Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Sam.
All right.
We pan away from this scene of taper underneath the window holding graves with hemlock, and bear across watching, and we move from here to another side of town during a time a little further into the future, a brief intermission if you will.
The smell of dust and stale air cakes the inside of your nose.
You can't see a damn thing, but each of your footsteps echo, indicating you're in a fairly large room.
Your wrist hurts from the pressure of hands gripping you in place.
Leave them.
You hear a soft male voice choke this empty space. You feel the fabric slip off of your face and the hands release you, uncovering a rather empty scene.
I'm not sure what any of you were expecting, but from the big boss you might have expected more.
You're in a theater like the kind that puts on plays.
It's been abandoned. The bright red cushions are dull and the velvet is coarse and there's a spotlight on him.
Luca Novelli sits in a large gaudy throness chair and his big brother, Butcher stands beside him.
Maybe it's the lighting, maybe there's an energy in the air, but you've seen them before today.
Today something feels different about them.
Butcher is much bigger than Luca in stature. He stands at around 6ft 2, Broad shouldered. He wears a white collared shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows, black slacks and dress shoes.
Luca.
Luca by no means should fill out the space he's sitting in.
He's a slender build, almost sickly if you didn't know any better.
He's got obvious dark circles that all of you can see, even though you have quite a bit of distance between you.
He dresses similarly to that of Butcher, except he has a black tie and a brown trench coat over his neatly tucked white dress shirt.
And yet something about him looms in the armchair he sits in.
Please come forward.
We have much to talk about, he says to each of you.
[00:03:21] Speaker B: I'll start walking over.
[00:03:22] Speaker C: Yeah, walk forward.
[00:03:25] Speaker A: We look at each of you.
We'll start with Adam.
What do we see?
[00:03:31] Speaker D: You see a short slender man with a goggles above his head and then kind of like almost a respirator, almost a mask over his face that just lightly distorts his breathing and his voice and any kind of like tremble that comes out of his mouth just slightly, just like a little maybe almost like a radio tone to it. He he over covering what you would assume is sideburns into mutton chops into a mustache. Okay, Fully connected, no beard, no bottom chin half. It's just all the upper Part of it.
[00:04:10] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:04:10] Speaker D: Like I said, he's slim, he's slender. And he is covered in metal pieces and pipes, small piping pens, just shit galore. Different bands and gears and things all over his body.
And he clinks a bit when he walks, but almost purposefully. He has these metal soled boots. The clunk, clunk as he steps forward, making himself appear bigger and heavier than he probably is. And yeah, he. He walks up all right.
[00:04:41] Speaker A: Tanner.
[00:04:42] Speaker E: Yeah.
My character is a young Gurman, probably in his mid-20s. He's probably about average height, 5'10 or so, 5'11 maybe.
He's wearing like a black suit, black tie. His clothes are nice, but they're not like immaculately kept, but they're still nice. He has hands in his pockets and an eyebrow raised. His hair is a dark brown. His eyes are like, you know, like that light blue that's like almost like a silver color, but it's like still natural. And he's handsome and put together, but he's got like an intense look in his eye, but he looks relaxed and he has an eyebrow raised and he says, hey, boss, nice to meet you everybody, but what's with the subterfuge?
[00:05:24] Speaker A: And we look over to Jesse.
[00:05:27] Speaker B: You see the most average man you've ever seen in your life. He's average height, he's kind of chubby and got a little green sweater vest on, khakis, loafers, and he's balding. He's clean shaven, and he has light brown eyes and he just kind of shuffles along and he just kind of quietly moves up with them.
[00:05:47] Speaker A: Okay, 10.
[00:05:49] Speaker F: You see this little guy who might either be a little boy or a young woman, kind of like dressed like Milo Thatch coated brown skin. They got the circular glasses and then like cornrows under a newsboy hat. Just kind of looking like a little nervous and a little like maybe I shouldn't be here.
[00:06:07] Speaker A: Mm, absolutely. Silver, I'm so glad you asked.
I'm so sorry for the harsh transportation, my darlings. I had to get you here somehow.
[00:06:21] Speaker E: I suppose.
It's a pleasure to meet you again, everyone, but you haven't introduced yourselves. My name is Ray Caldwell. It's good to meet you.
[00:06:29] Speaker B: I'm Todd Guy.
[00:06:31] Speaker C: Oh, we're going with real names.
I'm Alder Stillwell. Clunk. You can call me Clunk. And well, I'm just here to make shit, I suppose, for the boss, right?
[00:06:41] Speaker F: You hear like the loudest gulp go by sea say see, say, why not hearsay if you don't see say, don't matter.
[00:06:51] Speaker A: I'm sure you're wondering why I assembled you all here. Or maybe not.
[00:06:56] Speaker C: I'm more just go to go to where I'm told to go. Shh.
[00:06:59] Speaker B: Yeah, I just go where the money is.
[00:07:01] Speaker E: You're literally my boss.
[00:07:03] Speaker A: This is true, my dear.
[00:07:11] Speaker C: Shaking their head like everybody else had something. But, you know, if you mind, do.
[00:07:15] Speaker A: You have something to say?
[00:07:18] Speaker F: Oh, no, I was.
[00:07:21] Speaker E: Our friend CC seems a little nervous and I think that's because none of us know why we're here, boss. So if I think if you wouldn't mind, it make everybody feel a little bit better if you gave us as much information as you're willing to do. You're the boss to what you want.
[00:07:33] Speaker A: My apologies for trying to do pleasantries. You see, I've called you all here because, well, you're all good at your jobs.
[00:07:42] Speaker E: Thank you.
[00:07:43] Speaker A: And I need each of you.
[00:07:44] Speaker C: Can't say you're wrong.
[00:07:46] Speaker A: As you know, we've been up to things and we're setting up for perhaps our final grandstand.
And that's where you each come in.
[00:08:03] Speaker E: What can we do for you?
[00:08:06] Speaker C: What can I build for you?
[00:08:09] Speaker A: I need you to kidnap Alvaromonte.
[00:08:16] Speaker F: Okay, as in the.
[00:08:22] Speaker A: Why? Yes.
[00:08:23] Speaker C: Kidnappers in alive afterwards.
[00:08:25] Speaker A: As in alive for now.
[00:08:27] Speaker C: Well, okay.
Doesn't matter who dies in the meantime.
[00:08:34] Speaker A: As long as it's not him.
[00:08:36] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:08:38] Speaker E: Is there.
All right.
[00:08:42] Speaker A: You have something to ask?
[00:08:45] Speaker E: Is this an inter gang operation?
[00:08:51] Speaker C: Wouldn't you have to assume that I.
[00:08:54] Speaker E: Just making sure I understand where we're standing, my dear.
[00:08:59] Speaker A: This whole thing has been an inter gang operation.
[00:09:02] Speaker C: The whole thing.
[00:09:04] Speaker E: News to me. I'll stop asking questions. Now, obviously I'm the idiot in the room and I don't mind that.
[00:09:09] Speaker A: I suppose that means if you're not caught up, then I'm unsure if the rest of you are.
[00:09:15] Speaker F: I think sise would be.
Because I'm the news guy. Yeah, for the ludanus.
[00:09:21] Speaker A: Yay.
[00:09:21] Speaker F: That's my whole thing. I'm the sleuth.
[00:09:23] Speaker A: Mm.
Well, you see, our dear friends over at the Maloney's have been taking out each of Monty's crew to feed the barrier.
[00:09:43] Speaker C: Right.
Impressive work. I must say.
[00:09:47] Speaker A: Very. They're good at their jobs and they have people who are.
[00:09:52] Speaker C: They're good at your job?
[00:09:53] Speaker B: Mm, I think so. It pays the bills.
[00:09:55] Speaker C: Right.
[00:09:59] Speaker F: Apologies.
Now, I've been following this real closely.
