0:08

Hello? What time

0:10

is there? Who

0:12

is there? I

0:14

don't know, uh...

0:17

Situation? Green? Constomations?

0:19

Sorry, love. I have

0:21

to take this. an

1:35

old deity, possibly local. Are there

1:37

any folks, folks in the area

1:39

that still, you know, subscribe to

1:41

the beliefs or stories? That's

1:43

a very good question. She looks

1:45

up at the man beside her again.

1:47

It seems completely disinterested

1:50

in any of this conversation and

1:52

has kind of focused his eyes

1:54

lazily upon some point in the

1:56

distance. She turns back to you,

1:58

Felix. But no. So there are

2:01

no, I suppose, modern day

2:03

descendants that we've been able to

2:05

interview that I know of that

2:07

have really given us anything more

2:10

to glean about these particular engravings.

2:12

It's always possible that they're

2:14

only decorative, but the prominence of

2:17

them in the frequency of

2:19

their depictions, especially in the interior,

2:21

does speak to a different

2:23

story there. It's one of the

2:25

many mysteries of what the

2:27

Zapatek peoples have left behind. And

2:30

is one of these, in

2:32

carvins, possibly what was

2:34

damaged? Was it one of

2:36

these strange gods? No, an

2:39

entire wall was, well, knocked

2:41

down, which is why we

2:43

have some structural

2:45

concerns. Actually, it opened a

2:48

hereto-for, unknown chamber in the pyramid.

2:50

That's why there's such a need

2:52

for review and careful understanding of

2:55

exactly the extent of the damage

2:57

before we reopen anything to the

3:00

public. There may be new archaeological

3:02

evidence inside that we need to

3:04

catalog. So it's actually, well, there's

3:07

two tiers here. We have potentially

3:09

a structural issue due to the

3:12

vandalism, which is highly dangerous, but

3:14

also it looks like another chamber

3:16

has been opened, which... was never

3:18

found before even with bidear and

3:21

ground penetrating radar efforts from you

3:23

know previous expeditions to map the

3:25

fairly small interior of your lotosha

3:27

shortly. That's truly amazing silver line

3:29

and really I mean you must

3:31

be excited what do you think

3:34

the room was for? What do

3:36

you think you'll find? Well I've

3:38

only briefly glanced through it. We

3:40

haven't really had time to do

3:42

any real work just yet. We

3:44

will shortly, hopefully next week, once

3:46

we get more of the team here,

3:49

close everything down from the public. But

3:51

there looks like pictographs in there, so

3:53

it's not just a chamber into hollow

3:56

earth. It does look like artisans where

3:58

we're working in there. They are

4:00

remarkably well preserved. Also some additional

4:03

statues and carvings of the tree-like

4:05

beings that we've been discussing during

4:07

this chat. So it seems like

4:10

a continuation of the mystery of

4:12

Yolo Toshotli. That's incredible. Does anyone

4:14

else have any questions? I mean,

4:17

I feel like we got the

4:19

expert here. The damage occurred about

4:22

two weeks, Joe. Okay. Okay. Have

4:24

you all had anybody try to

4:26

come back and... damage it some

4:29

more, if you'll caught anybody who

4:31

might have been associated with it,

4:33

get anyone on camera or anything

4:35

like that? Unfortunately, there's no cameras

4:37

at the site. Boy, that would

4:39

have made things a little bit

4:41

easier. She looks up at the

4:43

police officer who is quite interested

4:45

in your conversations now. He's grimly

4:48

taking in the discussion. He's got

4:50

his arms crossed. He's watching carefully.

4:52

No, there've been no repeat offenders,

4:54

she smiles. Our presence here seems

4:56

to deter anyone from getting too

4:58

curious and again it is quite

5:00

dangerous and that's mostly why we're

5:02

here. We've had no additional criminal

5:05

activity or suspicion of that. Well

5:07

that's good to hear. People coming

5:09

in and damaging these sites just

5:11

really grinds my gears you know.

5:13

I just can't stand it. No respect.

5:16

She nods and looks down sadly.

5:18

It's more common than we would

5:20

like. The INA just stretched fairly

5:23

thin and... It's difficult to get

5:25

some security out here. I totally

5:28

get it. As an ancient person

5:30

myself, I think that it's important

5:32

that we keep our relics safe.

5:35

Go ahead and roll your

5:37

charisma, please. And I failed.

5:39

60 out of 73. She doesn't

5:41

really seem to pick up on

5:44

the humor. She just nods, her

5:46

lips pursed. Well, again, I apologize

5:48

that it's close down, but, uh...

5:50

as I'm sure you can now

5:53

agree, it's for everyone's benefit that

5:55

we ensure the safety of those

5:57

who visit and we conserve what

5:59

has been effectively uncovered inside.

6:02

Well I appreciate all the

6:04

work you're doing protecting this

6:06

site and Felix will put

6:08

his hand out and what

6:10

was your name again? Dr.

6:12

Isela Vasquez she shakes your

6:14

hand and then I do the same

6:16

to the young man he nuts he

6:18

seems a little awkward I do

6:20

the same to the police officer

6:22

in Spanish I say the person keeping

6:25

us all safe thank you sir and

6:27

then I ask for his name. He

6:29

shakes your hand. His arms are

6:31

tanned and thick with muscle. It's

6:33

obvious that he is in good

6:35

shape. He's stocky and in his

6:37

early 40s. Again, he has a

6:39

neatly trimmed mustache and short in

6:41

a short-cropped buzzcut. Is this a

6:44

time I could use humid to

6:46

see how he feels about me

6:48

or at least how he's portraying

6:50

his emotions towards me? Like does

6:52

he seem weirded out by me

6:54

or is he like, okay, weird American

6:56

guy, but nice enough? Four.

6:59

Oh, that's good. I succeeded.

7:01

Hold on. Yeah. He's fairly

7:03

rough in his demeanor. He

7:05

was obviously to you, since

7:07

you've been taking careful note

7:10

of his behavior. He was

7:12

obviously mostly bored by his

7:15

assignment here until y'all

7:17

started talking to the doctor.

7:19

You think because of the

7:22

thick corded muscle of his

7:24

arms. and what looks to be

7:26

rippling features under his worn uniform,

7:28

that he's probably more used to

7:30

action than babysitting tourists. You kind

7:33

of get the impression that this

7:35

guy is ready to go, like

7:37

a coiled snake. That's the energy

7:39

that you feel after watching this

7:42

guy and talking to him and

7:44

shaking his hand. Cool, cool. In

7:46

Spanish, I ask him, Ablingles? C.

7:48

Yes. I do. Wonderful. I could see

7:51

that you're a man doesn't really enjoy

7:53

just sitting out here. You should be

7:55

catching these guys. Do you know anything

7:57

about who could have possibly done this?

8:00

I don't understand why anyone

8:02

would destroy a wall. It's

8:04

always the time watching over

8:06

tourists when there's real crime

8:08

out there. Yeah. And they got you.

8:10

Sometimes you draw the short straw. And

8:13

they got you out here at not too?

8:15

Not me. Oh, that's good. Someone else

8:17

got the even shorter straw,

8:19

huh? Yeah. You know, it's... You see his

8:21

eyes kind of dark to the side

8:24

when he answers that. He scratches his

8:26

head. I continue down the

8:28

stairs. So you leave the pyramid?

8:30

Yeah. Okay, everybody else

8:32

leaving? Mm-hmm. Your team is

8:34

now back at the cyan-colored cheap

8:37

next to Paolo, who's smiling

8:39

and rambling about the next

8:41

site that you're going to

8:43

visit before the sun totally

8:45

dips below the horizon. Paolo,

8:48

are there any coconuts for

8:50

sale or something like that

8:52

around here you could get us?

8:54

Coconuts? Uh, maybe... What about a

8:56

coke? Orange is, there's some oranges

8:58

if we go back to the

9:01

main roads. Pretty easy to find.

9:03

Definitely can get you a Coke.

9:05

You Americans. Amazing. Just like

9:07

TV. Yeah, I slip him a 20

9:09

and say, yeah, can you run get

9:12

us a Coke? Don't worry about running.

9:14

It's just an expression. Take your

9:16

time. We just want to sit down

9:18

and relax. I'm an old man

9:20

and I just need a little break,

9:23

you know what I mean? Sure,

9:25

you want to stay here at the

9:27

pyramid and I go back through the

9:29

jungle to get a cook and then

9:31

I come back to pick you up

9:33

here? He seems very confused.

