M hm h. Welcome. Everybody, welcome, Thank you for ruining the
intro cast. Hi, everybody, welcome to Table Stories Facade. I would
like to remind everybody that's watching today that there will there may very well be
some scenes that you are uncomfortable with today. There could be some extreme violence,
that could be a bit sexual. They might be intense in general,
so be prepared for that. On the last episode of Table Stories Facade,
oh boy, it's been getting intense. We are getting very close to the
end of the show. I would say that there's probably three episodes left,
including tonight. And on the last episode, Professor Charles and Ada met inside
of the club Myriad and tried to learn all they could from each other about
what's been going on all the while, Professor Charles was harassed by his passenger
to get Ada to read out parts of the book that she has called Visions
by Peter Robertson, a book that has come up for various players throughout the
campaign, detailing information and extremely strange and difficult to read ways about strange places
that some of the characters they have seen firstand doctor Copeland strapped him to a
chair with exposed electrical wires to shock him. Professor Charles convinced the passenger to
leave Ada, but Ada had already marked herself and prevented the passenger from taking
over. She've read out part of the Visions book to a seemingly elated passenger.
Professor Charles has seemingly had his fill of everything going on. Remy awakened
from the dream that everyone else seemed to be having saw some kind of smoke
frost demon thing around the others who were still in the dream and tried to
get it to leave them alone and let him leave. Creature pretended to be
his brother Lenny, said horrible things to him when he tried to leave,
The creature ended up slashing his arm and inhabiting him. Remy woke up to
find himself in a cigar shop, where he was questioned by people who revealed
themselves to be Elysium Within. Not only that, but his brother Lenny was
there as a member. Unfortunately, Lenny was deeply affected from learning the truth,
and we learned that he had clawed out his own eyes. He spoke
with the members there of Elysium Within, specifically the brother of Peter Robertson,
Francis Robertson. Francis apparently was looking to speak with Remy, inviting him to
this place, at least that's what he claims. He offered Remy a membership
to Elysium within and Remy agreed. Max stole a car from outside Professor Charles's
apartment as she and Quinn were leaving. She headed to Myriad and found the
upsetting scene of Professor Charles and doctor Copeland shot looking him with electricity. She
pulled a gun on them, knocked out. Professor Charles began peppering Doctor Copeland
with questions. Keeping Ada under strict supervision, Max called Quinn and explained the
situation. When Quinn left Professor Charles's apartment, she tried to go to Detective
Size to retrieve Ada's notebook and destroy it, but instead found his place a
mess in the book missing. They contacted Detective Sigh and found out that he
took it and that he's trying to use it to help him with Green.
Quinn found a photograph of Detective Pig nearby where she had kept the notebook hidden,
and began to understand that Detective Ci had some sort of relationship with Green
in the past. He contacted Detective PI, and he broke down on the
phone, revealing that he had taken this notebook to Well, we're not quite
sure, excuse me. Quinn said that they'd head on over to Detective CI
to try and talk, but they got a phone call from Max explaining the
situation with Professor Charles and doctor Copeland, and Quinn agreed to get over there
immediately. And that's who we are joining first today, Quinn, you've just
gotten off the phone with Max. What are you doing? I'm heading to,
say, now, the alleyway because he said he was at the bar
in the alleyway. Is it not the same bar that Max is located?
No? Or is it different? Okay, it is a different bar.
Yeah, I'm heading there. You're heading to SI yeah, cy First,
then Max, you take a cab? What do you do? Yeah?
Okay, so you leave Detective size apartment and you head out to find yourself
a cab. Well, technically I was already in the cab when Max called.
Just a point of I'm only saying that because you were like, you
don't remember what happens, and my feelings are hurt, and I just I'm
pround. I do exactly remember what happened. Okay, so you're in the
cab. Yeah, and you've already directed this caby to head to detective side.
Yeah. So maybe there's even a conversation after I get off the phone
with Max, and I'm like, oh, okay, okay, and I'll
be there as soon as I can. You know, maybe he asks me
if I want to change direction, and I say, no, same destination,
just quicker if you can, which I realize you probably can't do that,
but I'm gonna need a role. Sure, you need a disadvantage role
for me? Sure? Yeah. Eight. I don't know what that means.
Your face doesn't seem so great, but I was born this way.
I can't help it. Okay, Sorry, I need to count. It's
okay, I'm probably oh oh, no, I think I know what that
means. It's been really all it's been fun. I put my hand on
my probably rubbing on my my pants maybe a little bit. Hands are sweating.
I'm feeling tired cold because I still haven't really gotten used to whether now
that I am the way that I am. Have I stalled? Enough?
Okay, the cab ride is not super long. While you're on the way
there, the Cabby's been trying to I guess, focus on the road.
Really, they haven't been talking to you very much while you've been driving,
and I assume looking out the windows, a lot of the color seems to
have been leeched from your vision. It says, if the whole world has
had its saturation turned down. When I look at myself, am I that
way too? Yes, the smells don't seem quite as intense. Your sense
of time seems a little off. Before you realize it, the Cabby says,
hello you there, huh what are here? Oh? Oh oh I'm
terribly sorry. Thank you so much. Keep the change, thank you?
Yeah, yeah, no problem, You are right. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, I'm fine. Maybe, uh maybe you should get should get that
looked at or something? Yeah, well looked at? What? Uh?
Never mind? Sorry, no, what I mean? You look a little
uh you look a little sick. Oh oh yes, thank you? Yeah?
Yeah? Uh you sure you you don't do you want to ride to
uh I don't know the doctor or something? No, but hey, you
know what? Uh? Could you could you actually I know you're not supposed
to do this, but could you stay here? I've got I've got a
hundred here you just stay right here for just a couple of minutes. I
just need to go talk to a friend. And then yeah, lidsen the
meters running. Sure, great, that's great. Uh, here you go,
and I hand him the one hundred dollars bill. Yeah, and I'll
hop out and and you know, no, thanks for asking after me.
I'm okay though, really, just a lot of catching and sleep. Sure,
you know, okay, And I get out of the cabin. I
head towards the bar RSI is supposed to be, I think, okay,
the bar. It is probably like a fairly active sort of pub. It's
a Sunday it's a cops pub, right, Yeah, it's a Sunday however,
so it's give me a fan or just roll me a D two.
Yeah two. It is open, however, Okay. Then I head in
and I immediately scan for Cy. I think it's a really generic looking kind
of bar. There are probably some police officers in here, Okay, you
can see like I think you've seen them before. Is the only reason you
know that they're police officers? Yeah, I'm sure I'm familiar a little bit.
But do I see Cy? Is he at the bar or at a
booth or anything? He'd be at the far end of the bar, okay,
and we always meet at the same spot, Like, is that his
spot? He's not in his usual spot. Ah, he's in his spot
with her. Maybe okay, cool, So then I'll go over and I
immediately sit down at the back. Hey, okay, he's nursing a mug
of beer. Sorry, hey man, yeah, you waited, I waited.
Okay. I don't really know how to answer that. Honestly, it's
fine. No, it's okay to not be Okay, I get it.
Not really, I don't know this is the right thing to do, though,
is it. Yeah? I think she'd agree to you, you know,
more than most what things cost in this this uh game or this this
this world. And I don't think she would want you to pay that cost.
Have you seen loads of people done all kinds of crazy things for people
that they love, people that they hate, people that they just want their
lives again? You know? So sometimes our sometimes our only way forward is
not getting their lives. We want it back. It's how new chapters happen,
right, That's what you're always telling me, New chapters, new books.
What if you feel like your books already ended? Ooka ad me.
Man, my book already has ended, and we just gotta wait. I
don't know why I'm still around. Maybe it's for this, Maybe it's to
sit here at this table with you and help you make the right choice.
And what's the right for us? You even know, I know that that
book does terrible things. Books don't do terrible things. Que people do terrible
things, right, right, right? And you know guns don't kill people.
People kill people. But guess what if that book weren't around, then
some people aren't going to do crazy shit with it. Sorry, stuff trying
to clean up my language, M like it matters, right, probably in
a run out of time here in a day or two. What do you
mean? Look at me? Okay, you're looking a little What do you
mean? What's wrong? I mean, look at me? That looks sick?
Right? What happened? I don't know, just time, same thing
that happens to all of us. I guess if your hands bleeding more?
