Welcome to game master Monday. The podcast where we play a
different one. Shot in a different system with
a different cast. Every episode today we are
playing, agathe kissed by six League games and my players are.
Well, I guess I'm a player today.
So I'll kick things off. You know me, I'm Grant today.
I'm playing Gainer. What the hell is my name
actually? You only had it for three days?
Come on, I got it. Makes them with another thing
Gaynor, Hopkins is who I am playing today and we are joined
today by Oh, hi. I'm Pond plays and today I'm
going to be playing Chan Trill moral and undergraduate student
likes mushrooms. I'm glad I don't have a serger
name, seriously. Jeff.
Hi, I'm Jeff. I'll be playing Michael stalls.
I me swimming. Swimming scholarship.
Harvard graduate on his way to his medical degree.
And our me too. Today, our game is being run by
Jenny. Jenny can you tell us a little
bit about again office of where we get started?
Absolutely a Gothic is a wonderful little system.
Agnostic, one shot written by our friends over at six League
games. And the great part about a
Gothic is being a system. Agnostic thing is that we can
run this in whichever goddamn system.
We like today we will be playing Call of Cthulhu.
Blue for this one. So we will be having our little
Harvard students graduate alumnus, whatever you want to
call them. Be investigating things in a
lovely little 1980s town somewhere out in the Boston
outskirts today at long last the Boston outskirts, finally,
fantastic, Jenny. I passed the show on to you.
Keep her away. Alrighty well And foremost.
Are you all excited? Yeah, hell yeah.
Goddamn. Let's get spooked.
You have been asked by Professor James Hopkins of Harvard
University for helping unraveling and amazing mystery,
the professor got a letter from his friend.
Louisville Martin describing a new species of mushroom from the
genus are malaria. The problem is that this friend
was the former supervisor of Professor Hopkins, from the time
of his Doctorate. And for several decades has held
the status of a missing person today, he would have been over
100 years old. So you got a letter from the
professor which Gainer you would be you would be carrying since
you are the privileged nephew of the professor which reads dear
James. I have found a bizarre, new
species of I malaria here in the Box for area.
It could easily be mistaken for a Melia but there are two
distinct differences. The first is the bioluminescence
of the rise of off. Switch is extremely high.
Once I saw the ground around, me was read.
It was like the ground was on fire.
You have to come here and see with your own eyes.
The second detail is more disturbing.
I can't go into detail into it. Fully in this letter for now.
Take a look at the plate attached to the species
description, and try to believe me that I saw some of the Caps
have a facial structure. I feel a chill, run through my
body as I write these words, please come, I have a lot to
show you and there would be like a little image plate attached to
this letter where it has the the picture of the mushroom where
the head is kind of a yellowish Brown covered with little black
hairs at the Apex. Like at the top, it's a little
bit whitish at the lamellae glowing.
Yellow with age, you know, mushroomy things, but it looks
very distinctly like a face is the main problem.
The little tendrils of the bottom, which are called rise of
morphs are black and largely extended look like very thin
gross hairs. So you guys would have parked
your car, a few. Well, I suppose it was like a
little parking area outside of the town and then you would kind
of walk up because it's like there's like a museum out Side
you would walk to. So you guys are all walking to
the town known as Yves which is on the way to where mr.
Vole Martin was staying at the time use Eve's.
He VES is the name of the town. Eva Eva and I have the letter.
You have the letter? Yeah, okay so I just like
holding it up like I might be looking.
I'm looking at it, I'm looking down at the road and looking at
the letter down at the road and I'm just having a hard time
deciphering, the mushroom think. Gator Gator is a biology student
but he's not a super, like, passionate biology student like
it, his grades are fine, but he's not like really into this
stuff. So he's actually kind of showing
the letter to shun Trail every now and again.
Like yeah. Am I right mushrooms?
And yeah, weird weird mushroom, right?
He's a asking as an actual question.
It weird mushroom correct. I feel like it should trowel is
is holding just clutching the photo of the mushroom.
I feel like she would have just taken that off of you right off
the bat. Sure it's like walking around
with it. Yeah, weird mushrooms.
That's what we're going to go. Look at if you don't, why are
you here? That's me.
Oh, my uncle asked me to come, did you know?
Here. Listen, my, he's paying for my
full ride. Do you?
So yes. Do I care?
You, care about mushrooms? I care enough like that.
Me. Well, I don't think anyone cares
about mushrooms. Like you care about mushrooms.
You have you kind of look like one if I may be so blunt, like,
I, I mean, that in the nicest way possible.
A mushroom Vibe, but Michael back me up on this.
Oh yeah, dude. Yes, truly mushroom Vibe.
I think I look like a mushroom. It's what you telling me?
I look like a mushroom. Yeah.
Like you know, in a in a positive way which I will
explain in detail. I know it's yeah out of all the
mushrooms. I know you'd probably be the
coolest as you were explaining in no exclusive depth as to how
chantrelle looks like a mushroom mushroom, right?
And then like it, You would notice that a small dog is kind
of strolling behind you, a distance away.
Oh shit. What kind of dog?
Looks like a mutt kind of brown fur little bit matted.
Looks like it's been out in the forest for a while.
Kind of smaller. I don't like dogs like not like
Chihuahua size, but like somewhere between Chihuahua and
Terrier. I mean, Whatever that, dog, no
collar. Nope.
Oh, hold on, Gaynor, and all go to the sorry.
I'll go to the glove compartment and I'll pull up some, like,
really old beef jerky. Wait, we're not in the car.
So there would not be the glove pocket jerk walking to the tip.
Yeah. I feel, I feel like, I feel like
Michael would have pocket. Turkey.
Michael feels like a pocket. Jerky.
Kind of go. We have a snacks.
Yeah, I have your snacks, gotta get those gains, but definitely
would be like, here you go, man. You've done to get dog's neck,
man. The dog would happily eat the
snack. He looks like it's the first
thing. He's eaten in a while.
I am kind of like sheepishly inching closer to it because I'm
like that's a stray dog. But I'm also like that dog.
Does seem cool man. All of the dog lick off my hands
before. I wipe them on my Jean cutoff
shorts, Central's, disgusted, and backgrounds, just tapping
her foot waiting patient. Rouse Steve, this Dot It looks
muddy. I'm I barely hear yea, it isn't
mine. I think.
Well, if you didn't want a pet dog, you sure have one now
because this thing is following you now that you've given it
food. Yeah, I'm like hanging out next
time. Michael playing with the dog and
like, scratching his head and like, wiping whatever.
Gets on my hand off of on his cut off jeans.
It's and I'm just like, it's like we're, it's Dad's.
If that was a thing you could do.
Oh yeah, that was the thing. You could be hell, yeah, home
buddy. What should we name it?
You hear that? She said, we can keep it.
We're gonna keep it. I don't know.
Maybe he'll be really cool at finding your gnarly mushroom.
No, that's a good point. Yeah, dogs.
Okay I'll go to high-five gate. Arts Smalls is on the team.
Hi-5. Michael back.
Even better, we can call him shrooms even better even better
shrooms. Okay, I think it's only fair, we
vote who votes we should keep shrooms.
And Superdog, I raised my hand. That's just seems unfair you
guys, but okay, but it is democratic.
It is pretty sad. Trailer.
You a commie. Are you against democracy?
How did you know, stick and bingo?
We need to be part of these 80s things.
I got to rein it in, dial it back a little, that's a good.
We're gonna be liking Reagan booth, and I don't lie.
Gator does, I don't think he's a rake and guy putting it on the
record. Okay, so after walking for what
feels like a little of a walk here, you would arrive at the
town of Eve's at around 10 a.m. So in the town of Eve's it's not
exactly a huge City, there is an old Museum which you would see
kind of as the the main focal point of the town.
There is an old well in the middle of the city.
And there are a couple of old you know wooden houses that are
kind of surrounding the outskirts, otherwise and Lasting
there is an in. So if I had to put a number to
it, In here seems to be about, oh, 12 13 at best, you know.
One of those kinds of towns. One of those ones you stop
through, there's probably a gas station, but the gas station
does not work. So floor is yours.
You can visit the museum. The, in the things you can
immediately see is there is an old woman sitting on her porch,
and there is a younger woman looks to be about her 30s.
Kind of pacing around in her yard.
Does the letter indicate anyone? We should be aware of the
neither. Letter does not mention any one
specific by name, but you would know from what Uncle would have
told you is that Louisville. Martin was staying at the Inn.
That's where the letter came from.
It Was Written from that specific in use, okay?
That feels like it's good. A place to start as any.
Right? Lady has a guy at the end and
see if he's still there. I guess.
I don't know how old is letter is but we could see if he's
still hanging around. Yeah, a little motor over onto
the end. Okay.
So you motor over onto the in, you would, you would go into the
in and at the reception there would be a, a well-built young
red-haired man, with a twinkle in his eye.
Die. He just kind of looks over in
three of you raises his hand and goes.
Hello there. Hi!
Can I interest you in a room?
We got one available. Are there more rooms.
Just, just the one other rooms are all ran it out.
I'd have to clear out the one room, though.
Her, she plan on staying there? The room, if we said yes.
Oh, sweet dibs on bathtub. I like turn to Michael.
Did you leave this in the bathtub?
Yeah. You put some blankets there and
pillows you just snuggle up. It's great.
I say we give him what he wants. Wait, what?
We're here for room are now we're not.
You're not. You're right, you're right.
I got sidetracked thinking about Michael and a bathtub based on
what he told me do is Louise out Martin still here.
Mr. Louis, he went out a few weeks back hasn't come back in.
That would be the room that's available.
I was just getting it cleared out.
Do you know where out? He didn't quite say where he was
going. He just headed out in the woods.
Did he leave his effects in the upstairs?
In the? I guess it's, I don't know if
it's upstairs. Did he leave his effects in his
room? Well yeah, but like I says, in
the process of, you know, chucking them because he hasn't
been here for a few weeks we can help with that.
Yeah, totally. Well, there probably won't be
much left already. Got rid of his suitcase.
So if anything is left, it's probably just a few books and
pictures got rid of the guys suitcase, you can paint his room
for like the past two weeks. What am I supposed to do?
Call write a letter and call somebody.
Like I don't know, I don't think throw it out to the answer that
I don't trust the cops. We magically.
Where did you? Where did you put the Oh, that
already went out to the dump, so that's probably long gone by
now. But where's the dumb?
Shit rolls, ready to go. Fucking dumb diving like diems
discretion here. His his suitcases.
God, you're not going to like it's in Canada.
Fuck you engine. He's like, stuff asking about
the suitcase in the ocean fucking wrong tree.
I was looking at out of 13. People, can you tell Kevin to
bring his truck back with? Obviously, all the garbage?
He collects. Exactly.
You told her to the garbage pile
on the outside of town and get a suitcase.
