Welcome to Blank City Nowhere, the actual play anthology podcast. Many games,
many places in one weird world, and in this season, one pretty cool
vampire. We are continue our game of a thousand year old Vampire by Tim
Hutchings today joining me to play the titular vampire. We have CALLI on Hello
it I once again. It's been a minute. Welcome to season two for
your moment in the spotlight. Yeah, and I will say thank you for
behind the seeds putting up with a lot of delays, one thing after another.
It's been a year. Yeah, listener, you may have been watching
your podcast feed for months on end being like I could have sworn there was
this other show called Lake City Nowhere. You didn't dream it, listener,
it happened. It's real. It's just been a little difficult getting every I
crossing T dotted for future events. But we're getting there. We're here.
You're listening to this now. So so how do we start this off?
Do we just do a quick recap? Yeah, let's recap. So the
last time we saw this vampire, you had taken the name Molly Sharp.
You are now living in Chicago. You've immigrated from France to Chicago, it
is now the early twentieth century. I believe after World War One you were
in Yeah, you were in the twenties. So in economically fraught times,
you have found your way to America. You've been making some moves in Chicago.
You did run a fout of like a government agency last time, and
but other than that, you just seem to be living it up in your
new role, you know, taking it day by day. It seems that's
cool. You know. Actually, my great grandmother on my mom's side was
in Chicago at this time, so wow, so you can you can meet
her, you can run into her. Yeah, she's just running a running
a grocery store through the Great Depression. Listen. Tough, tough work,
but hey necessary yeah yeah, no, no, completely completely spared from the
from the desperation of the times. That's good, that's positive. During the
Great Depression, my great grandfather on my dad's side shot a guy who was
trespassing on their land and went to like a farm up state for a while
for just outright killing a dude. Wow, that is crazy. It is
the land that my uh that is that my grandparents lived on their whole life
and is still in the family who does that When were you I'm just curious
when were you told that story? Like what was that told that story?
Like kind of late I was told that story, like like in high school,
Like, oh, yeah, you're great. Green Dad just like blasted
a dude right here in the triveway right here where I've walked times. Yeah,
totally. We just thought we'd dropped that knowledge on you. Now really
understand what this land means. You've got the blood of a killer and only
one time, I don't know, you still did like murder, but I
don't know it's like a serial killer or anything. Yeah, yeah, just
some standard issue murder in the family. We all have it. Yeah,
it's just like my reaction was just like oh weird, okay, right,
not as dramatic or not as a noble or like compelling as running a grocery
store. I guess you know. I feel glad that my great grandma got
out right before World War two kind of beset the Polish town. Yeah that's
good, that's good timing. But hey, now we're into history that we
are aware of. You're true, Yeah, now we know. God,
those early episodes are I was like, what happened in France in eighteenth century.
It's good to have a little more bearing. I'm not gonna lie.
I'm still going to search Chicago nineteen twenty, big events. Yeah, sure
you can hit all right. Cool? So to start, let me open
up. Yes, So to start, let's go ahead. Get your first
prompt. Roll in the A D six and a D ten and subtract the
D six from the D ten. Ohright, so D ten's a four.
D six is a two, so we've got a two. So yeah,
we go forward to because the D ten was a four, the D ten
was a four. Yes, yes, great, okay. So to prompt
thirty one? Well no, yeah, wait, hold on, have we
been here before? Let me check the list of prompts. Yes, you've
already been to the one where you slumber for one hundred years. Okay,
good, because I was like, wait a minute, you had to go
see during modern day. Oh okay, okay, oh this is better.
So thirty one B. You recognize the descendant of a dead mortal who features
in one of your memories and feel compelled to make their acquaintance. How do
you share knowledge about their ancestor without revealing your monstrous nature? How is this
conversation awkward, gain a contemporary and unexpected skill, create a mortal character a
new friend. Okay, so this is good not only because you needed some
new skills, but also because like, hey, you're you're making new connections
also, so this is good. Okay, So most of your acquaintances have
died, so there's plenty of people to choose from of like who is who
has a descendant here? So I'm looking through the memories right now and just
sort of taking note of some of the mortals. Looks like in the experiences,
we've got the barrenness Mabelene who owns a small town and runs the townspeople
like her personal hobby. Ah. Yes, I don't think I can use
lilts let in. This unfortunate because you have blocked her out. Yeah yeah,
it's a shame. I've got the help, but the help of who
no matter at that point that resource is just like the help of a random
stranger. But who knows. If it comes up, it comes up.
But you don't need to worry about catching that in because you're making a new
connection here, I think. Okay. Okay, so thirty one, so
other people you have memories out there's manon the friendly cook who helps you find
people. And the boy Charlie, who also you found in the sewers.
Charlie found in the sewers. Sounds like fun. Manon helped feed me?
Yes, yeah, is cool with the vampire thing. Yeah, with offers
of a hot meal. Oh my god. Okay, so once again,
thank you for your patience. Just something super hard about how to talk to
somebody about their very dead relative. Okay, what's up? I knew it'd
be like I knew your great great grandmother like you have. No, you
probably don't know her name. You seem like a guy who's descended from someone
who is chill with murdering people for vampires. What do you think? Okay,
you recogonize the descendant of a dead mortal who features in one of your
memories and feel compelled to make their acquaintance. How do you share knowledge about
their ancestor without feeling your monstrous nature? Everything about Manan feels like there's a
monstrous nature reference. How is this conversation awkward? Yeah? Yeah, oh
yeah, yeah yeah yeah. All right, So I'm gonna say it's definitely
a descended of Manan. Okay, cool, and I guess I probably recognize
them by their scent. Maybe there's like a sort of tracking memory. You
know. I know that there was some cannon stuff developed when Corey played,
So I'm just going to add that too. Vampires got that good sense of
smell for humans. Sure that n So I imagine they're sort of out in
a bar at night. Maybe I'm just sort of prowling during prohibition because secret
spaces and crime makes it super simple to hide crimes in a big city.
