Session Zero Heroes - A TTRPG Actual Play Podcast
Speaker A: You.
Speaker B: Hello, listeners. I am the narrator. Today's story takes place in the town of Devil's Lake, North Dakota, a small, remote town in the middle of nowhere. The year is 1985. The date, August 19. This tale will bring with it mysteries in intrigue lies, hidden realities, and the blending of fact from mythos. Join our hunters as they seek out the truth and find those who are missing in today's story of music mayhem. Welcome to episode one of well, this is we're calling Hunter's Haven, which is inspired from a YouTube series we did. But we're just taking that name, placing it here. So Hunter's Haven and the name of this campaign is music, uh, Mayhem. So I have that. Um, uh, I'm going to just break us into right from the start. If you don't know who these characters are, I'm going to just have everyone introduce themselves real quick. Starting to my left.
Speaker A: Yeah, I'm Kenny Whitlock, uh, the boy Detective. Right here in Devil's Lake, North Dakota. Um, here to solve mysteries and eat some coughle crackers that I make myself.
Speaker B: Nice and played by Skylar.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Played by Skyler. He's the other guy. He has a more normal, uh uh.
Speaker C: Next I'm picking up some hiccups as.
Speaker A: I was driving home from work, testing out the voice, I thought to myself, kind of sounds like a young J bear shell.
Speaker B: It is. Very close. Jay bear shell.
Speaker C: So, Dave, um, so I am playing, uh, not sure what the voice we're going to use yet. Maybe I'll just use my regular voice. Go for it.
Speaker B: Maybe we'll slay accent.
Speaker C: We'll go for something with an accent, I guess. Uh, names. Danny, uh, Rogers is the name. Uh, playing the Snoop character. Don't you know? Got this nifty new camera here. Want it from the Radio Shack grand opening. Perhaps you heard about it in the paper.
Speaker B: That's great. Okay, finally. Uh, Emily, I'm not going to do.
Speaker D: A voice because I don't do good voices.
Speaker A: You're doing a voice.
Speaker D: This is my voice.
Speaker B: Exactly. Also the voice of Bobby.
Speaker D: Anyways, I'm, um, playing Bobby Eastwood, also known as Bob E. I'm playing the Crooked. I steal stuff for funsies. That's it.
Speaker A: Sorry.
Speaker D: Probably steal somebody's homemade crackers.
Speaker A: Yeah, I'll take my kuggler crackers, man.
Speaker B: Excellent. All right. And with that, now we all know the characters. Now I'm going to dive us into this world. Got ourselves a little intro here in the small, sleepy town of Devil's Lake, North Dakota. You best be careful of what lurks around the corner. Rumors and whispers of things going awry. A modern day menace preying from the shadows. This town of Woe filled with more tragedy than joy. This week's news, three kids have gone missing this morning. That number now has jumped to nine. The front page of the local news reads sam and Max Parker, kids of the mayor, have gone missing. Alongside them are four other kids who all were at the same party thrown by the local boy, Tony McCook, who has also gone missing. Mayor Samuel Parker has set a reward for anyone who can find his kids and their whereabouts for $25,000. The newspaper article continues, but for the most part, that's all you need to know. With that now known, you now have a mission. All three of you, for all your own personal reasons, find these missing kids. Their lives are ticking through the hourglass like Days of Our Lives. We find our three quote unquote heroes. We'll call them, uh, at the local bowling alley. Uh, we're going to call it, uh, Bob's Bowls. Just call them Bob's bowls. Bob's Bowls is the name of the local alley. Uh, we find Dennis, uh, Rogers, or Denny, as he likes to be called, uh, bowling with his nephew Kenny. Uh, it is Kenny's birthday, or was Kenny's birthday a few days past. And Dennis wanted to bring old Kenny for a fun game of bowling. Uh, Bobby is here alongside them, not by choice, but rather came to just have a night to herself to bowl a solo game of bowling. But Bob's Bulls is a packed place tonight, and she got tossed into their row and is playing a game with the two of them.
Speaker D: The more you practice, the less it hurts your arm.
Speaker B: And this is where we find our three characters with Dennis, uh, having just read this article out loud to them while they're bullying a.
Speaker C: Was. I was looking to snag some coupons from the paper here and I turned it over to this front page story, don't you know? And I saw those zeros in my eyes. They went wide, like a couple of zeros themselves. And I thought, oh, gee, sure bad about them kids, but that's a lot of dough they're laying out.
Speaker A: What was it, $25,000?
Speaker C: You bet you.
Speaker A: Oh, uh, my gosh, that's a lot of dough. Wow.
Speaker C: That's what I was seeing.
Speaker A: What would I do with Uncle Danny? What would you do with all that money?
Speaker C: I don't know. I mean, probably upgrade the mower, I suppose.
Speaker A: Yeah, you could probably get a real nice one. Uh, uh, Kenny's very nervously, uh, looking back and forth over at Denny or sorry, bobby kind, uh, of, like, nervous because, uh, he knows how we got in this situation where she's bowling with us, but he's not excited about it after her bullying of him back in school. Um, so he's just kind of hesitant in trying just to not talk to her. Hey, uh, I don't mean to switch a topic or anything, but, um, whose turn is it to bowl?
Speaker D: It's mine.
Speaker A: Oh.
Speaker D: How about move?
Speaker A: Okay. Kenny sits down. Uh, the blue one's mine, but I don't know if you brought your own ball over here.
Speaker D: You brought your own ball?
Speaker A: No, just, like, from the rack.
Speaker D: Then it's not yours.
Speaker A: Well, that's the one I was using. It's the right size for my fingers.
Speaker D: It's the right size for my fingers, too, so I'm going to use it.
Speaker C: Uh oh, wow. What a kawinky dinky. You guys have the same finger know, the grip is very important in bowling, don't you know?
Speaker A: Yeah, that's right. That's what you always taught me, uncle denny.
Speaker D: It's a really average finger size. Lots of, uh, people have that.
Speaker A: Sure.
Speaker C: It's not the size of the fingers, it's what you do with them.
Speaker A: Kenny.
Speaker C: Kenny, why don't you step out of you're still in frame there. As, uh, denny holds up his new camcorder, kenny steps out of the way.
Speaker A: But then he leans into whisper. He's like, are we supposed to be recording people that we aren't related to? I mean, I already thought it was kind of weird that you were recording me, but she's not even, like, in our family.
Speaker C: Kenny, the way I sees it, this is a great learning opportunity for you. No, you can compare your form to.
Speaker A: Bob, uh, learning opportunity. Wait a minute, are you saying bob is good? Hold on. And then at this point, kenny just stops and watches his body goes to bowl because he doesn't think that she's that good and worth learning from.
Speaker D: I ignore both of them because they're annoying and weird. And I pick up the little man's ball and I go up to throw it and I kind of slip a little bit and it bounces.
