Winter has come to kepler. West Virginia late december and we'll crowd of out of state tourists, has nestled into kepler's hotels and resorts seeking Authentic, take snowbound holiday retreat, twinkling lights cover the towns, buildings and street lights, and a freshly cut garish lee decorated tree stands in front of city hall, its nighttime and not. creature stirs in kepler's festive streets, but up the road to the west. A van speeds down state route, sixty six, the vehicle Emblazoned in the ancient logo of the Monongahela forest service is driven by one rick dantin, be agents he's chief arborous, with it working day of tending to the forests trees behind him. He is packed up his tools and left the forest to head home.

But through his windshield, the winding highway begins to vanish before his eyes as a sudden furious snow storm materializes in front of her thick white flag. Whipped into a frenzy by a powerful wind blanket his vision in seconds panicked. Bears down on the brake, pedal and wrestles, with the steering wheel, attempting to maintain control of the vehicle and pull over to the side of the road, and then quickly, as it appeared the stone passes the van, Wipers kick on revealing the road before him. I a sigh of relief, then turns the wheel pulling back onto the highway to continue his commute and pulls away down the winding highway. it passes out of you behind the mountain side, moments later a crash. those through the pines

the newton is pulled from his slumber shortly before sunrise by the ringing of a telephone. On the other end is ranger Juno divine. She informs him that rick Dan and died last night in a car, accident on state route. Sixty six

No foul play is suspected, the Any time you called doc newton, there's some foul play, I see is it is it the my time griffin

is justin finally, coming into his own yeah. Just your body telling you you're going through some wonderful changes of life. Okay, that was not my. That was not my role. That was my get the get the command in there But I need to do my. I need to have a vision it's true. Why don't we? Why don't we roll to the six plus weird- or I guess in your case, minus weird, I love that you keep instead upgrades, but you ve never upgraded your weird because you still so spooked out by all this shit. Here's the thing is, the only thing is good for his youth magic and I have magic powers. So what the sheriff share So in fiction, I guess like woke up, they call me say said dad What is dead, and I said shit, I'm going sleep. I I have to have a vision about this hold on. Let me do a prophecy about it. I will be back around eight hundred and thirty

I had the strangest dream that I got phone call. The data was dead yeah, two d, six roll. I got started in three off with a fucking bang. It's a tune, ladies and gentlemen. The two minus one, its own line, it's the worst pass will vision that I could have irene. Here's. I'm going to Griffin. I feel like with a roll of this caliber. Doc will have something bad to him. I feel, like he's, also pissed himself, I think if he has a vision, that is this bad, he has to have what the Oh my god, I maybe maybe an evasion. He has a vision about using the bathroom yeah yeah and in real life, he got might have now. This is going to be. Bad vision, and it also means I get to take a hard move on you in the future.

Which last time was quite bad I'm so yeah. I know exactly what the cash in that ship it here is your here's, your vision. I think that I think This is the dream you were having when you are awakened by the phone call from four neutrogena, divine and and came to you, like sort of all of your visions. Come to you, there there's something about it? There's something about this thing that you can see in your dream. That makes it different from sort of The other dreams that you that you have there's something very there's something very vivid about it, but there's something also kind of artistic, if for a better term about it. There is something almost like I like you're looking at a painting or something like that, and The vision that you see is just stars

Not necessarily like you are in a laying on the ground and looking up and looking at the stars, but it's just stars, and it is there's, there's no moon above you're, just looking up into the stars, almost like you're in them, and you see this for like a long time. I think this is a long vision for several minutes. You just see these stars and then one of them appears to be getting larger and it's kind of at the center of your view and it's getting larger and larger still, and then you realize that it's not a star at all? What is approaching? You is a meteor it is coming at you faster and faster and as it collides with. Whatever your view. Is you wake up to the sound of a telephone ringing. about as bad as these visits get. I think it's like great, so

Well, it is December we are about to start our our third arc, our new haunt our new monster, and I think, jester like to set the scene and get some get some of that good character juice. areas like what the holidays are like for each of you obviously Aubrey. This is your first sort of holiday season in in a player in your living, an amnesty lodge and you ve been therefore for now, for you know, four months or so I said you're pretty well settled in there, but ned and duck you've lived in kepler for some time and I'm just curious like what what the holiday season is like for each of you, it's kind of weird for ned, when growing up. He was always very much. A they. Guy love me old family get Together, then, you know all of their cousin. then uncles and aunts and grandparents getting together and enjoying a meal. But you know with that the way life has developed, you kind of life of on the shady side, he's kind of had to give that up so

They are not a big time for net he it wishes they were. But you know he's usually ends up watching the macy's parade, and you know even a cup of gruel this crazy. You know it's in a row or even find girl salvage vegas. It also had aroused hot hot pockets gruel, seeing those are not there really nasty, but he just sits there. In the dark with tv on watch, season? You know hating on that, our roker guy good, it's just They are getting out of my dig that beef deeper dad go for it yeah. What about the? What about the krypton aka is its indeed do anything special for europe for your local business and holidays. I bid me well, you know, web a feeble attempted to decorate.

