Welcome to Blank City Nowhere, the actual play anthology podcast with many games,
many characters in one weird world or in this season, one cool Vampire.
As always, I'm your host in GM, Ryan Stevens, and joining me
today to be the titular one thousand year old Vampire is William Quant. Yo
yo yo, yo yo. What's up an air own? Hello everyone,
Man, Ryan again, Welcome to season two. William. It's been so
long. It's good to be back. The seed is dusty. Yeah,
it's been a minute. Thank you for keeping a recording area pristine and never
stepping foot in it between episodes. Yeah, resuspant just kind of look at
it. I'm like, it's a nice vigil. One day, One day
there will be reason to return. And honestly, recording in a dusty space
feels right with this. It's fun. That is the appropriate atmosphere for the
energy. We're pretty since day so, we are continuing our game of thousand
year Vampire by Tim Hutchings. We are currently our vampire, who is now
known by the name Molly Sharp, is existing in nineteen twenties Chicago. The
last thing that we saw happened to her was she kidnapped a child that saw
her feeding in the sewers and is now sort of trying to raise the child
in some sort of strange would be family. You know, sometimes the family
is just the vampire and the kid whose mom she murdered. It can be
anything that's beautiful. So yeah, William, I think before we do your
first roll and get your first prompt, I think that we spent pretty much
all last time in the same time period. So I think we're gonna roll
the clock forward a little bit. It's now Chicago in the nineteen thirties.
I hope you were good with your money. Hope you kept your cash on
the mattress, vampire, because welcome to the Great Depression. Boy, howdy
is that what we're officially in? The depression? Now? Yeah, we
are in the depression thirty forty. Let's say, let's say twenty or the
twenty is which depression? The twenties are, the thirties, let's say the
thirties. Let's say elsewhere. There's a dust bowl going on. Okay,
all right, what's bowl? But it's just another vampire like with heavy breathing.
Yeah, that's my cannon. What's that splatting sound? It's all the
day traders jumping out of a window. Oh boy, a buffet it's raining.
I don't care if they're dead or alive. I'll drink the blood lightyway.
Oh yeah, that's good. Hey, listen, in these economic times,
you can't be stingy except exactly like, I don't fucking know. Did
I save my money? I'm not sure. Let's see what is money to
a vampire. I'll saw that. I was just going to say. I
was like, what is the value of the money. Also, I know
people sold children in the depression? Will I sell this child? Who can
say? That's up to you and the dice. I suppose this is an
idea, So go ahead and give me a D ten and a D six.
All right, the ten, that's six, that's a negative because that's
a A two on the D ten and a three on the D six.
Okay, so we just step back one. No hold on, sorry,
it's the same thing happened before. Is you fall in a deep slumber?
Well have done that before, so that's not gonna happen. Those are thirty
one prompt three because we also did prompt to last time. Okay, your
mortal friend discovers family documents that reveal you for what you are. How does
your relationship change? You may regain a forgotten memory related to the mortals ancestor.
Okay, that's cool. So last time when Kat was the vampire,
they had it so that you met a descendant of Manon who was named Charles,
I believe, let me check the tape. Yes, Charles Basker,
who is a descendant of Manon and who was like a chef. So now
Charles knows that you and his great great et cetera grandmother knew each other and
presumably knows that you are a vampire in some form, says yeah, reveal
you for what you are. So so what do we want to do first?
Do you just want to zoom in on like what is he find?
What is the like heirloom or document or whatever that says like, hey,
check out this cool vampire I know? Would do I have diaries laying around
you? You have a single diary. It is a well, in the
meaning of the game, you a single diary that is like a bag of
guns that you like have assigned memories to. But if you just mean like
you have like a literal diary you've been scribbling in that isn't like formally one
for the game jewels. I think that's doable. I think that's possible.
Yeah, you just have one lying around and you think that's what he discovers.
Yeah, there's like a diary, which also rude, that's my diary.
Sure, I don't know. He's a he's a cook. They don't
really have they don't have manners. So that's right behind behind behind, and
he founder, yeah, he took out his secret. Was like was that?
Uh? And also it's thirties whatever, it's rummy in my crap.
So yeah, he probably finds it. I'm of two minds here because a
either doesn't disturb him because he has other things to worry about, right because
he probably doesn't have a job right now. Sure be he could also easily
try to exploit me for money, because it's also like circus they ship.
Oh no, and that could easily be something that is also there. Interesting,
Sure successful circuses would be in this time. You know what, I'll
say that he tried, he attempts to extort me. Wow, that's interesting.
That is I read the rule book. It'said, uh, answer experiences
in ways they are satisfying to you. That's satisfying in a terrible way.