Speaker A: The talon style?
Speaker B: Yeah, the classic and bounces. But did you have the bumpers up or not?
Speaker D: No, it stayed in the lane, though. I hit one pin.
Speaker A: I think denny's pretty hardcore.
Speaker B: He wouldn't put the bumpers up. Well, no one has bumpers up, people, um, of taste and honor. I see.
Speaker A: Okay, uh, if we fail, we fail with our check.
Speaker B: You knock over one pin, and then the ball comes back and you throw a second one. How's that one go?
Speaker D: Um, it doesn't bounce, but improvement m really hurts my shoulder. I think I put too much too much yank in that. Um, I didn't hit any with that. I guess the bounce was better.
Speaker B: I think this is the 10th frame. Huh.
Speaker A: See, I don't think that there's much I can learn from that, uncle denny.
Speaker C: That's where you'd be wrong there, kenny. You see, from where I'm standing, it looks like she's keeping her thumb in there too long, throwing off the release.
Speaker A: Uh, so ah, it's a video of what not to do, guys.
Speaker D: So then I turn around with the ball and I just kind of roll it. Hoping to hit your toes.
Speaker B: Oh.
Speaker A: Backwards. We bowling.
Speaker B: But do you jump and do I.
Speaker A: Jump and spin and go? No, I kind of dodge out of the way of this ball rolling towards.
Speaker B: Are you trying to 100%.
Speaker C: Okay, that's not groovy there.
Speaker A: The balls aren't supposed to touch this side of the floor.
Speaker D: I wanted to bowl by myself.
Speaker A: Well, I don't know why we have to suffer for that.
Speaker C: I don't even have my steel toes on.
Speaker A: Kenny picks up that. He goes to sit down and picks up that newspaper because I think Denny is next on, um, the frame. And he's just looking at the article about the missing kids and thinking about what it would be like for him to get his big, uh, glory, uh, back if he were to solve such a mystery. And that's what's kind of going through his mind of like, what if I did, man, everybody would love me again. Um, and I'm just looking through to see if there was anything, any really key details in there about maybe the party, uh, that was going on. Uh, what was the name of the kid who was throwing the party?
Speaker B: Yeah. His name was Tony McCook.
Speaker A: Tony McCook.
Speaker B: Yeah. Also, the newspaper article does go into way more detail. I just didn't say it. So if you have any questions about any of the kids also if you have any questions about the past kids that went missing.
Speaker D: So the whole point is we're trying to find these kids alive.
Speaker B: Well, the newspaper article says they're whereabouts.
Speaker D: So you'd get paid if they were not alive.
Speaker B: Uh, I mean, he would prefer if they were alive when you found I don't find these kids and then just kill them. Because you can you don't do that.
Speaker D: You get paid if you find one kid, not m all of the kids.
Speaker C: What if we find part of a kid?
Speaker B: Okay, so the newspaper article, as you read it, the way the mayor because it has a quote from the mayor, it seems like he only cares about his two kids being found. But also, what if we find the other kids? The article also assumes, like, if you find his two kids, you're probably going to find all the other kids. There's not like multiple kidnappers.
Speaker D: If I are there kidnapper, I wouldn't keep them all in the same m place. See, that's what all the cops think. If you find one, you'll find them all.
Speaker B: Oh, spoken m like a true professional, huh?
Speaker D: Hypothetically.
Speaker B: Hypothetical. You are the crooked after all. You got to always be thinking the angles.
Speaker C: Really put some thought into her character.
Speaker B: I didn't even tell her beforehand we're doing a kidnapping kind of game.
Speaker D: It's all that true crime.
Speaker B: I watched.
Speaker A: Out of curiosity, does it say so is Tony one of the kids that's missing or was it just he was.
Speaker B: One of the six kids that went missing over the weekend. So the date is Sunday.
Speaker A: Okay.
Speaker B: Those kids went missing the, uh, two, uh, nights before a Friday evening. So the, uh, newspaper article goes briefly into they were having a Friday night party. Yeah, it went late into the night. The parents woke up to none of the kids being home and they can't find any of the six kids that were at the party.
Speaker A: And then does it say if there were more than just those six kids at this party, or were those six, uh, the only six?
Speaker B: Those were the only six kids. It was a small party and it's more like a close knit of friends kind of party. Yeah.
Speaker D: Sounds like our party.
Speaker B: More like a fun slumber party, if you will.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: And there was three boys, three girls. So, you know those kind of fun high school slumber parties.
Speaker A: A one to one ratio.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker C: So back to the bowling alley. A familiar sight if you're a regular at, ah, Bob's Bowl. But Denny's unconventional approach to bowl the ball.
Speaker A: Oh, boy.
Speaker C: Uh, Denny's kind of talking to himself. It's all about the approach. There Kenny, and he's set up the camera on the table. Set up the camera to record himself. It's like resting on the table right next to the chili cheese fries.
Speaker B: It's got a couple of fries in frame.
Speaker A: You can see a little blob of chili.
Speaker B: It's very out of focus, uh, on the fry, not the bowl.
Speaker C: So if you've ever seen the movie, uh, not the Extremely Goofy Movie, but the Goofy Movie.
Speaker B: The first one. Yeah. The first one, he's going off, not.
Speaker D: Shrek two kind of that kind of.
Speaker C: Vibe with the perfect cast. So he got the perfect bowl. So he steps up, uh, he blows on the ball. Huff huff waxes it with his sleeve of his bowling jersey. Um, a little step to the right, a step to the right. 1212. Takes three steps forward, one step back. Little cha cha. Uh, get the booty bopping. And then with a swing of the hips, he steps forward and releases.
Speaker B: Yeah. Roll those dice for me. Oh, yeah. No, this is 100% Sammy pinsey. Knocks over seven. Knocks over seven.
Speaker C: Bummer.
Speaker A: Hey, that's still pretty good, though. What is it, nine? It's nine pins, right? Ten.
Speaker B: That's still pretty good. Yeah, beef the one sorry, he got.
Speaker C: A little bit of indigestion from those chili cheese fries and then he goes ahead and finishes. Do I have to roll?
Speaker B: Yeah, roll. I'm going to see, this is a straight.
Speaker C: I mean, assume he's getting a what's.
Speaker B: Your, uh, add your cool.
Speaker C: It's going to be a plus one for my cool. Making it a seven.
Speaker B: Yeah. Um, you can do it. It's just ah. Um, I'm going to give you a choice here. Uh, either you knock over and you save the spare, but you also slip and fall in the process, or you catch yourself at the last second from falling, but you gutterball it.
Speaker C: Denny always picks up the okay.
Speaker B: Okay. So, yeah, you make a total fool of yourself. And, uh, this is mind you right when the camera finally gets in focus, it just adjusted just in time.
