In which three Investigators, members all of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, travel to Paris on behalf of the Isis-Urania Temple and become Involved in Murder most foul.
Present for this Session:
Celestia Adams (Jen)
Lily Farthington-Smythe (Des)
Padma Daschel (Jade)
And…Edie the Dog.
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[The Veil of Isis] Session Seven: La Musique de la Nuit (Part I)
In which three Investigators, members all of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, travel to Paris on behalf of the Isis-Urania Temple and become Involved in Murder most foul. Present for this Session:Celestia Adams (Jen)Lily Farthington-Smythe (Des)Padma Daschel (Jade)And…Edie the Dog.
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The Veil of Isis, a Cthulhu by Gaslight, Golden Dawn actual play, with David Larkins as the Keeper of Arcane Lore. So while we're chomping away, essentially, the conclusion of the Black Annie story will sort of the conclusion of Act 1, if you will, informally speaking, and so at this point, the narrative is going to advance three and a half years to November of 1897. So during which time... I was curious. I was reading the Lulee as midweek torsion. I wasn't curious for any reason. Sorry, three and a half years later, I was like wait a minute. Wait a minute, I didn't read that one. You didn't read it? I didn't know about that one. What? What did you say? What? You're supposed to spy on the other people. I don't. You don't get a notification. You really don't? No, I don't spy on the other people's. I don't. I spy on everybody. Yeah. Oh. How did you get for being good? Well, good. Well, also, Jay, what were your questions? Because then we could never... I had more questions, I was just like oh, that's what all that handling was about. Well then. So, Lulee... Let's just say Lulee has points in writing crop. Yeah. All right. Now we're getting to... And there are strict... And there are strict... No touching rules. No touching. Really. Yeah. There's certain about trick about my Lulee. Wow, I missed you. I'll have to look at the Lulee. You did. It's really good. Okay. Yeah. Westcott. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Westcott is one of my... He's your primary... Clients. What would they call it? A patron. He's your patron. He's a patron. I know what he likes. And... Let's see what happens. Uh-huh. Okay. And so the taster hinted at a major development, but those occur in 1897. Westcott, basically... Well, we'll get there. I'm going to get you guys up to speed here. I'm going to go through the timeline here. We'll leave this guy. Yeah. People, this guy's trying to run again. Jack is. Alright. Okay. So we left off at the beginning of 1894. Um, World of Major Events of 1894 include, um, let's see, the Dreyfus Affair begins. Oh, yeah. What's that? Prince Army Captain Alfred Dreyfus arrested and convicted of passing military information to Germans and sentenced to Devil's Island. He comes out a few years later, Jacques Hughes, that the French Army railroaded him on anti-Semitic. Yup. Yup. Oh my God. Why isn't that a bit... Has it made a movie about that? I don't know if it's been a movie. Yeah. It's too much. It's too much. Julie and Louis Dreyfus is descended from it. Really? Also, another... She's connected. Yeah. Well... Anyway. Robert Louis Stevenson dies in 1894. The Jungle Book is published. Tower Bridge opens to traffic. Ooh. A London Building Act limits the height of buildings in the city to 150 feet after the Queen's view has been disrupted by new developments. Wow. I did like this view. Wow. Uh, Britain tries to get involved in the first Sino-Japanese War. Doesn't happen. The Japanese defeat the Chinese. Sure, nothing will come about. No, no. No. No, that's very... Did you want to play Basilis discovered? Cool. Inheritance tax introduced in Britain, bad news for Padma. Yeah, it's bad. Oh, yeah. That is bad news. App is still alive. Yeah, I know. Put me to Zenda's publish. Oh, by the way, I want to say that Padma's Taster really was driving me nuts. I couldn't... Oh, yeah. Does it really was totally like doing a TV audience thing? Let's freaking out. Oh, she's saying yes. She's saying yes. I know. I'm actually like, oh, I think Padma really wants to say yes, but how could it possibly work? Yeah. That's for life to figure out. That's for life to figure out. Honey, I'm... Oh, yeah. I'm business again. Now you can't never know. And then he's away on business. And then you're away on business and he's away on business and you didn't expect it. I guess he'd probably be very nosy. Mm-hmm. Although I could've been married to Jim Law. That's what I was saying. That's what I was saying. That's what I mean. Also... That's what I was saying. Also... Jenny shot me. No. I have the post. Like Padma. I'll show you to learn holiday. Yeah. It was really neat. And she had to find a really gentle way to say that it just wouldn't work. Wow. That's really hard. That's cool. No, it's cool. She chose her career over marriage. Mm-hmm. Which is quite bad. She's already prepared to be a spunkster at the age of 36. That's kind of strange. That's kind of strange. Out of the blue. Out of nowhere. Holy shit. You're how old? He's like in his early 30s. He's like five years younger than me. But then... I thought it was Padma. I'd be like... Maybe he's trying to get information about... Oh, I was like, "Oh, I know." Or money. Like, does he actually like me? Or is he...? Well, yeah. I'd be trying to marry out. I know. Love that. Okay. Anyway, sorry. I've been sneaking around and older these months before. I know. I'm going to get closer to the... I know. I'm just doing it. Just doing it. Sad. This path is... I'm sorry. Go on, David. Sorry. I'm sorry. I'm trying to run again. I'm eating my parrot berries. Your parrot? My parrot berries. Mm-hmm. Squall. Aubrey Beardsley becomes our editor of the yellow book. Oh. Mm-hmm. Parrots inaugurates seven o'clock closing hours. So late. Big deal. Oh, my God. First motion picture film copyrighted. Mm-hmm. And strange light observed floating over Mars. Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. Over Mars, you say? Mm-hmm. Meanwhile, in the order in 1894, in January, the Afa Four Temple is opened in Paris by Samuel and Moina Mathers. And it was consecrated with the help of Annie Horniman. Moina? Mm-hmm. Her original name was Moina. She changed it to Moina. They have that much time on their own. They do. Just changed it to Rowena. In March. Sorry. Let's see here. Well, no. Let's... I don't know. What? Hey. You editing over there? Yep. Okay. Hey, it has things that have bearing on future stuff that, I mean, it doesn't matter. But I would just be like, oh, Robert W. Felkin joins the order. He's like, okay. Yeah, whatever. Yeah. You know what? We might want to log that as a mental note. All right. Robert W. Felkin joined the order in March. Mental notes are stacking. Now, the whole year of 1894 is marked by nearly constant tension between Annie Horniman and the Mathers brought about by the amounts of money she is being asked to send the Mathers in Paris. Mm-hmm. In addition, Mathers expands the inner order grades from three to five so that it takes longer to reach the higher levels. Okay. That's questionable. Yes. Yeah. A lot of people in the order not big fans of that decision. That's frustrating. Yeah. And you will see that reflected in the points costs required to move up in the order. Oh, grand. Shortly. Well, everyone's been saving points. Aya. Mm-hmm. Indeed. Okay. So 1895. X-rays are discovered. Let's see here. Oh, the British South African Company south of the Ambezi River is named Rudeja in honor of Cecil Rose. Yeah. That guy is a motherfucker. Yeah, he's a fascinating. Fabian socialist found a little London school. Motherfucker. Fascinating. He's a fascinating motherfucker. My brother did some report on him in high school and he was like, did you know that he did? I was like, he was obsessed with him actually. There's a lot. Yeah. No, Frankie. Frankie really. It doesn't let you go. No, it was just like, he goes deeper and deeper and you're crazy. Yeah. And you're crazy. And then you just... He was just, you know... He pulled out for the hand. Yup. Lucky him. Yeah, I know. Indeed. Let's see. The landchester motorcar is introduced since the first British four wheeled gasoline powered motorcar. Okay. Fabian socialist found a London school of economics. Hey. Whoa. Hurrah. Hey. Marconi pioneers wireless calligraphy. Although almost a century later it would be established as Tesla beat him to it. Yup. Womp. H.G. Wells. The time machine is published. Ooh. Rocket Kodak camera. I mean, this was amazing. The literature. I mean, you got a decade. It was. Pocket Kodak camera. This is the real '90s. It's right. Pocket Kodak camera introduced by Eastman Kodak. The importance of being earnest last year wild plays at St. James Theatre. Wild Susan Marcos of Queensbury for libel. Yeah. That turned out really well. Hi. First commercial presentation of the film on a screen. Smells. Britain's National Trust created with government funding. Wow. I didn't know that. It was a tradition from the National Oil. Also, you wouldn't be. Created with government funding to preserve country house, parks and gardens. Bachelors and bacteria, with bacteria and isolated. Following three of Daskat-Tahls published. Sigma and Freud begins to develop scientific psychoanalysis. Motion picture camera invented. Principal of rocket reaction propulsion formulated. Safety rays are invented. Joshua Slocum completes first solo circumnavigation of the earth. Cool. Meanwhile, in the order, early in the year, a pamphlet sent out by someone identifying themselves as respiral, circulates among the order. Basically advocating that the order began teaching sex magic. Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah. Dr. Edmund Barrage is implicated as the author of this pamphlet. It becomes royal intentions between Mathers and Hornaman. Oh! Hornaman not for it. Mathers for it. It becomes a whole drama thing. Mathers is a shady fucker. Mm. Oh, yeah. In December of 1895, Benjamin Cox, head of the Osiris Temple in Weston's Super-Mare dies. His death probably spelled the demise of the Osiris Temple shortly thereafter. Mm-hmm. 1896. The peaceful roads, resigns the premiership of Cape Colony. Mm-hmm. British forces in prison is Chaunty King in Fourth of Chaunty War. New tribal uprisings within Rhodesia. Anglo-Egyptian forces begin reconquest of Sudan under British General Kitchener. Radio activities discovered in radium. Anti-type-poid inoculation originated by British pathologist Alma P. Wright. First quiet of a mechanically powered blind machine, a steam-powered model airplane, by U.S. astronomer Samuel Peerpoint Langley. Mm-hmm. Jen's getting queasy. Yeah. Yeah. Well, what's happening? We suck. The Daily Mail is founded. Whoa. Mm-hmm. London's National Portrait Gallery moves into a permanent home in Westminster. Strauss's "Azol Shlock" is out of Pustra, first performed in Frankfurt. Olympic Games revived in Greece. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. A failure of India's wheat crop raises world prices. Last of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas, the Grand Duke plays in Savoy. Helene discovered electric stove invented. Whoo. Mm-hmm. And in the order in 1896, A.E. Waite, having been expelled from the Golden by 1892, is reinstated. Mm-hmm. In September, after many months of conflict with matters, Annie Cornaman resigns. She is reinstated after signing an article of submission to matters. But when she refuses to restart her payments to the matters, she is again expelled in December of 1896. Oh, it's less superior. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And then in 1897, our current year. Yes. Queen Victoria celebrates her diamond jubilee. Aye. Electron discovered as part of the atom. Whoo. An awfulie's mosquito shown to be a vector for malaria by British physician Ronald Ross. Hawaiian Islands annexed by U.S. Royal automobile club founded in London, Mark Twain in London on World Lecture Tour. Mm-hmm. Herc's New York Journal starts sensationalist yellow journalism techniques. Good job. First halftones printed on newsprint. Uh, H.G. Wells' Invisible Man published. Mm-hmm. Bridget Kipling's Captain's Courage is published. Bram Stoker's Dracula published. Oh, I'm just going to post a cool pic. I'll post it tonight. Cool. Cool picture you two would really, really enjoy. Well, I guess you would like a two. Are you okay? Oh. Blankerts. No idea how that happened. Brittins began eating lunch, dooming the traditional English breakfast of Kipper's roast beef, sausage, bacon, porridge, kidneys, etc. Oh. So they basically invented a meal between breakfast and dinner. Yes. Exactly. And they were like, "Uh-oh." I shall call this lunch. [Laughs] Where did lunch come from? Lunching, yeah. Mm-hmm. Weird. Well, no, they invented a meal between breakfast and tea. There you go. Mm-hmm. So, but it didn't hurt tea at all. It just hurt breakfast. Mm-hmm. So it's like, "Oh, I'm going to have lunch." Well, it's fun how to give. Well, the tea is so much smaller. Exactly. What you're trying to do now? What you're trying to do now? Yeah, I think tea would figure it out. You know. It's industrial revolution. I think it's industrial revolution. Yeah. It couldn't work all day. It could work all day. You have to constantly be on work and work and work and work in prison. Prison, prison, prison. Okay. Meanwhile, in the order, in March, this has been a busy year. In March, Dr. Wescott's superiors. Okay, so this is what the taste looks like. So, basically, we're done with the session. Wescott's, you know, whatever, composing himself. He comes out of the bedroom and he says, "I'm ruined." Right? He's like in tears. Oh, dear. I've never seen him like that before. Basically. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I've done it before, but... It's a different kind of pain. Uh-huh. This is your emotions? Yeah, exactly. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Essentially, somebody left some incriminating documents in a carriage so that they would be discovered by his superiors at the coroner's office. Oh, boy. That, you know, uncovered his involvement in the Golden Dawn. And so, he is forced to resign as co-head of the order. Okay. In order to save his career. Great regard. Wow. That's horrible. He says, "This, by the way, is an excellent example. How well to do investigators' reputation can be ruined even by such a relatively minor scandal as this one." Okay. Now, in May, another "Raspiro" pamphlet circulates. Oh, no! Presumably written by Barriech. I love it. I love it. I'm so horny. No? In this time, dealing with a magical attack, which the author directs it a woman who was meddling in his affairs, an obvious reference to Annie Hornaman. Dr. Barriech's questionable behavior results in Mather's reluctantly suspending him from the order from May 13 to August 13. What kind of a shifty person do you have? Oh, yeah. D-bag. Yep. And then in July, Mathers and a fellow member by the name of Gardner come to terms in an agreement for the latter to finance the former's translation of the book of the sacred magic of "Aperaman in the Mage." In September, Gardner, the financier, resigns due to continued tension between himself and various members of the order. In September to October, J.W. Brody, in this is demoted from sub-impirator to train-monstrator of the Amen-Rah Temple in Edinburgh. Edinburgh, astronomer William Peck, then becomes head of that city temple. This is again at the Hesley Mathers. I'll be right back. Okay. I'll turn a lot of stuff. Can I roll games for my tricks? Yeah. Yeah. That would be our next thing to do. So, you try to aim above it? Yes. And then if you do get it, you roll what to determine? If you manage to fail it, you know, I roll above it, you get to add 1d10 points to the scale. Okay. Mm-hmm. It's just my d10. Great reading. Oh, I really failed that one. That's okay. I know. I don't really need that one there. Just to leave. I don't have that one. So... I didn't have too many tricks. Mm-hmm. I know. Yep. Okay. Oh, really? Hey, I got a little bit inside of them. Okay. I call it in spot hidden in history. That you wonder, right? Yeah. Those are good ones. They're like spot hidden. Spot hidden? That one's really good. And I call it too. It comes up. Yeah, for though. Well, especially because mine was so low. Mm-hmm. That did really good. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, TM1 and the square floor. This one has to go. Okay. I don't think I've only had any checks that you... No. Wait, I'm sorry, I did. Okay. Go ahead and roll your checks in. And I call it. Mm-hmm. Oh, and then that's... I have to roll... Over. Oh, I didn't mean to. But there you go. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Wow. That's the other thing. I don't suppose it was about a D10. Actually. Okay. One. Well, I was thinking... You already had advanced one year just in our past. Mm-hmm. So, the next thing to do... Mm-hmm. So, the next thing to do is... Figure out if you've crossed that threshold, you remember for every 10 years over your minimum age, you get extra education, so you get extra skill points. Mm-hmm. So, your minimum age is education plus six. Education plus six? Mm-hmm. Just 18. Well, I'm 40 now. Right. So, you crossed over it. So, your education is going to go up by one. Mm-hmm. You know it would then go up by five. All right, so... And you would get 20 skill points to distribute among your own. So, you crossed over? One point. So, you crossed over it. One point. So, you crossed over it. One point. So, you crossed over it. One point. So, you crossed over it. One point. So, you crossed over it. One point. So, you crossed over it. One point. So, you crossed over it. One point. So, you crossed over it. One point. So, you crossed over it. One point. So, you crossed over it. One point. So, you crossed over it. One point. So, you crossed over it. One point. So, you crossed over it. One point. One point. One point. And your occupation skills. Underline. Oh, and occupational skills. Rude. Oh, man. Right. Wait, occupational skills. Rude. Oh, man. Right. [pause] [pause] [pause] [pause] [pause] [pause] [pause] [pause] [pause] [pause] [pause] [pause] Wait, occupational skills. Those are the skills. Underline. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Well, let's talk about my magic points and hit points if they restore themselves. Oh, God, yes. Oh, yeah. Basically, no matter what, you always get all your magic points back in a 24-hour period. One point for others. And your hit points are back in everything. Okay. All right. I'm still having nine points. These chips are awesome. They're really good. I like the Dippa Lock. Isn't that good? It's madness. There's still a clot of it there. Yeah, it's for you. It has your name on it. Would you like a clot? No, please. Enjoy that. That's pretty much what it's going to look like. That's what it is. All right. Well, now for Padma and Lily, please flip your sheets over on the spot on the back there. Oh, bearage is my enemy. Yes, she is. I didn't realize this. You'll notice the spot on the back there. Up at the top. And your personal data in the left hand column. It says addictions and dependencies. Oh, morphine. Yeah. Lily is morphine and cocaine. Right. I did. I was already doing it. It's a normal thing. I didn't know bearage was my enemy. I wrote it down. I fully forgot. And I started reacting to him instantly. Isn't that interesting? I don't like him. Yeah. And so, no, sir. I'll need a roll of two D six from. Okay. Seven total four. Okay. And then one more from Lily. Thirteen total. No, no, I mean another two D such 12. 