Try to have like some special events sadder, it's like saturday, yet it is dreadful whites. It does make it even sadder in and you know nobody comes. You know it's trying so most of net he's he's decided, he's going to have a he's have a a christmas special. on Saturday night dead, and so he's kind of you know, can't straighten his energies there. So he didn't, you know, see how sad his his his family lists. Life is on the holidays, so he's going to he's going to. A special couple movies on Saturday night dead and am just so I m self lines like movies down that which they want to invest in three katy about like santa claus. Heiresses the marianna clause versus the martians would be a good asked, frost, scary, one them.

Walking one. I don't remember being especially scary. I mean I guess he dies and that that is inherently kind of scary, but it does come back and learn like a very valuable lesson about. You know family in atlanta, a ghost that haunts No man gave me an outbreak. Air spoke tat, killer, doppler about you, so ducks sister at Jane is not in town. He would usually spend the holidays with her, but she's doing mission work in honduras. So she is not here, currently, so he kind of hung out with friends. He didn't feel too sad about it. It was never like a real big thing. For him it's family. A lot of friends were in from out of town. He spent a time at doing like bar trivia and karaoke in just kind hanging out with with pals come back in the cap. Orbital he'd kind of lost touch with, but so what I mean you didn't have

well too bad for himself. It like. I said it's not normally a big deal, but with Jay not there. It was a really chance to like family kind of stuff He just kind of palled around with with folks, but it was you, it was nice it was. It was good to see some of those. folks that he hadn't seen for so long so and Aubrey. What about you? Well Aubrey. doesn't really do christmas bree celebrates you'll war. Winter solstice that started when she was kind of a teenager and it was a rebellion against her parents, unlike leaning into the magic persona. So I would not say that Aubrey identifies as wiccan but over time as she grew older. She actually like did the research into it and found that it seemed to be a purer form

of the things that we associate now with christmas shirt, and so it became more traditional in her mind and a lot more about like more spirit of it without all the stuff pie. Onto it and that kind of thing a lot less about you know family and I think a lot of that now is because she does tend to be on her own a lot more. So I have a lot of traditions that that guy back to family times, but we are democrats, bond jamming, ok, that's good stuff, there I think that's kind of the aesthetic of amnesty lodge just a lot of sort of. steve, warm words, welcoming sort of wintertime, decorations and in fact, let's let's don't do that. So it's a it's a few days before christmas. I want to say it's like the twenty first or so, and awning in the afternoon. Mama has called you all into amnesty lodge to discuss your next hunt,

a duck and ned as you arrive and Aubrey. As you go to greet them, you all enter a a very festive scene in the lobby. It's decorated with garlands and wreaths, and the hearth is roaring in the center of the room. Providing some much need. Add warmth to combat the the very cold weather outside can danny are hanging up some more decorations here in the in the lobby area and why rise tink? tinkling away at the piano trying to figure out some holiday standard sorted by ear they probably dont. abs, though I mean they definitely don't have those in Sylvain, so she's trying to sort of master them on her own and mama emerges from her office and she's walking with a cane made of this dark sort of gnarled would, I would Surprise you! If she made this came herself from some stuff she gathered in the world behind the lodge, and she gives you all

but of a faint smile ass? She sees you all and she says we look like we're. The second got, the man back together, if sister Jane was doing missionary work in honduras and normally I would spend the holidays with her. But I had some friends come in from out of town. Oh, that sounds and I've, and I wanted to communicate this to anybody who might be listening somehow, and I thought this might be a more organic way of doing it yes, sir that strange way of just sort of conversing with another human being, but I'm doing well. They have a two for one: have a bogo sale down at the a p on gruel hot pocket, all right know how happy holidays everybody. Already. suffer bugging says I sell. My guy not really traditional. So much, as is my tradition and back to the book,

I feel like. I knew all that about our eddie. Somehow I don't know, maybe because we knew each other for a while and just ass well but on some sort of psychic link level with the all, but thanks for banks for common, we are where we gotta talk, I'm thinking we might want to have a chain the venue, thanks to the the proxy b of our special guest and sheep. But of gesture towards the dining area where you I'll see age? stern killed him yet we are slipping he is drink, yeah, it's a different age from the balance age. For you all, maybe it's just because you can't find like a good cliff side to huck a body discreetly, but he's drinking some cider, and he is that he's gone over a lamp lighter with like a red sharpie. We're going what you assumed to be leads fur for his own monster hunt not just like corrections,