Speaker A: Kenny leans over, he's like uncle. I don't even think you had this adjusted. Whoa. Hey, Spur. Kenny, are you okay?
Speaker C: Oh, I'm all right.
Speaker A: There.
Speaker C: I wonder if he got that on camera. We could turn that into AFV don't you know? Uh, that might have been nine.
Speaker B: I've got this idea for a new show.
Speaker A: Yeah, we, uh, could get 25,000 without having to go find kids. Missing kids. I think that's how much they give out too.
Speaker B: A lot for the winner. It is a lot.
Speaker A: As Kenny's picking up uncle or helping Uncle Denny to his feet. He, uh, know, I think maybe just because you said it's Sunday, right?
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker A: Oh, shoot. I, uh, mean, I don't have work this week know? I'm still really focused on, uh, my career as a kid detective. Which is doubly weird when you're an adult. Sorry. Uh, he didn't say that.
Speaker B: But what did he say?
Speaker A: I'm still focused on my career as a kid detective. Uh, I don't know if you got work, but maybe we could try sleuthing around. That would be a real birthday present to me.
Speaker C: You know what? I got some sick days and, man, those chili trees fries are really upsetting my stomach. Wink, wink. Might have to call in sick tomorrow.
Speaker A: Oh, man. Uh, I don't think you should eat those anymore, Uncle J. I think you might have an acid reflux problem. Um, maybe stick to some things that are a little less acidic.
Speaker C: Yeah, Bobby, maybe you should finish those off. Can't help myself.
Speaker D: I'm lactose intolerant.
Speaker A: Okay. Well, it's like that fake cheese, I think. Um, so I don't think there's a speck of lactose in there. If I'm being honest, was lactose and.
Speaker B: Cholera a thing back in the 80s?
Speaker D: It's not new.
Speaker B: I don't know. I didn't see it anywhere on my 1980s popular things.
Speaker C: Um, think me and Kenny ate most of the ones with cheese on the top.
Speaker A: Also, Pepto was definitely around by this point, just for safety. Yeah, sure. Bobby, if you want to eat some of these fries yeah, go for it. I don't care.
Speaker D: I could freeze my favorite number.
Speaker C: I'm just trying to think how we get Bobby to join.
Speaker B: Bobby, if you have any questions, uh, you can ask the guy holding the newspaper.
Speaker D: Maybe rough sauce, because Bobby just thinks you're 25K inadequate.
Speaker A: I'm just saying, Uncle Danny. I mean twenty five k? I mean, that would really make up for missing days of work, no less.
Speaker D: Uh, what makes you guys think that, uh, you've got what it takes to find these kids?
Speaker A: Well, um, you probably remember back in the day. You remember the whole mystery of the missing mayor's dog. The MMM.
Speaker D: You are so unlikable.
Speaker B: That's what he was going for.
Speaker A: As long as you're referring to in game and not out of game I.
Speaker D: Can'T see a world in which my character would ever want to associate with yours.
Speaker A: Then maybe she focuses more on Uncle Denny.
Speaker D: To be fair.
Speaker B: You could see him as such a big pushover that you could just take the 25K straight up form from him. Fair enough. That could be your in on it.
Speaker D: Just like I pushed him in high school.
Speaker A: I also really like the idea that after I say the whole bit about the missing mayor's thing, you immediately turn to Uncle Denny and say, what are your qualifications?
Speaker B: That's good. We'll play with that. Yeah, let's go from there.
Speaker C: Well, I've got a successful marriage, partially raised, three kids, and very, uh.
Speaker B: Well.
Speaker C: Just for example, just the other day, uh, I saw Bigfoot.
Speaker B: Whoa.
Speaker A: You saw bigfoot.
Speaker C: Yeah, I was out in the woods on one of my lunch breaks. I mean, my lunch break. I don't take multiple lunch breaks.
Speaker A: But you do take them in the woods? Well, yeah.
Speaker C: You got to enjoy nature, Kenny.
Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I forgot. You're like a lumberjack or something.
Speaker C: I look work at the lumber mill. So I'm out in that neck of the woods, so to speak.
Speaker A: Oh, my gosh.
Speaker C: Anyways, I was metal detecting and caught, uh, a glimpse of something running through the trees. Pretty sure it was bigfoot.
Speaker D: And your immediate thought was bigfoot, not a, uh, large hairy man?
Speaker A: What is yours? Well, usually a large hairy man. Is your first thought a large hairy typically, yeah.
Speaker C: Yeah, I thought it might have been Tim going on his lunch break jog. But he actually is a lumberjack. He cuts down the trees.
Speaker A: Yeah, he's an interesting fellow, for sure.
Speaker C: Uh, but when I went over there and investigated for boot prints, uh, it's just a big old bare footprint. Not a bare uh, uh.
Speaker A: Uh, in North Dakota. No, all the people on Meth are over in South Dakota.
Speaker C: Yeah, they like the warmer climate, but it's not out of the question, I suppose. But then I went to, uh, rewatch the tape because I film all my metal detecting. Well, at least since I won that camera before, I just took a picture with the Polaroid.
Speaker A: It's true. He has many tapes of his metal detecting.
Speaker C: Oh, Kenny loves them.
Speaker D: So, do these guys have any experience with the unknown at all, or are you just a dad and you're just annoying?
Speaker B: I think that's just what you ask them.
Speaker D: Yeah.
Speaker A: Are you just asking out of character?
Speaker D: In character?
Speaker B: Just say that. Okay.
Speaker A: Well, I mean, I'm insulted, but you're asking about my experiences with the paranormal. Uh, man, I, uh, think I've seen some weird stuff, but I don't know if I've come to enough conclusive evidence to suggest that anything's paranormal, necessarily. Although there's a part of me that really believes in aliens. But I also will admit that that part of me was ignited after I saw Star Wars Return of the Jedi, and it was pretty dang awesome. So maybe it's just wishful thinking.
Speaker D: Is your weapon the metal detector?
Speaker C: I didn't know we were talking about weapons, but no, that's a delicate instrument. I wouldn't, uh, want to damage my, uh, technics Mark One model.
Speaker A: He's got a special case for it and everything.
Speaker D: I believe it.
Speaker C: They call it the Coin computer.
Speaker A: What about you, Bobby? Do you think the supernatural exists?
Speaker D: It could.
Speaker C: You know, I had an Aunt Linda. Uh, she used to say she could talk to her dead dog. So there's that I'm pretty sure I saw.
Speaker A: I don't think I got to meet.
Speaker C: Her the dog either.
Speaker A: I don't think I talked to Aunt Linda. Why are the dead dogs what did it say?
Speaker C: Oh, yeah, well, maybe that was before your mom married Mark.
Speaker A: Yeah, it must have been. Well, uh, are you adopted? What? No, just have stepdad situation.
