Camp Diogenes Staff Handbook, Rule #409: No cleats at camp. It harms the ground, the historic wood cabins, and fellow campers. How would you like it if someone tried to pop you like a balloon? You wouldn’t!
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Transcript
Amanda: Last time on Join the Party.
Eric: A mysterious stranger named Crudo Anaconda, AKA the Puzzle Cleric rolls into Camp Diogenes. He needs volunteers to test out the special bouncy castle obstacle course that he has brought to entertain the kids and teens of Camp Die. Carrie-Ann rushes to tell the Director who seems incredibly unhappy that Crudo Anaconda is here. After some incredibly awkward adult interaction, and some lying about what their greatest fears are, the Best Friends are ready to charge in. In the first room, the CITs had to scale a massive wall to get to the golden doors on top to get to the next room. It's all made out of bouncy castle material too. Of course, it's really cool. Like there was a bird that was made out of a bouncy castle it was really fun. Les gets hurt while tussling with a Puzzle Cleric and gets caught in a Chinese finger trap for his trouble. Phoebe tries to magically heal him with her spooky powers, but Les backs away from her magic because of said spooky powers. Eventually, they get to the top and push on through the golden doors to continue. Let's get the puzzle– I mean, let's get the party started.
[theme]
Eric (as Crudo): [via the PA system] Pretty impressive that you already have one key after doing one room. We'll see if that keeps up. I'm the– I'm the Puzzle Cleric if you didn't recognize my voice, I guess we only met recently. Remember if you need a clue, maybe we can make a trade.
Brandon (as Les): Okay.
Eric (as Crudo): [via the PA system] You can't see me. I’m not here. Okay.
Julia (as Phoebe): Are you like one with the vinyl? Like the blowup material? Because that's– huh.
Eric (as Crudo): [via the PA system] Yeah, that's one of my powers that I got from communing with the eldritch puzzle God from the shrine of the silver monkey.
Julia (as Phoebe): Right. I forgot you were a colonizer, thank you for reminding us.
Eric (as Crudo): [via the PA system] I’m not– I was lost there– unrelated. That's a story for another time. I found it and I helped the eldritch puzzle god put it together because it was dashed, and it was really hard. It's hard. It's only three pieces, but it was harder to put together than you thought.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): If they were an eldritch puzzle god shouldn't they have been able to like put together the puzzle of their own shrine? Like, if anything.
Brandon (as Les): Yeah, that makes sense.
Julia (as Phoebe): We see flaws in your logic is what we're saying.
Brandon (as Les): Is this one of the puzzles we’re supposed to solve, is it the lies?
Eric (as Crudo): [via the PA system] I– I'm not even here. I'm not here.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Wait, guys. What if the puzzle of his relationship with Friday is what we have to solve?
Julia (as Phoebe): Oh…
Brandon (as Les): Oh…
Julia (as Phoebe): I mean, I solved that. He's just not very good at doing laundry.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): You’re right, you’re right. You did.
Eric (as Crudo): [via the PA system] Nope, I'm not responding that I'm not, I’m not taking the bait. Nope. I've worked with lots of teens. You don't take the bait. Everyone knows that.
Julia (as Phoebe): Okay.
Eric: Alright. Let's go to the second room here. Are we gonna have the same leader here?
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: Alright. There's gonna be Pheebs. Phoebe, please roll + Sharp.
Julia: So I rolled a 12.
[gasps and cheers]
Julia: 10 + 2 for 12.
Amanda: Oh, my God.
Eric: Oh, my God.
Amanda: We get two hold!
Eric: Okay, so remember, on a 10+, you're describing the next room and how it's all made out of inflatables, and the party holds 2 because you got to 12+.
Julia: Nice.
Eric: So we have 2 more points into the hold pool. Phoebe, what does the next room look like, and what are you what do you all do while you're there?
Julia: So the next room kind of looks like a magical forest, in that there's very tall trees. There are birds singing maybe you hear like, maybe an inflatable unicorn walks across our path as we go through.
Eric (as Balloonicorn): You're all doing a great job!
Julia (as Phoebe): Oh, my God. Thank you.
Brandon (as Les): Thanks, unicorn!
Eric (as Balloonicorn): See you later. I'm gonna go drink from this inflatable stream of knowledge for unicorns only.
[slurping sounds]
Julia (as Phoebe): Oh, okay. You know, I really did need that self-esteem. So I'm glad we came across that unicorn who told us we were doing a good job.
Eric: Yeah, can each of you tell me one thing that's in this inflatable magical forest?
Amanda: Uh, I'm gonna go ahead and say like, they find a kind of toadstool mushroom cap that's like a little trampoline. Jump on it.
Brandon: Oooh, that's fun.
Eric: Oh, that is fun.
Amanda: Yeah.
Brandon: I'm gonna say candy trees.
Julia: Ooh.
Amanda: Great.
Brandon: They’re trees but they blossom candy.
Amanda: Fun.
Eric: Do you try to eat one?
Brandon: Is this a trick?
Eric: I don't know.
Brandon: We rolled a 12 so yeah, sure. I'll try to eat one.
Eric: Okay… You reach out and it's made out of an inflatable so you can't pull it off the trees.
Brandon: Dang it!
Amanda: Sorry, bud.
Eric: You reach out and you squeeze it, it goes [epp oop, eep oop] into your hand.
Amanda: That would have been sick.
Eric: Yeah.
Julia: So what I would like to do in describing this is I would like to spend one hold to find something valuable or a resource, and what I find in the middle of the path is an inflatable sword in the stone.
Eric: Hell yeah, dude.
Amanda: Yes, Julia!
Brandon: Maybe, maybe we summon good ol PC and challenge him to a sword fight for a key.
Amanda: Into that.
Julia: Into that.
Eric: If you'd like to.
Brandon: Just an idea.
Julia: Who's got good Tough that could kick some ass with the inflatable sword then? Are we all bad at tough?
Brandon: I’m +0.
Amanda: I have none.
Brandon: I think we all have zeros. Yeah.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: Yeah. Well, who wants revenge the most?
Brandon: But I think you found the sword you got to do the fight.
Julia (as Phoebe): Okay.
Eric: Cool. As you step up to the sword in the stone, there's a little inflatable squirrel wearing a big– for the squirrel, straw hat.
Julia (as Phoebe): You’re so cute.
Eric (as Inflate-a-Squirrel): Oh, well hello! Young heroes!
Julia (as Phoebe): You’re adorable.
Eric (as Inflate-a-Squirrel): It seems you’ve come upon the inflatable sword in the inflatable stone. No one has been able to pull it out because it's attached. Because it’s made– kind of attached like that. But also, we're also part of this forest and maybe for creatures from outside the forest could have a better a better chance at it.
Julia: Phoebe gets down like squats near the squirrel like–
Julia (as Phoebe): Little squirrel friend one, you're adorable.
Eric (as Inflate-a-Squirrel): Thank you.
Julia (as Phoebe): Two, I'm the Chosen One. I think I can pull this out.
Eric (as Inflate-a-Squirrel): Oh, a Chosen One. Wonderful.
Julia (as Phoebe): Yeah.
Julia: Alright, so I'm gonna try to pull this inflatable sword out of this inflatable stone.
Eric: Hell yeah. I mean, I– this must be Act Under Pressure.
Julia: Yeah, I believe in myself and–
Eric: Or it could be magic. You could roll + Weird.
Julia: I, yeah, I would like to– I believe in myself and my innate magical ability, and I want to pull the sword out of the stone.
Amanda: Hell yeah, dude.
Eric: Do it.
[dice roll]
Julia: It’s a 7.
Eric: Okay, what's the– what move is it again?
Julia: I guess it's use magic.
Eric: Use magic? Okay.
Julia: If I'm using my weird, innate magical ability.
Eric: I think that's fine. Yeah, let's do that.
Julia: Great.
Eric: Okay, it works for you. So you can definitely pull it out. But it does need to have a glitch though.
Julia: Okay, you can decide it if you want.
Amanda: What if, when you pull it out, it's a lot longer than it should be for the size of the hilt, and so it's like five and a half feet long, and so it's a little unwieldy. But Phoebe’s worth it.
Eric: I love this. I'm going to guess in this quickly because this is because one of the glitches is generally it has a problematic side effect and the magic draws immediate unwelcome attention. So you're reaching down, the magic is coursing through you, and your blue light is going all around you. Maybe you have moss growing on your biceps.
Amanda: Hot.