I can't Three-day walk that direction, and you're gonna be
playing a whole different RPG. Another system you're gonna
become rats. All right.
That's not off the table for me. Okay.
This is not the lead team. Refocus sorry, all right.
Yes, sorry, sorry, I got lost there.
Yeah, my Ginger, dude. Can we go upstairs and check out
the place? Yeah, for certain.
I mean, I'd need to get you the spare key and he kind of like
reaches under the desk. And hands.
You the spare key to look at the room.
Nice. All right.
Leave the way dude. Come on.
Shrooms breaks up the stairs. Whoa.
Doggies to stay outside darkening.
Just like sits there and whimpers.
Yeah, I'll throw some pocket jerky at him stay he is ecstatic
but Willie's he's gonna be munching on that for a while.
But will he stay? So you guys head upstairs.
You were right. It was upstairs to the the first
bedroom in the in, takes a little bit for the key to turn
and you would go inside the the room of mr.
Louisville, Martin, not a whole lot going on up here, pictures
of mushrooms. Kind of all over the walls.
These ones are a very in quality, some definitely more
high-definition taken up close. A lot of them are just You know,
you've seen the Bigfoot footage, right?
Kind of blurry crappy quality, something like that.
Definitely. All of his effects are already
gone, like no clothes, no suitcase.
Anything of that to speak of there is a journal sitting on
the, on the table, though. Okay.
Central immediately right now I'm just looking at
the bathtub and be like, how did you sleep in this chantrelle?
Can I have you do me a quick spot hidden Jack.
My spot hidden from Europe. A let's see.
Oh baby. Dang!
That was almost. Difficult success.
I got 25 and my spot hidden is 40.
So, okay, so that would still be a regular success.
Okay, so you're searching through the journal.
You see a lot of writings about the mushrooms themselves.
Lots of research notes in here at the back of the journal,
though, you would find several Pages have been torn out of the
journal. One of which you'll notice looks
like the same or wet or rather I'll be more specific here as
You're searching through the journal.
It looks like it's the same paper that the letter was
written on. So whatever Lou was doing he was
doing it in big awful. Hurry.
Hey guys. I come out of the bathroom.
Yeah. Okay I was looking at the,
what's up, okay, well while you were looking at the top, I was
doing detective work and does it fit?
Do you guys fit? You got it plural.
I mean, one would. Well I mean there's only one bed
so right now we're not going to sleep in Van Martin's bed,
right? That'd be weird.
Yeah, that letter first Is there I like reach into my pocket and
I hate it. When people just keep
insinuating that you guys just think I'm gonna try and see if
the tears line up with any of the torn Pages.
Very, very smart and winding up with the lighting up with the
the torn edges here. The very, very last page in the
journal looks exactly like the torn edges of the letter.
Guys and then in jails just holds it.
Oh shit, I don't know what it means, but it's important and
then I'm just gonna like, slap the journal closed and I feel
like chanterelles the kind of person who wears like multi
pocketed khakis, you know that six out.
Yeah. There's at least seven pockets
on my pants right now and at least one of them can finish.
But yeah, I'll probably go over to Central and aim for the high
five of Of do your regular, The Irregular Velma. who but still,
I'm going for high five central like Correct.
All right. No worries.
We'll practice practice the
shittiest in five. Yeah.
It's it's like a soft touch five.
How much I go outside all the time?
I mean not like the woods out-like, how out out-like at
like dance clubs. For example, I Yeah.
Cool. Okay just I need to make a fast
truck roll for this. So can if you want I'll allow
it. What's your fast?
It's 54 some pretty close. So you you see through The
Sherrod pretty easy. I was like okay cool.
Maybe sometime will take you out to 1.
Anyways, yes, find anything in the bathroom, I'm just gonna be
like, yeah, he has poor toothpaste habits.
The huge glob in the sink buts about it.
It's like a fell right off the brush.
I'll have been pulling all the mushroom pictures off the wall
because I think Shannon Trail will lead them.
That's a good idea. Okay, so I think we had down.
We head back downstairs and retrieve our Pooch, we have the
journal, I'm gonna ask via the redheaded gentlemen.
Hi us. Again, not sleep.
You're not sleeping in beds are bathtubs or otherwise just real
quick when he left it. Was he like close to anyone in
town? Is he talking anybody up, not
Particularly he was always going out in the woods kind of look it
at the Museum here and there, he's not real.
Talkative fella, it just clicked in my brain that this like cold
the sack size town has a museum. Yeah, it does weird right.
Yeah, that is weird makes me want to turn to the group and go
Museum trip Museum. I mean, hell, yeah, dude, this
is all extra credit. Anyways.
Oh, you're getting credit for this.
Have you guys ever been to a museum?
Yeah, buns. And I was when I was little, my
parents would take me to like, you know, just like the matter
like, stuff like that. Mash.
Yeah. With socket, Raz.
So y'all would Mosey on ban do them usually mmm.
Okay, so at the Museum, there is one person working here.
Where's little name? Badge says Grace on it and she
would say, welcome. Welcome to the eaves Museum.
Please feel free to have a look around.
No fair for today. It's kind of a slow season.
So, you know, feel free to look around.
Do what you want to do. Grace.
What's in this Museum? Okay, I can give you a bit of a
tour, so she kind of like starts going around this, this one room
Museum, it's very small. So on the walls here, you will
see the picture of the forest. Shrine the shrine has the the
mysterious young skeleton of the shaman named Julie in it.
What we know about her is that she was a young about 20 year
old woman with about long buttstock together hair, her
entire body is covered with rooms that we may believe our
Nordic in nature. We don't exactly know what she's
doing out there in the forest but we had a couple of
scientists, look it over. She look like she was doing a
ritual of some kind before that their tree started growing out
of her, you know? But yeah, we, this is the,
there's a museum dedicated to Ali and what we know about her.
Well, that's Bodacious. A tree grew out of her.
Yeah, right out of her mouth and her mouth.
I mean I don't go out near that Shrine myself.
No, but the pictures give me the willies.
Just looking at them. I'm like full like Cameron and
like Ferris Bueller's Day Off right now.
Like looking at it is Eerie for sure.
It's, she is still looking as fresh.
Is the day she was born. It is just, you know,
nice-looking young woman kind of matted hair, but at its as she
says, there is a tree literally growing out of her mouth.
Looks like her mouth is full of dirt.
Her eyes are kind of glazed over and glowing ruins are covering
her body from what you can see in the pictures.
Are there any mushrooms on her? Great question?
Michael, can I have you? Give me a spot hidden?
Check, sure can. I'm not going to succeed at
this. So get rid of my friends, spot
hidden 25%. I know he's got a Route. 69,
hey, nice, but doesn't help the whole we're not playing
pretending to be people or that's a great success.
Should be a rule like a D100 system where 69 is an automatic
success. It's well, you're trying to see
if there's any mushrooms in the picture but it's kind of
grossing you out to look at. So you kind of try not to This
is gnarly. Chantrelle.
You like normal things? Like Charlie thinks chanterelles
is immediately like I feel like she would just get way too close
to the photo, like pulls a little magnifying glass out of
her pocket and just starts like looking around at the photo
trying to see how she's if there are mushrooms in the picture,
I'm sure she would try to spot them but she's mostly focused on
the fact that there's a tree growing out of a woman's mouth.
Like Dad, right? She likes the mushrooms but
that's so unique. He want a spy.
Who know is that? Go ahead.
Do me a spot hidden. Please.
I look at Michael and I think she's fucking with.
There's no way she hasn't seen Scooby-Doo, right?
Right. That's a total.
Thelma moves our to leave alma mater.
Can I justify putting my luck and spend some look points?
All right, you guys? Yeah, that's fine.
Let's push your luck a little bit, but it's gonna be a little
hard, okay? Okay.
So do you want me to I can't
remember exactly how it works. Do we to re-roll and push my
Lord. You can I spend six left points
to make this a hard surface? You can go ahead.
We're pretty lenient here, on game master Monday, spend six of
your luck points to give me a heart success.
Yes, it did hard succeed. So after you do a hard success,
you very distinctly. Notice that there are mushrooms
growing out of that tree. And they look very, very similar
to the ones in the photographs that you snag from Louise
bedroom. She immediately turn around and
walk up to Grace and although chantrelle is relatively
charismatic. I'll charismatic all cameras all
Charisma goes out the window when it comes to mushrooms.
So she's going to get like right up in Grace's face and just kind
of like oh I need directions to the side.
It's just to this place. I need to how do I get Okay.
So so there's the, there's the, there's the path that goes into
town. Yeah.
From the south and then there's the path that goes into the
woods from the north. If you follow the north path,
just a few miles north of town. Like one or two miles, not very
far away. Okay, great.
Thank you. You just kind of like backs up a
little bit. You're welcome.
Central takes another step forward and like puts her hand
out in this small space between the two of them.
Just can't awkwardly, shake your hands.
It's so cool. It's so close between them that
the shoulder shakes with a handshake you've been extremely
Bye. Sir.
That Shucks. No problem.
I'll look over at gate or get a bathtub, you too.
What sharing a bath tub comes because of the observations
being the gay. I love it.
I'm just like, I don't think it works logistical is to
understand the bathtub. Come on shrooms.
We're going to the woods, so you're just gonna go straight
into the woods if everyone's cool with it.
I'm gonna hit the corner store and grab like a six-pack walking
beers and some pocket jerky. This head is swimming mates.
I love them. Is there anywhere else that
they'll Martin went to? I mean, yeah.
Musial areas of Interest are the museum, the end, the well and
the houses. How that's really all there is
and weaves. Yeah, I'm feeling well Ash.
Feeling. Well, okay, so you would go up
to the old. Well, the old well, looks like
it was built several centuries before the town was.
It looks a lot older but look like, it's been here awhile moss
growing all over it. No water in the well though is
the strange part. There is a ladder going straight
down into the well Michael, you wanna.
What's up more? Go down there.
Oh yeah you got a flashlight. I you know I'll slap my jerky
wallet keys and knife and be like this big one.
I definitely feel a headlamp out of one of my pockets naturally.
Yeah. That's actually the mom.
My college got a headlamp. I got mushrooms.
Pocket full of mushrooms and a dream that one day this will
out. So we're just sending Michael
down the well that we know nothing about Send The Boy, The
Boy. Just in case you need to break
your fall. Exactly, if we're all going in,
then are you are you coming? Yeah I'm not going to stand here
for myself. I like look over and see that
one woman and pacing in front of her yard like she'd, I don't
know but that you could go. While you're in the well yeah.
What if you like screaming, I don't hear you.
I'm tutorials. He batted hearing is so far.
This game shrooms will come get you.
Oh, I have dreams too. Yeah, shrooms can't go down a
ladder, he's a dog, of course. Yeah, yeah.
Someone I said, watch the door. Okay.
So I'll go talk to the random lady who just pacing in front of
her yard and y'all are going to. Well, there's a weaker bro.