Speaker C: Uh, anyways, the dog, uh, was always going on about stuff. It buried in the backyard. I found a few of the things, actually, with my metal detector.
Speaker A: Hey, yeah, if you could talk to dogs more often, they're always burying stuff all over the place. That'd be a great way to get all kinds of cool stuff while you're metal detecting.
Speaker C: Maybe me and Linda are related by blood. Perhaps I got a bit of the touch.
Speaker A: Oh, hey, there you go. Hey, you think maybe we could find a dog that is dead that knows something about these missing mhm? Know, the more I think about what I just said there, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Like why is the dog dead and why does it know it would have had to die in the last two days?
Speaker C: Maybe it knew too.
Speaker A: Oh, and then it died. Or alternatively, maybe what if we went snooping around over at Tony's house and, uh, we brought your metal detector along and maybe one of the kids dropped something that'd be a clue as to what happened to.
Speaker D: So, uh, what's Tony's last name?
Speaker B: McCook. McCook.
Speaker A: Yeah, McCook.
Speaker B: M over at the M McCook house.
Speaker A: I think his older brother might have been in our class. Stefan.
Speaker B: Stefan also.
Speaker A: Or was it Steven?
Speaker B: The article was continued onto the second page. And if you kept reading, rather read more about the party incident stuff. Um, the only kid who wasn't reported missing by his parents was Tony. That's because his parents were out of town. He was throwing a party at their place. They don't get back till Monday. And they don't know if their kid they don't even know their kid is correct. They don't know any of this. Actually.
Speaker D: The police haven't paged them.
Speaker B: They are in the Bahamas.
Speaker A: Yeah, those international calls are expensive.
Speaker D: Yeah, they're cheaper after seven.
Speaker B: Yeah, no, but they know their kids kidnapped. They just, uh, can't find a soon enough flight to get back.
Speaker A: You're not going to leave the Bahamas.
Speaker B: They're really racing back. Um, but yeah, so, uh, there was no adults around when they were throwing that party. So technically the house is empty. They don't get back till Monday.
Speaker C: But, uh, Bobby, as to what else we have to offer what else I have to offer. I got this, uh, great new camcorder here. It's a JVC video movie, don't you know? You see, it's equipped with a video playback. You look in the site here the viewfinder. I'm getting a little look in the site here, and you can see what you just recorded without a television.
Speaker A: Huh. And it records the tape. So then if you want to watch it on a television layer, you just pop that tape right out, put it in the VCR.
Speaker C: So if we want to review whatever we find out at the McCook place, can view it back through this video?
Speaker A: Yeah, I just want to loop back around. Bobby, uh uh, are you trying to volunteer with us or you why are you getting in on our detectiving?
Speaker D: Well, you've been really invasive with me since I've been here.
Speaker A: You came to our bowling alley.
Speaker D: Really? All up in my grill. So I was just returning that to you. Um, I think out of the two of you, I really have the most experience here. Um, I have a lot of experience with missing things, and missing kids are basically the same. So I feel like I would be able to find them and I could potentially use your help.
Speaker A: I mean, if you just need a ride back home, I'm sure we can give you a ride back home. You don't have to tack along.
Speaker C: I remember your experience with missing things.
Speaker A: Like that time oh, no.
Speaker C: Like that time I came out to my shed.
Speaker D: But, uh, I helped you find that, didn't I?
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker C: You're trying to steal my rack off of my mower right off the hood where I attached it with the paxi potato potato. You said you were looking for your lost frisbee or something. Like I don't know how it would have gotten into my locked shed, but he's right. Seems a little suspicious.
Speaker A: But, uh.
Speaker D: That shed just opened right up for me, so I feel like maybe you didn't lock it as well as you thought you did.
Speaker C: I suppose Doug could have left it open. Doug's? My son. One of my sons. But what sort of, uh, experience with missing things do you have?
Speaker D: Um, I like to set people up so that they can find their things. It's a good learning experience for everybody. So I foster those situations in which people have to look.
Speaker A: Oh, perfect. You're like a secretary. You're just helping out the rest of us.
Speaker B: Mhm.
Speaker A: Well, I tell you what. If anything, if you can take some notes for us while we kind of take a look around and maybe dig some stuff up and find some clues, I guess that would be of use. Um.
Speaker C: You would be good with, uh, cameras there.
Speaker D: I know how to point and shoot things.
Speaker A: That was very foreboding.
Speaker C: Well, you see, sometimes with, uh, this fancy new gizmo, uh, I can't always get it to record. I press the record button, but it won't record. I kind of just press all the buttons at the same time and it works most of the time.
Speaker D: Does it have batteries?
Speaker C: Oh, yeah, I got a backup one too. In the car? M. Well, trying to remember if Denny has a car he doesn't have.
Speaker D: In your backpack. You have a backup battery.
Speaker A: We walked.
Speaker D: You offered me a ride.
Speaker A: I didn't know we didn't have a.
Speaker D: Car until you don't remember walking.
Speaker C: We took the mower.
Speaker A: That would have looked so awkward. But also that definitely feels like small town.
Speaker B: Also, the Bullet la is like two blocks down from Denny's, uh, house.
Speaker D: So it looks like we'll take my car.
Speaker A: Oh, well, at least she has a car.
Speaker C: We don't have to oh, you got a right.
Speaker A: All right, all questions answered. One why does she make everything make me feel uncomfortable? Everything she says just makes me feel nervous. I shouldn't talk to Sheriff, uh, Steve about what I did after Balling got.
Speaker B: To rename the Sheriff.
Speaker C: Is that sort of a feeling like a butterfly in your stomach?
Speaker A: No, Uncle Denny, it's not like a butterfly in my stomach. I know what you're trying to do, Uncle Danny. You're trying to tell me that I need friends. I already told you that. I go home and I get on my oh shoot. What kind of computers they have? Do they have a computer?
Speaker C: Macintosh.
Speaker B: The old Macintosh.
Speaker A: I get onto my Macintosh, version 1.0. I type out some TXT documents as I solve some mysteries. I write down a lot of notes, I switch over and I write my Star Wars fan fiction. And that's what I do. I don't need friends because that just distracts me from my publishing.
Speaker D: Were they even called fan fictions back then?
Speaker A: Oh gosh, she's listening. I said, uh, no, they're like mysteries. They're Star Wars mysteries just set in the Star Wars universe. But it's like, uh oh, where did my missing lightsaber? Uh, uh oh, what happened to Luke Skywalker's? Missing, you know, crazy stuff like, like they got to go find it. Like Han Solo is like, oh man, you know, I got to smuggle something somewhere.
Speaker D: I feel like you're the type of person that writes stories, um, and you don't care that Luke and Leia, uh, are siblings.
Speaker B: Okay, look, okay, we're not going into this.
Speaker A: Let's get in your car and you drive us over to the what was it again?
Speaker B: The McCook house.
