Wes' Campfire: Meeting at the Watertower

We start our Kids on Bikes arc in earnest, meet all the characters. What dark secrets will be found on the first episode of Shasta Falls 80085.

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SPEAKER_00 1:35

Good evening. This is Bruce Campbell with a WQRT special report. Tonight, concern is growing across our community as the search continues for two local teams who have vanished under mysterious circumstances late last week. Authorities say 18-year-old Antoinette Hackinshuck and 15-year-old Eli Mercer were both reported missing within days of each other. While police have not officially linked the cases, many wonder if the disappearances are more than just coincidence. Antoinette was last seen near the old water tower on the north side of town, an area known to be a teen hangout. Friends describe her as adventurous, but say it's unlike her to leave without telling anyone. Reported missing just two days later, Eli Mercer was last seen riding his bike near the drained still way by the lake. His family says he has no history of running away. Police have conducted searches at both locations but have yet to uncover any solid leads. Officials are urging residents to remain calm but are asking anyone with information to come forward. As the investigation continues, questions remain and fear is beginning to spread. Are these missing persons' cases unrelated or is something more sinister at play? We'll continue to follow the story as it develops. For WQRT Fantabil Radio, I'm Bruce Campbell.

SPEAKER_07 2:49

Hello everybody, welcome to Wes's Campfire. Today, on the campfire, we will be playing kids on bikes. Um we did do a little uh session zero for this that will uh come out before this episode. So if you haven't checked that out, you can. It's just basically building the town uh and introducing the characters, which I'm gonna do anyway. So, as per usual, my players with me today are Dad Babo, Mandy, Willie, and Alex3000. Uh we'll start with Bob. Bob, why don't you tell us about your character a little bit?

SPEAKER_08 3:26

My name's Banner Hackincheck. Uh I'm handicappable. So I ain't been able to use my legs since the horse kicked me. But it ain't keeping me from kicking back. That's a uh joke.

SPEAKER_07 3:43

That's a joke.

SPEAKER_08 3:45

But but here I am, and uh I'm just here to do my thing.

SPEAKER_07 3:52

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 3:53

You can open out.

SPEAKER_07 3:54

You can open out. Go ahead, Manny, introduce your character.

SPEAKER_01 4:02

Well who? I don't know if I can take it to that. Where are you going? My name is an audio.

SPEAKER_05 4:20

Alright. Ready to go. I was trying to think of your name last night, and all I could think of was Wu-Tasha.

SPEAKER_07 4:26

Wu Tasha?

SPEAKER_06 4:28

I was just like, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_05 4:30

That's like all of my character. That's 100% Puka Shells and Rick James, like Wu-Tasha was a name that used across many of the Wu-Tang things. Like, it just multiple images in my mind.

SPEAKER_07 4:45

Alright. Yeah. Alright, so that's Nadio. Why don't you tell us about Cody?

SPEAKER_04 4:51

My name's Cody. Do I really gotta give my last name? Is this going on?

SPEAKER_07 4:57

Don't worry about it. It isn't going in your permanent record yet.

SPEAKER_04 5:03

Last name's Colin. Yeah. I don't really know why I'm here right now. But uh there's a bunch of weird stuff going on in town.

SPEAKER_07 5:20

I mean, you're here because you're with your buddy. Uh what's your buddy's name again? Hey, Klo, yo. Hey Klo, yo. He's not my buddy. He's my cousin. Oh, he's your cousin, that's right.

SPEAKER_05 5:31

So it like this. Like, okay. So mom got four sisters. Yeah. And uh so I don't know, like we mean we made it some of the the the family dinners and stuff. Like uh I don't know his dad, but like I don't know mine. So no, I uh yeah. What you need. What you need because like I got these dishes to do. So either uh you know, you need something, just shoot me an order, you know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? I'll get you I'll get you some takeout. I highly well I gotta wash some dishes shit.

SPEAKER_07 6:10

There is no I didn't write this down.

SPEAKER_06 6:12

Uh no, I know like I've seen the papers, like everybody has personal connections.

SPEAKER_07 6:17

I know that Bob's uh into Nadia, and I know you two are cousins.

SPEAKER_04 6:22

What was Bob's connection to Halo wants to bang my sister? Oh well so he's real nice to me, and he's always trying to give me drugs.

SPEAKER_06 6:33

She's she got that fly, like she got them softball player thighs, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_08 6:37

Like uh sure Chez pretty good at softball.

SPEAKER_07 6:41

Yeah, right. Softball player thighs. So you like them, you like them Midwestern, I get it. I like a Midwestern.

SPEAKER_05 6:49

It's Indiana, man.

SPEAKER_07 6:50

Like yeah, I get it. Yeah, they're all Midwestern.

SPEAKER_05 6:53

You have two flavors. You have extra fluffy and crispy. Weaker candy is hard candy.

SPEAKER_07 7:04

All right, so um. So, why don't you guys tell me why you will find yourself at the water tower in the uh evening-ish hours of the the evening?

SPEAKER_08 7:23

How I do my business, y'all. I usually go there every Tuesday trying to muster up the courage to get my sister's name off.

SPEAKER_07 7:29

That's right. Uh, as everybody uh everybody looks as you walk up to the water tower, you see scrawled in big red letters Antoinette.

SPEAKER_01 7:43

Antoinette.

SPEAKER_07 7:44

Call for a good time.

SPEAKER_05 7:47

Dedication, that's a lot of letters. It is a fucking manifesto. They told me it took four of them to get up there and do it. Oh I'm picturing one dude with just like a rope tethered at the top, swing inside his eye, like uh.

SPEAKER_08 8:07

Legend has it, it was a pulley system of sorts. They would use two guys on the rope on the bottom. Oh, fantastic. So that they could leverage the guy on the top. Alright, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 8:17

All right. Uh Cody, what are you doing at the water tower?

SPEAKER_04 8:22

I find it to be the second best location to keep eyes on the lake and uh whatever's going on, the ins and outs of the the highly suspect fraternal order of the beaver.

SPEAKER_07 8:37

What's your what's your trope? You're the you're a conspiracy theorist. I'm like, I already figured it out.

SPEAKER_04 8:44

That's great. They give me besides my my window, this is the best vantage point in the town. And as I'm on top, I'm just scrolling notes of who comes in and out at what time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 9:07

Every 12th pages just some. So in order to see the lake, are you lighting up at the top of the water tower? Okay. I look at the actions.

SPEAKER_04 9:15

There's a flex penis. Every 12 pages, there's a dick. I know why Bob's character comes to try to get his sister's name off.

SPEAKER_07 9:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 9:22

So every now and then I kind of start picking at the paint.

SPEAKER_07 9:26

You're kind of flaking away the paint, trying to help him out. Because you, you know, you've seen him, you know he's handy capable. Uh his legs don't work real good, so he's gonna have to figure out a way to climb up. So after a while, like the unnet at the back, it just says Anton, call for a good time. Like, Anton, call for a good time. It's good enough. Some dude named Anton's like, man, all these people calling him.

SPEAKER_05 9:53

It's just all like there's so like small tones is just goddamn. No, but like that's like there's just a uh I can see the whole tradition of like prank calling kids at this point, just like finding a phone book is like find an Anton, find an Anton. There's one, call it Anton. All right, so time is it. Ha! You know, people are like, the fuck is going on? It's like, I don't know, some Indiana assistant. Some guy from Indiana keeps calling me.

SPEAKER_07 10:20

Alright, so Nadia, what are you doing at the water tower tonight?

SPEAKER_01 10:24

Um I don't like walking and field it by myself. So I kind of got stuck.

SPEAKER_07 10:34

Okay. It got to be late. There's some people missing in town. You might be a little freaked out. I will say, so you guys know that that the police are patrolling, especially in the evenings a little bit more because both of the the people who are missing disappeared in the evening. Um so you guys are all doing your various things near the water tower. Um as Bob is sitting there kind of uh What's the word I'm looking for? Dwelling inwardly dwelling on what what he needs to do. Brooding. Brooding, there we go. Brooding on the uh fact that he's gotta figure out a way to get up to the top of this water tower to especially now that she's missing to get his sister's name off of it. Um he notices that it just says Antoine now. There's a like the T's are partially getting clipped off because Cody's up there pretty regularly watching stuff. Um as he's as he's sitting there, he sees uh eventually it just says ant time. Ant time. He sees like goddamn it. He sees uh like a kind of shitty ass fucking pickup, like an old shitty like rust rust bucket pickup pulls up and outsteps uh guy he's seeing a lot. Uh you guys are what do we say around 17, right? Correct. 17, 18. Okay, so uh Bob, you recognize uh guy that um was always uh like three or four years ahead of you in school. Uh by name by the name of Joe, his name is Joey. Uh Joey C. He's kind of a dick. Um he basically, ever since you've been paralyzed, he's uh kind of picked on you for uh you know having this disability. Um basically in general, he's a horrible human being. Um and now that he's an adult, he's useless and dangerous. Hey, you fuck your legs. Basically, yeah, so he's he's coming up to you now, and he's gonna be like, hey, uh look at you with the no legs, eh? Ha fucking no wheels. Look at you, fucking can't even fucking walk. Uh look at your sister's name on a water tower. She's missing, ain't she, you little bitch? You know, basically just being an asshole. Um, you guys can all hear this happening. Uh how does everybody uh respond to this?

SPEAKER_05 13:13

Um yeah, I was gonna say I'm going to uh defend the uh the lady's honor, yo. I'm gonna uh do the famous 90s maneuver of the rabbit punch from nowhere.

SPEAKER_07 13:28

Okay. Not what I was expecting, but alright.

SPEAKER_05 13:32

I'm just gonna run into the room.

SPEAKER_07 13:33

Start with the roles early. The game's like, there should be very little combat and very little rolls, and Alex is like, I'm gonna punch this motherfucker.

SPEAKER_05 13:41

I'm sorry, I'm thinking back to every party I went to.

SPEAKER_07 13:43

No, no, I get it, bro.

SPEAKER_05 13:44

Hyper violence. I'm gonna fucking Superman out of nowhere.

SPEAKER_07 13:48

Yeah, like somewhere between the warriors and uh so you're gonna come out of nowhere and give him. I should have just busted out of character sheet. There's an actual fight, right? Yeah, uh Yeah, there's a fight stat on here. Yeah, and I got a fucking 20 in it. Alright, roll your fight, Alex.

