S3 Ep. 22 - Clancy Meeting You Here

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Do you ever feel empty?

Like there's a hole in your heart that grows wider every day, threatening to suck you into its event horizon until there's nothing left?

That means you're hungry for ice cream.

I'm Francis Farnsworth, and I work at the one-handed jerk, so named because all of our glasses are slim enough that you can hold them with a single hand.

We've got so many new flavors, you won't believe your eyes!

You'll be screaming bloody murder at our peachy villain cream float.

I finally learned what I am.

I'm an absolute monster.

A cookie monster, that is!

Our new hydroxy cream sundae will have your eyes popping out of your head!

Now I know what you're thinking.

Oh, Francis, what did you do?

You scooped out my eye!

Scream, you scooped my ice cream and you're darn tootin' right.

With our patented sharpened scoops, your ice cream will be smooth as silk, no matter how rocky the road gets.

And don't forget our seasonal flavors like Bruin Hilda Banana and morally ambiguous Parents' Pecan.

They won't be here forever, if I have anything to say about it.

So, come on down to the one-handed jerk, where if you use your left hand, it's like someone else is holding the milkshake.

Welcome to Dungeons and Daddies, not a BDSM podcast.

This show is not a BDSM podcast.

This season, we're doing Call of Cthulhu.

This is the Peachyville Horror, a Call of Cthulhu actual play, horror, comedy, podcast, about four everyday schmos fighting the forces of darkness.

Where?

In suburban 1950s, America.

That's where.

Do you think our pitch should include what we're not?

I'm going to say, like, you know, Star Wars is like Star Wars, not Star Star Trek.

It's like a weird, like, hey, what's your olvair pitch?

But to be fair, imagine if season three of Star Trek was Star Wars.

Yeah, they would start.

We would both expect

before, but to a new thing, a new show.

Yeah, exactly.

If you're expecting Darth, he's not showing up this time.

Old Darth and Jar Jar and R2 and C3 to be oh, and every all your favorite friends aren't here.

Okay?

My name is Freddie Wong.

I play deep thinking plumber Blake lively.

Blake's fact this week, Blake has has never been to space, but he's looked longingly upon the stars and he's thought to himself, through many battles of World War II, and in the time says he's like, if only I could fly into space, I would be a good space man.

Does he want to be like a space guy?

He does, yeah.

Does that mean he wants to like live in space forever?

Or what's the he wants to be the first person in space?

Because at this time, nobody's been to space.

Oh, he wants to go and come back.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

This is not like did everybody else.

Yeah.

He's not special.

That's why he's an all-American man.

That is odd that, like, before astronauts, you never would have, like, dreamed of going to space and coming back.

It would just be like, you're in space now.

Because you probably wouldn't have considered like...

Somebody probably thought of the idea of going on space and coming back.

No!

His name is Jules Verne.

I don't think so.

I mean, to be fair, that's how humanity spread from Africa.

We never went back anywhere.

We just kept going forward.

You never go back.

You only go one direction.

Sometimes the ice age ends and the land bridge is gone.

Oh, take a land bridge.

It was here just a minute ago.

Can't you imagine?

It came back.

Wait, what?

The last guy across the land bridge?

Wait, what the fuck?

No, I swear to God, there was a thing.

We just spent four months walking across it.

What?

George, you said there was going to be a land bridge here.

I swear it was here last week.

God, that's my cousin Aug.

Never asks for directions.

I don't know why.

I was wrong.

Let's go.

We got to buy it.

I was wrong.

It's good that we tell people this is not a D ⁇ D podcast before we start.

Hey, everybody, my name is Matthew Arnold.

I play Kelsey Grammar, Peachyville's snappiest and happiest school marm.

And you know what she always says?

Right before a test, it's not about the grade.

It's about just doing your best.

And then I will sign a letter to how good your best was compared to everyone else's best.

I love that.

Is Kelsey Gray on a curve?

Fuck no.

Wow.

Absolutely.

What does fucking communism do?

Did you get curves in the 50s?

I assign you a number.

That's socialism.

It implies she might not be a good teacher, too.

Oh, yeah.

That's true.

Yeah, you don't need a curve when you fucking calibrate your lessons perfectly to get that curve natural i am the curve

i can't get to n and you think that of me

so yes i got through the census and we'll go back to a normal kelsey fact so i was thinking i'll do favorite word okay so her favorite word is vestibular as in a vestibular sensory system as in the sixth sense

the sense of balance so her favorite sense of balance is Just sitting in a rocking chair.

That feeling of rocking.

Just feels really good.

I love a good rocking chair.

Fuck it.

She loves a rocking rocket chair.

I don't run into any of those these days.

You don't see a lot of rocket chairs.

They're supposed to be really good for you.

Yeah, they're supposed to be super good for you.

And apparently, like, kids not having access to swings is pretty bad, too.

Wait, why?

What about the aspect of going back to the shit?

It's cathartic and soothing.

Sensory stuff is important.

Yeah,

yeah, and there's a certain sensation of the swinging and stuff.

Like, I guess that's people like

getting a victory royale at four times.

Yeah, what about the sense of you and your four

gamer rocking?

Gamer shit.

Gamer Rocky.

Fucking grandma's new along.

They were fucking doing their name.

This already exists.

I know this already exists.

Did you know that Ben Franklin actually invented the Gamer Rocket chair?

They do exist in the way that is not the fucking thing.

No, those aren't.

I want to know what they're doing.

Which is the ones that you would in gaming.

Yeah, they're the ones that go straight on the ground.

If you guys remember those, where they kind of like...

Yeah, they gotta have the bowed legs.

Yeah, and they need to be made of craft oak.

Realamish.com.

You can call the Amish and they'll make furniture for you.

That rules.

Studley Amish Carpenters want to chat with you about furniture that you want to build build at realamish.com.

They have a game room chair for sale.

And let me tell you, looks just like a wood chair.

Dude, I'm going to bring them all on rum spring.

They're going to have so much fun building my gamer chair.

Hurley's favorite is a hayride because it's too much for her, tummy.

Go on.

Hi, my name is Anthony Birch.

I play Francis Farnsworth.

Yeah.

A kid with a possessed gun, an ice cream scoop, and a song in his heart.

A heart full of gold.

I'm actually going to do censuses as well.

Yay.

So Francis loves it when the guy from the government comes to their house every year and asks how many people.

I love it.

That's really good.

He gets to talk to him about all the people he loves, like his mom and his dad.

I love a census joke.

Hi, my name is Beth Mae, and I play Trudy Trout, a homemaker mother of one beautiful child in a robot.

Fun fact about Trudy is that she has one of the most exquisite, wonderful popcorn recipes of all time.

After all, she loves a kernel task.

Mama Mia.

I love it.

Hot diggity digging.

Holy shit.

I keep thinking you got to be out of them, and you never are.

She's back.

That one came to me in the shower.

I was just like, boom.

Someone on the Patreon was like, because you did the credit card fact last time with Diners Club.

Oh, yeah.

Someone's like, I was waiting for Beth to say, like, she got the credit card because she loves to charge.

That's good.

I already did charge with battery, but like, I feel like we can kind of just bring it back, run it back, you know?

Sort of recycle your memory.

So it's good.

All right.

I'm Will Campos.

I'm your daddy master.

My creepy fact for you today comes from the Wikipedia page for medical cannibalism.

Okay.

In Europe, thousands of Egyptian mummies were ground up and sold as medicine since powdered human mummy called mummia was thought to stop internal bleeding and to have other healing properties.

Reaching its peak in the 16th century, the practice continued in a few cases until the early 20th century.

Fresh human blood, particularly from recently executed criminals, was also highly valued because of its supposed healing powers.

A custom that goes back to ancient Rome when the blood of wounded gladiators was thought to cure epilepsy.

Okay, hold on.

How has that not been in a gladiator movie?

Hold on.

Hold on.

Hold on.

What?

I get the Roman thing.

They're like, big, strong guy blood can help make strong.

But really, criminal?

Yeah, wouldn't you think that would turn you into a criminal if you're like a

probably here's what I think about.

It's about the the blood, not the person.

We want criminal blood.

But it's interesting.

No, no, no.

I think a very enterprising blood seller was like, well, what's my best source of blood?

Executed criminals.

He's like, well, we got to put some sizzle on the steak.

And he was like, did you know?

Actually, the criminal blood is even better for you.

Well, so the reason why I pointed it out is interesting because the idea of like you eat thing and then thing become you.

It's like, that's pretty basic.

There's like a little bit of a lion testicle so that you become

a lot of cultures and stuff.

So it's like, to me, it's like

it's from Rainbow Six.

Okay.

The book by Tom Clancy.

Okay.

I remember that scene forever for some reason.

Okay.

Sorry, what?

We talked about a scene in Tom Clancy.

It's Rainbow Six.

I don't know the two characters, but somebody says something about like, you get to eat lion testicles and it'll make you more fertile or whatever.

The guy's like, does it really work?

He goes, if it did, there wouldn't be any lions left.

I remember that.

Forever.

Do you remember?

