Mothership - Another Bug Hunt 02

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[00:00:09] The Rancors Brothel presents

[00:00:31] Mothership, A Sci-Fi Horror RPG by Tuesday Night Games

[00:00:52] You see, um, you can kind of make out in the corner now that you can get your flashlight in and everything's not frozen.

[00:00:57] It appears to be a form in the back right corner.

[00:01:02] It's like a rough body shape that's covered in ice.

[00:01:05] Is this an upright door? I think I'm misinterpreting this.

[00:01:08] Yeah, it's an upright door. It's a walk-in door.

[00:01:09] I don't know why I thought this was on the floor.

[00:01:11] It's a walk-in.

[00:01:13] I swear, I thought you said chest.

[00:01:15] Um, then I shout. I don't know.

[00:01:18] The nippy in there?

[00:01:20] Hands in the air, step forward.

[00:01:22] I don't know. Any response? Does it move?

[00:01:24] No. Is it cheater?

[00:01:25] It does not.

[00:01:26] Is it growl?

[00:01:27] It does not.

[00:01:28] Does it breathe in? I fucking shoot it.

[00:01:29] You said this thing was like pressure seal.

[00:01:31] Is that what was keeping it locked?

[00:01:33] Um, yeah, let's say yeah.

[00:01:37] I think that that's fair.

[00:01:38] I think that it, well, I'm trying to think.

[00:01:40] So then the door should just open now?

[00:01:42] I mean, I would think if that's the case then we could, if we just open it.

[00:01:45] I would think with the broken lock you've equalized the pressure.

[00:01:48] I mean, the Android can reach in.

[00:01:50] There should be a push button on the other side.

[00:01:51] You feel like you can figure out a way to mechanically lever it.

[00:01:55] But as you start to do that, you do realize that it was sealed from the inside.

[00:01:59] Like it, like if you think about the freezer door, right?

[00:02:02] If you've ever been in a walk-in freezer, it has a solid hard lock.

[00:02:06] Yeah, but there's also usually a push button to open it from the inside.

[00:02:09] Right. Someone has jimmied it to make it harder to open from the outside.

[00:02:14] Gotcha. Yeah, somebody ran in here and then probably froze to death.

[00:02:17] I opened the door.

[00:02:18] You opened the door?

[00:02:19] You feel the, again, now the wave of cold even more is strong.

[00:02:23] Like you're actually getting condensation.

[00:02:25] For those of you who smell, you get that sort of like, that biting, tingling,

[00:02:30] raising hairs on the inside of your nose feeling from the cold.

[00:02:33] But you do see a, the form of a body off to the side.

[00:02:37] How big is this freezer?

[00:02:39] It's walk-in so I don't know maybe...

[00:02:42] I'm kind of imagining...

[00:02:43] Two or three people in it maybe.

[00:02:44] A little bit bigger than that.

[00:02:46] I mean...

[00:02:47] I've been in some big walk-in freezers.

[00:02:48] Right. No, no, no.

[00:02:49] I don't think it's like a, we would say maybe like a five by seven space.

[00:02:54] Like a decent size.

[00:02:55] To dorm them.

[00:02:56] But it's not like a commercial 30 by 30 walk-in freezer.

[00:03:00] I don't think it's quite that big.

[00:03:01] But you do got to think that if they need to keep something cold

[00:03:04] and the fact that they're out here in the middle of nowhere,

[00:03:06] it's still decent size.

[00:03:07] Say maybe 10 by 10 at the most.

[00:03:09] What are yourselves?

[00:03:11] 8 by 8?

[00:03:12] There's 9 by 9.

[00:03:13] No big deal.

[00:03:14] No big deal.

[00:03:15] I go up and check the body.

[00:03:16] Is there a 9?

[00:03:17] I'm gonna say.

[00:03:18] You see the corpse of a frozen marine and a discarded metal case.

[00:03:23] A frozen marine is wearing a tinfoil hat?

[00:03:25] That's fun.

[00:03:26] Once again, I will check the dog tags and pull them.

[00:03:29] Lieutenant Corporal Resnick.

[00:03:31] He is clutching a plastic vacuum tumbler.

[00:03:35] Like a drink tumbler?

[00:03:37] No, this would be more...

[00:03:40] Scientific.

[00:03:41] Yeah, a little bit more like a...

[00:03:43] I would like to pry that from his cold dead hands.

[00:03:46] Sure?

[00:03:47] I can't, then I'll drag him out into the hallway until he thaws and then we'll pry it from his

[00:03:52] hands.

[00:03:53] So as I was saying, it's like a plastic vacuum tumbler.

[00:03:55] So I'm thinking like a thermos but this is something that's more scientific or medical

[00:04:00] grade you write.

[00:04:01] Lucas, fear safe?

[00:04:02] I gotta say use a dead body.

[00:04:03] Because I touched a dead body?

[00:04:04] Huh?

[00:04:05] Because of a dead body?

[00:04:06] No.

[00:04:07] No because you're going to break his arms off when you pull the thing.

[00:04:11] That's a 17 out of 41 so...

[00:04:13] Apparently you're very fine with the snap crackling pop as the fingers and part of his hand come

[00:04:18] with the case that you just took.

[00:04:20] See this is why I was coming in first.

[00:04:22] Kind of want to knock him off.

[00:04:25] Sorry, there's a finger still stuck to that.

[00:04:27] I hand it to a scientist.

[00:04:29] No, does it say like TGRI on the side?

[00:04:32] What is it?

[00:04:33] Yeah, 100% that's what it says.

[00:04:36] No, it's...

[00:04:37] You...

[00:04:38] I don't think you would know.

[00:04:39] It doesn't say anything.

[00:04:40] This is absolutely nothing.

[00:04:41] Not even a serial number?

[00:04:42] I know, there's liquid in it.

[00:04:44] No, no, I just...

[00:04:45] I did this but there's no label or nothing on the outside written etched in whatsoever.

[00:04:49] I mean I'm taking it with me.

[00:04:51] Sure.

[00:04:52] I check the discarded metal container for any identified items.

[00:04:56] It is a...

[00:04:57] It's again sort of a...

[00:04:59] It's a medical case, you know.

[00:05:01] It's clearly got a medical symbol on it.

[00:05:02] You could open it kind of like a first aid kit looking thing.

[00:05:05] Opening it.

[00:05:06] I do.

[00:05:07] Okay.

[00:05:08] So, 25 liters of something labeled as chemotherapeutic agents.

[00:05:15] It's got some writing on it.

[00:05:18] Like you can read it, you just don't necessarily know what the fuck it is.

[00:05:21] Would anybody in our group have any sort of...

[00:05:24] Well, I don't know, it's in the dossier of like individuals in the crew that should be here, whether or not they have...

[00:05:32] That was not provided.

[00:05:33] Yeah, background, like medical background info.

[00:05:35] Well, since I have at least a little bit of knowledge, I know that that is toxic as hell.

[00:05:40] Yeah, well I mean we're gonna leave it in the tube.

[00:05:42] No, no, no, what he's...

[00:05:43] No, no, I have...

[00:05:44] What he's got is separate from the tube.

[00:05:46] The case and the tube are not related.

[00:05:48] It's not like he opened up an empty case.

[00:05:50] He opened up a case with stuff in it.

[00:05:51] Doesn't need to stay frozen?