What is their forgotten memory? Do I need need to gain back? So,
yeah, that's the question because it says forgotten memory like connected to the
mortal's ancestor. And let's see if you've forgotten anything that has to do with
Manon. I didn't look at anything forgotten. I didn't good, Yeah,
you played the game. I didn't mess with that. I lost that brain
matter. I don't have access to that. So there is one memory that
involves Manon where she was like, you're missus, love it to your swingy
Todd. There is a memory here that we could bring back that includes that.
That's very fun. I did not realize that you could regain memories.
So that's cool for you. Okay, that's an easy one to remember because
the irony of the irony of my co conspirator. And yeah, now their
descendant is trying to exploit your Yeah, like that's that's irony. I like
that all right. So for for listeners at home, for this Google doc
for forgotten memories, I've had them in black text with black backgrounds like block
them out. For regular memories, it's just like text and white background.
So for this remembered one I'm doing white text my black background to make it
look different. That is a storytelling to me. So you go, so
yeah, in a rush, you remember several things. One you remember Manon
like discovering you and helping you out. And then you also remember when you
were before a vamp, being a vampire. You remember during church in prayer
having ann only thought seeing a beautiful woman, and then the cross immediately falling,
and then your last one we remember it is like just having a terrible
day and being like, I can't control my blood less. I'm not even
gonna try. I'm just gonna be on the hunt for a while. So
you as as Charles tries to shake you down, you just have these terrible
memories of you know, being being an unholy creature. So welcome back,
right which now, which also leans to like, well, he's trying to
explain me, why would I let him, right, I don't. You
do not have to. The rules don't say you have to let him like
do that thing. But that's very interesting. I'm not sure if it'll let
me just like off it right here. But that's also true, it's not
in the rules. But he might not be seen again yeah, which also
which this is also a question of like, okay, the kid was with
me because the kid knew I was a vampire. I didn't want something to
let out. Now homeboy knows a vampire. How far trying to do this?
And so I'm like, what what is the kid standing now? Like,
right, isn't this touchy like mutually assured, like if you say anything,
I'll kill you. And he's like, well, if you do anything,
I will tell everyone that you're a vampire. And so you both just
have to be like okay, just like sit on your hands for the time
being. What I like to think is like he says to me, like
I'm going to like, I'm gonna spread this secret if you don't do whatever
whatever, and I'm like, well, I don't want to. Well I'm
gonna tell everybody. And so I imagine a man running into the streets,
so Chicago one and thirty is going that woman's a vampire and no one giving
a single fuck, Right, that would that That's what I imagine. You
know what that's happening, mister Basker. Who cares? Yeah, it's like,
so no one cares. I lost my money whatever, CARNEYE. We
don't. We're not paying for that. That's great, but no one believes
him. Yeah, it's like but but but look at her her faith.
Look what you's got. That's incredible. Kid, That kid knows. They
can't tell him, Oh well I can'try well I'm ten. Yeah she's a
vampire some days. Yeah. Oh because the kid, the kid has grown
up a bit since we last saw him, because we jumped ahead and it's
like a little teen. Yeah, they're like a preteen, and that that
preteen's not gonna listen to you. Yeah, they were like like four.
Yeah, so they're like between like twelve and fourteen now yeah, yeah,
that kid's gonna want to be away from me as much as they freaking want
to. Yeah, it's like whatever weirdo and oh see or even that,
like, hey, kid, tell them, I've been telling people that for
years. Nobody can't. Yeah, she let me start running off when she
realized that what he fucking cared. Let me look up some nineteen thirty slang
this kid might use to tell off Charles, Hey, don't blow your wig.
Uh, don't blow your wig, alligator, you've been drinking too much
of that city juice. Need nothing but a crumb buh. Anyway, I'm
gonna go get on the horn with some headcats with the kaibosh on this man
again. Bum needs to come back for that one back. Yeah, h
slug Burger hamburger patty made with a ground beef mixed with slightly stale bread.
I've even some slugburgers in my life. Plug burger, that's what me eating.
Stockholders, Yeah, that's what We're a slug burger. Kids, it's
a slug This one's interesting. Cadillac an ounce of cocaine or heroin? Okay,
So then which was which one? Cave see that's like, oh my
god, which one? Hold on, I don't know. Wait a minute,
wait, hold on, hold everything, wait a minute, hold on,
sorry, listeners, we have to this is okay. So the Cadillac
car company is like nineteen oh two. Okay, okay, so the cocaine
is named after the car. Yeah, pristine amounts of God. That would
be funny though. Okay. I was like, whoa hold on, wait
a minute, this changes everything. We've stumbled upon a great discovery. But
I'm in the law enforcement and crime slange section. There's two Chicago related ones
back to back. First one Chicago overcoat a coffin parentheses. There was a
ton of gang violence in Chicago during the nineteen thirty so it's not uncommon for
the word Chicago to be used as a lead word for a slang term relative
to violence, and then the second one immediately next Chicago typewriter Tommy Gunn.
