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Speaker 2: See here's the October eighteen seventeen. Have sent the boys
Speaker 2: to stay with my sister in Concord. I hadn't the
Speaker 2: heart to tell them of their father's dire situation. Noah
Speaker 2: bore her departure with a sort of grim stoicism that
Speaker 2: he's never shown. Is the fever taking root? Who was
Speaker 2: he putting on a brief face? I do not know.
Speaker 2: He became agitated last night, threw a plate against the mantle.
Speaker 2: His rage seemed to shadder along with it, and when
Speaker 2: he turned to me to apologize, his eyes were filled
Speaker 2: with bloody tears. Assume we will have to bind him
Speaker 2: to the bed with that of the ropes. Soon, Father
Speaker 2: Abbis will begin in Vain, his fight against the devil.
Speaker 2: I will be there. I will be there until the
Speaker 2: bitter end.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I could use a
Speaker 1: series of drinks.
Speaker 4: Better get to it, then?
Speaker 5: Hold up?
Speaker 4: What look it is?
Speaker 2: Coming out of the old bell knap hotel with what
Speaker 2: looks like a wheeltor Hey, say.
Speaker 1: Too, I know he's coming over.
Speaker 6: Hello ladies, Jerry.
Speaker 1: Hi, what you doing at the abandoned hotel?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 7: I was, yeah, I was just giving it a once over.
Speaker 7: It's a lovely old building, isn't it. That would be
Speaker 7: such a shame just to see it brought away.
Speaker 4: I think, Oh, are you considering buying it?
Speaker 7: Well, I think that a working hotel would fit in
Speaker 7: nicely with the Havoc entertainment district. The well the Tanneris
Speaker 7: and factories of my forebears feel a little how shall
Speaker 7: one put it outdated?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: If I'm going to do something with them, it wouldn't
Speaker 7: be to open the back up for their intended purposes.
Speaker 1: Yes, do go on?
Speaker 7: Well, uh, imagine a regional hub for entertainment. I'm working
Speaker 7: with the state government to loosen laws on gambon. So
Speaker 7: a casino a casino, among other things, but a casino
Speaker 7: as an anchor could attract a massive amount of tourism
Speaker 7: to this region and to this town in particular.
Speaker 4: That's pretty ambitious.
Speaker 7: Well, I'm an ambitious guy.
Speaker 6: What do you what are you reading?
Speaker 4: Oh? Oh, nothing at all? History or which history it's
Speaker 4: not important.
Speaker 7: Come on, let me see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's some spicy stuff.
Speaker 7: Turns out I'm familiar with the spies. At any rate,
Speaker 7: I'm late for a conference call. It was nice to
Speaker 7: see you both, lovely surprise in an otherwise.
Speaker 1: Dull vey, The pleasure is all ours.
Speaker 4: Tomorrow night, tomorrow night.
Speaker 7: Well, have a good afternoon.
Speaker 1: Does he have to be rich and good looking?
Speaker 4: Booze, booze?
Speaker 1: I think this town could use a nice injection of energy.
Speaker 1: Imagine the business from a working hotel right across the street.
Speaker 4: No, it would be a bump.
Speaker 1: But back to the important stuff.
Speaker 4: Murder, ah, murder.
Speaker 1: This must be super weird for you.
Speaker 6: Huh.
Speaker 1: Finally getting the inside scoop on the old family lore.
Speaker 4: I mean, I knew it was messed up, but this
Speaker 4: is really something else.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Also not thrilled about the current parallels I'm seeing with
Speaker 4: their blood fever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is troubling, double trouble.
Speaker 4: Oh, filler up that a girl. I wonder how Jimbo's doing.
Speaker 4: I need to call Barbara to check in. He was
Speaker 4: not well when we saw him last.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll pull through. He's a tough old bird.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Still, how much of that diaries left. We're getting to
Speaker 4: the end of Demarus's bit. Looks like.
Speaker 1: Jesus they brought the whole cavalry.
Speaker 4: That's foreboding.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's probably nothing to courage.
Speaker 4: Courage. WHOA, why did you shoot it?
Speaker 1: I thought we were shooting it.
Speaker 4: No, I'm not shooting a rocks glass full of whiskey, coward.
Speaker 4: Do you want me to keep reading? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And for a penny and for a bound.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, go it. The ninth of October eighteen seventeen.
