In this Actual Play, Tyler runs the first session of his Little Fears Nightmare Edition game based on The Cat in the Hat. A new challenger approaches! Jacob (of wolf fighting fame) joins us to play the role of “Jim”. Josh and Nicole return as “Char” and “Fidget”, and Dave is playing “Glem”.
TADPOG: Tyler and Dave Play Old Games
Ep. 306 – Little Fears (Actual Play, Part 2)
Hi there, listener. You're about to experience Tadpog, Tyler and Dave played games, and there will be plenty of game talk. But also, copious amounts of crude, off-color, offensive, and immature speech. So if you are of a rather sensitive, humor constitution, or just letting you know what you're in for with this show, it has games. It has jokes. You know, just games and jokes. Take the games, take the jokes, and have a good time. Hello Internet, and welcome to another Tadpog podcast. It's the show that happens twice a week where two old guys, and for the first time since Super Ballroom Man 2, three more people in the studio. Talk about an old-ish game. We're trying really hard. We're trying really hard with the audio call. Really hard. Yeah, so if this sounds different, we're doing something different, trying to work out everything in the studio, because today we are playing through the scenario I wrote for Little Fears. And last week, we made characters, Dave, Josh, and Nicole. And then now it turns out Jacob is going to be in town. So now Jacob is also playing. Yo! Hey, what's up? #CrickyPoots. CrickyPoots. So now we have the recommended four players for the game. It's even better. They recommended us specifically. The four of you in there. Nothing number. These four people. Little Fears says, "You need a Jacob. You need a Dave." If you can have a quiet lady. I'm not that quiet. You're pretty quiet. You're pretty quiet. I mean, that's not a bad thing. It's not a bad thing to be quiet. It's only bad for audio quality, but not for live. It's only specifically bad for podcasts. It's not bad if you're trying to steal something. It's great. It's great if you want to be dishonest. You're the tadpaw quiet mouse champion. It's fine. It's great. Let's see. So, Jacob, everyone else made their characters live on the air. You made your separately. So go ahead before we start. Tell us about your character. Okay, guys. You definitely cheated. Yeah, totes. My name is Jim. I'm a nine-year-old boy. I have a moderate move, a very high think, a moderate speak, and very low fight and care. My traits. I can care well when I'm rewarded, but it's hard for me to think when people yell at me. My qualities, I am a nerd who loves video games and physics, the internet, and sitting still, but I struggle big time with empathy. My, I put all of my belief into my iPhone, but it's really more that I put all of my belief into the internet as a whole, because that is where I tend to find all of my answers. My best friend is a questionable name that we may not be able to say for trying to keep this PG, but I'm going to say it, and then Tyrone can either take it out or not. My best friend is Tigo Bitties, 84, my clan leader. The one grown up I can trust is Neil deGrasse Tyson. Once I lost my mom, and she was special because she could get me to talk to people. The one place monsters can't get me is my closet. The one thing monsters can't touch is my mind. I don't go near people because they don't make sense. My biggest fear is that my grandpa, old man Liam's, will die. I heard he was a Nazi. Well, I mean, maybe you heard wrong. Maybe that's just the rumor that's going around anyway, but if he dies, who will I talk to? The thing that I like least about myself is I can't articulate. The thing that always gets me into trouble is when people rush me, and when monsters are around, I click on them until they die. I like that. I finished my stuff. Do you have stuff? Do you have stuff, Jim? The only stuff that I have is my iPhone and my laptop. I've got, I fleshed out the T-Rex plushie, which I spent three points in there to give me. I ride him like Yoshi, so plus two move, plus one fight. Circle circle dot dot dot. I just put one little check mark in there because I don't know if it actually does anything, but it does protect me from infections from women or girls, more specifically girls. Well, there was nothing funnier in kindergarten than my teacher bending over to pick something up because it was just, I'm sorry. There just wasn't anything funny. That was like the funnies. That's why you went to school some days because it's like, she's going to bend over. It's going to be funny because her butt's big. I mean, it's just going to happen. I also picked up for one of my other things, one of my other stuffs, a little Wikipedia Brown's flashlight, which when monsters are around, it turns on. It gives a negative two to their damage because I can shine the light of reason in their eyes. I spent three points in there and I spent two in my fun facts, flashcards, which give me a plus two think, I guess, involving things that are look uppable, things that might be in a flashcard, like probably not things like how do you tie a knot, not things like that, but more like trivia, trivia facts. That's all I did. Everything else is the same. Anybody else do anything else? No, I didn't. I didn't make any changes. All right. Yeah, I'm just planning on rolling with whatever you need from me and hopefully have completed everything that I need to complete, I think, I hope. My T-Rex's name is Shug Knight. I added my stuff. I did badges. What is your stuff? I have four badges, a science and technology badge, a craft badge, an athlete badge, and an investigate badge. What do each of those do? They give me a plus one to athletic things for the athletic one. So it's like move. Move, yeah. And then science and technology would be fight, I guess. No, no, think. I mean, that's what science and technology is meant for. It's like a metal ham. Robot arm, right? Gotta hope you rocket punch a monster. And then investigate would be for speak, I can investigate and touch people and ask them questions about things I need to know. What are they about? Craft. You got that for beating Aladdin War? Yeah. And then craft, I think would also be think or move, I guess, depending on how I needed it, because it said you could use it either way. Okay. Because it said, you know, whatever way it made sense in the heart. Would you believe it? Yeah. Okay. So, you know, whatever I need to make. At the moment. Okay. And let's see. And everybody, how's everybody's grasp on belief? Because belief is a huge driving factor in the game. You usually risk belief in order to do something because you can. And everyone's belief, I have these k-cups that I will hand out. I have seven believe, but I don't I don't know what kind of currency belief is again. What do you do with it? Because let's see, there are several different ways you can use it. You should have an option on one of your character sheets that tells you some ways to use belief on the second page. Oh, okay. Because you can also, if you believe in someone else, like say, Jacob is trying to climb something and then Dave, your character can cheer him on and believe in him. You can do it, Jim. Then you can pat you can basically risk a belief. Oh, no, he's screwed. No. I'm sorry, Jim. And then he would roll an extra D six. If he succeeds, you get that belief back. Same for yourself. You can also believe in yourself to give you one, one extra die. So it's like giving a helping die. Yeah, it's kind of like a bardic inspiration kind of deal. Exactly. If he fails it, like what is it? Okay. So they are so they're actual like physical. Yep. Okay. Sweet. Ooh. Bummer. You can get the hang of it. I know it. Believing in stuff is stupid. Can we all do it? Like, for example, if we know Jim's like, he's got to climb this and all three of you can. We all three believe in him. Yep. Okay. And then when I fall to my death, you will all lose that one. Yeah, we'll just all be like, well, I guess we were wrong. We were wrong about Jim's abilities. We know longer believe in him. Mostly because he's dead. Yeah. There's not much left to believe in. It does give us specifications on what happens if the role is successful or if the role failed. And then if the role was successful with a passing grade or if the role failed with a failing grade, you can gain or lose additional belief. Okay. But what is a passing grade and a failing grade? A passing grade. Like if you the DC usually be like an easy thing, you have to be to six. And then every like the night average is a nine, a hard is a 12 difficult 15. And then like legendary is after that, like every three, it's in the difficulty higher. But once the difficulty set for every three points, you exceed the DC, that's one more passing grade. So that will determine like, you're going to be successful if you beat it. But if you beat it by a lot, then you're exceptionally successful and more will happen. And then in some circumstances, you can get additional belief from that. And it's got to be three higher for a passing grade. Is