Katie 00:00:00 Okay. All right. Oh, my God. Doug 00:00:03 I'll put away the "Robots voice actor" googling. Katie 00:00:03 Yeah, no, that's totally okay. Doug 00:00:03 I didn't get to tell my country song story. Katie 00:00:10 Tell it now. Doug 00:00:12 It wasn't that interesting- yeah, I'll tell it now, actually. I did a case sample of what the songs were about. So I was barely- so, country music, I don't hate it, but when I listen to it, my brain kind of shuts off and it's like white noise to me. But I was listening in. The first fucking song I started paying attention to was, "My Heart's Like a Truck". Katie 00:00:36 Pretty good. Doug 00:00:40 It was a bad song. Katie 00:00:41 How'd it go? Doug 00:00:42 It was like, "it's beaten up. It's been dragged through the mud. All it needs is a little love." And I'm like, that's kind of cringe, girl. I didn't know truck girls were as big of a thing. But it hurt me to realize that. But then I listened to, like, eleven songs total. Three of them were about trucks. And then. So out of the three love songs, one of them involved a truck. But all of them involved the imagery of a dress hitting the floor of the bedroom. And I thought that was a weird coincidence. I thought that's like. It's really weird imagery. Like, all these women wear nothing but dresses when they go to have sex. Katie 00:01:18 It's country music. Doug 00:01:20 And then one song that was. And then one of the songs about the dress dropping in love. It started with him saying, you look good under the neon lights. Implying he was in a city, like, in a club, clubbing with a woman. But then he's like, there's no room in here. I'm going to take you somewhere else to dance. And he's like, dancing in the country. But in my head, it was like, so you meet a woman at a club, and obviously you both want to be in a club environment. Katie 00:01:41 I might actually keep this. Doug 00:01:42 You hit her off with her, but you're like, hey, girl. I know we were clubbing and socializing there. But you know where we should go? Out in the middle of fucking nowhere to dance. Because that's normal. Katie 00:01:55 That's when I could see it in my own head. She just looks over his shoulder, and she gives, like, that look to the rest of her friends and the rest of her friends are like, 'all right, we got to go.' Doug 00:02:05 'Her mom just died. We got to go.' Katie 00:02:09 One of her female friends comes up crying, just like, 'We have to leave now. *shout-whispering* Let's get the fuck out of here.' Doug 00:02:14 And the way the whole song was sung, it was sung in, like, a proposition. So not like, it was happening, so it was a hypothetical. So I was thinking, like, imagine someone in real life, like, trying this move. It would be a fuck no from me, friend. Katie 00:02:32 It's an entirely different reality in there. Doug 00:02:35 And then the rest of them were like. I don't know. They were just about. One was about God. Only one. Only one mentioned God at all? That's a lie. The other one that was about love and the dress falling mentioned God. Katie 00:02:49 Wait, no, you need to be more specific. There are, like, three that had the dress falling. Doug 00:02:52 So there's one song about love that. The dress falling. About the dancing in the cornfield after the club. Okay, one. The one I'm talking about. This is address falling. But it said God once. Katie 00:03:04 Okay, it's not the one where he fucked his girlfriend in the truck, right? Doug 00:03:07 No, that one didn't mention God at all. Katie 00:03:12 Okay. Doug 00:03:15 Where was I going? I had this compiled in a list, and I fucked it up with that. Katie 00:03:22 You said one was the proposition. Doug 00:03:24 Oh, the one I was talking about that said God once. It was like, thank God for what we have. But it's really weird, because the only thing he mentioned was that her face fit perfectly in his hand, which I just thought about this giant, baseball-mitted man, like, ripping a woman by their face, and how they have sex. So I thought, that's a healthy marriage. Let's fucking go. And the song that was just about God was about a guy who was a fucked up drunk because his ex left him. Katie 00:03:56 Now, that's the country song I'd listened to. Doug 00:03:58 And I think the lyrics went, like, I only talk to God when I need a favor. Why would I expect a savior? And I'm like, that's kind of, like, mad fucked up. Yeah. And then the other ones, I can't quite. They were all, like, generic, crunchy songs, but they didn't specifically mention any of those things. They were just, like, generic love songs. But they didn't have the dress falling imagery or even, like, activities. Yeah, they just melded in the background, but, yeah, dress falling, that's, like, a thing in country music. I guess it's the only sexy thing. Katie 00:04:26 I have somehow kept myself on the outsides of country music for a very long time. So I 100% believe you because there's so much detail. But if any of this wasn't real, I would have no fucking idea. Doug 00:04:41 One song I remember. Katie 00:04:42 I believe you. Doug 00:04:43 I remember one song mentioned a woman in Daisy Dukes at a tailgate party, and I thought, Katie 00:04:43 That's like, half of them! Doug 00:04:50 There's two things country women wear, apparently. Dress, daisy dukes, nothing else. The dress fall, or you talk about kissing a girl wearing booty shorts. That's all country women do, and that's all country men want, apparently, other than that one sad guy who wants a new truck because his girlfriend left him. Katie 00:05:11 The consequences of the Daisy Dukes. Every country man wants Daisy Dukes. And then the next song on his album is like, 'The Woman with the Daisy Dukes Left Me'. Doug 00:05:21 What are you going to do? Katie 00:05:22 What are you going to do? Doug 00:05:23 So that's country music? Yeah, that's my sampling. Katie 00:05:26 You guys wake up in a van. We're keeping it all in. Doug 00:05:34 Where's my truck? Katie 00:05:37 You guys wake up in a van that definitely isn't big enough to be the party bus. You're in clothing that you think you probably would wear but you don't remember wearing exactly. Although yours is more similar to the standard uniform. It's got a little bit of changes. Yeah. And I don't think we have "rut-row". I'm not going to bring the little bastard in yet. Doug 00:06:05 This is 70% polyester as opposed to 90% like the normal uniform. That's a little change. Katie 00:06:10 Definitely not as soft as the shirt you were just previously having gone to sleep through. And I think I know exactly where I'm going to put this dream because we already backtracked a bunch and we did a bunch of stuff. So you know how you ate the Rack-Hack-N-Tash and went back to bed and woke up really late? We're going to put it in that, and then I'm just going to have you not remember, and maybe you'll remember later. Doug 00:06:31 Some random event will spark it with as much dream logic as dreams have. Katie 00:06:36 Yes. Yeah, exactly. You, too. Doug 00:06:39 It's not a work van, right, Luke? Katie 00:06:41 No, it's not a work van. It's got shag carpeting, it's got curtains inside the windows. There's a fucking boom box. It smells like pizza. Doug 00:06:52 This is awful. Katie 00:06:59 *someone mentions it could smell like weed* No, Mahaur is too much of a narc. I like to think Shaggy almost always exclusively ate edibles as well, because that was, like, the whole thing. Doug 00:07:09 What do you mean? He ate, like, 18 foot tall sandwiches with his dog. That's a lot. And I haven't seen them make edible vegetables yet. Katie 00:07:19 I'm going to put Duncan and Luke in the back. I'm going to put you in the passenger side seat. No one in the front seat. You guys wake up in it. Doug 00:07:30 Wait, is the front seat like that bench front seat, like the original mystery machine? Katie 00:07:35 Sure. Yeah. Doug 00:07:36 So there's no way to the back. You have to crawl over