Task Force S.I.R.E.N is shaken by their encounter with Henry Jacobs and the grizzly aftermath. Worried that their friend Ethan may also be under the paranormal control, they rush to Lutheran Hospital to in an effort to save Ethan and protect the hospital.
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KOTN Actual Play Podcast 02: Shit Luck: Ep. 3: "Hospital Visit"
(upbeat music) - Hello and welcome to "Night to the Night", an actual play podcast. This "World of Darkness" storyline, "Shit Luck", was written and run by our storyteller Scott. And now, please enjoy episode three, scene one, titled "I'm Visiting Hours". (upbeat music) - This is the "World of Darkness", the story "Shit Luck". Let's get some music going. Let's turn some lights down and look. You guys make it to Lutheran Hospital at, we'll say it this time, about 11, 30 p.m. - Sorry, could you remind someone who's currently brain dead from too much picnicking? What was our priorities of last week we decided? - What, you decided was Lutheran Hospital? - Right, to visit Michelle. - Well, Ethan is who, you're one of visitors at Lutheran. And Dr. Lucius had a very bad premonition that the surgery that Ethan was undergoing, the room would be filled with bees, the surgery B2. - And we're hoping to meet up with his girlfriend in a question or whatever. - Sure, he thought she might be at the hospital waiting for the surgery and maybe not. There were certainly some questions about whether she might be involved, somehow with the phone calls or whatnot, or maybe just to pin down where he was. Then you mentioned you wanted to go to the Great Lakes Brewing Company, which closes at midnight, but you work there and you couldn't see if anybody needed to, in case there was something not going on. And then the idea after that, I think, was to investigate the guy who has the beekeeper of Ohio City, right? And then potentially learn more from Jade about Henry. Could you call it in a couple of questions? - It's the urban Benjamin. - Benjamin, we're right. And. - We're talking about it. - Trying to break in or speak in to the key place where he gets his bee, his bee contact with. - But we don't know when to close it. - He could if early, somewhere around City, find out where the bee is pinching. - I don't know what we're gonna do yet. I mean, we don't know enough about that. - Because maybe he didn't get one step back. - This guy's the place to work. - That's like step four. - He didn't go to this guy's office, he has one. - Whoa, this guy's like the salesman. - Yeah. - The mummy. - Henry. - I guess we wouldn't know where it is. - Well, we're driving back to the hospital. I'm just making sure. - You know when they worked in Ohio, the company was based in Ohio City. You don't know exactly where the building is, because most of you are, even if you're from Cleveland, you're not intimately familiar with Ohio City. - I'm from Cleveland, I am not from this neighborhood. - Right, he's from the east side. Who knows where the rest of you are from. I believe that Lucius, you're not even from Cleveland, right? - Nope. - And I think John is from Youngstown, and the rest of you, you're from Austin, right? - That's okay, that's right. - You're from Cleveland, though, aren't you? - Mm-hmm. - I don't think it's from near or down where I'm from. - What's that? - I don't think it's actually a near or down where. - Okay, well, we'll develop that as we go. - I'd imagine being in the greater Cleveland area somewhere. - Fair with all kinds of music. - So, you're in, you're pooling. You guys have, I believe, three vehicles, and you pool into Lutherans parking lot. The emergency room of course is closed and locked down for the evening, meaning there's not entrance into the emergency room. You know, proper. The reception area, you could all walk into, put the rest of the hospital, it's locked down. - Yeah, no? - Except for the doctor, of course. - And that's, I'm just getting in the hospital. - It was Ethan being operated, right? - Correct. - Ethan Frosting, Ethan Frosting. He's an operating room, 2B, that's what I wrote down. - Yeah. - Or not. - That's fine. - It is. - But it's correct. - Funny. - Okay, Ethan, pretty much only one person is gonna be able to get in here. - We can get into the waiting room. - Ethan. - We can mob it. - Do we look like we wanna be in a waiting room? - No, you guys will all come up with me. Come with me, we're going to the residence. - To the residence. - We're trying to make ourselves look similar. - Presentably, we're all ripped up. - Right, yeah, you guys are kind of beaten out and grasping and all wet from the rain outside. But, you know, that's not wrong with the doctor. You basically can get in. - We're going to the residence room and they're all dressing and scrubbed. - All right. - Good enough for me. - I mean, when I say they're