I fuck sorry, I don't even know what this thing is. Well,
I mean, I know it's some butcher something or other, but I don't
know how to get it off. Or actually I do know how to get
it off. I have to call some some I don't know, some guy
time is his business or whatever. He'll help me, but again, he
probably wants some cost. I'm not willing to pay it. Man, my
time's up. My time's up. It's just that easy. Huh No,
it's not easy. It's terrifying. It's almost more terrifying than when I was
alive. You know, at least then you have some sort of illusion of
time, you know, when I retire or you know, I'm gonna give
my two weeks. I am acutely aware that I am out of time.
Every minute is a gift, and I'm just I just want it to mean
something. It means something. Kill. Can we fucking burn this book?
What do you think is gonna happen if we burn it? I don't know.
People aren't going to be able to use it to hurt people anymore.
How do you get rid of supernatural stuff? Well? Sometimes you burn it,
throw salt on it. Yeah? What for real? Yeah? How
the hell does that do anything? I don't know, like purification or something.
Isn't like a science or science? You think science has anything to do
with this? Oh listen, I don't question it anymore. You know,
you get old enough times salt does the trick. You try salt, it
does the trick, and then you stop asking why. Yeah, so you
want me to just wipe this table salt or it's it got to be a
specific kind of salt. Don't say sea salt. Man. I think I
think you had it right the first time earning it. Yeah, well,
I mean we could just do both. We just dump some salt on it
and then light on fire. I mean, best of both worlds, right,
cover all our bases. Sure, sure, all right? I uh
man, I hate to ask you this, but I think we could just
do it out back in the alley here. My friend Max is in trouble.
You hear you can sort of see him shudder a bit the alley.
Yeah, my friend Max is in trouble and there's like a gun involved,
and I could really use your help. Yeah, she said her her her
bar was broken into, and she called me just just as I was getting
here, and I told her the cops, because you are the cops.
I was coming to see you. I'm say, it's weird shit. I
didn't know we could call the cops about this stuff. If there's a gun
involved, you call the cops. Yeah, but what if there's other stuff
involved, and then all of a sudden, all your cop buddies are now
thrown into some weird e W twilight zone. I'm just trying to you know
what, what what you say, minimize the collateral damage? All right,
fine, yeah, let's go, Sam, can you uh yeah, just
added to the tab. I'll get you up. Okay, yeah, right,
uh, good thing, Detective Devage, all right, let's go.
Okay here, yeah, let's let's do it. Hey man, I'm proud
of you. Yeah yeah, you exit the bar walk towards the alley.
It's I wanted you. Firstly, I'm trying to think about what time it
is. It's probably close to eight or nine pm something like. Okay,
okay, what did you want to do? I think I want to you
a move, but I don't want to do it yet, so never mind.
Okay, okay, all right, table salt cute little dinosaur salt shaker
here, I'll give it back, uh what yeah, okay, just do
you want to just dump it in the barrel? I'll salt it, you
light it. There's there's a group of homeless people that are in the alley.
They're just sort of u sat down probably and probably talking chatting a little
bit. Did you sort of wander in? Uh? Sorry, folks,
Uh we just gotta uh we gotta burn something. Sorry if sorry to bother
you problem you you want to drink? You want something to drink? No,
I'm good, thank you? Oh no, no, not me,
thank you. I'd like a drink. Okay, that's the move I was
gonna use. That works out perfectly. I'm sorry, I'm freaking out.
Side turns around and Green. This is at the end of the alley,
eliminated by some passing headlights. What are you drinking? Oh hi, it's
good to see you again. I'm always happy to be here. What are
you drinking? Oh nothing, just some just some cheap some cheap hoots.
No, not from nurs from big Green walks over and sits down. Si
is just kind of staring in disbelief. I don't know, man, she's
been around, I've seen her before. I don't know if she's stuck here
or needs help moving on or what. See, you didn't need that book
after all? What what what are you doing here? What? What?
What? Patsy? What are you? What are you doing here? I
didn't Patsy Green takes a swig of the of the hooch and m hm,
she says, Hi, Si, it's been a long time, been a
long time. What are you talking about? What it's been? You were
shot, you were dead, you were dead. Here I think you're mistaken.
I'm not shit. I'm not mistaken. You were dead. You were
dead. I'm here now I can see that. Do you want to explain
what exactly is going on here? She doesn't look as good as the last
time that you saw her. Cue Okay, I think that was probably in
a picture last time that she saw her. Oh yeah, I just saw
her picture, but she was alive in that picture. Yeah, I mean
aside from the picture at size. Oh right, then, yes, I
saw the picture Remy's picture. Yeah, she looks a bit strung out like
I do. I imagine you can read a person. Sure five, No
clue, Well, that's not exactly the move. You accidentally reveal your own
intentions to the person that you're trying to read. Okay, which is are
you dead like me? She looks at you, as you're probably blatantly staring
at her with a confused look on your face. She smiles weakly. I'm
not like you. She says this while looking at you when uh, oh,
sorry for staring. It's fine, it's fine. I'm used to it,
Patsy. You're gonna tell me what's going on? What is going on?
Why are you here? Why do you look the same? You were
dead? I checked your pulse myself. You were dead. You were stabbed.
I guess it didn't take. That's bullshit. Hey, there's no reason
to get loud. You shit, don't want to drink. It's okay,
it's okay, Sy. I'm not dead. I never was. Yes,
I'm sorry for what you found. Why didn't you Why didn't you call me?
Why didn't you? I don't understand why. I'm just sprinkling salt a
little bit in her direction as discreetly as I can, just to see what
happens. Oh like, I'm I'm I think I'm pretending to like swat a
fly or something. And I'm just like, I don't understand. Why didn't
you call? Why didn't you do anything? You needed to move on?
Sy? Yeah? So you you what? What is this is all some
kind of you were you were you were trying to break up? I don't
understand. I, oh, Sory, it was just time for you to
move on. See what are you What are you talking about? I don't
understand. Sorry, can I reach out and my grab his arms sort of
like recoils when you touch yea. Hey, hey, it's okay, it's
okay. No, no, no, no. She was dead. She
was stabbed. She was stabbed and and and we still believe that that ends
it. And I'm gesturing towards myself. We know that's not always the end.
What we have something we gotta do and people we gotta help. Cy.
You can see that Green while you're talking to Sy. You can see
that Green has taken out some rubber tubing. The hell is that? What
kind of rubber tubing? Like fish tank rubber tubing. Looks like she's about
to take some heroin. Ooh, she's got a needle out, tightening it
with her mouth. Oh god, I like look around the alleyway, like
the hell, you're just gonna do this in the middle of the alleyway and
find a cop bar. But ah, what the hell, Patsy, what
are you doing? Get that shit out of your arm. It's fine,
it's fine, Yeah, it's it's fine. Shih. Just you just need
to relax mm hmm. She just leans back, probably against one of the
other people in the alley. Patsy, what are you doing? It's fine,
it's a fine. Sigh, it's fine. You gotta let it go,
man, And he frowns, grabs the buck, and I would like
you to make a influence other role for me, please. Okay? Five
storms off? Wait what cy cy? What are you doing? Say?
Come back? I totally chase him. Yeah, yeah, he storms off,
and he says, this is bullshit. This is all bullshit. Yeah,
absolutely bullshit. You were about to sell your soul or whatever to some
bitch who ghosted you. Come on, think, man, people's lives are
at stake right now. No, no, no, we need to take
this someplace else. We're not going to destroy this book. We have to
destroy this book. Si, everything in my gut says it's the right thing
to do. No. No, this was a sign. This was a
sign. She was here. I'm reading here. You can try and read
yep, yeah, twenty two. You can ask two questions. I actually
think I have a move that lets me get an extra one. But let's
just take a look here, quick thinker, choose up to three options.
Okay, hold on, sorry, let me just read this here. Oh
cool, this is amazing. Okay, I would like to choose up to
three options any at any time during that. Okay, remember something that's advantageous
in this negotiation. Ask the GM what it is and which move is this?
This is quick thinker whenever you commence a dangerous mission. Mmm. Okay,
something that's advantageous. I think in this situation it would be the fact
that he's a cop. But sorry, maybe I'm dumb. How am I
supposed to use that in the negotiation with him, kinding him that he's a
cop? Oh? I see? Okay? Okay? Do I ask the
others now or later? Uh? Okay. It's like, look, we
can't take this book anywhere. Okay, Look my friend Max her place has
been potentially robbed or broken into. Okay, someone is there with a gun.
