WEBVTT 00:00.080 --> 02:25.210 Hi, everyone. This is Chris from the Absolutely Killing it podcast. And you're probably like, chris, where the heck have you been? You said every other week in last posting was November for an episode. Fair Life happens. You know, my day job also took a lot of time in December. We also had some recording issues that we kind of. I think we have a solution for now going Forward here in 2026. As you're listening to this, it's 2026. If you're trying to stay up to date, if it's 2030 and you're like, wow, what's all the drama for? I mean, this is right after the last episode, then you can just skip this part. But we're gonna catch up to our posting schedule and hopefully I can get back to every other week posting regularity, hashtag, no spoilers. But we should be almost the end of our mystery at our next recording, which I imagine the episode will go probably February. So expect a few more episodes this month, and then probably the first one in February will probably be the conclusion of the first mystery. So I'm going to ask you now if you like, if you like the show, if you like listening to it, you know, do all the regular Apple podcast stuff as well. But I am curious if people out there, like the. The Tone, want more from the show, have questions for me and. Or the hunters or Mac, who is our producer in the mystery creation. Any. Any question at all. We'll have, like, a mailbag episode if we get it in the mail. Absolutely. Killing a podcastmail.com. send us an email and it can even be just yelling at me. That's fine. So send us a note there and we'll. We'll see if we have enough mail to do, like, a little interstitial between this mystery and the next one. Great. Thank you. Thank you so much. Previously on Absolutely Killing It. Abby had joined your group. It's dinner time. One of those panels, it looks like a wall opens up. Nick Nichols appeared, but behind her were two women who looked just like her. And she said in front of the entire audience, like all the guests here tonight, she revealed how she does her illusions. She's one of triplets. As she was doing that, Ricky stood up and said, no, come on. Here you get hit with a vision, Hollywood Forever Cemetery, and you see it land on a grave. And it says on the gravestone, milo Bumpkiss is amazing. 02:25.210 --> 02:26.410 I know where the line breaks. 02:26.410 --> 02:42.570 Where? What are you talking about? Aiden says as he approaches your table. I mean, did you see that? I'm a Fan of Nick Nichols work. I had no idea that she was a triplet Razor. Nick Handy. It does seem to be targeting the leaders of the council. You're not sure if this is going to be enough. 02:43.150 --> 02:49.150 That's not enough. We've identified who the possessor is, what their motive is. 02:49.150 --> 02:53.790 I don't want any harm to come to you, so I'm just gonna tell you this once. You should leave now. 02:53.790 --> 03:01.470 Ricky. Your vision comes back to your body and the Great Panini says to you, I told your friends to leave. 03:02.110 --> 03:03.030 You try it. 03:03.030 --> 03:08.590 And he starts saying words. And then appearing out of a portal appears a monster. 03:08.960 --> 03:10.320 This isn't the date I expected. 03:27.120 --> 04:32.300 Ricky. You are trying to find where the Great Panini is. Somehow, some way, you find yourself in the room with the great Panini. The great Panini does a gesture and says some words. And in front of you you see a seven foot tall, red eyed, stone skin, sharp teeth creature. They have a little cap dyed with blood and they have like a tunic around their waist. And they. And they are the Great Panini. Like shakes his head. He is freaked out. Roll me. Read a bad situation. Ricky. Okay, you rolled a nine, which is a mixed success on a read a bad situation. That gets you a hold one. If you act on this information, you get a plus one going forward, whatever that might mean. What's my best way in? What's my best way out? Are there any dangers we haven't noticed? What's the biggest threat? What's most vulnerable to me? And what's the best way to protect the victims in this moment? Ricky, I'll just give you a little bit more. There's no audience in here yet. Right now it's the Panini monster. And you which of those questions you want to ask? 04:32.780 --> 04:38.180 Feel like a lot of stuff's pretty obvious. So are there any dangers we haven't. 04:38.180 --> 04:59.830 Noticed in terms dangers we haven't noticed? How about this? Which kind of ties into the other question. The danger is in the room with you. If it goes out that door, the danger will be with everybody. This thing looks like it's a monster creature. That is chaos. You don't know what it's going to do if it goes out into the rest of the palace. 05:00.390 --> 05:02.710 So I'm going to physically block the door. 05:03.110 --> 05:11.029 So you stand up against the door. Panini screams and he runs away as this creature starts chasing him. Anything else? 05:11.590 --> 05:17.150 Panini. Stop. Stop running. We need to keep him in here. 05:17.150 --> 05:35.950 He is screaming at the top of his lungs and they're doing like a little it's like stadium seating. Like a small stadium. Yeah, it is. It's a little Benny Hill, which was a TV show in the 70s that came out of Britain. He's running up the stairs and then around it as this creature chases him around Panini. 05:35.950 --> 05:41.470 Can you touch him? Can you see if he's solid or if he's like a gas. Can you get. 05:41.470 --> 05:47.670 He looks at you and says, I summoned a monster. I summoned a monster. It wasn't me. It wasn't me. 05:47.750 --> 05:51.510 Well, you just said you summoned it. You said you summoned it, but now you're saying you didn't. 05:51.510 --> 05:53.720 That's why I didn't do it. The thing did it. 05:53.720 --> 05:54.760 That thing did it. 05:55.000 --> 05:58.120 Okay, still confusing. Let's keep working. Keep running. 05:58.120 --> 06:00.200 He's running in a circle as this thing's chasing him. 06:00.840 --> 06:09.440 Do you have one of those long handkerchiefs? One of those long ones that never ends? And you're like, ah, I wish this would stop going. But it would be really helpful right now. Do you have one of those? You have got one of those. 06:09.440 --> 06:11.400 I don't do handkerchief magic. 06:11.400 --> 06:16.280 I know. I know you don't. But do you have one? 06:16.760 --> 06:21.110 This thing takes a swipe at Panini, knocks Panini unconscious on the ground. 06:21.350 --> 06:27.670 He's solid. He's just to myself. He is solid. Okay. Okay. 06:28.150 --> 06:33.590 Hal and Chandler, are you just, like, chilling at the. In the dining area? Where are you at? Where you headed? 06:33.590 --> 06:48.160 Just offering you some of my good food since you never got your dinner. I didn't let Ricky box up my food because I'm here. I'm at the table. I'm drinking this water. I'm committed to the experience. 06:48.240 --> 06:59.040 Oh, that's so nice. Oh, but I would love some. I think the trouble is that I'm trying to be downstairs with Janet getting a phone or two. 06:59.040 --> 07:02.320 Oh, okay. Well, I'll save some capers for you. 07:02.640 --> 07:03.360 Thank you. 07:04.160 --> 07:06.080 So, Hal, you're going to Janice. 07:06.640 --> 07:07.200 Yes. 07:07.440 --> 07:14.770 Okay. Janice hands you a couple phones. The other two phones you're looking for. Chandler, what are you doing? Are you just waiting with Hal? 07:14.770 --> 07:23.410 No, I'm just chilling up there in the dining room all by myself chowing down on the exact dish that I ordered. 