[00:10:04] Speaker A: Yes, you've been.
You've all been instrumental in securing the pedestal.
[00:10:10] Speaker F: Why exactly? I mean, like, I know why, but like why do we. Is it so we can be free?
[00:10:22] Speaker A: Get out?
[00:10:23] Speaker F: Makes sense.
[00:10:23] Speaker A: Start over.
This town has been nothing but a stain, and we can start again.
[00:10:36] Speaker F: Do I know by doing the thing that it would, like, be bad?
Like, what's. What are the specs on that? Based on what I know about the paranormal in the.
[00:10:47] Speaker A: Yeah, so what you know is a lot of things have to happen simultaneously, and no one 100% knows what the outcome is.
Hmm.
There's been old, old, old tall tales about it and what's beyond, but they're just tales.
[00:11:18] Speaker F: Well, sise is always in the pursuit of knowledge.
And if there's more out there, there's more to learn.
Not that they're not on board.
[00:11:28] Speaker A: And he's part of the final piece again. Need him alive for now, but you can take out whoever else is in the way.
[00:11:44] Speaker B: Okay, Sounds good to me. How much are we gonna get paid for this?
[00:11:48] Speaker A: Your life.
[00:11:49] Speaker B: Oh, okay.
[00:11:56] Speaker E: Well, that sounds great to me, boss.
Then is there somewhere we can hole up and maybe get started looking at some schematics of his house, maybe some traveling patterns, anything like that? So we can get, you know, start on a plan?
[00:12:16] Speaker A: Of course.
Everything you need is already in the green room.
[00:12:21] Speaker E: Great.
Then we can head there now. Unless there's anything else you need, of course.
[00:12:28] Speaker A: Perfect.
That's all I need of you for now.
[00:12:33] Speaker E: Thank you, boss.
[00:12:35] Speaker A: I appreciate each and every one of you.
[00:12:37] Speaker D: I bow, I just do a nod.
[00:12:40] Speaker E: And then I turn and start walking away from this mess.
[00:12:43] Speaker A: All right, so you each walk your way to the green room. You just have to go up, left out, turn a corner, turn a few corners. Yeah, you make your way to the green room, and there's a bunch of schematics and things that you need laid out on. On the table.
[00:12:59] Speaker E: Brilliant, Todd.
You're used to this sort of thing. Where would you start if you were attempting to assassinate a man?
[00:13:07] Speaker C: What? Kidnapping.
[00:13:08] Speaker E: Oh, sorry? Kidnapping a man.
[00:13:10] Speaker B: Oh. I'm usually more of just shooting people. You know, I'm not much of a kidnapper, but, you know, I tend to track people, find out their schedule, and then decide the best place to hit them.
[00:13:23] Speaker E: Ray looks at c. Say for a minute, Alder, have you ever kidnapped a person before?
[00:13:30] Speaker C: No, but I do like to blow things up. What if.
[00:13:35] Speaker B: We blow up?
[00:13:35] Speaker C: I blew something up. No. Oh, well, no. People in explosion send have getaway plans, and. Well, what if we're the getaway plan?
Or we cut off the getaway plan? Right.
[00:13:52] Speaker B: So I could kill anyone. I'll kill the getaway plan.
[00:13:54] Speaker E: Kim, what do we know about the mayor? Like residency. How old is he?
[00:13:59] Speaker F: Does he have everything? My wife, if you ask C, say you know everything.
[00:14:03] Speaker C: Sisay, do you really know everything?
[00:14:04] Speaker F: I know a lot.
I like to know things.
[00:14:10] Speaker E: What would we know? What would our common knowledge be?
[00:14:13] Speaker A: Yeah. So common knowledge. Alvar Amonte is in his 50s. He is married with a wife and two children.
He lives in a fairly nice part of Doshire. Nice being in air quotes. It's a rather big estate.
Yeah, that'd be common knowledge. That you would know.
You would assume, given the high tensions right now and the curfews for the past week, ish, that security will be upped at his estate. Most likely you'll know. It'll be hard to get there unseen, but it's not impossible, especially with the skill set that you all have.
So that's what you know. And especially with how things are gearing up. Up. It's very most likely you won't catch him outside of his house. Given that election day is coming up.
[00:15:10] Speaker B: Thought we could hopefully get him in transit somewhere.
[00:15:14] Speaker E: It looks like it'll be hard to get him. He's not going to be leaving his house anytime soon, so maybe we can start spitballing some ideas.
Do we have a whiteboard?
[00:15:24] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely.
[00:15:26] Speaker E: I write ideas, underline it. I put a little book and say I thought be easy.
If we find his wife, we can kidnap her, send him a note, ransom.
And then when he comes to give us the ransom, we make sure that he's the only person there or that we can handle anybody else there. We switch and we grab him instead and let his wife go because we don't need her.
[00:15:50] Speaker C: No matter what we said, they're not going to let him come for the ransom.
[00:15:54] Speaker E: Then his wife dies.
[00:15:55] Speaker C: Sure, and we kill his wife. But what I'm saying is that his people aren't gonna let him come sideways for his wife.
[00:16:00] Speaker E: I think you'd try to argue, and I'm writing my idea down. I think he'd try to argue if he thought his wife was gonna die.
But it's just an option. Just spitballing, that's all I have right now.
[00:16:10] Speaker B: You can start a fire in his house, force him outside.
[00:16:15] Speaker E: Fire, question mark.
[00:16:16] Speaker C: We could mail him a bomb.
[00:16:18] Speaker E: Three bomb, question mark.
[00:16:20] Speaker B: I'm liking this, Mela.
[00:16:21] Speaker C: Multiple bombs.
[00:16:23] Speaker E: Asterisk, multiple C. Say, do you have any ideas?
[00:16:32] Speaker F: I don't kill people, so I don't know.
[00:16:35] Speaker C: Are you willing to kill people?
I haven't, but are you going to be averse to when we kill people.
[00:16:43] Speaker E: I've never killed a man either. And that's okay. We don't need to. You and I don't need to kill anybody.
[00:16:48] Speaker A: Has Silver ever killed a person?
[00:16:51] Speaker C: No.
[00:16:52] Speaker F: That.
[00:16:52] Speaker A: Us.
[00:16:53] Speaker E: He's not. Not that type. Like, as far as people know, he has not. Let me say that. You know, I mean.
[00:16:58] Speaker C: Anthrax. My second grade teacher.
[00:17:00] Speaker A: Oh.
[00:17:02] Speaker B: I live in service to the dome, so I've killed a lot of people.
[00:17:06] Speaker C: I just like anthrax.
[00:17:08] Speaker B: Yeah, we should just.
[00:17:09] Speaker C: No one uses it enough.
[00:17:11] Speaker B: You're right. But, I mean, if you guys just want to be like my spotter or something, we can just help me out. I'll kill all the guards.
[00:17:19] Speaker E: Win election comma.
[00:17:20] Speaker C: Like that.
[00:17:21] Speaker E: Nab during speech, question mark.
That's another one. That's four.
[00:17:26] Speaker B: Five.
[00:17:30] Speaker D: Kim, what's the extent to like things like a tinker and make.
[00:17:33] Speaker A: I would say, especially since given your status and things, you are relatively versed in being able to make things.
[00:17:42] Speaker C: I can make a cage. A mobile cage.
[00:17:47] Speaker E: I think that's useful for any plan that we'd have.
Did you have a plan that associated with it that you thought you wanted to bring up?
[00:17:54] Speaker C: Hey, I see. Say you'd be good at information, right?
[00:17:59] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:18:00] Speaker C: Well, how about this?
There's some folks who want to hurt him. Obviously, he's staying home.
He needs a security plan. We get me hired, I go make some changes around this renovation and this, that and that. And I mean, I'm. You know, his whole home is mine.
[00:18:19] Speaker F: You get hired looking like that.