[00:05:52] Chemotherapeutic agents typically not.

[00:05:54] You wouldn't...

[00:05:55] You wouldn't think so.

[00:05:56] You don't know.

[00:05:57] That's what happens.

[00:05:58] Two Marines and an android.

[00:05:59] And a pizza place.

[00:06:00] And a group of other individuals.

[00:06:02] Yeah, yeah.

[00:06:03] You know that show was actually really fucking funny.

[00:06:04] It was funny.

[00:06:05] I enjoyed it a lot as a kid.

[00:06:06] Until for some reason, season two they just dropped the pizza place.

[00:06:08] Just called it to you guys and I go, oh that was weird.

[00:06:11] Anything else you guys would like to do?

[00:06:13] Troy, you're kind of standing to the back as they're investigating things, things that

[00:06:17] you would like to do.

[00:06:18] Is there anything else in the freezer now?

[00:06:20] So just marine thermos case.

[00:06:22] Correct.

[00:06:23] Tin foil hat.

[00:06:24] You do see that there is a vent in the ceiling.

[00:06:27] Open?

[00:06:28] Like a jar?

[00:06:29] No, it's a vent.

[00:06:32] I said the same joke when we played Death in Space.

[00:06:35] No, it's not a...

[00:06:36] The door was a jar but not quite.

[00:06:38] It's not like that kind of...

[00:06:39] Still the door.

[00:06:40] It was something that was helping to pressurize and keep the room cool at some point.

[00:06:44] It's not like your classic, what I want to say, die hard, I'm crawling in the vent

[00:06:48] kind of vent.

[00:06:49] But there is, there's clearly air flow from somewhere else to here.

[00:06:52] Do I actually feel air coming through?

[00:06:56] Probably just very slightly.

[00:06:59] Because if you think about it, you did just crack that open and now you've got cold and

[00:07:03] warm hitting each other.

[00:07:04] So it would be similar to like opening your door on a day when the temperature outside

[00:07:08] is drastically different from the inside.

[00:07:10] You would feel that flow from hot to cold, from high to low pressure, etc.

[00:07:14] Do I see any means of like a like power box or anything?

[00:07:20] Yeah there would have been controls for like temperature and stuff in here for sure.

[00:07:23] And he chose to freeze himself.

[00:07:25] I feel like he didn't have a choice.

[00:07:26] If I like click it to the mildest of temperatures.

[00:07:30] It clicks but nothing changes.

[00:07:33] Still lack of power.

[00:07:35] Well yeah, but something is independently powering this thing.

[00:07:39] Move on to the next room.

[00:07:42] So you go back through the pantry, through the commissary, anything you want to do or

[00:07:47] look at in the commissary?

[00:07:48] So there were shell casings.

[00:07:51] Yes, there are bullet casings all over the ground.

[00:07:54] So guess what? See what size bullet by that casing?

[00:07:57] Somebody with military training wouldn't do that.

[00:07:59] Yeah, yeah, no you would know.

[00:08:00] It is... Cody doesn't know because he doesn't know a whole lot about guns.

[00:08:04] But it would be nothing that you wouldn't expect.

[00:08:09] Whatever your sort of standard issue SMGs or pulse rifles, that's the kind of

[00:08:13] case in which you would expect to see.

[00:08:15] There are no weapons lying around.

[00:08:16] The only body part literally is just the head and no other body parts.

[00:08:20] I mean I'm gonna case the room at this point.

[00:08:23] No, as you go to case the room.

[00:08:25] Or any viscera of any kind.

[00:08:27] No, no, no.

[00:08:28] You start to...

[00:08:29] An odorless smell of death.

[00:08:30] Right.

[00:08:31] Which could just become from the one head.

[00:08:32] What do you want?

[00:08:33] I'm getting there. Relax.

[00:08:35] When you go towards the upturned table with the cake splattered all over the floor,

[00:08:40] as you get a little bit closer you see that a human arm protrudes from underneath the table.

[00:08:46] So it's like someone had flipped the table onto themselves.

[00:08:49] Onto themselves or like down for cover or something like that.

[00:08:52] Pulled it down on top of themselves, hard to tell.

[00:08:54] And under the table is a headless corpse in fatigues.

[00:08:58] Is the headless corpse the same skin tone as the head?

[00:09:02] Can we presume this is the body of the head?

[00:09:04] You would think so, yes.

[00:09:07] Can we just lego that back on?

[00:09:08] Check for dog tags again.

[00:09:10] Yeah, that is a good... yeah.

[00:09:11] Correct.

[00:09:12] Lieutenant Corporal Xavier.

[00:09:14] A lot of the Lieutenant Corporals around here.

[00:09:16] You do see that...

[00:09:17] Two.

[00:09:18] What was the... what was the second guy?

[00:09:20] Second Lieutenant.

[00:09:21] Oh, Second Lieutenant, sorry.

[00:09:22] A lot of the Lieutenant's around here.

[00:09:23] You do see that the... now this is weird to think about.

[00:09:26] Everyone's in charge, no privates.

[00:09:27] The headless corpse has a hole in its neck.

[00:09:31] Heavy smoker.

[00:09:32] So yes, I would say that it is like a...

[00:09:35] almost like a tracheotomy gone incredibly wrong.

[00:09:39] Yeah, whatever you say.

[00:09:41] The skin is also covered in paper cuts.

[00:09:44] All right, the paper cut thing again.

[00:09:46] Must have had a paper tornado.

[00:09:47] My assumption right now is that little insects

[00:09:50] bushed their way out or cli- that's what I'm thinking.

[00:09:53] Burl their way through?

[00:09:54] Like a tube worm?

[00:09:55] I don't know.

[00:09:56] I mean, are they just like straight cuts?

[00:09:58] Like if you look at the shingles of a roof

[00:10:00] or is it like as if a worm has gone through their face?

[00:10:03] No, I mean it's like somebody sat there

[00:10:05] and gave you a whole bunch of crisscross paper cuts.

[00:10:08] Uniform in any way or just random...

[00:10:11] All sort of basically similar size.

[00:10:13] I mean, like are they all like...

[00:10:15] No, they're not all like patterned or parallel or...

[00:10:18] That's a good call.

[00:10:19] Crisscrossed.

[00:10:20] But they don't make you jump jump.

[00:10:22] So they make you jump jump?

[00:10:24] Like I said, the one distinguishing feature is like

[00:10:27] the head must have been taken off very close to the jawline

[00:10:30] because there's a decent stub of neck still on the corpse.

[00:10:34] And like I said, what's left of the neck has like

[00:10:37] it's as if something slit from

[00:10:41] vertically up and down the throat

[00:10:43] because the throat is like opened up so that you can see the

[00:10:47] I guess what you call it, the top of the esophagus,

[00:10:49] the throat, the voice box.

[00:10:50] The voice box, but all that's still there.

[00:10:52] Epicalotis.

[00:10:53] It's not been removed.

[00:10:54] The guy who has a medical degree is talking.

[00:10:57] Don't worry about it.

[00:10:59] He knows anatomy.

[00:11:00] Oh yeah.

[00:11:01] I'm describing it to the lay people.

[00:11:04] The people who are probably even smarter than us put together.

[00:11:07] We have some listeners that are way smarter than us.

[00:11:10] We're dumb as fuck.

[00:11:12] Sorry.

[00:11:13] I was going to, sorry.

