October 22, 2025 • 56 mins
The final monster rears its ugly head as the Gatorsaurus, an alligator-like goliath attempting to eat Onyx straight out of the island lighthouse. The team races to save her, but what can they possibly do against a leviathan such as this? Perhaps Grieve's expertise in animalia will come in handy? Will they soothe the savage beast? Or will the murderous maw of the massive monster be their end? Find out in this episode of Terror at Camp Roanoke!
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CastMartin Fresh Played By: Cameron Hoogendyk
Grieve Gershwin Played By: Fatty Lumpkins
Soapy Joe Played By: Connor Trett
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Eleanor Dare Voiced By: Carla Gyemi | Casting Call Club
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(00:00):
To whom it may concern and especially to the Craven scoundrel
responsible for the disturbing scribblings found within my dwelling.
Let it be known throughout this fledgling colony that I, Frederick Barnaby, have had the peace of my family most
grievously disrupted by the discovery of a vile and
(00:20):
unsettling poem hidden within the very floorboards of the cabin allotted to us.
My daughter, a child of tender years, was subjected to this...
this
nonsense!
And has been left in a state of considerable distress.
I will not repeat the contents of this dreadful verse here, lest it further poison the minds of our community.
(00:45):
Suffice it to say, it speaks of shadows, of souls departed, and of a most unnatural hunger.
Such morbid pronouncements serve no purpose, but to sow fear and discontent amongst us,
who have come to this land with hope and a desire for honest labor.
(01:08):
Therefore, I,
Frederick Barnaby,
to hereby demand that the author of this malicious drivel
cease and desist from any further such actions.
Let your idle hands find more constructive pursuits than the tormenting of innocent souls with your ghostly fancies.
(01:30):
This is a new beginning, and we will not have it tainted by such dark and unsettling pronouncements.
Consider this your only warning.
Should these disturbing missives continue, I will take such measures as unnecessary
to ensure the safety and peace of my family and this community.
(01:52):
Frederick Barnaby.
[Music]
(02:23):
You guys
peek out from the supply shack to see
Hazel
desperately trying to pull the door closed as the scrungest digs its claws into the wood doors,
trying to pull the
chapel wide open to get to this damsel in distress.
(02:43):
What do you guys do?
You already know Sophie Jo's filming this thing.
Okay.
So you, yeah, you zoom in, you zoom way in so you're getting like close-up footage of her trying not to be killed by the scrungest.
Yes, well like making her wait.
Oh, oh, so you're rushing there.
Oh, like he like recording.
Oh, okay.
That was there for research purposes later.
(03:04):
Oh, sure, sure.
What about, I mean, I guess, okay, so you guys are all rushing over there to help.
You arrive with the giant massive hulking figure of the scrungest
slashing and tearing at this door trying to get inside.
Hazel, of course, doing everything in her power to try to keep it closed.
She's got maybe a couple of pews that she's tried to slam over top of it, but they're just not doing much.
(03:28):
You seal this.
Maybe it's like a cabin thing where it's like a screen window or something.
That's for you guys to figure out.
Yeah, I'm just gonna say you're obviously not here.
You're telling us the interior.
Sophie Jo does have a thermal camera.
Okay, thermal cameras don't seat through walls.
They're not fired, dummy.
They're not ghost.
So what are you guys doing?
(03:49):
You guys are standing there.
The scrungest is smashing through.
You're getting a really good look at the scrungest.
It's just this disgusting, it's bear-like, but the more you look at it, the more you realize it has this almost monstrous,
non-bear, non-natural visage to it, especially from the sort of gooping gray ooze that sort of just comes off of its body.
(04:10):
And of course, Hazel is inside shouting, "Help, help, help!"
Please, oh my gosh, please help!
Is the scrungest's full attention on her?
Oh yeah.
Okay, so how close could Sophie Jo get to this thing?
You can get as close as you want.
He's gonna just be warned if you poke the bear.
Poke the-
If you poke that, we're changing it.
(04:32):
We're changing it to poke the scrungest.
Don't poke the scrungest.
It's still kind of like herring from the four times you shot him.
You can't see where it's been shot, but I would say there's an element of the couple of times that you've experienced it,
and one time that you've already fought it, it does seem like it's a little bit weakened.
Maybe the oozy gooeyness of it seems to be slightly like the mass,
(04:56):
the mass that existed of it seems to have minimized ever so slightly.
Not a lot, but somewhat.
Mmm.
So he's gonna just try and get point blank.
Okay.
And just...
Bah!
Right in the back of the scrungest.
Back of the scrungest.
Alright, we'll go back of his head if he can reach.
Sure.
(05:17):
How tall is this bad boy?
Oh man, he's pretty tall, but he's on all fours, right?
He's using his front claws very bear-like to smashing at this door, so you could get out.
If he's on all fours then, I think Sophie Jo will get to the side and just try and aim for the side of his face.
Sure.
I'm gonna say do a kick some ass.
Ooh, that's I believe a 6.
(05:40):
A 6.
You pull out the gun and you hold it right up to the head of this creature,
and all of a sudden a small portion of the gooey ooze that comes off of it
splurts out and hits the tip of your revolver,
and you can see the metal on it start to corrode almost instantly,
and you pull back the pistol, hoping not to get any more on this, so you don't take the shot.
(06:05):
Well, that's not good.
At least it's attention's not on me.
Yeah, that's true, that's true.
But if he's close enough, he does have one of the axes.
That's true.
Just might try and throw an axe.
Okay, so you take a couple of steps back and you go to hurl one of your axes at it.
(06:26):
Roll me that kick some ass.
Go.
So that's a 7.
A 7, okay.
So you do successfully hit the scrungus with this axe, it flies forward,
jamming itself into it.
The scrungus reels back, obviously angry from this damage that it's just been dealt,
and it turns towards you, and you watch as the axe itself that you just embedded into it
(06:50):
starts to sort of sink into its flesh and disappears beneath the gooey ooze.
You probably won't be getting that axe back, but you have damaged the scrungus.
Unfortunately, the scrungus turns around and its attention is now on you.
Which, I guess, is to Hazel's favor.
What about the others that are in this group?
(07:13):
As the scrungus turns towards you guys, what are you guys doing?
I think Grieve is going to pull out one of his bolos,
because I'm assuming that the scrungus turning his attention is going to then charge at Scuba Steve over there.
I think it's a little surprise seeing everybody.
It hasn't decided who to charge at just yet.
(07:36):
So you have, I mean, this is amidst his turning.
So, being familiar with the bull as the Australian enthusiast I am,
I know what's probably not going to do a lot of good to chuck it at a stationary target.
Okay.
I don't know if I can talk to anyone there.
Right.
Sounds a good pointer.
Stationary.
So he's probably going to like ready an action.
(07:59):
Okay.
For when he starts running.
Okay.
Yeah, that sounds good.
I would call that, you know what, here, this is going to be a weird situation.
You hold this action, but let me, because you're taking time to sort of analyze this,
I'm going to call this a help out and you're essentially helping yourself.
You're helping yourself prepare.
So roll with cool for the possibility of getting yourself a plus one when you actually go to
(08:22):
throw this.
Five.
Five.
Okay.
Wait.
Oh, oh.
Because a help yourself out is plus one.
So six.
Six.
So close.
So close.
But it's not going to cause you any kind of a problem, right?
You take some steps back.
I think your heart starts beating super intensely as you see this creature that just attacked
you guys not too long ago, maybe about an hour ago.
(08:44):
And you're nervous, right?
You are trying to push past that feeling.
And I mentioned before, you've trained by capturing other animals, other dangerous animals,
for the purposes of education and things like that.
You've had a lion run right at you and you stood your ground and you managed to subdue
it before it could hurt you.
But this last time you did the same thing for the scrungus and it slammed into you and
(09:08):
caused you damage.
So you're a little nervous.
This isn't what you're used to.
This isn't normal for you.
And you're a little bit terrified.
So it doesn't give you an opportunity to potentially get a little bit more focus on this thing.
But that doesn't mean that you can't still throw the bull as the second it charges.
Is Martin Fresh doing anything?
He started his weed wacker and he's pulling it above his head like a Tuscan ranger.
(09:33):
Oh, get out of here.
Are you scrungus?
No, I'm just out of here.
This is an interesting situation where I'm going to have you do a manipulate someone.
Being the scrungus.
Nine.
Nine.
Okay.
So on a nine, they'll do it.
But only if you do something for them right now to show that you mean it.
(09:56):
So you're saying get out of here.
Pull in the thing that makes the loud weed wacker.
And then he moves it and he cuts the grass in front of us to show that you mean it.
Okay.
It backs away.
I don't think it's fully intimidated to run away entirely, but it's definitely made
(10:17):
nervous.
I'm not pointed at it.
Okay.
Hold it on in front of you.
Okay.
Okay.
Back off.
Please.
Back off.
And as you as you move towards it, sure enough, it does start to step back.
It seems a little cautious of this, this weed wacker.
Where are you sort of getting it to and where are you going?
(10:39):
I'm going to get away from the door.
So it stops.
Yeah.
Okay.
It is definitely doing that.
You managed to back it away so that is, it's back on the ground.
It's not leaving the area because again, it's only staying about a weed wacker's distance
from you, right?
But it is away from the door at the moment.
So you guys have an opening to get inside or whatever it is that you're trying to do.
(11:02):
I think Greve will take that opening and run for the inside.
Okay.
So we're all a leap inside where Hazel is waiting and she at this point, she, she's
just kind of crumpled next to the pews that she has kind of barring up the door.
She looks exhausted.
She says, I went out to the beach and it chased me all the way over here, but it didn't come
(11:25):
into the sand.
I think it doesn't like sand.
I know that sounds weird, but I, it wouldn't come and get me.
I just, I freaked out and I, I got onto the grass and then it started to chase me, but
it wouldn't come over to the sand.
How far is the beach from here?
So you guys are at the chapel, which is kind of that center spot.
There's a beach south of you towards the lighthouse and then there's the, the North
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Beach, which is where like the volleyball and stuff like that is all set up at.
You know, there's a net over at the ball.
There's a net at the volleyball court.
You haven't given up on that net gun.
It hasn't been super effective, but it's due now.
The exact, our sand traps in the golf course, there is sand traps in the golf course that
we established is right here.
(12:08):
Well, that's also still a little ways from you, but I digress.
All things considered, you're on an island, so you're completely surrounded by sand.
She says, or anything, anything dry really.
I mean, I don't know.
So soapy Joe's going to call back to his days of watching King of the Hill and he's
going to grab some sand and put it in his pocket.
(12:30):
Just sand from where?
Are we not like on a beach?
No, we're out.
No, no, no, sorry.
