Transcript - Episode 7: The Day We Met? (Part 2)
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The Day We Met? Part 2
Wed, Sep 24, 2025
“Push the Roll with Ross Bryant” is produced for the ear and includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. Transcripts are generated using a combination of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain errors.
Ross Bryant 00:01
And yeah, a website comes up with this sequence of numbers, which, if you click on it, suddenly the screen fills with pop-ups (makes rapid popping sound), and one immediately arrests your attention. And it's just a black window of a web page with a scroll of numbers going by, filling, filling, filling the screen. And as they do, they suddenly begin to kind of move and shift and begin to kind of animate a crude Flash animation as the sequence of numbers coalesces into a Penrose triangle.
Paula Deming 00:36
(gasp) Uh oh!
Scott Dorward 00:38
Hey! Hey, Lucy. Have you ever seen anything like this before? [laughter]
Paula Deming 00:45
I look up and I go,
Lucy Flowers (Paula) 00:46
Oh yeah, it was on that business card over there, and I was looking at it. And then I like, lost sense of time, and my head hurts, and yes, oh.
Paula Deming 00:55
And I like, look away, like it's a bright light in my hangover, you know, like... [chuckle]
Ross Bryant 01:02
Yeah, so you've got this card, and yes, she has seen it before, just now in fact. This Penrose triangle is sort of rotating paradoxically there in the center of the screen.
Scott Dorward 01:15
Yeah.
Paula Deming 01:16
I think I'm trying to resist looking at it at least.
Ross Bryant 01:18
Okay.
Paula Deming 01:19
Because I think it's triggering more headache. It's making me feel sick to my stomach. But can I? I don't know.
Scott Dorward 01:25
Yeah, Marty's definitely looking at it, because he's, you know, he's trying to find out what the hell has happened to Melissa.
Ross Bryant 01:31
It was your incredible internet sleuthing that found it to begin with. So, yes, absolutely. Roll Sanity, please.
Scott Dorward 01:38
Of course. 15, I guess that's a success.
Paula Deming 01:43
I would think.
Scott Dorward 01:45
I don't have much Sanity, but it's a success. Yeah.
Ross Bryant 01:48
[MUSIC: mysterious synth] Okay. You have a similar reaction to Lucy of just feeling like the whole room almost begins to kind of bend on an axis as you watch this thing rotate in cyberspace in front of you. Of falling into it. It shakes you up and gives you that kind of queasy feeling of seasickness on land as you see it sort of scintillate and move, this triangle composed of numbers that is impossible, its planes joining in impossible ways. You get the sense not that you're just looking at a triangle, but that you're seeing through something. I don't know if Marty Shell has ever had a psychedelic experience, but in the way that like internal truths...
Scott Dorward 02:32
No.
Ross Bryant 02:32
Yeah, Marty Shell has maybe never had that. But it's as though some eternal and ineffable truth is coalescing in front of you, just out of reach and impossible for you to truly grasp and articulate. But it's hanging there, suspended in front of you on this window on the screen, and the presence of it is just making your mind reel a little bit.
Scott Dorward 02:55
Yeah, Marty's really drawn to this for a moment. He's fascinated, and yeah, it certainly seems for a moment like it's going to hold all the answers of what's happened to Melissa. And then he just shakes his head and switches the computer off, suddenly.
Ross Bryant 03:11
Great. [laughter] It (makes powering down sound) goes off.
Ross Bryant 03:24
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Ross Bryant 04:13
You see that pinpoint of light as it goes off, and then that dark screen becomes the dark sky as we move down out of the sky onto Keystone Tower in the center of Manhattan. [MUSIC: upbeat pop] Down, down, down its countless floors to the taxi pulling up out front containing Jordan Benning and Pamela Forge. [SFX: taxi arriving and door opening with ambient traffic]
Jordan Benning (cuppycup) 04:36
When's the last time you were over here, Pamela?
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 04:41
Gosh.
Jordan Benning (cuppycup) 04:41
Didn't you and Roger used to, uh?
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 04:43
No no, no, no, no. We never, ugh, that would be disgusting.
Jordan Benning (cuppycup) 04:47
I'm sorry, sorry.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 04:48
Yes, I've... I mean, yes, I've had my fair share of lovers across this city, but nothing to that extreme, yeah. I mean, I did have a pop up for one of my fashion installations over here the last time. So maybe he invested a dollar or two, but nothing personal like that.
Jordan Benning (cuppycup) 05:05
Oh, of course. I'm sorry that I suggested it. Roger and I have a little bit of a negative history, so maybe you could take the lead here with him.
Ross Bryant 05:14
What do you think is the nature of that negative history?
cuppycup 05:19
I think it involves multiple women they've both tried to go after at various times, and Roger wins every single time.
Ross Bryant 05:27
Okay, so this is somebody that you're familiar with. He's been in the mix every now and then. Every now and then, Melissa has shown up with him on a date, perhaps as a companion, or he's kind of been in the mix perhaps at Forgery or out at a dinner party or a gallery opening or a fashion show. Roger Madigan is impeccably dressed, just a sculpted and angular man, dark, sleek hair falling over his eye, a young, eligible bachelor. He just kind of came into Melissa's life. She collided with him out front of her ad agency, spilling a bunch of papers all over the sidewalk, [laughter] and when he stooped down to help her collect them, some of his architectural documents got mixed in with her pasta deck. [laughter]
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 06:18
That's amore!
Ross Bryant 06:20
(with Italian accent) That's amore. [laughter]
Ross Bryant 06:24
And since then, they've been sort of on again, off again, much to Keith Philby's dismay. You've always sensed, Jordan, that he at the times that they've been off again, his eye has strayed onto someone else. It's sometimes been someone that you've admired, and you found each other being rivals of a sort from time to time.
cuppycup 06:42
Oh yeah.
Ross Bryant 06:43
Pamela, this guy cuts a fine figure and maybe even helped. Well, I don't know that you need investors or any sort of financial assistance.
Rashawn Scott 06:51
I mean, it's not bad to have extra coins in the coffers.