that correct? At least three higher for one passing grade. Okay. And you can get multiple passing grades on a roll, right? If you roll really, really well. Because like if you're trying to like hot wire something, I think the example in the book, and you need each one is a like a DC nine for this hot wire check, you can try to do it all at once, but you'll have to have three successful three passing grades over. Oh, wow. And then you can do it like immediately. Okay. I suppose it's taking more time or if you're, yeah, that's cool. That kind of builds suspense. I mean, this is whenever you get extra tokens, you only get one extra token, not one per passing grade. Right. So so if you spin a bleed, yeah, if you do believe any of Jacob gets like three or four passing grades over, then you can only get up to one more. Okay. And that that's risking belief. So you have a chance to get it back. You can also spin belief that it's just, that's just gone. You're not going to get that back. And how does spending, does that give an automatic passing grade or something or? You still have to try to pass with it. I believe so. But spending belief, that's how you defeat monsters, you can give it a stuff quality. Yeah, you can give it like, like the band book monster in the in the book, like, yeah, she you spit her belief to make it allergic to sunlight. Okay. Okay. So then a lot of ways, belief is the only way you can destroy a monster. Okay. Like you can use your fight and pummel it and maybe it'll man, then it's here for a little while, but belief is the only way you can destroy the boogeyman. That's sad. It's cool, though. That's a cool system because it's like you, I guess you lose belief. You stop believing in monsters, right? Is that kind of like the thing? I mean, because you can also acquire more and you can't have more than 10 belief at any time. So even if you're passing all your risks, you cap out at 10. What if you lose all your belief? Are you just done? You're like, you suddenly are like, wait a second, I need to go get a job. I'm a six year old factory worker. Put on my tie, start my nine to five. Yeah. I don't think that has a negative beyond you just can't do anything. Like, then you can't risk belief to get any more back. Like, if you spend all of it, you're kind of fucked. And it's important that you have some to do something with. And I believe in order to use your stuff, you have to risk belief because you have to believe it will function like that. Oh, no. Dave. Oh, no. I got to risk a lot of belief. Okay. All right. But then making making your check, you can get beyond and have extreme success. Or yeah, if the item fails, you, of course, you believe in it less and you lose that belief. Okay. Okay. Let's do it. Yes. I have a rudimentary grasp of the rules. Josh, you have, so do I. So if anybody's really familiar with this system, sorry, we're trying. We're new to it. Yeah. Josh, you have one belief. Nicole, how many do you have? Four. Two. Brown sugar crumbled on it. Three, four. Josh, Jacob, you have four. I think it passes to Jacob. Now, do the rules specifically state that you have to use cakeups? It said that was the whole hobby shop thing Nicole had a big read about. And you have seven beliefs. I have seven beliefs. Can I, can I trade you? Can I trade you this one? Okay. Give me that. No, trade these. Thank you. That's good. Because you only have one then. I don't like, yeah, I want them to all match. I want all different ones. All right. I'll trade you. No, I'm joking. I don't. I'm just making fun of Nicole, just Josh and with her. Hello, hello, hello. Lulls. I just like things to match and be lined up in all face the same way. Is there any wrong with that? No. Totally normal. I like it's pretty normal. It's pretty normal. Like if it had to be that way before you entered and let's a room that might be a little different, but yeah, I'm sorry. I can't come into work today. I have to make sure all these cakeups are the same. That would be a problem. I said about once I get this live live stream so I can watch them all day long to know that no one's messing with them. I'll come into work. Yeah. Your cake up stream. Yeah. Everyone's got one. All right. So scene opens at Char's house because you are in the the foyer of your very large house and you see there are several cars pulling up and your parents are dressed not fancy, but they're they're dressed nicely about to leave. Charla, man, we need to have a word. What is it dad? I just kind of kick the floor. Put my hands in my pocket. Look down. I'm going to be making you a deal that is either going to benefit you greatly or if you disappoint me have severe consequences. Oh, like I like I haven't heard that before. I'm quite serious. Your mother and I are having to attend a very serious PTA meeting tonight at the school with several other parents and they are not providing child care. So you're going to be sitting a few kids here at the house. Oh, come on, dad. He holds up a finger. It's a very stern man. If everything goes well, I'll permit you to go to Ozzfest with your uncle Fitzgerald. Really? Yes. I went to Ozzfest with my uncle Fitzgerald and all I got was a stupid shit. All I got to do is look after a couple kids make sure they don't kill themselves. They are fine. The house is fine that everything when I come back is just as we left it. Oh, heck yeah. However, if you fail in this and I had to deal with other parents or any damage to the house, then you'll be granted for the summer and you will start board school in the fall, boarding school in the fall. Yeah, okay, dad. Got it right the first time, board school. Thanks, Jim. You're welcome, pal. As the other cars pull up, that is the three of you getting dropped off at this large, very nice house. Can we establish real quick when this is this? The 90s, right? Yeah, you say Ozzfest. Is it like 1995 or '96 or something? I mean, you have an iPhone. I do have an iPhone. So it's just that-- It's late 2000s. It's just that Char has awful taste. Yeah. Or it's alternate timeline or like, honestly, Ozzbors would give like really, really, really popular, not like reality show, where it's like Ozzfest instead of Coachella. He's running for president. His uncle fits is just, he's like 50. So to him, that's the rockin' place to go. Okay, okay. I love Limp Biscuit. Rap rock is where it's at. So then basically each of your parents, guardians, grandparents, drop you off at this house and you're shown inside. So, Char, what does your house look like to everyone? Well, honestly, I was thinking it was probably a trailer, but apparently it's a pretty good house. No, I thought you lived. I thought you were the-- Your parents were rich. You lived in a fancy house and you were just the-- We can go with that. That's fine. I mean, they named you Charlemagne. Yeah, that's you. I mean-- You guys are really rich or really poor. The house is made out of 12 trailers well to do. Charlemagne! Go here! Yo, fuckin' French ass fuckin' over here. In that case, it looks like a castle. Okay. Castle house? Castle house, yeah. It looks like Fraggle Rock. Does it look like a fort castle? Yes. Josh Fort Castle, to be specific. So, we're just dropped off and we go right in, right? I'm rushing in there. You've been here before, probably. And if the door's shut, I'm gonna open it and go in. Yeah, his parents let you in. Your father gives you a stern look before he leaves and just throw behind him. Oh, okay. No, your grandfather waves at the door. A wave of my grandad and then before the adults leave. Excuse me? What's the Wi-Fi password? Dollar dollar bill, y'all. Thank you. Is that with two dollar bill signs or is it spelled out? With dollar signs. Dollar dollar, okay. No apostrophe. Thank you. I go in and I sit down on the nearest couch I find, pull out my laptop and enter in dollar dollar bill. Yeah, you're in. The fastest Wi-Fi you've ever seen. Oh, wow. They have a gigabit connection. They have Google fiber here. The future. I love Ozfest. Yeah. So, and all right, here is before we move any further something I should say. A lot of this is predicated on all of your actions. Okay. So, it's all about you can basically enforce your will on a lot of the game and that's the driving force. Like I have things set up, but if you play to your traits and to your character and to what you want to find and what you need, then you're going to be looking for that and making a role for that. Or if come across a monster, something you believe about it makes sense. It's basically I build everything for you to observe and then you're reasoning with me as to how it should be how it should be interpreted. So you have it's it's like the Dresden files and that you have a lot. It's not it's not linear at all. You have a lot of room to to do what you want. Yeah, I will go ahead and sit down and immediately log on to my the MMO that I play with all of my online friends. Okay, I'll linger over your shoulder, Jim, for a moment. And then is Char, are you in this are you in this area? Yeah, I'm I'm leaning up somewhere like in