Speaker A: I almost said McCook.
Speaker B: That's a different house. That's over in California.
Speaker A: Let's go over to the Mansion Cook house and let's just look around and see if we can find some stuff. I mean, we're not going to be probably able to get into the house. Uh, that's breaking and entering. And as a professional kid detective, emphasis, uh, on kid. We don't do things the illegal way. We got to do things the right way. So we'll dig around outside the house, see. If we can find some clues and then, hey, man, we'll find a way to split the 25,000 if we find these kids. We'll figure that out later.
Speaker D: All right? So I'm okay to go, guys.
Speaker B: All head to the car.
Speaker A: Dennis finished up the last, uh, we.
Speaker D: Get into my car and I just kind of shove a screwdriver in, uh, the keyhole and kind of jiggle it around a little bit and it turns on.
Speaker B: Nice. Yeah. Do you listen to any music while you, uh, drive?
Speaker A: Whatever the person who owned the car.
Speaker D: Previously was listening to, there's, like, uh.
Speaker A: Change it credence tapes.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker D: Like my old cher.
Speaker B: Cher. That's accurate. Yeah, it's pretty good. She's popping some share. Nice.
Speaker C: Would this fall under this observation of her starting the car like that? Would that fall under read a bad situation?
Speaker B: If you want to roll Read a bad situation, you 100% could, um.
Speaker C: That'S sharp. That is an eight mhm.
Speaker B: So you could ask one question from that list.
Speaker A: Uh.
Speaker C: What'S my best way out.
Speaker B: The door? Uh, I guess when you see that, you make, ah, kenny sit in the middle. I guess I'm imagining an old school pickup truck here where it's like, just three seats. There's no back. There's no back. So Kenny's just squashed in the middle.
Speaker A: Kenny 100% sees her jam, um, the screwdriver into the keyhole and turned it.
Speaker B: To start the car.
Speaker A: And just thinks, man, look at how far you've come since school. You got an old beater truck here that you have to start with a screwdriver.
Speaker B: Completely obliterated detective he notices the details.
Speaker A: It's just interpreting them scenario that he.
Speaker B: Has a lot of difficulty with.
Speaker D: I crank my window down, get some air. A lot of smells going on in here.
Speaker B: Got some share, bopping.
Speaker D: Those chili cheese farts are really filling it.
Speaker B: Um, up yours, Lactose. So you guys drive along and you get to the McCoy, like I said, like, three blocks away. This house, though, very big cooks, do well for themselves.
Speaker A: Not as good as the Macintosh family.
Speaker B: Not good as the Macintosh family. Uh, but you guys get to the house, and when you get there, uh, do you see, uh, the front door has got some yellow tape on it says Crime Scene.
Speaker A: Yes, that's exactly what I like to see. Our Devil's Lake finest doing their job, getting things all situated up for the crime scene. Uh, obviously, I still have this, so we won't have a problem. And he takes out this child's plastic, uh, deputy badge that the police gave.
Speaker B: Him way back when he did his milk.
Speaker A: It means literally nothing to anyone. That's not just a child. It doesn't actually give me any extra power, but in mind, he still thinks it was legit.
Speaker B: So do you just walk up to the door and just open it while you're holding the badge? Uh, I'm here to solve the case. Just open the door. And walk, right?
Speaker A: No, but if there's any tape outside the house, that's, like, blocking the front yard or something, he just goes right under it.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, because he established earlier he's.
Speaker A: Like, I'm not going to there wasn't.
Speaker B: Any tape outside of the house. It was just on the door.
Speaker A: Well, nobody will ask us any questions as long as I've got this. You guys are all, uh, the deputies, honorary deputies tonight, so come on with me. And I go out, and I start skulking around.
Speaker B: Um, just walking around the house. Yeah.
Speaker A: Is it still light outside at all, or is it kind of dark?
Speaker B: It's near dark. It's around, like, 730, but in North Dakota. Uh, also ah, I did say in the start we're in mid August.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: So 730. Sundown near now, uncle, uh, Kenny, I'm.
Speaker A: Going to hand you this, and I hand him one of my walkie talkies. I said, just in case you're looking at one spot. If you find anything, radio in. I'm going to look here. Yeah, Bobby, I don't care what you do.
Speaker B: So he's searching around the outside of the house. What are you doing here?
Speaker C: Uh, Danny's getting all of his gear out of the back of the pickup truck. So he's got his camera on his shoulder. He slung his metal detector.
Speaker D: You walked to the bowling alley with your metal detector?
Speaker C: The lawnmower to the bowling alley. Uh, he never goes anywhere. He's got, like, this small case that he tucks into his jacket pocket. And, uh, he's got, like, a Polaroid camera around his neck. That's basically his equipment.
Speaker D: I'm just putting on some black leather gloves. I start walking towards the house.
Speaker B: Okay. Do you go right to the front door?
Speaker D: Sure.
Speaker B: Do you try it?
Speaker D: Isn't he already inside?
Speaker B: No, he's on the outside just wandering around.
Speaker A: Wandering around the yard.
Speaker D: All right. Sure.
Speaker B: I'll try the unlocked.
Speaker A: Okay, cool.
Speaker D: I'll just go in?
Speaker B: Sure, go right ahead.
Speaker D: I'll look around. What do I walk into? Is it the living room?
Speaker B: It's a front entryway. There's not much not much to note in the front entryway. Uh, but to your right, you can see, like, a living room area. And you do see, like, cups. And, uh, the further into the living room you go, if you go that way, uh, you get back here, and there's, like, a den where there's, like, a TV. And is the TV on? TV is not on, but there is a speaker system that's on in the background. It's just playing some music. Just on in the background.
Speaker A: Share, uh, on for two days.
Speaker B: It's plugged in, but yeah, it's been on for two days. It's currently playing a song by Tears for Fears called Shout.
Speaker D: I love that song.
Speaker B: Yes. Do, uh, you want to listen to the radio or not?
Speaker D: Because I'll go mosey around the living room.
Speaker B: Yeah, you just look around. Uh, and do you want to roll? Investigate a mystery.
Speaker D: Sure.
Speaker B: You just roll two D six, then you add sharp. That's not the best.
Speaker D: So I got six.
Speaker B: That's a fail. Well, so you just get nothing. You walk around and you just see what I'm telling you. Nothing else? You don't really see any other clues.
Speaker D: Is there anything, um, nice in this living room?
Speaker B: Yeah, there's a coffee table. And on the coffee table, there is a gold plated cigarette tray.
Speaker D: Uh, relatively small palm of your hand. Can I steal that?
Speaker B: Of course. You're the only one inside, too?
Speaker D: Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker B: No one's going to notice a thing.
Speaker D: Slip that, uh, into my inner pocket, ash and all.
Speaker B: Honestly, probably the best house to steal from, because cooks are going to get back so worried about their kid being gone, they won't even notice missing.