Ross Bryant 06:54
But this guy moves in the same sort of like high-powered circles that maybe you come from. Perhaps you even remember at some Bret Easton Ellis-ass private school that you went to as a kid, maybe he was like an upperclassman when you were a freshman. I'm imagining his younger self looks kind of like Jacob Elordi, and just like imagine him coming off the rugby field, looking at you and underclassmen as he strips off his rugby shirt and just gives you a wink as he walks by. [laughter]
Paula Deming 07:26
All these guys are so self-assured. [laughter]
Ross Bryant 07:28
Yeah.
Paula Deming 07:28
Except for Keith.
Ross Bryant 07:30
Except for Keith.
cuppycup 07:31
Keith. (laughs)
Rashawn Scott 07:32
They do a whole class on self-esteem at the academy. [laughter]
Ross Bryant 07:35
But now you're in front of Keystone Tower, which, as you know, is a massive office building. You had a pop-up here at one point, Pamela. Many businesses rent or lease property in it, but you know that Roger's actual main office and penthouse is in this almost greenhouse, glassed-in enclosure at the very, very top.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 07:58
So when we get in there, I just don't want you two to butt heads, okay?
Jordan Benning (cuppycup) 08:02
No, I don't think I could ever take him in a fight or anything, so I'm not gonna try to antagonize him too much.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 08:07
No, I mean, this guy has been ripped since I don't know when. [laughter] I just want you to keep your cool, okay?
Jordan Benning (cuppycup) 08:15
Yeah, yeah, of course. I think his fling with Kirsten's over anyway, so, you know, we'll put the bad blood aside and figure out what's going on with Melissa.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 08:24
Was Kirsten any... did she look anything like Melissa? Do you have a type?
cuppycup 08:29
Kirsten looks a little bit like Melissa, yeah, but it's just a coincidence, you know?
Ross Bryant 08:33
[MUSIC: soothing muzak] You walk into the lobby and this is a hugely postmodern elevator bank, big canted angles, an orb of marble sitting on a pillar that is also a water feature, sort of cascading water into a triangular pool down beneath. There's a wall that's all like moss and plants, and there's a big slanted security desk there and a bank of keycard readers leading to the elevator lobby. [SFX: footsteps on tile] And as you walk in, a man with a completely shaved bald head, kind of stands up in security livery and is like,
Keystone Security (Ross) 09:15
Oh, I'm sorry, do you have an appointment?
Keystone Security (Ross) 09:17
You're here to see Mr. Madigan. And whom shall I say is calling?
Rashawn Scott 09:17
Oh, not exactly an appointment, but I'd love to see Mr. Roger Madigan posthaste.
Rashawn Scott 09:32
Pamela Forge. He's familiar with me.
Ross Bryant 09:35
You hear (makes typing sounds) as he taps your name into a computer.
Keystone Security (Ross) 09:40
Mmm, yes. And you, sir?
cuppycup 09:44
Oh. Jerry Davidson.
Keystone Security (Ross) 09:48
Hmm.
Ross Bryant 09:49
(makes typing sounds) He kind of looks at the screen for a moment. His expression just never changes from a just affable passivity as he looks at the screen. And his head just rocks up to you. It's like,
Keystone Security (Ross) 10:04
I'm sorry. I don't see your name on the list.
Rashawn Scott 10:07
Well, he is my companion for this meeting, and he will attend it regardless of your little list, darling.
Keystone Security (Ross) 10:15
I see.
Jordan Benning (cuppycup) 10:16
I'm a pilot. [laughter]
cuppycup 10:19
He's dressed in his uniform. [laughter]
Keystone Security (Ross) 10:20
Yes. How wonderful for you, sir. I'm glad to hear it, and that you haven't just come from Spirit Halloween.
cuppycup 10:31
I served our country. [laughter] Could we please just see Mr. Madigan? This is an urgent matter. [laughter]
Ross Bryant 10:40
This guy's throwing up stone walls. This sounds like you might want to do a roll.
Rashawn Scott 10:43
Sure, sure, sure, sure. How about... Do I have any idea if this guy speaks other languages? Does he look like European or anything like that? [laughter]
Ross Bryant 10:56
Does he look European? I, umm...
Rashawn Scott 10:59
What I'm trying to do is, like, speak French or something like another language to him to... "Hey, bud." [laughter]
Ross Bryant 11:07
Okay, yeah, I love... This is nuts.
Rashawn Scott 11:10
Unless I can check his Credit Rating. That's what I've got a big stat in.
Scott Dorward 11:14
Credit Rating is the "do you know who I am" skill.
Ross Bryant 11:18
Yeah, yeah, you could roll Credit Rating.
Rashawn Scott 11:20
Okay, I will roll Credit Rating. 47. I have a 90...
Paula Deming 11:26
Oh yeah.
Rashawn Scott 11:27
In Credit Rating. [laughter]
Ross Bryant 11:29
Oh, wow, excellent. He suddenly, like, looks at you, and you can see that impassive expression of his just alter microscopically. As his eyes dart back to the screen.
Keystone Security (Ross) 11:39
I'm sorry, did you say Pamela Forge?
Rashawn Scott 11:43
Yes, Pamela Forge of Forge Industries, The Forgery and "Give Me the Forge" fashion line. [laughter]
Keystone Security (Ross) 11:58
Oh, very sorry to have delayed you, madam, no doubt this is your personal pilot. [laughter]
Rashawn Scott 12:04
Yes, we all know that The Forgery is looking into aviation expansion, and this is my man for the evening.
Keystone Security (Ross) 12:13
Well.
Jordan Benning (cuppycup) 12:14
We do business in Trenton.
Ross Bryant 12:17
He just kind of looks, stares at you. [laughter]
Keystone Security (Ross) 12:20
How wonderful for you, sir. I'll just call up to the penthouse and let them know that you're on your way.
Rashawn Scott 12:28
Oh, if I may be a little nosy, has our Mr. Madigan had any other guests this evening? Or is he with anyone at present? I don't want to interrupt something intimate.
Ross Bryant 12:41
He kind of peers at you when you say that.
Keystone Security (Ross) 12:46
Yes, he's receiving some callers.
Rashawn Scott 12:50
Oh, multiple?
Paula Deming 12:51
This guy's creepy AF.
Rashawn Scott 12:54
What a busy evening he's had.
Keystone Security (Ross) 12:57
As I said, I'll call up.