all dressing and scrubbed, I basically take them to the residence room. Any residents that are in there, I tell them to get out of there or they're all getting canned out of the program and not to ask any questions. - That's a nice guy. - Right. - And then he's ramble. - And then I just go into the nearest yellow tub and start tossing out scrubs. Oh, wait, you better. I got an even better idea. What do you go on, a gurney? - Well, you can give us a shot. - Wait a minute, shoot. - I don't think I was going with this. - One, two, three, this one. - Gotcha. - Oh, there we go. - That's what we got. - The kind of things happen to people on gurney's around people who are from the gurney. - Yeah, I'm a little bit. (laughing) - One doctor, four guys in blue. One guy in a gurney. And we're just chucking on up to room two B. - All right. He looks the most sickly. - Well, it looks like the most like they shouldn't be here are probably beyond the gurney. - Do you want me to break it up? - The one with the biggest weapon that they can hide under that. - What do you got? - A flashlight and a roller. - I got a knife. - I got a knife. - I have one mark. - There may be nothing wrong. - I'm just saying you got a good idea. - He's actually done one mark. - Wait a minute. - The sign did the same. - Oh, he's damaged. - Go. - All right. You'd have to room two B without any problems. Well, you get to the waiting room for, you know, the basic, the emergency room surgeries. There is a waiting room there. And then there's obviously a bunch of surgery rooms that surgeries take place in. And. - So we're checking out two B first. - You're going to two B first. - And wait here. 'Cause we need to. - Yes, we will go to two B. - Everybody will go to two B. - No, I will go to two B. - I won't know what you are. - Agent Dr. Miles. - Take either him or maybe we're the muscle. - It's the OR, and we're all headed to. - I know something about that. - Let's scrub off. - You're in the OR waiting room right now. - I don't have one. - I say doctor things like let's scrub off. And I throw any questions from nurses and any staff and I act like God. - Right. - I can try to make all the fact I was supposed to be there. - So, all right, really scrub. Like this and do that and get this over here. - We never had to do this in the field. - Put my little mask on and kind of, is there any way to observe into the room first before we walk in there? - Oh yes, probably a little bit. - When we go to the observatory area, there's an observatory area or a window or? - Yes, there is an observation place and an observation room for all of the emergency room surgery areas. And you see surgery taking place in room two B. - Who's in charge, Dr. Who? - We'll say Dr. Miller is in charge of this particular. - And how far along do I think they are? Anything they come in? Have they done anything? Just prep? - They look like they're about, you would say, maybe halfway through the surgery they need to. So, it'll probably be done maybe around one o'clock in the morning or so. It was your quick estimation of looking down. - Well, I don't see bees flying around. - Can we see Ethan? - And he is open. I mean, he's been, he's open to you. You can see Ethan on the table, basically. There's a lot of white blankets over him. You know, black sheets in then just certain areas of him. His ephemeral artery is where they're working and right now it's pretty torn open and wide open. His head is also showing he's intubated and, you know, basically he looks like he is definitely unconscious right now. - Does anybody look like they're doing anything suspicious that are around and attending the surgery? - Anything suspicious. - Somebody like, I'll call that empathy role and what is your wit's plus empathy, Mr. Tony? - What's before empathy is not. - You are not an empathetic individual and empathy is a... - Minus one. - Minus one on skills. - Social, yeah. - To the best of your knowledge, there is nothing strange going on. - What's your best knowledge? - So yeah, it looks like, you know, there's no bees, it looks like a typical surgery taking, typical emergency surgery taking place. - I look at any of the equipment and I'm sure they have like probably an anesthesiologist. - Okay, I would say we've lost an adequate. - Got it. That's a good point. - Okay. - Hey, Tony and I shared notes. Do we recognize any of our doctors out there? Wink, wink, zap, zap, zap. - Hey, Doc, can you see me? - You're a doctor out there again. - Right. - Well, nothing on your role. And then, no, the surgery taking place is with standard Lutheran general hospital doctors that you've met. - I don't know anymore. - Well, the anesthesiologist and the doctor, the emergency room doctor, you've met both of them. The nurses, most of them, maybe there's one or two you haven't noticed, but they don't have