What you are about to hear will contain violence, disturbing imagery, adult seems,
and may leave you hungry for power and blood. Proceed at your own
risk. These signs they are coming. Mark the shadow which flies, Mark
the dragon which rises, Mark the darkness which moves, Mark the shadow of
the moon. Mark the angel that dies, Mark the maiden who weeps,
Mark the children embraced, the clanless who run, We discover ourselves. A
night before a night after last, in front of an old, abandoned,
bordered up community center south of Manchester, where Darius has organized a meeting with
an old friend and some vampire hunters. You have a few minutes before the
appointed time. It's very early in the night, and you all have a
sense of something impending in the air. That's where they're fucking keep the name,
by the way, these guys are fucking nut jobs, So watch out
right. I think I might wait in the car. All right, Oh,
what's the plan? That's what I was just about to ask, what's
the plan? Offer him going to the car? That's wrong. I'm not
actually going to wait in the car. I'm just going to go and stand
over there. Very's still like, all right, thanks, for announcing.
Ay, I headed over to a corner, leaning against a wall and of
shadows. Fair enough, serious, I can I can hide two if you
If you want, I can just go in there and get him while you're
talking. Maybe plan B in case you don't want to give him to me.
I got nothing for him. Fine, it's plenty then, but yeah,
just be away. They're a bit. I don't think they'll do anything,
but they might. Okay, just tell us where you want us.
I don't just look scary? Will this do day other day? How scary
do you want us to look? I uh uh. It was more of
a joke. Yeah, I would suggest not oh yeah, sorry offering you
the yeah. And everyone has a camera on them now, so can let's
just not look? Can we just look as human as possible? Okay,
it kind of sounds good. Nod to bath sympathetically. You see me actually
rubbing at some of the some of its makeup, A lot of it's not.
So I'm kind of rubbing some of it off. And I say again,
I could just I point to the porch and the kind of shadow beside
it. I could wait there all right. If shit goes down, I'll
hear you all right, it's very early. You should be as soon though.
Hmm. Sorry, once again, what is planet Darius here? Is
going to ask politely? Oh, have we got some mystery? We work
together kind of okay, maybe professional courtesy. I hope that works out for
you and us. Also, anyone kills William, I'll fucking punch you.
Oh, I might just do it for that. Then, stepping onto the
porch, you see h a wizened man with a walking stick and a Doberman
on a leash. You recognize them Darius as William's stag, leader of the
silver Moon Hunters. Very well, I'm very well off. I have aged
a day. It's something to do with DNA, I guess I know.
Eat fruits and vegetables and there or drink the blood of the innocent. I'm
going to assure you and no one I've ever drunk was fucking innocent. Mm
hmm. Rumor is to be believed. It's virgins that you all love so
much. Yeah, we'd never eat if that were the case. For the
better. Then come inside, yeah fo. He leads you all into a
very large, dusty, dark gray room, put in leaves, broken tables,
and there's three other young people there who look very well armed for vampire
hunting. Clearly just a steak in random pockets or across a bandolier, some
sort of firearm what looks like improvised flamethrowers you expect in anyone. I invited
you here, Darius, not an idiot, It's fair enough. There's been
an inordinate amount of demons running around Manchester, Darius, and not all of
them and are associated with you. But you're all the same to me,
So tell me what's going on. What's going on? Nothing different? I'm
just winning again, just like you won in Cardiff. You won too well.
Or society of course, a plague not always stamped out. There are
a remarkable number of teeth in my collection now I don't don't they there's something
else in your collection. I'm interested in. What would that be. You've
got to lick lap locked up somewhere. You're going to have to be more
specific. And he smiles the tooth you smile like you you know which one?
London boy tattoo on his face a bit eccentric. Mm hmm, Well,
I don't know about eccentric, but he's been fascinating, you know,
as blood has different properties to yours kind of. I'm aware most of the
upsides and not all of the downsides. There's always a downside. Will The
downside is that supply will be running very thin soon. You don't want that
to happen. I really think I do. New demons have driven hundreds to
my cause, but it's time for that to stop. It's time for the
bikers. They're dead at the warehouse, people dead in street brawls get their
vengeance? Are you like you work with all humans that perish? Everyone dead
by you is a lost soul, could have been claimed by the divine?
What about those dead by you? A noble sacrifice? What about were wolves?
Does that count? Or are you effect if one of them comes running
in? Is it just vampires? I've seen a were wolf once. Not
that much different from your warlords. You're all an expression of the evil in
our society. To me, What about movie producers? Equally evil? Right?
Okay, where's your collection of Hollywood teeth? You collect their little film
strips. I'll start with England, then move across the world. I'm sure
that we have a more pressing event to deal with in Manchester first, don't
we? Right, Maybe we could get to it then instead of all this
pastor and that's shit to do. Okay, I'll get right to the point.
I have one of yours and he waves, and one of the hunters
goes into a back room and a couple of seconds later comes out holding the
hand a wretched looking creature, distended limbs, feral look in his eye,
but unmistakably it's his. Kai seems pretty docile, but is looking at everything
in the room, but the people you included. Hi, All right,
fuck you get a hollow stare. Well did you do this to him?
I helped keep the rage and check if that's why you're asking. But no,
I've found him this way. Your kind did this? Oh no,
my kind. Just because we share the same power doesn't mean they're my kind.
That's the fucking sheriff. I told you. She fuck with him.
Kai. Kai just kind of turns its head his head back to you when
you make a loud sound, but kind of sits down, cross leg on
the floor and begins to stare off into space again. Fucking hell, he's
more useful to you this way. I have a suggestion. Well, I
can grant amnesty to you from all of my hunters. Don't laugh at that
faith, and in exchange, you will help us destroy this brood mother demon
at the heart of our city. Brood mother demon. I've heard from those
that I've killed that she is a god. If she exists and bleeds,
then that can't be true, and more of your lies will be spread if
she doesn't die. A glance over to Connie, I look so perturbed.
I will definitely want to rip this man's throat out. And I have no
fucking idea why you're entertaining this asshole. And I think we know each other,
and we've known each other for long enough that you can tell. I'm
like, what the fuck are we even doing here? Get our boy and
get out and he'll give me a him once he's done his job. What
you mean his job? I believe that he has the strength and the right
blood to kill her, and the offer to rejoin us, dear Faith is
always open. Yeah, she don't give a shit a wi counter offer.
We help you with a twat, but we deal with him and his blood.
There is no fucking twat. You heard it wrong. We'll take our
boy though, mm hmm, I'll see you again. There is no well
I need him now. It's a shame. We couldn't see eye to eye.
They stepped closer towards him. Will now I know you know the difference
between evil and lesser evils. This is over your head. It's fucking over
mine. To be honest, I think to time you seem to have need
of him, but so do I. It's not need of him. He's
one of ours, and he shall be returned to you once I'm done.
I would like to use an ability please my faster than lightning, and I'm
so sorry Darius. Um fuck this fucking guy. Uh, I would like
to This is a rouse check? Right? Yes, it is? It
is. You get hungrier, Ehny, I get hungrier. However, I
can use my ability hold on, let me grab it. I can read
it exactly because I will forget player can supersede the narration of events within reason
one rouse check. I would like to get Kai and get out. Hmmm.
And if I didn't care about Darius so much, I would do it
in front of him. I would literally go get Kai and I would come
back standing holding Kai. But instead I'm just going to get the fuck out
because he's facing us, right, So, oh, Darius is the Darius
will see Kai just suddenly be gone and me be gone and hopefully we can
get the fuck out without Okay, that is Michael, I think you need
to do a check to make sure this goes exactly as you plan. I
think that's what this was. That's what this ability does, right, That's
what the rouse check is for. Uh. I don't have my book any
I double check quick. It's fucking expensive, so I assume. Okay,
Um, okay, yes, I think you add so. Yeah, just
so you know exactly what's happening in the scene. Yes, you're right.
Kai's sat there. Uh. The moment you decide to do this, William
Stagger is turning around and about to walk away. Okay, is he restrained
or anything? Kai? No, he is probably holding onto the hand gently
of one of the hunters. Oh wow, okay, Uh so you know
what. Yeah, Kai and Connie disappear, and I seek I disappear.
Yep, we already discussed plan B. So well you can go. Faith,
excuse the fuck out of me. I said you can go. No,
I'm staying here actually, so you can just say whatever the fuck you
want. Uh. At this point, the hunters notice that their prize is
gone and William turns around as he's leaving. Get him back and the three
hunters advance. We'll stop them. You know what will happen. He gives
you an evil stare, walks out the back door. We can do this
in one round. Fuck fuck because we know what will happen. Darius,
how do you dispatch these and his faith helping? Yep is, We're I'm
share helping. I would like to unseen passage? Can I do that?
Yes, you absolutely can. But I'm following William. Can I do that?
Yes? That's all I do for now, unseen passage and I slowly
follow him. Where's check? I think that's all you need to do at
this point. I would just like to ask if I would hear anything from
outfront? Yes you would? Okay, yeah, in that case, I'd
be be coming in. Skelly Lady, Scaley lady comes in three v three.
That's nice, some type of role to do something to these people of
your choice? Okay, who's going first? Let's say, Darius, Josh,
can I bunch one of these people without just turning them into liquid?
You can knock him out? What is wrong with you? Yes? I
think the only instance in which you wouldn't end up intentionally knocking them out.
Is if you get a beast dual crip like a messy crick if you know
what I mean? Okay, please, no, you do. You have
a lot of dice. Oh that's three tens, but none of them are
on your hunger dice. So congratulations, that's five, six, seven successes.
How do you knock this guy out as he starts advancing forward? I
just want to close line in, just straight off his feet, knock him
onto his ass, put him out, Faith, don't fuck and kill him?
Oh okay, I would like to vicissitude my fist into a slightly larger
fist and also way harder than it. Absolutely yeah, uh arouse, check
and you do get hungrier? Oh I get hungrier, frenzy bitch? How
much? How hungry are you right now? Faith? It's gonna eat everyone?
