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>Cassidy:\u00a0<\/b>Nine, ok, I\u2019m like \u201cHow do you have more health than I do?\u201d<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>There\u2019s not supposed to be a one there, sorry. Yeah, great, lovely, 6 hit points going on here. Sorry about that. Electra, you were going to dive for this button.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019m going to dive to press the button and hopefully stop this racket\u2026. And this god awful Fruity Loops song that I made 10 years ago.<\/p><p>[Music stops before slowly fading back in]<\/p><p><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0You kinda hear like\u2026 You hear everything just kind of start over.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Oh no\u2026<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Everyone except for Kevin, you see a little cable running underneath\u2026 It kind of goes from the wall to underneath one of the housing sections for the speakers? And yeah, the sound is continuing. And it\u2019s horrible.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I want to\u2026 destroy\u2026 I have a knife in my boot. So when I grab that cable? And take out my knife and just fucking, cut that fucker in half.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0You just cut the cable in half?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, just pull the cable and run the knife under it and just yank\u2026. I\u2019m just desperate to get rid of this\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Hmm, ok!\u2026 Ok.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0That doesn\u2019t seem like a good idea.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0The knife is insulated, it\u2019s fine.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, yeah good thing that that knife\u2019s insulated so\u2026 You see there\u2019s like a spark and everything like that. And as you pull back on it, you see a little, black, like a box that this cable was connected to? And on it in big white letters is \u201cSAFETY INHIBITOR\u201d and now I\u2019m going to need all of you to run another Constitution saving throw.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Oh fuck.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>What the\u2026 ?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Oh, phew, 18.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Eighteen.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a07.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:\u00a0<\/b>11.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a010?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK. So\u2026<\/p><p>[Music shifts to an abrasive breakcore track]<\/p><p><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Petua and Kevin\u2026 You guys together are alright. Everybody else just took 2 damage as you just kinda feel, it just digs deeper in your ears. It is just like, pulse pounding, like loud, loud, loud. And you see the speakers and they are just like, shaking.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Is like a\u2026 switch anywhere, a power\u2026 something\u2026 anywhere?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0You do see a switch on the Safety Inhibitor that reads \u201cON\u201d that goes from off to on, it was in the off position.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019m just gonna run to the closest speaker to me? And just straight up, put my fist through it.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Actually just roll me a d10?\u2026 No modifier.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0OK [rolls dice] No modifier? Then I got a 6.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK so you like\u2026 smash your hand through this speaker and you actually see 6 other ones kind of short out and they stop working and the audio is marginally less terrifying.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I think that I should do something about this, so\u2026 I would like to cast a spell. I would like to attack the speakers as well, this time.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Hell Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019m going to cast \u201cEldritch Blast\u201d, it is a cantrip, can I do that?\u2026 Alright, great<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah!\u2026 Cool, roll me a d10.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>[Rolls Die] Oh nice\u2026 It is. An evocation cantrip\u2026. It\u2019s an 8.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Is that a cantrip for you?\u2026 Wow.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0It is\u2026 It\u2019s an eight? Perfect. 8 speakers just fucking explode, it\u2019s getting quieter.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Oh, well I also think that\u2026 Can I put a little bit of spice on this since it\u2019s the first time my character has cast a spell?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yes.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0OK\u2026. So Petua is still being assailed by this wave of sound, right? And I think that she closes her eyes and focuses on how disgusting it is to hear Norah Jones and these Babylonian chants and this ridiculous pop music altogether\u2026 And her eyes just kind of roll over, and she closes them and listens for a second and then summons this\u2026 very, very intense wave of eldritch energy.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Hell Yes. Hell.\u00a0<i>Yes.<\/i>\u00a08 speakers, ka-blam. They are no longer doing it. Anybody else wanna take a swing?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019ve got my bat out and I\u2019m just fucking\u2026. Going wild.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Swingin\u2019? Alright. Yeah. Just roll me a Damage roll for that.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>[Rolls dice] 4.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Four? Alright. Four more speakers explode and you actually start to see a few other ones are just kind of shorting out. And let\u2019s just say, hey, Kevin, do you want to take a swing?<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah\u2026 Actually I was gonna ask about electricity concerns? Because I got a metal sword-<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>That is true.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0But I don\u2019t think Kevin would\u2026 I don\u2019t think he would be smart enough to wonder that, so I\u2019m not gonna\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>[laughs] Also if you bought it at the mall, it\u2019s\u2026Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:\u00a0<\/b>I feel like Kevin would just get caught up in smashing.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:\u00a0<\/b>Yeah, he\u2019s just gotta smash\u2026 What am I rolling again?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Hell Yeah. Uh\u2026 You\u2019re just rolling the Damage roll for your sword which, I think I have that written down there as a one d6 +4 or something? I don\u2019t\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0That\u2019s a 3.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Three? Ok, cool. So, three more speakers explode. You feel just a slight jolt of electricity, it doesn\u2019t do any damage, but you definitely\u2026 It just makes your arm feel all weird? So just write that down on your character sheet, arm feels all weird.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:\u00a0<\/b>Ok.<br \/><br \/>[Assorted Laughter]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0And the speakers, they all just like in a giant crackle of static and sparks they all just stop. And the room is once again quiet.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019m still smashing.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0[bursts into laughter]<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019m just very upset.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[In a concerned tone] Uh, Electra, Electra? I think y-\u2026 You probably don\u2019t have to do that anymore. I think you did it\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah\u2026 Still feels good\u2026. We should probably get into the garage. Whatever.