The Mahalla Family would like their VHS copy of Heat back.
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me and tumbling out of control. Welcome
to night veil. First,
a quick notice. The Mahal, a family is requesting the return of one particular VHF tape. Now you
I remember that them a hollow family used to run the video rental annex in the roofs back in the nineties. We all enjoyed browsing their shelves looking at cardboard boxes that promised more than most could deliver wondering
we were children at the mystery that lay behind the little curtain corner and feeling
if we were adults, a little embarrassed as we passed the threshold of that curtain.
That indeed, after the blockbuster hordes rude through town the terror,
we'll thunder of their hooves ringing out for miles around burning. Every independent video store to the ground that should have
knit for the you view the and laser disk rental annex, but a
the Mahal of family, there is one loose thread to this story. That is of deep concern to us all
few just copy of heat that we lent.
the day before blockbuster invaded and left us with ashes and grief, explained LUX me, Mahala and it's real
the important that we get it back like super imported, she concluded.
sing from a shadowy corner, in my studio sure how she got in here,
unfortunately, the records of who rented out the tape were lost with the annex was burned. So please
Keep an eye out: it is a regular v,
just copy of heat in the
The green case, with the you view name and logo, is found,
he's returned to them a hollow family immediately or just enough
to the nearest owl they'll know what to do with it.
More on this. If there is more on this, but first
did he have like fail and the sheriffs secret police are scrambling in the wake of the recent verdict. In the case of the family of Frank, Chen Verses, night veil,
the verdict, as I'm sure you remember, required that the city provide the family of the murder victim, Frank Chin.
with one living, Frank turn in exactly the condition he was before. You know before the murder
failing this after one year, control of the city will be turned over exclusively to the family of Frank Chin.
The city council has charged Sheriff SAM with the task of returning a living function to his family, the sheriff
been delving deep into the Resurrectionist arts and they are exploring every avenue possible. First, they hired
folks that went by the job title
resurrection. Men which
Seems like it would be related, but it turns out.
their actual work was unhelpful and frankly, pretty grass the sheriff?
ask them to leave second day
considered the simple matter of time travel
obviously use the most straightforward all they wouldn't. You
to do is go back in time collect Frank Chin from the moment right before he was going to get murdered and just bring em did the future. Unfortunately,
after our last brush with the future that huh
frozen brain scam,
time. Machines in night veil were declared forbidden and destroyed, except one that was
placed in the museum of forbidden technology. Their share.
demanded to use that one, but apparently even they are not allowed to enter the museum because its forbidden,
to that. The focus on the sheriffs efforts turned to magic, not just any magic, the kind with a k at the end
the required several rare grim wars at a dusty old book store on Wormwood Avenue, no
Remember the bookstore being there
before, in fact, no
could remember there being a wormwood avenue in night fail at all. But there was
an old fashioned main street with a general store and a butcher shop and, of course, the site
I used and rare books when
officer of the sheriffs secret police as to purchase tomes of spells and power, the owner of the
store merely cackled and handed the requested volumes over for free. You will find she whispered that the price is built into the practice
right said the officer
Oh you have a nice day then, but he realized
the bookstore. Odor was no longer there.
does the bookstore nor Wormwood Avenue. He was
standing alone in the sand, wastes holding
Stack of ancient books
yeah. I'm sure that will just turn out fine.
v Mahal a family have asked me to reiterate how important it is that
I find that VHF copy of heat,
last seen and ninety ninety eight, when it was rented by an unknown party, moments,
before the video rental annex was burned down
Don't find it polemics
Michalek, explained the consequences
Could be dire dire?
repeated, while hanging upside down from my studio ceiling, again quite clear how he
here, but it sounds like it's in all of our interests to try and find that tape. I know it might be
to pick out a single VHF S among all the VHF tapes around your house. I mean who amongst us, is in constantly digging through vs just takes thinking what should I do
tonight, but just keep an
are you out for that? Classic you view sleeve, with their lovable hand, drawn Mascot Lenny laser disk with his grimace
face, cautioning us to re wind or regret man
I love the you view Rental annex David,
like a little popcorn machine and sure the popcorn was merely inedible.