the bench. Katie 00:07:39 Okay. All right. Because that would make more sense why you're sleeping up in the front. You guys wake up in the back. All the curtains are drawn, so it's like dark ish. Doug 00:07:52 Blazing white sunlight coming in from the front. Katie 00:07:56 If you look out the windshield, you're in a town that you don't fucking recognize with one Post-it note on the inside of the windshield. That's just far enough away that you can't quite read it yet because you're laying down. Doug 00:08:07 Is that a weird angle? Katie 00:08:08 It's at a weird angle. Doug 00:08:09 I don't have bad eyesight. That's canonical. Put that in. Katie 00:08:13 Sure. What do you guys do? I guess is my first question. Doug 00:08:19 I look in the back because I'm in a van sleeping, and that's the first thing I do. Katie 00:08:23 Duncan and Luke are back there. I will specify right now because things are going to get a little fucky later. I'm going to specify right now. The last thing you guys remember, although it is slightly hazy, is exactly what happened before you went to sleep. So you remember the Rack-Hack-N-Tash, you had a conversation, you went to bed, and now you've woken up in a van. Everyone's up. What's your first reaction? What are you doing? I know you went to look into the back of the van. Duncan and Luke are there. Doug 00:08:56 And then I look in the mirror. Do I still look like my young self right now? Katie 00:09:01 Right now you do, yes. Doug 00:09:02 Well, that fucking sucks. Katie 00:09:03 Yeah. I'll say that. Because this would make a little bit more sense. You're not going to have much of a change, but you may feel about a year or so older. I want to put you at about 22. Clothing you're wearing, don't quite recognize this, but it is slightly different. It's uniform enough to go, okay, 'all right. This is something related to the job that I have right now.' You guys are just there. This is a bit weird, too, because Duncan could really look like anything now, but he's only a year or two. Doug 00:09:43 Older because he's only, like two years younger than he normally is, so he wouldn't look that much. Katie 00:09:47 Yeah, that's what I'm saying. There's not much of a change. Long enough for you to get rid of the perm, though. Doug 00:09:55 Got to go get it back. Katie 00:09:57 What else does everybody do? Because you're going to wake up at around the same time he is. I don't know how quickly they rouse, though, the boys. Crow 00:10:05 Duncan's just going to stare at the ceiling and be like, "What is this?" Doug 00:10:10 So we don't recognize the town. Katie 00:10:12 You don't recognize the city you're in. Doug 00:10:14 Does it look like New Mexico weather? Katie 00:10:17 No, it looks like upstate northeast countryside. Doug 00:10:23 I hate New England. Katie 00:10:25 Well, it's not New England, so. Doug 00:10:25 New England's the entire northeast seaboard. Katie 00:10:30 There's fuzzy dice hanging from the rear view. It's purple. Doug 00:10:36 Is this your van? Crow 00:10:38 "No, I own a sports car." Doug 00:10:40 I look at the other one because I don't know who spoke. Crow 00:10:44 That was Duncan. Luke is like, "I let him drive. He doesn't like me driving because I drive too fast." Katie 00:10:52 There's red velvet all over everything that isn't the shag rug. Doug 00:10:56 All right. Crow 00:10:57 Luke is impulsively just going to start stroking it. Because it has nice texture. Katie 00:11:00 Most of it is pretty nice, yeah. Doug 00:11:03 I open the glove box. I look for the registration. Katie 00:11:07 Registration. Actually, this is going to be probably an important thing. Because the world that you guys are in isn't originating from your mind. So, Roll Plus Weird for me. Doug 00:11:20 Shit. He cleaned that damn table. I don't know where my dice went. Crow 00:11:26 I didn't touch any dice. Doug 00:11:30 Mine are the cute purple. Katie 00:11:33 You know what? I might have actually put it in the trinket box. Let me give you your tokens as well. Doug 00:11:40 We're not going to need them. I feel like this session is going to go very well roll wise. Crow 00:11:47 Maybe for you. Doug 00:11:49 Do you feel unlucky today? Crow 00:11:51 I've been rolling my dice, and they've been showing me displeasure. Katie 00:11:55 Okay, roll. Background 00:11:57 *a voice from the other room* "I do not have social battery enough to role play." Katie 00:11:57 That's fine, Background 00:11:57 "but I do want to be in the general vicinity." Doug 00:11:57 Plus "Minus" Weird, more like. Five. Katie 00:12:08 Five? Okay. Mark an experience. Doug 00:12:12 Oh, really? It's going to be bad enough for. Katie 00:12:14 That because it's going to be very important. Let's get the- Doug 00:12:20 Jesus fuck. Why? I swear to God, every time I step up. I get almost murdered by something. Katie 00:12:29 I don't know. That must be a skill issue. Crow 00:12:31 Sounds like it. Doug 00:12:33 I'm going to pick up this receipt before I slip on it as well. Receipts are as slippery as wet leaves on the road. Katie 00:12:46 Ralph Walterson over here. Doug 00:12:48 I tell you, I hate him. Do not compare me to him. No, fuck- Katie 00:12:48 Mark Experience. Doug 00:12:56 I did. Katie 00:12:57 Okay. Not only can you not read it, the words like, as you look at them, every time you look at them again, not only do they not make sense, they change every time. Because that's how I usually experience words in dreams is I can see them, but they don't make any sense. And every time I glance away and look back, they're completely different. Doug 00:13:19 I'm going to put it back. Katie 00:13:20 Okay. Just slowly close the glove box. Doug 00:13:23 Are the keys in the ignition? Katie 00:13:25 Yeah. Doug 00:13:26 Hope we weren't sleeping off a drunk spell. Could have got charged with DUI. What the fuck? No, I don't close it. I throw it at them because it's weird and magical. Katie 00:13:34 Okay, roll plus weird if you want to read it, that is. Crow 00:13:38 I was going to say, Duncan will probably be closer to the side that he's on, so Duncan will take a look at it. Katie 00:13:45 All right. Okay. On a twelve, you can read the registration for the car. I'm going to say it's registered under... I'm going to say it's registered under his name. Doug 00:13:59 When I read in dreams, I don't read the words. They just appear in my head. Katie 00:14:04 It's just a van. Van registration. I'll say the registration is good for the next couple of months. *dice clatter* Please stop knocking them on the table. Doug 00:14:04 Fuck, sorry. Crow 00:14:15 Duncan's just going to throw it back and be like, "it's in your name." Doug 00:14:18 [Mahaur]: "I can't read it." Crow 00:14:18 [Duncan]: "That's- what..." Doug 00:14:18 [Mahaur]: "It's, uh-" Katie 00:14:24 Mahaur will now not be able to read for the rest of this mystery. Doug 00:14:27 God fucking damn it. That's why I said I can't. Katie 00:14:27 That's why you marked experience. Doug 00:14:27 That's why I said I couldn't read. Damn it. Good thing stop signs are shaped octagonal. 'That sign can't stop me, I can't read.' Background 00:14:40 *voice in another room* Just see like a yellow fucking diagonal, 'What the fuck is that?' Katie 00:14:46 Oh, no. Doug 00:14:46 It's in my name. And presumably, are we insured? Is there an insurance thing in here? Katie 00:14:54 Yeah, you'd probably get insurance. It's insured. Doug 00:14:56 Yeah, it's something; pog. Crow 00:15:01 Duncan's going to be like, "That's probably something that you have to talk to Dr. Robinson about." Doug 00:15:05 I guess I could call her or text her. Where are we? So I look at my phone and I can't read. And I'm going to close it without saying anything and then say, [Mahaur]: "Where are we?" Katie 00:15:21 Oh, no, you can't read the Post-it Note!. Oh, this is amazing. I fucked myself over by doing this, though. Crow 00:15:28 It's fine. Duncan could read. Katie 00:15:29 Duncan can read. Does Luke want to roll at any point? Crow 00:15:36 No, Luke will roll when he feels the urge to read. Katie 00:15:38 Okay. 