the four-year just not trying not to pay attention. I'm going to I'm going to try to hide my excitement and like just kind of like just kind of walk over walk over to Char, all cool like. Hey, Glenn. Hey, Char. Man, you should have been over at my house the other day. Bill Climpton was all he was doing some funny stuff. You know, we got him that scratching post. I mean, he loves it. Yeah. Yeah. Do you know these other kids? That a girl looks familiar. I don't know that. Um, no. That he types really fast for a kid. The two of you are likely in the same class. If you care about that sort of thing, which of course I do not do not care about typing at all, Char. I'll lead up I'll lead up against the wall. Like I'm pretty sure you had loves, maybe was beacon somewhere. I'll lead up I'll lead up against the wall the same way that Char is. I'll adjust myself so that I am identical. Nicole, are you doing anything? Um, or fidget? Are you doing anything? I'm going to have a seat in I assume we're in. Are you typing in the living room? Yes. So I'm going to go have a seat in the living room floor and pull out of my backpack, um, a book and a length of rope and start tying knots. Okay. Hey, a large flat screen TV mounted on the wall. Hey, Glenn, you want to see new spray spray paint colors I got? We can go print the bridge later if you want. The one with all the tires on fire underneath? Yes. Yes. Why? Why is why is there? Why is there a girl here? I don't know. Hey, you kids, keep it down and don't don't kill yourselves. All right. Can I use a can I use a think check to see if I can figure out how to wirelessly connect to the TV? Sure. Okay. How many do I roll? Uh, let's see. Well, what what the number of your think I think is six. So you're all six and then if it apply, any of your qualities apply. Um, I TV wise, I do, I do love the internet. Oh, you're a nerd. And I am a nerd. So yeah, you can apply one of those. Okay. So I will. I believe in him. Yeah. Trying to score sweet. Just cheering him on. Uh oh, rolling a lot of ones. We're going to make a TV monster. So then you keep the highest three. Okay. Highest three is 15. Do you have any sixes? No. Okay. Yeah, it's it's not that difficult at all. And you're you're you're able to do it. You believe paid off? Oh, okay. I I beam visibly when Char calls the other children kids and does not include me in that group. I'm going to go to my room and just in a hidden compartment in the closet somewhere, I'm going to get the the spray paint that I've been hiding. Okay. Bottle of spray paint. Okay. Barbers of the space. Now we can paint everything purple in town. I'm going to I'm going to give Glimma a sly smile. Yeah. Yeah. Not real cool. Yeah. Yeah. Can I hold it? Uh, no, it's too important. Maybe maybe when you're older. No, you see it's time time passes and it starts to get dark outside and then it does it starts to rain lightly at first, but then it turns into a a downpour, a heavy heavy downpour. Oh man, I'm hungry. I wanted to go to the bridge tonight. I'm hungry. Maybe maybe it'll let up later. I'm hungry. I hear that computer kid. What is it kid? I'm hungry. Would you go check on him, Glimma? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm hungry. I'll go. I'll head over to Jim. Hi. Hi. Hi. I'm hungry. Uh, the kitchen's in here. Okay. Will you could you could you make me something? I can't wait that up my hand. No. Big kid. What do you want? Make, make me something. Make me, make me food. Make me food to eat, please. Please make me food to eat, please. Please make me food to eat. Make me food to eat. I'm very hungry. Oh my god. Make me food to eat. I was going to storm off upstairs. I'm just going to get away. Make me food. I need food to eat. I need I need food. It's it's eight o'clock. We can order pizza or something. I need food. It's it's it's honestly it's time for me to eat. Yeah. Every day I always have every day at eight o'clock. I always have. I'll make you something. Okay. That's sexist. I just want him to shut up. I will get up and go into the kitchen. Okay. You see a a a large very nice very lavish kitchen. One very large double compartment, a fridge raider, a full range flat top grill island in the center. Cabinet's pantry. I'm going to look in the refrigerator and see what's there. I'm going to peer around the door frame. Just just one just one eye. Just just watching just watching fidget in the kitchen. Do I see him? Yeah. Probably probably not too great at the hiding. Yeah, I'm not really trying. I mean, it's just kind of yeah. Can I make you something too? I'll just move. I'll just move completely behind the frame. So I'm not visible. She saw me. Okay. Yeah. She's going to make you something. Good. That's that's what I've been asking for. So I'm pleased with that. Everything in there. It doesn't look like a typical fridge. It looks more like a exceptionally organized restaurant refrigerator. Everything is in sliced and put into separate labeled bins and containers and everything is very perfectly in line. But you can see you can read various cheeses, meats, caviar, seafood, a lot of probably not stuff a lot of stuff you're super familiar with. I'm going to close the refrigerator and go look in the pantry. Lots of artisanal breads. You do see some things you're familiar with like peanut butter and jelly. That's what I'm looking for. Yeah, bread. I got peanut butter. I got jelly. I'm going to grab all that and take it out on the counter. Okay. And then I'm going to make a sandwich. Make a move. I'm going to start watching her again. Okay. And then I turn on my music really loud from whatever room I stormed off to you. Okay. What music? Probably Ozzy. Okay. Can I check to see if his stereo is on the on the internet system? You can check. You look and it, yeah, it's not. Okay. You can assume it's probably analog, which is sure. I love how you sounded like my dad or something. Can I help you out? The internet's probably not getting up to your eyes taller because of that glass door in the way. What I need is for, if it's on the internet system, what I'd like to do is to be able to control it from my laptop computer. You have never on the wireless internet. You've never looked more like George W. Bush to me than I think. Just another in my continuing impressions of presidents. So. Can I apply my Girl Scout quality to making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? Yes. Since we, you know, have to like learn how to make food and stuff for camping. And this is a little higher. This is an average DC because you're having to slice the artisanal bread and it is old fashioned peanut butter that you didn't know how to mix. Well, I didn't say I was gonna make him a good sandwich. Ye old e peanut butter. Oh, thank you for your peanut butter. My three highest. Mm hmm. It's 12. 12. You succeeded with one, one passing grade. So, yeah, you make a very nice. Okay. Yeah, better choice. Come on, brimey. This is delicious. This is the best thing about a rubber taster. Cool. I will take it out to him. Could you, could you cut the crust off, please? Really? Could you cut the crust off, please? Since you said please. Thank you. I will go and cut the crust off. Okay, done. I find that, um, sandwiches got diagonally out of the best. No. I guess, okay. I'll take him back out to him. Thank you. You're welcome. Milk. It's, there's probably some in the refrigerator. I think that you can probably do that yourself. I need milk though. I need milk. Yeah, in the refrigerator. But I need milk. I'll get the milk. Thank you. I'll go to the kitchen, open the refrigerator, and see if there's milk in there. There is a large glass jug of raw milk. This is illegal, you guys. I don't know what kind of hippie parents you got, Charlemagne. You got that raw milk. Uncut milk. They're arrested at the PTA meeting. But it is a gallon with no handle, just sort of a divot or you'd put your hand. Man, I'm gonna break this. In a gallon of of glass. Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna get it. It's okay. I believe in you now. Make a, make a move. Okay. All right, cool boy. Tell them you guys. Oh boy. So I'm rolling two here, unless I don't imagine that I'm going to use Shugnite in this scenario. I don't think I'm gonna summon Shugnite. Make an arto style. You buy great stuff. Wipe it across the milk. All right, here we go. Here we go. Six. Yeah, you pull it out and you just barely hold on to it. It's about to slip out of your hands. You basically, it falls to the ground, but you're able to hold on to it and sort of glide it down. Wow, I am surprised. I did it. I have a look. I couldn't justify making getting a jug of milk anymore. It is a completely featureless bottle of milk. It's like the covered in Vaseline. You look down, your hands are knives. Completely immune to friction. So I will look, milk is raw, homemade. I will look relieved and then instantly proud. And I'll turn and I'll strut with the full picture of milk to gem. You have to basically sort of drag it over to him. Milk. But I just need a glass. This is glass. I guess I pick it up and make a drink out. Do I need to roll for this? It should be nice. I think you'll be good enough for the strength wise. Just drink out of it. Out of the side. Put it down. Tastes kind of weird. It's a little different. But you know, whatever, they eat my sandwich, my mum. It's just good. Also different, but not in a bad way. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. Are you happy? Yes. You hear a loud crash of thunder outside. It's so funny. We need to saw on here. And then about that time, power goes off. No! Oh, that was way too loud. What? Ah! Kids. Come storming. Yeah, kids. Kids. I was right. I was almost done with that raid. I'll never, I was kiting and I'll never, my clan. All right, what did you do? Yeah, what did you do? I think the storm knocked the power out. Where is your parents emergency kit? We can get some candles and like them. Emergency kit? I'll just scratch my head. I'll attempt a think. Yep, make a think. It's still my eraser. I don't do what you're talking about. So I get a one. I don't think I have anything that... I'll give you a bonus one since it's your house. Okay, sweet. Double. I believe in you. There's a six. Yeah, you know where she keeps some candles. Yeah, I think I know. Okay, we'll show you. It's in the drawer. I don't like to go in. There's some small red candles in their bedside here. I know that. Hello. Yeah, there's like a linen closet upstairs that where you can find some some candles. I pull up my badass zipper lighter. I guess I have one. I don't know. Yeah, that's fair. Okay, pull out my iPhone. Well, let's take these windows downstairs, but we're going to be here. You have Wi-Fi, but no phone signal. When you pull out your Zippo char, I nudge Jim. Just kind of nod. The Wi-Fi is weak. You think you're picking it up for somewhere else. Pick up my laptop. I start trying to locate the Wi-Fi signal where it's coming from. Don't wonder if I'm too far. I mean... That's it. You're connected to like a neighbor's house, but it's just like Netgear 4126. Unguarded, unprotected. Okay. I go to the front door. When you're walking up to the front door, you see there's another lightning that lights everything up for a second. Two of you are upstairs, but the two of you make... Jim and Glenn. Jim and Glenn. Back again. Back at it again. I guess make a... Spot check? Yeah, I'm sure I think what that is under. Probably think. It's perception now. (laughter) Make a think. Yeah, make a think. I don't think I'm gonna be much help for you, buddy. You're on it. I've got three sixes. Those all explode, so you can roll them all again and add. So, okay. So you have an 18 plus, continue to roll. Well, so six plus another six, so 24. Yeah, you happen to... You're looking right out there at the exact right moment whenever the outside lights up like full daylight for a split second, and you can see out toward the end of the driveway, there is a bipedal figure out at the end of the driveway, has some kind of a tall hat on, and you see that for a second, and then as the light starts to come down, you see suddenly it is now halfway up the driveway, and now you see it wearing a tall, kind of crooked hat, some very, very skinny figure. Didn't even look like it took any steps. It's just there and there. And then now it's now you just hear... Lock the door? Rainfall. Make sure that the door is locked. Yeah, you dead both the door. Jar? Jar? What do you want? There's someone outside? There's someone outside? Oh, look outside. Yeah, it's just it's pitch black out there now. There was someone outside. There was someone outside. Who? I don't see anybody. There was a tall bipedal figure with a crooked hat and skinny legs. Oh, light a candle and go over to a window and look out. That sounds like Char's dad. Char... I don't think it was Char's dad. He's pretty tall. It didn't look like Char's dad. Nick, it's still hard to see. I will say that much. Because you're holding the candle and you go out to the side and you basically... You can see the shadow of someone standing in front of the front door. But you can't make out much about them because the light isn't working very well through the window to see the angle out through the door. Oh. Hey, who's out there? I think it's your dad. I see you butt face. Oh, he's gonna be mad. All right. Joshua, you still upstairs? Oh, I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, I don't think I ever mentioned it. Oh, I thought you were coming down. I was pointing out coming down. Yeah, that's what I thought you'd done. You'd come down with the candle and look at the front door. I'm in it while they're looking at the front door. I'm going to be lighting candles and placing them around the room. Okay. Yeah, you get decent visibility in here after you do that. You say that and then there's a very loud bump outside. And you're not sure. It doesn't sound like it hit the house. You just hear this very strange, like whoop. Just very vibrates, very strongly to all of you. And then after that, then there's just a knock on the door. Jar? Yeah. Someone's at the door. Yeah, I don't. Who is it? Answer me butt face. And you see, it looks like the the the dead bolt on the door looks like it's slowly just unlocked on the outside. Flip it back, flip it back, flip it back, flip it back, flip it back. Make a move. Make a move. I think you mean bust a move. I think you mean bust a groove. You're right. That was a much of a role. You mean that three highest? Yes, that'd be seven. And if you're six, you roll them. Yeah, you see that it's almost like your guys are watching it in slow motion as it and then like you realize, oh shit, I should unlock that back. And just as you're starting to move, that's when you see it's very, it's very quick that the door just cracks open. And then you see like this very, very, very gaunt almost bone like, but it has oily black fur hand kind of slips in through. And with these curved claws, you hear just forward to sink. Click, click, click, click, as it wraps its hand around the door and pushes its way in. And what you see step in looks, it's built like a human. Only it's about six foot six maybe. It has to crouch, it especially has to crouch because when you see it come in, it's wearing this hat that is layered red and white going up and slightly crooked at the top. And then it has, yeah, because it's kind of doubled over with its shoulder blades that don't look right. It's extremely skinny, extremely skinny. Like you can see ribs, you can see faintly in its chest. You can see it flutter a little bit, like you can probably see its heartbeat. It's so gaunt. And then as it stoops down, its knees look strange as it kind of bends in two different segments when it's ankles and its knees. It has a, was a very distinctly a feline type face. Cat eyes that are narrowed down to slits, a huge, huge smile with a, but human teeth. And then no, no whiskers. It's for patchy in some places, but very, very slicked to its side. And you see it looks like the water from the rain isn't really touching. And it's just rolling right off it into the floor. Like it's got some very oily coat. Does my flashlight turn on? Yes. I'm scared. Everyone make a fear check. Can I automatically kill it? That is going to be either your think or your care. Well, I'm screwed either way. And can you add your qualities to this too? Yes. You got any qualities? I got two sixes. Add them together. Yeah, keep rolling. I got a six. 24. You're unfazed. 17. You're fine. 10. I'm probably concerned. I wouldn't say I'm probably fine. Well, you're definitely scared, but it doesn't shake you. I imagine like you look at it, but you can see char is still there. So you're not panicked. Yeah, I'm still here, but I also just had a, I got a five. So okay, that is you're fucked. Dave, I was looking at Dave. Yeah, whatever this is that came in, char, like you being the oldest, I guess you have a more firm grasp on reality. So it sort of breaks your concept of what is real enough that it really shicks you up. And then you know, like, oh, shit, I'm not going to Ozfest when it comes in the door. You take three, no, I'm sorry. You take, yeah, you take three points to your wits. Okay. And then it also, this, this is very scary for you, Fidget. You take one point of damage to your wits. And once you guys get to, you're fine until you get to four wits. And then once you get below four, bad shit starts happening. I met two. Oh, no. Okay. Yeah. So four. It's been a fun game. Well, we ready to wrap this up? I'm glad we can eat sandwiches and drink. I claw out my eyes and run away. I'm just glad that I gave you guys something. So for, for this encounter, there are ways to recover your wits. But for this encounter, your move and think are disabled. Okay. Because your ability to be rational is basically sort of gone at the moment. And you're so frightened, you can't move. So, any roles that you would do that require those things, you would just use any qualities that you have. But basically like those are, until you can recover your wits, those are disabled. When I see