Uh so this would be five? Oh no, Faith, we didn't.
I'm guessing we didn't eat no before this. I'll be honest. Let's
say no because we're we already. Yeah, we're here. Now. Let's
double down results plus discipline for protein, just to see if, like you
need one success, just to see if it pops out. I am so
glad I left this. Yeah, yeah, yes, you absolutely make your
fist huge and heavy and dense. What are you going to do to this
poor person? Well, I'm frenzied right now, right you are not,
but you are certainly on the edge of it. But I'm at five hunger.
It doesn't happen when you get automatically when you get to five, but
it does make it. It's like hair trigger. Okay, okay, great,
good to know. Ah. Yeah, I'm just gonna punch the dude
closest to me in the face for sure, strength brawl. Ooh, that
is one success. Faith, You take one aggravated damage as he pulls out
this improvised like aerosol can flamethrower, pulls the trigger and it blasts off near
you as you crack his skull and put him down. Is it for me?
Like various said, killy, Killie bad bad? In that case,
are there any dark corners in here? This is basically a lightless room aside
from like light through bordered windows. Then I will remain in proximity here,
but I'll probably back up into the shadows, and we have one unscathed hunter
one. I will use command and I will say run Oh, I've forgotten
what the role for that is, but please do it. Oh yeah,
let's see. It should be dominate, so it should be plus my discipline.
Okay, so it's probably manipulation plus discipline. Yeah that sounds right.
Okay, Well, uh, you're just using the level one right. You
don't need a rouse check for that. Oh sweet? Okay? Did that
wal comes through? I heard a boop, but I don't see it.
There was a role rouse check that came rouse check zero. Weird. I
don't see it online. And that wasn't what I intended to row. It's
the button on the far right. Ah, that's the command I did the
one on the left. Thank you. Okay, here we go. I
didn't know that did that? Three successes is enough? Uh? Yeah.
All this dude sees is your eyes out of the darkness, and he's coming
at you with a steak, very obviously directly at you. Makes the mistake
of locking with your eyes. You can see him wrestling with himself for like
a second before he sprints out the front door, and I think, Connie,
you see a man run down the street and before we go to everyone
else, I'm gonna eat him. Josh. Oh, sorry, Okay,
is he William the man running out the door fucking eating the ship out of
this guy? Do it? Yep, you're gonna have to catch up.
Well, actually, fucking Connie, I don't know if you're going to have
a difficult time catching up with him. Uh how how do you eat this
ship out of him? Ah? I think I just plunge onto his back
like a cat, and I take him down, and then I will I'm
not going to kill him by feeding on him, but I am going to
feed on him and lower my hunger because we didn't eat. Yes, absolutely,
I will say. I'm fairly certain you will have to take two aggravated
well pad damage to we ammortal because you are on a very strict diet of
vampire. That's right. I forgot about that. Your choice. Yes,
I'll kill him. Then, well, you're going to have to take the
well pawer damage. Then I'm not gonna drink him. I'm just gonna snap
his neck. I don't want to feed on him. I just want to
kill him. I mean, in my mind, I think they fucking tortured
Kai and I just can't handle it. That's fair enough, Pie watches dispassionately.
That's even more hard. This guy's neck and we're going to go to
Grimshaw. Grimshaw. You see this man walking very quickly with his limp and
his cane down the street and goes into a dark alleyway and takes some twists
and turns. Let's see if you can follow him. That should be wits
plus streetwise. Hm hmm. I have anything for doing this all the time.
Technically don't have a specialty in it, but I have two specialties in
stealth and also I so I'm following him. I'm with stealth instead. I'm
not trying to kill him, you know what I mean, I'm just trying,
like I literally just want to see your following. Yeah, what he's
up to with stealth gives me another point mm hm two successes. Mm hmm.
That's not enough. Mm hmm. You have one di story roll that's
up to you. That would cost me a will power now, yeah,
I won't do that. Mm hmm. I wondered. I was just curious
as to where he was going, or if he was going to make any
calls, or if he was going to give away anything more than what he's
up to. It does seem strange to me that he showed up with just
like three kids, and like we just easily dealt with them. So what's
he really up to? But I don't know. If I can't figure it
out and he's not like I turn around and he's suddenly behind me, then
I'll make my way back. To be honest, I'll remain as unseen as
possible. Though. Still, yes, I don't trust that he's like Batman
right now and above me or something. But you don't find him when you
turn around, that's for sure. Yeah, and you return to the others.
I also clean my eye absolutely every time it casts anything. As long
as I'm not like literally being attacked or something. The next thing I do
is wipe the blood off of my face and throw the thing away. Yeah,
before I return to the group. I too, am quite hungry.
By the way, just so you're aware, I'm on a three. I
don't know if that. I don't think that affects anything, but I'm beginning
nothing out. The vantage you needed to eat eventually is the guy who passed
out or the guy who I punched. Did I knock him out? Yes?
I would like to feed from him if I can. Okay, Yeah,
absolutely make a frenzy check. Oh, mama, just question. Aggravated
willpower does not count towards the frenzy. Check right, aggravated willpower damage?
Yeah, I don't think so. Okay, would I give you aggravated well
pair damage? Okay? Four is more? Oh oh that's sicks actually,
but yeah, you are calm, I'm controlled, and you know this hair
trigger exists. Now. One slip, one lapse of concentration, and a
desire for ownership of all of his blood suddenly would rise up, and potential
recent events probably steal you against that. Imagine right, yeah, h go
to one hunger. Thank you. I walked to the other guy that I
knocked out. Mm hmm. Then we've got a piece of paper. No,
do you not have a phone? I need to leave a note on
him. Thanks, by the way for not killing him. Hm, I
tried to follow your man. But strange because it's need Yeah, ah,
fuck Connie money, you can hear from outside? You get him? Is
he all right? I mean yes, no, yes, I got him?
Is he all right? Don't think so? I need to leave a
note on this guy's fucking body. I might to take it that this is
not the person that you were looking for, but is the person that you're
looking for, because you all seem to be a little bit shocked when he
wheeled him out. Yeah. I think that whatever that fucking queen bitch did
fucked him up crazy Like when you say fucked him up, well, he's
just you just look like you and me and now the state of him,
right, I think they drugged him up though. That's why he's They've probably
been feeding off him, they go. Can I check if this guy's got
a phone on him? Yeah, he probably does. I'm sorry, why
are we Why are we not? They're feeding off of him, They're drugging
him, and you want to play nice. I don't understand. I just
sawwaym raight. I don't care he knew Faith's name. How much do you
owe him, Darius? How does he know who Faith is? That's a
good fucking point for Fox's sake. I could punch you right in the face
and then kiss you on the mouth. Can we please take care of this
now? All right? I just I'm gonna wring my phone off this guy's
phone, so I got his number, and then I'm gonna send a message.
Later, I'll send a message. Lay, Yeah, I did well
know your name? Faith well he said you could join me again, so
silver Moon bullshit? I think he recognized details. Yeah. I don't recognize
him though, right, Josh, not not really, like maybe in very
blurry terms, but you don't think you met him face to face. Okay,
So you are one of these Yeah, I guess so. Or maybe
you're just a mover and a shaker here. It seems like you're involved in
a lot of things. Was well, I guess you're still there again,
wrapped up in it just like me. Yeah, your boy here though,
his blood, aren't we going to be using him for the same thing?
What's the plan? But what how do we use him to get at three
days? A mage can use his blood to trace her location. Will knew
that as well, and they're just gonna go over there and give her a
slap? What's the plan? I'm down for that, be honest, right
from what you said. What about that gene person, Yeah, we don't
know anything about it. Oh pause, trust Harry. We could ask more
about her from Harry if you want. But yeah, that's a good idea.
I know I'm kinda now here, but is it a good idea to
be raising up one powerful vampire to fight another one. It's going to look
like a god Zella movie. What do you propose, Grimshaw? I don't
know, but not used to doing things so loud, Big vampire to fight
big vampire. But now you've got two big vampires. Even if one kills
the other one, then the other one still around the ways gene is as
powerful as v days. It's no fucking way. We got ourselves a lake,
we got ourselves a Darius and this gene by the way Harry made it
sound those that Jane was a friend of his, and I don't know.
We s saying we can't. We need to figure out what Harry wants to
do. Yeah, yeah, but if we raise up another one, then
somebody else is going to raise up another one, and then somebody else and
it never ends. We've seen it time and time again. Nos, what's
our other option? There has to be a quieter way or something. You
even if we didn't find her, can we not do something from afar?
Can't you do something if we tell you where she is? You know,
if we know where she is, we tell emperors, they could do something.
No, m I know. I was the one that initially suggested using
the hunters, but then I met them. No, absolutely not. They're
all like that as well. Do you really think they're going to be much
good? I mean, look at these two and one of them just pissed
his pants. And when we're running out, grim sure, what happens when
the sun comes up? What what happens when the sun comes up? What
do you do? I fucking lie down under the thickest covers I can find
what if they knew who you were in the fucking daytime? Right? But
do we need them to do it? I reckon, he's just going fuck
that pitchup. Let's do it. I couldn't even stand when she rose without
eating. She did though, all those bodies. I just mean she's had
more time to get stronger than when we last saw her. And when we
last saw her, I could not make eye contact. I bowed to her.
Mm hmm. So did you, Darius? If I remember correctly,
Yeah, I did, But next time I won't part if we give Darius
a big thick coat and then you go in there and you fucking break the
second ceiling, and did you just say give me a big coat? Right?
Keep the old uv off you. We can get you some sunblock,
an umbrella, apparent and then you can grimy show. Do you have any
idea? How fucking old I am? Wait a minute and the flash you'll
probably take me out. Bro. Wait, he might be onto something.
Do you think the majors have something? A spell? Anything, even for
an hour? Could they create sunlight? Wait? Is that a thing will
allow us to survive it? I don't know, but they I before I
was turned, there was a lot of really interesting ship that we could potentially
do. Connie's onto something. We have him now and I point to Kai
And they want that blood too, don't they? Everyone wants that blood.
