WEBVTT - Chapter 20: Yokai 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.440 Bridgewater is a production of iHeartRadio three D audio and 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.200 Grim and Mild from Aaron Mankey for full exposure, listen 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:15.640 with headphones. Listener discretion advised. Oh my god, I'm getting 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:21.080 tired of running through the woods away from monsters. Jeremy, 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:27.200 how did you? I mean you just I don't know 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:32.240 I did that? Did that really just happen? I guess 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:34.640 yeah it did. Welcome to the club of people with 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:41.479 evidence of the paranormal. This is unbelievable. It is a 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:45.640 lot to take in. We've been dealing with it for 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:48.160 a week now, and I don't think we've even begun 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:51.080 to process it. I mean, those are those were thunderbirds, 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:55.240 like real thunderbirds. I'm not sure about that. Actually, what 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:58.840 do you mean? They were enormous birds who brought thunder 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:03.960 and lightning with them. Thunderbirds are sacred protectors in Wampanog legend. 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.800 They mostly attack creatures from the underworld or people who 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:11.320 broke moral rules. It doesn't make sense that they'd attack us. 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:14.000 Not to mention the face of one of them, it looked, well, 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.360 it looked a little too human, didn't it. Maybe our 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.920 shape shifter has a greater range than we thought. Impandulu 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.720 the Pandulu the lightning bird from South African myth. That 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:29.080 bird also creates lightning, but it's considered much more malevolent. Right. 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:32.200 It's vampiric, isn't it, And it can disguise itself as human. 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:34.240 Maybe it was in the middle of transformation or something, 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.200 or maybe it was a thunderbird and it was simply 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:41.440 trying to protect its domain. I don't know that's possible too. Yeah, 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:44.800 maybe if it had a human mouth along with those claws, 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.600 that could be our cow killer. Well, whatever it was, 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:49.480 we better hope that it went back into the forest 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:55.320 and not farther out looking for dinner. Okay, so we 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:58.440 need to know how to take it down if we 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:00.800 encounter it again. I'd say you did pretty well on 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:04.680 that score. I mean, I can't believe it actually worked. 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:09.760 I know, right, Holy shit, did I just do? Imagine? 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:17.360 I think you did. Wow, that's amazing. What room exactly? 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:22.440 Was that one for protection? Not banishment? I guess that's 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.200 maybe the best way to protect against them. Well, it 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.280 didn't get rid of all of them, so maybe one 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:30.160 of these rooms Peyton gave me will do that. Oh wait, no, 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:34.359 don't banish them all? What wouldn't you want to study it, 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:37.560 show it to the world, prove that monsters actually exist. 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.960 Peyton made it very clear that keeping the secrets of 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:45.320 the phayrealm is vital. Think about the kind of chaos 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:49.080 that would ensue if if people the phayrealm. You didn't 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:55.799 tell her it hadn't come up yet, sop and I 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:59.440 think that this all, all of this has been the 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:04.240 work of the realm. That the Bridgewater Triangle is a 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:08.919 gate from this world to theirs, and that that's where 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.119 all of these creatures are coming from. WHOA, yeah, and look, 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.800 not many people know this, so you cannot tell the 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:19.200 other legend trippers. Okay, yeah, Mum's the word. So we've 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.320 been working on closing the gate. And there's this whole 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.480 deal that's been in place, I guess for centuries. That 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:27.600 explains some of the missing people throughout the years. And 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.840 it seems like with the old Bridgewater Gathering more or 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:35.400 less now defunct, it's maybe up to us to fix it. 