I read the book in high school.

I just remember that.

Tom was such a warrior poet, too.

I just remember that.

Fucking Marcus Aurelius over here.

I remember that seat.

I remember that.

Ding Jave is saying Ding Javez.

There's the only two things I remember about Tom Clancy is Rainbow Six.

But true, if it did fuck, there wouldn't be any lions, right?

Because men need it.

Yeah, it's like if beef tasted good, there'd be no more cows.

We must reference Tom Clancy and Ding Javez more than any other podcast in the history of the world.

We reference Rainbow Six more than Ubisoft because that was just called Six.

Because the word Rainbow is too woke or whatever.

Yeah, the word Rainbow is too D.I.

woke.

All right.

Let's do a spooky podcast.

Where we last left off, a lot of shit went down last episode.

I once again typed a fun little recap for everybody.

Mission briefings, if you will.

Mission briefings.

Yeah, well, you're so John Clark, the head of Rainbow Six code is,

a character who also appeared in Tom Claison All's Without Remorse and Clear Present Danger, persuaded by Willem Defoe in the film starring Harrison Ford.

John Clark.

He's a member of the CIA, but don't worry.

He's one of the good ones.

Kelsey, your mission briefing.

Amid your car crash, Mexican standoff hostage negotiation fist fight with the bisons, you made a cunning deduction and sussed out the identity of one of your masked assailants, a parent of one of your students.

Just another lead for you to chase down or ignore quadruple A open world.

Do whatever you want.

Is this the first quadruple A podcast?

Yeah, it was in Skull and Bonnie.

It was the Clark family, and the husband's name john clark

you recognize john clark and his little son i didn't i didn't come up with a name at the time

so yes you have a lead there to chase down should you wish

trudy don't want to mess with him though he's tough he's real or you'll be in clear and present danger matt Trudy.

Matt, try and see what you're saying.

She can play your Patriot games, Matt.

Matt, try and stick every Tom Clancy novel into your dialogue.

This episode.

Trudy, your hunt for the dollmaker, not the Red October,

has taken a backseat to saving local restaurant owners and trying to give cats painkillers.

But the beast is still out there stalking the night and with it, the means to potentially save your son.

Blake, you just can't keep a good plumber down.

Thanks to the quick work of the mysterious and alluring Dr.

Sally Dog, cat clinician, you've received competent first aid in medicine and you can roll 1d3 hit points.

Yeah.

So is he at zero right now?

He's at one, so you can get up to four hit points right now.

Let's do it.

In the last peach pit we did, the sort of behind-the-scenes show after the show, Will mentioned that he imagined Rachel Weiss as Dr.

Dog, which means I have been playing Francis completely wrong.

All right, say 1d3.

1d3.

Three.

Opa, you now have four hit points.

Yay.

Congratulations.

You're never going to die.

She's the best at what she does.

Francis, you scooped out your dad's eyeball, dude.

Bro.

Dang, dude.

And that was where we lasted.

Let's do it again.

We walked off.

The door slammed shuts.

You find yourselves standing at the doorway of Dr.

Sally Dog Cat Clinician's Cat Clinic.

The sun is beginning to set because it is time for the third action of the day.

We're not going to do sleep.

No sleep.

No wasting action on sleep.

We're going to get disadvantaged on other stuff if we don't.

You won't get disadvantage on this one, but starting tomorrow morning, I will start making you guys do constitution saving throws if you don't sleep.

Yeah, would you rather sleep now when everything's closed or in the morning when we can't do one all-nighter?

You can do an all-nighter.

That's what I'm saying.

After the all-nighter is when you start feeling bad.

Right.

So I'm saying we would have to fall asleep in the morning.

So why wouldn't we just do it now?

Yeah.

Well, but where?

To your mansion.

Ah, yes.

To my house.

Is that free movement action?

You know how that works?

Yes.

But without our families, that we're saving.

Okay, wait, wait, really quick.

Huddle up.

Huddle up.

Okay.

Huddle up, team.

Wait, I'm again to Kelsey.

That's not how Kelsey says it.

You have two characters on this actual role.

Hey, guys, come together.

I'm Kelsey.

Why don't we all just chat about what we're going to do next?

Really quick.

It's like I'm there.

Okay, but we were trying to save our families, right?

We have to pick up my brother and sister.

Francis.

We don't have to get my parents.

There's no way my mom didn't know about what my dad was doing.

Okay.

You don't want to get her?

No, not at all.

Okay.

If we do stop by, I'll pop out for a second and I'll come back in.

Okay, no, we're not going to get it.

I don't think that's a good idea.

Yeah, so can we get my family?

Oh, so it's just you, Kelsey?

I mean, yeah.

Well, it's my family, too, says Milton.

I've had a lot of adventure and I kind of want to go home.

Yeah, I think we owe Kelsey a debt of honor.

So, yeah.

Now, to be clear, is this action going to take

all night?

I don't think so, but that's up to somebody else.

You know what I'm saying?

God's got to let things go the way God wills it.

And I look at Will.

I don't know how long it'll take, but it feels like we should be able to drive to a house and get somebody and then still sleep.

And I like what you said about sometimes you should just let things happen.

I'm just saying that if we see anybody else getting kidnapped, I'm not going to put all of our lives in danger to save them.

I'm glad that's the lesson we took away from you.

No, Trudy, what you did was really brave.

And I think now more than ever, it's important that we care about people.

Okay.

You did a good thing.

Maybe not the smartest thing, but you did a good thing.

And that's more important.

Thank you.

So let's go get your family.

Yes.

Let's get your family.

Raza and Niles.

Yes.

And if we need to, I can drive and you can all sleep.

No, no, no, no.

I'm old.

My stats are already so bad that we shouldn't be using me for things anyways.

I'm going to give you guys a little bit of a loose lead here.

Okay.

Within reason, as long as it feels like enough that you could do in one night, I'm going to allow it.

Okay.

So you guys want to to go to...

Let's get Raza and Niles.

Okay.

And then we can bring them to Blake's Mansion.

That's the plan.

Y'all load up in the van.

You're driving through the town as the sun begins to set.

Oh, there's a red storm rising.

Jesus fucking Christ.

You guys got the radio on?

No.

Okay.

Well, we're not going to be able to do that.

Silence.

Would anybody like to listen to anything?

Because right now, it's just my thoughts up here.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, let's put it on the radio.

So you hear the end of, I don't know, Chantilly Lace going into the news.

Oh, the big big bumper.

He'll never die.

I don't want to listen to the news.

I like music, and I change the channel.

All right.

You hear the latest.

You know what?

You know what?

Because anything I learned about my friend John Clark, which, by the way, I want to talk about real fast because I'm pretty sure he was there.

But he always told me that in tactical situations like this, information is important.

So in fact, we should turn on the news.

And I turned it back to the news.

Welcome to NPR.

This is National Peachyville Radio.

Nice.

Nice.

I'm glad I went here.

They go next.

Then, yes, we do.

I don't know why.

I'm what.

Sorry, who said that?

We were on the air.

Hamburger?

National news.

Mr.

President.

The Peachyville National News Design.

Turn it on.

You got to hear what's going on in Peachyville.

Yeah, it was the only thing we replaced the fireside chats after FTR stepped out.

All right, keep going.

Sorry.

Sorry.

We're excited.

I love playing with you, Will.

I'm very excited.

I'm just in a good mood right now.

I'm sorry.

I'll let you go.

Let's do it.

Tonight's top story: the mysterious and baffling theft of a large supply of blood from Peachyville Hospital.

Authorities are confused as to why only type A positive blood was stolen from the hospital this evening.

Now on to sports.

The Peachyville Pirates beat the

Nebraska noodles

and noodle balls.

This person does not seem to know the sports.

The study says that most people turn off the radio after they've heard the important piece of exposition they were supposed to hear.

We go down

to an interview with Pepper Pete, the pitcher for the PG Blue Virus.

I wonder if he's related to Stinky Pete.

Pepper Pete, Trudy, I know it's not.

He's a dish.

He's a dish.

He's a dish.

Pepper Pete, that was quite a game.

Are you related to town child murderer Stinky Pete?

Well, look, I'm really tired of getting asked this question.

It doesn't really even seem to be based on anything other than that we have the same first name.

I hope that the reporter asked if he's single.

Many of our female listeners want to know if you are single, Pepper Pete.

Well, you know, I'm also really tired of getting asked this question because it's upset many times I am married to beautiful.

Okay,

so blood.

Does anybody have a positive blood?

I'm on the list.

Do I have a positive blood?

I can't remember.

I asked all of you what you figured out.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sorry.

I don't have any positive blood.

I thought you were doing that in a fun JRPG sort of way.

Yeah, you know?

Such was my trap, Freddy.

Now I get to search blood.

No, unless I did assume that you asked that question specifically for something with the episode.

I was like, wow, what a fun persona-esque Japanese RPG thing.

As you guys are turning down the radio, Milton says, type A positive blood, that's so weird.

That's my mother's type of blood.

Oh.

Milton, how do you know that?

Blood is your mother's blood?