Eric: And you pull it– you get a firm grip on the inflatable sword of the inflatable stone and you pull it up and it does, it pulls up pretty easily because it's inflatable but the stone is attached to the sword. The squirrel did say–
Eric (as Inflate-a-Squirrel): I did say that the sword was attached to the stone.
Julia (as Phoebe): Okay.
Eric (as Inflate-a-Squirrel): Because that’s how it was made.
Julia (as Phoebe): I mean, now it's just basically a big hammer?
Eric (as Inflate-a-Squirrel): Yeah, for sure.
Julia (as Phoebe): Alright, tight. I love that for us. We’re gonna beat the shit out of the Puzzle Cleric with this.
Eric (as Inflate-a-Squirrel): I mean, none of us can carry that so it's pretty cool that you did that.
Julia (as Phoebe): Do you want to try?
Eric (as Inflate-a-Squirrel): No, I’ve done it before.
Julia (as Phoebe): Okay.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Oh.
Eric (as Inflate-a-Squirrel): We had rich lives here before you showed up.
Julia (as Phoebe): Well, you just said that you've never pulled it out before. So what I was gonna do was grab your little tiny inflatable squirrel hands and like make it feel like you were wielding it.
Eric (as Inflate-a-Squirrel): Oh, I definitely want to do that.
Julia (as Phoebe): Okay.
Eric (as Inflate-a-Squirrel): Uppies! Give me uppies!
Julia (as Phoebe): Yes.
Julia: I picked him up.
Eric (as Inflate-a-Squirrel): Uppy. Woop!
Julia: And I grab his little inflatable hands and I make it seem like he's waving the sword around.
Eric (as Inflate-a-Squirrel): I’m the Chosen One! Look at me!
Julia (as Phoebe): I’m so proud of you.
Eric (as Inflate-a-Squirrel): Pew pew pew pew
Julia (as Phoebe): If you think about it, it’s like I’m your Charles.
Eric (as Inflate-a-Squirrel): Incredible. I don't know what that is.
Julia (as Phoebe): He’s a moose god. Anyway, it's fine.
Amanda: Carrie-Ann sketching the scene, crying on like a notepad. She wishes she had a camera.
Brandon: Incredible.
Eric: The squirrel drops out of their heads and you also drop it as well. This is unwieldy, definitely.
Julia (as Phoebe): Yeah, okay. I am going to use it to beat the shit out of the puzzle cleric though.
Brandon: Yeah!
Eric (as Inflate-a-Squirell): That sounds great
Julia (as Phoebe): Great. Puzzle cleric!
[squeak squeak squeak]
Eric: Coming from the woods as he's pushing his way through the trees, the trees like, like a weeble wobble. Go all the way down, then slap up behind him and–
Brandon: But don't fall down.
Eric (as Crudo): You rang.
Julia (as Phoebe): Eric, Phoebe just whips around and whacks him in the head with this thing.
Amanda: Yay!
Eric: Alright, here we go. Here's what you need to know Phoebe, the tags on this weapon are 2 harm.
Julia: Okay.
Eric: Slow. So you gotta like come all the way around on it. It's yeah, it's more of a warhammer than it is a sword.
Julia: Sure.
Eric: So you don't have to do anything necessarily rolling but that will come into play later if you fail something or whatever.
Julia: Okay.
Eric: So you're just gonna we're just gonna wield it, wheel around.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: And go at it?
Julia: I want the element of surprise.
Eric: Yeah, for sure. I'm gonna give you plus, I love how you call him and then just fuck him up, + Tough
Julia: He was so loud approaching.
Eric: Kick some ass.
Julia: That's only a 6.
Eric: That's a 6.
Amanda: Can I help?
Eric: How do you help?
Amanda: When he emerges and Phoebe's attempting to use the element of surprise–
Eric: Sure.
Amanda: –I fall down and I yell–
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Ow, my self-esteem!
Julia: Phoebe's like–
Julia (as Phoebe): That's not an impression of you. It's not an impression. Carrie-Ann is not being mean.
Amanda: Oh, Phoebe. Let me roll.
Eric: Yeah.
[dice roll]
Amanda: Yeah, nice. I got a 9 to help.
Brandon: Sick.
Amanda: Phoebe, you get a +2 but I expose myself to danger.
Eric: Okay, cool. So Carrie-Ann, you say ow, my self-esteem?
Amanda: Yes.
Eric: And the puzzle cleric says–
Eric (as Crudo): No, you have to work through it, the whole point is working through it.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): I don't wanna!
Brandon: That takes work!
Eric: That is what you come down on him with the– with the inflatable sword on the inflatable stone.
Julia: Yeah, he's like telling her no, you have to work through– Boof!
Eric (as Crudo): Oh! Ow! God!
Eric: Yeah, he's down. He's definitely down on the ground.
Julia: And Phoebe just yells–
Julia (as Phoebe): Get him!
Eric (as Crudo): Oh, no, sneak attacked. I should have seen that coming. That was one of the puzzles you had to solve.
Brandon: You're gonna grab a key?
Julia: Yeah, I think I'm just gonna like scramble after– drop the sword scramble after him, grab a key.
Eric: Cool, as you charge the puzzle cleric being like, but the thing about tricking someone is they have to know they weren't tricked, or they'll respond. And you see that he's loosened the strap that wrapped around his arm, and he swings it in a long arc, and it tags both Phoebe and Carrie-Ann for 2 harm.
[Phoebe and Carrie-Ann grunts]
Brandon (as Les): Oh, I didn't know this guy wanted to hurt children.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): That was sharp!
Eric: Carrie-Ann, you have + you have armor, right?
Amanda: I do.
Eric: Okay, so you only take 1.
Amanda: Okay.
Julia: One more hit and went back to unstable, folks. Woo!
Eric: I think Phoebe, he gets you around the feet with it and trips you. So you hit the ground and Carrie-Ann, you're just like, like the end of the leather strap. Just like slashes you where you are on the ground. Still like a good– I assume a good 10/15 feet away?
Amanda: Yeah, yeah.
Julia: Phoebe’s like–
Julia (as Phoebe): This was supposed to be soft and bouncy.
Brandon: Yeah, I think Les is gonna stand up and say–
Brandon (as Les): Hey, man, what? This– this was supposed to be a puzzle. Why are you hitting children?
Eric (as Crudo): Part of the thing that we’re doing here is getting you ready for life and all the possible things that could come upon you just because it looks like a bouncy castle doesn't mean this isn't real, man.
Brandon (as Les): Alright, well, I think it's time for you to go, and next time I see you, I'm gonna take three keys, and then we're gonna be done.
Eric (as Crudo): Alright, we'll see what happens, you did get me though.
Eric: And he pulls one of the keys out from his duster and throws it on the ground in front of Phoebe being like–
Eric (as Crudo): You got me, good one.
Julia (as Phoebe): You suck.
Eric: And then he goes. Boing! And bounces away.
Julia (as Phoebe): I'm gonna sue that guy.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): That's a great idea.
Brandon (as Les): I don't know how prevalent lawsuits are in the time that we are in, but we just definitely sue the shit out of that guy.
Julia (as Phoebe): Yeah
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Like, we definitely signed waivers, but I feel like you can just say that you're gonna sue him, and then I don't know. Maybe he'll give you like $100.
Julia (as Phoebe): That's like $200, Carrie-Ann.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): I know.
Brandon (as Les): Carrie-Ann, that's an absurd amount of money.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): I know. It's like $5,000. It's like three cars.
Brandon (as Les): Yeah. With options.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Yeah.
Eric: Alright, Phoebe because you fell down and you were pulled down? I'm going to say that Phoebe can't be the leader.
Julia: Okay, that’s fine.
Amanda: Well, with my new move, I know get +1 forward because I took harm in a fight so I can try this next one.
Eric: Oh, let's go.
Brandon: Do it, do it.
Amanda: Yeah. All right. Roll.
Julia: Eric, can I also in the meantime, try to get myself a little healing action with use magic?
Eric: Yeah, I think as you're walking through the magic forest, you’re– maybe you're spending more time tending to your wounds than you are looking for the golden inflatable door which is just kind of like at the edge of the forest.
Julia: Yeah, I go pet that unicorn.
Brandon: I was gonna say, the unicorn goes up to you and licks you.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric (Balloonicorn): Oh, what? What's going on here? You look like you got hurt by a man.
Julia (as Phoebe): I did. Did you find that out because you drank from the stream of knowledge? Or did you just watch me get whipped by a grown-ass man?
Eric (Balloonicorn): Which would be more satisfying for you?