All right, I see, no problems with putting the party.
All right on the bottom, I'll take the dog and I'll wander
over to the lady pacing in front of her yard.
And my, and my two friends will go in the well splitting.
The party Auto One Shot Call of Cthulhu cave.
What could go wrong? Sorry, you guys game master
Monday, baby. We do a different here.
So you two, you two would go down the The old.
Well it's not a very far climb, you know maybe a 12-foot drop
from top to bottom, but once you get to the bottom of the, well,
there is an old rusty door at the bottom of the, well, So, do
you want me to get that? Yeah.
Please. I'll try my best and yeah, I'll
grab onto it. Give it a good twist.
Shake pull Push Pull whatever the store has being so smart, I
just gonna just try everything. Just can I have you of are three
options spot hidden intelligence or natural world?
Give me whatever you are best at intelligence.
Yeah, that's gotta be her affections, it's world and
intelligence of the same. So I'm going to roll natural.
Oh shit. Heroes if you ready for this?
Oh boy I'm ready $90 hell yeah. With wild abandon not knowing
that there was a mushroom growing on the door.
Oh fuck can I have it? Can I have you roll me a d-10
please? Absolutely what the fuck?
I rolled a seven seven lose 1 HP, who your hand feels a little
funny when you touch the mushroom, like, you know, like
it's kind of like a small burn. Hello bad.
What's wrong? Oh, there's one of those
shrooms. Don't touch it.
Oh, that's too late. Sorry, door is swinging.
Open. As you are talking.
Just slowly, are you? Okay, you need to be added to
start rifling through my pockets.
I'll try to wipe it off on my cutoff jean shorts.
No, no, I'm cool. Okay, sorry about that.
Looks at the door. Touch mushroom, forgotten.
So they're in this. Well you would notice a small
wooden table and an unlit torch on the wall.
There looks to be an old scroll across this table.
And the beside the scroll. There is a notebook with what
looks like a Nordic rune language on.
The left hand, side of the notebook and an English
translation on the right. I'll step out of the way.
Yeah. Okay.
And then chantrelle just like starts.
Speed walking over towards the Nordic translation and their
mushrooms in here. It's a little bit dark.
Can I have you? Give me a spot hidden?
My dozen 20, it would just a difficult success.
Very nice. You look around the room apart
from what you saw on the door, you don't see any mushrooms
growing in this room. I'm just gonna start.
My quest. Sorry, I'm being such a hug
here. Do you want to read these
journals? I'm a, I'm like air drumming and
singing Fly By Night by Rush. Is it kind of covers like oh no,
those are I mean they're gonna figure out the book, right?
Translated. Like, if you look right here
there's the rooms and then if you look over here, there's
their symbols and you just kind of looked up the you want to
try? Are you sure?
But why would you write a book twice?
It's a great question. All right, so as you're reading
the journal, The the top of the page is scroll with the word
journey of Ulrich. It describes a sea Voyage from
the north into what is now Massachusetts?
It briefly describes the journey that was being taken.
We're over. It was documenting specifically
this woman named Julie how she was very obsessed with getting
to this. This new land that they found to
the west and and doing some sort of strange ritual bear while
you're reading it. A lot of the language doesn't
really make sense like you know it was kind of like transposed
English like they're trying their best to translate if
they're not quite getting it. Right.
So it's kind of hard to parse through but you're getting the
sneaking suspicion that this alric fellow did really want to
be here or hang out with Julie very much the main thing though,
is that over and over, in this, this transcription is that over
conventions, that movie wanted to open a gate to helheim I
wonder if she did it with three mouth.
Thing. So is there anything else of
note down here that my chloride would notice will make lose air.
Drumming kind of okay so apart from apart, from the name on the
journal saying, property of Arthur Walsh, you don't notice
anything else in the A room going to add this to my journal
collection. Okay, to drive.
Is Arthur friends with Bill Martin.
You wouldn't know. I wonder if asking of know we
should go. We should ask.
That is a great Point Gainer. Yeah.
Well, well, well, they're wondering if they should ask
you, if you know an Arthur Walsh, you, you talk to the
woman who is pacing in her yard as soon as she sees you, she
goes. Oh sorry, I didn't mean to scare
isn't the dog? No, no, no, no.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to yell.
I've just been very upset. Oh, okay.
I'm sorry. Hear that.
What's upsetting you? Well, my my son Louis went into
the woods, a few, a few, a few weeks ago, and I've called the
police, and they've been trying to investigate, but they haven't
come back in a while. So I'm kind of freaking out.
Yeah, that that does sound freaky you.
Okay. You said a few days ago, I met a
few weeks ago. My son Louis went missing and
then The police haven't come back for for, for a couple of
days. They've they've they've been in
the woods and I don't know what's going on.
Can I make a charm rule to see if I can help calm her down?
Sure. Cool.
My charm is a 70, despite how I've been playing him, that is a
as a 19. So you, you do manage to calm
her down, she's she's slowly coming from disgruntled back
down to grunting. So I'm really using a soothing
voice and I goes to. Yeah.
Russia's second album is called Fly by Night.
There's a song on there called Rivendell that I like Lat, it's
got a lot of Forestry vibe to it.
It's a good. Alright, I loved it.
And then my and then my boy went missing.
So, so now it kind of has a different meaning to me, right?
Because of that song on Russia's fly-by-night about the boy going
missing sure. I like rust.
So, okay, so, the police went out, right?
And you just haven't seen them, okay?
If you this might be Me being a little too forward here but me
and my my botanist friend. And this guy who's really good
at swimming are going to go into the woods and a bid.
And we're actually looking for some important stuff.
So if we see a boy, we can tell him to come home, maybe help
him. Come home.
Okay, we got, We're very professional.
I'm like, I'm like all of 21 saying mr.
Well, To let you know what he kind of looks like.
If you do see him. Yeah, he's 13 kind of long blond
hair, he likes to wear eyeliner, I don't judge him for it.
But, you know, he's going through that, that, that part of
his life right now, he just needs to make his own choices.
I blink myself, right? Islander like yeah, but he's
been really upset ever since his dad left.
So, you know, if you do see him Please tell him to come home and
say that his mom is worried about him.
Okay. Sure.
What's his name, Louis Louis
Hughes. And I just like, right, Louis
Hughes in my, on the back of the letter.
I'm just like, okay, okay, cool, yeah, well, we'll keep our eyes
out for him. Well, we go must what was your
name? Mary Mary Mary Hughes.
Okay, yeah, Louis go. Home to Mary.
Yeah, great. Hey, curiosity it would you
happen to know about anything with the guy who was staying at
the inn and have going to the museum a whole lot.
The the creepy old guy, he didn't really talk a whole lot
but he always looked like he was taking pictures of things me
personally, I think it's just bad luck to go out into the
woods people. Don't usually come back when
they leave. Hell of a thing to say to
someone, who's to go into the, oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to
Spook, you know, I know I'm tight.
If I'm being honest, I'm kind of at least 10% spoofed at all
times. So, you know, I mean, it's
nothing, I'm not used to but I have a healthy dose of spook in
your life. Yeah.
In the future, they might diagnose me as an anxious
person, but right now, the 10% spooked at all times as you do,
right? So yeah, I mean I mean I'm sure
it'll be fine. Bad luck.
Because I'm missing people or like those other weird stuff
happened. Um well it's kind of hard to say
because sometimes people go out into the woods, sometimes people
go missing, sometimes they just come back different.
It's hard to explain. Is there anyone in town who has
come back from the woods? Um, she kind of like thinks
about it for a minute like trying to remember if there has
been anybody. You could talk to Miss Crowley.
She used to go for walks in the woods before she before she
couldn't walk anymore. So you could ask her if she saw
anything. Weird noted.
Okay. Well, thank you Mary.
Well, we'll look for your son and try and she would just kind
of give you a hug for offering down.
Yeah. I kind of like how you have side
hug or like yeah, you got it and I I I turn around you turn
around it takes a minute for shrooms to follow with you.
She dog kind of like looks at her before.
You know, going to follow you. You know how dogs are there and
write like he's taking a second to turn around and follow me is
my come on turn around bright eyes.
One would be about this time that you guys would emerge from
the well. Oh my God, you're out of the
well, thank god listen. I was like worried because
people don't normally go in. Wells willy-nilly like that so
I'm glad you're safe. Oh yeah, dude, it was totally
butter. Yeah, it was there was a door.
And journal. Yeah.
Oh hell yeah. Look I got something cool.
Oh shit, do you know the name of this gentleman here and I'm
gonna point to show him the name, Arthur lost you've you've
heard of that name change. Do I know that name is Eddie?
Nope, just flattened. Oh, so doesn't it does not know
my uncle no Bells wrong. Does not know.
I don't, I don't know who that is.
Oh well, whoever Arthur Walsh was.
He was living in. That this is a weird, this is
strange. There's a girl in the woods with
a tree on my face. People speaking, the kids in the
woods, there's a kid in the woods.
Is that coming? Hey, it's around here.
According to Mary over there and I point at her and she's just
chittering. Whatever she's doing a minute.
Still pacing back and forth on her lawn.
Damn. I thought I called you down.
Anyway. Yeah she was telling me that
hurt her, teenage boy went out into the woods and hasn't been
back in like weeks and also the cops went into the woods and
haven't been back in like weeks which was concerning to me
because it's starting to sound like our the woods, you know
cursed. And they're dangerous to go
into. And so, Martin has been gone for
weeks, right. Right, right.
That's like 343 young, people do being in the woods for me, but
if you think of it scientifically they all winter
out around the same time and we're going on in different
times or chances of survival were completely different than
theirs. I mean, yeah, that makes perfect
sense. Good job, man.
Yeah, good point Central. I'm just worried I feel that
doesn't sound right but I was 20 in science.
So Do I know? Or if we're just like good you
should go talk to her to do all the work.
Oh that's funny because your last name is Mauro, right?
So you are morals. Yeah, I think I'll talk to her.
Yeah, let's go talk to Emily fun, caner, I-55, Michael.
It wasn't for me but I do it as your hands meet my hand.
Caresses the edge of your guys's high five.
I like grab your wrist and I know it's like, it's like a
slap. We got it.
You got it like this, sorry, I'm nervous.
Come on troops and I'll start racing towards the old lady's
house. Okay, so here we go over to mrs.
Florence Crowley's house, lovely, old lady, her dry smile
radiates with an incredible warmth.
She just kind of greasy from her Porsches.
Hello, their babies! How you doing?
Oh, hi, we're fully grown. Oh, don't you?
Worry, none. Everyone's a baby compared to
me. Oh, you.
You must be if she's very old Florence is your name?
That's me. Yeah.
Hi, my name is Gator. These are my friends, Michael.
And Shawn Trail, if Louis. She waves to you.
I fiber. So I got my high fives today.