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I know\u2026 Uh, the room, right?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>So\u2026 There are three doors going from this room there is, or actually I should say there are four. There is the set of glass doors you came through, there is one to your left marked \u201cEMPLOYEES ONLY\u201d, one in front of you also marked \u201cEMPLOYEES ONLY\u201d. That\u2019s the one that you\u2019ve put together is the stock room. And then one to your right that says \u201cCUSTOMS\u201d which, you\u2019ve went through before.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>Did anyone else hear\u2026\u00a0<i>particularly<\/i>\u00a0strange things?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, from the music? It wasn\u2019t\u00a0<i>great,\u00a0<\/i>I\u2019ll give it that but\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Anything out of the ordinary.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I definitely heard something that was so ancient that even I haven\u2019t heard it so, I\u2019m not really sure what that was up with, but it was-<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0It was like a song that you used to know\u2026 ? But like you\u2019re hearing it in a dream. But it doesn\u2019t sound right.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Right, like you can\u2019t put the song to what the song is, almost.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Right.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0[affects twang] I knew what I was hearing. It was from that Vampire Diaries movie, I hated it.<br \/><br \/>[Assorted stifled laughter]<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Is that a new accent, Kevin?<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:\u00a0<\/b>Hm?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0I love it! I love it.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Did you, did Kevin get electrocuted so hard that now he sounds like\u2013<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0[twang maintains] I\u2026 This has been my voice this whole time!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0[Laughs]<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Right, no, of course! It must have been me, we were hearing so much awful shit that we just don\u2019t remember what anything sounds like anymore. Great.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0\u2026 Is the door\u2026 open?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0It is still locked, but I will let Kevin take another crack at a lock-picking check.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0A 20.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Hell yeah. OK. That door just pops right open.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0[whispered] Yes.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0OK. I think that I would like to make an Investigation check\u2026? Into like, the room specifically. I want to kind of look into the room, I think I have Dark Vision but I want to look into the room and check out that spot. If I can see it from the threshold of the door without going in yet. Like kind of peer over there\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Ok, Ok. Yeah go ahead.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[Rolls Dice] Nice\u2026 Hmm, Perception\u2026 14?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Fourteen?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>No wait, with Investigation is\u2026 is 15, sorry.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Fifteen, perfect. You see just sort of a dimly-lit room. You\u2019re kind of starting to feel those same kind of vibes you were feeling before. But it\u2019s just kind of a dark stock room.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0How about how big is it?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0It\u2019s\u2026 I would say maybe 300 feet wide? 100 feet back?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Ok.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I turn to, I guess to Mikey\u2026 Do you feel anything in this room? Oh wait, is Mikey\u2019s Detect Magic still going? Probably not, right?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0No, it\u2019s long expired.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Damn, ok\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0It only lasts 10 minutes.<br \/><b><br \/><\/b><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, it\u2019s still polite to ask. Mikey, what do you think?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0What do I think about what?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Should we go in, do you feel anything? I-I\u2019m getting some serious vibes from that corner of the room where the blood was?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Oh, I dunno, it looks spooky though.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah\u2026 I mean, I think that we should go in. What do you guys think?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Absolutely\u2026 I\u2019m ready.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Alright\u2026. Okay, I guess we\u2019re all as ready as we\u2019ll ever be. I walk into the room.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Oh wait, is it dark?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0It\u2019s very dark, yes.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Like\u2026 Ok, I\u2019ll cast Produce Flame. You all look away for a second and before you know it Mikey\u2019s hand\u2019s on fire.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[laughter]<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0[concerned murmuring]<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:\u00a0<\/b>He doesn\u2019t look very perturbed by it.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Uh\u2026 does that happen often?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0\u2026 Does what happen? Oh, this! Nono, this is just something I can do. Don\u2019t worry about it, I just figured so we could see better.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0\u2026 Can we see better?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah. Oh, absolutely.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0OK.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>What do you see, what do you feel, all of these very important questions\u2026 The first thing that you see, reflected with the fire in their eyes, you see just rats. Rats eyes lining the shelves, and they are watching you.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>Just some friends.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Can anyone, and this is not something that I would normally ask on a regular day, but this is not a regular day\u2026 Can anyone talk to animals?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019m gonna just assume that everyone turns and looks at Mikey?<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[Chuckling] I think so.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0[Laughing]<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, that\u2019s a pretty good assumption.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0What\u2019re you guys looking at me for?<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Can you talk to animals?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:\u00a0<\/b>No! Of course not. Animals can\u2019t talk!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Well, you can set your hand on fire, so y\u2019know, we thought we would just check. Um, alright, I-<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I guess I see the logic in that.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I address the rats in\u2026 the common tongue, I suppose.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0[cackles]<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0WHAT!?<br \/><br \/><strong>Syd<\/strong>: The rats?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, in English, yeah\u2026 Yeah, yeah that\u2019s fine.