Ross Bryant 12:58
He puts a little ear headset on with one of those kind of wrent mic/speakers that comes down from his ear to his mouth and just hits a button, and he's just never breaks eye contact with you as he's like,
Keystone Security (Ross) 13:11
Mmm-hm. Yes, this is Lobby One. Go ahead.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 13:17
Jordan, this guy's weird AF.
Jordan Benning (cuppycup) 13:20
Yeah, I'm getting that vibe too.
Keystone Security (Ross) 13:22
I have Pamela Forge for you. Plus one.
Ross Bryant 13:26
He says, as he looks over to you, Jordan. [laughter]
Rashawn Scott 13:29
(quietly) That's you.
cuppycup 13:31
Jordan sets down a set of wings that says "junior pilot" on it, a little pin. [laughter]
Rashawn Scott 13:38
Junior. [laughter]
Keystone Security (Ross) 13:40
Yes. Yes, of course. Very well, sir. Elevator 19 to your left.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 13:49
Why thank you so much for your help. I hope you get a break soon. And come on down to The Forgery.
Rashawn Scott 13:55
And I like give... I slide over some drink tickets.
cuppycup 13:58
He's flush with gifts now. [laughter]
Keystone Security (Ross) 14:00
Yes, thank you so much.
Ross Bryant 14:02
And you see him like spirit the tickets into his jacket, and you just hear, as you walk away, the sound of your wings falling into a trash can. [laughter]
cuppycup 14:11
Aww, I was hoping you were gonna say the clasp closing on his jacket. [laughter]
Ross Bryant 14:17
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
cuppycup 14:18
That's okay. He's used to that.
Ross Bryant 14:20
You walk down the elevator bank, your heels clicking on the marble floor. [SFX: footsteps on tile] The door is already open for you. When you walk in, there are no buttons here. They're all... it's all called for you. And you step inside an elevator with a high ceiling. [SFX: elevator moving] It's one of those elevators where, like it's going up fast when it takes off, and you feel like that sort of motion sickness feeling, as your brain is sort of pressed down. You almost feel some G-forces as you go shooting up the elevator shaft.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 14:52
The permits on this place must be incredible.
Jordan Benning (cuppycup) 14:55
This is what it feels like the first time you fly a plane for yourself, Pamela.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 14:59
Oh!
Jordan Benning (cuppycup) 14:59
Yeah this is wonderful. Could you imagine making love in an elevator like this? [laughter]
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 15:04
Have you made love on a plane?
Jordan Benning (cuppycup) 15:06
Yeah, it's kind of part of the job. [laughter]
Rashawn Scott 15:09
So your copilot drives the plane while you... [laughter]
Jordan Benning (cuppycup) 15:13
Well, not every flight, Pamela. I'm just saying, you know, most pilots...
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 15:17
I'm not saying a commercial flight. There's upwards of 250 people on the plane, [laughter] but I'm thinking a PJ possibly. They have couches on there.
Jordan Benning (cuppycup) 15:28
Yeah, you actually seem to know a little bit more about this than I do.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 15:31
Well, I've definitely fucked on a plane. But I'm just saying. [Ross interrupts with "bing bong" elevator sound] I didn't know that it was G-force. [laughter] Hello? Duh. It's New York City.
Ross Bryant 15:43
[SFX: elevator doors open] The door slides open and you're looking down a hallway. This elevator just opens up onto one hallway. It's two bands of light receding off to another door, and on either side of these bands of light, the walls seem to be made of these water features. It is like two waterfalls cascading down either wall. So as you step out, you're just kind of like between two little waterfalls. The black marble reflects you through the water as your reflections sort of warble and warp in the slick marble as you walk down the hallway towards the door ahead of you. [MUSIC: pensive piano] The elevator shuts behind you, and as you reach towards the door, it just opens before you even have a chance to touch it, [SFX: door opens] and there's a young woman in a super dark suit holding the door for you.
Kitty (Ross) 16:38
Miss Forge.
Rashawn Scott 16:39
Hello, yes, that's me, Miss Forge. Remind me your name again, sweet thing.
Kitty (Ross) 16:45
Kitty.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 16:46
Kitty. Always good to see you here. How's the old man? Is he in a mood?
Ross Bryant 16:54
And I'll say that maybe you've not been here before, maybe to this apartment, this sort of living space. Or maybe you have, maybe you have been in this zone. You have the sort of means to do it. You know that Kitty is sort of a... personal assistant would be putting it too lightly, but a second-in-command, a sort of body man to Roger.
Kitty (Ross) 17:15
I'm doing lovely, Miss Forge. I have to say, um, to what do we owe the pleasure of your visit?
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 17:21
Well, my friend here and I were looking for Miss Melissa. She was supposed to meet us for drinks at The Forgery, but no one's seen her, and I know the last time that she spoke about Mr. Large, they had had an extended stay with each other.
Ross Bryant 17:41
You walk now into what is like a great room. The glass ceiling of it looms overhead, and you see the most insane view of New York you could imagine, like there are windows everywhere. Multiple stories of this penthouse are stacked, one on top of the other, but all kind of under glass. You can tell that there's stairs going up and down into little rooms. There are quite a lot of stairs and other little elevators, and you sort of get a little sense of dizziness just seeing the way that these stairs go down and up and up and down.
Kitty (Ross) 18:16
Yes, yes. Of course. Miss Huntington. I'm afraid that I haven't seen her either.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 18:21
Hmm, do you recall the last time that you saw her?
Ross Bryant 18:27
This great room is relatively empty. Everything is just pristine, super hyper postmodern. Big, asymmetrical couches and statuary, big plants, giant marble countertops, overstuffed couches, a kitchen area with glistening, brand new appliances. This is what you see.
Jordan Benning (cuppycup) 18:49
Pamela, what do you think a place like this costs?
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 18:51
Oh, what? Like $100,000. [laughter] Seems pretty low rent, if you really think about it. Just doesn't have that homey quality, you know, everything's so sharp and the angles, you know, you can't play catch in here. One... you break a glass, everything shatters. [laughter]
Jordan Benning (cuppycup) 19:12
I was just thinking that, yeah, your place is so much classier than this.
Jordan Benning (cuppycup) 19:16
I had an apartment like this in middle school. [laughter]
Jordan Benning (cuppycup) 19:22
The one you stayed at on your own. [laughter]
Rashawn Scott 19:26
I was emancipated from my parents, then I got back with them. It was, it was a weird time. [laughter]
Jordan Benning (cuppycup) 19:33
Uh, Kitty. Kitty, was it? Is Roger here? Is Mr. Madigan at home?