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.520 That's what you're doing. You're not just doing research for 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:42.280 your class. By the way, I am really a professor. 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:46.280 It just happened to be a professor who's actually gotten 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:51.000 in very over his head. Wow, you know, like an 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:56.200 os goot, Indiana Jones. This isn't a movie, Okay, it's 0:03:56.400 --> 0:04:00.560 real life, is our lives? Look, I didn't mean so 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:03.560 if there's anything you know that you're not telling us, 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.520 you really need to what. No, I'm not hiding anything 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:10.040 from you, guys. I wouldn't do that. I mean I 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:13.200 want to help. I like to think I already have. 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:18.120 She has. I think we're covered. You know as well 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.960 as I how expansive all these legends are, how unreliable 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.840 and vague they can be. I know your experts, but 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:28.440 it seems like maybe we each have gaps in knowledge 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:32.159 that the other ones can fill. Just let me help. 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:35.680 She knows how to help. I can't hurt, and we 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:37.960 would have been torn to shreds if she hadn't taught 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:43.960 me that room. I guess. Okay, we should go over 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.839 to the Hoskins and meet up with everyone else, Olivia said, 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:48.599 she and Thomas. We're going to try and get Lee's 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:53.000 old radio working. All right, let's see if the coast 0:04:53.080 --> 0:05:05.320 is clear. Stuck what I don't know? I can't can't. 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:13.839 I can't get the door knob to turn that h happen? 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.760 Can you everything is unlocked. I don't know what's Uh, 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:18.920 do you want me to give it a try? Yeah? Sure, 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:22.960 go for it. Yeah, let's up. Oh it feels like 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:26.720 it's like here, let me help. It's like someone is 0:05:26.760 --> 0:06:11.680 pulling from the other side. What we're trapped? Oh my god, 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.760 we're not through all the stations yet. We've been at 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:18.560 this for forty five minutes and nothing. I don't know 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:21.599 that we're ever going to find something. FM didn't have anything. 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.120 But that doesn't mean am well, wow, you have the 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:27.240 patience of a saint. Yeah, I kind of had to 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:31.800 oh shit, right, sorry, Oh it's okay. How's your chest? 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:38.000 Because you sound a little would you stop hovering? I'm okay, okay, okay. 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:41.360 It's just if you're having anxiety about this whole thing, 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:43.640 and I can handle it on my own. What with 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.440 the shallow breathing tightness in the chest. Look, I have 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:50.360 friends with anxiety, and I don't get anxious. It is understandable. 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.279 I mean, we're trying to tune into the place where 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.719 you were trapped, I know, and I just want to 0:06:54.760 --> 0:07:00.080 find it. You know you're safe here, right, Thomas, No, 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:08.599 I'm not, but I'm not anxious. This It's been happening 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:12.880 every couple of hours today. It's always something something what 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:19.560 I don't belong here, Olivia, which is why I need 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:23.560 to figure this out. Wait, go back, stop stop stuff there? 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:28.160 That that that's the music, Nan and I heard when 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:34.800 the house went nuts? What what station is this? Nine twelves? What? 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:43.320 How's that possible? Hey? How's it going in here? Hey? 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:48.320 Are you okay? Yeah? And Shelley? Yeah, picking up some 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:50.120 food for all of us. I think she needed some 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.600 time to herself. But we're you know, I don't know. 