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Whispers of Lunabell Island Episode 37: The Other Side
Hello, and welcome to WISPRS of Luna Bell Island. This is a horror show, and may include subject matter that some listeners might find disturbing, including depictions of helplessness, drug use, and violence. If that all sounds good, then please, join us. Because if these things don't scare you, then we might just discover something that does. So, after narrowly avoiding what could have been certain death for most, if not all of you, you're now standing back in front of this large steel door. This room is much more brightly illuminated now that you've got the power back on. But, rumbling... that rumbling rumble, not that word, I'm like a beer in a deep deep deep. That rumbly sound. That rumbly sound. That rumbly sound. That rumbling. The rumbly, am I tumbly? Yes. That rumbling disturbance that have been coming from deep underground is now abated into a soft hum. Scorpion, you're standing there, testing the weight of this explosive that you've made in your hand. Steel canisters cold and cool against your fingertips. You guys are dusting yourself off or mopping yourself off, rather those of you that are soaked and coolant. But other than that, gathering yourself, what are you doing? I'm going to pull Ronnie a little ways away from folks and kind of look around and I'm going to say, you haven't had any of those, uh, connections with whatever you were saying earlier, have you? Uh, I mean, I feel like there's just a constant pull in that direction, which is going to point towards that room that she felt drawn to before. Mm, well, keep me updated if it happens again. We still need to find that password. We really want to unlock this facility. You didn't find anything in the office? No, unfortunately not. To my understanding, that guy would have taken it to the grave. Hey, Doc, he didn't, he didn't have any fungus around his head, did he? No, he did not. I don't think all these people were infected. He looks fine. You found it specifically noteworthy, I remember when you found this corpse that this is the only naturally decayed skeleton that you have seen so far. All the rest seem like they have been encased or otherwise acquired by this organism. Surprisingly, not that much going on inside that room. Well, I thought you made it sound like he was infected because he was made. No, he took the easy way out. You made notes about something wanting him to open it or something? Yeah, at the end of that note, he had hand scrawled, uh, my body for the dirt mother, I believe. So he didn't fizzably look infected, but you might think that, but whatever your tellness is one thing, I'm getting you conflicting information on purpose to confuse you. Is it working? I'm more meant like maybe Freddy's not sharing that information. Hmm? That he wasn't infected, but he maybe was. I mean, he talked about the dirt mother. So you had a least loo, my body for the dirt mother. Well, I see where you're saying, I'm sorry, I thought we were still on, uh, if there was fungus, I'm so I was like, there was no fun. Well, he asked about fungus and then Rami said, I think they're all infected. Yeah, no, that makes sense. Uh, yeah. So to follow up on the, I think they're all infected, I would say. I believe they were maybe in various stages, but, uh, I think the director ended up taking his own life because he knew it. You think there's enough to make bombs to blow into all the rooms we need to get into? No. So either way, we're going to need these doors open. Yeah, just seven character, non numerical word only. That's what we're looking for. What's the next step? Well, we're going to get into this, uh, specimen lab because, uh, the doctor who was leading the cure, he worked through this door. Well, let me, let me remind you to on the map, all the doors that are read are the lockdown doors. Yeah, which we've seen the map close. So we know we would need to get through a wall and a metal door to get into the specimen lab. Yep. Unless we get lucky and on the other side of this wall is the passcode. Yep. It's our only way to go at this point. Yeah, to do that or into the specimen storage or, I mean, everything else is multiple doors. Yeah. We're not going to be able to blow through one of these steel doors. So this is the only, yeah, this is the only place where that's like really feasible. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It'd be really as if we blew into specimen storage and we found out everything was kept in glass ampules. It was like son of a bitch. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was room before he blew it up, smashed everything and then closed the door on their way out. Yeah. But, yeah. Real quick, we didn't see any like hazmat suits or anything in this lab, did we? I think they exist, but they're all in pretty shoddy state of disrepair. Okay. You could spend some time maybe patching one up if you wanted to. And he's going to just kind of yell into the room to scorpion be like, you got it or you want a second set of eyes on what I'm blowing this up. Yeah. Uh, well, Dan, Dan, I'm going to walk in there too. I'm Dan. Come here, social boy. She got score. Well, if we're not needed, we should maybe wait out here in case something goes to shit. Yeah. Just give me a minute. What way does the door go? Just go with me or down like, is it going to swing? Is it a swing door? Is it a roll door? It looks like it slides to the left and slides to the left, which is interior to the wall. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to, I'm going to poke my head through and I'm going to say, I suggest going to the left, most likely, there's no equipment behind that area because they had to make room for the door. I'm going to go check the office again, see if I can figure something out with the see if Ronnie can find something. So let me clarify on this side of the wall, it looks like, imagine like a giant pocket door, essentially. You wouldn't totally know if that's the case on the other side, but you can make a pretty good assumption this thing slides into the wall. Oh, goes into the wall. Yeah. Oh, the door is so fucking huge on the map. I thought it was a. Yeah. Sorry. It's not accurate. You're good. So if the pocket, either way, we probably want to blow through to the right then, right? Well, I mean, it's weaker in a pocket. It's true. Scorpion. Do you have a plate reinforced? Scorpion, do you have an actual like construction skill or is that a flavor? I don't know if I have a construction skill, but I do work construction. Give yourself a, I don't know, like a 30 construction craft. Yeah. Like an 80 construction craft. How long you been constructing since I got out of prison, which is how long ago? Like probably like nine months. Oh, okay. So yeah, that's not going to be maybe kind of generous, but yeah, I'm like, I'm just trying to make sure I don't have a skill that would work for this. Well, I mean, I also think that maybe with your scoring demolitions that could roll over into knowing like maybe how to blow stuff up and what the best approach would be. Sure. Yeah. I'll do my