char freak out, I freak out. And I shine that light in that creature's face. I don't know if that's a good idea or not, but I do that thing. Um. Sugnight to me. Uh, let's see. So you're going to risk belief. Yeah. So that's the thing that I need to do. Then that is the thing that I will do. Okay. I will risk belief to make this, to make this work, make this flashlight. Okay. So make a, make a care. Are we in like, are we in turn based? Uh, you can also act, everybody's basically going at the same time right now. Well, I'm, I was in the living room, putting candles around whenever you came, but I could still see them, I guess, because. You were still in the living room when he stepped in. Yeah. So did he see me or does it look like he's walking? You're not, you're not sure. Okay. So I'm going to go, I'm going to grab my backpack and the rope. I'll leave my rope tongue book, but I'll grab my backpack and my rope and go hide, like, behind a chair or something. Okay. Yeah. Because you would very easily yet duck behind something. Oh, another six. No, unfortunately. I got two sixes. My care role was 24. Oh, yeah. What, what does the effect of that light do? It just gives him a negative two to damage. It reduces his damage. Okay. Yeah. Cause you see him and you're, you see your flashlight sort of start to flicker a little bit and then you just go ahead and you just the right trajectory of that beam, just right into his eyes and you see his what were slits and then narrow down very, very small. Run. And you see he sort of, he hisses and takes it, takes a step back. Oh, shh, shh, shh, shh. All is fine. All is fine. Oh, I, I'll, I'll recover my, uh, my wits then. Sure. That was close guy. You doing Ollie real quick. Oh, yeah. Okay. I'm good. You see he takes, is he exceptionally quick? Cause he bounds immediately over to char and wraps his arm around him. And then where he has that, those claws, you hear it sort of like, it's not tearing, but you can hear, cause everything else is like, the power is out. So it is, you could drop a pen in this room and hear it. And you just hear the, these claws sort of scratching at that leather. Whenever he wraps his arms around him. And yeah, you're frozen with fear at the moment. Uh, you can, if you want to make a fight to try and like, push him off of you, you're able, your fight is not disabled. So you can make a fight against his grab. Um, no, I imagine right now I'm too, I'm just too shocked right now. All right. That's all right. Yeah, I, well, I'm worried about you, buddy. I'm also a little too scared to touch this thing though. Yeah, because you see, he's definitely, but he's not tearing into the leather. You see, like he's, you take that flashlight on him and he's, he looks agit, he looks agitated. Like he's not able to focus, but you're, you feel, you feel good about this. You're, you feel like you're making a difference. You're keeping him at bay. You're doing something. All right. You can feel it. I'm going to keep it on his face then as much as I don't like looking at it. Let's illuminate this horrible abomination. He's a cat shining on the wall. Oh, why did I think about laser pointers, my stuff? I know some good games we could play. I know some new tricks, a lot of very good tricks. Your mother will not mind at all if we do. And he just smiles at all of you in turn. Although you're, you're hiding, but you can feel him smiling at you. But from where you're the furthest away hiding behind that, you can hear off in the side in the back of the living room. Fidget, you barely hear a voice. No, no, no, no, no. That cat's no good. That cat's no good. He has to go. You have to, you have to get away. You have to be safe. I'll kind of kind of try and like look without, I'll try to like look out of my peripheral. Like try to not take my eyes off them, but also kind of unclaimed. Yeah, because you're just kind of kind of trying to look. But in the back, you see in the back on a fish bowl is a, is a goldfish. And you see it looks like it is swim up to the top where its mouth is sticking out of the water. And it looks like it's saying these words. More monsters. If I'm behind the chair, I can assume that there is more furniture that I can like shimmy behind. So I'm going to try and like get over to the fish bowl without trying, without just getting on the open. Okay, make a move. And I have one of my qualities is I can sneak quiet as a mouse. Okay, absolutely applies. Let's see, four more. Nice. 16. Yeah, because you're you're looking. I did get a six. I did get a six. I got one six. You can roll again. 19. Yeah, because you're sneaking past and yeah, none of, I mean, not that any of you are really thinking about everything else in the room, but where you can see this thing is absolutely not paying attention to you. Like it's looking at the others in turn and absolutely just glazing over you. You know it doesn't see you and you're able to very successfully, you sneak up behind this Roman style column where this goldfish bowl is setting. Okay, and then I'm going to feel kind of silly because I'm nine and I know fish don't talk, but I'm going to say, did you say something? I did. It's it swims over and you can still hear it like it looks like it's up on the bowl looking you in the eye and you can see like its eyes are strangely blue. Yeah, it's slim to the right. You can still hear it. You can hear it talking. It's moving its mouth through the water through the goldfish bowl. I did. The thing is no good that cat in that hat he has to go. He will ruin everything. I can and I'm a little shocked for a second because there's fish just talk to me, but I'll take a minute and then I'll be like, how do you know the cat? Oh, he's a very old thing. He comes from deep in the closet. He's no good. I promise you he does no good for anyone. What will he do? He'll ruin, he'll break, he'll smash and he'll take. Well, I will. Um, I will try and make a lasso with my rope. Okay. So what do I need to do? What is making a lasso? Uh, it's manual dexterity. So I'd say move. Move. Um, I have survivalist skills. Sure. Yeah, that works. Yeah. Well, you're not making a lariat. Oh, it's pretty bad. Yeah, that is, that is a good one. That is a grim situation to really get out of here. Yeah. These dice are mad because I've had them for a couple of years and never used them, so. You want to make it a noose? It looks like. Yes. Slip it, hang yourself. Game is over. I got seven. Seven. You, yeah. You. It's a Wi-Fi. You try and together and make a lasso. You're not sure how strong it is though. Okay. I will sneak back over to be closer over to where they are with the cat as close as I can get without them noticing me. Okay. He didn't even know you went over in the first place. So that last one can still carry over. And yeah, you sneak back over to the couch where you were. Okay. And now I will attempt to lasso the cat. Okay, make a move. Yeah, they don't like you. You're not kidding. Thirteen. Okay, and then subtracting some for the how poor the rope is, the knot is. Because you throw that, I mean, your aim is good because you throw it over that way. But as he's going, you see, he just catches it in mid-air as it is about to come over all of you. And he grabs it and you see, he looks down the rope to you and then looks beyond you in line and sees the goldfish bull. You see, it looks like he puts his hand. He's not holding Char anymore and looks like he starts pulling that rope toward him. Are you holding on or letting go? I will let go. Okay. Because he just continues to pull it toward him. And you see, as he's in one hand doing that and the other, he looks like he reaches behind himself and out of nowhere pulls this broken looking umbrella. And see, he's waving it around and smiling. And you see, looks like he taps the door frame. And when it does, you see it looks like because it was a sort of a beige color. And now it's like black light, white just glows and it twists and you hear the wood basically curving and splintering and the stones grinding together. And it turns into like in beetle juice when the door frame just sort of grows at a proportion. Yeah, I'm so glad you said that because that's what I was imagining. See, he does that. And then as he starts pointing at different things with this umbrella, things in the room, colors become too bright. The geometry is off and strange. You hear these weird noises. So you're still in the house, but things just suddenly become different. Now, now have no fear. My tricks are not bad. Lots of good fun. If you wish with a game I call and then in an instant, he's over by that goldfish bowl up up with a fish and he grabs that bowl and tosses it up and balances it on the end of his umbrella. Yeah, because then basically he's just walking around like he's about to drop it. Well, he's basically dancing around the room around all of you. And you see the the fish is flipping out. It is very upset. Did you recognize you weren't that recognize this fish? Yeah, it was about that. I was going to have it. Char seems very calm. Never liked that