And so while Charles is like trying to like run around and accuse you of
a being a vampire, there's just like, yeah, yeah, I was
like, this was like Chicago, this was the Chicago gangsterday. Yeah,
al Capone's just sitting in a movie theater right now. It's not a problem
in the world. Yeah. Yeah, it was like, no one fucking
cares because, yeah, there's a whore's Chicago typewriter going off, and it's
a couple of street over who cares about vampire's son two Eyes Joey and Barney
Cue Floyd just stuck up the bank downtown anyway, boy them on they discover
the bank's fucking empty. Yeah, and they're gonna start killing everybody because I'm
gonna be pissed. I don't care. As a vampire, what is a
vampire? Never heard of it? So, yes, that's what that would
experience, a wild experience, incredible price to extort me. He goes with
the streets. No one cares. The kid confirms that no one cares.
There's also gang violence just like hanging out wonderful. So now it's like he's
like trapped in this relationship. Now that it's like, let me be clear
what the power dynamic is here? Like you you can out extort Molly Sharp.
All you can do is do what I tell you to do or die?
Yeah, are you leaving in a what was it a Chicago Chicago overcoat?
Chicago overcoat? Yeah? Look here, So that's incredible. You want
to leave it at Chicago. Your only office are Chicago overcoat or a slept
Burger, or I could just let you hang out for a while. It's
up to you. Man. This is this is Prestige TV. I like
that you come to Chicago and now it is like a Borderwalk Empire esque,
Like I'm drama. I forgot that was because when you guys came to Chicago,
I was like, oh shit, they're almost in like Dillinger Days and
whatnot. And then now we're here, I'm like, oh yeah, fuck
we are. We made it straight up. The gangsters all right, bet
vampire like adjusting your too big overcoat and putting on your fotora after draining somebody
exactly. I'm all yeah, I'm also not the most terrifying thing on the
streets. Yeah, straight up the modern world. Okay, beautiful, all
right, give me your next role. I'm gonna I'm gonna lump that in
with Memory ten, which is just your other Chicago like lurid activities. Yeah.
Cool. When they say blow this pop singles day and I did,
I'm not on the e mergency and no one's buying, they probably tried to
rob me. Alright, let's hear the next roll really far. This guy's
likes rolling three, but it's positive this time. Okay, that's a five
positive five wow, okay, so move ahead five. Hm hmm. This
is interesting. Okay the deceptions you practice full even yourself. Combine any three
traits to fabricate an experience that you believe is true. Okay, so huh
hypnotize yourself real quick. Okay, what skills is interesting? Traits? Where
are my traits? Do I? I should be up there at the top.
I know where traits are, see skills and resources traits. Let me
do a control f real quick, I think I know what I want to
fool myself with. Okay, So traits are just like characters, resources or
skills, like all those things together or traits. Yeah, there are five
traits, memories, skills, resources, characters, and marks. Almost every
time you receive a prompt, one of your traits will be modified. So
yeah, so it can be literally anything you have on the or just let
me know what's what. We'll combine it into a new experience. Okay.
So all right, so skills also, and so so I am just like
hud So it's alf so like do I give up people? Is that also
like characters like I am also combining? Is it combining them? More like
I mean okay, okay, okay, to make something up, Okay,
I'm putting together three different things and then making a new thing out of that
thing. Yes, correct, And it's making a whole. It is making
away as it's an experience. So making one experience out of that, not
a whole nother memory, and I'll go and tell you you're gonna have to
forget something. Also, so to also take a look at the memories and
see what you wouldn't mind blacking out because it's like, I think I also
know what I wanted to do that. But now, all right, so
this is okay, where am I combining thing instead of oh yeah I have
a mansion. How is that? Is that fucking that probably got purged real
fucking quick, didn't It's I mean it's still on the list, it's here.
Is it worth anything today? I mean it could be like in theory,
right, cool? Yeah, so I'm easy. I'm definitely gonna use
the really nice carriage that it is still under resources carriage social drinking mm hmm.
Kids don't social drinking. And since it's also there fine thoroughbred horses.