That's why we need to keep hold of it. But they'll do to him.
It's still fucking kay though, That's what I'm saying. Why are you
saying it? We don't need to keep a hold of it. We need
to keep a hold of Kai. I know, I know, look at
it. Look at the fucking Yeah. Wait, is it a good idea
to be handing over a big, strong, powerful vampire to a mage?
We wouldn't be handing I'm over. They want it is staid too, don't
they? So maybe maybe not? But you know what, I feel like
I got a good read on that guy, and I think he would just
be excited to try something new. There we go, then the yeah,
sorry, it just fits in with what you all were saying. The caterer
told me that the best way to kill a super ancient vampire was to wait
until morning and kill her. Then she said that she did it once.
She had to just fight through the desire to sleep, and that's how she
did it. Okay, So we get her location, we find some way
to protect ourselves from the light. Yeah, and we bring the light to
her. Yeah, okay, that sounds like a plan. Sorry. One
other thing, she did say that she had to eat her the ancient vampire,
but that was Darius without thinking. So sunlight eating delicious oblivion. Sounds
like we've got a couple of majors to talk to. Then, yeah,
you set up another meeting with them, Yeah, I think so. Okay,
and Harry too, right Harry first? Yeah, or together or together
the easiest for sure. But yeah, you want to set up a meeting
with majors. You want to set up a meeting with Harry. Harry is
very easy to find and it's going to take a lot of work. Several
weeks go, bye, you meet superficially these majors. But one night you
tell them what you want to do and they agree, one night they invite
you. Now the question is do you want to talk to the majors or
do you want to talk to Harry or both at the same time. I
suppose is possible. In several weeks, I probably would have liked to have
just spoken to Harry anyway. Nice to have a conversation with a salubrity and
he generally seems to be on our side. Yeah, either way, I
also like car back from him. He told it. I'm really sorry.
Uh, okay, should we do? I'm buying some lamps now I'm with
us? Uh yeah, all right? Should we do? I'm sure?
And Harry yes, please, Yeah, I'm sure. During this time,
you have definitely had time to talk with the only other Salubra you've seen a
very long time. And as Faith described, he does not have a hed
eye in the middle of his forehead. M hmm. Probably at the white
Horse. Faith prefers it that way. How old does he look or seem
to me like early thirties and how old does he seem to me? Ah?
Does he seem like a baby vampire or does he seem like he knows
what he's doing. He seems like he knows what he's doing. He also
seems maybe a tad naive, not about vampiric stuff, but just outlook twice,
I'm like looking him up and down a lot, I think, trying
to work him out before I you know, you can just ask, right,
I don't like asking a lot of questions. Not many vampires to kind
of a shame, really miss out on a lot in if not honest.
But you know, Frank right, But the problem is you tell the truth
one day and then two days later you're in a net. Yeah. True,
So goddamn gloomy all the time though, fucking I don't know, I
get it. I just wish it wasn't like that. So you've been on
the run and you haven't apart from being caught up and drained before. Yeah,
I didn't spend most of my life on the run, so just good
at hiding. I suppose picking the right people to hang out with, well,
kill the caterra. You don't have. You don't have an They didn't
give you a name, did they h they were going to, but I
decided against it. I didn't. I never got mine either. In my
sire Azazel was oh well, killed pretty pretty soon after she said me,
So she never got the chance. Same story with you, Yeah, not
quite. But I didn't want to take the name because bothy're all named after
angels, and I didn't think that that was appropriate, so I took my
own name. Oh it's fair enough, I guess. But my my sire
was caught eventually as well. Yeah, seems a lot, right. That's
why you've got to be more careful with that information, right of course?
Is that your real name, Harry Harry? Uh? Yeah, And you
have like like a driver's license. What says Harry on it in your data?
Birt no no drivers, big sign above your head with an arrow pointed
at the target on your back says yeah, it says Harry on the sign
too. Yeah, you should be more careful, right you are. I
have to understand it. It's a lonely life for us, that's it.
There's no choice in the matter, not unless you want to be trained off
again. Yeah, I would prefer not to. H This is going to
be a hiding forever. What I like to do is a little short stints
a year or two maybe, and then move on. You see what you
can do is thanks to our blood, you can get closer to people than
you'd expect in a short amount of time. I'd like to imagine that it's
a little short lifetimes. A year here in Manchester with these people, that's
a little lifetime. Take from it, take your peace, enjoy it or
don't, and then move on. You have to start again. It's about
balance for us. That's a little lifetimes, so that you have a lifetime.
I like the idea. The thing is, I academically I know what
you mean. We can get close to people, but I don't seem to
have inherited most of what my SI had and I don't know how to get
it. And I was looking for another Salubrey to maybe teach me how m
I suppose you know? I mean, I haven't spent much time around other
vampires at all, let alone our kind. Pot you're incomplete. I can
see it, well, anyone can see it. But I don't know if
I don't know if I would be much help to you seem to be pretty
well put together. Well that's because I've been spending all this time alone.
But if you want to stick with me for a little while, that's fine.
I'd like that. Perhaps we can get your third eye open. I
think i'd like that too. For me. Uh, I had to complete
a little task, just a little thing. But when I did, I
I didn't feel it, I didn't notice it. It was like it had
always been near me, eye open with all three of them. I yeah,
I saw it, saw me path, didn't see the end, but
I knew where to go. If I can help you get on your path,
I'd like to do that. What is your past? Hm? Strangely
enough, I think it was a lot to do with coming here, finding
these people. But I'm not too sure. I don't know if I'm doing
the right thing or the wrong thing. Sometimes I can't tell the difference between
my thoughts, my failings, and heirs or his. But I've been on
the same path since the day I was born, not turned one day.
I'm going to make my way back who somebody very close to me I can't
get to right now. That's my path. He the one thing I was
taught. Even if you're, you know, bouncing between other people's passions,
you don't have to fight every battle. I've seen an awful lot of pain
in Manchester, and I know that ship's about to go down. So you
you've got a lot to decide. So maybe I could do with a thing
that a friend of mine did a while back. God, I don't know
if I can remember exactly what it was. Help you decide exactly what it
is you want. Close your eyes, all of them, okay, and
imagine yourself somewhere peaceful, and you are now in the middle of the ocean.
You have a question to answer. You look to your left and you
see someone that you you really trust and admire, and you can either ask
them the question. Well, you can look to yourself and ask it there.
Mm hmm. For the longest time, I've only had one person that
I could trust, and it certainly wasn't myself. I would ask my sawyer
zak M good, you don't. You don't have to sail out. That's
for you, because I'm gonna tell you a thing there boy, Oh yeah,
keep it close to your chest, I remember, if it helps.
I got my answer. Good. Well, if I can still hang out
with you and maybe an Ox, I would love to. It seems pretty
safe for the time being. We've got a plan a foot, and well,
if we make it out of that alive, we'll get you that fake
id mm hmmmm hmm. Maybe we can sort out a better name for you,
Harry. I always liked it alliteration, Harry Hunt. Right, stop
giving up your name that easily. The snow caused me any problems yet,
And I'm kind of hoping that someone will give even if it's maybe blasphemy,
kind of hoping someone will give me the name of an angel. Hmm.
Right, well, I think I think Faith wants me to help her at
the bar, so right, I will catch you later. Bye, Hey,
you're going to make a good salubrity. Thank you. More time passes
and everyone has organized a meet with some majors. You see, Harry can
be there if you'd like. But most importantly, you see the lunar age
fiddling with emetic symbols and chalk on a board and chalk on the floor.
Ah clearly been preparing this for a very long time, and the Haunt is
also their jack Actrajan. So I'm sure you've all heard the rumors of people
disappearing around the town. There's always more I could do to make this work,
but I believe I have two spells ready for you. Hm. If
you have the blood the lineage of three days. I can provide a location.
I glanced to uh Jarius H yeah, yeah, M you need right
now? Yes, I I I there's anything you want to ask me,
I can prepare the spell. It's it gonna do to him nothing. He
is just the sympathetic link that I require either his presence. I may spill
a small amount of his blood, but as long as you can keep him
steady within the circle, then this will work. Is there anything you can
do to him after? Ah? It depends on why his problem is.
That is not my speciality. He's pretty fucked. I believe the haunt is
capable of looking into people's minds. We'll go, hont what do you reckon
for a goal? I don't know what happened to him? Or I could
give it a go. I think it's blood magic. Then I'll be straight
with you, it's probably not gonna win. Well, I don't know much
about how you lot of work beyond the basics. I know you've got something
funny with your heads. Yeah, well, the beast he's got something extra
when he with his head. All right, Yeah, there's no quick fix
for that. I think he's fucking gone. All right, what you wanted
to do you can bring him into the circle and hold him there. I
would prefer if you weren't in there's mixed signals for a poor analogy. And
then he toddles into the center of this emetic ring and spreads out a map
of the city and gets out a bunch of coins. Is there a way
for me to hold him in there without being in the muttle a big stick?
I don't know. Look any knock arouning happens. He hasn't fucking spoken
in days. Is it gonna hurt? Probably fine, the extraction of blood
masting. I would rather not receive be on the receiving end of violence.
I'm gonna like slap Kai around the face if he reacts at all, Probably
a little bit. Yeah, yeah, look up, put him in there.
If he fucking kicks off, something gonna happen. If I jump in
our circle, Yes, it will make my life more difficult, but if
you must. Sorry, if he loses, I'll jump in. I will
go up to Kai, I will kiss him tenderly on the cheek, and
I will fucking choke him out until he passes out. I'm gonna knock him
out. Come on, Jesus Christ, he doesn't fucking move anyway. Yeah,
but he could, and then he could fuck up everything. He could
attack this man just he's just going to sleep for a little while. He'll
wake up in a little bit. Fuck has gotten into you. What they
fucking did to him. It's not right. I sold them and there's no
him. I pick up his unconscious body and I just chuck it in the
middle of this. What. No, I will no, absolutely not no.
I was being very gentle with him. I will gently put him.