I know lots about blood.

You know, I'm really into, you know, they say that blood determines a lot of your personality.

So, you know, that's just something that I'm really interested in.

Is your blood creepy as fuck?

My blood isn't creepy.

I've got O negative blood, which is why I'm so confident, resilient, self-centered, and unstable.

That does sound

like somebody with O-negative blood.

I have O-negative blood.

Oh.

Well, that seems like all those things.

You know, I see you as a very resilient person, Trudy.

Trudy, do you have blood?

Trudy, yes.

Are you automatic?

Do you have blood, Trudy?

That's a good question.

I'm a positive, yeah.

It's the Japanese art known as ketsuki gata, which is something that I'm really interested in.

That's how I found out that, like, for instance, my aunt Kelsey has B positive blood.

that's why she's so optimistic.

I don't think that's it.

That's why she's so empathetic, compassionate, selfish, and erratic.

I'm not sure.

Oh my God, is that really what B positive blood means?

Yes, it is.

Wow.

I have to say that.

Okay.

Well, that's nice.

But I don't think that summarizes me.

And I don't mean to be a stickler about this because, you know, I haven't written Jay yet.

So I don't know everything about Japan.

But I do know that science is more true than art.

And I did do a little research on blood.

And I don't think what your blood is defines your personality.

So that's a little bit of a B, Kelsey.

I know.

So I know a lot about it.

I mean, a little bit.

I plagiarized most of it.

I read it, though.

That's learning.

Yeah.

Well, for your information, Kelsey, I don't like disagreeing with you, but the man who came up with the blood type personality theory, Takeji Furukawa, he's a scientist.

He teaches at the Tokyo Women's Teacher School.

Well, then you can't be wrong.

He teaches a bunch of women, though.

Anyway, I just, I don't know.

If any of you guys want me to tell you anything about your blood types, I'd be happy to do it.

Okay.

If they only want A positive, that means it has the A antigen, but they're not going after AB, so they must want the A antigen completely isolated.

Well, we don't even know who's stealing it, right?

So I don't know.

Just thought it was an interesting thing.

Oh, my God, watch out.

Well, actually, Milton can't say that.

What are you saying, child?

Milton has a premonition, and then Beevie goes, oh, my God, watch out.

And as you are driving, Matt, give me a drive roll.

Matt, I swear to God, you injure me, bro.

Just hit the brakes real hard.

Just do it.

It'd be the funniest thing to do that again.

You don't remember this?

I have fucking 75 on drive.

I stacked her on drive.

People always say this before they do a bad roll, and I love it every time.

I I know.

You just jinx yourself into next week.

Nope, 52.

You slam on the brakes well enough that you both stop the car and nobody inside gets thrown out the window.

And you narrowly avoid hitting a young man in the middle of the road.

Enemy contact.

He's dazed.

He's soaking wet, and he seems to be talking to himself.

You recognize him as the headlights hit him that this is Sticky Rick, the boy who works at the local drive-in and was, until Francis became a mass murderer, the second most bullied kid in Peachy Bill.

That's right.

Sticky Rick, go go home.

He doesn't seem well.

Sticky Rick looks up at you for saying he has this glazed over vacant look in his eye and he just says, I have to go.

Oh, where are you going?

On a trip.

Where?

Can't be late.

And then he just starts walking off.

Oh.

Okay.

Tree, I know you said that we should.

Should we fall?

No.

Well, I'm just saying that he has that look about him that the people do before they do wild things.

Yeah.

I have to go.

Okay.

On a trip.

But I guess I did a wild thing.

We all did.

Recently.

But we had to sleep.

and i have to save my brother and sister on a trip he's already fading off into the darkness

okay so let's just keep going let's just keep discussing it until it's too late to do anything and then we can't feel bad about not doing anything

i'm the one who knows sticky rick the best and i'm saying we go i keep driving okay he is gone oh how awkward he's going in the same direction we are

oh god dikes no i hate that what street do you guys live on see no you guys are i mean like you're probably like what d g street we'll say we were just on g street

well then it's a short drive.

But it's real long on the other end of G Street.

Give me a, because you're going pretty fast, I would imagine.

Give me a.

I'm going the speed limit.

You're going the speed limit.

You're throwing out dangerous things.

You weren't paying attention.

You're going fast, I imagine.

Kills is a good driver.

Give me a spot hidden roll.

Just give me all this.

Anyone who's looking at the window,

a nine.

A super duper success.

Okay, give me a drive roll to slam on the brakes again.

A six.

Wow.

A super duper success.

You saw and stopped.

You hit the brakes perfectly to roll to a stop right on the window so everybody can see it.

And it is a lamppost with a poster on it.

And on the poster is a photo of Francis Farnsworth.

There's a note that says, have you seen this boy?

Wanted for questioning.

Contact Sheriff Shane Silva.

The police usually don't put things out like that, do they?

That's not a problem.

Well, they don't say contact a particular cop.

Hey, guys, I had an idea.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Do you think this is about what you did?

Just like, as long as I'm around you guys, I'm putting putting you guys at risk if I stay around you, partly because Brutala, but partly because of who I am.

So I was thinking,

maybe I could just leave.

Child, you need to chill out.

Yeah.

Francis, I was wondering if I could speak to you.

We're stopped, right?

Yeah.

Why don't we say

you can tell when we're stopped, right, Trudy?

Yes, it's just

sometimes I feel like we're going.

And so stop.

You're good.

Sorry.

Let me interrupt.

No, no.

No worries at all, Kelsey.

I would just like to have a word with Francis, if that's okay.

Sure.

You can go in the kitchen.

Oh, gosh.

You can also keep driving to your parents' place and we can talk about that.

I will stay up with you as we drive to your parents' place.

Okay, great.

Be on the lookout for more signs, I guess.

Tell us more information that we have.

I have my peepers peeled.

We're driving.

I'm driving really slowly.

Let's see you though.

So this road noise isn't loud enough that we can't hear what's being said.

Francis, are you hungry?

There's a kitchen here.

I can make you something.

I'm not hungry.

You're not hungry?

No, thank you.

You remind me of my little boy, Timmy.

And it's a good thing.

And it's because

I think you're both sensitive.

And I know that that's not what boys like to hear.

But I think that makes you very brave to be sensitive.

I'm a sensitive soul myself, and I think that sometimes sensitive people feel hurt, and it's easy to let that feeling kind of spread and really take hold of you.

What I'm trying to say, Francis, is that you are

getting older, and you have a choice to choose your power as a man, as a big, strong man, or your gentleness as somebody who is sensitive.

And I hope that you make a good choice and I want you to know that we care about you and that is it, I guess.

You know what I felt when I took out my dad's eye?

What?

Not a fucking thing.

I think I maybe used to be sensitive when I first met you, but now I think I'm probably more robot than you are because it didn't hurt at all.

I would do it again.

There's part of me that's like, I should have gotten the other eye.

Now he's just looking out of one eye.

It just, knowing who my family is and who I am now kind of put things into sort of a sharp relief.

It's about saving the world and stuff, and that's important.

But my parents are monsters, and that explains why I'm a monster.

And that's not going to change.

I'm just, that's who I am.

So for now, I'll be our monster for the stuff that we need to do, unless you let me leave, which I think is still the ideal situation.

But no, I think the die has already been cast.

The choice was made for me by my my parents when I was first born you're so young Francis.

Thank you and monsters robots who knows what's human anymore, right?

Sorry I mixed the metaphor.

No, it's just I think it's very human to feel the things you are feeling.

Not that I would know maybe, but don't count yourself out yet.

You know what I think?

I think that you and Kelsey and Blake are good people.

And I think you should get as far away from me as you possibly can.

Well, too bad, kiddo.

We're right here.

Kelsey, Francis might not be a good person.

By the way, that's what you took away from that conversation.

If you can hear that, then we're whispering that.

We're still whispering.

We're whispering.

And would you give me a listen roll?

Yep.

But don't tell me what you got because I don't want Matter Freddy to know before they start talking.

Sure.

Okay.

Kelsey.

Yeah, Blake.

Crazy conversation.

Yeah, I was going to say, Trudy's doing great, but sometimes a young boy just needs a man to talk to him.

So I want to just go up and maybe give him a little advice.

Hey, Blake, who the fuck is this?

Remember your best power?

Ah, yes.

When you get back there and you talk to Francis, hit him with this.

Vis-a-vis us not abandoning it.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Do you know who said that?

I don't remember what you just said now, trying to remember.

I'll write it down for you, okay?

Okay, yes.

Please discord it to me so I can deploy it at the appropriate time.

And I wasn't listening, but uh, I just want to say Blake's gonna come talk to you.

And everything Trudy said, I agree with if I heard it.

And also, Francis, you don't need to talk to me.

This is the sum of all my fears.

Is every one of you

try to have a conversation?

That's fine, but you're a child, and I'm the teacher, and we're on a field trip, and you don't get to leave the field trip until I say so.

So you're not going anywhere.

And I keep driving.

I go out to the back and I kind of give like a tag team, like, Trudy, I will speak to the child.