9:36

Oh, you didn't bring something in

9:38

the car. Just more Jaime Delgado's.

9:41

All right, well, we can just take

9:43

a break with a nosh on

9:46

some of those beef jerkies then.

9:48

You know, I have very many

9:50

of them. Lots. All within their

9:53

expiration date. I noticed. I had

9:55

to step around them to even

9:58

sit down. It was very uncomfortable.

10:00

cheerfully unpacks the bundles of

10:02

slim gems and begins passing

10:04

them out to you. I

10:06

look at the group. That's

10:09

interesting to hear. There's a

10:11

secret room behind a wall

10:13

that was destroyed. Could be

10:15

something someone didn't really want

10:17

anyone else to find, you

10:19

know what I mean? Certainly

10:22

suspicious. You all wondered

10:24

why Paris just made that noise.

10:26

He goes, he gets embarrassed again

10:28

and pulls out his binoculars

10:30

and starts looking around very

10:33

intensely. His nose starts bleeding, his

10:35

cheeks are red. He's got a

10:37

big sweat mark, like a big

10:39

sweat thing. Mom's spaghetti. Chris Frankfurt's

10:41

gonna look around, would there be,

10:44

so we're in the jungle, would

10:46

it be possible to hide some, like,

10:48

kind of basically post up and hide

10:50

somewhere to keep to watch the, uh,

10:52

the site to kind of see. if and

10:54

when security leave? Yeah, there's

10:56

about four or five really nice spots

10:59

that you've already kind of scoped out.

11:01

Oh, hey guys, if you'd like, I

11:03

can, uh, settle in here into the

11:05

jungle and keep an eye on this

11:07

and radio back once these, once these

11:09

people leave and let you know what

11:11

the security situation is if it changes.

11:13

Oh. Well, on that note, I don't think

11:16

that any of us should go too far,

11:18

because we'll have to take any chance we

11:20

get to get in there as fast as

11:22

fast as possible. to get us an

11:24

end at the police station

11:26

get this guy called out

11:28

some sort of emergency you

11:30

know yeah that that could

11:32

work actually yeah well you've

11:35

you signed up for the

11:37

job there buddy I mean sure

11:39

I pull out my cell phone go

11:41

ahead and you call calls the

11:43

number for your handler

11:46

let me roll and he does

11:48

pick up after a couple of

11:50

rings hey we're at a site

11:52

with a loaned uniformed and

11:54

was hoping that maybe we

11:56

can get someone from his

11:59

precinct to call him out, perhaps

12:01

even just get information about

12:03

his command and officer that

12:05

we could use to get him

12:07

to step away from his his assignment

12:10

here. What kind of site

12:12

are you at? Archaeological. We're

12:14

at Yoloto Shoshote. We're investigating

12:16

a crime. This is the

12:18

same the same step pyramid

12:20

that was mentioned to me

12:23

previous. Correct. There was a

12:25

destruction of a wall, an

12:27

inner chamber was was identified

12:29

identified, but Yeah, I sent

12:31

that information to Paris for. He

12:33

doesn't actually say Paris for it.

12:35

I sent that information to Frankfurt.

12:38

Right. So yeah, there's fuzz here

12:40

and we're hoping that perhaps we

12:42

can get. Do you know what

12:45

exact station or precinct that he

12:47

belongs to? Can you narrow it

12:49

down for me? Does he have a

12:51

bad number? His name is Raoul Rojas.

12:54

Okay. Anything else? It's a fairly tough

12:56

name for me to pin down. I'm

12:58

trying to find his. Help me find

13:01

his station. Sure thing. If a

13:03

badge number, precinct number, anything else

13:05

you can give me? That's all I

13:07

got right now, but here's the location

13:09

of where we are and... Well, it

13:11

depends on where he's at. I do

13:13

have some local contacts back in

13:15

the capital. I don't know how

13:18

much sway they'll have back out

13:20

here, but no telling until you

13:22

give me some more details about

13:24

this individual. Are you unable

13:26

to perform any groundwork

13:28

yourselves? Is it a complete blocker having

13:30

this one individual in your way?

13:32

No, sir. We're just looking for

13:34

options. Yeah, I want to help

13:36

here, but you're actually probably positioned

13:38

better than I am to move

13:41

quick if that's needed. However, if

13:43

time is not an element here,

13:45

which I can't imagine it isn't,

13:47

give me a call back with any details

13:49

so that I can actually track down

13:51

how to find out who this individual

13:53

is and where he works, and maybe

13:56

I have some connections that can assist

13:58

us. I guess I like the Old Seneger

14:01

better. All right, I'll talk

14:03

to you later. Shit, um,

14:05

my feelings. I forgot to

14:07

ask how you were doing,

14:09

Asian. I hope it's still

14:12

very, very well. Click. You

14:14

didn't mention active

14:16

exchange, but burn. I

14:18

burned him. I relate my

14:20

conversation to the group.

14:23

Yep, brain dumped. Palos still cheerily

14:25

like collecting slim gems and passing

14:27

out bundles of them as you

14:29

guys tear into them with your

14:31

broken teeth. Are we thinking that this

14:33

police officer is going to be here through

14:36

the night or you think there'll be a

14:38

shift change or you think they're going to

14:40

leave? I got a feeling that no one is

14:42

here at night. That was my sense. Like I

14:44

said, I can just settle in here and when

14:46

I see a change or move I can radio

14:48

and let you all know when it's clear.

14:50

And if it's just one guy, I mean... worst

14:53

case we can just sneak up and you

14:55

know put him to sleep for a little

14:57

bit might wake up with a headache but

14:59

Frankford I know you're a tough guy and

15:02

all but did you see the pictures of

15:04

the giant evil trees that we happen

15:06

to be in a forest maybe we

15:08

should stick together thinking the trees are

15:11

gonna turn me around and and I

15:13

think you're getting a little too spooked

15:15

a little too easy but yeah because

15:17

well we haven't seen anything weird in

15:19

anything weird ever will I talk about

15:22

it Perfectly normal here too, bud. Well, I just I just

15:24

miss you so much that I just don't want to be away from

15:26

you. Oh, hugs. Well, dang. I mean, I'm not saying you'll need

15:28

to go far. I don't can just head up the road and just

15:30

maybe hang out at a, if there's a bar nearby, I'm not saying head all

15:32

the way back to the hotel. Yeah, no, we should all stay here. It's

15:34

a good idea. I'll just keep all keep a look. I'll keep a look

15:36

like a look at all keep a look at all keep a look at.

15:38

I'll. I'll. I'll just. I'll just. I'll just like you so much. I'll just

15:40

like you so much. I'll just. I'll just like you so much. I'll

15:43

just. I'll just. I'll just. I'll just. I'll just. I'll

15:45

just. I'll just. I'll just. I'll just. I'll

15:47

just. I'll just. I'll just Where in scary

15:49

trees are involved I've learned my lesson. I

15:51

know that's more coney, but that burned in

15:54

now That's fair. I was totally fair. I

15:56

don't I don't know if there's anybody else

15:58

in the group who is uniquely skilled

16:00

in this exact situation, but y'all

16:02

are more than welcome to join.

16:05

Yeah, we can hang out here.

16:07

That's right. Let's just dismiss Palo,

16:09

give him another hundred bucks, tell

16:11

him to fuck off and find his

16:13

hat somewhere else. The only problem is

16:16

you don't have a vehicle out here.

16:18

You came in Palo's Jeep. That is

16:20

an issue that you probably would want

16:23

to get him out with. You can

16:25

definitely hang out with Palo. I'm sure

16:27

he'd be super down to conspicuously. On

16:29

our way back, instead of going back to Juarez, we

16:31

go to the pyramid. Do we have a car? We

16:34

have our own car, right? Here is. And we should

16:36

use that. You have a white panel van. Yeah.

16:38

Well, why don't we, why don't we, yeah, let's

16:40

do that. Let's go get our own vehicle. Yeah.

16:42

So that we're not beholden to Paolo or... Chris,

16:44

how difficult would it be for us to find

16:46

this place again? Not difficult at all. And

16:48

so you don't difficult at all. And so you

16:50

don't even have to go to go to go to

16:52

go to go to go to go to go

16:55

to go to go to another site at all.