Greedily salty and always,
tasting a little of steel oil, but I love
to get a bag and munch on it. My way home green use, you ve just sleeve under my arm, not heat, though I'm pretty
Confident I never rented Heath.
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so I've been digging through my old VHF tapes. Wow haven't looked at some of these and, while the day
The earth stood still a classic Davy
earth went really fast kind of a disappointing sequel day.
Earth, steel, Hobbs and Shaw. Be surprised.
Lee Decent spin off, but no
none of these seem to be heat.
Let me be hollow would like me to remind you that finding this tape is of the utmost importance
declines to give details or to explain how she got into the vents here at the station, but she does keep hissing most.
importance at me, Dana
No former mayor of night they'll put out a request on the night veiled next door to see
anyone who had seen the tape some
immediately answered, yes with seven exclamation marks, but then replied again thirty seconds later sorry, my mistake, I was looking at my cat earnest and got mixed up.
Another reply suggested that perhaps the tape got accidently returned to the night veiled public library, a few people,
half heartedly began to organise an expedition into the library to check, but since the
each s and laser disk media section is. Reportedly one of them was active hunting grounds for librarians. The planning quickly petered out night them
Please I'm not sure why it's important, but it seems important if
We have the visa just copy of heat last seen at the Mahal of families, Rental annex in the roofs contact the station.
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He was that Larry Leroy out on the edge of town as what he thinks might be the tape in question it no longer
is in its rental store, sleeve, having been found in a loose been of tapes, that Larry had an historic shed with the label: miscellaneous, sequential storytelling, but here
its vague memories of being excited by the name of the movie, as he had
this red it as Heath
and thought it was a greedy live action. Reboot of America's favorite comic Strip cat. Instead,
it was just some long boring movie about men yelling at each other in dinars, and he
and tossed it aside, he said
It planned to return it the next day, but when he went back to the video annex in the roofs, the annex
had been left a burnt out. Shell strewn with the hawkish banners of the blockbuster hoard and a sign from Ralph. That said up, see under construction come back soon and a little apologetic smiling face.
Looks me and polemic Mahala or rushing over to verify. If this is indeed the tape, they seek
this is so exciting. I mean what great and cursed reason could they have for meeting this particular object. While we wait to find out
Let's find out now about the weather
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brother and sister, Paul Levin and LUX me, the last of them a hollow family, the rest repose.
determinedly and rattlesnake rest cemetery gathered around the tiny tv and Larry Lee Royce Home Office. Next to a picture
Larry's, adult children taken three thanksgivings earlier and a hand,
built model of these starship enterprise with a nice little stand, working transporter bees silently per Levin pushed the
into the vizier, the click, the were the papas static. As the image came up.
the usual at the I'm warning, followed by the usual CIA warning and the usual warning from they get menacing government agency, the one that says what have you got in increasing
horrified tones for several minutes. Then that classic title tarred heat a cool movie about dude robbing rose. Great soundtrack kicked in
you know the one that's like me.
But then something unexpected the screen, what black lift a couple of times
And up came a video of a man playing pm
displaying moon debts and singing along too it is
was smooth with is whipped chocolate as sturdy as a concrete foundation.
he was sitting in the living room, kids, wrestling and laughing on the carpet below and both polemic
and looked me began to weep holding each other,
by the shoulder. Our father looks
He explained this
the only video we have left of him
accidently taped over this copy of heat, and then somehow it ended up back in our,
How can it was rented out after our parents died? We thought
lost forever. If this little piece of them,
really was left somewhere out there, and we just need to find it. Nothing could be more important.
on the footage. A woman puts down the camera and joins the man by the piano,
sings along as the kids laugh in those same kids, now adults hunched over there really Royce tiny tv laugh as well a distant echo
remember joy and for one more time,
Mohammed family was together again
Larry Leeway said they could obviously have the tape, but he will,
like a new view, just copy of heat in exchange, I mean ferrets fair stay
to next re, sudden loss of gravity, so maybe
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