'Where are you?', Indeed. Doug 00:15:44 So I'm looking outside. I get out of the car. Actually, the truck. Not the truck. It's a van. Katie 00:15:49 You get out of the car. It's, I'd say, a nondescript kind of one road kind of city. There's a couple of off roads and a little bit of. Little bit of cars, little bit of houses. Mostly countryside. Doug 00:15:49 We're either in the deep south or the midwest. Katie 00:16:08 This is kind of like a small, barely a suburb around what is mostly field. Doug 00:16:14 Is it warm? Is it cold? Katie 00:16:17 It's kind of cold. You get the feeling that this is one of those days that's like an early, warm spring day. Doug 00:16:24 I hate to ask, like, seemingly asinine questions. Katie 00:16:27 No, they're not asinine. Doug 00:16:28 How flat is the state we're in? Katie 00:16:31 It's actually not very flat. Doug 00:16:33 We're in fucking Ohio or Michigan, and I hate it here. Katie 00:16:39 If Duncan looks outside at any point, you realize that you are in a small countryside somewhere outside of Albany, New York. Crow 00:16:46 Duncan is definitely probably- Katie 00:16:48 And hopefully there's countryside outside of Albany because I'm not changing that. Doug 00:16:51 I don't think there is, but it doesn't matter. Katie 00:16:52 It doesn't matter. There's fields, but they're very hilly. Crow 00:16:56 Yeah. Duncan would definitely eventually look outside after prepping himself to look at sunlight. Katie 00:17:01 Yeah, it's an early spring day. It's not too bad. Light jacket weather. If it's windy without the wind, it's- Doug 00:17:01 Shorts weather. It's shorts weather no matter what. Katie 00:17:11 It's not too bad. Doug 00:17:12 I wish Mahaur was the type of guy to wear shorts in all weather. Katie 00:17:14 I'm really glad he's not. Doug 00:17:16 Well, to be fair, he was raised in New Mexico, so it's typically just, like, 'warm' to 'not okay'. Katie 00:17:24 Yep. So that's what you notice. You can't read. Doug 00:17:32 It's middle school all over again. Katie 00:17:34 Maybe if we try another role with a higher DC. Maybe. But right now, no, not letting it happen. How does Luke feel? There's also no one else in the car. Like, it's just the three of you guys. Crow 00:17:48 Luke is just going to sprawl out and be like, "Yes." Katie 00:17:52 Your fingertips touch the edges, but you know what? You can sprawl. So it's a sprawling kind of van. Doug 00:17:58 [Mahaur]: "All right. Things are really fucking weird." Crow 00:18:01 [Duncan]: "How so?" Doug 00:18:02 We're in the middle of, I don't know, the midwest somewhere. Doug 00:18:02 [Duncan]: "New York." Doug 00:18:02 [Mahaur]: "This is New York?" Katie 00:18:07 Every 20 minutes, a car goes by. Crow 00:18:10 [Duncan]: "Yeah." Doug 00:18:10 So a car hasn't gone by yet. Katie 00:18:13 A car hasn't gone by yet. It's fucking quiet as shit. Doug 00:18:15 [Mahaur]: "I don't know if you remember where we were. Or, I remember where I was. I was in a nice, cozy hotel in Connecticut." Crow 00:18:22 [Duncan]: "Yes, we were also in Connecticut. I believe we were spending the night in the Rat House." Katie 00:18:27 Who knows where Luke was spending the night. Doug 00:18:30 Yeah, we know how he was spending the night, amiright lads? Anywho, how's my arm? Katie 00:18:39 I would say. Oh, yeah, that's fair. So you have an ache and you have, like, maybe a small bit of. I'm not even going to say weakness. It just feels funny. Okay, we're not going to do the 'Werewolf' bit. We're going to wait for when you actually wake up. So I'm going to say this is just your subconscious brain. Just like 'pain, hurt, bad'. Doug 00:19:05 [Mahaur]: "We should probably find somewhere and get a telephone. Or you can make a call." Crow 00:19:12 [Duncan]: "Are you okay?" Doug 00:19:13 [Mahaur]: "I don't have my phone on me." Crow 00:19:15 [Duncan]: "Who am I calling?" Katie 00:19:16 Roll. Doug 00:19:18 This is easy. What would it be? Katie 00:19:19 Manipulate Someone. Doug 00:19:22 Get fucked. I had a good feeling about it today. It's a six. Katie 00:19:29 All right. I don't really- This isn't really a hard- Doug 00:19:32 He sees the bulge in my jeans. Katie 00:19:35 I'm not going to make you Mark Experience because I don't really have a hard consequence for this, but he's definitely lying. As for his regular character trait of "Mahaur can't lie", Crow 00:19:35 I was gonna say, I don't think he would be the one experience in that case anyway. Maybe the person- Doug 00:19:51 Well, usually it's me trying to get someone to do something. Crow 00:19:54 Yes. Katie 00:19:54 If it's manipulating another hunter, there's different rules. Doug 00:19:57 Yes. It's one of these. Crow 00:20:01 I believe I would get an experience. Katie 00:20:03 "On a miss, it's up to that hunter to decide how badly you offend or annoy them. They mark experience if they decide not to do what you ask." Doug 00:20:03 Yeah. Katie 00:20:03 "Monsters and minions cannot normally be manipulated." He didn't really ask anything. Basically, he just asked you to believe him. So you get to not believe him and you get to Mark Experience. Crow 00:20:24 Duncan's perceptive, so Duncan will see the phone and be like- Katie 00:20:26 This is 100%. It was going to be a soft roll, but in this instance. Yeah, go for it, King. Doug 00:20:26 I think we've discovered a game exploit. Crow 00:20:35 Oh, no. Duncan levels up. Doug 00:20:37 Yeah, I got to level up too. But we're not going to worry about it. It's a dream sequence. Crow 00:20:41 Yeah. I'm also not going to worry about that. Katie 00:20:42 You'll have your convenient level up. Maybe I'll give it to you right before the, fucking, the next session. Doug 00:20:49 I was about to say it would technically happen the moment we stepped through the other world door into the basement. Katie 00:20:54 There you go. Yeah. It just has to catch up, like lag. Crow 00:20:57 Yes. Doug 00:20:57 Jet lag. But the Fae. Katie 00:20:58 Okay. Yeah. He just badly lies about not having a phone. Crow 00:21:02 [Duncan]: "That or can you not read?" Doug 00:21:05 [Mahaur]: "Hm? Of course I can read." Katie 00:21:07 Roll again! Doug 00:21:07 No! I don't want this. Katie 00:21:11 You can either automatically fail, no experience. Doug 00:21:14 What's underneath? It's not a five or six. Oh, that's ten. Katie 00:21:21 He can read. If you believe him you Mark Experience, I believe. Doug 00:21:21 Really is a game exploit. Crow 00:21:27 I mean, he saw him read before. Doug 00:21:31 'They do what you ask. They mark experience and get plus one forward." So you get plus one forward to believe in me. Katie 00:21:38 Plus one forward on your next roll. Crow 00:21:40 Okay. I guess Duncan will give you the benefit of the doubt. Doug 00:21:43 Pog. All right. You're welcome for like your two thirds of your- *stammering, gives up* Crow 00:21:55 Doug.exe has crashed. Katie 00:21:55 He fucking died. Doug 00:21:56 Had a fucking little mess up there. Katie 00:21:58 This is what happens. We just like, 3 hours of just fucking, nothing. I'm broken. Take the exp. Crow 00:22:07 Yes. Katie 00:22:08 We're not going to keep this bit going, though. Yeah. You saw him read. He read. Okay. Yeah. Doug 00:22:15 By the way, I'm looking for like, I'm like scouting for what passes for food around here because I assume it's a little town. It has something. Katie 00:22:23 They got a diner. They always got a diner. They had a diner in the first Scooby Doo mystery. Doug 00:22:27 This is a story. It has to have a diner. Katie 00:22:30 This is a Scooby-Doo dream mystery. Fucking, this is something I've already done. I just didn't record it. There was a diner in the last one. It was weird. The not-Scooby saw the cat and fucked everything up. That's where you guys also conveniently saw all of the characters you needed to talk to through the window. Okay. Yeah, there's a