16:57

humor palo like you guys have no steak in

16:59

palo no like if his morale lowers down this

17:01

I mean we got I mean we got even

17:03

give us odd beef steaks that we've got

17:05

I mean he's still on the

17:07

dime I feel weird just letting

17:09

them go you know okay no

17:11

no yeah we'll go back very

17:13

like joyfully okay his enthusiasm you

17:15

know dips far and it's very

17:17

awkward going back when he realizes

17:20

that you guys are going to

17:22

cancel the tour it's silent his

17:24

mustache troops extraordinarily extraordinarily He brings

17:26

you back to the holiday and

17:28

takes his position behind the concierge

17:30

desk because eyes down cast as

17:32

you switch from the jeep into

17:34

your beautiful well-beaten and

17:37

well-worn panel fan of him.

17:39

Perfecto. Let's make our way back.

17:42

What time would you like to

17:44

arrive at the pyramid? Nighttime. Maybe

17:46

we stopped for some dendens

17:48

first so that we don't ransack

17:50

this temple on an empty tum-tum.

17:53

Your tumtums get pretty full up, feel good,

17:55

but not too full. You don't want to

17:57

be bloated. Plus we all use the bathroom

18:00

both. forehand and drink plenty of. Okay,

18:02

very smart. You know how I run

18:04

these games. You always, yeah, very smart.

18:06

Forrest, you go ahead and set up

18:09

the encrypted comm links for everybody, comm

18:11

links, Jesus Christ, the encrypted radios, it

18:13

mics for everybody. Now these are not

18:15

special spy throat mics or anything. It's

18:18

just, you got an earpiece and you

18:20

got a visible microphone that comes down

18:22

from the earpiece to go to your

18:24

mouth. Okay, so these are not like

18:27

super secret spy gear radio equipment, but

18:29

she sets it up with a hub

18:31

so that you're able to speak to

18:33

one another within a very decent range

18:36

about 100 meters. That's pretty good. Now,

18:38

that's assuming she says to you that

18:40

there's not giant limestone walls in between

18:42

you. She says that may actually cause

18:44

some interference or even... even worse cut

18:46

off the signal depending on how thick

18:49

the walls are and how many impurities

18:51

are within them but hopefully they hold

18:53

up. The doctor thought it was so

18:55

weird that I wanted to see what it

18:57

was made out of. She was just clowning

19:00

you. Now was it like green soapstone?

19:02

And you said no water. Not that we

19:04

know of. She said there was no indication

19:06

of that no evidence. I still think it's

19:09

day gone. And then, yeah, she did

19:11

gurgle a little praise towards Father Deagon,

19:13

that I don't know if y'all caught

19:15

that, because discord sometimes cuts up the

19:17

praises towards other gods. So other gods.

19:19

So is discord added on its own?

19:22

It's kind of like on the same

19:24

tier as now, the top, it serves

19:26

the other gods. It's a servitor. Yeah.

19:28

We're on a servitor. Very good. And

19:30

so tell me more about your approach,

19:32

your preparation. I need to know everything,

19:35

please. I need to know everything, please.

19:37

get in close and please if anybody's

19:39

got other ideas like go for it

19:41

my my my my initial thought is we

19:44

getting close and then I'll take Frankfurt in

19:46

under the cover of dark just to scout

19:48

and if it's clear radio back and then

19:50

the rest then all of us can go

19:52

in if it's clear and if it's not

19:55

clear you know wait until it's clear do

19:57

something reassess yeah yeah well I think

19:59

he's just I'm going to use death

20:01

magic and kill everybody. Oh, yeah,

20:04

I'm just fucking death magic. You

20:06

know it. That's what happens when

20:08

you're a crippled wizard in Delta

20:11

Green. You're just like, uh. No,

20:13

I might bar your taser though.

20:15

Are you, that might be, that

20:18

might be, that might be safer. Are

20:20

you, safer? Are you going to take

20:22

his taser with you? Are you going

20:25

to take his taser with you? I

20:27

love to see it. I'm going to

20:29

see. So y'all drive your panel van

20:31

back through early early early morning. We're

20:34

talking like one in the morning. It

20:36

is extremely dark out here on these

20:38

jungle roads. There's no traffic at all

20:40

once you really get off the beaten

20:43

path. And you do have to park

20:45

a ways away in order to not

20:47

make it obvious that there's a vehicle

20:50

approaching the site just in case there's

20:52

still someone posted there and make a

20:54

short hike through some of his brush, through

20:56

some of these barely cleared roadways

20:59

or... passageways back towards

21:01

your low Tulsa shortly. And at

21:03

a point that you've agreed upon

21:06

within radio range, you will very

21:08

quietly go through the plan one

21:10

more time. You're sending Paris Fert

21:12

ahead to take a position to scope

21:14

out the site to see if there's

21:16

anyone who might still be there who

21:19

could be an issue for you, or if it's

21:21

clear, and you can go explore

21:23

the site on your own in the

21:25

dead of night. Frankfort, you plod your

21:27

way. through the brush, something that you've

21:30

already rehearsed in your mind a few

21:32

times, began while looking at simple satellite

21:34

photos. Now after having taken in the

21:37

site during the daylight and playing it

21:39

over and over again in your head,

21:41

you feel comfortable. You feel confident despite

21:44

the foreign nature of the land that

21:46

you're stepping upon. And you make your

21:48

way to one of the spots that

21:51

you thought would be, well, an

21:53

excellent vantage point in order to

21:55

scope out this pyramid without... alerting

21:57

anyone to your presence. I'll go ahead

21:59

and... earlier search for you here,

22:02

I have to roll it.

22:04

All right, you peer out

22:06

from behind a thick tree

22:08

trunk, entwined with massive fines,

22:10

scaring you with its leafy

22:13

foliage, and you went because

22:15

you immediately see that there

22:17

are at least two pin

22:19

lights flashing around the front

22:21

of the pyramid. You duck

22:23

down, you stay still, and

22:26

you continue to watch.

22:28

After about 20 minutes, it's clear

22:30

to you that there are three

22:32

police officers who are here at

22:34

the site. One seems to be

22:37

posted up directly at the entry.

22:39

The other two mander around the

22:41

base of the structure, going back

22:43

and forth, standing next to one

22:45

another and speaking, striking up a

22:48

cigarette, and then continuing to do

22:50

a half-ass patrol around this front

22:52

of the pyramid only. No one

22:54

seems to be going through the...

22:56

very dense foliage in the back. It's

22:59

Iberious. Do you read me? I

23:01

hear it. Felix, we got a problem.

23:03

Now, I know you said I should

23:05

have used the bathroom when we

23:08

were eating dinner and I didn't.

23:10

And I'm sorry. I mentioned it

23:12

four times. I know I've let

23:15

you down. I've let the whole

23:17

constitution, Frankfort. You gotta roll, we

23:19

gotta know if it's number one

23:21

or number two. Critical success. Nice.

23:23

Or number three. The seal on

23:26

your bladder doubles up in power

23:28

and you suddenly feel no need

23:30

to urinate longer. You feel ironclad

23:32

and honestly inhumanly, inhumanly continent. That's

23:34

how you feel. I could really

23:36

use that role on the next

23:38

thing we do. You are this

23:41

reservoir. Remember, number two is still

23:43

in play, so be careful. Yeah,

23:45

we haven't rolled for that yet.

23:47

That's a good point. It's about

23:49

to get real messy. All right guys,

23:51

I've got three security guards here, police

23:54

officers maybe, ones posted up, two are

23:56

kind of walking around, but it

23:58

doesn't look like anybody's. Really

24:00

moving in the back area. And

24:02

Chris remind me is there access

24:04

to the to the place through the back?

24:06

Can we get inside through the backside

24:09

or you did not see anything when

24:11

you peered over into the dense foliage

24:13

like entrances like you see on the

24:15

front? It's pretty pretty thick back

24:17

there with growth. That's what she

24:19

said. I'm sorry. Yeah, we've got we've

24:22

got at least three security guards or

24:24

police officers here right now. I got

24:26

a lead for it. I

24:28

don't think I'll be able to think

24:31

past any police officers. What do you

24:33

need for me? How could I help?