[00:18:22] Speaker C: I can change clothes. C. Say he just shrugs.
[00:18:26] Speaker E: I've done some work in disguise myself. I could always be the one who goes in. And so long as you tell me exactly what I need to do.
[00:18:31] Speaker F: This one's prettier.
[00:18:33] Speaker E: Thank you.
[00:18:34] Speaker G: 6.
[00:18:35] Speaker E: Disguise as security, question mark. Lot of moving parts with that one, but I like the idea. Let's go. 7.
[00:18:42] Speaker B: And no one really notices me, so I usually just walk into places. It's never been a big deal.
[00:18:47] Speaker C: Yeah, most time I just send stuff in.
[00:18:49] Speaker E: Do we want more ideas? Do we want to discuss the ones we have on the board?
[00:18:53] Speaker B: I don't know. I like smoking them out.
Feel like that's a fun one with a bomb and.
[00:19:00] Speaker C: Probably.
[00:19:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:00] Speaker C: Well, I can just do a smoke bomb, obviously. Want to be a little more. Well, careful.
[00:19:05] Speaker B: Let's catch the building on fire. You know, make it a real danger.
[00:19:09] Speaker C: Right, but if he gets caught in the fire, we kill him.
[00:19:12] Speaker B: Eh, that's a risk we gotta take.
[00:19:14] Speaker C: I don't think it Is I guess.
[00:19:16] Speaker B: We could find out his schedule, find out where he can easily escape.
[00:19:20] Speaker C: Right, so we need schematics.
I make a mobile cage. We smoke him out. You pick off all his men. Mobile cage comes up and sise tells the story.
What.
[00:19:36] Speaker E: What's the story for?
[00:19:38] Speaker C: Well, what else ise gonna do?
[00:19:39] Speaker E: I write blackmail on seven, and then I draw a line to fire. And then I'm like, we could blackmail somebody. We could blackmail somebody to help us with the fire plan or the bomb. Fire plan. And then draw a line. Oh, man.
[00:19:53] Speaker F: No, because. Okay, so the bomb.
Are we planning to blow shit up?
[00:19:59] Speaker C: I said smoke bomb.
[00:20:00] Speaker F: I still like number one. Just saying. Because we can always just call. Call in a threat of. In which would threaten his life. And while he's in transit to whatever safe location he probably has. Which I could probably find out.
[00:20:17] Speaker A: Right.
[00:20:17] Speaker C: I like that.
[00:20:18] Speaker B: That's a good idea.
[00:20:19] Speaker E: If. If we can manage to smuggle in an actual bomb, then the throttle seem more credible too. 8.
[00:20:25] Speaker C: I could make a remote bomb.
[00:20:26] Speaker E: 8. And then how much time to bomb?
[00:20:29] Speaker A: No time.
[00:20:29] Speaker C: I can make a roomma bomb.
[00:20:32] Speaker F: I'm pretty sure we could just pull some strings, figure out where. Whatever safe location he has.
[00:20:38] Speaker C: Let's put numbers in a bag, and that's the plan we'll do.
[00:20:41] Speaker F: I don't like that.
[00:20:42] Speaker E: I think most of the plans are linked, to be honest.
[00:20:44] Speaker C: I think no matter what, except worrying age is about how well I want how many times we had nine.
Eight.
[00:20:52] Speaker E: I think three and like four are the same plan. I think six is also connected.
[00:20:57] Speaker C: We got six. What's six?
[00:21:01] Speaker E: I'm pretty sure most of the plans honestly connected the bomb fire thing. I ended up connecting most of them anyway. So we.
[00:21:06] Speaker C: We actually. We got 10.
[00:21:08] Speaker E: We don't have 10.
[00:21:09] Speaker C: We got eight.
[00:21:10] Speaker E: Eight was blackmail.
[00:21:12] Speaker D: I meant nine.
[00:21:14] Speaker E: We don't have a nine.
[00:21:15] Speaker C: We got his wife. Let's kidnap his wife.
[00:21:18] Speaker E: No, let's do the bomb play.
[00:21:20] Speaker C: Here's the thing, right? If we kidnap his wife and it goes wrong, I get to tell you how stupid you are.
[00:21:27] Speaker F: I think SISA is just gonna start looking for. I think while they're doing their whole thing, Sisay's gonna just kind of like, whatever. I'm gonna go do the plan that I came up with and start my little seance in order to figure out where the. The mayor's, like, safe house would be. That's not where he actually is. And then how to, like, make a threat to the place where he is. So they could.
[00:21:52] Speaker A: Yeah.
What's your process like, what or who are you? Who do you reach out to first?
I.
[00:22:06] Speaker F: I think. Okay, so whisper. I have like a thing called ritual.
[00:22:11] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:22:12] Speaker F: I can study an occult ritual or create a new one to summon a supernatural effect or being. So I think my thing is I like old things. So there's probably like, I have a friend who's a vampire who probably knows old dead things.
[00:22:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:22:25] Speaker F: And so in like, knowing him, I know old.
[00:22:29] Speaker A: And then what is your. Like, I don't know how you set it up exactly. Like, what is it look like?
[00:22:36] Speaker F: I think from the outside, it looks like I'm just kind of sitting in silence in like the dark. I don't, I don't. I'm not showy. I don't like doing all the draw. I do it all up here, up there.
[00:22:49] Speaker A: All right, So I think you. You close your eyes and like, and you reach out to your friend. And I think what it looks like is this like little like glowing light almost that kind of like moves when it talks, you know, and you hear.
Hello.
[00:23:08] Speaker F: Well, Hi.
[00:23:10] Speaker A: Is that Ms. Issei?
[00:23:12] Speaker F: It sure is.
[00:23:15] Speaker A: What do you need?
[00:23:17] Speaker F: Well, I was just trying to figure out where I'm doing some stuff for some things, obviously, as always. Yeah.
And I just wanted to find out a little bit about Mr. Monty.
[00:23:31] Speaker A: Ah.
[00:23:32] Speaker F: Specifically where he would go if his life were threatened.
[00:23:41] Speaker A: All right, I can do that for you.
How long you got?
[00:23:47] Speaker F: I like, look over to them. They're like arguing. Yeah, I got a little while.
[00:23:51] Speaker A: All right, let me. Let me reach out and see what I can find for you and call you back in like 5ish minutes. Yeah. Sound good?
[00:24:00] Speaker F: Of course, I like to think that, you know, like in Chainsaw man, how you have to like, give up a part of yourself in order to like. I think it's like that where they like. Oh, you can have like, you can have a fingernail or like, you can have. You can like a piece of me kind of thing. That's how instead of like coin, you know?
[00:24:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay.
[00:24:18] Speaker B: While this is going on, I take off my pants and I start doing stretches.
[00:24:22] Speaker D: Okay, I stopped mid argument.
[00:24:24] Speaker C: Why are your pants off?
[00:24:26] Speaker B: I need to do my stretches. Gotta stay limber.
[00:24:28] Speaker E: Do you need to get naked for that?
[00:24:30] Speaker B: I don't want to rip my pants. They're expensive.
[00:24:33] Speaker C: Well, why don't you get well fitting pants and you wouldn't have that problem?
[00:24:36] Speaker B: Because I feel like this fits my aesthetic better.
[00:24:39] Speaker E: You could even wear shorts.
[00:24:40] Speaker C: You could just get your pants tailored.
[00:24:42] Speaker B: No, I feel like these are. Look, they're expensive. I don't want to rip them.
That's the end of it.
[00:24:48] Speaker C: You're doing this on purpose, aren't you?
[00:24:50] Speaker B: No, I'm getting. I'm getting up there in age. I need to. I need to make sure I'm nice and limber.
[00:24:56] Speaker E: I hope you're a good assassin, Todd.
[00:24:57] Speaker B: I'm the best.