diner. Doug 00:22:49 The win-duh. Crow 00:22:51 Time to go to the diner. Going to be the one weird person who just sits there. Doug 00:22:57 Wait, what do you mean just? He's not coming out into the sun. Crow 00:23:00 He's going to go into the diner, but he's not going to order food. Doug 00:23:03 What a weirdo. Oh, wait. Fuck. As soon as we sit down, I check my wallet. Katie 00:23:08 Yeah, you got some cash. [...] Can't read any of your fucking identification. Doug 00:23:13 Man, you know what? Other countries have different banknotes of different sizes for people who are the hardest seeing or can't see it all. America, it's just one- and they're all the same color! Katie 00:23:25 I was going to say, you're not going to be able to know shit. You don't know if you have ones, you don't know if you have twenties. Doug 00:23:30 I have two bills. I don't know what they are and this could be a disaster. Katie 00:23:34 You know what? You probably can read faces, though. Doug 00:23:37 I don't know what presidents are on which bills. That's actually. That'd be stupid. Katie 00:23:41 You know George Washington's. Doug 00:23:41 Yeah. Katie 00:23:41 But I'm going to let you decide this. Do you think you know what the Benjamins mean? Doug 00:23:48 Yeah. Katie 00:23:48 Okay. Doug 00:23:49 Because it's like, actually, no, he's not hip or cool. Katie 00:23:53 I was going to say. That's what I'm asking. Doug 00:23:54 He knows he doesn't use them, so they must be bigger than he's used to. Katie 00:23:57 Okay, based. Yea, you got money. Doug 00:24:01 [Mahaur]: "Okay. Thank God. We're not lost and broke." Crow 00:24:06 [Duncan]: "That's good. Lost and broke would be bad." Doug 00:24:09 [Mahaur]: "Lost and- well, lost is bad already, especially since it's only me and yous." Katie 00:24:14 Somebody's going to come over and ask you guys what you want to drink. They said they'll send somebody over soon to get your food order. Doug 00:24:23 [Mahaur]: "Just water." Katie 00:24:23 "Water?" Doug 00:24:23 "Water." Katie 00:24:25 "You want coffee?" Doug 00:24:26 "Lemon." Katie 00:24:27 "Okay." Crow 00:24:27 Luke will be like "Chocolate milk." Katie 00:24:29 "Okay." Crow 00:24:30 And then Duncan will be like "Water, I guess." Katie 00:24:33 "You want lemon?" Crow 00:24:34 [Duncan]: "No." Katie 00:24:35 "All right. Should only take a second." And they're going to go back. There's a couple of people at the diner. Just so I can inform you guys that it isn't a completely deserted town. Doug 00:24:48 There's like a few old retirees that just spend their entire day here. Nothing else to do. Katie 00:24:52 Yeah, there's those guys. There's somebody at the bar. There's somebody else at one of the gambling machines. There's like an older couple. They're just kind of eating breakfast. So you know it's breakfast time. Doug 00:25:05 I assume we were also given breakfast menus. Katie 00:25:07 Yes. Doug 00:25:08 Unless there's a type of diner, just leave the menu stacked up on the side of the table. Katie 00:25:11 Breakfast and lunch. Doug 00:25:11 The worst type of place. Katie 00:25:11 They keep it on the same menu. Doug 00:25:16 There three thing in small diner breakfast, you get Pancake, with Egg. Doug 00:25:16 Egg, Toast and Bacon or Sausage. Doug 00:25:16 Or just pancake. There's nothing else on the damn menu. Just pancake. Katie 00:25:32 I'm just thinking about this like. 'Oh, man. Good content. Cody's really going to enjoy.' Doug 00:25:37 Listen. Katie 00:25:38 Hi, Cody. Doug 00:25:40 You told me that this was about fun, not generating a conducive or interesting story. Katie 00:25:46 Well, I have fun by making fun of you. Doug 00:25:48 You haven't made fun of me, though. You haven't hurt my feelings at all. Katie 00:25:52 I'll try harder to hurt your feelings next time. Doug 00:25:54 Anyways, wait, so. Okay, so since this happened- Katie 00:25:54 Yeah. Doug 00:25:54 I got to actually understand what- You don't even know what I'm trying to say. Katie 00:26:02 I just want to move this forward. I apologize for trying to buy-in. Doug 00:26:08 I'm trying to think of what Mahaur would know because I learned pretty much almost everything the night before about the reality warping magic. I don't know the full extent of it. Katie 00:26:19 That's fair, yeah. So a lot of the putting the pieces together, the first bits of it happened in that conversation while you were downing eight pounds of food. And then the smaller hammering in of the details of "None of this makes any sense" was after that. So you can kind of put your own pieces together right now. Doug 00:26:39 Yeah. [Mahaur]: "So I'm very worried we've been tossed into-" Katie 00:26:39 Something. Doug 00:26:39 [Mahaur]: "-an alternate reality, and I'm comatose in the hotel room and I won't wake up." Katie 00:26:48 Oh, no, that's okay. Doug 00:26:54 I say that, by the way. Katie 00:26:56 All right. Crow 00:26:59 [Duncan]: "I mean, if that's the most of your worries, then why are we here?" Doug 00:27:02 "I assume because you're also stuck and will not wake up." Katie 00:27:06 You guys are just banking off of the assumption that you guys are also both conscious right now, because that could just be, like, your dream version of Luke and Duncan and vice versa. That could be dream Mahaur. Doug 00:27:18 You think? No, I can't introduce this line of thought. It'll come up and then I'll absolutely refuse it. Katie 00:27:25 It's going to come up again. Doug 00:27:26 It would be a reality too stressful to acknowledge. Crow 00:27:31 Luke is going to finally speak up. "If that's the case, I feel bad for the person I slept with last night." Katie 00:27:35 Oh, no. Doug 00:27:37 "Okay. I mean, yeah, that would be quite horrific, actually." Crow 00:27:41 [Luke]: "Very much so." Doug 00:27:41 "Maybe the magic's affecting us at the same because we're blood related." Katie 00:27:45 All right, someone's going to walk up. Katie 00:27:45 "You guys want something to eat?" Doug 00:27:47 "Pancake." Katie 00:27:47 "All right." Doug 00:27:47 "Three." Katie 00:27:50 "You got it, sir." Crow 00:27:51 "Breakfast platter." That's going to be Luke. And then Duncan's going to be like, "I just want water." Katie 00:27:57 Well, they brought you the drinks. Yeah, they're going to put your order in. For the most part, nobody really pays you guys any special heed. They just kind of treat you like, 'Oh, you know, people come in, they eat.' Doug 00:28:09 ...fucking ghosts. Katie 00:28:11 Yeah. This is a highway city- Doug 00:28:13 [Mahaur]: "We're dead." Katie 00:28:13 This is a highway city in the fucking New York countryside. Crow 00:28:16 "I mean, if we're dead, how are we-" Katie 00:28:18 Ooh, roll me a flat roll. Oh, that's high. Doug 00:28:20 That's a ten. Katie 00:28:21 That's a ten. Mahaur. You look outside? Doug 00:28:25 Yeah, I guess I can look out the window, sipping my water. Katie 00:28:28 There's cows. Doug 00:28:31 "Nice." I hope it picked that up. Katie 00:28:33 I don't know if it did. If you want to try that again. Doug 00:28:36 I'll do a bit breathier. "~Nice~." Katie 00:28:38 That's pretty good. Okay. Crow 00:28:42 "What you staring at?" Doug 00:28:44 "The cows." Crow 00:28:45 Duncan's going to look outside. Katie 00:28:47 There's cows. Doug 00:28:47 "I wonder if they're real." Crow 00:28:49 He's going to look back at you, "Considering our line of questioning, of... Yeah, okay. I'm very confused by this whole situation." Doug 00:28:59 "You fucking think? We need to figure out a way back to Connecticut. Maybe we've just been moved." Crow 00:29:04 "Moved by what?" Doug 00:29:06 "Honestly? Maybe Alex. Maybe he thought it'd be funny. I'm surprised he found me so quickly, but." Katie 00:29:11 If either of you look at any of the cows at any point, you're probably going to notice one of them because there is a fence. It's just kind of small from the vantage point of where you guys are at. You'll see one of the cows that's just kind of been, like, grazing and looking