So we are on a mission to do some mushroom foraging in the
woods out there and we've heard some stuff about the woods and
was wondering if you could like tell us any useful tips and
tricks for making sure, we don't spend forever in the woods.
Hmm. Well that's that's kind of a
tricky thing that I love with the with the woods.
Really, all you gotta do is stick to the pan.
Path. If you just walk along the path
and Don't Stray From it, it's just a flat circle.
You just go out to the cave and you circle around back and it's
easy enough. Is that don't go in cave.
Come straight back. Okay, cool.
Awesome. Thank you so much for your
instructions and do a lot of people go in the cave.
I try not to she just kind of shrugged.
Great even been a wealth of knowledge ma'am and I
appreciate, do you know where the boy went?
Oh, that's a great idea. Talking about that.
Huge boy. I know that he and his little
friends like to spend some time, just outside that came from the
woods. I don't think they ever went in
it. But from what I hear from when
they're they're playing in their yard sometimes I like to dare
each other to see how far they can go me myself.
I, I never go with that Cape. See just seems spooky to me.
All right. Good spooky caves, we love them.
It was thank you so much. We are kind of It gives you a
little nod. Can I see also need for you
leave? I will you That sounds welcome.
Come on in. And she just kind of like Wheels
herself into her home. You guys, could go ahead.
Sit in her living room. It's, you know, you've seen
every old woman's house ever. Just doilies on everything is
taking place. Yeah, I'm pretty much everything
TV is on, but, you know, it's static.
So she's probably never took. You didn't gears she heads into
her kitchen. There's lots of pictures of like
foxes and birds and stuff on the walls.
But she comes from her kitchen with with three meatball
sandwiches, like Peak around. Kitchen and look for my sure.
It's it's kitschy. So it's I did what you would
expect of an 80s, kitchen, you know, bright yellow, wallpaper,
stovetop look like hasn't been used in a while because you
know, she's wheelchair-bound, she can't really reach your use.
It very easily table. Not really much of no no
mushroom. So see, okay.
Okay, I'm gonna eat that meatball sandwich them.
Yeah, it's sandwich. You guys eat the meatball
sandwiches as you do. You can distinctly taste it.
It does not taste like meat, what's in these?
Oh Portobello. I don't eat meat myself.
You know, a lot of people found Town think, I'm kind of crazy
for saying this, but sometimes I have these These Dreams.
Where were sometimes and she kind of like the cleans it and
gives you that little little and sometimes I have a dream that a
bird or something. I'm just flying around town or
running through the woods, all all willy-nilly and ever since I
started having them dreams I just feel like it's wrong to eat
me though. Is there a handkerchief out of
my pockets? Then I'm just gonna like it.
I don't trust that, it's actually Portobello.
Can we control for that? I do.
I listen to the same? I feel like, you know what?
I'll give you a freebie. It is portobello mushroom,
that's not the stuff that you would have, okay?
Okay. If it's but she's got dreams
about being a father, is a big concern?
Yeah. She told me about her
psychedelic dreams and them immediately like this is a
psychedelic mushrooms and They're not magic but they're
actually portobello mushrooms. We do not do drugs here and he's
look at Michael and that you maybe there's do those kind of
mushrooms, man. Oh dude, I mean it has just the
height of the war on drugs and she is very old you think she
would do psychedelics right? Yeah.
That's height of the world. So drugs are in small Supply.
I'm so sure if it is actually a Portobello and psychedelic
mushrooms, I would But I will eat it regardless if it's like
Delacour Portobello. I'm gonna eat it.
And I'm gonna pretend it was like, and I like to fit it
y'all. That's right.
Did he try to GM to that? I don't think I have to.
I think, I think you guys just gave me that one.
I'm working my hand normal. I don't know if it's working,
man. It is very much not.
I know, I know. But Gator Is Never Done
mushrooms in his life. So he's just like, he wants to
be like, yeah, I get it Florence.
Like I've had Lisa Frank dreams, too.
Love and hate. Sometimes I have this dream that
I'm lost in France. Is that anything?
I think you're Holding Out for a Hero to me, but that's not going
to come out yet. You only been here for about
five minutes by my Reckoning me, fast will probably go into the
forest soon and not go into the cave.
Okay, well, I hope you guys come back safely.
Now, I will us to. Yeah.
So you exit nice. Miss Crowley's has all kind of
elbow Gator and Michelle. The path is a flat circle.
Is like a really rad lyric, right?
Kind of is what a fun trivia. I'm like, super tiny.
I'm on mushrooms. And I grabbed her to grab your
shoulders and I'm just like, no, because, like life is like a
flat circle, right? Great fucking Gators that guy.
Okay. So would definitely go in the
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Alrighty, so as you guys as you guys walk North out of town it's
about 11:00 when you guys come across, who lie.
The the oh woman with the Rune is covering her arms in the
middle of the forest and just like the the In the interviews,
IAM massive oak tree just growing from her feet out of her
mouth up into the sky. It is just absolutely covered in
those mushrooms though that you would see in the pictures and on
closer inspection, they seem even more face like in person
they do in photographs. Whoa.
This is that thing right? Yeah from the thing, the
mushrooms so weird. Done then right?
We found out we found the take some samples.
I start pulling bags out of my other pockets and I like do a
double-take in your pocket that wow that they brought stuff.
Did you guys not come to take sample?
It's a whole new species. Oh I'm yeah that's cool.
Yeah, it's cool. Here's an extra Pocket in case
you need a pocket knife. I do need a pocket knife.
Actually don't have what I was going to hand out.
Very good. Thank you.
And then I'm going to flip the bag over.
My hand so that the inside of the bag is outside and then I'm
going to stick it up like under the mushroom and kind of pocket
knife it out. You are you 100% would see
Michael reaching for a mushroom with his attention before he
looks over and sees. You do that like Are the
mushrooms bad to touch? I wasn't there.
I really don't know if we are mushroom.
Bit me a bitch you must have bit.
You yeah. Hold up my hand.
Oh my God. It kind of does the think of it
bit you? What the fuck?
I mean they could be the spores could be dangerous you know.
Like they could be poison and don't eat them.
Don't know. Okay you don't need the shroom
shroom, she stops. The dog is very vehemently just
kind of backing away from the mushrooms like a flick.
Mid cut off of this mushroom and she's looking at both of the
guys just like don't put them in your face.
Asshole, just don't don't you're the boss boss.
You successfully obtained and mushroom mix around in the and
Sure. Sure whatever.
Yeah, totally, whatever. Something is predate top box,
then Pirates like Ziploc bag. Yeah, the kick.
The cavemen were using Ziploc. How else were they collecting
samples of stuff? Exactly.
Every archaeologist knows, if you go into an ancient Egyptian
dig, there is guaranteed to be a box of Ziploc bags and a Kleenex
box. They put tut in one attack.
So you can get a nice room. Okay, we can go home now.
Oh wait, I I did promise that lady would find a boy and your
uncle right? Like didn't he go missing, is he
like his oldest flow? Not my uncle's back at Harvard.
He was gonna boil down. To is my uncle said, there's a
cool mushroom. Also, my lifelong best friend is
missing and you helped me and I'm just like, well, I suppose
he made, you got to do what you do for Bathtub buddies, right?
It was less than it was. His lifelong best friend.
And it's more that like, you know, the guy he was writing
letters to. Yeah, he was, he was your
uncle's Professor when he was going to Harvard, okay?
So he'd be very old now which is part of the Mystique.
Yeah. So we have a 13 year old boy who
was known around town for being a little shit and doing things
he shouldn't do. We got an old man who is very
woods and an entire police force, at least three cops, at
least three cops, at least three, is there anything that we
can learn about the mushroom now that we're like in its presence
and focusing on? On it like, oh, hold on Centro.
You found that you found that double-booked, right?
Yeah, the runes. Yeah.
Maybe this the girl is hula. He's covered in runes.
Yeah. So sure, Michael be like, why
don't you see if she's a book too?
Okay, I guess I'll try. I'm like a hoarder Wells.
Does that little try sure I can. So you do know Arthur.
Rooms in this book and there's some rooms that have been
translated that you want to try and see if there's any reports
on her body that have been translated in the book.
I have a hard time saying no to people so I'll give it a shot.
Okay, what do I gotta roll since you have a frame of reference?
It'll also give you your choice of this one.
Okay. Whichever is best.
Give me either archaeology history or Library use?
Oh, that's gonna be Library. Use Chief and I got a 13.
Very nice numbers 40 by the way. So it's a hard success.
Very, very cool. So while you are kind of reading
through the journal, you can sort of, you know, translate
word for word. It takes you a little bit to
look at through it but basically the the ruins that are etched
into her skin read as hell's servant, I give you my body, I
give you my life, I give you this world.
I relay that information to them and I go.
So to immediate thoughts one, the fuck to.
That's also a good lyric Helen. Hi, I'm right.
He'll hi. Yes.
She was trying to bring helheim open the gate to helheim but
just like the afterworld like he'll swear got its name from
but no, Isaiah So you know, it just sounds like our friend here
was trying to open a portal to North hell may or may not have
succeeded because the this giant tree coming out of her and then
there's all these mushrooms, all these missing people and I can't
help but feel of those are related in some capacity.
Maybe but we're not by the cave. You gotta go.
That's true. We got to go to the game.
Like, gotta gotta or can we just be like, oops, they're all
missing. We can go home now.
Oops, oops. Hey, Uncle James Blunt time.
No. See.
Everyone's gone. All My Friends Are Dead.
Um, all of your friends, just me and now I'm 38.
So you're heading Caper. Yeah.
Okay, you can stay with truth. So you I'm not gonna stand next
to the tree lady. Are you okay, whether she wakes
up? I'm gonna need some carriers and
going, okay, that's why I'm following you.
So it takes you another hour to get to the cave.
So you get there around 12 p.m. Michael can have a jerky.
So what you have notes? Thanks man, I'm I haven't eaten
since you left, shut your own jerky.
I had some of that Portobello sandwich.
So, on your way, to the cave, just outside of it, you would
notice a campground at this Campground.
It looks a little strange, but you notice distinctly hear
chantrelle. I'll give you this as a freebie
that the stones in this Campground look about the same
age as the stones, on the well, around this Campground, you will
see a couple of skeletons. One of which only has one leg.
So we're 100% on the cave. Then you look if you like I
should say like zoinks, this feels very is doing see ya, I
know, right? The heck, man, and even I'm even
kind of feeling a rut ro ro bag. There's a lot of skeletons out
here for camping Kenneth. Yeah, I just wanna that's three
more that I want. Wow, they're talking about the
skeletons. Membership is just inching
towards the campsite Skelly. Boys centro's.
Central their bones. Their boats, go back.
I go touch the boat. Oh God.
Okay, I grabbed Michaels hand. They were roommates.
So on one of the bones very distinctly hear you would notice
that there are a few runes etched into the bones of the
one-legged skeleton. What do they say?