demolitions. Give your, yeah, do your demolitions and give yourself like a plus five percent. I know it's pretty middling, but I think with your construction experience specifically because you reiterated that. I think that would be applicable here. Yeah, I got a 67 over 45. No, okay. I think the fundamentals of the construction of this place are just so different from what you've experienced in your short time in the business. And even with your demolitions experience, it's tough to know just how where the best place to plant this charge would be. Well, regardless, what I was going to do anyway is I go up to Dan and hit him in the detonator. I'm like, you're the one the government paid to train to blow shit up. I just do it as a hobby. This is just a light hobby. Yeah. Yeah. You know what my training was though, like my government train was some guy handed me a fucking grenade. I mean, I'm like, yeah, the pins out of that don't want to blow up in your hand. What's your demolitions for? 40. No. I mean, I would let you go. Ronnie has a 50 just so you guys know of demolitions. Don't tell Ronnie. I forgot that you guys like triple dipped on that skill. Ronnie's. Ronnie was a certain kind of political activist. Again, I think it came from being a fireman as my background. Like, I think all these scores came as part of that package. Sure. So between the three of you, I'll say, even with that failed role, Scorpene, I think that you put in your three heads together, you kind of determined that the pocket of this door where the part of the wallet at Slide Senseu would be structurally the weakest part, but you know that planting that in the middle of the room and blowing through that would probably send the most kinetic energy out into the room as if he placed it like in a corner or something. So it would have the most destructive capability, but that would go for anything and like on the other side of the wall and in the room behind it. So it's kind of a gamble, like, do you go with the easy spot and potentially do more damage than you intended or do you go with a bit of a more reinforced spot, but mitigate the damage in the room? We only got one shot at this. Probably don't have enough material for more. I say we go that pretty definitively that it's you're not going to find any more chemicals, at least in this part of the lab to make another one. I say we go the easy route, might be a little dangerous. Destroy something we need, but we'll run that time and this place sucks. Operational success depends on every step along the way working, so I agree with you. Alright, let's do it. Okay. The scorpion, you place the charge in the most effective spot along that wall and you run out the line on this detonator, it's not a remote detonator, but you know, you can get back out of the room with the length of cord that you have. Everybody cover your eyes, maybe ears to ears to plug your nose. We don't know what what's on the other side of the wall, but you're ready. Try not to breathe. Pucker your butthole up. You don't want any of that a concussive force and whatever you do, don't forget to and then I hit the church. We're all taking cover, right? Yeah. Both from the explosion and in case any creatures come through, you can safely all be out. You can safely all be outside of this room. If you would like to do that, I'm also going to look at the dock, you got that knocks. That knocks. Oh, noss, yeah, all the all the operational critical stuff I have taken out of the lab at this point. While they were setting up the charge and everything, I had removed all the paperwork we wanted, all the equipment that we have gathered, put it into the administration room. Esther, we also have two fire extinguishers that we should probably distribute. Could I have like flipped some tables near where the explosion is going to be to help kind of keep it from blowing into this room as much as possible? Sure. I would say this is all going to take you guys maybe like 30 to 45 minutes to do because it's a lot of paperwork. It's a lot of research that you guys had sorted out to be able to move it in a way that you guys would still be able to disseminate info from it, meaningfully would take you a while. How are we doing on our countdown for the ultimate destruction? Like it is about it is about 8 p.m., which I believe would put you at about 58 hours. Can I? Remember, you guys slept like your, your rhythm's a little off. You guys still have a while to go before you are going to get tired again. Okay. Yeah. Um, really quick remind me, Wes, I sent you info. Maya, give me a bureaucracy check while you guys are moving all of this information. Okay. There's one thing that I do want to do before we blow this. Yeah. So, I want, who, who has, it's Maya is the only one that hasn't been in the, uh, director's office. Yeah, Maya, I don't think you've been in there yet physically. As Ronnie. I think Ronnie would. I was in there. Yeah. Without Diane or something. Yeah. I think she's joining her. I broke the door down. That's right. Yeah. Everybody to have had a crack at looking in this office, because if Maya can come in and do some hookety boogety, uh, psycho, like, oh, yeah, if, uh, if he would have cracked, he would have left the password here. And then we just have the password instead of blowing a hole in the damn wall. That's what I wanted. Everything. So I was out of the door instead. Yeah. Not to get too hung up on it. I would say that, like, he, Dr. Greenwood, you've torn that room apart physically. If there was anything to find in there, you would have found it. But I think bringing my end to kind of like read between the lines is a great idea. So that's what I would like to do before we blow that explosive. Okay. What's up? What? Give me that, uh, Maya, give me that, uh, bureaucracy check. I failed. Got 91. Damn. I think you're just trying to disseminate any more information you can while you're moving these documents. But I think you're more about concerned about preserving the integrity of all of your organizational work than finding any more information. Also, I'm probably going to try not to talk very much because either she's under the bed eating or I can't see her or she's eating it against my chair, which is really loud. So I mean, try to put it in her. Great. If you can get it from her. I did. Every time I move it, she moves it back. So it's better than under the bed, you could shut her in. And I mean, like mitigate what you can, but like you guys have a puppy. It's cool. Like if there's going to be some issues with audio recording, I'm not like. Too opposed to it. Just because, you know, like what are you going to do? Right. You could also just make a comment like my puppy puppies doing this so people know what's going on. It's going to be all people listening to this have a problem with puppies. Get out. Puppies are fucking sick. Don't vote. Yeah. I would. Okay. I would, I would say stand by Maya. Can you come over the director's office, please with me? Yeah. Yeah. And there's, there's still like lots of logistics going on, like, yeah, I'm sure scorpions probably like just making sure he's setting everything up properly and