around, start to begin to kick at the fence and try- and now that I know this a little bit more with cows- rather quickly attempt to get itself out. Because apparently they're very good at that. Doug 00:29:45 Why do you think they invented barbed wire? Katie 00:29:47 Yeah. They are trying to escape the fence. Not with, like, a fervor, but with the slow cow, like, a determination of, 'Oh, yeah, I'm getting out of here eventually.' Doug 00:29:57 'I'm a giant fucking creature. No one's going to stop me.' Katie 00:30:00 But, yeah, currently it has gone unnoticed so far by whoever tends to it. And it's just trying to get out. Doug 00:30:10 "Someone's going to be pissed." Crow 00:30:12 [Duncan]: "You think there's something we could do to stop it?" Doug 00:30:14 "If I cared. Do you want to stop it? It's just a cow. The worst that could happen is a car hits it." Katie 00:30:20 Pancakes come over. He says the Breakfast Platter is going to take a little second. If you want to, Lucas, you can- Doug 00:30:20 Roll to seduce. Katie 00:30:29 Don't roll to the seduce. But if one of you wants to, or Duncan's not eating right now. If he wanted to, he could go, I don't know, help the cow escape. I don't know what the plan would be in this scenario. Doug 00:30:42 Even if you wanted to stop that somehow, like, what are you going to do? You're going to approach the cow, 'No. Stop it.'? Katie 00:30:47 Command cow. I will make you roll. It won't be a very high roll because cow not that smart. The cow's smart enough to know how to get out quickly. She's heffing it. Doug 00:31:05 She's in heat. Katie 00:31:05 Maybe. Crow 00:31:06 Duncan's going to down his water and be like. Katie 00:31:11 You can't really tell much about, like, I don't think you guys either of you know much about cows. So you wouldn't know the age of this cow. But it does look like a dairy cow. One of the Holstein black and white. Doug 00:31:20 Cows, man, they got some fat utters on them. They're disgustingly large. Katie 00:31:26 But, yeah, it's trying to get out, and it might succeed. Crow 00:31:30 "I guess I'll have to go stop it then". Duncan will stand up, and "I will be back." Doug 00:31:35 "Good luck. I guess getting kicked by a cow when you're what you are isn't that big of a deal. It's not going to hurt better than dying. Anyways, good luck." Katie 00:31:45 Okay. All right, you gonna eat your pancakes. Doug 00:31:45 Of course. Katie 00:31:45 Duncan's going to head outside. Luke's breakfast sampler will get there after a minute or two, so you get to see Duncan just kind of walk across the road with the determination of 'he's going to do something about this cow' as the cow's, like, lodging its head in between the fucking wooden boards and starting to pull them apart. Doug 00:32:06 'I'm going to fucking stop this.' Katie 00:32:10 But you get up to it, and cows are usually kind of, like, not used to being around unfamiliar people. So they usually get spooked up pretty easily. This one's really focused. If it noticed you come up, hasn't done anything about it. It's still trying to get out. It's not like scared or fearful or anything like that. It's just like, no, it's going to do this. Doug 00:32:32 I'm watching, by the way, intently. I think he's going to get Fucking Kicked. Katie 00:32:37 Okay. Doug 00:32:37 Absolutely wrecked. Katie 00:32:37 What would Duncan like to do? Crow 00:32:40 I don't know how logical Duncan would be in this second because he wants cow not to get out. Katie 00:32:45 Cow not to get out. Crow 00:32:47 But he also knows that there's people around, so he probably wouldn't resort to magic. Doug 00:32:54 Become chupacabra. Weaken cow. Katie 00:32:58 You did at one point see Alex talk to animals. In fact, if it wasn't Alex, you saw Elysia talk to an animal in animal language at least once, possibly twice. You definitely saw her talk to pizza. That was a little weird. Doug 00:33:12 They're built different. Katie 00:33:14 Elysia *is* built different. Crow 00:33:16 I mean, to be fair, without logic in mind, he could probably use magic to make cow understand him at least. Katie 00:33:24 Yeah. Roll. This actually works out pretty well. Crow 00:33:27 Ten. Katie 00:33:27 Hey, on a ten. Okay, so you're pretty sure it worked? You don't know yet. You have to say something to it. Crow 00:33:36 "Is there a particular reason why you're trying to escape?" Doug 00:33:40 You didn't cast a spell so it could speak back. Katie 00:33:43 So it kind of still moves like it's trying to escape- But no, it's dream world. I'll give it back to you. But you hear she's got kind of a sweet, older voice and she's just like, Katie 00:33:43 [Cow 1]: "I'm looking for something. I think I know where it is. I just need to get to it so I can get back. Can you move these boards? I'm trying to get through, but my bones aren't the way that they used to be." Crow 00:34:11 "What are you looking for? Maybe I can help." Katie 00:34:14 [Cow 1]: "I'm looking for something lovely and I can smell it. I just need to get to it." Doug 00:34:17 Someone left a pie on a windowsill. Katie 00:34:20 She's still, like, pushing through the boards. She's got, like, one hoof that's, like, starting to splinter the bottom board. Crow 00:34:26 Duncan's going to take a quick look around and make sure that no one sees him do this. Katie 00:34:30 Okay. Crow 00:34:31 Once he knows he's in the clear, he's just gonna. He has a sword with him, right? Katie 00:34:35 He does have a sword. Crow 00:34:36 He's gonna take his sword out... and cut the boards. Katie 00:34:42 She's going to get out. She says, "oh, thank you. I really appreciate that." Doug 00:34:48 Cow walks in the road on the 26th minute. Katie 00:34:48 Not smart enough. She's just not smart enough. She's just like, "Okay, thank you." And she's going to start walking. Not even running, just walking down the road. And I think I'm going to have to roll. You're still watching this? Doug 00:35:05 Yeah. Katie 00:35:06 You saw him do that. Do you have any sort of reaction? Doug 00:35:12 No. Katie 00:35:12 Okay. Doug 00:35:13 I want to see where this goes. I have no stakes invested in this cow. Katie 00:35:21 Oh, I know. Odds or evens. Doug 00:35:22 It's made of steaks. Odds. Katie 00:35:27 Odds. Doug 00:35:27 I love that channel. Katie 00:35:29 Oh, that's evens. Doug 00:35:30 Double evens. Katie 00:35:31 Double evens. So do you just follow this cow down the road? Crow 00:35:36 He will, yes. Katie 00:35:37 Okay, so at some point, some older gentleman from one of the houses is going to come back out and he's going to see the cow and he's going to be like "Ah, another fucking one got out." Doug 00:35:47 Getting cow-napped. Katie 00:35:49 He said, "Did you see where this one escaped from?" Crow 00:35:52 "There's a hole in the fence." Katie 00:35:54 "Oh, man. I'm going to have to get somebody to help that guy fix it. All right, well, back you go." Katie 00:35:54 And she's like, "Oh, no. I wanted to get the lovely thing." Doug 00:36:04 She looks into your eyes and says, 'kill this man'. Katie 00:36:07 And he says, "No, come on. All right, get. Come on. The vet tech is supposed to be here any minute, so she's going to be upset if you leave again." Crow 00:36:07 "Has this has been a common occurrence?" Katie 00:36:07 [Man]: "For the most part." Doug 00:36:18 Man gets kicked. Katie 00:36:18 [Man]: "I mean, I don't really talk to the, I don't really talk to those guys up there, but I feel a little bit bad that they've been getting out, especially since what everybody's been saying has been going on." Crow 00:36:31 "What's been going on?" Katie 00:36:34 [Man]: "Oh. It's- I don't believe in superstition. Those cattle. Those cows, this one right here?" Katie 00:36:34 She's like, "OoOhoh" Katie 00:36:34 [Superstitious Man]: "I think they're being sacrificed. I was talking to Betty, I was talking to Martha, I was talking to Dale, I was talking to all of them because we're over with-" He says, "My name is