Sure yep. So what what quote unquote happens with these elements? So like,
yeah, trying, like, as I'm going out trying to social drink,
my fucking carriage and my worses get held up by thugs and gangsters.
But that may be a thing I'm trying to fabigate. Oh that's right.
Okay, So I combine these three things. But I need to make a
deception to fool myself with these things. Yeah, so what do you what
do you convince yourself of that it's presumably useful to believe something that's all right,
So combining these three things, what what can I pull from these?
Mm? I don't know how to drive. What am I doing driving?
But if I'm back here, if you're back here, who's driving the fine
thoroughbred horses? Ard? Okay? The carriage? It's like these things make
sense? But what am I trying to is it? Like this is just
a feel free to be like? No, but is it to like explain
your facial scarring to me? Like I was drinking and like driving a carriage
and there was an accident because there's these new horseless carriages running around and that's
why my face is like this, Yeah, we can play with that.
Mm hmm. I like that people are so trying to rob them though,
yeah yeah, I was all, no, let's do that. Like I
was held up in my carriage because I looked like a well to do roup
because look at all my money, and I was attacked and assaulted. And
now that's why I'm scarred. That's it. That's literally what I'm telling the
police. Yes, it's like those those those remote those they were mine and
that's why I look like That's why I look like this officer, That's why
I look like a monster. It just happened to be the area because I
would never call the cops. Uh yeah, Like I swear that's why I
look like garbage and I don't look as good as the other rich people before
they altered themselves out the windows. That was the last bit of wealth I
had. Damn stucks. Can we go talk about it somewhere dark and secluded.
But I believe that there was an accident and I have that is how
I got You want to see how I got my scars? Yeah, yeah,
there you go. Yeah you can say it. It's also in Chicago,
and like, well, it's all whatever. I don't want to say.
I'm not going to endorse anything joke related on this podcast. Okay,
so that's the new memory. So what do you want to forget in it's
place? Because I think I was gonna say, you are committing to like
in your mind, this is how you got these scars. So do you
want to forget the baron bong gatorade, the guy who actually gave them to
you? But I think that has already been forgotten, so that I in
a way makes it easier. I would love and this isn't me saying huh
if I could do like, this is what I'm doing now, Like I
would love to forget I'm a vampire. God, that's so good. If
there was a way to combine I wipe so many memories, I will do
that. And you're just like, I don't know why I do this.
I just do. Yeah, I would love if that were possible. I
don't know if there's not a mechanic there anywhere, but I'm like, I
would absolutely adore that. I'm looking. I think you may have already forgotten.
It looks like you already don't remember this happened to you. Oh shit,
it's like I just don't know some sick So wait, yeah I did
get the stars. Yeah, I thought I had an accident. Yeah,
that's it must have been that. Yeah. And then I also read she's
like, oh she's a vampire. What. Oh my god. Let me
look at all the forgotten ones and checked. I really think that. Yeah,
you have truly Wait a minute, yes, you have forgotten. I'm
looking at it now. That memory is blacked out. You don't remember.
I don't know. That's you woke up one day and you're like, hey,
wait a minute, why am I like someone you were killing someone?
Like why and you were like, huh, wait a minute, I don't
remember. Wait this is a goal. Wait a minute, it's then why
is the kid here? What are you? What are you looking at?
What happens? I'm just I just have a weird dietary restriction. Now the
kids like, okay, well, like this person is like having trouble taking
care of themselves. And also that means when Charles accused you of being a
vampire, you were like, no, I'm not. Yeah, it's like
what do you talk? You weren't just like you don't know what, I'll
believe you. You were like I don't believe you. See it's like what
that's incredible? And even the kids were like, yeah, that were true.
Yeah, what are you? What do you want about? You better?
Uh, you better zip your but you better zip your yap and make
tracks or else you're gonna end up with squat. I got five spots,
which is sunk for five dollars, right, anyone who beats this guy up?