I pull up my journal that I took with me, right?
Same off or I'll give you either and archaeology history or
Library. You can do is the best tree.
History. No shit.
How is an 11? Which let's go.
Yeah. So in the, in the bones of the
one-legged skeleton, you see the ruins are etched here, lieth
Ulrich who has sworn before the force Rick wasn't one of the
names we had right? Yeah what was the name in the
journal? Okay.
The fellow who was traveling with, who me?
Okay, so Legend, not not person. We're actively looking for a
Miss, he looked at it. Well, Rick is very, very late
have shrooms or tree growing out of his skeleton.
Well here, here's the crazy part.
These skeletons look a lot more fresh to you than, as the legend
goes. So, like, definitely do not seem
like centuries. Okay, okay, okay.
Okay. You would notice that around the
campsite there are a couple of those mushrooms do they?
This is a question. I've been wondering for a while,
but I just trying to stay on track.
But like, do they all look like the same face or do they all
look like different faces? I love the way you think as long
as you examine them a bit further, they definitely look
distinct from one another. What a discovery.
This is some you gonna pull out more bags.
If it's just how many mushrooms do you have now to just the one
so far, right? Or 10K.
Get like, at least three more is those solos?
There are exactly three muscles here.
So can I examine the camp site itself like to see if the fire
was put out recently? The camp looks to be recently
about And looks like there is a half of a pot of warmest to
above what we used to be a camp fire.
Warms do warm? Yes, look at it.
This too. Looks like it does have a lot of
mushrooms in it. The face kind of the Portobello
kind you can give me a check I want your spot heading 250 so
one might say that I've got 50/50 odds and I rolled a 73
Looks tasty. Mmm, does it now?
Yeah, if you go for a bite, if you were hungry enough, I did
have that jerky Michael. Yeah.
What about the soup? No warm, but there's bones here.
Now, I'm no archaeologist but normally bones happen after a
long time. So I would think you can died
while waiting for your soup and then you turn to Bones, your
soup would be warm but the soup is warm.
You know what? I think about everything.
I know about soup. That makes sense.
I'm very torn because my grant brain is like, do not put this
in your mouth, do not walk up the strange soup and immediately
trusted especially because you didn't roll very well but all
weather like, That soup do. The other part of my brain is
like I gotta do. What's up with that soup?
That's really the only one course of action to take here
and I don't want to do animal cruelty.
So smart, I am trying to decide if it's out of character and not
from to do this. I guess we fuck it.
They have a stew. Is there anything else around
here? I mean we got three old-timey
skeletons that look for really fresh.
We had a warm cup of stews and so car with look, Carl Weathers
nearby. Is there any like kind of look
around because Gaynor had said that the kid came out here with
his friends, right? Yeah.
And the immediate vicinity of the campground, you would be
able to see the cave a few, like a distance away.
Like it's still a while to walk before you get there but in the
immediate vicinity nothing else really stands out to you.
I mean, if you don't want to eat yet, we just had a sandwich.
We can save it for women are on the way back out.
Are you proposing? We Bogart this Dubrow.
I mean, it feels like it's abandoned stew.
Central, can we borrow a bag and throws so invested in?
Yeah. And then I just throw a bag over
my shoulder. I don't even have not registered
any loads behind, I walk over to the bag.
Central is enthroned, like sitting cross-legged on the
floor holding three M, sorry, four bags of mushrooms and I'm
just staring at him intently because they all have different
fucking faces and I'm like she seems preoccupied, their faces.
All right, I got a bag. Your face is rock, paper
scissors. They're facing mushrooms our
faces. Okay.
Michael a rock-paper-scissors you to see who pulls out the
stew. It's their label.
Is there a label? Nope.
So, I think was like open the bag and it's like scoop it, so
you might get some on your hands.
Oh yeah. Okay, I'll do the thing like
kind of like, pull up my shirt around my hands, to grab onto
the edge of it. Try to pour it into a Ziploc
bag. Yeah, you obtain.
A slightly drippy bag of soup just in case, what an ideal
soup, container forgot. My suit bowl at home.
Okay. No, it'll be cool.
No camping equipment. Set soup will take the pocket
knife and poke a hole. It's like a Capri Sun, but lips,
too. There you go.
I'm a shotgun the stew. Yeah, so, how are your face
rooms coming? Central guys are silly silly
real fast, but I'm just enjoying it.
Well, is sort of borderline having a mental breakdown over
by the Skelly boys, just with the bags of mushrooms, realizing
that they're all faces and they all look different because this
is not normal for mushrooms. Firstly, it's weird that a
mushroom has a face. Yes.
Secondly, it's even weirder that they're all different.
She's just sitting there like staring at these mushrooms and
think the different features and she's like, normally they look
the same or at least very similar.
But these look so different. I think they're actually faces.
Central can you come look at our soup.
Did you what we can? You come check this soup out.
Okay, I'm Chantal is gonna shove the mushrooms in her backpack
honestly chanterelle. Came out here for a scientific
Expedition and I feel she would come extremely prepared.
Um yeah. Oh come over and like with 1000
yard stare just like what soup. So Michael got a bag of soup.
Sample. He's holding it up like symbol
and I couldn't like see anything in it, but maybe you can.
Okay. It wasn't.
After the whole skeleton situation, I feel like the soup
is spooky. We have spooky soup Central and
I must the mushrooms the spooky. You think the super spooky okay.
Alistair is spooky Michael use boot.
Not yet bro. That was shit.
Don't he's great. Great.
I'll look at the soup. Okay, can I have you give me a
spot him? Yeah.
Lutely. What is your spotting?
It's 40 now. Damn nice. 28 mother.
Trust it because it does look like there are chunks of
mushrooms that look like the same color as the ones you've
been putting in backs. Don't eat that soup.
Don't either sit Michael, don't eat the soup.
No, put the suit back. Oh, okay.
It's got the face shrooms in it and I don't think we should eat
those. Oh okay, good call.
Yeah. And then I'm going to hold up
the specimen bags with two of the different mushroom face
mushrooms. And it's like see what I mean.
Oh yeah. They see what I mean to me.
Michael. Have you would you would see of
course that the mushrooms do vaguely, look, kind of like
faces, I mean, yeah, I mean, mushrooms have faces.
They don't normally have faces. Michael, you are nailing it,
it's great. And just like any Unattended,
child for a moment. I'm just going to spike this
dude. The closest skeleton, like just
like dumb kid stuff, right? Like I'm not even thinking about
it. Throwing the bag of soup at a
skeleton here, because somebody said don't eat it and throw in
the fancy Cannon. Something I did.
Hey, yeah, sure as I do, it'll allow it.
Let's go to the cave. There is now a skeleton drenched
in this stove? Ain't what if what a sentence to
beings and we just chucked soup at it.
Boy, you're right. Moving on up, six legs outside,
the entrance of the cave you would see two police officers in
trench coats just kind of reviewing their notes.
They wouldn't really pay you much mind as you Ouch, as I
can't be seen by the cops. Wait, what did you say?
Sandra is right, if I don't, you chose a drug Runner and what
she's just taking this out here to the woods mushrooms just
gonna kill you, I just broke it into a couple of protected sites
before to look at their flora and fauna and I'm not gonna lie
to you. I don't think this is gonna
cop's house. Thought you said the cops
disappeared. I don't think he's here.
Jinx. You owe me a coke.
No, no.
I said the coconut first. I thought you buy drinks you.
It's just while you were talking about who James to whom the the
cops kind of like this turn around and look at you absent
afternoon in question. Are they dressed your time
appropriate? They look like detectives more
than they look like cops. But yeah, you know, trenchcoats
uniform host the Columba kind of, okay?
Okay, well, I should know if they were dressed like, you
know. No, they look like 1980s police.
Thanks Sheriff's from the how to do today.
Yeah. All right.
So we got sweet sunglasses. Yeah.
Yeah. 10 out yet. Okay.
Just a couple of beige. Look at individuals, sure.
Know about paints a pretty picture.
Yeah, fully get it paid off sirs.
An impressive afternoon. Would you do?
Would you find a boy? We're good.
Looking for weeks, no leads as of yet, we certain we sent an
officer to take a look in the cave but she hasn't been back in
a while. Wait, how long ago?
Um, you gotta watch Johnson about an hour so you I have a
hi. My name is a Gainer and I was
told that boy, went missing weeks ago.
And so, did you? That's how you just did.
You just show up? Yeah, we just got here like two
hours ago. So was the boy being missing in
a town of 13? People just like was there a lot
of crime going on. The last couple of weeks did
they? Everyone in town do something
and this was like last in the what the fuck with that kind of
just like the Squints at you like you're acting a little
suspicious but he's you know, he'll still ask your question is
like well no he's just kind of you know don't know if you knew
this a little bit of a Podunk Town sure.
So brother. Rousey use, please know where
we're from, were from the local County police but no, you know,
apart from a couple of rabble-rousers and such for
that. No, no real crime per se, it was
only recently got some calls about some missing persons cases
but that was like today. So why today you have the today
today? Yeah.
Why you looking at me like that, I met boys mom and she said,
That she called, you weeks ago, you know what's crazy is, I've
heard that when parents are beside themselves with worry,
time can seem like it extends. Will you just excuse me?
Everybody else over? Yeah, I'm just gonna grab Gaynor
by the arm and be like come on, honey.
It's time to go. I'm a year younger than you.
You may fiance. Oh, okay.
Darling. We decided that now.
Okay, sure. Okay, most of motivation.
Yeah. You got it.
It's no, comes cuts. Are there any mushrooms at the
entrance of the cavern? Looks like, it's covered with
dry leaves. But, no mushrooms.
In the immediate entry Passage. Okay, now that we're gone.
So here's the thing. I'm gonna sound a little crazy.
Little Waffle House, crazy little Waffle House.
I'm whispering. Okay, using our inside voices.
I'm going to be using re I don't, I want to be clear that
I'm whispering. Yeah, but I can't keep that up.
Okay? I can't talk like this, um, but
I think that Time might work differently here.
Fucking, what'd I do this time? Is it the one thing?
That's the same everywhere? I mean, that's not necessarily.
It's okay. I'm not gonna have time
different. What is it Howard on an hour.
I'm excited to cry a little bit. I hate these ones.
Hey, yeah, and I'm great. So what if we offer to go inside
the cave and check on the lady officer, who's looking for the
boy and not say anything else about the I'm differentials that
they have or have not experienced a night.
I level with you. I've been keeping it on the
inside this whole time but like, listen, I I remember Michael.
I wasn't Michael again, maybe anyway, cross that bridge.
When I come to it. I don't know shit about biology.
I just want to dance. That's all I know about is
dancing stuff and, like, talking to people and this i-i'm, not
their police officers. Why don't they go in the cave?
We are a mushroom person. I'm a dancer.