Kitty (Ross) 19:39
Mr. Madigan is rather busy at the moment.
cuppycup 19:42
And we are too, so we should make this meeting happen posthaste.
Kitty (Ross) 19:46
I understand you've come all this way, but he is rather indisposed. I'm wondering if it's not a message that I could just bring to him.
cuppycup 19:52
You know, I'm here on a layover, so this is... [laughter] I really want to optimize my time here in the city. So if you could just take us to him, we'd really appreciate it, Kitty.
Ross Bryant 20:01
Yeah, why don't you roll something to see if you can get this done.
Rashawn Scott 20:04
Please roll Pilot, please. [laughter]
cuppycup 20:07
Astronomy.
Jordan Benning (cuppycup) 20:08
Do I have any social skills? Fast Talk's all I have. I was kind of lying to her, right? I'm not on a layover.
Ross Bryant 20:15
Yeah.
cuppycup 20:17
So I will roll that. Let's see. I fumbled.
Rashawn Scott 20:22
Jeez, oh lord.
cuppycup 20:24
I rolled 96 over 35. [laughter]
Scott Dorward 20:27
Brilliant.
cuppycup 20:30
That's perfect. I hand her a bag of peanuts. [laughter]
Ross Bryant 20:36
She looks at the bag of peanuts like "Fresh Air, guaranteed fresh. Thumbs up."
Kitty (Ross) 20:42
Hmm. Yes, thank you. I'm sure that you're pressed for time due to the layover that you're currently experiencing, perhaps running between Newark and JFK. But unfortunately, as I've said, Mr. Madigan is rather busy this evening. And I'm so sorry, Miss Forge, but you have come unannounced. I'm sorry that you can't have a personal meeting, but...
Rashawn Scott 21:10
(calling out) Roger! Roger, come out, come out wherever you are! It's me, Pamela Forge, your old friend, remember?
Ross Bryant 21:20
Okay, we're shouting. This outburst is breaking some sort of decorum in this space, but with the fumble you now see coming out of a little room from behind you, two very large men who are dressed in suits with little wires coming out of their ears, with little coils of wire going into their collars. [laughter]
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 21:43
Boys, not tonight. I can't. I can't do that this evening.
Jordan Benning (cuppycup) 21:48
I was hoping for towels. [laughter]
Paula Deming 21:52
Should have come to Melissa's apartment. That's where all the hot guys are. [laughter]
Rashawn Scott 21:56
Damn it. Well, these guys are hot. They're just really big.
cuppycup 22:00
I think Jordan will notice them and just say,
Jordan Benning (cuppycup) 22:02
Oh, Kitty, is this necessary? Look, there's been a misunderstanding everybody. We urgently need to see Roger. Our friend is missing. We're worried about her safety. I don't know why you're throwing up this roadblock, Kitty.
Kitty (Ross) 22:15
Well, if somebody is missing, I don't know why you wouldn't go to the appropriate authorities. Miss Huntington hasn't been here.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 22:23
Well, when was the last time she was here?
Kitty (Ross) 22:26
I suppose the last time I saw her was maybe, hmm, maybe two and a half weeks ago.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 22:32
Two and a half weeks ago.
Jordan Benning (cuppycup) 22:34
Could we just ask Roger when the last time he saw her was? We're trying to corroborate stories.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 22:40
And Kitty, you can be honest with me, if he's there with another woman, it's all right. I just need to know girl to girl.
cuppycup 22:48
Yeah, and then we can let Keith know, and everybody will be happy.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 22:51
Shh. No, don't. [laughter]
Kitty (Ross) 22:53
Corroborating stories and other women, rather makes it sound like you're making some sort of accusation.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 23:00
Oh, we all know that Roger is a stomp about. [laughter] Stomp... stomp around. [laughter]
Kitty (Ross) 23:10
No one knows Roger's schedule more intimately than I do, Miss Forge. I think we both know that. So I know that he's very, very busy. Bruno, why don't you get our guests some sparkling water as a gift?
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 23:24
Oh.
Kitty (Ross) 23:24
Before you send them on their way.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 23:26
Actually, I'd like to use the restroom if I could. The powder... the ladies' room,
Kitty (Ross) 23:30
Very well. But then, of course, Bruno and Brian will...
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 23:34
Oh, I'm familiar with Bruno and Brian. [laughter]
Ross Bryant 23:39
They're huge dudes. You can see some tattoos like creeping up their necks underneath the collars of their suits, but they guide you to a bathroom.
Rashawn Scott 23:48
Alright, I want to look in this bathroom and see if I can sense if there's any like femme products, or any traces of someone who may have spent the night.
Ross Bryant 23:58
Why don't you give me a Spot Hidden?
Rashawn Scott 24:00
62. I have a 45 in Spot Hidden.
Ross Bryant 24:06
I'm afraid that's a failure. You could always push.
Rashawn Scott 24:10
I'll push it. Let me push it.
Paula Deming 24:13
Let's do it.
Rashawn Scott 24:14
39. Hell yeah.
cuppycup 24:16
Nice.
Ross Bryant 24:17
Yeah, the mirror, when you pull it, opens up to reveal a sort of medicine chest. [SFX: cabinet opens and rummaging] And yes, there's a lot of women's toiletries in here. Somebody has definitely spent the night rather recently, or is in the habit of spending the night anyway. And I'll actually roll that push over to say that what you noticed since you came in here is that a lot of those little surfaces, those postmodern surfaces I was describing. You saw glistening in the light of the city, little rings from moisture. It looks as though there might have been a crowd in here moments before you walked in. [gasps]
Rashawn Scott 24:53
Oh, a private party. Oh, then there's gotta be a coat room. I flush [laughter] to make it seem like I actually did something. [SFX: toilet flushes]
Ross Bryant 25:04
It smells amazing in here, like they're just... Somehow the atmosphere is just so perfectly calibrated.
Rashawn Scott 25:10
Wow. The enzymes must just clean the air all the time. That's great. [laughter]
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 25:15
Kitty, thank you for letting me use the restroom. But I, you know, I think the last party I was at, I think I left a jacket. Could I just check the side closet... pick up that? I left a Prada jacket here.