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:55.920 I don't think that things are broken beyond repair. So 0:07:56.440 --> 0:08:00.560 good good, Yeah, but I'm sure she love to talk 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:03.480 with you at some point tonight, So really i'd love that. Okay. 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:07.280 So hi, Nana. I can't find any evidence that this 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:12.800 particular station has ever been registered anywhere. Wait is that music? 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:16.720 I know? Station nine twelve on AM radio? I mean 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.440 no idea who owns the frequency or where the broadcast 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:23.880 is coming from? Yeah? I thought all AM stations ended 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:27.240 in zero? Yeah they do. So what this is some 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:31.480 kind of pirate radio? More likely magic radio? Now what 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:37.480 we wait for a voice? See if Alden is still 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.760 trying to call out? You said you thought that music 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:44.760 was coming from the other side, not the liminal. So 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.400 maybe there's another station that's tapped into the in between, 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:51.839 or things are so thin between worlds that the other 0:08:51.920 --> 0:09:03.520 side is bleeding through and drowning everything else out. Ah, okay, 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:11.240 so we're stuck magic, some kind of creature a run maybe, 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.360 whatever it is. I don't think getting out of here 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.880 is going to be easy. What the fuck? Why is 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:22.720 it dark all of a sudden, and what's what the fuck? 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:25.000 I'm a little more focused on the fact that everything 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:26.960 seems to be moving. It's like we're looking through a 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:29.960 fun house mirror. What the hell is that? I thought 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:34.240 maybe it was old glass. No, that's definitely just what 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:39.360 the outside looks like now, and that's not a way 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:42.600 out either. Not the going outside is particularly appealing at 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:47.360 the moment. Sh do you do you hear that it's music? 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.600 I wonder if that's the same as that has to 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:54.839 be right. I totally get what Olivia meant by wrong now. 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:58.560 It doesn't really sound like music is supposed to. What 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.439 are you guys talking about? The woman who lives here 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:03.960 and she and her granddaughter heard music the other day 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:06.600 when the house was shaking an earthquake, we don't think 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:09.559 so if those incidents were the veil between worlds and 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.280 Freetown force getting weaker on the other realm bleeding through, 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:17.720 then and we might be inside the liminal now, oh god, Okay, okay, everybody, 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.400 stay calm. We'll find our way out of this. Okay, 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:22.160 She's right, she's right. Maybe we just need to wait 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.640 it out. Eventually, whatever weird force was coming out of 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:28.040 Freetown making everything quiet, it did retreat before, right, So 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.400 it's it's almost like a tide that goes in and out. 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:32.120 So where we just sit here and wait for it 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.600 to go out again. Well, I don't know. I just 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:37.800 think we need to keep our heads. Okay, what exactly 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:42.280 did you do with that run? What? Everything was completely 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:45.120 normal until you showed up, Vip, And I was the 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:48.240 one who did the run. No, no, not that one, 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.080 the one that she carved right before everything went to shit. 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.520 I don't get while you're trusting her, Jeremy, you barely know, aren't. 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:57.480 She was clearly stalking you. Oh who woa, whoa whoa. 