Speaker C: They might want to have a cigarette.
Speaker B: That's true. They might be a little stressed.
Speaker D: They're smokers. They've got more than one ashtray. So I keep an eye out for any more gold plated ashtrays.
Speaker B: Denny, you saw Bobby, uh, walk inside, and you finished getting all your stuff. Did you follow Bobby in, or are you going to follow your nephew around the outside?
Speaker C: I am going to start sweeping the front yard with my metal detector.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker C: I get on the walkie. Uh, don't worry, Kenny. I'm just going to sweep the front yard here with the metal detector.
Speaker A: All right.
Speaker C: The old coin computer.
Speaker A: Oh, sorry, I got to wait till you say, like, Rogers on our over. There we go. All right, that's great news. Uh, let me know if you find anything. Now, I think, uh, that could point us in any kind of direction going further over.
Speaker B: So, as for Kenny, you were walking around the back.
Speaker A: Yes.
Speaker B: And you spot that the back door is wide open and has a crime scene tape over it as well. And you look through the back door and you see someone inside.
Speaker A: Oh, my gosh, that could be Bigfoot. I get on the walkie talkie. Danny. Uncle Danny, why did you say that Bigfoot looked like again? Over.
Speaker D: So while he's, uh, talking to his uncle, I'm just kind of moseying into the den area.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker D: Would you say you're looking for jewels? Clues?
Speaker B: Yeah, clues.
Speaker A: Clues.
Speaker B: Clues, yes. Uh, you wander back and you find, like, a nice little back, little area. Uh, it's not like a den, but it's like a room that's in between the den and the outside patio.
Speaker C: A foyer.
Speaker B: That sounds about right. Foyer, yes. A little area. There's a table out there. Um, and you're looking around that room, and you, uh, hear a voice out the sliding door talking about Bigfoot.
Speaker A: Oh, my gosh, Uncle Danny. It's going up towards the foyer.
Speaker D: So, uh, I'm just going to start growling for funsies.
Speaker B: Okay. You hear growling?
Speaker A: Oh, my gosh, Uncle Danny, I'm, like, 98% sure.
Speaker D: Bigfoot start stomping my feet.
Speaker C: How big are its feet? Over.
Speaker A: Uh, I can't see its feet right now. Hold on, I'll get a closer look.
Speaker B: You're stomping a feet. It sounds like Bigfoot's wearing boots because this room doesn't have carpet, so it very clearly sounds of boots stomping.
Speaker C: Danny is making his way towards the front of the house. And he's like, oh, gee, I can hear something.
Speaker B: Does Denny runs inside.
Speaker C: I'll get you this tank.
Speaker D: So are you coming inside?
Speaker A: I'm slowly coming in from the back door.
Speaker C: Diddy's seriously smashing all the buttons on.
Speaker B: The camera to turn on record. So as you guys surround Bigfoot, you guys both run into the same foyer at the same time to see Bobby just stomping around growling.
Speaker A: Oh, my God. Got you.
Speaker D: This time, as Kenny comes in around the corner, I hit him with one of those.
Speaker A: Oh, my God. You're not bigfoot. Where's the beef?
Speaker C: Oh, Kitty, that was a funny look on your face there.
Speaker A: Oh, um man. Did you get that on camera?
Speaker C: Let me see.
Speaker B: I like the viewport. Yes, you caught it on camera. That's actually just what you caught. You finally got it turned on right when you get his space. Getting shocked. I do like the idea that the only clear shots you're getting on this camera is basically the blooper reel of this adventure.
Speaker A: Guys. Bobby, what are you doing in the house? Look, this badge only gives me so much permission. If the police came here and saw us in here, we'd all be in a lot of trouble. I'd probably get my badge taken away. I really can't lose.
Speaker D: Hurry.
Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, let's hurry up.
Speaker B: So are you guys going to search that?
Speaker D: I was going to say, uh, somebody with better Role.
Speaker B: Since you're inside now, Kenny takes a quick look around. So you guys kind of look back and you, uh, ran through the room, but he looks back.
Speaker D: I'm just going to tell you, I already looked back there. I didn't see nothing.
Speaker A: Yeah, I can't trust your non detective.
Speaker B: You see the room filled with red solo cups.
Speaker A: Oh, my gosh.
Speaker B: Some of them are tipped over some spilled liquid. And, uh, then you see the TV's turned off, but you do hear the radio going on.
Speaker A: Kenny picks up one of the red, uh, solo cups and just sniffs it.
Speaker B: Um, if you want to roll. Both of you two want to investigate a mystery.
Speaker A: What does it smell like?
Speaker D: You were just disgusting.
Speaker B: Alcohol.
Speaker A: Oh, my God. Adult beverages. These kids were committing a crime.
Speaker B: Are they even worth saving?
Speaker A: Here's the part we have to consider now, if it weren't for the $25,000 reward, I'd be questioning whether these kids are even worth saving at this point, to be honest, they've gone too far down the wrong path.
Speaker D: Should we not present them to the police?
Speaker A: Uh, yeah. Then they can suffer the adequate punishment for their actions.
Speaker D: Jury of your peers?
Speaker A: Yeah, peers. All ah. Right. And then with that he's going to start investigating Dennis.
Speaker B: Investigating mystery.
Speaker A: It's a good thing we're not using that mic.
Speaker B: You're rolling sharp.
Speaker A: I got a total of seven, so.
Speaker B: You can ask one question from that list.
Speaker C: I got a six.
Speaker B: Oh, that shrucks huh.
Speaker C: Sure is dark in here. Is it dark in here?
Speaker B: The lights on? No, it's dark. Only if it's the light you guys have. Actually, no, because they left the scene as is. So there is some lights on this room. Funny enough, this is like, one of the only rooms that actually had lights on. Uh, m, I'm going to kick things.
Speaker A: Off with asking what is being concealed here? What am I missing?
Speaker B: That's a good question.
Speaker A: Or what is being hidden from my sight amidst this first area of our mystery, per se?
Speaker B: Okay, so you are starting to look around and you start to lift some pillows, some throw pillows that were on the couches. And you lift up the throw pillow and you find a wallet.
Speaker A: Oh, man, I better keep this away from Bobby. I open up the wallet.
Speaker B: The wallet is for Mr. Uh, Sam Parker.
Speaker A: Sam Parker. That was one of the kids that's been missing.
Speaker B: That's the mayor's son.
Speaker A: The mayor's? Didn't he have two? Was it Sam and Max?
Speaker B: Yep. Son and Max. Son and daughter.
Speaker A: Yep. I come walking up to, uh, Denny, and I say, Denny, look, I found Sam's wallet was underneath the couch cushions. Why do you think he would have left his wallet if he was getting kidnapped? How do you think? I mean, who takes their wallet out, right? I mean, unless it's slid out. Maybe I'm looking at it. Uh, what do I see inside this wallet?