When I said you're surrounded, I meant like you're on an island.
So technically you could go in any direction.
Eventually you'll find some sand from the holy sand.
Ah, yes.
Yes.
The, the holy sand.
They don't use holy water at this, this chapel.
They use holy sand.
So I soapy believes we should go to the North Beach.
(12:53):
Do you all want to go to the North Beach?
Is this just to collect something or is this to like take refuge on the beach?
Yeah, as we have an actual end game, are we just trying to go to the beach because that
is a weakness that I didn't make the other thing.
How can we give off this island or signal for help?
(13:13):
Well, I wasn't, what was the whole totem thing?
That's just how this all happened.
I didn't give us all of his footage from like the campfire.
So because he's been recording this.
Sure.
I would say in the moment with, with the current situation, the scrungus is not gone.
Oh, it's not gone.
I 100% support you investigating the mystery, but I'm just kind of asking is now the time.
(13:33):
You know what I mean?
Yeah, you're right.
You're right.
I would love nothing more than you investigate the mystery.
So with that being said, Martin Fresh is still outside just kind of like, yeah, I've been
talking to you guys through the door, the open door is I'm just holding the thing off.
Well, guys, I like the strategizing we're making here.
But how about we head to the beach that discuss further if it doesn't like seeing Justin, Justin
(14:01):
steps out and he says, well, maybe, maybe this would help.
And he pulls out an equally massive Costco, not a sponsor size container of the salts
that was originally sitting right next to the pepper when you grab that.
And he says, what about this?
This is sand, right?
I mean, it's a mineral, but it's, it's close.
(14:22):
You think this will work?
And to be clear, do I still have the pepper since I only got a brief little cloud versus
the actual and I think you technically dropped it.
But he does hand you this big giant thing of salt, which is significantly heavier than
than pepper.
Hmm.
I'm not a believer in densities.
Yes, I will take the salt.
(14:44):
Okay.
And he says, I don't do we just like, he's looking at Hazel and he's like, do we just
do we just throw it at him?
Or like, I mean, what are we supposed to do?
He's like, I don't know.
Just get the salt on him.
I guess.
I don't know.
I don't even know.
I don't even know if this will work, but try it works for me.
Can you load up that salt into your net gun?
(15:04):
How about that?
Even a good or a giant potato gun?
I was just thinking actually today that a net gun is basically just either a potato
gun or like a t-shirt gun where it's just pressurized and you could really shove just
about anything in there.
Because isn't the guy like right outside?
Yeah, yeah.
(15:24):
Yeah.
Yeah, I think it'll probably take that option is just hurl it.
Hurl it.
Okay.
So you run outside.
I'm going to have you act under pressure on this one.
So you're rolling with cool because obviously you're just trying to make sure that this
salt hits the scrungus.
And eight.
And eight.
Okay.
You pop the top on this container of salt and you rear back and you hurl it towards
(15:49):
the scrungus.
Oh man, this is the tricky thing with act under pressure is they leave it very broad.
Her choice or price to pay.
You're going to lose the salt, which is a huge sacrifice.
Oh, I have an idea.
Okay.
You rear back, you have the top popped off of this massive container of salt and you
(16:09):
hurl it towards the scrungus.
It flies through the air and it hits the ground just like a foot or two away from it.
Filling salt all over to the ground.
That's right there.
And that's you had this like nice pile of salt.
It's out of the container.
It's sitting there on the ground, but it didn't directly hit the scrungus.
(16:31):
Okay.
So it is in front of it or to the side?
Kind of to the side.
Yeah.
Kind of to the side.
Now is that all the salt that's gone?
Yeah.
So there's just a huge pile of salt sitting next to the scrungus, but not actually touching
the scrungus.
Big pile?
Yep.
Okay.
So it's just sitting there in the angle.
Oh, interesting.
And just send it flying in every direction.
(16:53):
Okay.
You jam the, you pull the weed eater away from the monster and it sees an opening, but
just as it does, you jam it into the salt.
I'm going to have you do an act under pressure as well.
Just because you're taking your focus, a nine.
Okay.
You, you might get harmed by the monster, but you will hit the salt and spray it everywhere.
(17:13):
Or you can, or you can redact.
Full send.
Full send.
So I should say the scrungus slashes out with its massive clawed hands.
It hits you just ever so slightly dealing one harm, but your weed eater jams into this
pile of salt that grieves just sent flying over to you.
And it just starts spraying salt everywhere, every which direction.
(17:36):
Some of you guys start like closing your eyes as you're getting kind of hit with it from
over at the chapel.
That you watch as the salt hits the scrungus, that ooey goo that makes up its body starts
to almost disintegrate like a dry up like a snail, sizzling practically as the salt is
hitting it.
(17:56):
It lets out a horrible, horrible screen as it starts to just rush away, being horribly
harmed by this salt, this drying agent, if you will, leaving you guys safe for now from
the scrungus.
Where'd it go, Myrtle?
Now stay on!
Now keep in mind, Sophie Jo was reporting, or recording on this.
(18:20):
Yes.
So he would like to investigate the mystery and fix it in post again.
Okay.
And then just remind me, so what does fix it in post like do?
Does it enhance your investigative history?
Does it give you more questions?
It says you can use anything you conceivably have recorded as evidence for investigative
mystery allowing you to check previous interviews, attacks, life.
Oh, okay.
(18:40):
So basically it's saying that no matter where you're at, you have content that you can use
to investigate a mystery versus like, oh, I have to go to a spot to try to investigate
the mystery.
He's recording, which is why.
Which you have been, yeah.
Been recording this whole time.
Absolutely.
For his 50,000 YouTube blog.
That's right.
Okay.
Go ahead and roll that investigative mystery.
Nine.
(19:01):
Nine.
Okay.
So you get one question from the list.
You can kind of keep this one a little bit more broad if you'd like to.
Just tell me what it is that you want to attribute it to.
So we know what happened here.
We know what kind of creature it is.
We sort of know what it can do.
We know what can hurt it.
We don't know where it went.
What was it going to do?
(19:21):
We probably know that.
I'm going to ask what can the scrungest do?
What can it do?
Okay.
Like the acidic stuff that's spurred it off of it's kind of, is kind of like, you know,
yeah, something strange.
That's a good question.
Okay.
So you look back at footage that you've gotten of the scrungest.
(19:44):
And one thing that you notice from the video where Greaves shot it with a net gun, you
actually saw there were chunks of the body that completely oozed out between the little
squares in the net and sort of reestablished itself outside of the net.
So basically this thing can turn into an ooze almost entirely to escape, for instance, a
(20:10):
net.
And obviously you see that everywhere that it goes, it also kind of leaves behind the
sort of acid burn.
As you look through some of the video and you see like where it had its footprints, you
even go look out at the door of the chapel and you can see these almost like acid burn
marks that it left behind while it was trying to get inside.
So its skin itself is incredibly caustic, which is actually really good that Greaves
(20:36):
didn't capture you and the scrungest when he shot the net gun, which I think you joked
about as we'd be in a confined space with a...
Yeah.
So wait, didn't Martin just like fight this thing like hand to hand?
Didn't you fight this thing?
Right, right in the ale?
No, but before you fought the scrungest at your campfire store.
(20:57):
No, no, no.
Not at all.
He just, he literally just saw it.
He just offered in some hand.
Yeah.
Hand off.
So he doesn't like hand.
Which is funny because in the first episode you kept trying to give him hand.
Oh, because you were trying to get him to go away.
I don't know, I just, I got some hot dogs and he wasn't there when I came back out.
(21:19):
So I can only assume he doesn't care much for him.
He did chase after the hot dogs though, didn't he?
Well, maybe he likes them.
Maybe he will stay if I came back out with him.
As you guys are discussing this, you can overhear Justin and Hazel are just kind of walking
around the room and Justin is explaining to Hazel and Braden everything that he showed
(21:43):
you guys from the letters from Richard Ancock and anything that kind of related to the totem.
Basically explaining to them that the totem is sort of behind these monsters.
And as they're looking around, does anybody else want to do anything while you guys are
in here?
In this chapel, which is a non-exported space.
You might have come in here at some point like doing some cleaning and stuff like that,
(22:05):
but otherwise as far as the mystery goes, this is the first time you've come in here.
What's our plan of attack your game?
How are we going to get off this island?
Are we going to find a radio and radio to that one fella who's got the car or are we
just going to run across the bridge?
They would grab some golf carts and make an escape across the bridge.
(22:27):
Where's the bridge?
Basically it would be like you go through the forest, you follow that road and then inevitably
you'd get to the bridge.
But you do remember that Willie, the owner of the park, had mentioned to you that the
bridge was going to be unavailable.
What does that mean?
I like to think that, and technically this is totally fictional, I don't think this is
technically how it's set up, but it's one of those raised bridges.
(22:48):
A drawbridge?
Yeah.
Or there's a section of it that's a drawbridge to help let ships through and things like
that.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I mean is there anything in particular you guys want to do while you're in here?
Ellie ideals guys.
And just as you guys are kind of coming to a dead end, Hazel speaks up.
(23:09):
She says, "Hey, what's this?"
And she holds up what looks like an old book.
And you come over and look and you see that obviously each pew has an old Bible and a
hymnal book in each one of those little like sections on the back of each of the pews.
This one had a hymnal book and another book that doesn't look at all like a Bible.
(23:34):
And as she opens it up, you see more of sort of those old letters.
Or rather the book itself looks like it was written in the same handwriting with that
old English style as those letters that you found earlier.
And on the front cover on the inside, you open it up and it reads, "The Diary of Richard
(23:54):
Hancock."
My sweet, my ambitious jewel across the churning foam, know that fortune's cruelest hand has
(24:20):
led us to a haunted home.
These simple souls, they lack the spine to seize what fate decreed.
Their whispers weak, their spirits thin, a paltry frightened breed.
But fear not love, for in my grasp a relic now resides, a totem that hums with ancient
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hungers where wicked power hides.
It speaks to me in fevered dreams a voice both cold and vast.
It calls me servant, it craves the souls that life has cast.
For every breath that fades away, a shadow takes its hope.
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And from the ether nightmares bloom in stories yet untold.
A headless night with spectral stride, a beast with shadowed frame.
I stalk the night, untamed and wild, and whisper my dark name.
Fourteen they were when Drake did sail a meagre flock indeed.
(25:30):
But one by one the darkness calls and plants a fatal seed.
The totem swells a hungry heart with every stolen breath.
Though I conjure terror's vast, I dance with chilling death.
I dreamt of riches, lands untold, a dynasty to claim.
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But now the horrors walk the earth and chant the totem's name.
I hide in shadows, watch them hunt, the monsters of my mind, praying that at every soul consumed
some mastery I'll find.