enough pull in this particular, you know, emergency room to do anything along those lines. - All right, well, you guys stay here. I'm gonna just poke my head in real quick. I got to take a quick look around and I'll look at that. - Anyone in the waiting room? - Yeah. - I just take a quick look in the waiting room. - You kind of bustled through the waiting room areas. You have to go back and check it out. You want to see it right there. - Have you heard about Ethan's waiting room girlfriend? - I can do it, shall. - Or would that be? - Shall. - And you know, I can socialize me and I will roll for each one of you. - One, two, three, four, five, sit. - Maybe persuasion or empathy if you're gonna talk to my boss drops. - Maybe you had a picture of your boss. - Right, I'm sorry. - John, no, until this evening, because you guys saw her when she ran into-- - Oh, that's right. So, no, no, the doctor, good doctor, has met her on one, her and Ethan on one occasion, you know, when they were off just drinking at the wine bar. No, for Tony, yes, for you, you've met her before. And yes, Michael has met her as well. Just briefly addressing. - So I'm gonna go back to the waiting room there and see if I can see her. - Maybe I'll do that too. - All right, so you two go out of the observation room and go in that direction. Anyone else doing that or anything else? - No, we're going, I'm popping my head inside to the operating room. - These two are going down to the waiting room. - I'll tell you, Robert, you hope. - I'm keeping an eye on the operating room and the dock has just in case. - Well, keeping an eye on the outer door and the other monster closed. - Right. - John's been you, whatever. - I'm just laying in the, taking a nap in the chair, 30 seconds. - Right, oh, the pain. - That is in her hair. - Okay, so going into the emergency rating room, they did a lot, she's not, I'm sorry, she's not in the emergency room rating room. She's in the operating area waiting room. They let her up from the main floor. Sure enough, Michelle is like curled up on one of the benches. It looks like she's trying to sleep but can't really, her eyes are open and she's kind of staring off in the space. It looks like she cried a lot, the mascara is all, you know, dribbled out of shape. So, YouTube continued to watch the operating room from the observation area and-- - My midget guy would say, look me. - Jonathan and Michael, you don't notice anything unusual. And then you walk into the, you know, you come into the in-full scrubs into the operating area where Dr. Miller is doing his surgery. - I don't want to explain to her while we're wearing scrubs. - Oh, yeah, it would be kind of hard to explain that. - Hello. - So, we're doing everything we can. - I mean, everything. - We know we're both people. - We know we're both people. - And I'm a freakin' bartender. (laughing) - That's the most I care about, either. - You're pretty sure, Judy, well, this is nursing, dude, we all-- - I said no one's going to interrupt the surgery and my buddy is getting stitched up, so-- - What kind of scrubs? - And I'm watching that door. - I'm using the company. - Okay, let's do you first, Lucius, then we'll do the, I assume you two are taking off here at your garden. - Your bathroom and restroom, right. - Good enough, so I'll get you two in a second. Go ahead. - Dr. Miller, how does the surgery go? - Dr. Miller, you know, looks up and-- - Oh, Dr. Miles, it's going relatively well. A lot of damage, femoral was nearly severed. It would've been severed, just wouldn't have made it, but he's got a good prognosis right now. The surgery's going pretty well. I think maybe in an hour or two, we'll stitch him up and depends on what kind of damage we see. I know his face and his head got pretty back up. We haven't gotten there yet, 'cause this was the major area of concern. So another half hour, 45 minutes, November will be fine. They were going on to the head area and see what we got up there. - Do we, did you type in crossmaster blood and do all that? - Oh, we've taken all kinds, you know, the nurses have taken their samples off to pathology, and we're in, you know, we're in pretty good shape right now. - Oh, anything unusual going on? Ain't blood pressure problems, anything like that? - No, just standard. Yeah, just everything, you know, standard. He was obviously touching go when he got here, but thanks, I've heard that you did a great job at the place where he was injured, the bar. So, you know, what you did there, pretty much saved his life, 'cause like I said, it was almost severed. You know, you did a great job in the field, and it's making my job a lot easier right here. - That's right. I whispered to Lucius asking where-- - Lucius is down in the average. - Well, I'm sorry, I think that's what I just picked poked his head in. - Yeah, he like walked