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[00:00:00] Speaker A: Records of the unknown. Operation Convergence involve story elements that some may find disturbing, including violence, psychological horror, and depictions of suicide. Listener discretion is advised.
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[00:00:45] Speaker C: Agents Green and Olive spoke with Jane Allen, who explained that Scott Adams, a newsletter writer looking into UFOs in the area, had helped her hide. After confirming key details of her story, the two entered Scott Adams'motel room to find lights blocked and covered and a computer with notes scattered around it, at which point they heard the front door lock behind them. Olive broke the door down, finding a chair wedged against it, but no one to be seen.
Green opened the door to the bathroom and discovered the remains of an apparent suicide victim at the sheriff's station. Gray and Teal received the missing persons reports and assistance from the sheriff to review the records room. When entering the room, Agent Gray experienced a vision that shook him to his core.
[00:01:45] Speaker B: The unknown one of mankind's greatest fears.
Knowledge is safety. The light is comfortable. Darkness represents the unknown, a blight on our human lives.
The unknown penetrates our minds.
The only way to face the unknown, to cure yourself of the plague, is to stick your hand into the darkness, pull the plug and let the darkness, the unknown, drain. But who knows what one might find waiting for them in the darkness?
September 13, 1996 03:00 p.m. Merle's shut eye. All of you have just finished kicking down the door, breaking a wooden chair. Now you're looking out into the hallway behind you. John Green. You have just opened the door into the bathroom, and inside you see a lifeless corpse floating in a bathtub filled with water and blood. The two of you are in a room, clothes strewn about in the walls, takeout containers all over a laptop surrounded by notes on the bed, ripped towels that were taped on the walls, now ripped off by John Green. What do you guys do in this scenario?
[00:03:15] Speaker D: Do I see any cutting implement in the bathroom?
[00:03:20] Speaker B: Not where you're at. Now the bathtub is freestanding. It is not against the wall.
[00:03:26] Speaker D: Okay, I am going to check his temperature to try and figure out how long he's been dead.
[00:03:34] Speaker E: Maybe do we have a thermometer?
[00:03:39] Speaker B: No.
You want to just go up and check with the back of your hand?
[00:03:44] Speaker D: Yeah, I guess I'll do that to see if it was, like, recent or not.
[00:03:48] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:03:49] Speaker D: I have first aid.
[00:03:51] Speaker B: First aid? Yeah. Why don't you go ahead and roll on that?
[00:03:54] Speaker D: 44 over 30.
[00:03:56] Speaker B: 44 over 30. Critical failure as you step up to the body to test it. Olive, what are you up to right now?
[00:04:10] Speaker E: I am looking around in the hallway to see if I can, I don't know, see anyone who might have put a chair under the doorknob?
[00:04:20] Speaker B: There doesn't seem to be anyone or any trace of anyone out in the hallway.
[00:04:25] Speaker E: I don't hear any, like, running footsteps or anything?
[00:04:27] Speaker B: Nothing of the sort.
[00:04:28] Speaker E: Is what's your face's door still closed?
[00:04:33] Speaker B: Yes. It seems to be in the same condition you left it. Jane Allen, presumably still hiding away, maybe eating what remains.
[00:04:41] Speaker E: Not seeing anything. I'm going to go into the bathroom with John.
[00:04:46] Speaker B: As you begin to step in the bathroom, you see the dead, semi bloated corpse. Could you make a sanity roll?
[00:04:54] Speaker E: 22 under 90.
[00:04:57] Speaker B: All right.
[00:04:58] Speaker E: Oh, sorry. Under 89.
[00:04:59] Speaker B: But it's not the first corpse you've seen. You walk in. As you're stepping in, though, you hear the sound of a shoe squeaking against the water as John's hand goes from the victim's head deep into the tub with a critical failure.
[00:05:14] Speaker D: So I'm guessing he slipped.
[00:05:16] Speaker B: Yes. You fine.
[00:05:20] Speaker D: I'm fine.
I'm just going to pull the plug, I guess, since now I'm here to drain the water.
[00:05:27] Speaker E: Tampering with a crime scene.
[00:05:29] Speaker D: I'll put it back.
[00:05:30] Speaker B: You start draining it. As you put it back, you feel something brush against your hand.
[00:05:36] Speaker D: Like what kind of sensation?
[00:05:38] Speaker B: Like something slimy rolling against the back of your hand.
Would you make a dodge roll?
[00:05:45] Speaker F: Okay.
[00:05:46] Speaker B: 50 50. You pull your hand back out of the water. Blood and water splashes against you. What is everyone's? Dexterity scores.
[00:05:56] Speaker D: 1414.
[00:05:58] Speaker B: You both have 14.
[00:06:03] Speaker D: I don't know if I touch something by accident or maybe there's something else in the tub.
[00:06:11] Speaker E: What do you mean?
[00:06:12] Speaker D: I mean I touched something and I'm not entirely sure what it is. It felt like something slimy, but I feel like it could potentially be a lot of things. Do we have a stick?
[00:06:25] Speaker B: I think you have your two x four with you, don't you? I do.
[00:06:28] Speaker D: I assume so. Should I try and poke it with a stick?
[00:06:32] Speaker E: Before you do that, I'd like to shine my flashlight in the tub water.
[00:06:37] Speaker D: Oh, that's right. Is it still dark in here?
[00:06:39] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:06:39] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:06:40] Speaker B: The flashlight comes on. There is far too much blood to really see through the tub.
[00:06:46] Speaker E: Too viscous.
[00:06:48] Speaker B: Will you make an alertness check for me?
[00:06:51] Speaker E: 58 over 50.
[00:06:54] Speaker B: Okay.
Really hard to see through the blood. There's a lot. Okay.
[00:06:59] Speaker D: So I'm thinking we should probably leave, lock up the room because I still have the key, and we will check.
[00:07:07] Speaker B: Back with the others.
[00:07:09] Speaker E: Yeah, that sounds like a plan to me. They should probably take a look in here too.
[00:07:14] Speaker D: Yeah, and I think we should probably try and make it quick. Yep, yep, yep.
[00:07:19] Speaker B: As you both look in there, think better of investigating alone. You turn away to leave. Jack, will you roll alertness?
[00:07:27] Speaker E: Oh, my gosh.
[00:07:29] Speaker B: Abby, you two get ready for a crit fail.
[00:07:33] Speaker E: Don't say that.
[00:07:34] Speaker D: No, for me.
31 over 2011 under 50.
[00:07:40] Speaker B: Oh, wow. Critical success.
You hear something plopping out of the water and are able to act as you see turning around. A head sized gray form. It's like ball, but it's viscous and liquid, but keep holding together kind of like a slime of sorts, but on it is like a sheen of oil mixed with water as it looks like it is leaping towards John. Green, I will allow you in action.
[00:08:17] Speaker E: I'm going to shove John out of the way.
[00:08:19] Speaker B: Okay. What I'm going to do for that is I'm going to give John a plus 20% to his dodge roll. John, will you make a dodge roll against this creature?
[00:08:29] Speaker D: 25 under 70.
[00:08:31] Speaker B: 31 under. So it hits you again with opposed rolls. If you both succeed, whoever rolled the highest and still succeeded wins the conflict.
[00:08:42] Speaker A: Oh.