We need to go there. We need to burn this book and go
there. Now. I came to you to help you. Now you've got
to help me, man, Andrew. You gotta just do your your civil
duty. Man, you're a copper, aren't you. Damn it? Quinn,
why didn't you just call nine one one like everybody else? Because it's
weird stuff shit, you know, it's like magic science. Who else was
I gonna call give me another influence other? You have a plus one?
Does that include? Do I add that to the pluses of our vital relationship?
Yes? Okay, oh fucking possible. You got a plus three on
that? Oh no, Quinn, just call nine one one, all right,
just call nine one one. I can't handle this right now. You
have to. You're the only one who can. You're the special spooky task
Force, aren't you not? Right now? God damn it. You can't
just turn it off whenever you want. Sigh. You can't just decide not
to do the oath that you swore to do. People are gonna die if
you just decide to clock out right now them Maybe they didn't, including me.
If you don't want to do the right thing, at least give it
to me and I'll do it. You can wash your hands with the whole
thing. Go clock off, walk off, have a beer, do whatever,
shoot up some heroin with your dead ass girlfriend. But give me the
fucking book. You're not the Knight in Shining Armor. I thought you were,
so let me do it. I never was. I never was thought
so, and I thought so, I've got to go. Sigh. He's
got the book coiled like tightly in his hand, rolled up. I'll use
one of my other questions. I possess some equipment that I can use to
get out of the sticky situation. What is it? You tell me?
It sounds like you'd ask the gem what it is. I'd rather he tell
me. I don't. I don't know. Oh, the picture, the
picture. I have the picture of him and Green. Not technically equipment,
but i'll count. I think. I think narratively, it's pretty bad ass.
You get another influence other role, God damn it, another so you're
a plus three fucking finally. Oh my god. Okay, wait, I
have a move for influencing others. It doesn't matter, we're not using it.
Oh I'm so mad at myself. Sorry. Oh shit, So explain
how you do this? I whip out the picture. I think of the
two of them, did Josh, where do you think I got it?
You got it your house because I care about you. I went looking.
I went looking for the stupid book. So many people want it. It's
obviously filled with terrible stuff. It gives people power to go places we probably
shouldn't be going, send people who don't even know what's going on. To
places where they shouldn't be going. It's dangerous. Sigh. And that's where
I found this. You couldn't even tell me the truth. I had to
find out for myself. So you're gonna take this. You're gonna give me
the book, and you're gonna call for backup, and you're gonna send them
to the address. I'm gonna text you, and then you're gonna give me
some space and if I survive this, we can talk about this later,
because I still care about you, but I'm really mad at you right now.
He hands the book. Hey, it wordlessly. I just take it.
I'm still holding out the photo. He's not looking at it. Hey
man, you can still love what you had and what happened. It doesn't
take away from your experience or how much you loved her. I don't know
this makes any sense. You're talking to a dead girl, so you're telling
me takes the picture, all right? Man, I gotta I gotta go,
I gotta I gotta burn this. Take care of yourself, okay.
He just kind of looks down at the picture. I'm in so many ways
on a clock here, and I just head into the alleyway and I find
the barrel and I fucking slam the book in it, I pour the salt
on it. I'm probably shaking a little bit now. And I ask,
uh, sorry, man, excuse me? Do you have a light?
Just need to borrow a light for a second. And and in fact,
you know, I'll have some of that that that uh whatever's in that flask
there, just a little bit. One of the one of the homeless people,
uh said light. Yeah, I got a light on a line.
I got a light there, you go, thank you, and you mine
mine? The the whatever that is, whiskey, sour bourbon, burbur bourbon,
whatever's in the flask? Man, please roll a disadvantage for me quin.
I can't see that. Sorry eight And you're holding the book. Why
are you put it in the thing? Yeah? Okay, so back up,
put it in there. Okay. You don't think you realized, but
you did it with the hand had the mark on it. Okay, your
mark first begins to itch. Yeah, man, the bourbon or whatever,
and then whiskeys to burn, tequila or whatever. Can I just have a
black man like someone is digging into your skin with a knife. Come on,
man, you want you want to drink? Yes, I absolutely want
to drink. Yeah, all right, God, thank you. And I'm
shaking and I'm probably like just trembling, falling all over your hand. Oh
yeah, great hour I and I just jump it all over the book.
I'm not emptying the flask out, God damn. And then I light it.
We switched scenes Max, Professor Charles, Doctor Copeland. There is a
very tense situation that's happening in the club right now. Max. You've just
gotten off the phone with Quinn. You've got a gun pointed at doctor Copeland.
Professor Charles is still tied up. What are you doing? So?
Quinn said, she's on her way right okay, and the Professor is the
chairs on the floor. I'm just trying to picture it. Yeah, you
haven't picked him up yet. You punched him whilst down on the ground.
Oaks. Okay, I'm going to be leaning back against the bar but still
pointing the gunner. Aida, okay, how do you two? No?
Huh, really pretty chick, really hot chick, like you know, she
knows you, dark hair, bright green eyes, red lipstick, hangs around
hospitals. I don't know that you know, Professor Charles. You can roll
me. Let's see here. Actually let me message you something first. Okay,
how do you know this person? Questions? Again? Sorry, I
thought I was the one with the gun. He's answering. Yeah, Like
I said, a beautiful woman is exactly a specific description. Dark hair,
green ice, talks real, low and soft. You'd remember. This might
surprise you, But I don't really meet all that many women. You baffle
me. I'd like to make the case. Can I Can I make a
role? I'd like to use genius? Okay? What does that do?
Whenever you find yourself in a life threatening situation? Role plus soul to see
if you can discover a way out. Oh for it. M you can
choose one edge there, logical, quick thinker or irrational. I would like
to use rational. Okay, Then I would like to Sorry, You're going
to attract unwanted attention when you do this, so just be aware and explain
how you are going to attract attention. Well, I'm looking around the room,
and I noticed that, well, Professor Charles is still on the ground.
I'm situated a little bit behind him, and if I can cause a
distraction with him using his body or wailing noises, I might be able to
distract Max long enough to make a break for it. So I think that
you can use Professor Charles here, are you going to do it? I'm
gonna wait to do it, Okay. I want to try and read them
to see if I guess that they're whether they're being truthful or not. Okay,
Yeah, this would be directed at Professor Charles. Think well, actually,
no, both of them, because you're trying to figure that out.
Yeah, read person and you can ask the questions. You're gonna get the
same amount of questions, but you have to decide who gets which. Okay,
so you get one question, Sack, that's going to be straight.
I'm not are you lying but about not knowing her? The professor Charles to
start with, Okay, you bullshitting me. Tell me that very vivid description
again, dark hair, green eyes, talks very low and soft, makes
you feel special? Give me a minute. Had love? Being punched in
the head tends to make things difficult? Are you lying to me? Do
I need to knock you out again? You don't need to answer the second
question, Well, then why ask it? You in the habit of wasting
time? Would you like an answer? You clearly are go on. I
have a vague memory of someone of that ilk from but it wasn't here in
this place. Whatever, it wasn't real? All right, elaborate these are
all disadvantage for me, Professor Charles, I now have a minus one on
all of these. Yeah, okay, ouch, do you remember that delightful
little trip you and I and Quinn took back into time and place? Apparently?
What nineteen fifties detective bureau Quinn's alter ego, I assume, Oh,
the weird fucking office. Yes, with the flying assistance, I mean briefly,
yes, well just talking. Can I make a role for observer situation?
Sure? Okay, wow, the roles are not great tonight. Fucking
seriously, you get to ask a question from the observer situation list? What
can I use to my advantage? I think probably the electricity? Okay,
got it? So I had to get unplugged. What's that the cable that
she'd used to get unplugged and flung behind the bar. Just just say you
were away like you did unplug it? Yeah, I unplugged it off the
wall. Yeah, so then it wouldn't be usable. I would say,
probably something simple light switch? Okay, sorry, there out on the street
shortly after the well, let's call it the incident? Shall we you still
had? Yes? I think fucking weird. You know what? It doesn't
matter? Okay, oh, it doesn't Okay, No, please do tell
me your life story. I'd rather not. It's very dull. Could I
get up now? Please? I don't know. Can you give it go?
I didn't realize you're in English major? May I get up now?
So the less boring part of this is that she really wants us to play
together, like grab my face, gave me a kiss. I will not
be forgetting anytime soon. And you me, Quinn the kid with the camera.