Some swiftly love across the waves and bring your strength to bear.
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For soon I fear the beasts I birth will find me in their lair.
Perhaps with more to feed its moor, this hunger will abate.
And we shall rule this haunted isle, enthroned by cruelest fate.
[Dramatic music]
(26:42):
Whoa, look!
Those books were written by Anton Shetkoff!
It says Richard Ankoge.
Aren't you a teacher?
I just thought of his name.
We did that so first time.
I know.
I'm like looking over at you guys like, "Yeah?"
Yeah, yeah.
It just hit me.
There you go.
I'm glad it hit you at least.
Inside you flip through the pages, there's only three entries to this journal.
(27:06):
And then the rest of the pages are completely blank.
They're obviously very worn, very yellowed.
You can still read at these three entries that are in here.
The first one says, "October 22nd, Anodomini 1586.
The power, the terrible power of this thing.
(27:30):
I tested it, Elizabeth.
I confess I did."
There was fourteen fools who remained.
I spun tales around the fire, dark imaginings of beasts and shadows.
And they manifested horrors born of drunken whispers and fearful thoughts.
(27:52):
They tore through the camp, Elizabeth, savagely, indiscriminately.
Both follow me.
It was just the beginning.
Now, now there are none left but me.
And they hunt me too.
My own creations stalk the woods, their eyes burning with a hunger I myself ignited.
(28:16):
This island, it has become a cage of my own making.
I must flee.
I must take a pin.
I must go back to the mainland.
Perhaps there, away from this cursed soil, I can find some respite from the nightmares
I have unleashed.
Hell, Justin, that's some impressive voice work you're doing there.
How are you throwing your voice like that?
(28:37):
That sounds like a completely different person.
Oh, well, I did a lot of theatre when I was in school.
Oh, wow, that's impressive.
Can you do any other crazy voices?
Uh, no, I pretty much just had the one.
Oh, okay.
Do this one in my Italian accent?
No.
How about a nice cockney accent?
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Nope.
The second entry.
November 15th, Anodomini, 1586.
They follow, even here.
On the mainland the shadows writhe with them.
Sleep offers no escape, only visions of gnashing teeth and fiery eyes.
Desperate, I sought one of their priests, a wizened old man from a tribe further inland.
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I showed him the totem, babbling of the horrors.
He merely laughed, Elizabeth.
A cold, mocking sound.
He called it a demon, residing within the wood, said my suffering was punishment for
my transgression against the aquasca cock.
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The original sin, he called it.
The theft, the blame.
He spoke of a ritual, a way to sever the connection.
I must take the silver cup, the source of that first sin and the totem to a holy place.
Only then, if I beg for repentance, if I confront my greatest sin, perhaps then the horrors
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will cease.
He turns the page to the final entry in the notebook.
The first, anodominy, 1586.
The cup, the silver cobblet.
I hid it, buried it near the fledgling gardens we tried to cultivate on the edge of the forest.
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I cannot bring myself to return to that cursed island, Elizabeth.
Not of them waiting.
But the priest's words, the only hope.
I have drawn a map, my love.
A crude thing, but it should guide you to it.
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Should you ever arrive on these shores with the next company.
If I am not there, if the monsters have claimed me, take the cup and the other treasures I
buried there, Elizabeth.
Take it and the totem to that sanctuary rock the natives called it.
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Confess your greatest sin, your darkest secret that you hide within your heart.
Perhaps you can find the peace that now eludes me.
I have marked a map of the island on the next page.
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May God have mercy on my soul.
And of course, you turn the page to find it torn out.
Just as you finish these last words, Justin looks like he's about to say something when
suddenly you hear another scream.
And you look outside to see off in the distance the lighthouse.
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The big giant light kind of comes across you guys blinding you for a moment.
And as it passes by, you regain your focus to see a giant massive alligator like creature
leaned up against the side of the lighthouse.
It's tails still sticking into the ocean behind it.
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And up in the window of the lighthouse up in the top, you see Ophelia and she is currently
holding a giant burnt out lighthouse bulb.
And she's hurling them down at this gator source.
What do you do?
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It does exist.
My gosh, even from here that thing looks massive.
Oh, well wrestle it.
Yeah, shorts.
You're hitting it.
Taking off running at the moment.
Okay, he's just running right towards it.
What are the rest of you guys doing?
Hey, so where's that male?
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This is you guys are saying this as you're running.
Not running.
You're not running.
You're just standing there in the chapel looking for the map.
Okay, Justin says, I don't know.
It looks like he got torn out.
Oh, is he look right here and he shows you the frayed edges.
You gotta be around here somewhere and Martin gets on his knees and he starts looking under
all the pews crawling around.
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Okay, do a let's call this a investigate a mystery, I suppose.
Four.
Four.
You, you find nothing there.
This floor has been swept clean.
Keep in mind that people have come in here and they have cleaned prior.
This was just something that was like slightly defining the journal in general was just something
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that was slightly out of place.
So you guys found it sure, but you don't see a page that's just kind of hanging around.
You even take some of the the Bibles and the handles and stuff and you start kind of shaking
the pages to see if maybe exactly nothing, nothing inside.
Okay, it's probably in the back and he starts walking through the back of the chapel.
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Okay, the closets and stuff.
Sounds good.
I'm going to set you aside for the moment.
You're searching diligently for this map that's gone missing.
The other two of you, you guys have rushed out.
I think Braden has rushed along with you.
I'm going to say Justin stayed behind with Martin Fresh and Hazel.
Hazel just stops halfway in between.
Like I don't know what to do.
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She's looking at this giant alligator, this kaiju sized creature practically.
Maybe not quite full kaiju, but like a bit, let's say baby kaiju.
It's like leaned up and trying to bite at her.
No, no, no, no.
Okay, that's right.
That's what I'm saying.
Like baby kaiju.
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Let's say it's a baby kaiju.
It's still really big.
Oh yeah.
No, I know.
I know.
Yeah.
So this is like 20 feet.
Yeah.
Just for comparison, a quick Google search shows that the largest confirmed alligator
is 19 feet long.
What is this?
Like double that?
This is like like 30, 30.
Here's what I'll say.
It's not that it's just in a gator.
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It's got like features that like a dinosaur-esque features to it that allow it to basically
be standing on its hind legs and almost reaching up with its maw to try to get Ophelia out
of the top of this.
Could you define a maw?
Like its mouth.
Yeah, sorry.
And you're the alligator expert.
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Allegedly, he is.
So as you rush up to it, Braden falling along behind you guys, again Hazel stopping about
halfway, just not sure what even to do.
What are you doing?
Well, Sobie Joe, we already know.
He's filming.
Okay.
Sobie Joe is filming.
This creature, it bears a resemblance to a gator, but it's it's got even more prominent
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features of like a dinosaur, even more armor.
I never in my wildest dreams did I expect it to be this massive.
The rumors are true and more, but how, how do I, how do I capture this?
How do I subdue it?
Maybe it's like a Pokemon where you have to weaken it and then try to capture it.
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If it's anything like the other stuff we fought, they can apparently withstand getting shot
multiple times.
So kind of got a work cut out for us here.
That's a very good point.
And Sobie Joe's only got three bullets left.
But I'm sure it is just a misunderstood creature.
Why did I come with him?
Well, whatever the case, it's trying to eat.
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It is trying to eat Ophelia right now.
And I obviously, if you got its attention, there's a good chance it might try to eat
you.
So, how about it is just like recording.
Okay.
I don't think that's going to stop it from eating you.
Well, no, it's not eat us or try and eat Ophelia.
Well, I'm just saying if you draw its attention, I'm going to, I'm going to fix it in post
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with this guy because I've been recording.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
So you're saying you're in.
See what I can't see.
Okay.
Sounds good.
12.
12.
Okay.
So you get to ask two questions.
Now, technically speaking, 12 plus gives you it's an advanced thing that's separate.
But I digress.
You do get to ask two questions of the various things that are here.
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Can I be more specific or like more broad or is that to be still specific to the situation?
What do you think?
Like, what are, why are all of these monsters here?
I mean, you kind of have an answer to that already with the totem, right?
Well, yeah, I guess is there a way I can look through the footage and see if there's a specific
area that they're trying to get to?
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Because if they're trying to get to the totem odds are they all trying to be kind of converging
on the same place.
So you're saying like, what was it going to do?
Is there a be one pattern?
Is there anything that all of these monsters seem to have in common?
Okay.
And they're tying here?
Oh, yeah, I could answer that.
They all and I you're going to think that this is a sarcastic answer.
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I promise it's not.
They're all trying to get you.
They're all trying not you specifically, but I just mean like your at least the three of
you in the other campers, they're trying to get somebody kill somebody or whatever you
want to call it.
Is it a specific?
Are they targeting one individual?
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No, because you have seen them target multiple different people.
One of them tried to get or the scrungus was trying to get Justin before.
Obviously was trying to get all of you at the campfire.
Bigfoot was trying to pull the plug, which suggests that I mean, Bigfoot has some level
of intelligence.
Let's let's say that.
So his was more of, I could stop them from getting access to things which would increase
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our chances of getting them.
This one is trying to get Ophelia at the moment.
The scrungus was just trying to get Hazel.
So it's really anybody is fair game, but it's just the fact that they're not the only thing
they're after essentially is violence.
I have one more question.
Yes.
And I converse with my.
Yeah, absolutely.
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You can at the very least converse with Greaves because he's here.
Greaves.
What should I be looking for?
Or you could talk to Braden, which is me.
I mean, should we get it's good to try to eat Ophelia?
Shouldn't we like get rid of this?
Well, yeah, we're trying to figure out how to do that.
Yeah.
Well, what about you Gator expert?
What do you know about Gators?
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What's their weakness?
How do we get rid of it?
None.
They are.
Well, you can get them from the back, right?
I think it's the underside technically, but I see what you're getting at.
The underside.
They're their nose is very sensitive.
I think that sharks were going to play that their nose is very sensitive.
You punch them in the eyes.
What?
I think the sharks.
That is sharks' nose.
Yes.
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Because divers will like push their nose away.
Gators, they can like close their mouth really strong, but they can't open it.
So like a trickle tape will keep their mouth shut.
That's a fair point.
But yeah, he is right now seeing that this Gator is like kind of leaned up against the
lighthouse.
So in essence, it is already kind of opened up eyes to the poles.
You just need to some way to fasten it to the pole.
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And then that would be trapped or already rassled to said pole being the lighthouse.
So I will look around for like a big chain or a rope or something that you assume a ship
would more to the lighthouse.
Sure.
Yeah.
With that being said, you do.
I wasn't sure.
Sorry.
Were you trying to figure out which question to ask?