I'm not gonna chuck him in the I'm gonna gently set him down, maybe
move his hair to the side. I'm very upset that what has been done
to him. I'm not gonna let you chuck him in the middle of the
No, you don't have to fucking baby him. I will not respond.
I think I just set him down, touch his face, move his hair
aside. I didn't know him that well, but he was he was very
young and very of life and energy, and I'm very upset to see him
this way now. I'll be honest, I didn't expect that to work.
Thank you. You're welcome. Okay, we're all ready there. This may
take ten minutes, so make yourselves comfortable. I think I'll I'll stand over
there, but you might might not to see me, right, I just
I don't like all of this lood magic. That's fine. The wonderful thing
about it is it does not care if you like it, right, But
I care. So I'll tell you what. I'll just be outside the front
door there. I'll keep an eye on, make sure nobody comes in.
Good. Yes, you do it. I'm gonna do that. I'll stand
here. You'll probably see me. Thank you. Are you all ready?
I know you can see that. Jack is watching him intently, but he
begins pacing around the inside edge of this circle, lighting candles and chanting,
drawing in small hermetics, sigils around various points, evenly spaced. Is there
anything anyone discusses while this is going on? Darius? Can you hand me
one of those you're smoking? Yeah? Wait, when they do stuff fucking
smoking? Oh, I just recently, you know they'll kill you, right,
that's the dream. And that ten minutes go by and you see him
stop walking around the edge. He turns into the middle and out of this
huge bag of coins that he picked up, closes his eyes, puts his
hand in, picks one up his eyes still closed, flicks it really high
in the air, and the entire room feels like it pauses. At the
top of this arch, you feel the whole world shift around you, as
if you've just walked off of a merry go around, and it's still moving,
and so is your head. The world is trying to stand still and
catch you. You might fall over, and I am interested to see how
well he does this exceedingly And then the world sort of shifts a little bit
more and stops, and the coin falls down and the lands flat does not
bounce flat on the map. Excellent. Uh, I should have done it.
I was, eh, you're welcome, and he beckons you all into
the to the center where the map is and he kneels next to it.
It was all the flashing lightsn't it. If I wanted flashing lights, I
would have to perform something else. The candles are nice, though I'm always
expecting something a bit more grandiose. The problem with our craft is that the
more grandiose we get, the more difficult it becomes to achieve what we want
reality and I believe so much, but lift up the coin. It should
tell you where you're pick up the coin. Thing underneath the coin you see
a little dot the cross on top of it, and underneath it as Manchester
Cathedral hm hm in a fucking church. Feed it fucking twat h h.
I don't know what to say, cause that's where she'd fucking be. You
said you had another spell. You asked about going out in the daylight.
Yes, I I have practiced with the material of life and the material of
the undeath a little bit, so I could perhaps, depending entirely on your
connection to life, extends your protection against the sun momentarily. What do you
mean in relation to it really depends on how close to life you are,
potentially based on age, potentially based on would you call it a spirit talking
about humanity? If humanity is how you see it, I suppose, yes,
I'm just saying the most human the easier. Yes, I mean,
if you don't mind. It was one thing when we thought she was might
maybe going to be in a house or something. But how are you going
to be bringing down the ceiling the roof of a cathedral. I'll fucking bring
down the roof of a cathedral, right, but you or what the oldest
person here? Yeah, it might be a little blasphems for me. But
I do know a man who can get things that go boom. I glance
that Ki, and I'm very sad like explosives. Now, I'm not saying
that you should take a set of explosives that have found you to a house
of God and blow it up to kill a devil. But I don't understand
how else you're going to be able to bring the sunshine. I could burn
it down. What if I go there just before the sun comes up?
Destroy the place? And then if she emerges, our DayWalker sees to it
that she yeah, it doesn't make it. How long, mate? And
you keep the sun half of the skin. Well, let's let's just say
I wouldn't let it get too far over the horizon it is. And are
we talking seconds or minutes? We're talking potentially tens of minutes if I perform
the spell correctly. And how fast can you move down? Not very fast?
How fast can you move? Connie? She can't bring down a cathedral?
Are you sure about that? She's good? But she's not bringing down
a cathedral. I can do it, you wain's strong enough. I can
do it. How I mean I can destroy the cathedral? I just kind
of weakly pipe up Beth destroys the cathedral. I make sure she's in the
sunlight. It won't go boom the way I do it. We don't need
it to go boom. We just need can you that thing that you did
I don't know about a month ago now on the highway where everything just disintegrate
it? Can you do that, including her coffin or whatever the fuck she's
sleeping in, including that Christ, That's it. We almost wouldn't even need
the time to get her in the sunlight if we just around her, Well,
we should, we should do it. We'd have to do that ahead
of time, and then I see and then towards the dawn we'd have to
time it. Hell, I have to ask that out of character, Josh,
how long would am I Aura of Decay take if I set it on
the foundation you're where her heid spaces. That is an excellent question. I'll
refresh everyone. No, it's yeah, it's or decay. That's what you
used on the ambulance. The I think it would take some time because the
material is stone. On one hand, it would probably take most of a
scene, I imagine, and also depending on how well you roll yep.
How quickly would I be able to go into that cathedral without I'm not aware
that I would suffer any ill effects. It was nighttime, at nighttime,
Eve. Unless you know something I don't, I think you can go in
unless you burn in holy buildings and would be believable a character be her stronghold.
There's going to be people. It would absolutely be guarded, probably NOSPHERETI
sure, and others occultists. If I were to look like a normal churchgoer,
perhaps with Faith's help, I'd be willing to try. I could go
in simply to pray, grimshock. Can you scout? I can't? Oh?
Then I can? I can. I can hide in the shadows.
What about the perimeter, I can do that. I think I can get
as close as the windows and take a little peek in. But I can
do it from outside if needs be. I'd like you to conserve your energy
for the whatever it is that you do to destroy everything, right, and
make sure you can get back to safety. Yeah. I could help as
well if you need me. Yeah, it sounds like you two are going
inside. Okay, sounds good. Brimshaw scouts the outside. I mean we've
got time, right, he can scout the outside. I'll go scout the
inside or try anyway, Like, maybe we can do that early. I
just need to get an idea of how many are guarding. You know,
if we're worried about going inside, I can do this from behind, and
we can handle any of the dangers outside, all right, and then you
know, then we wait, how close do you need to be? It's
an effect around me, so I'm not sure how close I have to be.
You have to be within five yards I believe, nice, Okay,
five yards meters meters? Okay, if it's easier, like, I don't
know if I can, but maybe I could try making you look unsuspecting.
Yeah, that's a good option. And what about this your friend Harry,
how would we go about doing that? Raising or summoning or whatever. I
can help a little bit. If you need blood, I think we might
know where to find that. How much does she need she I don't know.
She's always been in the city, That's what I understand. The caterer
said she was old. Yeah, but there's a difference between old and fucking
old. How much blood that takes. I don't think she is fucking old
ancient, Like, let's say medieval in some of her mannerisms, and not
just in the you know, modern way of you know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. But if you have that much blood,
I would very much like to take it off your hands. Sorry,
Josh, I just realized I might actually know of her, or know her
or have met her once. Yeah, yeah, go on, Jean was
sort of with the Camilla, right, yes, yeah, you definitely know
that. Yeah. I may have met you then, or her then,
okay, h or just no of her? Yeah, okay, medieval?
Right, where is the scene dark Jean? Are we talking about the same
person? Of course, she fucking knows the kay blonde hair scars on her
face. Yeah, that's that's a okay, that kind of makes sense.
Well that's a Connor. That changes everything, doesn't it. That's not just
any old vampire. That's warrior like the warrior. Yeah, and what the
fuck is she? I feel like I skipped a paragraph here. Uh,
saved the French from the English kind of Saint jon of Arc No fuck that.
Nope, you know that fucking Lionel Preck has a picture of her on
his fucking wall. Please. Uh, she's Camerilla. She killed the prince
of this city. Doesn't she very camerilla to me, Darius, well,
it does, do it to get another fucking prince in because that sounds pretty
camarilla to me. Oh, well, did you know her, Harry?
You mean I knew her for a sure while, right before she killed Prince
de Grel. If she can't walk in the sun, did you just say
the Grel? She didn't kill the Grel fucking died. No, that fire.
He was in that room with that picture. And she's still got work
to do. Please, So she didn't even kill the prince. I will
do anything for this blood, all right. I think you might have been
deceived by this person, John Darker, not kill the g I had a
conversation with him with that book Lake. His name's all in it, all
right, I know. But listen, we're bickering. But unless she can
walk in the day, does it matter? Well, it's like I said,
do we want to fucking bring up Marthra the five Godzilla if she's gonna
turn on us as well eventually? Oh, Harry doesn't think she will turn
right, Harry? Yeah, but Harry thought she killed the last prince.
Yeah, it's Harry's choice, and he wants the blood. He wants the
blood. Let's give it to Harry. Let's let him make his choice and
figure shit out. I will fucking kill her too. If we kill Fide,
it's gonna be easy to kill whoever else. Right, I don't know
about blowing up a cathedral and taking down Joan of Arc. All right,
well, let's just Harry. Can you do it on your own? If
I yes, I provide the blood, please, hang on, hang on
when I fucking bring it, She's gonna work against usus. If you don't
want to shut the fuck up, Darius, just let him do his thing.
Jesus Christ, Carilla back. Don't you think we're fucking destroyer At the
moment, the Prince the Camilla is raising fee days. She's gonna have to
eat and get strong before she can do anything. Anyway, We have time,
right, we just why Harry, he said you would do anything for
this? Why? Because she saved me and I owe her and I think
it's what my sire wanted me to do. And he looks meaningfully at rim
Shaw. Yeah, I think that's my task. Okay, Well, let's
get him that blood. And if it turns out that Joan of Arc is
a problem. Then Darius gets to have his fun. But the Prince,
that's Sheriff Joan of Arc. That's not what we need to be worrying about
right now. We've got to deal with this few days first. Let's do
that one step of time exactly, all right, Harry, and I kind
of take him by the elbow and I start showing him, like on a
phone on my phone where you can find the lab. You see me hand
him a key card, and I just give him permission and access to the
labs. Blood bank. They're mean, the mean blood bank, which has
built up quite a collection over the past couple of weeks. Mm hmm.