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I dunno, I was looking at the list of languages that I speak and\u2026 I-, Okay, Okay. Alright-<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:\u00a0<\/b>Galactic basic.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Well, I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s like some Dr. Who shit going on where we can just speak whatever the language everybody else is speaking here. Like if we were in France we\u2019d just be chillin\u2019 too, but like alright. I am going to address the rats. In English.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Ok. [snorts]<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[Bursting into laughter] I forgot what I was going to say, ok, great. Now that we know what language I\u2019m speaking\u2026 What do you want?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>They just, they kind of skitter around.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Fucking of course they do.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Ah, the \u2018normal\u2019 rats.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0They skitter around? They were sitting still a little bit, before.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, yeah, one of them kind of just goes over to a thing of cheese and \u2026 There\u2019s cheese!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[snickers]<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Wait.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:\u00a0<\/b>There\u2019s just some cheese lying on the floor?\u2026 No wonder they have rats. Jesus!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Rats love cheese.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, yeah! There\u2019s car cheese and the dragees so these rats are eating like- You notice, they\u2019re a little bit bigger!<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Oh, I forgot about dragees.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, yeah. They\u2019re a little bit bigger than your average rat.<br \/><br \/>[various murmurs]<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Well, a diet of dragees will do that.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Would you go so far as to say that they\u2019re rodents of an unusual size.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0[Laughter] I- I wouldn\u2019t, but I would say-<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I get that reference<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Let\u2019s all stop beating around the bush, they lunge at you and let\u2019s roll for Initiative\u2026! Yaaaay.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Oh god. Jesus. Thank you. [Groans and Rolls Dice] I got 14.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I got a 20. Ok.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I got a 12 for my Initiative.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah I got fourteen.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Electra was a twenty\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Yep\u2026 \u201cNatty Twen\u201d<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0I like your\u2026 Are we gonna be starting some new tabletop lexicon like, are we coming up with some words? Hell Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, that\u2019s\u2026 That\u2019s my original. Y\u2019all can use it.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Get some knuckle tats that say \u201cNatty Twen\u201d on \u2018em\u2026 It\u2019s gonna go down real well.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0[Laughs] Uh, Robyn, did you get an Initiative roll?<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Oh, yeah, 12.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Twelve, cool, alright. So there are three rats, and they\u2019re all kind of poised on the shelves.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Like regular sized rats?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, I mean they\u2019re a little bit bigger.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0But it\u2019s not unusual.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, it\u2019s\u00a0<i>slightly<\/i>\u00a0unusual.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>They\u2019re showing a level of tactical organization that is unusual for rats, I\u2019m assuming, yeah\u2026? Gotcha<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah yeah, I mean, they\u2019re coming for you but Electra you\u2019re going first.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Where, which shelf?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0It\u2019s like, eye-level?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Ok. I\u2019m just gonna swing at \u2018em. I still have my bat after that last incident.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Holy Shit, yes, absolutely. Swing at \u2018em, roll to hit.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Just take a wack at \u2018em, with the ol\u2019 trusty Wendy.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Oh god.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>So that\u2019s a\u2026 Is Electra a lefty? Probably. Sure. Why not?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Aren\u2019t we all lefties out here, really, deep down?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah. Left Path, etc.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>Just swing from the left, so I guess the left rat\u2019s gonna get it.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Ok.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0[Dice Roll] That\u2019s a 23.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0That\u2019s a-\u2026 Jesus, yeah, that hits. Uhm, yeah, roll for damage.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0[Dice Roll] That\u2019s a 6.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>That\u2019s a six? Ok. You just like\u2026 that was, oh my god. That was Babe Ruth in the final inning. Like, you just launched that fucking rat. And it is G-O-N-E gone! Petua\u2026 [restraining giggling]<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Well I\u2019m so glad that my thing won\u2019t seem like overkill now. I cast Chill Touch [Laughter].<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>[Laughing] Oh god, you cast Chill T- Okay. Is that a Saving Throw?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0It\u2019s a Cantrip. No, I think-<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Oh, Chill Touch? That\u2019s a good one.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah Chill Touch it\u2019s a\u2026 It\u2019s a good \u2018un. Uh, I don\u2019t think so, I just have to see if it\u2019s a hit or not. So I\u2019m going to see if it\u2019s a hit!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Ok.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[Rolls Dice] And that is a\u2026 It\u2019s a 16!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Sixteen? That is a hit.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Well, uh, a hit. Target takes 1d Necrotic damage and uh, can\u2019t regen any hit points starting the next turn and- There\u2019s an undead hand clinging to this rat, is what I\u2019m saying.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Well you that, I\u2019m glad you did that. Because these rats are renowned for their healing arts. So that was gonna be a real problem!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[Rolls Dice] I meaaaan uh\u2026 I do 4 damage.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK. That rat just kinda keels over. Like you overfed it, just\u2026 and it\u2026 There\u2019s One Rat Left. Kevin! It\u2019s your turn.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0I-I just, I hit it with my sword!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Ok! Roll me an Attack Roll.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0OK cool that\u2019s a 14?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Fourteen? Awesome. That hits, and now you roll that d6.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Now the d6. And that is 6 damage!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Six damage, ok, that rat, that rat has been cleft in twain. Um, yeah, yeah. It\u2019s gross, honestly! And so yeah, now y\u2019all have three dead rats. [Breaks into the Final Fantasy battle victory theme]<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0And where are the Other rats doing?