Julia (as Phoebe): The stream of knowledge, please.
Eric (Balloonicorn): Yeah, I talked to the salmon in there and he told me all about it.
Julia (as Phoebe): Okay.
Amanda: Nice.
Julia: Great. I'm gonna roll use magic.
Eric: Yeah, use magic.
Julia: I rolled a 10. Okay, great.
Eric: There you go magic works without any issue.
Julia: Let me erase one of these bad boys then.
Eric: Yes, you can clear 1 harm for an injury.
Julia: Great.
Eric: To be clear, you’re at 2 harm?
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: And Carrie-Ann you’re at 1?
Carrie-Ann: Yeah.
Eric: And Les, you're at 0?
Brandon: I'm at 1
Eric: Oh, you're 1 that's right. You're at 1 harm
Julia: Because let me heal you, you fuck.
Eric: That's right we and you have a broken nose that really fucking hurts. Hell yeah, dude. Let's go back to wandering through the challenge of the puzzle God. Carrie-Ann is now the leader, and you're gonna roll + sharp.
Amanda: That's right. [dice roll] Oh piss. Okay, well, I rolled a 2 + 1 sharp + 1 forward for a 4.
Eric: Oh, boy.
Julia: Hey, you can always use luck, bud.
Eric: You can always use luck.
Amanda: I will use luck. This is a good time to use it. Okay.
Eric: Okay. So remember luck is a finite resource.
Amanda and Julia: Yeah.
Eric: And things get worse as you use it. You have a luck move?
Amanda: Okay. So that was my second point of luck I've used in the Camp-Paign so far. So something goes wrong for my sect, an ill-advised project or a disastrous operation.
Eric: I know exactly what happens.
Amanda: But on the bright side guys, got a 12 so that means we get 2 holds.
Julia: Yey!
Eric: That's true.
Julia and Brandon: Yeah.
Eric: I’m gonna, okay we're gonna do your luck move in a second.
Amanda: Okay.
Eric: And remember as you use more luck, you go from being okay to doomed.
Amanda: Yup, yup.
Eric: That's what Monster of the Week says, so I'm gonna hit you harder when I do hard moves, soft moves when people do mess with you.
Amanda: Yeah, this brings me to a 2 out of 7 on the scale of okay to doomed.
Eric: That's not good. That's not good. Okay, you just do get a 12, you automatically at 12. So we are back 2 hold in the hold pool. We're moving through the challenge of the puzzle cleric. Please describe the next room and how it’s all made of inflatables and what they'll do there.
Amanda: You know, it is an all-inflatable version of Director Löw’s office, baby. It is Carrie-Ann’s fantasy. Inflatable desk chair, inflatable TV monitor, inflatable pigeon-hole mailbox, inflatable rotating fan.
Brandon: Inflatable director.
Amanda: Inflatable water cooler, inflatable radio, inflatable that squeaky guest chair that I love to sit in that is taped with duct tape to help the vinyl seat.
Brandon: Inflatable watercolor portrait of Carrie-Ann on the wall.
Amanda: I don't go that far. I don't go that far.
Julia: Eric looks like he decided that he's made all the wrong choices.
Eric: No, this is perfect. This is hon– this is great. Welcome to tabletop role-playing games, where people really indulge themselves in their character.
Amanda: And it is a maze between here and the end of the office like it's like the reception area.
Eric: Sure.
Amanda: And like at her like a private office or the back of the cabinet in the back. And there is all, like the desks are arrayed in front of us almost like a platforming game, where I think in this room, the floor is lava.
Eric: Sure.
Amanda: Or maybe just really sticky because like what's the last time they really mopped in the front office, you know what I mean?
Eric: Yeah, I like the idea that it is lava, even if it's inflatable lava, whatever that means–
Amanda: Yeah. Like roiling.
Eric: –to you. If you fall in there, you definitely get hurt. But you roll the 12, so you're able to navigate your way through it.
Amanda: Yeah, we hop desk to desk.
Eric: Can I make one point on top of this, and I want to point this out to all of your characters. Like yes, we just joked that is, this is Carrie-Ann’s fantasy, but like, that's not how this would work. He doesn't indulge all of you. It didn't like read your fucking brain. It didn't scan your brain.
Julia: So this guy just had a copy of the director's office?
Eric: Correct.
Julia: That's amazing.
Eric: This is a very, very good rendering of the director's office and like the office building, it's right in the front of camp. So like that's where there's like a reception area.
Amanda: You get the mail.
Eric: Yeah, that's where mail that's where the mailman goes and drops off the mail. That's where like the people who have executive and office jobs at the camp, that's where they work. It's always air-conditioned. So like true, everything Carrie-Ann said is true. But also like–
Amanda: Why?
Eric: Why?
Julia (as Phoebe): Wow, a guy who's not over his ex, shocking.
Brandon (as Les): Yeah, trying to relive the good old days, huh?
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Even I think that's a little bit weird.
Julia (as Phoebe): Embarrassing.
Julia: Do we want to call him with our hold?
Eric: Before you do that, Carrie-Ann, you are hopping. You know this, like the better you know this place like back your hand, yeah?
Amanda: Yeah. I mean, in my dreams, I kind of practice what I would do if I was alone in the front office.
Julia: Oh, my god.
Amanda: Like use every phone, lick every stapler, drink a bunch of water from a bunch of different paper cones.
Eric: Hell yeah.
Brandon: Did you say lick every stapler?
Amanda: I did. That way they know that they're mine.
Eric: And you get to Director Löw’s office, which has the golden inflatable door in it, right? And on the desk is something that's not made out of inflatables is a letter. It is currently opened, but it's in an envelope, and it's addressed to Friday Löw. There's like 17 stamps on it, and like lots of different posts, lots of different postmarks from random places. Some of them you don't think are real places and the return address just says Crudo on it.
Amanda: I stick it in my pants pocket and don't say anything.
Eric: Alright. So yeah, you can just move on if you would like to.
Julia: Do you guys mind if I indulge and use a hold to call him here.
Amanda: Sure, we got to get those keys, baby.
Julia: Mostly it's to mock him to his face. But also I have a move that I want to do.
Eric: Sure.
Amanda: Yeah.
Brandon: Yeah.
Julia Great.
Julia (as Phoebe): Alright, puzzle cleric.
Eric: He opens up the door, which is where the package, the package closet and he steps out. He’s like–
Eric (as Crudo): Yeah?
Julia (as Phoebe): Hey, bud. It's-- I just want to give you some advice. Because you know, teenage girls, we know a lot about relationships. But it's a little bit embarrassing that you're trying to like-- that you're not trying to get over your ex by creating this in like in inflatable form. That's really embarrassing. So I just maybe you want to rethink this room.
Eric (as Crudo): I'm not sure where you got the idea that Director Friday Löw and I were exes and that she dumped me. But I have been to this camp many times, and I've run this for CITs and staff and campers before. So I just I have a room. That is a puzzle that you need to get through because the lava and that's part of it. So I think that you're way off. And–
Julia (as Phoebe): Well–
Eric (as Crudo): I just want to– this is a free clue. You don't even have to trade me for anything.
Julia (as Phoebe): Well, you did like you did tell a grown ass woman and made direct eye contact with her and said, yes, I know how to do laundry. It seems like you're reliving an old fight.
Brandon (as Les): Phoebe, have you considered that maybe he's just obsessed with Director Löw and was maybe just trying to like show off a skill that he has that he maybe he thought would set him apart from the pack of other guys?
Julia (as Phoebe): Like doing laundry?
Brandon (as Les): Yeah, a lot of guys think that doing laundry is like an above and beyond skill when it’s really just like the normal baseline shift that you should be doing.
Julia (as Phoebe): Yeah, that's, that's a little embarrassing to you, my guy.
Julia: And basically what I want to do is, I'd like to use Jinx.
Eric: Sure.
Julia: Basically to throw him off his game, you know what I mean?
Eric: Remind me what Jinx, what the jinx move is.
Julia: So basically, I roll Weird. I get a certain amount of things depending on how well I roll. And one of those is the target loses something that you will soon find, and I want it to be one of the keys.
Eric: Okay.
Amanda: Yes, Julia!
[dice roll]
Julia: Oh my god. I rolled a 14. That's cool, right?
Brandon: That’s pretty good, I think.
Eric: That's pretty high, my man.
Julia: Great. So he's going to lose something that I will find and I'm also going to interfere with something that he is trying to do later on.
Eric: Okay.