07:23.890 --> 07:29.890 Fantastic. Ricky, you're alone in the room with this creature. What are you doing? It turns its size towards you. 07:30.130 --> 07:33.490 Oh, sorry. Can I. I meant to do something else too. 07:33.490 --> 07:34.970 Yeah, yeah, please. Yeah. Would you like to do. 07:34.970 --> 07:44.230 Hell, I was. I was grabbing the phones. But I did want to. I did want to just do a general sort of like Internet and. Or social media. Search for Milo. 07:44.230 --> 07:46.630 Oh, that's a great question. Roll investigative mystery. 07:46.950 --> 07:47.688 A9. 07:47.852 --> 07:57.110 A9 is a hold one. What happened here? What sort of creature is it? What could it do? What can hurt it? Where did it go? What was it going to do? What was it being concealed here in regards to Milo? 08:01.270 --> 08:07.030 Well, I guess what I. How about what sort of creature is. 08:07.030 --> 08:19.630 It in regards to Milo? I. I will give you. I will give you that. Hold back. He. He was a humid. But what are you. How about this? What are you trying to find out about Milo? Let me put that. Let me ask you that. 08:19.950 --> 08:35.200 Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. I want to find out. I want to see if there's anything that tells me how he might have used magic or whatever to. To either become a spirit or summon a spirit or whatever beyond the grave. 08:35.520 --> 08:37.200 So it sounds like what happened here? 08:37.200 --> 08:37.920 In touch with. 08:38.000 --> 08:38.600 Sure, sure. 08:38.600 --> 08:38.960 Yeah. 08:38.960 --> 09:38.280 What happened here? You do a search because you did see the name clearly. You do a search. I'm not going to be that particular because what's your search query? You do find that there is a story in the local Los Angeles press of a one Milo Bumkus who. Who died in a car accident tragically a few years ago. In this article, indeed it says that Milo tried to join the Grifter's Guild. Unfortunately, Milo was unable to officially be a magician here in the guild. As part of the Magic palace. It says the reason why Milo was rejected. He was accused of doing magic which the story would probably say. Would probably put it in a way that doesn't ring. Doesn't seem weird to someone who's reading it. Just reading the paper. Like they just accused him of doing magic against their rules, which you would interpret as he was doing what Chandler does. Or at least he was accused of doing what Chandler does. But yeah, he died a few years ago tragically. And that's. That's where you find out what happened to Milo. 09:38.440 --> 09:41.000 Thank you. That's. That's all I was going to do. 09:41.320 --> 09:50.200 That is on your phone, right? Which you determined is. Is powered up and working. Yes. Great. Ricky, this creature is bounding towards you. What are you doing? 09:50.440 --> 10:00.050 Is this the first time I've observed this monster in this way? Does it count if you've witnessed. 10:00.370 --> 10:08.850 This is a for your move. This is a new creature, monster or phenomenon. So you can definitely use your move. Remind us all. What is that move again? 10:08.850 --> 10:21.180 This is the Occult Confidential. The first time in each mystery that I observe a monster, minion or phenomenon in action. I may ask one question from the Investigate a Mystery list. Okay, so I would like to know what can hurt it. 10:21.740 --> 10:45.340 This thing looks tough. You suspect as you look at it. Like it would take. Looks like it is physical, which you determined already when it hurt panini and knocked panini out. You could probably just do normal physical damage. Also, the cap on the top of its head is a little. That stands out to you. That is so that. That you get for free. But the thing is running towards you. Looks like it might try to do you harm. 10:45.790 --> 10:48.830 Is it like a shiner's cap? Like it's got a blood tassel or. 10:48.910 --> 10:58.190 No, it's. It's like. I'm just gonna say it kind of looks like a really, really nasty gnome. But much bigger, much larger. Much more mad. 10:59.710 --> 11:01.550 I'm glad you said it. Somebody had to. 11:04.430 --> 11:07.630 Ricky, what would you like to do as this thing intends to do you harm? 11:07.870 --> 11:09.310 Okay, I have a question. 11:10.030 --> 11:10.430 Do. 11:11.480 --> 11:19.720 Do I have the empath option on my. I see it's there, but I don't know if I'm at a place to use it. 11:20.040 --> 11:52.510 I think I may. I may, I may go back on this. Usually there has to be a reason to give non weird characters a weird move. Like for instance, Chandler can use weird for magic. The idea of the alternative weird move is to give people who don't have weird something to roll weird with. So we haven't given you one yet, but if there is a something that narratively happens here that you would get something weird. I'm down. Why would you. What would happen in this moment that suddenly you would have this ability? 11:52.990 --> 12:43.030 Well, knowing I only thought of it because knowing that the tombstone says not a magician but in our hearts, Milo is a magician. Makes me think from my detective skills that this was a person that really wanted to be here. It's haunting here. Is going through everybody and is really upset. Is like emotionally upset at not being a part of the magic palace and is now has maybe haunted enough to get full explosion in a new form. So I want to. Because I'm not. I don't have any real weapons. I bought a switchblade on me and that's about it. I probably can't punch this thing all too hard. So I want to attack with emotions if possible. 12:43.750 --> 13:23.340 I love that justification. And I want to give you a keeper bargain. Or you should call it the Devil's bargain. Other games called Devil's Bargain. I'm calling it a keeper bargain. The fact that you were possessed, I think. I think it makes sense to me you would be able to use empathy when in Regards to Milo or the entity. Right. Just for this situation. I feel like there is a connection that you two have now because you were possessed by Milo. Unfortunately, the thing in front of you doesn't appear to have anything to do with Milo. Yeah, I mean, in a way it does. So I. You would have empath. But this thing seems to be something that was summoned by panini. Question mark Milo. But that. That is. That is the thing that's threatening you right now. 13:23.340 --> 13:24.660 Okay, I start running. 13:25.060 --> 13:27.500 Okay, so you want to leave. Leave the theater? 13:27.500 --> 13:30.020 No, I'm staying in a theater. And I'm running around the theater. 13:30.260 --> 13:35.540 I love it. Roll me. Act under pressure to foot chase. Do a little. Little loop de loop with this thing. 13:35.620 --> 13:39.139 I want to run around trying to wake up. 13:39.220 --> 13:40.340 We're going to call this the Benny. 13:40.340 --> 13:42.020 Hill the great panini. 13:42.740 --> 13:52.410 So that was a failure. Is this the time, Ricky, where you want to use tattoo? You rolled a five, which is a failure. Do you want to use luck? I think. I think I. 13:52.970 --> 13:56.650 This would be a time where I would like to use luck. Yeah. 13:56.970 --> 14:03.170 I love that. Do you want to read what. What luck does or the. I'm sorry, the luck special. Or do you. Or do you want me to read it? 14:03.170 --> 14:06.810 I would like you to read it because I will take a long time finding it. 14:07.930 --> 14:37.430 This is really. This is really interesting. So. So mark a point of luck on your little box there. So you've used a point of luck for those listening. Most. Most hunters get seven points of luck during their career as a hunter. Once you hit that seventh box, it's doomed, which means bad things are going to happen a lot more frequently. You bad luck, essentially luck special for Ricky. When you spend luck. Your next regular case will actually be a mystery for your hunter group. Will actually be a mystery for your hunter group. And the monster will focus their attention on you. 14:37.510 --> 14:38.630 Okay, but I'm running. 