12. A little 12 on your second roll. Two six. Two sixes. Oh, my God. I'm sorry. I'm just a little, uh, son and your baby and UOD. So you can't do it. Guess what? Big shot. You got a what? I have four. Okay. I know. I'm surprised myself. I'm just trying to go with it. Okay. So Padma is going to lose two points of constitution. Oh, no. Yes. I mean, you're gonna have to be, that's why I was second. I'm sorry. I'm trying not to curse during the recordings. Okay. Lily is going to lose one point of decks. Oh, no. And I'm telling it up. Ooh, ouch. Two points of con. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Okay, wait. So one point of decks, two points of con. And one point of app. Oh, do my app still 17. I still look good. Still looks good. A little bit of crow's feet. They're coming in. The character does. Yeah. Character. Guys, standing in New Mexico. Guys, oh, it's already, it's already bad years, five years. I know. I've been here three years, like 15 years. No, no. Yeah, we were noticing my sweatshirt. It's like already fading on the shoulders. I'm like, just think that's our skin. I know. I know. No, my skin's been, I've been walking the dog more. So I'm out in like the weather and I'm like, getting all weathered. So not like me. That's a bad joke. Eventually, the high altitude will start preserving you. Yeah, you just have to pass through the initial figure. I like your view. I know, it's good. It's very helpful. It's helpful. Why do you think we're one of the top retirement cities? Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, it has a million out there. Who is it now? I'm really glad to put the towel on my car. I went out there and it was already like, kind of covers like, oh, it's actually a sweet way to talk to you. It's really bad. It's kind of like, no, there's no other window. No, no, no, no, no. It's really bad. At least this street is born too late. We're available. Oh, this is exciting. Luckily, I live five minutes away. Yes. Oh, I love it. We are, we are available for sleepovers. Yeah, but the couch has been bought to support them. So we'll sleep on the couch bed. You can sleep on the temporary bed. I can't possibly make a home guide. Jen, you find the bit offensive, just like the tea bags. Yeah, it seems too much. How can you allow yourself like that? I don't know. I understand. West coast, baby. Yes. All the way. It's pretty decadent. Midwest West coast conflict. It is. Yeah. Have you seen their bed? It's freaking huge. I have a twin. Where'd she go? And a boyfriend who's six, three. Oh, so you picked him up and everything in it. Everything went bad. It's just, it's just bad. I have a 15 pound cat. Wait a minute. No, no, no, no. That doesn't work. It's not room for me. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm just going to sleep on top of you. He likes to sleep right out of my neck. Oh, sure. Oh, who couldn't you 15 pound before you're on the neck when they're sleeping? Really cute because when he'll lick me face, being able to accept the blankets over my face has to pull it down. Oh, that's so nice. So you can see your whole face. Yeah. I know. One of my chin is covered. He's just like, so you stay at your boyfriend's a lot? No, because he lives out here on Madera, which is like even out passed away. You gotta all call in takes another 20 minutes. That's a long way away. Yeah. Well, you win. And he has to pass it to me. Oh my God. Wow. Yeah. They're different levels of. All right. Yeah, we have an embarrassingly big bed. This is the California King. It's a it's a cool thing. Oh, it's not California King. No, it's not California King. That's just extravagant. California King, you say no, no, no, no. You would think that's bigger. It's actually small. What? California King. California King is OK, so we'll show the better. All right. It's kind of messy because it's closed on top of it. So you bear it. I just don't. Here's been a riches. Okay. So, all right, moving on. Oh, now you guys both lost two points of constitution. So that's going to drop both of your hit points. But I'm going to drop your hit points for one. That was perfect. We're not recording again for that, right? No, I'm glad. Okay. All right. So, Lily, you've already got your hand out. But here is. Yes, I do. The order, advancements, quick reference to you, but I put together. Thank you. So, basically, you've all accrued somewhere in the neighborhood of 39 or fewer points. So, is that going to be added to the points that I had already been stockpiling? Indeed. Oh, I don't have any stockpiled points. You're good to go. So, what can I apply these to? Okay. So, the first thing, the first thing to take into account. Now, you all remember how it shows. Let me let me point at this here. Okay. So, you'll see the difference in points cost between the level you're at. Like, what's Celestia at? Theta, of course. Okay. Perfect. So, you're a theoricus. And you want to go to the practicus that would cost you four points. You want to get up to philosophies. That's nine points. It's the difference. You know, it's the difference, right? Now, the thing to first factor in is that because of how well you did with the black anything, and Westcott Pulling Strings is being back in 1894. The points difference to your next level is going to be cut in half. Okay. So, for Celestia to go to practicus, it's only going to cost you two points. For example, okay? Can you explain again? So, what's Padma in terms of? She's a practicus. Okay. So, you're a practicus. The next level is Philosophist. So, that's a five point difference. Okay. I see. It's over. It's just over there. Yeah. Point cost, columnar. And then what's Lillia? What's her level? I'm a practicus. So, to get to a Philosophist. Practice? Okay. So, same. But what can I do? Yeah. No, no. You can keep going. And then philosophy. Well, I'm just saying that first, that first bump is going to cost you half. Half. So, it's going to be 3. 3. Yeah. Rounding up. 3. And then 3. 3 and then 3. So, 6. And then your inner order costs are on this right here. Okay. So, if I want to spend 6 points. Yeah. Because you're going to keep going up, you're going to want to use the inner order grades from 1894 onwards here. I'm late. Wait. Okay. So, we have practicus. Philosophist is 5 points. So, I just spent 5 points. Philosophist to just a portal is another 3 more. Okay. So, the inner order. And then inner order. So, you're going to use this one here. Okay. So, if you hit portal, then that puts you at. You want to, your next jump is going to be from 18 to 21. So, that's another 3 points. 3. Okay. So, it's your first 3. That's going to be 18 to 21. What are these? Oh, these are the ones we're using. The 1888 to 1893. We're using these ones. 1894. Well, that's part of the chart. Yeah. Once everyone's bought up to inner order, we will pause. All right. Okay. Bought up to inner order. Because look down here. Yeah. And in order curriculum, there are all these extra goodies you can buy. Because basically, the inner order is when you start learning the real magic capital R, capital M. And so. Okay. You get the hexagram ritual for free. That's a more advanced version of the pentagram ritual. It's a 6-point start instead of a 5-point start. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on. So, what are you all going up to? I don't know yet. I don't know yet. I'm going for both. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hexagram ritual. Yeah, you get the hexagram free. And then all these ones that say advanced, you have to already have levels from your outer order training. So, like, if you had astrology, you can take advanced to strong. Oh, I see. You can take advanced cards. I don't have any of these. You can always go back and rebut and buy outer order stuff first. I have to do that. I'm in esoteric languages. You're doing esoteric languages. So, you can just keep buying esoteric languages if you want. The other thing you're all going to want to do is create your own talisman and wand. Because that's actually required. Okay. Okay. And you see that that says it varies. So, I'm going to take you guys through the choices here. This is beyond housekeeping. And this is actually quite a bit useful. Oh, I'm glad. No, it's good. It's good, but it's beyond housekeeping. Well, you guys want to be in your order members, right? Yeah. We have to, we have to really up our game. Exactly. The stakes are high. Oh, yes. All right. So, basically... Wait, wait, wait, wait. I think we're still trying to get things organized. Do you guys mind if it's quiet for a little bit? No. Go ahead. Okay. Sorry, I just... Before you spend the points to advance, you need to know how many points you have to work with in terms of buying talisman and wands. Oh, for the wands and... Yeah. Oh, okay. Oh, I got the curriculum before we figure out how far we go into the emulator. Exactly. So, let me just go through the talisman and wands really quick here. Basically, it's sort of wide open, but they do give you examples of each. So, they give you three examples of talisman. A talisman of banishment aids the user against afflictions caused by astral beings. Mm-hmm. That costs three points. How many of these are there? Three. So, we're going to pick, right, the one that we want. You can do more than one, though. You can have multiple talism... But they cost something. They cost points each. But if we all had one of the three, it would be wise to... Also, they're sort of like single-shot, you know, like... Oh, oh. Yeah. So, you could like buy two talismans of banishment for six points, you know. All right. All right. Okay. So, it works like banishment. And they cost three points. No, the talisman of banishment costs three points. Okay. Okay. Talisman of healing aids the user against natural afflictions or toxins. That costs two points. The user? What's that called? Yes, it's for you. You can't give it to someone else. What's it called again? Talisman of healing. Healing. Okay. And that's two points. Uh-huh. And then, the talisman of will aids the user in battles of willpower against magical opponents. Mm-hmm. That costs two points. Two points. Okay. And then... Wands. Okay. Three examples. Again, there's the lotus wand, aids the user in many magical practices, much as does the pentagram and hexagram rituals. That costs one point. Okay. The storage wand. By meditating and focusing with this wand, the user may imbue it with some of his energy when desired. Set energy can then be called upon the eights and magical practices. That costs two points. The wand of force. A powerful wand that can channel the user's energy into a debilitating force when used against an opponent. That costs three points. Okay. And that actually, uh, just by way of example, there was a, uh, there was an incident that's actually happened where Alan Bennett started the outline of the order. In fact, Padma may go up and witness to this. Wait, who? Alan Bennett? The, um, he, uh, wore a fellow. Oh, okay. I haven't known his name yet. Mm-hmm. Yeah. He joined, uh, well, he joins just the other end of the room. Yeah. And starts moving up real fast. Mm-hmm. He's a practicing Buddhist. One of the first, uh... I'm sure we could get along. Yeah. One of the first, occodental doers. And, um, anyway, so he has a, he has a glass wand that he made. Mm-hmm. And, um, there was an incident where Theosophist was sort of talking in the order. And so Bennett pulled his wand out. He's like, check this out. Hits him with the wand. It incapacitated the Theosophist for 18 hours. The person was on their back for a little, you know, just like, oh my god. So anyway, that's a war before, so that's three, three points. Uh, so as members of the order, we're encouraged to create magical folk-eye for use during the rituals. Most times these folk-eye were wands or talivents. Wands were constructed in glass or wood. The latter most often oak ash or some other wood with reported mystical significance. The wands were consecrated within the vault to bestow them with their powers. And there were a variety of types, which are described below. Other types are possible. Players can work with keeper to create new ones. Hmm. All right. Well, that's a lot to think about. Here it is. I know, well. I don't know what the talisman is going to give you an advantage. I will. So the talismans you said were like the one hit kind of thing. Yeah, so talismans could be constructed of paper, cardboard, metal, wood, or combination of materials. These talismans always require the cool symbolism appropriate to their purpose, such as particular color schemes or ornamentation. Each type of talisman had a specific purpose for which it was created, often for healing or protection from spirits. So it's basically used as a one-off kind of thing. Yeah. So you could have multiples if you want. All right. But then the wand is like a one. Yes. You've got your wand. It's like Harry Potter. You've got your wand and it's your wand. Okay. Harry Potter. I had to do that. I'm sorry. Sorry, everybody. Apologies. 15. Oh. All right. I think I know what I'm doing. Okay. What do you got? I'm gonna buy up to Adaptus Exemptus. That's costing 21 points. And going all the way, huh? And then in terms of talismans, I'm gonna buy a couple of those and one wand. Okay. And what kind of one? Force. Okay. So now there's a part where you have to sacrifice power to create these things. How much? A wand of force costs three power. And talisman costs one point each. Why don't you say that? Can you read the descriptions for the wand? Sure. The Lotus wand aids the user in many magical practices, much as does the pentagram and hexagram rituals. The storage wand. By meditating and focusing with this wand, the user may imbue it with some of his energy when desired. Set energy from then be called upon to aid some magical practices. And the wand of force, a powerful wand that can channel the user's energy into a debilitating force when used against an opponent. So my power could be down to like eight, basically. Correct. That's not good. It's not good. Let me let her out there. And I'm just trying to think, like, giving me a band of those with the different yarns kind of thing. Now, you can always regain power by engaging in a power versus power contest with like another magician. And if you win, you get a point. So it can go back up. It's not like a permanent sacrifice. But in some ways, it kind of is because it's not every day you engage in a power versus power contest. Wow, for it's all down, huh? It sounds kind of dry well. It's a little like dry little stone, but it's blowing. That's why I wasn't as driving over here. I wasn't sticking too much. Fresh, pretty easy way off my car. Okay, I think. All right, I'm scared. I don't want to get rid of my power. Yeah, it's a choice. You know, it's the old trade-off. Okay, I'm going to buy it. And then, of course, there are the other rituals that have their various prerequisites. So, more example, astral travel. You need a thousand and a wand. Right. And you need the spirit vision ritual. So that's like spirit vision three. You can do a thousand and wand for as little as what three points total. And then spirit vision. So that'll be like six points plus astral travel five. So that's like the level points right there. Yeah, well, the invisibility. Well, to be honest, I don't know if I'm going to be able to do any of these rituals. Now, just the talisman and the wands that take away power. Yeah, the rituals don't cost you. Well, they don't? No. You can just pick which ones. Well, you need to use the wands, but yeah. But I could be like, oh, yeah, you do advanced astrology for two points. Are you doing that one? Yeah, because I already have astrology. Oh, that's good. Oh, wow. Okay. I'm going to adapt this major with advanced card to Nancy. Of course, hexagram ritual is free. Yeah. And then I'm going to do a healing talisman with a force wand. So you're going to hit on that power there. With my hit points be equal to my power, what I have to do. Magic points or magic points. So I have to knock down my magic points as well. Okay. Well, just spirit vision do. Spirit vision basically allows you to see astral or, you know, in substantial beings so that you can perform a psychic healing. Essentially, that's why I had you guys read from beyond because that's basically what your astral plane is. And so spirit vision is being able to see. Right. Great. Should lower your power. Wonderful. All right. So I'm going to go for Adeptus Exemptus. Okay. I'm going to get a lotus wand and a banished talisman. Excellent choice man. Particularly delicious tonight. Uh-huh. That's it. Okay. So the lotus wand is going to cost one power. Right. The banish would cost three. No, the banish cost one power as well. Oh. Okay. Oh yeah. Okay. Okay. And yeah. That's it. Okay. And then anything else? And spend all my points, but I don't want to reduce my power. Right. I mean, any other rituals you want to get. You've created a wand and talisman. So that opens up your pre-readers. That's for other rituals and stuff. If you're the extra points. Yeah. Where's that? Oh, those don't cost power. No. They just have the wand and talisman is correct. So, hexagram, modus wand and talisman. Okay. Yeah. I'm going to get, because I spent four almost, so I have nine more points too. Oh, wow. Fantastic. So I'm going to do invisibility. Yep. And there are three and I'll do spirit vision. And invisibility takes a full day to perform and is the hardest spell on the curriculum. If the rituals perform successfully, the caster is not truly invisible, but merely masked from the perception of others. Okay. So I'm going to get invisibility and spirit vision. Okay. Cool. That's it. All right. I'll be right back. I still have four points remaining. Okay. How many, what did you do with the advanced card Nancy? You just buy one level on it. You can buy multiple levels. I thought it was just one. No. Each level, second. Advanced card Nancy brings use of card Nancy more firmly into the Golden Dawn's heavily cross reference to the magical correspondences, providing additional avenues of interpretation and greater depth of meaning to the tarot leader. Right. It does not change the way in which card Nancy skills use. Right. Rather, in gameplay terms, the investigator simply gets more benefits for each level of advanced card Nancy purchase than for a level of advanced outer order card Nancy grants. Oh, okay. So each level, because you remember your previous one, you bought it in levels. And each level you bought gave you five percent to your skill. Right. Right. Well, this one, each level gives you eight percent to your skill. All right. Okay. I'll stick with one level. Okay. So boost your card Nancy by eight percent then. Put it out there. Okay. I'm going to go up to a depth this major. Mm hmm. And I'm going to do one talisman of healing. Mm hmm. Yes. One, one, the force. Okay. I'm small and I'm old and I'm going to make sense. Self-defense. So it's going to bring my power down by a hundred pounds. Four points. Four. Okay. And then... And that'll lower your magic points by four. I'm going to get spirit vision. Mm hmm. Advanced astrology. Oh, yay. And exorcism. Oh, oh, this