Eric (as Crudo): Alright. I think that you three are more focused on my personal life than you are about solving this mystery. So if you have not spent the time, I think that you need to start looking for the access code to let you into the golden door and stop focusing it on me and my whole thing.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Friday, what are you doing here?
Eric (as Crudo): What? Where? No, I'm not– I don’t look good– No! It was a trick. Dammit.
Eric: He jumps back into the package closet, slams the door with a squeak and you see that where he was standing? There is one of the keys, he dropped it.
Julia (as Phoebe): Well, Carrie-Ann, you want to go grab that?
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Oh, hell yeah. Thanks, man. I put it in a different pocket.
Eric: Alright. He told you that as interfere with what he's trying to do is that he told you for free that you need an access code to open the golden door.
Julia (as Phoebe): Carrie-Ann what year was the camp founded in?
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): 1860, my locker combination?
Amanda: And then Carrie-Ann goes over to the wall. Is there a keypad in it?
Eric: Yes, there is a squishy keypad in the squishy inflatable golden door.
Amanda: I'll type in 1860
Eric: And it goes like ppppttt. It's like it’s wheezing. Pppfttt pffft
Julia: Like bubble wrap.
Eric: Like you're letting the air out of a whoopee cushion like slowly–
Julia: Incredible
Amanda: Cute.
Eric: Yeah, and the door pops open.
Amanda: Hey!
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Julia: Eric, this is great.
Eric: I’m glad you’re enjoying it.
Julia: I'm having so much fun.
Amanda: I know.
Eric: Hell yes. Okay. So you still have one hold, you have three keys.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: Phoebe can be the leader again if she would like but you can choose whoever you want.
Julia: How do we feel about that? Les, do you want to turn?
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Les, take a turn.
Brandon (as Les): No, I– I think that Phoebe has more bonuses to that roll.
Julia: Okay, alright. I'll let you describe the thing if you want.
Brandon: Thanks.
Julia: Cool. Alright. Roll, roll roll. That is a 10. 8 + 2 for 10.
Eric: Oh my god.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: Once again, another success. But you only get 1, you have 2 in the hold.
Amanda: It's enough for two keys.
Julia: Brandon, what's his room look like?
Brandon: Um, let's see. I think this room. I think this room looks like fucking Space Camp, baby!
Eric: Hell yeah.
Amanda: Yeah!
Brandon: Inflatable space camp. It's like blacklight, and there’s stars everywhere. And there's like an inflatable rocket ship and like inflatable spacesuits you can get into and there's like inflatable little green aliens.
Eric: Cool.
Julia: Hey, Brandon, same brain because that's what I would have described.
Brandon: Twins!
Julia: Twins!
Eric: And twins!
Eric: Twins! As you walk in immediately three legally distinct but very similar-looking aliens from the Toy Story franchise waddle up to you and they say–
Eric (as Inflaliens): Oh, are you here to solve our puzzles?
Julia: They’re LGGs instead of LGMs. So they’re Little Green Guys.
Eric: Little Green Guys, yeah.
Eric (as LGG): Hello, we are Little Green Guys, you want to solve our puzzle?
Amanda: Parenthesis, Agender.
Brandon: Yeah.
Julia (as Phoebe): Hey, hey, what's up? Little green guy? What's your puzzle?
Eric (as LGG): We run this inflatable Space Camp and you have to go through our trials three.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Sounds fun.
Julia (as Phoebe): Cool
Brandon (as Les): Okay.
Julia (as Phoebe): I always wanted to go to space camp but I go to Camp Die because Camp Die is pretty cool.
Brandon (as Les): Yeah.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): It’s the space for me
Brandon: Just as a little thing that’s in that room. I think the, maybe the rocket ship when you get a big claw comes down and like lifts you up like you're lifting off.
Julia: Incredible.
Eric (as LGG): It’s legally distinct.
Amanda: It has four pincers, not three.
Eric: Yeah. Can each of you tell me one challenge? One puzzle challenge that little green guys make you do that you all fl-- achieve with flying colors?
Julia: The like centripetal force spinny things that you experience what like zero, or how many G's would it be Brandon, you would know better than me?
Brandon: A lot, up to like eight.
Julia: So you can experience what up to eight G's feels like.
Eric: I like this. And I like the idea that you need to like also do basic addition and multiplication while you're doing it.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: So you can keep like a clear mind as you're doing centripetal force. Yeah.
Julia (as Phoebe): Oh, my, my A- in math is really coming in handy right now.
Brandon: Can I yes and that, Eric, maybe you have to do orbital mechanics math as you're doing that.
Eric: If you want to. I was making it easier
Julia (as Phoebe): My A- in Math is not going to help with that.
Eric: Yeah, what other challenges do you accomplish?
Brandon: Yeah, I think one of them is you– they have like a pool where you do astronaut training. And you have to like, put the spacesuits on, and go in the pool with the oxygen masks and like–
Julia: That’s really in-depth.
Brandon: It's in-depth because it's a pool.
Julia: Badum-tsss!
Brandon: And you have to like, you know, put together a puzzle or black box, whatever it is, you know, like use tools and stuff.
Julia: Rubik's Cube
Eric: Oh, yeah. While you're doing like a spacewalk for sure.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: Yeah, I love that. And it's a clear inflatable. It's, it's clear. I don't know, man.
Amanda: It’s clear– it's a ball pit. But all the balls are clear.
Eric: Yes. It's like a ball pit, or it’s like, the foam pit when you're in gymnastics.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: I feel like that's suffocating but not suffocating.
Amanda: But you just have like a snorkel.
Eric: Yeah, but you just you're attached to the whole thing.
Brandon: I love that.
Eric: Amanda was a challenge that you overcome?
Amanda: Yeah, I think there's like magnetic darts.
Eric: Yeah
Amanda: Where I'm trying to picture you know how astronauts will like open up space food or like squirt ketchup out to like put on their space hotdog. And then have to like bring the hot dog up and anticipate the arc of where the ketchup will go like with a hot dog. You know I mean? And so I think if there's like magnetic darts, where like the darts are really weighted, and you have to kind of do the math of like parabolas, you know, and like properly aiming a thing to get precision into the target.
Eric: I like that.
Brandon: They're like, they're shaped like wieners, and the target is like a bun.
Amanda: Yeah, exactly.
Julia: Beautiful.
Eric (as LGG): An important thing for you to do as an astronaut is try to eat in space.
Amanda: Listen, Eric here's what they don't tell you, also gotta do that to pee. So–
Eric: That’s fair. That’s definitely true. That's wonderful. The little Green guys are like–
Eric (as LGG): Wow, you're all so spacetastic. Congratulations!
Julia (as Phoebe): Thank you.
Brandon: Real quick, team. Do you guys maybe we want to call the PC in here and maybe put them in the centripetal force thing and maybe see if one of the keys will fly off?
Amanda: Oooh, that’s nice.
Julia: Oooh! I love that, be like–
Julia (as Phoebe): Hey, PC, this wasn't working, and I think you need to test it for like the betterment of our experience.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Right, right, right of like, growth, and learning together.
Julia (as Phoebe): Yeah.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Yeah.
Eric: The little Green guys go–
Eric (as LGG): That sounds great. I didn't-- you just have to answer one question first. Les, why did you tell Phoebe that your biggest fear is her power and how she's not able to control it?
Julia (as Phoebe): What?
Brandon (as Les): I didn't– I didn't say that. That’s not what I wrote on the paper.
Eric (as LGG): That's not what it says right on this slip of paper.
Eric: And he pulls out a little slip of paper from its space pockets. And in your handwriting, it says, “Phoebe can't control her powers.”
Julia (as Phoebe): Is that where you were being so weird before?
Brandon (as Les): No, no, Phoebe, that's fake. I don't know what-- that's not real. I promise, I wrote puppies.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Do you best friend Pinky promise?
Brandon (as Les): What.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Do you best friend Pinky promise?
Brandon (as Les): I best friend pinky promise.
Julia (as Phoebe): That you wrote puppies on yours.
Eric (as LGG): Do you best friend Pinky promise that you wrote puppies as your worst fear?
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): You are not a best friend, you cannot Pinky promise. Maybe the three of you are but not with us.
Eric (as LGG): We're best friends together.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Right.
Eric (as LGG): Because we're attached.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Okay.
Eric: And the three aliens have been attached this whole time.
Julia: Oh, no.
Amanda: Like a Rat King.
Eric: No no, like a rat– no, like an elega– like a balloon animal.
Amanda: Oh okay, okay, okay.
Eric: Oh god. Shit.