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:01.120 I'm just trying to help, And oh exactly do you 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.520 think you're helping? You? Say? Peyton made a mistake with 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:06.720 the ruin, but the moment you carved it, those things 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.640 attacked us and then this happened. Look, I'm not I'm 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:13.600 not trying to disturp your position here or anything. Excuse me. Look, 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:16.000 I get it. You've been Jeremy's tea for a long 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:17.920 time and you're used to being his right hand man. 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:22.120 I'm not trying to take that from you. Who exactly 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:25.000 do you think you are? Okay? Okay, okay, okay, why 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:28.000 why don't we all this? Can? Can? Can we all 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:31.240 just take a deep breath here? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, that's 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:35.400 a that's a good idea. I'm just gonna, well, I 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:41.360 can't get some fresh air, so I'm just gonna jesus, 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:46.280 I'm so sorry. I've never seen rip and do anything 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:49.080 like that before. It's okay, I mean we're in a 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:52.160 tough spot. I get it. You know. I haven't been 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:54.920 following you or anything, right, those those first few times 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:58.520 we ran into each other. No, no, of course not obviously, 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:03.800 and you've been a big house. Yeah. Yeah, it's nice 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:05.640 to have someone around who gets this stuff and who 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:10.959 I don't know. This is gonna sound strange to say 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:12.960 at a time like this, but you've been a very 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.000 calming presence. I'm not sure Vippin would agree. I'm not 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:19.640 sure you would either. He's usually very easy going. I'm 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.679 I'm sure he'll warm up to you. I think this. 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:28.520 I mean, he's obviously pretty stressed about the whole situation, 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:34.960 and you're not. No, I am definitely. I have a 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:37.320 special personal interest in all of this, which is that 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:43.760 my father. My father's Thomas Bradshaw. And I assume, given 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:47.240 your hobbies, you're familiar with his name, right, Yeah, yeah, 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:54.360 of course I am. Oh, holy shit, I had no idea. 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:58.720 I'm I'm so sorry. No, no, it's actually actually okay, 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:00.880 you don't need to be sorry. What do you mean? 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:07.440 He's back, like alive and back. It turns out he 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:10.600 was never dead at all. After all this time he 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:14.760 was he was stuck in this in between space, a 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.280 liminal that's that's what you guys called it, right right, 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:19.480 and he was trapped there this whole time. And some 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:24.720 kind of sacrifice to the fae and then Celeste, that's 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.240 the old gathering leader, she did this ritual that brought 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:31.920 him back, except it seems to have broken everything else. 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.760 The monsters as I see it, the liminal is some 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:37.560 kind of stop gap between our world and the other one, 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:41.839 and without two people in there, it stops functioning, right 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:43.880 And you think that's where we are right now. I 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:47.640 think maybe maybe it's seeping out of its usual dimension. 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.240 That's the fear of what will happen if we don't 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.400 close the gate, that the Faye Realm will just come 0:13:53.040 --> 0:14:02.160 pouring into our world. It's happening again. I'm hearing myself 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:07.920 talk and it sounds crazy. Well, okay, but that doesn't 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:11.400 mean it's not true. I mean, I think of it 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:13.920 this way. You just saved us from a pretty hitchcocky 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:17.080 in situation by waving your hands, So that's not that absurd. 