[00:25:00] Speaker A: So as you say, you get like a little ring back.
[00:25:05] Speaker F: It's like in my brain.
[00:25:08] Speaker A: Yeah, in your brain. I think it kind of feels like. Like a warm like, pulse in like your head. Yeah.
And it's like.
Alrighty.
I found that he has a safe house in the Elmwood district. It's close by the docks.
[00:25:28] Speaker F: Yeah, Sounds good.
[00:25:31] Speaker A: It's a little old rinky dink building.
You wouldn't figure you wouldn't tell too much by looking at it from the outside.
[00:25:38] Speaker F: Thank you. Take what you want.
It's like a pint of my blood.
[00:25:44] Speaker A: Yeah, I'll take a little bit of your blood today.
[00:25:47] Speaker F: Sounds good. I'm just a little pale.
[00:25:49] Speaker A: Yeah. You also get the direct address and thing to where the safe house is. Exactly. Cool. Yeah. So you get all that information?
[00:25:56] Speaker F: Yeah, I think I kind of just wander over to whatever you guys are doing.
[00:26:01] Speaker E: Arguing.
[00:26:02] Speaker F: Yeah, arguing. Still.
[00:26:04] Speaker C: This is dumb.
[00:26:05] Speaker F: I'm a little too timid to break it up, so I just kind of stand there.
[00:26:09] Speaker C: You got something to say, C.C.
[00:26:10] Speaker F: I always got something to say.
His safe house is in Elmwood by the docks. I have an address.
[00:26:18] Speaker C: Oh, perfect.
We'll go set up about halfway there.
[00:26:22] Speaker F: Sounds good.
[00:26:22] Speaker B: Let me put on my pants.
[00:26:24] Speaker F: We do need to figure out the threat situation, but that's not entirely my thing.
[00:26:30] Speaker C: Ah.
[00:26:31] Speaker A: Roll for finger roll for just how good it is.
[00:26:34] Speaker B: 6.
[00:26:35] Speaker A: Yep. This shit's rock solid. You're so good at your job.
[00:26:39] Speaker F: It won't go off too early, will it?
[00:26:42] Speaker D: The wheels come out now.
[00:26:46] Speaker C: Oh, wait.
[00:26:48] Speaker D: It has a little timer on it now.
[00:26:50] Speaker E: How are we gonna get it inside?
[00:26:54] Speaker D: And then it has like a drill in the front of it.
[00:26:58] Speaker A: This is quite liter. He rolled a six. He can quite literally craft this however he wants.
[00:27:02] Speaker D: And then it gets propellers.
Fantastic.
I pull something off of it. Like I like, like rip a piece. Like, you know the sticky part of like when you spray paint something. I rip something off and it just says wife stealer. I made it in the last like 10 minutes.
[00:27:22] Speaker E: I can make the call if we'd like.
[00:27:24] Speaker C: Sounds good. Let me go and get it in some position.
[00:27:28] Speaker D: Just walking with my heavy metal boots out.
[00:27:31] Speaker E: And we'll meet halfway and you know.
[00:27:34] Speaker C: Oh, okay.
Oh, I need a cab.
[00:27:37] Speaker F: I could probably taxi.
Find a perfect spot in which, you know.
[00:27:42] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:27:43] Speaker D: All right, so you're doing. Perfect spot.
[00:27:44] Speaker F: You're a shot. You're a good shot.
[00:27:46] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:46] Speaker F: Cause I think the plan is to get them in transit. Yeah.
[00:27:49] Speaker D: This thing can keep up with cars, so I could have it chase them.
[00:27:52] Speaker C: Just in case.
[00:27:56] Speaker D: Have it take off, and I just get in a taxi.
[00:27:58] Speaker C: And I'm just like, follow that thing.
[00:28:01] Speaker A: All right, will do.
Thank you.
Yeah, so you get in this cab and you follow your little. Your little remote, your. Your Hot Wheels bomb. So what are the rest of you doing?
[00:28:12] Speaker E: Going halfway point. And then I'm gonna make the call.
[00:28:14] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. And then, Todd, you're looking for, like, a good vantage point, I assume halfway point. Yeah. You're able to find that easy.
[00:28:20] Speaker B: This is when I find it. I lay my things down. I'm like. Well, now I need to have at least 10 minutes of meditation. My doctor ordered, so. So please, if you could remain quiet, that would be very helpful.
[00:28:30] Speaker E: I walk, like, 30ft away.
[00:28:33] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:28:34] Speaker E: I appreciate it. So you make the call.
[00:28:35] Speaker A: Yeah, you make the call.
[00:28:37] Speaker E: Hello?
[00:28:37] Speaker A: Yeah. You hear a click on the other end indicating someone's answered, but you don't hear anybody talk.
[00:28:44] Speaker E: My name is Schmitty Werben Jagerman Jensen.
I've placed a bomb inside of the mayor's house. I'm gonna blow it the fuck up and then hang up.
[00:28:56] Speaker A: Give me a roll, dude.
[00:28:58] Speaker E: I'll get a sway, dude.
[00:28:59] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:29:01] Speaker E: Five.
[00:29:02] Speaker A: All right. Yeah, you hang up.
[00:29:04] Speaker E: They should be here soon. Sorry to interrupt your meditation.
[00:29:07] Speaker B: Now I have to start over from my blood pressure.
[00:29:11] Speaker D: You see, I'm just following.
[00:29:12] Speaker A: Yeah, you're just following.
[00:29:13] Speaker D: And then, like, once we get a.
[00:29:14] Speaker C: Certain point, I'm like, park here.
[00:29:16] Speaker A: All right.
[00:29:18] Speaker C: One more favor.
[00:29:19] Speaker A: Get out of my own cab.
[00:29:21] Speaker D: I pull, like, a pipe and then, like. Like a couple of, like, levers and. And, like, a simple, small pipe gun.
[00:29:28] Speaker C: I'm like, get out.
[00:29:32] Speaker F: Making a gun in the backseat of.
[00:29:34] Speaker E: A cab and then threatening a guy with it.
[00:29:37] Speaker A: That's threatening a guy with it. Jesus Christ. There's something always new in this.
[00:29:41] Speaker C: Yep. No, I'll give it back.
[00:29:43] Speaker A: Thanks.
[00:29:43] Speaker C: I'll leave it.
[00:29:44] Speaker D: And I'm gonna give him, like, a location where I'll leave it.
[00:29:46] Speaker A: Yep, I'm gonna leave. I'm gonna turn around and walk away.
[00:29:49] Speaker C: Thank you. If I see you go any way but wet.
[00:29:52] Speaker D: Please do not kill you.
[00:29:53] Speaker A: Please do not blow up my cab. This is my livelihood.
[00:29:56] Speaker C: Don't intend to blow up a cab. And if I do?
[00:29:59] Speaker A: If you do, please, at least I'll say, At least give me a good dip.
[00:30:02] Speaker C: All right. Goodbye.
[00:30:03] Speaker A: All right.
[00:30:03] Speaker C: Thank you.
[00:30:03] Speaker A: Turning around. Walking away.
[00:30:05] Speaker C: All right.
[00:30:05] Speaker A: All right.
[00:30:06] Speaker D: Climbing over. I'm getting in the seat.
[00:30:07] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:30:08] Speaker D: And then I just disassemble it. It wasn't even loaded. Like, there's nothing.
[00:30:11] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:30:11] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:30:14] Speaker D: So I. I affix it to the steering wheel so now I can steer it with the cab. So just on like a shadow track.
[00:30:21] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:30:23] Speaker D: And I just drive it up to the house.
[00:30:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:30:25] Speaker D: And like, I have it, like, hidden behind like a wal.
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[00:33:34] Speaker A: I think you're as you pull up, you See like, like people starting to like, file out of the house. It looks like from what you can see, like from formation, there's like four guards total, two in front, two in back, forming like a square formation around someone in the middle who you can only assume is who you think it is.