We're all supposed to be working together or something to what end? Oh?
Oh, so someone says jump and you just do it? Do you
don't even ask? This is weird. If somebody puts images in my head
without me knowing about how, I tend to pay a bit more attention than
normal. We've all made a deal with someone, haven't we, Sorry,
presumptuous doctor Copeland. Yeah, you have, and you have that I have,
right. I don't think it's strictly necessary that we continue operating against each
other. If we can work together and solve all of our problems on the
same team, right, you need help finding a person. You need help
finding a green woman? I can help you. Whoever said I wanted to
find her? But you're saying I can't trust you, right, Yes,
like you'll work with us, Yes, of course, vouch for her trustworthiness.
I mean I'm only bound on the floor in her hand. And the
other woman on the phone was screaming at you. Quite now the grow nuts
are talking? Really, when are they arriving? Prove it? I gestured
to another chair. Sit in it, Sure, take it up. I
walk over to the chair and there sitting it. I'll keep the gun trained
on her, Move back behind the bar and kick the power cable back out.
Walk around the back of her chair and press the gun like right to
the back of her head. I'm really good with this thing. In fact,
I don't even need it. I need disadvantage. Yeah, well,
okay, do not make me need to use it all my fists on.
You got it, It will be entirely unnecessary. Good and kneel down behind
her and bind her arms. Before you do that, Max, you have
a problem pulling the gun away from the back of her head. It's almost
like your hand doesn't want to move. What are you I think it's first
if we all just relax and were together, really trying, actually trying,
you know, oh, it would really help my rage if you didn't use
that tone of voice. Could you try something a little more direct, a
little bit less manipulative evil, which maybe that will help because right now I
just want to shoot you through the back of the fucking skull, and I
don't think that would be helpful. What do I do? Why don't you
because I think you might be useful there it is maybe, and you can't
prove something if I shoot you through the head. I mean, you're useful
in a different way, but it's not really the kind of proof I'm after.
I want to try him to add uh, okay, keep it together
for me, Max, m hmmm twelve. Choose one from the keep it
Together list add on your page to there. Oh yeah, okay, can
I pull away? It's difficult, but yes, okay, right, And
I'm I'm actually kind of impressed by the way she's tied him to the chair,
so I'm going to be kind of looking over for notes. Okay,
all right, keep your hands back there. Aren't used being this indirect?
Have you sat me up? Not yet? Because I'm getting my hands are
underneath the chair, so unless you lift me up, you can't get to
my hands. Mm hmm, oh no, no, no, I'm I'm
just tying her at the moment, tie it super super tight. Hi.
Are you all done? I am. I'll pull my phone out and dull
nine one one. Okay, I'd like to use forked tongue. Yeah,
yeah, go for it. Max is dialing nine one one. I don't
know if you see that, but she is making none behind that. Yeah,
yeah, one second? Oh no, nice, Okay, what does
it do? They are uh, they trust me, shicks, you know
that. I'm useful having the police come as quiet uestions take us all away.
It's not going to further your cause. I can help you find whoever
you need found, and I can help you reach them. Can you bring
back somebody from the dead. There's the first time for everything. That's not
a yes. I don't need any one found. Why don't you explain to
me what you need and I'll see what I can do. I need somebody
not to be dead. Finding someone in this plane is a simple process.
It's easy. Finding someone who has been separated maybe beautiful, challenging, but
I haven't academic. He didn't, he didn't get divorced. He's gone,
like so fucking gone, like more gone than most people. He can still
be found. Okay, Yeah, I'm here Mary at the club downtown.
There's been a break in, Maria. Do you say, what's your name?
It's Max, Max. I'm one of the Yeah, I'm one of
the bouncers here, Max Roberts. Yeah, I just I was walking past.
Do you want her? Ada Copeland, she's here. I'm sorry.
What's going on, ma'am? Are you all right? I don't. I
don't think so. There's no supposed to be anybody here tonight, and I
walked in and it's fucking weird. I think this guy, I I think,
I think something fucking weird has been going on here. And my boss
got killed right now. I don't know. You're going to have a We're
going to have a police officer and an ambulance on the way soon. Okay,
okay, okay, stay on the line with me. Fuck oh god,
Max, don't you're confusing me. Just ask them if they know a
disadvantage for me. Max. Yeah. As Professor Charles talks to you,
things quiet in your mind slightly, take a deep breath. You think about
doctor Copeland. In the situation that you're in, you can do this,
but I still trust her. Yes, they ran out the back. I
came in and there were two people tied to a chair, two chairs,
plural, and there was somebody just booked it out the back. All right.
I don't know what's going on. It might be the same people that
got marek. It's okay. We'll have somebody there soon. There a minute
out, Okay, okay, talk to me. Max. Are you okay?
Are you work? Yeah? No? No, no, no,
I'm fine. They're still tied up. I don't know if I should.
I thought it was mm hmmm. I thought it was somebody else. I
thought somebody else was in on it. I don't I'm fine, I'm fine,
You're fine, You're okay. They'll be they'll be an officer there soon.
Okay. Can you hear the Max. They're going to me there soon?
Okay, I've reached down. You can hear this horrible crash outside?
Fuck? And your phone begins to cut out. Hello, hu, I
think that's the lights begin flicker outside or something. Fuck? Can I make
a roll for enhanced awareness? Yes? Yeah, the lights turn off?
Oh, shit, who's there. I'm going to back straight up against the
wall and feel my way around to duck down behind the bar. I would
like to struggle with my bonds a little. Can I escape? You can
definitely try act under pressure, please? Yeah. Unfortunately, you start making
noise when you struggle, Max. You can hear doctor Copeland trying to escape.
However, scratches begin to dig furrows in the windows. Can you see
this? See long cracks and scratches begin to make their way onto the windows.
You can talk now? Can you see this? Each of you feels
terrified. Something very very bad is coming. We need to get out.
I know a way, just untimey, and we can go together. Yeah,
on my back anymore. I don't want you can go together? Just
untimey. I untie the professor first, God, okay, help me with
her? Help me or I'll shoot you in the fucking heads. Ok fine,
your regrets, untire bonds? Mm hmmm. Crawling from the drains.
Rats begin pouring out from the drains. Oh the bar. I've seen this
before. Ship, we are going to have past control every fuck all right,
get to the door. No, no, no, no, no,
no, oh, Ship, I just got this. Get to what
kind of Okay, come on, come on, hands, hold hands,
walk along, feel the wall, Come on, follow me. So I
grabbed Ada's hands, grab pay his hand, hold her hand. It's like
a school trip. Come on, could we just let's just leave? Please?
Hold? Come on, walk and I siding I still have one person,
that's if you. I don't think Max searched you, all right,
just making sure. Uh. When we get to the door, I know
a way to take us away from here, but it requires someone to be
a little bit of a sacrifice. Why don't we call that plan B and
I reach into my bra take the key, put it in the door,
and open the door. Which door? Uh? The the one to the
corridor to go out? What are you thinking about when you turn the key?
Escape? Just escaping whatever this is? Okay, I would like you
to make a role for me. Then act under pressure? Please coolness?
Huh what's our marching order? Really quickly? Twelve? Max is in front?
Yeah? Max and Ada? Professor Charles Okay, okay, So what
does the key do? You see? A black void basically where the door
opens? All right? Shall we? I have no fucking clue, but
it's got to be better than in here. Let's go and I'll head straight
through. Before I walk through, can I just see if I can grab
one of these rats? Yeah, it's not hard, all right, I'll
take one. Yeah, there are loads of them. They're all They're covering
the floor. Does it look like a normal sewer rat? Is there anything
else strange about it? Yes, there is something strange about them. I
would like you you can I guess this would be I think this is read
A person is going to be the closest one here read a rat? Yeah,
okay, Now, normally you get to ask me a question, but
you're looking at a rat. They seem very enraged. When you pick it
up, its eyes are glowing red and it bites you can I just squeeze
it in my hands until it goes limp. Not until death, just until
it goes limp? Does it go limp? Engage in combat violence? That's
the weirdest science lesson. Do we see any of this or is it still
pitch black? It's black? Okay, okay, goes limp. I'll take
it with me. It's not dead, right, it's just limp. Sleepy,
sure, wonderful. I walk through the door as just as Ada goes
through I let go of her hand, and I can't see anything in the
in the bar anymore. Right, It's completely like I can't dark even see.