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0No that was, there were three rats.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Wait, you said that there were LOTS of rats, in there.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0I mean three is a lot of rats!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0That\u2019s a very normal amount of rats! I thought, I was expecting, I was thinking like we just entered the Bat Cave and they\u2019re just like LINING THE WALLS. The Rats. Really!<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah I was like-\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>[Laughs] I\u2019ve seen Three Rats in my whole life, three rats is a lot!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>[Laughs] This is a fantasy role-playing game!<br \/><b><br \/><\/b><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I think I\u2019ve got three rats in my bedroom, right now.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, same!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Ok, fine! I-<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0I imagined like\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah yeah, y\u2019all like fighting rats so fucking much!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Oh my god\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0You\u2019ve got more rats! Mikey, it\u2019s your turn there\u2019s 3 more rats.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Whose turn is it?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0It\u2019s Mikey\u2019s turn.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:\u00a0<\/b>Oh ok, where are, what are the rats doing?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0They just climbed up on that same shelf and they\u2019re just sitting there looking menacingly. \u2018Cause you just killed three of their brethren.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:\u00a0<\/b>Ok. [Rolls Dice] So they\u2019re just sitting there then?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, yeah, \u2018cause it\u2019s not their turn yet.<br \/><br \/>[Assorted Snickering]<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Oh, OK. Well I just like, I don\u2019t know, Three Rats is like, not a combat encounter\u2026 I dunno I guess I\u2019ll attack one of the rats. I mean, I don\u2019t have a weapon or anything so I\u2019m just gonna\u2026 swing at it?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Like, punch a rat.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>[chortling] Punch a rat.<br \/><b><br \/><\/b><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, I don\u2019t even think Mikey would necessarily strike with like, closed fist? I\u2019m sort of just imagining like a\u2026 Like a spastic kind of palm strike?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>S-So what you\u2019re saying is, we should change the name of this podcast to \u201cRat Slapper\u201d.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Yeah! Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, I\u2019m not saying that but\u2026 I\u2019m saying that\u2019s definitely more what Mikey\u2019s doing than like-<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0My tattoo is actually for a band called Rat Slapper.<br \/><br \/>[Assorted Laughter]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0That\u2019s, I-\u2026 I want the magic element of Kevin\u2019s tattoo to be that this band keeps changing their name, and it just keeps changing with it.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Oh God! That\u2019s very good.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:\u00a0<\/b>Definitely\u2026 Every time he thinks of a cool phrase it changes.<br \/><br \/>[More Laughter]<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0It\u2019s honestly a pretty sick power.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I know\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, right? So, Cassidy, what\u2019s the Attack Roll for-<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I got a 15 on my Attack Roll.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK, you slap the shit out of that rat. What is the damage on an unarmed strike? I think it\u2019s just a d4?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I got\u2026 Well, plus my strength modifier?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Yeah, yeah!<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Uh, then I got 6 damage.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Six damage, OK. Mikey, the rat just like\u2026 Kinda goes, flying. I dunno, what, was Mikey going for more of a \u2018squash\u2019 or more of an \u2018away\u2019?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Nonono it\u2019s more of just like a swat. Like it just, y\u2019know, sent it sailing straight across the room.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:\u00a0<\/b>It\u2019s probably even fine, realistically? It just probably doesn\u2019t want to play anymore.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0There\u2019s two rats left and it is now their turn. One of them bites Mikey on the hand and\u2026 Oh! It just rolled a 20. This rat\u2019s really good at biting. It just did 3 damage to Mikey.<br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Damn.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah! I mean it did roll a Crit so like\u2026 Good job, rat. And the other one like, jumps at Kevin? Tries to bite him, and it misses! Yeah, it just kinda, faceplants on the ground. But then it kinda skitters back up to its feet and runs away. We\u2019re back to the top of the order, Electra there is one rat that ran away and there is one rat that just bit Mikey on the hand.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Is that rat attached to Mikey\u2019s hand?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0No, the rat did not try to latch on.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Then I will swing\u2026 yeah, then I will swing at that rat. [Rolls Dice] 23.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK, the rat\u2019s dead like-<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>[Laughter]<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>That\u2019s awful man.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0[Laughs] OK, all of the rats are dead. We\u2019re past the rats. You solved my rat puzzle, congratulations.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Oh my god\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0We should investigate that corner, again\u2026 I\u2019d rather not this time.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0So\u2026 Ok. Yeah you look back at that corner, the caution tape is still up. And you look at it and actually getting the same, like\u2026 Before the vibes, I know I keep using that word, but the vibes were concentrated over there, but they don\u2019t really seem to be over there right now.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Where are they then?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Well, you\u2019ll have to find out, won\u2019t you?<br \/><br \/>[Dice Rolls]<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Mikey- Oh, sorry\u2026 Electra, you were rolling an Arcana Check or something? Investigation?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I was making an assumption of what I have to roll\u2026. So<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Oh.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, you can roll an Arcana Check here, yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0So that was a 13.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Thirteen? You feel\u2026. It\u2019s nothing directional, but you do feel a prickle on the back of your neck<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0There\u2019s definitely something still here. It\u2019s just not, quite\u2026 there. Where it was before.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I, okay. Mikey?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Yep?