[00:33:53] Speaker D: Evans, start pumping out smoke.
[00:33:54] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. And I think with that, it takes a second. As soon as I think as they see the smoke on the ground, they start moving their asses, beating feet. And so, yeah, you see that going on. They very quickly load them up into a nondescript vehicle. And what would you like to do?
[00:34:13] Speaker D: And I just tail behind it. And the cab, I'm just driving randomly, but I have this little thing under the, like right on the tail of their car.
[00:34:22] Speaker A: So, yeah, while that's going on, you, the rest of you are at this halfway point. You're doing your meditation.
[00:34:27] Speaker B: Todd and I take out a salad and I start eating a salad.
[00:34:31] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, yeah. Csay Silver, do you, either of you want to do anything right now as you see Todd eat the salad?
[00:34:38] Speaker E: How far are we from the road?
[00:34:40] Speaker A: I'd say you're fairly far if you're with Todd, because Todd is a long range sniper. It depends on if you would move.
[00:34:48] Speaker F: Locations we're going to, where the car will be once he shoots out the driver's my question.
[00:34:53] Speaker E: I had a question. Should. Should I stand in the middle of the road? Because they're not going to run a man over, right? I'll be like, stop. And then he can shoot him in the head, you know, because it's not a moving target. Easier.
[00:35:03] Speaker D: I like that.
[00:35:04] Speaker E: And then, But I'll be. I can talk my way out of danger. I'm like, oh, my God. You know, I was crossing.
[00:35:08] Speaker D: I'm a fan of that.
[00:35:09] Speaker E: Yeah. I mean, how's that sound, you guys?
[00:35:11] Speaker D: It's golden.
[00:35:11] Speaker C: All right, great.
[00:35:12] Speaker F: I'll go with you.
[00:35:13] Speaker A: You have enough time to like, get your way over there?
[00:35:16] Speaker E: Yeah, I'm gonna head down. Maybe you should, like, overwatch you. I mean, like.
[00:35:20] Speaker F: Yeah, I'm not gonna walk in the street with you.
[00:35:21] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:35:22] Speaker E: Watch my back.
[00:35:22] Speaker F: Yeah, I'm going just in case someone needs to drive the car.
[00:35:27] Speaker E: You know, I'm waiting till I see. Do we know what the car looks like? Pictures, you know, in the files that.
[00:35:33] Speaker A: We were looking at. Yeah, files. You see that, the sort of nondescript cars that they have when they're trying to, like, cool, like, not look important.
[00:35:40] Speaker E: It just looks like a regular waiting for that car.
[00:35:44] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. And you're still tailing them. Clunk. All right. And you're just kind of hanging out. Are you getting in position, Todd?
[00:35:52] Speaker B: I'm finishing my salad, and then I start assembling my sniper. I have a briefcase. I open it up, put the salad back in, and then take the sniper parts out and start assembling.
[00:36:02] Speaker D: He's gotta keep his heart health up.
[00:36:03] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:36:04] Speaker B: I have high blood pressure.
[00:36:05] Speaker A: Yeah. He's gotta be healthy. This job is stressful.
[00:36:07] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:36:09] Speaker A: Yeah. So about, like, I think 10 minutes go by for you three. You don't know. Cause you're just kind of following, and you start hearing a car approach.
[00:36:20] Speaker E: Well, that's my cue. And then I walk out into the street with my hands in my pockets, whistling Dixie, looking real casual as I'm walking across the street.
[00:36:27] Speaker A: Give me a. Let's call it a sway roll, I suppose.
[00:36:32] Speaker D: Look, look, look. Not.
[00:36:34] Speaker A: How do I not hit a boat? Innocent. Yeah.
[00:36:36] Speaker E: Six.
[00:36:37] Speaker A: Yep. So you play this off. You look like you're just some guy crossing the street. And this car you're tailing comes to a, like, screeching halt as they were going kind of fast. Yeah.
[00:36:49] Speaker E: Like, onto the street. I'm like, oh, no.
[00:36:51] Speaker A: You know, yeah, yeah. You. You ham it up.
And Todd, you see that this car is stopped right now.
[00:36:57] Speaker D: I didn't realize something.
[00:36:58] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:36:58] Speaker D: We boiled this all down to a Jesse roll.
[00:37:02] Speaker F: No, but he's. This isn't Jesse. This is Todd Guy.
[00:37:05] Speaker D: Great point, Todd Guy.
[00:37:07] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:37:08] Speaker B: Okay, So I take too stress. Right.
[00:37:10] Speaker A: Mm.
[00:37:11] Speaker B: I stress again.
[00:37:13] Speaker A: Ah.
[00:37:13] Speaker C: Six.
[00:37:14] Speaker A: All right.
[00:37:14] Speaker C: Yay. Thank God.
[00:37:15] Speaker D: Jesse.
[00:37:16] Speaker B: I'm, like, half dead.
[00:37:17] Speaker D: It's a stressful job.
[00:37:18] Speaker A: It is such a stressful job. I think for a second, you're like, oh, my God. I didn't eat enough of my salad. Oh, my God. What am I gonna do? But am I gonna have to shoot this driver? Like, what's going on?
[00:37:26] Speaker B: You know, yesterday I had a cheeseburger thinking, like, I know I've been good to my sugar.
[00:37:31] Speaker A: You had a cheeseburger, and you. You treated yourself to a nice actual.
And you're like, oh, my God, this is gonna come back and bite me in the ass. And I think that's, like. You're just thinking about that, and you're like, oh, shit a car. And then you lock in. You do it. You do best, and you shoot a bullet through this driver's skull. All right, There are still four guards on the inside, not counting the driver. But you saw them all load into the car. It's the driver, the four guys, the mayor.
[00:37:58] Speaker D: I Speed up next to them. And then I get out, I'm like, oh, my gosh.
[00:38:01] Speaker C: Are you guys okay?
[00:38:03] Speaker D: And then pipe bomb. I'm just gonna be like, you guys have like 10 seconds to get out.
[00:38:09] Speaker A: What?
[00:38:10] Speaker D: 10, 9. And I get in the cab and I'm waiting.
8, 7.
[00:38:15] Speaker A: No, you look crazy. Actually, you look crazy. They're gonna get out of the car. All of them? All five of them.
[00:38:21] Speaker D: And then I'm just gonna just like pull forward a little bit.
[00:38:25] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. So you're on your ass. You see I'm gonna roll a tinker. Yeah.
[00:38:30] Speaker D: 5.
[00:38:31] Speaker E: Do I see the mayor?
[00:38:32] Speaker A: Yeah, you see him with one of the bigger bodyguards who kind of had like, has him like bear hugged almost as he's taking him out of this car.
Yeah. So you all see that?
Plus three other guards coming out.
[00:38:45] Speaker E: Scramble towards him. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Mayor Monty, I'm so sorry.
And then I'm gonna say, what was that like, you know, to the bomb.
[00:38:56] Speaker D: Can I drive my car around and.
[00:38:57] Speaker B: Run over some of them?
[00:38:59] Speaker A: Yeah, give me a wreck. I feel like that's a wreck. Unless you want to make an argument for something else.
[00:39:05] Speaker D: Actually, can I just drive my little tinker thing in between, like, all the ones that aren't the mayor?
[00:39:12] Speaker A: Sure.
[00:39:14] Speaker D: And just let that explode?
[00:39:15] Speaker A: Hey, you rolled a six on it. Yeah.
[00:39:17] Speaker D: Cool. You want me to roll another tinker or a finesse for shooting or wreck still?
[00:39:24] Speaker A: Well, are you still trying to, like, run them over or.
[00:39:26] Speaker D: No, I'm just. I'm just driving.
[00:39:27] Speaker A: Let's just go then. Finesse to see how precise you're able to get it.