14:38.630 --> 14:40.070 I still didn't understand that. 14:40.640 --> 14:51.680 So the next. The next special, the next mystery will actually be about your hunter group as opposed to a thing in the world. And the monster will be focusing their attention on Ricky. 14:51.840 --> 14:52.320 Oh. 14:54.640 --> 15:17.250 That'S back at a scramble as well. That's what happens in this game. Great. So that's a. Using a point unlock. That is a. That is basically a 12. So for now, Ricky, you are basically Benny Hilling again. BBC show from the 70s. As this thing's chasing you around right now, you are its only target. It seems very angry and upset. 15:17.250 --> 15:17.890 Well, guess what? 15:17.890 --> 15:18.890 It's making a lot of noise. 15:19.210 --> 15:35.100 I had some carbs, so I Am set. And every time I pass the great panini, I keep shouting a word in a sentence of, hey, you better wake up up soon, buddy. 15:35.980 --> 15:44.300 He's. He's unconscious there checking in with team Hal and Chandler. I know Chandler, you're enjoying a meal. Hal, you got a couple phones. What do you all. What are you doing? 15:44.460 --> 15:52.780 Yeah, I'll go back up to Chandler and set your phone right there next to you. And I'd be like, how is it? Are there any carbs? I would love some carbs. 15:52.860 --> 16:03.750 Yeah, I saved some carbs for you along. Oh, not just along the side of the plate. No, I know, I know. Capers go best with carbs. So I got some capers for you, some carbs for you. 16:03.750 --> 16:04.310 So nice. 16:04.310 --> 16:10.710 And there's some. There's some bread left over in the basket. So that's. I hear bread has carbs. Oh, my God, they're making it with carbs. 16:10.710 --> 16:13.790 This is why you're my favorite. Don't. Yeah, don't tell Ricky, please. 16:13.870 --> 16:15.150 I don't tell Ricky anything. 16:15.150 --> 16:17.310 Listen. Oh, that's. 16:17.310 --> 16:22.830 I mean, she won't listen to me mainly, but that's mainly why it turns sad. 16:25.160 --> 16:50.850 Well, listen, I. I found an article about this bumpus bunk. I can't say his name right. Milo. And it seems like, like you, he was doing authentic magic, most likely. So his ability to possess people or to summon a possessing thing he might have been working on for any amount of time before he actually died. 16:52.130 --> 16:52.930 He probably. 16:53.250 --> 16:56.370 You don't know anything about. About possessing magic, do you? 16:57.250 --> 17:01.090 No. I mean, I possess magic, but not. No, I don't know anything about possessing magic. 17:01.090 --> 17:03.650 Oh, yeah, that's true. That's true. That's true. 17:03.730 --> 17:05.490 But this could. You know, he probably. 17:05.490 --> 17:05.810 He got. 17:05.810 --> 17:27.720 He must have gotten rejected because they knew he was doing real magic. I mean, this could have been me. This. This. I could have been. I could be Milo. I could have been. If I knew anything about possessing magic. Not possessing magic, I could have been. Well, right, but possessing magic, I could have been me. I could have been possessing all these guys and causing all this mayhem. 17:28.280 --> 17:31.240 Okay, you saved me Scalloped potatoes. 17:32.120 --> 17:45.790 Yeah, I mean, it's probably not even one potato's worth, but I did want you to try it. It's got a delicious. I don't know if that's a cheese sauce or if it's. What's the other one? Hollandaise. What? I don't know how they do it. 17:46.830 --> 17:54.110 I can't tell either. But the contrast with the acid of the capers is really hitting. Well, did you cook it? 17:54.110 --> 17:55.950 No. Thank you for understanding. 17:56.270 --> 17:57.030 Oh, yeah. 17:57.030 --> 18:30.920 Well, thank you for why I liked it and for being able to articulate so well how those flavors were working together. Because you have quite the. The chef's tongue, both for taste and for description, and. Which I don't, and I interview for it. I feel like we're getting off subject. So, anyway, back to Milo. Yeah. Anyway, I'm kind of. I kind of feel for the guy because, you know, could have been me, but it wasn't. It wasn't. So possessing magic. Okay, you know what? 18:31.880 --> 18:47.710 Well, I wonder what he would have done. Like, did he make a plan before he even died that he wanted to be possessing people, or did he make, like, a phylactery or something so then when he died, he was available to just be taken home? He's. 18:47.710 --> 19:00.510 Oh, no, that's a good question as well. Another good question is, what is phylactery? It sounds like a factory where they make, like, you know, like. Like whoopee cushions or something. 19:00.990 --> 19:01.470 Yeah. 19:02.200 --> 19:02.800 Oh, that's not. 19:02.800 --> 19:03.080 Where. 19:04.920 --> 19:05.960 Do you think I was gonna go? 19:06.120 --> 19:15.640 The two of you hear. The two of you hear a boom, like a loud boom. And the building shakes a little bit, and you hear commotion downstairs. What did two of you do? 19:16.600 --> 19:17.880 I should text Ricky. 19:17.959 --> 19:19.640 I guess we better get these capers to go. 19:22.200 --> 19:29.960 Okay, so you don't know anybody that might be able to tell us about what. What kind of magic would make possession available to somebody? 19:29.960 --> 19:34.410 Well, I do have access to the library because of my pen. I could try to. 19:34.410 --> 19:34.970 Oh, yeah? 19:36.010 --> 19:42.890 Why don't you? I'm not allowed there. Right. So why don't you go look, and I'll get Ricky's phone back to her so I can text her what's going on? 19:43.450 --> 19:47.050 Hey, how much battery do you have? 19:47.130 --> 19:51.850 Well, it was just charged, so I don't want to look because I feel like if I look, it'll. It'll be okay. 19:51.850 --> 19:52.010 Yeah. 19:52.010 --> 19:52.570 Don't cheat. 19:52.570 --> 20:02.030 Don't cheat. Okay, so I'll meet you in the basement library with Ricky after you get her and I get. 20:02.510 --> 20:05.190 No, we should meet somewhere else because we're not allowed. 20:05.190 --> 20:08.950 Well, I meant, like, you know, outside the library, but, yeah, you could be. 20:08.950 --> 20:09.550 Oh, okay. 20:09.550 --> 20:11.470 I mean, but you could. You could meet somewhere else. 20:11.470 --> 20:12.150 Wherever. Where? 20:12.150 --> 20:13.870 Wherever you feel most effective. 20:14.030 --> 20:23.510 I like most effective. Most effective. I feel like basement makes me feel effective. It's like the bowels of a. Of a building. Right? 20:23.510 --> 20:31.040 Yeah. Yeah. Plus, also, keep in mind, you know, that there's. The network is horrible down There. So we won't be able to text. 20:33.280 --> 20:36.640 I see points on both side, but it seems like we've got a plan. I'll see you in the basement. 20:36.640 --> 20:42.240 Bye, Ricky. The creature rips a chair out from the floor, throws it at you. What do you do? 20:42.240 --> 20:42.960 I dodge. 