[00:08:43] Speaker B: So Jack, this thing, as she's pushing you out of the way, latches onto your hand, and you take oh, my goodness. Six points of damage. Jack, what is your max? HP 1111. Oh.
[00:08:59] Speaker D: And you took six fragile.
[00:09:01] Speaker B: Now, in this game, if you take half of your HP at once, you become stunned, so you'll be unable to do anything but roll constitution at the beginning of each of your turns to become unstunned. Yes.
[00:09:15] Speaker A: Got you.
[00:09:15] Speaker B: So this thing, you feel like the burning, and it's almost like a fire, but also like teeth against your hand, and you start feeling it getting through your skin.
And I'd like you also, both of you, to roll sanity checks. Seeing this thing burst out of the water at you.
[00:09:36] Speaker E: 62 under, 89 50.
[00:09:40] Speaker B: Both of you lose one sanity point. Jack, you're going to lose four sanity. However, I'd like to take this opportunity to talk about how you can reduce your sanity loss. You can choose to roll a D four and reduce how much sanity you take and the willpower points you currently have, as well as a bond if.
[00:10:00] Speaker D: You want to do that.
[00:10:01] Speaker B: Or you can just take the four sanity level.
[00:10:03] Speaker D: I will roll a D four. Four.
[00:10:06] Speaker B: So you take no sanity loss. However, you do lose four willpower points and four to one of your bonds. Which bond of yours has you chosen.
[00:10:15] Speaker D: To harm the relationship with? My ex wife.
[00:10:20] Speaker B: Oh, all right. So how do you mentally project this insanity that you're witnessing onto your thoughts of your ex wife?
[00:10:30] Speaker D: As this thing is leaping out of him, he's having this kind of life flashing before his eyes moments, and so he's kind of, like, thinking about his past failed marriage, and so he's just kind of just projecting all of this kind of fear and pain he's now experiencing kind of onto her.
[00:10:47] Speaker B: All right.
Well, with the way that the combat order has turned because Abby making that critical success, you are stunned. So on your turn, Green, I would like you to roll constitution. So you're just going to roll against your Constitution score 63 over 60.
[00:11:06] Speaker F: Okay.
[00:11:06] Speaker B: So you are still stunned, taken aback by this thing now, fully covering your hand. You can't even see your hand now, which brings it back around to Olive's turn. Olive, as you lost that point of sanity watching this whole thing happen, what's going through your mind right now during all of this?
[00:11:25] Speaker E: What the heck is I feel like that's a normal yeah, yeah, I think so. So this thing is still attached to John's hand?
[00:11:32] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:11:33] Speaker E: Can I try and pull it off of his hand?
[00:11:36] Speaker B: You can try. You're looking at it right now. There's, like, blood starting to pour out of it.
[00:11:41] Speaker E: Of the blob or where it's attached to his hand?
[00:11:44] Speaker B: Well, the blob is covering his hand completely, and it's seeping out of the blob.
[00:11:48] Speaker E: The blood is yeah. Okay.
Yeah. I'm going to try and pull this overgrown tick off of John's hands if I can.
[00:11:59] Speaker D: That sounds grosser than a blob.
[00:12:01] Speaker B: I mean, it's got the look of an overgrown tick, that's for sure. I'll have you roll athletics, and I'll have it roll athletics. Yeah. Five under 55 under 50.
It does not come off. Gosh.
[00:12:17] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:12:19] Speaker B: It moves on to the things turn. Sayonar it bites down or whatever it does to you. Again, as you feel it continuing down, and you're starting to lose feeling in all your entire hand.
[00:12:34] Speaker D: That makes sense.
[00:12:36] Speaker B: Would you like to roll constitution again to see if you're still stunned?
[00:12:40] Speaker D: 45 under 60.
[00:12:41] Speaker B: All right. You are no longer stunned.
[00:12:44] Speaker D: So do I get an action, or is that my turn?
[00:12:46] Speaker B: It says at the beginning of your turn, I'm going to say you get a turn.
[00:12:49] Speaker D: I'm just going to start wailing it against a wall.
[00:12:52] Speaker B: All right. Yeah. Make you want to roll unarmed combat. It's going to spend its turn trying to dodge.
[00:12:59] Speaker D: 28 under 40.
[00:13:01] Speaker B: All right. Will you roll one D four of damage one as you successfully slam it against the wall. One damage, you hit it against the wall and, like, pull it off. Doesn't even leave any residue on the wall. Olive, it's your turn.
[00:13:17] Speaker E: I mean, I do have my gun out.
[00:13:19] Speaker B: Do it.
[00:13:20] Speaker E: But it risks shooting through your, um.
[00:13:23] Speaker D: I think my hands are already gone.
[00:13:25] Speaker E: Are you sure?
[00:13:26] Speaker D: I feel pretty confident.
[00:13:27] Speaker B: Marine, you see her looking to her gun. Oh.
[00:13:30] Speaker D: And I look at her, and I.
[00:13:31] Speaker B: Go, shoot it, shoot it, shoot it, shoot it.
[00:13:32] Speaker E: Okay, then I'll shoot it.
[00:13:34] Speaker B: All right. You draw your gun, and then you'll roll firearms.
[00:13:38] Speaker E: 28 under 40.
[00:13:40] Speaker B: It's a d eight. Go ahead and roll.
[00:13:42] Speaker E: Seven.
[00:13:43] Speaker B: Seven points of damage. Your bullet shoots into it. The bullet comes out the other side of the creature by its lonesome, not even bringing any debris with it as it goes into the wall. And John Green's ears are ringing. Yeah.
[00:14:00] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:14:01] Speaker B: The bullet sort of hit it and sunk into it, like, at high speeds and then just sunk out on the other end covered in blood.
[00:14:09] Speaker E: Okay. Does it look affected at all?
[00:14:12] Speaker B: It looks to be fully formed.
[00:14:14] Speaker E: Still, I don't like it.
[00:14:16] Speaker B: John green as it seems to be moving into where your head was, would you like to attempt to fight back or dodge?
[00:14:25] Speaker D: How do I dodge something that's like.
[00:14:28] Speaker B: Shake it off or attempt to shake it off? You can fight back to try and hit it like you did against the wall.
[00:14:33] Speaker D: Well, I already tried that, so I'm going to try and shake it off.
[00:14:36] Speaker E: Could you try and pull it off with your other hand?
[00:14:39] Speaker D: Really want to touch it with another hand.
[00:14:42] Speaker B: It's like a Chinese hand trap.
[00:14:45] Speaker D: I'm going to summon the power of Tay Tae and shake it off.
[00:14:49] Speaker E: Okay, well, I did try and pull the thing off your hand earlier. Did I touch it at all or.
[00:14:55] Speaker B: Did it just you did touch it.
[00:14:56] Speaker E: Okay. And it didn't attach itself to me.
[00:14:58] Speaker D: Well, here's the thing, I'm pretty sure.
[00:14:59] Speaker B: My dodge is better. Go ahead and roll.
[00:15:01] Speaker D: Dodge 22 under 50.
[00:15:04] Speaker B: That's a critical success. And because of that, you won the opposing check ha the thing as it's starting to enter your arm, after with the bullet going through it, you're able kind of like flick it and it flies back against the wall off of your arm. As that thing flew off your hand, you just have some bone sticking out.
[00:15:26] Speaker E: Now like from where was it from.
[00:15:28] Speaker D: The hand or like parts like your.