24:35

Well, I got an idea. I've got

24:37

a flashbang here. I could toss out

24:40

in the jungle somewhere. Get them chasing

24:42

after nothing. Not good word? It might

24:44

be just a little bit of time, but

24:46

I used to say if they may not

24:48

go after it or they might call in

24:50

backup. I'm not sure. Well, it'll

24:52

take a long time for backup

24:54

to get here. and give you

24:56

at least enough time to be

24:58

able to sneak into that room.

25:00

Yeah, y'all coming with me, right?

25:02

I'm not going in by myself.

25:05

You're a who. You're a who. Who

25:07

and a half. Good luck. I will

25:09

also mention to you, Frank, for

25:11

that. near the informational placard. There

25:13

is a squad car that's parked

25:15

there. You do see that now

25:17

as your eyes continue to adjust

25:19

the flashing lights in front of

25:21

you held by these officers. Oh,

25:23

can I see, is it like

25:25

a precinct printed on the side

25:27

of the car? No. Nothing like

25:29

that, just police. Yeah. Policea. Maybe

25:31

if you listen in on their

25:33

radios, maybe we can hear chatter? Cheddar?

25:36

Did someone say cheddar? Cheddar? Cheddar?

25:38

Did someone say cheddar. Cheddar? I

25:40

mean, my hope is it would just be one

25:42

and we'd be able to stay the guy

25:44

and take him out for a little bit,

25:46

but I can't, I don't think I can

25:49

handle three without raising an alarm. With the

25:51

police car, they can easily call in

25:53

for backup if we make a disturbance. Yeah, we

25:55

need to either get them out of here

25:57

another way or new plan. Chris, this road, uh,

25:59

that... we're on right now in the van.

26:01

If we park the van sideways and

26:04

like took a tire off or just

26:06

pretend like we let the hood up

26:08

open like it's broke down, would it

26:10

take the entire road? Mm-hmm. For sure.

26:12

Well, we could do the old, uh,

26:14

my car broke down. I'd like the

26:16

rest and we got the wrong way

26:18

and I think it's a solid plane.

26:20

Worth a shot. Anybody wanna catch

26:22

up with where I am and go

26:24

into the creepy, newly discovered room with

26:27

me? Yes. Like I said, they'd hear

26:29

me a mile away. I would not be

26:31

helpful. Let's do this then, yeah,

26:33

let's try the dumb tourist thing.

26:35

Cool, y'all basically have full

26:38

carte blanche to narrate what you

26:40

do, and I'll respond. So I'm

26:42

not going to narrate anything until

26:44

I get some, I need some, so guys, so

26:46

we, is the plan to, like, I parked

26:49

the van, so it blocks the road,

26:51

Faith will go and toss that flashbang,

26:53

deep into the forest, deep into the

26:55

forest. No, that's not that part's not

26:57

happening anymore. Why not? No, no, no,

27:00

no. I thought one distraction at a

27:02

time. I thought the van thing was

27:04

to keep the police from being able

27:06

to leave. I thought the van was too.

27:08

Like hey we've a broken down van will

27:11

you three police officers please come up? No

27:13

no no I was thinking in the same

27:15

vein of Eric's plan of we throw the

27:18

flashbang folks will go look contingency if

27:20

they decide to drive off to like go

27:22

get someone we can block you can block

27:24

the problem you go in the flashbang

27:26

is that'll definitely get them radioing back yeah

27:28

but that's gonna take like 40 minutes

27:30

for someone to get here like I think

27:33

probably the fastest right like this is

27:35

in the middle of nowhere I'm thinking

27:37

here check this we do the van plan draw

27:39

away however many people that draws away

27:41

right but how to so we walk

27:43

to them and ask them yeah to

27:46

come to the van yeah I need

27:48

your help I'm broken down what if

27:50

they go call call a call someone

27:52

or or they call in someone to

27:54

come in a sleeper hold yeah that could

27:56

happen that sounds like a christ

27:59

day really we I don't want them

28:01

calling anybody. It's going to

28:03

put that out there. Chris

28:05

will be like, because he

28:07

just calls the person in to

28:10

come, you know, pick your car. We

28:12

don't need to be on a timeline

28:14

of people coming here. All three

28:17

of them are together flash

28:19

bring and then just take

28:21

them out as a unit. That's fine

28:23

too. I can't fight. Yeah. We

28:25

have to get in there. If we don't get

28:27

in there, we're going to miss something and

28:30

we're going to. I mean, I could.

28:32

I mean, I'm hesitant to go solo,

28:34

but I could take Frankfurt through the

28:36

back and see if there's another entrance

28:38

and just have him sneak in. There's

28:40

not, though, we pretty much guaranteed

28:42

there's not by previous explanation. Well,

28:44

he keeps saying that, but he's like,

28:46

it's dense. You can't tell. No one's

28:49

back there. Yeah. And they're not like

28:51

in the place that we need to

28:53

go. They're just like walking around. They're

28:56

like. Yeah, half as patrol. Yeah. I

28:58

mean, you could possibly wait for them

29:00

to be away from the car. See

29:02

if you can disable their radio and

29:04

then we can go about fucking around.

29:06

Yeah, we could do that too. Not going

29:08

to be alert all night, you know. Yeah. I

29:10

mean, Alex, we could I could literally just just

29:12

fucking wait for them to be on the

29:15

other side of the other side of the

29:17

building. Go in. Yeah, so I was thinking,

29:19

right? Snap some photos and sneak back out.

29:21

And if you get caught, then plan B,

29:23

uh, fuck them up. Magic doors and stuff.

29:25

Yeah. I could literally just, you guys ready?

29:27

I could try to sneak in and just take

29:29

some photos or whatever we need to do.

29:31

Yeah, first thing, let's definitely make sure we

29:33

disable their radio so that we, if they

29:35

do. We don't need them calling other people.

29:37

So, uh, so Paris is going to try to

29:40

disable the to disable the radio before

29:42

they're radio before they notice them. Is that

29:44

correct? Or is there someone else that's bettering?

29:46

Now the car, the car is very much

29:49

in like the kind of obvious line of

29:51

sight of their of their flashlights that are

29:53

going back in there. But they're always shining

29:55

on the car. They're never like, is there

29:58

a time when when they are not around? the

30:00

car? I would say definitely in classic

30:02

stealth game fashion there are times when

30:04

the car is not lit but it

30:06

is it is often in their their

30:09

typical pathway as they look around the

30:11

front. And their path does it go

30:13

near the room a lot or is

30:15

it more just like in the the

30:17

front of the of the site? More

30:19

of the perimeter. They're not again they're

30:22

not going around the whole pyramid because

30:24

there's just too much thick vegetation behind

30:26

it. But there is one due just

30:28

standing at the entrance. light up a

30:30

cigarette. At the entrance to the cordon,

30:32

where I'm basically where I'm trying to

30:34

get to or what we're trying to

30:36

get. Yeah, and just to let you

30:38

know what the cordon is, it's one

30:40

of those cheap yellow plastic chains that's

30:42

just kind of set across the front.

30:44

Imprengatable. It's like a step over it.

30:46

Yeah, it's, yeah. No, I think that's your

30:49

only weakness is those chains. You'll trip and

30:51

then you'll hurt your knee. Can I crawl?

30:53

So we're not talking about like something crazy.

30:55

It would be quite easy to get past

30:57

that cordon if you weren't seeing going up

31:00

there? Yeah, that's what I'm trying to figure

31:02

out like up and watch these guys for

31:04

20 minutes. I'm wondering, you know, just Frank

31:06

for think he could or do I think I

31:08

could get like a sneak in, but if

31:10

the guy's standing right there. Yeah, the big

31:13

problem is that one dude. That's your main

31:15

obstacle here. You don't think you could sneak

31:17

you could sneak past that past that guy. We're

31:19

you know we could if we go back to

31:21

the you know even if they were just to

31:23

say hey let's say we go back to the

31:26

oh my car is broken down thing and they're

31:28

like hey go call someone even for those few

31:30

minutes they're gonna walk over and talk to you

31:32

and that's probably the only window I'd need

31:34

to sneak in what if we just distract

31:36

one guy but we don't need him like

31:39

calling anyone else to yeah let's do the

31:41

car thing it wouldn't matter because I'd be gone

31:43

yeah I'd be out of there all this

31:45

Is there any way that with

31:47

like my hacking abilities I could

31:49

maybe hack into the this local

31:52

police officers officers system anything that

31:54

they are using security wise to

31:56

sort of if they have a

31:58

connected computer? in their squad

32:00

car, maybe. I try that. Can I like

32:02

see if that's what's going on? You

32:05

would need to get into the squad

32:07

car. I assume without being seen because

32:09

there would be questions if you just

32:11

walked out of the dark jungle and

32:13

tried to get into their car. Why

32:15

are you going to make this game so hard?