Ronnie, you're trying to create a barrier in between that explosive and the rest of the room if possible. For future reference, I will take one of those fire extinguishers. Okay. Hell yeah. I'm a place the other one by the door so that when we get down to, you know, flip switch time. It's amazing. I blast the body one more time to you with it. I was just going to say that I think one of you is someone probably have done that. I've been like trying to gauge whether or not I should ask or like allow that thing to come back to life. But I think you guys have dealt with it and probably are aware that it's there. So that would be unfair. It would have to be like a bunch of little organisms at this point. Don't just be like that. Brendan, I just don't know. Oh, like a swarm. Admittedly interesting. Yeah, I think comes back to life and it's a bunch of little things that are super easy to kill, but like you can stop at any time, but there's a hundred of them stomping on them. Well, I got to write something down really good. Yeah. In fact, Dan, I think when you're taking a step, like past it, like one of the limbs, like kind of half springs to life and like half has really reaches out towards you and you're like, yeah, and then you and Ronnie both grab a extinguisher and blast it. And I think you use the rest of that like partially full one to do so. So you have one relatively full one left that scorpion now has possession of. Okay. Dr. Greenwood, Maya, yep, you're kind of taking a gander at the director's office one last time. Yep. Okay. Maya, give me think a human is the most appropriate here and do it with a plus 10 just because I think that Dr. Greenwood's done a fair amount of work on this already. So he kind of like sets you up for success. I believe in you, Maya. Damn it. What? I got an 83 and I god damn it. Damn. Yeah. I feel like I feel like your dice betray you a lot on like your skills to valuable dice to me. I should stop. I think I'm just kind of going into this primed with the information that Dr. Greenwood has given you. You sort of come to the same conclusion. You're fairly confident that especially after searching this room a second time. If the password is written down anywhere, it's not in here. Oh, but that's just speculation. Well, what's that face you're making less I'm going to try. I'm going to type inhibit into the password too. It's not going to work, but I don't know why, but that just sprang to my mind. I think you go to place your fingers on the keyboard and you begin typing that word that comes to your mind inhibit and as you hit the first key, you notice that that rotating block piece jams up against scorpions, a lockpick that he left in there. What? What the hell? Who did this, but yeah, you gather up scorpions, lock picks after a minute and place them nicely on the desk or put them in your pocket to get back to them later. Yeah, I'll probably do that and then returning to your work. You got to type that word in. Yeah. Let's bring into your mind inhibit seven clicks, soft mechanical whirring and the machine resets. Yeah. Try dirt mom. We already did it. No, but you're right. With the lock. They did it. Or 16. Oh, you have to type out 69 though, find a way to get that many letters in there. Your dad, D daddy, D daddy, D. D. D. D. D. Y. dirt D. Y. I'm going to Dr. Greenwood at this point is kind of pacing back and forth, maybe in the hall while they're still setting up the explosives. And you can tell he's wrestling with something. Physically, pacing back and forth. Yeah. He's got a cigarette on. Sorry. Dr. Cramble, while you're out there, just give me an alertness check. Oh, I'd like to throw one of those out there every once in a while so you don't know which ones are real. Come on, 41 under 61, 41 under 61. You're lost and thought pondering all the information that you've gathered so far. And you're not sure, but a small shift comes from above you and that. That large obstruction in the hallway that you guys had to pass through, you look up for a moment and maybe you didn't notice it before or maybe the light is just catching it just right. But you feel like you can see a little bit of sunlight poking through the crack that all this debris came down. Whether or not that helps you, it's kind of up to you. And I think at this point, scorpion not putting words in your mouth, but I think scorpion probably yells out like, like a ready. Everything's all set in the bio lab, we're ready to go whenever everybody's ready over. Give me a second. Ronnie, can you come meet me in the hallway over? You know, I can hear you from here without the radio. Look, here you go, talk on the radio. Yeah. Carry if you're not on the radio over. I walk out and stand next one. You're breaking up over. I'm going through a tunnel for all in a tunnel. Oh, right. You can see that something like he has been mentally wrestling with like something in his mind and he turns to you and he'll go, I hate to ask this. Can you I think this is the last option we have if we want to save anything that's in that bio lab? Can you try and. Commun and get see if it'll give you a password? Yeah, the thought did cross my mind. Feel free to say no. You're worried there's stuff on the other side of that wall that you might need. I'm worried there's stuff on the other side of that wall I might need. I'm worried that getting through this wall will only lead us to need to get through another wall. I'm worried that this will reach a dead end before we even start. All right, and out of options. I got you. You got me. I got you. Ronnie's going to walk back into the director's office, the dicks off and sit in the chairs. You know, maybe being close to a stuff will help with the communion. Okay. Over the radio, I'm going to go over and I'm going to like everybody high alert. We're going to try something real quick before we blow that wall. Everybody prepare. If these doors open, can I get an affirmative from everybody, please? Over. Wait, you think the doors are you think the doors are going to open? We have to type it in first, but I'm just prepping them in case the doors do come open. Just for me. Communion? Wow. Okay. What are you trying to find out the password? Yeah. Okay. So my theory with reading the document that he, his, his journal, he had communication with the dirt mom, and he killed himself to prevent him from entering the password. I wonder if she got it from him. That's what that's the theory that I'm coming up with. And I think I think Ronnie had come up with that or LaTara had come up with that theory. Earlier. Yeah, Ronnie was just waiting to, till it seemed like there's no other options. And if you're telling her, that's the case. Yeah. We've got, we've got plan B all set up. So you think any bit is going to start meditating on thinking about this machine in front of her in the password and reaching towards what she feels like is the direction that she's drawn down into the dirt. All right. Ronnie, you take a seat on this large leather armchair. Actually, sorry, real quick before I do, she is going to look one more time at Freddie and then go over the radio, uh, Scorp. We might need you in the director's office