Speaker 2: Last night, with Noah's permission, we bound him and foot
Speaker 2: to the bed with heavy rope. He has been fever
Speaker 2: since the evening, the sweat pouring from him in heavy
Speaker 2: red streams that steamed the bedclothes and the mattress beneath.
Speaker 2: Josiah Praise. I do my best to keep them fed,
Speaker 2: to put the cup to Noah's mouth. When he cries
Speaker 2: out in thirst, I wipe his brow with cool cloths
Speaker 2: from his sore muscles. Josiah Praise. In the middle of
Speaker 2: the night, Noah screamed out for me to release him.
Speaker 2: He called me any number of horrible names, cursed my
Speaker 2: soul to hell for keeping him. Died down and then,
Speaker 2: as if nothing had happened, he calmly asked after the
Speaker 2: boys and throughout all, Josiah.
Speaker 6: Praise our Father, who art in heaven. That would be
Speaker 6: thy name, will be done on earth as it is
Speaker 6: in heaven. Give us this day, our daily bird, and
Speaker 6: forgive us our trespasses. If we forgive those who trespass
Speaker 6: against us, it lead us not into temptation, but deliver.
Speaker 6: What is it?
Speaker 2: He is resting? We need to let him rest. The
Speaker 2: devil does not rest, perhaps, but you need to eat
Speaker 2: to keep up your strength. Come, no, and I prepared him, mirror.
Speaker 2: The devil will still be here when you get back.
Speaker 2: Very well, just a simple porridge. I've boiled water for
Speaker 2: tea as well.
Speaker 6: Yes, thank you, Demrs. Your demeanor tells me you have
Speaker 6: something to say out worthy.
Speaker 2: I will speak plainly.
Speaker 6: Go on.
Speaker 2: Then, this is beyond us. It has been beyond us
Speaker 2: from the start. Perhaps, what do you intend to do?
Speaker 6: I intend to eat and then to return to No aside.
Speaker 2: Are there no more doctors, no science to help you
Speaker 2: combat this?
Speaker 6: Science cannot save it? Now?
Speaker 1: How do you know?
Speaker 6: Dread carefully to me.
Speaker 2: I have dread carefully throughout all of this. I have
Speaker 2: dread carefully since her families fell. I have dread carefully
Speaker 2: on the earth that you have displaced, digging bodies out
Speaker 2: of the church or to defile. And none of it,
Speaker 2: none of your prayers, or your mutilations or madness, have
Speaker 2: even slowed the progress of this vile disease. He stood
Speaker 2: suddenly ho for me, eyes wide with rage and sorrow.
Speaker 2: I was terrified, and yet I stood firm. I have
Speaker 2: tread carefully since the day I crossed the threshold into
Speaker 2: this house and became your daughter in law. I held
Speaker 2: such a deep respect for you, Josiah, a man of
Speaker 2: principle of vision. But now, ah, how your parishioners have
Speaker 2: come to fear you more than they fear the devil.
Speaker 4: Don't you see it?
Speaker 2: They fear you more than the Almighty. They say that
Speaker 2: you've gone bad, and you have father you have.
Speaker 6: Further, will often present this madness to those who refused
Speaker 6: to see God's light. My daughter, we are not judged
Speaker 6: in the end by our easy acts of faith. We
Speaker 6: are judged by our actions, and times such as these
Speaker 6: we need help the Lord's protection. Dare you deign to
Speaker 6: speak for the Lord?
Speaker 2: I do not know what we expected to fight. It
Speaker 2: was not Noah, bright eyed, tears rolling down his face,
Speaker 2: a bittific smile on his lips, through the slinger.
Speaker 8: Block sweat, My son, Oh, my son, you look father.
Speaker 8: I have I seen an angel of the Lord. I
Speaker 8: have instructions Father, for you. Gather amerind and garlic from
Speaker 8: the woods, and with holy water, make a tea and
Speaker 8: bring it to me.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, of course, demeriuse watch over him.
Speaker 2: Yes I will.
Speaker 6: I shall return shortly.
Speaker 2: And with that he was gone. When I turned back
Speaker 2: to Noah, his demeanor had changed once more. There was
Speaker 2: fear there and something else, resignation. Noah, what is it?
Speaker 8: We must speak quickly, my love. There was no angel,
Speaker 8: There was nothing, But I must speak to you alone.
Speaker 8: Your father has gone mad. You've said as much yourself.