Brandon: Can I roll to manipulate my other hunters here?
Eric: Yeah, who did you want to meet any of you like them that you're doing that?
Brandon: I want to manipulate Phoebe specifically.
Eric: Okay, so if you're doing this to another hunter, they do what you ask they mark experience to get a +1 forward and a 7-9, they mark experience if they do what they asked but not +1 forward, on a miss it's up to the hunter to decide how badly you offend or annoy them.
Julia: Damn.
Eric: They mark experience to decide to not to do what you ask. I'm gonna say that instead of not doing what you ask I guess believe you but I feel like instead of the forward because you're not like entreating them to do a-- because manipulate someone is like you you're trying to get them to tell them what to do. I think that we'll have to like mush this a little bit but we'll see what you roll.
Brandon: Yeah, that's what I was gonna say I want to try to make Phoebe believe that I wrote puppies
Eric: What you can do if you want to try to do this a different way you can also like try to read a bad situation or investigative mystery instead. But I think that if you just want to straight up manipulate, you can.
Brandon: I think it's he's more concerned with the emotional aspect of it right now.
Eric: Sure. Yeah, do it.
Brandon: Obviously like that. That's a bigger mystery that the PC is gonna have to fucking answer for.
Eric: For sure.
Brandon: Yeah, so I rolled a 6 + 1 for 7.
Eric: Okay.
Brandon: So I do it but it's a mixed success.
Eric: Yes. So this doesn't have a forward but they can mark experience if they do with you. Do what you ask. Here's the thing, Phoebe, it looks like Les’ handwriting. He said he didn't do it. But this guy said it did. Les Why don't you try to convince Phoebe a little bit why this is fake.
Brandon: Yeah, I turned to Phoebe and I say–
Brandon (as Les): Phoebe, I– I'm not scared of you like I– that's not the thing. Why would my greatest fear be my best friend? Like, that doesn't make any sense. Like, don't believe these like inflatable LGG's like that's silly. They like, you know?
Julia (as Phoebe): I mean, you wrote down puppies?
Brandon (as Les): I wrote down puppies.
Julia (as Phoebe): I've seen you hanging out with Tater Tot.
Brandon (as Les): Tater Tot’s a full-grown dog. I'm not scared of full-grown dogs.
Julia (as Phoebe): You're only scared of puppies?
Brandon (as Les): I'm only scared of puppies. Okay, have you ever heard of that thing? In in our brains where like if thing if a thing is too cute you want to like harm it, you know?
Julia (as Phoebe): Like where you want to eat it? You just want to put it in your mouth?
Brandon (as Les): Yeah, exactly what squish it. Like that's why I'm scared of puppies because like, I'm scared that I'm gonna hurt the puppies and like that would be bad.
Julia (as Phoebe): So you're scared of like what you're capable of and like harming something that's defenseless?
Brandon (as Les): Yeah, exactly. I'm like Batman puppy.
Julia (as Phoebe): You're-- Oh, okay.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Look at them bonding.
Julia: I think Phoebe like looks at Les for a second and is like–
Julia (as Phoebe): I mean, this whole thing is about trying to challenge our teamwork, right? So like maybe he wrote that in your handwriting to make us feel like we're less of a team?
Brandon (as Les): Yeah. 100% That's exactly I think what happened.
Julia (as Phoebe): He sucks.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): I never thought about forgery as close-up magic, but I guess it is.
Julia (as Phoebe): He did say he doesn't do close-up magic, he does close-up puzzles.
Brandon (as Les): Puzzles.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Oh.
Julia (as Phoebe): So like, maybe–
Julia: Phoebe like takes the piece of paper from the little green guy and it's like looking at it being like,
Julia (as Phoebe): Is this a fucking puzzle?
Brandon (as Les): In a way a forgery is a puzzle, right? Like you're trying to figure out like, you know–
Julia (as Phoebe): Who did it?
Brandon (as Les): Yeah, who did it? Yeah, exactly. You know what? PC– the PC needs to atone and answer for his actions. So, PC, Puzzle Cleric?
Amanda: Oh, Puzzle Cleric. I was like, why is calling this NPC, PC?
Julia: Very confusing.
Brandon (as Les): Come up here. Arriiiiiive!
Eric: You look up and there is an inflatable speaker. Look up and coming from there is like–
Eric (as Crudo): [over the PA system] Uhhh, Mission control, this is Puzzle Cleric. Auto admission control, teams doing this mission control aka puzzle cleric PC. What is your over? Over? What is your? What's going on?
Julia (as Phoebe): The spinny thing’s broken. Do you need to come check it out? Because we can't we can't solve your puzzles if they're broken.
Eric (as Crudo): Uh, hey Little Green Guys, did they solve all the puzzles?
Eric (as LGG): Yes, they did.
Julia (as Phoebe): Hey. Okay, well, we thought you were cool, Little Green Guys.
Eric (as LGG): No we’re part of the puzzle.
Julia (as Phoebe): Oh, fuck. Fine.
Brandon: I mean, Eric, I'm reading your rules, and it says at any time not merely doing a puzzle. We may spend one whole point to counter the puzzle cleric.
Eric: Oh, no, he's there. He's definitely there. It's just uh, you have to go, go, go, go and find him. You have to go get him.
Brandon: Oh, he's in the room. You say?
Eric: He's in the room? Yeah. Because he's on the speaker. Yes.
Brandon: Okay.
Eric: Yeah.
Eric (as Crudo): I'm not gonna make it. I'm not gonna make it that easy. You're gonna have to come find me. Where's the Mission Control Room?
Julia (as Phoebe): Is he in the bottom of the ball pit?
Brandon (as Les): He's almost certainly at the bottom of the pulpit.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Okay.
Julia (as Phoebe): I mean, they're clear, I can just look down and see through there.
Amanda: He's hunched over with a walkie-talkie, fuck.
Eric: I mean, if someone wants to look for it, if someone wants to roll on it.
Julia: Sure. Is, what is that investigative a mystery or sharp or what?
Eric: Investigative a mystery, please. + Sharp. Yes.
[dice roll]
Julia: 9 + 2 for 11.
Amanda: Pretty good.
Eric: Alright. 11. So you can ask two of these questions.
Julia: Um, where did it go?
Eric: Fair. Fair point. Fair point.
Julia: Fair play, fair play.
Eric: Yeah, and what's the other question?
Julia: What is being concealed here?
Eric: Okay, I want to make these, I want to make these legally distinct.
Julia: Legally binding.
Eric: I think you look in the ball pit, and you see that the inflatable golden door is at the bottom of the ball pit.
Julia: Okay, great.
Eric: And then where did it go, is that there is a very large-scale model of a Mission Control office with like just inflatable people in there. They all just look really fake. And a lot of the day they're wearing like inflatable ties and inflatable shirts and–
Amanda: Oh, like headsets and stuff?
Eric: Yeah, and have inflatable headsets and inflatable mustaches and everything. It's like real– It's real like 1970s First Man, this is the Mission Control when Neil Armstrong got on the moon–
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: –and you look over and he’s sitting in one of the chairs not moving.
Eric (as Crudo): [over the PA system] This is mission control.
Julia: I'm just gonna go over be like–
Julia (as Phoebe): We found you, key please.
Eric (as Crudo): Wow, you guys are you're so smart. You're doing this so fast. I'm actually incredibly impressed.
Julia (as Phoebe): Thanks.
Eric (as Crudo): I can see why Director Löw is training you all so much to be Monster Hunters. Julia (as Phoebe): I'm sorry. What?
Brandon (as Les): What?
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Excuse me?
Eric (as Crudo): Well, I assume that is that still part of the Camp Diogenes CIT program?
Brandon (as Les): What?
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): No, we’re counselors in training–
Julia (as Phoebe): We learn stuff like first aid and like, what to do if a child trips on something.
Brandon (as Les): Flag rugby.
Julia (as Phoebe): Yeah.
Eric (as Crudo): And like, you know, defend the camp from monsters and the various things and be skilled and eventually, you'll go on to a lucrative monster hunting career like I do as a freelancer or you're part of a government institution or something.
Julia (as Phoebe): No!
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): What!?
Julia (as Phoebe): We're kind of doing that on our own. A frog almost killed Carrie-Ann and I a couple of days ago.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Yeah.
Brandon (as Les): I'm not a narc. I don't work for the government.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Yeah. Do you know how we can like, murder that–
Eric (as Crudo): Hey, hey, hey. Hell yeah, brother. I knew I got a good vibe with you, Les. Hell yes.