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:24.520 Oh gosh, okay, So all these attacks, these monsters there here, 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.360 we think because the gate is open, if we're in 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:30.640 the liminal right now, or I guess if the liminal 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:34.040 has come to us, do you think we could get 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:37.040 into the Fay Realm. I don't know. My dad was 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:38.960 in there for years and never figured out how to 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.000 pass through. He tried, I don't know. I don't know 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:42.680 what he could have tried. Did he know about the 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:46.840 runs about magic? Well? I assume falling into a different 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.280 dimension made him realize that magic was real. Yeah, but 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:53.280 if he didn't know how to use it, maybe we could. 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:57.200 Olivia did say that she thought the music wasn't coming 0:14:57.240 --> 0:15:01.840 from the liminal but from the other side, So maybe 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:06.760 what happened to the music? Do you think the tie 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:13.640 is going back out? I'm not. I'm not sure. What 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:17.800 the hell what was that? I think there's something in 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:26.160 that bad. Did you guys hear that? Yeah? The music 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:29.120 stopped too. That can't be good, right, Oh, maybe it 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:31.200 means that there's more distance between us and the other side. 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:37.040 Maybe that that's not a bad thing, right? What there? Oh? 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:41.920 Do you see something? You don't see? There? I don't 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:43.400 see it. I don't see it. What is it? Are 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:45.600 you serious? You can't see it? That's taking up an 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:48.840 entire wall. Okay, Vippin, it's just calm down. What do 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:51.520 you see? It's it's almost in the shape of a person, 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:56.480 and it's moving. Oh god, it's it's it's coming off 0:15:56.520 --> 0:16:01.240 the wall. Oh hell, you really? I don't see it? No, 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:03.320 I know. Okay, maybe it's a trick of the light. 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:07.960 Are you okay? Well I heard that ship? Ship ship? 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:12.920 Oh god, oh god, oh god? You see it? Now yeah, 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:17.000 I see it has horns. I don't know. The whole 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.760 thing has made a slow Oh god, and then run 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:23.760 is that what? Yeah, that's that. That's a kind of yokai. Right, 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:29.000 but don't they need bonfires? Apparently not? Okay? Okay, yoki yokai? 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:34.760 Are there ways pipping? What? How do you repel a yokai? Beads? Beads? What? Soybeans? 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:45.480 Thick and thick and drive away? Yoki? Oh german him? Yes, 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.960 I got him, I got him, I got him. Go 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:56.880 go get you see an as any beans. Just just 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:07.280 I got you. I got you here harpendo being but 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:21.280 just try it. Shit, just start bulting them go hey ah, 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:46.080 oh god, holy shit, what the hell is that? Oh 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:50.600 my god, zippin or live what? I don't know. I 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:55.280 don't know, Jeremy, how are we hearing this? This? This 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:58.240 this free have no idea, Jeremy and and Viippen. We're 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:02.639 going to Freetown today. Maybe who's that? I don't know, 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:25.480 but I think I know where they are. Jeremy. Whoa, 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:34.439 whoa there, you're okay, You're okay? Now? H m hm 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:41.800 is it gone for now? At least? Come on, come on, 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:54.080 let's sit down. A whoa, thanks thanks for saving me 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:57.720 with the beans. It was all fipping fast thinking with 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:01.640 those beans. Whatever that thing was, it wasn't like an 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:04.800 one or anendra I've read about, and I don't know 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:10.920 how long it will stay away. Well at least we've 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:19.040 got some more beans. Ah, did it hurt you? M Yeah, 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:24.280 I think I think my wrist is broken, hipp and 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:26.280 go see if there's an ice pack or frozen peas 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:30.760 or anything. Yeah here, let me see, like if you 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:36.160 I've broken my fair share of bones before. Yeah, hazard 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:40.639 of the hobby. I guess. Oh yeah, this is definitely broken, 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:43.280 but I think I can probably get some kind of 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:50.240 a splint together here frozen tater talk. Oh sorry, Fhippen. 