[00:15:30] Speaker B: Hand no longer has flesh over it.
[00:15:32] Speaker D: Oh, the entire hand?
[00:15:34] Speaker B: Yeah. And about 50% of your bone is missing. And I do want both of you to roll sanity check.
[00:15:39] Speaker D: I'm going to need to amputate it.
[00:15:41] Speaker E: 17 under 88, 44 over 41.
[00:15:44] Speaker B: Abby, you don't take any damage, john's.
[00:15:46] Speaker E: Going to go crazy.
[00:15:47] Speaker B: John, you take six sanity points of damage, you can again try to project it.
[00:15:52] Speaker D: Let's destroy my relationship.
[00:15:55] Speaker B: All right, so you're all a D for three three. So now you only take three sanity points of damage. One of your bonds is lowered by three and your willpower points are lowered to three a reminder once you have one to two willpower all things you try is at a -20 penalty I'm.
[00:16:11] Speaker D: Currently at four oh my gosh and also that brings me below the breaking point.
[00:16:17] Speaker B: So when you hit a breaking point, you begin to develop what's called a disorder to help you cope with everything that's happening in your life and you're losing your sense of self and that will develop over hours or days. It's not something that happens and the.
[00:16:33] Speaker D: Moment it does, I start running. I'm not even going to look at my hand. I'll just go, run, run.
[00:16:37] Speaker B: You begin to run. That was your turn was dodging okay.
[00:16:42] Speaker D: Oh, does movement count as an action?
[00:16:43] Speaker B: You can move and do other stuff so to dodge or to fight back, you do that on its turn, but you use up your action.
[00:16:49] Speaker D: Oh, okay.
[00:16:50] Speaker E: I'm going to take off.
[00:16:51] Speaker B: All right. You begin running.
[00:16:53] Speaker D: Do you want to shoot as we run?
[00:16:55] Speaker E: Can I do that?
[00:16:56] Speaker B: You can do easy tasks while running.
[00:16:59] Speaker E: Still shooting an easy task.
[00:17:01] Speaker B: You would take a penalty to your shot, but you could presumably, if you want to, you could grab green and pull him a little bit as you move.
[00:17:09] Speaker E: Yeah, I think I'm going to try and shoot it.
While I'm running out the door.
[00:17:14] Speaker B: Okay. You'll take a shot at a -20.
[00:17:16] Speaker E: So your score takes it back down to basic yeah.
[00:17:19] Speaker B: So what's your firearms 40.
[00:17:21] Speaker E: So with the 20 penalty, it'll just be the basic 20%.
[00:17:25] Speaker B: All right.
[00:17:25] Speaker E: That's a gnome 56 over 20.
[00:17:29] Speaker B: You're real close to a crit fail, which you would not have wanted.
[00:17:32] Speaker E: No.
[00:17:33] Speaker B: All right. You were able to run out into the main room on the other side of the bed. So you're able to get around all these clothes, that laptop over the bed towards the door, but you're not out of the motel.
[00:17:47] Speaker E: Out of the room.
[00:17:48] Speaker B: Out of the motel room.
[00:17:49] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:17:50] Speaker B: Which means it goes back to its turn, and it begins to just not leap at green, but instead just move for the door, and it zips past you green into the main room, and it slips underneath the clothes. It is now your turn green.
[00:18:05] Speaker D: I feel like my only option is.
[00:18:06] Speaker E: To run at this point. Yeah.
[00:18:08] Speaker B: Is there anything you're wanting to do while you run?
[00:18:10] Speaker D: I don't think so.
[00:18:10] Speaker E: Just get out of there.
[00:18:12] Speaker D: Yeah, I'm just going to run.
[00:18:13] Speaker B: Okay. All right.
[00:18:14] Speaker D: Because, I mean, like, what else can.
[00:18:15] Speaker E: I do other than scream?
[00:18:17] Speaker D: Oh, he's doing that anyway.
[00:18:19] Speaker B: You could scream. You could grab something. You could knock something over.
[00:18:22] Speaker D: So I'm going to try and grab a soap bottle and throw it the other way into the room.
[00:18:29] Speaker E: It's probably not dumb as a diversion. Okay.
[00:18:34] Speaker D: And then I'm going to run. You run, and by running, I'm more.
[00:18:39] Speaker B: Of like, skipping and you get out of the whole motel room into the.
[00:18:44] Speaker D: Hallway where's Olive is Olive still in the room?
[00:18:47] Speaker B: Yes, but she's almost out.
[00:18:49] Speaker E: I was doing something while I was running.
[00:18:52] Speaker D: I'm going to take off my jacket, I guess, with one arm.
[00:18:56] Speaker B: Okay. So you get out. Your jacket is now off. So as you move outside Olive, I imagine you move out with him.
[00:19:03] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:19:04] Speaker B: And shut the door.
[00:19:05] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:19:06] Speaker B: All right. The door is now shut, and there's like, a pause.
Nothing else seems to happen.
[00:19:14] Speaker D: I would like to shove my jacket in the crack of the door.
[00:19:19] Speaker B: Blood is dripping. Yeah.
[00:19:21] Speaker D: And I'm going to stagger over to our room.
[00:19:24] Speaker B: You have how many hit points now?
[00:19:26] Speaker D: I'm at four out of eleven.
[00:19:29] Speaker E: Jeez.
[00:19:30] Speaker D: And I'm going to look for like, I don't know, like a butcher's blade. I have a bone hand.
[00:19:36] Speaker E: I feel like we need to stop the bleeding first.
[00:19:38] Speaker D: I feel like we kind of need okay, sure.
[00:19:40] Speaker B: So all of you just kind of usher him to the room to try and take care of the wound?
[00:19:44] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:19:45] Speaker B: Do either of you have medicine or what's your first aid scores?
[00:19:49] Speaker D: My first aid is 30.
[00:19:50] Speaker E: I have a 30 in first aid and a 20 in medicine.
[00:19:53] Speaker B: Do you want to roll that, jack, do you want to also roll 38 over 30 Avenue?
[00:19:59] Speaker E: What is 99?
I might have killed you. Instead.
[00:20:12] Speaker B: You guys rush into your room, into one of your rooms, slamming the door behind you, throwing Green onto the bed.
What were you trying to do, tourniquet?
[00:20:24] Speaker E: Almost.
[00:20:25] Speaker B: You've not really messed with a bone hand before.
[00:20:28] Speaker E: Who has?
[00:20:29] Speaker B: And Green's trying to aid you or give you some advice, and through all of that, things don't go great, and you end up breaking one of his fingers.
[00:20:39] Speaker D: Don't worry, it was a bone.
[00:20:41] Speaker B: And then, Jack, you take yeah. One of your connected bone fingers.
[00:20:47] Speaker D: Wait, connect oh, okay. Never mind.
[00:20:49] Speaker B: Never mind. So it hurts and breaks, and you take a hit point of damage.
[00:20:53] Speaker D: Well, I'm pretty sure I'm already completely numbed out.
[00:20:57] Speaker E: I'm so sorry.
[00:20:59] Speaker B: Oh, you feel it? Just chop it off, please.
[00:21:02] Speaker E: No, I don't want to fail again. You only have three hit points.
[00:21:08] Speaker D: I'm going to try again, I'm assuming because I'm still bleeding out, right? I mean, I'm pretty sure my character is not thinking straight, so I'm just going to try again.