SPEAKER_05 14:10

I'm gonna roll the big fat one for fight. Yeah. So, like, it's been a long shift. Yeah. Like I had like, okay, so I smoked like three on the ride. Okay, like two cigarettes and like one real cigarettes, right? Puddling my bike up here. I'm tired. So I might have like coughed and slipped and like not punched.

SPEAKER_07 14:38

I'm guessing you rolled in that one. I rolled a one. Okay. Uh so.

SPEAKER_08 14:42

What had happened was.

SPEAKER_05 14:44

What had happened was. I could have killed him, but I didn't. There's your adversity token.

SPEAKER_07 14:50

You can use that at any time to add a dice to your rolls. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 14:53

Um put that back on 20.

SPEAKER_07 14:59

Uh, so you guys, uh, as this dude is uh giving uh Bob shit, you see fucking Kalo come running out of the darkness and try to just fucking sucker punch him from behind and miss wildly. Uh he kind of like falls into the dust and Joey's like, God, Kalo, look at you, you fucking oh, I don't want to use that word.

SPEAKER_05 15:24

No, like the book encourages him that we get you, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 15:27

Yeah. Uh you ragtag turd. Yeah. You white uh guy who wants to be a black guy, or ninja. Uh you ninja, you ninja wannabe. There we go. That's what I'll do. I I can say that and feel okay with it.

SPEAKER_04 15:43

My ninja maybe. Well, I mean, he tried to punch him out of nowhere, right? Whoa, whoa. We're 100% profiling. That but like, yeah, it's what ninjas do. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 15:55

It is what ninjas do, but we do not want to make a stereotypical comment about any specific type of people, ninjas included.

SPEAKER_04 16:04

Fuck that. I'm saying it. This is how it is. Ninjas, they attack people from behind. All right, ninjas are assassins. Ninjas will sneak up and get you. All right. Um don't trust those filthy ninjas. So I see him wildly missed, right? Yeah. Um, and Joey. Nowhere near ahead. No, no, not at all. Yeah. Um, and since he's my cousin, I may not like him. But he's part of the Midwestern family is hands go up. Um, I'm at top on top of the water tower, right? I'm gonna look around. Can't throw rocks up there all the time. Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_07 16:48

You got something up there you could chuck at him.

SPEAKER_04 16:50

Pick up a rock, and I'm gonna be like, hey, Neanderthal. Let's try to be more than a human amoeba, and I'm gonna chuck this rock down.

SPEAKER_07 17:03

Yeah. Uh okay. I'm gonna have you use your brawn for that. Oh here, thank you. Uh try to remember all these stats, it's new to me.

SPEAKER_04 17:15

I got four.

SPEAKER_07 17:16

Okay. Uh so catch. Oh, I failed. You will get an university token as the rock kind of fumps on the ground next to him. Uh at this moment, uh, you'll kinda see a guy step out of the shadows, like at the edge of the woods. Uh, everybody on the ground can see slightly better, but he's got like a like a hoodie. Big baggy uh fucking Ginko jeans, right? Um just like a tight t-shirt. Uh, we'll say nirvana. Um your typical skateboarder. Um not tight, but like a t-shirt. Nirvana. Like a nirvana t-shirt. Like I say tight because to me, like when like they didn't wear super baggy shirts, they wore normal shirt shirts and then giant jeans, the skateboarder guy back then. Anyway, your typical skateboarder, 90s skateboarder kid. Um, and uh you guys that are on the ground see like uh you see him like pull something out of his pocket and you hear a click and you just see a glint and it kind of looks and sounds as though he's pulled out a switch blade. And he says, he looks at Joey and he says, best and you be moving on. And uh shit, he's like best you be moving on. I don't think these folks need you to be harassing them, and I'm not gonna miss. And uh Joey looks at all of you and he sees that he's kind of uh horribly outnumbered. Horribly outnumbered. And uh from the shadows, it looks like this guy's got a knife, and y'all are underage, and he is an adult technically, so he's like, you know what? Fuck you, pussies. I'll see you next time. And jumps in his truck and peels off. And yeah, suck it, tater tots.

SPEAKER_05 19:28

They call him that in middle school because he choked on a tater tot one time, almost fucking died. It's hilarious shit.

SPEAKER_06 19:34

I was a little fucking kid.

SPEAKER_07 19:36

Um so then you guys see steps out of the shadows like a uh the guy I described, right? Uh he uh shortish hair. Um now that he stepped out of the shadow, you say you see instead of a switchblade, it was just one of those combs that looks like a switchblade, and he like combs his hair and he's like, pull that dumbass, closes it and like sticks it in his pocket.

SPEAKER_04 20:05

He won it from the coin pusher at the county fair.

SPEAKER_07 20:07

Something like that, yeah. He uh he pulls the smoke out, puts it in his mouth, and does like pulls his zippo lighter out and does the like rolls it on his pants to light a thing. I don't know. I I know I'm describing me from high school, so you roll your lighter, uh you roll the zippo and it would flame, and then you could you could like do it in one movement and you could light your cigarette and then you would clip the zippo real fast. And it was cool. He starts smoking and he says, uh Hey man, my name's uh what do I want to name this kid? I should have thought of a name for this character.

SPEAKER_05 20:41

I just heard Zeke in my head.

SPEAKER_07 20:43

Hey, you know what? It was Zeke. That's what it was gonna be. I wanted it to be a tough name, so Zeke sounds like a tough name. Hey, uh my name's Zeke. I'm new in town. I don't like bullies. I'm gonna give some exposition to explain my character because you're supposed to like me. You like fit eggs? I don't like bullies.

SPEAKER_02 21:06

I like fitch next.

SPEAKER_07 21:07

I don't like bullies. All of a sudden he is shack.

SPEAKER_06 21:12

Whoa no.

SPEAKER_07 21:13

No, he's uh, you know, uh uh uh like six foot tall.

SPEAKER_04 21:20

Sorry, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_07 21:21

I think it's all right, sneezes happen. He's like a six foot tall white dude, uh short hair. He's got like a like goofy fucking thigh burns. Uh you can tell him and Kayla would get along. Uh their musical tastes are similar. Does he got the Fred Durst, like the skinny side burst? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:41

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 21:44

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 21:45

Um no, he's not that.

SPEAKER_05 21:48

Say what you will, man. Faith was a solid ass. Damn. You're not wrong.

SPEAKER_07 21:53

Um I guess we'd be nice. He says he introduces himself to you. Uh he's the He's new in town.

SPEAKER_04 22:02

I like the original.

SPEAKER_07 22:03

Yeah, I don't know. It's up to you guys. Interact with this guy. What do you guys uh wanna say or do around him?

SPEAKER_04 22:10

I'm gonna climb down. I'm gonna tuck my journal away and climb down the ladder. I appreciate what you've done. Please don't stab Josie. He doesn't know what he's doing.

SPEAKER_05 22:22

Nah, man. Hit him with rock. Make him talk like him. Do I saw that somebody do that to a duck one time? Like make him like that duck.

SPEAKER_07 22:33

I mean, if he he don't stop fucking with people.

SPEAKER_06 22:36

I ain't fucking with you. I'm fucking with him. Yeah, no.

SPEAKER_07 22:39

That Joey guy's uh Joe C. He's kind of a dick.

SPEAKER_08 22:43

I get it to scrubbing now, guys.

SPEAKER_07 22:46

What are you scrubbing?

SPEAKER_04 22:48

Well, that's my sister's name.

SPEAKER_07 22:51

Oh.

SPEAKER_04 22:51

I miss it very much.

SPEAKER_07 22:53

Oh.

SPEAKER_04 22:54

I don't want that on there anymore. I don't think it's good.

SPEAKER_07 22:57

Well, how are you gonna get all the way up there when you can't use your legs?

SPEAKER_08 23:01

I'm gonna climb. With my arms.

SPEAKER_07 23:05

With your arms? Okay, I'm gonna pause real quick because I need to- Alright, so uh I had to look up a rule, sorry about that, guys. Uh you don't get anything yet. It's just later on when you do it. Anyway, uh he's going to he's looking at you and he's like, you know what, man? Your sister's Antoinette, that's the one that's missing, right?

SPEAKER_08 23:26

She's been gone a minute, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 23:28

Well before he passed on, my pa taught me that you gotta help out folks, you gotta take care of them, and uh I can't just let you. You can't, you can't you can't climb up there. You got the scrubbing stuff with you?

SPEAKER_08 23:48

Yeah. I mean I've been climbing up there for like three weeks.

SPEAKER_07 23:52

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_08 23:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 23:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 23:56

You can help if you want.

SPEAKER_07 23:57

I'm gonna go.

SPEAKER_04 23:57

Yeah, no, down. It's real hard. It's been taking me three weeks.

SPEAKER_07 24:02

Alright, so you guys climb up there. Works for me. Ever uh uh he'll he'll he'll climb up with you. Is anybody else gonna come? Uh actually I'm gonna say you all climb up there for various reasons because I need you at the top for this part.

SPEAKER_04 24:17

Careful. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:19

I'll come up.

SPEAKER_04 24:20

The bottom's kind of rickety on that one corner. So if you gotta spread your weight out, it won't rock so much.

SPEAKER_05 24:27

Okay, so you guys you guys get up there and uh thank you for not making me roll to climb a water tower because I'm sure I would just like to get that one.

SPEAKER_07 24:38

I mean I narratively, it doesn't do anything for me to have you fall off a water tower right now. We're storytelling. This this game is way more narrative-based and less roll rolling based.

SPEAKER_04 24:49

So I have a bucket of water in my teeth.

SPEAKER_07 24:53

No, he'll help you with the he'll carry the water, which is he's very strong. He's also a very strong man.

SPEAKER_05 24:59

Picture in like one of those milk made yolks. Yolkes.

SPEAKER_07 25:03

Alright. So uh you guys are all up at the top of the water tower, and Zeke is helping you scrub, and uh, as you guys are scrubbing you hear from the water tower a tapping noise. An unnormal unnatural tapping noise, a sloshing tapping noise as though there's rhythmic or like a rhythmic. Rhythmic.