Speaker B: Not much, because it's a wallet of a 17 year old kid. He's got his driver learner's permit in it. Uh, he's got, like, $5 and a couple of coupons to, uh, a couple of gift cards to the local Pizza Ranch.
Speaker C: Are you going to use those coupons here?
Speaker A: Well, I wasn't going to steal from his wallet. I'll tell you what.
Speaker C: Well, check the expiration date. Maybe if they expire at the end of the week, he's probably not going to use them.
Speaker A: I suppose that's a fair point. What does the expiration date say?
Speaker B: Uh, August 25. That's a week from now.
Speaker A: Oh, man. All right, well, if we haven't found them by then, we'll definitely have to use these.
Speaker C: Yeah, I'll just have to hang on to these for safekeeping.
Speaker A: Well, here, you hold on to the wallet.
Speaker C: But, you know, the wallet being here, uh, makes it seem like this is definitely the last place he was. I mean, if you would have left somewhere on his own wheel, he'd probably take his wallet.
Speaker A: That's right. Now, here's my other question, right? So let's say these kids are in here. They're having a party inside the house. Someone kidnaps them. That means they're going to have to take them outside the house, right? To take them wherever they're at. I mean, unless they're still here, which seems unlikely, but also seems slightly possible since parents are gone. But anyway, let's stick with the first possibility that they got taken out of the house. What if we go check outside the house where we're supposed to be, just to be clear, and see if there's anything that, uh, suggests that anyone was, like, hauled away. Any kind of tire tracks, maybe even or something along those lines. Uh, maybe it'll give us an idea where we should go next.
Speaker C: That's a good idea there, Denny. Uh, it's getting dark outside.
Speaker A: Uh, yeah, that's true.
Speaker C: Let me see if I can find some. Going to hey, Bobby, I'm going to go rummage up some flashlights. Maybe in the kitchen. I don't know.
Speaker D: Okay. Can I go upstairs?
Speaker B: Sure. Go for.
Speaker A: Uh, wait, Bobby. Oh, okay.
Speaker B: All right. Uh, I do want to point out one thing that I should make kind of clear. As you guys are looking through this room, you notice something odd. If these kids were kidnapped, there is no signs of a struggle whatsoever.
Speaker D: Uh, maybe they ran away. Can I find the kids room?
Speaker B: Yeah, go for it.
Speaker D: Okay. I want to look around in there for maybe a journal for this.
Speaker B: Um, as you're leaving the room, you hear a Shock DJ starting to talk over the radio. Uh, um, all three of you hear, uh, you do you guys want to listen to the Shock DJ or not?
Speaker A: I know that Kenny isn't I mean, he's just waiting for the flashlight, so there's no reason why he wouldn't I'll.
Speaker D: Listen because I really liked that last maybe maybe they're they're coming to town.
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, maybe. Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker D: Rummage up ticket.
Speaker B: As you guys hear a, uh, Shock DJ kind of comes over the radio as the end of Shout by Tears for Fear. You hear him go, uh, hey there, folks. That was Shout by Tears for Fears, coming at you live from the Siren Song radio station. My name is DJ Re Pip, and I am bringing you today's and tomorrow's in yesterday's hits. Next up on this playlist, we got ourselves a classic. A billboard topping hit, the Power of Love by the Huey Lewis and the News. Hit it, Huey. And then you guys hear the iconic Huey Lewis thing. It just goes back to music, right?
Speaker D: Is that our monster? Was that Tears for Fears, just a siren song?
Speaker A: Well, it didn't get.
Speaker C: Uh you cracked the case. It's the shock. DJ.
Speaker B: You guys wander around. Uh, you guys separate to your different spots. Bobby, we're going to cut to you walking upstairs. You're looking for the kids rooms.
Speaker D: Yeah, it's just a is the stairs carpeted?
Speaker B: This house is very nicely furnished.
Speaker D: Carpeted. Stairs are hard for me. I kind of trip a little bit, but I catch myself. I'm fine.
Speaker B: Good. There's good railing there for a reason. You make it up to the top of the stairs and you see a few rooms, so you go around opening them. Are you looking for anything particular?
Speaker D: I'm, um, looking for the missing kids room.
Speaker B: Okay, so you open up first room and uh, it's like a master bed. Um, so you assume adult. So you go on the next one and you open it and it's like a, ah, spare guest room. Doesn't look like there's any posters, nothing in it. So you kind of think not, probably not. And then you open the last room and it is filled with like posters of athletes.
Speaker D: Okay. I'll go in there. I'm just kind of rummaging, maybe for like a journal or a backpack or something.
Speaker B: Uh, you start looking through uh, folders, bags and stuff and you don't find much of anything. And then you look in, uh, the cubby. Well, you do find a bunch of his belongings. Like everything's here in place. There's nothing really missing. You also notice his wallet is also here. This is Tony McCook's. His wallet's up here. But that kind of makes sense because it's his house, so he wouldn't have it downstairs with him. Uh, and uh, you go to his.
Speaker D: Uh can I check his wallet?
Speaker B: Yeah, go for it.
Speaker D: Does he have any, uh, same thing, coupons or money?
Speaker B: Just straight up $30.
Speaker D: Okay. Can I take that?
Speaker B: Oh, yeah, of course. Uh, same thing as what we saw. Sam's, he's around same age as Sam. He's got his learner's permit. Uh, and same, uh, thing. He's got a few gift cards, but most of them are to like your local arcade. And also a gym membership for his own high school gyms. Kind of weird. Uh, and you just kind of I don't know what you do with the wallet afterwards, but I'll just kind of toss it. And then you go over to a dresser to keep looking. Blank on what they're called, but the dresser right next to, uh, right by.
Speaker D: The bed, the bedside table.
Speaker B: Thank you. And you open that and you find a dream journal. Yeah, he's been logging his dreams. It's even called Tony's dream journal.
Speaker A: All right.
Speaker D: Can I read some of his dreams? Do you have any dreams for me?
Speaker B: Prepped? No, but I will tell you just briefly looking at more recent ones. Right. You probably flip to the back and read from the recent versus start at the front. Makes more sense doing that.
Speaker D: I want to know what he's been dreaming about since he was okay, well.
Speaker B: You'Re going to be here a while if that's what you're doing, because it's packed. This thing has been written since twelve. Uh, no, you start the back. Not really much to know. His dreams are wild and imaginary. Very, uh, sexually themed, uh, due to the fact he is a teenager. Uh, but uh, for the most part, nothing out of the ordinary. For a teen. He doesn't have like reoccurring themes of monsters or something like that.
Speaker D: It's just teeth falling out.
Speaker B: Teeth falling out. A lot of being laughed at for showing up at school in his know, a lot of public embarrassment. You think Tony might have a problem with humiliation? Uh, I have a big fear of that.