Kitty (Ross) 25:29
Oh, don't bother. A Prada? Can I get the size? Bruno will find it for you.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 25:34
Bruno knows my sizes. I wear the same size as Melissa.
Kitty (Ross) 25:39
Say no more.
Ross Bryant 25:40
Bruno walks over to the closet. Did you actually leave a coat?
Rashawn Scott 25:44
I did, and it was Melissa's coat.
Scott Dorward 25:46
Oh.
Rashawn Scott 25:47
I borrowed her coat. We're friends.
Ross Bryant 25:48
Great. He emerges moments later with the coat in his arms. Jordan, you mentioned Astronomy earlier. Can you give me an Astronomy roll?
cuppycup 25:57
Oh, my God, I'm so scared. Yes. Is this the orrery, Ross?
Ross Bryant 26:04
Yeah. Well...
cuppycup 26:05
Oh, my God.
Rashawn Scott 26:06
Come on now.
cuppycup 26:07
You've got to be kidding. I rolled a natural 100. [laughter]
Ross Bryant 26:14
That's good. I like that.
Scott Dorward 26:15
Oh, Cup. Oh, Cup.
Paula Deming 26:18
I don't think we're gonna find Melissa.
Rashawn Scott 26:20
No.
cuppycup 26:21
Didn't we leave Roll20 because of this? And now Rolz is even worse. [laughter]
Paula Deming 26:26
That's why you gotta roll sweet, sweet real dice.
cuppycup 26:29
I know, I know.
Ross Bryant 26:30
How early can you kill someone in one of these games? [laughter]
cuppycup 26:33
Any time.
Ross Bryant 26:35
I like that. That's good for me.
Rashawn Scott 26:37
Dammit.
cuppycup 26:38
Happy to help.
Ross Bryant 26:40
You look up. It's crazy. The whole wall of this thing is a skylight. [MUSIC: ethereal synth] The light pollution of New York keeps out a view of most of the stars or whatever, but you can just barely make out the moon. You can barely make out Venus there shimmering in the sky, and you are suddenly struck. You took an Astronomy class. Maybe you had dreams of being in NASA.
cuppycup 27:02
Absolutely.
Ross Bryant 27:03
When you joined the Air Force.
cuppycup 27:05
He just kept going down and down and down until he arrived where he is. [laughter]
Ross Bryant 27:09
Yeah, Jordan had high aspirations of going into space, and has been downwardly mobile ever since. But you did study the stars, the planets, cosmic physics.
cuppycup 27:22
Absolutely.
Ross Bryant 27:23
And you realize that you are now standing, with the moon as it's riding up to like the zenith of its perch in the sky, it's a full moon. And even though it's bright in New York, you can see the full moon there. You can see Venus sparkling dimly, you realize that you're at a point of a triangle, that these three celestial objects are making a triangulated conjunction, that they are moving and triangulating at the same time. An orrery, which you mentioned, just kind of in a humorous way, maybe just kind of pops into your head of just the mechanism of the cosmos is a great machine at play. Numbers unwinding and spooling off. That you for a moment suddenly imagine yourself, maybe on the surface, standing on the impossible surface of one of these Penrose triangles that is not made of lines and numbers, but made of celestial objects themselves. And you were so overtaken by this. Roll Sanity, of course.
cuppycup 28:29
Of course. Yeah, and he's just muttering to himself like,
Jordan Benning (cuppycup) 28:33
My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas. [laughter]
cuppycup 28:39
Because Pluto's still a planet at this time. Oh, I have very low San, by the way so this could be fun.
Ross Bryant 28:46
I love that for you.
cuppycup 28:48
I failed 39 over 35, amazing.
Rashawn Scott 28:51
Oh, my God. You're just losing it. [laughter]
Ross Bryant 28:56
You lose three points of Sanity.
cuppycup 28:58
Oh, not too bad.
Ross Bryant 28:59
Not too bad.
Jordan Benning (cuppycup) 29:00
Pilot School does things to somebody.
Ross Bryant 29:02
Dude, you're just looking at planets.
cuppycup 29:04
Yeah.
Ross Bryant 29:04
But of course, there was a massive fumble. So this reverie of yours as you kind of lose Sanity, as you feel as though you are not in a natural setting, but a mechanistic fabrication. That this is not just a naturally emergent nature, that this is a construct, and you are an atom just walking along its impossible surface. And as this revelation sort of pulverizes your mind, that's what, of course, is distracting you from Bruno inserting a needle into a vein in your neck, [gasps] and everything goes dark.
Paula Deming 29:35
Oh no!
cuppycup 29:36
Yes!
Rashawn Scott 29:37
Bruno, what the hell?
Ross Bryant 29:39
You didn't have this sort of revelation. When you come out of the bathroom, Jordan's no longer there.
cuppycup 29:46
Ooh.
Rashawn Scott 29:46
Umm, Kitty, where's my pilot man? Where's Jordan? (chuckle)
Kitty (Ross) 29:53
He's already been shown out. Brian, will you show Miss Forge the door, please?
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 29:59
I know where the door... I can't... He wouldn't leave without me. We took a cab together and...
Kitty (Ross) 30:05
Oh, Pamela Forge. We're both women of the world. I think we both know how inconsistent and fickle men can be. I think you know your way out.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 30:13
Okay, I guess I will, umm.
Rashawn Scott 30:16
As I'm backing out, I'm just calling out,
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 30:18
Melissa! Melissa, if you're here, know that I tried to find you and gosh, are you sure he won't come out? Roger?
Paula Deming 30:30
Maybe around this time, Pamela's Blackberry or Palm Pilot or whatever you have, you know, buzzes with a message that's come in from Lucy saying "Melissa is not at her apartment." [SFX: phone chimes] No, "Melissa not at apt. She at Roger's." [laughter]
Rashawn Scott 30:52
Then I text back "911 can't wait til l8r. Pilot gone."
Paula Deming 31:02
In another little side scene, quickly, Lucy goes,
Lucy Flowers (Paula) 31:04
Marty, I think we might need to go to Roger's. I think Pamela and Jordan are in trouble.
Scott Dorward 31:09
Uhh, yeah. What are we going to do?
Lucy Flowers (Paula) 31:14
I don't know.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 31:16
Now, before I leave, couldn't I just have a snack or something? Every time I come here, I have a little bit of nosh before I go. Roger wouldn't let me go out into the street all hungry and famished.