20:43.440 --> 20:48.720 Roll, act under pressure for me. Roll, act under pressure. Act under pressure to dodge all the way. 20:51.920 --> 20:54.240 I fly. I throw a pool, stick at it. 20:55.120 --> 21:24.590 That's a mixed success. So you rolled at eight. That's a mixed success. So on a mixed success, worst outcome, hard choice or price to pay. So I'm gonna give you. I'm sorry, Ricky. Either the chair hits panini, who will really make sure he doesn't wake up but avoids you entirely. It'll hit graze your foot. You're gonna take a minus one going forward to, like, move quickly. Like, you. Basically, you'll hurt your foot, or you just take the full 2 harm of the chair hitting you, avoiding either of those consequences. 21:24.990 --> 21:28.270 Do you have to ask? That chair is hitting panini. 21:28.990 --> 21:36.270 Okay. So it looks like the chair, like, bounces off another chair, hits panini, and you see blood, like, all over his face now. 21:36.430 --> 21:38.670 Hey, good aim. You're really good at that. 21:40.110 --> 21:42.270 He lunges toward you. Aha. 21:42.830 --> 21:45.550 Also, that's a really great tunic. Where'd you get it? 21:46.110 --> 21:49.550 What do you do? Is about ready to try to, like, claw at you? 21:49.990 --> 21:50.630 I dodge. 21:51.350 --> 21:58.230 Give me another act under pressure with a minus. No, no, no. Not a minus one. Just regular act under pressure. Because you. You let panini take the full chair. 21:59.270 --> 22:01.430 So glad I raised my cool. 22:02.870 --> 22:25.040 That's a nine. Another mixed success. He'll barely scrape you, so take half harm. I'll just tell you his scrape. Yeah, it'll be one harm, but you'll be able to, like, get out of its grasp. You can take no damage, but it basically grab you and, like, you'll be in their clutches. Or you could flee the room, like, safely and take no harm, but it's coming out the door with you. 22:28.640 --> 22:33.640 I'm frustrated. Okay. The first one was take half a harm. Take what? 22:33.640 --> 22:45.950 So it would scrape. No, it would scrape you, but you wouldn't be grabbing you. Second one, it was no harm, but it would have you, like, grab. It would grab you. Yeah. The third option is to flee. No harm, but it also. It'll be able to flee as well. It'll be right. 22:45.950 --> 22:47.790 All right, I'm gonna. It's gonna graze me. 22:48.030 --> 23:02.030 Great. So you just take a point of harm as it, like, scratches your amazing coat. I'm Gonna have to get that fixed. And it kind of stumbles a little bit. So you have a moment here, Ricky, to choose another move or, you know, what do you want to do in this moment? You got a moment? 23:02.030 --> 23:04.190 I wish I knew. Small magic. 23:07.240 --> 23:09.320 You are in a magic palace. 23:09.560 --> 23:10.360 It's true. 23:10.840 --> 23:15.400 You are not a fort, not a dungeon, and definitely not a castle. 23:17.320 --> 23:18.920 Magic chateau, huh? 23:19.640 --> 23:20.760 Exactly. Yeah. 23:21.640 --> 23:42.040 Can I investigate for any sort of magic I'm able to use, like a magic hat that I could jump into or magic crystal ball that I could see. You know, is there anything that. That actually has more magic than just a kit you can buy at the corner store? 23:42.360 --> 23:48.080 I'll let you roll. Read a bad situation. I'll let you roll that again because this is gonna be a bad situation very quickly here. 23:48.080 --> 23:52.240 I'm just trying not to get this monster out to everybody else. Read a bank. 23:52.240 --> 23:54.200 Everyone's just eating. I'll be so slow. 23:54.520 --> 23:56.320 Wish my boys left with me. 23:56.320 --> 24:01.090 Oh, by the way, you don't have any armor for harm, right? Do you have any armor or. Let me look at your sheet really quick. 24:01.090 --> 24:02.050 Yeah, take a look. 24:04.690 --> 24:08.570 Let me look at your items. Because there are things that reduce harm you do not. Okay. 24:08.570 --> 24:08.930 No. 24:09.250 --> 24:19.890 That's another mixed success. What I have, you do read a bad situation. That's right. On the eight, you get to hold one. Best way in, best way out. Dangers we haven't noticed. Biggest threat most vulnerable to me. Best way to protect the victims. 24:20.690 --> 24:29.420 I feel like I know the answers to all these. I just go through that door. I just go. I just leave. That's my best way out. 24:29.740 --> 24:33.420 Well, you get a plus one going forward if you act on that information. Keep in mind. 24:33.420 --> 24:37.020 Okay. I mean, well, what if the answer. 24:37.260 --> 24:47.580 Is like, what's most vulnerable to me is. Well, I. Maybe you were asking about the room instead, but I was just saying maybe. Maybe something besides salt would. Would hurt it make more than other stuff. 24:47.580 --> 24:47.900 Or. 24:47.980 --> 24:52.630 Oh, they could take its cap off and it would wither up into a regular sized gnome. 24:54.550 --> 25:00.870 I didn't picture it like a gnome. Okay. Is there. Because he's seven feet tall. 25:03.910 --> 25:09.430 Okay, picture like the Hulk, but a gnome. Hulk with a hat. Little hat on. 25:09.910 --> 25:16.450 Yeah. And this blood red cap you can cut. You have. 25:16.520 --> 25:36.560 How about. How about. No, no, I. I love. Well, we probably will cut it out, but no. Ricky, how about this? What is your primary objective right now? This monster is a lot of danger. It is currently contained in the room here with you. Panini's been twice. Twice docked out. 25:36.560 --> 25:37.160 Oh, yeah. 25:37.240 --> 25:43.920 So he's a little incapacitated. What is your. What is your. Is your. Are you concerned about your own safety? Safety of the people outside? 25:44.960 --> 25:53.840 I guess I want to know what's the best way I can get to this hat in this room without having to take this monster outside to harm civilians. 25:54.240 --> 25:55.920 So what's the best way to protect the victims? 25:56.080 --> 25:58.880 I guess so. I know I reveal so much. 25:59.680 --> 26:19.310 You gotta get. You gotta clear the palace. This thing is gonna be in the room for a little bit longer. If it knocks you out, it's gonna go through the door and start killing all these guests. So if the best way to protect the victims, I'll. I'll just. I'll say there is a handy dandy fire alarm in here. This place needs to be cleared out as soon as possible. 26:19.790 --> 26:24.270 Oh, I didn't know there was that in the room. Oh, I'm gonna trigger that for sure. 26:24.670 --> 26:27.630 Great. Roll me. Act under pressure one more time. 26:28.430 --> 26:29.070 Goodness. 26:29.230 --> 26:59.520 Now I'm using that move. It's like you're lunging towards it. This creature's coming after you. Mixed success. Once again. A seven. Boy, this is. This is always trickiest for the keeper. Worst outcome, hard choice or price to pay. I'll say this. You can pull the alarm, but it's gonna get another swipe at you. So take another point of harm and it's. And you're gonna so that. So I'll say you. But you'll be able to flee. Right? You can get to the alarm and pull it, but it'll be between you and the door. You're gonna have to find another way around this thing. 26:59.520 --> 27:00.040 Mm. 27:00.710 --> 27:01.870 Which of those two are you gonna go with? 27:01.870 --> 27:04.110 Oh, only two options this time. 27:04.110 --> 27:05.030 I only thought of two. 27:06.070 --> 27:06.790 Swipe. 27:06.790 --> 27:07.190 May. 27:07.750 --> 27:08.230 I'm. 27:09.590 --> 27:15.310 Another point of harm. Not this time. It's your other arm, so both sleeves need. Taylor, the alarm goes off. Cool. 27:15.310 --> 27:15.830 Look, though. 27:16.069 --> 27:22.430 Hal and Chandler. The fire alarm goes off. What do you do? 27:22.430 --> 27:25.270 I'm quickly packing up this food so it doesn't get ruined. 27:26.160 --> 27:26.400 Great. 27:28.560 --> 27:49.040 I've been headed. Well, I don't really know where to look for Ricky because she didn't know where she was looking for Panino. And so I'm gonna start directing everybody to the exits as best as I understand. 