I'll be doing a little bit of that. Also, it's sort of a one man operation with with kirby leading up publication, and so you know, there's probably not much copy editing going on there. but she leads you all down into the cellar which looks completely transformed from the first time it you saw things to sort of your own modifications in bar, claes, general cleanliness, and you catch him down here, as you enter, I hear, sliding a tray of food under the net that is sort of covering the kitchen area Are you see factor who still looks unkempt and I like vaguely inhuman, but he He appears to be a lot more docile than he was just you know. Last month he doesn't he seem to respond as the tray slides to his feet. He just kind of sick. perfectly still in the center of the kitchen. Just kinda. Can touching his knees and looking down.

and after you all settle here in the the secret hq of the pine guard, mama says right. So couple updates. First of all factor. Has it really gotten any more lucid since brought him back, so no real developments in the fine. Spring and monsters to cap learning? Stop it department, I don't really know if he knows anything that he didn't write down in his journals but until he snaps out of it we're just going to have to remain in the dark on that subject of y'all, she get any leads on sale. All this stuff. Coming from, I should have. some time into it. Honestly, but I I out so busy with family over the holidays, so I didn't make much literally just said: you didn't have any family in town. That holidays

It's fine! If you can dig anything up, but you don't got a lot of momma. You know damn it damn it done. In order to beat yourself up about a duck and but no properties Deanna calm down, and the an episode I tried. I lie edit. Just don't I just don't flow. I don't know how y'all doing always ned was trying to recover alright. Well. It'll probably be a lot easier investigate that stuff, when we, you know, actually have a monster on our hands and that kind of brings us to our our next subject. Three days to the full moon sort wherein the window now and my ear to the ground when we're in the window. You know lookin out for police chatter. I ain't a free, shit coming into ST francis social media, obligated alma sides, all you're followed count a verified

I am not an. I got about thirty one. Is that good or bad? How many do you follow? That's really, you have to do kind of its ratio, yeah about three hundred or so ooh. Ah yeah now I know ain't gone viral yet, but they aren't sing. I ain't seen nothing on, and laws are not really popular on vine until that shut down. I'm sorry about that mom as a changeling. Did a lot for the vine, so I haven't. I haven't seen or heard nothing especially ah minimal, yet so yeah got any ideas on anything that might be kind of out of the ordinary. Is it safe to assume that like? Well, you know what. It's probably nothing. I don't now it didn't seem. Predictably, To me, when I heard about it but a friend of mine, a sort of sort of friend rig danton he d

at last night, and there wasn't any foul play or anyting anything suspected, which is not that big of a eyes. I know in this region. The thing that counts trip me out about it was rick reckon I used to work together, rick Diana, we call him the dynamo we used to work together and he's the one when I, when I was first coming up, he's the one who taught me to the by how to handle the vehicles and how to be safe for the snow and always put your chains on, and everything and it just If it is, somebody was going to have that kind of accident wasn't like brought on by some drunk drive. Idiot or something like that, it, it seems, I don't know it's nothin? I am just gonna talk now, my ass, but It's the only sort of thing. That is

about to me recently is like I dunno a little weird mama, drugs, and she says I mean and right now I think it's probably the best lead we got so far. We got a death that you think is even a little bit suspicious that we, a check it out. Our know honestly mama, even if it isn't. ghosts and goals or whatever. I would like to know happened rick, I had a rough patch there at the end- and I don't know just like I lost account, I am sorry about your friend, I think. That's, I think, that's a good idea think that's probably are best lead. We got right now, so I would It's all on I'll, keep paying on the pavement and keep my ear to the ground. Keep my eye on. You know, there's three metaphors! You got any more. keep sort of my head to the to the grants nose to the grindstone style.

Head on a swivel I'll, keep my head I swivel and keep my ear open for any anything else. I can hear that might sound kind of freaky, but why don't the three y'all good go out the yeah? can I go to Sylvain. I mean if you feel I that last thing I access some new stuff. I've been reading these books trying to make sense of it and I feel like I'm just right, in like the same sentence over and over again and there's the you know, minister of magic over there- and I I have- so many questions good idea. I mean the me won't be here to go through the gate until tonight, but as I think, if you wanna had orders oh man, you, you should you're free to come and go as you want now. I dont me, like a permit, slip or anything. Now you just need to get the moonlight on the gate and head on over okay, but

one up. The three all barclay go check out the scene of the crash and see You can find out cv, see anything that looks particularly monstrous is snowing Griffin in in kepler, its knowing right now, but it's it's. It's like it's going to be pretty cold outside for a while and so on. Snow that has fallen is still kind on the ground of zaire? Snow! That's what I mean where there is snow yeah. I think public works like does its best to keep it off the roads and the highways. But I think I am This is probably an area where snow tires are kind of a necessity and snow. Dude james on the lincoln, my friends, okay, take a marley and mom. I have a quick question. May our suggestion maybe idea bark it's great, but maybe we should take someone who also knows about like snow and you now winter terrain, maybe see