Yeah? So yeah, the insorgiment doesn't work just because I don't like
what do you meet? You can't you can't, oh my god, you
can't like three for ransom. If their parents are like we don't have a
kid. What are you talking about? Three? Three can keep a secret
if the secret is dead. Yes, oh my god. But now I'm
like, okay, what other fucking memory am I supposed to again? Hold
on, right, I gotta still got to forget something, right, And
what would be the most like would feed into this the most? I think
it? Like, what else could you forget that? It's like, would
explain why you don't know you're a vampire? Oh my god, almost certainly,
like probably the farthest back Memory one, right, right, Okay,
so let's see what's the furthest Yeah, Memory three, Well that's your diary,
which you could empty out if you wanted to. No, no,
here, memory sharp, Memory one, but I know you're sharp. Yeah,
yeah, we can just wipe this. Yeah, like that can't because
yeah, that has locations and names and like, no, this is your
for forgetting, uh you know, who you were born to who you are
originally? This is your forgetting. Manon. So so you're looking at Charles
and it's like, I guess it goes like tectually you could have like burned
that diary after Charles found it. So it's like I don't need this anymore
yeah, that's also fair. Yeah, and you also don't remember where you
got this poor Oh no, that was Charlie Monkley is a different child you
found in the sewers. It's weird that it happened twice. It isn't a
lot, but it is weird that I happened twice. Okay, boom gone
gone, that's right there. Also, now this also begs an issue,
like, yes, we are a thousand year vampire and our physiology has changed,
but does brain mackage. I mean, this is just like forget people
forget stuff, you know. Yeah, yeah, I was just like,
shit, this is there are no more synapses. You are you are the
ship of theseus, only now you are a fucking Cadillac. And I don't
mean the drugs like you like, I don't know what that is anymore.
I've never heard of dcs in my life. Oh my god, that's incredible.
That's cool. That's exactly what I want. I wanted to forget it
was a vampire if I could. It's something. Yeah, now you do
not remember it. You just know that you have this hunger and you don't
know a word for it. I have a hunger. I also have these
things that are probably fun like ages ago, and I'm just like, these
are just old things. Well. I also think is interesting is because we've
like shied away from the like Bela Lugosi classic version of a vampire. Now
in the thirties, when there's like like pop culture versions of a vampire,
you can look at them and say that's not me, and you are like
correct, like, yeah, you are not like Brimstirkers Dracula. Yeah,
you are not like the Thangs, and you're not Christopher Lee. You actually
aren't. That's just true. Yeah. Yeah. I read Dragon and was
like, huh, that's weird in some parts, but not enough. Ye
Garfield, I wonder who that's for. Huh even probably like even if I
assume the kid can read, yeah, let's assume, yeah, if you
if the kid rather, it was like, yeah, that's not that's no,
that's not her. Yeah, that's not what she is. All Right,
I guess that's not a Nuance is dead in the thirties. That is
so fucking cool. Okay, all right, all right, give me another
role. All right, the five and A one. Okay, so moving
ahead, four back four four that's yeah, the five is the D six
the one is the five, is the D ten, the one, the
great one, two three, four? Mm hmm. Interesting. How do
you conceal yourself while you sleep? What steps have you taken for protection?
Check a skill and create a resource, create a mortal servant care if you
like? Oh, yes, so I'm gonna assume this is since I do.
I don't want a vampire, Like, why would need to protects?
Now? This is just because this is a very rough time in a very
rough place. You would like to consider yourself when you are vulnerable. Yeah,
gotta cover your cover your back. All I probably still have some funds
and I definitely have some stuff, and I definitely want to to keep that,
So that makes more sense. Check us. So it's okay, all
right, so now we're checking a skill. What is the procedure for checking
skills? Oh, that seems like you're gonna use a skill up and that
skill can no longer get for future prompts. Okay, so it's completely completely
takes care of that. Uh, if I got rid of animal calls,
would I still get to keep the animal in theory, you just couldn't necessarily
like use them for future things? Well, oh they could be your serving
care. Yeah, I was actually because it might use animal calls and get
the dog or get a creature. Correct, I would lose the ability to
like speak to them, probably, but I can still you would lose the
ability to speak to any other animal. You're putting all your your chips on
this one. Okay, this is all right, So I will create a
world servant character. Yeah, it didn't say human servant and just yeah,
like this can easily just be baby. Uh. And I know this is
also all right. I know what historically could be in the streets of Chicago
in the thirties, but like one something I could conceptually come across in the
same time. I mean, listen, there's a zoo. Chicago has a
zoo. You are your as part Let me check were you found it?
Founded in eighteen sixty eight. It's been there. Fuck yeah, dude,
all right, you know what? Yeah, you know what I am.
I am a woman with my companion who like knows more about me than me
a child, and I have sure I have a bear. Oh yeah,
I have a full blown bear. Good good. What's the bear's name?
Oh? I was like, oh, I'll let me name is something.
Off was like, no, bear's name is Cadillac Cadillac the bear good,
Like, hold on, I'm about to. I have to. There's a
joke like right in front of me. If I can just connect it,
call that call that creature Miller of high life because it's the Cadillac of bears
anyway, right, Yeah, he's cool. So how do I consume myself
when I sleep? I mean we, I mean I have a I have
a bear. And what step seems taking for protection? I have a bear?
Yeah, I don't know if you were listening. I have a bear.