[00:11:14] I was just going to ask, is it a clean cut or was it like,

[00:11:17] is it as if it was ripped off the body?

[00:11:20] As you begin to inspect Lucas,

[00:11:22] make me a fear safe for fuck's sake.

[00:11:24] Death means nothing to me.

[00:11:26] Apparently jumpy as hell.

[00:11:28] It's another 17.

[00:11:29] All right.

[00:11:30] What are you doing?

[00:11:31] All right then.

[00:11:32] Apparently it means nothing to you.

[00:11:33] The cut is very up and down.

[00:11:35] So like from the, what do you call it from this?

[00:11:38] I guess that'd be the top of the sternum.

[00:11:40] Like from the top of the sternum all the way up.

[00:11:43] So it's a, what would it be?

[00:11:44] Like a six inch incision that's laid open.

[00:11:47] When you go over there because you're like,

[00:11:48] eh, the voice box and everything's still there.

[00:11:50] You realize that it's basically an open cavity.

[00:11:53] As you kind of like look down,

[00:11:55] like you're like, I'm not a doctor,

[00:11:57] but like there should be anatomy in there.

[00:11:59] Yeah.

[00:12:00] There's not.

[00:12:01] I may have to speak with dad.

[00:12:03] Remember where I said there's not anatomy there?

[00:12:05] It's going to be real hard to speak to something that doesn't have,

[00:12:07] no longer has a voice box or.

[00:12:09] We in our group have a mysticism.

[00:12:11] Functioning lungs or most of anything that belongs inside a chest cavity is gone.

[00:12:16] So the chest cavity is scooped out is what you're telling us?

[00:12:18] Yeah, I mean it's gone.

[00:12:20] Through the neck hole.

[00:12:21] That is one interpretation.

[00:12:24] Yes.

[00:12:25] I don't know that you would be able to con.

[00:12:26] The body does not have claw wound marks.

[00:12:29] No.

[00:12:30] Once again just the head is gone.

[00:12:31] Correct.

[00:12:32] We found the head.

[00:12:34] I think he had asked a question more towards the head and neck separation.

[00:12:38] Yeah.

[00:12:39] Was it ripped off or cut off?

[00:12:40] Yeah, is the head like is it clean?

[00:12:41] Does it look like a clean cut?

[00:12:42] That's about that wasn't a question.

[00:12:44] Not like guillotine clean.

[00:12:45] It's not like ravaged like a bitten off clean.

[00:12:48] It definitely came off in a pretty solid stroke.

[00:12:52] We'll say the executioner had to hit the neck a couple of times.

[00:12:57] But it's been hacked through not ripped off.

[00:13:00] It is cut.

[00:13:01] I don't know that you could tell that.

[00:13:02] I think he could by the way the skin is left laying.

[00:13:05] I don't know.

[00:13:07] I don't think any of us have the skill set for that.

[00:13:10] What would that mean?

[00:13:11] Being a scientist, I think.

[00:13:13] Well, I think it's technically under zoology actually.

[00:13:17] There's pathology field medicine.

[00:13:19] No, because zoology...

[00:13:20] Zoology.

[00:13:21] No, no, no, no.

[00:13:22] The way that the structure is zoology then goes into field medicine.

[00:13:26] So there's no anatomy.

[00:13:28] I would like to point out that the skill tree does branch in a number of different places

[00:13:31] and I don't think zoology is the only way to get to field medicine.

[00:13:34] It actually is.

[00:13:35] I'm pretty sure doesn't he also say that there's pathology as well?

[00:13:38] No, zoology literally is the only one that goes down to field medicine

[00:13:42] if these arrows are correct.

[00:13:44] You need a zoology roll.

[00:13:46] Let's see.

[00:13:47] Botany gets you there Lucas.

[00:13:49] Like literally the next thing down.

[00:13:51] No, botany goes to ecology only.

[00:13:53] It doesn't go up.

[00:13:54] Yes it does.

[00:13:55] See these little side branches?

[00:13:56] That's how the arrows work.

[00:13:58] Oh okay, I do see what you're saying.

[00:14:00] I guess I can see what you're saying.

[00:14:01] Yeah, it's how lines work.

[00:14:04] Like botany goes to ecology and it goes all the way down to wilderness survival as well.

[00:14:08] I guess you can determine it that way.

[00:14:10] Yeah but neither of those like...

[00:14:13] Nothing else goes to field medicine other than zoology and botany.

[00:14:16] It's weird for them to say zoology.

[00:14:18] It's the study of animals.

[00:14:20] Yeah which will be mammals or humans so I feel like that's just an all-encompassing thing.

[00:14:24] Do you have zoology?

[00:14:25] Thank you guys, you're all caught up on the skills.

[00:14:27] Do you have zoology?

[00:14:28] No, I don't.

[00:14:30] The scientist that I made does.

[00:14:32] Are we using that?

[00:14:33] I keep utilizing the hem as an NPC until my guy dies.

[00:14:36] So basically the insides were sucked out because the head was cut off semi-cleanly.

[00:14:42] I would say it's ragged but it's not like incredibly ragged.

[00:14:46] It wasn't nod on or something.

[00:14:47] It came off with force.

[00:14:49] As a side question though, is the slit from the basically top of the sternum all the way up?

[00:14:55] Is that also clean or does that...

[00:14:57] That is fairly clean yeah.

[00:14:59] That is closer to surgical than the other one.

[00:15:02] If you could ever cut off the head and open the neck, at least is aware enough to be accurate instead of just...

[00:15:09] It knows what the organs are.

[00:15:11] Maybe.

[00:15:12] Get to them fairly cleanly.

[00:15:13] Maybe.

[00:15:14] You hear some thumping in the distance farther in the kind of like a clatter.

[00:15:17] Which direction?

[00:15:18] Farther north.

[00:15:20] Yeah we'll call that north that's fine.

[00:15:22] You're not sure where but it's farther in the facility.

[00:15:25] Is it coming from the barricaded hallway or is it coming from the other...

[00:15:29] If we're doing north-south east-west, north would be the open hallway.

[00:15:32] It's hard to tell because it's kind of coming from both directions because all those hallways kind of connect.

[00:15:37] I get that.

[00:15:38] I mean that's...

[00:15:39] Lock and load.

[00:15:40] Yeah you would think if we're doing north-south east-west then you would think northwest corner but is that west?

[00:15:47] Is that northwest corner up there?

[00:15:50] Could be in the hallway, could be in a room.

[00:15:51] You have to kind of head that way to find out.

[00:15:53] Was it a single or is it continuing?

[00:15:55] That's a good question.

[00:15:56] At this point I imagine you walk in a direction and kind of just stop and cock your head a little bit.

[00:16:02] Do this thing?

[00:16:03] You know that feeling like if you ever had an animal it's like two o'clock in the morning

[00:16:08] and you keep hearing like they're fucking around doing something that's trying to get in the trash can.

[00:16:12] Right, yes.

[00:16:13] An animal getting in the trash can when you know they're not supposed to either so they're like batting at it

[00:16:17] so it's like rustle rustle and then it stops and then thump thump thump.

[00:16:20] So it is continuous just not a solid thing?

[00:16:23] Correct, it's not a mechanical thump thump thump thump.

[00:16:25] It's kind of rustle rustle thump.

[00:16:27] God damn, Russell's always getting in everything.