and that she'll start he'll, he'll cock an eyebrow at you and go, why in case, uh, you can't do it, Freddie, I mean, I already shot you once. Yeah. But that wasn't on purpose. I know that. Who says it wasn't me, I'm away over does Ronnie laugh at this? Like, probably. Oh, yeah. She kind of laughs it up like he's making a joke about it. Yeah. If Ronnie genuinely finds that funny, go ahead and restore one to your bond with Dr. Greenwood. Yeah. Bond restore, woo, just one. We're joking over our trauma. So I technically like her more than now, until you make a sanity check for reliving that job. Okay. Just let me know whenever I join the scene there, but I mean, I think you probably walk in. If that's your prerogate. Yeah, you probably walk in as she's starting to settle into her meditation. How's she doing, Doc? Our only option to keep everything intact in that bio lab. I don't understand. What do you mean? She's going to see if she can get the password from that thing that's trying to control her. And she doesn't think that I will kill her if I need to. So that's why you're here. Have you lost your goddamn mind? Yes. You haven't. He looks you like straight in the eyes. You are playing with things that we can't hope to master. I know what it looks like when somebody looks into the abyss. And he looks at Ronnie and back at you and he's like, I'm no bloodthirsty dog. I don't want to kill her. You won't have to. Yes, I will. He puts a hand on your shoulder and a tear rolls down his cheek and says, no, he won't. He draws his son off shotgun and he says, sorry happened to me before. No need for it to happen to you. He looks at Ronnie. He says, we have a perfectly good bomb in that other room to blow a fucking hole. You don't have to do this. I mean, Ronnie has already closed her eyes and is trying to focus. I don't know if this isn't erupting that, but Ronnie, I don't think you can focus while the discussion is happening, Ronnie, Ronnie, Ron, Ronald, score. You got enough to blow through more than one wall? Yeah. I mean, definitely, I saw the stuff to I think he's telling the truth. With your demolition score, that bomb was probably no. I don't think you would know that actually because you weren't involved in crafting it. You didn't look for any of the materials. I worked in a meth lab for a year. I can make anything blow up if I want to. I am lying. Oh, wait, just a bit. What if, what if what we needs on the other side of that wall? Is it root worth looking? I mean, it's not going to work. Why not try? It's me or everyone on the silent. Orts you barely before everyone on the silent, and we have to live out a miserable two days grappling with what the hell we did to you. Well, at least she'll be dead in the end. That's fucked up. He's right, Ronnie. I probably shouldn't have even asked you to do this. You asked her? Yeah, I did. I was already thinking it. He just turns and throws a fist against the nearest wall and is probably reinforced by the psychopath and he shatters all the bones in his hand and falls through his knees in agony. He's like, you did this. Scorpion. And then it uncovers the password. You look at me and you tell me straight. You think our chances are better blowing through the wall than getting a password. I think our chances are better blowing through a wall than you losing your fucking mind trying to get a password that you might not even get. Am I not? Might not feel anything that I don't believe the evidence of that is all around us. What about you picking this lock, Scorpion? Oh, shit. I left my pick in there. That's right. Oh, thank you. Yeah. I can try. It's going to take me time, but you guys can blow up that wall all keep working. We have options. This is not. We don't need to do this. How long for you to try and pick this lock estimate? 52 hours. Give me a locksmith check. Just kind of contextualizing your experience with it up to this point, 13 under 40. You do think best case scenario would take you about 24 hours to pick this log and that's a big if probably eight hours. Ronnie wants to pull the map out and ask Freddie, what do you need for this cure? If you need a refresher, I can throw it off the dome piece for you. I do say eight hours. I'm lying to them. No. Yeah. So to my understanding, this is before I say this as Dr. Greenwood, I need I need to gain access to that so I can get into getting micro inhibitor 27 D, which I believe that I can synthesize to not just put someone into stasis, but actually cure the the actual disease, because that's the best bestly we have so far. And based off your knowledge of labs, you think that stuff would be in the room between the bicycle and the semen lab, Dr. Samuels led specimen research. It's either going to be in his lab, or it's going to be in specimen storage. Specimen storage is a steel door. When you say the lab, you mean this room way over here? All point towards it on the map and say, yeah. So even getting through the store, like I said, it may not be fruitful at all, but you don't think that the chances are high, it'd be in that room in the middle. I don't maybe we blow the wall first, the only the only thing that we have to be concerned of is that if his office is outside the specimen lab itself, this is your call. Call me old fashioned, but I don't think some papers and notes are worth your life. Is there any way I can, like, roll something to see if there's a way to blow this wall with what we have in a way that would minimize the damage? I think we already made that check. Well, you made the check, I don't know. I said it was all the demolitions experts putting their heads together came up with this, this conclusion that middle of the wall, highest destructive yield, but that goes for everything in the room too. Either one of the corners is going to be tougher to get through, but less likely to do damage. But I mean, you're blowing through a wall so you know that there's, you're going to destroy something and it's kind of a roll the dice on what's on the other set of wall. Well, let's flip a coin. Ronnie, no, we're not flipping a coin. Ronnie, while this is happening, and especially well, scorpion and Dr. Greenwood are having this debate a little earlier, you're sitting there and you're trying to focus a little bit, just trying to get a read on the room, maybe like probing that connection that you feel like you have now, and you start getting frustrated and you can feel the anger and the hostility growing in the room from Dr. Greenwood and from scorpion and from your own frustration and it's building on itself. But as it progresses and as you hone into that and just narrow down on that feeling a little more, you realize. It's not entirely coming from them, it's coming from somewhere else, there's a deeper meaning to that feeling in this room, but you wouldn't be able to know what that means without tapping into it. Saying stay out of this man, you're really making me want to go for it. As you said coin flip, I Dr. Greenwood hangs his head and looks up and goes, there's no coin flip. The fact of the matter is, I don't think you're completely comfortable doing this. I mean, I can feel something for any or something