three I mean we don't usually take jake along on pine gar business, but if you think we need a snow expert, I guess so. I wouldn't send him into the mouth of a dangerous situation. I wouldn't send him into the lions mall, but if I, if I'm just going to check out you know the thing crash, I guess he take all jake. You go with that barclay and barclay like nods he's just been a little bit town. We had a run in with some neighbourhood tufts and may cause a gave me hard time and think it really got to him here. I just haven't to feel a bit more part of our group. You know yeah for sure that's a sweet gesture watch I'll, take jake cool lights. down to the scene of crash and ethical cheer him up to see a place where a man recently died, I like your instincts there Aubry, I think, that'll be real good for they just him

in france, sorta the terminus of the mortal coil that real stand them. I don't realize who leads his life? I mean he was reckless and he doesn't care. He needs to have an appreciation of death ok cool as dominant as your sales rep that you know death could come at anytime. I had to convert that thanks to a dear friend that was dreaded derby up once yeah. Alright, so the three of you head back upstairs to Amis lodge. I want this scene of I think jake cool ice is like walking to the door, he's just finished, helping danny decorate and he's got it's bored and sort of his gear on and goggles his boards freshly waxed any sort of ways. It's like. Oh, hey, guys, what's going on where y'all look like you're in a hurry while jake and we have got a very important mission, we're going to go investigate and I don't think we can do it

without a snow expert, I mean, I know a lot about snow, but any means in closed because even stern still kind of in the adjoining room and he says system I'm gonna business. Yes, it is jake, yes, it is you're getting a call man, he fuckin psyched he's like oh man, I fucking. Yes, I knew it. I've told mama for such a long time like I've got I've got what it takes to to to save the I will not do as erika- is it like a mummy or something you need to slow down rock your jacket, started. This is the beginning, I will see you know you keep your head on a swivel, your nose to the grand stone you keep your ear the grounds to breach. With the stars you reach for the stars and we'll see how it all plays out. He says: let's go any sets his bore down and the eu for a view now ahead outside towards ned's, lincoln and attitudes. step outside it is it's the

weirdest thing, because you just sort of walked in the front door. As you came back up from the cellar It wasn't there before, but now it is there. There is sitting in front of the door. A small card and as you sort of approach it you, you sort of survey the art. It is written on sort of ay, a fancy white stationary with a lazy red trim pattern around its border, and at the bottom right corner of the card is a stamp in red ink and that stamp has a design of a paw print inside of a thick red circle. And written on the card are three bullet point items that Yes, if you remember that sort of how we're doing the economy and in this game it was just. Threatening and scary way for it. The pop yes up

I would like your about to introduce a serial killer character to the shared the red paul written on the carter heath. Cliffs countries, which are a lot keepers symbol, a series back to the badge. I see your lackadaisical classes, classes classes and victorious seed, some semen, from a really good sports guy, get daddy guys is me, Michael Jordan. I just moved to town dad

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which is just sort of around this, like sharp hairpin turn around a hillside and about halfway through the term, The guard rail has just been demolished. I and next to it you see a forest service van that has been hauled out of the woods ass sort of beyond the guard rail on the front of it Far is just crumpled, there's bits of wood debris that are stuck to its grill and sort of in its bid shattered when shield there's no body it has long since sort of been carted away, there's just sort of the the remainder of this of this crash and part. In front of the Van is a kepler sheriff's department vehicle with its lights flashing. and as you all sort of arrive without any troubles because of ned's expert driving and good,

snow tires. I could think of a great at chain, they're great change. You are exit, both the lincoln and deep before. do I want jake, okay jake. Have you have you had driver's ed classes at at your school. I didn't really go to school. I die really already here. You yeah I've, I've. We don't have cars and Sylvain, so the erratic live and let live. They show these films yeah. Indeed, riverside class that okay, ufo. What you're about to experience, but nevermind nevermind it'll be fine. Okay, is there going to be a monster when we get there, though, or what's up you, never know which way? I keep ahead. No swivel kid. He looks Now you've made him worried at evil continues to look worried as you arrive and get out of the vehicle, and, as you do, the driver

or of this sheriffs apartment, carp steps out duck you who and ned, maybe depending on you, ve, probably I'd run ends? I think we have established you ve had not not net clearly criminal run ins but sort of distrust from the sheriff's department. You recognize him as deputy dewey. it's a second in command he's. Just this like tall awkward kind of one, guy and and is, is not especially well dressed for the cold. I think he's just like wearing a short sleeved shirt and he does not look especially comfortable out here. He approaches, use your step out of the car and he says Alex I'm going to need y'all to keep moving down shit what's happening I don't see. Why do I feel like there's a day? what's going on man, no just send it