32:18

Why does that be realistic? I'm

32:20

in. All right, predator, predator, predator

32:22

self activate. Okay, finally. You used

32:25

your predator predator self. Yeah, easy,

32:27

easy, easy, easy, let's do this

32:29

thing. earnestly because you could maybe

32:31

ask for help from on high

32:34

slash down low slash between do

32:36

you want to be invisible just

32:38

ask your weird gods no i

32:40

think i'm good in this case

32:43

this feels there will be no

32:45

consequence except fun like this falls

32:47

into the realm of my human

32:49

skills okay sorry to disappoint

33:38

So the plan, should I go talk

33:40

to them? I got, I'm good at

33:43

talking to folks. I can convince them.

33:45

I don't think we all need to

33:47

go. Obviously, whoever's gonna sneak in or

33:50

that's one or many people would

33:52

be doing that. But I think

33:54

other people being ready to confront

33:56

or stop or kill someone would

33:59

be important. in the situation?

34:01

Well, I brought a gun, so I'll

34:03

be trying to go inside. Okay, so

34:05

the plan is I'm gonna go up

34:07

and talk to them about our broken

34:09

down car. So I'll set the car

34:12

across the road, so it's blocking the

34:14

road, so it's blocking the road, put

34:16

the hood up, and I'll start walking,

34:18

and I don't know if anyone's gonna

34:20

come with me or not. If I

34:23

pour some water on there, see if

34:25

it gets some, Chris, what time of

34:27

the time of the night? We're well past

34:29

us. Yeah, I'll go with Felix.

34:31

All right, Felix and Forrest

34:33

are going to engage the

34:36

officers. What are Frankfort and

34:38

Faith up to? Frankfort is

34:40

going to be watching for

34:42

his moment for when he

34:44

can sneak into the entrance.

34:47

And Faith? Faith is going

34:49

to be working alongside Frankfort

34:51

in that endeavor. So here's my

34:53

understanding. Frankfurt's going to wait for

34:55

Faith to sneak his way to

34:57

his position guided by his radio

35:00

directions. Once that is clear and

35:02

the affirmative has been given, Felix

35:04

and Forest are going to carefully

35:06

drive their vehicle, open up the

35:08

hood, make sure it's across the

35:10

road, and then walk on foot

35:12

with flashlights going towards the patrolling

35:14

police officers at the cigarette. Is

35:16

that correct? All right, Faith, I'm

35:18

going to roll your stuff for

35:20

you. Thank you. It's my pleasure. All right.

35:22

Do I get to check it? I can't

35:24

tell you these things because then it

35:27

would ruin the veiled aspect of me.

35:29

You almost got you though. Almost got

35:31

me. I heard it. Faith you go

35:33

ahead and loudly crunch it. I'm

35:35

just kidding. Faith go ahead and

35:37

make your way to the... to

35:40

where Frankfurt is guiding you. And

35:42

you feel a hand on your shoulder.

35:44

It almost start up with a

35:46

yell, but stifle it's Frankfurt. Reaching

35:49

from an Iiki black shadow. from behind

35:51

a tree. He pulls you behind the

35:53

trunk as well and nods to you. Your

35:56

eyes have now fully adjusted and you can

35:58

see this motion and he lets the rest

36:00

of the team know that you're

36:02

in position. Forrest and Felix, you

36:04

go ahead and drive as far

36:06

as you feel comfortable. You don't

36:08

want to be within engine sound

36:10

distance of the pyramid necessarily. And

36:13

so you walk the large panel

36:15

van as far as you can

36:17

in neutral and maneuver it diagonally

36:19

across the road on a downhill spot

36:21

that you deemed safe where this would

36:23

be a decent maneuver to make. Go

36:25

ahead and pop the hood, put in

36:27

into park. Both of you

36:30

crunch across the dirt and

36:32

full-ish covered path towards you

36:34

yolo tauksia shortly. Before you

36:37

get there, I want to

36:39

look at forest. Forest,

36:41

Miss Bennet, I just want

36:43

to say, I'm sorry, I was

36:46

closed off earlier. It's hard

36:48

being two people and well,

36:50

the person how I am today

36:53

is a person that, well, has

36:55

his brother, and Taboris

36:57

did. so you can understand

37:00

why, why I don't like, I don't

37:02

like thinking about Tiberius. I

37:04

can't understand that. And

37:06

you didn't have to say that right

37:08

now, but since you did, thank you.

37:10

If I could just really quick tell

37:13

you something that you didn't know about

37:15

me, the difference in me then and

37:17

me now is having my parents

37:19

in my life. So I understand

37:21

to a degree, and I just

37:23

want you to know that I'm

37:26

here for you and I appreciate

37:28

that. you've been there for me

37:30

and I know it might be

37:32

a period you don't want to

37:34

think about for that exact

37:37

reason but you're a

37:39

good person and I

37:41

don't want you to forget

37:43

that. I appreciated. It's like

37:45

a sick, it's like a

37:47

sick joke. I wish we

37:49

could just call it a

37:52

night. You go ahead and

37:54

hear in the distance a

37:56

man's gruff. bellowing voice

37:58

and you can see flashlights,

38:01

curating through thick

38:03

foliage, revealing partial

38:05

silhouettes of an

38:07

informational placard and a

38:09

vehicle parked nearby. You hear,

38:11

what has done a scene?

38:14

Ah, oh, oh, ah, necessito,

38:16

are you the, ah, abla,

38:19

English? Three distinct beams now

38:21

are obviously pointed in your

38:23

direction. Frankfurt, faith you watch

38:26

as these free police

38:28

officers ostensibly are. Completely

38:30

focused on the approach

38:33

of your colleagues. My car!

38:35

You hear them whispering to

38:37

one another. My car! Meekaro!

38:40

It's caput! It broke! I'm lost!

38:42

Can you help? Are you done?

38:44

The two men that are

38:47

patrolling the partial perimeter

38:49

of Yolotoloshotli. You

38:51

hear them speaking

38:53

to each other in hushedones

38:56

in Spanish. and they both

38:58

began striding purposefully towards

39:00

the cries of forest in Felix. I

39:03

want to point out because I realize

39:05

that we're in a podcast. I had

39:07

my hands up. Yeah, actually I thought

39:10

the same like if there's three lights

39:12

shining on us hands or in the

39:14

air. There's still a ways away as

39:16

they close the distance they can see

39:18

that you have your hands out.

39:20

They're not drawing their weapons. They're

39:23

just walking towards you with their

39:25

flashlights at this time. Frank for

39:27

faith, you watch as the one

39:29

smoking a cigarette near the cordon,

39:31

near the entrance to the pyramid.

39:34

He stands straight up and

39:36

casually flashes his light in the

39:38

direction of his colleagues who are

39:40

now crunching their way towards the

39:43

helpless green goes in the darkness.

39:45

The officers are not only a

39:47

few paces away from you, Forrest,

39:49

Felix. The one in front says

39:51

in Spanish, your car's broken down? C.

39:53

C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C.

39:55

C. C. C. It's about, like

39:58

50 feet back. We

40:00

were trying to do a

40:02

U-turn and it just died

40:04

on us. I got lost

40:06

and it's so dark. It's

40:08

not the tires. It's actually

40:10

the engine died. Yeah, I

40:12

mean, it might just need

40:14

water or something. I don't

40:16

know, but I don't know anything

40:19

about cars. All right, go

40:21

ahead and roll your

40:23

persuade versus my humid,

40:25

please. I rolled a 87. Is

40:28

that just 10? 73. You're American?

40:31

Yes, uh, American Texan,

40:33

actually. Mm-hmm. Well,

40:35

uh, do you have identification?

40:38

Uh, uh, yeah, sure, uh, am I in

40:40

trouble? I'm sorry, I'm not supposed

40:43

to be out here. This is

40:45

restricted area, private property,

40:47

the other one says.