Yeah, there's just some light making its way in through the windows from
from like some headlights and stuff. Okay, No, I just walked through
the door. Okay, we switched scenes. The audience would see doctor Copeland's
knife falling as she walks through the door. Remy, You've been led into
the basement of the cigar shop by these members of Elysium within seemingly that that
Lenny was a part of. And basement looks weird, man, It's uh,
it's covered in various artifacts. You can see almost a similar look to
what you saw in Genesis's Curios and Oddities, lots of strange things, a
bit more of of flair to it. It looks more ornamental, and there's
stuff in glass cases. There's a lot of religious artifacts and things down here,
and there are robes that are hung up and you can see as the
members start to walk in here, they start taking their robes off of hangers,
like a like a rack of hangers. Francis Robertson, the person that
you've been speaking with that identified himself as the brother of Peter Robertson, and
you a robe. It's a little different than the rest there, kind of
a dark green color, almost black. Hm, yours is I would say
probably white? Here take this. It's part of the initiation ritual. Oh
yeah, it's just some kind of fancy hot tub time machine kind of situation
that we're in right now. How come y'all got different ones in this?
One new member? Oh okay, yeah, okay, I'll take it.
You can see that there are there's like symbols that are commonplace here. You
see a lot of these religious artifacts and there are various symbols. You can
make a role for me. Yep, yeah, we would probably be like
touching stuff too. As he's walking. You can before even he gave me
the rope to say you can either and this is up to you. However
you're doing this. You can observe a situation, you can investigate. But
if you're investigating, then you're really taking some time to do it and it'd
be visible. Ah, okay, I think I would observe. Okay,
for the reception check, you can ask me one question from the observer situation
list. Yeah, now you did this voluntarily. I did need to be
a member, yeah, because it was the reasoning for it, though I
wasn't it too find out more about the truth. Okay, that'sa and is
real quick? Is Lenny coming with us? Are he took me alone?
Lenny is with you. They probably helped him put on his robe, but
he's seemingly non responsive. All right, So I would say, what should
I be on the lookout for? Hmm, Okay, it's dark, creepy,
you know, I mean there, he's not on the lookout for anything.
But there's a lot of iconography here, specifically, you notice a lot
of eyes, a lot of the iconography. Yeah, it's a yeah,
it's it's very prevalent in a lot of their and a lot of their artifacts
and things. It's kind of a recurring theme. Yeah. Oh right,
So you know, before we before we go through with this whole thing,
I get to keep my eyes right because I need those. That's up to
you, all right, As I said, we did not do this to
your brother. Yeah. Yeah, times it's hard for me to just kind
of process everything. So if Lenny came here on his own, not and
I I trust, I trust you guys. You can see that they begin
to sort of fan out. There's a sort of a stand that is kind
of like a podium. It's stone, and you can see that that the
eye sort of repeats in sort of various patterns along the podium. It's encircled
by symbols in a circle formed all around it, and the circle extends outwards,
sort of like the podium is near one side of it, and the
circle continues outwards. And you can see that there are chairs that don't look
comfortable. They're also stone, and you can see that eye, the eyes
sort of flowing in various patterns on each chair. Amazing. And I'm just
I take my camera out and I just look around and I'm gonna just start
taking pictures without even asking. Okay, when you take out your camera,
I think that Francis would probably reach for it, and he says, please,
no pictures. This is a private ceremony. Beautiful though, look at
this. Oh my goodness. Wow, he's kind of like not our Remy's
not really hearing it. Just Matt, I've never seen anything, so this
is a I have a ceremony. Please put the camera away. It's in
your nature. Okay, Ah, fine, all right, Can I try
to influence other you can try, all right, I need I need to
get a picture of this. Mm hmmmm, Here we go. I'm sorry,
I'm trying to say it's under didn't oh I didn't actually scroll down.
There we go one picture, mister Turner, and that's thank you, thank
you. Sorry. Remy steps back and he tries to get as much as
he can with if you can get some of the stuff on the wall along
as well as the actual alter thing or not the alter, but like the
podium, just like a really cool shot almost I don't know how to explain
it right when you're it just looks sick right where you get everything on the
side and it goes in and you see just the podium at the end,
you know, just line it up. He takes the picture, and then
I'm wondering if I see anything weird when I actually do take this picture,
you can well plus your soul. Yeah yeah, thirteen, that's my birthday.
Let's see. Because you have a move here, you have advanced you
can have enhanced awareness, YEP is to take the picture losing weak When you
take the picture, I think that for a second, you see you see
the eye begin to grow larger, from the podium and almost like a heat
haze, you know, like when you're when you can see the air because
it's so hot. Yeah, reverberating from the eye. You can see blood
begin to trickle down from the eye in rivulets going out to each of the
chairs, and the eye begins to get brighter and brighter, and then it
looks like a normal picture. Whoa, Now, what the fuck have I
got myself into? Oh man, all right, yep, got I got
the pick. Okay, you must understand, mister Turner. We can't allow
you to leave with that picture, but you can leave it here. Yeah,
sure, fine, that's that's perfectly. I'll delete it. I don't
even worry about it. I see you look. Oh, if you could
please take your position here and he points towards there's a circle in front of
the podium again ringed by various symbols and so much, And Francis begins to
take his position behind the podium, and each of the members here sits in
one of the chairs. Today, brothers and sisters, we welcome a new
member into our ranks, one that arrives willingly, one that is ready to
see the truth. Are you ready to see the truth, mister Turner.
I'm yeah, yeah, I'm totally ready. I'm ready to see the truth.
I'm gonna see the truth. Everything's gonna all make sense, right right,
Lenny, Everything's gonna everything's gonna be revealed. Lenny is sitting in one
of the chairs and he's shaking a little bit. Yo. Hey, I
don't think the rope you gave him his woman enough? Hey, man,
can you tell these he's called two large men come up to either side of
you and grab your wrists roughly. Hey, hey, hey, easy,
easy, come on now, I got sensitive risks and pull your hands behind
your back. Oh no, man, this, oh this is some bullshit.
Man, this I've seen this same right, the same right, brothers
and sisters, one that we have sought so many answers from has arrived.
We will take another step tonight, another step towards learning more of the truth
together. And they begin to pull you down to your knees. All right,
Can I use Daredevil here just a in case? So Daredevil is I
think I had it written. I might actually already be here. Yeah.
So whenever I'm entering a dangerous situation, role perception and I get to hold
edges if I'm depending on how I roll do it up? All right,
you get to choose two edges. You can keep those secrets for now,
all right, So I'm gonna hold on to you can keep those secret for
now? Oh secret down to the ground. A knife is drawn. Hey,
oh, what are you going to do with that? Today? Brothers
and sisters, we learn more of the truth. Francis Robertson holds his hand
in front of your face, opens his palm, and begins to slice the
knife across his palm. H. I mean it's like starting to shake too.
Blood begins to pour out as he squeezes his hand closed, blood dropping
before your eyes, down onto the ground, into the circle of symbols.
Any of the symbols resemble the one that that was on Que's hand by chance
or no like anything similar to it. I think if you investigated, you
might have been able to check. But I don't think there was enough time
and enough I don't know if you were able to. And I'm also already
just like, yeah, I'm shaking now. I'm kind of just almost in
my own head just looking at the blood, because I mean, it's kind
of queasy when it comes down to that stuff. Too drips, and you
hear each drip reverberate on the ground. It feels like the room shakes with
each drop of blood, and a cold sensation washes over your body. Can
you see, mister Turner? Mm hmmm, can you see, sister Turner?
So Coop, you need to stare into the truth, mister Turner.
It's been right before you all along, and that's where we're going to take
our break. Oh my god, happy life, money. Oh, it'll
be fine, It'll be fine, and everything's good. He made him bleed
his own blood, so at least we're going to take a break here.
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everybody to table stories Facade. We return as Max, Professor Charles and
doctor Copeland walk through one of the doors from myriad and you walk out in
two a familiar place, the stone hallway. Huh that's a uh. It's
a neat little key you've got there. Mm hmmm. I put it back
in my bra This is ringing bells. Yeah, can we hear anything?
Can I observe the situation? You can't observe? Sure? Yeah. They
asked me a question, what should I be? What is being hidden from
me? That's a difficult question to answer? Fine, and I can pick
a different one if it's too hard. Here nothing, okay? What should
I be? I think you only get one for fourteen? Oh, never
mind? Okay, Yeah, you're right. Yeah, I think I've been
here before. I think we've all been here before, haven't we altogether?