good. And then I still have 15 points. What? Holy... Thank you. Now you... That's 44 total. Wow. Oh my god. See. So you can always, you can always just keep those and use them to create more talismans. Oh, you're going to really want to do that. Yeah. Anything like that. But I was thinking about increasing my astrology. Sure. You can do that. Yeah. Advanced astrology is the same as cardamancy, where you can buy it multiple times over. Each additional level purchased at 8% of the astrology skill. So anything. Okay. So if I get advanced astrology. Yeah. Which is that first one. And I already had astrology is I'm going to boost it. Mm hmm. Already by 8%. Per level that you buy. So for that first level is going to up it by 8. By 8. Yeah. So. And each level is how many? Two points. Two points per level and I have 15. Yeah. Yeah. So you could, you go really long. Wow. I'm going to spend 10. Okay. Yeah. Which is going to be 5 levels. That's going to be 40% tear astrology. Wow. And I'll go ahead and we'll bring you 10 to 3. Wait, it's going to add 40%. Uh huh. Oh, okay. See. So that gives me 52 astrology. And then your astronomy's going to get boosted. I'm just going to pick a quick. Okay. Your astronomy skill goes up by 22. I'm going to sit on my three remaining points. Yeah. That gives me still 5 points left. Awesome. Sweet. Yeah. Good to have some. All right. Sorry about that. No worries. I like the, you know, gallery comment. I heard that. I was like, oh my God. What? Hey, I was sitting on this. No, I know she was, she's going to make it. So what level are you at? Adeptus major. Oh, okay. Just a second. Okay. I have a beautiful. But I got exorcism, spirit vision, 5 levels of advanced astrology. Tell us about healing under one of fours. Incredible. And a soul of points left. Victory. I'm really proud of myself. You should be. And all my nascals. Nice. She's better at us. 40 years old. Mm-hmm. I'm not losing any sanity. She better at us. Okay. So just for the record, I have a lotus one. And I have the banishment talisman. Invisibility and spirit vision. And I'm exempt. So I'm out there. Yeah. Because I think you wrote those coattails. No, but that's the whole thing with an adventurous is that you, you know, you bask in the reflected glow of your patron, basically. Well, there's that, but he's like kicked out. Right. So you could actually spend some, do you have any points left over? Oh, shit. I was going to say you could spend points to buy a new ally. I'm sure they'll show themselves. Oh, yeah. I still have one. What? All you've got is buried as an enemy now. I know. There has to be somebody who you got us. Yeah, you got the player group, but you don't have any. But you guys are also high up at this point. Exactly. So do we really need like. Maybe not. Anyway, I got a high up there because I want to make sure that, you know, exempt us. So exactly. Part of that. Yeah, I do. I have exempt. Yeah. All right. She looked the doggy out. Should I go? No, she can go for that one more. One more. Sweet. I'm totally stunned. Keep you letting. Oh, wow. Okay. On that note, um, wow. Should, are we done for the night? Yeah. I mean, it's, you know, unflexible. Do you feel like? How are you feeling? I don't know. Just complain. Okay. Yeah. I'm fine. Like I said, I love five minutes away. Just plan. Okay. I've got new tires, new brakes. Okay. So you're feeling okay. How are you feeling? Fine. You sure? Like I said, you're always welcome to stay the night. I may. We'll see. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Um, okay. So yeah, you guys are high up. Um, and, uh, I'm gonna start music. Oh, wait, what's that? A little posture. Probably. It's a little breeze out here. No. Oh, I forgot to move the feet or what? Get in here, you. Oh my God. Just like, I went way over my head. Um, yeah. We just wait for off a little bit. That's good humidifier, wet dog. That's whole humidifier. Did that wet dog smell good? And she's clean. Did you want to have the cleanest animals I've ever seen? What is that? Okay. All right. Let's do this. So yeah, you guys are, are indeed high up. Um, to the point where you're pretty much involved pretty solidly with the politics of the Isis, Urania temple. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's another thing. Um, you know, you've been initiated into the inner order. So you have been, um, um, you have been, uh, initiated into or shown the, uh, orders secret, uh, vault, which is their sort of consecrated, uh, grounds, if you will. Okay. Um, it's sort of where, like, you know, you might have caught me making a reference there when I was reading up about the talisman and so forth that that's where you consecrate things, um, in the vault. And, uh, that's where their library is located. There's various research and occult tombs. That's what I'm going to try out these over and over. Oh, wow. That's nice. That's so much better. Okay. I didn't realize how bright it was until it wasn't. Yeah. They're like kind of. And, um, yeah. So let me just, uh, the vault's in the vault. So how recently is West Cropping kicked out? Uh, eight months ago. Okay. Okay. So the current location of the vault is 36th by the road, uh, in hammer Smith, a little over a mile west-out west of Kensington Gardens. Um, it's, uh, it's truly a secret vault. Like the original, the original vault, um, the description here says unsuspecting neighbors of the Isis Uranius new vault included a hairdresser, a dairyman, a confectioner, two sculptors, a cabinet maker, and a piano cleaner, among others. Wow. Piano cleaner. The rooms were lit by electric batteries. And since outsiders were not supposed to view the contents of the vault, the female members of the order did the cleaning. Of course. It's okay. I can use it to express my displaced domesticity. Displaced domesticity. Are you feeling the urges to be domestic? Speaker is a haired speaker. Oh, that really kills the mood. I don't know. Do you think Padma and Oliver Hill can still be friends? Oh, can they be? Can they be? I think they can. I think they can. What does Mulvahill say? I like it. I think he's sort of distanced himself, you know. He's hurt by this part. He's buttered. Yeah, he's buttered. To use the contemporary slang of 1890s London, he's buttered. Oh, no, I think they could be friends. Perhaps in another world another time. No, trust me. That's not gonna. No, you're determined. No, they won't. Yeah, literally trying to play match makers still. I'm saying, I'm saying in another life, they'll still be playing out the same same things over and over again. True. Never end. He'll be a detective at the NYPD. What? No, in another one. You mean Padma will be. Oh, right. There you go. Mulvahill's going through. And then he'll be the one rejecting her and over and over and over and over and over again it goes. Do you have anything to add? No. No, I don't. No, I don't. Anything. That's what I thought you were gonna pick up on. I didn't. No, no, I don't. All right. So serious now. All right, serious. All right, go, go, go. The snow is gonna be off and on for the next couple hours, so. Of course, we really don't know. Well, that's what it says. That's what I was checking in the back because I just wanted to be kinder. I don't even know what to say at this point. Play on. Nice music. This is good. It's a good group. Nice. Good. Anyway, that's a good one. Yeah, yummy. Do you want more tea? Water? Nothing. You're good. You know, I have a copy of the Don's Secret Cypher as well if you want to write coded letters to each other. I think that would be great. It's fun. I'm glad you turn the lights off. Yeah, she's kind of struck me all of a sudden, like, hey. Well, it works with three players, I think. I think we have the lights there before. We did, but it was not the same. It's a different feeling. So, are you involved in the writing of that pamphlet? No. I hate him. No, the urge is her enemy. I hate that guy. He represents everything she fights against. You've always been enemies. This is good. It didn't go sour. Well, maybe then. You know, I'm saying, maybe there's something there that went bad. Oh, I knew there was something I was forgetting. I have another question that brought us really funny in the bathroom. We're looking at laser slots. I was wondering about the process of, like, buying additional, because you mentioned, like, you weren't going to invest. You know, attack, mastiff, or things like that. I was just curious, like, in terms of other, like, weapons and things like that, if there's, like, a list of... Certainly. Or, like, how... Is there a list? Why not? See, Pat, I don't know. They're a large dog. I don't know. I think going through what she, I think going through what she went through with, um... Well, especially, I'm sure she would get a dog, so she's not alone with her elderly father. Oh, yeah. I was kind of curious, because then she's going to hang up. What's Moll Reel's first name? James, name the dog Jim. Dammit Jim. That's probably the name of something, Hindi. Yeah, that's true. That's true. I don't have it on here, but there is something called the Gaslight Equipment Catalog, which is, like, I think, a 200-page equipment catalog. Yeah. So, anything you possibly wish for? So, yes. Oh, God. Yeah. If you want a dog, you have a dog, you know. No problem there. And then, as far as other weapons, here's a short list. She's got the Derringer. Yeah. Mm-hmm. So, how many levels did Celestia advance in the order? Adeptous major? So, like, in terms of how many levels and number-wise? Oh, like... Six. Six. Okay. So, I guess that's my question. Like, if you wanted to acquire one of these things, like, what... What do you mean? Like, is there any cost for it or something like that? Well, for your wealth level, it's really bad. Yeah, I would say you could buy whatever. I was just curious. What are you looking at? What do you want? I was thinking, like, she has the Derringer, probably, like, I don't know, a knife to have the ceremonial dagger. I don't know. There's a knife that just fills there. Something. And the dog, I don't like to do that. I don't think there's too much ash. No, not at all. On large attack, Nastiv? Yes. Yeah. Calmly. I've been at more and more industry. I think Ollie. Yep. Okay. So, Celestia's occult skill goes up by 17. Okay. Okay. How many levels did you have? Six. Oh, wow. Sweet. One of my Coke-fuelled. Yeah. So, like, yeah. Your cult goes up by 28. Me. That's why I'm giggly. No, I remember ugly. You must know. Oh, I remember those nights. I guess that's back to that question, though. So, if I wanted to buy, like... How would you? I was just curious, like, okay, like, okay. Do I have handgun skills? Do they say they wanted knife skills since I have my ceremonial dagger anyways? Like, I'm going to stop, get it. That basically just gets increased through use. Okay, so, check. You just have to stop people enough to learn how to stab people better. She's curious. You get a default knife skill of 25, I believe it is. That's for good. Yes. I have a dagger. So, it's kind of like the small knife, the fighting knife? Whatever you want. Probably, if you... Oh, for their original dagger, that would be a small knife. Yeah. Okay. So, it starts at 25. Yeah. Okay. And then, that's sort of the thing where just, like, if you successfully stab someone, you get a check. You get a check. And then, you get to roll that. And then, like, roll there. Okay. But then, like, for any of your other equipment, does it also get, like, a default on here? Probably, it should. It's usually just weapons. It's just curious. Oh, that's what I was kind of curious. Other types of like, roll against my dog? No. I was like, how did the training go? Well, it's funny because, I mean, technically, technically in Cthulhu, you can, I mean, you see those blank spaces. You can make up skills. Okay. So, you could have, like, a dog handler skill. Ooh, that's cool. I like it too. She would do that. She would do that. There's an NPC in this upcoming adventure who has a skill of coordinate clothes. Seventy-three percents. That is amazing. Yeah, like a dog handling. Yeah. So, what kind of default would that get? One of the good questions. I would say that could just be, like, probably equal to your power. Okay. Yeah. As a percentage. That sucks. He says these things like, we're supposed to be impressed. But no. And then it's like, oh, oh, wait a minute. That sucks. I just lost for a pound. Exactly. It's all about the tone. It is. Watch out. Yeah, but this way he could be your power. If he tells me exactly. That's exactly what your hold's going to release. Yeah. Yeah. And you're screwed. Oh, I'm like, I'm sorry, people do your power. Yeah, exactly. Oh, that's, that's worse. You know, no, no, it's not. It's being realistic, which I can appreciate. All right. It was one thing we know about you. It's that. Are you serious? It's the only thing. Right. You're a mystery. Oh, she's going to get us a loopy. Oh, she can afford it. Because you're worth it. That's right. Can I get a minion like a cat? You get a, is it like a familiar? He wants a familiar. Yeah, I do. I know it's not. I'm at it. Look, we have like done. She does have good no touching calls. I do. That's true. Yeah, you can have a cat. You want him? He got him an animal companion. Animal companion? I mean, because to be quite fair, I mean, we're, we're going into the end game at this point. I'm seeing a Mr. Mumbles. Don't let each be Lovecraft named your cat. Every time I read that, he's just like cheerfully like a bigger man. Like HP. HP. Every time. Every time. Every time. I think that's the name of like a tumbler blog. It's called don't let Lovecraft name your pants. All right. I'm thinking about it. I want to do a, how do you tramps just gear out, gear up, gear it, gear it. Uh huh. Isn't that like a string? It's the string. It's a wire with, with handles it either end and you wrap it around someone's neck. Are you really that bloodthirsty? Yeah, seriously. I feel that way right this moment because you, because you want to start playing. Oh shit. All right. Are you sending a subtle hint? Getting ready to guard somebody at the table right now. I'll tell you that one. No, not you. No, no, no, no, no, no. More questions. No, no, no. In fact, I'm going to this one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, let's talk about this dog. Yeah. Black. Oh, it's a female dog. Oh, yeah. All right. Yeah, it's just a solidarity. Probably. Oh, I love it. What color eyes? Purple. You don't know what you're getting into. He's seriously though. We have so many questions. What do you see? What? It's just so addict. I like it's probably what I eat down with that now. Is there like a boy who takes care of the dog for you? What's his name? It's a lot of worship. What's my voice name? Quickly. I'll just roll them up. What does he look like? Are you serious? No, no, no, no. I was like excited. Like, what's he gonna see? Where are you Robin? Robin, Robin, Robin, Robin, Robin Jr. Robin Jr. He's eight years old. Robin got busy. Yeah. Robin was busy. Robin got busy like 14. Yeah. It's physical. Hey, hey, hey. All right. Anyway, not like these like eight though. What? It's like it's three and a half years from all this stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We've gotten busy at the eve of like. It's a brother all. It's a brother. It's a brother. It's a brother. It's Robin's brother. Oh my god. Okay. She's like this one. That'd be good for me. Yeah, I'm pretty sure considering I have no husband or children, I'm gonna take care of that. All right. That's right. It's your kid. My baby. All right. Does it have a little manic app like in Peter Pan? Oh my god. It's not a nanny dog. I have a stacked form dog. Yeah. Come on. Yeah. It's just the rights of call it. Now you're just taking it too far. Right. You cross the line, man. Nanny. All right. What's your boobies? This is awesome. Do you guys want to tell you about this? They make it enough. What else can we spend time on? Because then you're going to be really devastated when it dies. Oh god. It's a ring in the totem. It's true. I know. I'm not arguing that. All right. It's true. What if it were like a man who would run his neck? I have a feeling his eyes like, like, eat his eyes, like the, like, tiger eye color, like, animal around him. Okay. We're loving this dog. Here we go. All right. I like that the GM was like, all right, guys. Now it's time to, I don't want to start. Yeah, I'm going to see. At this point, I'm ready to do it. I know. A lot's sake. All right. So, yes. Yes. You guys are at this point, high level order members. You, you rub shoulders with all the other high level order members. Okay. You're pretty much in with the, um, the FAR Yates contingent. Okay. Right. Yeah. France is FAR and, um, and WV8s, uh, AKAD, DDI. Um, you knew that, right? Yeah. Okay. I just found that last night. He's like, did you know who did you? I'm like, no, we announced, like, did we talked about in the last bit? It was far. Yeah. It's all right. I was distracted. Go on. Anyway, um, there, uh, they're essentially the, um, the anti-mathers faction, the lack of a better term. Okay. Um, they resent Mathers, uh, meddling with ISIS uranium. They're concerned that he's gonna pull a similar trick to what he did at the, um, Cyrus Temple Enbura and try and dissolve the leadership, ISIS uranium, put in his own proxy. Yep. Uh, he wears a killed every meeting. He wears a kill to every goddamn meeting. He, he and, and, uh, are trying to, um, legitimately revive the leadership of ISIS. You know, that's not good designing, uh, rituals and shit. Uh, second. So, you have been asked, the three of you, um, to, uh, perform a favor for the others in the temple, and actually go see if you can suss out what's going on with Mathers in Paris. Cool. We're going to France. Going to Paris. Awesome. Do a cold sweat as I thought of cropping the English channel. Oh, don't worry. Don't worry. I have some drugs. Oh, there you are. All right. All right. Okay. Well, great. This is like, I love, I love Paris. I know. I love Paris. I cannot wait. It is November. So it's not exactly Paris in springtime. I don't care. I love it anytime. She's like shopping. That's very nice. That's right. So, um, you will be going under the, uh, pretense of delivering some research material for him as he is engaged currently in the translation of a, a cold tone, uh, and study of a cabal. All right. So that is the sort of pretense that you are being dispatched under. Um, what they would like is for you to, yeah, as basically try to put out some feelers and see if Mathers is perhaps planning some kind of takeover. Yeah. I think I could find that out pretty easily. I have my ways to get that. Should get like skill punch for the writing club. Yeah, 35. I even do, I do a little picture of it. I do a little picture of the writing club. Not just the writing club, haven't they? Oh, it doesn't actually. It's just all reliable. Okay. All right. So we're going to Paris. Okay. Um, since three ladies cannot travel unescorted, they're sending, they're sending an outer order member with you. Who is this? So do try to keep your inner order knowledge. Oh, discreet. Gotcha. So who's this person? So a fellow named Cyril Weston. What is he from? He's, um, he's British. Really? Yes. Okay. So where is he from? No, I said, what is he about? Oh, what's he about? Well, he's actually a somewhat well-known, uh, uh, world traveler and explorer. He's, uh, traveled. Oh, yes. I think I've heard of him. Yes. Yes. He's made the paper. He does big games. No, he, well, summed up a bit, but he's mostly known for his explorations. Oh, it is. Oh, it is. Yeah. I remember reading something about him killing zebras. Oh, yes. Yes. He has gone hunting in Africa and so forth. Okay. But, uh, yeah, I know he traveled, he's traveled through, extensively through North Africa, the Indian subcontinent Southeast Asia. So he can trust him. He seems trustworthy. What level is he at? He is practice. Okay. All right. And so, uh, he meets, he actually meets all the all he is 40. He meets up with you all at 14. Straight up 40. Straight up 40. 40. Where you are all prepared to board the cross-channel ferry. Uh-oh. How are you doing? I'm already the high as a kite. So you just have to push you on a boat or ship or whatever, a tie rope or a wire. Come on, dear. He brings a dog with you. He's got an arm lace. Bring a dogie along. Awesome. Okay. Yeah. So, um, yeah, just November. So the crossing is a little rough. I'll need context five rolls. Oh, I fail 99. Wow. Wow. I'm puking the whole time. You've been the whole time leaning over the rail. I'm vomiting. I'm going to fail to. How are you doing? I'm fine. You're good. Zero passes the zero one. Wow. He is late. So he's like on the bow of the ship. Careful. Just like writing the writing. Yeah. Just like writing your muscles, basically. For dear life, it's just vomiting. Yeah. All right. Well, I'm not surprised. I'm like, yeah. Yeah. You're just on the floor down in the cabin. Your thoughts, like licking your face attention. I love you. All right. All righty. So, um, it's horrible. The crossing is, is mercifully short, though. Okay. And, uh, and you all, you all come off the ferry in various, uh, things to just repair, right, except for a zero, who like pretty much bounds off the ferry. All right. Been a while since I was on the comet. So you, uh, all right. All right. All right. So you, uh, you snag the first train out of Calais, South Paris, and, uh, arrive on a, uh, chilly, somewhat drizzly, Parisian afternoon. All right. And, um, a coach from the station to number 87, Rue Mozart, the home of Golden Don, founder, Samuel Ladell McGregor Mathers. All right. Um, I try to compose myself as much as possible to look as, to look as nice as I can. Put some powder on the face. Garble with some rose water or whatever. Orange flower water or something, anything. And, uh, yeah. It's good for the figure. I look good. I look good. Oh, that's a few seconds. It's good for the figure. I heard you the first time. So we're ready to go. Okay. So, um, a, uh, a bell at the front, some in, say, Butler, who, um, takes you up a steep flight of stairs into an expensive or, or rather, expansive, uh, Parisian flat and expensive. Right. Lots of marble and gilding, big pile of rugs, you know, old bronzes, old bronzes and everything. Um, this is where all Anne's money went, I see. Mm hmm. So, uh, Mathers reach you. Um, he is, uh, very first. Great. He's the real rings of the fingers of Sierra. Oh, what the? Okay. Wow. No, he's not. Uh, he's, he's, um, average height, somewhat, um, somewhat husky build, like, so, you know, somewhat strong, but a bit gone to seed, sort of, uh, a little stocky. Yeah. High cheekbones, nicely waxed mustache, um, smoking jacket, you know, trousers. Um, but, uh, yes, he agrees. Welcome to, uh, welcome to my residence. Come on in. Can I have a psychology just to, like, assess, like, what I could kind of get from him? In terms of just what he may, like, what his weeks spot might be? Yeah. Fail. Are you looking for new dice already? I am. I need a new percentile. You gotta give him a chance. Oh, can I have the box? No. I don't want to. I just need options. I have a little hood access. Yeah, Nick, you need options. You need options. Um, thank you. Well, uh, none of you, none of you need psychology roles to detect that he does seem a bit, uh, nervous. His, his hands are, are a little shaky. Sure. And he's, he's sort of drumming his fingers on his, on his knees as he takes a seat. Okay. Um, at this point, Moina enters, uh, with a tray of, you know, tea service. Um, she's younger than him by maybe 10 years and it's darkly beautiful. Where's her hair and sort of bohemian kind of un, unpiled, uh, you know, fashion? Just like fluffy. Fluff, fluffed out. Yeah. Uh, and, and wearing kind of like a, you know, very flowy sort of, uh, tea gown. No corset. No corset. Yeah. Oh, God. Yeah. So she, uh, no. She sort of sweeps. Oh, welcome, welcome to our, to our flat here. Sorry. Just the scallop. Yeah. I'm not into that. I just don't like, I just don't like that. Yeah. Yeah. I don't like that whole, the whole scene. I thought that was a pike. Is that orderly enough? Uh, you need to take some time to put yourself together. Mm hmm. So you're like, Joan and Madman. Mm hmm. A little bit of that. All right. So, um, oil, sit. Is he an assistant? Yes. Yes. He didn't write you to sit. Um, the tea services is put out. Uh, Mathers, you know, he, he does engage in conversation, but it's mostly talk of the weather. How was your trip? I can't stop. So for it. Uh huh. Uh, I can't. It was, it was fine, but, uh, Oh, I was dreadfully sick. I was dreadfully sick. It's been a while since I've been to friends. Oh, yes. The channel is beastly. Why I hardly ever go back to London these days, as much as I can see. Oh, it's awful. But, uh, what's his name? Weston? Uh, mhm. Mr. Weston. Mr. Weston. Mr. Weston had no trouble at all. He was, um, yes, he, he's been standing at the, uh, at the, uh, the balcony doors, you know, sort of with his hands clasped behind his back and then he turns around. That's right. No trouble at all. What's the type in his mouth? Once you've been on a tramp steamer in the middle of the Indian Ocean during a tight boot, you can weather anything. That's probably true. I know he's just about that. Says a voice. Oh, everyone makes spot. I would have to do that. What kind of spot did I make it? Seven. I friggin make that. Wow. 17. We all see it. It's pretty clear. You can all check your spot hidden. Thank you. Um, so you notice, uh, a large, uh, oak, uh, desk, um, kind of parked up on the far side of the room, covered in, uh, stacks of books and papers. It's obviously, Mather's work station. You see titles like, you know, uh, dealing with the Kabbalah and, um, uh, English Arabic dictionaries. I find that interesting actually. You also know a, uh, a recently, uh, published book, um, entitled "I Regret Nothing" by Dr. Miles Hume. Oh my god. Oh my god. You can all make no rolls. Fuck me. Sorry. I passed my one. I passed with a little one. Yeah, so you'd all heard about this. Basically Dr. Hume, because of his alliance to Mathers, had been, uh, even forced out of the Isis-Erenia temple, uh, at the level of portal, uh, when he was attempting to make it into the inner order. And so he wrote a tell all, uh, autobiography. However, in order to sort of, uh, in a half-assed attempt to sort of protect people's identities, he changed names, including changing Golden Dawn to Silver Twilight. Unfortunately, there is an order of the Silver Twilight in New York, and they're now suing him for libel. So if we like really, really passed, have we read it then? Like, we read the book. I don't know how you could say you read it, sure. I see you have, um, Dr. Hume's, um, book on your desk there, Mr. Mathers. He, uh, he looks back towards it and then, uh, seems to kind of like, uh, wince a bit. Like, I shouldn't have left my workout. Uh-huh. He realizes that all his work's been left out. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Right there. Mm-hmm. And then, so he doesn't really answer you in steady, in steady sense. I believe you brought a parcel for me. Oh, yes. So who has it? I don't know who is the person. I want to know, yes, I don't know. Oh, she can carry it up in people. Yeah! Oh, please. Uh, we'll say, we'll say Weston has it. So he, he produces a, he produces from the Belize, uh, you know, a little parcel wrap and butcher paper and twine hands up to Mathers who gets up, walks over to his desk, places it down. It's kind of, yeah, the ring. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mm, damn shit. I just want to know, like, how accurate could Dr. Hume's book possibly be? Not very. I'm just rather like a how not accurate. It's full of blaring in action. So not just the names are changed, but the facts. The facts. Well, the facts have been changed in perspective to protect me. Yes. I'm just curious what our names are. I know. Yeah, exactly. We get caught up in the head. Yeah. Petra and... Yeah. Colleen and... Colleen. And, uh, Detective Sergeant Fish. Um... I mean, I'm sure you would mention Lily since he hated her so much. No, he completely snubbed you. He left you out entirely. Interesting. All right, okay. So, man, I can't believe we wasted that spot hidden on that. Yeah, you got checks on it. Yeah, I just thought we'd find out more on the desk, besides just the book. Right now. Well, it's too late. I know. Did you see how he hid things? I know. He's hiding. We'll tell you later. That's very high right now. Okay. So, Moen's there the whole time. Oh, dumb scared of her. What do you mean? Is she watching us? Yeah. Yeah. Talking? Uh-huh. No, we're just talking about Dr. Hume's book. Oh, okay. So, yeah, she's just listening to Lily. Okay. Talking about Dr. Hume's book. Can you believe that he had the audacity to try to write a book like that? Yeah, and you know what, man, I'm not so crazy about Yeats anymore. There we go. There we go. Speaking of authors, I'm no longer interested in. Yeah, there we go. Yeah, exactly. Um, come and think of it, you know. I think maybe. We're kind of thinking maybe we could do something more proactive. In this particular branch, something having to do with ISIS perhaps. Yeah, you would be the people to talk to about that. Indeed. Good arm. Well, seems to me it's taken us an awfully long time to advance those two extra steps across just a great deal in terms of time and effort. Great. Well, you know, I wouldn't want to shut out any other particular ways of thinking about things. And I think you're quite wise, in fact, to open your mind to options if the order isn't quite going down. Maybe maybe they should be going to. Especially in terms of reviving more ancient documentaries. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yes. So, um, Molina gives Samuel a sort of like encouraging look. Yeah. Good one. So you, you finished the tea, which is, you know, a pretty substantial tea. I could barely eat any of it. You're still sick, but I'm drinking a lot of tea. I don't eat a thing. So high as I'm sure my dog has a plate on the floor. So afterwards, though, the remainder of the meal matters looks very thoughtful. And afterwards, he sort of parks himself next to the fire. I won't deny that I am displeased with the leadership of the temple. It's a petticoat government, if you want to know my opinion. What does that mean? There's so many words, petticoats. I'm offended by that. Highly offensive. I just want to know what it is. Well, go on. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I've considered taking direct control of the temple, but I feel this may not be wise. I suspect that the temple would simply go rogue if I tried such a movie. Is that why you're spending all this time in Paris? Well, I'm attending to the temple here as well. How can you control both temples at the same time? I don't intend to. Okay. These are someone else that you would think more suitable to take leadership of the ISIS. Perhaps someone was in a cult background. Me, uh, psychology roles, please. I make it. I fail miserably. I make it fail. You note his eyes flick involuntarily to zero. To zero? No, not that guy. I know. You're a cheek splash, really? Yeah, exactly. All right. Okay. Steam up ears. All right. So, yes. Uh, I see. Uh, well, okay. But he doesn't answer. He doesn't answer. Yeah. Well, I'm sure. So I try to cover that as. I'm sure. I mean, it's, that would be a very difficult decision to make. There being so many gifted people that you could choose from. Indeed. What is Moena looking like right now? She's just listening. She's just listening? Smug will be drinking her tea. Yeah. With her hair and her teeth all over the place. Her boobs all over the place. Strapped those others down. For the greater good. For the greater good. All right. So, where's the package right now? So, do you think? Is it moving? It's working? Jittering. All right. Um, so he doesn't answer the question. So, there's an awkward silence. Yeah. He's, he's still. That's why I tried to cover the awkward silence. For festival agents, you can tell he's still very guarded. Of course. What time is it? It is actually getting dark and Moena remarks on this. Yes. And, and Mathers looks at, you know, pulls his watch out of his smoking jacket and looks at him. Indeed, it is. And I still have much work to do today. I have arranged for your accommodations at the St. Augustine Hotel. However, Moena and I would like to show you the town tomorrow night, if that is agreeable. It's tomorrow night. Indeed. We were thinking dinner. Well, it's, it's ugly and wintery outside. It's the evening would be more. Probably a nice interval. We were thinking dinner and perhaps the opera. Great. Absolutely. That sounds wonderful. Terrific. What does Cyril say? Absolutely corking. I know what this guy is. I know this guy. I know this type. Although I know. Do we have things? Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Absolutely. We did. Or it would be a real shame to have to go buy something in Paris. Maybe we could go shopping in the morning and see. Yeah. Sure. Did I need, we're going to find out more information. Yes, with Moena. Ah, can Moena take us to the shops? Because I don't think we've packed anything that's really appropriate for the opera. She, she looks a bit surprised at this and says, oh, I'm terribly sorry. My schedule is absolutely booked until the evening tomorrow. Do you have any recommendations of the shops? Let me give you some recommendations. So she, she bustles over to a drawing table. I know more of those than she does. Yeah, exactly. So there's a thrift shop. It's really good. Exactly. This is not even right time yet. Okay, so. So this place basically, it doesn't have a sign out. So you have to go down the alley. It's going to be parked behind a hate. And there's a classroom. There's an alley. It's so exclusive nobody even knows about it yet. It's not even open yet. That includes the bohemians, the original hipsters. Yeah, exactly. Basically. Okay, so I try. No, that's fine. What, what, what, what am I asked? What are you going to be busy doing tomorrow? Oh, assisting Samuel in his researches. His research is exciting. Research is very exciting. Research are you guys interested in? Yeah. I'm still working on my translation of aperumilin. Wow, that's hard going. It is hard. It's very difficult. But I think it's coming along well, and it'll be worth the effort. Wonderful. Well, I do have some. It only solves 200 copies. Oh, if you need any. 100. 100 of those. What? Yeah, totally. You're going to get it away. I don't know. I've got boxes in my garage. So I just want to, um, I do have some knowledge of esoteric languages. So if you ever need any assistance with that, I'd be more than happy to. Wow. Help. Well, thank you very much indeed. That's cool. But, uh, Mr. Weston has been assisting me with some of the Arabic. Yep. Mr. Weston. Well, Mr. Weston, I didn't know you had knowledge of different, I'm actually translating different languages. Well, you know, I picked up a bit of Arabic traveling the Orient. A bit. Yeah, it's just a bit, just a smidge. Hmm. I think this one's vocabulary consists of. Yeah. Yeah. Which way do the brothel? Yeah. I want one. All right. So, so I'm kind of grit my teeth lightly. Okay. All right. As we're going, I'm going to drop something on my way out. Like, just so efficiently drop something. Okay. I'll go off. Okay. I'll grab a glove. Okay. Then off we go to the hotel. Then I'm going to wait 15 minutes. Okay. I forgot my glove. Oops. Good to see what I see. Mm-hmm. Well, of course, uh, when you ring the bell, the butler answers. Yes. May I help you. Uh, I see you're going to misplace something in the main the laundry room. He reaches into his dry head. Thank you. Okay. Come on. We're going to the hotel. What? To see. Oh, please. The Augustine located at 15 Ruse St. Augustine and strange way off. Oh, it's all strange at all. Uh, nice. Mm-hmm. It is very nice. All right. Oh, and also just of note on your way out, neither shook Weston's hand. Of course. I wouldn't expect anything else. I don't know how these men worked. What about, uh, Moena? Oh, she ain't Weston. No, no, no, no. All right. Um, but he does, he does sincerely thank you for delivering a personal and seems sincere about it. Okay. He seems a bit less pensive, not early. Uh-huh. Uh, like, oh, good. That's all they were going to do. Yeah. Well, for now. For now. Um, so the following day. What's the following day? I love the town in Paris. It is a Friday. November 13th. Um, it's my birthday. Oh, really? Yeah. Cool. I don't know what had not done. Maybe it is. So, of course, at this time, Paris is in the, at the height of L'Ebele Epo. Beautiful era. And it's a hub of civilized world, basically. So, is Weston with us as we're... Oh, yes. He's a story you around. This is horrible. I know. We're slipping something. In the lady's shops, he's gonna go with us. He waits outside. Okay. So, see, that's where we can actually tie him. I don't know. What are we gonna do? I wanted to go case the jury. I think, um, but when, I mean, he did, at least I can admit, his only reason for not taking over the temple is because he's afraid of the road. That is, pretty boring. Yeah. It's a cool thing to admit. But it would. I mean, that's what would happen. But I don't know, just... What's in the parcel? I didn't really look at that. I didn't look at the parcel either. Well, Weston had it. Yeah, he was tiny person. The whole time, right? Maybe he was... Well, it's half of you guys were... Vomiting. Yeah. Vomiting or curled up in a fetal position. Well, okay. So, do we find things to wear to the offer? Absolutely. Of course we do. Lovely things. It's wonderful. It's wonderful. It's wonderful. It's wonderful. Oh, fuck. It's wonderful. Embroidered a scare beetle. So, yeah. So, legitimate beetles. Legit. Legit beetles. All right. Intelligent beetles. So, we're shopping around. Okay. So, I want to get into that house. Let's go back. Let's go back. Let's see. Let's just, uh, stop in, right? That wouldn't be rude. It would be rude. They didn't say that I would get their schedule. You made this. That's right. How can we... First, we've got to lose Weston. We're going to lose the dude. And then we've got to go back to the house and see if they're in there, if they're not. Well, there's... There's servants, so. The baller is there. Okay. All right. We just have to glean everything we can from when we're with them. Well, why don't we talk to Weston too? You're doing dinner in an opera with them. Right. Yeah, Weston seems like he might be the bragging type. Well, yes. You genius. Yes. So, if you said I couldn't help but notice, you're like the lady that I am. Right. You know? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yes. Now they're seeing to have quite the relationship. That's right. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I was thinking about that. Yeah. Just eyelashes. Go for it. All right. So, I'm going to go... We're going to have tea, right? Oh sure. All right. Tiring tea with Weston. Peritian T-Shops. Yes. So, I'm going to sit next to him. Okay. And start talking about... We're going to have to whisper a little from a listening. I'll read your cards. I didn't bring my cards. Can you read my cards? Give me a card. Yes. Do the dogs, the dogs. I'm reading... I actually have read for my dogs. Actually, I'm going to ask for my dogs. How are they doing? Are they okay? No. Okay. No, your dogs, my girls. That sucks. I think I should know if it was dinky and a dog would find it. A dog would know... In certain situations, yes. You know, it's a lot. It is. Now you let me know. I'll have to request every time I've done it. I'll let you know. In fact, I probably won't even roll. I'll just say the dog starts barking. So, I passed the card events. Oh, very good. So, yeah. So, let's see what you turn up. You turn up the seven of pentacles, indicating hopes deceived and crushed, disappointment, loss of fortune and misery. You turn up the hermit depicting a hooded figure whose face cannot be seen in communion with the serpent. It signifies divine inspiration, seeking wisdom, knowledge, or inner strength. You turn up the moon. Another of the major of Canada depicting a scarab rising toward the moon from between two jackals. Initially... Oh, yeah. It comes out ill- dignified, indicating a minor deception or trifling mistakes. What an awful deception. They're deceiving us. So, I'm talking to Weston. Ryker, what we're doing there. Who's the harvest? Who's the harvest? Fast talk? I failed by three. You failed by 33? No, by three. What's your fast talk? 55. I'm kind of thinking if it's... I was already thinking about this, like, if it's a failure within the margin of your nap, like 17 points, you know, it's sort of like a partial success. It gets mitigated a little? Yeah, it's like a partial success. Maybe he's had a little tumbler of something? Yeah, a partial. So, well, in other words, you're not going to get, you know. No, but he's... but I have his attention. You have his attention and you have his good will. Okay, let's try again after dinner. Exactly. I'll sit next to him with the author. Yeah, keep working on it. Exactly. And so he's happy to tell you about some of his travels. Yeah, tell me more about the how you learned Arabic and what do you know? Oh, that's got nothing. Yeah. He tells you how to say you're beautiful in Arabic. Mmm, it does. Yeah. Been there, done that. Okay. Indeed. All right. So, your dinner appointment is is a sense of sea. He's really good at that. He's really good at that. 955 roux baeum. Formal attire is required. What problem? There we go. We look fancy. It is a small, intimate and exclusive restaurant serving some of the finest French cuisine in all of Europe. So, you enter into this space decorated with antique tapestries, richly upholstered furniture. Tables are set with delicate linen, fine bone china, expensive crystal and gold plated flatware. Okay. The melodious sounds of piano and heart fill the restaurant as do the sense of gourmet food and fine wine. Nice. So, you are escorted to the back of the restaurant, a large round table in a secluded corner where you find matters in his wife and another dinner guest. Oh. Hey, rotund boisterous man. Another one of these. With a pair of pence nails, glasses, balanced impossibly on the tip of his nose. Yes. He's regaining them with some kind of anecdote or another. But when, as you approach, he jumps off and says, "Ah, our guest have arrived." Oh, no. Any, any, yeah, he sort of comes forward and takes Weston's hand and shakes it. And then to each one of you takes your hand and kisses it, you know. And especially the little, "Ah, so dare." I know French. So, can I try this? You don't have to roll. I know what's your French. It's 42. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't have to roll. All right. So, I start seeing a couple of little things. And he's sort of delighted. He's an honor to meet you. He was next to me, but I'm not dead. So, he takes you around and kind of parks you between him and Mathers. It could be good. Yeah. Chaching. And so Mathers is stood as well and says, "Yes, welcome. May I introduce you to my friend and associate, Mr. L'Rou. L'Rou?" L-E-R-O-U-X. Okay. Okay. So, what do you do, Mr. L'Rou? I am a reporter for "La Matam." What do you write about? Anything and everything. I am a roving reporter. I was just telling Mr. Monsieur and Madame Mathers of the time that I was present at the secret Baltic summit between Castle Wilhelm the second day in the south, Russia. Oh. Yes. I've been witness to many amazing things. And you see Weston kind of like... All right. So much. It could be. Exactly. So, the food and the drink begin to arrive. L'Rou entertained you all throughout the meal with stories of his adventures. Really? That's Weston doing. He's sort of quietly watching. He's dangerous, though. He's looking at me. Weston? A few times, yeah. In your regular touch. That was carefully planned. Yes. But L'Rou definitely dominates the dinner and seems like he's the host, really. Now, there sort of takes a back seat. Okay. There's so many air there like the whole time with this little tasting stand on a chain, standing by. And L'Rou keeps, you know, beckoning him over for more champagne. Okay. Basically, L'Rou personally goes through three bottles. Oh my god. Big guy. Yeah. Wow. He is a big guy. All right. He rolls, please. I want to start talking to Moina, too. Okay. I pass. I pass. Okay. It's pretty obvious that L'Rou is a frequent customer here. And the way the weight staff sort of trips over themselves, too. You know, he commands a certain level of authority and respect. So you're selected. You're talking to Moina. Yeah. I want to just try and draw her out a little bit. Well, she's kind of watching L'Rou go, you know, with a little smile on her face, you know. She's like, "He's quite a character." Well, I wonder how he manages to be what is clearly a regular and look at all the other ones that love with him. Well, you know, he just looks worth a million things. You don't say. And Matt is like, "Oh, yeah." What happened? Don't gossip. And L'Rou kind of, you know, interrupts himself and he's like, "Oh, no. It is true. I did not mind talking about it." Yeah. Exactly. Ah, yes. I was once worth a million friends. My father left two years in inheritance. Wow. I blew through it in half a year, if you can believe it. Oh, I can believe it. That's right. Yes. I was this taste really up and more money. Yeah. So I'm going to ask him about how to see No Mr. Mathers. Oh, we, as a reporter, you know, you run in all sorts of circles and Mr. Mathers and I, we met when I was covering a story and, you know, we have been friends ever since. It was a story about what? It was just a minor, a minor story. His neighbor was bare-billed. I'm sorry, he's interviewed on the block. But I found him such a fascinating figure. What did you find fascinating about him? Well, it was not every day you eat a, practicing a courtist day. Yes. So I was, you know, of course, he keeps much close to his chest as you and your safe. What the, been able to get out of him is fascinating. Indeed. Indeed. What's Weston doing? He's still just quietly. He's resting on the other side of him. How are we seated? On the opposite side, yeah. He's going to glaring. Yeah, I don't like him. Yeah. Took the glory away. Yep. All right. Um, the neighbor was bare-billed, you say. Indeed. They're remarkable. Yes. It was a, uh, ride was a cat burglar. Hired in with the rope through the skylight. Most remarkable. What was stolen? Uh, diamond's jaw. Yes. Yes. They think it was the English burglar raffins. Raffles? Oh, yay. Hey, where's raffles from? Raffles? E. W. Horno's. That's right. It shows stories. Two. The gentleman Doyle is for a Friday. Uh, oh, raffles. I told you about raffles, though. Raffles is the name of this, uh, nefarious character in Middle March. Oh, really? George Eliot's book, yeah. Oh, interesting. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. Wonder. Yeah. Yeah. Raffles is just kind of, he's like a black mailer kind of guy. He needs an interesting end. All right. On that note, in due time, you know, reading, chatting, champagne. Yes. And in due time, the lengthy bill is brought to the table. Oh my. But LaRouse scoops it up before anyone else can even reach for it. Wow. Uh, I insist I pay for everything. Oh my goodness. You're too kind. Uh, it can all make idea or psychology roles. Idea. I make it. I make it. Yeah. You noticed that Mathers didn't even like try. Yeah. Like he was pretty much expecting. So this guy's funding. Roo too. Some stuff. Is this new and suspecting any women? Possibly. Yes. Firstly, he didn't manage them so much. It's a cultist. Yes. Yes. All right. So, um, so I'm just going to chat to him a little bit more about, you know, the nightlife and my parents. Well, I will be joining you as the opera. So, uh, you will get an opportunity to see one of the most spectacular examples of Parisian night life. Ooh, this is exciting. Good time. They are playing Faust tonight. Oh, wow. Yes. Uh, shall we, shall we away? I believe the curtain rises in, uh, less than an hour. Yeah, we should be okay. All right. So you're all, you know, you're all blending up. You've all got your overcoats in the area. Mm-hmm. It's a little color. Yeah. So, uh, I'm really enjoying this. You have no idea. Yes. It's a little things. It is a little thing. It truly is. So, um, uh, Mathers is kind of, you know, putting on his, uh, his cloak, right? Okay. And Moina, who was, uh, buttoning up her own come over and she says, "I'm terribly sorry, but, um, Mr. Mathers is not feeling much." Oh, dear. So, he has, uh, asked that, if you wouldn't mind just continuing on with Mr. LaRoe and, uh, to the opera. Well, does the matter? Is there anything we can do to... I think he's just overworked. He's terribly tired. I'm sure you understand. Yes. Well, can we pay him a visit tomorrow morning and check in on him? Uh, you're always free to leave your card. Wow. Wow. We came always from England. Yeah. Jesus. Yeah. Yeah. That's really rude. Okay. Alright. Okay. Wow. That sucks. Yup. Let's look like out there. Um, that's silly. That's good. Oh, that's silly. It's not a silly one, yeah. That an inch out there, would you say? Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Can you just all look at the street room? I like how you're standing in your flip-flops. I love that. Yeah. She's hardcore like that. It's very Russian. She's just gonna run out of the sun and into the snow, baby. Yeah. Just some snow. It's brisk. Oh, it's brisk. It's real brisk. Oh, dude. You're taking this. This guy. He's supporting us. I really think that our end is gonna have to be western, especially if they kind of seem confidant on Floyd. He's seeing like west in his much more likely. He knows more. Well, knows more than he's telling it seems like he is probably more likely to spill the beans. I think he might succumb to your charms. My charms. My charms. It's possible? The 40-year-old spinster's charms. Okay, I still have an app of 12. Okay. Wait, what? You're talking about apps now? Yeah, we're talking about apps. We're trying to decide who should seduce western. It's fun. It's you. Yeah, it's fun. It's like if all three of us just like- Actually, I'm in the room. Mr. West. You're gonna go after LaRue? Yeah. Oh, wow. Yes. Go after LaRue. He's got the money. Plus, I can, you know, pack a little tin. So, come on inside. It's like, why doesn't we have to? It's like an inch on the street. And it's like wet and kind of- Oh, that's good. Yeah, I'll be right back. Okay. Well, the tea. I don't know how to do a whole room. So, if either of you want to try a quest to- I have an app of nine. I'm going to try with you. I don't even think app has to deal with it. We're after- We're inter-order members. We might have inter-order members. He's still relatively low. He's really in with Nathers, but I'm sure wouldn't hurt for him to feel like he is in with anyone affluence. Right. He could just be a power climber. Especially he seems to like to brag anyways. Right. We get him a little drunk at the opera. Yes. Yes. Have a few cocktails after the show, get them a little tipsy. We're celebrating because we're in Paris. I'm going to be surprised. We can take him to the mother's or something. Oh my goodness. I don't know. Is it even open now? I believe it is. I think it is. I think this is the time for that kind of thing. I'm pretty- I bet you we're all in the end of it. I would put more after the after the opera. We're all in the end of it. I would be into it. I think we should do it. I think we should do it. Yes. Let's guess who works with maybe it's- I think it's good to focus my energy on Lulu. Yes. I don't think it's- I mean, especially if he's going to go to the mapples. I found it 89. So yeah. Yeah. All right. I don't think that it's an unwise avenue to at least try it. There's this endless club I'm sure you've heard of Lulu. Which one? The Muma Rouge. Oh yes. He seems to have to have the opera off. We felt like it. We could all go there. I think that's a great idea. Just relax. A few drinks. A mind. Yes. The dog is welcome. Bring the dogs. Of course they'll have their tiny little poodle and my giant cookie. Yeah. They're just that potent. Yes. Oh yeah. Oh hello. What are you doing? What? What? What? 12 November 1897. Yes. The Muma Rouge closed its doors for the first time for the funeral of its manager and co-founder Charles Zidler. Oh wow. So that's- it's a very open. Yeah. But this just happens. Just. Wow. Okay. This is their first night open at the- So I think it would be a big. It's going to be a big thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So let's go to the opera. In honor of Zidler. Yeah. Exactly. Let me talk about it. Mm-hmm. Okay. Okay. I heard that Zidler was real. Yeah. Okay. Oh my god. Do you like have to have- is that for you? It's not for dogs. No. But you're being awfully polite trying to dig for it. Oh. Oh and there it is. You're so good. You're so good. She's- I want cough drops to the smoothness. No. So a nightnight. So basically the right to the opera is just the continuation of the restaurant with Ruru continuing to regale you. He's delightful. Yeah. He's just delightful. He's just delightful. Yeah. See especially if the room is hogging the spotlight we show extra attention to Weston. I think he's gonna be really happy to- I think he's gonna be more happy to be- Yeah, he's going to agree. Agree. Yeah. Agree. Like, yeah. Use that against like kind of interested in- Like, oh. You know what I mean? Well actually if she- if she's- Yeah. Well I think Ruru- I think Ruru's gonna probably just assume that I would be with him. Right. Like to sit with him. Yeah, let's do that. Yeah, let's do that. Oh please have a seat right here on the item, was it? Yeah. It's one of those. Yeah, one of those. Yeah. Well then it's- if she's getting him busy. Yeah. Mm-hmm. She's lovely. Then we get to- Yes, sir, first on the right. Oh, we can double tap him. Yeah. Well yeah. Brain power. Okay, so also on the right over he does confess. He says- I'm sick too. I did not want to- I'm sick too. I did not. I am how do you say the move? Wow. What the- He says I did not want to stay in front of Mr. Matherals, but I do not like the man. What? Oh, really? What? That's a matter of fact. The burglary investigation, I already knew where Mr. Matherals was living. That is why I interviewed him. I was originally friends with Mona at Marina. Mm-hmm. I knew her brother, Henri Debson. Mm-hmm. And so I like Mona just fine, but Mr. Matherals- No good. He is- What? He's often unpleasant. Brain dare. What do you mean? He's just a- a bit moody. Obviously. Hmm. How does western seem to react to this? Yeah. He's that very casually observing. Mm-hmm. So I'm going to change the subject. Okay. I'm going to change the subject like as soon as possible. Yeah, because the route doesn't know. Right, right, right. So, um, well I'm sorry to hear that. Maybe it's just a cultural- Yes, yes, it's just a difference. Absolutely. So I try to play it off of something really. And then talking about, so tell me about, um, tell me about this opera. Who will be singing in it and- Ah, yes, you are particularly lucky. The opera will be featuring the, uh, the talents of, uh, of La Corlata. It's Corlata's in Belly. How exciting. So are we there yet? Yeah, we're there. Yeah, so actually I couldn't find any pictures of Stan's to see, but I did, of course, find a picture of Paris opera in the 1890s. So yes, it's quite the, quite the grand building. Indeed. Pulled outside and then of course it's thronging with carriages and attendees and even in the cold November air. Mm-hmm. Um, and so, uh, Luru escorts you, uh, up the, uh, stairs and into the etage nuble, the noble floor. You can leave our cards. She really said that. Yeah, she said that, that, that happened. There we go. Mm-hmm. Pretty. Wow. It's amazing. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Um, and there's, there's, uh, there's servants bustling around with trays loaded with champagne flutes. Mm-hmm. Okay. Pretty much, uh, or champagne. Yep. Yep. Okay. So we're just talking to Luru, confining our seats. Yes, yes. Well, you actually have a box. Oh. We're in box four. All right. So it takes you up the stairs. Oh, yeah. Wow. Yes. That's so cool. There's op and lens playing. Oh, yeah. Um, and, uh, up towards the, uh, the box, you'll be in basically, um, um, on the, you can see the doors of every box entrance on opposite. Each one is a, a little niche with a, uh, a marble bust of a famous composer. Um, the, uh, the floor is, uh, carpeted and then, uh, colored tiles forming elaborate, elaborate designs. Um, as you, uh, approach your box, you can see a middle-aged woman in a black dress and shawl standing attentively outside box five. Mm-hmm. It can make psychology roles. Make it feel. Feel. He seems anxious about something. But Luru takes you to the, uh, to the box four entrance and shows you through to the box. Um, it is, um, has a raised copper-edged threshold, polished wooden doors, a etched glass porthole, uh, windows, and, um, uh, is well-appointed with rich red velvet curtains and poultry chairs. Nice. And you get a nice view of the opera itself. Wow. So Luru's kind of telling you all these facts, you know. Uh, the gendelier, we set it tons. Uh, yeah. Well, look at the size of it. I know it's massive. I bet you crushed 40 people under that. Mm-hmm. Pretty much. Yeah. Nice. Remarkable. Yes, the opera was, uh, begun, uh, in, uh, 1859 after, uh, an assassination attempt against Napoleon the field, uh, when he was on his way to the old opera, the, uh, the building now features a covered, uh, uh, walkway from the president to, uh, make his way from the state house and, therefore, boy, that sort of. Yeah. He does like the opera of the president, uh, but, uh, the building has ten stories about Brown and seven basements. It is massive. It is, uh, one of the largest buildings in berries. Um, and was, uh, during the commune now, the uprising was actually used as a prison and, uh, an ammunition store, if you can believe it. Oh. Amazing. So, um, how's Weston doing? Um, yeah, he's just still, he's, he's pretty much in shutdown mode because LaRue is just completely taking up the space. Yeah, taking up the space. Exactly. So I'm going to remark on the mural, the chigal mural. Mm-hmm. Let's say this is most beautiful, lovely, and your native arts, and yet there's something so decadent about it. Ah, I agree. I agree. I like the art very much, but, uh, perhaps at the, uh, Mulan Rouge later tonight, we can, uh, we can honor Miss Yola Track and, uh, get some ideas, uh, or get some opinions from you. Um, you see, these arts movement. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Um, so he, uh, you know, he, uh, uh, probably me and he, uh, I'm just going to look for more champagne. Mm-hmm. He goes his way out of the box and heads off. Okay. Um, hmm. It's exciting. I know. Um, I'm gonna, um, what, when are you talking to that woman outside? I didn't. Um, she looked concerned. I'm going to see if she's still out there. Oh. Mm-hmm. We're gonna look. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, she's still there. Thank you. She's got a, um, she's got a little cane, you know, she's not really leaning on, she's holding. She's still looking anxious. Um, yeah, she looks about the same. Can I approach her? Sure. So in French, I would just say, madam, are you well? Did you need any assistance? Uh, so she, she looked kind of startled and, uh, and, uh, replies in French. No, I'm fine. Thank you. Mm-hmm. Okay. I'm sorry. Excuse me. And I'll go back. Nothing. I don't know. I don't know what's going on. Mm-hmm. Uh, so. Give me an idea. Uh, and I made that. Mm-hmm. You would, you would venture guests that, um, like, as, you know, you approached her and she seemed to not really notice you. You think she's listening for something. Mm-hmm. What the? Indeed, who's in the box next to us in the box five? I wish I scored a room when he comes back because he probably knows who's in, you know, who's in these boxes. So the room comes back. He's got a tray with a bottle and, uh, six glutes on it. I love this guy. Oh my god. Yeah. I'm surprised. It's a magnum. No. Yeah. There you go. I've got that. This is enough for me. I'm not a muscle. Yeah. So, um, so who is in box number five? Oh, box five. Yes. Oh, you're on my tail. The box five. No. The superstition goes. Superstition. No one may, uh, buy a ticket to box five because it is reserved for the upper ghost. Who? What? Or so they say it. Or so they say it. No, the upper ghost. Tell us more. Yeah. What about this ghost? Well, they say there was a ghost that makes its way, uh, around the upper, um, that it, uh, haunts the, uh, the passageways beneath and the catwalks above. Um, there are many different theories as to what this thing may be to some say to the ghost. Some say it is a man. Um, some say that, uh, uh, it is a, a former worker who knows all the ins and outs who is, uh, uh, simply, uh, having a bit of fun. Uh, those who have seen him say he walks about in a black cloak in white or even past. I get the chills. Yeah. Well, look at the actual garment. So people have seen him. Oh, yes. Yes. Does he make himself, you know, seen when he wants to and then, uh, disappears or perhaps? Yes. Um, is he present during performances? They say sometimes. Yes. They say sometimes he likes to watch the performance from box five. Definitely the one thing we could do. What? What are we going to do? I wasn't sure how, um, how promising something like a spirit vision could be. Spirit vision. It may. Especially the room, I'm sure the fat and like massively entertained. I'm going to take it too seriously. Oh, no, no. We can't go into the box. Can we see around the corner in the box? No. Uh, the boxes are built in a way to enter privacy. Uh, however, there is a circle at four pole with the look inside. Yeah. The lady's out there. She's all she's guarding it. She's gardening. I think she's guarding, guarding it. For whom? From whom? For the ghost? Hmm, limit. Mm hmm. All right. So is the opera starting? Let me just, I'm just checking on the spirit vision ritual here. See if it's something that you can do quickly or if you need to, like, meditate. Yeah. That'll cost you 10 magic points. You're sweating. Whoa. Oh, there's exciting. I'm on the music, sweet and crazy. The crowd is, there's more people around me. Yes. It's pretty, it's pretty much filled up now. Squirt has a spell of perfume. Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, it would cost you two magic points per five minutes of use. Hmm. Hmm. Yeah. I really have occasion to use my magic points then. Sure. Yeah. Okay. So what do you want, what do you want to hunt? You want to set this up in the game? Oh, I know. How about like, if the, once the opera comes under way, like, it'll probably be during the career. Hmm. Like, not likely to have people sort of, although do I need to actually be looking in to see it or the spirit vision ritual work? Basically, it allows you to look into the astral plane. So if I look in there, I would be able to slowly, who knows what you might see. Yeah, that's the other thing. You might see all kinds of, you know, stuff. Yeah. Start from just, yeah, looking through the portal. Or you could just go up and knock on the door. You'll be like, hey, hey, ghost. There's not any. Hey, ghost. I'm kind of curious. Yeah. If I like took a peek in and just sort of saw anything was in there once the opera started. Sure. Okay. Okay. Are you going to use the spirit vision to do it? Yeah. All right. It's been the time. It was the response for us. - Starting? - Starting. - Starting. - Starting, okay. - Over here. - Over here. - Starting, the over chair. The over chair. - Mmm. - So, so, uh, Louvoutin. - Ah, yes. - Here we go. - Oh, yes. - He gets his opera glasses out. - Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. - Well, opera glasses. - I like his little tiny-- - He's a little tiny. - He's a little tiny. - Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. - So, so good he's delicate. - Yes. - Mmm. - And dainty. - Yes. - So, we're gonna watch it. - So, so the curtain rises. Everyone make listen holes. - Oh. - I make it. - Three. - I make mine three. - Ooh, check your listen. - Yes. - Shit. - So, ah. - So, in that little moment of silence, though, from box five, you heard three knocks on the door. - I heard three knocks on the door next door in the box. The box. - The box. - Excuse me, let's go to the powder room. - Okay. - Okay. - All right, so, as you're exiting the box, you see the woman in black entering the box and closing the door behind her. - Oh. - Oh. - Definitely gonna take a peek and see what's going on. - Oops, I thought this was my fault. - Exactly. - All right, so we approach the door to box five, and, oh. (laughs) - I'm just thinking, like, am I just gonna peek in and kind of see what's in there, or? - I think I'm gonna go for stealth, 'cause there's something that's happening. I don't wanna enter, I'm totally. So, I'm just gonna peek in through the water holes. - The water holes. - Well, unfortunately, you're foiled because there's a velvet curtain that can be drawn across the portal and it just has been drawn. But, you can give me a listen roll at half your skill. - Oh, my God. - Of course, that's not one that's been released. Do you get to put anything in your mouth? - It knocked your three knocks. - That's partly over to you, I'm playing over to you. - Let's have. - Okay. - I know. - I was talking about it. - I was talking about it. - I was 13, yeah. - No, whoa. All right, so yeah, the sound of the-- - You wanna push it? - You wanna push it? - Push, push, push. - Push, push. - What happened? - You're gonna get busted by offer security. - But the room could be-- - I got used to all this air. I must admit, I heard about it. - There you go, do that, do that thing. - And I was curious. - Do that thing. - I'm doggering old Ford. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Okay, sure. - Yeah, I should push it. - I'm an affluent woman, yes. - No. - No. - All right, so yeah, one of the pages comes along and you know, I don't know, the medical's ended. - Oh, pardon me, I just didn't want to admit. I was curious about the-- - Oh. - I got shot in the back. - Oh, rude. - So what happened? - Nothing. - I heard it was drunk, but all right. - However, the woman in black did enter the room. - So we can astroly look-- - Yeah, if you play. - Well, that's what I-- - What if? - Yeah, why don't we do it? - We held a mirror. - Over. - You have to attach it to it. - Yeah, I love me. - That wouldn't be obvious, and they're like in the box. - Yeah. - No, no, no, no, no. - I wanna do it, I wanna do it. - I wanna do it, I wanna do it. - Yeah, yeah, I wanna do it. - I wanna do it. - I wanna do it, even if I can see through the corner. - Oh, yeah. - Yeah, I'm definitely gonna do it. - Okay, okay. - So Pat, what are you doing? - So do the astral. - Astral? - Yeah, all right. - No, wait, the astral. - What are you doing? - The spirit vision. - The spirit vision. - Through the role itself. - Yeah. - All right, so knock yourself down two magic points there. - All right, you do. - Okay. - So you concentrate, you focus on your teachings and how to sort of blank out the world around you, and you bring in a vision of the other plane when you call the astral plane, and basically when you do that, you can see what is sort of beyond that, you know, veil, if you will, but you can't see through solid objects. It's not like extra vision, right? - Right, oh, that's still-- - But you can still sense if there's any kind of castiness around and everything looks pretty clear. - Okay. - Okay, yeah. - For real? - Is that one thing that's doing? - No, it doesn't, that's quite a mystery, isn't it? - We could ask. - So at this point, actually, there's some movement outside your own door, like somebody walking past. - Really? - Mm-hmm. - It's your chair in the door. - So it's Hannah's, it's me. - She's doing her thing. - All right, so I'm gonna-- - So you better go up in the door and see who is at the just look on. - It's the old woman. - The old woman. - Go back in the box. - Okay. - I'm keeping the room entertained. - I'm gonna tear it going in. - Okay. - Okay. - I'm not gonna knock. I'm just gonna try the door. - Yeah. - It's unlocked. - The door opens. - Yes. - And I am. - The box is empty. - Oh. - Is there any light in there? - Let's see here. - Uh-huh. - Do I smell anything odd? Ozone. Anything? - Yeah. - Ozone? - Exoplasm? - Give me a second more. - Exoplasm. I'm afraid you'll go. - Five. - Whoa! - I spotted it. - I spotted it. - Wow. - We're doing good. - I second checked, so I only get one second. - Oh, oh, you already have a check, that's right. - You should be able to check something else. - You... - I'm so fair. - Okay, well then, you rolled so well. Give me a second roll. - Oh, nice. - 53. - Nope. - Okay. - So you note a bit of dried mud beneath one of the box's chairs. - Oh. - I am going to pick up the little piece of mud and sniff it. Does it smell of sewage? - No, but it does smell very, very earthy. - Very... - Wet. - Wet. - Fresh. - Dank mud. - Dank mud. - Dank dry mud. - This is not the mud of the sea. - No. - It's the mud of the sewers. - Yay. - Deep beneath. - Are there any kind of like footprints in this mud? - No, it's just a little bit. - This piece of mud. - This piece of mud. - Well, the woman could have left that. - Indeed she could have. - Well, but she could have. - Well, I don't know why would it be all the way... Why wouldn't it have come off the... Well, I go back to the box. - Okay. - Okay. - All right, the box is empty. It's unlocked. She left. - Are we bothering LaRue way as chatty? - No, I'm not at all. - He's seen this before. But anyway, there's a general round of applause in the literature and, you know, and the performers are out on the stage in their places now. - Oh, yes. - You see a lot of cartlata, she's this kind of short of a very chesty Italian woman, you know? And... (laughing) I like this. - Yeah. - And she's beginning to kind of, you know, power up and do her first note. And kind of severely from the top of the stage, you see this man's body in free fall and you're lying down right now with rope and twirling out the bodies. - Oh, no! - And then it hits the end of the rope about 20 feet above the stage. - Oh, my God! - And you crunched. - You're gonna have the audible snap in the rope. - Oh! (gasping) - As is neck snap. - Oh, my God. Are people just like, pandemonium? - Well, everyone get me a sanity roll. - Oh, wow, that's extraordinary. - I fail. - I fail. - I fail. - That was way too much. - Everyone lose one point. - Damn. - And butt hitting rolls at half. - All right. - Half. - Five. - Six, seven. - Pass. - Fail. - Wave pass? - Yay! - Five? - Wow. - Patma, you see a piece of clock from the man's hand. When he hits the end of the rope, the clock falls out of his hand. So yes, shriek, support. You see women just falling over. - Yeah. - Men jumping up. - Whoa! - You know. (laughing) - She's like. - The lock for a lot of swoons and this heroically mustached man. So it says. - The way he mustached. The mustache is heroic. - Yeah, it comes bounding out, you know, he's probably the director of something. 'Cause bounding out to like catch her, you know? (groaning) The body is like swinging like a pinch. (groaning) It sort of knocks into some of the paper backdrops, which in pairs, starts falling. - Oh dear. - Oh. - There's any chance in all that pandemonium, I could sneak down and try and get a look at that fabric. - Probably. Yeah. It's like the performers are running. - Every once. - Okay. - I was just trying to only look at him. - Go down. - Yeah. - Scrap him. (laughing) - Then it's all bound right there. - Wait! - Call me. - Fish. - Hey! - Ooh! - I like it. - Yeah. - Right there. - Yeah, yeah. - She'd be silent. - Yeah. - Oh, she would. - She would be. - Yeah. - I didn't. - Hey, they're runners. - Yes they are. - Hey. - I'm sick. - I'm sick too. - I said we allow it. - Eh? - The dog takes off. - Yes. - The dog takes off. - Meanwhile, the curtains are being, are closing. - Yeah. - And two men. - I'm also following the dog. - Oh, I know, she's excited. - Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. - We don't have to be pouring out of the boxes. - Whoa. - Hustling down the stairs. - I'm gonna stay putt. And we're gonna stay putt. - Yeah. - Are you keep your eye on the-- - Yeah. - Just to be trying to do a little, like, thing. Like, oh, I need to catch here. - You are, yes. - Oh, met him once I, you know, try to fan. - What's Weston doing? - Yeah, let's look at Weston's. - Weston is kind of up on the railing, like, whoa. - You can't believe what you saw. - That is a good sign. - Yeah. (laughing) - Stroking isn't goatee. - Yeah, exactly. - All right, so-- - Anyway, the curtains are closed. Two men have come out onto the stage, you know, they're shouting, you know, please remain calm in French, you know, remain calm, remain calm. It was an accident, you know. Everybody, please, you know, nobody's-- - No, it's gone. - No. - So, if I get down there in time, can I see, like, what's he dressed like, what's he gonna look like? - Yeah. - He was on the body. - Yeah, he was on the rope. - Absolutely. So, yeah, you have a little trouble getting down there. Room, meanwhile, it's as you kind of-- - Oh. - And it says, it is okay, it is okay. We need to go see what's going on. - Yes, we do. - Yes. - Are you okay? - Yes, yes, let's go hard. - Let us go. - All right, there's an hospital, yes. - Right, he's on the case. - Oh, yeah, he's gotta get the story, yes, he does. - He was there. - He wants to write a whole story about it. - Mm-hmm, doesn't he? - Of course he does. - This front page material. - Yes, it is. - It's important. - Indeed. - Mm-hmm. - So-- - What's his first name? - Yes, Stole. - Oh, really? - Yes. - Fascinating. It's still a root, wait a minute. - Mm-hmm. - Mm-hmm. - Mm-hmm. - Mm-hmm. - So-- - Granny. - Granny. - Granny. (laughing) - No! - Oh, it's a-- - Oh, yeah. - No, it's horrifying. Trust me, no, it's horrifying. - I got to torture her with an appendering campaign 'cause she met a frog knight, so I didn't make her mid-voices. - There were a lot of Kermit voices. (laughing) - He's Kermit. - All right, so-- - Oh! - Okay, so we're heading down. - The next page, Padma, you get there for the rest of you are only a few minutes behind. - Mm-hmm. - Of course, it's just, things are calming down a little bit, a lot of Carlotta is being helped off to her dressing room. Actually, Padma, when you get there, you see she's being led off by an older, obese, well-dressed man. - Who really expect people and friends? - I know, right. - Who has an Indian man serving with him. - Oh, ha! - Kind of an older gentleman with like just cotton white hair and white mustache, you know, and a red turban. - Oh, okay. - So, he's a Rajasthani. - Oh, okay. - So I'm in my region, but all right. - Yeah. - Mm-hmm, I don't know. - Still? - I'm sure that would be like, surprising, you're like, "Oh, hello." - So, she's muttering something in Italian. Celeste is, you get on the scene. - Yes, I have Italian. - You can actually use Italian. - I have Italian. - Use it, go, go, go, come on, you son of a kind of a, and I fail it, I'm going to push it. - Okay. - Okay. - I'll get it wrong if I, if I, - I'll just ask you, like, please, Madam, would I get a corvette wrong? - Stay away from them. - If you, if you, if you get it wrong, she'll notice you're trying to use drop. - Mm-hmm, okay, oh, she's a diva. She's a diva. - You're going to get struck with something. - Cool, a shoe, a pair, yes, you do, 14. - Yeah, so you, you kind of, you come in, you hear her muttering, you sort of hook around, and you just try to casually follow behind, and you do pick up what she's saying. She's saying, "Such things keep happening. "I cannot go on while these things happen." - These things happen. - The fat man is trying to comfort her. Interestingly, he's British, he's, but, you know. - Well, it explains, though, that the men, the men, the men's, oh, yeah. - It makes him much more culturally appropriate. - Right. - Okay. - Let's keep happening. - Yeah, I cannot go on if these things happen. - Do you want me to get a look at the phone? - Yeah, sure. - I mean, are the police, have the police been called? - There are already a couple, Jean Darmes, on scene, and, you know, the ones who were nearest by, and someone ran out the boat, you know. So they're on scene, you know, and they're just saying, you know, "Nobody disturb anything," and so forth. - I know, man. - Just trying to kind of get everyone calm down. Most of the cast and the crew are gathered on the stage. - Horrified, I'm sure. - You know, both of them are staring up. - Has this been happening? I mean, this is Matt. - Hey, Joseph, you know, and so forth. - Oh, I'm pushing. - Yeah, Joseph. - Is he a stagehand? - You want to ask her? - Well, I don't know how I would ask. - Well, okay, it's LaRue's with us. I'm sure he's already-- - Does he know the cast and every, I mean, like-- - Yeah. - I'm sure he's already Ashking people, right? - That's true, yeah. He's got his notebook out, you know. - Who is this, Matt? - Joseph, Joseph Bouquet, you said. - Yes, he is. - I know, he's going to describe this. - Okay, so you're going to be lying over-- - Oh, yeah, the fabric. - I thought it was be lying in it. - I know. - It's all right. - But she's there. - Oh, yeah, no, you definitely-- - All this is happening at the same time. - Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Okay. Let's see here. So it is a piece