there. And I think for the first time too, thinking about that, you start to understand this a little bit better, at least part of you does. This feels deeper, you don't know, you feel less certain that if you go down into that place, that this is something that you could come back from. The stakes feel like they're raising on this newfound connection you have. I think you see her like kind of focus a little bit on that thing she's feeling and then like fear kind of flashes over her face, and she stands up and she's like, let's try blowing it. Thank fucking God. All right, so be it and scorpion, flaps you on the chest with his broken hand, and I'm not sure if the salt if this fucks all I'm shooting you first. If this fucks all get yourself together, but no, seriously, like, this is one of those funny situations because Tanner really wants to see what happens. Oh, yeah. So does Latar. I just want I want to go down the rabbit hole. That's like, no waste. There's no way scorpion like what he's been through like, no, yeah, and that is an interesting dynamic too, because it's like on one hand, like, yeah, maybe he'd be the one to be the trigger man if if Ronnie was beyond saving, but like actively pursuing that end would probably really turn him off pretty quick, right? Yeah, it's also I find it weird that I'm arguing with Dr. Greenwood for the safer option for Ronnie. Right. Like it feels like that and I actually think it speaks a lot to how we got here in the desperation or the situation where like, you know, ten episodes ago, this would totally be flipped. No. Yeah. And I think it's all totally still in character too. I don't think there's any reason why this like the scene still feels very organic to me, which I love. I mean, Ronnie would probably turn and be like, uh, you coming could be dangerous on the other side. I'll be there in a minute. She'll put a hand on your shoulder. You okay? Yeah. Yeah. I just need a bit. She'll pull him in for a hug. Nice. And then she'll go on. Nope. Damn it. Yeah. He's going to sit down at the desk and put his hands in his, like his hand. He's going to sit down at the desk, put his head in his hands and contemplate what he just asked her to do. All right, so I couldn't help but mentally finish that sentence for you, Wes. And it totally said that he sat down and put his hands in his hands. Oh, my God, it's so fucking hot. Restore bond. No. Yeah. Yeah. You're sitting in this room, it's quiet. You have a moment to yourself and you're trying to wrap your head around just everything. God damn it. Zane. Damn it. Damn it. My beep, my beepers beeping. Beep, beep off. You have a moment to try to wrap your hand, your, your heads and your pants. You have a moment to contemplate everything that's happened in the past few minutes, past few hours. And what you asked Ronnie to do, you're not sure if it even makes sense in your head. It does seem like the most obvious choice. It gives you the best bet in trying to find that cure that she needs, but it also puts her in the most danger. Go ahead and give me a sanity check. Maybe something else gave you the idea. Dain. Oh, son of a bitch. I didn't give anybody, I've never had an idea. That's how we don't get anybody else one. That's how we know you're unkew up to get accused of that score. 70/41. 70/41. All right. Uh oh. That's all right. You're just going to take one point of sanity damage. Yeah, but I have to roll again. No, we, we determine that that's the incorrect way of doing that, so we're not doing that anymore. It's specifically things that, what do we read, adjust to? It's what you reach your breaking point or I think if the GM sees it fit due to circumstance, yeah, because the circumstance thing is interesting, but yeah, because everybody goes, does everybody go temporarily and same when they reach their breaking point? Uh, I don't think that worked. He will. No, I think that's just if you go take a certain amount of sanity and one it, I think that's okay. He'll genuinely have to stop himself from starting to cry. He's so upset with the whole situation. I don't remember where Maya is. I think I thought she was in here with you guys, but I don't know. She's just standing in the girl like, what the fuck's going on. It shifts. You just like forgot she was there. I think that I imagine my still moving paper workout. It's a lot of fucking paperwork. Yeah. And you, yeah, you are kind of like just sort of trying to keep it organized as you're moving it. And yeah, apologize. There might have been more there if you would have passed that bureaucracy check or whatever, but they're kind of wasn't. But at this point, I mean, if Maya was in the room or even just going in and out or something, like during that, I mean, she probably wouldn't really said much anyway, just because she just, you know, went into the whole and she's from the very beginning, I think I told you guys like that she's willing to kind of put herself in a position to, you know, she's exactly like spec to come away from this mission. I think that was like pretty clear from the beginning. So she understands the that feeling or the want to do something important and to protect people. And so she probably would have let Ronnie make that decision herself and wouldn't really get too much involved. So got you. Yeah. And I mean, it probably came across as sort of like a maybe a private moment. But I think you're all converging back in the bio lab. And I think after a moment, Dr. Greenwood rejoins you to and you've kind of processed and shaken it off as best you can. But now more than ever, you're committed to pressing forward. So you guys have cleared this room of anything important, Ronnie, you've set up some barricades to try to try to mitigate the amount of explosive damage that would come from this side of the charge. And you are planning it on the center of the wall was out what we came to the conclusion of. That's what scorpion Dan decided. That's what all of us decided. You're involved. Ronnie kept quiet during that decision. Well, we are the two most capable minds on the team. Isn't that right, Dan? By a long shot, and surely is me quick update the dog is eating it like a corn on the cob now. Nice. Cheese on the cob. Yeah. Yeah. Cheese on the cheese. Who has the highest emulsion skill? I think we both have 40 and Ronnie has 50, right? Okay, I'm gonna have Ronnie roll it just because she has the highest, but you guys are all kind of. I mean, I think that like when we work together, you take the highest. So I think that the score is kind of late in the whole thing. He could probably roll with my 50. That's fine with me. If that's what you want to do. You want me to roll as well? Go for it. Yeah. Give it a roll. All right. Ronnie gives you a look as you go to below the it's like you better be right. He gives you a look like a pro. Why not? Dan gives you a look like you can you do this? I'm ready to do this. I got a hit up in like three days. I got a nine under 40. Nice. Very nice. Hell yeah. So you plant this charge and you position it appropriately in a way that you feel like you can avoid the most collateral damage to anything else in this room or beyond