Brandon (Les): Hey, you shut up. You hurt my friends and forged my handwriting on this piece of paper.
Eric (as Crudo): Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't understand that a Dracula wouldn't do that in a heartbeat and hurt you real bad with a whip and lie about various things.
Julia (as Phoebe): Are you a Dracula?
Eric (as Crudo): No, but there is a Dracula!
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): There is?
Eric (as Crudo): Yes!
Julia (as Phoebe): Who?
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Is that a title like–
[snickers]
Eric (as Crudo): The Dracula that's who, that’s who it is.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): No, but is that a guy or is that like like a title like Surgeon General?
Julia (as Phoebe): Yeah, like a, like a breed?
Brandon: Like Draculas General.
Eric (as Crudo): It’s a title of the king of vampires, The Dracula?
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Also, how do we kill that skeleton in the woods?
Eric (as Crudo): Oh, Steven? Oh, you can’t, no.
Julia (as Phoebe): Damn.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): He's like an unkillable immortal just presence?
Eric (as Crudo): Yeah.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Oh.
Eric (as Crudo): That's why people that's why you're getting trained there. I mean, like, that's what we did when we were campers, you know? Me and Friday–
Julia (as Phoebe): When you dated?
Eric (as Crudo): –and all our friends. When we went to camp and we were CITs and staff members, but monster hunting was part of the curriculum.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): And you guys were just like in love while you did that, or?
Julia (as Phoebe): Did you leave because you broke up?
Eric (as Crudo): You guys, you're so focused on my personal life and it's distracting you from the puzzles.
Brandon (as Les): I don't– I don't think she ever dated him. I think you just were obsessed with Director Löw, that was it.
Eric (as Crudo): Alright, we were married for four years.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): WHAT?!
Julia (as Phoebe): Wooooow!
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Are you Boo’s dad?
[two beats of silence]
Julia (as Phoebe): Wooooow!
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Can we have our keys and we’ll all pretend this didn’t happen?
Eric: He throws a key down and just sprints and cannonballs into the clear pit and pushes through the door.
Julia (as Phoebe): We have to stop doing this now because I need to like talk Boo through some drama.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Yeah, I kind of didn't know that, and I may be learning a lesson and it's very uncomfortable.
Julia (as Phoebe): Are we not supposed to ask questions we don't want to know the answers to?
Eric: Over the PA system
Eric (as Crudo): [over the PA system] That’s part of the training!
Julia (as Phoebe): Fuck!
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Okay. Last room guys?
Julia (as Phoebe): This is a nightmare. I think this like are we still asleep? What's happening? Brandon (as Les): It’s poss– wait, here, pinch me.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Oh, don't you have to like pretend to like open a drawer in a dream? Is that how you know if it's a dream?
Brandon (as Les): Carrie-Ann, what? Say more on that.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Let's go to the next room.
Eric: Okay, how much do you guys have in the-- How much do you have in the in the pool?
Brandon: Uno.
Julia: One.
Eric: Okay, great.
Amanda: Four keys one hold.
Eric: Wonderful. I'm going to say that if you roll a 7 to 9, you can't get another hold. You have to roll a 10+ to get another hold.
Amanda: Okay.
Julia: Okay.
[dice roll]
Julia: Alright. That is a 6 + 2 for an 8.
Brandon: Okay.
Eric: For an 8.
Julia: That’s fine.
Eric: Alright, cool. That's, you still have the one that you don't get the one hold. But you do get to describe the room but I will introduce a hazard.
Julia: Amanda, why don't you do the last room?
Amanda: Okay, how about the next room is big and wide with a golden floor and a blue painted domed sky with a giant pyramid in the middle of it.
Julia: Ooh!
Brandon: Oh, cool. I love that.
Eric: It's like the Aggro Crag?
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: Is it like, desert-themed?
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: Tell me–
Amanda: Desert themed, there's little pop-up palm trees. There's a little like hippo lumbering by in the far distance.
Brandon: Stay the fuck away from that hippo, it will kill us all.
Amanda: Yeah, exactly. It's far away.
Eric: It's inflatable and dangerous.
Amanda: Yeah, and I think there is a there's a little arch door opening to the pyramid. I think there's some stuff inside.
Eric: I love the idea of an inflatable pyramid. Yeah, the pyramid is open there, it's cool and dank in there.
Brandon: Ah, just like me.
Eric: Hell yeah, and you can go inside.
Julia: Great. I think we–
Brandon: We do so.
Julia: We do, yeah.
Eric: Cool. Inside, it is so quiet in the way that only a place that doesn't have anything living in it is quiet.
Brandon: Real quick. I do think Les is because of that fact is going to reflexively pull out his Ghost Ghost-Oh-Meter.
Eric: Yeah, for sure. So now the only thing we hear is beep beep beep. As you're walking through. It's long and wide and the air is still and dusty. And the only thing we hear is Beep beep beep and Les, you turn to the right and go and your Ghost-Oh-Meter goes beepbeepbeepbeeep.
Julia (as Phobe): Oh, no…
Eric: And it's pointing towards a sarcophagus.
[gasps]
Brandon (as Les): Uuuh, uuuh… uhhhh….
Brandon: That's what Les says
Eric: Oh, okay, pointing at the sarcophagus
Julia (as Phoebe): I mean, should we just keep it closed? So like the mummy doesn't come out?
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): In real life? Definitely because I wouldn't want to touch artifacts that like aren't mine to touch, but I think– I think we should open this one. Just just like be prepared. Okay, ready?
Brandon (as Les): Uuuh… Uhhh, what?
Julia: Phoebe’s gonna take out her kitchen knife and just like stab at it.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Phoebe, be very careful with a knife in here.
Brandon (as Les): Phoebe, where did you get a knife?
Julia (as Phoebe): I was helping Springer in the kitchen and this is my knife from home.
Brandon (as Les): Shit.
Julia (as Phoebe): It's Japanese.
Eric: It's a Ginza knife. I'm going to need all of you to act under pressure.
Julia: Great. That's + Cool, correct?
Eric: That’s + Cool
[dice roll]
Brandon: For me, I get to roll + Weird instead of cool
Eric: There you go.
Amanda: I got an 8.
Julia: I also got an 8
Amanda: Aww, twins.
Julia: Twins!
Amanda: Best friends
Julia: Best friends.
Brandon: Oh my God, I got a 6 + 2 for an 8.
Julia: Oh! Best friends!
Brandon: Triplets!
Eric: I love it. Oh my god. You guys are all best friends. Phoebe, I still have -1 against you. So I'm gonna boop you in the negative one so now you have 7.
Julia: Okay.
Brandon: You would ruin this trifecta?
Eric: Yeah.
Amanda: Damn.
Julia: Wow.
Eric: Yeah. What do you think I’m doing here?
Julia: It doesn’t even influence what happens, you just don't want me to be a triplet. I see what it is.
Eric: Yeah, I see what it is. With this roll, Les and Carrie-Ann and I like the idea that the three of you are like standing in a row, and like Phoebe is in the middle and Les is holding his beeping Ghost-Oh-Meter and Carrie– and Carrie-Ann is looking around and Phoebe's holding a knife, and then you two turn around and you see that the sarcophagus opens and there's a big mummy inside!
Amanda: Oh, no!
Julia: Stab stab stab stab stab!
Eric: And the mummy grabs Phoebe and the door closes, and the door closes.
Julia: Stab stab stab stab stab!
Eric: And Phoebe, you're stabbing the mummy inside of the sarcophagus. Phoebe is gone, Les and Carrie-Ann, what do you do?
Amanda: I try to pry it open.
Brandon: Yes, same.
Eric: Doing what? Just straight up, just straight up?
Brandon: I'm gonna use my no limits and just try to like, do some big muscles.
Amanda: Yeah, and I'm pulling out my ring of keys from my carabiner on my hip, and I'm gonna just start trying to carve at the seam to either deflate or just try to like pry open the sarcophagus.
Eric: I'm gonna say that you can't physically open it. I'm not gonna have you guys roll on it. You can't pop it open.
Brandon: Oh, great.
Eric: Is big old magically sealed because your Ghost-Oh-Meter is still beeping wildly.
Brandon: Oh, man, you really missed an opportunity, Eric, I got a miss something that could have gone horribly wrong. Oh, no…
Eric: That’s fine. You pull a muscle and you're like, Oh, my groin, and you hear, I felt something pop.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Les, quick look around the hallway. And I want to use one hold to try to find something useful.
Brandon: Oh, smart, smart.