[00:21:15] Speaker B: You could also call 911, anything like that.
[00:21:18] Speaker D: We'd have to explain.
[00:21:19] Speaker B: Yeah, it would be how would you explain that? I think with both of you here trying, even with your hysterics, I'm going to give the plus 20 for both of you trying to do this together.
[00:21:32] Speaker D: Oh, well, that's a 39 under 50.
[00:21:34] Speaker B: Now, after that incident, you calm yourselves down a bit, really focus hard on this, and you're able to get it under control where he's not going to bleed out. Right now, it's not as bad, but if it goes on much longer, the bone, you're going to just feel a consistent pain from that unless you find something to do with it.
[00:21:53] Speaker D: Can we stop at the drugstore?
[00:21:56] Speaker B: Because I actually do need pain meds.
[00:21:59] Speaker E: And tell them what?
[00:22:01] Speaker D: I broke my hand? I'm assuming it's, like, it's wrapped up and covered now, so we could just say that I broke my hand and.
[00:22:08] Speaker B: Kind of just are you guys wanting to try to find a way to remove the hand bone?
[00:22:13] Speaker D: I do, but I don't think Olive does.
[00:22:16] Speaker E: I mean, my biggest concern is that we'll do that and you'll lose the rest of your hit points because you're going to take damage cutting off your hand.
[00:22:28] Speaker B: I think you guys could do it now and he wouldn't die, but it would be maybe, quote unquote, better if he was up on some painkillers or something. All of you could run out and grab some pretty quick and come back, leaving him here alone. Or you could maybe not do that and grab the stuff you need from your guys'rooms and head out.
[00:22:49] Speaker E: What do you think?
[00:22:50] Speaker D: I think whatever you think.
[00:22:51] Speaker E: Then let's grab what we need.
Get in the van.
[00:22:56] Speaker D: I'm pretty sure Thomas is quite delirious.
[00:22:59] Speaker B: So we're going to cut as you guys get in the car to a little bit outside of town, I think, and you guys have everything you need? You have your drugs, you have everything you kind of need to do this and you're out. Ready to do yeah. Yeah. Okay. How do you go about out doing this?
[00:23:21] Speaker D: I need a yeah, that could well, if you like, went across like the wrist.
[00:23:26] Speaker B: Yeah. All right. So as you pull out your BonesA, which would have been perhaps provided by Delta Green, his arm is there and the two of you are a little trepidacious, but you start going the camera starts pulling out from the two of you looking off towards the town. We fade to black.
We fade back in from the darkness to see three figures in a dark records room, the lights just coming on. We see Sheriff Dan Oakley, Josiah Thiel, and we see clutching his head, his ears, his hands cupped over them, jack Gray, who pulls his hands off as he seems to be coming back into consciousness with blood on your hands, telling you, did what just happened, was that real? As you take three willpower damage, with that sudden realization of this must have been real, would you roll sanity 88 over 59?
[00:24:37] Speaker F: Oh, no, that's a crit fail.
[00:24:41] Speaker B: You lose eight sanity. Would you want to try to project a D four of that onto a bond and lose willpower points?
[00:24:49] Speaker A: I'm going to try and repress it.
[00:24:51] Speaker B: All right, so roll one D four, and that's how much you're going to repress and project. You project it onto a bond of yours.
[00:24:58] Speaker A: Two.
[00:24:59] Speaker B: Two. So instead of taking eight, you take six sanity damage. You lose two willpower points because you rolled two on the what bond is taking into damage?
[00:25:09] Speaker A: That would be my assistant. As he lowers his hands and he sees the blood on them, you can just see him just start shaking and shuddering and just the wide hide panic of what he just saw, that it was real. And the images of his boss, of his superior is just flashing over and over again in his head. He sees him again as it was when he was back in the office, still working.
But as that happens, the face starts changing. He just suddenly starts seeing a replacement of his assistant. And his assistant is also typing. And then he comes up. He sits up or stands up, and he looks over and his assistant is like just constantly piling work onto his boss's desk. It's just giving him more and more stuff. Like no matter how haggard he was starting to get, he just kept going, kept giving it, kept giving it to him. And he couldn't move. He couldn't stop it. He couldn't just say, no, don't do that. Can't you see he's already overworked? Can't you see?
Slowly, it just starts fading away in echoing of paper hitting desk. Paper hitting desk, and the clack and clack of keys.
[00:26:34] Speaker B: As that imagery is fading from you, the light begins flickering pretty quickly and then comes on brighter than it was before, lighting the records room fully. Teal. You see, Jack. Kind of kind of freezing up there.
[00:26:49] Speaker F: Agent Gray, are you okay? What's going on?
Stop it.
[00:26:56] Speaker A: Stop it.
[00:26:57] Speaker F: I'm going to walk up, grab his shoulder. Hey, snap out of it. What's going on? Like, shake him.
Do I see the blood?
[00:27:09] Speaker B: Yeah, there's a bit of blood dripping out of one of his ears. It's kind of starting to dry, but there's like a little bit still kind of drip, dropping.
[00:27:16] Speaker F: Oh, whoa. Sherry, do you have a paper towel or tissue or a medical?
[00:27:25] Speaker B: Like I got this handkerchief.
[00:27:27] Speaker F: Would you mind if yeah, go for it. All right. How important is this to you?
[00:27:31] Speaker B: It's just anchor chief.
[00:27:33] Speaker F: Can I tear it?
[00:27:34] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess.
[00:27:35] Speaker F: I'm going to tear it in half, in, like, one for each ear and hand it to him.
[00:27:39] Speaker A: And he slowly just grabs them. Kind doesn't even go to the ears. He just starts wiping his hands. Robotically or more manically.
[00:27:51] Speaker F: I can go get more towels if you don't mind.
[00:27:55] Speaker B: Sure.
[00:27:56] Speaker F: Those are for we can clean your hands later. We need to help prevent the bleeding.
[00:28:04] Speaker A: He didn't make it.
He was overworked.
He couldn't keep up.
[00:28:19] Speaker F: Should have went on vacation. I mean, we're all overworked. I don't know what no, don't you see?
[00:28:24] Speaker A: He just grabs you suddenly by the shoulders. Don't you see?
[00:28:28] Speaker F: He couldn't take uh, Logan, I'm gonna need you to let go of me. I think you forget I am an actual agent and you are an Apple employee.
[00:28:41] Speaker B: Josiah Teal. While you're looking at him and you're very close, will you go ahead and make a sanity check? Seeing him being so affected by just.
[00:28:52] Speaker F: Something like this, 34 under 70.
[00:28:57] Speaker B: You're fine. You're able to just kind of like okay. You're able to get control of the situation for yourself.
[00:29:03] Speaker F: I understand.
Now, do we need to get you some water? What do we need? You need to calm down.
[00:29:13] Speaker B: When he asks, that ringing kind of buzzing starts to fade away from you, and you're starting to kind of come fully back out of it.
[00:29:25] Speaker A: Like, right when you said his real name, you can see that the thought is coming back into his eyes. Like, he's not far away. He's slowly coming into the present, and focus is coming back into his eyes as he becomes more cognizant of where he is. And that you're there.
Sorry, and he kind of looks around.
[00:29:56] Speaker F: Did the lights go out or the lights weren't on. We just got look, we can talk about what happened to you later. Right. I think I hear the sheriff coming.