SPEAKER_05 25:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 25:36

Um as though somebody is tapping on something, and it's doesn't sound like it's coming from necessarily inside the water tower, but farther down, maybe, um like it's traveling up a pipe and and echoing through the water tower.

SPEAKER_01 25:54

Yes, hell yes.

SPEAKER_05 25:56

Man, uh yo, that's uh uh clearly that is uh uh earth bone ghosts. Like it's the bones shaking. The bones get shaking. Because at this point we're up at a pretty high elevation. Kalo has taken out uh his second crispy cigarette.

SPEAKER_07 26:17

Crispy cigarette, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 26:19

And he is uh enjoying the view.

SPEAKER_07 26:22

So he's he's lit his crispy cigarette, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 26:28

Hey man, I know we just met, but water tower is water tower does. You know, uh I can I'll get you next time, I promise, man.

SPEAKER_07 26:38

I'm a I'm a sharer as well.

SPEAKER_06 26:40

First one on me. I do sell this shit though.

SPEAKER_07 26:43

Okay, good to know. Good information to have. So he's gonna partake. Um, and as you guys are sitting there, kind of I don't know, chit-chatting, getting to know each other. Uh he's like, so I found this really cool place. You guys want to check it out with me? It's like a clubhouse or something.

SPEAKER_04 27:05

So I got a question. Yeah. Well, everybody, I'm always kind of the loner, right? I'm the pack. Do I notice any kind of like pattern to the tapping? We know it's rhythmic.

SPEAKER_07 27:18

Um I'm gonna say yes. Okay. Um would you be the type of thing? Since I would be. What is your you're a conspiracy theorist? Yes. Is your trope, right? Yeah. What are your um what it whatever I forget what these things are called? Um I'm rebellious and prepared. Rebellious and and prepared. Okay. What was your youth like that made you rebellious and prepared?

SPEAKER_04 27:45

Um, I'm rebellious because I don't want to be like my father. Okay. Um, who has turned into a completely almost paranoid schizophrenic, right?

SPEAKER_07 27:54

Okay, gotcha.

SPEAKER_04 27:55

Um which has turned me into like superstitious. Okay. I have my routines I have to follow.

SPEAKER_07 28:02

Like, so what what has caused you what did you do to become prepared? Um how did you become prepared, I guess, is my question.

SPEAKER_04 28:12

So I moderate the conspiracy chat room on the internet. Okay. So I've uh learned Morris code and binary.

SPEAKER_07 28:22

Thank you for giving me that. All right. You notice that it's Morris Code, but whoever's doing it, not very good at it. Okay. Um so it's similar to the SOS, um, but also occasionally you hear what seem to be like uh almost like map coordinates, like, you know. Like three minutes west. Gee 19. You know, like a grid pattern on a map. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 28:54

Uh have I heard this before? Or is this the first time?

SPEAKER_07 28:59

This would be the first time you've heard similar things.

SPEAKER_01 29:04

Anyway, uh I'm sorry. I went way into introspective on that one.

SPEAKER_07 29:13

Well, it's still Morse code. Like Well, I've Morse.

SPEAKER_04 29:17

I come up to this water. M O R all the damn. Sure. Yeah. Oh, this is Jim Morrison. Yeah, it's Jim Morrison's code. Yeah, yeah. The door. So it warbles. Yeah, it's like when you do it's you tap, but it's the same thing. What you do, you take bearing uh uh uh fill rates of whiskey, yeah, and you have to wet your fingers and make the circle noise.

SPEAKER_07 29:40

Actually, what you do is you gather a group of super talented musicians, right? And then you do all the drugs, ramble incoherently into the microphone for three or four minutes at a time.

SPEAKER_04 29:51

Yeah, fire the fucking drummer and get a keyboardist.

SPEAKER_07 29:55

Become extremely famous, and somehow people go bang on your grave even though you have very little talent. Anyway, uh You guys want to see it?

SPEAKER_04 30:04

Alright. So, all right, they're map coordinates.

SPEAKER_08 30:09

He just he just put his finger at his at his at his zipper.

SPEAKER_04 30:12

Alright. So, map coordinates, it's a shitty SOS.

SPEAKER_07 30:17

Yeah, there I mean it seems like, but also like some of it is just fucking tapping. Okay. So taking down notes. Yeah.

unknown 30:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 30:29

I can hear that very good. Please stop. Alright. So Zeke is gonna ask you if y'all want to come check out his clubhouse. He's doesn't seem to be that worried about the tapping. Seems somewhat normal for him. I don't know.

SPEAKER_08 30:46

I like clubhouses, Zeke, and I think I'll go with you.

SPEAKER_07 30:49

It's pretty cool, bro. I got listen.

SPEAKER_08 30:51

Don't tell Nadia, but I got some scenes there.

SPEAKER_07 30:56

I found a whole crate of them.

SPEAKER_04 30:58

Hey yo, I still you just keep them where they are.

SPEAKER_07 31:01

That's how you find them. That's how you got them back as a kid. You always you just found a crate somewhere of titty boob booby magazines. Or someone stole them from their dad.

SPEAKER_08 31:09

Ain't nothing good come of it.

SPEAKER_07 31:10

Nothing good comes of it. Alright, buddy. Well, Caleb. Don't tell Nadia, but the glove house sounds so horrible, man.

SPEAKER_06 31:23

Man. That's a sacred, that's sacred shit, man. Like a dick man's like that's that's your dick handling that book. Like, oh man. Like, that's nice. That's cool, but like I got my own. Them dirty pages, man.

SPEAKER_05 31:44

That's my dick hand.

SPEAKER_06 31:46

Like, did you say that's my dick hand? Your dick handling hands. It's all these things.

SPEAKER_07 31:50

You've had your hands on your dick, and then you touch the magazine, so now your dick juices are on the magazine. That's what that's what he's implying.

SPEAKER_04 31:57

Yeah. I feel like we should just roll. Sorry, I'm metagaming here. I feel like we should just roll with dick hand. Yeah. Okay. Dick handling. Dick handling. That's my dick hand. Dick handling. That's my dick hand. This is the dick hand. That's my dick hand. You can't bug my. Don't you hit my dick hand?

SPEAKER_07 32:13

It's been well established that Alex's left hand is his dick hand. Alright. Or not Alex's. Sorry. Kla. Kayla.

SPEAKER_05 32:20

Yeah, yeah, yeah. My dick hand.

SPEAKER_07 32:22

Alright. So, um.

SPEAKER_05 32:23

Can't write with this one, but dick hand.

SPEAKER_07 32:28

It ain't no. So you guys gonna uh hop on your bikes and follow him?

SPEAKER_05 32:32

Yeah, uh I'm gonna pull the seat up out of there. And uh the tubular frame inside is hollow. Okay. And I'm gonna tuck my uh bag of weed.

SPEAKER_07 32:42

So you have like a quick release on your seat so that you can hide your drugs in the tube.

SPEAKER_05 32:46

Yeah, like a just a pin, a cutter key.

SPEAKER_07 32:50

Gotcha.

SPEAKER_05 32:50

Pull it out, pull the seat out, drop some stuff in there, pull back seat back in.

SPEAKER_04 32:55

Put that hat on and let's like look around, all fucking spastic and shit before you do that.

SPEAKER_05 33:07

The least suspicious looking dude ever. 100%. Genuinely, okay. So walk at the brewery one time. I'm washing dishes at the end of this night of Oktoberfest. The beer garden is closed, right? But there's just one dude creeping around out there, and he I know he just thinks he's being sneaky because I watched the motherfucker start crouch walking.

SPEAKER_04 33:33

Did he click the right button?

SPEAKER_05 33:40

And I'm just gonna say, he thinks we can't hear him, and he's like eight feet away, the windows are open. How he can't hear us going, look at this dipshit. Look at this dipshit sneaking. Straight up sky ramble. I didn't even have to open anything further. I just said, hey guy, stop. I would have walked and he's like, the voice of God was speaking. He's like, the window people.

SPEAKER_09 34:06

The window people.

SPEAKER_07 34:22

I'm like, oh, there we go. Okay, I don't know what happened. Alright, I wasn't getting sound for a second there. I know what happened. Uh really good joke.

SPEAKER_04 34:29

That was a really good joke.

SPEAKER_07 34:30

Sorry, go ahead.

SPEAKER_04 34:31

Go back. I'll Oh. So yeah, like, so I know you're more mature than me. I would have walked right up to him and been like, must have been the wind. It's a pretty good joke.

SPEAKER_05 34:44

Because like crotch with him scratch to his forehead. Looking right over top of him. And just stand there for like a good two minutes. Like, I know I heard something.

SPEAKER_08 34:59

What was that?

SPEAKER_05 35:00

Stop, thief!

SPEAKER_08 35:02

Alright. Must have been your wing.

SPEAKER_07 35:04

Alright, so you guys uh so he takes you to the um the spillway, right? You guys are familiar with the spillway. Oh. It's over here, uh, right by the uh the dam, which is the fancy restaurant in town. Basically, it's like the sewers from town, the runoff area where all the runoff drains into the lake.

SPEAKER_04 35:36

Wait a second.

SPEAKER_07 35:39

Where's where's the restaurant that where there's a restaurant on the lake called the dam.

SPEAKER_04 35:44

Okay, and it's right next to where all the runoff and shit is? It's like where the storm drains is.

SPEAKER_07 35:51

Like storm drains. Like not shit runoff, but like not gray water.

SPEAKER_05 35:56

Still, like, alright, fuck it.

SPEAKER_07 35:58

It's not like right next to it, it's just in the general vicinity.

SPEAKER_04 36:01

I'm just picturing this, it's Indiana. This black bar if next to this dam, and the bar is named the dam, it's fucking great, is what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_05 36:09

Yeah. If you're picturing a dirty, awful community, that's Indiana. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:14

I'm not gonna stop if I find Indiana.

SPEAKER_05 36:18

I challenge you. You don't have to.

SPEAKER_04 36:24

You know what I'm already coming?

SPEAKER_05 36:25

Is it all you know how we're all just like, oh, let's go help this poor disabled man? That's Indiana. They can't help it.

SPEAKER_06 36:33

They just find Indiana, and by fine dining, we're not talking like we're not talking about like a Brazilian steakhouse fine dining.

SPEAKER_04 36:42

It's Indiana, so it's like a sizzler or shonies.

SPEAKER_07 36:45

Oh, show absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 36:47

That's what it is.