[00:16:29] Rustling in the bushes.

[00:16:31] Let's go north.

[00:16:33] Did we cover everything in this room I guess?

[00:16:35] I guess we did the important bits.

[00:16:37] Yeah, let's go north.

[00:16:39] Check in the hallways before we enter left and right.

[00:16:41] Yeah you kind of reach a four-way junction.

[00:16:44] Do we want to investigate the sound or do we want to...

[00:16:49] Yeah if it's a person we want to find them.

[00:16:51] Check these rooms.

[00:16:53] If it's a person, yes.

[00:16:55] If it's not a person then no.

[00:16:57] Well I would say let's move up to like right here stop and listen and see if we can determine the direction it's coming from.

[00:17:02] So there's a tiny hallway from the mess into a T.

[00:17:05] I'm assuming if it's coming from both of those hallways it's going to be to the west.

[00:17:10] I think we would have to get here and take a hard listen roll to figure out the actual direction of the disturbance.

[00:17:15] If it's even close enough for us to do that.

[00:17:18] Well I think you're going to get a more feasible listen from here than in here because now you're at the T.

[00:17:23] That makes sense do you?

[00:17:24] Yeah I know what you're saying.

[00:17:26] I stop and listen.

[00:17:27] Okay so it's not a T, it's a four-way intersection.

[00:17:30] That's a fair point now that I look at it this direction.

[00:17:33] But it still branches left and right.

[00:17:36] Right and it also goes forward just making sure that we're all on the same page.

[00:17:39] From over here it doesn't look like it lines up directly but it does.

[00:17:43] So as you step out and kind of listen it's definitely coming from the west now.

[00:17:48] So it's not in front of you, it's definitely.

[00:17:50] Like Troy said it's coming from kind of both directions so you get the sense that it's probably that top left corner of the map.

[00:17:56] Okay I look at our fearless leader.

[00:17:58] I will glance into the round room up the north.

[00:18:02] What does that room look like?

[00:18:04] Probably a closed door.

[00:18:07] You would know however that the round rooms are probably more operational in nature.

[00:18:12] There's no window at all?

[00:18:14] No this is probably just an interior door.

[00:18:16] Just keep out noises and stuff.

[00:18:17] Makes sense.

[00:18:18] Could be storage, could be a bedroom.

[00:18:19] Well we determined that the square rooms are the living quarters so it could be storage or it could be fucking anything.

[00:18:26] You said it was a locked interior door?

[00:18:28] No I didn't say it was locked.

[00:18:29] We just said it was closed.

[00:18:32] You're welcome to check the door.

[00:18:33] I mean I kind of, we can have some, we can have like he and I can look out and make sure nothing else is coming

[00:18:39] and you can, we can check out that room if it's the generator room and I feel like that's a priority even though we're here in some banging.

[00:18:47] I'll look left, you look right, you can open that door if you want to try.

[00:18:50] I want to open the door.

[00:18:51] So you guys are going, I can't see what you're doing but you're going straight north to that big round room at the top.

[00:18:56] He and I are standing basically at either side of the small corridor from the mess hall.

[00:19:00] Okay so you're looking east and west.

[00:19:01] East, he's east, I'm west.

[00:19:03] Okay so you're covering?

[00:19:05] You go up again, it's kind of just a simple like door.

[00:19:08] There's nothing crazy to it so you kind of do have a biohazard scanner.

[00:19:11] You can scan it.

[00:19:12] Biohazard and bio scanner.

[00:19:14] So yeah you can open the door relatively easy if you want to.

[00:19:17] I open the door.

[00:19:18] You open the door into what?

[00:19:19] Six black dragon.

[00:19:20] Yeah you would describe as sort of a command center.

[00:19:24] It's a central nervous system of the base and primary communication station.

[00:19:29] There are, there's some sort of computing device right monitors whatever.

[00:19:34] Central computer and communication instruments are all smashed.

[00:19:38] You see that there is a corpse of a marine slumped over the controls.

[00:19:43] Check the tax.

[00:19:44] As you walk over, you can see that he has a single gunshot wound to the head.

[00:19:50] Self-flicking.

[00:19:51] The, and you can see that in one hand, in one hand he's holding a revolver and in the other hand he holds some papers.

[00:20:00] You said dog tags, sorry I will tell you dog tags.

[00:20:03] This is 2nd Lieutenant Kaplan.

[00:20:05] Hey it's the person, they are no longer viable.

[00:20:08] His body has paper cuts all over as well.

[00:20:12] I take the tax first to prove that we found the dead guy.

[00:20:16] I check what the papers in their hand have if there's anything relevant.

[00:20:22] It is an org chart for the SAMHSA 6 mission.

[00:20:26] Cody has his phone in his hand, I feel like we're getting a handout.

[00:20:29] Jeff, send some.

[00:20:30] Tom we're busy.

[00:20:31] Tell him we got shit going.

[00:20:32] Jeff, fuck's sake we're killing stuff, come over here and play.

[00:20:34] I think he sent it to me last night and I just now finally saw it.

[00:20:36] Oh, good job.

[00:20:37] What is this game?

[00:20:38] You good friend.

[00:20:41] I truly almost lost it.

[00:20:44] Holy crap what is going on?

[00:20:46] It's like super zoomed in so it was like you'll see this org chart.

[00:20:50] It was like just showing me one person.

[00:20:52] On the org chart there's only one person?

[00:20:54] No, I was so zoomed in I opened my phone expecting to see the whole page and I was just seeing one thing.

[00:20:59] It's probably not a great picture but I can send another one later.

[00:21:02] But that is now in the game chat, basically an org chart of all the individuals.

[00:21:08] Just keep checking those guys off.

[00:21:13] And I will actually see if I can find a better image of it because I bet I can pull one from drive now that I think about it.

[00:21:19] So I take the papers, I of course take the revolver because you can never have too many guns.

[00:21:25] Now you said most of the command center was smashed up.

[00:21:28] Yeah, this computer stuff is pretty badly damaged.

[00:21:33] All of it or just most of it?

[00:21:34] Most.

[00:21:35] Got it.

[00:21:36] Is the generator in this room?

[00:21:38] I'm not in the room I shouldn't ask questions.

[00:21:40] We're getting there.

[00:21:41] So I'm slightly confused.

[00:21:43] What's new?

[00:21:44] Here I actually picked it from the PDF so this will probably be a little bit more visible for you.

[00:21:50] There we go that's probably a bit better.

[00:21:51] What are you confused about?

[00:21:52] He was holding this?

[00:21:54] Yes.

[00:21:56] That showed a note that he's dead?

[00:21:58] There you go.

[00:21:59] I mean I'm assuming these acronyms mean the same thing that I'm thinking.

[00:22:03] Yeah, you found most of these dead people already.

[00:22:06] That is interesting though.

[00:22:07] The ones that say KIA, you mean?

[00:22:08] Yeah.

[00:22:09] It's from the future.

[00:22:11] Probably supposed to wait a little bit to give that to you.

[00:22:13] There you go.

[00:22:14] Oh man.

[00:22:15] It's not okay.

[00:22:16] For some reason I was like I didn't put two and two together.

[00:22:19] Well it just seems weird that they would say he's holding this and I'm like

[00:22:22] he's holding something that tells him he's dead?

[00:22:24] That seems a little weird.

[00:22:25] I think it was to help you keep track of who's dead and who's alive.