[00:30:08] Speaker A: Yeah. And then he kind of comes somewhat aware of said something about blood. Blood, ears, touches it, feels the dryden, starts cleaning that and, like yeah.
[00:30:22] Speaker F: If he asks, you have a preexisting condition. That happens sometimes.
[00:30:26] Speaker A: Okay. I'm okay now.
[00:30:30] Speaker B: As you say that, the big heavy door opens up, and in comes the sheriff with, like, a bottle of water and a roll of paper towels.
[00:30:39] Speaker A: Thank you, Sheriff.
I'm sorry, I old injury back from high school.
Had a concussion. It can kind of pop up every now and again.
[00:30:53] Speaker B: That's okay. I mean, this stuff happens sometimes. It's not always right. Something crazy. Sometimes it just happens.
[00:31:01] Speaker A: Yeah, of course. I appreciate it. And I take the water and take a huge gulp.
[00:31:09] Speaker B: Yes, well, emotions of the room. This is the records room, so have at it, I guess. I don't know quite what you're looking.
[00:31:18] Speaker A: For here, but how is the records room situated?
[00:31:21] Speaker B: What's it look like? There's like, a lot of well, like, on one side to your right is, like, a bunch of card catalogs set up where you can flow through to find records and stuff. And then there's like, a couple of aisles of shelving that contains boxes of records going back, like, the 18 hundreds. What's your criminology?
[00:31:43] Speaker F: 50.
[00:31:44] Speaker B: Go ahead and make a roll for that. That's going to be just speed. You're used to case files. You're used to things like this.
[00:31:51] Speaker F: For my criminology role, I rolled a 19 under 50.
[00:31:55] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah. So it'll take, I say about an hour to probably get the kind of information you're looking for. Gray, what exactly are you looking for in the records room when you're going through?
[00:32:06] Speaker A: Gray would be looking for honestly, specifically, he would actually be looking for taxes.
[00:32:11] Speaker B: I'd say about in the same time, you can pull up about all the information you might need. About 30 minutes into this, the sheriff kind of stands up and he's like, well, I trust you boys in here. I'm going to head out. I can't spend too much time in a dark room like this. I got things I need to do.
[00:32:30] Speaker F: We understand, Sheriff. Thank you kindly for getting us in here.
[00:32:33] Speaker B: Yeah, not a problem. Just let me know if you need anything else.
[00:32:39] Speaker A: You'll be the first one we call, Sheriff.
[00:32:41] Speaker B: Thanks. And he makes his way out. So you find Gray looking through all the tax records and such that it wasn't and it hasn't been tax season in September.
There's no record about that at any point in time.
[00:33:00] Speaker A: Anything that could refer to it? Anything that could imply something?
[00:33:05] Speaker B: No. You are 100% confident.
[00:33:08] Speaker A: So not tax season, nothing municipal?
[00:33:10] Speaker B: No. Looking through the records about five years ago, it. Seemed kind of like it kind of spiked a bit, like early night about the turn of this decade. There was maybe like six or seven missing persons reports that year, but about a year ago, there really weren't any. But there's only been about three. One was Jane Allen reported, and one was Billy Spivey, reported being missing.
[00:33:40] Speaker F: What was the third?
[00:33:41] Speaker B: The third was Phineas tribal. There's a mark in his that said thought to be missing one week later, discovered in St. Louis. And it's got a whole lot of information. Like that guy moved out, got a place in Louis. He was just kind of living his own life.
[00:33:59] Speaker F: Missing. Missing. He just, like, ran away from his.
[00:34:01] Speaker B: Yeah, he ran away, but he was by the time they found him, he was old enough. They couldn't really pursue technically, he was of illegal age.
[00:34:09] Speaker A: That he could leave after finding out after not finding actually any mention of anything municipally, talking about tax season and going through several books through multiple years, if not decades. Anything in the later years, in the.
[00:34:26] Speaker B: Last two, three years, anything odd?
[00:34:29] Speaker A: Yeah, anything OD that stands out?
[00:34:31] Speaker B: No, it looks like it's been all done before the regular time. It needs to be done by and that time is not September.
[00:34:41] Speaker A: He carefully puts those particular books up, which I'm guessing would be county bookkeeping, municipal books. What else is in there aside from those?
[00:34:53] Speaker B: Aside from tax records or yeah, just.
[00:34:56] Speaker A: Municipal books in general.
[00:34:57] Speaker B: What are you interested in?
[00:34:58] Speaker F: If I can make a suggestion, because there are two churches in town.
One of them has a really weird name. If we can look up when businesses and nonprofits like churches moved into the town and how long they've been here, and historic records of that matter, how.
[00:35:18] Speaker A: Many businesses were being bought up by Mr oh, merle. Merle. That's a good and all the past many.
[00:35:27] Speaker B: Oh, just stuff about the past. Alderman.
[00:35:29] Speaker A: I want to see who's been alderman for the past several.
[00:35:33] Speaker B: Okay, so because if there's no tax.
[00:35:35] Speaker A: Season, then what are the aldermen doing?
[00:35:36] Speaker B: Well, you did find some recent tax stuff, so presumably they've been doing the actual taxes, but what are they doing right now?
[00:35:43] Speaker A: Right.
[00:35:45] Speaker B: Looking into the aldermen. They're just a bunch of names you don't really recognize until slowly current aldermen start taking their positions. And then the last big change was when Richard Dragon stepped down and moved out of town.
[00:35:58] Speaker A: Richard Dragon?
[00:35:59] Speaker B: Yeah, that came up last session.
[00:36:01] Speaker A: I remember that he was told that.
[00:36:02] Speaker B: He retired and then left.
[00:36:05] Speaker A: How long had he been an alderman?
[00:36:07] Speaker B: Oh, he had been an alderman about 24 years.
[00:36:11] Speaker F: That'd be four terms.
[00:36:13] Speaker B: Yeah, he served four terms before heading out. Well, you're looking for information about the.
[00:36:20] Speaker A: Churches and Anne Murphy.
[00:36:22] Speaker B: Right. Murrow. It's merle.
[00:36:24] Speaker A: I'm assuming the same general.
[00:36:25] Speaker B: Right, yeah. So you're grabbing all those jane Allen's disappearance report is pretty bland. It just kind of talks about, like, Nancy Allen came in very irate. We didn't have much going on, so we went ahead and started looking into it a bit. But Jane Allen came back at about 04:00 a.m..
[00:36:43] Speaker F: Does it say where she went?
[00:36:46] Speaker B: No. It says Jane Allen couldn't seem to remember where she was or when she left. They're not sure why. It could just be that she just doesn't want to tell them, doesn't want to tell her mom, doesn't want to tell the cops. They didn't really press for it because it's just a missing persons, and she's back. So it looked like they were pretty quick to just want to just tie it up and close the case.
[00:37:08] Speaker F: And is the Billy Spivey case is that the one we're investigating, or is that the one prior?
[00:37:16] Speaker B: It would be when he disappeared for two days and then came back.
[00:37:20] Speaker F: Okay, so it's the one we're investigating.
[00:37:23] Speaker B: But yeah, not him going to murder a gas station person, but him disappearing.
[00:37:29] Speaker F: All right.
[00:37:29] Speaker B: It's the same stuff. Kid came back after a certain amount of time, claims he couldn't remember where he went or what happened, and a second went by, but he was back. That's about all that's there.