fish. Yeah, your dad was watching some sort of a show and then he just thought it would be a nice throwback sort of thing to have a classic goldfish bowl. He got it like a week and a half ago and you see, but it swims up to the top. The fish are trending. And it spins reach up to the edge of the bowl and it pulls itself up and out. Okay, okay, this is though, this is very bad. He means he means you no good. You need to not believe in any of the things that that he can do and like looks like he's having trouble making making words and speaking. He's so scared like because as he tips over that he's trying to swim off the other side. So the bowl doesn't fall off. You need to tell him to go away, take his power. Oh, okay, oh, okay, I know what you can do. And you see, that's when looks like he comes, the cat dances over to the corner of the room and he bends over. He's on like his left tippy toe and he bends over, extending the umbrella with its full length in the goldfish bowl at the end. Can I use, let me, can I use think in conjunction with my knowledge of physics to see if I can figure out like when he's going to drop him and where he's going to drop him? Yeah, sure. A lot of middle of the room. You got a six there. But I did get one six, yeah, 15. Well, you're looking at it. And as strange as this dance is, he looks like he's in complete control of the bowl. But you can tell what, from what his, this movie just did. You can tell what the trajectory and the way he's now balancing the bowl. He is about to throw it. Can I tell how far can I, can I figure out a spot to try and catch it? It looks like it's behind him. Okay, I'm going to move to that approximate spot where I feel like he's going to throw him. I'm going to try and anticipate as much as I can. Okay, yeah, because you see it happening and you sort of take a curve around him to see it going. And as he looks like he's levering it behind him, I like to be here. Oh, I like it a lot. I will not go away. I do not wish to go. And so, so, so, I will show you another game that I know. And you see quickly behind him, his tail lashes out and wraps on the door handle of a closet, flings the closet open. And as he does that, that's what you see. You're about halfway there and you see what he's going to do. And he just chucks the goldfish bowl behind him into the closet. Okay, so I can, can I make the move to try and catch? Yeah, make him, make a move. Can I add my physics to that? Yes. Okay. Because you anticipated it. Can I believe in him? Oh, no. Yes. All right, I am believing in Jim. I'm risking one kick up. Come on now. There's your die to roll. But I did roll one six there. That's back for you. So, six, 11, 15. Come on, baby. Okay, 19. Yeah, do you anticipate it? He's fast, but you knew what was coming. So, you are, you're able, you're able to, you don't, you get to where you get a hand on it, but you have to go into the closet to do it. Okay. So, that was a pass or fail? That was a pass. Okay, I'll keep my cup. My cup? Yeah, because you, yeah, you basically, you have your hands on, it's in the dark, and then you feel your hands grab it. And then that's when the door slams shut behind you. So, we'll pause with you for a minute. Perfect. Whenever I see them get shut in the closet, that's when I imagine I'm going to snap out of it. Okay. That's my little stupor. Oh, yeah. That's it, pal. You have to leave, and I'll point to the door. I'm going to try a speech, can I, or speak? Sure. Yeah, tell them, Char. Yeah. Get this butt face out of here. Yeah, butt face. You got to go. Butt face cat. Um, let's see. Ow. That helped you talk. That helps you talk like a tough kid. My, will my, a tough kid quality help? Yes, you're trying to intimidate him. We've also got a sub quality where I look out for little kids. Oh, which one gives you that bigger? I think you only pop up against one. Oh, I can only get one. Yeah. So, I idolize Char, would that come into play at all, or is that for a role that I would make? That's like one of my qualities. So, I'll roll that you would make, yeah? Okay. Okay, and I can reroll six. Unless you're believing in him as well. Then you can do that. Um, yeah. I'd like to believe in him. I will risk a k-cop. And do I add this, or is it? Yeah. If you reroll this, you add it. It already has. Yep. Here you go. I believe in you. I idolize you. It's a quality that gives me a plus one. So, does that mean I give him two die? No, you just give him just the one for the beliefs. Okay. Five, okay. So, see, we got seven, eight, fourteen, uh, 19. Yeah, it looks like he, he looks at you for a moment. Like, his face is just sort of frozen before it breaks back into another smile. So, that is a failure. All right, here's my cake up. Sorry. Nah, no big deal. It was pretty close. You lost a little faith in me. I don't worry about it. Yeah, because you see he looks at you and then dashes back up to you. And you see he rakes his claw down, down your chest. No! Go ahead, make a fight. And he's still, I've still got the flashlight in his eye. Okay, so he takes a negative tutor damage. Negative two damage, yeah. Okay, so my fight's six and I can take a hit. That's the quality of plus three quality. Okay. Hey, you rolled a six. Hey, you rolled two sixes. Yeah, yeah. Two, six, seven, five. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What happens if I roll another six? You roll that again too. Yeah, okay. Thirty-two. Oh, okay. Dang dog. Yeah, because you, you can take it just like he goes. You kind of roll with it. And he doesn't do nearly as much. He still hits you because you still take, because he only had this claw. You take four points of damage because he only had one six, one six sets of passing grade over your fight. Wow. So, okay, what is that? How does that work? I feel fine or sore or bad. Because it ticks down because you're, once you deplete that whole first bar, then you go down to the next one. Okay. So, okay, how much should I take? Four. I'm fine. Don't worry about me, Glenn. Go away! Because you see it sort of hangs, his claws hang in your chest and then he just pulls it right up into your face. I will not go away. I do not wish to go. And so, so, so, I will show you another, another good game that I know. And that's, then he, the tail flicks behind him again and he opens up that closet and then pushes you through the closet. Into anybody? Do I, like, bump into Jim? Jim Belushi. Not this Jim, though. Not, not immediately. Hey, Jim Belushi, big fan. Thought you were dead. Help me! Because you see, it looks like he slowly turns to the other, to the two of you and he sort of bows and makes a motion for the closet. Well, Char just was thrown in there. So, what I'm going to do is, I'm going to keep the, I have no, like, I'm not going to look at Fidget. Decrease that bomb. Sorry, I forgot about that line. Decrease that by two. So, he only took two damage. I'm going to keep that light in his eyes as I slowly move towards the closet. And when I get to the closet, I'm going to keep my eyes on the cat creature but kind of yell over my shoulder. Char! You don't hear anything. Is it closet or open? Yes. Okay. I'm going to stealthily run into the closet. Okay. I'm going to just take a step back into the closet. Char! Yeah, you don't hear anything. He doesn't respond. I'll take another step. Do I hear you, Char? Am I just being an ass? You don't know, you don't hear him. Flashlight still in his eyes. I'll take another step back. Char, is that funny? Char? Yeah, then it looks like he sort of just shuts the door and pushes you in. And then once you cross into the threshold of the closet, that's when then you can hear him say your name. Hey, Glenn, I'm over here. So, don't worry about me. I'm okay. So is my light just shining on the door or? It blinks out. Oh, it's gone. So it's just darkness? Yeah, just darkness. I'll head towards Char's voice. I'll pull up my Zippo if I can. Say, can I hear them? Can I hear them? Yeah, now you can hear rustling. Yeah, and then, Jim, because you've got your hand, you're just barely able to hold onto it. And you lower it down, you can feel the bowl, but you can't see anything. It's pitch black. And then for a moment, you hear kind of what a bubbly audible sigh, and then you hear what sounds like a vacuum click on for just a few seconds, then it clicks off. Fish, fish, are you there? Fish. Now you hear the water slosh around in the bowl? Well, pull out my iPhone, turn on the flashlight. Yeah, and when you look at it, the water is vaguely blue, but there's no fish in the water. Look around in a closet. Yeah, because when you guys look around, it looks like you just see what looks like very old boards, like almost like plywood boards that have just been sort of slapped together. There's no like clothes or anything like a traditional closet. It's just you barely see this old aged streaked wood around as you turn it, and then you finally see and towards your eastern side, it looks like it's just more blackness. Because you're all, you can all hear each other pretty well and the shuffling pretty well. You're