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I'm still trying to figure out which question to ask.
Right.
So I can't keep that in the back pocket for now.
Sure.
Okay.
So it retains to the, yeah, the Gator source, but okay.
So you're looking for a chain.
I would say, I mean, it makes sense to me that there would be some kind of chain close by the
lighthouses typically set up to obviously keep boats from crashing into the shores.
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That's the purpose of it.
But as a seafaring related structure, I would say that, yeah, there's probably some chains
lying around or at the very least some rope.
So what I think we need to do, this is just like when I captured that saltwater crocodile
on the Panama Canal.
Wow.
The Suez Canal.
Now we're at least on the right continent.
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I was thinking, man, this is going to just go into the lore of Grieve's character that
he has never done any.
He was with geography.
So it's so many canals.
He got his Suez and his Panama Canal mixed up.
Gotcha.
Okay.
So what is Suez Canal?
Yes.
But he's going to look for a rope and then he's going to basically just run around the
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lighthouse.
Yeah.
In essence, fastening the alligator to the lighthouse.
Wow.
Okay.
He's going to require a distraction to which he is going to request that from either Justin
or Joe.
Justin's back at--
Braden or Joe.
Joe--Sopey Joe.
Soopey Joe.
Oh, Sobes Joseph?
Yeah, Sobes Joseph.
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Okay.
So Braden is more than happy to assist.
Would you like--I'm going to give that to you as a plus one.
He's assisting you.
He's helping out by creating a distraction.
I'm going to say that his distraction is that he runs up to the top lighthouse and joins
Ophelia.
It's like that would be the best distraction.
Yeah.
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But fascinated with the top.
Exactly.
Not looking at you guys.
Exactly.
So with that being said, you've got the two--are the two of you doing the ropes because I'll
let him help you with that.
But he'll have to roll for it.
To be fair with help out, I don't think--well, there technically is a negative.
So I'll try now.
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Okay.
Six.
Six.
Okay.
You kind of fumble around with the ropes awkwardly and honestly it's really just taking up more
time than it's worth.
That camcorder won.
Yeah, it's because he won't put the camcorder down.
Oh my god.
Get the footage.
All right, mate.
You're going to just hand that rope over to me and I'll do a couple of loops around this.
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It's when he's dealing with gators, man.
It really comes out.
We'll see if we can wrestle this beautiful beast.
All right.
Sounds good.
So I'm going to have you act under pressure as you start to just--is it--you're like a
hot speeder trying to wrap up the legs of this ATT.
Except instead of a giant imperial ship, it's a giant gator sore.
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And you have a plus one on top.
I do.
Yeah, from Brayden helping you out with the distraction.
That makes it a 12.
Holy cow.
Okay.
So you do exactly what you set out to do.
You start rushing around this lighthouse and occasionally you'll kind of like throw a loop
up there to kind of get it hooked around some of its--what are those?
Protrubrances.
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Protrubrances, which is--yeah, okay.
And get a higher angle on it.
But otherwise you manage to wrap up basically the entire lower half of this monstrosity to
the lighthouse.
And you do it without it really noticing because Brayden's doing a really great job at creating
a distraction above.
But by the time it does notice, it's already too late.
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Its whole under half of its body has been wrapped entirely.
It starts just kind of struggling, but it's very awkward as it does.
It's splashing its massive tail in the water below.
You do feel a little bit of rickety movement on the lighthouse.
There's some rope left.
I mean, you just wrapped up a whole monster.
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If you want like a separate chunk of rope?
Yes.
Like this one would be a smaller rope.
Okay.
I'd say there might be more inside the lighthouse.
People will search for one.
Okay.
So, we're going to get into the lighthouse.
What's Soapy Joe doing?
He's filming this thing.
He's like, "Crikey guys, look at that monster."
And speaking of monsters, I wanted to remind you guys that Monster Mash Energy Drinks has
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been the sponsor of this channel for two years.
And you just kind of hear like, "Jay, what's going on with this ad?"
All right.
You run inside and I think Ophelia comes running down some of the stairs and she looks down,
you know, it's like one of those spiral staircases.
She looks down through the center and she's like, "Um, oh my gosh, what are you doing?"
"I need more rope.
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I'm trying to save your life and rattle this Gator-saurus."
There's some rope up here in Willy's office.
I found Willy's office.
I know we weren't supposed to go in there, but I went in there anyways.
Desperate times called for desperate measures.
And she said, "Do you want me to throw it down for you?"
"On the double."
"Okay."
And she disappears and then moments later, just this chunk of rope just comes flying down
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and slams into the floor below you.
"You're built."
"Are you talking about me or the rope?"
"Both of you.
Thanks, Sheila."
I mean, I think I should.
I told you before, it's not Sheila, it's Onyx.
My gosh.
How many times do I have to tell you guys that?
You now have another chunk of rope, another spindle, if you will.
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With his death wish at hand, Grieve Gershwin is going to run to the base of this Gator-saurus
with all of its protrubarances that look strikingly similar to a rock wall.
Oh, absolutely.
Attempt to scale the back of this Gator-saurus.
What?
Wow.
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Okay.
Once again, I mean, really act under pressure, really kind of falls under what we're looking
for here.
And you're climbing up, thing called, this is one of my moves, it's Killer's Wisdom.
Okay.
And says, "You've learned how to study your prey very well after three rounds to observe.
Roll plus two sharp."
Okay.
So does that apply?
Does that take a plie?
Does that apply?
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Yeah, I'd say so.
What is it?
I mean, is it giving you something?
On a ten plus hold stuff?
What am I holding?
So that's kind of like your help, right?
So you're getting those pluses.
Does it say how much?
You can on a ten plus hold two, on a seven nine hold one, and then you spend your holds
to do either par.
It could be this exact situation.
Okay, very cool.
Okay, yeah, absolutely.
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So roll your sharp.
You have studied Gators all your life.
Alligators.
You studied crocodiles.
You know exactly what this Gatorsaurus would be all about.
So that would be, I add my sharp to this, right?
Yep.
So that would be an eight.
An eight.
So you do get plus one.
Okay.
And then now you're going to go scale it.
Do you want to, I mean, I guess you could decide when you want to use the plus one.
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Give yourself or another hunter plus one ongoing.
Oh.
Versus the monster until the, oh, you do two plus harm.
Very nice.
Okay.
Would be the ongoing plus one.
Sure.
Yeah.
So you do plus one to do anything really to this, this Gatorsaurus.
You want to level up.
Absolutely.
Okay.
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So now they're going to act on your pressure.
Yes.
As you start to grab onto the scales and the protrusions and start to scale this creature.
Protrusions.
You used it so many times now it's canon.
That's right.
I think that's a 12 again.
Holy cow.
Okay.
You, I mean, you easily nimbly.
I mean, this thing is huge.
It's got the protrusions are so big.
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Um, it's, it's easier than a rock climbing wall with or without cause you've got this
rope around your back and you've got rope to kind of help you climb up as well that
you've already wrapped around it.
It's like, it's practically like walking up a steep cliff at this point.
And with this rope in his mouth as he's scaling, this is for you, Steve.
Okay.
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Zero.
And you make it to, I mean, basically the head of this creature, which is flailing pretty
proudly, but you're holding on tight like Legolas hanging off of a, an LF.
What do they call them?
Alley font.
Alley font.
Yes.
All right.
So you're on top of its head.
What are you doing?
Uh, he is going to use that little perk of information that soapy Joe had reminded him
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of that he probably should remember.
Does that gators cannot open their mouth with excessive pressure?
Right.
It can only close.
Gotcha.
And you have to attempt to secure the maw of this Gators shut.
Very nice.
Okay.
So you start to throw this rope around them and have you do one more act under pressure.
I know I'm making it like just adding to the thrill, but you do still have the plus
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one on top of it.
All right.
I think that's another 12.
Another 12.
Okay.
You start to throw this rope around, lassoing around the mouth of this giant Gatorsaurus,
closing it up just in time as it has it open, it slams it shut at some point just in its
frustration.
You rope it off and it just does not seem to be able to open its mouth back up.
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So now it's just wriggling, uh, awkward, even more awkwardly than before.
It cannot open its mouth and you scale back down easily.
Much like the Legolas.
Much like Legolas.
Yes.
It just slides right off of it.
Absolutely.
You slide all the way down the tail and then at the end, the tail kind of flicks up and
you just hop off and roll onto the ground and declare if I, uh, Grieve Gershwin is probably
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way too cool to make all these Lord of the Rings reference.
This is strictly fatty.
Yeah.
I will say, I will say that because you did so well with all of this added bonus, Sobie
Joe got all of that on camera.
It's all going on his YouTube channel, but he'll shout you out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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You'll get, you know, shout out and link in the description, but you'll get a shout out.
Well, see now you had to make an account and then that way everybody that sees his video
will go check out your videos.
Maybe with all that exposure, we'll be able to educate us onto why this creature was so
distraught.
There may be some type of habitat destruction that we can remedy.
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Hmm.
This poor lass.
This poor lass girl.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There it is.
It's decided as you stand there with the entirety of the Gator sword is completely wrapped up
in rope.
We will close out this episode.
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September 18th, Anno Domini 1588.
The days grew shorter.
The air colder and with them comes a terror that gnaws at the very soul of our settlement.
The attacks, they have become relentless.
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Scarcely a night passes without some poor soul being dragged from their dwelling.
Their screams swallowed by the oppressive darkness.
We bar the doors.
We keep watch, but it is not enough.
I saw one father last night by the meagre light of the moon.
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A shape hunched and crooked, leaning forward as if borne down by some unseen weight.
It moved with a horrifying speed.
Its limbs are naturally long and jointed and its hands.
Oh sweet Mary, its hands claws I tell you, fully a foot in length, black and wickedly
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sharp.
I watched, frozen in terror as it fell upon one of our hogs.
It tore it in half with a single swipe, the force of its sending entrails scattering in
every direction.
The sound, the wet, tearing sound.
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It will haunt my dreams forever.
Only three dozen souls lost now.
Three dozen!
Our numbers dwindle with each passing night, and the faces of those who remain are etched
with a fear that mirrors my own.
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Winter is fast approaching and our stores are still meagre.
Hope, once a flickering candle, now threatens to be extinguished entirely.
In their desperation, the elders have taken to carving.
On that large rock by the northernmost palisade, the one they say the first company used for
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prayer, they work tirelessly.
Holy runes they whisper, ancient symbols of protection.
They carve them deep into the stone, their knorled hands moving with a frantic urgency.
They pray, they chant.
Their voices hoarse with fear and supplication.
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They call it sanctuary rock, our last hope against the encroaching darkness.
I pray it is enough, Father.