And then, Michael has pocket turkey.
What? How Are we more prepared in the
police. I'm just gonna, like sniffs at
his pocket. It looked kind of like, drive
home, your voice. I understand.
But we were sent out here. To do a job and there's a little
boy and a female officer who was just so ahead of her time, being
a police officer in the 80s and it's all the men sent her in by
herself, and I just can't leave another woman.
Alone, shit, all the men Michael goes until Michael.
Are you with me? Oh yeah.
Do you do rock-paper-scissors about it?
Now we can all go. Come on, shrooms jerky.
Throw my hands in the air. Hmm.
Well, do you have fuck it? I just go in the cave.
Go in the can explain myself. Yeah.
You just kind of like backs away from the entrance of the cave.
Like, he doesn't want to follow you, can you?
I have another headlamp. And then I'm just gonna quickly,
I'll even put like an arm outside of the cave, and I'm
waving around trying to feel for it.
Hello, hello. Grab Michaels hand.
Come on, shrooms. Okay.
So you go into the entry Corridor of the Cave.
The officers distinctly do not follow you.
They seem hesitant to go in after examining the walls just
in the entry Corridor here. There is a narrow tunnel that
you would have to crawl through to go further into the cave.
How narrow pretty? Pretty shallow load of the
ground. It would be so low that any
creature is larger than F octave have to crawl through it because
of how short it is, but we won't get it slow.
Okay. All right.
I'm going to take off my backpack and empty out some of
my pockets and all right. And it's okay.
Off you go. So it takes you about a half
hour to crawl through this narrow Corridor, as you know,
crawling on your hands and legs, try not to bump if they said
they were scared. Jenny, it's okay.
It's okay. That's the point of Call of
Cthulhu. Is this puppy?
That's incredibly fair, and dare I say sensible.
So, you into this next chamber, here, on the ground, you will
notice. There are three skeletons just
in this room. On the left hand side of the
wall, you can just see it covered with the kind of like,
tendril, like Riser morphs of the mushrooms, and on the right
hand side of the The wall looks like there's a whole bunch of
roots dangling from the ceiling from you guys.
Yeah, you're okay. It's like I don't have to yell
back through the half an hour 30 minutes.
Passage. Okay, three bones and a whole
lot of mush. Yeah.
Whoa, this is crazy. I read the biggest mushroom of
scene. Does this impact our sanity at
all? Oh not yet.
Okay about your sanity, yet just second.
Yeah wait, you said there were three coming through skeletons?
Are they fresher than Ulrich or not?
As fractions were great question, similar freshness.
And then distinguishing features, like a badge to 13
year olds have at the break you Bassett.
No. There would be kind of like
rotting clothes on them, missing teeth, but nothing that would
distinguish them as a police officer or a young boy.
Oh okay. Actually I have I am going to
school to get my medical license.
All right. That's right.
You're a doctor Michael's. A doctor student because C's get
degrees. So I will take a look at These
skeletons based on their freshness and everything and
hold on. I don't know if these are I
don't know if these skeletons should be this fresh.
Looking at the skeleton please. So they they all look very
similar in a weird way to you the the bones of the skeleton
look like they're made of like some poor quality sponge if I
could put a phrasing to it if it weren't for their poor State.
You know. It would it would really feel
like these bones are made of you know, human remains.
But to the touch they seem off to you somehow You know, kind of
feel them and what 13. So I guess I'll check the skulls
to see if they still have their wisdom teeth and whatnot because
if they're prepubescent and look at that, he's the news out of
one solid Point. Looking at the, the Dentistry of
the skeletons. Yeah, we got for that Jenny.
Great question. I guess that's medicine.
All right, give me a medicine check.
All right, here's hoping it's my best skill but I have rolled a
69 in a 99. So I believe that if oh oh shit,
you guys should believe in me because I will the 66.
Yeah. Estimated its not highest IQ
asked me if I was to give you without feeling.
Okay? So looking at the, the teeth I
suppose of the skeletons, you would notice that it does match
up with Adults humans teeth record.
But the other thing is, when you're looking in their mouths,
in the back of the skull, you can see little rise to morphs,
dangling down. So check out the bicuspids here.
This is looking real weird to be but then it gets all shrew me.
Chantrelle, take a look. I'm gonna do you want to see
some mouth, screams girl. I got some mouth streams.
You wouldn't believe back to my rooms.
He's a mouse fruits. Yeah.
Chantrelle. Would immediately upon hearing
mouth shrooms Take her a little shrew me, fingers in the
skeletons and take a peek. Do they look like the soul
shrooms? I'm calling them Souls rooms.
Now I hope you are okay with that again.
Well so what your cutter Lee trying to get out of here if I
can just sum up your trying to see if the bone structure
matches the face of the mushroom.
Yeah. Kind of.
Yeah, I don't know if I can pull that off because I don't have
like rebuilding technology but like Was I tested it?
You know it's I'll have you give me a natural world for that.
One can. That's my hardest skill.
That is an extreme success. That's very good.
A fuck. Oh, so while you're looking kind
of, at the bone structure of one of the skeletons in particular,
your kind of cross-referencing it with the mushrooms that
you've got. And I don't want to put this too
lightly here, but you sense a connection, okay?
Okay, I appreciate you. It's that's some, that's some
sci-fi level science shannan that we just pulled But like dr.
Murrow's Island. Oh my God, this looks like this
guy. Okay, okay, okay.
Okay. Okay, she drunk, come down.
You can do this. You can do.
Can I have your each? Give me a listen check by the
way to go quick. 20% let's go. Okay oh my God I got a 30 which
is the exact amount for my hard success.
I got a 25 which is a fail. I'll fuck you mean test I
fumbled that listen check so so we have super Fergus as a
regular fail and fumble. So chantrelle you are getting a
little stressed out by this whole mushroom situation.
Can I have you just take a 1D for of Sanity damage for me
please? Yeah, let's begin.
That's a 4. Oh wow.
Ouch, my sanity. You would hear some whimpering
coming from the right hand side of the cave behind the roots, my
doggie. No difference, I'm human.
Hmm was okay, I walk towards the whimpering.
Okay, so you kind of push back. Back the The Roots here and what
you would see is an emaciated young woman kind of just
clutching an officer's uniform to her chest skinny as a rail.
Looks like she's been in here for a very, very long time.
And she just kind of looks up at you weekly and is shivering
officer. You should not.
Okay, hi. We're here to rescue you.
Thank God, she just kind of like weekly stands up.
You can just see her badge, says Officer Taylor.
Hi, Officer Taylor. My name is Jane ER Kathleen High
them that person in the corner over there.
Having an existential crisis about mushrooms and skulls, as
my Friend, chantrelle paint and that doctor swimmer guy over
there is his name. Michael he's waving.
Do you, do you want, you want to get out of here?
Yeah, I've I've been lost for a few, I don't know any more
hours. She just kind of like blinks a
couple of times we say hours, I don't know.
It feels like it's been months uses his emaciated sole.
She's like crazy like fin and lightning interest.
Oh, my fucking thin as a rail, her clothes are hanging on her
like a scarecrow. Sick.
Hey Michael yeah. What's up bro?
You want a patient to practice your practice on?
Yeah, I just want to make sure chanterelles okay.
She's really upset about these mouth shrooms.
I'll talk to Sam Trail. You talk to her.
I think your skills are going to be better than mine here.
All right. Swapsies I flopsy is we
high-five for the sea, as we pass each other.
Do ladies having an existential crisis, you got to have those
High fighting as they work through.
Just crushing it. 'My favorite 80s, metal hair,
band to him, both high. Five definitely.
Looks like she hasn't eaten in a very very long while you're just
in your medical opinion, surprised that she's alive at
all with how malnourished she looks Officer Taylor.
And you need you to calm down and have a little bit of jerky.
She weekly bunches on the turkey.
The answer is always popular to even when it's not.
I was prepped to share Trail. Its
Central we should Yeah. Yeah.
Is that did you fight somebody fight?
Yeah, I we we found the police officer.
She looks like she hasn't eaten in weeks, which is Not my
favorite thing to learn. Today, we have to find the boy.
Oh God. The boy Michael asked her about
the boy Officer Taylor. Yeah, did you ever find the boy?
She just kind of shakes her head.
No I've been looking around this cave for for feels like forever
but haven't been able to find him.
I I'll be honest, I don't even know how long it's been.
Any more curse myself for throwing that's too but All
right, we do have four Masters, could see half hour, climb out
of here. I was that I keep thinking to if
we get her out of here it's going to be all of us shimmying
for 30 minutes and then we got to do 30 minutes back to find
the boy. She didn't she didn't mention
around you can be submitted by herself.
Yeah, this is definitely one of those, you know, officer, I need
you to hang out with this jerky, until we get back, we could
okay, shrooms shimmy with us. Shrooms has shimmied.
Boy, shrooms to comfort Officer Taylor.
This then guard you want. Yeah.
Do you truly troops with us? Looks intently a Jenny swear to
God. If anything happens to this dog
I know where you live. I won't let anything bad happen
to the puppy. We have a temporal acceleration
Point here that dog is doomed. Dance persuasion you could roll
because I just dropped my dice under my desk.
So okay, then okay, he's a good boy.
He understands that she is under a lot of stress right now and is
going to be a good little therapy puppy.
In the meantime for her I'm like smoothly his face in between my
hands. I'm like listen because rooms,
if you let anything anything happens, your safety is
Paramount but you protect us lady at all costs.
Good boy, I give him some turkey and he just kind of like sits
like at her feet and is just being a comforting presence.
If I get future Ramadan, I'm gonna fucking swear.
You're not gonna give you my word.
Nothing bad will happen to this dog.
Okay. But cop anything can happen to
the cop but this dog. Yeah, whatever.
Yeah, whatever Kathleen. Whatever by Wolves, for all I
care and even find a boy. All right, I guess we go deeper
into the Cave and go on a boy mode.
Okay, going north from here, you would notice that there is a
very long and narrow ledge looks very, very difficult to cross
and on the wall of this ledge here as your as your kind of
scrolling around here, you would see it kind of like does like a
50-foot drop otherwise. And on the wall of this led the
other side you just notice it's covered in the rise of more.
So those mushrooms just coated. What answers that guys?
If the boy got to this point I gotta find them.
You guys like I can't I can't not go forward, okay?
You said it's a it's a it's a cavern, it's a very narrow ledge
that goes into a cliff face. That goes to a 50-foot drop, can
I jump it. It's so it's a it's a it's a
it's a ledge so you can kind of shimmy across.
Yeah you can scoot across the ledge but on the direct right
hand side just a drop down essentially.
So it seems Kuching basically would need to kind of like side
along the wall where the Riser morphs are to get across.
We have to touch silence. Oh, this is it touch the rising
moves to get to its if you there is just enough space that you
that you would be able to avoid it, but it would be really
tricky to avoid not touching them on this ledge.