all packed pretty close together. How's the Wi-Fi signal? Just very one small bar. Okay. This is a very strange closet, Char. Your parents really are weird. The raw milk and the weird closet. Yeah, I'm not. Let's yeah, I'll just pull up my zippo and kind of. Yeah, Char's voice is like wavering. You see, he's still, you could attempt to help someone recover. You could try to calm yourself down, recover wits by making a think. And someone else can also make a care to try and restore wits. I'll make a care. When I see Char, I'm going to hug him. Okay, make a chair. Make a chair. You want us to work around that chair? I'm not a carpenter. I'm the six-year-old carpenter. It's full of boards, yeah. I would make Char a chair. That's going to make him feel really good. He even places said he'll feel better. A care for Char, you know, a chair. I idolize Char. That totally works. And that is, that's a plus one. So I just add a die to it, or I add plus one to my role. You add another die. Yeah, you add another die to your role. On top of what I normally get, or I just add one more to my die pool. You add another die to your die pool. Okay, okay. On top of your care. So there's two sixes and a five. So I'll take these sixes. So 12, 17, rolling. Here's another six and a four. So 21, 27, and rolling. And that's a one. So 28. Yeah, you, whenever he comes up and hugs you. I will heal you with my heart. It's like everything makes sense again. You realize like you sort of, it's like this microcosm of responsibility and maturity that settles on to you. Imagine you're just looking up at me with anime style eyes. Oh yeah, the golden boy tears. You regain five wits. Oh well, I'm better off than I was. Hi, I'm Glam. I'll be your healer tonight. Yeah, what do we do? Thanks, thanks buddy. I'll just pat him on the head. I'm glad you're okay. I can't find the fish. I lost him. I caught it, but I lost him. I'll look around at my feet. I'll turn my flashlight on and start shining in and around at my feet. Yeah, once you, it bleaks off, but then once you're in here, it turns, yeah, flips right back on. I flip it on or it flips on by itself. You can flip it on. The light seems different. It doesn't seem as bright. I'm going to knock on the wall to see if I can like determine if the darkness keeps going. Because, oh, toward the dark, you're reaching out into the dark. Not into the dark, but like the wall by it to like knock and see if it sounds like, you know, you can tell when you knock on the wall. It does echo like it keeps going. Okay. I'll cast back like in Silent Hill. No, the wall sounds solid though. On the other side is not an empty chamber. It sounds rock solid. I'll take my sword and systematically tap it against the wall as I move down. I'll pull out a bomb and lay the bomb down. Char, what are the chances that this is like a secret escape tunnel from your house? Could be, I guess. Sounds like it keeps going for a ways. Because yeah, behind you does not look like it. It's not a door. Behind you is just that aged wood. There's no door out. There's no door out. Can I google this? Can I google the cat? Yeah. I would like to google the cat. So that's my think plus my love of the internet work. So you just spend, you just spend belief. Oh yeah. Okay, so I'll spend one. Or risk belief rather. You're not spending it. So that starts with 16. They're old one six. They're old another six. So that's 22. 26. Yeah, because your Google flu is strong. Cat, comma, tall, comma, red and white hat. You find all sorts of references here. Mine is Slenderman. Very easily to Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat. Off the, you know, immediately. But that doesn't quite, it doesn't, that doesn't make sense. But you keep digging until you find it's like this strange occultist website that insists that Dr. Seuss took the idea from a much darker fairy tale from Europe. And it mentions, it talks about this twisted, this large twisted cat that liked to torture children. Make, make messes. Basically always keep them in trouble persistently until they were branded criminals or troublemaker children. Until they were given up or things like that basically ruin their lives. Oh, good. Well, guys, it's obviously based off of the cat in the hat. Number one, which I'm amazed that none of us have brought up yet. But then also, it appears that it's based off of this European folktale. I tell all of them about it. But you feel very good about how well you search. So I'll give you an additional belief. Oh, I get more belief. I don't like that story. No, well, I also do not like it because it appears that it's totally real, so. I'll shine the flashlight in the fishbowl. You see, it shines blue. You can see normally when you turn that flashlight, if you pointed it toward the end, that was just black. It just looked like it was more black. When you shine it through the fishbowl, through this, basically this blue film, it's almost like a theater gel of blue. But when it does that, you can see it through the darkness and you see what looks like a traditional door with a handle at the end of that darkness. Oh, wow. I was just looking for a fish. Found a door. Oh, good fun, Glenn. Yeah, thanks. That's a beam, just a beam of charm. You're my best friend. Oh, sorry, that's weird anyway. Well, let's go. All right, yeah, I'll puff out my chest. All right, next time I see that cat, I'm going to knock the hat off of him. Ooh, smack-tock bonus! He's a real butt face, isn't he? Yeah, he is. A real butt face. He's a butt face. I will have already walked off as they're sitting there talking to the ship. Yeah, because you walk up and you see, it definitely looks like the door's in Charles' house. What about the fish? We can't leave the fish. Did you see him anywhere? No, but he's got to be here somewhere. He might have been vacuumed. Bye. I heard a vacuum. Do we all hear the vacuum? No, just you. Can I look on the floor or other places in the room to see if I see any water, where the fish would have flopped around? If anything, it's just dusty and you see your own footprints. It doesn't look like he was anywhere on the floor in here, guys, so. I'll examine. I'll put my flashlight at each of their mouths and check for excess moisture around their lips. It all looks pretty good. Okay, I guess. I'm just picking my teeth with a fish bone. I will hold on. Why do I feel like Char is a cartoon cat? Don't you ever say that. He's actually been Heathcliff the whole. We're all playing cats, right? I'm Felix. I will hold on to Char's pant leg and continue to shine mine. His ripped acid wash, George Ash's. Yes. I'll crawl up inside one of his jinko legs. I didn't know until recently that whatever size jinko you buy that the hem of the pants matches your waistlines. I just said that either, yeah. ♪ God told me already got the life ♪ Anyway. Yeah, you come up to the what looks like one of the, because everything in Char's house are all like this very nice thick wood white door with a gold curved handle. So not a Beetlejuice door? No, this one looks normal. I'll wait. I'll look at Char unexpectedly. Well, if yeah, Fidget isn't opening it, then I'll go open it. I'll listen at the door. Make a think. God needs someone to make a think. I can make a think. If you guys need a think, I got it. Well, you can listen too, I guess. I'm not going to discourage anyone else from listening. I am discouraged, but not because of you. Twenty two. Yeah, because you sort of touch it and hold your ear and get to listen to the other side and you hear heavy, heavy running water on the other side. Char, do you guys have multiple sources? Do you guys have Roman baths in your house? I mean, I wouldn't be surprised. I mean, we got a bathroom. A Roman bathroom. I had a room for bathing, yes. Huge pool in the middle. I'm sure I don't know what a Roman bath is, so. With people schfitzing, I mean, if that's what you're asking, yes. It sounds like there's a lot of water on the other side of the store, so what room do you think it comes out in? What about, can you look under the door? Do you see a lot of water coming out of there? Is there a keyhole? No, no keyhole. Guys, there's no water coming out from the under the door. I'm not. Also, no light coming from under the door. I'm going to try to open this door, because that feels like it's the best way to find out what's on the other side of the door. Oh, we should be prepared for what's on the other side. Is there anything to grab on to? Char's pant like. Got it. I guess I'll hold my breath. Yeah, when you guys open the door, it is like all of your ears simultaneously pop, because suddenly everything changes, and you are all standing very close together in a very small closet inside your upstairs guest bathroom. It looks like you're standing in a regular closet now, and your feet are suddenly hit with water, because you see the tub, the sink, and the toilet. The shower and the faucet in the bathtub are on full blast on hot. So it's very steamy in the room. The bathtub is overflowing. The sink is hot and full and overflowing, and