[00:39:31] Speaker C: 5.
[00:39:32] Speaker A: Yeah, you're able to. To nail it in there.
[00:39:34] Speaker D: Plant it right between, like, a good chunk of them.
[00:39:36] Speaker A: A good chunk of them.
[00:39:37] Speaker C: Two.
[00:39:38] Speaker A: Yeah. And they one. Yep.
And this explosion happens. You guys see it? Would you like to do anything right now, Todd?
[00:39:45] Speaker B: You'll take out any remaining guards.
[00:39:46] Speaker A: Yeah, you see there's the one that is, like, hugging the mayor currently.
[00:39:53] Speaker B: What is this?
[00:39:53] Speaker A: Is that a five? I think that's a.
[00:39:55] Speaker B: No, that's a one.
[00:39:56] Speaker A: But that's a five.
Yeah. So you're able to plant a bullet in this guard. It doesn't quite take him out, but it severely, like, maims him. He's. He like, lets go of the mayor because of where you hit him at. Like in the shoulder, I think. What are the rest of you doing?
[00:40:11] Speaker E: How many guards are left?
[00:40:12] Speaker A: There are two on the floor. You're unsure if they're up or not because there was a bomb and Then there's one with a bullet severely in his shoulder.
[00:40:20] Speaker D: I'm reassembling my pipe gun.
[00:40:22] Speaker E: I grab, like. I go. I run towards Mayor Monty, say, mayor Monty, oh, my God. I don't know what's happening, but we gotta go. There's something bad happening. And I grab his arm and I say, we gotta leave. Like, you know, okay. And do I see that he believes me.
[00:40:36] Speaker A: You gotta give me a roll, my guy.
[00:40:38] Speaker E: That was a five.
[00:40:39] Speaker A: You see, like, he, like, hesitates for a second. He's like, yeah, okay.
[00:40:43] Speaker E: I run and I'm like, holding onto his arm. Like, we are both in such danger.
[00:40:47] Speaker A: You know what I mean?
[00:40:48] Speaker E: This is really bad for us.
I'm gonna run away because, like, I want to be away from the guards. Yeah. I mean, they're still an issue, kind of.
[00:40:56] Speaker A: What are you guys doing?
[00:40:58] Speaker D: I finished up my pipe gun. I looked for that guard. Shoot at point blank.
[00:41:01] Speaker A: All right.
Yeah. Give me a tinker and then finesse.
[00:41:05] Speaker D: Tinker. No fucking way.
[00:41:07] Speaker A: Are those all twos?
[00:41:07] Speaker C: It is all twos.
[00:41:08] Speaker D: I'm going to stress myself for six.
[00:41:11] Speaker A: Yeah, You a good pipe gun. You assemble this shit.
[00:41:14] Speaker D: And then a six again.
[00:41:15] Speaker A: Yeah. You shoot him square in the head.
[00:41:17] Speaker C: Oh, did you get shot?
[00:41:19] Speaker E: Crazy.
[00:41:20] Speaker A: Yeah, crazy. Yeah. So you take out one guard for sure.
[00:41:23] Speaker C: They're still have enough power to it.
[00:41:25] Speaker A: Three left, two on the floor, and then just one.
[00:41:29] Speaker D: I just, like, look at them as I'm, like, fiddling with.
[00:41:31] Speaker B: All right, yeah, I'll take out one of the ones.
[00:41:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:41:33] Speaker B: On the ground, the six.
[00:41:34] Speaker A: Yep. You're able to take it out. Easy peasy.
There's two left.
[00:41:41] Speaker C: Wait, I put two nails in it.
[00:41:44] Speaker D: I'm going to shoot another one of them.
[00:41:45] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:41:45] Speaker D: Yeah, Five.
[00:41:46] Speaker A: Yep. You get this one. He doesn't quite, like, go down yet. I assume you get. You got the one that was up. Yeah. Still. Yeah, you. He's not quite up yet, but he. Oh.
[00:41:56] Speaker C: Oh, did that hurt? Yeah, they're still up.
[00:42:00] Speaker D: I'm like, just smacking it.
[00:42:03] Speaker A: And then you see that he is gonna, like, lunge at you with.
[00:42:06] Speaker C: Whoa.
[00:42:07] Speaker A: Yeah.
Yeah. What is it for fight? I think you give me one of your attribute.
[00:42:13] Speaker D: Can I use tinker for armor?
[00:42:15] Speaker A: You do have armor. Yeah, I'll let you do that to see if you dodge it.
[00:42:19] Speaker C: 6.
[00:42:20] Speaker A: Yeah. You're able to fucking sidestep it. You see this? You see him?
[00:42:23] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:42:23] Speaker A: You see him lunge towards you and he's got, like, brass knuckles.
[00:42:25] Speaker D: My shoes go.
And just like, kind of shoot me one way.
[00:42:29] Speaker A: Yeah.
Todd, would you like to do anything. There's the one that's on the ground, and then one lunging at Clunk.
[00:42:36] Speaker B: I'll let the one. Let Clunk deal with the one lunging at him. I'll get the one on the ground.
[00:42:41] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:42:41] Speaker B: Got another six.
[00:42:42] Speaker A: Yep. You take him out.
Yeah, you take that. And there's just the one lunging at you. Let's cut back to silver. Roll fast. Are you still.
[00:42:51] Speaker E: I'm running. Yeah. I'm hoofing it with the mayor. And I'm very predictable. Like, you all can see me doing it.
[00:42:56] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:42:57] Speaker D: Like.
[00:42:57] Speaker E: Like direction, you know, away from, like, the street.
[00:43:00] Speaker A: Where are we going?
[00:43:01] Speaker E: We gotta hide from the bad guys, from the people who are shooting at us.
[00:43:04] Speaker A: What's that gonna do?
[00:43:06] Speaker E: That maybe they won't find us. We can hide, and you can call somebody, maybe.
[00:43:09] Speaker A: Give me another roll.
[00:43:11] Speaker E: Five.
[00:43:11] Speaker A: Yeah. He's like, all right, I guess we'll cut back to clunk and.
[00:43:16] Speaker C: Todd, buddy, there's a nail in your head. You should stop moving around.
[00:43:21] Speaker A: I don't think so.
[00:43:22] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:43:22] Speaker D: And I'm gonna. I'm gonna pull out, like, something, and, like, quickly, I create, like, a small electrical current, and I'm gonna make a magnet and just yank the nail back out of his head.
[00:43:31] Speaker A: All right.
[00:43:32] Speaker D: Can I tinker?
[00:43:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:43:34] Speaker C: Five.
[00:43:34] Speaker A: Yeah. You got my nail back.
[00:43:37] Speaker D: I, like, look pointedly at you.
[00:43:39] Speaker C: I got my nail.
[00:43:40] Speaker B: I see that, and for a moment, I trained my gun on you.
[00:43:43] Speaker D: I'm like, jesus Christ.
[00:43:47] Speaker B: We might need to take him out.
But then I'll go.
[00:43:50] Speaker D: No, I'm gonna go get in the taxi. Yeah, Just go after the.
[00:43:53] Speaker A: Yeah. Do you want to pick up?
See? You say.
[00:43:59] Speaker C: You want to get in.
[00:44:01] Speaker A: Oh.
[00:44:04] Speaker F: I wasn't even. I was, like, in a nearby store just, like, kind of watching.
[00:44:08] Speaker D: I, like, look wave you through the window and hold up, like, the magnetized metal with the nail on it.
[00:44:13] Speaker F: I just pretend. I just walk away.
[00:44:16] Speaker A: Todd, you. Are you packing up now?
[00:44:18] Speaker C: I'm.
[00:44:18] Speaker B: Start folding it up.
[00:44:19] Speaker A: Yeah.
And we'll cut back to silver. You're just running with the mayor anywhere see the taxi? Oh, yeah. You see the taxi coming up? Are you going to purposely, like, slow down?