Kitty (Ross) 31:27
Yes, of course.
Ross Bryant 31:29
You're wearing on her patience now.
Rashawn Scott 31:31
Oh, I go up to the refrigerator, I open it, [SFX: fridge door] and I just kinda start rummaging through and inside the refrigerator like,
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 31:37
(quietly) Holy shit. Oh my god. [laughter] Okay, okay, Pamela, you got this. Just the long con, okay? Just try to vamp your heart out. (loudly) Oh, how long has this mustard been in here? [laughter]
Kitty (Ross) 31:53
I'm sorry, did you find something that's expired?
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 31:56
Yes, the smell of the mustard is not great, and I was gonna make a sandwich.
Kitty (Ross) 32:00
Oh, such a shame.
Ross Bryant 32:01
She's behind you now. She takes the mustard out of your hands and looks at it.
Kitty (Ross) 32:04
Yes, it's always a shame when things wear out their welcome, stay a little too long.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 32:10
Are you inferring that I'm here past when I should? What?
Kitty (Ross) 32:14
Miss Forge, I'm just having a conversation about mustard.
Ross Bryant 32:16
And she pushes a button. An unseen door, sort of like [makes electronic sound] opens up in the countertop and she drops the mustard in there.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 32:24
Wow. It's a regular smart house. Did you catch that one, the Disney Channel original movie that came out this year, "Smart House?" [laughter] Wonderful. What's her face from "Married with Children," she's the star.
Kitty (Ross) 32:39
More of a "Wizards of Waverly Place" girl, myself.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 32:42
Oh, wow, wow, wow. I never would've pegged you for a "Wizards of Waverly Place" gal. Alright, well...
Ross Bryant 32:48
I think that might be too late, but...
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 32:50
No, I mean, it's in pre-production. You know, everybody over there at The Mouse. [laughter]
Kitty (Ross) 32:54
Yes.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 32:55
Okay, how are you? How's your mom? [laughter]
Paula Deming 32:59
So I think probably Lucy and Marty are making our way to Roger's. [laughter] I don't know how long it would take them to get there. What do we think? Unless Marty you, unless Scott, you think Marty would want to do something else? I just don't know. Like, I feel like we have to get there, but maybe there's something else we can do. But I don't know how we're gonna get past the security guard. I have no idea what we're gonna do. So what do you think?
Scott Dorward 33:20
I'm sure we can find some way past the security guard. But yeah, we're definitely jumping into a cab. And yeah, yeah. [SFX: taxi door]
Ross Bryant 33:27
Into a cab you go.
Cabbie (Ross) 33:29
Hey, buddy, where you headed?
Lucy Flowers (Paula) 33:31
The Keystone building.
Cabbie (Ross) 33:33
Keystone Tower. You got it.
Marty Shell (Scott) 33:36
There's an extra five bucks in this if you step on it.
Cabbie (Ross) 33:38
(in Canadian accent) Hot dog. Tell me aboot it, buddy. [laughter]
Ross Bryant 33:43
[SFX: taxi driving away fast] And he, uh, peels off...
Rashawn Scott 33:47
Extra loonie in there for you.
Ross Bryant 33:48
Into the night. Our two forces are converging. I'm sorry, Jordan, but we're gonna touch base with you eventually. [laughter]
cuppycup 33:57
I'll wait for it, yeah. No worries.
Ross Bryant 33:59
Great. See the cab (makes brake sound) pulling up outside of the Keystone Tower. Lucy, Marty come out, and you are presented with the same scene that Pamela and Jordan saw, [MUSIC: soothing muzak] the hyper postmodern lobby, and the same officious lobby attendant there behind his desk.
Marty Shell (Scott) 34:17
Hi, I'm Marty Shell here from The Record, I'm here to interview Roger.
Scott Dorward 34:25
I think this is in character to...
Marty Shell (Scott) 34:26
What's Roger's last name again? [laughter]
Lucy Flowers (Paula) 34:29
It's Madigan. It's Madigan.
Marty Shell (Scott) 34:30
Yeah, I'm here to interview Roger Madigan.
Keystone Security (Ross) 34:33
An interview with a journalist tonight?
Marty Shell (Scott) 34:36
Yeah.
Keystone Security (Ross) 34:38
Rather late, don't you think?
Lucy Flowers (Paula) 34:40
You know these important types, they're so quirky.
Marty Shell (Scott) 34:43
Yeah, journalism never sleeps.
Keystone Security (Ross) 34:46
We're having quite a rash of this tonight. I'm afraid you're not on the list. Did you make an appointment with Mr. Madigan?
Marty Shell (Scott) 34:51
Yeah, of course I did. It's not my fault if your computer system doesn't work properly. If, I mean, people are always spelling my name wrong, so it might be that, or it might just be that his assistant forgot to put the details in. Whatever it is, you don't want to risk your job by getting in the way of this. This is a big piece for Mr. Madigan. Big piece.
Ross Bryant 35:11
Mmm, okay. Yeah, it sounds like you're really putting the screws to him. Let's get that roll.
Scott Dorward 35:15
I'm going for a Fast Talk roll here.
Paula Deming 35:17
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Scott Dorward 35:19
That's 85 over 70. I'm going to push this.
Paula Deming 35:23
Yes, yes, yes, push it!
Scott Dorward 35:24
Yeah.
Marty Shell (Scott) 35:25
Ah, look there's been some misunderstanding. I'll just get on the phone with my editor.
Scott Dorward 35:30
And yeah, I'll pull out the phone, and the camera can see that I'm not even dialing the phone, just putting the phone up to my ear and saying, [laughter]
Marty Shell (Scott) 35:37
Yeah, sorry, boss, you won't believe this. [laughter] Some security guard here is not letting me in. He says that there's no appointment. Yeah, I know, yeah. I wouldn't like to be in his shoes once Madigan finds out about this. Oh, god, yeah.
Scott Dorward 35:53
And I'll put the phone away and say there's only so much I can do to help you here, buddy.
Ross Bryant 35:58
His passive face looks back at you. Let's get that pushed roll.
Scott Dorward 36:01
49. Thank God, passed.
Paula Deming 36:04
Yes, yes, yes.
Keystone Security (Ross) 36:07
Mr. Madigan knows the importance of a good relationship with the press, and you are?