27:49.600 --> 27:50.000 Great. 27:50.000 --> 27:54.850 I'm gonna ask, where's that penito guy? 27:55.890 --> 28:05.970 People are shrugging their shoulders. The people. You're directing Hal to the door. They're trying to, like, open it, and it's not opening the very front door. They're like people trying to freak out. The door's not opening. 28:06.370 --> 28:15.410 It's cool. I know Stu. He doesn't spell his name with a Y. Just hold tight for a moment, and I will find us some answers. 28:15.490 --> 28:16.050 Stu. 28:16.530 --> 28:27.980 Stu comes out of the security room. He says, a car crashed into the front of the. Of the palace. We gotta get that car outta the way. We can't get out the front door. And he rushes past you to try to figure what's going on. 28:27.980 --> 28:28.940 Are there better exits? 28:30.220 --> 28:34.620 There's only the employee exit out the back. I guess we could kick people out through there. 28:34.939 --> 28:38.580 I'll take some people that way. Good luck with the car. Do you know where Pinino is? 28:38.580 --> 28:41.900 He's probably prepping for his show, where he would have been. Downstairs. 28:42.220 --> 28:42.820 Downstairs. 28:42.820 --> 28:43.340 Thank you. 28:44.870 --> 28:50.550 All right, so every other person that I'm passing on the way there, I'm saying, like, there's an employee exit in the back. 28:50.630 --> 28:57.110 I want to have you roll something here, Hal. So you want to find Panini or direct traffic or both? 28:57.430 --> 29:01.390 I'm kind of lazily directing traffic on the way downstairs to Panini. 29:01.390 --> 29:30.880 Let's do act under pressure to see if you can command. You can make sense in the confusion. What's going on. How about that? That's a failure. That's a five. Do you want to use luck, or do you want to roll that? So that's a point of experience. Yeah, there's just a lot of confusion. You're able to go downstairs, Hal, but, like, no one's really heard you. There's just a lot of confusion with the people. Before I check in with the other two people. Chandler, you're packing up your. Packing up. You see everyone is rushing down the front. 29:31.200 --> 29:35.620 Yeah, because the. The sprinklers came on, right? Or no, the. 29:35.770 --> 29:49.210 They might not yet. The alarm. You. You. Because you. You. You've been to the palace, right? Smoke would have triggered the extinguishers and the, you know, the sprinklers, whatever. The alarm's just been pulled, so you. And everyone's just getting. 29:49.290 --> 30:04.750 All right, so I've just finished packing up my food. It's all good. It's safe. Obviously. No sprinklers yet, but just in case. All right, so I got a bag. And while people are running toward the exit, I'm running against the current. 30:06.590 --> 30:07.150 Toward. 30:07.390 --> 30:15.710 The stairs down to the basement library and apologizing. After I hit everyone, I hit with the bag. 30:16.110 --> 30:28.180 So you. So there is one stairwell that goes down, but then you can. You can kind of follow Hal. So, like, if you go down the stairs, everyone's crowding down. Then you can kind of like make a right away from where everyone's crowded. Is that what you want to do? 30:28.180 --> 30:28.330 Or. 30:28.400 --> 30:31.120 Or do you want to find another way to the ground level? 30:31.120 --> 30:36.320 Yeah, I'm fine to scooch to the side and let everybody pass if Great. 30:36.320 --> 30:45.680 Roll me. Act under pressure to. To fight through the crowd and get to trail behind. Hell, that's a four. That's a failure. Do you want to use luck, Chandler? 30:46.400 --> 30:49.560 Was that a total failure? Do I? Do I. 30:49.560 --> 30:51.800 That is a total failure. Four is a total failure. 30:51.800 --> 30:52.920 Do I experience that? 30:52.920 --> 31:00.570 What that means is you are. You do get experience. Mark, point of experience. Thank you for reminding me. Be sure Hal, you did the same. No. Did you use luck? 31:00.570 --> 31:00.770 No. 31:00.770 --> 31:14.290 Be sure you use Mark point of experience, Hal, for that failure earlier. Basically, you're caught in the wave. Chandlers, you're kind of in the mix of people right now. You can't, like, get. Can't get past them unless you want to spend a point of luck. This is not me tempting you. I'm just. Yeah, I'll wait. 31:14.290 --> 31:22.980 I'll wait it out. Because I don't think it's a. You know, I don't really necessarily think it's the kind of emergency they do. I mean, I think. Well, I think we got it. 31:23.380 --> 33:58.880 Liam behind the bar, looks up at the stairs at you. Chandler says, I told you all to leave. And he lights something on fire. Hi, everyone. It's Chris McGowan. It's me again. I'm sure if you've been listening to the show, you know, we do commercial breaks in between our episodes. Part of that is to. Spoiler alert. Give a little more context to our world. Give you some information that the hunters don't necessarily know, but kind of fills out maybe the bigger mystery going on. That's a huge hint, by the way. I gave that to you for free. But we also decided in 2026 to start doing partnership. So Mars, the parent company of Eminem, they haven't necessarily reached out to me, but I reached out to them and I pitched them this idea to. To hawk a product of theirs and, you know, kind of pitch, you know, give us some funding for the show. You know what I mean? What they came back with to me was, how about empty M M wrappers? Yeah, I know this sounds like, you know, why would you. Why would you hawk products that is an empty wrapper? But that's why they're great, you know. You know, 2026, this is a new year for those listening in real time. And we all have New Year's resolutions, you know, chocolate and sweets. Maybe trying to give that up for the new year. Maybe you. You. You pass by the shelves with chocolate and candy, and you can't just help yourself. Right now with these empty M and M wrappers, you actually scratch that itch that you have eaten them, but you didn't have the calories. So what this product is. They're empty M and M wrappers, but they are actually full, factory sealed. So they look from the outside like they're full of candy. And then you open them up, and there's nothing in there. So they have the plain chocolate, peanut, almond, peanut butter, dark chocolate, caramel. I think there's a crisp. There's the minis. I think there is the fudge swirl. There's also the candy cane ones. They're all. They're. They come in individual small serving packets. Reading the copy here. You can stash them at work, put them in the glove compartment of your car, even your gym locker, because they don't melt in your mouth, not in your hand. So when you open it up, it's like it's in there. You smell like candy should be in there, but there's nothing in there. Not even a smear of chocolate to be found. So you can toss it in the trash. Recycled, potentially. And your hankering for the snack has been quenched. So empty M and M wrappers from Mars. Candy melts in your mind, not in your stomach. All right, back to the show, Ricky. So you pulled the fire alarm. It slashed you. Are you. What's your next step here? 33:59.190 --> 34:01.990 It's the best thing I could have done. I guess I'm leaving this room. 34:02.310 --> 34:10.670 Okay. You just want to, like, get past it and. And. Or just leave the room with this thing trailing behind you or what can. 34:10.670 --> 34:19.430 You describe to me? Can I investigate what this theater looks like? Are there. Are there curtains hanging on the sides of the stage? 