Okay, yeah you do. And then that's that's on him. Yeah.
Yeah, at the back of your mind, I think you hear a little
voice that says you should be going with him? Yeah? Does it?
How do I feel about that voice? Do I feel creeped out? Do
I feel I think if probably feel a bit creeping out? Compelled? Like
do I have any certainly not compelled? It seems almost frustrated with you.
Yeah. How how familiar does that sound? That voice? Do I feel
like it's maybe my side? It's one option? Mm hmm. See if
I feel like, if I feel creeped out by it, I'd probably just
say aloud, fuck you and then walk back and join the others. Time
passes, multiple weeks, multiple deaths, a city on the brink, and
that is a brilliant time to go for a quick break. Don't forget two
pash your pist mittens. After a lot of recon, you are now very
aware that the cathedral is closed for refurbishment. There are guards clearly are on
the outside on the inside. Then as you finished every con you step into
your car, and how he is there? I'm sure look at that,
all of that, everything my whole journey let me hear to a cathedral led
you here. It's your final task. What are the odds of that?
Pretty them? I got the chance to choose to go in there though,
the one place I can't go, the only place I want to go.
Ask you know, they say God cannot forgive us until we forgive ourselves.
I've heard that, Hi. But also coincidence is me and you're on the
right path, Harry. I wouldn't choke everything up to coincidence. Sometimes it's
just chaos. For instance, I don't think you'd want to go in there
and ask that God for forgiveness. That's no God in there. Boy.
All right, I've got to make one stop tonight. Then I'll help you.
Hey, you wind down the window. Okay, you said, all
right, it's all here? Are you sure? Mhm? Remember to call
me okay if you can, if I can, yeah, bru My Hacket
mhm, h Constance, Yeah, good luck. May the wind be at
your back, all right, Harry, believe the Countess. Go work.
Let's go, and you drive off. Meanwhile, hiding in the ashes and
well and surprisingly reconstruction of the old tramaer Chantry's everyone else waiting for their opportunity.
You know the layout, you know the opposition, and you know what
might happen when the sun comes up. Okay, so let me just lay
it out just one more time. Okay. Yeah, I'll go to the
rear churchyard and I'll start the process of decay. It'll take time, it'll
take all night, and they start to notice. They'll probably try to move
her the safety and that's when the action starts. I should be able to
do this undetected, but beyond that, I don't know. Okay, I
get to punch it right, Always are you going to be safe where you
are? Do you need someone to be with you to protect you as you
continue doing this? I think I'll be okay. I'm okay at hiding now,
Okay, you're gonna be okay, Faith, what do you mean?
Well, she's a god. I attection is gonna be pretty good. Hey,
where's uh, where's Connie? Where's where's grim Shock? So I haven't
seen him? All right, I don't know. I'm sure she'll be here
soon. Yeah she is Connie. Okay, it's Grimshaw. Won't be joining
us because it's a church. That makes sense, Okay, okay, all
right, Uh honey, you'll be briefly protected. So yeah, just just
remember you might have to talk back here. You're pretty quickly it starts,
you know, wearing off. I can do that all right when it kicks
off. But I'd like to stay here in case, well, in case,
you guys get in concentrate on that fucking stone. I will if you
need me shout, I will right, Uh, let me let me go
ahead. I need a a good head start. Yeah, I reach up
with my thumb and I just brush your cheekbone a little bit. I'm very
proud of you, thank you. What about you, Connie? What about
me? And dareus? You want to hide until you get into the sun.
Yeah, it's probably better if they don't know I'm there. Anyway,
I'll try and keep face safe. You won't try, You will do it.
I'm good. I just need one last smoke and then I'm good.
It won't be your last. Right And remember, you know the back wall
is gonna be ashes, hopefully before too long, so you'll have a quick
way to get to me if you if you need to run back there,
just just run to me. I can do something interesting. And with that,
I just start walking off and I walk over to the rear of the
chapel. There's a really good spot on the eastern side where there's a little
bit of cover m and a very easily exposed wall. So I think what
you see is walking slowly there so as not to be noticed by anyone these
people or other people. I've got my cloak pulled down, my hood pulled
down rather pretty far to hide my face, and I go up to the
eastern wall and I actually sit down, curl my knees in to my chest,
and you know, wrap myself fully in my cloak. It just looks
like you know, a boulder if anything up against the church wall here and
I will go ahead and shadow cloak and aura of decay. Okay, seems
like a composure stealth role plus your shadow cloak, which I think is plus
two. It is yep? Okay, uh plus composure plus two. That's
my stealth. Okay, three successes. I'm pretty hidden you you feel pretty
well hidden. You know that a matter of time before they discover you.
Okay, So go on and do your RASSE check for rror of decay.
Sure, okay, So here's rose chuck is your yeah? Okay, okay?
Or of decay? Here we go. That's gonna be. What should
I add to my discipline that I can't remember for this one? Oh?
No, I got it up, haven't I? Because I was just looking?
Might be stamina plus oblivion. There we go, stamina plus discipline.
Here we go. Boys, definitely like to add three nice to that.
If I can just speed this whole thing up. Okay, Yeah, there's
two ways you can do that with a rouse check to FD plus two,
or you can spend willpower to reroll three. I will spend willpower to reroll
ree. So I've just taken that willpower away and here comes three D ten.
Very nice too, extra successes. That's what you needed. This is
ancient stone, clearly well preserved, taken care of, some replaced, cleaned.
But as you take your time, you create a weakness in this one
wall. You can watch it as time essentially accelerates, and you see the
wear and tear of rain and time slowly erode, and dust crumbles from the
bricks and the blocks themselves, but more importantly from the mortar between them,
and even little bits of lead and glass begin to discolor and become misshapen,
these beautiful ancient stained glass windows. Weakness nice. And that is when you
notice someone striding towards you. Um, just someone just strolling up. Yeah,
not familiar, not familiar at all. Very plain clothes, jeans,
black jacket, put up ahead, it's straight for you. Stigion shroud on
my position. Okay, okay, So this is spreads of suffocating darkness.
It mutes sound and suppresses all other senses. Those within the shroud except the
users suffer total blindness. Penalty on all actions requiring site and mortals suffocate.
Okay, brilliant, that just requires a rouse check from what I can tell
nice here comes that there's no role except for them trying to figure out where
the fuck they are. You do not get hungry. A nice and pure
darkness seeps out of you vanter black essentially and overtakes this person as they walk
towards you, and you see them immediately pull a radio out of their pocket
and muted through this thick darkness. You just hear them say, fuck,
there's one of them here. Raise the alarm and they get that out because
it mutes sound. The cloud does. So do they get that sentence out
or do That's a very good question. So mutes sound and suppresses the other
sentence and mortals suffocate. You definitely hear a muted, muffled sound and then
a muted muffled shout, gotcha and a little bleep over a radio. Sure,
so somebody heard something. Someone heard something. Yeah, you're pretty sure
the exact nature of the message was muffled. In that case, I will
ashes to ashes that body and head toward my friends. You go in there,
Uh, no, toward my are my buddies coming from the chantry?
Like? Is it toward don yet? Or where are we in the activity?
Oh? You are very close to dawn. Okay, So I guess
what I know. If my buddies were out front ready to go in,
or if they're back at the chantry, they're probably still waiting whether it's supposed
to be right. Yeah, we're wait, we're here, Yeah, we
never left you. Okay, we're ready to go, you're okay. Yeah,
I'll let them know it's go time. I actually don't know what we
planned for a signal, but if it's like a bird call or something comical,
I hope i'll do that. Coca. Yeah, text is probably good.
Yeah, come on, I text kaka Okay? And is this guy?
Is this individual suffocated and on the round? Now that's safe, made
their alarm? I can see in here, nobody else. Oh you can.
Ah, you know that this person is still stood up, still trying
to get reception on their radio and flailing about like trying to make their way
towards in a direction without bumping into anything. Gotcha. In that case,
I will go snag their their ankle and attempt to turn them to dust.
Oh is this with your decay? Nope, this is ashes to ashes.
This is a vampire in me disintegrate non kindred. Oh sorry, that's corpses.
Nevermind to you that this person is not a corpse yet. They're not
a corpse yet, Okay, that I might seek to. But given that
they're not suffocating, you can also guess that their kindred gotcha. Okay,
so it's a vampire. Let's see in that case, withering spirit. I'll
call down some and decay and that will possevere damage shit possibly kills them and
prevents their return as a wreath if they're obliterated. So oh Christ, that
will be um okay, So that's going to be my discipline? Would that
be stamina plus discipline? I think so if that's the role. Yeah,
and a RaSE check and a rouse check. Okay, here is the rule.
Here's my rousecheck five successes, rouse check is a zero. So I
get one hunger year? Is that right? Corrupt? Okay, yes,
you do get one hunger okay in a six on that pooh nine night.
The best person that know in that mind, Like you walk in and this
person cannot see, they're trying to like stumble and run their way. You
just grab them by the throat or what I think. I'm still trying to
stay low. So if they are standing up and they're messing with the walkie
talkie. I think I just grabbed their ankle. I'm kind of skulking still
in the in the churchyard. So yeah, okay, Now this is a
power that decimates the spirit, not the body. Mm hmm. Yeah,
they would still be there, would still be a corpse if they got hard
yeah, Eric Kindred, right right, Yeah, so they would take the
same damage as the caterer early tft to like rule forward. I guess oh
they did. They got no successes. Take a couple of stains as you
eliminate a person's spirit from their body. Oh and just watch their motivating essence
die. They just stand there, And I should I say it like that?
It's your power? Ah? Okay, what do I hear? What
do I hear? Inside? Here? With this plus awareness? Okay?
And by here, I mean I'm gonna actually go back to my decaying spot.