Oh that's right! You knew rick, didn't you I'm sorry, man, that's a bad! Beat! I'm sorry! Dude! It's it's! Alright! Do we a? Are you still doing the the that thing You pretend, with all your friends, do like dungeon, hans and stuff like that, you throw tennis balls. Each other are alarming yeah. That's it said idiot lol? You know creative anachronism here from time to time head down into the park and do like the idea of woodland, elf names and their face and he is a warlock. So I do a little bit of that on the side. I can do that with us. Sometimes. First, though, love the sounders woodland of character. Can you tell me seventy hours of stories about him and his friends and all their kind of adventures? I mean maybe drag its vibe make it, so

The balance is a creation that no just want to try to. Please everybody. You know some people prefer that so I figure here you get a there's a there's, a shocking amount of our listener base that like wants there to be ties between all of the different universes or I think I think, if this is the tie between if amnesty is just if balance is just the fever dream of amnesty's new side character, deputy dewey, That would maybe not mere outside of our collective ties that it is one coherent, plainer, verse. Ok, now it is our aim or verse. I like plainer versed, dewey dewey, says yeah it gave me would interpret that summer time when I'm off the pot, but I got a kind of tunisia to This is like the crime scene now work, but were you know we got investigate and looking into wait and wait for the the tow truck come and take the car away

take in pounds and take a look at it there, but yeah so it's nice to see all y'all, I'm going to hit back in the car cause, I'm freezing my my menards off. So I. yeah. You deal, namely thing. Those are any trouble coffee, Are you saying you want coffee? cause, I'm not a Give you coffee, I don't know. Why have I mean you asked I'm going to if there's anything useful, eight doing images that other straight up asked you for a shirts spinner nice and dewy Anything seem I arrow. about this. You ve seen some crash sites and stuff, like that, your daisy things seem weird. I'm trying to decide. If I think

you I think I could put sort of just by your conversation. I think dewey kind of knows you, and he knows it like. This is your buddy who died, and so I let me say this though. I do think, though, that you can make a rational argument, and I want to make a harder myself. You can Argument that lie, I think you can make the choice. That if maybe you don't have a lot of authority you're a cop in a small town like maybe you don't have a lot of power, you might tend to get territorial about other, like I of you know officials fischler. However, you want to put it if this was sheriff. Zeke, I think that'd be true, I think deputy. Do I don't think you need to convince him just to talk to him. I think if you want to like actually like investigate the r and investigate where the car ash and see what like visual clues. You can find you'll definitely have to, but I think this is just a roll in investigative mystery talking to We lie to ask him. Questions about what he knows, I think I think I'll just tell you I will say, though, a lot of my

a lot of my investigative mystery, though questions are specific to the creature which he's not going to have any sort of insight into you but there is a what happened here. Maybe he can interpret the accident yeah, I mean he will eat you ve already, there's do it. Do you may not know much, but he may know one or two things and if you ask the right, questions can get that information. If, yes, if you ask the right questions, you want, I want to grow and six, plus two eight, That's a big success on a seventy nine. You hold once you get ass, one question: what happened here what's creature is it? What can I do? What can hurt it where it go? What was it going to do? What has been concealed here this does have to be the only investigative mystery thing that you guys do here. In fact, I sort of envision you doing a a few so lay at the broadest possible, and it seems obvious, but you ve seen lock crash sites of like that You think really happened here. I'll tell you just cuz. You know it's here. Is your

it might be hard to you sure you want to know about this duck. Yeah Alright, I mean making now I took a look at sort the tracks in the ground. Obviously we need to get it detective. Here's something least the sheriff to come out and give me but my opinion will happen. He drove the guard rail, I went down the hill bit went into the trees at the trees. It in considerable speed and that it probably died on impact I guess that's at least the m. You know the the one benefit to didn't hurt much. I guess we're ok, but wait. What was the what was the weather like when this happened. It was you know it's no on the ground, the railways reality. We clears low but a destiny on the ground, but I mean that there is saying to me no issues with armenia,

wasn't snowing in gambler when it happened. So I don't really. I don't think whether it had anything to do just doesn't make sense. As a weirdest thing, though duck is there weren't any skid marks on the ground Don't worry skin marks on the ground or what in a second set of you know of tyre track. So it's not like they had to dodge alloway some one like this slammed on the brakes, get out of the way of like deer that was in the road they just counted just dislike. They just went his went through the guard, rail and it was that was it. They went through the guard rail real fast, and that was it so I it is hard for me to discern like a cause and yeah. I the brake fluid intact and everything pretty fucked area, but I it's hard to tell but the brake fluid griffin. Could I try so wanna. Do you read a bad situation? Not because I want to read it.