Speaker 2: We need to get you from the house. Then we
Speaker 2: need to hide you somewhere, Oh.
Speaker 8: Darling, No demeris this illness is taking me. It is
Speaker 8: too late to do anything about it. I have been
Speaker 8: gifted this moment of clarity, but it soon will pass
Speaker 8: and I will be lost to this world.
Speaker 4: Noah, it is done.
Speaker 8: It was done when I first was bitten. It is
Speaker 8: a miserable then, but I must face it, Collect the
Speaker 8: boys and run far from this place, far from my father,
Speaker 8: who is lost as well. In his own way. His
Speaker 8: will is great and terrible love, and he will not
Speaker 8: stop this insane battle that he imagines with the devil
Speaker 8: until every timber in every home is consumed. I have
Speaker 8: spent the last few years scratching and saving in secret
Speaker 8: in the sanctuary. There is a loose board in the
Speaker 8: northwest corner, a shade darker from the boards around it.
Speaker 8: I have hidden funds there in a satchel, enough to
Speaker 8: secure travel away and three months living wherever you go.
Speaker 9: I am sorry it was not more.
Speaker 8: Do not return, Do not look back.
Speaker 2: Where did you cat?
Speaker 8: I was going to tell you about this before the
Speaker 8: sickness came to us. Why for us to give you
Speaker 8: the choice to stay or to go with me, to
Speaker 8: live a life away from my father. I was never
Speaker 8: called to the cloth, I was forced towards it by
Speaker 8: his beliefs. I wanted so much to.
Speaker 2: No hear, drink drink.
Speaker 8: We were never to be given a chance to forge
Speaker 8: a life of our own, and so I would steal it.
Speaker 8: But my chance is gone.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I can't just leave you.
Speaker 8: Listen, you are a widow. Now you must take the boys.
Speaker 8: Do you understand this place has become a snare? Do
Speaker 8: not become entrapped. The illness will end us. All promise me,
Speaker 8: Promise me, I promise. Good, darling, good. I love you,
Speaker 8: I love you.
Speaker 2: I read more rich for your father.
Speaker 4: Can you read?
Speaker 6: Please?
Speaker 3: Okay, all right?
Speaker 9: One thing more, demeres?
Speaker 2: What is it? Anything?
Speaker 9: Would you loosen my behinding?
Speaker 2: Something in his eye gave me pause, a twink of mischief.
Speaker 2: When I spoke again, it was with great care.
Speaker 9: Do they hurt ever so much?
Speaker 6: Dear?
Speaker 2: You've had a fits?
Speaker 9: My head is so clear right now, just for a moment.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 8: No, oh, I understand.
Speaker 2: I shall return momentarily.
Speaker 9: De Marius. Yes, I saw your mother last night.
Speaker 2: That's not funny.
Speaker 9: Noah, Oh, it was not a joke.
Speaker 2: My mother has been dead for many years. Yes, did
Speaker 2: you dream of her?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: Then, what did you mean?
Speaker 9: I visited Hell last night while you slept. I saw
Speaker 9: her there, half naked, tattered rags hanging from her soot
Speaker 9: from the fire that took her, covering the whole of
Speaker 9: her body. But it was unmistakably her. She had your eyes,
Speaker 9: your wild stupid animalies wide with terror as yours are now.
Speaker 9: She was screaming, de Marius, Oh, you never heard such
Speaker 9: a scream. If a living woman were to scream so
Speaker 9: her vocal chords would strain and snap in a cush
Speaker 9: of blood. A mortal scream, the scream of continuous dying
Speaker 9: without the mercy of death. You see, the flame that
Speaker 9: took her did not stop devouring her flesh and death.
Speaker 9: It was continuing on consuming her in great licks, her
Speaker 9: skin peeling and crisping, great blisters of blood and puss
Speaker 9: popping and running down her, further feeding the flame.
Speaker 2: Stop stop you and not yourself.
Speaker 5: I have never been more myself wife as I was
Speaker 5: when she implored me for help, told me that she
Speaker 5: would do anything, anything for me to lessen her torment.
Speaker 5: She begged for me to lend my moisture to still
Speaker 5: the flames, if only for a moment, spittle.
Speaker 9: Piss anything, wife.
Speaker 2: You two have taken to medis.
Speaker 9: But I would piss upon her, not to lessen her agony,
Speaker 9: for I was enjoying it.