Do we hear anything? Is there any noise in this room? No noise?
Did I punch somebody? I mean and arrows it down? But the
symbols on the doors, the symbols, do any of them look like like
this one? And I show them my head, my hand. Do I
recognize that symbol a tool from everything I saw in the library when I did
all my research. Sorry, hang on, I gotta roll the appropriate die,
not the orange one. Don'ark and terrified. I don't have an orange
one orange one for this number. Jesus. They don't go high enough to
break the little glass to get the die out. We're also nervous. Okay,
the symbol is different if the one that's on the doors is different.
Oh okay, Professor Charles, you can try and see if you know this.
Do you have a move in mind? I'm not sure either of them.
One of them definitely doesn't apply. I mean, one is whenever I
search, but I mean I'm only already searching my own memories, So I
think that's specifically for like a like a computer search or through a library or
something on that. Okay, So yeah, no, it's just literally just
be looking looking at it and seeing, just trying to recall my wonderful experience
in the library and if any rings, any bells or the pages I photo
copied from visions or anything like that, you can did you try and investigate?
Yeah? Why not? Eleven then asked me one question from the list,
so specifically about that symbol. What what's my gut feel about that?
Second? Let me check out this is important. Um, sorry, let
me check one more time. Okay, that's the right thing. Okay,
fear, Okay, just to clarify what it is that you see. By
the way, the symbol kind of looks like it's a straight line broken up
by sort of like intersecting parts. And there's a second symbol next to it,
the lower rate, and it looks kind of like a a six almost
but not really. It's not a six, but it has a similar shape.
Okay, miss, what did you say? Your name was Max?
Max. My name is Ada. This is professor. I'd gathered by people
saying can you trust Ada? No? You can't. Well, I just
thought it was important that I say it. I am tell me a little
bit about this person you want found. He was the guy who owned the
club, the club we were just at. What was his name, Marreker?
And what did you do to him? I didn't do anything to him.
There's only ever one reason anybody asks for someone to come back from the
dead, and that's guilt. What is your fucking problem? Oh? The
list is endless? Yours? What all can this key do? That's a
really good question. Could across the plane? Can we get you're doing that
thing again? Can we get to places that aren't familiar to us in a
normal, average people kind of way? Max, I would like you,
mm hmmm. Why shall it make you roll roll plus your soul? Please?
You think you can? But very well will cost you something. I
don't know. I'm still figuring it all out. Maybe, but it feels
like like it's not free, like it's a bad idea. Maybe I see,
Yeah, that's about what I expected. What about What about your weapon?
You have a gun, don't you? I do? Does it have
seals on it that are familiar to this room? Can you identify any of
the markings on your gun to anything in the here? Shit? I just
thought it was pretty I'll pull the gun out and kind of inspect on the
sides of it. Is there anything that looks like any of the doors?
H? I think it's just you know, fancy street gang stuff. Maybe
street gang stuff. I don't know. People like to decorate something's important.
You fancy it up, don't you tapped it up? That gun is not
normal? Is it? Apparently? I'd What do you know about it?
Where is it related to Merrick? No? I don't think so. I
was. I was just giving it in the club a few nights back,
and I'll be honest, I was pissed, and I don't remember a lot
of what people said to me. M M. But I know that it's
important, like powerful important and can kill things, not like normal gun kill
things, but like important stuff kill things. But the bullets are weird,
really, God, I so many drunk and I'm not how many bullets do
you have? Well? Soon hopefully five? But right now you don't have
any bullets? No? Sorryry about that? Sorry to interrupt this this.
You do remember the bar threatening to shoot her, not really wanting to talk
to her. You seem very very eager to tell her everything. Now,
is there? You too? You an item? Now? Is this how
this. No one of us, between me and Anthony, is trying to
help and get out of this situation, and the other one of us.
I don't see why we should be bringing judgment into this. None of us
is a fucking saint here. I assume. Oh, I wondered when you'd
show your face again? M not too embarrassed? Are you couldn't finish your
meal? I see? I am stronger now where we would you like that?
Normally I wouldn't be able to come here? And what did are you
here? You should be very keen? Oh, never mind, Peter for
once said somebody else ask the questions? Oh, I'm sorry, doctor,
you must have very pressing questions. No, no, please keep talking to
yourself. That's adorable. Oh do we hear him talking or not? No,
you wouldn't hear him. You see how she asks an awful lot of
questions. Max doesn't really provide you with any answers. That sound like someone
trustworthy or someone manipulating you. You want bullets for your gun. I can
get your bullets, fear gun. I can get me bullets for the gun.
Thank you very much. But right now, both of you sound fucking
weird. Have you never had a conversation with somebody where you weren't trying to
get something out of them. Do you ever just like have a beer?
I can assure you, Max, I want absolutely nothing out of you.
Bully for you, but you talk like a wanker. Sorry, but facts.
The word you're looking for is educated, which really not. I think
I got it right the first time, and maybe that's why people don't really
you know, why they think you're the kind of guy who's going to get
his dick out on a dance floor. Oh I'm sorry, you kept dick
up your ass has a stick up your ass? You know you do know
when you do this, there's noise that comes out. But okay, okay,
okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay from you,
Max, just just focus, focus. You have a key that can take
us maybe anywhere. I can help you find your friend. I have something
else I need to We can help each other. Why won't. It's a
book. It was stolen from me and I need it back. And you
don't need the other book, the one from the club. No, I've
read that one and reading. Yes, we need the book. There's another
book. It's a notebook of mine that contains a lot of my life's work,
and it's was taken then I need it, Okay, details a lot
of things experiments I've conducted. If you want to be rid of me,
Anthony, you'll have someone read that entire book to you. And what do
I get in return? I will leave you the book of mine. It
was taken by a person named Quinn. Yeah, yeah, I think they
might. By the way, that's the one she had tailed me because she's
unbelievably innocent and trustworthy. Wait, what so Quinn works for you? Quinn
doesn't work for anyone, Quinn as a free agent. Yeah, but that's
still like work like I worked for I worked in the club and I didn't
like belong to the club. But I still work for the club. So
why doesn't she trust you? Quinn and I have a complicated relationship. I'm
surprising. I don't think Quinn understands what that book is. But it is
very valuable and I need it. Okay. Getting it should be simple.
It should just be open a door, Grab it, open a door.
Be back here, doctor Copland school, your disadvantage for me? Okay,
And the whole bringing someone back from the dead thing fits in now the book
can tell me how to go about doing that. But you said you made
the notes. I did, but it's extensive and I can't replicate the entire
process from memory. It would take me. So if you haven't done it
before, she did say that, right, I have extensive notes on how
the process could be done. That's that's academic for no. Max. It's
just a carrot on a stick. If you can control you, it's not
about control. Do you want your friend? Do you want your friend?
I can help you get about control. Wonderful. I don't like this.
I don't want to fuck you around or anything, but I mm hmm.
So what is this this place? Is this a place that was covered in
the in the memories book Visions and Visions? Sorry mh no, okay,
m I think this room works a lot like your key works, but it's
not focused. It's not something we can act some kind of force upon.
It just kind of goes wherever. But with your key, we can use
one of these doors to go wherever we need, all right, any preference.
If we get the book, then I can begin the process of bringing
your friend back. We can get some bullets for you, and then you'll
have protection you are it or anything goes wrong, I just walked straight past
both of them. Take the key out and try it in the door.
What are you thinking about when you try to keep eduarda mm hmm. Okay,
give me a second. M hm, Hey does that? Max walks
over to the door. That passage you tried to read to me so lovingly
aunt the club? Yes, you know that book Visions Visions? Yes,
I've read it. Is that my copy? Uh? No, no,
where did you find it? Max opens the door? See blackness beyond?
Uh? Are you two coming or what? Yeah, we're coming. I
don't see that step through. I'm gonna go with her and I follow him
behind. Okay, we switched scenes. Quinn. As you are driving to
the club in the cab, there's some horns up ahead and there is a
horrific holy shit. The cab swerves out of the way and you can see
like a bunch of cars start to t bone each other in an intersection right
nearby your destination. I immediately get out of the car and I'm running to
the to the to the scene and I say, you know, callin one
one one one, yeah, and I run over you rush over to the
scene. Sorry, to interrupt you, So, uh, how's my arm?