SPEAKER_07 36:48

You I mean, I was thinking like Applebee's because it's a steakhouse. I was the nice restaurant in town, so Applebee's.

SPEAKER_05 36:53

You can get mashed potatoes and green beans there at least twice a week.

SPEAKER_07 36:57

Happens. Garlic. This is the 90s, guys. Garlic mashed potatoes. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 37:03

They're not fully loaded yet. No, no.

SPEAKER_05 37:08

I'm calling it this is like the fancy schmancy place. This is the birthplace of heart attack mashed potatoes.

SPEAKER_07 37:15

Okay, I'll make that note.

SPEAKER_05 37:17

The dam is the birthplace of heart attack mashed potatoes and I'd like to argue that it was the stoners in the kitchen that came up with it because like that's where the good food comes.

SPEAKER_07 37:25

Let's put bacon, cheese, garlic.

SPEAKER_04 37:27

Yeah. I watched Sam take a fully loaded baked potato. It had fucking bacon bits, broccoli, and shit, you know, butter, all of it. Sour cream, all of it. Blue hot dog. Cook a waffle. Mashed. Shove that bitch in the middle of the fucking potato and then smother the whole thing in syrup and walk off to his room.

SPEAKER_03 37:46

Okay. I mean, I don't know if he was eating it or tater and waffles.

SPEAKER_05 37:52

You know what? Like I'm not gonna ask. He's he it's like a kaiju. He's got a lot of mass to maintain. And the body, the body just has odd mineral requirements for him. So I'm sure he's like eating a bunch of like calcium tablements to like supplement having to eat animal skulls or something. You know, you know how like deer will eat birds in other woods?

SPEAKER_02 38:15

Other deer, yeah. Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_05 38:18

Because the horns need to grow.

SPEAKER_04 38:20

What I'm telling you is he's he's like a kaiju in the essence that like you know how like their waste just basically uh turns water into nuclear trash. Yeah, yeah. Every time Sam poops, I'm pretty sure there's a biological disaster now. So if you want to kill your toilet, the other one. There's fucking blish, you plug nothing in a hot potato.

SPEAKER_07 38:40

Guys, come on, let's play this game a little bit. All right, all right, all right. It's funny to hear about your kids shitting.

SPEAKER_04 38:45

But it really is.

SPEAKER_07 38:47

Uh you go, he takes you to the spillway. You guys go a little ways in. Uh-da. Sorry, hold on. Let me find the right part of my notes.

SPEAKER_04 38:58

On this week of Wes wrangling his friends.

SPEAKER_07 39:04

Alright, so you guys go to the spillway. He takes you down a little ways down the uh the like tunnel, right? Everybody is kind of hung out here, right? Even as little kids, you guys would play in the spillway. You guys are familiar. It's relatively safe. It's just basically where the storm water runs uh if there's a storm in town. If there's a thunderstorm, you may get caught in a quick flood, so you don't want to be down there if it's gonna be raining, but otherwise, you can pretty much navigate down there. Kids have played around down there a long time. But it takes you a little bit down the tunnel, and he's like, check this out. There's like a maintenance, a door to a old maintenance room, and you can tell that he's kind of like picked the lock. You open it up, nobody's been in there, or you can tell that it hasn't been used in a while, but it has definitely been set up. So um I'm gonna let you guys kind of look around. Uh it's basically like a big I not quite as large, but like kind of like the uh uh I kind of envisioned it as kind of like the when the Ninja Turtles find the like uh in Ninja Turtles 2, this underground subway station. Subway station? Not quite that big, but like, you know, it's kind of like bricks and Kalo is instantly suspicious. There's some like dials, okay.

SPEAKER_06 40:23

Kalo's looking at him is like, hey yo, you say you new in town? Yeah, man, I just found this. You just like walked up on this shit. I mean, uh new guy just finding like the the back cave and shit.

SPEAKER_05 40:37

Yeah. Sus. I'm sorry, bro. Or whatever the 90s equivalent to uh bogus bogus bogus, bro.

SPEAKER_07 40:45

He says, uh, yeah, man. Like uh I mean I've been here for a good chunk of the summer, but like I uh I don't know anybody, so I've just been exploring three splits deep on like Miz on Indiana dirtweed way to shit. Yeah, no, I get it. He's like he and he understands that he's like brick red. He's had he's had he shared one of them with you, so he's like, Yeah, man, I I get where you're coming from, but I just kinda it's kind of cool down here, right? Dude, seriously, check out the tunnels are cool themselves.

SPEAKER_06 41:14

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 41:16

But like this I found this, and like it seems like people have been hanging out here, like like other kids have hung out here before, but like Ain't nobody been here in a while, so like it's kind of like my place, you know. Listen, I I don't have many friends. I'm new here. Both my parents died in a car accident. I get why you're suspicious, man. I just sometimes I come down here to be alone, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_06 41:43

Like, yeah, yeah, to like murder people and stuff. I get you.

SPEAKER_04 41:48

I think it's probably to look at the dirty magazines, but I would want to.

SPEAKER_07 41:52

Well, that does help.

SPEAKER_05 41:54

Don't understand.

SPEAKER_07 41:55

My my foster parents it could be a crank cave that is 100% away.

SPEAKER_05 42:00

They're very a jerknasium, if you will.

SPEAKER_07 42:03

My tackled with spaz. My foster parents are they're super religious, so I can't get away with nothing at their house. So I this is where I come to smoke.

SPEAKER_05 42:12

To do anything, to do anything. That isn't homework or scrubbing behind my ears.

SPEAKER_07 42:17

Yeah, or reading the Bible. Have you you ever been forced to read the Bible?

SPEAKER_04 42:22

Not one time. I have read it twice.

SPEAKER_07 42:25

But you were forced to? Like they made you do it? No. You enjoyed doing it?

SPEAKER_04 42:31

No. Okay. But you did it. Yes. Alright, well, um I'm gonna look at them and be like. Your foster parents, they go to the meetings at the at the fraternal order. How how did you know that? Yeah. I I I've been seeing a lot of influxes in in membership and ins and outs over there.

SPEAKER_07 43:02

I mean, they don't ever take me with them. I always gotta stay home when they go.

SPEAKER_04 43:07

What uh what time do they leave? What time do they come back? Do you know?

SPEAKER_07 43:12

It's like so like Fridays when the dad guy comes home from work.

SPEAKER_05 43:20

Can I see the book? I'd like to see what intuitive does.

SPEAKER_07 43:22

Uh he uh yeah, I mean, they get ready, it's like seven, they leave the house and they usually come back. I mean, so I'm supposed to be in bed, but I stay up and they come back. It's sometimes it's like one in the morning. It's crazy. It's like it's like they do stuff like like midnight is the apex of things. You know what I'm saying? They always come home shortly after midnight. It's weird.

SPEAKER_04 43:47

So it's not like uh m it's not like a supper club. Nothing like that.

SPEAKER_07 43:52

It's uh no, they usually eat supper before they go. Like they go there I mean, they usually come home, they they Depending sometimes, they a little drunk. Actually, if I'm being honest, a lot of times they a little drunk. Everybody around here is a little drunk. A little drunk. Yeah, I noticed that.

SPEAKER_08 44:12

Ain't much for them to do.

SPEAKER_04 44:14

You know, since you showed us this, you know what this town's famous for, right?

SPEAKER_08 44:18

The never-ending tire fire.

SPEAKER_04 44:20

The fire? The great fire of 1983.

SPEAKER_03 44:24

It's been burning since 83. Man, can't you smell that?

SPEAKER_04 44:27

It is stinky. You can't put it out. There's too much.

SPEAKER_07 44:30

It's too much.

SPEAKER_04 44:30

I heard about it. Yeah, no. Years ago. Once the tire factory and the and the racetrack shut down. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 44:38

Man, I'm pictured like if you've lived in this town for any length of time, if you go anywhere, like just the stench, you no, you've become tired. Yeah, we're blind to it, but like if we go anywhere else, it's like Pepe Le Pew, like, why aren't you fucking me, cat? I am muted. She's like, you smell like a tire fire.

SPEAKER_04 44:58

I smell powerly better. So as everybody is like sulfur stings. I'm doing that inquisitive search, right? Like, as I'm walking around, I have my reasons of telling him this, but I'm like searching through they're like file cabinets or lockers.

SPEAKER_07 45:19

So while you're looking around, um so you see, um, so there's like a walkie-talkie on the shelf. Okay. Like just kind of like it looks like a you know, like a 80s big brick mall. Big brick one, like it's been down here for a minute. Like it's was owned, like the city used it at one point, but it's just kind of leaning against the thing. Um there's some food wrappers. You find a backpack. Um Zeke's like, oh the backpack has like fresh food in it. Like um, you know, like someone raided a cabinet at their house and this yours? He's like, no, man, that's I wasn't here last time I was down here.

SPEAKER_04 46:11

So at this point in time, I'm gonna. Does Zeke have a backpack?

SPEAKER_07 46:16

Uh yeah. He does. I mean, everybody has a backpack in this game, it's part of the game.

SPEAKER_04 46:20

I was gonna do the thing where I'm like, here, be prepared. Everybody needs a backpack.

SPEAKER_07 46:23

Yeah, no, he's he has his backpack. He has a backpack. I haven't filled his backpack out yet, but anyway. He has one, yeah. Um, you find uh flashlight uh in the backpack. Um so you know, you can kind of tell that uh oh, as you're looking around, you also notice.

SPEAKER_05 46:47

God damn it.

SPEAKER_07 46:51

Zoom down. I think it's appendix E. Alright. So you see on the wall that somebody has kind of like drawn a chalk map. You can tell that like this chalk map has been drawn out over the years by various different people. You can just tell there's different handwriting styles, things like that. Um tunnels are pretty marked. There's an area circled near the water tower, and it just says knocking with a question mark. And that uh no, he didn't write that. So you guys notice that. Um sorry, I just gotta scroll through all my notes here and find all the shit.

SPEAKER_02 47:45

How close to the.

SPEAKER_07 47:51

Um, I would say, because so the tire fire is in the dump, so like there's really no reason to have the tunnels in the dump. So I would say probably um probably over here. Oh yeah, because it's always here, so like this is kind of like so.