I pray that these markings, these desperate pleas to a higher power, can shield us from
the horrors that stalk our knights.
My fear, with every fiber of my being, that they cannot...
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Elinor.
Hey everyone, Skylar here, creator and creative director at Session Zero Heroes.
I just wanted to quickly say a few things before we head into the next episode.
Firstly, thank you so much for listening to our 2025 Monster of the Week 1 shot.
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We'll be posting a brand new episode of Terror at Camp Roanoke every week throughout October
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We hope you enjoyed the mystery we put together.
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To whom it may concern and especially to the Craven scoundrel
responsible for the disturbing scribblings found within my dwelling.
Let it be known throughout this fledgling colony that I, Frederick Barnaby, have had the peace of my family most
grievously disrupted by the discovery of a vile and
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unsettling poem hidden within the very floorboards of the cabin allotted to us.
My daughter, a child of tender years, was subjected to this...
this
nonsense!
And has been left in a state of considerable distress.
I will not repeat the contents of this dreadful verse here, lest it further poison the minds of our community.
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Suffice it to say, it speaks of shadows, of souls departed, and of a most unnatural hunger.
Such morbid pronouncements serve no purpose, but to sow fear and discontent amongst us,
who have come to this land with hope and a desire for honest labor.
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Therefore, I,
Frederick Barnaby,
to hereby demand that the author of this malicious drivel
cease and desist from any further such actions.
Let your idle hands find more constructive pursuits than the tormenting of innocent souls with your ghostly fancies.
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This is a new beginning, and we will not have it tainted by such dark and unsettling pronouncements.
Consider this your only warning.
Should these disturbing missives continue, I will take such measures as unnecessary
to ensure the safety and peace of my family and this community.
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Frederick Barnaby.
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You guys
peek out from the supply shack to see
Hazel
desperately trying to pull the door closed as the scrungest digs its claws into the wood doors,
trying to pull the
chapel wide open to get to this damsel in distress.
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What do you guys do?
You already know Sophie Jo's filming this thing.
Okay.
So you, yeah, you zoom in, you zoom way in so you're getting like close-up footage of her trying not to be killed by the scrungest.
Yes, well like making her wait.
Oh, oh, so you're rushing there.
Oh, like he like recording.
Oh, okay.
That was there for research purposes later.
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Oh, sure, sure.
What about, I mean, I guess, okay, so you guys are all rushing over there to help.
You arrive with the giant massive hulking figure of the scrungest
slashing and tearing at this door trying to get inside.
Hazel, of course, doing everything in her power to try to keep it closed.
She's got maybe a couple of pews that she's tried to slam over top of it, but they're just not doing much.
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You seal this.
Maybe it's like a cabin thing where it's like a screen window or something.
That's for you guys to figure out.
Yeah, I'm just gonna say you're obviously not here.
You're telling us the interior.
Sophie Jo does have a thermal camera.
Okay, thermal cameras don't seat through walls.
They're not fired, dummy.
They're not ghost.
So what are you guys doing?
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You guys are standing there.
The scrungest is smashing through.
You're getting a really good look at the scrungest.
It's just this disgusting, it's bear-like, but the more you look at it, the more you realize it has this almost monstrous,
non-bear, non-natural visage to it, especially from the sort of gooping gray ooze that sort of just comes off of its body.
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And of course, Hazel is inside shouting, "Help, help, help!"
Please, oh my gosh, please help!
Is the scrungest's full attention on her?
Oh yeah.
Okay, so how close could Sophie Jo get to this thing?
You can get as close as you want.
He's gonna just be warned if you poke the bear.
Poke the-
If you poke that, we're changing it.
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We're changing it to poke the scrungest.
Don't poke the scrungest.
It's still kind of like herring from the four times you shot him.
You can't see where it's been shot, but I would say there's an element of the couple of times that you've experienced it,
and one time that you've already fought it, it does seem like it's a little bit weakened.
Maybe the oozy gooeyness of it seems to be slightly like the mass,
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the mass that existed of it seems to have minimized ever so slightly.
Not a lot, but somewhat.
Mmm.
So he's gonna just try and get point blank.
Okay.
And just...
Bah!
Right in the back of the scrungest.
Back of the scrungest.
Alright, we'll go back of his head if he can reach.
Sure.
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How tall is this bad boy?
Oh man, he's pretty tall, but he's on all fours, right?
He's using his front claws very bear-like to smashing at this door, so you could get out.
If he's on all fours then, I think Sophie Jo will get to the side and just try and aim for the side of his face.
Sure.
I'm gonna say do a kick some ass.
Ooh, that's I believe a 6.
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A 6.
You pull out the gun and you hold it right up to the head of this creature,
and all of a sudden a small portion of the gooey ooze that comes off of it
splurts out and hits the tip of your revolver,
and you can see the metal on it start to corrode almost instantly,
and you pull back the pistol, hoping not to get any more on this, so you don't take the shot.
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Well, that's not good.
At least it's attention's not on me.
Yeah, that's true, that's true.
But if he's close enough, he does have one of the axes.
That's true.
Just might try and throw an axe.
Okay, so you take a couple of steps back and you go to hurl one of your axes at it.
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Roll me that kick some ass.
Go.
So that's a 7.
A 7, okay.
So you do successfully hit the scrungus with this axe, it flies forward,
jamming itself into it.
The scrungus reels back, obviously angry from this damage that it's just been dealt,
and it turns towards you, and you watch as the axe itself that you just embedded into it
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starts to sort of sink into its flesh and disappears beneath the gooey ooze.
You probably won't be getting that axe back, but you have damaged the scrungus.
Unfortunately, the scrungus turns around and its attention is now on you.
Which, I guess, is to Hazel's favor.
What about the others that are in this group?
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As the scrungus turns towards you guys, what are you guys doing?
I think Grieve is going to pull out one of his bolos,
because I'm assuming that the scrungus turning his attention is going to then charge at Scuba Steve over there.
I think it's a little surprise seeing everybody.
It hasn't decided who to charge at just yet.
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So you have, I mean, this is amidst his turning.
So, being familiar with the bull as the Australian enthusiast I am,
I know what's probably not going to do a lot of good to chuck it at a stationary target.
Okay.
I don't know if I can talk to anyone there.
Right.
Sounds a good pointer.
Stationary.
So he's probably going to like ready an action.
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Okay.
For when he starts running.
Okay.
Yeah, that sounds good.
I would call that, you know what, here, this is going to be a weird situation.
You hold this action, but let me, because you're taking time to sort of analyze this,
I'm going to call this a help out and you're essentially helping yourself.
You're helping yourself prepare.
So roll with cool for the possibility of getting yourself a plus one when you actually go to
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throw this.
Five.
Five.
Okay.
Wait.
Oh, oh.
Because a help yourself out is plus one.
So six.
Six.
So close.
So close.
But it's not going to cause you any kind of a problem, right?
You take some steps back.
I think your heart starts beating super intensely as you see this creature that just attacked
you guys not too long ago, maybe about an hour ago.
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And you're nervous, right?
You are trying to push past that feeling.
And I mentioned before, you've trained by capturing other animals, other dangerous animals,
for the purposes of education and things like that.
You've had a lion run right at you and you stood your ground and you managed to subdue
it before it could hurt you.
But this last time you did the same thing for the scrungus and it slammed into you and
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caused you damage.
So you're a little nervous.
This isn't what you're used to.
This isn't normal for you.
And you're a little bit terrified.
So it doesn't give you an opportunity to potentially get a little bit more focus on this thing.
But that doesn't mean that you can't still throw the bull as the second it charges.
Is Martin Fresh doing anything?
He started his weed wacker and he's pulling it above his head like a Tuscan ranger.
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Oh, get out of here.
Are you scrungus?
No, I'm just out of here.
This is an interesting situation where I'm going to have you do a manipulate someone.
Being the scrungus.
Nine.
Nine.
Okay.
So on a nine, they'll do it.
But only if you do something for them right now to show that you mean it.
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So you're saying get out of here.
Pull in the thing that makes the loud weed wacker.
And then he moves it and he cuts the grass in front of us to show that you mean it.
Okay.
It backs away.
I don't think it's fully intimidated to run away entirely, but it's definitely made
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nervous.
I'm not pointed at it.
Okay.
Hold it on in front of you.
Okay.
Okay.
Back off.
Please.
Back off.
And as you as you move towards it, sure enough, it does start to step back.
It seems a little cautious of this, this weed wacker.
Where are you sort of getting it to and where are you going?
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I'm going to get away from the door.
So it stops.
Yeah.
Okay.
It is definitely doing that.
You managed to back it away so that is, it's back on the ground.
It's not leaving the area because again, it's only staying about a weed wacker's distance
from you, right?
But it is away from the door at the moment.
So you guys have an opening to get inside or whatever it is that you're trying to do.
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I think Greve will take that opening and run for the inside.
Okay.
So we're all a leap inside where Hazel is waiting and she at this point, she, she's
just kind of crumpled next to the pews that she has kind of barring up the door.
She looks exhausted.
She says, I went out to the beach and it chased me all the way over here, but it didn't come
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into the sand.
I think it doesn't like sand.
I know that sounds weird, but I, it wouldn't come and get me.
I just, I freaked out and I, I got onto the grass and then it started to chase me, but
it wouldn't come over to the sand.
How far is the beach from here?
So you guys are at the chapel, which is kind of that center spot.
There's a beach south of you towards the lighthouse and then there's the, the North
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Beach, which is where like the volleyball and stuff like that is all set up at.
You know, there's a net over at the ball.
There's a net at the volleyball court.
You haven't given up on that net gun.
It hasn't been super effective, but it's due now.
The exact, our sand traps in the golf course, there is sand traps in the golf course that
we established is right here.
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Well, that's also still a little ways from you, but I digress.
All things considered, you're on an island, so you're completely surrounded by sand.
She says, or anything, anything dry really.
I mean, I don't know.
So soapy Joe's going to call back to his days of watching King of the Hill and he's
going to grab some sand and put it in his pocket.
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Just sand from where?
Are we not like on a beach?
No, we're out.
No, no, no, sorry.
When I said you're surrounded, I meant like you're on an island.
So technically you could go in any direction.
Eventually you'll find some sand from the holy sand.
Ah, yes.
Yes.
The, the holy sand.
They don't use holy water at this, this chapel.
They use holy sand.
So I soapy believes we should go to the North Beach.
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Do you all want to go to the North Beach?
Is this just to collect something or is this to like take refuge on the beach?
Yeah, as we have an actual end game, are we just trying to go to the beach because that
is a weakness that I didn't make the other thing.
How can we give off this island or signal for help?
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Well, I wasn't, what was the whole totem thing?
That's just how this all happened.