Oh, okay.

Yes, go ahead.

Ah.

Francis.

Trudy, this is, you did a great job.

I just think, you know, Blake's a man who's been through some things.

Maybe Francis been through some things.

I think we're going to find out why grown men should talk to young boys about their problems.

Let's see how Blake does.

Kelsey, aren't you tired of having men teach boys

every day?

That's the time.

Yeah, the male podcaster interrupting the female podcaster.

Lots of time, Trudy.

I'm tired, too.

And I

don't know.

I don't know.

I hope that Blake says the right thing.

I hope so, too.

Hey, let's listen.

Let's listen.

Well, the two of you are up here.

No, it's Milton.

Oh, hi, Bilton.

Hi, Hi.

That was good.

I just can't help but, you know, as a young boy who's looking for role models, and, you know, I feel like I don't really see eye to eye with a lot of what big strong guys try to teach young boys.

I've never been good at this.

So, could I ask you guys some questions about growing up and stuff like that?

Would that be okay?

Yeah, that'd be a good time.

Okay, cool.

I just don't even know when that would be a good time to do that.

Okay, no, Milton, you know what?

Anytime, I'm your aunt, and anytime's a good time to ask me a question if you want to ask me a question.

Okay, well, my first question is kind of about girls, so let's get into that.

All right, then we'll jump

into you.

Francis.

Blake.

You have done much killing?

Have I?

I'm trying to remember.

Not nearly enough, my nair.

Those are rookie numbers.

You have to pump them up, yeah?

Yeah, I didn't kill Trudy's husband, and I didn't kill Francis.

Francison.

You must understand, in this world, sometimes we are tasked to do things that we need to do, and they are perhaps to justifiable ends.

There are bad people in this world, Francis, so you should not feel bad for hurting them, because in hurting them, you protect the ones you love.

That's what I tell myself.

I didn't scoop out my dad's eyes to protect the ones I love.

I did it because I wanted to.

Yes, sometimes protecting the ones you love and also doing the things you want can go hand in hand in morally questionable ways.

So, are you saying I should just do whatever I want?

No, Francis.

You should punish the bad people and find them and live conscience-free that you are doing the right thing.

Unless, well, okay, hold on.

Francis, how are you?

How am I about both Blake and Francis?

I just, it tears my heart out to think about what these boys are going through.

Francis, when you say you wanted to do it, like how much put the percentage apparently 100 because i did it

so look i feel like that we have two roads we can go down right i was actually already thinking the same thing you were like if i'm gonna do monstrous things i might as well lean all the way in and do it until the world is saved and then we can deal with me

or i could just stop now before other people get hurt francis Sometimes this is not so cut and dry and easy.

Sometimes you have to do things to protect yourself and to get through a tough time.

I didn't have to do any of the things I did.

I didn't have to shoot little Shane's leg off.

I didn't have to pull out the eye of the person that attacked Kelsey.

I just thought it would be fun to hurt bad people.

And at first, it made me feel good, and now it makes me feel nothing.

Slow down, Francis.

We need to back up a little bit.

You blew what off who?

It doesn't matter.

And so basically, just what I'm wondering is, like, you know how girls have a lot of hair on their head?

Yeah.

Yes, Milton.

But I noticed that a lot of them don't have hair on their legs, but boys have hair on their legs.

So like, if a girl grows hair on her legs, would it grow forever like her hair on her head?

Or would it stop like hair on her hair?

Boy, you say

women grow hair on their legs, Francis.

But they do?

Yeah.

That's not Francis.

Francis, you're listening to this, right?

This is important.

You're in the dating age.

Yes, Bilton.

Bilton.

Does the hair on your legs grow indefinitely?

Well, no, but I do.

Yes, that's exactly.

Yes.

Okay, well, thank you.

I'm going to think more about some more questions and I'll write them down and ask you.

Perhaps one of you should talk to the the child i'll talk to the boy briefy says as breevy marches back there and he says francis hey look at me what

look i don't like you and i don't respect you that much you know we don't get along and you're mean to me sometimes you call me judgy and maybe i am because i'm judging you right now for being a jerk in the past but those who a very famous man named benjamin franklin once said after he invented the gaming rocking chair that those who

yes francis those who would give up essential liberty

now i'm gonna say it blake get out of here you had your chance

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

So we're not giving up on you, Francis.

You're part of this team, and that's that.

And then she kicks you in the shin.

What does that have to do with anything?

Well, you said you wanted to go away and that it would be better because you would be safer, but I don't give two licks about that because you're part of the team, gosh darn it.

What do you have to do with liberty?

She kicks you in the shin again.

Well, Arlibert, we want to do all liberty.

Stop it.

You can do it as much as you want.

Trudy, Kelsey, I am truly afraid for Francis.

She is exhibiting some very, very dangerous qualities that I see.

You over here in the back quietly.

I feel like I'm a clear and present danger to everybody.

It seems like he's been doing a lot of really bad actions without remorse.

So

he is taking the same tact against all enemies, dead or alive.

He's vicious.

He's got like the teeth of the tiger.

That's a book that.

As you say that,

you arrive at your house.

I just want to say something to us as a bowling team.

Okay, yes.

We are out to sea right now, and it is hard to tell whether we are waving or drowning.

And I think that we should all be each other's lifeboat and take care of each other because we're a team.

We're a team, and we should act like a team.

I love that, Trudy.

I quite agree.

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Okay, Hong Kong.

Hong Kong.

I do the Hong Kong.

Hong Kong.

That's our sign.

That's the sign for the Sunzone Roz.

Double honk is: I'm here and we're going out, and triple honk is we gotta get out of here.

So you only did double.

Oh, honk.

Oh, but nope, nope, that's two and one.

Now that I got to the house,

now you have to do the honk hoe to cancel.

No, the truth is the two honks and one honk is actually I'm honking.

I want to tell you guys this.

You're my team.

So I just want you to know that me and my sister, we have a little thing.

So two honks and then a honk is, I have a boy in the car and I'm honking.

But

what in the world is Donkey?

She's trying to advertise the fact that she's honking.

How would I help it?

But then when I do the third honk, that means I actually don't come out.

I need some extra time.

But then dad thinks that I'm honking for my sister car.

It seems like the easy thing.

But you're going to make somebody not come outside the honk at all.

Is someone like coming up to the car?

Like, i'm gonna use the car oh no i don't see my sister because they hear this car she better

having sex mr whoever melted i didn't say that we get married okay anyway so let me do the cancel honk honk honk honk honk now she knows it's canceled now what i do next is what's actually happening honk honk it's in the middle of the night also maybe you shouldn't have been honking the whole thing

up

here i don't care about that person do you have a duress code no i just did the triple honk they're coming now don't worry do you have a duress code a duress code a code that you use when you are under duress to signal to your opposing.

Oh, that's a good one.

Oh, yeah, we should all have one of those.

The only codes we have are honking so that we can make out on cards with our boyfriends when we were kids.

Maybe that would be our under duel.

We'll say honking.

I had a childhood.

I know I'm a 50-year-old teacher, but I had a childhood too, and I had some fun in school, okay?

But you were having fun in school.

Men were dying across the seas.

I know.

We get told about it a lot.

There's no response when you honk.

Even the triple honk, even the cancel honk, and then the triple honk.

There's no response from inside.

Oh, God.

It's never taken this long once I do the triple honk, especially since they have the time for the cancel honk.

Because when I do the double honk and the single honk, you know, she would have been at least looking to be like, oh, my God, it's been 30 years since she's done the single house.

She's done the double single.

She's probably wondering what's happening, but she didn't come out.

Oh, my God.

Okay.

Something must have happened to Rosa Niles.

I think you should exercise your command authority

and get out of the car and go see if there's anything going on.

Okay.

Well, Kelsey, remember, my dad's out of town, so it's just my mom there.

So hopefully, nothing happened to my dad, right?

Well, no, if your dad's out of town, that's

very good.

Send the child.

No, okay.

I will go see if Ron's.

No, I want to come to you because I'm so young.

It's your mom, of course.

Okay.

Okay.

So Milton holds your hand.

Yes, here.

Keep the car running.

Keep the car running.

Keep it locked on.

Is that book?

That one?

Yeah, it was a book.

Is that pure Tom Clancy book?

One of the post-Tom Clancy books.

He needed somebody else to write Larry Bond books.

I'm just looking at

the publication order of Jack Ryan Universe books.

John Clark is Peachyville's only gay couple, and he is married to Jerry Todd.

Jack and Ryan.

Sean and Jack.

Well, they're just very good friends.

I go to the door.

The door is open.

Okay, everybody, the door is open.

I'm going in, but I need other people with me, too.

We got to search that.

Okay, I go in, and I use spot hidden really well the whole time.

Okay.

I'm spamming Spot Hidden.

Are you guys all going into the house?

Yes.