SPEAKER_05 48:13

Basically it's just kind of it's basically just kind of covering the I would say this side of town. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 48:18

This I kind of envisioned as like the uh business area issue of town.

SPEAKER_05 48:23

I'm just trying, I'm just trying to figure out like it because if it goes up to the water tower, that's up.

SPEAKER_07 48:29

Oh, sure, yeah. I mean, it's a I mean it would go underneath all this, like it would basically it's the storm drains, so it kind of runs parallel to all the streets. Yeah. So okay. I mean, you guys haven't explored it enough to have a full map. I'm gonna do the a map of it as well eventually. But right. I meant to have that done, but you know, I didn't do my homework. Anyway.

SPEAKER_05 48:55

Well, this got my uh character's uh two traits are rebellious and intuitive.

SPEAKER_07 48:59

Uh gotcha.

SPEAKER_05 49:01

Would he be able to just kind of look at that and kind of intuit that that's basically the if you're if you were to take a city map?

SPEAKER_07 49:09

Yeah, and just that's where the water tower would be. Yeah, oh yeah, you can tell.

SPEAKER_03 49:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 49:14

Yeah. Okay. Uh so around that point you hear coming from the pipes that kind of tapping sound again. And this one just just kind of rhythmic. Similar to the tower. Um, this is so Willie, since you kind of are used to the Morse code thing, this this isn't the map coordinates or the uh the SOS that you heard earlier. This is just the the tapping that didn't seem like it was um let them. This isn't the the this is the the rhythm attack tapping you heard that wasn't really anything specific. Um around this time you guys hear a crackle come from this walkie-talkie that uh for all intents and purposes should be dead. Just a creepy little like and you hear, you know. So obviously somebody else has been staying in here. Uh-huh. Um, what do you what do you guys want to do? Um, you do hear that rhythmant knocking coming down further down the tunnel.

SPEAKER_05 50:32

Um I'm a shithead kid in somebody else's place. My first thing, my first act is gonna start rubbish through their shit.

SPEAKER_07 50:40

Okay. I mean, you find uh I mean so in the backpack, you're just gonna I'm like I said, you're gonna find some food. There's some food wrappers. You can tell somebody's been in here for a little bit.

SPEAKER_05 50:52

Um like package food or are they wrapping their own, like could make it at home and pack it.

SPEAKER_07 50:59

No, this is like, like I said earlier, it's as though somebody went into a pantry of some kind and just grabbed everything that was packaged and would re remain crash. Like they took it and were intentionally.

SPEAKER_04 51:14

Um I'm gonna take notes on and try to decipher what the cord like what the tapping actually is. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 51:22

Since you said it wasn't map coordinates or yeah, so this is just basically like rhythmic tapping. You just hear it come.

SPEAKER_04 51:29

Nothing decipherable, just okay.

SPEAKER_07 51:32

Nope.

SPEAKER_04 51:35

Does it sound like you remember when you were at recess and you were on the brick wall and you would like trace your finger along the mortar of the bricks, or like somebody walking down a hallway.

SPEAKER_07 51:47

It's similar. Tapping their similar, right? So like as though you were walking down a tunnel and you were just like tapping pipes as you saw them, mainly for mainly for your own enjoyment. Doesn't necessarily sound like with perhaps a baseball bat.

SPEAKER_05 52:05

Yeah, or went out to club some maybe Nazi heads.

SPEAKER_04 52:10

Maybe Nazi heads, right. I'm going to, while this is happening, I'm gonna take as many notes about this room as I can.

SPEAKER_07 52:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 52:18

And I'm gonna steal that walkie-talkie and shove it in my backpack.

SPEAKER_07 52:21

Okay. Shh.

SPEAKER_05 52:24

Hey, yo, stealing's wrong, like as I'm pocketing some of the like snack cakes that are stealing fucking snack cakes.

SPEAKER_06 52:32

First off, I'm gonna need something like sugar for the ride home. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 52:35

First off, my dad pays taxes. This is his radio. You pay for these airwaves, man. And second off, it's strategic relocation. It's not stealing.

SPEAKER_06 52:51

Hey, hey, like, you know, bus boy. Bus boy.

SPEAKER_04 52:56

Yeah, I know you eat all the leftovers off the plate carry.

SPEAKER_06 53:00

They're only morality.

SPEAKER_04 53:02

Yeah, there's nothing in here. Just keep keep drinking the water with the fluoride, bro. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know about any of that. I just want my. Yeah, and your brain's so small. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 53:13

All right. So. Uh Zeke's gonna be like, that sounds like there's somebody down these tunnels. I think we should check it out. Oh, you talking to us. No. Yeah. No, man.

SPEAKER_08 53:28

No.

SPEAKER_06 53:29

Will my bike fit through the tunnels?

SPEAKER_07 53:31

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 53:32

Okay. Then let's go.

SPEAKER_06 53:34

Okay, no, no. Instantly I'm suspicious of the new guy coming in with his secret bunker. Like, hey, all these people getting killed. Let's go split up and wander the dark. I don't know if they split up. Let's go together. No, this man is trying to kill us. K-Lo.

SPEAKER_08 53:51

I don't want you to feel bad about this, but you are on a lot of drugs, right?

SPEAKER_06 53:57

I mean, it's a good thing. And it makes you a little paranoid. Makes you a little paranoid. What is paranoia but the sharpened mind?

SPEAKER_04 54:08

He does have a point.

SPEAKER_07 54:13

Listen.

SPEAKER_08 54:14

I I trust him.

SPEAKER_07 54:16

All I want to say is you hear a railroad in the distance. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 54:24

Kicking and screaming.

SPEAKER_07 54:32

Alright, so uh we go. You go first, though. Yeah, no, that's cool. I got this flashlight. Clicks on his flashlight.

SPEAKER_04 54:40

Like you see him taking this flashlight out of his backpack. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_07 54:43

I think it was next to his switchblade. No, he took the back, he took there's a Yeah. He took it out of the backpack that was in there.

SPEAKER_08 54:51

I'm the only one who doesn't have a switchblade or a knife.

SPEAKER_01 54:54

I mean Yeah, but you were big. I don't have any.

SPEAKER_07 54:58

So my dad taught me a lot of lessons growing up. One of the lessons was you always keep a pocket knife on you just in case.

SPEAKER_01 55:05

You got an apple.

SPEAKER_07 55:08

You never know. Never know where you might need it. I also got one of these, and it's gonna be this is gonna be super cool to you. Remember that we're in the mid-90s, so you haven't seen these a lot. He pulls out, he like lifts up his shirt, and there's this little side pouch, and he lifts it up and he pulls out what looks like a set of pliers, right? And he like as he unfolds it, it's got all these tools on it, and it says leather man on the pouch, and you're just like, wow, this is so amazing. I've never seen one of these before. Multi-tool, these will never become super commonplace. That's not true.

SPEAKER_04 55:46

That's right.

SPEAKER_05 55:48

Dude, I watched a redneck in fucking high school pick a kid up nipples with two of those. Right, exactly. Would that they twirl the fucking thing? Not even like Leatherman just had a pouch for his pliers, like a maniac. Yeah, it's well welders, yeah. It's all right. Yeah, so terrible stuff.

SPEAKER_07 56:14

You guys are going down the tunnel. You guys hear more happen as you go.

SPEAKER_05 56:20

Yeah. Cigar inside of his mouth. Um can't make my day.

SPEAKER_07 56:24

How do you guys want to proceed? So you're gonna put him first.

SPEAKER_05 56:30

Um, yeah. So I'm looking at my uh stats here, and none of them are cool under pressure or easygoing. So I guess I'm the the Shaggy of this group.

SPEAKER_07 56:43

Okay. Like Zoinks. So who would be behind me, I guess, behind uh Z?

SPEAKER_04 56:51

I I say Babbo because he's following this guy like a puppy dog now. I pulled a knife on my bully, so yeah. I want to be not in the rear because Shaggy's back here, but I guess I'm the scrappy dude. I guess I'm the scrappy dude.

SPEAKER_01 57:08

Oh no.

SPEAKER_04 57:10

Are you in the back?

SPEAKER_01 57:11

Where's my glasses? I'm listening to this all unfold, and I'm like, oh no, where's my glasses?

SPEAKER_07 57:17

Like these dudes, all these dudes are just like walking around the clubhouse. What is what is Nadia thinking right now? Nadia has been very quiet. What is Nadia thinking right now with all these dudes in the tunnels? In a s in a in a in a basically sewer tunnels. What's going through her head? She's been very quiet.

SPEAKER_01 57:40

She's just astounded with the um dumbfuckery a foot.

SPEAKER_07 57:48

But she doesn't want to be alone because it's dark now.

SPEAKER_01 57:51

I'm just like, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 57:52

Fuck me, I guess I'm going with them. All right.

SPEAKER_01 57:55

This is what I did to myself.

SPEAKER_07 57:57

So uh you guys basically you see footprints.

SPEAKER_05 58:01

Uh teenagers nearing the apex of their environment is a gross, horrible thing. They're like very few predators of their social tier higher than them. They haven't had to experience a real world yet, so they're just like, oh no, I am the one.

SPEAKER_01 58:16

I know. I'm waiting. I want it so bad. I want it so bad. I want it, I want our teenagers. I want our teenagers to get boom. Take that assholes. Boom.

SPEAKER_07 58:26

Okay, guys. So you're sorry. Creeping down these tunnels, you see footprints and and in damp areas as though someone's been through here recently.

SPEAKER_01 58:35

They're gonna watch this.

SPEAKER_07 58:37

You see um arrows and chalk marks drawn on the wall.

SPEAKER_10 58:42

Bless you.

SPEAKER_07 58:44

So what are you guys doing? As as you guys are kind of walking through these tunnels looking through stuff. How are you guys?

SPEAKER_01 58:51

Um I'm I'm writing all of this stuff down because I figure Mr. Paranoia is gonna be able to put it all together.

SPEAKER_04 59:00

Honestly, I'm thinking about how great it's gonna be to shit in my kid's toilet and clog the fuck out of it and just not say nothing and leave.

SPEAKER_07 59:09

Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_01 59:10

Cool.

SPEAKER_04 59:10

Back to the What is your character thinking? Oh, oh, right now he's worried about Nadia because she's in the very back. Okay. But he's too shy to tell her that he wants her to be up front with him.

