How do you do, friends of Ian Sankton? This is Raymond, your host of the Squeaking Door. It come right in. What are you staring at? Oh, him.  He's been dead for years. He came here with our first program, said nothing could scare him. I've been using him for a doorstop ever since. Have you got a new one, though? His bones are showing through. My friends, did you know that this is a bad winter for our ghost friends? Oh, my yes. There aren't enough sheets to go around, and lots of them have horrible colds. They float around just coughing and coughing their heads on. I offset. The coast of Maine Express is already an hour out of Boston. It's noon of a windy November day as the New England landscape flashes past. On the train, the crowds of servicemen doping mothers, babies, salesmen. And a man who is this day a quittered of murder because the police couldn't find a body. Richard Sanner sits alone. The suspicion of a smile tugging at thin lips is a whisper of what his eyes follow on the paper. He's used the body of only Sventord. Color chemist at Satan's Point, Maine, still unfound. Sventord was known to be developing a paint formula, making it possible for colorblind people to see reds and greens as normal people see them. It is believed that the chemist had the final notes for his successful formula on his person. Richard Sanner, a useful assistant on whom Sventord tested his pigment, admitted he may have killed Sventord in a fit of temporary insanity induced by the experiments. He was found in a dazed condition with blood on his hands on the day of the chemist's death. Hello, friend. Anybody sitting here? No? Good. Ah. Have it been up? No, thank you. Best food in the world, Venus.  Name's Boss, friend. That's the boss. Travels for Goodman's text book. Who'd be like Dawson, huh? What's he thinking to do? It's all right. I'll just read a while. I've done my thinking. So many things to think about. So much for Anna and me to remember. It had been hard to convince Ann at first. Easy enough for me to say we have to get rid of Oli. But Oli was Anna's brother. We talked it over on the cliff near the land. We have to, Anna. We have to go through with it. Oh, Ricky, there must be some other way. The way things are now, everything's hopeless. You know that. With the paint formula cleared, we can be married. Richard, I love you so much. I'd do anything for us. But this, this is. Merge? Well, you need to look at it that way, darling. So far as you're concerned, Oli will just disappear. But suppose something goes wrong. Suppose you're convicted. Not a chance. You can't convict a man for murder until you find a bride. And they'll never find Oli. We must, Anna. We must. Very well, Richard. When? When will you? The moment Oli finishes the formula. It's almost ready now. I'll have to do it that instant to make my alibi whole. Today, tomorrow, soon, eh? Everything else is ready. I love you about everything else in the world, Richard. I love you enough for even. Ever been a friend? You know, well, I'm losing it. Travelling on trains makes some people sleepier. Not me. Been on trains all my life. Never get sleepy. So far, Satan's point means. Satan's point? Never heard of it. We're a devil of a small place. Ha! Ha! It was I, Satan's point. Devil of a small place. Good, eh? Have a beer, eh? Ha! Ha! Ha! Devil of a place. Devil of a place. Devil of a place. Devil of a place. We went over every detail again and again until our story was perfect. A lot depended on the story we constructed. A lot depended on telling it well. I told it well. A leaf in Maine and to the A units in Boston. I thought of the story with the morning of October 11th in Oli's laboratory. We'll be ready in a few minutes. I want your eyes to be well-wrapped. Think you've got it this time, Oli? No, there's no longer any doubt. In these pigments I make, I will paint a square board.  And to mine? To yours and both of millions of others who are colorblind red. Red that you have only imagined. Red of the road, red of a sunset. Red of fire, red of... I put the blindfold on. I could sense Oli's tenseness. It worked 15 years to make this moment alive. This is from what I can see. A miracle is about to take place. To one great fear. What's that, Oli? I'm not afraid of the formula it's wrong. I'm afraid for you. For me?  I don't know.  What has it done? You... You mean that I could be affected? You could be. You see, red excites even normal people. It vibrates from the brain. But you... Let's have a look, Oli. Now, Richard, when you take the blindfold off, look straight ahead of you. The boat is right before your eyes. Look, Richard, when you do stop talking right away, I want your immediate reaction. Okay, here goes. It's hard enough to recall a little as I do. I was staring straight ahead of me at a square board. Nothing happened for a brief instance. And then...  My eyes dried. They burned. I closed them, but the patch of explicit color seared my brain.  And then I felt a surge in power, a physical power, gripping me. And Oli's voice reached me. Dabbing at me. My whole being seemed to focus on his voice.  I didn't believe a call reaching for him across something. It's my day of stroke. And then, nothing but the breaking of glass and a sensation of violent action. Motion and action that lasts as long as little voice stops. Then I felt cold air lashing. I was carrying something limp and heavy. There's a point of rock outside the house. It juts over the seat. I stood there for I don't know how long. The first clear thing I recall is identifying Anna's force and identity. I sagged to the ground, mortal. And I'm afraid, I'm afraid. That was my story. That's what I told them all. They didn't believe me, so what? They didn't find Oli. Anna told her own story as well about coming back from town in the station wagon, finding me on the rock with blood in my hand. In the time they searched the house and the ground, they came close, too close, just once. It was the day they gave up the search. I was standing in the yard with the guard when the inspector called me over to the little meat house near the cliff. Well, they'd been through it before, but the inspector held something in his hand. You're sure in your days, Mandarin, you didn't come near this meat house, Fennel? Well, I can't be sure of anything, Inspector. I don't think so, why? There's no Fennel over there before. To the initials OS, Fennel. I left it out. Was our whole plan going to be upset by a hit? Fennel, it's Oli. He always wore it out here when he worked on his meat. You know? And the blood on the bem? Well, look around you for the answer to that one. Oli was proud of his lighter. He just hung two quarters of deep the other day for aging. Right over there, see? It was fresh-killed stock. Blood probably came from that. I know the blood there to Fennel. All right, Fennel, you can go back now. I walked away a little bit later. Yeah, but the funny thing, it plays tricks. Even hard-detected. People are used to thinking of bodies as being so many feet long, with two legs, two arms, and a head. Hello, friend. This is your son, I guess? Yes, this is it. I'm sorry I was such a poor traveling companion. Oh, that's all right. Feel that way myself sometimes. Have some peanuts? No, they're so long. Anna! Oh, God. Oh, please. Oh, I'm so glad to see you. Everything went just as you said it would, didn't it? And now you're free. Free, but not safe yet, baby. Don't talk yet. Let's get in the station wagon for a while. None of the papers leave, Dr. Oli, do they? No, it's just as well. Makes tonight's work easier. But there are so many things I don't understand. Isn't there some other way we can... No. And it's just as well you don't know everything, Anna. There's less chance of you making a slip. It seems to me that I'm in this as deeply as you. All right, all right. I'll tell you this much. The papers played up the fact that Oli had the final formula on his person when he was killed. The formula we thought was on the lab table, right? Yes. Well, that leaves two things I have to do. I have to search Oli's clothing for the thing, and, well, the other thing should be obvious. Oh, don't, Mr. Duke. You talk about such things so coldly. Well, it's a cold subject, isn't it? Oh. I see the house now.  Did you make the phone call I told you to? Yes, the man said all the arrangements had been carefully made. He said the rest was up to you. You're the spirit. OK, pull up by the car. Look around you as we walk into the house. Oh, I... I mean, it's not as calm as I thought I'd be. Nothing to be afraid of, darling, unless you believe in spirit. Let's do what has to be done and go. Do you have that extra key made for the meat house? Yes, yes, we do. Good. Now, just as I tell you, my life depends on it. You'll stand at the kitchen door with the lights off, and you won't take your eyes off the meat house for one second. That's right. The meat house door will be open for you to see me working. The liner will make it light enough. Right now, I'm going to stand in front of the only window in the room we left to blind up on.  Put it in the chair in the position you're in now. That's it? Yes. All right, get the dummy. It's another new class. Same, naturally. It looks a lot more natural and comfortable than I am. Good. Now crawl below the window level into the kitchen. Set? All set. Here's the revolver. Now stay in the shadows while I light the lantern and leave. Then stand in the door as I told you to, and remember to watch the meat house. Yes, but I'll do my part. Don't worry. Just be careful and hurry. Well, this group of business will be over soon, baby. And it's worth it. What are a few days of this compared to what they're so far? I know. I know. But hurry. A bit only is three sacks on the meat hooks on the left. It's even heavier than when I put them up. You weren't. That's right. I was on the plan. I'm because you did. And I got off. Yes, isn't it? Let's see. Didn't you say your name was Zephyr Butts? Yeah. Good memory of God. I see you finally remembered where you hid poor Sventog's remand. What do you want, Butts? See? I can crack peanuts with one hand. Good. Just telling him in case you think it might spoil my am. Boy a little partner in crime sitting comfortably back in the house, waiting for you to finish your business here. What do you want, Butts? You and the formula, my friend. I followed your case very carefully. And I first read about you in the papers I said to myself, now there's a very clever young operator. He's spitting when he says he threw Sventog's body into the sea. So? So. Wouldn't take a chance on this turning up on some shore. Nobody. No murder, eh, friend? You're right, Butts. Then when I read that Sventog's formula was on him, when you murdered him, I knew you'd have to get it from the body before, uh, destroying the corpus to Nick died. All right, Butts. Put the cuffs on and let's go. Ha, ha, ha. I see you don't understand. And you're not going anywhere, anymore. All I want is the formula. Oh. That's how it is. That's how it is. Why? Why what? Why am I going to kill you? Well, if that's nice insurance for him. My business. Why do I want the formula? I tried to buy it from Sventog about a month ago. We knew we had it just about finished, but he turned me down. So you read about the murder, figured out that I was after it, and now you want to take it away from me. Pretty low, Butts. Yeah, well, you see I can get a much better price for it than you can. Some friends of mine think it would be a value of an asset in counter-chemistry, taking targets in this country. Clever, huh? Don't move a muscle, Mr. Butts. That little round thing in your neck is the muzzle of a 38. Just open your fingers very slowly and drop the gun. All right, Richard? Good girl. Now I'm taking over, Butts. Nice luger your friends gave you. That is a nice guy. I, uh, I hope you won't hang around those hooks. Oh, no. No, I've got other plans for you. Annie, are you all right? Yes, I'm all right. Just a thing of a slumber. I know we don't look, darling. We're going back to the house now. And look, Butts. No breaks, please. You'd make a heavy corpse to drag from here. That's very cozy little room. Better than everything, huh? OK, darling, make your phone call. Oh, Mr. Walsh. Yes, you can tell your men to close in on the house now. That was Mr. Walsh of the FBI, friend. Who is he to work all the way through, Richard? Yes, sir, my first and last case, Walsh. Well, we don't usually call on outsiders for help, you know. But this is such a natural. Butts is apparently the man who's been dodging it so successfully. He's one of the Nazi's best men over here. Slippery fellow. Yeah. When you and Mr. Fendor came to us a month ago about the suspiciously high offer you'd had for the formula, it sounded like our man. He's got lots to go to play with. But why the elaborate story of murder and intrigue? Well, making Richard here out to be a murderer took away the suspicion of a trap. We knew Richard would be released, no matter how foamy the story he gave, because the police wouldn't find Mr. Fendor's body, of course. We knew the man we wanted would follow Richard here as soon as Richard was freed to get the formula. But we didn't have the slightest idea of what he looked like or who he was. Now you know, Mr. Walsh. You're clever. My friends will be disappointed. And the son of a gun sat next to me on the train for eight hours. An adult trip, wasn't it? But, uh, what about the, um, meat house angle? The facts. All right, beef. Just good, fine beef. In fact, it, uh, looks a little like... I planned it always closed there. Oh, Richard, stop. I had enough. By the way, where is Mr. Fendor? Oh, my gosh. He came up here from the hotel this afternoon. I'm so used to thinking of him as dead that I forgot all about him. He's probably lost an indication. Ah! Anna, you all right? All right, Richard. Just give me that back. Richard! Hold on to him. I'll take a look in the lab. Go ahead, Tenor. Mr. Walsh, the light of that... He's all right, Anna. I'm bringing him out now. He's all right, yeah. But never again to see the red of a rose, the red of fire, the red of a sunset, the red of blood. This formula brought color to millions. Now, he's blind. My, no court. Well, no court, man. Somebody passed to Penelope. Blessing you. Yes, you over there. Are you sometimes green with envy? Do you ever go into a purple raid? Are you yellow? You are. Oh, well, don't worry about it. You've got what the writers call a colorful personality. Or maybe you're just a rainbow. By the way, this month's inner sanctum mystery novel is Puzzle for Puppet by Patrick Quinton. We're now it's really time to close that there squeaking door until next week at this same time. So, good night. Pleasant dream. So for now, we brush off Raymond, a friendly host of the inner sanctum. Let's shake that inner sanctum best from our hands and point them in the direction of the green room and a quick listen at the door. Yes, our play is over here. We're rehearsing the next performance in a mystery playhouse.


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Hello, and welcome back to the Croftbox. My name is Brenton. Today we're on episode 48. The Wizard101 death walkthrough. Last episode, if you haven't checked it out, we finished off the... What's it called? The Savva's Starred Pass, and today we're entering Vigrid Ruffland. You say Bjorn Iron Claw sent you? You don't look like much, but if Bjorn speaks well of you, we're glad to have your sword with us. Oh, this is what has come to pass. Ivar Anderson, our Thane, betrayed his village to a group of bloodthirsty warriors called the Red Claw. The Thane is supposed to be our leader and champion, but Ivar opened our gates to the Red Claw, and they raided the village, driving us out. Now the people of Anders hold their hungry, cold, and afraid, and I cannot go and hunt for them because I must stay and defend them here. If you wish to help, go into the forest and return with warm fur. Ferocious Wild Claw fur is best, and gather some winter berries. Okay, I'll be back once I've done this. Your kindness is appreciated. Our people will be warm and have food to eat, but we still must hide in the wild while the Red Claw burns our village. While you are away, I learned that three others of our village are still lost in the wild. They're not warriors, and the Red Claw will harm them if they are caught. If you wish to aid us more, you will go into the nearby woods and find them. Okay, they're all up in Anders' hold, which is a goode. Um, yep, let's go and see where we they are. See where we they are. Um, where am I going? There's... nope, that isn't even the right person. Okay, that is probably bad of me to do that. Um, nope, here's one of them. Oh, I'll be back in just a sec. Can you help me? I'm lost. I don't know where everyone went after we ran away from the... Oh, that way? You have my thanks. I can find my way back to them now. So you just stay there. That makes perfect sense, though. Don't worry about that one. Um, where to next? This place is dodgy, just saying. Really dodgy. Do you know where the folk of Anders' hold went? I got separated from them when we fled. Now I can't find them. Thank you. I owe you for your help. I'll be on my way soon. This way.  Interesting. This place is so dodgy. I do not like it anymore. Do you not look like one of the Red Claw? Do you know where my people went? They're over there? Thank you. I'll head back on my own. So apparently up here is the... Yardbird. For this area, or one of them at least. Yep, there he is. I've already found the other, but I can show you where he is in just a sec. So that's one of the two Yardbirds in this area. You found them? Good work. You've got some skill as a tracker, I see. And you're braver than I thought. You've aided us greatly to be truthful, but if you want to defend us, now is the time. I can hear the sounds of the Red Claw informers in the woods coming this way if they find us. Can you go and meet them in battle? You must defeat them before they find their way to this camp. Okay, I'll show you where the other Yardbird is and then I'll do that off-camera because it's two battles and that's just annoying. The other one is just over... Where is it? I don't know. Where is it? Come over this way. It must be over here. Is it? Yeah. Is it? No, where is it? I can't remember now. It's in this area. What? Oh, it's over this way. That's right. It's over this one. There's so many berries, like what? It's right there. Right there, so that's where the second one is, which I've already got. So yeah, I'll be back in just a sec. Okay, I am back. Okay, I'm just going to change rooms because there's a lot of people in here. What's kind of dirty? Let's go to Scarecrow. Sure, Nick's spell that I'm looking forward to. Why not? You know, why not? Okay, and it's Holt and Grimnear. There's over here where we went last time. Hello. You're not one of the Ritgla. Why have you come? Ydra Lacksbearer sent you. I'm sorry, but I will not leave this place. I have lived here my whole life. You're not one of the Ritgla. Why have you come? Ydra Lacksbearer sent you. I'm sorry, but I will not leave this place. I have lived here my whole life and no one can drive me away. You can help by taking a message to Eagle for me. Tell him that I've known Ivar Anderson since he was but a cub and he would never willingly give aid to the Red Claw. Ivar is an honorable thing and this village was founded by his grandfather and bears his name. He would never betray it. I suspect that Ivar must be under some dark enchantment. Go and tell that to Eagle Lacksbearer. He will know what to do. Okey dokey then. Let's head on back to Eagle. Down here. Hello. Oh, good day. No, you come alone. So it must be that Grimneer would not leave. That can't be helped. Grimneer says that Ivar is under an enchantment? It must be so. Ivar was an honorable thing before the Red Claw came to our land. I know little about enchantment so I can do nothing for Ivar Anderson. You know the ways of magic. Can you look into this matter and see what can be done? An old Grendel wizard called Bullthorn lives in the boiling fields. He knows of enchantments and other dark magic. Go and speak to Bullthorn and see if there's a remedy for the enchantment upon Ivar, Arthane. Okey. He is down in the boiling fields. Next place to go. Hella. Ooh, look at this. Amazing. This place is kind of weird. I don't really like it but you know. Um, okay. So much water. I don't even get it that's unfortunate. Um... In this way. Okay, what a guard. Approach, youngling. You are far from home. Far, far from home indeed. Say nothing. I already know what brings you to this place. You seek to break the spell. Put upon Ivar Anderson, Thane of Anders Holt. There is much you do not understand. Much that is hidden. I will aid you but my answer is to a question yet my council does not come without a price and it must be paid before answers will come. I want the claw of a brave warrior. One who guards the weak.   If it will help my Thane, then I will give it to him. Egil grimaces and breaks off the smallest of his mighty claws. He hands it to you. It is a small price to pay if it will restore my Thane to his old self. Okay, that was easy. That's good. Back to the boiling fields. Um, over here. No, no way. No way. This way. Here we go. Hello. Egil is a brave one indeed to surrender a claw so readily. Do not worry for him. You will find your answers in the deepest crypt but you cannot enter that dark place without my help. Bring me these three things. Geyser water from the boiling plains. Crypt bark from a decaying bob walker and slime from the death troll called Dreck Dark Tooth. When you offer me these three things, I will tell you more. Okay, let's go and get the... Oh, I might as well do this since it changed to that. Yeah, we'll do this first. If we don't get it, I'm going to be angry. Oh, I hate this one so much. I hate this battle in this area because of the battle fields.  It just triggers me because it's not in line. I say this every single time I'm here but it never gets fixed. It's so annoying. Like it's actually filthy. Filthy. I want you this one. Who are we going to do? We'll go for you. My mouse might be dying. That's all good. I need to put more batteries in it soon, I think. Vampire. Yay. Look at that, 994. Nearly a thousand. Okay, one down. One to go. Hopefully, we can destroy quickly. So I don't have to look at this hideous battlefield anymore. Papa. Of course not. That is my phone again. Okay. Well, he didn't shield so that's always good. Let's vampire. My mouse. Yuck. He's dying. He didn't fizzle. He was always cute. And... Goofy, goofy, goofy, goofy. And hurt. And a lot of damage. And oh yeah, look at that. 497. Oh yeah. Complete crypt bark. The geyser. Not from this one. Where are we getting the geyser water from? There's so many of them. From that one. And in here is the boss. Okay. Okay. No, no, no, no, no, no. Ah, yeah, now. That is good to know. Let's just put in a couple of adjusting in case he plays anything tricky-decky. And we will just put in another one of you. And hurt. No, man. Go. Okay. Oh, we got that straight away. He's got 900 health. That's quite a bit. Really stepping up the intensity here, man. There's like no music. It's just really quiet. Which isn't cool. Let's see. 800. We got a belay. Do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do. Let's see if this kills. I don't think it will, but you never know. That's good. Just the boss to go. Hopefully we can poison him. Down to no health left. Would be great. We'll put up a blade. Blade number one. Or if he doesn't shoot, we can also vampire because that would definitely kill. Blade. Do-do-do-do. We'll do a faint just because we're not getting anything we need. Some chip powerpups. Which is unfortunate. And we'll do this just in case. Still haven't got what we wanted. Dang. Do-do-do-do. Do-do-do. There we go. And. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I mean, we could poison. I mean, let's just do it. Just for fun. I don't need to poison my mouth. Oop. And his life, so. I don't know, he's well-poisoned. 185, that was a pretty good first hit. We go 300, 26. Nice. Oh, he's dead next round. He's good. He's got some good gym marching. Powerpup. Right here. Just like that. Do-do-do-do. Troll-goo. Yay. Let's head back to Bolthorn. Annoying. Okay. And we'll go in and defeat Lothan. Okay, let's hit on in. Shouldn't be too bad. Let's see. Oh, this is a thing. I'll be back once I've...at Lothan. Yeah. Those left in the village are put to work making Frostholm, so they may know where Ivar is. Speak to Grimnir, the village elder who stayed in Andersholt. If he knows anything, he will tell it to you. You should not have returned. It's dangerous out there. But fate puts you here for a reason. I will help you. If you wish to get into the red cloth fort of Frostholm and rescue Ivar Anderson, your best hope is to sneak in and cause trouble for them from inside. They are looting the village and all the nearby lands of all our weapons. They do this to arm themselves and to keep us from fighting back. They have taken many weapons already, so now they're looking for the most valuable ones. If you present yourself at their gate with a great weapon, they will let you in. Ragnar Stormbrow, leader of the red cloth here in Andersholt, carries the finest weapon I have yet seen. Take it from me. They are certain to want it.


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