34:19.750 --> 34:20.750 There's curtains, sure. 34:20.750 --> 34:29.899 Can I investigate to see how they're hung up? Are they. Is it an older theater with ropes? Is it chains? 34:29.899 --> 34:35.099 Maybe there's a. Yeah, a cage that is set up to drop down on something right in front of the door. 34:35.259 --> 34:41.259 Yeah. I would say you'd have to get to that location. And I will let you definitely roll investigative mystery. But currently you're near the alarm near the door to flee. 34:41.339 --> 34:41.739 Yeah. 34:41.739 --> 34:47.979 So I'll give you a choice. You want to get towards the stage. Roll me. Act under pressure to not get attacked by our new friend here. 34:47.979 --> 34:50.219 Oh, that's sweet. He considers himself a friend. 34:50.699 --> 34:54.590 My Empathy did work. Okay, act under friend. 34:54.670 --> 34:55.070 Sure. 34:55.710 --> 34:58.910 That's another failure. That's a five. I cannot believe all these field rolls. 34:59.550 --> 35:02.270 Remember that time we rolled so many great rolls? 35:02.270 --> 35:03.310 We were on a roll. 35:03.630 --> 35:14.590 Do you want to use luck? No, you've already used one. Luck. Great. I'm going to use my move again, which maybe I'll reveal after our mystery. You get teleported again. Now you're standing next to Chandler. 35:15.310 --> 35:16.990 Oh my God. 35:18.760 --> 35:27.080 Liam, the bartender says, this is what you get. And he throws the fire onto the ground and a fire starts in the main carpet area. 35:27.640 --> 35:28.520 That wasn't water. 35:30.040 --> 35:38.520 Hal, you're headed downstairs. What do you do? Everyone's leaving. So, like, it's pretty empty down here at the moment. What are you doing as you run down here downstairs? 35:38.920 --> 35:50.040 Well, I'm presuming that he's in the room with finito. So I'm cracking the door to check in that. What should be that theater. 35:50.040 --> 35:59.560 Yeah. As you approach, the door blasts open and you see a seven foot tall gray figure with a little red cap on roar in your face. What do you do, Hal? Ricky? 36:00.200 --> 36:01.320 There's no response. 36:01.640 --> 36:03.960 No, it roars and it looks like it's about to hurt you. 36:04.040 --> 36:05.280 Okay, I'll give this. 36:05.280 --> 36:18.760 I'll give this to you for free. You do see the very well described outfit of the great panini. You see a body near the front, like at the base of the stage. Like they're not moving. But you do see what looks like panini over there. 36:20.040 --> 36:26.920 I'll try to hit it with my flashlight. Am I, can I throw it or am I so close that I have to swing it? 36:26.920 --> 36:29.400 Oh, you can swing it melee style if you would like. 36:29.400 --> 36:34.680 Well, my preference is to keep a difference, but I don't actually know if that makes a difference in terms of what happens. Trying to do harm. 36:35.080 --> 36:39.480 Well, I guess here's the good news. It's right in your face so you don't have to throw it. Sure. 36:39.880 --> 36:41.080 That can be good news. 36:42.440 --> 36:51.200 This would be. So this is a very important question. What is your. What is your intention here? Are you trying to do this thing harm or are you trying to distract? Like what do you. What would you like to have happen here? 36:51.200 --> 36:59.960 Oh yeah, I'm trying to. What's the term? To. To like. Yeah, like put it unconscious. Like take it out of commission. 37:00.840 --> 37:09.620 Absolutely. This is our first kick some ass roll. So please. Roll kick some ass. In monster of the week when you roll kick some ass, you exchange harm. So my friend's going to hurt you too. 37:10.180 --> 37:12.180 Your friend Now I understand it's your. 37:12.180 --> 37:50.110 Friend that is a 10. That is a full success on kick some ass on a 10 plus on a 7 plus you and whatever you're fighting with whatever you're fighting inflict harm on each other. The amount of harm is based on the established dangers in the game. That usually means you flick the harm rating of your weapon and your enemy does the same to you. On a 10 + you choose an extra effect. So tell me what you would like to pick here. Since you did roll a 10, you gain the advantage. Take plus one forward or give a one forward to another hunter and we would decide what that means. You inflict terrible harm. That's another plus one harm. You suffer one less harm. Minus one harm. You force them where you want them. Which of those options do you like? 37:50.590 --> 37:50.990 Well. 37:52.750 --> 38:04.290 The thing I would tempting force them where I want them except I don't feel like I have a good sense of what like what is around me. So I don't know if I have a place that I want them right now. 38:04.770 --> 38:12.850 Well, you can. We can decide what that is. If that's the one you want to pick, you can kind of tell me your idea and I'll tell you. Because you rolled a 10 plus, you get it, you know. 38:13.170 --> 38:31.860 Huh. Here's my other question. Yeah, I do. I. Yeah I assume I do like one harm or whatever with the flashlight. But is there, is there any way that I fit figure out like how much harm this monster has or how much health or whatever it's called? 38:32.020 --> 38:34.740 That is a fantastic question. And you have no idea. 38:34.820 --> 38:40.900 And that like in the future, I mean like in the, in the short term, like I wouldn't have a way of seeing that either, right? 38:40.980 --> 39:00.400 I don't think so. There might, there might be a hunter move that I don't know that does tell you that kind of stuff. Unfortunately I don't think I need the three of you had that and just from keeper to players, you know, I may change that stuff up anyway. But there might be moves or ways to figure that out. You can tell just by its size. It's going to take a few flashlight hits. 39:00.560 --> 39:28.690 Yeah. Okay. Then I do want to force it where I want it and where I want to force it is like any box, telephone booth or seat that seems like a trick, you know, trick space that it would. It has a trapdoor or it swivels around so that it might be confused about where it is or not know how to get back to the main. 39:29.490 --> 39:54.070 The space with most people so. Well, let me Ask you answer question with a question. We'll say that there's probably like a false floor in the middle of the stage. So you could in theory push it back to kind of get it stuck for the short term. Or if you want to leave it trapped in this room, you can maybe lodge the door shut to give you a little bit of time as well. So that's two options. So what is preferable to you? 39:55.110 --> 40:00.630 I'll be more straightforward then. And I'll try to get it in the room and barricade the door. 40:00.790 --> 40:21.680 Okay, so how do you feel about this? And feel free to tell me no about. You knock it with your flashlight and you can kind of like jam that flashlight into the door so that it. It's gonna take it literally destroying the door to come out. How do you feel about that? Yeah. Yeah, Great. That's good. You though you do smack. It kind of stumbles back. Giving you. Giving you that opportunity you take. 40:21.680 --> 40:22.000 Yeah. 40:22.000 --> 40:27.120 He's gonna bite you for two harm. He's gonna bite your arm. Do you have any armor as well, Hal? 40:27.440 --> 40:28.400 I don't believe so. 40:28.400 --> 40:46.250 I don't think you do either. But you do jam your flashlight in there. So your flashlight is temporarily out of your hands. But you can tell this thing can't get up for the time being. Ricky and Chandler, there is a fire that started upstairs. And then Liam kind of shakes its head. Shakes his head. And he's like. He's like his hands on his head like, oh, shit. What do you do? 40:46.650 --> 40:48.250 Liam, are you. 40:48.250 --> 40:48.570 You. 40:49.450 --> 40:54.490 Because I think you were possessed. Otherwise you wouldn't risk your job throwing fire like that. 40:55.130 --> 40:56.570 Where's an extinguisher? 