Just because we left off with like me about to burn the book and
I my arm was like bleeding and on fire. Yeah yeah, you don't
remember, Okay, okay, okay, fine, that's cool. Let's go.
You just kind of woke up in the cab. In the cab,
yep. Oh, and it was already moving, uh huh okay on the
way the Myriad. You know you were going to Myriad. H yeah,
I just yeah, okay, yep. As you arrived to the scene of
the accident, there is something strange. Rats are pouring out of the sewer
grates all about. You see them pouring onto the streets from all over.
There's some strange movement by the accident. It looks like something vaguely humanoid,
hands shaped like claws, and there are more things moving about. You can
see strange figures dressed in armor. It looks like glass, and they're carrying
spears. One of them appears to have been hit by one of the cars.
It's down on the ground, armor partially cracked. The others and there
are several of them seem to be ignoring this person, this creature. They
seem to be squaring off with this other person with claws for hands. People
are staring in fascination but not reacting like you'd expect read a person. Please,
can I this is the crowd? Right? This is a crowd.
Yeah, you want me to, but I just I have a move that
is read a crowd rather than just a person, So I'll use that then.
Okay, oh my god, Okay, so I don't have the Oh
wait, hold on, I think I have the details to this one.
For some reason, it's I didn't put it on my character sheets, so
just give me one second. All it says is, uh, you're a
master at overhearing information in crowds, but I don't have it pulled up.
So we can do whatever you want. So you can ask three questions?
Yeah, okay? Who here has information? I want? Where can I
find what I am looking for? Who is watching me? Is there anything
else of interest? Who here is watching me? Does anybody notice me?
No? Okay? Uh? Sorry? What were the questions again? Can
I see them on the moose list? It's on page one oh nine?
Ah, okay, who here has information? I want one of these figures,
either one of these creatures in glass armor or this person thing with claw
hands. Where are they headed? Like they're marching somewhere? Where are they
going? The glass armored figures look like they're trying to make their way towards
myriad. However, the person with claws for hands appears to be trying to
stop them. What the fuck is happening? The rats are still pouring all
over the street. The street is like covered in these rats. Is there
anything else of interest? Yes? Your mark is no longer bleeding. Is
it still like an open wound? Yes? Can I pour salt on it?
You do whatever you want? Yeah, I do that, then it
doesn't hurt. That's where okay? I uh, I am. I think
I'm a little confused. I don't know how I got here. I don't
think I would have left without making sure I had burned the book properly.
And so I think I'm just kind of this huge accident, these people in
glass armor and then this claw armed person. I just you think about the
book, Yeah, like the first thing, like if I wake up and
I'm in the cab, I honestly don't think I would have just kept going.
I would have made sure I had the book. I know, but
you said I woke up like, I don't remember what happened after I tried
to burn the book, So I don't know some reason when you think about
the book, you know you don't have the book, as in I didn't
successfully burn the book either. I can't remember, right, So that's that's
what I meant. Like if I had woken up in a car on the
way somewhere and I didn't remember, I wouldn't have just kept going. I
would have like gone back to make sure that I had burned the book.
So I think I'm just a little bit. I guess you sort of came
to and the accident happened right away. Yeah, so yeah, I'm like,
uh and and this this claw like person is trying to stop these armored
people. There is there's some kind of fight that's happening as they're trying to
approach myriad. And where are the rats going? All over the street,
Okay, just everywhere. I'm gonna if they don't see me, I'm gonna
I'm gonna duck out and try to hit the myriad. Then yeah, you
can see they're actually starting to fight, Like in the street, spears are
being jabbed towards this person with claw hands. Give me a regular read a
person. Okay, okay, the crowd is not reacting in the way that
you would expect to the fight. It seems like they're reacting like an accident
has happened, almost like they can't see this fight. Can I use my
pierce the illusion or see through the illusion? Yes? Am I already doing
that though? That's what I'm wondering. Can I just am I and everything's
still gray scale for me? Right? Yes? Okay, you can make
the role though. Okay, thirteen, you're making your way towards Myriad.
Yeah, well, I mean if I'm piercing the illusion, like if the
crowd's not reacting and they're acting like it's an accident, then I'm looking at
the accident and trying to pierce the illusion before I dash off to Okay Myriad,
like kind of like looking over my shoulder, like before I you see
that one of these creatures in the glass armor begins to look around the crowd
and it locks eyes with you. What do you do? That's me piercing
the illusion for seeing through the illusion? Okay, yeah, I'm sorry,
I've never done this move before. Yeah, this thing locks eyes with you?
Does it look pissed? At me. Does it look is it like
a person? Does it look like someone I know? Sorry, No,
it's okay. Sorry, I've never done this move before, so I don't
really know. So what I can do? You see the buildings as it
makes eye contact with you. You see the buildings begin to change around you,
almost as if the gray that you have, this desaturation that's that you've
seen happen, is affecting the buildings. You can see that there are pipes
and smoke, and this extremely sort of gothic looking city begin to emerge all
from the buildings around you, Bridges towering overhead, interspersed with the city.
Is this the city that I've first heard about? I think? So?
Okay. It starts with an e oh no you heard about this city from
Professor Charles, this one, okay, this is the one that he described.
Okay, I think so okay, oh shit, And it's just it
just looks like I've just never seen it before, but it's always been here,
yes, okay, okay. Shit. When it catches eyes with me,
I think, I just I just back up and I bolt for the
myriad side door. It points after you, and sort of it points and
stamps its spear on the ground, and you can see a few of the
creatures who have these strange like spiked glass armor begin to make their way towards
you, rushing after you. I'm using a move and I'm going to lose
them. Okay, wah, I'm gonna try anyway. You're observing a situation
or do you have a different It's a perception skill. Yeah, okay,
it's called shadow. It lets me tell people, but also if I succeed,
they can't tell me. Okay, let's see on a twelve. Yeah.
I don't think that's full success, that's just partial. Okay, So
explain how you shake them. Okay. So I think like I'm watching them
because this is this ability specifically means I have to like follow them instead of
them following me. So I kind of dart down the alleyway, and then
when I realize that they're following me, I hesitate to go get Max because
I don't want to lead them directly to Max, and I just double back
around. I like turn left through the side alley, and then I kind
of hover in in between, like behind a trash bin and something else that
I'm just peeking over, and I kind of watch them go by, and
then when they can't find me, I watch them go back, and I've
kind of followed them a little bit, and now I'm tailing them instead of
heading for Max. You can see that they seem relatively coordinated, almost like
one is leading the others. Okay, and they sort of point off and
they start to like spread out, checking these arches that are sort of gothic
and expansive, and after a moment they sort of rush back, falling back
into line. There's four of them I think that followed you, and they
charge back off towards the club. Okay, and how's this claw person doing?
They are getting fucked up? Yeah, okay, you return basically,
and this person has a spear in their side, like it's just it looks
like it's pierced something important. It's broken, and the one of them looks
like they've taken some claw marks across the face, but otherwise unharmed. The
claw person has one hand clutching the spear and is trying to like fend them
off, with the other claw looking a bit desperate. At this point,
do I recognize this claw creature? No? Okay, So the move means
I technically shadow and follow the people who are following me to their destination.
So I think I will see this happen, and then you know, I'm
still kind of like tailing behind them, and so then I will sneak into
the myriad. If they reach the myriad, or if they're still heading towards
it, then I'm just shadowing them. Act under pressure. I'm gonna say,
you've got a plus one thirteen. I get to the back door of
the club. There's a dumpster that's there. It's locked. Okay, how
are they getting in? They are trying the door first, and then one
of them jams the spear in the door like a crowbar and starts wrenching it
open. As they do, something begins to happen previously unseen. There are
symbols around the door that begin to glow. Do I recognize any of them?
Oh? Okay, they begin to get Do they look like what's on
my arm? Or are they different looking? Okay, it's a different it's
a different look. The symbols begin to glow, and the creatures sort of
cover their eyes as bright light is flashed. The one that has jammed its
its spear into the door, it cintegrates for your eyes a puddle of goo
o o. They begin to uh search around the outside of the club,
looking at windows and things. Several of them begin to point and read A
person for me, your team, and ask me one question from the list
there. Okay, oh my god, open the moose lists please. Okay,
great, a person. How can I stop them from entering the club?