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:52.600 Do you think you could try looking for a first 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:56.159 aid kit, bandage's tongue depressor anything we used to stabilize 0:19:56.160 --> 0:20:00.240 his wrist? I thought I thought the birds were first 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:02.280 time that you've ever seen a monster? Oh no, I 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:04.880 guess I can say I've seen two, although I feel 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:08.080 like I barely saw that, yo guy. So if those 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:12.080 were your first monster attacks while all the broken bones, 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:20.840 I'm very clumsy. Uh uh, thanks for holding onto me. 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:25.399 I thought that thing was going to drag me into hell, 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:28.240 I probably would have just taken you to the other side, right, 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:33.480 the fay Realm. Yeah, well sixth one. Do you really 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:35.240 think it's that bad over there? I don't know, but 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:38.240 I can't say I'm particularly fond of the residents I've met. Oh, sure, 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:41.440 but I mean they're just doing what they've been taught 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:44.280 to do right, protecting their home, following the terms of 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:48.560 the deal. God doesn't make it right. No, No, but 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:51.120 I I don't know that we can blame a guard 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:54.120 dog for biting an intruder? Is that? When you think 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:57.159 those monsters were guard dogs? What else would they be? 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:00.760 I don't know. I guess I hadn't really thought about 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:04.760 who and what the fay Realm actually are. It's been 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:08.000 a few encounters that were almost certainly puckwadgies, and I'd 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:10.600 sort of assumed that those were the ones that have 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:14.679 made the deal. Maybe or maybe the faith themselves haven't 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:16.919 even come to this side yet. Well, I hope we 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:21.560 never find out. But magic is real. You just did it, 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:27.920 and that's that's incredible. We live our whole childhood's reading 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:31.520 stories about magical worlds and superpowers, and then we grow 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:33.920 up and find out that those things only exist in 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:38.840 the realm of our imaginations. But here we are, you 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:43.200 and me to otherwise normal people, and we've been let 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:46.359 in on this amazing secret that basically no one else 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:50.120 knows that all the stories are real, and that if 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:53.840 we wanted to, we could probably learn all sorts of magic, 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:58.000 learn how to visit those other worlds. Doesn't that excite you? 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:02.480 Everything I've encounter in the past few weeks has been terrifying, 0:22:02.520 --> 0:22:04.719 and it feels more like a nightmare coming true than 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:07.600 a fantasy. But what if that's not all there is 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:10.919 to this? Come on, are you telling me that in 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:14.920 all your years of teaching folklore you never once wish 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:17.119 that all of it was real and you could be 0:22:17.160 --> 0:22:23.560 a part of it. Here some ace bandages, first aid kid, 0:22:23.600 --> 0:22:27.000 and a ruler. I figured that might work as a splint. Yeah, 0:22:27.000 --> 0:22:31.719 that's great, thank you. This is probably going to be unpleasant. 0:22:32.560 --> 0:22:36.440 Oh good, something new and different. Hey, we need to 0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:37.960 figure out how we're going to get out of here, 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:42.080 right before that thing comes back or before something else 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:47.520 comes through. Okay, what do we know about getting out 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:49.600 of the fay realm? We shouldn't eat anything we shouldn't 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:53.639 step into circles, we shouldn't follow music, check, check and 0:22:53.720 --> 0:23:00.480 check what else? Ah Oh, iron repels fairies, turning your 0:23:00.480 --> 0:23:05.960 clothes inside out right church bells. But okay, okay, okay, 0:23:06.000 --> 0:23:07.760 some of those things we can do, and some of 0:23:07.760 --> 0:23:10.840 