40:50

Oh, no, no, it's all

40:52

in Spanish, Forest. Oh. Yeah,

40:54

uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, me

40:56

Padre is no mechanic. The the second

40:58

one laughs and he turns his

41:01

attention to Felix no mechanic. I

41:03

am I'm pretty good with engines

41:05

You know it's I can take a

41:08

look that would be so helpful. Thank

41:10

you so much or we're really not

41:12

supposed to leave our posts Or we

41:14

can just call somebody out here for

41:16

you, but it's gonna take hours. Oh

41:18

could take could take all night. Oh,

41:20

no might not even be here. No,

41:22

we don't want to know if you could

41:25

just take a look please I'd be so

41:27

I'd be so happy. Please, I can't be

41:29

here all night. I gotta get my medicine.

41:31

They kind of glance at each other. It's

41:34

just, it's so risky we could

41:36

lose our jobs. I won't tell anyone.

41:38

And if something happens, I'll pay them

41:40

for their trouble. I'll tell them

41:42

everything. I'll talk to the embassy. I'll

41:45

make sure. Actually, the fewer people you

41:47

talked to about us leaving our post

41:49

just to come this far out. I'll

41:51

tell nobody. Honestly. We should get back

41:54

to it. We'll call it in in the

41:56

morning and just stay in your vehicle to

41:58

be safe. It's dangerous out here. the jungle

42:00

at night. Wait, you want us to

42:02

stay in a car? You can't understand

42:04

any of this in Spanish?

42:06

I'm gonna say in English

42:08

very loudly and angrily like

42:10

a tourist, American tourist, you

42:13

want me to stay out in

42:15

the jungle all night? And then

42:17

back to Spanish. Back in Spanish. I

42:19

can't believe it. I'm just an old

42:21

man here trying to ask what are

42:23

the police officers here, not Supposed to

42:26

help people what you want money I

42:28

can give you money. I just need

42:30

help will help you in the morning.

42:32

We'll help you in the morning. We'll

42:34

help you in the morning actually that

42:37

might make things a little bit less

42:39

risky for us. I mean like what

42:41

is this a hundred dollars risky

42:43

point simply they both laugh 200 dollars

42:46

risky that's all a god I got

42:48

248 dollars shake their head. The first

42:50

one goes you'll be safe inside your

42:52

car just stay there there at night.

42:54

In the morning we'll call somebody to

42:56

come till you out. I can't even

42:59

stay here. Felix, what is he saying?

43:01

They won't, they won't come look at the

43:03

car, they won't help us, they told us

43:05

to sit in the van. I need my

43:07

medicine, I say back in Spanish.

43:10

Okay, but tell them we, we're, they can't

43:12

leave us out here with people

43:14

vandalizing stuff. It's dangerous. I

43:16

say back in English, they, they

43:18

don't know we know that. We know. Just

43:20

kidding. I start walking up to them with

43:22

my hands up. He needs this medicine.

43:25

He needs his medicine. No, I know

43:27

they can't understand me, but I'm gonna

43:29

blubber at them anyways because this is

43:31

a frantic situation. I start walking

43:33

towards them with my hands up. Yeah, they

43:35

both kind of stand their ground. They're smiling.

43:38

First one, says, sir, can't help you till

43:40

the morning. We have to stay out here

43:42

all night. So you head back to your

43:44

car, close and lock up those doors.

43:46

Lots of creepy crawlies out tonight. Do

43:49

they have a badges? Yes, they are. They

43:51

do have uniforms and badges. I

43:53

take out a pen and paper

43:55

or pen and not and start

43:57

writing down their badge numbers and

43:59

just. kind of being as big

44:01

of a Karen as I possibly

44:03

can? Yes. No badge numbers, but

44:06

you write down there, there is

44:08

something, patches on their right shoulders.

44:10

San Felipe de Agua, you see

44:12

that. I start writing that down,

44:15

I start walking towards their car

44:17

and writing down the license plate,

44:20

I start yelling at them, I

44:22

want names, I want names, what

44:24

are your names? I'm taking

44:26

this to the top. Sir, if you

44:29

don't return to your car and

44:31

stop distracting us from our

44:33

duties, we're gonna take you to

44:35

jail. Oh, you'll help me! You'll help

44:37

me then, huh? Take you to jail,

44:39

sir. You won't enjoy that. The other

44:41

one laughs. So, go back to your

44:44

car right now. No more of this.

44:46

No more of this. No more of

44:48

this. That way I can get my

44:50

medicine. You won't have any medicine

44:52

in jail. You'll be very sick

44:54

there, so go back to your car. Your

44:57

arm puts handcuffs on you. The other

44:59

one walks up to you for us and

45:01

does the same. I start. We're going

45:03

to go yelling police brutality and flopping

45:05

around. That's fine. Are they going to

45:08

put us into their police car? We're going

45:10

to move to Frank Fert and Faith. Your

45:12

scene starts where theirs began. Where

45:14

the yelling began. You're not privy

45:17

to the most recent events that we

45:19

narrated as they are getting arrested for

45:21

unruly behavior and disobey police officers. What

45:23

do you do with the... time that

45:25

they're affording you as they seem to

45:27

be yelling at these men back and

45:29

forth in Spanish. We're going to make

45:31

our way over. How's the attention of

45:33

the third guy? Is it someone we

45:35

could sneak back? Third guy is washing

45:38

carefully. The yelling is quite heated as

45:40

they go back and forth. He's leaning

45:42

forward now allowing his cigarette to burn

45:44

a little bit. He's no longer really

45:46

puffing on it. He's scrutinizing whatever is

45:48

going on. Basically there's it on the

45:51

road. There's no way we would get

45:53

inside without him. Noticing us still yeah,

45:55

he would hear you all come in

45:57

just crunching along far before you got

45:59

close to the entrance.

46:01

Unless he's deaf.

46:03

Flashbang? Uh, either. No.

46:06

I don't think that's a

46:08

good idea. No, it's a

46:10

joke. There's no way we're

46:12

doing that. Frankfurt

46:14

looks over at Faith says,

46:17

well, this isn't going

46:19

well. Whippers. This isn't

46:21

going well. You guys

46:23

better fucking do something.

46:25

I'm going to jail.

46:28

We're going to jail. This

46:30

isn't the distraction we

46:32

were hoping to get.

46:34

So this isn't going to

46:36

work. Faith kind of just

46:38

looks at Frankus and

46:41

rolls his eyes and said, you

46:43

can't do shit. Boring. Super lame. Tell

46:45

me, tell me about this taser that

46:47

I've got that I borrowed from Felix.

46:49

It's like a have to be right

46:51

up on top of somebody or is

46:53

it like a that fires the barbs

46:56

out? What do we do? What do

46:58

we got? Yeah, it's a windy eight

47:00

stun taser, so that's going to be

47:02

your typical, would fit in a woman's

47:04

purse taser. So yeah, it's handheld. You're

47:06

going to go ahead and hold it against

47:08

someone's body. in order to complete the

47:11

current, depressing the trigger. I'd have to

47:13

either sneak up on this guy or

47:15

run so fast and get him before

47:17

he could yell. And that's assuming they

47:20

would even hear the taser going off

47:22

for this guy going, oh, big tased.

47:24

Yeah, remember how loud taser crackles are?

47:27

They're pretty fucking loud. Are they louder

47:29

than a high may? Delgado don't think

47:31

so. Oh yeah, Jaime Delgado is going

47:33

to beat that in decibels any day

47:36

of the week. But I'll tell you

47:38

right now, the two men that are

47:40

yelling in Spanish and arresting your friends will

47:42

hear the crackling. 100%! There's no doubt in

47:44

your mind. You know how Tez was. I

47:46

figured, I'm just exploring, exploring the options in

47:48

front of me, that's all. Sure, sure. So

47:51

Chris, I mean, tell me what you'd do

47:53

in our situation when you see the two

47:55

people you made plans with shitting the bed

47:57

with shitting the bed so spectacularlyting the bed

47:59

so spectacularly. would you make? Well right now they're

48:01

not shitting the bed right right now they're providing

48:03

a great distraction you've just got one guy with

48:05

so right now everything's going to plan the red

48:08

carpet out for you guys come on not really

48:10

okay right now everything's going to plan you have

48:12

no idea that they're gonna end up fucking it

48:14

up and get arrested so we gotta make our

48:17

way out that way anyways you're right you're right

48:19

okay all right so that doesn't I get you're

48:21

not that far yet into the or you guys

48:23

can do nothing and just hang out and just

48:26

hang out in the jungle while everybody gets arrested.