SPEAKER_07 59:25

So you guys are kind of going along.

SPEAKER_05 59:29

Um got the classic lighter in hand combo.

SPEAKER_07 59:35

You guys come into like a big open area where like all these pipes are converging. It's kinda hard to tell where the knocking sound is coming from now. It's kind of echoing everywhere. How do you guys want to uh proceed?

SPEAKER_04 59:51

Um Cody has seen a lot of episodes of the X-Files and this new spin-off show called The Lone Gunman.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:01

Um he's going to take his knuckle and tap on the nearest pipe.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:10

Can he tell?

SPEAKER_07 1:00:12

Um you tap on the pipe, uh, and a few seconds later. You are responding with the exact same tap comes back at you. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:27

Like, did it sound like it traveled a ways or was it, you know, suspended from the ceiling maybe 20 feet above us? Which direction did it come from? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:36

Below, above. Well well, did it in the pipe? Did it come from that side of the pipe or this side of the pipe?

SPEAKER_07 1:00:42

I guess give me a brains to see if you can figure it out, Willie.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:46

Alright. Oh, I would just so do I turn in my adversity token now.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:50

Is your brains your d4 or something?

SPEAKER_04 1:00:52

No, my d20.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:54

No, you don't have to turn it in in. That's an ad 20. Okay. Uh you are able to tell.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:03

Daredevil that shit.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:04

You zone in on the sound, right? You you feel where it's coming from. You're able to tell that it's uh down a hundred feet and to the left.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:14

So, like when I tapped, I left my finger on the pipe.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:17

Yeah, basically, you can just feel it. Yeah. Well, you're just you're able to use your mind, right? You're a smart guy. You can tell where it's coming from, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:26

Like some sort of man spider.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:28

Yeah. A man with the powers of a spider. Man with the powers of a spider, or perhaps the blind guy who got splashed in the eyes, but not mutagen. That's weird.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:37

Uh not off-subject, Cody's favorite comic book character.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:42

Yeah? Daredevil? Daredevil.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:45

Okay, good to know.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:46

Okay. Have you seen this latest iteration of Bullseye? Yes. I haven't watched. I haven't watched the newest season yet, so he he I flip back and forth between I like him and I hate him.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:57

Oh, he's great. But the the way he plays him is great, though. Yeah. Anyway. Alright, uh, so you guys uh go down the way that Willie has said. Um now we're following the monster noises when the people are dying.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:20

I no, I'm I'm down.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:22

I'm down.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:22

Maybe. Wait a minute, what year is this? 1996. So you're hoping on like Goonies shit. Like, you're hoping for like a treasure chest. Money, right? That's there's an incentive. You're looking for.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:42

Is that all I gotta tell you? Hey, guess what?

SPEAKER_07 1:02:44

Monetary game? Hey, guess what? New rumor in town.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:49

There's a Goonies treasure in the sewer.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:51

There's a Goonies treasure in the sewer.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:54

But fuck, you must defeat the sloth.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:59

Yeah. No, you want treasure. I want to know what the hell's going on in this damn town.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:05

I want all the things. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:07

Have you ever noticed how uh new people get inducted into this lodge?

SPEAKER_07 1:03:12

Bro, I'm not going to that lodge. See? I I just met a few other friends, and those dudes are creepy. Let me tell you. Now let me Capital C, dude. Yeah, no, I get it.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:23

It's like the JC's for assholes. Hold on. I want you to realize this, right? My dad.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:27

Right, the Knights of Columbus. Freemasons, if you will. Oh god, I didn't say that. I'm sorry, Freemasons.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:35

Right?

SPEAKER_03 1:03:35

We don't challenge you, Freemasons. No, no.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:39

Your parents of the Freemasons were just recently inducted into the Lodge, right? I mean, no problem there.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:49

That's just like we're it's the place that's got the only pool table in the middle. I don't know who it is about.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:56

Is we're parents' personality was one way, then they got inducted, and have they not been different? Man, that's just a tire smoke. No, no, I give up. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:09

So is every who all's family who before we proceed? Meanwhile, Z can just nod along with you the whole time. Like, yeah, man. So before we proceed, who all has a parent that is a member of the fraternal order of the beavers? I guess I do. Okay. Alright. I mean, that's good. Good to know. Just that's it. All right. But that's see, he can attend.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:32

Yeah, my understanding is that it's like the Eagles in our in my hometown, where it's just like the only pool table in town. No, I mean it's very much You can go and drink and the doors lock behind you. That might be the draw. That might be the draw. It's the honeypot that brings you in.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:48

Yeah. But let's ask Zeke. Zeke, did you were your were your foster parents, were they members before you came?

SPEAKER_07 1:04:56

Oh yeah, they were members when I got here.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:58

Have they asked any of their friends that weren't members to go join?

SPEAKER_07 1:05:02

They don't have any friends that aren't members.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:04

See? See?

SPEAKER_07 1:05:07

Only members of They tell me all the time, only good people in town is members of the Lodge. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_04 1:05:16

Greens is my D6. And look, what I want you to think about is people look down on me and my dad because we're not members. Think about it.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:24

Think about it.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:26

Yeah, no, I I I think it's just like a rich people thing.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:31

Like, they just rich people? People go in poor and come out better off. Yeah, they get rich in there.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:37

Then people that they're just gambling on pool tables? I mean, like, I they don't let me go in the back room. I don't know. You went in? It's the only pool table, man.

SPEAKER_08 1:05:46

Daddy stopped going, but he just kept it.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:49

I just I just look at Zeke and I go like this. I look at Zeke and I go, This motherfucker's not one of us.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:57

He ain't one of us. Man, I don't we Don't you call me paranoid no more.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:02

Uh Zeke Zeke looks at you and kind of gives you subtly gives you a like, calm down, calm down, maybe. We just gotta convince he's paranoid, he don't mean yeah, this he's gotta get to know us better. Technically, you were all just meeting.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:18

Alright, so uh you guys are sitting here kind of having this argument about the fraternal order of the buff of the beavers, and you hear a uh a voice. Um, what is everybody's fears again? I know Bob's is height. Yours is becoming like your father.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:39

I'm afraid of walking in fields after midnight.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:42

You're scared of being, and then Alex, what was yours?

SPEAKER_05 1:06:44

Peacocks, yo. Beaver squatch.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:47

Are you serious? Peacocks? You've never been attacked by a peacock, have you? No, I haven't. They're pretty insane. Real man, real man's hook. It's fucking terrifying.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:55

They're they're pretty scary. He's not wrong.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:58

That horrible noise as they're just like going for your okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:01

They also sometimes sometimes you're sleeping at your dad's friend's house and they have a peacock, and you're trying to sleep at night, and all you can hear is help me. And it sounds like a tiny, a small woman who needs help. So it's three o'clock in the morning, and you get up and you open the front door, and you're like, I hear a voice saying, help me, and you open the door and it gets louder. So you go and you wake Judy and Danny up and you go, guys, there's something really bad happening. There's a woman screaming, help me outside, and they just laugh and laugh. All right, the fears. And they go, and they go, and they go, Don't worry, it's just the fucking peacock. They do, and she does it all the time, or he does it all the time, it's annoying as they'll go back to sleep.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:50

Help me, help me, help me.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:52

Seriously, like it sounds like a woman screaming from terrible a distance.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:58

Terrifying, but like the males, the males get territorial. I'm still at the teenager, right? My folks are like, hey, we're gonna get a picture of you and just like chilling on the steps next to Peacock, right? They get a picture. The picture has taken about a second before this peacock is done with my shit and just goes for the fucking eyes. I'm sitting down at peacock head level, and this thing's like, nah, not today. Fans out and then just like strut strut wa like beek out at me. I was like, ah, goddammit. This one's gonna say some condescending shit. I'm gonna get his eyes later. I'm wondering is like, am I gonna have to explain to a zookeeper why I'm fucking squaring off against her? This motherfucker started it. Like the video of that kangaroo with that dog.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:46

You just like well, no.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:48

We're talking about the one where the kangaroo's just drowning a dog. He's got no, it no longer.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:54

He's like, Fly, put my toe back. The kangaroo's like, oh shit, the fight. Well, when the guy walks up and just like punches the head. Oh Shane Gillis, that's a really good impression.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:08

Never mind.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:11

No, peacocks legitimately are terrifying. To me, anyway.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:15

Do you understand what this means?

SPEAKER_04 1:09:19

Uh, I know. What again? The nose says so stoned. What again?

SPEAKER_01 1:09:27

Hi.

unknown 1:09:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:30

What do you think that means?

SPEAKER_07 1:09:31

So stoned. Yeah. You ever uh you ever watch South Park?

SPEAKER_01 1:09:36

No. Don't forget your towel.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:40

We needed you to watch every towel episode of South Park that you can.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:48

Oh yeah, that's it. You figured out the code? No, that's the beat de Funkin Town. Yes. I'm so fucking tired now.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:01

Right.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:02

Right.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:04

So um, as you guys like are standing there talking about the fraternal order of the um the fucking beavers, you're arguing, you hear a tiny voice down the hallway go.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:22

Yeah, my parents became members. Now they're fucking dicks. The fuck.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:30

You turn around and you see uh fucking younger than you. Uh you guys, I mean, it's a small small town, small school. You guys all recognize Eli Mercer. Um the missing ones. He is the boy that is missing. Alright. The one that the one that is not Bob's sister.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:54

Holy shit, yeah, you that kid. Uh hey. Hey, what's up? You hungry?

SPEAKER_05 1:11:01

Uh I'm gonna pull out the snack cake out of my phone.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:03

Do you know where Antoinette is? Uh, no. Who who the girl, the girl whose name is on the water tower? That one?

SPEAKER_04 1:11:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:13

I mean, no, I don't.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:15

My sister.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:16

I don't. Oh, that's your sister? No, I ain't never met her. He says, uh. NATO? He says, uh tornado? Um. He says, uh, I uh I ran away from my house. He says, I uh I ran away from my house, uh, my pa he Is Anton your sister?

SPEAKER_04 1:11:43

Is Anton your sister?

SPEAKER_05 1:11:47

Sift is a complicated term.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:49

He says, uh I run away from my house. My pa he uh he uh he started drinking and the more he drinks he gets real mean and uh he don't he don't treat me real good, so I uh I done hit down here for a little bit. I had to get away from him word.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:19

Word you've been down here for like a week?