Gray looking through merle's. It looks like Merle had started and owned all of those businesses before becoming an alderman of the board. He started them up kind of one at a time, filling in needs, or when someone would get too old and then sell their business to him. And he would buy it, rebrand it.
And while you're doing that, you're just kind of in the dead silence. We hear the ticking of, like, a fly hitting against the light that's there. And the heavy wooden door starts opening.
In walks a man, kind of thin in a nice suit. And you recognize this man? It's Thomas Allen. And he's coming in. He's got, like, a little lantern with him. He's like, oh, hello.
What are you folks doing here in the records rooms? I thought this place was closed to the public.
[00:38:37] Speaker F: We're not the public. We have permission from the sheriff to be here.
[00:38:41] Speaker B: Oh, Dan sent you over here? That's nice of him.
[00:38:45] Speaker A: And your sir?
[00:38:49] Speaker B: Thomas. Thomas Allen.
[00:38:51] Speaker A: Thomas Allen?
[00:38:52] Speaker B: Yes, I work here. Just coming for a couple of old records.
Who are you? Biden folks here?
[00:39:00] Speaker F: Friends of Dan's on one way or another. We actually have an appointment to talk with you. Would you mind if we sped that up right now since you're here?
[00:39:08] Speaker B: Well, I guess so. You're welcome to talk to me while I'm looking for some of the stuff, I guess.
[00:39:14] Speaker A: Well, then, allow us to make our introductions, Mr. Allen. My name is Special Agent Jack Gray. This is Special Agent Teal.
[00:39:24] Speaker B: Oh, special agents. That's exciting. Where are you from? What do you do?
[00:39:30] Speaker A: We're from the FBI, sir.
[00:39:31] Speaker B: And he's, like, talking while he's, like, going into one of the far back corners of the room with his lantern where the headlight doesn't quite fully light up. Over.
[00:39:40] Speaker F: I'm going to position myself basically in front of the doors to leave.
[00:39:47] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:39:48] Speaker A: And Jack's going to go to the same aisle that he's in. Not quite follow him, but where he can watch what he's doing.
[00:39:56] Speaker B: Oh, you're talking?
[00:39:57] Speaker A: Yeah, we're talking. We're here to investigate Billy Spivi, sir.
[00:40:03] Speaker B: Oh. What happened to Billy? He's such a nice kid, and he like, pulls open a box and starts flipping through stuff.
[00:40:10] Speaker F: When was the last time you were home, Mr. Allen?
[00:40:13] Speaker B: Oh, I swung by for a few more things last week.
Wednesday, I think. We've been really busy know tax season. Yeah.
[00:40:23] Speaker A: He seemed to have gotten himself in a little bit of trouble. Fortunately, it caught our eye.
[00:40:29] Speaker B: I see Jane wasn't involved in any of this. Trouble was.
[00:40:34] Speaker A: Sir, we have no reason right now to suspect that your daughter is in any trouble.
However, we would like to talk to her. Do you know where she's at?
[00:40:45] Speaker B: I imagine she's at home with Nancy. Have you stopped by there yet?
[00:40:49] Speaker F: We may have swung by there. We were really hoping to talk with you if you weren't home.
She's not there currently. We were hoping you would know more.
[00:40:59] Speaker B: About Jane or Billy.
[00:41:02] Speaker F: Well, both, but mainly Jane.
[00:41:04] Speaker B: I've been so busy lately, I barely even seen anyone. Outside of the other aldermen, of course. And Regina.
[00:41:11] Speaker A: You often spend such long times away from home, sir?
[00:41:14] Speaker B: Only during tax season.
[00:41:15] Speaker A: Oh, how long is tax season around?
[00:41:18] Speaker B: Boy, some years. We're able to get it in about a week. Sometimes it takes about a month, month and a half, really.
[00:41:25] Speaker A: All those calculations, putting everything together.
[00:41:28] Speaker B: Yeah, it really depends on how much through traffic we've gotten in the season.
Some seasons people are coming, like whole avalanches through town. But some seasons people don't really come by, really go different ways.
[00:41:42] Speaker A: How about this season?
[00:41:43] Speaker B: This season we've been fairly busy. I imagine if you've been by the diner and stuff, there's plenty of people.
[00:41:50] Speaker A: So one of those busy, extra busy tax seasons for you?
[00:41:53] Speaker B: Yeah, it's been pretty busy.
We've had worse, but it's not too bad.
[00:41:58] Speaker A: There a particular year that sticks in your mind, sir? He acts with a chuckle.
[00:42:03] Speaker B: I feel like maybe it's just because it was my first year, but my first year I felt pretty rough. Felt like we were there for months. Well, at least that's how Nancy would put it. I think we were really only there for five weeks or so. What was his first year since?
[00:42:17] Speaker A: I actually know where.
[00:42:18] Speaker B: That about ten years ago.
[00:42:20] Speaker A: Ten years ago?
[00:42:20] Speaker B: He's in his second term.
[00:42:23] Speaker F: You think that show sticking around has anything to do with how busy you guys are?
[00:42:28] Speaker B: Show?
[00:42:30] Speaker F: Remind me, Sam, what is an alderman's job?
[00:42:33] Speaker B: They are they're second to the mayor.
[00:42:36] Speaker F: Okay. So they should know what's going on.
[00:42:38] Speaker B: In their town, presumably. Everyone seems to be implying that they've just been hauled away.
[00:42:45] Speaker A: While we've been doing our investigation, we noticed there's this what would you say that is? Teal or some UFO type show or something. What it?
[00:42:57] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:42:57] Speaker B: UFOs. I'm glad I haven't spoken to them. Golly, I bet they're as bad as that.
[00:43:02] Speaker F: Scott Adams, uh Scott Adams go on.
[00:43:05] Speaker B: About that stuff all the time. He just came in one day out of nowhere, talking up everyone he possibly could. Drove us all insane, really. He kept making appointments every day. Oh my goodness. Getting really slowed down our work.
[00:43:20] Speaker F: When you say came in, do you mean came into the town or came into your office?
[00:43:25] Speaker B: The town. I mean, he's been in my office a couple of times too, but he just rolled into town one day for his newsletter. He was saying watching the skies is what he called it.
[00:43:35] Speaker A: Boom. How long ago was that exactly?
[00:43:38] Speaker B: Last time I spoke to him was about six days ago, I think. I don't think he's made any more appointments since then. I assume he's left.
[00:43:46] Speaker A: Right. Finding what you need, by the way?
[00:43:49] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. He like motions to a couple of folders he's got, see if he can't.
[00:43:53] Speaker F: See what he's picking up.
[00:43:56] Speaker B: Would you like to roll awareness or search? Yeah, sure.
[00:43:59] Speaker F: You mean alertness?
[00:44:01] Speaker A: Yes, I'd rather take alertness.
[00:44:03] Speaker B: Yeah, go for it.
[00:44:03] Speaker A: 65 over 40.
[00:44:05] Speaker B: Yeah, it's just folders. You're not sure if there's any rhyme or reason to it.
[00:44:09] Speaker F: Can I get a feeling on him? Obviously he's busy like that's the vibe he's putting off. But does he seem like sedated? Like his wife or the cop or.
[00:44:19] Speaker B: No, he just seems very focused and he's not putting much attention on anything else.
[00:44:25] Speaker A: This may be kind of a dumb question, and forgive me if it is, but does it really take all you aldermen to do taxes?