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I think that you should look again. I think this will go faster if we have you looking for whatever is out there. Do you think-<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Oh I don\u2019t think I can do that again. No.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0You don\u2019t think you can do that again?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0No, I\u2019m way too tired. I can only do that like, y\u2019know, maybe a couple times a day.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>No, alright. Hm. Well-<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0And after healing Electra too like I just\u2026 don\u2019t got it in me.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0No, no, that\u2019s ok, I understand. Alright. I guess, should we\u2026. Does anybody else have anything that would help us search for whatever this thing is? Or should we just go back out and look around?<\/p><p>[Faint Feedback starts, soon developing into Creedence Clearwater Revival played from another room]<\/p><p><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>You hear the crackle of a radio turning on. And you hear from well behind you, it looks like it\u2019s coming from the area where the garage is, you hear the fabled words of John Fogerty ringing out. He seems to hear that a bad moon is rising.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0God\u2026.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Oh boy.<\/p><p><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Well, I guess, going towards that. Anybody else want to do anything else besides go towards that\u2026 music?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Trouble\u2019s on the way\u2026.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:\u00a0<\/b>[With a nervous chuckle] Seems hard to do anything else, in this situation. I\u2019m pretty curious.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Alright. I think that we all run out, I mean, I dunno, I\u2019m speaking for myself. I think I run out towards the garage, does anybody else want to come with me?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Mikey advances tentatively, staying behind at least one or two other people.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Alright, yeah, no, I\u2019m just gonna go into the shit, I guess. I\u2019m probably in the front of the group.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Ok, Ok. So you walk in, you burst into this fucking room and\u2026 You just see the radio, it\u2019s an empty garage. Both the garage doors are closed\u2026 And yeah, you are\u2026 Whatever fucking vibe, you were feeling? It\u2019s just like going absolutely like, you feel-<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Bonkers.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, it\u2019s going bonkers, exactly. But you don\u2019t see anything! Other than this radio.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Alright.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>That\u2019s what I say, Electra just says \u2018Bonkers\u2019 as I enter the room.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Um, hear me out\u2026 if they can hear me over. This is the radio, hopefully. I turn to the other three, I say: I think, I\u2019m not sure if the rats were involved in this, but I think the radios were. And I think every time that we destroy something that has this in it, it moves. So\u2026 Maybe we should proceed with caution and not smash it immediately if we can avoid doing that, yeah?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>Sounds like a plan.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Ok!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Right.<br \/><b><br \/><\/b><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Fair enough.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I guess, can I roll an Arcana Check?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, sure, go ahead.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0And that\u2019s a\u2026 ooh! 17.<br \/><br \/>[Radio Music Cuts Softly After Roll]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Seventeen? Ok\u2026 Yeah you feel\u2026 There\u2019s something underneath you, you feel some deep like, Necromantic shit going on\u2026 It seems like it\u2019s coming from underneath one of the lifters?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Alright\u2026 I look around. I think it\u2019s coming from underneath one of the lifters!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0[Laughs]<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019m assuming Kevin knows how a lifter works.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yes, absolutely he does. There\u2019s a lever that makes it go up, and makes it go down.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Nice.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Let\u2019s make it go up.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>[Dark Ambient Music slowly enters the mix]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Ok, ok. You make it go up and this lever, this lifter, you see it kinda looks like in a cartoon, the way that cheese sticks to the roof of a pizza box? You know what I\u2019m talking about?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Wait, in what cartoon does cheese stick to the lid of a pizza box?<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0It was in A Goofy Movie, right?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, it probably- Yeah! Yeahyeahyeah<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Didn\u2019t Ninja Turtles have that effect?\u2026 You\u2019re just talking about like,<i>\u00a0really\u00a0<\/i>gooey cartoon pizza.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Ohhh Ok.<br \/><br \/>[Music Builds into Tense Metal]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Yeah, really really gooey cartoon pizza, but it got stuck to the top? And it\u2019s just like, you just see\u2026 that, but a lot pinker than cheese. You just see a kinda goop rising up, and suddenly you just see like, it almost looks like an arm reaching out from the goop and it lunges at Kevin. It tries to hit him in the face and is not successful. But now we\u2019re rolling Initiative again!<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0What. The Fuck.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Electra you\u2019re at the top of the order. What\u2019re you gonna do?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Oof. This is the big moment. Gonna bust out Dissonant Whisper.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Hell Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah there is no Attack Roll. It\u2019s just a Wisdom Save.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Oh it\u2019s just a Wisdom Save? Ok, ok.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Uh\u2026 OK so then it does not successfully save.<br \/><br \/>[Sound Effects]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Hell yeah, what do these beautiful tones do?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Target must make a Wisdom Saving throw, on a failed save it takes 3 d6 Psychic Damage and must immediately use his reaction\u2026 if available.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Fuck Off! Damn Ok\u2026 !<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0\u2026 use his reaction, if available, to move as far away it\u2019s Speed allows, away from you.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Goddamn.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0It doesn\u2019t move to obviously dangerous ground. Uhm, yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK, Ok. R-Roll that\u2026 [Dice Rolls] Wait, you have a level one Bard Spell that does like 3 d6 damage?<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Ouch.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, shit.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah Dissonant Whispers is dope. [Dice Rolls] So that\u2019s a 6\u2026 8\u2026 9. That\u2019s about 9 Damage. So not a whole lot but, it has to fuckin\u2019 flee.