Oh, but someone needs to keep the car running, bb wait the car kind of runs on its own it doesn't just keep it running okay do i need to be here to keep

in you can come i don't really know how to drive the car

my sister's in trouble bb i think you should watch the car so that nobody steals it good okay yes okay good yeah i'll watch the car okay great you got it i got 94 on spot hidden i found my spot hidden i'm just running into the house

i turned on the light i'm still can't see i'm blinded with concern for my sister okay so as you enter the house the first thing you notice is the ground is wet as you step in like there's a splash on your foot look down is it blood or water It's water.

There's also a submarine, a guided tour in the flat.

I know.

Oh my God.

I'm broke, Anthony.

I've been on the Wikipedia for the Tom Clancy bibliography under the non-fiction heading and then all of his guided tour non-fiction books.

I was like, no way we're getting one of these in.

I'm looking at fighter wing, a guided tour of an Air Force combat wing, 1995.

But you managed to drop submarine, a guided tour inside a nuclear warship, 1993.

Holy shit.

Well, you're all having fun talking about Tom Clancy.

Roz never leaves water on the floor.

So something's wrong.

Roz never leaves water on the floor?

There's something wrong.

What the fuck?

There's something wrong here.

There's something wrong here.

I feel like I just had a stroke.

What the fuck?

You gotta get going.

Where is she?

Well, maybe somebody just left a sink or shower running.

Anybody that's not Roz, that would be a problem because that means there's somebody in that.

She's not having an affair.

Is she not having an affair?

But she did.

You jumped there pretty quickly.

Well, I'm just saying, I'm trying to think.

Who else would be in the house?

Hey, sorry, really quick.

Sorry.

Tom,

I want to know what happened to my sister, bro.

No, Matt, we have to stop the story for this.

I do need to stop the guns for this.

Okay, the Tom Clancy's op center series, Anthony.

Dude, I'm your op center, dude.

Tell me.

That was co-written.

Dude, it was a whole series.

That was ghostwritten entirely.

It was kind of like a young adult where it was like, Tom Clancy's like, I gotta get the kids.

I gotta get the kids into my world.

Real quick, tell me that you don't detect something a little strange happening in about the year 2018 onwards when they they wrote for honor god of war call of duty and fallout what they're just using video game titles that's insane ops in their back wow they're still around ops well a lot of those are ubisoft games to be fair um i'm surprised they haven't done assassin's creed yet okay anyway he should write a rabbit's book he's dead he's dead you know the ground is the ground is soaking wet you hear in the distance like the sound of a ruptured pipe burbling

sounds like a job for a plumber.

Oh, yeah, Blake.

Yeah, you immediately recognize the telltale sound of a burst pipe.

A pipe is burst in here.

We must act quickly.

Yeah, to find my sister to limit the water damage to the underlying structure.

It's too late.

The mold issues could be catastrophic.

You guys are just running through the house.

You find it far.

I wish you arrived to turn on the light or at least try the light.

When the lights throw them on, you realize that there's like upturned furniture.

It looks like there was a big struggle in this house.

There's also like

there's also like this overwhelming, like rancid stench in here.

It's like rancid barbecue sauce mixed with like shit and piss, and it just smells awful.

It smells like up hottie in here.

True.

What is up, hotty?

Oh my gosh, what's up with you?

Why is everybody making jokes?

My sister.

Kelsey, you need to find your sister.

Yes.

Francis, quickly help me find the source of this water leak.

That's water.

That's nice.

Yes.

No, I will find my my sister.

I'm not worried about that.

And she would love it if her house didn't have water damage.

Frances, we get to charge time and a half because this is a house called.

I'm going to run to the basement.

Okay, you're going to run to the basement?

Yeah.

Okay, basement.

You're following the water to the burst pipe?

Yes.

Who's going where?

I'll go upstairs.

Okay, you're going with them.

So the three of you run into this bathroom and the toilet has just exploded.

Like something is...

blasted out of this thing.

Kool-Aid man stuff.

All right, who did it?

And the room itself has just been sort of destroyed.

There's like sewage and like viscous goo just sort of ruptured out of this pipe.

The stench is overwhelming.

In fact, everybody, give me a constitution saving throw.

Do I get an advantage because I'm a plumber?

Yeah, it feels like it would have seems something like that.

Yes, you get a bonus day.

My time is 25.

I got a 57.

70, and I got a 45.

I succeed.

I have a 50, and I rolled a 16.

Okay, so yes, Francis, you dropped your knees and throw up.

There, there, child.

Give me.

Even though I can react to something still.

Everybody, give me a spot hidden roll.

Man, I wish we had Kelsey.

I critically fail.

Yeah, you can't see anything other than you're on puke on the ground.

21 out of 33, I pass.

I fail.

You fail.

All right.

So then, Blake, with your keen plumber eyes, you recognize, look, again, there's this goo.

There's this water running around.

Under the water, you see these like sharp puncture marks in the ground, almost like the legs of a big insect have just pierced into the ground.

And you realize that there's a sort of muddy trail leading through the house as well, like from these marks.

This is a problem.

And you see, what do you see?

The toilet went in reverse.

Usually, crudy, the bad things go down into the pipes and are gone forever, out of sight, out of mind.

But here, in this case, it appears an insectoid creature has come out of the toilet and is now stalking around the house.

I recommend we leave immediately.

The dollmaker?

That must be what it is.

You are familiar with this creature?

Yes, it's an alien, and he makes goo.

Ah, we need to leave right now.

The trail of this thing, if you sort of track it with your eyes, it is heading downstairs and you realize that it headed into the basement where we now find Kelsey.

Oh, no.

With Milton and BB, who have gone downstairs with you.

It's pitch dark.

I'm pushing Milton around in front of me.

No, I'm not.

No, I'm not.

I got them behind me.

Okay, so it's pitch dark down here.

You guys, the stench is not so bad.

Okay, stay at the top of the stairs, you two.

Don't come down here.

Are you sure?

It seems like a pretty dangerous situation, Mr.

Kramer.

You be right there in case something happens to me.

Let me check if it's safe first, okay?

Okay, come back soon, Kelsey.

Well, yeah, I mean, you can see me.

It's not this basement.

Well, well i mean it's real dark down there i've been in the basement so i reach up to pull the the bulb okay great got one of those little bulbs they pull the string you know the light flicks on and there's some stuff knocked over like someone was running down here in a hurry i roll spot hidden what'd you get a seven okay great super duper you see the same trail of sort of sharp puncture marks they're covered in like a dirt like a sort of like almost it's like soil You notice something in the soil of one of them.

It just happens to catch your eye.

It kind of catches the light.

And it's like this little white strand, almost like hair or silk, a little thread.

And you notice that there's a couple of them in these marks as you're looking at them.

I want to look at that hair slash thread to find out if it is hair or thread.

It doesn't time to play.

Hair or thread.

It's organic.

Like it's not like a fabric.

I guess hair could be used as thread.

It's just a little white thing, right?

I guess I was trying to see if it's like Roz's hair.

No, it's not Roz's hair.

If you want to give me an education role to know what it is,

yeah, I do.

74, but I think my edge you is 80.

So

you remember maybe the chapter on arachnids?

What you realize is that it's corn silk.

Corn silk.

Corn silk.

Like when you shuck up corn and you remember.

That shit that gets in your teeth.

Ross never leaves corn silk.

She keeps a clean house.

And it wouldn't be in the basement even if she was.

As you make this realization, you hear

like a sort of struggling banging noise coming from the closet.

Oh, you run into the closet.

You rip the door open?

I ripped the door open.

As you rip the door open, you see your sister Roz in the closet.

Roz!

Oh my god, you're okay.

I have to go

on a trip.

Oh, can't be late.

Oh, no.

Okay.

I have to go.

And she starts walking past.

Okay, I told you.

And I told her.

Can't be late.

Help, everybody.

Light, dude.

Yes.

Roz is here, and whatever's happening to the others is happening to your mother.

Mom, is that you?

Mom?

Mom, what's wrong with my mom?

What's wrong with my mom?

I don't know, Milton.

Whatever's happening to everybody else is happening to your mom, but we have her.

It's the doll maker.

It's his venom.

Yeah.

Oh.

You think he's poisoning them?

He does mind control.

So we need a large dose of his venom to find the antidote, obviously, for Timmy, but this will also probably help everybody else that's been in.

Right?

Can I check Roz?

Do I see any like punctures or bite marks or venom?

So this is an easy check.

You just see there's like a big sting mark on the back of her neck.

As you run to hug her, you feel this welt on her.

Yeah, Trudy, I think, yeah, it looks like she got

her to go, can't be late.

I have to go.

Yes, this is my sister, Ryan.

I have to go.

Carrie has to go.

Naked choke.

And I know, no, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

You can just tie her.

Let her go.

What?

Let her go, and we'll follow her to where she's going.

That's where the doll maker will be.

I was thinking something similar, but we won't let her go, Frances.

We will, I don't want to put her on a leash, but you know, we have a dog leash upstairs.

Yeah.

Oh, God, where's fiddles?

Fiddles.

Oh,

I can't care about another animal.

And then you hear

this little yippee dog, Fiddles, runs up and starts licking Milton.

He's like, Fiddles, oh my god, boy, I missed you so much.