I'd situation, but because I want to use my third, I cause it's like tied together, sharp me? If I am, I think you could still ask liquor a question here of the list in the gray which get only five, though I can't read shit on a five. I make a hard move against you. I would say unless somebody wants to help out, but that would only give you a plus one and would open come up to sort of another another. bad thing. That could happen. So you don't really know anything! You don't really notice anything bad aubrey, you don't seem to notice anything sort of man? jack all you get the sense that you didn't necessarily unnecessarily attuned. But you you don't notice. Anything then instead I'll I'll turn to mine, friend and rookie partner, jake cool ice,

so what's the plan, you need me to take the deputy anti open letter, look about crash cider, not yet here's my quest free jake. You know this area, you know with the weather ray you no snow in the woods and stuff do you notice anything like what where'd trees broken. When you know anything like that, there somewhere he liked it and he points to the snow. He says I know snow. I know what I know what a nice sort of a nicer coating afresh powder looks like rain cakes down in it just sort of a solid surface down hillside not really where the car crash, but just off to the hillside, and you do see like a just sort of this, this carpet of snow just everywhere, but it's not like it's not flat, it's not perfectly flat. It almost looks like pockmarked. It almost looks like

there's just kind of like there's oh very, very small. Did that definitely would not have noticed if Jake had not pointed them out to you, but there's something sort of peculiar. It's not just this perfect flat sheet of snow, their stairs, there's, there's pockmarked, not like Malik footsteps. Oh, no, no, no like way way way smaller than that is that in any kind of trail, nope just kind of all over, I think that's it ned you wanna do anything! I have it's about the body. I have questions about what killed the dannel I don't know if this is the place or you know if have any if We would have liked to rise on track for doing like reveal the yeah. Well do it did have. What do we did say he died from impact of the national authorities. Have you know they? I'm in here he was Please probably saw the body right, ok, mask a car guy right,

yeah like great effort and net a mad. Take a look at this van. I know it's a little bit fucked up, but. Do you see any reason that the brakes in this Van would not have worked as you all approached the Van dewey kind of steps in front of me says now hold on guys at. That is that we do the still certain do. Tell me. Was it here doing Do you like magic, shall gaelic magic, David, blaine, fuckin, yeah, yeah dignity. Does the thing re spits up the barks up the frog? I see that makes it we want of right and leg. Would you like to see I'm I dont want to brag, but are there to have this conversation, I mean it. I mean they need our need operative role to did problem. Initiate someone and that is the reason that you're doing you're, giving them a reason. The reason is, you ought to see some cool magic

Is that what you want is to distract them so that I'll invest rolled an eleven plus one holy as a good fogger magic. So they will do it for the reason that you gave them shit yeah, were you like leading them to I'm, I'm? Basically, just like you know whatever keeps his back to the car, yeah. That's what we're doing. I also say. How distracted is he? Oh, I know what trick I'm going. Do I'm going to make his badge disappear? it's a law, keeper, symbol, okay, shit! I love I would like to say that out. Ok, now, dewey I'm going to need something from you, something important. What what on you right now is something that you would not only. hate to lose, but maybe get in trouble. My well, maybe not. dewey. Maybe not all ye know that you're right, I'm sorry that was dumb. I can't give you yeah, I dunno it

I have a brain trick, you're going to do them again, but I got my I got my wallet. I got my keys. I got my badge got my phone. Let me let me see the badge there should be just about the right size. He has services but be careful way. I'd say I don't think I can get a place at one and the equal be pieces ale. If I lose out, finally totally understand I've never blown this trip. Before so While this is happening, that's investigating the car right all right, yeah. We can jump over to that ned and duck era over by the Van okay show ned takes off his big puffy, I red, yellow and blue vest and and investigate check under the van yeah. Go ahead investigate a mystery. I'm gonna give you a plus one forward because, like you have this driver tag that especially come in handy ever value you do have like car auto experience. Are I

us, so I rolled a six plus the one would be seven plus two for sharp, which I get the use here too. Brings up to nine duck if you want to help him out. Some We can get that up to a ten if you want to roll help out and explain like how you are helping out or operate. If you want to roll help out at sort of your, traction, but you all, but I don't think we've ever done, help out, but you can. You can get this from a mixed success from a complete success. If you can tell me how you are helping ned yeah let me try it. Let me see if, works first before I wasted time now I mean if you here's the thing: if you decide to help out it doesn't work, then it there is still a thing that happens is just probably not going be great and ned. You should know, that rick was a real safe I've randy would have taken really good care of his car. So I'll tell you I'm thinking. I just don't believe that