Okay, Yeah, sure the sweets one and one two two. You
can hear activity seems to be more activity than was what you heard. It's
previous, But you don't know what kind I need anything more than that?
Okay? And so am I getting enough decay? I'm not sure how close
to don we are but am I getting enough decay here that I can see
through a bit? Oh? Yeah? Yeah, nice? Yeah, okay,
so I can keep an eye on the action. The down is rising.
You can see pink in the sky. Okay. Your shadows seem to
be hurting from disappearing like they're disappearing, becoming useless. Okay, all right,
I'm going to keep an eye on the activity in there. And do
you have to run for the chantry? Mmh? Everyone else you've been given
signal. Who makes the first move coming in the front with me? Then
yeah, scope, okay, I would like to vicissitude myself before going in.
Please do give myself my little weapon, your claws, my claws,
my teeth, whatever I can do. Browse check, browse check and a
yeah, resolved plus protean. There we go, Thank you. Four.
You can make four changes if you want. Okay. I'd like to make
my arms longer with the claws, okay, and then I have like my
big teeth, and then my skin is harder. So that's like claws,
long arms, teeth, teeth, rock and skin. You have plus two
armor and which takes off to superficial damage. I believe. Let's just say
that for now because I can't remember the armor rules and you have plus two
damage from your claws. Okay, superficial. You look like a fucking badass.
Thank you, jacket suchu as well. It's Connie's I'll be giving it
back. Oh, she fucking loves there. I'll take good care of it
for her. All right, let me get this door for you. I
would like to eviserate a church door. Please. Yeah, absolutely, yeah,
you run up to you see people gathering. Definitely guards like flanking the
door, but I don't know if you care. Go hog one strength plus
brawl and are you using potents here? Yes, because if you do it
now, it lasts for the whole scene. Yep. RaSE check for that.
And then, because this is a feat of strength and not combat effectively,
you get plus dice for your for your potents. Let's say that because
I can't remember man rules have just disappeared from my brain. So that's plus
three. Let's say plus three to your potents strength for all three. Is
that enough or do you want me to reroll? I'm gonna reroll. Josh,
fuck it? Good idea? Is that three three ones three three d
ten? Yeah, there's one extra success. This is less impressive than the
last time you opened a door at the AEC Club. I'm sorry, but
this thing is huge. Mm hm. These wooden doors bolted with iron are
not easy targets. But you do break them open. They swing and like
bounce back after hitting the sides. I'm youre for mid thy mass. Inside
you see a horror show at the altar. There is a gap cut into
the floor where a pool of blood is supporting fee Days as she floats,
and people are in the middle of a ritual with various defenders prepared. Around
the outside people are being cut at the neck and poured into this gap.
There we go again. Once again. You see Crane stride down the center
of the church and she the sword. Round two? You call that last
one around? Come on, you little bitch, let's dance. Who wants
to do what Crane is going to try and slice Darius in her? Ah?
Are there other? There are other? I presume other people around.
Yes, let's pick a nice round number and say there are three. Oh,
clearly nice, well prepared kindred and ritual garb and various nasty, pointy
implements. Okay, do I get the sense? Do I get this sense
that this guy is for Darius only. You know, Darius, you want
a one on one. I figure that Faith's gonna be a little and okay,
I don't think Faith could deal with him, because he's really strong and
she's got plenty of things to kill. But I'm not like, oh no,
this is only for me. I'm not like that. Okay, I'm
definitely focused on him because as far as I'm concerned, he's the biggest threat
in the room right the second. Okay, I would like to eyes of
the serpent him. Oh, so that he is frozen in place by my
gaze? Okay, yeah, tell me tell me what that role is that
I have to do against that. You've got three you can reroll one if
you want with well power And what is my opposing role? I don't know.
I don't have the rules up for that. Ah, charisma, discipline,
Oh that's for you. But what do I will as opposed? I
don't. I don't know. Oh, fair enough, I will just say
it is a mental thing. So he is doing this. Oh that's no
good. Okay, you have him lots. Yeah, I've locked eyes with
him. You do it, okay, you lock eyes with him? Is
little staring contest we'll stop me. I sprint to him as he says this,
and I will jump off a pew and I just want to come down
on the top of his head with my fist. Okay, that is strength
for all man. Is my potent still active? Now? Yeah? Yeah,
you don't get dice this time though, You're just okay, extra damage
and plus one four hinjured. Ye oh god, that is a crit five
sixty seven. Okay. The moment that Darius comes for him is the moment
that, like foot away, his need to survive is greater than your power.
He breaks eye contact, but he still gets hit. So let's give
him a little disadvantage. Oh that's not good, quick maths. Right,
his turn, Darius, He's still going to give it a go, Decks
athletics, unless you would like to not dodge. There's no reason not to,
right, yep, absolutely, this is versus him. He's very angry.
Full successes you take uh pre superficial damage. You can feel him put
force behind this like you can put force behind your fist, and he smashes
into your arm, takes a large slice off of it. And the others.
I'm going to do them as a group because there's only two of you.
They're going to come at you and at Darius. Okay, so this
is versus faith. I'm assuming you're dodging, yes, dex athletics, this
is verse faith two. This is versus Darius two. Okay, Faith,
Oh, Darius dodges. Here is in the midst of battle. Feel like
you should be wearing more blue faith. You take one superficial damage, someone
stabs you the weird Whibley knife. Horrible ritual occult shit right, second round?
What's everyone's intention here? You know you don't have long before the sun
comes up? I have intentions. Ha ha, Okay, I just briefly
mentioned since I can see you through the wall now, I presumably see the
blood pool and some porpses that she has dreamed, yeah, around as this
fight starts. So I will have tried a ten minute ceremony that I would
be out here muttering and my blood and whatever is to hand to do it.
But that's up to you. And yeah, for those listening, I
am destined to use okay, shambling hordes to raise a group of aggressive,
walking dead minions, and it requires aura of decay, so I have yeah,
okay, okay, all right, prepare the ritual. Yeah okay,
yep, but it requires you to touch the corpses, sure, gotcha,
Yeah you can. You can be preparing that. Actually, that's what I'd
like to be doing. Yeah. Uh. There are gods out here though.
Okay, so I'm out the eastern wall. Where are the guards in
relation to between me and the bodies? They're obviously inside where the others are
fighting them, and also patrols around the outside. Oh okay, and it's
getting lighter. Yeah, so you are very stuck for time. Indeed,
a couple of rolls if you want to try this, Yeah, I think
I'll go for it. It's the last ditch effort to help these dudes out.
Does dex stealth sound good? And I'm afraid the sunlight is not going
to let you do shadow cloak? Yeah that makes sense actually, because it
requires that there actually be shadows. Okay, and sorry you said stealth.
That here we go? Okay, yeah, yes, that's two. Who
is not enough? True? I'm spotted. Hmmm. I'll give you a
deal with the devil here because it's a very cool idea. The guards see
you, yep, choices, Yeah, to attempt to take damage as you
avoid them. There's still some semblances of your stidion shroud slowly slipping away that
you can hide in and around. But they're going to be chasing around out
here. As you find small moments to pop into a shadow behind a building,
prepare part of the ritual, they come find you, and eventually they're
going to weigh you down. Gotcha. Yeah, so this is kind of
a broken process. So the idea is, if I'm successful, I work
at this for the required amount of time and then scurry up to touch the
bodies that it would impact. So you can decide how that happens in what
stage I'm at. Obviously love that, Okay, Yeah, let's say,
can you take four superficial damage from this wear and tear and chasing? Oh,
sorry for superficial damage, poor gotcha? Two? Three, four?
Okay? And is it. It's getting toward daylight, so we're going to
be seeing. We're gonna have an ad here at the moment. Okay.
Yeah, So all right, in one of my moments in the shadows where
I'm doing ritual shit or like where they don't see me, I'll pain Connie
and and just say go time, okay, so that we at least have
more of a distraction while I go in and try and tap some corpses.
Yeah, so if I see so when I get that, if I arrive
and people are chasing her down, I'll definitely probably shoot from afar try to
distract them, get them off of her. I feel like you guys have
sort of already discussed what was going to happen. But I will help pay
that if I can in any way. Sure. Yeah, I think that's
probably some of the reasons like that distracted between getting the sense Yep, yeah,
okay, yep. They're kind of their attentions a little bit torn,
allowing me to sneak with this. You're stuck outside and eventually you will have
to go inside to Yeah, how crumbly is this wall? Can I get
through it to tap some bodies? Oh No, he's gonna need a solid
thump from Darius or something else. He said, call me if you need
me. I'm gonna say I'm gonna shout Darius could use some muscle. I
don't actually see what he's got going on, because I can see like the
part of the church that's bare to me, So I don't know that you
have other shit used tackling, But I yelled at Okay, and then yeah,
if I can make it in wherever, if you make it in in
a moment, yeah, okay, sun is rising, Crane is in your
way. Faith, Darius, what do you intend to do. I'm gonna
try and attack Crane to get him off Darius. So Darius can ditch dip.
Okay, Crane intends to ambush you. You can see him start to
fade in front of you. It's clearly using an ability to hide himself plane
view. Okay, So Darius, you're going to take on the wall.
You're going to take on the cultists so that I can't see Crane at all.
Now, if you want to, you will have to do a role.
Will that take up what I want to do? No, it will
not. Okay, Yeah, I'd like to see if I can see where
he is. For sure that will need to be bustard. I had this
let's just say wits plus awareness. H five. Oh that's really good.
It just max every fucking dice. Yeah you did hear every dice? Bro?
Oh okay, fuck And he disappears right as you're about to, you
know, disengage, make contact with him whatever. Just as I hear Lake
shout out. I'm going to freight train all the way down, all the
way down the end, and I'm just gonna shoulder myself into that wall for
sure, strength plus athletics, any bonuses from the rousing, because this is
not an enemy. Umm oh yeah, of course your opponent's in dice three.
Wait, it's my phones. Three? Yeah. Five. I can
only reroll one of those. Uh, you should be able to reroll three.