I was so scared.

I haven't seen you in so long.

And he hugs him.

Fiddles, you're going to be a good boy.

You're going to guard this house, right?

Right, good boy?

Bark, bark, bark.

Okay.

Because I don't think we can take you with us.

Because Trudy is going to be a lot of retrudy if we take you with us.

You hear Marbles go

at the same time.

Marbles doesn't like him.

Kelsey, if you're gonna.

I have to go.

Well, this is who we want to save.

I can choke her out and we'll bring her.

No, we don't need to choke her out.

No, she seems to

want to go somewhere.

Blake, Blake, if she struggles or finds a way to break free and is like running really fast to get away from us, then you have permission to choke her out.

But if she's just doing this, like kind of walking all slow, then I think we can handle it.

Rick was walking really slow.

I don't see any reason she should.

I suppose we should find a rope.

Tell you what, Roz, we will take you where you need to go.

Just come into the car with me.

I have to go.

Yeah, we're going to take you where you need to go.

Can't be late.

I have to go.

BB, position the car.

Position the car.

You told me to wait in the car.

You guys are in the basement.

I hear vague work coming out there.

We're coming out.

We're all coming out now.

BB, position the car so that the back door opens straight into the line of the front door.

Okay, BB's going to make a drive roll.

BB, I swear to fucking God.

BB, if you can't back this thing up.

34, she backs into the mail post and knocks it over.

I really know how to drive.

need to drive.

You don't need to drive.

Roz is pretty pliant right now.

Pliable?

Pliable, right?

She's doing what we want.

So I'm moving her.

I'm moving my sister into the car.

She's just walking for it.

If you guys are just like...

Well, she's in the car, and we've all decided her next action shall be used for sleep.

So?

To my house.

Into your house, Blake.

Yes.

I think we get sleep, right, Francis?

And then we can follow Roz.

to where the dollmaker is because if we do it we should take in ships watching ros to make sure she hasn't yes because

she's not going to sleep she's yeah Yeah, we'll tie her up.

I know, but I mean, we're not going to be mean about it.

It'll be a nice thing.

Okay.

So, as you guys are driving the car, it's almost like she's being pulled in one direction.

And as you drive in a different direction to get to Blake's house, she just becomes more and more distressed.

She's like, I have to go.

Damn, be late.

I have to go.

I have to go.

I have to go.

And she's just like banging her head against the window, just like slamming herself and pounding on the choke to go.

You have to go.

Dude, choke her out.

Blake, choke her out.

Oh, yes, very good.

I go overnight.

Rear naked choker.

Cutting off blood.

super brain.

Both of the arteries coming up through the neck.

A textbook, rear naked choker.

Give me a melee combat roll.

It's not really combat.

It's really nice.

Give me a roll for something.

It's really just kind of.

What do you want to roll?

What do you want to roll, hot shot?

Power.

I mean, there's a technique.

Do you know what I mean?

It is against some.

It's under duress.

Yeah, not everybody can do this.

Most people can't do this even if they look at a YouTube video.

I hate to break it to you, buddy, but with enough power, you don't need technique.

Well, you kill her if you have to.

You would snap her neck.

No, no, no, no, no.

All right, give me a roll.

Oh, 72 out of 60.

Do you want to burn some luck on?

12 luck is a lot of fucking stuff.

No, don't burn some luck.

Okay, we'll do my fighting brawl.

Mm-hmm.

She's the slippery one.

No, I have to go.

Can't be late on a trip.

I have to go on a trip.

I got a 50.

My fighting brawl is 60.

Okay, great.

So I just hurt her.

You should show.

You should do it, Blake.

That's an illegal boxing hold.

Okay, I tie her more thoroughly, I guess, like more closely to like a hog tie.

And also, okay, we need her not to be hitting her head.

Milton, yes, go get your helmet.

My helmet?

Oh, from inside?

Yeah, go get your helmet.

Can someone help me go get my helmet?

BB's like, yeah, I'll go.

I'll help you, Milton.

Let's go.

Both of you go get a helmet, I guess.

Hurry up in there.

All right, they come back with a child-sized helmet and then a couple of pillows because BB thought that would be a good idea.

Okay, yes.

I put the helmet on Roz's head.

I tie the pillows to the helmet.

And then I tie her helmet to two different different points in the car so she's like really stuck in there

truly well and decapitated to the car attitude

look if we get in a car accident none of us are coming out good

okay in fact she's probably the safest she's the only one wearing a

hey you know what maybe some sort of rope attached to people in a car it's a good idea

because like to your point i think if we got in a car accident what happened to you blake you're right i flew wouldn't happen to ross i flew out the front windshield But that wouldn't happen to Roz, would it?

Ah, you're right.

If she was somehow restrained in the car, perhaps she is the safest one in here.

We should all have seat helmets.

Seat helmets?

Every helmet.

Ah, that's a great idea, Kelsey.

Every seat has a helmet that is attached by rope to the frame of the car.

Cut to 15 years later.

Local teacher Kelsey Grammer was sent to prison for killing hundreds of people by installing helmets that stay in the same place when you crash your car, snapping dozens of necks across the globe.

Okay, so she is tied up yes and we're driving to blake's house right yes so you're driving to blake's house

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As you crest onto the poshest street in town, it's got those like, you know, like when like a real pretentious street has those like old tiny street lamps on it.

True LA heads know that the rich neighborhood's got those fucking wide-ass streets.

Do you know what I mean?

Like it's one of those big, wide

San Marino-ass fucking streets.

The big big oak trees, everything beautiful.

The UPS truck double parks.

There's still room for three cars, you know?

Yeah, and everybody's got a fucking driveway and a garage anyway.

So why is the fucking it's just to make it less houses there?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, sure.

Welcome to L Street.

Blake, why don't you paint the picture of your abode?

So as you drive up, there's like a wrought iron gate that as we approach, I like lean up just like a little intercom system.

And I go, ah.

Yes, sir.

It's me open the gate.

Very good, sir.

So I really was going to come up with like a a new take on the butler.

And I was like, sometimes you just got to go with the classic guy.

Part of me was just happy it wasn't a German accent.

I thought maybe he had taken somebody.

You never know what Blake was saying.

He has a swastika cut to his forehead.

I'm going to give you something you can take off.

And we pull into the driveway, and there's just in front of you this gigantic three-story classic, just massive mansion.

Wow.

We pull up to it.

Ah, this is the the guest house.

And we turn around and then around in the back

is an even bigger four-story mansion.

Ah, here we go.

The servants' quarters.

My house is just room.

Oh my God.

And then we get to my house and it's like smaller than the other ones.

Oh.

He's one of those billionaires that's, you know,

the only billionaires that likes to cosplay as a middle-class person.

Don't worry, it goes 10 floors under the ground.

Hey, Warren, it's your cousin, John Buffett.

You know that house you've been looking for?

Whoa, I'm so excited.

What's your sleep mechanic?

Is it going to be like the classic faded black and little like JRP changes?

We'll see who else is going to be camp first.

So you pull up to the house.

I am mighty tired.

I'm mighty tired.

The door swings open and Ambrester opens the door and says, Mr.

Lively, you've returned.

Ambrester, where is the rest of the staff?

I sent them home after you disappeared and you weren't around, so I just let them have the day off.

How many people live in your servants' quarters?

Ah, it's full.

I wasn't asking.

I was saying how many I lose track of.

Currently, we have 15 people on the staff.

There's the cook, the cook's assistant, the cook's assistant's assistant,

the chef de cuisine, the lawyer, the lawyer, the butler's lawyer.

That's my lawyer.

He's on retainer.

There's the maid, the maid's woman, the chief physician.

Although that's really me.

I work a double shoot.

The librarian, of course, the groundskeeper.

Groundskeeper, yep.

The huntsman.

Huntsman.

The exterminator.

Three people.

The three people that play tennis with him.

The exterminator, aka the accountant who does our books.

And then there's

my spliff roller.

There's the young local lad who rolls Mr.

Lively's cigarettes.

And how many left do I have, young man?

And then there's, of course, me and Mr.

Lively.

Oh,

yes.

Wow.

And Blake, you do your own plumbing.

I think that is so brave.

Yes, it's very important that the plumbing is right in these houses.

Like, I have a question.

Yes.

Why do you still plumb?

Ah, you see, it gives me the common touch, and I do like seeing inside people's houses.

The common touch?

What does that mean?

I just wonder, like, sometimes where their bathroom is.

When you look at a house, you don't know where the bathroom is, and only upon entering the house do you see the layout, and the truth of the layout with regards to bathroom placement is laid bare and manifest before you.

My lord Blake Lively is very passionate about the layout of homes.

He's written many pieces of wit and wisdom on the subject in his upcoming manuscripts.

The title was the most popular one: Clear and Present Toilets.

A guide to plumbing by Blake Lively.

Will your guests be requiring sleeping accommodations this evening?

Yes, and also

some kind of secured room for the lady here.

Oh, dear, this young woman seems to be in much distress.

Yes, we can't.

She's okay?

