Previously on Absolutely Killing It. It is clear to you that what Razor is doing, for some reason, breaking one of the five rules of being a Guild member.
We need to be careful, because if they're all possessed, this is going to be bad for us.
Well, that's a wrap on the two of you. Here inside the palace.
He wears unnecessarily tall top hats, you know, usually a cape with a doctor Strange collar.
The Guild does not recognize magic, anything supernatural as real.
Who do you think wants revenge on you or on the Council?
Who's higher up than you? Who do you think's a hot target?
As you all have this cigarette break here with Razor Tully in the parking lot, so I'll turn it over to you. There was discussion of maybe going to Ralph's. I don't know if we've actually gone to Ralph's yet or not, so that's obviously an option. It is about a little bit after midday, so probably about 2ish. You've been asked to leave the Magic Palace. Technically, Chandler can go in. He is still a member of the Guild there. It's kind of like they're preparing the theater for audiences, you know what I mean? So that's kind of why they cleared you out on top of everything that's been happening today. So what do y' all want to do?
Should we get Razor tickets for something so that, you know, we can talk.
Privately, like back in the Magic Palace?
Oh, yeah. Maybe he wants to see a show.
Were you talking about a show elsewhere?
I just thought. Ticket. Any kind of tickets. The tickets is for, you know, a thing that you attend. So he would have to do that. And then we could talk privately.
Right.
Razor, I could just.
I could just leave. I could just get up and go away if you want me to call it.
I don't want you to feel like we're trying to get rid of you.
I mean, you're. I'm still a member until the boarding, so I could go in there right. Right now if I really wanted to. I have my things in there.
Amazing, actually. So your. Your marching orders don't take effect until you're replaced.
Well, they gotta do a. We gotta do a formal meeting in the morning. I don't know what I'm gonna say.
Is there gonna be evidence? Do you need a lawyer?
He points at the three of you. You're gonna be my evidence.
Okay. I gotta get my blazer pressed.
Yeah. I need to go home and get new clothes.
Maybe I misspoke. I don't need you to be My lawyers. I need you to. To figure out what's going on here tonight, and then maybe I could figure out a way to convince them that what happened wasn't me, you know? Do you know what I mean?
All right, back into the magic palace. Let's go.
Wait, do you want us to be your lawyers?
No, I'm saying I don't need you as lawyers. I need you to be.
What.
What are evidence. What would you call yourselves?
The hotties with the bodies.
Hotties with the bodies.
The humans. Hotties with the bodies.
And witches.
Cute witches.
And witnesses.
Razor has that look on which you. You've made a choice and you realize that maybe it wasn't the strongest choice. That is the face he has, he is wearing at this moment as he smokes his Virginia Slim.
Well, Chandler has your number, right?
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Okay, great. Let's splinter off. Not that we want to get rid of you, but yeah, we'll go do our. I don't know, Ralph's thing or whatever and call us if you learn anything new. And likewise, we'll call you if we feel like it.
Nuts.
What's the likelihood you're going to call us, though? I just need to know for self esteem reasons.
Yeah, it's true. We need to also prioritize. Probably our phone charging in case you do feel likely to call.
How about this? I'll make it easy. I'm going to be here tonight, so if you have any updates, just come find me here at the Palace.
You just stay here all day among people who want you dead or they.
Don'T want me dead. There's. I just need to clear my name. And if I can prove to them that I wasn't the one that did this, that this was something else, that I might be able to keep my. My position.
Yeah.
Want anything from Ralph's?
Razor gives you a very short list of some items he could use. He's a big fan of the spindrift fizzy water, so you just ask for like a bunch of the flavors he. He heads.
Okay. So not. Not easy. We couldn't just pick up like a 12 pack? It's good. We need singles of three or four different flavors.
You. You offered, so that's.
Oh, sorry, I was. I thought you were already.
Oh, no. I'm gone. I'm gone. He runs away. You also notice that the valet crew is starting to clear the lot because it's going to be Valley parking. And of course, Clyde is parked here.
Can I just say, this list is so much better than the Last list we got from our friends because, one, there's only just a bunch of flavors of spindrift. And they're not out of order. They're in perfect form and we don't have to guess any allergens. It's great. I love this list.
I, I mean, I, I, I, you already know. I kind of disagree, but help me. What would out of order be? Is there, is there a proper ascendance from lemon to strawberry or something?
No, it's just, you know, we had a friend who was allergic to certain things and they gave us a list of what they were allergic to and what they wanted, but we didn't know the severity of the, the allergens. So let me, you know, let me go through my phone and see if I can find this list.
You want to call somebody else? Maybe they know something?
No, I don't have that much phone battery. Oh, yeah, just enough to look up a list.
Okay, I'm gonna go bring Clyde around.
Hugo, he turns to you as a tow truck pulls into the driveway there. Is this yours?
No, I don't drive a tow truck. I need my motorcycle keys.
Oh, sure. He tossed. He throws the keys in the air. Do you catch him?
Well, I try to. I try to catch him behind my back.
You do that. The tow truck is headed towards Clyde. How you do.
I'm gonna walk next to it and talk up into the window. Is this, Is this normal that you have a bunch of work like midday, or do you, do you mostly do stuff like late, late at night when you. And, you know, there's all kinds of, like, no overnight parking things?
The answer is yes. That's weird.
I don't feel like it was a yes or no question.
This. Is this your bike?
That's Clyde.
Yeah. I mean, I don't know. They called. I come by here and I take stuff out of here, man.
You know, it's pretty sweet, right?
It's pretty sweet. I gotta do a whole special setup for it. So. I'll be honest with you. I don't really want to tow your bike.
You want to sit in the, in the sidecar?
No, I, I really. I gotta make somebody bad. I gotta.
You want to sit behind me?
You want to sit in the truck? I tow your bike.