48:28

I mean that sounds amazing. Go nowhere with the

48:30

investigation. This is Delta Green, it's finest.

48:32

It's for sure. I've got my two

48:34

fucking operatives in the jungle too afraid

48:36

to move against one guy. Bad. What's

48:38

what I'm trying to figure out is

48:40

if he if because we got to get up

48:43

to him without him alerting the other guys.

48:45

You know, maybe I get going sleeper hold

48:47

and put him on. I said sleeper hold

48:49

at least, you know. Time to lead us big

48:51

man. Yeah. Fuck it whenever, he's gonna sneak

48:53

up on this guy and attempt to

48:55

put him in his sleep or hold. You do

48:57

see that if you're able to be

48:59

extremely quiet, which is tough because the

49:02

ground is, you know, jungle, rocky, covered

49:04

with vegetation. You've got to go up

49:06

some steps. You can try to climb

49:08

up the side quietly. Maybe he won't

49:10

hear you, but if you scuffle at

49:13

all and he looks over with his

49:15

flashlight, you're made, because there's no like.

49:17

place to hide. Could we go around,

49:19

go around the, the back? John, call

49:21

your dark gods to grant you some

49:24

sort of stealthiness and just get out

49:26

there, dude. Do you want to, do

49:28

you want to go around the back,

49:30

climb up the back, climb up the

49:32

back, and then like jump, jump down,

49:35

assassin screen style from the other side?

49:37

I mean, that might, that might work.

49:39

That's not quite what I was

49:41

thinking, but I love that idea.

49:43

Yeah, you've never had problems climbing

49:45

things. Keep in mind you also

49:47

have no real strength in your

49:49

four armors because they're split down

49:52

them. So pulling up your weight

49:54

is going to be at a

49:56

vast detriment. I won't disallow it,

49:58

but your athletics when it. to like

50:00

a pull-up motion or any pull like a

50:02

high pull is going to be at probably

50:04

the greatest detriment I can give you

50:06

and again. So that idea is not going

50:08

to work either. I mean it might it's

50:11

still a... Just do stuff John. You still

50:13

have a chance. You still have a chance.

50:15

You still have a chance. Hey man you're

50:17

here too. I'm just I'm telling you I'm

50:19

telling you that you have a major injury

50:21

and we've described it on the cast several

50:23

times. And as a pull. Yes, yeah, so I'm

50:26

not seeing a way to sneak up

50:28

on this this one guy without him

50:30

alerting the other people is what I

50:32

just told you a whole bunch of

50:34

ways It's just going to be risk.

50:36

Okay, you told me assassins creating off

50:38

the top of a fucking power That's

50:40

not a good. Yeah, you can much

50:42

know and you can climb up the

50:44

back of it and go get a

50:46

long shit. Maybe John will be done.

50:48

No, if you're sitting right next to

50:50

me or you want to do what

50:52

do? I was relying on you entirely

50:54

You have 46 that's better than competent.

50:57

So you guys got to like get

50:59

over like not doing stuff You're

51:01

gonna have to risk stuff in

51:03

the game. That's search you're looking

51:06

for just don't do anything. Try

51:08

something else reconvene Whatever, but you're

51:10

here. Reconvene whatever, but you're here.

51:12

Have you're here. Have you're here

51:15

reconvene whatever, but you're here. Have

51:17

you're here has to just straight

51:19

up kill the guy kill the

51:22

guy. I mean just do That's

51:24

why I wanted to do it. You're a

51:26

big guy. So there's a couple of ways.

51:28

You can try to sneak up the steps.

51:31

Maybe you can crouch down really low and

51:33

then just like pop up at the last

51:35

minute and rush them. You can try to

51:37

climb up. Again, athletics is at a detriment

51:40

for you because you have a major injury.

51:42

You can try to climb up on the

51:44

other side, which are very large slabs, and

51:46

scuffle your way up to come at them

51:49

from that way. You're still going to cross

51:51

a little bit of terrain in order to

51:53

get to get to them. The

51:55

non-obvious way was already suggested. That's

51:57

going around back climbing up these.

52:00

sort of vegetation engulfed side of

52:02

it. It's a little bit more

52:04

unknown, trying to get all the

52:06

way to the 50 meter summit,

52:08

and then coming back down from

52:10

the summit to get this guy

52:12

quietly. So there's just like, the

52:14

world is your oyster, man. Just

52:16

what do you want to do?

52:18

I'm going to sneak up on

52:20

them and do a sleeper hole,

52:23

and we're just going to go.

52:25

Which direction, what are you doing?

52:27

Oh, I'm faith. Okay, I'm following.

52:29

Indeed. You're following him. Okay, hell

52:31

yeah. Sounds good. All right, let

52:34

me go ahead and roll the

52:36

lowest stealth in the group. You

52:38

guys are about the same. Yeah. You

52:40

both take this moment as your

52:42

colleagues begin to yell back

52:45

and forth and the two

52:47

patrolling officers begin to stride

52:49

forward away from you and

52:51

towards past their vehicle towards

52:53

the gesticulating spanglish of Felix.

52:56

And you make your way.

52:58

Crouching down low, a very

53:00

low monkey crouch, to the

53:02

steps that lead up to

53:05

the entrance of

53:07

Yolotoshotli. Keeping your heads

53:09

as low as possible, you

53:11

deftly, quickly, run up the

53:13

steps. The man's eyes are fixed

53:15

on a point behind you, a

53:17

point that is punctuated by,

53:19

again, yelling, and he doesn't

53:22

even seem to realize that

53:24

there's movement in the darkness

53:26

below his eye line. until

53:29

it's too late. Frank Fert, when

53:31

he does hear you, and he does,

53:33

you're already within two feet of

53:35

him, right in front of him, and

53:38

you watch as his eyes flicker down

53:40

into what you know is darkness,

53:42

darkness that's going to be

53:44

a blind spot for him

53:46

since he's been fixed upon

53:49

the halo of his flashlight

53:51

for so long. But his eyes do

53:53

dark down as you rise up to

53:55

meet him and you watch. almost in

53:57

slow motion as the flashlight dips as

53:59

well. to potentially illuminate

54:01

your forearm and faith's behind

54:03

you. Well, yeah, I was

54:05

going in for the, I guess it's

54:08

unarmed. I was gonna go in to try

54:10

to put him in a sleeper hold.

54:12

It's at a plus 20%? Go ahead.

54:14

39 out of 80. You go

54:16

ahead and bring your forearm up,

54:18

you're damaged forearm up

54:20

to his throat, and you grab

54:23

the hand that's holding the flashlight,

54:25

and you swing around your

54:27

bulk maneuvering. his body with

54:29

yours as you are suddenly

54:31

behind him pinning the flashlight

54:34

holding hand behind his back

54:36

as well as keeping your forearm at

54:38

his neck and you bent him

54:40

up and backwards forcing him to

54:42

gasp when he gasps the moment

54:44

you've been waiting for your

54:47

forearm clutches tighter you do not

54:49

allow any more air into his lungs

54:51

at that point as you hold him

54:53

tight he struggles against you he

54:55

can't call out he can't cry

54:57

his eyes wide, bulging. They fix

54:59

upon you faith as you loom out

55:02

of the darkness in front of him,

55:04

a giant Canadian. I pull my knife

55:06

from my boot and I stick it

55:08

between his ribs on his side.

55:10

He groans in pain. He makes

55:12

a horrible whimpering guttural sound as

55:15

Frankfort continues to hold him tight.

55:17

Blood flows down over your hands

55:19

onto the stones below, splattering, thick

55:22

and hot. It only takes a

55:24

moment for him to stop

55:26

struggling until he goes limp. blood

55:28

flowing out of the wound. Dang,

55:30

you murdered a guy. Both of

55:32

you roll your sanities from violence

55:35

if you're not in your, I

55:37

believe Frankfurt's in your, so you

55:39

don't have to roll. You're just

55:41

gonna take the, uh, take the

55:43

damage as if you passed. I

55:46

thought we were just gonna put

55:48

him to sleep for it. I

55:50

didn't realize we were killing me.

55:52

Faith has faith in one thing,

55:54

and that is, no. Oh, for

55:57

sure. whether you pass or fail.