[00:44:29] Speaker E: Does he have any weapons on him, the mayor?
[00:44:31] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:44:32] Speaker A: Not that you can see.
[00:44:33] Speaker E: I look back. How far back is the taxi?
[00:44:37] Speaker A: Yeah, you're coming.
[00:44:38] Speaker E: I look back, and I say, oh, my God, Mayor. And I point in that direction towards a taxi.
They see.
[00:44:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:44:46] Speaker E: I push him over.
[00:44:49] Speaker D: It's fucking insane.
[00:44:52] Speaker A: We'll call that, like, a. Like a skirmish roll or something. Like that two.
[00:44:56] Speaker F: Can I. So ghosts, I have this ability. It's called compel. I tune to the ghost field nearby and have a ghost appear and obey a command.
[00:45:05] Speaker A: I give it.
[00:45:06] Speaker F: Yeah, so I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna roll in a tune.
[00:45:08] Speaker A: Yep. No.
[00:45:09] Speaker F: What the.
Guys, CC is off.
Okay, well, I'm keeping a four.
[00:45:14] Speaker A: Okay.
I think it. I think it takes a second.
What do you. Who. Who are you?
What's the vibe you're trying to summon?
Are you looking just to scare him? Are you looking to, like, intimidate him? Like, what. What's the vibe you're trying to summon?
[00:45:28] Speaker F: Scare. So the problem is, if I bring up something that scares someone else, I. I'm immune to it. I see the people around it aren't. So, like, my allies will be scared also. But just one of the. One of the weirdos that I know that I'm like, hey, you.
[00:45:45] Speaker A: Yeah, you're coming up on it. You're right next to the mayor.
[00:45:50] Speaker D: Gets smugging him. The mayor fucking blocks it.
[00:45:52] Speaker A: The mirror. The mirror plops it, like. And looks at you in, like, disbelief. But behind you, weird little fucking gremlin.
This weird little fucking gremlin ghost comes up behind you, and you see, like, the mayor looks, like, mortified.
[00:46:13] Speaker E: I look back. Do I see it?
[00:46:15] Speaker A: Yes. Oh, my God.
[00:46:16] Speaker E: Mayor, we actually need to run this time.
[00:46:17] Speaker B: Like.
[00:46:17] Speaker F: Like, this is.
[00:46:18] Speaker A: This is.
[00:46:19] Speaker D: This is.
[00:46:19] Speaker E: This isn't a bit. I'm not kidding anymore.
[00:46:20] Speaker A: Give me a sway. I'll give you a plus one. Because there's an actual literal ghost that you aren't immune to. Behind him.
[00:46:25] Speaker E: No, no, no, Kim, I'm not lying to him.
[00:46:27] Speaker A: Okay, okay.
[00:46:28] Speaker E: Like, I think I'm right now, dude.
[00:46:31] Speaker A: Okay, yeah. No, then. Then he believes you if there's actual terror in your eyes.
[00:46:37] Speaker E: I don't know.
[00:46:38] Speaker F: I'm like, c. Is just in it. Like, walking, walking.
[00:46:43] Speaker D: Oh, my God.
[00:46:45] Speaker F: Maybe I'm a perusing.
[00:46:46] Speaker E: Do you have a gun or something?
[00:46:49] Speaker F: Do you have anything?
[00:46:50] Speaker A: No.
[00:46:51] Speaker E: And I start running.
[00:46:53] Speaker A: Where are you going? Away from the ghost.
He follows you. He needs to get away from the ghost.
You also see this little ugly gremlin.
[00:47:02] Speaker F: And you're scared it's chasing after them towards you.
[00:47:05] Speaker D: Yeah, I, like, start tinkering with, like, my little electrical belt. I'm like, I'm gonna make a ghost trap.
[00:47:11] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah.
[00:47:12] Speaker D: Can I tinker a ghost trap?
[00:47:13] Speaker E: You're crazy.
[00:47:14] Speaker B: Like, this is crazy.
[00:47:15] Speaker D: I got a six.
[00:47:16] Speaker A: Yeah, dude. You make a fucking ghost trap.
[00:47:18] Speaker D: Throw it out, dispel it before.
[00:47:21] Speaker F: Before it gets Trapped.
[00:47:25] Speaker A: Yeah. You see your little friend getting sucked into this vortex? I've got it.
Clunk.
[00:47:30] Speaker E: Thank God for you. I was so worried about that.
[00:47:35] Speaker A: I thought.
[00:47:37] Speaker E: No, I wasn't lying.
[00:47:38] Speaker D: At that time, I finished making another.
Pipe down, Mayor.
[00:47:43] Speaker C: Get in, or I'm gonna kill you. Right.
[00:47:44] Speaker E: I'm gonna step away from him and pull out my gun.
[00:47:46] Speaker F: You had a gun the whole time?
Why do you have a gun?
[00:47:50] Speaker D: I popped the trunk.
[00:47:51] Speaker E: I wasn't lying for that last part. I really was worried. But I am going to kidnap you. Sorry about that.
[00:47:56] Speaker C: Get in the trunk.
[00:47:59] Speaker A: Do a combined sway roll. We'll take the highest.
[00:48:02] Speaker E: I got two sixes and a five.
[00:48:04] Speaker D: I actually got a four, even though I'm negative.
[00:48:05] Speaker A: No, that's solid.
All right.
[00:48:10] Speaker C: You can get in the backseat if you want.
[00:48:11] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:48:12] Speaker C: No, I'm just kidding. The truck.
[00:48:14] Speaker E: Not enough room for everybody on the team.
[00:48:15] Speaker A: We just can't have.
[00:48:16] Speaker C: You have them see you.
[00:48:17] Speaker A: You get it?
You can't, like, do me the courtesy of, like, knock me out before you do it?
[00:48:26] Speaker E: I shake my head. I was real close.
[00:48:28] Speaker C: Hey, was it.
[00:48:30] Speaker E: Well, I. I.
The. The gremlin. The gremlin, yeah.
[00:48:34] Speaker C: Who would have saw a ghost coming? That caught me off guard.
[00:48:36] Speaker F: I didn't see, say, just, like, staunch or something.
[00:48:38] Speaker E: Didn't know you could find those out here.
[00:48:40] Speaker C: Did you know there was ghosts over these parts?
[00:48:42] Speaker F: Of course. There's ghosts everywhere.
[00:48:43] Speaker C: Do you guys want to leave guy behind?
[00:48:50] Speaker E: If he can hear us, he can shoot you in the head right now.
[00:48:52] Speaker C: He can't hear us.
[00:48:53] Speaker F: I'm pretty sure he already packed.
[00:48:55] Speaker C: I already put a bomb on him anyway. He's not gonna shoot me.
[00:48:57] Speaker F: You did?
[00:48:58] Speaker C: Yeah. I put a bomb on each of you.
Check your back pocket.
[00:49:03] Speaker E: I checked my pockets.
[00:49:04] Speaker F: I noticed it.
[00:49:05] Speaker D: There's a fight bomb in your back pocket.
[00:49:06] Speaker A: Damn it.
[00:49:07] Speaker D: And I toss it away.
[00:49:08] Speaker C: I could just also turn your jailer devices into bombs. Everybody get in the. Everybody get in the cab.
[00:49:13] Speaker B: Todd is walking over, and he, like, takes a break.
[00:49:15] Speaker D: It's kind of stripe up to Todd.
[00:49:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:49:17] Speaker B: Oh, thanks. I appreciate it.
[00:49:19] Speaker D: The mayor's hand taking out of the. Out of the trunk.
[00:49:21] Speaker B: Oh, I'll just scoop it back in and thank you.
[00:49:25] Speaker A: Yeah. So you all get in, and. Yeah, you guys got the mayor, and you drive back to the theater.