Speaker D: Sounds like he's got some anxiety.
Speaker B: That too. Fear of being rejected by his peers. That's why he's hosting a party. Maybe we're diving too deep into town. He's gone missing.
Speaker D: I read that a little bit. I just kind of chuckle. Throw that on the bed too, because I don't want to put stuff back. It doesn't matter. He's missing.
Speaker B: You, uh, keep looking around. Not much else to note. You do notice that he has a giant duffel bag, uh, just sitting in his closet. When you open his closet. Duffel bag filled with no clothes though. So you would assume if he was to go somewhere plan, he would have filled the duffel bag with stuff.
Speaker D: So it was just empty?
Speaker B: Just empty. Just sitting there. All his clothes are in place. Doesn't look like he would have wasn't planning on going anywhere anytime soon. Um, that's it. There's not much else to note in this room. Very empty. Lights are off.
Speaker A: Ah.
Speaker D: I'll mosey out of this room and back to that master bedroom.
Speaker B: Yeah.
Speaker D: Is there any kind of jewelry box?
Speaker B: Yeah, there's a jewelry box. Are you going to take a lull.
Speaker D: Of it or just like, um, I don't know. She looks like she got any diamonds.
Speaker B: It's a nice pearl necklace.
Speaker D: I'll take that.
Speaker B: Okay. Nice pearl necklace. You just stash that away and then slide the jewelry box back. All right, we're going to go to Denny in the kitchen. You are just rummaging around. Anything in particular you're looking for besides flashlights?
Speaker D: Coupons.
Speaker B: More coupons? Huh?
Speaker C: Uh, ham sandwich, glass of milk.
Speaker B: Really? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. No, you open the fridge, it is filled to the brim with food. You think maybe they filled the fridge up before, uh, they left? They didn't want old Tony to starve himself, apparently.
Speaker C: Uh, did I notice on Tony's driver's license? Wait, kiddicks.
Speaker A: No.
Speaker C: We found Sam.
Speaker B: Sam's.
Speaker C: How old is Sam?
Speaker B: 17. Okay. Yeah.
Speaker A: Learner's permit.
Speaker B: Mind you. The newspaper article actually said the ages of all the kids too that went missing. I didn't say that. But if you wanted, you have the newspaper.
Speaker C: How old was Tony?
Speaker B: 17. Is Tony 17?
Speaker D: Do we have like a young one or are they all the same age?
Speaker B: 17. Okay, just going through the age. Also if you guys just want me to name the kids too. Sam Parker, age 17. Max Parker, age 16. Tony, age 17. Hannah grower. Grover. Hannah Grover, age 16. Tim Redding, age 15. And then Michelle Mitchell, also age 15. Now I do want to point out if this is you reading the article, Denny, you recognize the name Tim Redding, for that is the name of your neighbor's kid.
Speaker C: All right. Um, then Denny looks, finds like the junk drawer. He's looking through the drawers, the cabinets for, uh, flashlights, maybe under the sink.
Speaker B: Yeah, you look around and it doesn't take you too long. Uh, just opening a couple of drawers, you find a drawer that's filled with batteries and flashlights and scissors and all sorts of stuff. There is exactly three flashlights, believe it or not. All working. Wow. Isn't that who would have thought?
Speaker C: So, uh, he, uh, grabs the flashlight, set those on the counter. He's like, oh, scissors, I was needing those before. And, uh, he takes the scissors and takes the paper back out and turns it over and starts clipping out those coupons.
Speaker B: Initially it all comes together.
Speaker C: And then as he's flipping it back over, he notices like he takes a closer look at the names and he sees, oh, jeepers, that's Tim Reddings. That's Jeff's kid.
Speaker B: It is now. Jeff and Patty. Jeff and Patty.
Speaker C: Oh, man, that's hitting a little too close to home, literally. And I come back out to the living room. I found some flashlight skiing. Thanks, but oh, bad news. It's real bummer. Tim Reddings was one of the kids who went missing. That's my neighbor.
Speaker A: Oh, Timmy. Oh, um, man, that means that he was drinking too. That's so disappointing. Kids these days, I tell you what. I mean, I might just be a kid detective myself, but I'm not somebody that really, uh, partakes in the beverages of the adult variety.
Speaker D: Like some real Michael Jackson energy over here.
Speaker B: Same time this is happening, Bobby walks.
Speaker D: Back into the room and says, you got some real Michael Jackson energy going on here.
Speaker A: Oh, I love thriller. It's a great music video.
Speaker D: It's a great mhm to. Can I take the flashlights? Yeah, I want to just start clicking through them, make sure none of them.
Speaker B: Are like, oh, I don't know why.
Speaker C: That Michael fella always grabbing his package, though. I don't get that.
Speaker A: I think it helps him hit those high notes.
Speaker C: Oh, that's a theory there. Yeah, there those flashlights. Did they pass your inspection there, Bobby?
Speaker D: They'll do. I'll take one.
Speaker A: All right, I take one as well.
Speaker C: I take another one. And, uh, I run back to the kitchen and grab some tape from that drawer and I tape the flashlight to my camera.
Speaker B: Nice.
Speaker C: Why didn't I think of this before?
Speaker A: Well, it's like you got night vision almost.
Speaker C: Yeah. Real night prowler.
Speaker A: Yeah. And then with that, Kenny's going to head outside to check on his theory about, uh, the kidnapping. Yeah.
Speaker B: And with that, I'm going to have, uh, all of you are going to start walking outside to follow up on Kenny's theory of there's got to be some more information outside the house. And with that, we're going to end this episode.
Speaker E: Well, it seems you managed to survive this episode of hunter's Haven Music Mayhem congratulations. We hope you enjoyed this tentalizingly terrifying one shot series as we at Session Zero Heroes play through a game of Monster of the Week led by keeper Cameron Hogandyke. We want to thank you for stopping by and hope that you'll continue to support us and our channel by checking out some of our other shows where we play other tabletop role playing games such as our Benders and brews show where we jump into the world of Avatar The Last Airbender using the Avatar Legend system, or follow us on social media such as Facebook, X, Instagram and Discord so you don't miss out on our upcoming Dungeons and Dragons series. Criminals of Island Numis. I'd like to say a quick thank you and shout out to the incredibly talented Simon Jones, who created the music for this series, which you're hearing right now, as well as during the intro. If you would like to get your own custom music, you can check out Simon Jones Music on Fiverr to hire Simon to create the perfect music for your project. Of course, be sure to like, follow or subscribe to Session Zero Heroes on whatever podcast streaming you prefer, whether that be Spotify, Apple podcasts, and everywhere else podcasts can be found, or check out our website@sessionseroheroes.com. We hope our episode today gave you the spooky vibes that you're looking for this Halloween season. Scare you next time.