Oh, I can reroll. Oh? I thought it was only ones
you can reroll. No, that needs be anything that's not a success or.
You can reroll successes if you want. It's a way of avoiding messy
critical You can reroll anything you want, baby seven successes. The sun is
rising, Darius is making a straight charge. Do faith, what do you
do? I think I'm gonna follow him or see? Can I can I
see where? Uh? Can I see where Fidees is? She is absolutely
lying in a pool of blood where the altar would be. Okay, god,
okay, Yeah. I think I'm gonna follow him and maybe move backwards
to I don't know, keep an eye in case someone attacks me. Yeah,
when they get to this side, I would say we gotta go.
It's getting light because they're in here. They're probably not noticing that it's becoming
light out here. But I'm not gonna tell them I'm going to roll in
there and tap bodies. I just say it's getting light, bust us and
we gotta go. Okay, okay, Darius, you charge down this wall,
Faiths fighting off the remaining people, trying to clear your way, trying
to keep people from getting to you. You reach this wall and you create
a glorious opening, a shattering of brick and glass, and the entire wall
comes down and you can feel the warmth of the sun on your face.
Step step out, I step out of the sun. Sorry, I don't
step up. Feel this is going to work. And then I look back
to Faith. I'm ready to get back. There is a ray of light
creeping its way across the cathedral floor, towards where few Days is resting,
and you watch her. She slowly gets up, blood dripping in sheaths from
her, and she just looks to you. Darius, You I again your
story. Sure you should praise me for being as close to Cain as I
am. Surely you should praise me for having achieved something you may never And
she steps into the light and you watch as mist rises, as the he
HiT's the blood. She stands there, bathed in sunlight with a grin on
her face. I am a god, Darius. Have faith in me,
and I will give you all of this. You're not a god. You
get a twat my frenzy. You go straight for her, the beast powering.
You make whatever kind of role you want. Buddy, I'm just gonna
beat her because there's no way she can stand in the sun forever. She's
not a god. She's a tweat strength for all. Drink that one some
of that. That's four five, six, seven eight, Oh buddy,
Yeah, what do you do? Do you like? Grab her and hold
her in the sun. Yeah, there's no way she can deal with me
and the sun may. I will if I see him, if I see
him holding her, I'll come in with a steak and I'll steak this lady
because I've been waiting. Go for it. That is uh meae and mane
plus dexterity. And because this is staking, you will get us two successes
on your role. So whatever the number is, the total. I didn't
realize this until I had to do it the other the other day. Okay,
that is the role. All right, you can add your rouse check
if you want for an extra three dice. I will absolutely do that.
May I also spend will power. We'll see what the role is. That's
rafter. Okay, So I do rows first, because I've already gone through
the decks, Mealy, Can I just do it after one second? You
don't get hungrier, you do get stronger. And that's three extra dice.
Right? Oh yeah, wow, that's need. Yeah, you need a
margin of five. Hey, I use willpower. You absolutely can, and
I reroll how many three? You better hope for some turns? Four to
four? You jam a steak, You appear from nowhere. You jam a
steak in her back as Darius has her down on one knee in like a
headlock. Sun blazing in Connie, Darius take two aggravated damage from the sun.
I was fucking kneeling. Can I roll in and tap a couple bodies
during this distracted moment? You absolutely can. You'd see is me fully cloaked,
like pulled all the way around me using shadows as best I can.
I left cut my wrist and bring my thumb to it, and I smear
a swape across. However, many foreheads. I can, and then I
book for the chantry. I would like to run forward. Can I use
my claws to try and cut her head off? Yes, you can attempt
that. I believe you need a margin of ten to the head in the
fucking sunlight. She is in the sunlight, and she appears to be entirely
unharmed. I won't stop her. Oh, faith, faith will have to
come into the now. Yes, I thought you were talking about feeings.
Okay, I need an margin of ten to be head her. Yes,
you can absolutely get plus two on my claws, right? Or is it
plus three? Yes? Plus two plus two? Is it big asks to
behead someone as old and powerful as feet as or anyone. It's all in
combat. I really just want to do as much damage as possible, like,
even if her head's kind of hanging off, I'm sure someone else could
help, you know, like, do the best I can? Is that
brawl strength? That is? Yes, brawl strength? And then plus two?
Well, okay, would you like to reroll with a will power?
Yes? I will do three. Okay, I would like to do that.
I get three extra dice three d ten yeah, yep, three extra
successes. Five Can I spend another world power. No, okay, I'm
sure you'd love to. Yeah, you jam a claw into her throat.
It feels like marble. It feels like you are bending these bone claws of
your yours just to get a scratch on hers. But you do get a
scratch. Okay. I mean I'd like to move out of the sunlight if
I have the opportunity, But take two aggravated damage from the sunlight. Okay,
lake roll your ritual. Okay, here we go going to neck subtract
a dice from this due to the slapshot nature of this ritual. Absolutely,
and oh well, my discipline. What in addition to that? Would it
be stamina? Composure? Resolve? Resolve discipline? That's alphing? Okay comes,
oh shit, Okay, there are five corpses, stand up freshly,
throat slit open. Since that one, okay, can I add something to
this? I would like to tear off a piece of my cloak, light
it on fire, and light them the body. These these deaddies are flame
while and while they I command them to attack her. Yes, just since
that rule went well, I want a little flare on that flaming corpses raise
from this pool of blood that they're floating in and trudge towards where fee Day's.
Connie and Darius are wrestling, and they seem as they gather around all
of you, and they grab and they claw at her to be doing something.
You can see burns on her skin. I run for the chantry.
Darius, you, I think, realize what you might have to do here
because you will not die. Oh oh, you have choices. I can
do it, Darius, I can do it. Let me do it.
I look over the faith Faith, get the fuck out of here. I
don't want to leave you. You have to go. You have to go
down. We'll be fine. Feeling the fatigue of sunlight makes your lake is
safe. Okay, m hm, I run it. I run and I
We'll see. Connie is trying to push the steak in. I give her
a nod that she's going to do it, and I'm going to punch the
steak. Yeah, punch in the steak. Try and give her as much
chance of doing what she's going to do. Okay, uh yeah, both
of you. Uh well, Darius, strength brawl as you have so dutifully
for the rest of this. And what do you do because I'm punching a
steak. No, you do get three extra damage. I guess plus one
can do it. I will use the last of my willpower to rebroll all
three. May I assist somehow with this? Not in a normal way,
but like, am I allowed to use willpower to do something I don't know
narratively to? Oh? No, I have an ability? May I just
use my ability? What is your ability to take control of the narrative a
little bit? Where I just am like holding her in a way in which
I don't know it gives him a bonus or something like that. I think
she's held here. I don't think she's going to move, to be honest,
So you can definitely stay here with her as she struggles. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, I think you can help if you do that. Rouse
check every time she tries to repay, position herself to get back up,
slap a back down. I look at Darius, do it an I'll bite
her, Darius the sun. I'm not letting God, Josh, I'm screaming
in pain, ash flakes off of both of you. Another to aggravated damage
and on are you try and bite her to what effect? I want to
weaken her enough. I don't expect to get out of this God, I
would like Darius to be able to get out. For sure. You bite
into her neck and it is the hardest thing you have ever had to do
physically. She just sits there in the sunlight. She turns and whispers in
your ear. Who do you think can last out? You were a god?
My way or your way? Now one's going to mourn you when you're
gone, and I get persians, So be it, Connie, make me
one last frenzy role. You feel three days push her beast out and into
you. Three three resist, You start drinking and you can feel her getting
weaker. For both of you. If there was ever a time to leave
before you die, this would be it. I will if I am able,
with my speed and my fangs still in her neck, I would like
to take us into the street in front of the church and away from Darius.
I want him to leave, Darius. They start to move outside.
I watched them go. My skin literally on fire. Let's see her fighting
sprint towards them, and I wrap my arms that are literally on fire around
her head and yank her head back so Connie can drain her because she has
to die. Is she weak enough that I can break to speak to him
and then go back to feeding, or do I just need to focus on
draining her as much as possible. Right now, you can say something.
Yeah, okay, Darius, go I've got this. You're anyone who can
fucking get out of Yeah. Yeah, I'm the only one who can get
out of here, and I have sun protection. Go. I will take
care of it. I promise you. You promised me that you would take
care of Faith and Lake. Now you need to go right now. I
can do it. Let me do it, bitch. I run and I
go back to feeding, I suppose, And I also I want to.
I want to with my speed take us. Is there anywhere where it would
be nearly impossible for her to run away, like a wide open field.
You're in the middle of the city. Yes, there is a road,
rooftop, rooftop. I want to go to the rooftop. You know there
is an open area very close by, overlooking the river. And the true
two of you struggle as you fight each other through the streets. You take
the spell. Yeah that the mage gave you a little glass bottle with wax
stripped over it. Ye, small, shy, This dust covers you.
It still hurts like hell to be in the sun. Probably pretty beautiful,
though, Sparkley, Vampires and the Son, you have a choice. You
can tell that the sun is definitely weakening her. It's definitely weakening you at
the same rate. I know, what would you like to do? My
way? Maybe hard and long, and it may feel like we are losing,
but we will win in the end. We just need to persevere.
And this potion was not to help me escape, but to persevere. So
I will stay here and I will drain her until we both go up in
flames. Any one last frenzy role. As you can see, people start
together hunts normal motes with their phones out as you both collects into a pile
of ash. The next night, I'm sure and Harry, the first thing
you did when you woke up you check the news. There are a lot
of deleted web pages with links to what is supposedly a demon plaguing the city.
But you and Harry have a different job. As he gently lays Joan,
ye see him dutifully over hours feed her bagged blood and the blood from
his own wrist, and the blood from people he has mesmerized, and more
and more and more, until both of you watch Joan's eyes flutter open,
and how he goes speechless. Oh m hmm, Where am i? H
you're You're in Manchester, England? Still m yes, how is that you?
You look at him? He is a mouth, a gape and there's
a slight difference the last time you saw him, he's got a third eye.