Eric: Hell yes. What are you looking for? What do you want?
Amanda: Any kind of rune, tool, book, ritual object that–
Brandon: Crowbar.
Amanda: We see thought up? Yeah, crowbar.
Julia: Maybe an ankh or something.
Amanda: Exactly.
Eric: Sure.
Brandon: A hippo. Maybe the hippo could do it.
Eric: The hippo is busting in. You're looking around for something to help you, and you see that there are hieroglyphics on the wall.
Amanda: Oh!
Eric: True, and then you will closer and you realize they're not hieroglyphics. There's some real Egyptianized papyrus ass font just in English.
Amanda: What does it say?
Eric: And it says, say something nice about your teammates.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Phoebe, you're my best friend, I love you. You're the sister I've never had, get out of there.
Brandon (as Les): Phoebe, you are so powerful and cool, and I wish I had your determination and courage.
Julia (as Phoebe): [from inside the sarcophagus] I am trying to stab this mummy, and also you guys are my best friends and I've never felt more supported in my entire life.
Eric: Phoebe, you can’t hear that.
Amanda: We'll say it later– we'll say it later.
Eric: Yeah.
Brandon: Les also says–
Brandon (as Les): Carrie-Ann, you were the my you're my least unfavorite cousin.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Oh, Les. I'm no longer embarrassed that we’re related.
Brandon (as Les): Yes!
Eric: Phoebe, you're sealed inside the coffin. You can't hear anything. You're stabbing a mummy.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: How’s it going?
Julia: I don't think it's going poorly. I mean, these guys are made of inflatable and I am stabbing holes in it. So–
Eric: Yeah.
Eric (as Mummy): Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Don't do this anymore.
Julia (as Phoebe): Why?
Amanda: Oh, I hate that it talks.
Eric (as Mummy): I’m the Mummy.
Amanda: Oh, no.
Julia (as Phoebe): You grabbed me.
Eric (as Mummy): Well, I had to talk to you about something.
Julia (as Phoebe): What's up?
Brandon (as Mummy): Brendan Fraser is an underrated actor.
Julia (as Phoebe): What's up?
Julia: Stab. Stab. Stab.
Eric (as Mummy): Oh, well, I just wanted to talk to you about your biggest fear.
Julia (as Phoebe): Okay?
Eric (as Mummy): Well, it says that what you wrote down is kittens, and that was a lie. So what’s your–
Julia (as Phoebe): Who are you to tell me what is or isn't true, mummy?
Eric (as Mummy): I mean, it’s probably not kittens and I've been alive for 5000 years.
Julia (as Phoebe): Well, the goddess is Bast is very scary sometimes.
Eric (as Mummy): Listen, I–
Julia (as Phoebe): And she’s a cat god, what do you want from me?
Eric (as Mummy): I don't think it is. Hey, what's your greatest fear?
Julia (as Phoebe): I'm not gonna tell you!
Eric (as Mummy): Well, I guess you’re in here forever.
Julia (as Phoebe): Okay, can I–
Julia: And I try to like stab my way out of him like–
Julia (as Phoebe): I don’t want to tell you my fears, mummy, you’re weird!
Eric (as Mummy): That's not how it works. Tell me your real greatest fear.
Julia (as Phoebe): That I’m not special! Fuck you, mummy!
Eric (as Mummy): Okay!
Eric: And then the door opens, and the mummy and Phoebe fall out.
Julia: Phoebe just like keep stabbing at this thing even though she's out now like–
Julia (as Phoebe): Fuck you, mummy!
Brandon (as Les): Phoebe. Phoebe. Phoebe. Phoebe. It’s okay, you’re out.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Les, we did it. Phoebe, we had to say a lot of nice things about you and it was really fun and we'll say it again later.
Julia (as Phoebe): Okay.
Brandon (as Les): I told– I told Carrie-Ann that she was my least favorite cousin and I've never said that. least– least unfavorite cousin, I mean.
Julia (as Phoebe): That's cool. I kind of forgot you guys were related.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Yeah, I try to–
Brandon (as Les): It doesn’t come up a lot.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): No, it doesn't. Let's get the fuck out of here.
Julia (as Phoebe): Yeah.
Amanda: Is there a second door behind the back of the sarcophagus by chance?
Eric: 100% Yeah, that's where the door is.
Amanda: Yeah!
Julia: Phoebe pulls her knife out of this mummy and then walks through the door.
Eric: Definitely
Brandon: Yeah, you just stab the sarcophagus to deflate it to get to the door.
Amanda: Yeah, yeah
Eric: Yeah, for sure. I'm gonna say someone else other than Phoebe needs to roll for the next room.
Julia: That's fine.
Brandon: Okay, I'll roll. Sure. [dice roll] That's an 8 plus 1 for 9.
Julia: Yey!
Eric: Hell yeah, I will give you one hold. Because you didn't have a hold be– you didn't have a hold from there.
Brandon: Okay
Eric: Describe the– and describe the room.
[classical ambient music playing]
Brandon: Let's see. We walk into a Victorian parlor.
Eric: Wonderful.
Brandon: Where it's macabre and creepy and there's a fire and I don't know what this accent is.
Julia: Gothic Manor. I love it.
Eric: And it's all inflatable and in– first of all, I want to say an inflatable Victorian parlor is hilarious, and I love it. There's so much detail work on like there's inflatable lace–
Amanda: Molding.
Eric: There's inflatable crown molding. There's a lady in a very large inflatable dress nearby
Amanda: Inflatable tea set.
Brandon: Or is she well, I don't know. Maybe she's not there. Maybe she is.
Eric (as Inflatable Lady): Well, she is there. She says, Oh good. I'm the lady of the house. And it seems that we have a ghost, a Phantasm amongst us. Please get rid of the ghost.
Brandon: And then, Les steps up and says–
Brandon (as Les): The thing I was born to do.
Julia (as Phoebe): Wow.
Eric (as Inflatable Lady): Thank you, young traveller. Help me. I'm so feeble on my own. All I know how to do is be at the top of a feudal system.
Brandon (as Les): Have you heard of the electromagnetic spectrum?
Eric (as Inflatable Lady): No, I had so little education.
Julia (as Phoebe): Maybe she's possessed by the ghost.
Brandon (as Les): Yeah, that's the first thing.
Julia (as Phoebe): Are you possessed by the ghost?
Eric (as Inflatable Lady): No, the ghost, the Phantasm is upstairs.
Brandon (as Les): That's what the ghost would say if the ghost was possessed but I think we'll check upstairs first just to make sure.
Julia (as Phoebe): Yeah.
Brandon (as Les): So here everyone, take an EMF meter from me.
Amanda (as Les): Don't worry I brought four.
Brandon (as Les): Carrie-Ann, take a flashlight, have a flashlight too, do a flashlight. I'm also going to here, spirit box
Eric (as Inflatable Lady): My name is Lady Chaterburough, I didn't introduce myself earlier.
Brandon (as Les): Thanks.
Julia (as Phoebe): Okay.
Brandon (as Les): It’s a radio and ghost trying to talk through it and also on the turn on my– my like my tape recorder.
Julia (as Phoebe): Sure.
Eric (as Lady C): Lady Inflataba Chaterburough.
Brandon (as Les): I– Phoebe maybe she is possessed.
Julia: I hold the weird radio thing that you just handed to me over by her.
Eric: No you hear just the squeaking of rubbing a balloon on your hair.
Julia (as Phoebe): Alright, so I guess we'll go upstairs and get rid of this ghost and then get the puzzle cleric and grab that last key.
Brandon (as Les): 100%
Julia (as Phoebe): We can do this 100%. Go team.
Brandon (as Les): Go team. Yeah, usually ghosts have some unfinished business that they want to attend to. So what are we trying to figure that out real quick. We've got to ask him and then we'll figure it out, and then we'll do it and it’ll be great.
Julia (as Phoebe): Okay. Best friends.
Brandon (as Les): Best friends.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Best friends.
Brandon: So I think we head upstairs and Les is going to head up the pack and say loudly–
Brandon (as Les): Ghost of the Victorian manor, you have no power here! How can we help solve your unfinished business?
Julia (as Phoebe): Why are you doing that voice?
Brandon (as Les): What voice I don't–
Eric (as Phantasm): I’m in here, I’m in the master bedroom haunting everything. Whooo…
Julia (as Phoebe): What a well spoken and eloquent ghost, right to the point.
Eric: You then see like a real canonical version of a ghost he kind of looks like the ghost from you know in the Pokemon Red and Blue.