It's like, I'm sorry, excuse you, but I have a bear.
It's mine. The bear will protect me from the purge, thank you
very much. The bear answers to no one but me and my kid.
Thank you. You know what's recession proof? Grizzly bear, fucking nature's fucking
teeth and claws, motherfucker. Okay, you also create a resource. So
what what other will like safety? Like? Uh, the bear's claws,
m I mean it just belonged on me. Those things, I guess like
those are his resources. That's true, yours. That's like something I can
have for mm hmm. Well now I'm like, okay, required secondary powers.
What is something that would make sense with a bear, to have with
a bear. I'm a fishing pole. Sure, yeah, I gotta keep
them fans like that. That makes sense. That's nice, gone fishing.
It's like fishing pole slash material if it's not more material resources like some fish
bit like implied, Yeah, a whole whole tackle box if not rotten real
So if not, there's bodies later. I don't know. Yes, you
can make your own bait. It's easy kids. Yeah, it's like there's
hey, kid, do you want to have fun today? Go look for
bucking worms? Like yeah, it's a family it's a family activity, all
right. So that's that's your skill. You're resourcing your mortal serving character the
bear Cadillac. That's so fucking cool. I love this. I love this,
I love this vampire. I love this bear. Okay, so what
memory do you want to file this experience in? You could file it in
the same one as your fake memory, although it's like not super clear what
the link is to me, Or you can make another memory and then forget
something else if you want to keep burning it all away. So I'm wondering
where to put the this this bear or yeah, because either happening either just
the memory of the or like getting the bear, because the memory of your
fake memory is its own separate thing. Okay, I can put it in
the memory that that that's like most recent. Okay, that works. It's
like, yeah, I was like, okay, I was held up by
gangsters doing out of drinking that I need this bear. Yeah, that's why
I got this bear. It drives itself and it can defend itself. My
my grizzly bear protect me from the gangster's shirt is raising a lot of questions
that should be answered by the shirt. Well, talk of bear, I
said grizzly earlier. That doesn't have to be I yeah, I was like
grizzly ish and one of the thicker ones. I guess to like. It
is still cold in Chicago. Yeah, listen, Speaking of bears and the
Lincoln Park Zoo, Brick and I went a while ago. We saw some
polar bears up close. Listen. We all know bears are big. We
all know bears are big. That's not news. Polar bears are fucking big,
dude. They are terrifying. Yes, the worst one. Yeah,
yeah, that's the listener. Common knowledge. If you en counter a bear
in the wild, here's a helpful mnemonic. If it's brown, lay down
this life prone. Don't make yourself a threat to leave you alone. If
it's black, fight back, make yourself big, seem threatening and opposing.
They'll leave you alone. If it's white, say good night. There's nothing
you can do is yours. If you are in a situation in which you
are unguarded against the polar bear, you are already dead you just like time
hasn't caught up to it yet. But there is a new presence and it
is without you, which is also I mean, grizzlies are like brownish,
right, yeah, they're brown bears, which, yeah, everyone in the
Chicago is aggressive, so like, fighting back will not scare this bear.
In fact, it's going to make it go harder. It's the perfect,
it's the perfectly perfect. It's the perfect setting for it. I love you,
Cadillac. If you scratch my Cadillac, it's scratched, all right,
give me another, give me another role there, William, that was fun
impressing. What the fuck? All right? Zero, we don't move anywhere,
okay, so prompt forty b oh okay, now, William, I
think you're gonna have some fun with this one, you are approached by a
supernatural character unknown to you. They take you on a bizarre journey, then
offer you spiritual solids in exchange for a terrible pledge. What do they demand?
Will you accept it? If you accept, gain a skill? Okay,
so William tell me about the great and powerful uh presence that visits you
one night? Oh man, Wow, isn't even this doesn't even have to
make sense in the context. This is fucking literal mix sits pitlick or however
you pronounce it. But yeah, yeah, this doesn't need to be then
you have to be American. This is no Oh my god. As soon
as you get yeah, unknown to me, completely new, completely never before
seen. All right, cool. They take you on a bizarre journey,
off your spiritual sce in exchange for a tear. But I'm also so like,
okay, this is tailor means, but like what still goes with like
guns and chicken? What supernatural goes with the guns? Oh? Man?
You know what I wish to be visited by the spirit of Quark? Okay,
Oh, I write that down. The bizarre journey they offer me,
uh is because they are like quark, which is like something atomic. This
is like a spirit of like nuclear things to come. Oh my god.
A quark is a type of an elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter.