He would have done something this reckless. It's just doesn't seem like him, yeah telling him a little bit about rick. I think all will help go ahead and run it was cool to attend in an attend. Your help, grants them plus one to the roles. That brings you up to a ten on get a military that allows love to shit so old to ned and you get to ask two questions off the investigative mystery raw keeping in mind that, like we're just looking at a car, and so there's a lot of stuff on that's probably not going to not going to be especially relevant tell me I'm. How do I work I'm going to invest, really check out the brakes. at the brake line, and the paddle in every just the whole break. The whole break thing

in that regard, it's like listening to car talk over. Why don't we get the pads check, the pads, the pads, all right, I'm gonna look at the brake gum and then the sticky widgets what happened here. So break system underneath the car in under the hood, there, is there's nothing wrong. The brakes some is totally fine. There is there in a brake line is working. There's there's, there's break flu. everything seems very well in in just a good operating order, mechanically speaking, you go and you check out the actual brake pedal and the is also fine. But while you're down there sort of looking around and again, like the front of the car, is pretty pretty well while crumpled up, and I think you probably even have kind of a hard time even getting into the driver's compartment to to look at the pedals and you

Do you see something I think even actually it it's been moved over to the passenger side. There's some. Articles of like plastic bottles of like gator aid. I think rick was a Gatorade fan, and so there's just a few bottles of Gatorade and there's one that looks peculiar and at that. Is it it's over in the passenger side floor and you pick it up. And it's been kind of a it's crushed. It's crush right like at the center of the bottle in like a a very specific way, almost weekly, like it, looks like it got stomped on an you are sort of looking at it and you look at the brake pedal you kind of surmise that the indent of the crime. This bottle is the exact same height as the break, at all, and so you figure out what happened here. Is this bottle without wedged under the brake paddle and probably capped rick from being able to break, and so just this?

freak accident, kept him from being able to break the car and sent him sent It was demise, you're. Why wasn't I should that some colombo shit right there well you're all the ten year, omar question: what about the grill? As long as I'm you know in full blown colombo mode, let me check out the grill. Hey, I don't think, there's a yeah there's nothing really supernatural about the grill there's nothing especially like weird. It just kind of looks like and again you're, not like a forensic analyst, but it just kind of looks like this Van hit a tree very hard and was will got very messed up because of it One thing doc you are sort of they are talking to Nan. One thing I think you notice through the window, into the van, and I don't think this is like an investigative mystery, because it's just very very apparent, not something that you would have to like dig, especially deep to realise the van and is empty.

and he was arborous richmond like he was responsible for there was something like seriously wrong with a tree or some sort of wrought that was like plaguing the trees in them and on the hill of forest. He would even like a lot of tools that he would use to. You know safely scale the trees and prune it or you know, help deal with that. There's nothing in the van now. All of these, like all of you supplies and all of these tools are gone. They are not in the van duck my friend I am afraid that deep down body thirst cost your friend The animal his life looks like like a bottle of gate. Arrayed went behind the brig metal, and so this really does look like an accident, and I, It also goes to prove that trying Stay in shape is bad for you, so

The sour milk has claimed another victim sour, sweat potion. I am ned, I I appreciate it. I really We do need to talk about your still held belief. The Gatorade is part of a healthy lifestyle, but will get. I think, there's time for that. I appreciate an procedure. Anyway. You know it's just it's just a thought. It does look like an accident, though b. Let's, let's finish your badge theft, if you're, if this is something you want to go through with again keep in mind, these are side missions that you don't have to do it just helps you later on.

better and try and while but flocking completion is tat. Now you wanna one hundred percent this you wanna get all Galvin's how nature I made it all the feathers I'm gonna get all the flags are. So what's that? What's this trick? Look like I can't just let you say like I do a magic trick, and now I have his badge like there has to be some sort of challenge to it. So I would hey, that there was a lot of like palming, but mostly it's like. Oh I thought it was he. Oh, isn't there don't like mr act like his keys are now where his wife, I was in his wallet is now where that was in that kind of thing. There's just a lot of pattern. say that since he has already introduced the fact that he is a David Blaine fan, I'm going to go for kind of a david blaine feeling reveal you're going to eat the badge now I mean that's what data would do, but ok and but mother,

while the lie is something along the lines of alright and boom very go doing there. they are what goes where's my where is it eighty you supposed to be teleported into an orange or something I cut open the orange to have myself a little citrus, snack and and damn there's my badge dewey I guarantee you by the end of the day you your mind. It's going to be blown, David Blaine, No I'm saying I dislike like good, I'm lines now. I know you're, been no totally, but by the end of the day, you're telling me that I'm going to I think be very surprised, wink, wink she says the english, but she doesn't winked, ok, I well I'll, show you and I m, like maybe there's a little like flash, but it's real.