What do we got to roll? Yeah, either climber stealth.
I'll give you which everyone is better there?
Even a fuck it. I got 74, doesn't matter what
the fucking pig. Yeah.
Oh dear. Oh sweet sweet baby Jesus.
I got it. Oh my God. 58.
Wait, so so so Jeff passed grants fucked and Central's also
fucked. Yeah, okay so Michael is kind of
leading the way here. He's super confident.
Little stones are kind of Fallen as he's trying to cross this
ledge but you to your to almost trip and to kind of save
yourselves, you kind of like reach back and grab onto the On
to the mushrooms, on the wall here.
Can I have? Uh, give me a pardon me.
I didn't n roll. Please 72.
Oh my God. Okay, so chantrelle.
Same thing happens to you. That happened to Michael before
you feel like kind of like a cut on your hand lose 1 HP.
Great. You said you got a 22?
What is your current highest attribute of appearance?
Which is an 80? Can I have your?
Give me a D4 roll. Please one lose 10 points.
In that attribute Jesus. This mushroom made me uglier.
You definitely feel yourself rapidly.
Getting a little bit older here. You kind of feel weird but you
definitely feel like you're not the same as you were before five
minutes ago. I like that.
My appearance is now at a 70, it can't believe the cave makes you
old. Welcome to the cave, that makes
you old. Okay.
So you after a couple hours of shimmying here it's around 2:30.
Now would find a chamber with a large pillar in the center.
It's not really known what the pillar looks like, what it's
created from. It looks vaguely like Stone but
you can't really tell otherwise on the, on the walls of this
chamber, there are a series of ruins that are written.
There had no boy. There are a few skeletons on
the, for a total of four of them.
You'll see three human skeletons.
And what looks like the skeleton of a small dog.
No. I'm going to start translating
the runes with my God. Yeah, good call.
I'm gonna sit down. Same thing though.
Archaeology history or Library use That is a 43 for my history,
which is 66. And yeah, birdied the runes on
the wall. Read Ulrich was here and he will
never come back here. Oh wow.
I like tough Michael like, like like sticks and yeah.
That's yeah, they're the one-legged, man.
It was. All right, right.
Yeah. He was here and was said he was
never coming back here again. Can't say I fucking blame him.
Yeah. But they're much older.
Do you do I feel older? Come here.
Let me look at your face and I start smashing.
Yeah, right, I like Definitely looks old.
There's still a great to be bro. Thanks man, more does.
Okay. Okay, I guess thanks.
Yeah. Do you think the kid died?
You think the kid died yet? I'll go over and check the three
skeletons. And okay, come over and Weirdly
enough look similar to the ones in the front gave that you were
in here before. Nothing really distinguishing
and about them. Still, that's a weird.
And they're just kind of spongy looking, it's weird.
So this might have been cheating a little bit when I made my
character Jenny. Sure.
Right. I did put Mycology this is
skippable and then fuck. Yeah.
Stay in it. So that's mushrooms.
Yeah. Hell yeah.
What you planning on doing this one so obviously there are
mushrooms in the back of these skeletons throats.
Like there were any other? Yeah, yeah.
Could I Making my ecology rule to see if I can remember any
sort of like mushroom species, that would absorb calcium from
bones, that would create the spongy effect of the bones.
Because spongy, bones generally mean that there's a lack of
calcium and I know that but I don't know if I have to Google
thing. Okay, that is the sound of Jenny
being like, I don't think that's the answer, but what can't?
I just, you know, like, are these mushrooms sucking the life
out of these people? Because they ate them or, you
know, since you have mycology as a skill, I'll give you this as a
freebie. You would know that.
A lot of edible mushrooms are high in calcium, they're very
nutritious for you there. They have a lot of essential
minerals, you're not familiar with ones.
That would suck the calcium out of the soil.
The okay. Okay.
Very cool.
Could I try and insinuate in any way that the mushrooms that are
in the backs of these people. Throats are mushrooms if they
ate or do. They look like they sprouted
there? That one.
I'll give you a mycology real for.
Okay. It is a hard success 225 hell,
yeah. So based on the location of the
mushrooms and where they kind of are lodged in the skull.
These ones are entirely intact. No, no mastication of these
mushrooms has been done. So if they did eat them and this
is just if a new one would have sprouted up in their skull.
Oh God, okay. What is the central you look
worried shit. Rolls gonna stick a finger in
her mouth and sort of like swipe around to see if I feel anything
growing in my mouth. Could I have your, give me a
sanity check for that. Nothing happens.
But if you fail, Something funny.
Funny. How funny this is an 81.
So that's a fail. Yeah.
My sanity's only 46. Okay.
Can I have you give me a 1 D for and have the result?
Yeah, well half of 3 x 10 we'll run that down to one.
Just take a point of Sanity damage with to how much you're
freaked out by all this biscuits.
Okay, cool, 45. So chanterelles Sitting there
swabbing her own mouth. Feeling for mushroom freaking
out. I think that the mushrooms are
just growing in people's skulls after they die.
I don't know. Oh boy.
Okay. Okay.
Nice. And please little 60, so I can't
make any rash decisions that might grants and beets carrots.
When I guess I'm racking my brain here kind of figure out
the fuck's going on. Is there a way to get out of
this room besides the way we came in?
Yes, you'll see two exits, otherwise one to the South and
one to the east. Your kids might have gone this
way. Doesn't decide what way it is.
Just as this one. Yeah, let's go check them out.
Yo, I'll put towards the South one and yeah, we should go
downhill. Okay, that's right.
I put a hand on Sandra, I'm like well we'll figure this out.
We gotta get out of here at some point, right?
Yeah. This room to the South.
It takes you a little bit to walk there.
It takes a total of one hour to examine the room that you were
in and then about 30 minutes to get here to this point.
So it's long about 4:00 p.m. in this room, apart from a pile of
skeletons in the back. You can see a casket in this
room. What the hell?
Whoa, how did they get that? There was a few, gotta crawl
through it. I got a casket, you go to the
casket I'll go to this goal times.
I'm finding that his process is get exacerbated by information
and then just have to go in there and see what's going on.
Okay, are you gonna open it? That sounds like a loaded
question but yeah. Sure.
Okay the casket has no lock or even the slightest Gap that
indicates that it can be opened on what would be the delivery of
a normal box. You can see an ear and an I
carved into the wood. So when you, when you go to kind
of open the box, You get the sneaking suspicion that you want
to say something to it. Anything specific or just my
free-balling, this whatever comes to mind.
What do you want to tell this coffin?
III. Wish we hadn't have done this
and I wish I could stand up to my uncle and tell him what I
actually want to do. And God I hope that kid is okay
because we could use a win. Okay, the the ear on the coffin
glows little bit and the I the carving of the, I chutes open
from the, I a large swarm of mosquitoes flies out.
And forms the image of a face of your uncle shit guys, guys, the
mosquitoes start to swarm around you and disappear Grant can I
have you take 10% of your current HP as damage 10% of my
current HP is one. Okay so you take one damage that
math I can do You grant have become the Swarm board.
What you can ask the remains of any animal or creature that you
pass a question. Why is it and it will answer you
or show you the last moments of its life any animal or creature?
Yes. What's in this room?
Bunch of skeletons. Like 12 human skeletons.
Okay, I feel that my brain is buzzing with like mosquito
sounds now. So it's like run up to any of
the skeletons that I can fucking pull.
Okay? So you grab one of the skeletons
in the pile, you look into its kind of eye holes, the
mosquitoes Kind Of Swarm around its face and makes it look like
what its face you To be before it died, and you can see in that
skeletons face. The last thing that happened
before it died. Is what it ate a mushroom while
it's doing that, though. You notice his face change,
what? So kind of course of events
mosquito is turned to a, guy's face shows, the image of a
eating. A mushroom guy's face changes to
a different face. Different face like a different
person face or different human person.
Like, if it was a man before, it definitely looks like a woman.
Mushroom of trans or gender, good for her.
Wish that weren't this is going back and forth on mushrooms
video, my mood of that day. And then once you ask the
question of how it died to that skeleton, you take another point
of damage and the mosquitoes fly back into the casket.
So way, every time I ask a question I take damage.
Correct. Okay, well now I'm down to
eight. Okay.
So okay, I turn around to the group and I go, I know we said
it's a not eat the mushrooms. So let me just reinforce that by
saying you do not eat the mushroom.
This guy. So, okay.
Hi everyone. My name is Gainer.
I can talk to the fucking dead. And this guy ate a mushroom and
then he died, and then I saw a new.
Do I recognize the faces change into?
I love the way you think my boy, can I have you?
What's up? What's a memory check?
I guess they'd be history. Give me a history.
Fuck, alright. Well guys, it's been fun.
I have a 5 in history. You got it.
I believe, mr. Luck.
You can do it would memory maybe the intelligence.
You know what that? That smarter.
Let's look, I want you to win this one.
So, go ahead and give me an intelligence, okay?
I want you to win as a DIY. Understand that feeling so deep.
Can't okay, okay, okay. Irina 5.
Here's the creepy part. That looked a lot like Florence.
The old lady, the old lady not float.
I don't like that. I turn around and I, oh, whoever
this was is now Florence. I think the faces in the
mushrooms are people who were in the people in the town are
people who are are what new this is Florence.
I my gesturing to the skeleton. This was a man and now it's
Florence. And Florence obviously isn't in
here. This is not Florence a skeleton
but Florence exists and this is Florence.
Can you talk to another one and see if maybe that one turns into
it fucking hurts but I'll try I turn around some other skeleton.
Okay, what am I saying to lose? Besides my health, the
mosquitoes fly back around you and swarm on another skeleton.
In this room. Of course you have to pay the
price if they take some of your blood.
Yeah. And with the skeleton in this
room they swarm around it. The the face looks like a young
girl about say, 15 or 16 and then turns into a fox I think
Florence was in the woods and I don't think her dreams are
dreams. It seems that these things can
change you. There were mushrooms in her
house where their jetty They were portobello.
Mushrooms. You're fine.
What if a fox What if Florence remembers being a fox?
Because she was a fox and in the fox, eight, the mushroom and
then turned into Florence. Yeah.
Michael Michael. Yeah, I'll come running over
home bunnies. What's up?
I tell them everything. Whoa, so you're mosquitoes now.
Yeah, yeah, I'm like their boss or something, but they do, they
do. Suck me dry that it hurts.
I gotta wait. All right, so you're mosquitoes
but Florence is a fox. But the fox is a mushroom but
the mushrooms are people right? Shintaro.
Yeah. Okay.
I love it. Can I okay?
Good night, can I make like an intelligence a flat intelligence
role to try Shore? Next some of these deaths.
Okay, give me an intelligent roll.
It all, or drop for you. And how did how good you do?
Yeah. Santos a lot smarter than I am.
My highest that is actually education.