Richard. I'm with the local HOA." Says, "I think it's those boys that came in from out of state to do their show. Martha says they're a bunch of devil worshippers. But I think it's something way more specific." Crow 00:37:06 "Funny coming from someone who said they're not superstitious." Katie 00:37:09 [Superstitious Richard]: "I'm not superstitious. That's what they're saying." And he's trying to, like, herd the cow back. Katie 00:37:09 And the cow's like, "No, I want to go. :( " Doug 00:37:09 I think it's very in character for a small town person who does believe in God, to not view that as any- like 'It's not superstition.' Katie 00:37:25 'It's not superstition. It's not even why I'm saying they're saying, and I'm just agreeing with them.' Doug 00:37:29 'Because they're devil worshippers.' Katie 00:37:31 'They're devil worshippers. You heard their fucking music? You seen their fucking t-shirts? They don't got any sleeves. And they look like they had sleeves, so they took 'em off!' Doug 00:37:38 'And the women they're with, they wear pants.' Katie 00:37:39 *laughter* No dresses hitting the floor. Doug 00:37:46 They don't get in the truck. Katie 00:37:49 But at some point, the cow is going to kind of acquiesce a little bit. Like, she's going to try and move around. She's like, "I want to get to it." And then she's just kind of "Aw." And she gives up. She walks past, she's like, "I'll go get it later." She hasn't given up on it all the way. She's just given up on it now. Doug 00:38:10 That's all she has to live for. Crow 00:38:12 "Do you know if they could be luring the cows out using any means?" Katie 00:38:18 [Superstitious Richard]: "Possibly. I mean, animal hypnosis isn't totally, like, out of the realm of things that I don't look into that kind of stuff, but it could happen." Doug 00:38:30 They used to steal horses with ice cream. Katie 00:38:34 "Andy down by the stream... I guess they call it a crick now. Andy down by the crick talked about how one of these guys came in and started, like, talking to a dog. The dog walked off the farm! But I don't think that was related to this because I think that might have actually been a dog he stole. I think that might have been someone else's dog. But! It could happen." Doug 00:38:54 We're in good company. Katie 00:38:55 "I'm sorry, I don't know your name." Doug 00:38:56 This guy's unhinged. Crow 00:38:58 "I apologize. I'm Duncan." Katie 00:39:00 "It's nice to meet you." Just shakes hands with you. A literal fucking vampire. Crow 00:39:05 I imagine he immediately realizes how cold he is. Katie 00:39:10 It's February. It's fine. Doug 00:39:12 Maybe we just got done, I don't know, eating an ice cream cone. Katie 00:39:12 "You guys in here for long? You here by yourself?" Crow 00:39:20 "I came with some friends." Katie 00:39:22 "Oh, all right. Okay, cool. You're not going to see the show, right? I mean, not that I would care. I just mean you seem like a reasonable Fella." Doug 00:39:31 'Respectable, God-fearing man.' Crow 00:39:34 "Me personally, I don't believe I would have interest in that. But my twin brother, who knows with him?" Katie 00:39:41 "Who knows? Yeah." Doug 00:39:42 Yeah, there's always an evil twin. Katie 00:39:44 Says, "Well, probably for the best that we bring this one back up around the fence gate and not back through. I don't want her getting hurt. I don't want her thinking that she can just go in and out of this at any point." Katie 00:39:44 And she's like, "I can't wait to open another one. I will get the lovely thing." Just the only thing she thinks about. It's like, "I can't wait to pick it up. Maybe I'll give it to the pretty lady." She's just like, "This is going to go well. I can't wait to see it. It smells so nice." She looks over, and is like, "Can you smell anything?" If you really try, maybe. Crow 00:39:44 He's definitely going to give it a try. Katie 00:39:44 He's got a sensitive nose. You don't know the direction. Air does smell a little weird, and that's only on a Duncan level. You're pretty sure this would not be the kind of thing that your brother or Mahaur would be able to just kind of pick up on. Smells nice, but it's just the faintest hint of it. Doug 00:40:44 Smells sweet. Crow 00:40:45 Weird. Katie 00:40:46 Yeah. But he leads you over to the fence gate says, "I'm going to talk to Jenkins. I appreciate you catching her. But, uh," Doug 00:40:46 Jenkins. Katie 00:40:46 Got to be old man Jenkins. [Superstitious Richard] says, "You see anything else, you could just probably bring 'em over to this gate. I think they're supposed to get, oh gosh. I think one of them is supposed to get their foot looked at today? A couple of other of them, they made their way back, but this isn't the first cow go missing in this area, so keep an eye out." Crow 00:41:24 "So cows have been going missing?" Katie 00:41:25 "Yeah." Crow 00:41:26 "Interesting." Doug 00:41:27 'Potentially being sacrificed by demon showstopping worshippers.' Katie 00:41:31 "Keep an eye out. There's some scary people out there. You seem all right." Crow 00:41:35 "Thank you." Talking to a literal vampire. Doug 00:41:40 That's why he's trusts you so much. You're so pale. Katie 00:41:45 But yeah. You get up to that fence gate and she comes back in and she says, "Thank you for earlier. Maybe you can come back later and I'll show you the nice, lovely thing. A bunch of my Other Friends went to go get it. I can show the nice, lovely thing to the sick person. No, the person that helped me when I was sick." Crow 00:42:08 He's just going to nod at the cow because there's still a person there. Katie 00:42:12 "I have to get back." She's just gonna *imitates cow trot* "I go get the lovely thing later." Crow 00:42:19 Yeah, I suppose I will head back to the diner and make sure that I don't keep them waiting. Katie 00:42:24 Okay. There's some voices in the distance. You hear a little bit of old man Jenkins. You hear a little bit of the guy that you were talking to before. You hear a car pull up. You're pretty sure you hear it shut off its engine. And there's like a small shut of a door after a little while, but then it gets kind of out of earshot. There's a weird, kind of, like, spidey sense-y buzzing in the air. But also, you're just now noticing that smell. It smells really nice. Really nice. It's a little distracting, but not too bad. If you get back in the diner, you're good to go. You'll stop thinking about it. Crow 00:43:05 Yes. Diner. Katie 00:43:06 Diner. Okay. Back in the diner, you watched all of that go down. Doug 00:43:09 Yes. Katie 00:43:13 You still can't read. Doug 00:43:14 No. Katie 00:43:14 That's why you just said pancake, isn't it? Doug 00:43:16 Yeah. Katie 00:43:17 How's your pancake? Doug 00:43:18 I saw that picture. Katie 00:43:19 Yeah. Pancake. Yeah. Three silver dollar pancakes. Did you just get plain pancakes? Did you get anything in them? Doug 00:43:26 Butter? Katie 00:43:27 Yeah. Fair. Doug 00:43:28 A dollop of butter on top. No, fuck that fruit shit. Katie 00:43:31 No. I love going to diners and just immediately getting their chocolate chip pancakes. It's the fucking best. Crow 00:43:38 I like their french toast with the strawberry on top and whipped cream. Katie 00:43:43 I do adore breakfast food. I'm realizing it now. Doug 00:43:46 I literally. The only thing I super like about breakfast is eggs. Because I love eggs and pork chops. Katie 00:43:53 So Duncan gets back in, he comes in, he sits down. Doug 00:43:57 "What an adventure. I watched it from this window." Crow 00:44:01 "Yeah, I've learned a lot." Doug 00:44:05 "Why'd you let the cow out?" Katie 00:44:06 *inside Mahaur's mind* 'Cow looked kind of tasty. Don't think about that.' Doug 00:44:09 That's weird. That's a weird thought. Katie 00:44:11 I'm not going to do the Werewolf bit, but every once in a while, toss it in there. No rolls, no rolls. Doug 00:44:19 Weird, intrusive thought. We're going to ignore that. Katie 00:44:21 We're going to ignore