Sorry, I'm

still

sometimes.

I have, I

recover from certain ailments, and sometimes it affects the manner of my speech.

It feels like I'm constantly locking in my accent.

You don't have any security?

Why would I need security?

I am the security madam.

Oh, okay.

I have your security right here, and I flex a little bit.

Okay, you're very strong, Blake.

I think we need to bring this to my sister Ross, and you can tell she's under some sort of duress.

I'm going on a trip.

Did you go trip?

Somebody's brainwashed.

What are those people a doctor?

Yes, yes.

This is my butler and doctor.

Oh, that's right.

Okay.

There's somebody called the doll.

Trudy, what?

The doll maker has venom.

Yes, the doll maker is an alien.

The second you say that, like, looks at you, Blake, like, fuck, what?

Why would you be a normal person who just really wants to see the inside of people's houses like me?

Well, I'm a robot, you know, just to kind of get you into our wacky world of what's going on.

Indeed, madam.

Yes, and the dollmaker is an alien captured by Project Heartland.

Indeed, madam.

But it escaped.

I see.

And it's venom.

As you're saying this, he's like kind of guiding you to like a seat and boring you teeth, like making sure you're okay.

Oh, yeah, and it's venom.

Coats brains, making them more suggestible.

My brain is actually coated in the dollmaker's venom.

I see.

But there's a difference, there's a barrier between robot and brain.

And sometimes I wonder, like when I was talking to Francis earlier about him scooping his father's eye out with an ice cream scoop, I was

in my head.

I was wondering if only there were not a cool barrier between my robot-ness and my brain, and I was more heart.

But that's neither here nor there.

We have a problem.

Ross has been injected with the dollmaker's venom.

She just needs to be safe.

That's all.

That's all that concerns you and Blake here.

Your doctor, you can check her out and see if maybe there's an antidote to the venom.

Indeed.

Well, that all sounds like you've had a rather taxing evening.

Chastity, the maid woman, shall show you to your quarters if you wish to adjourn and recover your constitution.

Chastity!

An even older woman and go, Hey, what's oldest dad?

Oh, hi, Chastity.

Oh, my goodness, yes, come this way.

Hi, Tim.

see Chassity.

Oh, Kelsey.

You, bingo gal.

Oh, yes, sir.

I recognize you from the parloady, bingo.

How's it going?

So go call.

I know heart here.

I didn't know you were playing.

Come this way.

I'll show you to your quarters.

Very nice.

As she does that, Ambister turns to you.

And I turn to Ambister and like, we're in for another hard one, my man.

And then we pray to her high five.

Lock and load, my man.

Indeed, sir.

It's like batten down the hatches as we did in Prague that one time?

Yes, indeed.

This is going to be a hairy one, I can tell.

Indeed.

Just like Anakin and Obi-Wan in that elevator talking about their

nested gun darks, baby.

I owe you, though, but

sir, as you know, for the time you saved my life, I owe you a butler life debt.

And I'm forever in your charge.

Okay, so it is now.

Sleep sleep.

It's sleep, sleep.

There's no mechanic for this.

It's just who wants to go to sleep.

The other thing you can do, pick a little reading material before you go to bed.

You all got books about

it.

It sounds like we have a disadvantage if we don't sleep.

I will let you read your book and go to sleep.

If you want to read your book before you go to sleep, well, putting the book under the pillow help you absorb the information inside of it.

Yes.

Okay.

Hey, DM said it.

We said it.

We can read our books.

Yes, you can read them.

No, you can just sleep on them.

I think mechanically it's going to function the same.

I think either way,

we're going to currently watch inside the books.

I will say that's a secret ability Trudy has is if she sleeps on her books, she would be able to absorb it.

Oh, like different classes.

I love this fucking asymmetry gameplay.

I should have picked the robot class.

If I had known that you could fucking sleep on books and absorb it, that's the thing about the robot class.

It's like it seems weaker at the beginning, but once you start doing sleep more often as the game goes on, the robot class really starts building it.

That mechanic really snowballs with the book knowledge learning.

Stopper will nerf it.

So we'll say that Ambistor is, because he's got the most sleep out of anyone, has volunteered to stand guard on Roz's room to make sure she doesn't.

Oh, I keep Roz in my room.

Oh, okay, great.

I'm not letting Roz out of my sight.

And she's tied to the bed, and I feed her.

She's tied.

Where are you sleeping at?

What do you feed her?

Human food.

She's

human food like that.

What do you say like that?

Why?

It's not bad.

You're thinking about it because it's weird if I'm doing it.

But remember, I'm playing a character named Kelsey.

And Roz is.

Roz is my sister.

Okay?

Roz is my sister.

Yes.

He's just playing a woman calming down a hysterical woman who can't control herself.

She's been brainwashed by an alien, and we have to keep her tied up so that she doesn't walk to her own death.

But she's still,

she still needs food and water.

So I'm taking care of her like a good sister.

So I feed her whatever the food the butler brings me.

Okay, yeah, he brings you some most

sandwich.

Yeah, some, you know, some good.

And then I look at my sister.

I go,

don't worry, Roz, we're going to get through this one.

And then I open my brother's diary.

Okay.

We'll start there.

Page one.

All right.

I know she's my sister, but Kelsey's looking pretty good right now.

Oh, my God.

No, no, sorry.

I was watching White Lotus.

Oh, my God.

All right, Kelsey.

Okay.

Your brother's diary tells...

No, no, no.

Stepbrother.

I found out that Kelsey and I are adopted.

We're not actually

page two.

Your brother's diary tells the strange tale of his experiences in World War I and beyond.

The early entries are all fairly mundane.

Details of life in the trenchery camaraderie.

Details.

Camaraderie with his fellow soldiers, etc.

But throughout, he dreams of that day he went off to war and the day you warned him of his death at the Battle of Kantigui.

He chalked it up to a bad case of nerves from his beloved sister at the time until his division was called up to take the French town of Cantigui on May 28th, just like you had said.

During the battle, he foresees a deadly ambush and saves the life of his unit.

John is commended for his bravery, but he can't help but be utterly unnerved by the experience.

And that's when things take a turn for the truly strange.

On the night before every major action his unit is involved in, he has another dream of you warning him of his impending death.

A grenade at Passchendaele, artillery fire on the Hundred Days Offensive, sniper fire and a risky night raid at the Sanquentin Canal.

And sure enough, in the next day's fighting, those moments come to pass and he's able to cheat death again and again.

Over time, John makes a disturbing realization.

These aren't visions of the future, they're memories of the past.

He did die in those battles over and over again.

You did warn him, changing his fate again and again.

How did you know?

What does it mean?

John's not the only one to take notice of his strange run of good fortune.

Word gets out first around his unit, then his division, and finally, Word gets around to the men-in-white lab coats from an obscure branch of the Military Intelligence Division.

They find his case to be extraordinary.

After an initial battery of tests, they postulate all manner of theories with staggering implications for quantum physics, relativity, and of course, the strategic goals of the United States military.

They tell John they want to study him further.

There's just one catch.

His very existence will become top secret.

He can't return home to his family.

He'll be one of the countless soldiers who go missing in action in wartime.

John wrestles with the decision for days and days.

He can barely stomach the idea of never seeing his family again.

But like he always does when he faces a tough moment, he finally asks himself, what would Kelsey do?

You were always the brave one, always the curious one, always the one who wanted to know more about the way the world works.

So he takes their deal.

He becomes classified property of the U.S.

government, and he hopes in his final journal entry before being whisked away to God knows where that someday his choice will make you proud.

Damn, dude.

Johnny, I never would have left my family,

but he's alive.

Okay.

And he's adopted.

I guess the government can use my hot body for science.

No touch.

I am property of the government.

So, Trudy, as you doze off on your gently used.

I'm saying, God bless Kelsey, God bless.

Francis, God bless.

Blake, God bless.

Phoebe, God bless my Timmy.

Milton, you forgot Milton.

Under your bed.

You hear from the wall next to you.

And

Milton, and

now I'm going to bed and I'm reading my doll maker file.

I hope it doesn't give me nightmares.

You open up this dossier, and amidst the tropes of reports, chemical analyses, and the like, you're able to glean the following information.

The doll maker is the apex predator of a distant planet called Lanulos.

It appears to have traveled from its homeworld and made North America its hunting ground sometime in the late 1600s.

It received its name from the way that it turns its prey into living dolls by stinging them with a nerve agent that renders them extremely open to psychic suggestion.

It evaded capture for centuries owing to its high intelligence, preternatural stealth abilities, and nigh indestructible armored carapace.

Its chitinous exoskeleton has one weak point, a nerve cluster in its skull that operates as a multi-sensory organ akin to sight, sound, and smell, rolled all into one.

For unknown reasons, it will only seek out human prey with type A-positive blood.

It may attack and dismember people with other blood types, but it will not consume them.

You learn that Project Heartland's chief xenobiologist suspects that the dollmaker travels the cosmos under its own biological power by wings that warp space-time around them, and it carries a large supply of food with it, similar to a dung beetle, to sustain itself on intergalactic voyages.