Lucy Flowers (Paula) 36:16
Oh, I'm Lucy Flowers, uhh I've...
Marty Shell (Scott) 36:18
My photographer! [laughter]
Keystone Security (Ross) 36:22
Very well. Elevator 18, just down the hall.
Lucy Flowers (Paula) 36:26
Thank you.
Ross Bryant 36:28
That same headset you hear as you're walking.
Keystone Security (Ross) 36:31
Sending two more up for you. It was Shell, I believe. Journalist.
Ross Bryant 36:38
And you're hearing that conversation as you make your way towards the elevator.
Lucy Flowers (Paula) 36:43
Oh, Marty, I'm nervous. You should see this text I got from Pamela. Something's wrong with Jordan. She said "911."
Marty Shell (Scott) 36:51
It's gonna be okay. It's gonna be okay.
Ross Bryant 36:53
[MUSIC: soothing muzak] You're in the elevator now. I neglected to mention this, but it definitely has in the corner one of those little screens just showing a package of footage of the building. It was like, captured on like a helicopter camera, and occasionally, like something goes by where it's like, "enjoy a turkey wrap at the Keystone Tower dining lobby located on the concourse Level C." As you go up, up, up, up. Bing bong. Door slides open. You are presented with the same hallway. [SFX: elevator doors]
Lucy Flowers (Paula) 37:23
Alright.
Marty Shell (Scott) 37:23
Yeah.
Lucy Flowers (Paula) 37:23
I guess we just knock on the door again.
Marty Shell (Scott) 37:24
I guess.
Lucy Flowers (Paula) 37:24
Alright. [SFX: knocking]
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 37:25
Oh, you definitely want to get that, Kitty. You don't want to leave someone at the door.
Ross Bryant 37:39
And you saw Kitty talking on an earpiece a moment ago.
Kitty (Ross) 37:42
Journalist? An interview tonight?
Ross Bryant 37:44
Her eyes cut over to you.
Kitty (Ross) 37:47
Yes, of course, yes. Send them up.
Ross Bryant 37:50
She's now opening the door and beckoning you all inside. Marty and Lucy, you are now presented with the vista of New York spread out in front of you. Jordan is nowhere to be seen. Pamela is making herself a sandwich, I guess. [laughter] And you are in this hyper pomo penthouse apartment.
Marty Shell (Scott) 38:10
Ah, hey, Miss Forge! I didn't realize you were going to be here.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 38:15
Oh, had to come see my friend, Roger. You know, we go way back, and I thought I'd give him a ring. Uh, what brings you here?
Marty Shell (Scott) 38:25
Oh, well, here to interview him for The Record.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 38:28
Oh, well, great. Bring him out, Kitty. [laughter]
Roger Madigan (Ross) 38:30
[MUSIC: ominous piano] What brings you here? I might ask you the same question.
Ross Bryant 38:36
Says a voice and striding out of a door, coming up out of a little stairwell, is a man in a crisp black suit, tie, broad shoulders, dark hair, graying slightly at the temples, and a little pinky ring. [SFX: footsteps on wood] And he kind of walks over to you.
Roger Madigan (Ross) 38:59
Forge?
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 39:00
Yes, Roger, it's always good to see you. You haven't aged a day. You look fabulous, darling.
Ross Bryant 39:08
Yes, he's extremely angular and built. Imagine Jacob Elordi, but in his 30s, and that's who we're dealing with here.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 39:17
Oh, I didn't want me to impose. I hope you don't mind. I've made myself a sandwich, since I was waiting on you for so long.
Roger Madigan (Ross) 39:23
Oh yes, of course, my house is your house after all. What an unexpected little meeting. What's this I hear about an interview?
Marty Shell (Scott) 39:33
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, my editor arranged it, you know, with The Record?
Roger Madigan (Ross) 39:39
First I'm hearing about this. Kitty?
Marty Shell (Scott) 39:40
Oh.
Kitty (Ross) 39:41
I'm sorry, sir, I don't have anything in my books about an interview, I can assure you.
Marty Shell (Scott) 39:47
No, no. I'll pull out my little notebook and say, yeah, it was definitely tonight. [SFX: notebook rustling] Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was supposed to talk to you before I went off and met up with my friend Melissa Huntington. You know her, don't you?
Roger Madigan (Ross) 40:01
Yes, of course. You're meeting with her tonight. Have you seen her?
Lucy Flowers (Paula) 40:05
We were supposed to be meeting with her tonight. Have you seen her?
Marty Shell (Scott) 40:10
You seem surprised that we might be meeting with her tonight. Well, is there some reason why we couldn't meet with her tonight?
Roger Madigan (Ross) 40:18
You'd have to... I suppose I could ask you the same question. I haven't seen her in quite some time. That's why I'm throwing myself into my work tonight. But it seems I'm interrupted.
Paula Deming 40:31
Can I do a Psychology roll on him?
Ross Bryant 40:33
Yes, please.
Paula Deming 40:34
Okay, this is 55. Come on. 41.
Rashawn Scott 40:39
Heck yeah.
Paula Deming 40:40
41, so regular success.
Ross Bryant 40:43
Yeah. His bearing is casual. His attire perfect. His hair expertly coiffed. But there's just something in his tone, in his eyes, and you know he is putting on a show.
Lucy Flowers (Paula) 41:00
Roger, where's Melissa?
Ross Bryant 41:03
He puts his hand up to his chin and kind of strokes it for a second. Make a Spot Hidden.
Paula Deming 41:09
No, no, no, no, no. That's a fail. It's a fail.
Roger Madigan (Ross) 41:17
I wish I knew. I only wish I knew.
Ross Bryant 41:19
You can make this too, Marty.
Scott Dorward 41:22
42 and my Spot Hidden is 60. So that's a success.
Paula Deming 41:29
Yeah, okay.
Ross Bryant 41:30
Yeah. Then it's you, Marty, as he's kind of looking at you, Lucy, and is like, "oh, I only wish I knew" that his pinky ring, when you notice, when you look closer, there's a broad disc in the center of which is a Penrose triangle.
Scott Dorward 41:44
I'm just going to look at that wide-eyed for a moment, and without even realizing that I'm doing it, just rattle off that string of numbers from the email address. [laughter]
Ross Bryant 41:57
He kind of pauses and looks at you, Marty.