that. Crow 00:44:23 [Duncan]: "So I did a thing. I cast magic." Doug 00:44:29 "Did it rather brazenly as well." Crow 00:44:32 "Well, I made sure that you were the only one watching. I'm not an absolute idiot. So, I spoke to the cow." Background 00:44:32 *Crow and Katie giggling, while Mahaur sits in stunned silence* Katie 00:44:44 It's fine. Crow 00:44:46 "I realized that the cow wanted out because it wanted to find the nice smelling thing." Doug 00:44:53 "Cows can smell?" Crow 00:44:54 "Yes. They have big noses." Doug 00:44:57 "Never really thought about it before." Crow 00:45:00 "Yeah, cows can smell. They said they wanted to find the nice thing to help, to give to the person that made them feel better." Doug 00:45:10 "Like a vet?" Crow 00:45:11 "I think so, considering the fact that a vet tech was supposed to come today." Doug 00:45:17 "I assumed you learned all that from that dude who came up to you and made you return to cow." Crow 00:45:21 "Yes." Doug 00:45:23 "Okay." Crow 00:45:24 "Animals have been going missing. They're blaming it on the people who do the shows that wear the sleeveless shirts that look like they've been ripped off and they look like they're satanic worshippers." Katie 00:45:37 You're pretty sure you saw a concert poster coming in the door, but you can't read. Doug 00:45:42 I'm going to put my empty cup on the edge of the table and wait for someone to come refill it. Katie 00:45:47 Okay. All right. Doug 00:45:49 We're going to initiate conversation with them when they try to silently take it away. Katie 00:45:53 When you guys are ready. I didn't know if there's anything else you wanted to say. Crow 00:45:56 There was, but now my brain just went, fuck. Katie 00:46:02 They wanted to look for a lovely thing. They really liked the smell. Duncan could smell it a little bit. And I'll just highlight this. They specifically wanted to get it because they wanted to get a nice gift. This was not like, 'I want to eat it' or anything else like that, or it's like ultimate power. So I'm like, no, they're just like, 'I want to find a lovely thing. Because I think it would be really nice to give to someone else.' Doug 00:46:23 I'd be terrified of a cow seeking ultimate power. Crow 00:46:26 I mean, I did specify that when they said they wanted to give it to the person who made them feel better. Katie 00:46:31 Yeah. Crow 00:46:32 "When I was coming back, the smell, I actually smelled it, and it was quite distracting." Doug 00:46:41 "It sounds like magic bullshit to me." Crow 00:46:44 "I mean, I guess I could be the sniff dog, or however you would want to say it." Doug 00:46:50 "Bloodhound. Sniff dog is drug." Katie 00:46:53 It's not the only familiar thing Duncan smelled either. But sitting down now, you're starting to kind of piece that together. There's a couple familiar smells in this city. Different directions. Doug 00:46:53 Not a city. Katie 00:46:53 Not a city. There's a couple different smells. You think, 'all right, dream world.' You guys were already together. Doug 00:47:17 I still haven't- Katie 00:47:18 Would not be surprising if there were more people you knew, for no inexplicable reason. Doug 00:47:18 My character has not conceptualized that this might be a dream world. He assumes he was abducted into a new reality. Katie 00:47:29 Then Duncan just has that thought to himself of like, 'Well, if we were abducted or if we're just in this area, it's not totally inconceivable that people you know could be around.' Especially since you and Lucas were kind of travelers for a little while. It's not totally inconceivable, especially if you're in upstate New York or not upstate New York, but, like, New York countryside, very close to Pennsylvania. Venago, I believe, is also- I might be getting this wrong- but I believe Venago is actually close to the upper border of Pennsylvania. Not totally unfounded that there could be people you remember. Doug 00:48:02 Jim Thorpe's actually down south. Katie 00:48:05 Yeah, but Venago itself. I can put it wherever I want and I can make it have the layout of Jim Thorpe. My game. I do what I want. Katie 00:48:05 But, yeah, not the only familiar thing you smelled. Couldn't really focus on it because of the really nice smelling, lovely thing. Somebody's going to come by and grab your water to refill it. Because none of you got coffee. Doug 00:48:05 [Mahaur]: "Hey." Katie 00:48:05 They're going to come back. They're going to put it down. Doug 00:48:31 I'm going to "Hey" them. Katie 00:48:32 [Eric]: "Hey, what's up?" Doug 00:48:33 "Is there anything interesting to do while we're in town? Anything new while we're passing through?" Katie 00:48:37 It's a younger kind of kid. He's just like, "Well, not usually. Most of what we do is just kind of watch the horses." Doug 00:48:47 "Yeah, I lived in New Mexico for a while. I get it." Katie 00:48:49 [Eric]: "Yeah. They got horses in New Mexico?" Doug 00:48:51 "Yes." Katie 00:48:51 "Is it nice is New Mexico?" Doug 00:48:53 "Ehh, bit warm." Katie 00:48:54 "Bit warm? I don't know. I'm already warm here and it's like 58. Uh, but, um, there's that concert venue that got revitalized. It hasn't had a show in a while. There's a traveling band that's coming through. They look kind of shit, but I mean, you know, when it's really the only thing that's going on. Especially since that art gallery closed. You know. Something to do." Doug 00:48:54 "Better than the locals in Ohio." Katie 00:49:24 "Yeah." Crow 00:49:25 "What's your problem with Ohio?" Doug 00:49:27 "They have shitty local bands." Katie 00:49:29 [Eric]: "He's got an ex in Ohio." *pause* "Sorry, I don't know you guy's life, I just-" Doug 00:49:33 'I had to get a new truck after she dumped me.' Katie 00:49:37 Now I have to keep the bit in, Goddamn it! Crow 00:49:45 "I apologize. Didn't know I was bringing up something so tender." Doug 00:49:49 "Yeah." I put the plate at the edge of the table. Katie 00:49:53 He'll go, "No problem." and he'll take it. Doug 00:49:57 When he walks away I'm gonna, "So I think we've figured out- he didn't tell us where. But we can ask someone else where." Crow 00:50:03 "Or I could just read the..." Katie 00:50:05 Or you could just read the poster, Mahaur. Doug 00:50:07 "No, that band looked good. He said they look shit." Crow 00:50:11 "I guess I'll just read the poster then." Doug 00:50:13 "That kid must listen to Ska." Katie 00:50:17 This is when I reveal that I never have listened to Reel Big Fish. I probably never will. Don't look so pained. Doug 00:50:28 Yeah, don't worry about it. Katie 00:50:30 All right. Yeah, you read the poster. It's happening this weekend, which you're pretty sure, based on the time on your phone, that it's a show that might be going on tonight. It looks like it's their first show. It's a small town band. It's called Angel Army. They don't really have any pictures of the people, but looks like it's- yeah, punk rock black and white poster. Really excited font. Doug 00:51:03 It's black and white because it's only twenty five cents at the library. Katie 00:51:07 You don't have to pay more if it's just a regular monochrome poster. Doug 00:51:11 It's black and white, stylized. Yeah, it's not because they have like fucking $2 to their name. Katie 00:51:17 Yeah. Crow 00:51:19 Duncan's going to go back to the table and like, "Luke, I think I found something for you to do. There's a concert and it's tonight and I think you're going to like it." Luke's just gonna, after taking another bite and. "Huh? Okay. Sounds like fun." Doug 00:51:36 "Well, I assume small town and all, a lot of people are going to be there and maybe, just maybe, we can figure out who's sacrificing animals because that sounds a little fucked up and we should probably put a stop to it before we get out of here. Considering normal people don't sacrifice animals." Crow 00:51:55 Yeah. Doug 00:51:55 "Now that I know werewolves exist and blood rituals exist." Doug 00:51:55 "And blood magic, and rain