[00:22:28] You made a good point though.

[00:22:29] Pretend you were worried about it.

[00:22:32] I wonder if there was intent to...

[00:22:35] Well, I guess I know a fair point.

[00:22:38] Something I should have played.

[00:22:40] Player choice sometimes causes some intriguing situations.

[00:22:43] Yeah.

[00:22:44] So.

[00:22:45] No worries.

[00:22:46] So is there a way to access power here or is that somewhere else?

[00:22:52] Power is somewhere else.

[00:22:53] Got that.

[00:22:56] And...

[00:22:58] Okay.

[00:22:59] So I'm trying to take note from what the book was telling us.

[00:23:03] I don't know that we want to go running towards the sound, right?

[00:23:06] Well, we have other options.

[00:23:08] We still have that last room to go to before happening to go anywhere near that thing.

[00:23:12] I kind of want to check that room.

[00:23:14] So like sort of almost triangle formation.

[00:23:18] The two of us walking backwards looking down the hall.

[00:23:21] And don't forget we still have a whole squad with us too.

[00:23:24] That's true, but he's not going to fucking allow those people to do anything of note.

[00:23:29] Sacrificial ponds are still as useful as meat shields.

[00:23:33] Meat shields.

[00:23:34] Just because they don't talk or have...

[00:23:37] What's the word I'm looking for here?

[00:23:41] Agency doesn't mean they can't be useful.

[00:23:44] It's like a screwdriver.

[00:23:45] It's a tool and a weapon.

[00:23:47] Oh, the actual.

[00:23:48] I thought you were talking about that drink.

[00:23:49] I thought everything has to involve alcohol.

[00:23:52] Not that that can't also be both a tool and a weapon.

[00:23:56] This is me.

[00:23:58] This chart is interesting, but also I'm not sure we were supposed to have it right away.

[00:24:05] Yeah.

[00:24:06] But that might just be a typo in the game.

[00:24:09] Like if the game states that we get this thing here,

[00:24:11] it's kind of just the game's fault.

[00:24:13] Whoever wrote the game.

[00:24:14] Could be that.

[00:24:15] And at the end of the day, it seems like it's more of a check-off list of who we can find.

[00:24:20] That's relevant to our mission because we just found the main military guy.

[00:24:24] He's dead.

[00:24:25] We have his dog tag, so Moss doesn't give a crap about it.

[00:24:29] So let's go to the unconnected room that has nothing to do with that sound.

[00:24:35] So you're going back this way?

[00:24:36] We found...

[00:24:37] I thought you gave us a different name.

[00:24:39] Well, I would...

[00:24:41] To prevent your own spoilers, I wouldn't pay attention to some of the KIA stuff.

[00:24:44] I would just not be in any of that shit.

[00:24:46] Did you not say one of the bodies we found was Olsen?

[00:24:49] Uh, yes.

[00:24:51] I thought you were writing down the dead guy's names.

[00:24:53] I wasn't.

[00:24:54] There were three people we were told to look for those names I wrote down.

[00:24:57] That's fair.

[00:24:58] Resnick.

[00:24:59] I want to say Resnick Olsen.

[00:25:01] You found Resnick, you found Lange, you found Xavier,

[00:25:05] and I think you found Olsen so far and Kaplan.

[00:25:07] Yeah.

[00:25:08] I feel like that's a lot more dead people than dog tags that we've checked.

[00:25:12] Resnick was in the freezer, Lange was in the pantry, Xavier was on the floor.

[00:25:18] And then this guy.

[00:25:19] So yeah, that's four.

[00:25:20] You're right, that's four.

[00:25:21] That's four, not five.

[00:25:22] Oh no, it was Happy Birthday Olsen.

[00:25:23] That's where I keep thinking.

[00:25:24] Happy Birthday Olsen.

[00:25:25] That's Olsen's birthday.

[00:25:26] Olsen's somewhere.

[00:25:27] Dead!

[00:25:28] Um, no, I feel like if that's...

[00:25:31] What we were saying while you were gone,

[00:25:33] if the game is written that we get this document here,

[00:25:36] that's the game's fault for giving us that info.

[00:25:38] Well, it's a... there's ways in which I think that you should explore it

[00:25:42] and you've explored it in different ways, which creates for interesting things.

[00:25:45] It is one of those, I guess, at this point, isn't it?

[00:25:46] Yeah.

[00:25:47] Fair point.

[00:25:48] Mystery door.

[00:25:49] Which way?

[00:25:50] To the right.

[00:25:51] East.

[00:25:52] East it is.

[00:25:53] That open?

[00:25:54] Unlocked?

[00:25:55] Yeah.

[00:25:56] It's just the door you can push your way in.

[00:25:57] You see a small medical area with an operating room inside

[00:25:59] and an observation and analysis lab separated by a glass wall.

[00:26:03] Does the container that we took appear to be replicated somewhere in this room?

[00:26:08] Are there other containers that look like that one?

[00:26:11] Probably.

[00:26:12] It's kind of a generic container.

[00:26:13] It's not like it's a very obvious container.

[00:26:15] Yeah, but we know that one has liquid in it.

[00:26:18] Correct.

[00:26:19] If I kind of pick up a couple of them up, are they empty?

[00:26:22] Hard to say.

[00:26:24] Are they also kept cold?

[00:26:26] No.

[00:26:27] Um, no bodies, no...

[00:26:29] Well, so the...

[00:26:31] So this is a medical lab?

[00:26:32] Yeah, it's a medical area.

[00:26:34] So you kind of have like a...

[00:26:39] So, you are on...

[00:26:41] If I'm understanding this correctly.

[00:26:44] Yeah.

[00:26:45] So you walk in and you're in an observation and analysis lab.

[00:26:50] So you can clearly see like...

[00:26:51] And then there's a glass window with the door and then the actual, like, medical

[00:26:56] bay is beyond that.

[00:26:57] So you right now, you are on the observation side of the glass.

[00:27:02] There's a small bank of computer terminals all powered down and there are piles

[00:27:06] of loose paper and a log book.

[00:27:08] What's on the log book?

[00:27:10] You find...

[00:27:12] What's in the log?

[00:27:14] It seems to be notes from Dr. Edim.

[00:27:17] Yeah, that's an important person.

[00:27:19] Dr. Edim.

[00:27:20] Who's on the org chart that we shouldn't look at.

[00:27:23] He's someone that you are, if shit hits the fan, he's someone

[00:27:26] that you are expected to recover.

[00:27:28] Sure.

[00:27:29] Kind of notes.

[00:27:30] You guys take some time to read through them.

[00:27:32] Yeah, sure.

[00:27:33] Okay.

[00:27:34] As you're reading through them, do the other folks want to do anything?

[00:27:35] I want to go towards the medical center.

[00:27:37] Yeah.

[00:27:38] See what's in there.

[00:27:39] Leave this guy to his death.

[00:27:40] Fair enough.

[00:27:42] You can tell...

[00:27:43] The AP is higher than yours.

[00:27:45] Again, there is a glass wall so you can see somewhat through it.

[00:27:49] It is obscured, it is dark.

[00:27:51] So you can see through the glass, you can't see a lot of stuff,

[00:27:53] but you can see that the med bay looks trashed.

[00:27:57] Piles of equipment, smashed stuff.