I don't know why I did. That should have flipped those.
That's my lowest that. So you didn't study for the test
and pond real bad. Oh no, you fumble, fumble.
Holy shit. Can I just have you give me
another one, D force and any damage?
Please just one. Just just the one.
I don't want to kill you. Oh, you wouldn't annoy me at
all. If you wouldn't make that I
asked for that role, Jenny did it to myself and it hurt her.
You want to make it a say 1 D6. All the no, no, okay, Danny's a
nice. This is supposed to be an easy.
It campaign, honey. It's not though.
It hurts my brain. Oh it's a for again so we'll
just go ahead. It's okay.
All right, I'm gonna Cry. Should trousers crumbles into a
little ball is like I don't understand what's going on.
I think and I'm just feeling real bold, maybe it's the
mosquitoes, maybe it's the futility of the journey, my
uncle can get fucked. Wow, I think we got a pretty
good idea. What these fucking mushrooms do
and I have maybe a less than 1%. Hope.
This boy fucking made it. As we go get our dog.
Get the cop out of here. We go.
Back to my uncle. We tell them.
We want to be dance majors and we end this shit.
Or you you want to do dance. My gold sometime.
I've never tried. I mean, if we could dance to the
pool, I bet I could buy pretty good at it.
Love, do you want to go with you but Central you?
Well, so if the cave is what is and everything out of here is
what was the other way around Chief?
Okay, I think people go in this cave.
They eat a mushroom, they become something else and they wander
in town and become that person. Okay, then, yeah.
So this is Complete quizzes. But yeah this is just like Fly
By Night by night away from here.
Change my life again Fly by Night.
Goodbye my dear a ship is it coming?
I just can't pretend start a new chapter.
I'll find what I'm after we need to give the copper mushroom so
she can leave the cave and that I should become somebody in town
but not be heard. What is the flare Florence was
still the Fox right? Wasn't there a dog?
Skeleton in here? Can I go talk to the dog?
Sure. Fuck it one more hit points of
damage. What's the worst that could
happen to me? I get hit by a rock and die.
Probably. Okay, dog time spend a point
swarm. Lord.
Okay, take, take your, take your blood sacrifice.
Here's what you would see when you when you talk to the dog
skeleton. You see the face of a young 13
year old boy with kind of long hair.
And once it eats the mushroom, it turns into the face of a dog
that looks, you know, not quite the size of a Chihuahua.
Not quite the size of a terrier motherfucker.
What the fuck kind of looks like a mutt.
If you had to put a word to it. Turn around.
Turn around bright eyes. I I grab sick.
I feel like I should take sanity.
Damn, it's a real life. We're have shit Trail and I'm
like, we found the boy. It's rooms.
We should fucking leave Central's chewing.
What are you doing? What's in your mouth?
I like put my hand. Yeah.
What did your vow? Ouch Central, she swallows
before you can get your hand in around, I think I'll fuck
Centric. Did you say until you didn't?
I told you not to explicitly said it was me.
Who said not to eat the mushrooms And yet, here we are.
Oh, man. Oh yeah, yeah, little mushroom
big time. Okay.
Gobbled one of those bad boys. Oh no.
Can I have you roll me one d-10? Please?
11. Okay, you you feel odd?
First and foremost something does not feel right.
Suddenly feel like you can always remember the way that you
came and you can accurately retrace your steps, no matter
where you go, your name is Arthur Walsh.
You are a well Built young red-haired man with a twinkle in
your eye, you're kind of a talker and, you know, that you
have a room for rent in the in but you're not entirely sure
what you're doing here. Do I look like 100%?
Who are their bones behind him? No bones.
What am I doing here? Arthur that my name is Arthur.
Hi Gator Hopkins. You know, my uncle James James
Hopkins. No, nice to meet you though.
Gainer, and what's your name? Strapping gentleman.
Yeah, I'm Michael stoles and Michael lovely to meet you
Arthur. Oh hey, we've read your double
book. You should check your pants.
You should check your pants, what a strange thing to say to a
person. And then I'm going to Pat my
pockets, you would find your own journal where you were
translating The Works of or Akin that.
Well, I'll be day and darned and Damned.
In which we try to switch. Gears on a whole new person.
You're doing great. You're doing it wasn't expect to
get a gift Arthur in this one. It's such a great pick.
That'd that'd be my journal. Yep.
I've been working on translating.
Hey then you you would probably know the best way out of here,
right? Arthur.
I don't know where here is, we're in the cave, you know,
we're Old Brick Road. Was here on, never come back.
I'm sure you've been in here a lot.
I'll give you a freebie. You have been to that chamber
before and you can retrace your steps out of here.
Oh, I know. No, I gotta get back.
Yeah, listen, we brought a dog and there's a police officer
here near the opening of the entrance ready.
Can you help us get them? And then leave the cave.
That doesn't require us to crawl through that. 30-minute tunnel
of Doom. Okay, Anna in this room, you
would, you would know that there is a bit of sunlight peering out
through the top of the cave here?
If you, if you kind of like stood on your tiptoes and like
someone stood on your shoulders, you could easily get out of that
little hole out of the cave in this room.
Yeah, we could just go right up down through the ceiling.
Great Jenny. Is there a way we can save our
dog and our Cobb are dug in her cup.
I mean, if you go back to room 0, when you Call through the
thing. They'll just come through.
It's fun. Can I just say I do so?
Yeah, absolutely. 100%. Like don't make me roll playing.
I'm not gonna, but yeah, you would successfully be able to
climb out of the cave. It's not difficult.
If you guys all help each other out here.
So I have like significantly less blood and it's around 5
p.m. When you all get out of there
you would escort Officer Taylor back to the other two cops.
They would be ecstatic. Ended by her appearance because
to their recollection. She was gone like a few minutes
ago. I look 10 years older to.
Yeah you can feels a man weird day but before you all leave
Officer Taylor would hand you something.
She says, I found this in kind of deeper in the cave when I was
looking around. I don't know if this helps any
but it might help. Up, Miss Miss Hughes with with
her loss. It looks like it might be from
her kid. So if the officer I was going to
give her a puppy and just call. Okay?
So you open up the little letter that she.
She hands you. It says Mom.
I miss you. I'm sorry.
I ran away. I didn't mean to mess up.
I I'm stuck. I can't get out.
Even though I tried to get to the surface, I'm lost, I hope
that this letter can find you. It's kind of cold here but at
least found something to eat, even though I don't like
mushrooms very much. Mum.
I wish I could remember you. And that's where it ends.
I read the note. I look at the dog who I now know
to be the boy Scottish wags. His tail up at you?
Hey your name's not streams, is it?
He's got to talk to his head looking at you.
Yeah, I don't think your mom needs to see that note.
I'm just gonna hang on to this one.
Okay, buddy. Okay.
Michael. Yeah.
Weirdest day of my life. Yeah.
I feel bad that chantrelle. Was the mushroom, right?
It's like you said, oh sure and true.
Hey, no worries. Arthur a nice lady.
I met in the well. Oh, my will.
You're well, you met a lady in the world was she pretty?
You know, she reminded me of a mushroom.
I'd say we were both the same level of attractive appearance
wise. So we both had 60s.
My favorite kind of meta game is he well, folks?
Well yeah, I suppose. Borrowing, nothing else, Michael
and Gainer you guys would go back to your car.
Arthur, you would go back to your in.
You would find yourself at the counter and feel very strange
about seeing yourself there. But, you know, the two of you at
least get along perfectly well because you have all the same
ideas and yeah doesn't seem very strange to have two people
running the same in. We should go back to that cave.
Yeah I definitely gave the dog to marry Oh and and and on the
on the drive home with with Michael, I just realized hey so
I know that our friend turned into a whole other thing and
there were things turned into stuff out there and some stuff
got said in the woods, I didn't want you to be weirded out by
certain implications. Are we cool?
I mean, yeah, why wouldn't we be?
We almost had stew. We got free meatball sandwiches
It's not the worst day. Madeline and we play Rush all
the way and on that note with playing Rush all the way home,
ladies and gents. And everybody else, that is a
god Fergus an adventure for three to four players.
And the GM can be played in any RPG system from the six legs
games, give him a hug and go ahead and get the, get it off, I
guess and see if you guys can figure out the mystery of the
cave. Even though.
We weren't able to dive into all of its depths and all of its
Secrets today, there was so much more.
You still had half a cave to go through personally, Jenny was
waiting from minute one for someone that's just not us
through. Oh yeah.
You do when you get extremely stressed out, you just eat
mushrooms. Good fucking move.
Oh man. Oh, those very fun.
I kind of had the fan theory that the three corpses of the
dog Were Us. Yeah.
Same. Oh damn.
It's that's where it's like, oh yeah.
If the path is a flat circle, then we should be coming back
here because we have been here. Hard to say, who knows not us
that we don't know. Well great.
Yeah. All that said, throw it back to
me. Yeah, go ahead and bring us
home, buddy. Fantastic.
That's it. Go figure space, takes late
games, you can check them out on toe, Witter.
This game is so fucking fun and cool.
Definitely download it for yourself, Pond.
Where can we find more of you? Oh heck howdy, hey, I'm Pond
Pond plays games on Instagram pain, plays on Twitter, you can
find me. On my usual channel on Twitch
which is Faye wild and out where I play Dungeons and Dragons and
you can also find me on other places where we play tabletop
RPGs like Blackwater D&D and the initiative order.
And then, you know, my own channel sometimes I stream stuff
and it's fun. Thank you guys so much for
having me though. This was absolutely fantastic.
I had a great time. Thank you for being here.
I'm glad you were able to join us today.
Jeff, where can we find more of you?
Yeah. Yeah, I'm pink campaign podcast
on the Twitter's. I think we have an Instagram
which is became paint pot but a different player runs that.
So don't quote me on that. But yeah if you look you will
find him, you will find us easily and I of course, are your
usual Duo here at game master Monday.
You can follow us on Twitter at game master Mo, n for all sorts
of goosing gags and stuff. Everyone.
Thank you for playing will see you all in.
Thanks so much for running Jenny.
Thank you so much, honey. Was there a quarter?
Cheers. Yeah, but it's closed, right?
We got a museum it in but knows grocery store and the grocery
store is closed. Is there anything else in the
museum? Yes, apart from the picture of
Ali itself, there are like some, some samples taken from around
the tree. There's some plaques and some
other, you know, things to read about ali specifically but it
mostly is about her, okay? And we've gleaned, all we can
glean about that, right? You can still read the placards
and stuff but for the most part until you similar stuff, cool.
So if you want fluff, I can certainly buy it.
It's a One-Shot audio format. Let's there you go.
Players. You can listeners at home.
You can download this one. Is he ready by the game?
You can read it a partnership. It's great.
Hell yes. He has the book.
Yeah. Do you want to roll faster?
No, and also fuck you 50 70 points of bed, okay?