in, and you guys are up above, observing from one level above the surgery. - Would you mind if I assist when you do the head work? - Oh, yeah, not at all. - How much longer you got 'til that's going on? - About an hour or so. - We'll pay you. Grab a sticker. I have no idea to say that out loud. - One Betty White. - I just, I stick around and assist. - Okay, so you just kind of get in there now. One of the nurses can go do something she needs to do, 'cause there's something else going on, so you just basically take over for her and become second, the second for this surgery. And the head nurse just steps away and does something that she needs to do. - Right, I'm looking for honeycombs inside the body or anything. - Right, anything strange going on. Your initial observations seem pretty clean from what you've been able to tell. - All right, but if he's gonna go into, and that's around with the head in just an hour, so I can spend an hour. - Right, we can't hear any of this, but after 15 minutes of the day, I guess it's not coming out. - You're watching, actually there is an intercom button in the observation area, so you can listen to what's happening there, and it's just a simple on/off switch, because no one's gonna be in these room, except for people who are supposed to be watching what's going on. - Right. - So you actually can listen to what he says and get a really good idea between you and Michael of what's going on, and can disengage yourself after 10 or 15 minutes after you decide he's not going back. - After that, we go get him and get him off the journey. - Right. - This plan is changing, I think it's okay at this point. So, okay, so you two-- - I'm sorry, let me just cut it real over, so on this topic. I wasn't here for it, but did anyone have a chance to search Ethan before the ambulance came? I can't remember. - Yeah, Bob's character. - Ethan's car was searched, and Ethan's body was briefly searched for a cell phone or something along those lines. - So on a cell phone. - Well, I was also thinking that maybe whoever prepped him for surgery, maybe there might be some clues in his clothes or whatever was-- - Personal effects. - Yeah, personal effects. So, if we could figure out where that might be, 'cause I'm sure usually those are probably either locked up on the way or locked up up. - This is probably locked up on a crime scene. This is an accident, so-- - But still, they wouldn't keep those personal effects in a lock or probably locked up. - If he was drinking, it couldn't be a crime scene. - Okay, well, then maybe the-- I'm just wondering if there's anything-- Like, I'm about-- - But right now, it's a crime scene. Since he was rushing for emergency surgery, it could be just thrown in a bin and set aside somewhere right now. - Yeah, that's where I'd be if some were to say no or if we could probably-- - Would they be able or find-- - The first night was a cell phone. You know, they found some basic, like, menus and little here and there in his wallet, but there was nothing just jumped out. He is a-- She was a really good investigator. He's a-- - FBI. - Or for the FBI. - Right. - So, he has a lot of skill and investigation. All he was able to find was a wallet and a cell phone of any consequence. The wallet ended up being a dead end and a cell phone he's able to track down the fact that he had called Michelle several times back and forth leading up to-- - Before we-- - The accident, Michelle, can we try to go over maybe? Do you know exactly what we found on that cell phone called what happened when and where and what we figured out? - He called Michelle-- - Yeah, there was basically phone calls that seemed to follow with what he told you, meaning when he went up to John to say, "Could you cover for me?" He had had two phone calls, one to his girlfriend and one back, and his girlfriend at that point. - Yeah. - Then, before he drove through the car through the window, there was, again, a correspondence where he called her and she called him back. And that's kind of what raised some eyebrows initially after presenting the-- - So, the first thing that happened was we were working in the bar and he got a call. - Right, it was 4.30, you were doing prep work before it opened up at six. And he got a call from the girlfriend. - Right, and then that's when he-- - Actually, that was 4.15. - Well, yeah. - Well, Michelle called me and said back. - 4.15, he got a call. - And then talked to Ryan. - And then? - So, 4.15 and then at 4.25. - 4.25, what happened? - I called back. - Called her back? - Yeah, so, talked to her twice and then ran off to talk to Ryan or John. - Okay, and then he went to talk to John at a private about 4.30, right? - And he had 6.30, Henry walked in and at 6.45. - Called John, he covered him down the street. - Well, there's a two-hour period where no one knows that Ethan was. - Right. - Well, and I thought somebody said he was in the bar, in the other bar or whatever. - Yeah, that's the belief, 'cause he, that's where John was gonna spend even just drinking and kind of socializing at great lengths. 