40:56.570 --> 40:58.730 Where's Liam throw water. I got water. 40:59.850 --> 41:00.890 Liam throw ice. 41:04.110 --> 41:14.870 I'll let you do act under pressure or manipulate someone. Chandler, to like get. Get through to him. And Ricky, if he doesn't roll. Well, you might be able to do a help out or something. But I'll let Chandler go first here. 41:14.870 --> 41:16.430 Either one. Yeah. 41:16.590 --> 41:40.770 Act under pressure or manipulate someone. Your choice. That's a mixed success. What did you roll? Manipulate someone or. Oh, right here. Pressure. Sorry. Act under pressure. Mixed success. You can get through to Liam, but you feel like the spirit may come towards you Now, Chandler. Or you don't get through to Liam, but you think you could probably get yourself over the railing and like do it yourself. 41:40.850 --> 41:42.690 Okay, let's do it myself. 41:43.010 --> 41:51.250 Great. So you kind of hop over the railing and you're down next to Liam, who's very confused. Ricky, what are you doing in this moment? I'M Chandler does that. 41:51.250 --> 42:00.140 I'm looking around. Can I investigate for a fire extinguisher or. They have to be here. There's food. There's food. There's. It's. 42:00.220 --> 42:01.420 Well, you're protect the food. 42:02.940 --> 42:12.219 You're on the stairs. The problem is there's a, A panic happening. People can't get out the front door. That's the, that's the problem, Ricky. Of course. And then of course the fire that starts. 42:12.219 --> 42:16.460 Is there an ax with a fire extinguisher? I can ax down the door. I can. 42:16.460 --> 42:21.020 I'll say. I'll say there's one. Up, up, up front. How do you want to deal with that? 42:21.180 --> 42:27.090 I. I have to body surf over the people to get to the front. 42:27.730 --> 42:33.330 Act under pressure to body surf. Like you're at a concert acting under. 42:33.330 --> 42:37.770 Pressure to body surf. Come on. 42:37.770 --> 42:43.610 That is pre failure. I cannot believe these roles. Do you want to use another point of luck? No. 42:43.610 --> 42:46.730 So wait. That I have not been marking experience. So I. 42:46.730 --> 42:49.060 So mark experience for that. Yeah, mark experience for that. 42:49.060 --> 42:50.500 Okay, that's at least three today. 42:50.500 --> 42:52.220 Yeah, but I used luck on one of them. 42:52.460 --> 42:53.940 You did use luck on one of them. Correct. 42:53.940 --> 42:57.100 So I'll go back when we're done and I'll. Don't put this in there. And I'll mark. 42:57.100 --> 43:04.500 Yeah, because you did just level up. So you might have missed one. One or two. I'm going to check in in a moment with you, Hal. But I want to check in with Chandler. Chandler, are you just putting out the fire? 43:04.500 --> 43:13.020 I'm throwing ice and cups of water. Or just cups of anything that's non flammable trying to put out the fire. 43:13.750 --> 43:31.190 Great. I'll just say you do that. One of the people who's near there turns around at you and says, you are all to blame. All of you. Not just the council. You. Chandler. Everyone here makes this an exclusive club. You all die tonight. What do you do? 43:31.190 --> 43:34.790 It is an exclusive club. That wasn't my decision. 43:38.150 --> 43:45.880 You see that? This person starts to look for some other flammable thing to set fire, what do you do? And Ricky, what do you do? 43:45.960 --> 43:51.720 Wait, this new guy who's yelling at us. Yeah. He's w. Is trying to set fire too. 43:52.840 --> 43:54.680 Oh yeah? What do you do? 43:55.320 --> 44:00.200 Can I try to manipulate him? I want to manipulate Milo. 44:00.600 --> 44:15.080 Yeah, well, that's. I'm glad you said that. Unfortunately, manipulate someone doesn't work on the bad guys on the, on the monster creature phenomenon. So. So, which is funny because that kind of. I mean, you knew that. But it does kind of reveal that, yes, this person is possessed by Milo. 44:15.400 --> 44:27.400 I mean, look, I was. I'm. I could see the entrance to the library across the room if I could just, you know, hop over. What little fire is left on the floor? I don't know. 44:27.480 --> 44:32.680 Well, you're on the first level. You're on the first level. Chandler, just to. So you got to go one level down. 44:33.400 --> 44:40.150 Forget it. Forget the library. It's not going to help. It's too late for that. What are we gonna do in there anyway? Am I gonna read Chandler? 44:40.550 --> 44:42.230 What magic can you do? 44:42.230 --> 44:42.590 I know. 44:42.590 --> 44:45.350 I need some big magic or mall. 44:46.310 --> 44:47.590 That's gonna take too long. 44:47.670 --> 44:48.030 I know. 44:48.030 --> 44:51.750 What, the magic or the big magic or the reading? Because I think they're both. 44:51.830 --> 44:52.510 That was a big. 44:52.510 --> 44:53.230 Yeah, big magic. 44:53.230 --> 44:56.390 Both of them. I'm thinking right here, right now, friend, let's. 44:56.390 --> 44:57.870 Let's some little mini magic. 44:57.870 --> 45:00.950 As my former lover, can you just pull it together. 45:02.790 --> 45:05.750 Before former or otherwise. 45:09.110 --> 45:11.710 The person has a candle in their hand. What are the two of you doing? 45:11.710 --> 45:13.110 How close am I to that person? 45:13.430 --> 45:17.030 You're still on the stairs because you couldn't get your way through. But you could throw something at them. 45:17.510 --> 45:22.070 Okay, what's around me on the stairs? I take a shoe off. I take a shoe off and I throw it. 45:22.390 --> 45:29.110 Roll me. Act under pressure or kick some ass. I'll let you do kick some ass, actually, because you're trying to do harm. So roll. Kick some ass for me. 45:29.350 --> 45:36.850 Where is it? I've never. There it is. I see it. I see it. I found it. You can cut that out. 45:38.930 --> 45:52.770 Come on. That's a failure. That's a six. However, this is the perfect time. Chandler, if you want to do help out, you can roll to see if you can bump that up. Okay. And just tell me how you help out. When you roll. 45:52.770 --> 45:58.050 Okay, well, I will also take off my shoes and throw them. 46:01.340 --> 46:07.700 Okay, sure. We're all help out. Actually, that would be kick some ass if I'm being letter of the law. That would be kick some ass if you want to throw your shoes. 46:07.700 --> 46:12.260 I. I already helped out. But you know, they're just like peripheral throws. 46:12.260 --> 46:12.940 Oh, well that's. 46:14.700 --> 46:15.100 So. 46:15.500 --> 46:21.100 So both of you. Shoes go flying way off target. You rolled a five. Ricky rolled a six. 46:21.260 --> 46:22.060 Five is fail. 46:22.060 --> 46:33.190 If you don't help out. Five is fail. So Mark experience. Ricky, Mark, experience. This person lights another part of the palace on fire. Hal, what are you doing downstairs? 