Roger Madigan (Ross) 42:00
A journalist, you say?
Marty Shell (Scott) 42:01
Yeah, yeah, with The Record. Uh, you might have read my column. Hearty Marty. [laughter]
Roger Madigan (Ross) 42:07
Hmm.
Ross Bryant 42:07
[MUSIC: ominous drone] He looks at you, and he looks over at Kitty, back to you, back to Kitty, back to you, and shoots Kitty a look, nods, looks back at you, and just says,
Roger Madigan (Ross) 42:26
7, 4, 5, 3, 8, 2, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 7, 8, 4, 8, 2, 6i, point seven...
Ross Bryant 42:33
And is like running out some numbers. His eyes are sort of like unfixed and wide as he's saying this litany of numbers. Kitty is tapping a button on her earpiece, and that is when, roughly, let's see here.
Paula Deming 42:50
Oh no. [laughter]
Rashawn Scott 42:52
Jeez. Pamela is wrapping up her sandwich to go. [laughter]
Ross Bryant 42:59
That is when eight people suddenly walk out of various hallways, doors, stairways.
Paula Deming 43:07
Oh my gosh.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 43:08
I didn't know this was a party, Roger. You should have said something.
Roger Madigan (Ross) 43:11
[MUSIC: ominous] We're not in the habit of saying things to just anyone, Miss Forge, unless, of course...
Ross Bryant 43:18
He looks at you, Marty.
Roger Madigan (Ross) 43:19
We know we're communicating with one of the elect.
Ross Bryant 43:24
These people begin to move towards you, Pamela and Lucy. Included in their number are, of course, Bruno and Brian, the thickly set toughs who emerged earlier and dealt with Jordan.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 43:36
Now, come on, boys, we don't have to do this. No. Personal space. This is my bubble. This is my dance space. This is your dance space.
Marty Shell (Scott) 43:44
No, no, no, Roger, you understand that they're with me. They're with me. It's alright. Everything's alright. They're elect as well.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 43:52
Stand down, boys. No need to come any closer.
Ross Bryant 43:56
He holds a hand up.
Roger Madigan (Ross) 43:57
Really?
Ross Bryant 43:58
He looks at the two of you and kind of gazes into your eyes for a moment.
Roger Madigan (Ross) 44:03
Where were you, Miss Forge, when you first saw it?
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 44:13
It, umm. I guess, you know, I went to New Jersey and I spoke with that guy um, about having a an exotic animal. And once I saw, you know, what "it" could be, I was filled with, you know, revelation that something that I'd always dreamed of could be a reality?
Ross Bryant 44:34
Okay, interesting. He is asking you a very specific question. He's asking for some sort of simpatico call sign. Are you one of them? Is there something that you could do to maybe try to do this? Trying to back you in a corner here, but..
Rashawn Scott 44:48
Maybe, like umm...
cuppycup 44:51
Just Credit Rating all the time. [laughter]
Rashawn Scott 44:54
Credit rating all the time. Persuade?
Ross Bryant 44:56
Yeah, sure.
Rashawn Scott 44:58
Or yeah, or, I think, Occult. But I don't think I have any inclination of anything being spiritually weird.
Ross Bryant 45:04
Okay.
Rashawn Scott 45:05
I don't think that I've had that sort of interaction yet.
Ross Bryant 45:08
Alright, yeah, try Persuade, although this is going to be hard, I think you need a hard success to persuade him that you're one of the elect, as he said.
Rashawn Scott 45:17
That's 49 over 25 that's not going to do. Do your worst, Ross. [laughter]
Ross Bryant 45:22
Okay, that's a failure. How many did I say? Eight? Yes, they're moving towards you.
Lucy Flowers (Paula) 45:27
[MUSIC: eerie drone] Uhh, I saw it! I saw it on a business card in Melissa's apartment.
Roger Madigan (Ross) 45:37
Yes.
Lucy Flowers (Paula) 45:37
And I felt pulled toward it, and I've had a headache ever since.
Roger Madigan (Ross) 45:43
Yes.
Ross Bryant 45:44
And he's looking at you.
Roger Madigan (Ross) 45:46
Pulled toward it and repelled.
Lucy Flowers (Paula) 45:51
Yes.
Roger Madigan (Ross) 45:51
Pushed and pulled. Inside and outside. Yes?
Lucy Flowers (Paula) 46:00
Yes. Just even talking about it now is making me a little bit sick to my stomach.
Scott Dorward 46:06
I think seeing the people closing in on Pamela, I'm just going to look almost in panic at Roger and say,
Marty Shell (Scott) 46:12
No, she's got to stay with us. Don't you understand our triangle needs to have three points?
Roger Madigan (Ross) 46:18
Yes, it does indeed.
Ross Bryant 46:20
Tell me that you're doing something to stop this at any point, but I want to say five of these people are now surrounding you, Pamela, and kind of restraining you. They're not tying you up or anything, but they're kind of boxing you in, invading your space, laying hands on you, as Roger continues to say,
Roger Madigan (Ross) 46:36
The point of the triangle. Ah, then you have seen it, and you can speak one portion of its name. 5, 7, 4, 6, 2, 9, 9, 9, 3, 1, 0, 9. (chuckles) Well, come. I made arrangements for the points. But it has provided. It has provided.
Ross Bryant 47:01
And he beckons you now towards a stairwell going down.
Paula Deming 47:07
Oh, we're in trouble, I think.
Rashawn Scott 47:10
Yeah, I really don't think I have a choice. Honestly, I was thinking of busting through one of these glass windows. [laughter]
Ross Bryant 47:17
You are being pulled/dragged, Pamela. But if you walk with them, they will just kind of continue to surround you.
Pamela Forge (Rashawn) 47:23
Alright. Alright, I'm going. Fine. You think I haven't been brought to a back room before? Jeez. [laughter]
Ross Bryant 47:30
You succeeded in these kind of rolls. So Roger is looking at you now with interest, Marty and Lucy.
Roger Madigan (Ross) 47:38
Yes, we have been brought together on this night of all nights that we should come together on tonight when the triangle is complete, the moment that opposites attract. [laughter]
Rashawn Scott 47:55
Oh no. [laughter]
Paula Deming 47:56
I swear, if L. Derrigan is here! [laughter]