Quark's combined to form compil particles called hadrons. They will stable, which
are protons and neutrons, the components of atomic nuclei. I'll comment, and
this is the part where my vision like starts to go blurry as I take
on like the static of status effect of science. But quirks are the things
that make up the things that make up at okay, cool, They're like
tiny, tiny bricks. So far, they're the tiniest that I know of
my things, right. Sorry, on When you search quark aole, there's
like a sidebar a Wikipedia page and then it says number of flavors six yum
yum sour apple core. I'm assuming it's a candy like fucking Australia. Sure.
Anyway, I started to distract. You tell me more about the spirit
of quark. This like harbinger of the atomic age. Yeah. Then people
like a fucking I'm assuming this is like a ghost of Christmas future kind of
thing. They're like, you know, first of all, they're like,
I heard you were a vamp and then they're like, would you like to
see some man made horrors beyond your comprehension? And I'm like, first of
all, why does everyone keep saying, what's a vampire? Me? Not
even that the cameras like zoomed on my teeth? What the hell are you
talking about? You're talking about as you like finished drinking somebody and just like
put them down. Unless a vampire is someone who owns a bear, I
don't understand what people are getting at. Its full stereotype that's forming for no
reason that I can figure out. Yeah, so like the the I don't
know about spiritual solace right, that's like, what is it offering you?
Is like hey, something like big ship's coming. Do you want to be
able to survive? Or is it just like yeah? So I was like,
hey, first of all, yeah, it's like okay. First of
all, I heard your vampire. I thought maybe you might this, This
might be most interesting to you. Second of all, you think it's bad
right now? Things are not even like ten years in the future. Shit's
about to get really really bad. I can give you. I can offer
you protection and or a gift. Not only can I like protect you from
the ensuing conflict. But if like nuclear things like are around you or can
actually benefit you, your vampireness is not stealed for nuclear comps. This is
is this sort of the like in a roundabout way, it's like like a
magneto of like, look, humans need to evolve. You are different,
you are something beyond human that therefore I want you to be able to like
persist. Yeah, it's like I yeah, also like I'm gonna be I'm
gonna make my own church a few years. I love it if you were
still right to help me build that. If you're in the neighborhood in the
ashyep, give me a call. Yeah, Like that's kind of like their
demand is like that's all I have. Like my demand is like I I
will down the road. You're not. I'm not asking for your soul.
I'm just asking for your undivided allegiance. Right. I have also forgotten all
the memories, right, I've forgotten everything I was Like, I feel guilty
because I'm Catholic. I've forgotten that right right, Yeah you do not remember
that? Oh no, I probably did you remember that again? Yeah?
You brought that back? Yeah, So this is someone telling you you don't
notice that it's like a three hundred year old church. Like that part doesn't
matter to you. Yeah, yeah, it's like this. This this church
is just from where I'm from. Yeah, this is how it was in
that sound. Yeah. Yeah, and I'm in Chicago out of the booties
at this it doesn't look that shiit anymore, even though now it kind of
does. It's unbelievable. So here I am with a bear and a child,
and you were again fighting a nuclear ghost, which I believe is a
Scooby Doo, which is I am pretty sure it's not. I'm thinking of
the spooky space cook is what I was. Yeah, like, ye,
it's like the green fans I'm looking, dude, that's what I'm thinking of.
Like, I know, it's not that guy from a Batman Beyond who's
like a nuclear skeleton. Yes, Blight, one of the best character designs
ever, mister Powers. Yeah, but that's yeah, actually, my father,
do you have any idea? Yes, the image, Yeah, this
image is like it's Blight. They don't have the suit because he's he Why
wouldn't Why does he need an outfit? I want him? I want to
look at you more benevolence. Sure, So he's got just like in their
attitude. So I'm like, huh. But also my question for the my
question for this new daity in front of me is but are my people gonna
be safe? But I have a kid and I have my Cadillac, and
I need everybody to be okay. I'm like, wow, how will this
character react to I need more people in the bunker with me? Can you
can you guarantee that my child and my bayar can live until this unknown point?
Which is a huge ask. Yeah, yeah, it's like, promptly,
your church right now has zero followers, it can be three. That's
what I'm That's what I'm asking right now. So I will. So I
do this for for the spirits, for the spirit of Quirk. They are
not as special as I am, but they can be granted some of the
like nuclear resistance and like it can still benefit them. They may not live
as long as I do, and it may not they may not get all
the great benefits. But my Cadillac and my child. What's the name of
the kid. Do we have a name or not? Charles? Let me
check the Charles. Charles is the guy who shock you down hold on the
child's name? Oh, the child Lana Shark Lana all right, it's like,
so my Cadillac and Malana will be able to at least if there if
things become a new It's like, if things are nuclear wasteline, we can
at least walk out after the bombs and be okay, I am okay,
what a vision Jesus, I shake hands with this fucking fallout here? Right?