[00:28:01] You wouldn't necessarily know what all it is,

[00:28:03] but there's probably like a Bacta tank,

[00:28:05] like a Med Pod type thing.

[00:28:07] It's smashed.

[00:28:08] Obviously you do synthetic biological material,

[00:28:12] various cartridges, containers, specimen containment tubes,

[00:28:16] upturned surgical bed.

[00:28:18] There's all kinds of just...

[00:28:19] It's a wreck in there.

[00:28:21] But not surprisingly, the med bay door,

[00:28:24] if you decide to check it is locked.

[00:28:26] You can see it's a mess.

[00:28:27] The door's locked and I don't see anything alive in there.

[00:28:31] No.

[00:28:32] That's good.

[00:28:33] I don't know.

[00:28:34] You have a scanner.

[00:28:35] I do have a scanner.

[00:28:36] I'm using my eyes first.

[00:28:38] Lucas, the notes from Dr. Edum.

[00:28:41] Some of the latest entries in the log say that

[00:28:45] he was excited at the discovery of something

[00:28:48] that he is calling Krebschleder or Krab Song.

[00:28:52] Krab Song.

[00:28:54] I presume he's German.

[00:28:56] Krab people, Krab people.

[00:28:58] He is specified...

[00:28:59] Talk like people.

[00:29:00] He is...

[00:29:01] He notes that it is a shrill shriek

[00:29:04] that the carcinids use in order to replicate.

[00:29:08] Shrill shriek the...

[00:29:09] Carcinids.

[00:29:10] How do you spell that?

[00:29:11] C-A-R-C-I-N-I-D-S.

[00:29:13] I-D-S.

[00:29:14] Yeah.

[00:29:15] Carcinids.

[00:29:16] So kind of like...

[00:29:17] You used to replicate?

[00:29:18] Correct.

[00:29:19] As in reproduce?

[00:29:20] Yes.

[00:29:21] By sound, interesting.

[00:29:24] Are there any sketches of carcinids in this?

[00:29:27] I feel like that's a fair...

[00:29:29] Give me an idea of what that would look like.

[00:29:31] That's a fair question.

[00:29:32] You're seeing various sort of sketches

[00:29:34] of like arthropods...

[00:29:36] Yeah.

[00:29:37] Krab-like appendages...

[00:29:38] Things with claws?

[00:29:40] Yeah, probably things with claws.

[00:29:42] Roughly three claws.

[00:29:45] Nah, you got more crab pincer.

[00:29:47] You're not seeing anything specifically with three claws.

[00:29:50] Okay.

[00:29:51] But you are seeing what appears to be like

[00:29:54] structurally small crab type things.

[00:29:58] Is there anybody in our group that might have any idea

[00:30:01] what a carcinid might be?

[00:30:03] I mean, you know that they were here discovering

[00:30:06] arthropods.

[00:30:07] So you're guessing that that's probably connected?

[00:30:12] Sure.

[00:30:13] Arthropods typically are aquatic, are they not?

[00:30:16] Not my...

[00:30:17] They're crabs.

[00:30:18] Are they not aquatic?

[00:30:19] Yeah.

[00:30:20] But we're in the jungle.

[00:30:21] So...

[00:30:22] No one said anything about oceans or other water.

[00:30:23] We also took cryosleep to get to this planet

[00:30:25] where an android is opening doors

[00:30:27] with the batteries in his body.

[00:30:29] Yeah, that has nothing to do with my question.

[00:30:31] Suspension of disbelief.

[00:30:33] Like through everything else we're going through

[00:30:35] right now you're gonna be like,

[00:30:37] I've seen a body of water!

[00:30:38] I don't know, that's what I'm saying.

[00:30:40] There's arthropods but no water nearby.

[00:30:42] Are you confusing arthropods with cephalopods?

[00:30:45] Possibly.

[00:30:46] Okay, moving right along.

[00:30:49] Quite possibly.

[00:30:51] Like, well cephalopods are squid, right?

[00:30:54] Well, crabs are cephalopods, aren't they?

[00:30:56] Aren't they arthropods?

[00:30:57] Well here's the thing, crabs and those kind of things,

[00:30:59] they can move around outside of water.

[00:31:02] Like crabs do?

[00:31:03] Crab can move outside of water.

[00:31:06] Arthropods are members of the phylum Arthropoda

[00:31:09] which means joined leg.

[00:31:10] Arthropods includes insects, arachnids and crustaceans.

[00:31:13] There are more kinds of beetles in the world

[00:31:15] than any other type of animal, invertebrate or otherwise.

[00:31:17] Arthropods is a phylum that includes insects and spiders.

[00:31:20] Arthropods are very broad.

[00:31:21] It is, okay, never mind them.

[00:31:23] Because for some reason,

[00:31:25] Lucas was just equating that only to water.

[00:31:27] Arthropods can survive pretty much anywhere.

[00:31:29] Gotcha, that's a fair point.

[00:31:32] So it's bugs.

[00:31:41] Hence the title.

[00:31:43] Well, part of the title.

[00:31:44] I mean, I'll take the logbook with me

[00:31:45] and explain what kind of what I've found

[00:31:47] to other people while they're looking around.

[00:31:49] There is one thing that you did note also that's interesting.

[00:31:52] This has several of Dr. Edams like specific notes.

[00:31:56] And he seems to almost begrudgingly admit

[00:32:02] that Hinton, who is the company assigned android,

[00:32:06] did much of the legwork for the discovery of the crab song.

[00:32:10] But of course, Edam was the one who really put two and two together.

[00:32:13] Legwork was just done by the android.

[00:32:15] So there's an android walking around here that...

[00:32:17] The one you're supposed to get the logic core from.

[00:32:19] Yeah, who did most of the work.

[00:32:20] That they said was of utmost importance.

[00:32:22] Yeah, I haven't found that guy yet.

[00:32:24] Nope, could look on the org chart and cheat.

[00:32:26] Is he alive?

[00:32:27] Are any androids really alive?

[00:32:32] What is transhumanism?

[00:32:33] I don't know.

[00:32:34] Please discuss.

[00:32:36] Do you feel, do you have consciousness?

[00:32:38] What about your character?

[00:32:40] Have we all seen Ted too?

[00:32:41] That's where I was going to ask that question.

[00:32:44] Are we talking about me or the character right now?

[00:32:46] Have we all seen Ted too?

[00:32:50] I don't have fucking hands.

[00:32:51] Can a machine have a soul?

[00:32:53] Anyway, so I'm looking into the med bay.

[00:32:56] It's a wreck.

[00:32:57] Would I be able to use my bioscanner to identify anything alive in there

[00:33:01] since I can't see it?

[00:33:02] Or with the glass androfeure too much?

[00:33:05] No, I'd say you can use it if you want.

[00:33:07] I would like to do that.

[00:33:08] I don't want to go into the piranhas.

[00:33:10] So what does the bioscanner do again?

[00:33:12] Can you remind me?

[00:33:13] Or Troy had it, didn't he?

[00:33:14] Where's the heap?

[00:33:15] Where's the book somewhere?

[00:33:16] It's in the book.

[00:33:17] There's the book.

[00:33:18] I can find the thing in the book.

[00:33:20] Bioscanner.

[00:33:21] He just googled it.

[00:33:22] Should we have the equipment section right after?

[00:33:24] No, I think he pulled it up on the app.