I'll just sit up there and then we could tow something else.
Okay. Hop in. I get in the passengers, Chandler and Ricky. As Ricky, I'm assuming you're going through your notes. You see the tow truck go behind, behind Clyde and back up. Hal hopped into the Passenger seat. As you see the driver hop out.
Oh, come on. A free ride home. We gotta jump on that.
You want to ride in the sidecar?
Heck yeah.
While it's being towed. We should probably both ride in there.
I take off running before I hear the rest of your sentence.
Right? Sit on the motorcycle while it's being towed.
I'm leaning out of the passenger side window now, and I'm like, it kind of defeats the purpose. I got in here to talk to you, and now you're outside futzing with the hydraulics.
He goes back to the window to talk to you directly. Hal, 50 bucks.
No, thanks. I'm kind of flush at the moment. What was your name, though? I didn't catch it.
35. 35 and I just leave.
All right, sure. You can give me 35 bucks.
You give me 35.
Why would I give you 35 bucks?
Otherwise I'd tow the bike. You're climbing into the bike, into the bike. He doesn't notice you as he looks. He's like looking like right into the window. You hear Hal's voice. I don't know if you can see him.
You don't have to tow my bike. We're getting it out of here.
Why is the bike getting towed if you want to? Hal, you can roll manipulate someone based on his role. The two of you, you made help out. But let's see how you roll first here.
Hal, can I just toss the keys to Ricky?
I mean, you can, you can.
Sure.
I would like to do it surreptitiously. Like, you know, toss him out the driver's side if he's. He's talking to me from below on the passenger side.
Sure.
Yeah, you could do that. Sure. It looks like he is. He is set on towing your. Your bike here unless you. Unless you have another stunt. Unless you have another stunt. Maybe you don't want to do it verbally. I don't know.
Well, I'll roll manipulate someone because even we need even just a little time to get Ricky to start it up or whatever.
Do I have to un ratchet from the.
He has not started to apply the cables yet. You rolled a two, which is what we call a failure. Six or lower is a fail. Normally someone could roll help. You know, the move is called help someone. The most you could get is a plus one for that. So that is not going to help you in this situation.
Can I manipulate someone?
How would you like to do that, Chandler?
You know, by, just by manipulating him.
You. You may in a moment. We need to Do a house fail first. So be sure you mark experience. We learned from our mistakes. I did.
Thank you.
On a fail. I think Ricky, he has given up trying to get money out of Hal and he is now starting to lower cables. Chandler, if you'd like to try something or Ricky, feel free.
Maybe we could.
First of all, wait.
Did you not pay the registration?
Hal?
I mean what's. Why is this being towed?
I'm going through the glove box now. I don't know. I don't understand any of this.
Are you going through the tow trucks glove box?
The tow trucks.
Oh, the tow truck. That makes it. That makes more sense.
I haven't understood anything that's happened.
Listen, it's super simple. They clear out the lot. People park here because they live in the buildings. They're visiting friends. They just clear out the lot. I come here and I were leaving.
I thought we were friends.
I was t. I. Fine. $15. $15.
I don't want your money, man. I just want to go.
You. You putting a cable on the front tire. It. It's look like it's going to take him a bit to do this.
Listen, listen, tow truck guy. What if we were.
Call me Allan.
Allan. Thank you.
Thank you. Look, Allen. Is it with 1L and the second A or 2L's and an E?
3L'S?
A Y, N. I knew it. Alan.
I think her name is Alan.
Yeah.
Is it Alan?
I know how to say my name. It's Alan.
What if we were to hook you up?
What a unique name.
Tickets to the Magic palace tonight. Would that maybe get us off the hook? Literally? Unless you haven't put it on the hook yet, in which case not literally.
Chandler. He stops in his track. Please roll manipulate someone. And I'm going to give you a plus one to this roll because that is the hot ticket in town. It's a magic palace. So please roll manipulate someone for me. And you fulfilled the requirements of the. Of the move before I had to ask you. That is a four, which is a failure even with the plus one.
Elian.
Hold on really quickly. Ricky. I do need to deal with Chandler. But then I will come to you. He says to you, everyone here, I can get in with the valets. I can get in for everybody. I appreciate it, but my job is to clear the lot. I'm sorry. He looks over at Ricky. Yeah.
Hello, Alan Yir. May I just. I'm just gonna reach in my pocket and whatever I pull out is yours. How about that?
Is it $15?
Could be. Would you like to. Would you like to take what's behind pocket number one?
Just to be clear, you just go to produce something for your pocket, and then it's mine. Nothing else, no strings attached?
Well, sometimes I've got like a loose 50 in my pocket. I can't break it, so.
Okay, he. He. He watches. He watches.
She also has lip balm.
Yeah, but I know what slip balm. I'm going more for like that paper texture. Okay, Keep your pocket.
Why would you. The premise is that you're going for something you're feeling around with intention.
Yeah. You know when you have. You know when you reach into your pocket and you have leftover money versus a receipt, you just know.
I just want to be clear. You're just gonna give me something from your pocket with no. No response from me at all. I don't have to do anything. I just get the thing from your pocket? Correct.
Well, you give us back our sweet baby.
Oh, okay. Well, that changes. That changes the deal. I would have to see the thing first and then we could decide.
You. You realize you're only asking for $15?
I'm just. I just need something. You know, I want a Carl's sugar sandwich.
I'm saying I could have a 50 in my pocket, but you just want 15.
Your friend just said you might have lip balm, which is less than 15.
But I wouldn't be giving you the lip balm. I know what that feels like. That doesn't feel like crinkly paper. That's a tube.
I just misunderstood the game. I just thought you were gonna grab something out of your bag.
This is why we're not together anymore.
This, this. This is it. I wish you had said something sooner.