What's so, what's your new skill or like, what what's the resource
that you gain? Skill? Nuclear powers? Like fuck, it's like what
would even be called just like, what does it mean to be immune to
radiation? Clear advantage? Oh, that's good. We're going to put that
and that yeah, and that can take many forms nuclear advantage parentheses. The
two people with me right now, Lana and Cadillac, Cadillac notes next to
them. Let's say, nuclear advantage. You're not gonna protect Charles, Charles,
you trying to extort me? Not a kid? Well, I get
it now that it is a skill. It can also be used, which
I think is very funny. Imagining a situation where Brooke is like, I'm
gonna use nuclear advantage in nuke somebody at point blank ranch to get out of
a situation I also, okay, so I just said Charles, but this
is also what I imagine is like, okay, say bomb and like I'm
not saying this does happen, but if the bomb, something does happen,
some bombs drop. I don't know the bombs, but like there's a big
shooting. Big gangs are shooting, and like this spirit has given me like
a place to stay. I have a bunker for whatever reason, and I'm
going to the bunker and Charles is running at me. I fucking close the
bunker and it's sure that is That's that's how much I say, fucking Charles.
Yeah, sure I'll be a vampire because I'll be alive and everyone else
is gone. Is the spirit like showing you this as a vision of like
this is I guess this is what you're gonna do when you're like yeah,
like this like this could this could be a vision of your future. And
like we see bombs up and I get to see the open day of Oppenheimer
and then like yeah, so we get to see some really really awful stuff
and that's also like, well I don't want that to happened to me,
right well no, But also Charles, I yeah, given the choice between
the two of you. It's not much of a choice at all. Yeah,
it's like I want to pretend to be with me nobody. I don't
have a tie to Charles. I'd be like, man if I had a
tie to his great grand person. Yeah, him, But I don't know
them. Yeah, sorry to that woman. I've never seen her before.
Sorry, I don't know her. All right, Well, that sounds like
a good memory to me, or a good experience. So do you want
to lump that in with the memory of the other two things? Or does
this feel suitably separate? I think it caps off what you've done. Yeah,
absolutely is a is it like, hey, we're here? This is
this all happened? That's incredible? Boy, what a what a showstopper of
a round. So yeah, I don't know if I'm gonna live forever.
I don't know what what kind of creature lives forever? So do you think
that? And this is sort of like a philosophical question, like, so
are you guaranteed living like through an atomic blast or are you guaranteed to live
until the bombs drop? Like the problem is complex, I'm assuming like through
it because the deal is like, all right, I'm gonna have some worshipers,
right, I'm certain place that could be. That could be hundreds of
years. Yeah, like that could be whenever people lose the context of atomic
stuff and it's no longer it no longer scares them, right, so it's
now something people keep bringing up, like fucking vaccines. So yeah, whatever,
and he needs me there. Whether my kid and my bear survive the
sea that I don't know they will be protected from any nuclear fallout, but
if they are there, we have people to take collection. Yeah, and
a bouncer. It's very like to have a ghostuperior to you and be like,
hey, do you want a job eventually? Do you want to have
a purpose in X unknown amount of time? He asked. He like shakes
his hand, he sends his hand, and it's like, you've seen all
these things. You agree to this, And I just hear bullets outside.
I'm like, yes, yeah, absolutely, yeah. Look look dude,
I got a lot going on, Like yeah, there's just screaming and shooting
on like yeah, all right, but incredible. All right, Well,
I think that's a good place to draw a line under it today. So
thank you for your service, William. Thank you for your imagination have I
done? I don't know, I'm incredible. Where can people find you online?
Oh my god? Uh so people can find me at w A quants
on the twitters if that's still functioning by the time this comes out. Uh,
if not, and if again, and if a blue Sky is out
of beta. I am also wo quant dot bluesky dot social over there.
I did make a deal with a nuclear ghost and I have that bunker for
when Twitter explodes. Will it be useful? I don't know, but it
happens, and uh yeah, I guess occasionally some stuff that I do might
come out on IGN. Some stuff that I do will come out on The
Beat, which is I think the largest or the only like publication that really
only public only news application, like focused on like comic book news. Nice.
I do things there. It's a good name, the Beat, Yeah,
which ironically I've been writing about wrestling on the Beat, but like that
is that's that's what's there. So you can find me at the Beats.
Maybe some stuff will chop up in some IGN bylines, I at least in
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