'Cause you guys were all working, he was off the schedule. So, he swapped out, and that's where, and then when Michelle, so he swapped out, so you knew he was there at Great Lakes at that point. - I also have at 6.30 that Michelle called Ethan and talked to him for 30 seconds. - Right, and-- - So, there's like three phone calls. - Michelle, when she ran up and you wouldn't let her see the body and you talked to her, she said, "I was supposed to meet him at the Great Lakes." So, he put two and two together and said, "That's where he was for the two hours, "but you don't know for sure." - Right. - And it didn't sound like he was cover for me. I'm leaving now, it was cover for me. I got something to do this evening. - Yeah, she's gonna be off. I'm gonna, you know, we're gonna hook up, because the parents are going out of town. - And then, so that, and I had to have him like right before the car came to the-- - Yeah, relatively right before the car came to the web. - I know people will have that. - You know, two minutes, whatever. Very short period. - Have you called her or she called him? - Oh, it's how it has, and I didn't write it down. - Did she call him or did he call it before? - All of them being Michelle calls Ethan, Michelle calls Ethan, and Michelle calls Ethan. - Girl wanted it, so I can't tell you, you know. - I mean, just say it. - So that would be all he needs to have some-- - That would be what I didn't ask her about. - Well, it was, I totally just did a fit. - Well, I think I got it. - What you called him right before he peeked me? - Oh, yeah. - And it was only a six second phone call. I had a feeling it was like either cut short or something's happening. - And I want to know what that was. - Six second phone. - It was actually, it was a 30 second phone call. - Right, not that big of a difference. That's what I have written down. - Well, we can at least tell if he was talking crazy or something. - Well, ask her. - Did you check the voicemails, what? - We need her phone. - I checked the text messages. - Grab her phone. - Grab her phone. - Well, you would know her code, can we? - Yeah, her password for voicemail. - No text messages, I checked out my phone. - It's E-T-H-A-N. I don't think I checked the voicemail at all. - No, you didn't check his call walk is what you asked the first night, earlier on this evening. - Can I still have his phone? - I believe you put it back, wiped any prints off of it and put it back into the vehicle for the police to find. - You can have it if you want it. - I don't care. - Well, I mean, in checking the messages, I guess I would have lost some checks if there was any voicemail messages, a lot of phones. - Any missed calls or something like that? - No, obviously the call log and also being the activity log, you said it was a much of a texture, so. - Right, there wasn't any text. And well, to remind you what happened, if you would have asked, which, you know, we didn't cover this ground, but there were no voicemails on the phone at that time. It was just a call back and forth. So it didn't say missed calls. So obviously he talked to her during those phone calls. - Okay, that's good. - And he did call her. So Jonathan might have missed one of the phone calls, but after she called him the first time, which was. - 4.15. - Right. - He called her back for 4.35, right after he talked to Judd, probably to say, "Hey, I am off for tonight." A good guess anyways at this point. - I got 4.25, Ethan calls, so I'm changing it. - Right, and that is the only one that he called. - Ethan calls Michelle, and then Michelle calls him at 6.30, that's roughly the time that Henry walks in. - All right, so it's right. - 15 minutes later, the car goes through the window. - You're gonna be single. - I'm gonna make the market. - Dude, you're my wounded man. - Yeah, even with the running mascara, she's pretty hot. - Nice. - Bridget, I'm just gonna text her. - Why you like about that, Sheldon? - What's that? I'm gonna text everyone, and say that phone, or I'm gonna talk to her. - Okay. - Interrogate her. - Right. - We are gonna talk to her. - Yeah, text basically saying we found Michelle, we're gonna talk to her. - So. - Do you got interrogation type of skills? - You check here. - I do have empathy, that'll probably come handy. - I got persuasion. - Yes, technical advice. - Hello? - Yeah, that was really cool. - We're picking up the body. - We were your job just goes. - I give you my persuasion skills. - Yes, I need a hug. - Say, hey, what's up, what happened, or just try to get the information out of the tub. - Looking like we're trying to