That's right, I don't think you have to. Okay, they look
like they are stopped. They are pointing out other entrances though, right,
yeah, they are. They're pointing things out and basically it seems like they
can't get in. Great, this club seems to be protected. Great,
Okay, then I will wait until they either move out of the way.
I want to go to that door and I want to see the symbols that
are on it. Okay. It takes a few minutes. They're checking like
every entrance slash exit, any windows, everything, They're checking everything around the
club. Okay, So it takes a few minutes for them to disperse,
but eventually they do. So do the rats. By the way. Okay,
you go up to the door. Yeah, are the symbols still there?
You said, I could previously unsee them. They would have disappeared.
Can I pierce the illusion? You can try eleven. When you try to
see through the illusion. You've described it once before. Can you do that
again? Yeah, that feeling when you out of your periphal think you see
something, a shadow, and you look and it's not there, and you
wait and your heartbeat is a little bit fast. I just sit in that
moment and I just look at it, and suddenly things come into focus.
Around the doors, you can see symbols interconnected. They outline the doors and
the windows, and growing out from this place, you see twisty, windy
roads, a spiral into the sky in all directions from this club, as
if this place is some sort of hub. I I pull out my pocket
knife and I start carving those symbols into my arm, the symbols around the
door, the protection ones. Yeah, okay, we switched scenes. Your
camera please. Oh I was like waiting. I was like, I think
it's me, but Remmy, it's waiting for that, Remy. The coldness
has washed over you. You feel a pulse reverberating through you. H your
heart beat, but every beat is like a drum inside your head, inside
your chest. You feel your veins pulsing I like this feeling. I know,
I said a listen to green? Mm hm ah? Who is green?
Remy? Oh? Did I? Did I say that out loud?
My bad? Don't feel well? Who are they? Green? Green?
It's a color, it's a color. It's just my favorite color. Actually,
I listened to colors. I know, I'm weird. Do you know
them? M the color? I mean it's kind of like a mix of
a couple. You know. They claimed you yet claimed? Oh well,
I I claimed it as my color, but you no? Uh? I
forget, I forget. I said that. Please, I'm have you taken
the power yet? Remy? I think i've If you're talking about that weird
shadow? And he looks at his arm. It kind of took me to
be honest day sending the shadow, Remy, I don't know who's who sent
it. I don't know. I still have to find my friends. And
it's inside of me right now? Can you help? He did they send
the knock tracked? That's that's what the name of it is. And I
don't know who they are, but they said something. It's inside of me
and I don't want it anymore. I don't want any of this anymore.
I'm fulting your eyes, Remy, please try to see through the illusion.
Have a plus two? All right? Oh is that twelfth roll? Yes?
I mean I'm just looking to open up. There we go, all
right? You open up your eyes. You see the people around you.
Each member of the Elysium within here has an eye, like a third eye
on their forehead, open and looking around, seeing all about. This place
that you're in has blood splattered by each of these artifacts. Sometimes you see
dead bodies near them. All of them have been paid for in blood.
And you look to Lenny. Did Lenny as well? Lenny's eye his third
eye. It's not like the others. You can see that that I has
also been gouged out. The fuck is going on here? Guys? Got
much? You guys are insane. It was too much for Lenny. No,
it was too much for him. Anybody give him? You guys got
so many guys, give him just two even one? What the fuck is
wrong with you? Guys? If I'm still bound like is my uh being
held down the ground? They each have your arms and they're holding they're holding
off. Black lives still matter, you know, Like, come on,
Lenny, Remy, I'm struggling to engage in combat. You have a plus
five. Wow, all right, sir sop Son thinking eleven and let me
see this. You throw one of them back, one of them gets thrown
across the room and as it happens, a bright light erupts from you.
Get off of me, and that's how we're going to end the session today.
What's the actual fuck? Manh my god, damn hot damn. Indeed,
that is crazy. Good session, everybody, good session, great session,
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Please, Tempo, would you be so kind justus to start us off?
All right? I go by the name of Tempo. Spell that with the
zero. My golly, another one. Yeah, So if you guys want
to check me out, you know, I do a lot of StarCraft two.
I haven't been playing as much, but I've been doing a lot of
casting lately, you know, a lot more commentary and I'm gonna be diving
into other games. Been doing a lot more live streaming, like RL streaming
and stuff like that, but also been getting back into music. So I'm
actually going to pick up some studio equipment right after this. Actually, and
damn, I don't know your facad song. What's up? It's like,
dang, it's been getting crazy. So if you guys want to check me
out, check me out on Twitch dot tv, slash Tempo spelled with the
zero, Twitter dot com slash t e m P zero, Hastag, Fuck
Placebo, Hastag. Save Remy. Although I think Remy done, he can
save himself. It seems like no, We'll have to see about that.
I Went've been on Instagram a lot too, so you should check that out.
Team Tempo is there. If you head on over to table story dot
tv slash facade, you can follow everybody and all the places go do that.
Mm hmm and uh I have a question for you, all right,
if you had the opportunity for power, would you take it? I'm gonna
say yeah, Remy has been pretty weak his whole life, and uh,
all he's wanted to do is to be able to protect his brother, and
it seems like I'm gonna need it in order to He'll do anything not to
be able to protect Lenny. Okay, thank you, hebe yes. Hello,
Hi, I'm pumpkin Berry. I played a que for you today.
You can find me at Twitch and Twitter at Pumpkinberry and you can see all
the crazy stuff that I'm up to at Pumpkinberry dot tv. I do podcast
projects. Just launched a new podcast about the TV show Dark, which is
pretty awesome. I'm also here on Sundays where I play an old woman Suna
Sorceress, and then I'm here again on Wednesdays where I gm are Surreal Thriller
Gone. Uh yeah, and that's it. That's me, thank you.
Mm hm. My question for you, or for Quinn, I should say,
is what are you willing to sacrifice for what? That has been Quinn's
m O since day one? What is the what is the cost? What
is the price? Just not willing? They're not willing to bargain. They
turned down time guy, Sam, I'll help you, so enough of an
answer for me, Thank you? Okay, Nicotine. Hi everyone, my
name, my name is Nicotine. I play a lot of roleplay games on
twitch dot tv. That's an I K A T I any I do a
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That's Nicotine and I K A T I any a Nicotine prime on Twitter,
where I post a lot of pictures. Thank you. I have a
question for you, Chip. Would you be willing to trade everyone else to
get to where you want to go? Everyone else? Yes? No?
Thank you. Jay. Hi, I'm Jay Brittain, voice actor for video
games and whatnot. Whatnot's more interesting than the video games and a variety streamer
here on Twitch you can catch me here Twitch dot tv voice that's Jay Britten,
or ever on Twitter voice Jay Britton. That's that'll do. That's it
now. I'm back on Monday doing more Dog Souls three. I think that's
it quick today. Yes, is my answer. If you could rid yourself
of your passenger, but you had to kill someone else to do it,
would you do it? Mm hmm no, thank you, Millie. Oh
hello, I am Amelia Tyler, live from the UK aka apparently the heart
of the fucking sun. At the moment. It's crazy hot and we are
all sufferings as so many other people this stupid heap, but I did not
dissolve so all as well. I am a voice active for video games,
which makes the hydration extra important. I have not been doing much of the
Twitch what notttery recently, but I think I'm about ready to come out of
my little self and post break, I will keep you up to date on
plans on Twitter. I'm down there as just a media tiler. I'll let
you know as and when, but right now I'm just going to concentrate.
I'm not melting, thank you. My question for Max is what does Max
want to never feel powerless again? Thank you. I'm Wax Stephen. I
have been your GM of doom. I've dragged the players kicking and screaming to
the adventure today. Thank you everybody for watching Chat. We appreciate you so
much. Thank you for being here. Much love to you, Chat.
Thank you for the love and the support. Thank you for being here.
We appreciate you so much. Thank you Millie, thank you Jay, thank
you Nicotine, thank you Peeb, thank you Tempo for being awesome role players.
I appreciate you. Thank you. And we've got two episodes left a
facade, everybody, two episodes, so don't miss any We've got a show
on Sundays called Dying Order that Brad is running. It's a D and D
show, and you should definitely tune in for that because I think we're getting
close to the end on that show. So we've got we've got a bunch
of stuff going on, guys. So thank you, thank you for joining
us, and we'll see you hopefully on Sunday for a Dying Order peace out
wonderful. We appreciate your we do. Good night, everybody. Bye,
guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah good God. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah