17: M*rk Dupl*ss

Across the Lake

You're a night watchmen at the Smithsonian. You spend your time in between rounds by watching season 2 of Togetherness. You dread finishing each episode as you know you are moving closer to the end. It's about time to make your rounds again. Everything seems business as usual until you get to That Room. You hate going in there. Even though the entire building is lit with minimal lighting this late, it seems darker in here. Colder too. You do the cursive glance you always do, enough to make out any shapes that shouldn't belong but not too much that you have to actually focus on any particular object. But this time you do. You have to. Something is off. A case in the center of the room is lit in a peculiar way. There's a violet glow. You're not sure if it's actually there or if you're imagining it, but you wouldn't be doing your job if you didn't check it out. You make your way to the case and the contents within start to form out of the darkness. A harpoon tip. A whale oil lamp. An assortment of doubloons. And a pipe. A scrimshaw pipe. You have forgotten why you even came over to the cabinet but now you can't look away. Something about the etchings in the pipe is familiar. No, not something. Someone. Someone you've been watching on your laptop all night. Startled, you move your head away from the case, only to see the same face in the reflection of the glass. Mark Duplass. \\ Things Discussed: Room 104 (https://www.hbo.com/room-104) Apple Arcade Nintendo Online Gato Roboto (https://www.gatoroboto.com/) Heave Ho (https://www.heavehogame.com/) \\ Required Reading: Aaron: Togetherness Andrew: Over the Garden Wall \\ Huge thanks to friend-of-the-show Dillon Lee for doing our new intro sound. You can check out his music at https://deel.bandcamp.com/. You can find the t-shirts for our other podcast, The Bargain Bin, here: https://teespring.com/stores/badgamespod Email us your questions, concerns, suggestions at [e-mail]. Lastly, we're on twitter @thelakepod. //