get the information out of it. - The attack of the lost board. - Yeah, you don't want that during intercourse. - Kinda like a fast call to everything. - Those thinkers will. - Ow. - Stop. - Ow. - Ow. - Okay, so what do you guys, how are you approaching this? - So, she's sleeping. - She's sleeping. She's crawling up the wall in a fetal position kind of thing, but she's just resting. She's got a coat underneath her forehead, and she's just staring at the wall, you know. - You really are approaching the scenario. - I'm poking her. - You said body like a bombshell. - Hot. - I'm still happy, even though you're red, hot. - He wouldn't be quite lengthy description. - I know I got this shit. - I know I go. - See how deep is that? - Michelle, is that you? - We know if you've been in once or twice, we've seen her. - Yes, you have, and he's just seen her for the first time tonight. - So, I'm introducing you. I'm going, "Hey, Michelle, how you doing?" - Yeah, right. - I'm like, "I can't believe what happened." It's freaking crazy, you know. - Right, she sits up and she tries to wipe the mascara off, so she's kind of, her voice is still a bit shaky, but she says, "Hello," and, you know, "Oh, it's good to see you guys here." And, yeah, I appreciate the support. It's gonna be a long night, you know, I hope he's already heard anything, or, you know, just things along that line is what you're getting back from. - Can I get you anything? - No, I'm fine, fine. I just want Ethan to be okay. - Yeah, just don't be sure how it did, that was weird. - Yeah, I'm just gonna go in and can't believe that happened, you know what, I wanna know what the heck was going on. - Right, and not that it's any of our business business, everything okay, can you guys? - Yeah, I mean, everything's fine. I just, we're gonna have a great weekend, I just, I don't understand what happened. He didn't sound like he was drunk or anything, it just doesn't make any sense to me at all. - And you told us, he was leaving, taking off in the day to meet with you. Right, yeah, he switched schedules with John, so I just, I don't understand, I just don't understand. - Yeah, and you know, we were being asked by the, you know, the police and the people that showed up is, you know, what you know, was you drunk? - Right, what are you, what are you, what's your empathy? - Plus which, what's your empathy, plus which? - So I was like, you know, trying to get out at, you know, what you, what was heard for, what do you think? - What do you think? - Then, I was, especially, and the tech lies. - If she is eight, empathy and what's his eight. - And wow, it's what he does. Both of you are relatively sure, you more so than him, because it's what you do for a living, that she's telling the truth, she seems generally distressed. - So I'm trying to get out of her, 'cause without telling her, yeah, I know you, talked to him for, it just happened, just, you know, would he, was he angry, was he mad, before listening? - Whoops, whoops, whoops, yeah, yeah, it was, 'cause like, you know, was he angry, mad, drunk, did he sound kind of weird in any call, or did anything talk to him before this? - Right, she says no, no, he seemed excited, he was kind of pissed that I was taken so long to get there, I just got, I just got held up at home, and he was also mad, he was waiting for you up at, yeah, he was waiting for me up at Great Lakes, and he was just a little upset that I wasn't there, and he said it was getting crowded, and he couldn't save me a seat, 'cause it was starting to get packed, and he just seemed, you know, I mean, he was still happy that was almost there, and was coming, but he just was a little bit disappointed, that was it, just a little disappointed, it wasn't like, it wasn't even a fight, just, you're not on your way yet, or you're just on your way now, that kind of thing, you know? Just a typical guy. - That was the last thing, he was like, where are you, hurry up? - Yeah, and I was in my car right then, but I was just leaving home, so I was still a ways away. - All right, there's nothing other than that's bothering him, like anything at home, or? - No, not going to be too seem normal to us. - Yeah, I mean, you guys know the same thing? - You didn't seem drunk, it didn't seem mad, or angry, I was wondering if maybe, you know. - Totally not. - No, she's really, she looked dumbfounded and confused, and just generally, you know, surprised at what happened, it just, to her, him driving through a window is the last thing that you could possibly, you know, expect. - We're not doing this bee thing tonight, are we? This is my last thing. - That's, okay, I tell her that, you know, he's spoken to the doctors and everything, he's like, okay, so far, hopefully. - Oh, you did, they haven't, they just keep telling me they're in surgery, and it's all, I'm not getting, and