[00:33:28] Bioscanner long range allows the user to scan for signs of life

[00:33:32] until the location of signs of life but not what the life is,

[00:33:34] blocked by some materials.

[00:33:36] So I mostly wanted to know if there is life in there

[00:33:39] before going in there to check things out.

[00:33:41] Yes, there is life.

[00:33:42] You get pings of life.

[00:33:43] Lots of it?

[00:33:44] No.

[00:33:45] No.

[00:33:46] Like small, indistinct pings.

[00:33:48] Nope, get the flamethrower.

[00:33:57] Flamethrower.

[00:34:00] I feel like Alex just rolled a fear safe.

[00:34:02] He did.

[00:34:03] I don't know if Mark the android needs one

[00:34:05] but Alex the person just failed a fear save.

[00:34:08] His stress level just went up by one.

[00:34:10] He doesn't want to start a new character tonight.

[00:34:12] Is this problem?

[00:34:13] No, no.

[00:34:14] I have seen this trope.

[00:34:16] I am not opening the door because I know it comes out.

[00:34:19] A bunch of very small, very hungry creatures.

[00:34:22] You don't know that?

[00:34:23] You open the door.

[00:34:25] I'm reading the book.

[00:34:26] Reading Eldritch Knowledge.

[00:34:29] Don't know if he'll try it.

[00:34:31] So to catch you up, big thing Lucas read through the journal.

[00:34:35] They're called the carcinids.

[00:34:38] Yeah, carcinids.

[00:34:39] Carcinids which are arthropods.

[00:34:42] Yeah, it's not.

[00:34:43] I don't like that.

[00:34:45] They don't have claws.

[00:34:46] They replicate through crab song.

[00:34:48] They sing.

[00:34:49] According to Dr. Edom.

[00:34:50] They screech.

[00:34:51] They shrill and apparently fuck.

[00:34:53] Also the android Hinton figured out a lot of it.

[00:34:58] He went over and found out that the med bay is totally fucked

[00:35:03] and he's like the part behind the glass.

[00:35:06] Describing totally fucked is different than what you just said.

[00:35:09] There are multiple life signs behind it.

[00:35:12] Smashed equipment.

[00:35:13] Well, we're building up to that bit.

[00:35:15] Smashed equipment, blah, blah, blah.

[00:35:17] He started to go for the door and he's like,

[00:35:18] let me use my bio scanner.

[00:35:20] I said you detect life in there.

[00:35:22] I forget what he said but I was like four or five

[00:35:24] indistinct small life and he just went nope, nope.

[00:35:29] And that's where we're at.

[00:35:30] So since you guys are more together than I am,

[00:35:33] he can tell you what's behind that glass.

[00:35:35] I'll put on my infrared goggles.

[00:35:38] Are there heat signatures?

[00:35:41] There would have to be.

[00:35:44] You should be able to tell what size they are.

[00:35:46] Yeah, no.

[00:35:47] I mean most of the heat signatures that you're getting are only.

[00:35:50] I'm holding my hands about the size of a football maybe.

[00:35:52] Okay.

[00:35:53] It's bigger than I'd like.

[00:35:55] Little kitty.

[00:35:56] Little kitty cat.

[00:35:57] Four or five of those in there.

[00:35:58] This is batting around in the trash.

[00:35:59] Four or five kitty cats.

[00:36:00] Bat, bat.

[00:36:01] They want to play.

[00:36:02] Bat, bat.

[00:36:03] Who loves kitty?

[00:36:04] What about the infrared?

[00:36:05] Are they invisible?

[00:36:06] It's hard to determine exactly what they are.

[00:36:10] Like I'm not going to treat this stuff as like,

[00:36:12] blame, I know exactly what it is and they're three meters

[00:36:14] this way but you can get because again the whole room has

[00:36:17] tipped and flipped and whatever,

[00:36:18] but you can see that there are signs of heat

[00:36:20] and signs of life on the floor over there somewhere

[00:36:23] if that makes sense.

[00:36:24] I'm just asking, I used my bioscanner.

[00:36:27] He uses infrared.

[00:36:28] We know there's something in there.

[00:36:29] Can we see it with the naked eye?

[00:36:31] No.

[00:36:32] even the door closed.

[00:36:34] The window, is that obstructed?

[00:36:36] No, I think that the room is that fucked up.

[00:36:38] Okay.

[00:36:39] You've got overturned operating tables

[00:36:41] and you missed the whole thing

[00:36:42] where there's like a back to tank in there

[00:36:44] that's been shattered and equipment's everywhere,

[00:36:46] lights pulled down.

[00:36:47] Are these things moving?

[00:36:48] No.

[00:36:49] But we see life forms that are just sitting still.

[00:36:52] You see three or four sources of heat

[00:36:55] and he detects four or five signs of life

[00:36:58] same general direction.

[00:36:59] He's seeing more life than I'm registering.

[00:37:02] Heat signatures?

[00:37:03] A little gray.

[00:37:06] It's enough that like you're like,

[00:37:07] then the heat map and the life signs don't 100% overlap.

[00:37:12] And with that information about the reproduction,

[00:37:14] I do not want to deal with a swarm of these things.

[00:37:17] So I say go the other direction.

[00:37:21] So you obviously have down to sort of straight

[00:37:23] where the noise is or you could go back through the rack

[00:37:26] and then remove that barricade if you wanted to.

[00:37:29] You'd rather circumnavigate.

[00:37:33] Y'all look very uncomfortable.

[00:37:34] You all right?

[00:37:35] I am interested in why there's a barricade

[00:37:40] seemingly to keep something from coming into that hallway.

[00:37:45] Right?

[00:37:45] That's what I would gather.

[00:37:47] You would get the sense that there was a barricade

[00:37:50] keeping something into the mess.

[00:37:53] It means a little indistinct

[00:37:54] because it's just furniture thrown,

[00:37:56] but yes, you get the sense

[00:37:57] that it was probably barricading that way.

[00:37:59] Yeah.

[00:38:00] I don't wanna go through the barricade.

[00:38:02] I do too, because if we're definitely thinking

[00:38:05] the noise is coming from the Northwest corner

[00:38:08] then I kinda wanna make that the last stop.

[00:38:11] What if it's the Android that we need the info from?

[00:38:14] He can hang out.

[00:38:15] Then he could, yeah.

[00:38:17] We don't need him alive.

[00:38:18] What was this room?

[00:38:19] Did we look in this one?

[00:38:20] No.

[00:38:21] Now we haven't gone to that side at all.

[00:38:22] So let's go through the entire West side of this facility.

[00:38:24] Let's go through the barricade

[00:38:25] and head to the Southern room.

[00:38:29] Okay.

[00:38:30] So as you kind of step out into that hallway,

[00:38:32] you've got a door to your left.

[00:38:36] The hallway kinda runs a little bit to your right

[00:38:38] and then there's a door

[00:38:39] and then it runs all the way to the end of the hall

[00:38:41] where the noise is coming from.

[00:38:42] There's a door there as well.

[00:38:47] There is a door.

[00:38:48] I guess I don't want to force you guys to open a door

[00:38:50] if you'd like to open the door or not.

[00:38:52] The one to the left?

[00:38:53] Correct.

[00:38:54] As you turn and you look, there is a door there

[00:38:57] and there is probably in whatever the space equivalent

[00:39:01] of a Sharpie is.