srebrenica is this as isn't real magic Hannah, says alright walk I'll, keep an eye out. I guess I'll be in the okay that She hurts my eyes a little when you do allows magic What do we magic, yeah yeah for sure, alright? Well, why don't y'all head on back down I'm seriously going to get my car cause, I'm just so fucking cold and ass. He sort of turns to archives of the car thing. Men doc, you all are already on your way, back from the from the van and he took this gap. Is I am y'all have a good. hey doc. Gingham, I'm real sorry, I this doesn't ruin your holidays. Pal thanks appreciate it and he gets in his car post doc. I still. His badge am I going to get in trouble while our man, I wish you hadn't done that its rhythm is further. Does on the card. said it was bad. It's just too is a nice guy. I dunno how

up to him. Our I've is going to have his ass. I don't know how, for example, and I'll steel seeks badge and gives the experts to dewey great yes, this week, web of lies You all drive away from from the scene of the crash and do it gets back in his car and sits there for awhile. I think he looks around his car for awhile looking to see, if maybe you teleporter dispatch somewhere in his car, but he doesn't find it so he kind of sighs and smiles like oh no where's it going to show up and and then we sort of we see the crash from and the woods up the hill from above the the crash and There. We see a figure on mobile and this figure is wearing a helmet and watching this scene intently as it Eight outside saw everything that happened on the net and

doc investigating this car crash. They probably shouldn't have seen seas Aubrey stealing the badge of a of a sheriff's deputy as you all drive off in the lincoln, they turned the still mobile and drive off back into the woods. Is it one of em fuck, a hornets hi move so nice starts to sort of descend. As you all drive back down state route, sixty six and into town. Are you the turn off into the cup to nominate and sort of drive into I pledge riverside and was christmas lights, sort of streaking by as drive across the main, drag toward the ascent back. two emissary lodge on cliffside and the temperature. Now that the sun is down, it has just plummeted. Two clear. Nobody really wants to be out when it s called and then a single flake. falls in the windshield of your car and then it is follow by a sudden

frenzied storm that stuff. It's to just completely cover your view outside through through the windows and the windshield you can. Barely see this storm being left about these lakes or just being flung almost horses until we in your direction and through this. You all see a figure just for a moment on the side of the road a humanoid figure wearing a brown robe that covers entire imposing frame and from a distance the estimated to be easily eight feet tall with with broad shoulders and thick muscular arms. It's got these two large bags of some sort slung over his shoulders and you can't you can't see its face behind the hood of its robe, but it stops and prince two face you as you pass

as the storm outside. Finally, and completely covers your view and then ned the of the lincoln sputters in this storm, and then it backfires a few times, and then it it dies and your car. or rolls to a stop, and then moments later. Storm just completely disappears. What do you do? Was it the krampus, I'm not going to tell you if it's a krampus or not, but was it's it's not. Isn't it probably not the krampus? Okay! That's what the krampus would say we'd have to tell you. I'd have to tell you if I was the krampus or else it's entrapment look. I think I can tell you who it was. Michael Jordan. masturbate him, I take colace actually says

so I you all also that two right had the two scary bags yeah yeah yeah. I you notice. If the bags were moving, nor not cosette, be so much more creepy. Nine. Anything like that, What's out no idea, you know a lot of this me. No one cards is such hog watch me way, I mean it. Let me die, I mean the looks like it's full a gas. Some even the radiator thing has got radiator juice in its god, where is the hood release? I can never find those would release. Ok, opera gets out ok as you as you step outside you see that indeed, just like there is storm it is, it is just gone completely. nascar, has rolled to a stop in the middle of the street sort of right in the heart of riverside

just past city hall and the massive christmas tree out in front and the few minutes municipal building surrounding it and on the other side of the sort of the main drag that you're on is a handful of like the town, staple businesses, there's like a winter sport supply store. I dave The humidifier depot is here turkey jeans general store is here. The pizza hut is here with it's like: it's got this like towering illuminated, sign beckoning in drivers off the highway and everything is just quiet, and so we don't see the figure now right like it is gone but you are sort you are fairly close by to where you just saw it okay. Well, I guess we go check out. That area You say we is it you and well. Are you heading with her yeah yeah. I don't investigate this because I don't think you necessarily need to I

when there are things that are just like obvious, that you can just see with your eyes and don't require any sort of additional sort of investigation and you don't need a role you you see tracks in the ground. You see hoof prints on him in the ground. I knew it. and as is standing there. Looking at these, these hoof prints that just kind of disappear. The place where they were they standing where you saw this this figure there is a payphone not too far away from where you are about ten feet away and it starts to ring? I look at that. Yeah you get it you get it you somebody get that phone. Ok, I get it. You pick up the phone Aubrey and a sort of pleasant. Of lilting voice answers, and this voice says hello,

Can I speak to duck newton? Please? Let me see if he's here, it's for you You go for that. take the phone and the voices hello duck. In three minutes, your friend LEO turkish, is going to die. He will be crushed to death as will need to customers currently shopping in his store. You might want to do something about that

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