I mean, then you have spooky nightmares.

Oh, man.

Got him.

Why did he program me to have Spooky Nightmares?

Francis, you have your book on cursed guns.

Are you going to crack it open?

I think Francis is so full of adrenaline and like just stress that he probably sits on his bed and sort of stares into the middle distance for like two hours until his body finally makes him fall asleep.

Francis, as you fall asleep.

Sorry, I fall asleep on the book so that all the knowledge still goes into my brain.

If you're a robot class, robot class.

Oh, yeah, where you specced as a robot class.

All right, but

do you want to read the book though?

In that case, or are you?

No.

Okay.

You haven't gone to sleep yet and you're looking at the wall and you hear a voice behind you.

And it goes, hey, Phil, I haven't seen you there for a while.

And you realize it's the voice of Sneaky Pete.

And if you turn around, he's not there.

He's once again behind you, despite the fact that you turned turned around to look at him.

And you quickly realize that you are in fact dreaming.

You are dreaming a sort of photorealistic dream about the room that you thought you were awake in.

How you doing, buddy?

I haven't seen you in a while.

I haven't seen you out in the astral realm.

Yeah.

Why are you here?

Well, you know, it's rare that you meet someone else who has the gift.

And I thought I'd see you flying around.

You know how to do it, right?

Yeah.

You do?

Well, you're not doing it much, so I just want to check in, see how you're doing.

Seems like you got a lot on your mind.

Most people don't dream weird little dreams about a room that they're sitting in unless they did something real fucked up.

Did you see something fucked up, buddy?

I want to wake up.

Dream Francis slaps himself as hard as he possibly can.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, hey, what are you doing, Buster?

What are you doing?

And he does it again.

Look, man, look at that.

I just want to talk to you.

Okay.

Can you?

And then as you slap yourself the third time, your hand gets caught and stops and it freezes.

And you feel, it's right where that spiral is on your arm and it begins to sizzle and you realize it's being grabbed by the hand of one of those shadow figures that stalked you the last time you were in this realm.

And you see this thing, this sort of blurry shape holding you, and it looks past your shoulder to Sneaky Pete, and you hear the voice of your mother say, leave us.

And then Sneaky Pete just vanishes.

And the shadows shift and shape around.

The figure lets go of your hand and you see your mother now sitting beside you on the bed.

I think this won't make for a great audio, but I think that Francis would just stare at her with a mixture of confusion and disappointment and rage.

I don't think he'd be able to bring himself to say anything.

I spoke to your father.

So it's going to be like that, huh?

It's going to be just silence.

Okay.

Well, then you can sit here while I talk and then you can have control of your dream again.

Francis,

you're a young boy.

I'm not going to apologize for keeping things from you.

That's my right as a parent.

to tell you things that are good for you to hear and to protect you from things that are bad for you to hear.

And do I have Brunhilda with me in this dream?

Sure, yeah.

I tried to shoot her.

There's lock on it, buddy.

Oh, fuck.

I forgot about that.

Yeah, yeah.

Brunhilde says, oh, now you want me.

Now you want me.

And then your mother looks at the gun and says, shut up.

And then Brunehilde just goes quiet.

Says, son, your father and I love you.

We know what is best for you.

And it is not up to you to make this decision about your future.

You are going to become the vessel of Zuzel.

Do I make myself clear?

I'm going to kill you.

Okay, well, that's just juvenile, Francis.

I'm going to kill you, and I'm going to kill dad, and then I'm going to kill myself.

And then we'll be done.

This fucked up, shitty bloodline will come to an end after we save the world, and it'll be fine.

This is just every boy goes through this phase where he resents his parents, and he hates what they're doing.

And, you know, I understand that your father and I want you to grow up and be a brave, strong man who can make his own decisions, but you are not that man yet.

You are still a boy.

You do not understand what is best for you.

And we know what is best for you.

So I am telling you right now that this is the program and you're going to march to it, young man.

There is one thing I understand, which is that dad doesn't have depth perception anymore.

Oh, boy.

Your dad, you know, he's such a softy and he sees this side of him in you.

He's always the one who wanted to be lenient with you.

I've always thought you responded to a firmer hand more than the soft touch.

So here's how it is, Francis.

You see this mark on your hand?

And she points to the spiral.

That's called a glyph.

That's how...

when your father and I need to track someone in the astral realm, we burn them with this glyph.

And then we know where they are.

When we are flying through the cosmos, we can track them down, which is now I know right now, you are at Blake Lively's house over on L Street, which is how the squad of armed men that are now surrounding this house know where you are.

So here are your options, young man.

You can either come outside on your own right now and accept the plan, the program that your father and I have worked very hard.

to set out for you to make sure that you can survive and thrive,

or you can stay in there and die with your friends.

If you leave with us, that'll be it.

We will leave them alone.

I frankly don't give a shit about what happens to them.

You can come with us or you can be responsible for all of them dying.

So what would you like to do?

I want to wake up.

That's not an option.

I'm your mother.

You need me to do that in real life, no matter what.

Francis, I have a tough time trusting you right now.

I will exit the house alone.

Are you lying to her?

No.

Okay, young man.

I'm going to trust you.

But remember, if you pull some funny business, I have no problem watching as those men drag you out of their kicking, screaming.

Okay.

Okay.

She snaps her fingers and you wake up.

It's the middle of the night.

I'm going to sneak into Kelsey's room and steal the key to the lock on Brunhilde.

Unfortunately,

in the last episode,

Trudy ate it.

Okay, then I'm going to go to Trudy.

You need to come to me, the plumber.

Okay, you go to Trudy's room.

Yeah.

Trudy is asleep on her book, which she absorbed the information from.

And the key is inside her robot body.

Yeah.

Have I seen the mole that opens her up?

Yeah, I think so.

Yeah, we can say that.

Then I press that mole.

So her.

Hello?

She was like, hi.

I mean, I don't want to get weird about this, but like she's wearing clothes.

So like you see this plate on her chest pop open a little bit and it stretches against her clothes and then Trudy wakes up.

Oh

hi.

Did something happen?

Are you okay?

I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to wake you.

I just need the key.

What's wrong?

I just need the key real quick.

Real quick.

I don't believe you.

I'll give it back to you.

I don't believe you.

What do you mean?

I really will.

Tell me what you need it for.

I'm going to get the lock off of Brunhilda.

Why would you need to do that, Francis?

I don't really have time to explain.

Currently, this house is surrounded, and there's one way I can make sure that you guys don't die in the process.

All I need is the key.

I'm going to leave the house on my own, but I'm not going to go with him.

I promise.

With who?

The Project Heartland people.

They can track me through their dreams.

How?

Because of the thing on my arm, my family can astro project.

We're weird.

Oh.

It's a weird far north monster thing.

You know what?

You're talking to robot lady here, so I get all about weird.

Can you understand why I need to get this gun unlocked?

Blake's house is really surrounded.

Yes.

Okay.

Oh, you want the key?

Yeah.

I'm going to take the key.

I'm going to wake the others and we'll get help.

And we've got

the second they know all of you are awake.

This is the one moment we have where I can surprise them.

Rather, that they can't ambush you.

I'm going to be okay.

They need me alive for the whole project.

So they're not going to hurt me.

But what if they take you?

What if they steal you, kidnap you?

If they can find me through the thing on my hand, that means you can probably find a way to find me too.

How?

You'll figure that out.

I believe in you guys.

I believe in you, Francis.

I hope.

That my faith in you is not misplaced.

I think you will make the right choice.

I hope you will.

And I'm going to give you the key.

Thank you, Trudy.

I really appreciate it.

And Francis gives her a hug.

You can go back to sleep now.

As she turns around, she's like, I think I've made a horrible mistake.

Francis heads down the stairs.

And as he does, he puts the key in the lock and puts the lock in his pocket.

You made a good choice, Francis.

Let's go make music together, friend.

Yeah.

He opens up the front door and steps outside and closes the front door behind him.

Do a strength check on the size of the front door.

Yes, the massive door opens.

And the second you step outside, you see five bisons step out of the shadows.

The two guys on the right and left have flamethrowers.

They're ready to fuck this place up.

And the one in the front steps up towards you and they reach out your hand and you see a spiral burn mark on their arm as well.

And you realize this is your mother.

I put the gun to my head and I pull the trigger.

What?

What?

Mother, mother, fear me.

I am the broken sky.

All I ever wanted was to feel so ordinary

in a world that lies twisted in my mind.

And now I'm gone.

All that I can see is a hole in the stars.

Swallowing my dreams and making them scars.

Too far, too far away

But I stay

today

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Next episode comes at you April 22nd.

Damn, damn, damn, we missed it by two days.

All that I can see is a hole in the star,

swallowing my dreams and making them scars.

Too far, too far away.

But I stay

today.

All that I can see is a hole in the stars.

Swallowing my dreams and making them scars.

Too far, too far away

that I'll stay

today.

Comedy podcast, just bewildered to know what to do.

Wow.

Well, that's the end of the episode, right?

Yep.