SPEAKER_07 1:12:22

Yeah. Just kinda nice and there's that the big room. That place was pretty nice. Yeah, I'm absolutely throwing the snack cake at the kid. Okay. What have you been eating? Well, snack cakes like this. I don't I had a bag of them. I don't know. It was eating my Yeah, no, I stole this from some asshole.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:42

You can have his. Oh. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:45

Completely oblivious that I'm that you stole it from that asshole. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:51

Have you walked all these tunnels?

SPEAKER_07 1:12:54

Um, I mean, I I I got I've seen some of them. I've seen a lot of them. There's the there's the place I can't I didn't go because the map said don't go. The map on the wall back at the the the one place. Okay. It said don't go there, so I don't go there because it seemed like it was the smart move. Um he said, uh, and then there's the there's the smelly place. It really s it smells really, really bad.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:28

Like uh like poop or like fire?

SPEAKER_07 1:13:33

Like, so you know when uh like uh sometimes you kill a fish, right? And you you take all the stuff outside the fish and you throw it on the ground. Sometimes it doesn't get ate by the animals right away, and it gets that kind of stinky. I don't know why I'm southern all of a sudden, gets that kind of stinky.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:52

Accent for hard to lock in sometimes.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:56

Gets that kind of stinky, uh, you know, rotten fishy rottenness.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:02

You could just say it smelled like rotten fish guts. We'd all known. Stinky rottenness. It's yeah, yeah. That's what it smells like. That's that kid's like six. Terrible.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:14

No, he's like 15.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:17

Oh, yeah. Age is just a number.

unknown 1:14:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:23

That's the most 90s thing.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:28

Um uh there's so many Sean Connery references I want to.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:32

Oh, I'm just thinking like pretty in pink and just um he also says uh I heard you guys uh he was over in the in the tower area, and he says uh he heard you guys up at the top talking, verberating through the pipes, and that's why he started knocking.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:51

I'm gonna pull out the book and I'm gonna be all like, were you tapping SOS?

SPEAKER_07 1:14:58

What's an SOS?

SPEAKER_04 1:15:00

Um, it's an obsolete military never mind. Well do you know the pattern that you knocked? Like show me again.

SPEAKER_07 1:15:12

Just tapping on things to get the echo, I like the echo.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:16

So you said there was two different we heard basically like there was pattern stuff and then there was just the arrhythmic tapping shit. Um I'm assuming that the arrhythmic tapping was just coming from this kid banging around if he doesn't.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:32

Never mind. Um how long have you looked at that map in the in the the room you were staying in?

SPEAKER_07 1:15:39

I've been down here like about a week. So I I mean I'll check it every day, check out the new areas I haven't been yet.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:47

What time is it?

SPEAKER_07 1:15:49

What time is it right now? At where we are. Oh, uh so it was like getting to be dusk. Um so I would say so it's summertime, so it's probably like about 9 30-ish at this point. Okay. It is getting to the point where you're going to have to go home soon. Because right, like this is it's a bad time in town. I guess it'd be before 9, because uh it's not dark yet. So it gets n dark around 9, 9.30.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:17

You said 9.30? Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:16:19

So let's say it's about 8.30.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:21

Um Yeah, I gotta be home. I got stuff I gotta do at 9.30.

SPEAKER_07 1:16:27

Right. I mean, you guys, I mean, it's this is you you're still teenagers with responsibilities and you have curfews, I'm assuming.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:35

Yeah, I'm gonna.

SPEAKER_07 1:16:37

But you have solved the mystery of uh you have you found one of the missing kids. Let's let's yeah, go ahead. Role play.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:44

I'm gonna pull out my Time Axe, like flip my wrist. Yeah, uh is it the kind that's got the crack later on? It does. It's casio, but it's a Timex version. Oh yeah. Because it takes a licking and keeps on ticking.

SPEAKER_07 1:16:58

Yeah. So okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:59

He is also gonna say, um Dude, I saw a stainless steel fucking calculator watch one time. It's like clicks when you type. Like, that's hot.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:08

As you as you were saying that, he's like, okay, well, I'm glad. Uh so I thought he says, uh, you know what, never mind.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:16

I'm not gonna pop up.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:18

He will say that uh he hears other knocking. So he confirms that there is other knocking that it's deeper down in the tunnels, places he hasn't made it to yet.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:30

Have you uh on your map, have you noticed uh like bingo letters, like a grid system with uh with a letter and a number?

SPEAKER_07 1:17:42

I mean I didn't draw it, but there is uh yeah, like a like an ABC down the side, and then like a one, two, three across the top. And more than more than that, but I don't remember how many it goes.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:56

Okay, no, not nothing specific. No, you're fine.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:59

Oh, do adversity tokens carry over? Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:02

You hold on hold on. Uh yeah, uh you wanna I wanna head back.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:09

Yeah, so like I I'm of the opinion that this kid ran away from a shitty situation, which like I was gonna say that's I was gonna ask you if you're gonna turn him in. Are you guys gonna tell him where I'm at? Out in like the dirt field Indiana come communities like this, like that's I think be a pretty narc move to ride him out. Ride him out, he's alive, he's kicking. Like he seems to be getting by on his own. Say we just like keep that shit to ourselves. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:18:42

Like we we Zeke agrees with you. He's like, I don't like the situation this boy's in. We should let him hang out in the clubhouse and maybe he could stay there safe.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:54

Yeah. Oh no, it's cool. Like, absolutely, like, I want to know a sewer monster in my life. I've always wanted a toxic avenging friend. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:05

So, like what do you think? I don't know. I'm scared of horses. Really? Is it a horse? They bite. I'm talking about letting the kids, should we turn him in? Uh the whole town and like the trip. Everybody's looking for him. I mean, you don't know where Antoinette's at, and I don't see why we keep him any longer than we have to. You want to take him back to his dad?

SPEAKER_01 1:19:37

No.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:37

We're in the middle of this thing. I mean, we can do it afterwards. You got stuff to do later. I'm like to see where the hell this lands up. I miss my sister a lot. And she's down here, and we can find her. We should. We can come back. I'm gonna I need to post this on the kitchen to be it bait. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:04

Surely they ain't the model. So what is the group consistent when uh Eli?

SPEAKER_07 1:20:10

Are we going to we're leaving him? Like we're leaving him to his own device.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:14

Oh yeah, absolutely. Like we're leaving him.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:16

We might come back later, but right now I I think I don't we can't tell my dad, he's hammered.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:23

Yeah. And I can't we're I don't know anybody else who would give a shit.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:30

Do you do you? We have homeless teenagers where I live, so like it's just a thing that kind of people it's an open acknowledgement. Like, what a horrible situation. You gonna do anything about it? Fuck. So what I'm thinking about is we're gonna leave some blankets out every now and then, but like Cody being the conspiracy theorist here.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:48

I'm gonna let this kid do all the dirty work and kind of keep mapping over his way through the tunnels.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:53

Oh yeah, you're gonna you're gonna put a radio tag on this kid.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:56

Uh yeah, before there was air pack air tags. It's not dangerous here. So he's fine here. I don't think you should go anywhere else. I should stay here.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:10

He can be the canary in the coal mine.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:12

Or yeah, that I'd say you're cool, just hang out. Yeah. What about Velma the librarian? You think she could help him? I mean blink blink.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:26

I think Noah, this guy's I'm already like planning out a system of like shuttling food down out of the kitchen every shift for this kid and just like leaving food drops along the shoreline for the and just like feeding the hus the the town spray kid. Like okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:49

Like a bag of old fast food over a fence floor?

SPEAKER_05 1:21:52

Yeah, once a month there's like a warm beer and a whip it in there.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:54

So we've we've settled on we're gonna we're gonna homeless that would have been so cool to watch it.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:00

Fine.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:01

They're gonna It's sad!

SPEAKER_05 1:22:03

Holy shit! I didn't know because every day is exactly the same.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:10

Alright, so he's gonna we're gonna have you guys are gonna have him continue exploring the tunnels, let him hang out in the clubhouse. Alex is gonna bring him food. That's that's what we've decided with him. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:21

As long as I can get away with it, I'm gonna steal food from work to Gotcha.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:25

Okay, so feed the stray kid. Um it's getting dark. Time for everybody to go home. Y'all hop on your bikes and uh go to ride your various directions, and I'm going to uh everybody give me kind of a uh tell me what's waiting when you get home. I just kind of wanna get more of an idea of what your life is like outside of the group, I guess.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:01

Um when I get home, I've gotta knock a certain number of times to get in the house.

SPEAKER_07 1:23:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:06

Um dad comes and unlocks the 37 locks that are on the ball.

SPEAKER_07 1:23:12

So your dad is also very into the conspiracy theory.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:15

That he was so much in the conspiracy theories that he'd be he turned himself paranoid schizophrenia.

SPEAKER_07 1:23:22

Gotcha. Oh, okay. I see.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:24

Um, and then after I get in, he tells me, boy, better lock those locks in the right order.

SPEAKER_07 1:23:29

Gotcha.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:30

Very like Mel Gibson from Conspiracy Theory. Gotcha. And after I do so, he goes and sits in front of his recliner, staring at the local like off-brand television channel. Okay. With his bottle of Jack Daniels and his chain smoking Marlboro Reds and Astray. Um and I go to my room to moderate my my chat room.

SPEAKER_07 1:23:58

Okay. What does uh Kalo do when he gets home?

SPEAKER_05 1:24:02

So Dad uh operates a ferry two months two weeks out of the month. So he's off doing boat shit for his two weeks. Come home to this the ominous site, like the most 80s, 90s site I can imagine. It's the the silhouette of a couch and one head glued in front of the TV. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:24:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:30

And it is at this point, you know, 9 30. We're talking like your your evening shows, your uh the it's into the old reruns. Switching between your modern comedies and your black and white doesn't care because mom is just mom's been a fucking safety foreman at the at the the factory for the last 12 hours, so she's just sitting there with a beer in her hand g looking through the TV. Gotcha. There is food waiting in the fridge in a Tupperware container. Okay. There is uh relatively just unadorned house. Okay. And uh a room that I just go up to and start playing some vanilla ice as loud as I can get away with.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:25

Go ninja, go ninja, go, go ninja, go ninja, go. But that's just to work off the energy from biking.