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK\u2026. Yeah, yeah, it super does have-\u2026 So it kinda recoils away from you. It takes all that damage and then it just kinda like slides beneath the lifter and just kind of, you just kind of see it flow across the ground away from you? And it\u2019s about 30 feet away\u2026 Kinda coiled up in a corner. And it is Petua\u2019s turn!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Alright, I think that I\u2019m going to cast Eldritch Blast again.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Hell Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Love it! Alright, I\u2026 [Rolls Dice] Oh! That um\u2026 plus 5, so 16!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Sixteen hits!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Alright, I roll that one d10 force damage [Rolls Dice] Oh! Nice, 7.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Seven, ok\u2026 Alright, another just, chunk is taken off of this blob which, you actually see it\u2019s starting to kind of reform itself? It looks like sort of\u2026 just an incomplete pastiche of a human, like someone tried to put together\u2026 A very unskilled sculptor made this little pile of flesh. And Kevin! It is your turn.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0K, I\u2019m scared of running up to it? And I don\u2019t have any spells or nothin\u2019. I think in this situation Kevin\u2019s gonna just guard himself\u2026 Is that a thing I can do?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK!\u2026 Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0You don\u2019t wanna attack it?<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0I only have a sword! I don\u2019t know, I\u2019m scared if I\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0You should try and cult it in half!<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Just try to cut it in half? OK. Screw it, let\u2019s cut it in half.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK! You run up to it and you try to cut it in half. Roll that d20 to attack.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0That\u2019s an 11.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Eleven? That just hits. And so you roll the damage die.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0And that\u2019s 1 Damage.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0One Damage. Ok. You just, like, take a little sliver off. Just about enough to make a Starburst.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Alright\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Tasty\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0And now it is Mikey\u2019s turn.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0So it\u2019s just like\u2026 basically pressed up against a wall in fear?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Mm-Hm!<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0OK, I do nothing then.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Oh! Alright. Um\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0So it\u2019s just a blob with arms?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I mean it\u2019s not obviously trying to attack us anymore. If, even if, it was necessarily trying to attack us to begin with.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Ok!<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Hmm.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0It definitely tried to hit Kevin, but yes.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0It tried to, tried to, yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0And it tries to do that one more time. It is successful, uh Robyn, what\u2019s your character\u2019s A.C.?<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:\u00a0<\/b>13.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Thirteen, ok yeah, it is successful and it does\u2026 uh 4 Damage.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Oh.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, yeah. It just like, smacks like a weird\u2026 It definitely feels kind of rubbery as it touches you. But just like an uppercut into Kevin\u2019s chin. And we are back to the top of the order. Electra!<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>Ok. I\u2019m using Vicious Mockery.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>There\u2019s no music, it\u2019s just the power imbued within me\u2026. Since it is a Cantra, so\u2026.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK. I am feeling that power. I do, since it is Vicious Mockery, I do want you to specifically say what it is you mock.<br \/><br \/>[Music Fades Softly]<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>Yes, right\u2026 You\u2019re an abomination, and not even in a cool way!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0You see just like, an exaggerated cartoon frown just stretch across its face. And that does damage right?<br \/><br \/>[Assorted giggling]<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah if\u2026 if it fails, a Wisdom Saving Throw.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK\u2026 Actually looks like, what\u2019s the D.C. on that?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Oh right\u2026 12?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Twelve? Ok. It does pass that.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0So you\u2019re just very mean to it?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Yes.<\/p><p>[Music slowly fades back in]<\/p><p><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0So the frown turns upside down. Again it just kinda weirdly, like\u2026. Like somebody\u2019s pushing it around with their fingers? It\u2019s just like-<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Wow.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, yeah. It\u2019s truly upsetting. Petua, it\u2019s your turn.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Alright, before I do anything else, I want to address it in the Demon Tongue. And I ask it-<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Yeah. I ask it, \u201cWhat are you, who sent you here?\u201d\u2026. Does it respond?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Um, you just kinda hear\u2026 *growling noises*<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[Laughs]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Which is not in Demon Tongue, by the way!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0No, but it definitely responded to me. Hmmmm. And I don\u2019t understand the language, obviously.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019m just going to yell at it one more time, though\u2026. \u201cCan you understand us?!?\u201d<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>They just, it just, you just kinda see\u2026 That hand that clocked Kevin in the jaw? You just kinda see it extend forth? In kind of a, it\u2019s sort of like a Stretch Armstrong thing, where it\u2019s kind of stretching across the room? And then you see, you don\u2019t see \u2018fingers\u2019, you see one finger and it\u2019s in the middle. And it just kind of raises up. Right in your face.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Alright, if you\u2019re gonna be like that. Great, great, Uh, hey! Other question! Really quick, can I assume this is the same entity that did damage to me through the speakers earlier? Or is that not the thing.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0I-it, yeah it is.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Alright! In that case, I\u2019m going to cast Hellish Rebuke.<br \/><br \/>Lilith: [Laughs]<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Oooh shit. Nice. Hell Yeah.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0Fun name.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0It is a fun name. It\u2019s a<i>\u00a0very<\/i>\u00a0fun spell.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, alright. Here! I look at it, say \u201cYou know what? That is really unnecessary and I can point fingers too.\u201d And I point my finger, and I- Oh god, let\u2019s see if it hits otherwise that would really be all talk and no\u2026. HA! Alright sorry that was great. It\u2019s a 20, not a natural twenty, but with my stuff it\u2019s a twenty.