them maybe we can fake. I think we've probably passed 0:23:10.880 --> 0:23:15.160 the always be polite to fairies stage of Hey, guys, 0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:17.320 what about salt. That's a thing to protect against all 0:23:17.359 --> 0:23:19.880 kinds of paranormal beans, right, I might as well add 0:23:19.880 --> 0:23:23.000 it to the list. It can't hurt. Okay, you finished 0:23:23.000 --> 0:23:25.480 patching him up, and I'll start to gather whatever supplies 0:23:25.520 --> 0:23:32.359 I think might be useful. Thanks. You know I have 0:23:32.520 --> 0:23:34.960 thought about it before, of course, the possibility of it 0:23:35.000 --> 0:23:44.639 all being real. It's actually, um ah sorry, it's actually 0:23:44.640 --> 0:23:46.879 why I got into folklore in the first place. I 0:23:47.040 --> 0:23:50.520 never I never told anyone this before. Now. I'm pretty 0:23:50.520 --> 0:23:52.320 sure there are plenty of people who wouldn't be surprised. 0:23:52.359 --> 0:23:55.560 But I started researching all sorts of things that when 0:23:55.600 --> 0:24:00.560 I was a teenager because I thought, um, I thought, 0:24:00.600 --> 0:24:04.240 maybe if I put the right pieces together, I could 0:24:04.960 --> 0:24:09.520 bring my dad back. I mean, I guess I thought 0:24:10.440 --> 0:24:12.280 some of it must be real. If there were so 0:24:12.320 --> 0:24:14.119 many people in the world. I believed in it, and 0:24:14.160 --> 0:24:21.160 I I even tried some spells and as a team 0:24:21.440 --> 0:24:25.800 I got into Wicca for a bit. I had a 0:24:25.800 --> 0:24:33.200 similar phase, did you. Yeah, And then I realized that 0:24:33.280 --> 0:24:35.080 he was dead and he was never coming back, and 0:24:35.080 --> 0:24:40.200 there was nothing I could do about it. And fuck 0:24:40.560 --> 0:24:45.160 now I realize, of course there was something I could 0:24:45.200 --> 0:24:47.600 have done. Oh, there's no way you could have known. 0:24:48.680 --> 0:24:50.639 All the research in the world wouldn't have led you 0:24:50.680 --> 0:24:57.639 to what's actually happening. I know, but I'm still I'm angry. 0:24:57.720 --> 0:25:00.320 I think I'm angry that magic is real and that 0:25:00.560 --> 0:25:03.399 this is what it's giving me. It's a life forty 0:25:03.440 --> 0:25:06.439 years without my father and monsters breaking my bones. And 0:25:09.240 --> 0:25:13.720 can I tell you something I've never told anyone? Yeah, 0:25:14.880 --> 0:25:18.800 I lied. I do remember a little bit about when 0:25:18.800 --> 0:25:22.840 I went missing as a kid. Really, I think I 0:25:23.000 --> 0:25:31.199 was somewhere else, somewhere else. I don't know if I 0:25:31.240 --> 0:25:33.720 was in the same place your dad was. It doesn't 0:25:33.760 --> 0:25:39.160 sound like it. Wherever I was, it was beautiful. It 0:25:39.200 --> 0:25:44.320 looked like Freetown forest, but better, brighter. Everything smelled better, 0:25:44.680 --> 0:25:48.000 tasted better, felt better. I mean, maybe I wandered off 0:25:48.000 --> 0:25:51.760 and ate some drugged up mushrooms or something. But whatever happened, 0:25:52.680 --> 0:25:55.000 I've been trying to figure it out ever since, trying 0:25:55.040 --> 0:25:59.040 to recapture it. I mean, if I'm honest, do you 0:25:59.040 --> 0:26:03.240 think I'm just totally off my rocker? Well, if you are, 0:26:03.400 --> 0:26:09.520 I am, I get it a little. I mean when 0:26:09.560 --> 0:26:14.800 I did that run, I don't know if I can 0:26:14.800 --> 0:26:23.200 describe this, but it felt what I felt. It felt incredible. 0:26:23.280 --> 0:26:26.520 I don't know how to describe anyway. I think I 0:26:26.560 --> 0:26:33.920 would definitely want to feel that again, and that it 0:26:34.040 --> 0:26:37.960 scares me. What doesn't have to be scary? I mean, 0:26:38.000 --> 0:26:41.720 if doing magic felt good and protected you, how can 0:26:41.760 --> 0:26:47.239 it be bad? Here? Keep that on as long as 0:26:47.240 --> 0:26:52.760 you can. Look. I get being angry and scared, But 0:26:52.920 --> 0:26:55.199 everything we've ever been taught about magic tells us that 0:26:55.200 --> 0:26:57.920 it doesn't need to be bad, right, I mean, in 0:26:58.000 --> 0:27:02.160 every legend, there's always light magic and dark magic. It's 0:27:02.200 --> 0:27:09.600 about the user, not the magic itself. Well, do you 0:27:09.640 --> 0:27:11.320 think we could use magic to get out of here? 0:27:11.680 --> 0:27:14.520 I don't just mean here, I mean the whole deal. 0:27:14.920 --> 0:27:19.119 The Faye Court are famously not very generous negotiators. Well, 0:27:19.160 --> 0:27:22.560 what if the deal wasn't broken? But changed. What if 0:27:23.760 --> 0:27:27.520 I don't know, merge the world somehow. You mean, let 0:27:27.520 --> 0:27:31.680 them Faye realms seep out into ours, Let magic exist here. 0:27:32.600 --> 0:27:34.560 The Faye use it to keep their gate closed, and 0:27:34.600 --> 0:27:36.479 we use it to keep our gate closed, and no 0:27:36.520 --> 0:27:38.879 one has to sit in the liminal. Why would the 0:27:39.000 --> 0:27:41.280 fay realm ever go for something like that? What if 0:27:41.280 --> 0:27:44.560 the gates were closed but not locked, accessible to those 0:27:44.600 --> 0:27:47.280 who knew, able to pass through from one world to 0:27:47.280 --> 0:27:49.960 the next. Wouldn't you want to see it if you 0:27:50.000 --> 0:27:53.280 could the other side. I don't know if I trust it. 0:27:53.320 --> 0:27:55.480 I haven't seen any magic that's led me to believe 0:27:55.640 --> 0:28:01.000 that it's a stable or positive force. It just saved 0:28:01.040 --> 0:28:04.800 our lives. It brought your dad back. Yeah, but it 0:28:04.840 --> 0:28:08.560 took him away first, but it brought him back. And 0:28:08.680 --> 0:28:11.320 on top of that, you now have more time together 0:28:11.320 --> 0:28:13.640 than you ever would have if he'd stayed an age normally. 0:28:14.920 --> 0:28:16.720 You have your whole lives to get to know each other, 0:28:17.720 --> 0:28:22.359