[00:39:02] I guess you would still write, right?

[00:39:03] You would still hand write things.

[00:39:05] So your area's approved space Sharpie

[00:39:07] in like bright red.

[00:39:10] There's like graffiti on the door

[00:39:13] and it says comms off.

[00:39:16] I turned my comm off.

[00:39:19] Totally here.

[00:39:22] This is this door?

[00:39:23] No.

[00:39:24] No.

[00:39:25] Far bottom.

[00:39:26] That is the south.

[00:39:27] I thought you said the noise was coming from here.

[00:39:29] I thought the noise was up here.

[00:39:30] It is coming from there.

[00:39:30] I was confused.

[00:39:32] It is coming from there.

[00:39:33] So I'm more inclined to find out about this noise.

[00:39:39] Gonna go back up to the northwest corner then?

[00:39:41] Well, there's still one more room to explore

[00:39:43] but what do you think Troy?

[00:39:44] Well, we haven't actually seen what's in this room.

[00:39:46] Correct.

[00:39:47] I just, I figure if you know,

[00:39:49] don't open dead inside was written on the door

[00:39:51] you might stop.

[00:39:52] So seeing comms off, I figured it might give you pause

[00:39:55] and you may want to change your mind.

[00:39:57] I mean, it has.

[00:39:59] But so these people have purposefully turned off.

[00:40:05] Are we always saying short communications

[00:40:07] or I mean, obviously they,

[00:40:08] let's say they'd lost a satellite contact.

[00:40:10] So do they turn off all communications?

[00:40:14] Why would they do that then?

[00:40:16] I'm thinking of something similar to the birds.

[00:40:18] You've seen that movie, right?

[00:40:20] God, that was a very long time ago.

[00:40:22] Where there's the radio tower

[00:40:23] and it makes all the avians just go completely bonkers.

[00:40:26] Okay. Yeah.

[00:40:27] I'm thinking a situation like that.

[00:40:29] And considering that these things make screeching sounds

[00:40:31] when they're reproducing.

[00:40:32] There's a shrill high pitch weekend here.

[00:40:35] So.

[00:40:36] All right, let's check out the middle circular room.

[00:40:39] Okay.

[00:40:40] As you move towards the north,

[00:40:42] do you get sort of a slight whiff of,

[00:40:46] has anybody ever welded before?

[00:40:48] Like, you know that smell when you weld?

[00:40:50] Like that sort of like, yeah, that's a good,

[00:40:52] like that kind of a Bernie smell.

[00:40:55] You see that it is,

[00:40:57] that that room is the armory.

[00:40:59] Ooh, I think good.

[00:41:00] So it is a rugged interior metal cage lined with lockers

[00:41:06] that was at one point covered by an industrial blast door.

[00:41:11] That industrial blast door has been ripped from its hinges

[00:41:14] and sort of off to the side now.

[00:41:17] You could see a giant pile of melted metal

[00:41:21] and all the lockers are open and empty.

[00:41:24] If you think about it right, like it,

[00:41:26] the armory would be protected by a door,

[00:41:28] would probably have an interior gate

[00:41:30] and would have lockers on the inside.

[00:41:32] The door is like crushed in, ripped off its hinges, whatever.

[00:41:36] The metal gate that would protect it

[00:41:38] is now unlocked and open

[00:41:40] and all the lockers are empty

[00:41:41] and there's just this pile of just slag

[00:41:45] in the middle of the room.

[00:41:46] So they gathered all of the weapons

[00:41:48] into the middle of the room and melted them?

[00:41:50] Melting them?

[00:41:51] Okay, this is getting really weird.

[00:41:53] I don't feel like humans would have done that.

[00:41:55] That would take a lot of heat.

[00:41:56] I mean, we don't know what's going on.

[00:41:58] That would take a fuck ton of heat.

[00:41:59] Sure.

[00:42:00] Do we see any scorch marks under the pile?

[00:42:03] No.

[00:42:05] You don't see any scorch marks.

[00:42:07] You don't see any scorch marks or claw marks anywhere.

[00:42:10] Any caustic residue?

[00:42:12] No.

[00:42:13] So these things were,

[00:42:15] oh, I don't like the idea of what that caused that.

[00:42:17] Zero cents.

[00:42:18] No, there's a few things that could do that

[00:42:20] but I don't like the idea of any of them.

[00:42:23] Share with the class.

[00:42:25] At certain frequencies stuff starts to come apart.

[00:42:28] It definitely looks more melted.

[00:42:33] It's not disassembled.

[00:42:34] Oh good, that's less terrifying.

[00:42:36] But you're not seeing or understanding

[00:42:39] how that process happened.

[00:42:42] Or if it did turn into a,

[00:42:44] because if it were,

[00:42:45] if this pile, so say it's a pile of weapons

[00:42:47] or whatever it is, that's what you guys

[00:42:49] are operating under that assumption.

[00:42:50] I'm not saying that's either true or not.

[00:42:52] But, see everybody gathered a pile of weapons together

[00:42:55] and they like melted it with intense heat.

[00:42:56] You're right, it would scorch the floor,

[00:42:58] it would cause other things.

[00:43:00] You're not seeing any signs of that.

[00:43:02] And it's not like somebody melted it to slag outside

[00:43:04] and then drug it in here.

[00:43:06] So you're not sure.

[00:43:07] You're not seeing a method by which,

[00:43:09] if it is weapons that this would occur.

[00:43:11] Are we seeing any discernible shapes among the slag

[00:43:15] or is it just one big pile of melted metal?

[00:43:18] As you get closer,

[00:43:19] you do see that it appears to be discarded melted weapons.

[00:43:25] See the butt of a rifle sticking up or something?

[00:43:27] I think about like,

[00:43:28] you guys ever like atomize or melt something and fall out?

[00:43:31] Like just kind of turn some dust

[00:43:32] and there's like the odd bone

[00:43:33] or something sticking out of it like that.

[00:43:35] Yeah.

[00:43:36] Any ammo left over?

[00:43:37] Did they melt that too?

[00:43:39] It is empty, empty, empty, empty.

[00:43:42] For shame, so wasteful.

[00:43:45] They don't want us to get bones.

[00:43:47] Is it a, is it a like mound?

[00:43:49] Is it sort of congealed as a sphere?

[00:43:52] I would say mound is probably better.

[00:43:54] The sphere thing would definitely be more terrifying.

[00:43:58] It floats.

[00:43:59] Well, no, just if you put something in a point in the middle

[00:44:02] and it gathered everything

[00:44:03] and somehow fused it all together.

[00:44:05] That's a fun idea.

[00:44:06] Yeah.

[00:44:06] Like I said, there are several things I could do this,

[00:44:08] but none of them sound good.

[00:44:10] Spells and D&D that like you pull should be very good.

[00:44:12] We're dealing with gravity ball space wizards.

[00:44:15] Monstrous, some sort of crab creatures.

[00:44:18] Crab people, crab.

[00:44:20] People don't like crab walk like.

[00:44:23] Are we still hearing the wrestling?

[00:44:24] Yeah.

[00:44:25] It's not tired yet?

[00:44:26] Go home, buddy, go home.

[00:44:28] All right, we will.

[00:44:29] If it's an android they don't get tired.

[00:44:30] No, we don't.

[00:44:31] Slowly move our way to the north.

[00:44:34] Okay.

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