of black velvety fabric that appears to be torn off. - Really? - A larger piece. - Really? Does it smell of mud per chance? - I was in a store bubble on it. - What exactly was that woman wearing in black? - She was wearing black? - She was wearing black. - It was more like taffodils. - Also, like, morning clothes. - Yeah, like-- - The ghost ones have the black cloth. - Taffodid earlings? - That's true. - Taffodid is sweet honey. - Yes, taffodils are so easy. - All right, so it's a black velvet, a ripped piece of-- - Let's do-- - I'm going to pocket it. Definitely. - Pocket it, she's pocketing it. - Okay. - I'm going to give me list of rolls. - Mm-hmm. - Mm-hmm. - I'm gonna-- - Fail. - Fail. - Okay. - Push and do it on a push? - I'm pushing it. Cleaning my ears. I make it. - Yes. - I was going to say, same consequence with applause. - Too bad. - Well, that's good, because actually, this would be in French anyway. So-- - Good. - There's just gossip going around-- - Yeah, just listening. - There's a few of the crew watching Lockcar Lotta being escorted off, staged by this guy. And there's just gossip like, oh yes, that is Lieutenant Taylor. And you know he's very fond of her. And he took it, you know, he took offense at something Joe said the other day. - Oh, I think he may have arranged this. - He made his displeasure well known. - What did Joseph say to-- - I'm not gonna-- - Well-- - Excuse me, I could-- - Hey, I'm over here. - I couldn't help listening in on your conversation. - Okay, so that's somebody to ask. Talk to you later. - All right, mm-hmm. - Okay. - So, wow, this is horrible. - Can we look at the body? - Very sad, does the body-- - It's about 20 feet up. - Do you want to trip admin? Do you want to try? - You're just looking up at the body. - It's the tang-- - I'm gonna get to cut it down. - There's no way you can reach that. - You know. - The rope stretches about 50 feet up at 50 feet. - Oh, I could-- - I mean, it dropped for like a hundred foot rope. - Yeah, it's basically secured up in the catwalk, so-- - Oh my God. - All right, I get it. - Okay. - Well, you know, there's like a rope all around. - I know, but it's just like whole, just thinking about how massively huge it is, just like, shit. - Yeah. - I'm surprised his head didn't pop off. - Yeah, really, that can happen. - Honestly. - Yeah. - Okay, I'm happy. - Wow. - So, uh, so, Cyril, which is interesting. - Oh, yes. - He says, uh, he's kind of like contemplating the rope. - Oh. - He says, I say, I'm gonna climb up there. - Wait, what, what? - Good man. - Oh, he's going up. - Yeah, he can-- - He starts climbing up the little, you know, - Mm, the monkey scramble. - You know. - Yeah. - He's performing for us. - Yes, exactly. - Go, go, go. - Go monkey, go. - He got another catwalk. - Yeah, so, I mean, we're looking up there. Yeah, that's a good idea, too. - Oh, this is the cast. Everybody's kind of left the stage at this point. - Oh, no, they're still-- - Everyone's just staring at what's going on. - Yikes. - Wow. - He has the shittiest butt hit. - Oh, oh, good. - But, I made some rolls. - Now, what's gonna say, could I have my dog smith the velvet, and then-- - Ooh. - Mm. - Get the set, boy. - Hotting dog, yep. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - No, you can definitely get him to get in the sense of that. - Mm, it's a good question. I wonder where that might lead. - I'm somewhere. - That's horrible. - That's horrible, sorry, I'm saying it. - Sing it. - Sing it. - So, Weston comes back down about five minutes later. He said, "I checked out where the rope is tied, "and I found a bit of fresh mud, "scraped on the catwalk." And furthermore, and he produces from his vest pocket this, and he pulls out a gold pocket watch. - Mm-hmm, any initials? - Eh, on the inside, it says, "For service and friendship, L.T." - L.T., a tailor. And he said a tailor. - With service and friendship, huh? - Interesting. - Lieutenant L.T., missing something. Well, what about the Lieutenant Taylor's initials? - If his first name weren't Lieutenant, yes. (laughing) - Hey, you know what? - Oh, I'm sorry, it's actually Colonel Taylor. - Oh, are you serious? - Yeah, but, so the initials are C.T. - No, no. - How dare you? - How dare you? (laughing) - Very rude. - There. - Do you want more tea? - What is this first name? - Do you want more tea? - I'm good. - I think you're sure. I have some Chester. - Lawrence Taylor. - Oh, so it's just over the early nights. - All right, Lawrence Taylor. - Oh. - Lawrence Taylor? - What, L.T. - L.T. - Lawrence Taylor is Colonel Taylor. - Right. - Colonel Lawrence Taylor. - Colonel Lawrence Taylor. - Colonel Lawrence Taylor, yes. (laughing) - That must be really successful, really. - Really? - Really? - Really? - Really? - Really? - Really? (laughing) - Really? - Really? - Yes. - All right, so I'm gonna let you all have to do that though. - All right, we're gonna ruminate on that. - Hi, I'm going. - Hi. - Hi. - I wonder if we can convince three to take us around and remind people? - Hi, doggy. - Well, I think you're sure I could get on a Indian mince or a Indian mince. - Oh yeah, I think you have to do that. - Yeah. - Hi, handy. - Definitely. - Definitely. - Oh, Ee, I love when you do that. - Yeah, it's my cute. - More butterfly chicken. - She's a yogi. - Ee, butterfly chicken, you. - Butterfly chicken. - Ee. - It's not an economy. - Dovey. - Dovey? - Yeah. - All right, what should I remove from the table? Do you want me to get this for you? - Oh my gosh. - And that. - How is it? No, it's okay, I'll touch. - That's okay. - If I believe in germ theory, I'm gonna be an issue. - Ah, you're one of those, eh? - What? - Excellent. - Some of the fun. - Yes, yes. - So I'm trying to like do everything my time. - Everything's fun. - No, yeah, no, yeah. - But, yeah. - Yeah. - Oh, I'll just be proud of breaking up. - So Joseph. - Snow and minty. - Ooh, okay, the qued. - Mm-hmm. - Was known to Lawrence Taylor quite well. - Lawrence Taylor is a lot a member of the staff. I mean, some like other actors or stagehands knew him. - That's true. These things keep happening. Other stagehands will probably speak about both. - Yes. - What are these other things that keep happening? - Hey, did you do one? - Oh, good, thanks. - Jen, do you, I'm sure not healthy. - I'm sure, man, thank you for that little hour. - So around this time, the detectives show up. And so, the room sees this fellow coming in. Ah, commissary, me Freud, yes. I have some mini questions for you, sir, you know. - I love how both he is. - Yeah, sorry, he heads over and the story is like, yes, hello, the room. - Yeah, I bet, Lily, you could just like hang on to his arm. - Yeah, I'm gonna hang, I'm still feeling very weak, so I'm going to list with, yes. - Yes, yes, ah, yes, commissary, miss your commissary. This is my colleague, and then Annie, he kind of indicates the rest of you as well, with a sort of conspiratorial wink, you know. These are my colleagues. - It's adorable. (laughs) - Hell yeah. - They say friends. - Yeah. So. - The BFFs. - Meanwhile, a couple other police have followed Will Weston's lead, and I climbed up to the catwalk and me Freud orders them to lower the quit, carefully. - Okay. - So his blue-faced corpse is brought down at this point. - At this point you see the woman in black from box five. - Yes. - It's in the wings, why don't you just happen? And she crosses herself. - She knew. - She knew. - And she says, "Joseph Buchanan was unwise. He spoke too much of what he knew." - Wow. - Who knew about, what did he know about? - So she looks straight in your eyes. Joseph Buchanan's killed by the awkward ghost. - How could he be killed by a ghost by a ghost? - She just turns and walks away. - All right. - A ghost that leaves her. - I don't know, I'm talking to you. - Yeah, you see the two men who had run out on the stage earlier, and yeah, they sort of call after her as well, like, you know, her pity statement on Judy, hold your tongue. - Mm-hmm. - Mm-hmm. - I completely. - Yeah. - Well, if they know her, can you ask who she is? - Mm-hmm. - What? - Yeah. - Did I ask who she is? - Did I ask who she is? - Oh, oh, oh, she. - Oh, that is just Madame Giori. She is the leader of the House Ballet group. - Oh, she's the leader. - She's the head of the choreographer. - Yes. - Wow. - Thanks. - Well. - So one of the two men goes over to talk to the commissaire, and he says, "I suggest you question Colonel Taylor "and his man-servant. "The Good Colonel had an amorous interest in our diva "in an ardent dislike of the quit." - Whose bequette? - The man. - No, I know, but who was he before? - The next star, yeah. - And the context, yeah. - Oh, yeah. He was one of the senior stagehands. - Mm-hmm. - Was he involved with the diva? - The diva? - Not anyone's knowledge. - What was he doing tonight? Was he up on the catwalk? - He would've been, yeah. - Okay. - So at least that's not entirely out of place. - No. - Maybe it was an accident. Maybe he got caught up in something. (laughing) - No, it's possible. - Yeah, and then a hangman's noose fixed up. - Should just, it was the other end of it was tied to the-- - Right. - Vanister. - Sure, sure. - I don't know. - I think so, this happened. - Okay. - So I'm afraid, you know, this isn't family, but just says, "Oh, I will follow up." Let me question some of these other employees first. - Okay. - So at this point, the fellow settles over to the room, and LaRou says, "Oh man, may I introduce Fiamin Rishard? "He is one of the co-owners of the opera." - Okay, Fiamin Rishard. - I like that name. - I do too. - Yeah. And so Rishard looks very nervous. - I agree. - Mr. LaRou, I beg you to not sensationalize this story in your paper. This would be terrible for business. And then kind of looking at all of you, perhaps if you could look into the situation discreetly, the police are so clumsy, and we must not frighten away the patrons. - All right, fine. - Supermission to snoop around. - Yeah, it's true. (laughing) - Yay, pretty sure. - Commissary me, Freud is a good man, but surely we can be better. - Three tea bags. - Yeah. - You get in the full Fiamin. - And I want you to take this with you. So that's all I'm gonna say. And you just, you can't say no. - Of course, if I gotta say no to tea, oh my goodness. - It will help. - I want you to take this opium with you. (laughing) - I want you to take these drugs and smuggle them. - Sure, may I please? - Yes. - Oh my God. - Yes, I will hear you. - Okay, thank you. - Yes, your tea meal. - Tea meal. (laughing) All right, so where are we? We're gonna go investigate. - Well, of course, you know, with your permission, we'd be more than happy to offer our assistance. But we're like dealing with matters too. - Well, we're gonna full plate. (laughing) - Well, to be honest, we're gonna do too much snooping. - Yeah. - With matters. - Right. - We can't even get a damn house. - No. - No. - We have this too. - We break in. - We have this burger. - We decide to. - Like in their servants. Like that's the only thing. - They're well-appointed home. - They're not gonna be their day in night. - Yeah, they are. - They're super admirable. - I don't know. - Anyway. - I glass my pocketbook inside. (laughing) - I can't. - No. - No. - No. - I never thought joining the order would be such a dream in my pocket. - You know, bro. - I don't know, I think we're any more than men. - Yeah, right. - Oh, I know. - Rude. - Rude. - Okay. So on that note, we are gonna, well, it's very late. Can we go up into the catwalks? - I have nightmares to have in my dog. - Sniff, then. - Scrap a fabric and see if it goes anywhere. - Yeah. - I mean, I think that's sort of it. - That's a totally legitimate thing. - Totally. - Because it might at least, do you still have that much? - I have the mud. - I have the fragmented mud. - She can smell the mud, too. She can smell everything. - It smells everything. - She smells everything. 'Cause I think she doesn't lead us to someone. She might lead us to something, someplace. - Yeah, yeah. - A hatch. - Secret position. - Maybe a hatch. - Trapped over a nest. - Definitely, no. - Yeah, well. - I kind of wanted to talk to the diva and find out what she's talking about. - And the Colonel. - I don't want to talk to that. - The Colonel Lieutenant Taylor. - The Colonel Lieutenant. - No, his first name's actually Lieutenant. - It is, yeah. That's actually his given name. - It's Christian name. - It is. - That high health's born in. - His parents have a burial. - They did. - And he exceeded those expectations. With a plum. - Okay. Is that for a dog here? - There aren't us. - No. - No, I decided. - Oh, good. I was about to say. - Better be. - She's pushing the boundaries of the art right now. - Yes. - It's true. - It is great. - It is great. - Wonderful. - I like them. - I like them. - I like to bring up next to the book. - Aww, yeah. (laughing) - All right. So yeah, the dog snips away and seems quite intent on the smell. There's obviously rich bouquet of aroma. - A bouquet from bouquet. - A bouquet, yeah. - A bouquet. - A bouquet. - A bouquet. - Yes. - No. - No, it's a rich aroma coming off of this thing. - Tabestry, yes. - Yes. - So. - Yeah. - That's what you get out of it. - That works. - Okay. All right. - So is it going anywhere? - Yeah. - Kelly? Is Kelly going anywhere? - No. - No, no. - Probably it's just like, that smells pretty interesting. - Yeah. - Yeah. Definitely it's that worth remembering. - Smell func'd. - Tackular. - No, no, no, no. - Tackular. - Tackular. - That's okay. - That's a long task of shit. (laughing) - Yeah. All right. - Okay. - So. - All right. Is the, is the, I don't know, what a regular Donna, pre-medana is the, - Pre-medana. - Is the, - The diva. - Is the diva available for an interview. - She has been escorted back to her quarters and will presumably be. - Undisposed for the remainder of the evening. - Exactly. - Oh, yeah. - Well, there's still-- - Stage hands? Did we already talk to those? - You left it this handy. - Oh, yeah. - Oh, yeah. - Taylor is with the diva, which is probably present. His manservant is outside the door, probably-- - Is he at the door somewhere? - Or? - No. - Or, he may be. - I don't know. - Oh, he was like, he might be inside with them to his Instagram. But he also might be, yeah, let's have a door. We could check. - Mm-hmm. - So, Tremaine has given us like free range. - We're shard. - We shard. Did you say Tremaine? - No. - Fear, fear me and we shard. - Oh, free me. - Fear me. - Fear me. - Fearable with French, sorry. - Tremaine and shard, yes. - I heard Tremaine. (laughing) - That's fine. - Johnny deformed. All right. So, basically, I think we should be able, so he gave us free range. - He did. - Free main. - Yes, free main. - Your mean gave you free range. - Yes. - To go about-- - Free range for shard. (laughing) - To go about the go about the stage and the quarters and the catwalk and everywhere? - Just assist with the investigation. - Let's go. All right, so. - The like OP offer police. (laughing) Sorry, that was really awesome. - That was great. All right, I think we should go, well, Weston tried to go up to, he's coming. - What did he talk? - He came back now. - He came back to the usual-- - He discovered mud on the catwalk next to the where the rope was secured and he found the watch not far away. - You know, we could always take the watch to Taylor and to serve him-- - That's a perfect. - That's a perfect watch. - Oh, how could this have possibly found up there? - Certainly. - That's a great idea. - That's a great idea. - I'm missing. - Yes, let's intrude. - Yeah, I think we should. - We'll intrude. - Absolutely. - Okay, okay. - So you make your way back through this sort of labyrinthine backstage. You have to stop and ask a couple times for directions to lock Carlotta's dressing room. - Rock the roll. (laughing) Rock the roll. - Oh my God, I just like that. - All right, sorry. - Sorry, sorry. - Spinal tap reference, thank you. And eventually you do make your way back. You find a couple of gendarms on guard outside of the door actually. - Oh my. - And they've warned you that-- - I did not tone that. - They've told me that commissary me, Freud, is inside questioning Colonel Taylor and-- - Oh, they're in slow stuff. - All right, well, can we hear anything through the door? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, listen, oh, no. - I don't even know, I was just hit. Oh, yeah. - I made it, I made it. - Mm-hmm. - Okay. - I put them like, extraordinarily large cup of tea. (laughing) - Oh, I missed him. - Comically oversized. - Yay. - Yay. - Okay, so you, so you do hear, and again, good that you heard since it is in French. - Oh. - You know, just questioning, you know. - Where were you? - What's that on? - Several people have informed us that you seem to bear grudge against Mr. Biquet. - Who does? - Carlotta? - Taylor. - Taylor. - Taylor, Taylor. - And they were like, well, yeah, so I certainly had my issues with the man and his ill treatment of Madame Zembelli, but I'm seeing Yora Zembelli. But, you know, I would never resort something as low as murder, and it's ridiculous. - Mm-hmm, privately as murder, never. (laughing) - Yeah, exactly. - So you're going to kill him with a song? (laughing) - I'll say. - Yes. - Okay. - So basically, I hear this. - Yes. - Yes. - And, so I tell everyone. - So I tell them, we're just here on behalf of Mr. Rishar, do you want to make sure that his leading lady is? - It's all right. - All right, and we are giving strict instructions to, you know, make sure she's okay. - Not the watch. - So we have one of the Jones-Arms knocks. All three. - No. - Come in. - In we go. - It's a little tight in there. - Yeah. - Yeah, I would say. - Well, Carlotta is still, you know. - Oh. (laughing) Okay. (laughing) - So Italian. - Yes. - Mm-hmm. - Mm-hmm. - And before he, ah, the foreigners. - That's right. It's us. - Yes, that is us. - Mr. DeRue's associates. - Indeed, we have a, we were checking in on behalf of what Padmo is saying. - So you should say it. - You should say it. I forgot. - We are, you know, giving instructions by Mr. Rishar to check on the leading lady and make sure that everything is all right, that she's not wanting anything and also make sure, you know. - Is there anything out of order, any of your personal belongings, or does the room seem disturbed? - Mm-hmm. - Even though we're not. (laughing) - Sure, you're all are going for it. - Yep, yep. - Yep. - Oh, yeah, so, so, uh, Signora, Zambele, you know, ah, I will be okay. I will, I will find the strength to soldier on somehow. - Oh, I'm sure you are. - It is, it is a terrible trial. - Oh, dear. - This is simply the worst. The worst. - Yeah, well, you're not dead. Because your tailor is everything. In order are you all right? - Yes, I suppose I'm fine. Bit sick of dealing with these frogs, you know. - Oh! (laughing) - It's good to hear it, good to hear it. Good and British voice. - Yikes. (laughing) - I'm probably gonna settle over to his man's room and introduce myself. - Okay, he's just like- - Handy. - He's not gonna talk to- - Oh, nothing? - Yeah. - He doesn't say anything, nothing? - No, you introduce yourself. - Yeah, and handy, just, you know, say hello and like- - Okay. - I don't know. - It's really nice to see you fell in. - Sure. - Yeah, so yeah, he does, you know, he doesn't really let down his facade, but he does, you know, kind of nod to you, you know, friend in a friendly way. - Oh, yes. - So what? - She's focused on his- - Job. - On his job, yeah. - Well, perhaps we can call him later, though, tomorrow. (laughing) - When they're a little taller. - Yes. - Warm him up, he's got less to do. And maybe return the watch, not in front of the comments. - Yes, yes, yes. - Here's your watch, I found the next to the murder of it. (laughing) - Oh my God! - They're killing me. (laughing) - I said a British voice. - I think it's usually if we let him know that we found it and did not reveal it. - Right. - In front of the comments, Eric, you might feel a little- - Points. - Close to me, yeah. - Ella Brits and- - So we should say something. - Can we call on you tomorrow? - Yeah, oh yes, we would like to make sure you're absolutely all right. Again, like Miss Yurishard insisted. - Mm-hmm. - Of course, of course. - Okay, thank you. - We have another performance and the show must go on. - Right. - Mm-hmm. - Just a moment in the morning. - Yes, so where do you live? - You're asking her where she lives? - Not her, no, the girl. - I'll just where can we call on you? We'd like to check on you. - Yeah, Ella and the day to make sure that you are well enough for the performance. - The colonel though, 'cause don't we want to return the watch? I'm sorry, am I missing? - I do want to talk to Calada though. - Yeah, of course. They live together. - I was saying if they're early and they don't, might be able to get one together though. - That's true. Although we want to get them separate. - So you would just get them at the opera? - Yeah, to do a rehearsal in the morning, probably your favorite or something. - Right, you want a clock. - Yeah. - Okay. - Yeah. - All right. - That was horrifying. - Yeah. It was. - Okay. - Anything else you want to do this evening or returning to the hotel? - I want to reach. - I want to party. - I want to party. - I want to party, I want to see this. - Death can be like that. - Yeah. - That's true. - You got to celebrate life. - That's right. This is the way we want to go because I'm down. - I'll get you down. - All right. - Hey. - You kidding me? - Weston's ready. Like Weston, I don't know about you. Stiff drink, my man. - Oh. - I think that's, I think that's. - It's an order. - That's an order. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Let's get them separate. We've definitely been. - Yup. - Pump them for information. - Yup. - Great. Let's bump him. (laughing) - Lily. - Just pump him. - Put him in the bag and pump him. (laughing) - Oh, damn. - Especially because if we're not able to see them until the afternoon, we can still definitely still work on Mathers all morning. - That's right. - That's right. - That's right. - Yeah, we've got to call him first thing. - Yup. - Party, sleep, Mathers. - Well, especially, I'm going to be surprised if Mathers might be interested in seeing us just because something strange happened. - Yeah. - Let's show you how the tail is held. - Gossip. - Well, especially we're guests. We came all the way from England. - Can you believe, see him over breakfast? - They're more awful, awful details. - Yeah. - Awful, awful details. - Great. - Maybe. - Okay. - Would we be able to send a note like to his house or nose too late? - To Mathers house? - Mm-hmm. - We can always send a note. - Just saying. - Or if you can hire a private courier, take a moment. - Oh, yeah. Say, we would like to have breakfast with you to discuss the events with the opera like for breakfast so that they know that we would want to see him. And so they're just showing up and they're like, no. And we're like. - What do you? - I'm gonna do it. - You're right then, sure. - I'm gonna leave a note ahead of time. That way, you know, maybe he'll send a letter first thing, who knows? - Extra croissant. - Mm-hmm. - Yeah. Just they're prepared and they know that we're coming over. Maybe we'll have more of a chance of getting in. - We're terribly shaken up if you don't know. - Exactly, exactly. - It's like great comfort and yes. - I'm talking with you before I approach it. - Mm-hmm. - So, so you dispatch a courier to Mathers house. A room of dirt. - You're right. - And then you all clamber board a carriage and you're off in the middle of a rouge. There is indeed a place in France where the ladies, there are no pants. - Oh, let them. - And you find it out first hand. - Ah! - Good lord. - Oh, I wouldn't have believed it. (laughing) - As long as they're wearing corsets, I'm sure. - Sure, sure. - Mm-hmm. - So, yeah. You have a grand-- - It's a pity coat government you start hearing about. - You have a grand old time at the-- - That's what I'm talking about. (laughing) - Mm-hmm. - Zero. - Rightly drunk. - He, he can hold his liquor. - Oh, man. You guys got a really healthy son of a few. (laughing) - I was gonna say, if we just get very friendly to, I don't know what Liberty was talking about saying he doesn't like Mathers. I can't imagine. - Yeah. - Yeah. - I can say such a thing. - That's very, very good. - That's good. - That is good. - I'd better him up, at least get him on our side. - Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. - Oh yeah, he definitely has a good time with you guys. - Okay. - You know, he, he kind of shakes off the funk that he's been in all night. - Yeah, it's a little bit. - And Luru actually leaves a little early now. I have to get back and work on his story-- - Yeah, that's true. - So, if he'll forgive me, you know. - As long as we're getting in with Weston-- - Yeah. - If he don't get any information now, he might be willing to let us in. - Uh-huh. - He might be-- - Ricky or a member like her? - He's not fully examined, totally. - Yeah, so he, yeah, he definitely has a good time. - Okay. - Especially after Luru leaves. - Especially after Luru leaves. - Yeah, mm-hmm. So, we're gonna have fun and go to bed. - Yeah, let's sit back. So in the morning you awake, perhaps a tad hung over. - Tad. - You find a couple things waiting for you outside your sweets, sweets for you. Lily, you have a response from Mathers. - Yes. - Terribly sorry. - Why is he still mowing us? Why is he still mowing us? Why is he still mowing us? He's still mowing us. - He's still mowing us. - Okay. - He's still mowing us. - You all have a morning edition of Lemma Han delivered. And of course, the death of the opera, by lying guest on the roof, it is-- - Mm-hmm. - Splashed across the front page. - Yes. - He does, he did respect Fermi and Rishard's wishes and didn't play up any of the sort of sensational, like it doesn't mention Madame Geree or anything like that. Opera ghost kind of talk. - Right, no opera ghost one. - Six of the facts. Lily, you'll have to, of course, translate for everyone else, unless anyone else has French on it. - No, 'cause I read it to everybody. - So, it is a story of the murder and the fact that the police have already made an arrest. - Wow, that was fast. - That was fast. - That was very arrested. - A certain Rajiv Choudhury personal assistant to Colonel Taylor. - Oh dear. - This is a setup. All right, can we go, what time is it? - It's morning stuff. - Morning stuff, yeah. - Where does, you know, I'm sure we could always like call upon him early to like, we can help it hear about. - Yeah, yeah, that your men's servant was arrested. - Is it true? - According to the article, Choudhury, formerly a known practitioner of Thug E, is suspected of murdering Joseph Bukwet because he insulted the diva Carlotta's in belly. Choudhury's employer, Colonel Lawrence Taylor, was enamored by Mademoiselle's in belly and was quite vocal in his dislike. According to the article authorities, believe that Choudhury always loyal, assistant murdered Bukwet to appease his master's outrage. - I wanna go talk to him. - Could be. You gonna visit Mademoiselle? - Sorry. - Why not? - I don't know, sorry to ask us. - Yeah. - You noticed that. - Totally. - I'm not saying you shouldn't. - No, go for it. - Mm-hmm. - Okay. - Okay, absolutely. You going with? - Yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - All right. - So-- - Are you guys Westin' with us? - Of course. - Yeah. - So at-- - Oh, Westin' with the dirties. - Yep. - And Westin's ever changed. - Mm-hmm. - So the police prefecture is at nine boulevard du pallet. Let's see here. I will need a French roll. - Fail. - How much? - By nine. - Okay, that's good enough. Give me a lot of credit rating or persuade roll. - Okay, wait. - Yeah, that's good. - Can we use my credit rating? - I know. - Okay, I'm going to use a credit rating. - Okay. - Fail. - Wait, push it. - I'll push it. Check us out on our asses. - Basically. - Fail. - Fail again. - Fail again, all right. - You are ejected with prejudice. - Ooh, ow, ow, ow, ow. - From the precinct. - Ow, ow, ow. - If you do not leave immediately, you will be arrested as well. - Oh, yeah. - This was just sort of the front desk. - It's not that serious, come on. Sorry. - I will. - I tried. - Oh, wow. - Good Padmago? - She was with you. And she needs to speak French. - Oh, he does, okay. Sorry, guys. I'm a little hungover. - It's all right. (laughing) - All right. - Wait, let's give this a tailor. - Yeah. - 'Cause especially-- - With the watch. - Ah, if he's as well, man, a servant. - Yes. - There's a chance that he might, you know, for instance, hire him lawyer, be able to go to speak with him as an employer. - Fail him out. - Fail him out. So maybe if we go and make go to the tailor, like, oh, are you all right? We heard about your man, a servant. - He's a good person to watch. - We're of course concerned about you. And we can maybe mention the watch, make sure that-- - We can keep the watch. - What? I kind of think that letting him know, like, oh, we had the watch, we didn't spill the beans from the police, we're on your side. We'd get us in, and then maybe he can get us in to speak to him. - Might be dangerous. - What's the, so let's see his power now? - Eight. - So your luck is 40? - Wait, your luck goes down. - Yes. - Your luck goes down too? - Yep. - Oh, what is it? Times five? - All right. Well, I just rolled a 40 on your luck room. - All right, so I made it. - You made it. - Nice. - Party luck roll. - As you are departing the precinct, a carriage pulls up, and none other than Colonel Taylor debarks-- - Oh, that's terrific. - Hello. Where can we, exactly. Can we see him in, like, the-- Wait, where are we? We're in front of the precinct? - Yes, yes. - We're on the street. - We're on the street. - So he sees you all, and, you know, oh, nice to see you again. You know, that was the reason. - Oh, yes, we heard the unfortunate news about your man's servant, and we-- - Yes, it's an outrage. - We wanted to come and offer our services and express our distaste from regret. - Well, I appreciate that. I was just on my way to visit him, actually. - Hmm, would it be possible, just in the interest of Missy Richard to also speak with him, or come with you? - Certainly, certainly. As I said last night, I think some fellow Brits are always welcome. - Okay, all right, good, great. So we get to go in. - Blasted country. - Oh, wow. Yes, indeed. Damn, the Frenchies. Oh, my God. - Shh. - Shh. - Yeah. - You hear you. - Oh, my God. - Yes. - All right, so-- - We always perching each other. - No. - So you remount the stairs and enter the front hall of the precinct. The front desk clerk gives you all kind of dirty looks, but, you know, has no choice but to wave you through. - Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. - We're on tour right now. - You, six to you. - Yeah, exactly. So one of the Jean-Darms takes you back up a hall. And commissary me Freud meets you all. And Colonel Taylor says, I'll see you here, me Freud. I want my man released immediately. This is an outrage. And-- - That's great. - So, I mean, for example. - I am sorry, Lieutenant. The evidence all points to Mr. Chaaphere. - What happens? - He has a past as a known member of the doggy coach. - True. - He is the manner of messier-bucuet's strangulation murder showed striking similarities to the work of the bloody Indian thugs, particularly in the use of the Punjab lasso. - I'm not (coughs) - Give me a, for Padma, give me a idea role. (laughs) - Punjab lasso, eh? That's actually a pretty interesting clue. - Make it. - You happen to know that the Punjab lasso is something that's used by Punjabi bandits. - Right. - It's not used by thugs. - So it's not right. So, it's just-- - You can give me-- - You're racial profiling. - Exactly. - Whole rule. - It's a lot higher than it was. (laughs) - Oh, I think so. - Check your colors. - Nice. - Yes, you, in fact, you even happen to know that the thuggy used sacred knotted cloths called "Rumals" to dispatch their victims. - Is it actually-- - Lasso's. - Come to show 'em. (laughs) - Four-year-old subject. (laughs) - Oh my. - Up here. (laughs) - You know, as an antiquarian, especially. - Mm. - My experience, my backgrounds. - I would indicate that you are mistaken. (laughs) So, I'm really, really mistaken. (laughs) - Do you learn him a bit? - I do. - All right, so-- - I'm totally red in the face. - Yes, exactly. (groans) - Totally genius. - I'm woman. - Lasso's bad. - Mm. - No, he does, he listens attentively. - Mm-hmm. - And he says, "None the less." - What? - None the less. - We do intend to press charges. - Mm-hmm. - What may I speak with? - Certainly. - Huh. - So he takes you all back further into the building, down some stone steps and, you know, kind of into this road cells, you know, like 100-year-old stone cells with the iron bars and the whole thing. - Mm-hmm. - Mm-hmm. - And you find a chowtery, sort of the opposite of the composed man you saw last night is now nervously pacing of cell. - Shh, shh, shh. - And as soon as you come walking up, he comes up and grabs the bars, you know? - Yes. - Mm-hmm. - Mm-hmm. (mumbles) - I didn't do it. - Well, I would like to express to him. - Yes. - Well, that, this is the evidence that they have against you. However, I understand their mistake. - Mm-hmm. - You know, like, what can you tell us? Like, is there anything he can divulge or anything he knows? Or will there be no one more affirming? - Mm-hmm. - Or something. - Well, this is the thing is he'd be so easy to frame. - That's exactly, mm-hmm. - Oh, that's true. - He is, you know, an immigrant, second-class citizen, and a servant. - Mm-hmm. - He's the easiest person to target. - Yeah. - What enemies? - And I'd like to express that to him. I mean, I understand it's, we're working to free you. - Okay. - But is there anything you can tell us? - Mm-hmm. - We need you to compete. - He, thanks to you profusely, and then, I can't think of a thing. All I've noticed is my pocket watch has gone missing. - Uh-huh. - But apart from that. - When did it go missing? - I don't know. I didn't miss it until last night, when I went to check the time. - Mm-hmm. - But, you know-- - Well, how often do you use your puzzle watch? - I don't say friendly often if you're a man serving. - Every day. - Mm-hmm. - So, that day. - One could have been-- - Like, moments before-- - I really didn't ask him that. - Like, when could it have possibly been, you know, stolen, or just fallen out of a pocket, maybe? - Yes, we left for the opera shortly before four o'clock, but I was rushed getting out, so there was, he looks at Colonel Taylor, and says, "Well, Colonel Taylor overslept." So, I was rushing to get him out. So, I didn't check my watch at the time. - So, he was asleep in his room? - Mm-hmm. - Maybe. - But I, you know, I swear I didn't do it. I was once a plug, but I turned informant for the British and I-- - We believe you. - I've been Colonel Taylor serving for years. - We believe you. - I mean, I have a little bit of him name, could I ask him and him anything? He's not-- - Mm-hmm. - Doesn't he feel comfortable sailing to Taylor? - No, no, no, no, no. - So, he, he responds with him to, nothing, I think. - Okay. - I'm hiding nothing, neither is the Colonel. - Mm-hmm, neither is the Colonel. - There. - No chance of posting mail, huh? - No bail. - No bail! - Wow. - Mm-hmm. - He said your brother's gonna stick together. - I can't handle this one. - Sure, okay. All right, well, so we have the watch. - Yes, we have the watch. - We have the information about it. - Once we've actually gathered it, we did not turn the engine on. - Yes, yes, yes. - That would be incredibly damning evidence. - Yes. - Yes, it would be. - The watch is missing, affording to everybody. - Mm-hmm, yes, it can still. - And that's actually Raj's watch. - Yes, it is. - Yes, it is. - Yes, I'll just get to to him. - So, it's part of the frame, huh? - We could have taken it. - Mm-hmm. - Oh, wearing cloth, it's the cloth wearing person. - You follow that? - The velvet fabric. - Someone likes wearing velvet. - I think we should go back to the opera. - I do too. - It's soft as we have to. - We have to. - Thank you, Lily. - All right, well, let's, yeah, let's. - Well, I'll just show him. We'll be back to show you. - Yes. - Okay, I have a new watch. - Okay, mm-hmm. - System. - Okay. - Just take out the opera house and see what else we can find there. So obviously, matters can be bothered with us, so. Wait, what are we supposed to leave? - Anytime you want. - Oh, okay, good. - You've accomplished your mission, so, you know. - You can always save the opera for the next one, yeah. - Yeah. - What time is it? - It's 9.20. - Oh, oh, oh, gee, I'm sorry, you guys. Well, look, what are the opera house? - I know, that's exciting. - Well, just for next time, like, where do you wanna take the investigation? - I think the opera. - Switch the basement. - Yeah, we need to go. - Cool. - Yeah, all of them. - Yeah, all of them. - Yeah, all of them. - Yeah, I attacked them with one afternoon. - With no guide and no armory. - Yeah, no, that's what I wanna do. - Yeah, that's right, sure. - Merlin Cave, all of it. - Merlin Cave. - I'm sorry. - What? - Snooter. - Snooter. - Snooter. - We have a snooter. - We do? - We're gonna win. - Yeah, that's true. - All right, searching the basement, anything else? - No, I don't know. - Well, I think we should search for there's dings. - Just like a tenth of a tenth of a hundred. - And we can ask you a question. - One light bulb? - The lady by herself as well. - That, I'm Carlotta Zenbali. - It's actually asking her why. - What are these things that keep happening? That she speaks of? - Exactly. - And also-- - How often does this happen? - Why did we get to dislike it now? - Yeah. - What happened there? - But yeah, it's also specifically, like, what else has been going on? And then don't we want to speak to that director of the ballet? - Madame Giroi? - Yes. - Me? - Yes. - She knows a lot. She knows everything. - Yeah, I think so. - Well, what's she taught? - We don't know. - I don't know. But we can try. - Let's try. - So definitely the opera house. - Yeah, I think so. - Although I really want to get into shenanigans with McGregor Mathers, it's not gonna-- - It's not gonna happen. - I know it's not gonna happen. - Well, the fun thing is that next week, when Sean Mariner turns, he gets to play with him. - Oh! (laughing) - It's like that. (laughing) - Well-- - Yeah, I checked with him. I'm like, do you mind, you know, since-- - How much does he know then? - Since I was well instead. I'm like, do you mind playing a pre-generated character? He was like, sure, so. - So we were, that's gonna be interesting. - Uh-huh. (laughing) - All right. - We'll see how that goes. - Oh, yes. - Lovely. - All right. - Very good. - Thank you. - Good morning. - Part one. - Yay! - Yeah. - I love you. - I love you.