Speaker 5: So it quickened the blood in tens and oh.
Speaker 9: How I fantasized watching her about how I would inflict
Speaker 9: these agonies upon her daughter. How I would light my
Speaker 9: pathetic wife, my father, my muling stinking children alight on
Speaker 9: a great fire and feast on their burnt flat.
Speaker 10: Yes, my darling wife seems to have had quite enough.
Speaker 9: If you want to silence your husband, you will have
Speaker 9: to use more force when you next bring down the
Speaker 9: picture upon my face.
Speaker 4: Not my husband.
Speaker 2: My husband is.
Speaker 10: Dead, yes, and he burns in hell with your whole mother.
Speaker 6: What is this?
Speaker 10: Ah ah? A mad preacher has returned to quite.
Speaker 9: The familial scene. And what's this in your hands? This
Speaker 9: isn't the holy water and herbs I asked for. If
Speaker 9: I didn't know better, I'd say that case contained.
Speaker 10: A cure far more final.
Speaker 6: He's not himself, Yes, I see what These are the
Speaker 6: tools of the Lord's marshal. Yes, the crucifix.
Speaker 9: I shake with the holy terror.
Speaker 2: What are you going to do? Father?
Speaker 6: Stand aside to me? Isn't our hands now? You can't?
Speaker 6: Our father are in heaven? Here we go? Hollow would
Speaker 6: be thy name?
Speaker 1: He is mad, just like kingdom.
Speaker 11: Come, I will be done on earth as it is
Speaker 11: in heaven. Because this day let us look for trespasses
Speaker 11: weeping and those trespass against us, and lead us out
Speaker 11: to the temptation, but delivers for mevill bell is the
Speaker 11: kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever.
Speaker 2: He placed the cross down beside Noah and reached into
Speaker 2: the bag, pulling forth the great ashwood steak that had
Speaker 2: become the symbol of his mad belief.
Speaker 10: Way, whatever will he do with that?
Speaker 2: He raised it above his head to Meris, how could
Speaker 2: you allow?
Speaker 6: Yes, father, please.
Speaker 2: Demaris, and brought it down into Noah's heart.
Speaker 9: No, I suppose I'll see you both in hell.
Speaker 6: Mm hmm ah ahmen.
Speaker 2: And with that my life ended. Jesus, Jesus, I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know what to say that me neither.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid to ask if there's more.
Speaker 4: There looks to be one more entry. It's shorter, but uh,
Speaker 4: I think I need a minute to absorb that.
Speaker 1: Fair enough, cheers?
Speaker 4: Maybe we should grab a bite to eat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I could order a pizza from Remones
Speaker 1: no Onion's.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, I'll need anything else at it. What the
Speaker 4: hell is happening out there?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Huhm. Hey, there's half a dozen emergency vehicles, there's fire trucks, cops.
Speaker 1: You want to check it out?
Speaker 2: How can I help you.
Speaker 1: I'll call you back. Come on, let's be tacky.
Speaker 4: I hope everyone's okay.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe it's what we've been reading, but
Speaker 1: I feel real dread. Yes, I'm sure it's nothing as
Speaker 1: operatic as Noah's death, right.
Speaker 4: I mean, we just had an axe murderer out here
Speaker 4: last week.
Speaker 1: Good point, Hey Bill, what's going on? I heard Old
Speaker 1: Tom Stabanow's places on fire.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, is he there?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Oh, come on, he's like two streets over.
Speaker 4: We moved quickly, with the group all streaming out of
Speaker 4: their homes and main street restaurants from the courthouse, where
Speaker 4: the last of the day's business had just concluded, everyone
Speaker 4: racing toward the great fire at Tom's. We rounded the
Speaker 4: corner to find his house, an old saltbox style all
Speaker 4: timber from two hundred years ago, up in flames. The
Speaker 4: hoses were blasting water into the home trying to put
Speaker 4: it out, when suddenly.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, he's in there.
Speaker 4: There stood old Tom Stabina in the top floor window,
Speaker 4: naked and covered in soot, his hair singed off what
Speaker 4: flesh you could still see sean a horrible bloody red
Speaker 4: and then he's gotta gown. With an old hunting rifle,
Speaker 4: he opened fire on the crowd.
Speaker 10: Everybody down, down.