[00:49:31] Speaker D: I'm just gonna go ahead and drop pipe bombs on three different city streets and just blow them bitches up.
[00:49:37] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah.
[00:49:38] Speaker D: And then I'm like, there's no one chasing us.
They're probably focusing on that.
[00:49:43] Speaker A: Yeah, that would Definitely cause a distraction.
[00:49:46] Speaker D: I mean, you could check. Cause I can't check. I will be a bad check.
[00:49:50] Speaker C: Survey.
[00:49:50] Speaker A: Maybe six.
[00:49:51] Speaker C: Beautiful.
[00:49:52] Speaker A: Yeah, there's. That was enough of a distraction. You guys are fine.
[00:49:55] Speaker F: Thumbs up.
[00:49:57] Speaker B: I pull out my water bottle, and it has, like, markings on how much I'm supposed to drink at a certain time.
[00:50:02] Speaker A: You're a little bit behind.
[00:50:03] Speaker B: Oh, no.
[00:50:05] Speaker C: You have an extra one of those?
[00:50:06] Speaker B: I mean, not on me. I have some at home.
[00:50:09] Speaker C: I just. I was working with anthrax earlier, and I'm nervous on my hands.
Well, I'm going to be honest with you guys. If there's anthrax on me, we're all dead. We're all good as dead.
[00:50:20] Speaker F: Is there anthrax?
[00:50:23] Speaker A: Is there anthrax? There's no anthrax.
[00:50:26] Speaker B: I'm, like, so normal in the back.
Well, I'm gonna take a nap for the rest of the ride home. Wake me up when we get there.
[00:50:33] Speaker C: Is that normal for you?
[00:50:34] Speaker B: I fall asleep.
[00:50:35] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. You cannot wake him.
Yeah. You guys get back to the theater?
[00:50:40] Speaker C: Yeah.
Hey.
Hey.
If it's any consolation, your wife is okay.
Now get out of the trunk.
[00:50:55] Speaker A: Yeah. You, like, carry men over your shoulder?
[00:50:58] Speaker D: Oh, no. Oh, I just dragged him in.
[00:51:00] Speaker A: Okay. Okay. Yeah, for sure.
[00:51:01] Speaker D: I'm not big enough to carry anybody.
[00:51:03] Speaker C: My shoes are.
[00:51:06] Speaker A: You see Luca and Butcher again.
You did it.
[00:51:11] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:51:12] Speaker A: Perfect. Were there anything I need to know about? I heard about some pipe bombs.
[00:51:18] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, I blew up a bunch of bombs. Make sure no one was following us. I also killed six guards.
[00:51:23] Speaker B: Yeah. So no witnesses?
[00:51:24] Speaker C: No witness.
[00:51:25] Speaker A: Oh, perfect. Okay.
[00:51:26] Speaker C: Except the gremlin that escaped, I didn't manage to capture.
[00:51:28] Speaker B: Yeah, there was a gremlin.
[00:51:29] Speaker C: Yeah. I did not foresee a ghost being there.
[00:51:34] Speaker A: I think he just kind of looks at CC Shrugs. I can't imagine the gremlin will tell on any of you.
[00:51:40] Speaker C: Oh, fingers crossed.
Ghost be talking.
[00:51:43] Speaker E: Sure do hope so.
[00:51:45] Speaker A: Perfect.
Well, is he tied up?
[00:51:51] Speaker C: Oh, no.
[00:51:53] Speaker A: May you.
One of you tie up here, Put these on.
[00:51:56] Speaker C: I just hand him handcuffs.
[00:51:57] Speaker A: Why would I put these on myself?
[00:52:03] Speaker C: You're kind of sassy for mayor.
[00:52:07] Speaker B: Just so you know, I voted for you. If it's any consolation, I also voted for you.
[00:52:11] Speaker C: I do like a lot of your.
[00:52:12] Speaker E: Policies, Mayor Monty, I think this is a bit of a tip from me to you.
[00:52:17] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:52:18] Speaker E: When you're. I'm gonna lean down. When you're in the hands of a crime family, they know about your wife and children. And if they don't like how you're talking, you're speaking with them, they'll kill them or at least ransom them or kidnap them like we did you. So I would just recommend not mouthing off to. I don't to any of us.
[00:52:39] Speaker C: You think we're our family.
[00:52:42] Speaker E: Just some friendly advice from one person to another.
[00:52:46] Speaker A: I think Lucca kind of looks at you all and is like, I knew I could count on you all.
[00:52:51] Speaker C: You know, Mr. Luca, I think it's the fact that none of us have any lack in desire or any further desire to work in any other field than this.
Not a single one of us would ever make some foolhardy mistake as to pretend to be something. To do a coffee run and give our own address somewhere or ever do something like that. And I think that our full buy in to. I mean, well, this relative world we live in is really what's gotten us this far, right?
[00:53:14] Speaker B: I love my job.
[00:53:16] Speaker A: I sure hope not.
[00:53:19] Speaker B: And I love my wife, by the way.
[00:53:21] Speaker C: You have a wife?
[00:53:22] Speaker B: Well, yeah.
[00:53:23] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:53:23] Speaker B: Well, yeah, actually we wrap this up because I need to call my wife.
[00:53:29] Speaker A: Oh yeah, her.
[00:53:30] Speaker F: Her hair appointment's done about now.
[00:53:32] Speaker C: Huh.
[00:53:32] Speaker B: So I. Wait, what?
[00:53:33] Speaker A: Perfect. Thank you all. I will be calling you all probably again shortly for another mission. We have something we need to take care of.
[00:53:42] Speaker C: Excited.
[00:53:43] Speaker E: Same people. We're working with the same people?
[00:53:45] Speaker A: Yes. Do you have a problem with that?
[00:53:47] Speaker E: Not one at all, sir. Was always happy to serve. Always, always a pleasure.
[00:53:51] Speaker C: There's something about the level of efficiency that this group has that I just appreciate.
[00:53:55] Speaker A: Truly. Went off without a hitch.
[00:53:58] Speaker E: If there's nothing else.
Goodbye all.
[00:54:00] Speaker B: Do you mind if I use your phone?
[00:54:03] Speaker A: Sure.
[00:54:03] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:54:04] Speaker A: Handy like a phone.
[00:54:06] Speaker B: Hey, dear. Yep, I ate the whole salad. It was delicious, thank you.
And I'm. I'm keeping up with my water and you know, and I did my stretches, did my medication.
Just wanted to let you know, I.
[00:54:18] Speaker A: Think after you're done. Luke is like, that was beautiful.
[00:54:21] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:54:22] Speaker B: Love my wife. That's why I do this job.
[00:54:24] Speaker C: Well, I'm gonna go drop some mail off.
[00:54:30] Speaker A: Hmm.
Alright.
[00:54:33] Speaker C: Alright.
[00:54:33] Speaker B: I'm gonna go home to my wife.
[00:54:35] Speaker A: Have a good night all.
[00:54:37] Speaker F: Go home, do another seance probably. My ex girlfriend's been bothering me.
[00:54:43] Speaker A: Tell Betsy I said hello.
And so, yeah, I think we close out on each of you going about your night. And that was a brief intermission.
[00:54:54] Speaker D: That was fucked up. Kim, sign us off, dude. You do the full sign up.
[00:54:56] Speaker A: Oh, I'm doing the full sign off.
Shit, guys, I don't know how to do that.
[00:55:00] Speaker D: I believe in you.
[00:55:00] Speaker A: Hey.
Hi.
Hey.
Hey. Tuck's hair behind ear. Hi guys.
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[00:56:06] Speaker F: Oil, tanlin, gremlin, frog art on everything. F R O G G A R T. I do art and stuff.
[00:56:11] Speaker B: We don't need to go into Jesse lore. All right, that is.
[00:56:26] Speaker A: Foreign.
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