I didn't give us all of his footage from like the campfire.
So because he's been recording this.
Sure.
I would say in the moment with, with the current situation, the scrungus is not gone.
Oh, it's not gone.
I 100% support you investigating the mystery, but I'm just kind of asking is now the time.
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You know what I mean?
Yeah, you're right.
You're right.
I would love nothing more than you investigate the mystery.
So with that being said, Martin Fresh is still outside just kind of like, yeah, I've been
talking to you guys through the door, the open door is I'm just holding the thing off.
Well, guys, I like the strategizing we're making here.
But how about we head to the beach that discuss further if it doesn't like seeing Justin, Justin
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steps out and he says, well, maybe, maybe this would help.
And he pulls out an equally massive Costco, not a sponsor size container of the salts
that was originally sitting right next to the pepper when you grab that.
And he says, what about this?
This is sand, right?
I mean, it's a mineral, but it's, it's close.
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You think this will work?
And to be clear, do I still have the pepper since I only got a brief little cloud versus
the actual and I think you technically dropped it.
But he does hand you this big giant thing of salt, which is significantly heavier than
than pepper.
Hmm.
I'm not a believer in densities.
Yes, I will take the salt.
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Okay.
And he says, I don't do we just like, he's looking at Hazel and he's like, do we just
do we just throw it at him?
Or like, I mean, what are we supposed to do?
He's like, I don't know.
Just get the salt on him.
I guess.
I don't know.
I don't even know.
I don't even know if this will work, but try it works for me.
Can you load up that salt into your net gun?
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How about that?
Even a good or a giant potato gun?
I was just thinking actually today that a net gun is basically just either a potato
gun or like a t-shirt gun where it's just pressurized and you could really shove just
about anything in there.
Because isn't the guy like right outside?
Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah.
Yeah, I think it'll probably take that option is just hurl it.
Hurl it.
Okay.
So you run outside.
I'm going to have you act under pressure on this one.
So you're rolling with cool because obviously you're just trying to make sure that this
salt hits the scrungus.
And eight.
And eight.
Okay.
You pop the top on this container of salt and you rear back and you hurl it towards
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the scrungus.
Oh man, this is the tricky thing with act under pressure is they leave it very broad.
Her choice or price to pay.
You're going to lose the salt, which is a huge sacrifice.
Oh, I have an idea.
Okay.
You rear back, you have the top popped off of this massive container of salt and you
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hurl it towards the scrungus.
It flies through the air and it hits the ground just like a foot or two away from it.
Filling salt all over to the ground.
That's right there.
And that's you had this like nice pile of salt.
It's out of the container.
It's sitting there on the ground, but it didn't directly hit the scrungus.
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Okay.
So it is in front of it or to the side?
Kind of to the side.
Yeah.
Kind of to the side.
Now is that all the salt that's gone?
Yeah.
So there's just a huge pile of salt sitting next to the scrungus, but not actually touching
the scrungus.
Big pile?
Yep.
Okay.
So it's just sitting there in the angle.
Oh, interesting.
And just send it flying in every direction.
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Okay.
You jam the, you pull the weed eater away from the monster and it sees an opening, but
just as it does, you jam it into the salt.
I'm going to have you do an act under pressure as well.
Just because you're taking your focus, a nine.
Okay.
You, you might get harmed by the monster, but you will hit the salt and spray it everywhere.
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Or you can, or you can redact.
Full send.
Full send.
So I should say the scrungus slashes out with its massive clawed hands.
It hits you just ever so slightly dealing one harm, but your weed eater jams into this
pile of salt that grieves just sent flying over to you.
And it just starts spraying salt everywhere, every which direction.
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Some of you guys start like closing your eyes as you're getting kind of hit with it from
over at the chapel.
That you watch as the salt hits the scrungus, that ooey goo that makes up its body starts
to almost disintegrate like a dry up like a snail, sizzling practically as the salt is
hitting it.
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It lets out a horrible, horrible screen as it starts to just rush away, being horribly
harmed by this salt, this drying agent, if you will, leaving you guys safe for now from
the scrungus.
Where'd it go, Myrtle?
Now stay on!
Now keep in mind, Sophie Jo was reporting, or recording on this.
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Yes.
So he would like to investigate the mystery and fix it in post again.
Okay.
And then just remind me, so what does fix it in post like do?
Does it enhance your investigative history?
Does it give you more questions?
It says you can use anything you conceivably have recorded as evidence for investigative
mystery allowing you to check previous interviews, attacks, life.
Oh, okay.
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So basically it's saying that no matter where you're at, you have content that you can use
to investigate a mystery versus like, oh, I have to go to a spot to try to investigate
the mystery.
He's recording, which is why.
Which you have been, yeah.
Been recording this whole time.
Absolutely.
For his 50,000 YouTube blog.
That's right.
Okay.
Go ahead and roll that investigative mystery.
Nine.
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Nine.
Okay.
So you get one question from the list.
You can kind of keep this one a little bit more broad if you'd like to.
Just tell me what it is that you want to attribute it to.
So we know what happened here.
We know what kind of creature it is.
We sort of know what it can do.
We know what can hurt it.
We don't know where it went.
What was it going to do?
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We probably know that.
I'm going to ask what can the scrungest do?
What can it do?
Okay.
Like the acidic stuff that's spurred it off of it's kind of, is kind of like, you know,
yeah, something strange.
That's a good question.
Okay.
So you look back at footage that you've gotten of the scrungest.
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And one thing that you notice from the video where Greaves shot it with a net gun, you
actually saw there were chunks of the body that completely oozed out between the little
squares in the net and sort of reestablished itself outside of the net.
So basically this thing can turn into an ooze almost entirely to escape, for instance, a
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net.
And obviously you see that everywhere that it goes, it also kind of leaves behind the
sort of acid burn.
As you look through some of the video and you see like where it had its footprints, you
even go look out at the door of the chapel and you can see these almost like acid burn
marks that it left behind while it was trying to get inside.
So its skin itself is incredibly caustic, which is actually really good that Greaves
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didn't capture you and the scrungest when he shot the net gun, which I think you joked
about as we'd be in a confined space with a...
Yeah.
So wait, didn't Martin just like fight this thing like hand to hand?
Didn't you fight this thing?
Right, right in the ale?
No, but before you fought the scrungest at your campfire store.
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No, no, no.
Not at all.
He just, he literally just saw it.
He just offered in some hand.
Yeah.
Hand off.
So he doesn't like hand.
Which is funny because in the first episode you kept trying to give him hand.
Oh, because you were trying to get him to go away.
I don't know, I just, I got some hot dogs and he wasn't there when I came back out.
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So I can only assume he doesn't care much for him.
He did chase after the hot dogs though, didn't he?
Well, maybe he likes them.
Maybe he will stay if I came back out with him.
As you guys are discussing this, you can overhear Justin and Hazel are just kind of walking
around the room and Justin is explaining to Hazel and Braden everything that he showed
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you guys from the letters from Richard Ancock and anything that kind of related to the totem.
Basically explaining to them that the totem is sort of behind these monsters.
And as they're looking around, does anybody else want to do anything while you guys are
in here?
In this chapel, which is a non-exported space.
You might have come in here at some point like doing some cleaning and stuff like that,
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but otherwise as far as the mystery goes, this is the first time you've come in here.
What's our plan of attack your game?
How are we going to get off this island?
Are we going to find a radio and radio to that one fella who's got the car or are we
just going to run across the bridge?
They would grab some golf carts and make an escape across the bridge.
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Where's the bridge?
Basically it would be like you go through the forest, you follow that road and then inevitably
you'd get to the bridge.
But you do remember that Willie, the owner of the park, had mentioned to you that the
bridge was going to be unavailable.
What does that mean?
I like to think that, and technically this is totally fictional, I don't think this is
technically how it's set up, but it's one of those raised bridges.
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A drawbridge?
Yeah.
Or there's a section of it that's a drawbridge to help let ships through and things like
that.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I mean is there anything in particular you guys want to do while you're in here?
Ellie ideals guys.
And just as you guys are kind of coming to a dead end, Hazel speaks up.
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She says, "Hey, what's this?"
And she holds up what looks like an old book.
And you come over and look and you see that obviously each pew has an old Bible and a
hymnal book in each one of those little like sections on the back of each of the pews.
This one had a hymnal book and another book that doesn't look at all like a Bible.
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And as she opens it up, you see more of sort of those old letters.
Or rather the book itself looks like it was written in the same handwriting with that
old English style as those letters that you found earlier.
And on the front cover on the inside, you open it up and it reads, "The Diary of Richard
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Hancock."
My sweet, my ambitious jewel across the churning foam, know that fortune's cruelest hand has
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led us to a haunted home.
These simple souls, they lack the spine to seize what fate decreed.
Their whispers weak, their spirits thin, a paltry frightened breed.
But fear not love, for in my grasp a relic now resides, a totem that hums with ancient
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hungers where wicked power hides.
It speaks to me in fevered dreams a voice both cold and vast.
It calls me servant, it craves the souls that life has cast.
For every breath that fades away, a shadow takes its hope.
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And from the ether nightmares bloom in stories yet untold.
A headless night with spectral stride, a beast with shadowed frame.
I stalk the night, untamed and wild, and whisper my dark name.
Fourteen they were when Drake did sail a meagre flock indeed.
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But one by one the darkness calls and plants a fatal seed.
The totem swells a hungry heart with every stolen breath.
Though I conjure terror's vast, I dance with chilling death.
I dreamt of riches, lands untold, a dynasty to claim.
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But now the horrors walk the earth and chant the totem's name.
I hide in shadows, watch them hunt, the monsters of my mind, praying that at every soul consumed
some mastery I'll find.
Some swiftly love across the waves and bring your strength to bear.
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For soon I fear the beasts I birth will find me in their lair.
Perhaps with more to feed its moor, this hunger will abate.
And we shall rule this haunted isle, enthroned by cruelest fate.
[Dramatic music]
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Whoa, look!
Those books were written by Anton Shetkoff!
It says Richard Ankoge.
Aren't you a teacher?
I just thought of his name.
We did that so first time.
I know.
I'm like looking over at you guys like, "Yeah?"
Yeah, yeah.
It just hit me.
There you go.
I'm glad it hit you at least.
Inside you flip through the pages, there's only three entries to this journal.
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And then the rest of the pages are completely blank.
They're obviously very worn, very yellowed.
You can still read at these three entries that are in here.
The first one says, "October 22nd, Anodomini 1586.
The power, the terrible power of this thing.
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I tested it, Elizabeth.
I confess I did."
There was fourteen fools who remained.
I spun tales around the fire, dark imaginings of beasts and shadows.
And they manifested horrors born of drunken whispers and fearful thoughts.