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK, ok, it definitely hits.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Alright, I point my finger, and it is surrounded by flames and it takes 2 d10 Fire Damage.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0So wait\u2026 You have shit talk so powerful that you can make things catch fire?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Oh no, the shit talk was entirely additional, it was not necessary. Although, I do- Look, I will say that I, Petua, doesn\u2019t look like she was- I think she was kind of talking herself into doing the spell as much as she was trying to shit talk this creature.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0[Laughter]<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0If that makes any sense. Yeah, so, it\u2019s surrounded by hellish flame\u2026 And that\u2019s oooh! That\u2019s 10\u2026. And 13 Damage!<\/p><p>[Music Fades]<\/p><p><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Thirteen damage, ok! You see, just that arm that was like, reaching out to you? It just melts away like a fucking candle. And you see this thing, it\u2019s just kind of on the ground, now kind of looking quite a bit more pitiful and less disgusting? But still very disgusting than when you started and suddenly you hear this rattling as both of the garage doors begin to open.<br \/><br \/>[Guitar Doors Whirr]<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0God.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0And all you can see behind them is bright white light.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Hmmm.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0That\u2019s not supposed to happen at night.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0You see two green darts. One of them actually misses, the first one, but the second lands right in the neck region of the weird blob that you were fighting? And it kind of freezes.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0\u2026 Thanks!<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Like freezes as in stops moving or freezes as is-<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0It just stops moving!<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0OK.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0\u2026 uh, can we see where it came from? Or at least track-<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0It seemed to come from outside!<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Hmm.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Thanks for the assistance, but who the hell are you I guess?!? Should we ask?<\/p><p>[music starts]<\/p><p><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>So, a woman in a beautiful white turtleneck-<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Nice.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0\u2026 walks out, yeah I knew that\u2019d be all Petua\u2019s jam.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0It\u2019s SO her jam.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Walks out from the light, she\u2019s holding a gun in one hand. It kind of looks like a dart gun. And she is looking at the four of you, she\u2019s not pointing the gun at you. And she says \u201c\u2026 Hello? Who are you?\u201d<br \/><br \/>[Various murmurs]<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Hi I\u2019m Mikey.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Hi Mikey!<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0I\u2019m Kevin.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Kevin.<br \/><b><br \/><\/b><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>Electra\u2026 and same question.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Okay\u2026 Um, hold on. OK; Electra, Mikey, Kevin, fantastic. You! And she\u2019s looking at Petua particularly interestedly, what\u2019s your name?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[audibly flustered] Um\u2026 H-hi. Um\u2026 M-my name is Petua. That was really great, what you just did there, that was really really good it was-<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Thanks!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I did the, the earlier, yeah-<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Glad you were impressed.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, no, very impressed. I did the other stuff that you saw earlier, that was me.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Well, I wasn\u2019t watching so\u2026.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Oh\u2026 it was really good, trust me, so good\u2026. Uhm, what\u2019s your name.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0I believe you! I believe you. She offers out a hand to Petua specifically and she says My Name is Anja St. John. And her hand\u2019s kind of held out there.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I shake it enthusiastically. Anja! Very nice to meet you. Nice to meet someone who is alright with killing blobs, I guess.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Well he\u2019s not, that\u2019s not\u2026 That\u2019s not important. What are you doing here, again?<br \/><br \/><b>Mikey:<\/b>\u00a0We were following the truck balls.<br \/><br \/>[snorts]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Ok, so we\u2019re here for the same rea- Did somebody tell you to go after the truck balls?<br \/><br \/><b>Mikey:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, they all told me. I just kinda had a feeling that this was what I\u2019m supposed to be doing.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0That\u2026. I admire your sense of purpose in life Mikey. That\u2019s really\u2026 admirable.<br \/><br \/><b>Mikey:<\/b>\u00a0Thank you! Mikey looks like he actually is taking this compliment very seriously.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0So everybody else, especially Petua, what\u2026 who\u2026 why are you here?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Well, uh, well, we are\u2026 investigating a-<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0You\u2019re with Luci, aren\u2019t you?<br \/><br \/>[Music promptly stops]<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[relieved sigh] Oh, thank christ, yes, we are definitely with Luci. Yes, that\u2019s definitely who we\u2019re with.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK\u2026 Ok\u2026 Hmm. That\u2019s interesting. Didn\u2019t know that her goons would be out here.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Oh.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Back up, back up, just\u2026 chill. You must be new, I haven\u2019t seen y\u2019all before. Again, Anja St. John, I\u2019m with the Lazarus Foundation? If you don\u2019t know who we are, that\u2019s actually\u2026 quite probable. We spend a lot of money to make sure you DON\u2019T know who we are, but\u2026 um, but anyway\u2013<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Well why did you tell us then?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0That\u2019s a good question Mikey.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>[Laughs]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>Keep that- keep that mentality about you, it\u2019s going to get you far in life. And she like\u2013<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Ok.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>[snorts] I really, I really like this kid Mikey. Uh, Petua? She actually pulls out a little business card, and it says on it \u201cLazarus Foundation, Anja St. John, Head of Security\u201d and it has an email-address and a phone number. Petua, let me know um\u2026. Just let me know, and she just hands you the business card. Then she just kind of turns and calls back, but she calls back to the lights\u2026 Alright, bag him, tag him, let\u2019s do this bullshit. And two guys in HAZMAT suits come in, and they like trying to figure out how to get the kind of liquidy body into a bag. It\u2019s very\u2026 there\u2019s lots of pratfalls and really good physical humor that nobody can see right now.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I feel like a snow shovel is the right answer there.