everything's just like, me, but all that means. - That's what, that's what we here too, right? - So, she seems a little bit, she gets a little smile on her face, and right around then, - A little bird search. - Oh yeah, these bees, no, I have to see. - Tony, the bartender, and, Becky had to go home, who's the other one? - Tomaria. - Tomaria, and screaming at the Tony. - Come into the area. So, they were both on, you know, on the ship with you guys as well. So, okay, you know, they come up to you guys and, you know, sympathy hug, whatever, and, - Don't touch me. - So, they're both, okay, have you heard anything? - What's up? - You know, play catch up with you, you know, what's going on, what do you hear, you know, and you kind of feed back the basic information, he seems to be doing okay in surgery, and, but they're there as well. - I talked to them a little bit, as if they noticed anything, and usual body thin, in the last couple of days, or whatever. Now that this whole thing sounds. - Both of them tell you that, you know, he was Ethan, you know, he had a couple of girls go, oh, they don't say anything. (laughing) - You know, typical Ethan, you know, with a wink, you know, like he's got a lot on his plate kind of thing, but he's got multiples. - Well, actually, Ethan is the server, Tony's the bartender, but still, he's always working the girls in the wine bar. And, so, yeah. - You can do anything about it. - Just typical Ethan. - I checked the inside of this car, it was really clean. - Yeah, I looked at it. - I mean, I didn't do a full-blown investigation. - It could have been something you didn't have enough time. - Or something I wouldn't leave evidence. - I'm sorry. - Something just grabbed it and thrown it at the balcony or something, or? - I'm not there, but it's kind of, yeah, just curious, 'cause this is kind of like, isn't it true that-- - I don't text you a bunch of it anyway. - Ethan asked John to cover for him, correct? And this girl is saying that she was coming up to meet him. - Yes. - So why would he have to have John cover for him? - He was supposed to work. - 'Cause John was, 'cause Ethan was supposed to work the whole day, eight hours, eight hours. - But she said she was coming up to the place. - No, the other place. She was being able to make the ball. - Got it, got it. - Not the market, I have a new wine bar. - All right. - So they didn't-- - And-- - Got it. - Her parents were leaving. So they could spend the whole evening together instead of when he got all off at two or three o'clock in the morning, you know? - Got it, all right. I was just wondering if it was two different stories like you said. - Right, no, there was no-- - Got it. - What is the-- - And the people on the street said he, did he come down the street and turn and sort of then do it? Or was he from a, did he take a-- - He was parked. I don't know. - In front, pulled out, backed up, got some speed. Came straight through. - Yeah, he backed up, that's right. So it wasn't like he was driving up. - 'Cause the one way straight. - He wasn't driving and all of a sudden swerved. - No. - He backed up, like one of the-- - He literally was trying. - He was trying to-- - Past some people, he was walking fast. Walked past some people on the street, got into the Porsche. Bocked it up, went full speed, as fast as he could go with those tight constraints through the window and into you. - All right. - And it wasn't to make sure, was trying to give somebody to hold in the car that put it through there, it didn't happen. - Do Tony and Maria seem surprised at him? I mean, I'm not-- - Yeah, they don't-- - Showing that they're surprised. - They're not as close, obviously, as his girlfriend would be. But they both work with him and they both are shaken up. I mean, Maria had tears in her eyes and you can still see, you know, she had the same-- - Everything's a mascara, you know, going down. And John, sorry, Tony, just seemed shaken up. He's trying to comfort the girls and be the steady rock. But you can see that, okay, there's only one you're not looking, 'cause he ain't shaking a little bit like, you know, and it's just, it's so out of character for Ethan to do something like that. He's such a, you know, happy-go-lucky, you know, who am I sleeping with tonight? You know, I mean, that's just the kind of guy he was. - I just had a quick touch. - And he loved life. And was everything that life was about. He definitely was a happy guy. I'm sorry, what was that? You got something? - The bars that he was-- - The bars that he was over until two. The bars open until two o'clock on. It was just the Wednesday night, but they're open to two o'clock. - I sent a quick text out saying the girl seems clean. Ask anybody, Doc, can you ask anybody if he might have said anything before he totally put him under it and came in. Maybe he