Speaker 4: Everything happened in a horrible, bloody mess, people diving for
Speaker 4: cover everywhere as Old Tom raved and shot. The fire
Speaker 4: host suddenly unattended, wildly flying through the air, blasting water
Speaker 4: in all directions, returned fire, and Tom disappearing back into
Speaker 4: the window in a fine mist of pink.
Speaker 6: Clear clear.
Speaker 9: Is anyone hit?
Speaker 6: Is any one hit?
Speaker 4: Sylvie?
Speaker 1: I'm okay, we need to get out of here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a blur. Everything felt abstract and far off.
Speaker 4: The second time and under a month that we were
Speaker 4: processing the horror of this violence. We held hands as
Speaker 4: we ran away through the throngs, Sylvie's hand sweaty and
Speaker 4: solid in my own, the only real thing in a
Speaker 4: world that was fast becoming meaningless. And then we were
Speaker 4: safe home at the bar, and shock in the familiar quiet.
Speaker 2: My god, Tom, what the hell is happening?
Speaker 4: Grid?
Speaker 12: I think something big is coming, big, bigger than this.
Speaker 12: I don't know, I don't know. It's a feeling, you know, dread,
Speaker 12: just massive dread.
Speaker 2: Tom's dead.
Speaker 1: He's dead. He is a real piece of work. But
Speaker 1: now he's dead. Did you see him up there? He
Speaker 1: was insane.
Speaker 4: It's the same look I saw in Jimbo's eyes after
Speaker 4: the funeral when he attacked Ken. It was the look
Speaker 4: in Bachman's eyes when he came at me with the axe.
Speaker 2: It's what Demeras wrote about.
Speaker 4: You said there was more, Yeah, there was another entry.
Speaker 1: You think it'll tell us how to deal with salt this.
Speaker 4: I mean, I can't imagine, barn Please we.
Speaker 1: Just please please?
Speaker 4: Huh what what it's just a paragraph? Well, uh, Josiah
Speaker 4: has gone up the hill. He has the steak. He
Speaker 4: is going after a Havoc. He is mad. I will
Speaker 4: stop him, and then that's all. That's all she wrote.
Speaker 4: I mean, the book itself goes on. After this entry
Speaker 4: occurred the murder of Sophia Havoc at the Havoc estate.
Speaker 4: The diary was found in the church soon after the
Speaker 4: murder's pages torn out of the back. Josiah himself was
Speaker 4: found in the sanctuary, hanging from the rafters of the rectory. Rush.
Speaker 4: It looks like here, it looks like there's more about
Speaker 4: the illness and the aftermath in the next chapter. But
Speaker 4: oh god, Sylvie, I have to stop for now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I understand, it's all too much.
Speaker 2: I don't think I can pross this anymore today.
Speaker 4: But who's given the choice to fully disengage? As we
Speaker 4: sat there, shells shocked, we saw the first military vehicles
Speaker 4: roll into town, alongside numerous black SUVs. Become familiar with
Speaker 4: those sites over the coming days. I should have been
Speaker 4: relieved as they passed by the cavalry, but that feeling
Speaker 4: in my gut, the dread, it only deepened.
Speaker 1: Should I get it?
Speaker 4: It can't be good news, You just can't might it.
Speaker 3: Ring Havoctown was created by me Aaron Mankey. The show
Speaker 3: was written and directed by Nicholas Takowski. This episode was
Speaker 3: edited and sound designed by Rima lk Ali, starring Jewels
Speaker 3: State as Corene Avis, James Kallus as Jerry Havoc, Felicia
Speaker 3: Day as Sylvie, Harris, Ray Wise as Josiah Abbas, Crystal
Speaker 3: Lee as Demeris, Daniel Ernesto A known as Noah Abbas,
Speaker 3: with additional voice acting from David Caprita, Dick Terhun, Beverly
Speaker 3: Bremer's David Davrees, and Aaron Mankey. This season is directed
Speaker 3: by Nicholas Takoski, with assistant directors Sarah Klein and Jake Diamond,
Speaker 3: casting by Sunday Bowling CSA and Meg Mormon CSA. Production
Speaker 3: coordinator Wayna Calderon. Our theme song was created by Chris
Speaker 3: Childs executive producers Aaron Mankey, Trevor Young, and Matt Frederick,
Speaker 3: with supervising producer Rima Lkali and producers Nomes Griffin and
Speaker 3: Jesse Funk. Havoctown is set in the Bridgewater Audio Universe,
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