this wall. And after you're satisfied with this placement, you all retreat outside of that door. You probably kick as many of these gross chunks of this frozen flesh monster towards the explosive charges you can. So, you know, seal the deal, but it's a broom. You all take up what is there a broom in here? We can. Yeah. I'm gonna sweep it up. Bleak blower perhaps. squeegee. All right. So you all take up cover on the outside of this door leading out of the bio lab who's got the detonator. I handed it to Dan last. Dan seems like he wants the detonator and Dan's just been like standing with the detonator in his hands the whole time you guys have been doing that for him. Dan, you're making me nervous, but I don't like working on it. Are you doing like, are we there yet? Kind of thing. Yeah. All right. You all crouch down. Dan, give me a countdown. Five. Three. Wait. Hold on. Go. Do you hit the detonator? Yeah, I touched the wires together. Okay. You touch the wires together. There's a second or two of delay. Maybe you think you scorpion. Maybe you think you wired the bomb up incorrectly or there was some issue, but in the middle of that thought allowed resounding blast echoes through this facility and shakes the floor beneath you. The lights themselves flicker just slightly in a big cloud of dust fills the bio lab. Hard to see what's going on with that wall until you get a little closer. Maybe those gas masks go back on. Yep. Who's taking point? I've got my shotgun again. Dan will take second second point. Well, okay, Dan, you follow me with greenwood. Yeah. I'm not behind. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Dan will take one. Okay. I'll follow Dan. Okay. Pull my gun out. Dan. Uh, son of. Give me alertness. Squirpy. You can give me one too if you want. Here. Might as well. Two hundred eighty. Nice. Jesus Christ. Forty-three over twenty. Squirpy. I think you're just, you're tucked up on Dan's back just trying to keep, like, watches six. So you're not really looking around you. You're more just kind of like concerned about immediate threats. But Dan, as you move up through this smoke and debris, you see what looks to be a sizable hole in this wall. You step through it. Yeah. I'm assuming everybody else is kind of taking up is kind of taken up the rear to move through as well. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just going to call out over the radio. Get a fact on target. Moving up. Okay. We place one booted foot through the threshold of this hole, this chasm in the wall you've created. And you can see it was good effect on target. There appears to be parts of a steel reinforcement running through this wall that have just been blown to smithereens by the expert work of scorpions, bomb making skills. And as you step through, this room is darker than the rest, looking around to the lenses of your gas mask. You can see among the relatively minimal destruction, thanks to your keen bomb placement on this wall, that this room is covered in what looks to be a model layer of this fungus. And taking a moment and scorpion, you probably see this too, being one of the first ones in shining your light around the room. You can see that it looks like it converges on that door in front of you to the east down this hallway that I'm pinging on the map right now. It says specimen lab. Yes, a large sign over the top in blazing and faded red print says very obviously specimen lab. There's another smaller door to your right. Also solid steel construction. And this room, the immediate future, seems clear, but you can't help but feel like whatever is on the other side of that door to the specimen lab might be responsible for all of this unhinged growth that seems to be emanating from it. What else is in the room, like is this also the sort of biology lab, like is there more scientific equipment, more papers? So I think that we can do this without rolling. You guys have determined this room is clear after the dust settles. Take a minute to look around Dr. Greenwood is visibly angry. I think maybe Dr. Greenwood's not angry for long. Now he's not angry like he's like no, I know he's like, how do I how do I say he's frustrated with the situation because upon primary inspection, he's like, God damn it. This wasn't the place to go into. You know, that's the primary like initial response as he walks through gotcha. As the dust settles, Dr. Greenwood, you don't have a chance to be too angry for too long. Because looking around, you start to get the sense that whereas the bio lab contained a lot of various projects and experiments that this team was working on, it looks like whatever information they gathered seem to be concentrated in this location. This is more of the administrative and logistics side of the operations in the bio lab. And that's reinforced by all of you guys turning and converging your lights on this large desk to the north. One second. Oh, you see, they're changing the music or pulling up a map or notes. It's a mimic, it's a mimic desk. On that desk, there's a small name placard, which reads, Dr. Jeffrey Simmons, lead scientist. You know, if there's more answers to be found in this facility, it's probably in this room. And you turn to look at the south side of the room where that one other door leads to your east, you determine you have the specimen lab to the south, a large sign. Reads observation number two. What type of door is it? It's also a secured door. Thick steel, just like Navi's head. Did you hear that? I heard a bonk yeah back. I'm going to start going through the desk. Okay. When Rami steps in and sees all the mushroom, she's just kind of like, you know, of any way to clear the mushrooms out of this room. I would assume that the only thing that I could think of right now is fire. And I don't recommend that. I will say as I'm ripping apart this desk, I don't know, Ronnie, what maybe you should and stay in the clearer areas for now. Her eyes kind of rest on the door to the observation room for a second, maybe a long second. And then she's like, all right, I'll stay on guard out here. Ronnie, you feel a warm attraction to that door? Yeah, that's kind of why my eyes were resting on it. I'll come with you, Ronnie, Sam, I see it in here, anyone. So it goes without saying to in this room, the spores hang more heavily as they did in other various parts of the facility before the air circulation got turned back on. I don't really know what scorpion's doing, I guess he's just the, I guess I'll inspect the door to the specimen lab, because like, if we're getting the sense that something's coming from there, it must have breached it somehow. Like is there like roots protruding from underneath the floorboards or what? And you can tell from looking at this. This door to the specimen lab that it does look like the door is still as intact as it could be after all this time, but it does seem like just whatever worked its way through was able to find the most minute gaps and cracks in the area around this door to grow through. Oh, nope. Yeah. Are you going to, are you going to assist Dr. Greenwood in trying to look through any documentation you can find? I'll definitely try. All right, Dr. Greenwood, give me a search and then Maya, give me a bureaucracy to see if you can help interpret the stuff that Dr. Greenwood is finding. 