46:33.590 --> 46:45.510 Okay, now I'm making a concerted effort to not let anybody else go to the Front, I'm saying, like, follow me. Let's get to the. Let's get out the back through the employee exit. 46:45.670 --> 46:57.330 Every. You're in the base. You're in the basement level. There's no one down here but you and the locked door where there's pounding, everyone is cleared out. You're shouting into the void. 46:58.050 --> 47:07.330 Okay, are there any wardrobes or armchairs that I can reinforce this barricade with? 47:07.490 --> 47:40.950 Yeah, yeah, I'll say there's a kind of stuff. Roll me. Act under pressure to fortify this door a little bit better. That's a seven. It's a big success. So I'll say you can find something to make the door more sturdy on your side. You're going to. You're going to drop something, probably that you don't want to drop. You're not going to really find anything that's sturdy enough. But you'll have bought yourself some time if this thing were to burst through to be out of its field of vision. So you'll have, like, another moment to do something else. Or. I love this option. Or you stay where you are, let this thing burst through. But panini will have come, too. 47:41.910 --> 47:50.560 I don't like that option. Okay, so the first. So the. The first one is. It's not a great barricade. 47:51.920 --> 48:00.560 They'll give you, like, another moment to do something, but it's. It's going to burst through any moment. The second one, you don't find anything, but you can kind of run and hide. So it's not going to see you for a little bit. 48:01.360 --> 48:03.920 Yeah, I'll hide. 48:04.560 --> 48:25.300 Great. Boom. Door burst open, and you hear a roar. But you. You have. You have a few moments here, Hal, to decide how you want to handle this. This team fire, it's starting to get a little smoky up here, and people are starting to cough. They can't get out the front door. What are the two of you doing? Hal. Sorry? Chandler and Ricky. You know what? Chandler? Read the bad situation. All right? This seems pretty bad. 48:25.780 --> 48:33.140 Yeah. I mean, are we even fighting this creature, this monster? Are we just trying to put out fires? Literally? 48:34.260 --> 48:54.220 Might be the same thing. I don't know. That is an 11. A full success. That's a hold three. Best way in, my best way out. Dangers we haven't noticed. Biggest threat, most vulnerable to me. Meaning what? You could do the most damage, you know? Where are you most effective in this situation? Best way to protect the victims. Get three on an 11. 48:55.900 --> 48:59.820 Okay, three. Well, most vulnerable. Semi. 49:00.780 --> 49:07.300 Most vulnerable to me in Milo or this Person who's setting the fire. That's not necessarily the same. 49:07.300 --> 49:09.900 Okay, well, let's just deal with this fire guy first. 49:09.980 --> 49:21.860 We gotta knock him out. Get the spirit out of. Good spirit out of his body. Literally. If you had hit with a shoe, that would have been enough, but you just missed. Okay, you obviously have a lot of magical abilities too, so that's one. 49:21.860 --> 49:24.300 Okay, what's the best way out? 49:24.540 --> 49:55.700 So the best way out. You had the right idea. Well, I'll give you two. I'll give you two answers to that. You had the right idea. Just no one heard how you got to get everyone to go out the employee exit, which is literally. You're on the ground floor. It's back. It's. It's near the bathroom area where you heard handy and panini. You just got. You just got everyone to turn around and go out the other way, because whatever the obstruction is, is not. Is blocking that door. Or you got to get outside and get that whatever isn't blocking that door out of the way. One of the two. Okay. And then you got one question left. 49:56.710 --> 49:58.310 What's the best way to protect the victims? 49:59.190 --> 50:07.510 What do you mean by best way to protect the victims? Get them out of the situation or get rid of the threat altogether? Maybe I'm giving you too much with that. 50:07.510 --> 50:14.310 Well, I was thinking the situation, but maybe get rid of the threat altogether if that will get rid of the threat altogether. 50:15.030 --> 50:25.140 Well, actually, maybe I should. Maybe I should clarify my clarification. Who are the victims in your question? Is it the council? Is it people being possessed? Is it these people here? 50:25.220 --> 50:30.820 Oh, I mean, I was just thinking. Any bystanders who were just running around still trying to get out of the building. 50:31.300 --> 51:01.170 Okay, let me answer that question. This thing is clearly gone beyond the council. It's trying to burn this place down with everyone trapped inside. Right? So the best way to protect the victims is to draw this thing away from whatever it thinks it's doing. Like get it out of these people and stop it from trying to set this fire. Barring that, getting them out of the palace, but that is more urgent. Or more. More. That'll get it quicker. How would you draw this thing away from this person? 51:02.210 --> 51:19.700 Well, maybe with some magic, which would be. Okay, I don't know if we've asked this question. Seems obvious, but I don't know if we've had the option. How. How of could we contain it? Or in what could we contain it? 51:19.940 --> 51:37.220 That is a fantastic question. You do have the ability use magic to bar a place or Portal to a specific person or type of creature. That is an option. Trap a specific person, minion or monster. The problem right now is that it is in a body. But that is a use magic effect. 51:38.340 --> 51:44.220 So maybe we can just. Can we find more shoes and other things to just throw at it to see if it'll. 51:44.540 --> 51:47.180 You can also throw marshes knock the. 51:47.180 --> 51:49.780 The monster right out of him. Or maybe we just. 51:49.780 --> 51:50.620 That's an option. 51:51.740 --> 51:54.540 I mean it could be anything. You could throw glasses, chairs. 51:54.860 --> 52:05.700 Throw chairs. Ricky, I want to offer you an opportunity to do something here too. This person is. Has set this on fire. And they're kind of like just looking at the fire. So this person probably is still possessed. Do you have any ideas or anything you want? 52:05.700 --> 52:07.100 I have another shoe I got to throw. 52:07.660 --> 52:08.060 Great. 52:09.260 --> 52:10.460 To manipulate the crowd. 52:11.210 --> 52:12.410 I always wear three shoes. 52:12.650 --> 52:15.650 So your choice. Manipulate the crowd or throw a shoe and try. 52:15.650 --> 52:27.049 I gotta have a success in here somewhere. I'm gonna try to throw a shoe before I start to really freak out the crowd. I'm rolling. Act under pressure to throw the shoe. 52:27.290 --> 52:28.570 No, this is. Kick some ass. 52:29.370 --> 52:32.650 Okay. There. I found it. I found it. Not as far away as I thought. 52:33.370 --> 52:47.200 That's a 10. Full success. You throw a shoe. So here's a few things happen here on a 10 plus. Oh, yeah. Choose one extra effect. You gain plus one forward or give a plus one to someone else. Inflict terrible harm, suffer less harm, or force them where you want them. 52:47.520 --> 52:49.680 I gain the advantage. 52:49.920 --> 53:37.640 So you have a plus one forward. Okay, so be sure we'll write that down. Plus one forward for Ricky. This person drops like a bag of potatoes. We'll say the harm. Technically they're supposed to inflict harm on you. So they throw something at you. Take a point of harm. They just throw some like, debris at you. Kind of gets in your eye. That kind of hurts a little bit. So take a point of harm. Mm. The person drops. And because I did this last time, Chandler, I think it's fair that I do it again. You. Your. Your third eye opens when I have your act under pressure. And sure enough, you see the shape, humanoid shaped form lift out of this person who just got knocked unconscious. Go through the floor and down to the basement. Hal, you're hiding down the basement, right? You hear boosh, right? A roar. And then. Ah. This body will do nice. 53:39.000 --> 53:40.440 I think he means nicely.