I feel like there should be like, I don't know, accountants or whatnot, or at least some people take care of the everyday running of the show or the town.
[00:44:43] Speaker B: We're a pretty small town and it's kind of just been this way for a while. We don't get a lot of people who stay who can do that sort of stuff. But we're not only doing taxes when we're here, we still have other things to maintain and do. Just taxes are our main focus of the time.
[00:44:59] Speaker A: Gotcha.
[00:45:00] Speaker B: We don't just shove off everything else that we do. That'd be a little we would need a lot more employees cover for us.
[00:45:07] Speaker A: Kind of like that young man Reggie out there. What's his?
[00:45:10] Speaker F: Regina.
[00:45:11] Speaker A: Regina, oh yeah.
[00:45:12] Speaker B: He runs a lot of things. He kind of takes care of a lot of the front of house type of work.
[00:45:17] Speaker A: Good kid.
[00:45:17] Speaker B: So a lot of us can get back a house.
[00:45:19] Speaker A: He's the one we made the appointment with you with.
[00:45:22] Speaker B: That's good.
[00:45:22] Speaker F: I'm glad if I can ask, and I do apologize. I'm not too familiar with what Aldermen do. Aside from taxes, what do you handle?
[00:45:31] Speaker B: Well, we take care of and he kind of just goes into almost like information dump of, just like, we do this, we do that, we do that.
[00:45:39] Speaker A: And you're a farmer, right?
[00:45:42] Speaker B: I used to have a lot more time for that. I still try when I can. I don't know if I'm going to be able to keep doing it. I might need to start hiring farm hands to take care of that for us, because Nancy's not too involved in that stuff. She does a bit in the garden.
[00:45:56] Speaker F: What crop you bringing this year?
[00:45:58] Speaker B: Well, the garden brought a lot of stuff. We tried out some pumpkins this year. We had some corn. We got that harvested. We don't do a lot. We just do enough to get us by for a few months so we don't have to keep spending all that money on groceries.
[00:46:12] Speaker F: We were at the Spivey residence, and I noticed that they haven't harvested their yield yet. Do you know what could cause that?
[00:46:22] Speaker B: I don't know. Honestly, I haven't been able to pay much attention to it. Maybe Rich hurt himself, wasn't able to finish, or maybe he's got other plans for it. I'm not too sure.
[00:46:31] Speaker F: Maybe he might be turning into a cornfield or something. Little maze.
[00:46:35] Speaker B: Could be. Could be.
Maybe he'll get some crop circles and share with that TV show you just talked about.
[00:46:43] Speaker A: Well, that'd be interesting. Mr. Teal, do you have any more questions?
[00:46:48] Speaker F: Perhaps I have one or two. Here. I'll try not to make this faster. Has your wife hurt herself at all anytime soon, recently?
[00:46:59] Speaker B: She hasn't told me anything. If she has, is she all right?
[00:47:02] Speaker F: Oh, she was fine. I was just curious.
[00:47:05] Speaker B: There she was, her same old self. Last time I saw her, which was last week. It was brief. It was brief, but I got to check in.
[00:47:13] Speaker A: Check in. And she was doing good then? Pretty energetic.
[00:47:17] Speaker B: Yeah, she seemed to be doing fine.
[00:47:19] Speaker F: Well, we don't want to keep you too long. We got a meeting set up with you, so we'll come back tomorrow and ask some more questions. I'm sure.
You need help carrying anything?
[00:47:28] Speaker B: Oh, no. I've got it all here in my briefcase.
[00:47:31] Speaker A: Oh, one more thing, Mr. Allen. If you do see your daughter or she reaches out, could you please direct her to the sheriff? And we would like to talk to her.
[00:47:41] Speaker B: Sure, I will.
[00:47:42] Speaker A: She's not in any trouble, just part of the investigation.
[00:47:45] Speaker B: No, that's fine. I really don't imagine she will reach out to me. I'm not her favorite person in the world.
[00:47:50] Speaker A: Well, just in case. Sorry to hear that.
[00:47:55] Speaker B: I just busy trying to make sure everything is provided for and that they've got the money they need and sometimes have to sacrifice a little time, a.
[00:48:04] Speaker A: Little bit of time. Well, that is a shame. But I understand wanting to provide for your daughter. I understand. She's very intelligent.
[00:48:11] Speaker B: Yes.
She goes to a lot of conferences and seems involved in a lot of stuff. She's already boy, I feel like she's almost already probably got a first semester of college in her belt. She hasn't even finished high school.
[00:48:22] Speaker A: You know where she picked up on that stuff? Like from your side of the family, perhaps? Eh, and he kind of shoulders him a little bit.
[00:48:29] Speaker B: I like numbers. But you start putting letters in there, and that's a little beyond me.
[00:48:36] Speaker F: Speaking of them kids, and it'll be the last question from me, I promise. This is something an alderman should know. Do you know if the kids are doing any festivals or doing anything they shouldn't up at the reservoir involving lights or lanterns or nothing?
[00:48:53] Speaker B: I know. I don't even remember the last time I've been up there.
[00:48:56] Speaker F: Yeah, we heard it was a town tradition for all the kids to go up there.
[00:49:00] Speaker B: Yeah, if things haven't changed, I'm sure they're still doing things that they shouldn't, like drink alcohol when they're too young and party. It hasn't ever really been too bad. Not that I've heard.
[00:49:12] Speaker A: Of course not. Well, Mr. Allen, thank you very much for your time.
We'll clean up, and I motion to the books that we have kind of on the table. Or random, random things.
We won't stay here too much longer. I think we found pretty much all the information we would need. Unfortunately, not too much.
[00:49:32] Speaker B: Yeah, records are records.
[00:49:34] Speaker A: Of course, Mr. Allen. We'll let you get back to your tax season. Taxes.
[00:49:40] Speaker B: I can hear the others already calling for me, so I should head on out.
[00:49:44] Speaker F: Let me get the door for you, and I open up the door.
[00:49:46] Speaker B: Oh, thank you.
[00:49:47] Speaker F: Once he's gone and out of your shot. I think we may need to make a visit back to Mrs. Spivey.
[00:49:53] Speaker A: Think we need to make a visit.
[00:49:55] Speaker B: Back to that corner.
[00:49:56] Speaker A: As I go back to that same corner he was at.
[00:49:58] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, sure.
[00:49:59] Speaker A: What's back there? Assuming I probably haven't been back there.
[00:50:02] Speaker B: You were right by a lot of random stuff.
[00:50:05] Speaker A: Anything in, like, the boxes he was looking through? Filing cabinets.
[00:50:08] Speaker B: So if you were to take time and do this with your bureaucracy and such this is like the way he was taking things, you don't really see how there's any connection between things he was grabbing.
[00:50:20] Speaker A: Got you.
[00:50:20] Speaker B: As if it were just a random assortment. Unless they have something very specific they're looking for, it feels very just.
[00:50:26] Speaker A: Random cameras?
[00:50:28] Speaker B: No.
[00:50:28] Speaker A: No cameras.
[00:50:29] Speaker B: Not in the record room. It's too dark and not well laid out.
[00:50:33] Speaker A: Gotcha after kind of just proving that a little bit. Mr. Teal, I think we should call it a day here.
[00:50:40] Speaker F: I thought that was the plan.