Hugh walks over and he just pulls Allen wrench to the side. There's a little. There's a little argument and you see somebody exchange and Allan goes back to you. Hal, you can. You can have your day. You can have your car, your bag, your bike.
Have I found anything in the glove box?
Yeah, you found a lot of M&M's packaging his company of employ.
So they're empty packs.
Pokemon? Yeah, they're empty. There's no M&M's in there. Pokemon pack also empty.
I'm gonna take all the empty wrappers and I'm gonna be like, geez. Well, okay, I don't. Feels weird to thank you for my own vehicle. But I tell you what, I'll throw away this trash for you. Unless you. Unless this Pokemon has like a redeem value.
No, no, it's Just an empty wrapper. You can take it. Thank you.
Great. I'll dispose of it. According to LA city sanitation guidelines.
There's a swelling of pride in his face. Knowing that you're adhering to municipal rules. Hugh gives you a look. Chandler.
Like I, I, I do the same casual salute.
I, I should say what I'm doing. He's pointing at his nose, I guess is what I was doing. He's like pointing at his nose as if maybe he expects a favor in the future.
Thanks, Hugo. Alain. It's been really fucking weird.
So, Hunters, what is next? We're on Clyde. We have a shopping list for Ralphs, which I don't. You know, I'll be honest with you. I'll just be honest. Razor doesn't really. He won't be heartbroken if you don't get a spin drip. He's more concerned about him losing his spot on the council. What is your move here? What? Yeah, what's next for the team? And feel free since it is three of you now, if you want to hop out of character to talk as players, feel free to do so.
Okay, guys, I am disappointed by how little we learned from the magicians. So I think maybe I'll get on the old githole to see if anyone can tell us specifics about possessions and additionally, if there's anybody in the LA metro area that could tell us more about this type of magic. Also, I thought we had to dress for tomorrow morning. You're saying we've got to come up with. Nice.
How often do we land at one to sleep? Sometimes we're out all night.
I feel like I was just there.
The Magic palace has a strict dress code.
Oh, I'm glad I found out. Yeah, well, I was gonna tell me what it is.
I wasn't gonna let you show up with corduroy or anything.
I don't have formal wear. That's not corduroy.
Well, I guess we're going shopping.
Let me look at the GitHub first.
Great. It sounds like we have a few things on the menu. Let's deal with GitHub first. I don't know if we've used this yet, Hal, so if we have, I think it's worth just refresh. What is this and what are you researching? And then we'll have you roll.
It is a user maintained database of strange and paranormal records and archives that I have solidified reputation on. Access to a more than usual number of branches of the posted info.
Is it like Reddit? Is it more like a Wikipedia? Like how would, if you were to like visually visualize it for us?
Candidly, I barely ever use GitHub, so I think everything I'm drawing on is like Reddit, but if it were set up like less. Less for the purposes of interaction, but more for the purposes of disseminating or collating information. So like flair is like what gives me my extra access to more things than the usual user.
Gotcha. Two questions. What's your username on there? I don't know if we've established that.
Hardbrist lr.
Hardbrist lr. Yeah. Okay, I like it. And what's your search like? Yeah, what are you looking up here? I will. Just to, just to head you off at the past, just so you know, possession is a gigantic category. Okay. So if you were able to narrow it based on anything that you've experienced so far, that may help like, you know, narrow your results.
Any, any suggestions from you guys? I'm gonna try and remember what Hugh. No. Hugh. Noel. Noel. Hugo.
Noel Huell.
Noel Huell. Noel Huell told me.
How about this? You know what? I don't know, maybe I miss. Maybe I misled you. You could just roll. Investigate a mystery and you can narrow it down from that way. So if you want to just do that. Just what is this search function you want to call on or. And feel free teammates if you want to chime in on something too.
I guess my memory of talking with Noel was that he figured out what happened to him without remembering, without. Without experiencing any of his possession. So I'm going to search. To answer the first part of your question, Chris, I'm going to search for possessions where the subject does not remember what has happened, what they did.
Are you just like worldwide, Louisiana, you know, are you just like, just whatever information you can find?
So this is actually a question about like having holds, I guess. So if I had, if I get a result that lets me hold two, then am I able to say like, well, first I want to see what my general results are and I'll pick a question and then based on, if I think like, oh, this helps me get even narrower, then I can do like a follow up search that is, you know, specific to the SoCal area. For example.
I think what, how the game function would handle that is that let's say you, you put in a query for possession, right? And you get a whole two and you don't save the one. We would narratively come up with. Maybe someone's like, hey, by the way, did you see this? And then you can ask me that question and they might give you that. That new answer later. You know what I mean? Like user butterfly wings found another relevant piece that answers the second question you asked me at a later time.
And that would just be in this scenario where I like I'm, I'm holding one of my questions and that's so I choose to figure or ask it later.
Yeah, or we could or you could say, hey, hey Chris, I want to use that other hold on that search. Can I do what was it going to do for instance? And then we could you and I would come up with the reason why this came later.
Okay. In that case, I think I want to start as specific as possible. So I'll try to look for recent SoCal possession, first person or second person accounts where the subject does not remember what they did.
Okay. Please Romy, investigate the mystery if you could, please. That is a 12. That is an advanced success. What that means is on a 10 plus you get a hold 2. So I'll read through the questions as you and I just discussed. You can hold one of them if you decide to be helpful later on. But it is specifically based on the search you just did. What happened here? What sort of creature is it? What can it do? What can hurt it? Where did it go? What was it going to do? What is being concealed here in response to your search?
So I think first I want to know what happened here and just get a thorough reading of whatever account or accounts seem relevant.