the toilet is overflowing. How strong is the rush of water that comes at us? Is it just like a small or is it like? No, it's small. Yeah, it just, once you open the door, then basically it fills in the space. And it's about half an inch of water. It looks like it hasn't been flooding for that long. I'm going to grab the door out of Jim's hand and shut it. When you shut it, it's like you're all crammed inside. When you shut it again, you're still in that closet, and water's coming in through the bottom of the door. So we're in the bathroom closet? You're in a literal closet in the bathroom. I'm going to pick up Glem and put him on my shoulders. Okay. I'm going to-- Well, you don't have any room to do in the closet. Oh, well, I'm going to-- Stop, Char. I'm going to step out because I'm going to try to wave through and turn off some of the water. Okay, yeah. I'm going to look around in the closet for anything that would be good for like survival skills, anything that would put my survival pack. So I have my backpack. I'm going to fill it up with useful shit. Tails, soap, shampoo, conditioner, extra toothbrushes, toothpaste. I'm going to take-- Floss. One of the shampoo and the floss and soap. Okay. We are going to muggyver our way out. You can do that, right? I'm going to craft a bomb out of those things and-- Yeah, because you sloshing through, it kind of like settles into you. This is water damage. I just-- Yeah, I just see boarding school. But yeah, I'm going to shut off all the water. Yeah, the water's pretty hot. Like when you go over and what are you trying to turn off first? Oh, I imagine the shower is probably the-- Yeah, you're reaching the knob just spins both ways. I'll try-- I'll try the next thing. I'll try the next thing. Whatever the faucet or whatever is closest. Yeah, when you go to spin the faucet, it also the panel just spins. Uh-oh. Just smash it, charge. Just smash it. Where's the watermelon? Yeah, I'll uh-- Make a thing. I'll take limbs and vise and I'll try to like-- Wait, wait, don't do that. That's not going to help. No, do it. You can do it. Listen to your six-year-old friend. Yeah. Come on. 23. Yeah, you know, traditionally, you know the word, the word for the toilet is, and where the one for the sink is. Okay, so I will-- Are they in the room? Yes. So I'll shut those off. Go to shut those down. Yeah, make a fight. Ooh. When you go over there, you grab it. It's-- The pressure's very strong and you're having trouble turning it off. One die. Four. Yeah, you grab it, but you can't. You can't budge it. I can't-- Someone-- Someone turn this-- Turn this off. I'm about ready to smash it when he starts saying that. Oh, okay. Yeah, the water-- Now that it's overflowed, the water is-- The temperature's going up as more water fills it. It's about to get scalding. And the air is very thick and it's steamy inside. I'll try to turn the crank. Maybe there's six. You've got a five before. You have a 15 right now. Yeah, it's hard to do, but you very resolutely just turn it off and you see the toilet completely stops. It stops overflowing. The water doesn't sink back into it, but it stops. Now, point at the one for the sink. I still let that one carry over, too. You reach over and it's about the same difficult and you turn it off and the sink turns off. You see the bathtub. After those are both turned off, it looks like-- Yeah, the bathtub turns off as well. Okay, any other water source speeding water? Looks like the faucet is still going a little bit, but the shower maintenance. It looks like you've cut off most of the water supply, so it's not an unmanageable amount of water, but it's still coming down and making the tub overflow. I'll look back in the closet. You said there were towels in there. Okay, I'm going to grab a towel and try to stuff it up the faucet. Okay, yeah, no problem. You don't know how long it'll last, but you creme it up there pretty good. Now, even after it saturates the towel, it'll be a dribble. I'm going to open the door to try and let some of the steam out. Yeah, you open the door. It looks like you have water pours out and fills the hallway. Oh, that's good. The steam, yeah, the steam comes out. It's not my house. It's charge house. Charge is a nice house. Then they can probably afford to fix it. Because then you open it up and once the steam comes out and you see written in the mirror, in the steam, I will show you another good game that I know. Who wrote that? Before we leave this room, I'm going to take another bar of soap and a washcloth from the closet. Easily done. Very expensive soap, soap shaped like a clamshell. Charge is taking your things. The girls taking your things, the girls taking your things. I think that we're probably going to need them. I mean, come on. All right. I guess my parents are going to be mad at me enough as it is. How big are you? You said they were shaped like a like a seashell. Are they regular size bars of soap though? Yeah. They're not like little fancy hands up. No, full size. Three seashells. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. You're my demolition man. Yeah, you see out in the hallway where the door opens up. You see, you recognize your hallway, but it looks different because it has the same doors, same walls, the same carpeting. But when you step out, it's much longer. And you see there are several doors on either side before it ends with a door at the far end. And then at the other end, you see a large red box. This doesn't seem right. A large red box. Hey, Jim, what does your phone say about the box? I know, I, Jacob kind of don't know how to respond to this because for the, for the benefit of the story, I don't know how familiar I am with the cat in the hat, the story itself. I mean, it's on your, it's pulled up on your phone. So, I mean, I probably know at least what the box represents. I do not remember Dave. I do not remember much about the cat in the hat. Other than there is a cat and he's wearing a hat. Here, wait, hold on. I'll get, maybe I'll give you, maybe I'll give you a good moment. So I guess see the box and I just go, oh my God, thing one and thing two. Oh, no. Because you see there's a ventilation system. Oh, no. A vent above the box. Oh, no. And you hear, you hear the, the cat's voice sort of echoing from the top. Oh, no. I call this game fun in a box. In this box are two things. I will show you now. You, you will like these two things. And you see it looks like the box is starting to like rock back and forth violently and sort of jump up and down with the force hitting the top and the sides of it and going side to side. And from the top of that grate, you see it looks like a fishing line with a magnet tied to it. Drops very quickly onto this metal latch on the hook. And then as he starts to pull it up, you see the latch slides open and the box, you see where one hits it and it looks like it starts to fall open and we win there. Because we're at time. All right. Take one and think dude. I'm going to punch it. Thang. It's Thang one and Thang two, I hope. This is, this is my real quick. This is my spooky cat in the head story. You know, so the ride at Universal Studios, which is very worth going on. There's a cat in the hat ride at Universal Studios? No, I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, but if you go on that ride, there's a moment where you go into the closet and one thing that I had never noticed before. As I was going through the, like clothes are pulled aside and they're made out of big, heavy plastic and there was one time I was going through and I swore. You saw a man get murdered. That it looked like, it looked like a guy swinging from a noose. Oh yeah. To me. The old, the old Wizard of Oz. And it was because it was within arm's length of me. It scared the ever loving shit out of me. And I had to immediately get back on and ride it again to see if I could figure out what was that. Did you figure it out? And it was, yeah, that just that big plastic suit, but it scared me. Not for your sanity, but for the sake of a good story. I wish it had been like, and then I didn't see anything the next time I went there. I never did. They immediately shut the ride down. And wouldn't tell anyone what was. Two hours later it opened up. I rode it eight more times and I didn't see that thing. Nothing was wrong. That's a good, that's how you end up. We just improved on your story. 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We have my poker chips downstairs. I didn't bring tokens either. Maximum 10 per layer. But those will be when we actually apply. That's like your belief counter that you use. Listen to what she says. I recommend pennies, which can be found in pockets, couches, or jars. Or your loco megamart. In a tail. In an unattended tail. I wish you'd just set the floor. Or the change banks of telephone machines. I feel like saying that you can find them in your couches. It's bad to say you could find them in the floor. The federal mint. Pockets, couches, or jars. Not cans. Don't use them from cans. Large Coke bottle banks made of plastic.