might have woke up and smuttered something to somebody's pretty ditzy. - Do we know what Michelle is like saying in the bar? - Michelle's last name is. Anybody? - I don't. - Michelle's last name? - No. - Michelle is, Michelle Henry. There you go. - Michelle Henry. - Just curious. - Put your head to the bar, the bar tender, he doesn't talk to anyone. - They want to see if the ambulance drivers or anybody who prepped him for surgery heard him mutter anything before they put him into surgery. - Okay, like, who am I to take that text? - Yeah. - Well, you'll get the text, "I'm holding a lever." And that's not how anybody's wearing scrubs. - You guys spent 15, 20 minutes talking to the group. He's just about wrapping up the ephemeral and getting ready to close up the leg. He's actually going a little quicker than he's got. Again, because of the strong, you know-- - Henry Jacobs? - Work that you did in the field. - Yeah, coincidence? That area's played. - I think, or is it really Jacob's gender issue? (laughing) - I think our work is done, we should have back to the bar. (laughing) - Back to the bar. - Woo hoo! - So they feel you guys into the inference and they can't come down. - 'Cause I have our amazing-- - I like everyone from the wine bars is cleared. - Are you guys staying here this evening? - For the whole surgery? - You know he's in surgery, you know what, in surgery, you've got some basic text messages back and forth. - Did you have power to tell? - No. I sort of suffer like migraines and hallucinations. - Yeah, hallucinations and stuff. It did depend on how much damage I take for my powers. - So if I take three damage from my powers, then it'll be a minus two. - You know, so one is just a straight up rule and any damage after that would be a minus one. - Okay. - So when I sleep, I might suffer that right now and until the morning struggle with those. - Okay. - Yeah. - All right, so you guys done with the hospital? With the exception of Lucius, who's got to finish up the surgery? - I'm cutting away. Come on buddy, get back. - Keeps this for me, get this for me. - Just a little technical issue. Do we all have like a panic button on our eye pose again? Like one click and-- - I think we have an old bad single finger. - We'll have a push to talk. All right, thank you. - There's a laugh at that. - Yeah, I figured that. - Is there a push to talk at? - There is a new government box. - That's so cool. - Okay, I'll plug it. - If we're wrapping up with the hospital scene, what do you guys do next? - If you guys are going back to the bar, and then we're going to call it a night, is that correct? 'Cause I mean, we're not going out to this honey-- - I don't need to sleep sometimes. - I'm not going out to honey come and hide out. - I got some personal business to take care of, so I'll meet you guys around one of you guys and go to the bar. I'm not good at the investigation anyway. - Okay, do I have to do this? - No, actually, I want to go back and meet with my conspiracy to operate some of my things, talk about additional potions, tell them what I need to get the project that I'm working on done. - Okay. - The Black Panthers? - Yeah, I can see me. - Right. - I need some new stuff, man. - All right, so you-- - So I'm going to-- Wait a second, what do you-- your government car, it has-- - It doesn't have bees in it. - It had bees in it. - It had a body in it. - There's probably a tail light on it. - And it was before the body bag, so you got some goop in your back seat. - Now you got one success. - That's a euphemism. - Okay. - So you need one of those all like-- - You stop it. - I'm going to enjoy someone else's car. - I got my car. - First off with a quickie car, wash your back, even stuff, you buy a couple of fresheners, throw it in there. - She's like looking inside of it with the hose of tans. (laughing) - I got rain. - I like it. (laughing) - In fact, why don't I have a brain detail? - You drive it along and the little bag starts crawling up your edge. (laughing) - I rolled one success, I can handle this. - Right. (laughing) - Windows are better. - I'm going to assume that you're taking it and literally just spray it clean. I mean, just, you know what I mean? - Well, probably, but it's still raining. - But if I had no successes, I might as one because I'm so distracted by the situation. - So if you have the one-- - So if I get these sides, I can get to my hood. - In some way, I can get to a situation where I can handle driving this car, I guess. - All right. - I may have to roll again next time I want to get to the car, but right now, I'm fine. So I'm driving over to the east side and checking in with the gang. - Got it. - So the hospital scene is over. (upbeat music) - Thanks for listening to Knights of the Night at Actual Play Podcasts. 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