16, 13 under 60. Nice. Okay. Looking at number 13. Yeah. 60. Hell. Yeah. Hail to the are hell, yeah. So you're kind of piecing this story together of this Dr. Jeffrey Simmons. He clearly appeared to be the guy in charge of most of the operations here scientifically and you can tell this and I'm pretty sure you already know this from before you're kind of connecting those dots and this is the part where I got to remember what I actually told you guys. No, just tell us all. That's fine. We won't tell anybody. So the name rings a bell and you're connecting that to the woman that lived on the north side of the island. The sheriff talked about Eleanor Simmons. This was that guy's wife and from what you've gathered before in your research on the island residents that this guy either went missing or possibly passed away a long time ago around the time that the factory shut down. And he, Jeffrey Simmons, and his wife, Eleanor, had a daughter, a daughter that I'm pretty sure you guys had determined either looks a lot like Caroline or was. I was wondering if the pastor was Caroline, but I thought it was six, six letters. It was like 40 episodes ago, so I'm really grabbing a straws here. Wait. Yeah. Caroline is eight. Eight. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. See a line on me. Yeah. It's also, I don't know that we saw a picture of Caroline, but we had connected that that was like the only Caroline on the island and she had gone missing. Mm hmm. Yeah. How many letters, Eleanor? We got to remember two to. It's random. We said it by admin. Lattara is. Yeah. Slash. Ronnie's realization that this is likely not a password that had any meaningful likes sentiment to anybody. But Dr. Greenwood, Maya, you find a couple other things related to research notes. You find things related to some of the stuff that you were disseminating earlier from all that documentation in the bio lab, but you do get the impression that a lot of the more specific rudimentary findings are going to be limited to that. So there's some stuff that you already had access to, but there appears to be a shift in the information and the things that Dr. Jeffrey Simmons seemed to be keeping track of at some point. His focus went more towards something called Project K and references to something else called alpha two. And a lot of these seem to land at the specimen lab, but all this information that you find seems to be more conceptual. There's not a lot of specifics here, but going through some more of that documentation, maybe taking a bit more time, you would be able to figure out maybe a little bit more about specific avenues of information and I'm being general because I need to figure out exactly what those are. So we'll come back to that. Perfect. Okay, scorpion kind of sizing up this door. Same deal. It's going to be really hard to get through this, especially because there's no adjacent walls inside this looking at the map. There's nothing really to blow through except for, you know, potentially a foot of solid reinforced steel, which you don't think you can do with anything that you're going to find in this lab. Fuck Dan, are you doing anything specific at this point? I think Dan is just kind of keeping a fucking eye out in and ear out towards the direction where we know there are living beings that were in some kind of dormant state. Okay. So I'm saying outside the plasma, uh, kind of letting the people who get a researching do their thing. Dr. Greenwood and Maya, you find digging more into this documentation too, something that kind of follows up on information that you got from Dylan, who was able to find traces of something that was more akin to a fungicide rather than any kind of inoculation, but it might be something that could be used as a weapon against the fungus. And you find references to some documentation and some projects of that line of questioning, but it was tasked to another researcher, but with that updated information going back through the documentation that you have in admin might give you some more ideas and specifically related to combining certain reagents with the blood cells of a fully compromised fully infected specimen. And again, you see more references to things like alpha two and project K. Okay. Um, and that's why I'm gathering from the information that I gathered from this desk. Yeah. And I could say too, as long as if that's a line of questioning, you were kind of pursuing and going into this not much about a password or anything relevant there. No, I wasn't suspecting a password. I was expecting more documentation that had micro inhibitor 27 delta. Yeah, if that's the, yeah, I mean, at this point, you tell me kind of what you want to proceed with and there should be some more information. I want to see how far they got on micro, uh, my 27 delta, um, because it looked like my 27 delta was the best bet we had for a cure and it looked like that we just had to. Change MI two seven delta just a little bit. So proceeding with that line of questioning as well, you dig up more information and this is kind of where it gets interesting because you find more information about that specific variant of the inhibitor that they were working on. But as you can probably guess from it being labeled 27 delta, there was a lot of other variants that they were actively testing. And it seems like they had several promising leads and this more obfuscates some information more than it clarifies, but it sort of paints a better picture of they had all these variants that were currently in testing, but they didn't have enough time to fully verify their efficacy. So it's possible that in you infer this with your biology skill, it's possible that if they left any of these experiments as active and ongoing, enough time might have passed for you to kind of get more meaningful information. If you can figure out where exactly they were testing these things and you get the impression from that too, that if you had to make a good educated guess, it's probably the specimen lab. No, I'm going to, but yeah, go ahead. In addition to that, I think maybe kind of conferring with your allies on this as well too. In terms of just tissue preservation, which is what my go inhibitor 27d seemed to be really good at. Dan, I think that probably pops up in your head too. Those rat appendages and then Maya in turn calls that back into question as well for you too. Those things seem pretty well preserved, might be an avenue to pursue, but more information would be needed. I'm going to look up to a scorpion who's probably come back by now and I'm going to say, I need into that lab. All right, like I said, it doesn't take a while to lockpick. Your best gets started. Don't do anything stupid without me. It'll be the first to know and he'll just kind of solemnly go back to the paperwork. I give him a nod and I take off. I leave the room, take off my gas mask, toss it to run Wednesday, have a look around if you want. I got to get to work. Where are you going? Try to open these doors. If you