55:59

Yeah. Thanks. Faith is gonna definitely

56:01

project on his wife, even though

56:03

they've been having kind of some

56:05

difficulties lately. She's a constant source

56:08

of calm in his life. You

56:10

know, he returns to her as

56:12

a, she's his confidant, his love,

56:14

and he uses that love to

56:17

ride him through this moment that

56:19

he, Rolla 1D4. Cool. It's a four.

56:21

You're gonna lose four from your wife's

56:23

spot. That's a big head. You're

56:25

also gonna use four from your

56:27

willpower. And Frankford, are you going

56:29

to project? That's fine, I'll just

56:31

take it. Frankford, you didn't realize

56:33

Faith was going to shank the

56:35

guy, but he did, and it

56:37

was effective, because he bled out

56:39

at least to the point where

56:41

he could no longer stay conscious, and

56:44

you just feel dead weight now

56:46

against your forearm. He's not struggling

56:48

against you at all. He's not even

56:50

trying to take in breath. You think

56:53

he's probably dead, or his heart just

56:55

immediately gave out from the shock of

56:57

being stopped. shirt and puts it back

56:59

in its holster. Alright, let's go.

57:02

Does Frankfurt feel compelled to rip

57:04

one of this guy's teeth out

57:06

because... It's not your kill you,

57:08

bitch? Not Frankfurt. Who would roll

57:10

your sanity? That's a great fucking

57:13

question. What do I want to

57:15

take this? I didn't actually, I

57:17

felt killed the guy, I guess. You

57:19

absolutely feel like you got to

57:22

collect the tooth from this one.

57:24

Fucking shit, okay. Absolutely. Remember,

57:26

if you put a body in a

57:28

bush, nobody can see it. Ever. That's

57:31

what we're doing. If you want

57:33

to suppress that acute episode of

57:35

having to rip a tooth out

57:37

of a corpse, that you're partially

57:40

responsible for making a corpse, you

57:42

may roll a 1D4 to do

57:44

that. Otherwise, have fun. No, no,

57:46

I'm not going to. What I

57:49

suppress the birch. Good grief. I

57:51

kind of get them teeth, man.

57:53

Come on, you tooth fairy. Let's

57:55

get it. It's like, well, since

57:57

you killed the guy, uh... Yeah,

58:00

it's in the darkness, in the silence,

58:02

only last broken by faith's harsh whisper.

58:04

You feel the urge again, the back

58:06

of your skull, scratching, scratching, telling you

58:08

that it's time to indulge. It's time

58:10

to take a trophy. It's time to

58:12

feel alive and purposeful. Yeah, but how's

58:14

it you usually do? It just reaches

58:16

in and... Grab the whole one and

58:18

poles, right? Want you to describe your

58:20

actions? Oh my God, I really don't

58:22

want to. It's radio, man. This is

58:24

radio. I'm just reaching in and ripping

58:26

his dude's teeth out. Find your... Okay,

58:28

well he... I'm happy to describe it for you,

58:31

if you need me to, but I was hoping you'd have

58:33

fun with it. If not, I got it. I'm just not

58:35

used to doing it. I'll make it real gross for you.

58:37

That's all I just haven't, I haven't, I haven't, I haven't,

58:39

I haven't actually had to narrate, I haven't actually had to

58:41

narrate, I had to narrate, I had to narrate, narrate, narrate,

58:43

narrate, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that,

58:45

that, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a,

58:47

I haven't actually, a, I haven't actually, a, So Frankfurt, you

58:49

look up at faith who has just told you that it's

58:51

done and it's time to go into the darkened entryway

58:54

of Yolotosho shortly and

58:56

you nod, never letting go of

58:58

the man's dead neck, but you

59:01

let go of the hand holding

59:03

the flashlight which falls to the

59:05

stone floor below you, rolls forward

59:07

and stops against faith's foot and

59:09

your fingers dart to the man's

59:12

mouth and you stare. at faith,

59:14

as there is the sound of

59:17

wrenching. You wiggle an eye-toothed

59:19

back and forth, back and forth,

59:22

until it explodes out of the

59:24

man's mouth, a flurry of blood,

59:26

splatters against faith's lapel in front

59:29

of a shirt. You let go

59:31

of the man slides to the

59:33

ground. You'll hold your trophy up

59:36

to the sky. the twinkling stars

59:38

of which there are so

59:40

many more thousands and you

59:42

remember seeing the last time

59:45

you looked up at a

59:47

night sky you hold this

59:49

tooth up and it gleams

59:52

brightly and joins those

59:54

myriad constellations of

59:56

the heavens Another

1:01:00

tape begins, Everett, but under

1:01:02

less than favorable conditions.

1:01:04

Indeed, Mr. Mallock, our

1:01:06

new associate, seems to have quite

1:01:09

the flare for the dramatic.

1:01:11

You're evoked what you cannot

1:01:13

fathom, servant of the

1:01:15

impaled. I summon you not

1:01:18

for pleasantries, servant of the

1:01:20

dark. Our attractors grow bold,

1:01:22

and my usual methods are

1:01:25

insufficient methods are insufficient methods

1:01:27

are insufficient Perhaps

1:01:30

this visitor can

1:01:32

upgrade our rituals

1:01:34

with some cosmic

1:01:36

cloud? Perhaps this

1:01:39

visitor can upgrade

1:01:41

our rituals with

1:01:43

some cosmic cloud

1:01:45

computing to help handle

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our tractors, Mr. Malik?

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I offer what you

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desire most dark messenger.

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the unraveling of sanity

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among those who oppose

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us. Ah, the sweet music

1:02:01

of this. But no this.

1:02:03

Your bargain comes with a

1:02:05

price, and my whims are

1:02:07

not notable to once, is

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you? Ah, so you're saying

1:02:11

there's no reading file for your

1:02:14

whims? How very proprietary.

1:02:16

Enough ever it! Dark One.

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Your presence here is to

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ensure our narrative is not

1:02:23

silenced. We give you the freedom

1:02:26

to play with those who would

1:02:28

challenge us. Freedom to play

1:02:30

is because if you understand

1:02:32

the game. Very well, I shall

1:02:35

delay the trackers, but remember,

1:02:37

this dance is not for

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me to lead. Just keep

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them at bay. We must

1:02:44

continue to grow our influence

1:02:46

to fortify our ranks. Ranks,

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influence, you are but expect.

1:02:50

However, for entertain

1:02:53

its sake, I shall weave

1:02:55

your enemies into my country.

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But remember, all deals with

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me and in my case.

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Oh, how delightful. We'll have

1:03:03

to update our employee handbook.

1:03:05

I suppose we can also

1:03:07

move from the Milkbath chapter

1:03:10

while we're at. Enough of

1:03:12

your ceaseless jests ever it! To

1:03:14

our stalwart supporters heed this.

1:03:17

Michael, Ilea, basics, Julian, Dixie

1:03:19

Pultab, Baruta, Space Chef, Keepers

1:03:21

of the Hounds. Sam Wyndham,

1:03:23

Misfit, Brent, Duke Ospook, Lucas,

1:03:26

Max Albert, Micah, Eva, Evra,

1:03:28

Noiswich, Evans, One for Two,

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Whispering Heralds, Bug Buzz of

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the Fallen Inquisition. Your roles

1:03:35

grow with each passing moment.

1:03:37

Your support is what keeps

1:03:40

our story alive against the

1:03:42

backdrop of the... Your story,

1:03:44

an interesting notion, but whether be

1:03:46

known the price of this fails

1:03:49

continuation, is... Steve. Indeed. I'll have

1:03:51

to make sure your... Shadow puppetry,

1:03:53

skills are kept sharp, if we're to

1:03:56

continue the charade of summoning. Do

1:03:58

not dare detract from my

1:04:00

method of Eldrich evocation, Everett.

1:04:02

The potency of a well-trained

1:04:04

puppeteer in the art of

1:04:07

shadow play cannot be matched

1:04:09

by other more mundane methods

1:04:11

of contacting the beyond. Now,

1:04:13

this recording ends, but our

1:04:15

deal, Dark Messenger, is

1:04:19

only just

1:04:21

beginning. Let

1:04:24

the detractors

1:04:26

fall into

1:04:29

your shadow

1:04:31

and let

1:04:34

our followers

1:04:37

know their

1:04:39

importance. Your

1:04:42

followers of

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shadow play

1:04:49

are...