So as you're looking at some accounts from the Southern California area, there is some stuff you sift through that you're not sure is, you know, relevant or not. Chandler has kind of hinted on this already to a degree, but I will help narrow it. Based on your search, it seems like the top two candidates here is some sort of devil demon possession or some sort of spiritual possession like ghosts, you know, possessions. Poltergeist could potentially possess someone. Typically, based on the anecdotes you're reading, it kind of depends on the entity how much they're taking over a person. You know, there might be a possession where the person is aware what's happening, but they can't do anything about it. There's somewhere they do blackout. You do notice specifically there is an instance. It was. It's very brief and they just thought it was weird. But they filed it under possession. Where they just is in the Hollywood general area. It was one evening and they, they felt like they lost time and just some things were rearranged, things were weird and so they Attributed to some sort of ghost possession. They thought maybe they upset somebody. They did not assume that it was a demon or devil. But there was about three months ago this, this random report of a very brief lost time episode. You do have a hold left.
All right, so I can, I can ask another question and then I can choose to like reply to this user if I want. Like as a separate thing, right?
Yeah, if you'd like to, sure.
Okay, so I'll ask what can hurt it as a way of. Yeah. Understanding what some of the options might be.
So the good news on what can hurt it is depends on what the source of the possession is. But generally speaking, anything that is made unconscious, the thing that's possessing it can't really use a body that's been made unconscious. So getting the thing out, one way to do so would be to knock the host unconscious. Therefore the spirit or demon would decide, well, this isn't going to do what I need to do, at least for the short term. And so that they will leave the body. That is one option is to knock them out. Knock the host out. Anything else?
I will, I'll try to DM this 3 months ago user and say, hey friendo. Having some specific questions. Wondering if there's any been any follow up unexplained activity. Do you think for example that the ghost was upset but is no longer. Would love to chat. Currently in Hollywood.
Okay, who are you texting?
What's the username?
Lasers and Felix.
Correct. Feelings as in emotions. Just an N. So laser, capital L. Lasers and feelings.
Lasers and feelings. Lasers and feelings.
Oh, what do they sell?
I'm hoping information, but I haven't asked yet.
Okay.
Chandler, you know anybody else in town that knows about possessions?
I mean, I know some, you know, I know like a couple horror movie buffs who have seen all the movies about possession, but I don't know if that makes them any kind of real expert.
Gary Alderman. He's seen them all.
Ricky, this is. Thank you for the cue. Are we invoking one of the four categories for your playbook?
Yeah.
Oh, so I can read them all, but it's quite a long list. Which of that category does Gary fall under?
He falls under film and tv.
Great.
So one of your four contact types. And this, this will be for the entirety of Ricky's career here. Film and tv. You know, you know people in film and tv. And that is open ended for a reason. So I'm going to write this on your sheet. Film and tv. Gary Alderman. What is, what is Gary Alderman's role in this.
He is my hero cinephile. And, you know, I want to know what his hot take on possessions is from all the different movies he's seen, if there's any signs, if there's a certain type that they. That these entities go for.
This is important. How do we spell Gary's last name?
This is the classic O, L, D, E, R, M, A, N. Okay. Just how he likes it.
And so are you reaching out to Gary? How do you do that? And. Yeah, how does that look? What does that look like?
Can I borrow one of your phones? Guys, I'm at 8%.
Yeah, I'm at 9. Weren't you at 30? Something like three hours ago?
I was playing Candy Crush.
Oh, my God.
What level are you on?
600.
Oh, you jumped up. You did a lot of levels today.
Yeah, I did a lot of crushing. Anyone else still playing this game?
Just so you all know, I was looking through the Monster of the Week player the handbook today, and there is a section about custom moves that, you know, the Keeper can make for monsters or hunters. I don't know what it looks like yet, so in an episode or two, I will debut it to the three of you. It will involve battery percentages and using your phone. I don't know what it looks like yet, but I feel. I feel like that is made for our game. It'll have something to do with your phone, probably working while it is at under 10% battery. That's kind of where I'm starting at, so I will let you know what that move looks like very soon.
Well, mine's right at 10, so I guess you better eat mine.
Perfect. I'm just going to send a couple texts.
Oh, okay. Well, make sure they don't seem like they're coming for me.
Oh, okay. Yeah, I'll put my full name, I take my phone and use 2% to look up Gary's number and that. Which brings me down to 6%. Michaels. Michaels. Michaels. I know a lot of Michaels. Okay. And Gary Olderman. Okay, so let me just copy this number over. Okay. Hey, Gary, it's Ricky Lumticki. How's it going? Hope all is well. I hope your stomach feels better. Long time no chat. Just wondering how many possession movies you've seen. What's the 4 1. One who typically gets possessed, who's like. Who's the bait? Okay. Love you. Friend sent.
I say this often and I'll say it here again, there is no wrong answer here. Ricky, is Gary used to getting non contact relevant Num messages from you. Like it's gonna be an unknown number. You know those spam texts you get what's like, hey, I'm at the airport ready to pick you up like. Or is Gary like, oh, it's Ricky again. She does, she does this.
Oh, this is Ricky. Oh, yeah.
So Gary is.
Yeah, it's not just Gary, it's everybody.
So Gary is of course very used to this mode of communication. You get a reply. The bubbles, by the way, do you have, is it iPhone? Would you see the imessage where you see the bubbles?
Oh, I, yeah, I have, I have a, an iPhone.
8. Great. So it has maybe two hour battery life in a given day, but it's.
It'S, but it's running the, the os, you know, from four years ago.
Sure, sure. So instantly, Rick, you get a reply. I've seen, I'm gonna say his voice for some reason. I've seen them all, guys.
He's seen them all.
All caps by the way. All caps. I've seen them all.
Even like Bollywood stuff.
Huh? It says all like three times. All, all, all. But he puts. What do you mean by bait? Question mark.
Oh, maybe you should call him in real time.
Hal, I just noticed your bluetooth is on. Do you want this on or off?
Oh yeah, that's a good call. Turn it off. I think we could start the motorcycle without it.
Okay.