magic, and..." Doug 00:52:05 "I hope they don't have the setup like in California. If I see one more dead thing in pieces attached to a giant stone over a bloody alter, I'm gonna... I might have to quit." Katie 00:52:14 Mahaur, are you okay? Oh, wait, no, I remember now. Crow 00:52:20 Mahaur is not okay. Katie 00:52:22 Yeah. Doug 00:52:22 Mahaur dreams about that night. It's not good. Crow 00:52:26 "I think you need to see a therapist." Doug 00:52:28 "Insurance doesn't cover it. Anywho-" Katie 00:52:30 I'd like to harken back aaall the way back to the session with Cody, which is I made the joke of Cody talking about Margaret and talking about her benefits. And I was like, "Oh, no-no-no-no, no, she's salaried with no benefits." And I went, "She's paid extra so she can buy benefits, but what the fuck does that mean? No fucking benefits." Crow 00:52:52 Fair. Crow 00:52:52 [Duncan]: "Maybe you should talk to Margaret and see if you could find a therapist. She'll probably help with that." Katie 00:52:59 Is that Luke or Duncan? Crow 00:53:00 That's Duncan. Katie 00:53:00 I was going to say, that's quite the lilt in your voice, young man. Doug 00:53:03 "I don't know if Margaret knows any therapists, and if she did, she was probably seeing them. And I think there's professional, uh, I don't think they should see people who know each other too well." Crow 00:53:13 "Ask Dr. Robinson." Doug 00:53:15 "I haven't thought about that. Do I want to talk to Dr. Robinson about- I think she might want to poke around in my brain. But maybe. Anywho," I put a random amount of cash on the table. He knows how much money I put on the table. I put one of the Benjamins on the table and then, like, two of the other bills. Crow 00:53:39 He's just like, "Are you okay?" Doug 00:53:40 "That's the tip. Let's go." Crow 00:53:42 "Okay." Katie 00:53:44 All right. Doug 00:53:45 I put $140 down on the table. The bill was like $18. Katie 00:53:50 God damn. I'm going to have to remember this kid's name, just in case for any reason he shows up in real life. And I'm like, you know what? These guys need a solid W. Let's give him some help. It's going to be little kid Eric ready to save the day, 17 year old in the prime of his puberty. All right. Doug 00:53:50 'Guys, I'm here!' He tries really hard, but fails. Katie 00:54:15 Where are you guys going? Doug 00:54:16 To the van is where I was going to go. Katie 00:54:18 Yes, you're going to the van. Smells are back. Sweet smelling thing. It's not overpowering, but it's hard to focus on anything but it. There are familiar smells. Crow 00:54:30 He's going to cover his nose. Katie 00:54:31 Okay. Crow 00:54:33 And then once he gets inside of the van, he's going to be like, "There's other smells here as well. Familiar smells." Doug 00:54:40 "What? Do vampires-" Katie 00:54:44 You remember that there's a post it note on the windshield that you can't read. Doug 00:54:49 I take it down to crumple it up, and I toss it in the back. Crow 00:54:54 Duncan will pick it up, uncrumple it. Katie 00:55:00 It's got a phone number and it's got an address, which is close to, but not quite the same street that you guys parked on. And it says, 'Thanks again for all your help.' Doug 00:55:15 I'm going to get in the driver's seat, look in the rear view mirror. "So what should we, should we find, like, a Best Western or something?" Katie 00:55:23 The little i's have little bubbles instead of the dots. Crow 00:55:30 "Well, considering the fact that I smell familiar scents, I imagine there's people that we know here." Doug 00:55:34 Are vampires, like, dogs? Do you have a heightened sense of smell, is what I'm asking you I'm not calling you an animal." Crow 00:55:45 "I do. I don't know many other vampires, so I can't tell you if that's a common trait." Katie 00:55:51 You also just kind of, like, always been sensitive to smells and stuff like that. Doug 00:55:56 Finally, I'm represented. Crow 00:55:56 He's just leaving that part out, considering the fact that- Katie 00:55:59 This is just way more. Crow 00:56:01 Yeah. Being a vampire heightened that. Doug 00:56:07 You can smell the skid-marks on a redneck. Anywho, that's nasty. I start the van. Crow 00:56:12 What do you mean that's nasty? Everyone has their own scent. Doug 00:56:15 That was out of game. I was referring to the skid-marks comment. Katie 00:56:23 No. Crow 00:56:31 Then he's just going to say "Everyone has their own scent." Katie 00:56:35 I was pretty sure that was out of character. Crow 00:56:38 No, in general, he's just. Doug 00:56:39 Yeah. Instead of in response, he's just going to say that. Katie 00:56:42 Yeah. Okay. All right. Where are you guys going? Doug 00:56:49 Well, I look for input. I said, "Should we look for a Best Western? Then you start talking about smells, you freak." Crow 00:56:55 "I mean, to be fair, I was continuing the conversation we had before we got in the car. There is this address on this sticky note that you just crumpled up and threw back here." Doug 00:57:05 "I didn't think it'd be that important. I don't know where we are, so I don't know how much I trust it." Crow 00:57:11 "It also says, 'thank you for the help' so." Doug 00:57:13 "Yeah, it seems like a trap to me." Crow 00:57:17 "Either it's a trap or it's something that could inform us on why we're here in the first place." Katie 00:57:23 You could always just let Mahaur fuck this one up. Doug 00:57:26 Well, then it'd fuck up your story. I assume this is the next part of the story. "Well, if you want to go there so bad, just read the address back to me. Which street is it on?" Katie 00:57:38 It's one of those roads that's got like four fucking numbers in it. Like, it's like Court Road 3162. Doug 00:57:49 Jesus Christ. Katie 00:57:51 This is an old country road. Doug 00:57:52 3157 Court Lane Road. Katie 00:57:55 Definitely going to some farm. Not sure if it's the same farm, but it's a farm. Crow 00:58:00 Yeah. I'll bumble off the address. Doug 00:58:04 All right. I look for a- Katie 00:58:04 Little bit of a ways out. Doug 00:58:08 Okay. Katie 00:58:08 The road you find. Doug 00:58:11 I was about to say I'm going to look for the road first. Katie 00:58:14 You're going to find the sign for the road. It's going to go on for about a mile. Doug 00:58:18 How long does it take? Until it's the gravel road. Katie 00:58:21 Yeah. It just starts. Doug 00:58:22 It's pavement-togravel. Katie 00:58:24 Yes, it just starts. This looks like a residential road. This looks like a driveway. Doug 00:58:30 Our big fucking van bumbling down up it. Katie 00:58:34 There's a lot of knocking sounds. There's a lot of rocks hitting the undercarriage. It's fine. Crow 00:58:39 "This doesn't sound pleasant for the car whatsoever." Doug 00:58:41 "I probably should have checked the tire pressure before we started." Crow 00:58:45 "We should have probably taken this thing to a mechanic before we started." Katie 00:58:49 It sputters a little bit. Doug 00:58:50 I look at the inspection sticker. Katie 00:58:52 You can't read! Doug 00:58:55 "I think it's good!" Crow 00:59:00 "Sure, whatever you say." Katie 00:59:04 It's there. It's got inspection stickers. Doug 00:59:06 They're normally color coded by year, but I don't know what year it is. Crow 00:59:10 I don't think Duncan cares enough at this point. Katie 00:59:13 We don't even know if it's consistent. Oh, that's right! Technically, because it's not that it blurs; every time you look it changes. Doug 00:59:23 Well, and it doesn't make sense. Katie 00:59:25 Yes. Doug 00:59:26 It said 'spaghetti' on it. Katie 00:59:32 'It keeps saying 69. I don't know!' Doug 00:59:35 'It's so funny.' Katie 00:59:38 '[He ]crashes the car.' Crow 00:59:38 'Why does that one say 420?' Katie 00:59:40 It's not supposed to have three digits. What's going on? You're just trying to get there... 'Mahaur, why are you crying on the road?' Doug 00:59:51 'It's too funny-' It's a little picture of Pickle Rick. Katie 00:59:53 It's a little Pickle Rick...