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They tore through the camp, Elizabeth, savagely, indiscriminately.
Both follow me.
It was just the beginning.
Now, now there are none left but me.
And they hunt me too.
My own creations stalk the woods, their eyes burning with a hunger I myself ignited.
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This island, it has become a cage of my own making.
I must flee.
I must take a pin.
I must go back to the mainland.
Perhaps there, away from this cursed soil, I can find some respite from the nightmares
I have unleashed.
Hell, Justin, that's some impressive voice work you're doing there.
How are you throwing your voice like that?
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That sounds like a completely different person.
Oh, well, I did a lot of theatre when I was in school.
Oh, wow, that's impressive.
Can you do any other crazy voices?
Uh, no, I pretty much just had the one.
Oh, okay.
Do this one in my Italian accent?
No.
How about a nice cockney accent?
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Nope.
The second entry.
November 15th, Anodomini, 1586.
They follow, even here.
On the mainland the shadows writhe with them.
Sleep offers no escape, only visions of gnashing teeth and fiery eyes.
Desperate, I sought one of their priests, a wizened old man from a tribe further inland.
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I showed him the totem, babbling of the horrors.
He merely laughed, Elizabeth.
A cold, mocking sound.
He called it a demon, residing within the wood, said my suffering was punishment for
my transgression against the aquasca cock.
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The original sin, he called it.
The theft, the blame.
He spoke of a ritual, a way to sever the connection.
I must take the silver cup, the source of that first sin and the totem to a holy place.
Only then, if I beg for repentance, if I confront my greatest sin, perhaps then the horrors
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will cease.
He turns the page to the final entry in the notebook.
The first, anodominy, 1586.
The cup, the silver cobblet.
I hid it, buried it near the fledgling gardens we tried to cultivate on the edge of the forest.
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I cannot bring myself to return to that cursed island, Elizabeth.
Not of them waiting.
But the priest's words, the only hope.
I have drawn a map, my love.
A crude thing, but it should guide you to it.
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Should you ever arrive on these shores with the next company.
If I am not there, if the monsters have claimed me, take the cup and the other treasures I
buried there, Elizabeth.
Take it and the totem to that sanctuary rock the natives called it.
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Confess your greatest sin, your darkest secret that you hide within your heart.
Perhaps you can find the peace that now eludes me.
I have marked a map of the island on the next page.
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May God have mercy on my soul.
And of course, you turn the page to find it torn out.
Just as you finish these last words, Justin looks like he's about to say something when
suddenly you hear another scream.
And you look outside to see off in the distance the lighthouse.
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The big giant light kind of comes across you guys blinding you for a moment.
And as it passes by, you regain your focus to see a giant massive alligator like creature
leaned up against the side of the lighthouse.
It's tails still sticking into the ocean behind it.
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And up in the window of the lighthouse up in the top, you see Ophelia and she is currently
holding a giant burnt out lighthouse bulb.
And she's hurling them down at this gator source.
What do you do?
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It does exist.
My gosh, even from here that thing looks massive.
Oh, well wrestle it.
Yeah, shorts.
You're hitting it.
Taking off running at the moment.
Okay, he's just running right towards it.
What are the rest of you guys doing?
Hey, so where's that male?
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This is you guys are saying this as you're running.
Not running.
You're not running.
You're just standing there in the chapel looking for the map.
Okay, Justin says, I don't know.
It looks like he got torn out.
Oh, is he look right here and he shows you the frayed edges.
You gotta be around here somewhere and Martin gets on his knees and he starts looking under
all the pews crawling around.
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Okay, do a let's call this a investigate a mystery, I suppose.
Four.
Four.
You, you find nothing there.
This floor has been swept clean.
Keep in mind that people have come in here and they have cleaned prior.
This was just something that was like slightly defining the journal in general was just something
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that was slightly out of place.
So you guys found it sure, but you don't see a page that's just kind of hanging around.
You even take some of the the Bibles and the handles and stuff and you start kind of shaking
the pages to see if maybe exactly nothing, nothing inside.
Okay, it's probably in the back and he starts walking through the back of the chapel.
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Okay, the closets and stuff.
Sounds good.
I'm going to set you aside for the moment.
You're searching diligently for this map that's gone missing.
The other two of you, you guys have rushed out.
I think Braden has rushed along with you.
I'm going to say Justin stayed behind with Martin Fresh and Hazel.
Hazel just stops halfway in between.
Like I don't know what to do.
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She's looking at this giant alligator, this kaiju sized creature practically.
Maybe not quite full kaiju, but like a bit, let's say baby kaiju.
It's like leaned up and trying to bite at her.
No, no, no, no.
Okay, that's right.
That's what I'm saying.
Like baby kaiju.
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Let's say it's a baby kaiju.
It's still really big.
Oh yeah.
No, I know.
I know.
Yeah.
So this is like 20 feet.
Yeah.
Just for comparison, a quick Google search shows that the largest confirmed alligator
is 19 feet long.
What is this?
Like double that?
This is like like 30, 30.
Here's what I'll say.
It's not that it's just in a gator.
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It's got like features that like a dinosaur-esque features to it that allow it to basically
be standing on its hind legs and almost reaching up with its maw to try to get Ophelia out
of the top of this.
Could you define a maw?
Like its mouth.
Yeah, sorry.
And you're the alligator expert.
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Allegedly, he is.
So as you rush up to it, Braden falling along behind you guys, again Hazel stopping about
halfway, just not sure what even to do.
What are you doing?
Well, Sobie Joe, we already know.
He's filming.
Okay.
Sobie Joe is filming.
This creature, it bears a resemblance to a gator, but it's it's got even more prominent
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features of like a dinosaur, even more armor.
I never in my wildest dreams did I expect it to be this massive.
The rumors are true and more, but how, how do I, how do I capture this?
How do I subdue it?
Maybe it's like a Pokemon where you have to weaken it and then try to capture it.
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If it's anything like the other stuff we fought, they can apparently withstand getting shot
multiple times.
So kind of got a work cut out for us here.
That's a very good point.
And Sobie Joe's only got three bullets left.
But I'm sure it is just a misunderstood creature.
Why did I come with him?
Well, whatever the case, it's trying to eat.
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It is trying to eat Ophelia right now.
And I obviously, if you got its attention, there's a good chance it might try to eat
you.
So, how about it is just like recording.
Okay.
I don't think that's going to stop it from eating you.
Well, no, it's not eat us or try and eat Ophelia.
Well, I'm just saying if you draw its attention, I'm going to, I'm going to fix it in post
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with this guy because I've been recording.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
So you're saying you're in.
See what I can't see.
Okay.
Sounds good.
12.
12.
Okay.
So you get to ask two questions.
Now, technically speaking, 12 plus gives you it's an advanced thing that's separate.
But I digress.
You do get to ask two questions of the various things that are here.
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Can I be more specific or like more broad or is that to be still specific to the situation?
What do you think?
Like, what are, why are all of these monsters here?
I mean, you kind of have an answer to that already with the totem, right?
Well, yeah, I guess is there a way I can look through the footage and see if there's a specific
area that they're trying to get to?
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Because if they're trying to get to the totem odds are they all trying to be kind of converging
on the same place.
So you're saying like, what was it going to do?
Is there a be one pattern?
Is there anything that all of these monsters seem to have in common?
Okay.
And they're tying here?
Oh, yeah, I could answer that.
They all and I you're going to think that this is a sarcastic answer.
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I promise it's not.
They're all trying to get you.
They're all trying not you specifically, but I just mean like your at least the three of
you in the other campers, they're trying to get somebody kill somebody or whatever you
want to call it.
Is it a specific?
Are they targeting one individual?
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No, because you have seen them target multiple different people.
One of them tried to get or the scrungus was trying to get Justin before.
Obviously was trying to get all of you at the campfire.
Bigfoot was trying to pull the plug, which suggests that I mean, Bigfoot has some level
of intelligence.
Let's let's say that.
So his was more of, I could stop them from getting access to things which would increase
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our chances of getting them.
This one is trying to get Ophelia at the moment.
The scrungus was just trying to get Hazel.
So it's really anybody is fair game, but it's just the fact that they're not the only thing
they're after essentially is violence.
I have one more question.
Yes.
And I converse with my.
Yeah, absolutely.
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You can at the very least converse with Greaves because he's here.
Greaves.
What should I be looking for?
Or you could talk to Braden, which is me.
I mean, should we get it's good to try to eat Ophelia?
Shouldn't we like get rid of this?
Well, yeah, we're trying to figure out how to do that.
Yeah.
Well, what about you Gator expert?
What do you know about Gators?
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What's their weakness?
How do we get rid of it?
None.
They are.
Well, you can get them from the back, right?
I think it's the underside technically, but I see what you're getting at.
The underside.
They're their nose is very sensitive.
I think that sharks were going to play that their nose is very sensitive.
You punch them in the eyes.
What?
I think the sharks.
That is sharks' nose.
Yes.
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Because divers will like push their nose away.
Gators, they can like close their mouth really strong, but they can't open it.
So like a trickle tape will keep their mouth shut.
That's a fair point.
But yeah, he is right now seeing that this Gator is like kind of leaned up against the
lighthouse.
So in essence, it is already kind of opened up eyes to the poles.
You just need to some way to fasten it to the pole.
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And then that would be trapped or already rassled to said pole being the lighthouse.
So I will look around for like a big chain or a rope or something that you assume a ship
would more to the lighthouse.
Sure.
Yeah.
With that being said, you do.
I wasn't sure.
Sorry.
Were you trying to figure out which question to ask?
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I'm still trying to figure out which question to ask.
Right.
So I can't keep that in the back pocket for now.
Sure.
Okay.
So it retains to the, yeah, the Gator source, but okay.
So you're looking for a chain.
I would say, I mean, it makes sense to me that there would be some kind of chain close by the
lighthouses typically set up to obviously keep boats from crashing into the shores.
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That's the purpose of it.
But as a seafaring related structure, I would say that, yeah, there's probably some chains
lying around or at the very least some rope.
So what I think we need to do, this is just like when I captured that saltwater crocodile
on the Panama Canal.
Wow.
The Suez Canal.
Now we're at least on the right continent.
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I was thinking, man, this is going to just go into the lore of Grieve's character that
he has never done any.
He was with geography.
So it's so many canals.
He got his Suez and his Panama Canal mixed up.
Gotcha.
Okay.
So what is Suez Canal?
Yes.
But he's going to look for a rope and then he's going to basically just run around the
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lighthouse.
Yeah.
In essence, fastening the alligator to the lighthouse.
Wow.
Okay.
He's going to require a distraction to which he is going to request that from either Justin
or Joe.