Brandon: Yeah.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: When the drag of the ghost this lift goes it just like it just appears in front of you, and then–
Eric (as Phantasm): Oooh, follow me, I'm in here!
Eric: And then fade through the wall.
Brandon (as Les): That was– that wasn't even through the Spirit Box. That's impressive.
Julia (as Phoebe): Okay.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Wow.
Brandon (as Les): Let's go.
Julia (as Phoebe): I don't think it's a real ghost Les, I think–
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): No.
Julia (as Phoebe): –it's like–
Brandon (as Les): Oh, yeah? Then why is my EMF meter going off, Phoebe?
Julia (as Phoebe): So many answers to that question that are not nice. Alright, let's go.
Eric: Y'all bust into the–
Julia: Like Mamoswine.
Eric: Yeah like Mamoswine or the or the Ghostbusters because busting makes them feel good.
Julia: That’s true.
Eric: You bust into the master bedroom, and you see sitting in a very large, very, very large winged back chair is the puzzle cleric holding the last key.
Brandon (as Les): I knew you were a ghost.
Eric (as Crudo): No, I– It's a projector.
Eric: And he has like a very he has like a really small projector that he has like on a side table that just has the ghost hologram and then he turns it off and slips into his jacket.
Brandon: You have never seen a bigger look of dejection on Les’ face than in that moment.
Amanda: Oh, bud.
Julia (as Phoebe): Key, please?
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): We did it. We have the point, we did it.
Julia (as Phoebe): We did it.
Eric (as Crudo): Okay, I have one, this is the finale. I have one final surprise for all of you, alright?
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Is this like a metaphor for taxes?
Eric (as Crudo): No. It's a real-life not metaphor for dealing with your problems. And out of the closet says–
Eric (as Steven): Yeah, if you don't deal with your problems, you just might die.
Eric: And steps out is Steven, the skeleton.
Julia (as Phoebe): What the fuck!?
Eric: Once he steps out of the closet, he has a watermelon in one hand. He has cool sunglasses on his face. And he's wearing the same ripped-up Camp Die sweatshirt that he was wearing when you first saw him.
Brandon (as Les): What the fuck?
Brandon: And Les takes out his walking stick.
Amanda: Can I attack him?
Eric: Yeah, you all try to attack him and Steven holds up one hand and all of you feel like psychic pushed back like–
Amanda: Like the centripetal machine.
Eric: Just like the centripetal machine and you all fall prone.
Brandon: Like the Pokemon move Psychic.
Eric: Just like the Pokemon move Psychic, exactly. And the puzzle cleric says–
Eric (as Crudo): You can't defeat him just from just for the straightforward violence, you all need to work together. Now everyone say your greatest fear.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Losing camp!
Brandon (as Les): Puppies!
Julia (as Phoebe): Why do we keep having to say my greatest fear to you and your weird balloons?
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Say it, Phoebe!
Brandon (as Les): Puppies!
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Just say it!
Eric (as Crudo): You said it privately. You wrote it down. So you had it in your head. You have to say a duty to each other. So you trust each other. If you don't trust each other, then everything will fall apart and people will die. That's what happened with me and Friday with our other monster hunting teammate. Oh, I don't want it to happen to you. What is your greatest fear?
Brandon (as Les): Fine! I'm scared that monsters don't exist and I won't have a purpose if they don't.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): I'm scared of losing camp on the one thing that has ever felt true to me won't be available anymore. And then who am I? What do I do with my life?
Brandon (as Les): Oh, Carrie-Ann, I get that.
Julia (as Phoebe): This is… bullshit!
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Phoebe–
Eric (as Crudo): Phoebe, what is your greatest fear?
Julia (as Phoebe): Fuck! That I’m not special! Fuck you!
[slow clap]
Eric (as Crudo): Great job, everybody, you solved the last puzzle, which is being emotionally vulnerable with each other.
Julia: I'm gonna Big Whammy punch the wall.
Brandon: I was about to say! I'm gonna smack him with my walking stick.
Amanda: I'm gonna shoot a flare gun through the roof.
Julia: I just want to punch my way out of this giant balloon.
Eric (as Crudo): Yeah, that's fair. The door, you just go through the closet. No, that's not Steven. He's– he's inflatable. As he just said the bones just kind of fall into a pile of bones, and they also like squeak on top of each other as they just-- as they fall into a pile.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Isn't this much stress like not good for our growth or something?
Eric (as Crudo): No, it's good for your growth as people
Julia (as Phoebe): You should support your son more.
Brandon (as Les): That's why we–
Eric (as Crudo): What the fuck? Well, you guys are so no, no, no. Got to hold it together, Crudo, you're gonna hold it together.
Brandon (as Les): The real trick is on you because none of those things we said were true, huh, guys? Those weren’t our greatest fears.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Yeah, we said what adults want us to say.
Brandon (as Les): Yeah, we just said what you want to hear.
Julia (as Phoebe): It was kittens the whole time.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Okay, so how do we get out of here, and can I go first, teammates?
Brandon (as Les): Yes.
Julia (as Phoebe): Please give Carrie-Ann her $60 now.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Dollars and key, please.
Julia (as Phoebe): Money, please.
Brandon (as Les): Money, please.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): I need to go to college one day.
Brandon (as Les): And it's paid for with those $60.
Eric (as Crudo): I'll give you the $60 on the outside. Here is the last key, go through. You can go through the closet.
Julia (as Phoebe): Carrie-Ann, you first.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Thanks, guys. Best friends.
Brandon (as Les): Oh, Les, start singing– Uhhhhhh!
[dramatically singing]
Eric: The inflatable golden door has five large keyholes in it.
Amanda: I'll put them all in and turn them all and then walk through.
Eric: How do you turn them all? Do you try to turn them individually or you try to turn them all at the same time?
Amanda: Yep, I do try to do them on the same time and it takes me about 95 seconds while my teammates you know lovingly watch before I go.
Eric: Yeah
Amanda: Okay, fine, and I turned them all at once.
Eric: Yup. The door opens and sunlight streams through and Carrie-Ann, you immediately trip and tumble down the bouncy slide.
Amanda: Yep.
Eric: That is– and it's like somehow this is up five stories.
Julia (as Phoebe): Wow…
Eric: We’re talking about a very large bouncy slide and tumble down to the bottom where there's a banner that says congratulations, you grew!
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): There's a slide, watch your step!
Julia (as Phoebe): Okay.
Julia: Phoebe just slides down behind her.
Brandon: Yeah, I take a running start. See if I can go as fast as I can down the slide.
Eric: Hell yeah. It's really cool,
Brandon: Yeah, it’s super fun.
Eric: Yeah, it's cool. But maybe it was too fast that you weren't able to enjoy it, that you were just going for speed.
Brandon: Oh, maybe.
Eric: You can climb back up and do it again if you want.
Brandon: No, I'm good.
Eric: Okay. That’s fine. And at the bottom, the puzzle cleric is standing there with Director Löw and the puzzle cleric says–
Eric (as Crudo): Congratulations, you solved this in record time. I'm really proud of all of you. And as Carrie-Ann was the first one out, so Carrie-Ann gets the $60, I think this is ready for testing. I think– I think the campers are really going to love this and make sure– Director Löw, you're going to make sure the staff runs through this as well, right?
Brandon (as Les): Um, I– Director Löw, my professional CIT recommendation is that we don't put anyone through this thing. This thing is not ready for testing.
Julia (as Phoebe): This thing sucked.
Brandon (as Les): It's real bad
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): This thing sucks. If you're spending money on it, you should buy chocolate chips instead.
Brandon (as Les): Yeah.
Eric: The director sighs and says–
Eric (as Director Löw): You know, when I did something very similar to this when I was a CIT, I hated it as well. But at the end of the summer, I look back and it was actually one of the best things that I ever did. So if you hated it–
Brandon (as Les): But you also married this guy for four years, so maybe–
Julia (as Phoebe): You had a child with this guy.
Eric (as Director Löw): You! Crudo, you told them?! Why would you tell them, how would that come up with the training? How would that come up?
Eric: So that’s the end of the mystery. How do you think you all did?
[laughter]
Amanda: I think we learned something important about ourselves and the world.
Eric: I really enjoyed that, you all get +2 experience?
Brandon: Yeah.
Amanda: Thanks, Eric!
Eric: Good job. Good job, everybody!
Amanda: Best friends!
Brandon: I leveled up, baby!
Amanda: Yey!
Julia: I also leveled up.
[theme]
Transcriptionist: KM