You can call me. It says in all caps.
Dialing.
He hits FaceTime.
Oh, hey. And it's a very unflattering angle of my face.
Sure. And his is also from like you see just part of his nose and his eyes.
Mine's just all my. All chins I can get and up my nose. Because I don't really. I keep looking at my guys, at my boys.
Ricky limb ticky as I live and breathe. What do I owe the pleasure doing a movie festival? I. I guess.
No, no, no. I'm on another one of my jobs, if you get what I'm saying.
Oh, I catch your drift.
So we're thinking it's possession. Womp, womp, womp. Hello?
Okay. Yeah.
I thought there was the boys. Say hi.
Hi.
Hey, hey, hey. Hi.
Hi. Hi. Behind him you can see he's in. Well, partially because he just have his phone at an odd angle. Seems to be like at some sort of desk from the angle. You can tell. So he might be at work or some sort of please of employment.
Is this a bad time? You look like you work.
Ricky Lim. Tookey. I, I pick up the phone immediately.
Ah, that's why you're my favorite. Yeah, I was just wondering, is there a certain type of person of all your possession movies that seems the easiest to possess? Is it. You know, usually, is it the main characters? It's someone who's very noticeable, who has all the charisma, who steals the light of the room, or should we be looking elsewhere?
Huh? Well, I mean, it's kind of depends on the story you're telling. You know, sometimes it's someone who is more easier to possess by the spirit or the. Or the demon, or it's someone who has a personal grudge against a living person. It could be to embarrass somebody. It could be to just have a body to walk around. If you don't have one, it's really kind of.
What about that one with. With Lily Tomlin and Steve Martin? Did they get possessed because they were so goofy? They were both goofy. Is that what.
Remind me the title of that one again.
Boy, Boy, what a day.
Boy, boy, what a date.
All of me.
Oh, did you watch Real Time?
Boy, Boy, Boy, Boy, Boy Boy what a Day was a sequel to all of Me.
Oh, yeah, that one started those B listers. That's right, right, right.
It was like recasted. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All of Me.
All of Me. Yeah. Well, yeah, that one was a ghost that wasn't happy that they were in the house and the ghost possessed them each in turn. Comedy ensued. Blah, blah. It was a horror comedy. It was very revolutionary for its time.
I was revolted, that's for sure.
So do any. Here's a question. Yeah, what I've picked up is we've got a couple possessions. One was an unknown neighborhood. You know, regular gentile type person of the streets. Okay. Local young seem to have no harm, right? Seem. Seem to be fine. Then it gets a little bit more intense. Anybody want to. Anybody want to add on to that first one anymore?
Ricky, you're doing great. You're doing great so far.
You're so. You're always so kind and I just rub my face into. Into the camera.
Okay, Maybe we switch to just speaker, audio only or something. I. I do worry a little bit about the battery.
Oh, yeah, you're. You're at 4%. We should probably just make this quick.
We gotta make this quick. I'm so making this move, by the way. I have to make this move. It is coming next time we play.
Okay?
Yeah.
So. Okay, so I mean, we only have 4%. What else did I say? Guys.
Whatever is doing the possession is promising. Revenge. So it took over a member. It took over someone that maybe it wanted revenge against or at least was a close connection to the people it wants revenge against.
Yeah, so the second. Yeah, the second person is our buddy. Again. A little bit more to, oh, 3%. A little bit more. Less innocent, for sure. Gosh. Gosh, my brain.
Are you okay? Ricky?
Are you.
What's happening?
No, I'm just digging into the. The deepest recesses of my mind to get all the hints.
Well, if you said this thing's out for revenge, why would it want revenge? Who would it want revenge on?
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Ricky, you are speaking with Gary Olderman, one of your contacts, and this is my mistake. So I will correct it here, and then we can remind each other going forward when you hit up your contacts. I should have had you roll investigative mystery, which I did not, so that's. That's my fault. So basically, you would roll. Investigate a mystery. You would, you know, reach out to your contact, and then basically we would probably, you know, judge it up, role play wise. But basically, you would get so many questions based on your role to. To Gary. I did not ask you. So I. I read it will be mad at me. I did not ask you to roll for that, so that's my bad. But I will have you roll. Now. You do get a plus one to this roll, and we'll see what happens on this roll. It does say or small favors. So maybe we can chalk up to what's happened here so far. You'll hit him a small favor down the line, and then this roll will. Basically, we kind of ended on a cliffhanger question, so we'll see if he can answer this. This question you asked him, and you.
Said, I add one to this roll.
You get a plus. One to this roll for this move purpose. Correct. 11. That's a full success. So we'll say, well, you tell me, Ricky. I'll actually, since I made a mistake, that is a full success. So 11 plus 1 is 12, which means you get a whole 2. You technically probably only asked one question on this list so far. What sort of creature is it? Right. That kind of fits to what you've already asked him. Right. So I will say, I'll let you choose, Ricky. If you, if you. What you've, what you've gotten so far from him will say is a small favor, and you get two more. You get your whole two. Or there's no small favor involved. You just get one more question from him, which is the question you asked. Or you could rephrase it if you want to ask him a different question. I'll leave that choice up to you.
Yeah, I think. Is there a way to ask just one more question?
You can ask one more question and you won't owe him a small favorite.
I mean, I could always owe him a favor. That's no problem. Do anything for my Gary Olderman, if you.
What kind of favors does he typically have?
They're small.
Super small. So like one of those dumb, dumb lollipops. Sometimes I'll ask for a certain flavor, but I have to get it from the dentist. So it's kind of a larger one, but it's a small reward, you know, one of those things.
So if you want to owe him a small favor, then you get two more holds, which could be the question that you asked him about. Or you could choose, you could choose to rephrase that question if you'd.
To like, I'll keep. I just have one more question to ask.
Okay.