Justin's back at--
Braden or Joe.
Joe--Sopey Joe.
Soopey Joe.
Oh, Sobes Joseph?
Yeah, Sobes Joseph.
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Okay.
So Braden is more than happy to assist.
Would you like--I'm going to give that to you as a plus one.
He's assisting you.
He's helping out by creating a distraction.
I'm going to say that his distraction is that he runs up to the top lighthouse and joins
Ophelia.
It's like that would be the best distraction.
Yeah.
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But fascinated with the top.
Exactly.
Not looking at you guys.
Exactly.
So with that being said, you've got the two--are the two of you doing the ropes because I'll
let him help you with that.
But he'll have to roll for it.
To be fair with help out, I don't think--well, there technically is a negative.
So I'll try now.
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Okay.
Six.
Six.
Okay.
You kind of fumble around with the ropes awkwardly and honestly it's really just taking up more
time than it's worth.
That camcorder won.
Yeah, it's because he won't put the camcorder down.
Oh my god.
Get the footage.
All right, mate.
You're going to just hand that rope over to me and I'll do a couple of loops around this.
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It's when he's dealing with gators, man.
It really comes out.
We'll see if we can wrestle this beautiful beast.
All right.
Sounds good.
So I'm going to have you act under pressure as you start to just--is it--you're like a
hot speeder trying to wrap up the legs of this ATT.
Except instead of a giant imperial ship, it's a giant gator sore.
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And you have a plus one on top.
I do.
Yeah, from Brayden helping you out with the distraction.
That makes it a 12.
Holy cow.
Okay.
So you do exactly what you set out to do.
You start rushing around this lighthouse and occasionally you'll kind of like throw a loop
up there to kind of get it hooked around some of its--what are those?
Protrubrances.
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Protrubrances, which is--yeah, okay.
And get a higher angle on it.
But otherwise you manage to wrap up basically the entire lower half of this monstrosity to
the lighthouse.
And you do it without it really noticing because Brayden's doing a really great job at creating
a distraction above.
But by the time it does notice, it's already too late.
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Its whole under half of its body has been wrapped entirely.
It starts just kind of struggling, but it's very awkward as it does.
It's splashing its massive tail in the water below.
You do feel a little bit of rickety movement on the lighthouse.
There's some rope left.
I mean, you just wrapped up a whole monster.
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If you want like a separate chunk of rope?
Yes.
Like this one would be a smaller rope.
Okay.
I'd say there might be more inside the lighthouse.
People will search for one.
Okay.
So, we're going to get into the lighthouse.
What's Soapy Joe doing?
He's filming this thing.
He's like, "Crikey guys, look at that monster."
And speaking of monsters, I wanted to remind you guys that Monster Mash Energy Drinks has
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been the sponsor of this channel for two years.
And you just kind of hear like, "Jay, what's going on with this ad?"
All right.
You run inside and I think Ophelia comes running down some of the stairs and she looks down,
you know, it's like one of those spiral staircases.
She looks down through the center and she's like, "Um, oh my gosh, what are you doing?"
"I need more rope.
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I'm trying to save your life and rattle this Gator-saurus."
There's some rope up here in Willy's office.
I found Willy's office.
I know we weren't supposed to go in there, but I went in there anyways.
Desperate times called for desperate measures.
And she said, "Do you want me to throw it down for you?"
"On the double."
"Okay."
And she disappears and then moments later, just this chunk of rope just comes flying down
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and slams into the floor below you.
"You're built."
"Are you talking about me or the rope?"
"Both of you.
Thanks, Sheila."
I mean, I think I should.
I told you before, it's not Sheila, it's Onyx.
My gosh.
How many times do I have to tell you guys that?
You now have another chunk of rope, another spindle, if you will.
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With his death wish at hand, Grieve Gershwin is going to run to the base of this Gator-saurus
with all of its protrubarances that look strikingly similar to a rock wall.
Oh, absolutely.
Attempt to scale the back of this Gator-saurus.
What?
Wow.
(46:38):
Okay.
Once again, I mean, really act under pressure, really kind of falls under what we're looking
for here.
And you're climbing up, thing called, this is one of my moves, it's Killer's Wisdom.
Okay.
And says, "You've learned how to study your prey very well after three rounds to observe.
Roll plus two sharp."
Okay.
So does that apply?
Does that take a plie?
Does that apply?
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Yeah, I'd say so.
What is it?
I mean, is it giving you something?
On a ten plus hold stuff?
What am I holding?
So that's kind of like your help, right?
So you're getting those pluses.
Does it say how much?
You can on a ten plus hold two, on a seven nine hold one, and then you spend your holds
to do either par.
It could be this exact situation.
Okay, very cool.
Okay, yeah, absolutely.
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So roll your sharp.
You have studied Gators all your life.
Alligators.
You studied crocodiles.
You know exactly what this Gatorsaurus would be all about.
So that would be, I add my sharp to this, right?
Yep.
So that would be an eight.
An eight.
So you do get plus one.
Okay.
And then now you're going to go scale it.
Do you want to, I mean, I guess you could decide when you want to use the plus one.
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Give yourself or another hunter plus one ongoing.
Oh.
Versus the monster until the, oh, you do two plus harm.
Very nice.
Okay.
Would be the ongoing plus one.
Sure.
Yeah.
So you do plus one to do anything really to this, this Gatorsaurus.
You want to level up.
Absolutely.
Okay.
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So now they're going to act on your pressure.
Yes.
As you start to grab onto the scales and the protrusions and start to scale this creature.
Protrusions.
You used it so many times now it's canon.
That's right.
I think that's a 12 again.
Holy cow.
Okay.
You, I mean, you easily nimbly.
I mean, this thing is huge.
It's got the protrusions are so big.
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Um, it's, it's easier than a rock climbing wall with or without cause you've got this
rope around your back and you've got rope to kind of help you climb up as well that
you've already wrapped around it.
It's like, it's practically like walking up a steep cliff at this point.
And with this rope in his mouth as he's scaling, this is for you, Steve.
Okay.
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Zero.
And you make it to, I mean, basically the head of this creature, which is flailing pretty
proudly, but you're holding on tight like Legolas hanging off of a, an LF.
What do they call them?
Alley font.
Alley font.
Yes.
All right.
So you're on top of its head.
What are you doing?
Uh, he is going to use that little perk of information that soapy Joe had reminded him
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of that he probably should remember.
Does that gators cannot open their mouth with excessive pressure?
Right.
It can only close.
Gotcha.
And you have to attempt to secure the maw of this Gators shut.
Very nice.
Okay.
So you start to throw this rope around them and have you do one more act under pressure.
I know I'm making it like just adding to the thrill, but you do still have the plus
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one on top of it.
All right.
I think that's another 12.
Another 12.
Okay.
You start to throw this rope around, lassoing around the mouth of this giant Gatorsaurus,
closing it up just in time as it has it open, it slams it shut at some point just in its
frustration.
You rope it off and it just does not seem to be able to open its mouth back up.
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So now it's just wriggling, uh, awkward, even more awkwardly than before.
It cannot open its mouth and you scale back down easily.
Much like the Legolas.
Much like Legolas.
Yes.
It just slides right off of it.
Absolutely.
You slide all the way down the tail and then at the end, the tail kind of flicks up and
you just hop off and roll onto the ground and declare if I, uh, Grieve Gershwin is probably
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way too cool to make all these Lord of the Rings reference.
This is strictly fatty.
Yeah.
I will say, I will say that because you did so well with all of this added bonus, Sobie
Joe got all of that on camera.
It's all going on his YouTube channel, but he'll shout you out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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You'll get, you know, shout out and link in the description, but you'll get a shout out.
Well, see now you had to make an account and then that way everybody that sees his video
will go check out your videos.
Maybe with all that exposure, we'll be able to educate us onto why this creature was so
distraught.
There may be some type of habitat destruction that we can remedy.
(50:57):
Hmm.
This poor lass.
This poor lass girl.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There it is.
It's decided as you stand there with the entirety of the Gator sword is completely wrapped up
in rope.
We will close out this episode.
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September 18th, Anno Domini 1588.
The days grew shorter.
The air colder and with them comes a terror that gnaws at the very soul of our settlement.
The attacks, they have become relentless.
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Scarcely a night passes without some poor soul being dragged from their dwelling.
Their screams swallowed by the oppressive darkness.
We bar the doors.
We keep watch, but it is not enough.
I saw one father last night by the meagre light of the moon.
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A shape hunched and crooked, leaning forward as if borne down by some unseen weight.
It moved with a horrifying speed.
Its limbs are naturally long and jointed and its hands.
Oh sweet Mary, its hands claws I tell you, fully a foot in length, black and wickedly
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sharp.
I watched, frozen in terror as it fell upon one of our hogs.
It tore it in half with a single swipe, the force of its sending entrails scattering in
every direction.
The sound, the wet, tearing sound.
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It will haunt my dreams forever.
Only three dozen souls lost now.
Three dozen!
Our numbers dwindle with each passing night, and the faces of those who remain are etched
with a fear that mirrors my own.
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Winter is fast approaching and our stores are still meagre.
Hope, once a flickering candle, now threatens to be extinguished entirely.
In their desperation, the elders have taken to carving.
On that large rock by the northernmost palisade, the one they say the first company used for
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prayer, they work tirelessly.
Holy runes they whisper, ancient symbols of protection.
They carve them deep into the stone, their knorled hands moving with a frantic urgency.
They pray, they chant.
Their voices hoarse with fear and supplication.
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They call it sanctuary rock, our last hope against the encroaching darkness.
I pray it is enough, Father.
I pray that these markings, these desperate pleas to a higher power, can shield us from
the horrors that stalk our knights.
My fear, with every fiber of my being, that they cannot...
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Elinor.
Hey everyone, Skylar here, creator and creative director at Session Zero Heroes.
I just wanted to quickly say a few things before we head into the next episode.
Firstly, thank you so much for listening to our 2025 Monster of the Week 1 shot.
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We love creating these and honestly, Monster of the Week is what inspired us to create
TTRPG content to begin with, so it holds a special place in our hearts.
We'll be posting a brand new episode of Terror at Camp Roanoke every week throughout October
2025, with the final episode landing nicely the day before Halloween on October 30th.
We hope you enjoyed the mystery we put together.
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I personally had a ton of fun creating it and working with the incredible vocal and
musical talent that brought the intros and outros to life.
If you want to find out more about them, follow their talent on socials, or even reach out
to them with your own project, just check out the episode description and you'll find
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They all did a phenomenal job, so a huge shout out to each and every one of them.
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With that, I'll be headed out, but be sure to check back for the next episode of the
series so you can solve the mystery of the terror at Camp Roanoke.
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