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Anja is like, Mikey you\u2019re so full of good ideas. Really, wow. OK, Mikey? Here\u2019s another card. Here you go. Kevin, Electra?<br \/><br \/><b>Mikey:<\/b>\u00a0OK.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0You can get my contact information from those two I guess if you need to\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I don\u2019t.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0I get it, Ok.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Um, look, look, wait, hey. I think Petua incidentally, when Anja handed her the card I think I was like halfway into my wallet to give her mine and then I think better of it. But uh, I definitely went up to her and kind of nervously bobbing around whatever the two people are doing. I-I I don\u2019t think can do that, I think that\u2019s ours, right? That should be ours, you can\u2019t just take it away!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Oh, I absolutely can. That is an interesting misconception, Miss Petua, but no, no. Absolutely can\u2019t do that.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0How did you know about what was transpiring here?<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Mmmm. Hmmm. Good question, Electra. She\u2019s now kinda helping shovel, into the bag.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>[sighs] Well, well look, if you\u2019re not going to tell us anything at least take us with you!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0OK, Petua, as tempting of an offer that is, I am going to have to decline. You are\u2026 Hm, how do I\u2026 ? Hm\u2026 I guess it kind of depends on whose laws you\u2019re following here, but you don\u2019t have jurisdiction here.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I-<br \/><b><br \/><\/b><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Tell Luci I said buzz off? Um\u2026 Aaaand, yeah. And she\u2019s now gathered up all the things, all the blob parts into the bag and she\u2019s carting it back outside.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>I kinda look back at Electra and Kevin like, Are you cool with this?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>No.<br \/><br \/><b>Robyn:<\/b>\u00a0No, but I\u2019m not sure if we have much recourse here?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[sighs] I\u2026 I\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>Jurisdiction? Since when?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I mean\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>What does that even mean?<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I, I, y- [huffs] Mikey what do you think of all this?<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0I don\u2019t think she likes you very much!<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>Well I don\u2019t like her.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0She seems to like me.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0Yeah, she does. Well we all like you.<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:\u00a0<\/b>[muttering to herself] Lazarus\u2026 Lazarus\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Thanks!<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Mikey you\u2019re doing a great job! That was just Anja just yelling out.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[laughs]<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0Lazarus\u2026<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:\u00a0<\/b>Thank you!<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0I mean, look\u2026 If we fucked this up, I mean what if Lucifer never contacts us again? What if this was our last chance to, I don\u2019t know, do right by this world, what we\u2019re supposed to be doing? I don\u2019t want to just let this go. What do you think we should do, should we run after her?<br \/><br \/><b>Syd:<\/b>\u00a0I think she\u2019ll understa- well\u2026 She\u2019ll probably be upset. But this is probably something that happens. I\u2019m not happy about it. It\u2019s very\u2026 unnerving.<\/p><p>[Soft music fades in]<\/p><p><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0The lights all shut off, those lights that were outside, the floodlights? And you just see there is a nondescript 18-wheeler outside and Anja is in the passenger side seat. And she\u2019s just waving through the glass as the 18 wheeler\u2013<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Mikey waves back.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0[Laughs]<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:\u00a0<\/b>Petua kind of, I kinda wave back like, really weakly, as if I didn\u2019t have any idea what my hand was doing like, bye\u2026.<br \/><br \/><b>Cassidy:<\/b>\u00a0Mikey\u2019s on full-on like kindergartner meeting his mom on the first day of school kind of wave. It\u2019s a whole body movement.<br \/><br \/><b>Amanda:<\/b>\u00a0[under her breath] God.<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:\u00a0<\/b>The 18-wheeler pulls away and drives off into that warm Texas night.<br \/><br \/><b>[Skagos \u2013 Blossoms Will Sprout From The Carcass fades in]<\/b><b><br \/><\/b><b><br \/><\/b>[Outro \u2013 Music Break<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>(untranscribed lyrics)<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>It\u2019s the fury of the storm<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>It\u2019s the endless falling rain<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>It\u2019s the growing of the dark<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>It\u2019s the thrive of decay<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>It\u2019s the voice of woe<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>It\u2019s the call of the moon<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>It\u2019s the cold retribution<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>The dark rider known as death]<br \/><br \/><b>Lilith:<\/b>\u00a0Hey there folks, Luci there again with a couple post-show production notes. If you liked this week\u2019s episode, feel free to stop by iTunes or Podchaser and leave us a review. Post about the show on Twitter with the hashtag #GhostpuncherCorps and Lili might name a character after you. All support for Ghost Puncher Corps. Comes from the Ghost Puncher Patreon, which you can join at patreon.com\/ghostpuncher and gain access to a host of exclusive content where you can get early access to new episodes for as little as one dollar a month. All music used in this episode of Ghostpuncher Corps was used non-commercially and with attribution, and all links can be found in the description of this episode. Thank you to Skagos for \u201cBlossoms Will Sprout From The Carcass\u201d the intro and outro of our show. See you again soon!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRANSCRIPT &#8211; EPISODE 3&#8220;Ah, Nuts&#8221; vol III (Transcription by Micha Cavaseno, contact for transcription work\u00a0here) [Music Fades In:\u00a0 Skagos \u2013 Blossoms Will Sprout From the Carcass] Lilith:\u00a0Hello everyone my name is Lucifer. Welcome to this the third edition of Ghostpuncher Corps. This week the gang are closing in on the testicular spectre haunting Poulton, Texas.&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"button small blue\" href=\"https:\/\/ghostpuncher.net\/a\/corps\/transcript-hub\/episode-3\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":117,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-158","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostpuncher.net\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostpuncher.net\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostpuncher.net\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghostpuncher.net\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghostpuncher.net\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ghostpuncher.net\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/ghostpuncher.net\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158\/revisions\/235"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghostpuncher.net\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostpuncher.net\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}