Do you know what this entity was going to do next? If you could guess? Because the question is, what was it going to do? Except is there a way.
What was it going to do in the context because we brought up a couple totally real movies, or are you describing the situation so far and asking him to theorize? What is it going. What was it going to do?
Yeah, by. By going in order of ranking of the movie chat, talking about the young, wonderful boy who was so innocent to our friend, who's not as innocent because he's a little bit older. What is. What is the next move?
And we don't have to role play this. Do you kind of fill him in on the palace structure, for lack of a better word? Like, did you tell him, like the council role and that sort of. You Fill them in on kind of the information, you know, already about, like, Razor and his role and all that.
Stuff super quickly, because we're now at 3% battery. Great.
He says, well, I mean, if I were writing this movie and Conclave.
I know.
Conclave. Great movie, by the way.
Great. Except it's not an actual conclave.
For this, I wanted a post credit scene, but that's just me. Whoa. Yeah. You always got to get the post credits, and you want them to watch the credits. Well, if I were writing this movie and I spray painted revenge tonight and I got one of the council members in trouble for breaking rule, well, I mean, my time's not done. I got. I got more council people to get revenge on. Right.
Going even bigger in a smaller pond. I see.
I mean, it's still daylight out, so I would say that's the. The spirit kind of saying, you know, doom is up. You know, doom is ahead. Here, here I come. And they're gonna get the revenge. Nice and sweet.
You know what? And because this is the movies, I'm gonna say another. Another male is gonna get hit because they'd never. They'd never let a lady take this big of a. Of a risk.
That's true. That's true. Well, I mean, I. I would say that that's how I would write this.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's how I'd write this. And probably some big dramatic Carrie, like kind of thing, you know, just like really get the revenge.
Blood.
I was thinking Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and City, but yeah, that works too.
Oh, I thought of the verb to carry.
Like shipping.
I never liked Mr. Big. I thought, you know what, he just shows up in a limo.
Come on, you know.
Yes, Ricky, can you. Can you give him like a single nerd or something like that so I.
Can ask another question? I'm on the phone.
I mean, in the future, I mean.
Oh, I could give him a fun size pack of nerds, or I can give him a single nerd.
That. That sounds great, Gary. Can I. Can I ask you.
The clock starts to rotate as the.
Phone dies and your phone's dead.
It's also hot. Like, it's actually warm to your palm.
Yeah, you should get this checked out. This iPhone 8 I'm worried about still works. Yes, it stall works, but I just think it's. It could use a little ice bath right now, an extra battery.
Okay, maybe I'll toss it in with the. With the party ice in the Ralph.
Okay, we're going back into Ralph's.
I. I'm open to suggestions. I really should get it charged sometime soon though. I'm waiting on a reply from Laser Feeling. Laser and feelings. Laser, Laser and Laser. Laser Feelings.
I'll drive.
Laser. Laser and feelings. Laser and Lasering Feet. Lasering.
As Hal tries to say the username, bad news is rush hours hit us. What do you want to do? Where do you want to go?
It's back to the palace, right? No, wait. We have to go back to our respective abodes to change or are we going to. Okay, are we going back to the palace and then going home later to get dressed up and then back to the palace tonight?
No, that's gonna kill us in rush hour. We gotta. If we need to dress a certain way, we gotta dress a certain way now. Even though hopefully we're there.
Right.
Okay.
Before it actually opens, we all need.
To go home or to Men's Warehouse and get some appropriate clothes for tonight.
So expensive.
I'll get it.
There is one on Hollywood Boulevard.
Right there is that knockoff Men's Warehouse on Hollywood Boulevard.
Right.
Right next to Hollywood toys and magic.
Three suits for 99.
Yeah. So I mean, you know, that would. In the long run, that's a good deal. It's an investment.
And they include some dress socks that turn to powder.
Socks turn to powder. But the ties are reversible.
Aren't all ties reversible?
Well, yeah, but it would be the same design on both sides. But these ones have different designs on each side.
Really quickly, this is Keeper Chris hopping in here live for those of you not in la, and I know this is probably universal for everywhere in the country, but once it hits like 4pm it is going to take an hour to get anywhere. So that is what we are referring to here. Traffic is going to be a crawl no matter where they go. Assuming they take Clyde sometimes. Two hours. One time it took me two hours to get from Century City. Century City to Hollywood in two hours. Good God, two hours. I missed. I missed a whole thing. I was not on horse, I was in a car. So that, that is the, that is the new threat in our game. Here is traffic.
We're still in Hollywood. We're in east Hollywood. That, that warehouse is maybe more central Hollywood.
Well, why don't we just go back do valet again and then just walk down to the mall at the.
I'm gonna buy three suits and then spend money on a valet.
We haven't gone to get the suits yet. Let me finish. This is why we ended our relationship.
You really don't communicate why you break up with people Very well, Ricky. I'm sorry to say.
This is a great point, Chandler. I would love to date someone as forthcoming and straightfor forward as you.
Yeah, I like to be. I like to know exactly why I'm being so. I'm as I'm being dumped.
Well, thanks to couples therapy on Paramount. Plus I now know how to communicate. Too bad it didn't exist when we were together with their ads. No, no ads this time.
Too bad there are no sharing households anymore on that account.
So if. If we go straight from Ralph's, which we are now, we've. We've left Ralph's. We just go back to the Magic palace, then we walk down the hill to the shopping center. Screw the three suits for 99. I'll use my little bit of plastic, I'll use some of my monthly allowance and I'll get us close from H.
And M. This is all happening on the back of. Clyde, Are you on there? Are you in traffic right now? Actually, there is probably some congestion. So you can hear each other. Probably.
All right, if you're going to buy me a suit, I will pay the valet. Assuming Hugo gives us the thumbs up that we can park a little early at the palace.