SPEAKER_07 1:25:31

I've kind of still I get it. I've seen yeah, unfortunately, I've seen cold as ice. Yeah. Um so that's what's waiting for stop.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:43

I don't know. That's the ultimate question. When you ask a child of that time period, it's like when I say the word stop, what is the immediate next word that comes into your mind?

SPEAKER_01 1:25:53

Collaborate.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:54

See, that's all that's one of them. See, now I would say hammer time.

SPEAKER_07 1:25:57

Yeah, hammer time.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:58

Oh, hammer time is another one.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:00

Yeah. Alright, so Nadia, stop. What's it like whenever you get home?

SPEAKER_01 1:26:04

I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:08

Yeah, what's Nadia got at home? What's that caliper say? I don't know. We used to we used to make fun of this guy who who did break for him and he couldn't read the tools. Anyway, Andy.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:20

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:21

What is what is Nadia uh what happens when Nadia gets home after her long day in this adventure?

SPEAKER_01 1:26:29

Well, she just has to take care of her mom and get everything ready and take care of herself. And just make sure she's ready for the next day. Everything.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:42

What's wrong with her mom?

SPEAKER_01 1:26:43

She's in bed.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:44

Oh okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:45

Is she like she's never getting out of it?

SPEAKER_07 1:26:47

Oh, okay. That's that's no good.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:51

No.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:53

Uh okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:54

That's that's her obligation.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:56

That's her obligation is to take care of her mother. Okay. Does she have a father in the picture or no? Okay. Dad Babbo.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:07

Tanner has daddy issues too.

SPEAKER_07 1:27:08

Yeah, it happens. Dad Babbo, tell me tell me what happens when Tanner gets home.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:13

Well, when Tanner gets home, the first thing he has to do is take care of all the animals. So the horses and the goats and the pigs and the chickens. Then he's gotta go ahead and cook dinner for him and his dad. Run down to the gas station and get another 12-pack. Maybe a pint if it's the weekend. And the attendant, Ray, knows dad. So he knows me. Yeah. Um after dinner, I'll try to take care of any homework out left if I have any energy. And I've got a lot usually because I don't have legs.

SPEAKER_07 1:27:51

Yeah. Gotta burn it out in other ways.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:56

Question Does he laugh every time you say, I'm gonna need you to run on down? Like, is it a mean laugh or is it just like a family? It's fucking poor kid.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:06

He does not laugh. He just hiccups.

SPEAKER_07 1:28:09

Oh my.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:10

It's pretty bad. So he has got a pretty bad drinking problem. Some need to run off down to gas station. Yeah. And talk to Ray. The mirth is gone. Give me another point.

SPEAKER_07 1:28:21

Yeah. Okay. Uh, so Zeke gets home and uh he walks through the front door and his two foster parents kind of stand up from the living room and they give him the old up and down, and they look like uh y'all have seen some Baptists before. Y'all seen some Midwest Baptists, you know what they look like.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:49

Oh boy. If you could starch a human soul.

SPEAKER_07 1:28:53

Yeah. Uh they're very friend proper. You know.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:58

Um I'm gonna I'm the they look like they're gonna judge you for how you park, but they're gonna do some weird shit with feet later when their doors close.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:06

Right. The kind of people you look at and you know their farts sound weird. Like you can't clinch that hard. Those are some of my best friends. I you can't clinch that hard for your entire life and not have your anus just like like a hamster attack cry.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:29

Alright, so.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:30

Can you imagine a hamster barking mad? I've seen a mouse doing it, like sitting there yelling at me. Woke me up from a fucking nap. I'm waking up to this mouse sitting across lit like a pissed-off mouse. That mouse can be a roommate. There's a stack of CD cases on my coffee table, and I'm just like, what is this sound? And there's Stuart Lilmold motherfucking like, like leaning into it, pointing at a milk jug and shit. And then it just fine. The instant I started sitting up, it just fucked off. I was just like, this was some sort of mouse initiation. That mouse is a dare. That mouse is not a dare. Like he leads that community. Like Dr. Mines were like, you don't have the fucking ball. And he's like, Bet. Well, you're just I'll wake him the I'll wake him the fuck up. Hey, hey, you dickhead that feeds me. Yeah, you didn't know you feed me, but you feed me. But you feed me.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:36

I shit all over everything all the time. I've been in your mouth, asshole. I've been in your mouth.

SPEAKER_07 1:30:44

Oh my god. Anyway. Uh so uh Z goes home. Uh it was uh uh yeah. Because that's what talking about parks gets in.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:01

Maybe. I'm asking him. Fuck it. I don't care if he gets mad.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:06

He goes up to his room and six sphincter. He he puts on some uh some music. Uh he's gonna put on uh I already said Nirvana, so I'm gonna say Sound Garden this time. Uh and he's just gonna put on his he's got like the big headphones, like plugs it in because he's gotta keep it plugged in so they don't know what he's listening to. Yeah. So what he does is, so this is how he gets gets around it, right? He's got his like little boom box that's like uh like your little standard like record CD player on top with the tape deck. In that he puts in uh he puts in uh jars of clay. That's my sound guard impression. Puts in jars of clay and he turns that up to a reasonable volume so that they can hear it downstairs. And then he gets then it then he reaches underneath his mattress and pulls out his discman, pops it open, and uh it says, you know gently balances it level.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:02

Right, right, level.

SPEAKER_07 1:32:03

Yeah, puts his headphones in and he you know and then he's listening to you know some some grunge, some sound guard, and you know, so he's got his that's his trick. He play he keeps the he keeps the stuff they don't like hidden, and he plays the the Jesus stuff loud.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:19

Yeah, I'm familiar with the tactic. Doesn't always work. Doesn't always work. Sometimes they catch you. Yeah, sometimes you fuck up.

SPEAKER_07 1:32:29

Alright, so uh uh you also, KLO, you notice that um he lives in Cannibal Corpse. What is terrible?

SPEAKER_05 1:32:37

I hate it's terrible too, but I listened to it because it ain't I people hate it. Yeah, um you notice that song is for the ladies. It's called fucked with a knife.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:53

Corpse grinder is ridiculously weird about charities and shit, too.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:57

That's it's he's a lot of fun and stops fucking African children and shit. He's a lot of fun, and he's a great guy, and I'm glad he's got a sense of humor because God, cannibal corpse is just like almost unlistenable. All right. You guys notice that almost caught in a mosh?

SPEAKER_04 1:33:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:33:16

Uh Kalo, you notice that Zeke goes into your neighborhood, the Glen. And uh you stop at your like your house is at the edge of the neighborhood. It's like the moderately priced, like uh middle class house, if you will. Like the edge of the neighborhood is those, but as you get deeper into the glen, the like it's got like it's kind of like on a slope, so like as you get onto the top of the hill, there's the you know, the like rich people houses. So he his foster parents are, you know, I don't know, haven't decided what they do yet, but they're like solidly upper middle class, like pretty much rich. Like they're in they're definitely Indiana rich.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:54

Like so it's like when you're driving through the legends of Eureka and you slowly make your way up the tiers. Yeah, the cast. Right.

SPEAKER_07 1:34:01

That's a very good example. As you're driving through Eureka and you go up the hills, they're yeah, they get nicer and richer, richer and richer. Like the class structure. Herman, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:09

Herman, the class structure is built around the floodplain. Like if you can get wet, you suck.

SPEAKER_07 1:34:14

You're familiar. You see him, you know, he's going a good way up the hill. Uh so they are uh they do have a good amount of money. There are a wealthier family, so bank. Alright.

SPEAKER_04 1:34:29

Um are they making shitty deals to get a data center in their farm? Not yet. Fucking sons of bitches. This is the 90s.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:37

I love that it's made national news.

SPEAKER_07 1:34:43

There's two they're trying to build in Franklin County, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:45

Two.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:45

The two are the Fenton one. Yeah, like that's maybe national news.

SPEAKER_06 1:34:50

Okay, so I don't even care about the free base next to the case.

SPEAKER_07 1:34:54

Because they voted the council out. They voted the council out the next day. And we don't nobody, I mean, maybe people do care about this listening to our podcast, but we're also very using data centers for our podcast. So I approve of them in places where they need to be and not where they don't need to be. Uh and there's safe ones, there's ones that use less environmental waste, there's ways that can be done correctly. Oh, I'll save any crazy ranting for when we stop playing. Yeah, that's fine.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:21

Um that's the politics behind it, not the actual.

SPEAKER_07 1:35:24

That's honestly my biggest issue. Uh as uh Willie, as you are like getting ready for bed as you're like typing your forums, trying to figure stuff out, you hear a crackle from that walkie-talkie. And um from that crackle, like as that walkie-talkie springs to life, you hear that tapping again coming from the walkie-talkie. This time it's the SOS. And I don't know what grid squares is gonna be because I haven't drawn that map yet. But it's tapping from that.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:06

It's giving you some sort of coordinates.

SPEAKER_07 1:36:08

It's giving you coordinates to an area uh on that map.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:11

I know we haven't done it yet, but is it two different two different coordinates?

SPEAKER_07 1:36:17

It's like a cross cross section, like a lot of latitude-longitude kind of thing. Oh okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:22

Alright. Got it. I'm gonna start looking up random, like I'm gonna post out there and see if anybody bites on like grid patterns and stuff on the on the chat room.

SPEAKER_07 1:36:37

Okay. That's alright. Sounds good. Does anybody else want to be doing something in their downtime between sessions? Uh their character, not I don't care what you guys do.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:51

Just hustling.

SPEAKER_07 1:36:52

Hustlin, okay. I mean it ideally we're gonna be doing like day to day.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:58

It's not gonna, you know, this is gonna be like a week in the life of it's not going to be like Yeah, no, uh like nothing about this registered as further action. Yeah. This was in in KLO's mind tonight was uh Oh, sure, yeah. One of those fun after shift parties that sometimes erupts out and like weird shit happens and you go home and then you then you go to sleep and you go to school the next day. All right.

SPEAKER_07 1:37:26

Flyers. Flyers for your sister. Okay. That's I mean.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:30

I'll do that.

SPEAKER_07 1:37:32

Okay. Uh so until next time, I'm Wes. This has been Wes's Campfire. These are my players. Bye everybody.