Now, oh that's new. I saved you. I had to save
you from the from the church. Are you? Are you okay? No?
But that's all right. Who is your friend? Sure? Grimacha.
I reach out my hand to shake his hand. I take her hand and
I say, welcome back into God's light, Saint John, thank you.
How do I feel from me? Yeah? Imagine the emotion is slightly difficult
to discern. Jeanne certainly feels something she hasn't recognized in a very long time.
Your father is it your father? Yes? Where am i? This
is the Victoria Artist. It's the only place that I could think of hid
you. There were demons, angels. What happened? I don't know.
You've found to girl? The girl dead? Yes? He is? Huh?
Why Hi? Do you need help? Do we need help? Yes?
Do you need help? My friends are in trouble. The city is
entirely in disarray, and I don't know what to do next. The angels
are in trouble. I saw it, three eyes closing in the dark,
demons in the darkness. You're real? Yeah, yeah, I'm here,
and it reaches out to clasp your hand. I will help you with what
you need. I think we need to save the salubrity to get more of
us together at least, and that is what we'll do. Thank you.
Where's Lionel? I don't know, mhm. Has not been any sign I
would like to see him. I don't think that's a good idea for us,
but maybe maybe we can find him one thing at a time. I
thought I was save. Tell me where to go. We have a bit
of a safe haven. She'd like to come with me? Hm, I'm
sure perfect, Yes, I suppose we could. Should we harry? Yeah?
Is this a good idea? Why would it not be? Miss dark?
Yes, we've had a long sleep. Where would you like to go?
If you could go anywhere in the city. I sort of look you
in the eyes, and I put my hand on your head over your third
eye, and I would like to unburden the beast your soul. Okay,
Well, that sounds like composure plus a respects and for grim sure that is
humanity. Okay, uh, I've never rolled this before. This is just
how many I have. Uh yeah, just roll your value full amount on
in D tense somehow yeah correct yea or versus five Grimshaw. She touches you,
feel her, absorbed part of her, a part of your soul,
out of your mind and come just a small amount of it if you feel
repentant, that would be a very very good time to tell a saint.
She alleviates some of your ages of guilt. I reach up and I take
her hand into mine, look at her, and I say, I don't
know what I did to fall from his grace. I don't know what I
need forgiveness. For you didn't fall. He chose you. We're chosen.
It's a hard path to be chosen. It's never easy, but we must
walk it, and in His glory we will find our way, just not
the way we imagine. You have his forgiveness you always do. I know
that when you forgive, you love, and when you love, God's light
shines upon you. And I've forgiven everyone everything myself, but I don't know
if I'll make it I don't know where I'm supposed to go or what he
wants me to do make it back, But I have followed a path and
it has led me to you. So will you guide me? If I
can? I will. I let go of her hands, I take the
USB that Connie gave me and I crush it. I throw it and I
turned to Harry and say, she told me to keep up the mask,
And you've got your answer. I've been waiting for this for a very long
time too. Whatever it is was you were going to do, it's clearly
not our path to Golconda. I knew there was another way, and it
is now. It's not our path shoes, merely our path to follow.
So I'm sorry I doubted you, Harry. It's not going to be easy.
I think I see not a lot clearer now. Hm. We have
we have to preserve life, and there are a lot of things that will
try and tear that away from us. But even though we're dead, it
doesn't take away our agency. Even though we have a beast, it doesn't
stop us from being subject to our consequences. H Well, so that you
know, my name is Kieren, good to meet you here. I'm Harry
still Jean, Yes, you lead us. You're looking for Girlkonda. I
am on my way, Uriel, you have my sword. We're back.
Helloa who you They? What I did? They mustn't know, They must
never know. They will never know. And that is also what happened in
game. In universe, we will never know. O brad get a chance
to record was showing up by the way, yep, not even me who
needed to do the overlay. That was like, come on, it was
a perfect show up until this point. The production was flawless. My memory,
however, Yeah, I'm totally overroll. I don't even feel like I
can talk right now. I punched things things. I love it stealthily,
absolutely no. I I knew what to expect. That's why I put the
things to be punched, things to be punched, and I still found new
things to punch, like wolves and steaks. That was pretty epic. The
fucking wall tumble, amazing wall, and also the music hit at that moment.
It was like I wish I had a death cover for that. When
you walked in you know that, oh death, Oh my god, so
good, that's what you are. Centuries from now, people are going to
be like oh that's death. Like actually, if I saw Crane with that
that role I did, I was going to take him with me. Oh
yeah yeah, so we don't have xpeed to give, but are we doing
a recovery tomorrow? I think people might could use it. But yeah,
I mean we should get to be just for ships and giggles. Yeah yeah,
yeah, everyone goes to gens coming back. Oh my god, it's
changes. I'll do the first one, and I won't take the easy one
because I know everyone else wants to. When Connie used the use the kids
against Dad, they with no way, I always leave it. Then they
accept that like set on fire. I was like, she's gonna behead these
fucking corpses, but no, that is what she lit them on fire.
Oh good that scene with Connie Man, that scene, that speech that you
gave about like how things were going to take a long time. Yeah,
unbelievable. That was you. Yeah, that was something genuinely broke my heart.
Like I was in the chat being like no completely, there are lines
and lines of like new for Connie dying. It was no wait, we
go back. There was literally no other way. Yeah, I'm sorry.
I knew it. I knew it. You fucking turned down the Hunter's help.
YEP, it was perfect, by the way, Josh also sorry,
Oh, it's just like when you know, Lake was like, we can
do it ourselves, and the whole time I was like, there's no fucking
way we can. I knew it. And then I went, let's yeah,
let's just see what everybody says. And the moment everybody was like,
yeah, we can do it, I went, fuck, I'm dying.
That's it. Then, because I'm letting everybody make the decision, I gave
my opinion, but then it was like you no, I know, but
I didn't listen. Connie, it is the whole thing about like victims surviving
their abusers and like it would be well. Also, Connie represents the little
guy going after the big guy. Yeah, every time she fought someone bigger,
older, and stronger than hers, she sort of won. Basically,
she basically defeated Lionel because he just tried to just out whatever her didn't work.
She tried to defeat Darius, and Darius is like swinging it and she
just kept like, look behind you kid, tap on the shoulder and tap
on the shoulder. Nor he takes on fee days and literally defeats her,
So it's kind of I actually it's the type of thing that I would like
to write into stuff for what her character represents in both an overarching thing and
the fact that she literally has these punctual moments where she basically takes out much
bigger, stronger vampires that you would never expect her to be able to defeat.
And I would say they were all defeats and that's cool. Even though
Darius I think probably represented the anarchy aspect of this season, I think Connie
represented that like little guy going after the big guy. The revolution, but
it is the longing and also is revolution could have been more impactful. We
don't get to know about that. This is something is fascinating for me because
there's like so many things I want to tell you about what might happen,
but it doesn't. It's like it's it's over now. My important part is
done. Yeah, probably I can host. All muggles can host. You're
will you please do it in full? Do you make up things? Well?
Do you make sure? Yeah, that waitress is one hundred percent going
to take up the mantle, just so you know, pick up the mantle
of Yeah, well, she told is wearing the jacket while smoking no ship,
She's going to take up the mantle tomorrow morning, just like like the
Gene leading the salubrity. Yeah, out of the desert. What is this
story going to his sword back? Yeah? Right in the back to Lionel
piece of sorry the Lionel in me coming out? Anyway, that you took
that reaction idea, what the Lionel reactions this? Obviously he fucking leaves the
camerall and joins Gens. The undoing of Gene coming back is also another recurring
theme thing here, Like it just the way that Lionel this season was staunchly
Camarilla, staunchly Ventro. You want did it again? It's just another let's
just pull this Jinger block out from what from Lionel's new convictions, which is
just so fun to think about block. It is, in a way,
whatever he is made up of, it's just a tower of ginger. I
agree with that kind of like it's just what Gene represented to him at that
moment, and like her being dead was what was his conviction. So you've
taken away what would essentially have been, I guess, a new conviction of
life. Yeah, there's another level on that that I really enjoyed. But
I will tell you that tomorrow at nine am Eastern right yea on TV slash
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and you're on YouTube. There's a link down below. I don't even know
how you find the description on Twitter, but I think I made it in
a month. It's not perfect, but it is really fucking good. You're
well, it's super fun. Real voice one character. Yeah, it's good
to hear him. I got to be horny on the mic the Josh.
It was fun. Did everyone oh, no one here has played Yeah?
I played it. Brad didn't. Did you see Alex's dialogue? Wait?
What you didn't hit on Alex? No? I didn't. I sided with
Lionel and Jeane. Yeah, imagine that so weird. Spoiler I got eaten
by nine basically didn't see Alex apart from like the intro. Yeah, bro,
the time to replay. There's a hey daddy in there. I'm just
going to say, yeah, all right, we reckon that. Jeans said
that to Harry when she woke up just to get she's I'm like there as
Grimshaw, like what is the deal with her? Because he has no idea.
She's not caving like no one ever told me. I thought she was
gonna eat him. I didn't know what was happening, but I kind of
in Grimshaw mode, was like expecting her to be a Salubrey, Like that's
what he assumed, because like Harry was so devoted to like bringing her back.
He was like, she must be like the queen of the Salubrity like
that, like Janava was a salute that sick and she comes up with the
fucking mouk He's like, oh fuck. Like for most of that Grimshaw was
like doing that thing where he's like, oh I can I already can feel
the energy here, But also like Harry, are we sure about this?
Like it's insane, it's bad and then she basically obeyed him, which is
what he fucking which is why I also enjoyed that because I got to do
that to Michael's characters Grimshaw. And then she did it to me as the
Gene, which and Gene named Harry in the end, didn't she Yeah,
uriel, ur reel right. Yeah, it's so good. Yeah, all
right, see you guys tomorrow morning. Please go follow Josh check out the
video game. You know where to find the rest of us. Thank you
for watching season two of Leech. It was amazing. We'll see you in
season's right, see you see you next year maybe Bye.