Just because I think it's fair. Chandler, you. From your experience, they typically open valet at 6, which is when arrivals start. So you would get there probably a little early if you go right there right now.
Yeah, guys, we can park right now. You know what? Let's just go straight there. You know, I'll hook it up, I'll make it work. Plus, I mean, by the time we get there, it's probably not even going to be early.
So Clyde the mobile pulls up and just so I'm clear, you're still wearing your day clothes, right, Hal? So. And then, Ricky, you're wearing your day clothes, right?
My trench.
Yes, your trench. Your trench. Right, right. So you pull up. There are cones like at the base of the. At the base of the driveway. You reach the little stand. Hugo comes around, says, I'll park it. I'll park it for you.
Hugo, my man. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. I know we're a little early. This is great.
It's all right. They've opened the doors. He gives you your ticket. You can pay the cashier inside.
We will. We'll be right back.
Well, you know, you're. You're here now. You do need to have a shirt and tie though, at a coat.
Well, I'm just gonna go pick up a shirt and tie.
You just bellied Your car here? Yeah. Yeah.
Well, we, we're just gonna go right, right across there to get a shirt.
We do have. We do have some here. We do have some here.
Okay.
Are they my size?
No, they're definitely not my size.
Chandler knows this. They're intentionally, like off sizes to, to kind of make you feel like you weren't prepared.
Yeah, I tell you what, let me see if they can accommodate me. I know the girl at the front. Let me ask her.
Trixie.
Who?
Psych.
You know, my coke.
Trixie. Every time.
Yeah, heading outside, he takes Clyde and drives off with it as you enter. Obviously you know how to get in here, but you do see, people are starting to pay and, and wander in that first area. The Magic palace is beginning its night festivities. Trixie is behind the, behind that little booth there. And there's a codec on the opposite side. And she looks towards you. Chandler, are these your. Are these your guests for tonight? Chandler?
Yeah, these are. Yeah, definitely. They're with me.
So Mark. Yeah, so mark this on your list for. This is one of your freebies for the year, right?
Yep, yep, yep, yep.
Okay, dinner is separate. Unless you want us to put that under your thing or two.
No, you know, keep it. Keep that separate.
Okay, so they'll pay. They'll pay that on the way out. Yeah, yeah. Okay.
Well, what is it?
It's 110 each.
No, no.
It'S dinner.
I mean, what do you eat for dinner?
I mean, I bring my own food. I only got 100 bucks for dinner every night.
Well, I'll have some of yours then.
If I open a dictionary to dinner, that's what I'm having.
She says yes. Yes. That's what you're having. Dinner.
I mean, I'm down for a new experience.
Honestly, it's better than what I expected.
It's a five course meal and it's got, you know, you get. You get like a choice of two or three for each course.
Two or three?
Are they. Are you. Wait, are you in line here? I need to pay. There's a guy and a girl behind you. We need to pay to. Are you in line here? We want to get.
Sorry, we were first in the lot.
I know. You're just. You're chatting with Trixie there. We want to get in there, get our drinks.
No, I don't know Trixie.
Actually, I would like to look at the outfits tonight that I can choose from to wear inside.
Sure. Janice has them in the code. Check and check with her.
Thank you, Janice. Thank you. Yes, thanks, Janice.
The. The couple goes and pays and Janice says, yeah, you need a shirt and tie. And I think the overcoat might work for you, ma'. Am. That's probably fine, unless you want to wear a shirt.
No, no, no. I'll keep my overcoat and then I'll get dinner.
Great. Janice shows you a few options. Hal, they're all way too big for you. And the ties are comically large, like clown. Clown, like width.
Is there one that has vertical stripes so it is slimming for the shirt itself.
When did you get so body conscious?
It sounds like he's shirt conscious.
Yeah. Thank you. I'm. I'm. I'm image projection conscious, not body conscious, just making sure.
Because you used to flaunt it all over.
I still flaunt. I flaunt all the time. I'll flaunt now.
She holds up to you a yellow tie with vertical stripes. It is again, clown width. And then a very large brown blazer.
Great yellow and brown. I look like Colonel Suicidal High School President.
There you go. Hands you the gear.
Okay, thank you. Can you tell Janice out front we really appreciate her connecting us with you?
I'm Janice. I'm the Korcheck lady.
Janice.
Hugo's outside. Trixie's across the way. I'm Janice.
It's pretty confusing. Okay, well, thanks, Janice. And please do tell the other Janice.
Looks like this guy doesn't need a drink. She says to the other two of you.
Was that a joke?
Mm.
Okay.
Yeah. I'm doing a five minute set at the west side later this week. You know, they only do. They only do stand up now. They don't random letterpraph now.
Oh, that's great. Well, we'll try to keep it in mind, Jan. Great.
And I'll get that guy a drink. I get it.
Oh, no, I get it. Yeah. Thanks, babe.
No. Who? What? Oh.
Secret the door for me.
Are you entering the magic house?
Secret the door.
Yes.
That'S the door's name, right?
Secret.
Secret the door for me.
The door. Does that move?
Secret, my love. The door.
Trixie goes. You know, he just pulled. You just pulled the book.
Thanks, Janet.
Yeah, yeah, that. I'm Trixie. Janice is there. Hugo's outside.
I know Hugo. I pull the book.
Okay. Door opens and you see people are already here. You know, suits and fine dresses. The piano played by the mysterious ghost is playing music. Yeah. The night has started. Where to? What do you want to do?
Well, we could catch an early close up.
What?
Yep.
I think we should catch an early close up. Can you see with your third eye if anyone's actually at that piano.
Let me see. No, no one's there. That's legit.
Did you just tap your thigh and say that?
I, I, I threw on my third eye. Oh, slapped it on.
It's like a, it's like one of those gummy wall spiders or something.
Yeah, it's watermelon.
Yeah. Terrifying.
Yeah.