[00:50:42] Speaker A: Let's go get something to eat. He says a little loudly or maybe we should meet up with the others.
[00:50:48] Speaker F: What time is it?
[00:50:49] Speaker B: It is almost five.
[00:50:51] Speaker F: We were going to meet up with him anyway, I think at the diner.
[00:50:54] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:50:54] Speaker F: Might as well.
[00:50:55] Speaker A: Let's go do that.
[00:50:56] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:50:57] Speaker A: He opens the door and just kind of like start going out and go out back through to the vehicle.
[00:51:04] Speaker B: What are your guys'alertness scores?
[00:51:06] Speaker A: 40, 50 teal.
[00:51:08] Speaker B: You see when you're stepping out of the building a little bit out of town is the other FBI vehicle just parked in, like, a field.
[00:51:16] Speaker F: I tap your shoulder and sort of like not dramatically pointing, but like, gesturing, like, take a peek.
[00:51:24] Speaker A: I look over. Is that what I think it is?
[00:51:27] Speaker F: Yes.
[00:51:29] Speaker A: Real quick. We'll drive over there because that's not right.
Let me fill you on some things.
[00:51:36] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:51:37] Speaker A: We get in the vehicle.
[00:51:38] Speaker B: It struggles to start again, but after about the fourth try, it goes.
[00:51:44] Speaker F: I'll start driving that way.
[00:51:45] Speaker A: There is no tax season in September.
[00:51:48] Speaker F: You don't say.
[00:51:49] Speaker A: There's nothing in the record books talking about anything municipal.
[00:51:55] Speaker F: Do you find it weird that everyone except for Mrs. Spivi that we've talked to so far, and the sheriff, of course, has no idea about the murder that took place or about what's going on in the town?
[00:52:08] Speaker A: Nobody's mentioned a thing. Nobody's noticed that Richard's been missing. They know about the Spivy boy, but that's about it. Mr. Allen. I don't know what he was looking for, but I can't make heads or tails of any of the places he was looking for stuff. I don't think he was down here to get anything.
[00:52:22] Speaker F: We should have grabbed the cards of what he grabbed. Maybe we could have figured it out.
[00:52:25] Speaker A: I think he was sent down to look at what we were looking at.
[00:52:27] Speaker F: I could believe that. Maybe Reggie got a little nervous.
[00:52:31] Speaker A: They them cameras too.
[00:52:32] Speaker F: That's true. Maybe the sheriff dipped him off.
[00:52:35] Speaker A: I don't know if the sheriff did or if they just saw it.
[00:52:38] Speaker F: He was acting weird, right?
[00:52:41] Speaker A: It wasn't the same. It was pretty laid back is not the right word.
[00:52:46] Speaker F: Laid back. He was pretty brash and bullheaded, right? Complete opposite today.
[00:52:51] Speaker A: Kind of what I expected. But you're right. He wasn't not the same. I don't know what's going on with that.
[00:52:56] Speaker F: I think we need to talk to a random just some random person on the street. Just anyone.
[00:53:00] Speaker A: Anyone.
[00:53:01] Speaker F: Just see what they know about the area. See what's going. See if they know anything about the Spivby boy.
[00:53:05] Speaker A: See is there any out of town license plates.
[00:53:08] Speaker F: Not out of town. It has to be from in town.
[00:53:11] Speaker A: In town.
[00:53:13] Speaker F: Just someone not connected to the case. Get some gossip.
[00:53:16] Speaker B: With the way you guys are driving to the field, you're not going to run into anyone like that that you'd want to stop to talk to because you're going kind of out of town.
[00:53:26] Speaker A: I couldn't find any good notes, like the businesses seem pretty merle. He's a head alderman. He's been the head alderman for well.
[00:53:37] Speaker B: He'S been the head alderman for about four years.
[00:53:41] Speaker A: Four years? So his first term or this latest term? The previous head alderman retired after about four terms total. And all the current ones have been just kind of trickling in.
[00:53:55] Speaker F: You mentioned in not finding any good notes. Jane's disappearance file, it's very similar to Billy's.
[00:54:02] Speaker A: Really?
[00:54:02] Speaker F: She disappeared, showed up 04:00 A.m. In the morning and she either lied to the police or had no recollection. Not sure which one. We'd have to talk to her to know where she was when she disappeared.
[00:54:14] Speaker A: Nothing interesting. And they're the recent ones. Recent missing people.
[00:54:19] Speaker F: They're three her, Billy, and then some other person.
He was found in a different city. He just ran away.
[00:54:27] Speaker A: Why would he run away?
[00:54:28] Speaker F: Family troubles. It was a small town.
[00:54:30] Speaker A: True, but somebody who has no connection to the town may be willing to speak about it.
[00:54:34] Speaker F: I don't think it'd lead anywhere.
[00:54:36] Speaker A: Well, if we're going to get somebody in town before we see what's up with them, we better do them now.
[00:54:42] Speaker F: But the random person can away.
[00:54:45] Speaker A: Yeah, we need to see what's going on with them.
[00:54:48] Speaker F: It takes about 2 seconds to find somebody random.
[00:54:51] Speaker A: Right.
[00:54:51] Speaker B: You guys are at the point now where you're pulling off of the road onto the field. As you're getting closer, you see like a couple of the doors are just open. They don't look in sight. But then there's like a cluster of trees nearby where they parked. And then you guys get parked next to this vehicle.
[00:55:08] Speaker A: Is there any sign of a struggle?
[00:55:10] Speaker B: No. There's a bag. Looks like some equipment you guys got from Delta Green. And it's been kind of just left open in the back seat. Left seat which has the door open.
[00:55:19] Speaker F: I'm going to cautiously go get that bag and put it in our vehicle.
[00:55:23] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:55:23] Speaker A: Lock it you do.
[00:55:25] Speaker F: So any footprints around or anything?
[00:55:28] Speaker B: Yeah, the grass has been disturbed by like a person or two heading off to the trees.
[00:55:33] Speaker F: Any specific landmark where they could be heading?
[00:55:37] Speaker B: No, it's just a cluster of trees.
[00:55:39] Speaker A: Cluster of trees in the middle of a field?
[00:55:41] Speaker B: Yes, it's just a cluster of trees. It's like the break of the field. The field goes up to the line of trees.
[00:55:47] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:55:47] Speaker B: They presumably went into those trees. With your alertness to yours, you can hear some talking.
[00:55:53] Speaker F: Does it sound like them?
[00:55:55] Speaker B: Yeah, one of them sounds deeply in pain.
[00:56:01] Speaker F: Like I said, with my gun, I'm going to cautiously head that direction and.
[00:56:06] Speaker A: Gray is going to follow you. But he's also going to pull out his and kind of flank on one side.
[00:56:13] Speaker F: I would like to try to make a stealth on that.
[00:56:16] Speaker B: Sure. Roll stealth.
[00:56:18] Speaker A: 91 over 10%.
[00:56:21] Speaker F: 98 over 50.
[00:56:23] Speaker B: So neither of you are very stealthy as you approach but they don't seem to stop or anything like that as you guys kind of plank around where they're at. Green is laying against like a tree with his arm kind of out like kind of stretched out against the ground and you see Olive is pulling back a bone saw and you see on the ground next to them about 50% of a boned hand laying on the ground and we'll end it here tonight.
[00:56:57] Speaker E: What?
[00:57:00] Speaker B: Thank you for tuning into our program.
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