had told us, I would take eight hours, right? Yep. Ronnie follows you. Be really boring. All right. And then it's almost enough time to watch all three special editions of Lord of the Rings. Over the radio, you're going to hear Dr. Greenwood say, go ahead and try Jeffrey and Elinor over. Uh, Dan want to help search that room one more time. I hope you toss it one more time. Dr. Greenwood, solemnly returning to this paperwork, you get one final thing from that check between you and Maya. All lines of inquiry from Dr. Simmons regarding various projects that he was involved with in this facility. They seem to terminate once this project K keeps getting mentioned. And as well as you uncover several internal memos expressing disdain at Dr. Simmons for sequestering this information and keeping it to himself on all the things related to this project. Okay. So it seemed like this was a project that was very much in his control and that he didn't want anybody else knowing about, but to extrapolate on that, it's impossible. He seemed to either dispose of or really well conceal any documentation furthering on that line of inquiry, because if it's anywhere, it's not here. Let's, uh, Maya, let's start moving this paperwork into the other side of the bio lab. It was a little bit better water water. There's a little bit better light over there. Okay. Is there anything in his desk like, besides documentation, are there any tools or are they any vials? It mostly seems to be all administrative. It doesn't, if he hadn't the experimentations or projects going on, they weren't kept here. Most of this room appears to have been his office, anything weird with his name placard at all? Give me a search. 53 under 60? Okay. Giving this placard a good once over and a twice over with that search roll, you don't find anything particularly off about it. Yeah, I think that's all you get. That's not ominous or anything. Is it hollow? Is that what you're trying to get at? Like the name placard itself is fine, but is it like a box? You can break it if you want. Is it? That's what I'm asking. Is it like one of the little angle things? It's the little angle one. Okay. There's not a whole lot going on with it. Okay. Have we cleaned out the desk? Yeah, I think you've gotten mostly what you're going to get out of. I'm going to flip the desk over. Okay. Like onto the floor? Yep. Okay. Sure enough, it releases from the floor. It's not bolted down or anything. And as it lands with a thud on the floor, you can see the underside of it. And a whole lot going on there just seems to be a regular, ordinary desk. I'm going to start breaking this thing apart with my shotgun, like beating it. You do have a crowbar too, handy, but you know, whatever is handy. Don't care. Yeah. Sure. Okay. Why are you doing this? Because he's pissed. He's more answers. We hit the dead end that he was like in his mind, I should say we've hit that dead end. And now he's really pissed type thing. There was not a immediate answer that we were hoping for, if that makes sense, you know, for sure. Yeah. It's like in a momentarily like his sanity is getting low. He's already had a mental break. He's mentally tired. He just asked her his friend to potentially kill herself over trying to get a goddamn password to try and save her. He's not having a very good day. Might have to do it again too, because we definitely did it. And that's why it was really pissed is because he might he might have found out that that's the only answer that we have. Yeah. And so now he's just he's taken his anger out on this fucking desk. And I think Dr. Greenwood as you're ripping this desk apart in a blind fury. Once you pop one of the drawers come, like, sorry, once you pop one of the drawers open, there's a small faint clatter as something metallic drops to the floor and grenade. So as you take a moment, maybe taking a breath and picking it up. You open or you pick up this necklace and appears to be a locket, and opening it as I'm sure you do. It's a picture of a woman, a small girl, an engraved on the other side. Is mine leap-shins? It says what? And mine leap-shins. Oh. It's German. Yeah. Does that mean my family or something? My love, my kinder would be a family. Or like my sweet lane or something like that. Yeah, my loves. Please. Oh, my God. And then below that-- All right. Yeah. Below that you see two initials. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But you okay? Yeah. Go ahead. Okay. CH and EH. And your intelligence tells you that doesn't really make sense with Dr. Jeffrey Simmons, but not really sure what to do with that information. What were the initials again? CH. CH. EH. H. E is an egg-cellent. Why? Why not? Uh, I don't know if this was purposeful, but I'm going to radio over and I'm going to shh. Also, try leap shins. Spelt the German way over. Shh. I'm going to do that and do Jeffrey in Eleanor, just in case. One after the other, they just returned to the neutral position. Yeah. No luck. We know it's a random thing, so. Yeah. When we get in the room, Roundie takes a seat at the desk and grabs a pen and paper and is just writing some-- What? Um, my experience is very anxious, by the way, that you're just behind me writing something. Hahaha. My understanding of a dog right now, but where are you at the moment? Uh, uh, I don't know. Okay. Give me-- I think you probably pick up on this, uh, locket situation. The anger coming from that room. Yeah, anger. I want to be in the room with a desk. Oh, you just witnessed a desk get fucking torn apart. You're like, "It's good, it's good for you to work out your physical anger. Keep doing that." Signly supportive over here. Give me another bureaucracy check with this locket information. Maybe we just grasp me at any straw that you can. Three. Okay, that's pretty good. I think we're turning to some of this documentation that you found. There's one memo between Dr. Simmons and Director Conrad, and there's not much information there, but reading between the lines with your bureaucracy and maybe even kind of bringing in your human to a little bit. What seemed like a dismissed memo at first now maybe comes through a little bit more clearly. In a line of inquiry that Dr. Simmons seemed to be pursuing that was shut down quickly by Director Conrad, there's a response from Dr. Simmons that just states very plainly to the director. I can bring her back. Hmm, we're going to explore that more. Next time. Jesus. Or Delta Green. Great. Well, I have only more questions. Thank you for listening to the re-roll gaming podcast. This actual play, Whispers of Lunabell Island, is published by arrangement with the Delta Green Partnership. The intellectual property known as Delta Green is a trademark and copyright owned by the Delta Green Partnership, who has licensed its use here. The contents of this document are copyright zane garing, accepting those elements that are components of the Delta Green Intellectual Property. Want to follow us on social media, listen to another episode or send us hate mail? Check out our link tree for all our info. You can find that link in the episode description. 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