Well, if you guys want to catch Close up, I think maybe I'll cruise the little, you know, didactics and portraits they have around to see if there's any extant lore about grudges or wrongs perpetrated here or by affiliate members.
So, Hal, you want to, like, look at the walls and look at some information? Chandler and Ricky. Chandler, do you want to, like, find a, you know, like you said, there's a lot of sleight of hand, people doing magic. Do you want to walk around Ricky and do that or Ricky, do you want to do something else? What do you, what do you want to do?
Whatever you want, babe.
Ew. I, I want to find raise. I want to go plug in my phone. So before I go look for Raise.
That's what I forgot got. Can you plug my phone into.
Well, I'm gonna see if Janice has at least one charger or something.
One of the two of them has gotta be able to just plug her phone in for a while.
One of the two of them. So I would like to go back to Janice, ask her if she's got a charger of some kind, and then head out to look for Razer.
Great.
Battery's best.
Obviously Janice will charge the phone, but on her side. So you have to give her her phone. You have to give her your phone to charge it.
Totally fine.
So Janice has.
Hey, give her mine too.
Great. So Janice has two phones.
Well, you know, while you're going to get the phones charged, maybe you could take my phone too.
So Janice is charging three phones.
Thanks, Janice.
No problem. Great. So phones are charging. I'm going to get to you in a moment here, Hal. So, Ricky, you want to look for Razer and Chandler. What do you want to do?
I mean, I don't, I don't mind catching a little bit of, you know, close up, scattered, close up, around and about.
I love this. Let's start with you, Hal. As you're, like, looking at the, you know, the stuff on the walls, why don't you roll investigate a mystery for me as you peruse the signage here and see if there's anything there that would be relevant to you case, that's a failure. That is a five. You rolled a five, which is a fail. So please, Mark, experience. You're just kind of wandering away. Just. Are you leveling up yet, by the way?
I'm away.
You're wandering around. Nothing really jumps out at you. You just see like, you know, legendary magicians, you know, doing magic, but nothing really jumps out at you. Yeah. Ricky, how are you going to try to find Razor? And then we will have you roll to determine if you find Razor. It could be investigated. Mystery, although that's not quite applicable. So how are you going to try and try to find Razor?
I probably ask anyone that looks like they work at the Magic Palace.
Okay.
From wait staff to. I could start with Janice and ask her if she has an idea if she's seen him yet. I just ask anybody and I go up and down the stairs as needed as I. As if I'm a kitten looking for her mother.
She. How about this? Janice will tell you. Well, yeah, Razor's in a bit of trouble. I think he's gonna do a. A final show probably after dinner. I don't know where he is right now, but I know he's gonna be around later to possibly do his last show here.
Do you know what time he usually comes in?
I mean, the. Well, usually council members live here. So he's probably here somewhere. But I haven't seen him on the ground floor. He might be upstairs somewhere.
Okay. Yeah, in the quarters. I'll just go to the quarters.
Well, you can't. You're just a guest. You can't go in the quarters.
Thank you so much. Okay, I'll see you later. Thank you.
I have your phone. Great.
Yes, thank you so much.
Chandler, you wander down that little. There's like a little part of the hallway that extends and people are already doing sleight of hand. And you come across Captain Handy. Captain Handy, who has a cape. He has his full show outfit now. So his. He has a shirt that has a hand. He's sleight of hand. Right. Captain Handy. And he's doing some. He's doing some sleight of hand. Do you want to see Captain Handy's tricks?
Yeah, let's pull up a chair and check it out.
Great. He starts, you know, doing his patter. He's like, in superhero land, we always stop the bad guys. Like, he has this whole little thing about superheroes and, like, his sleight of hand tricks. I want you to roll me. Read a bad situation. All right, that's an eight. That's a mixed success that gives you a hold one. And don't forget, you do have your ability. Third eye. When you read a bad situation, you can open up your third eye. You can see invisible things. So you do get a on a mix assess. You get a hold one. Best way in, best way out. Any dangers we haven't noticed. Biggest threat, most vulnerable to me. Best way to protect the victims. And I'll say, what triggered this? You just got, you know, that feeling like something feels wrong in this moment. Which of those questions you want to ask me?
My chandy sense was tingling.
Your chandy sense was tingling? Yes.
Okay, with one of those holds, then what does the. Then the third eye works on top of that.
Yes. I will reveal something to you. After you ask me your question, I give you an answer.
Got it. How about, are there any dangers we haven't noticed?
So as you're sitting there, you pull up a chair. You don't see anything invisible right now, but as you sit down, Captain Handy looks at you and he smiles. And just for a moment, you see that red glitter on his eyes and he goes, Chandler, welcome to the table. I'm going to perform a trick that Chandler does. And Chandler, you know, in that moment, he is about to break one of the rules of the council and get removed. If he does your trick here at the table, what do you do in this moment?
Hey, have you seen this one? I grab the deck and I shuffle him up into the air. 52 card pickup.
Roll me. Act under pressure to see if you're able to grab the deck and throw it into the air. That's a nine. So that's a mixed success. So that means there's a choice to be made here on a 7 and 9. It give you a worse outcome. Hard choice or price to pay. So I'm going to say this, Chandler. In this moment, you feel like you could grab the deck and throw it in the air, but this thing is going to target you now. Or you can just kind of mess up the trick and kind of delay this thing. Kind of set it on the run so you won't be necessarily in danger, but it's going to come back and try to do what it did a little bit later. What would you like to do? Stop it now or prevent it?
Prevent it.
Great. You grab the deck, you throw it in the air. Captain Handy gives you a look, and then his eyes clear a little bit. And I don't think this is how the rules is written, but I want to give this to you since you are here. Here in your world, read a bed situation very briefly. You see a ghostly image using your third eye ability float out of camp to handy through the wall and somewhere else in the magic palace.