Yeah, So how do I share knowledge about their ancestor? That's such an
interesting thing to include, because personally, were I a thousand year old vampire,
I would simply not mention it. I would simply be like, hello,
new friends. I think that. So at this bar, they probably
actually have some food, you know, to kind of cover up. You
know, there's a kitchen and then there's a back area where you can get
access to this. Yeah. Yeah, so the front business, I think
that is it? Molly Sharp, Yes, that's your current all. So
Molly will approach the ancestor of Menan and compliment their taste and that they have
that It must run in the family, this knowledge of gastronomic sort of appreciation.
Sure, and of course it's awkward because I think that that's a weird
thing to open it with. And there's definitely a sense of mystery. And
I don't know, are they still wearing the the veil. That's up to
you, Like you need to be wearing some sort of disguise because of your
facial features, yeah, your scars and teeth and whatnot. But I'm definitely
gonna lean into the veil. I know that this era of fashion, you've
got the flappers and the sequins and all of that. There's some ostentatious feathers
and whatnot. But maybe I'm in mourning, who knows sure. And I'm
gonna say, but imagine you are. You are in twenty Chicago. You
are just whipping up some some hash or whatever, some early Italian beef,
and then fucking the fucking specter of death like wafts over to you. I'm
definitely I saw you across the bar. Yeah, this this sort of strange,
ghastly figure just sort of floats towards you and says, wow, you've
got real good taste. You remind me of someone I knew a well.
I think that this is a culinary connection, Like I feel like that would
be the skill gain a contemporary and unexpected skill. Maybe, with times being
as bad as they are, it's good for Mollie to know how to lure
people in with food, and so this mortal character, let's see. So
Manon, do you recall Manon's last name? She did not have one.
Well, at this point they've moved over to the US. Yeah, just
endless generations. Yeah, so I'm gonna go with searching popular baby names nineteen
twenty twenty two. Let's good, twenty two. I'm gonna say it's gonna
be Charles Basker. That's good. That's a good Chicago name right there.
Yeah, Charles Baska, Charles Basket. I do not have accents in my
brain. I don't think that the current Midwestern accent is a good reference for
nineteen twenty Chicago. I mean, it's we can just be brought with it.
It's fucking al Capone mobster times. Yeah, she's a fucking vampire.
I walk it over here. Yeah. But our new friend is Charles Basker.
And it turns out they have continued the family tradition of cooking, and
this friendship turns into a kitchen kitchen lessons, I don't know lessons in the
kitchen. Okay, cool. Yeah, so your your new skill is cooking
is yeah, yeah, and that's that's going to be useful for again leading
victims to their death. Yeah, definitely, I could see the use for
that easily. I imagine that those those cooking sessions are really interesting because Molly
can't really I think that if they ingest human food, they'll like, uh,
oh jeez, what's the show with Giermo? What we do in the
shadows? Yeah, what we do in the shadows. It's sort of like
that they take a bite and sort of violently vomit. Right, yeah,
it's it's this has happened. I don't know if you're like a big food
network watch air, but every now and then on a show, like a
cooking competition show, they'll have like a contestant who's like either allergic to something
or like vegan and is like cooking the non vegan ingredients so they can not
taste the food they're preparing, and so they're like they're like training with this
extra weight on of like they have no way to know other than like muscle
memory and like like logic dictates like their conclusions of what they think makes the
food like good or not, and they're like like cooking with like one eye
covered or whatever. It's like always need to see. And then the judge
like, oh this is good and they're like, oh, I wouldn't know.
I'll take your word for it. Yeah, totally, it smells like
it should be for you. Okay. Cool, And so we've got Charles
Basker and the ability to cook great. Okay, So now the hard part.
We have to file this experience in a memory, and you have one
memory. Memories only contain a max of three experiences. The good news is
you have one memory that only has two experiences. That's the most recent memory,
which contains like the memory of like killing or like turning that one guy
from the cops into a vampire and also just taking the new name Molly Sharp.
So we could like file it away with that, or we could make
a new memory of just like presumably happy things. But then something else is
going to have to be forgotten. Well I feel like I'm going to prepare
to forget something during this game, but I think this still falls into this
new memory nine, which is like disguising yourself. So yeah, what can
the new life? What can offend? Looking figure do that will help them
blend in well, clearly in nineteen twenties America, it's cook. Yeah,
I will use these gender roles and the night. Yeah, that makes sense
to me. Great, Okay, what's one prompt down? All right,
give me give me some more dice rolls? All right here it cos whoa
and we've got an eight on the ten, two on the six, so
that's a six. All right, we've head six. Well, okay,
things fall to dust. Who's a resource for which you have no corresponding memory?
Do not create a new experience for this prompt. It simply happens as
you stare in silence. Okay, well you just fucking there's a hole in
your pants and something falls out. Yeah. So the resources we have now
are really nice carriage, the help of lilts away, dark magics, a
mansion, fine, throw bread, horses and guns in a bag. Yeah
that is like technically a diary. So that also contained the memories. Oh
yeah, yeah, so you could be wild with it and just like forget
whatever was in the diary, which is yeah, those are some of your
earliest memories, like target practice with your six year old sister. You know,
I'd actually love to do something that makes sense, and I would say
the I would say there are three that really makes sense. The help of
lilts away, the mansion, and fine throw bread horses, the carriage.
It's so funny. I don't actually remember when you've got these ostentatious fun just
somewhere along the lines. Horses, those definitely aren't being maintained. I imagine
the mansion is not being maintained. Yeah, across the ocean. Yeah,
And I don't know if we brought the carriage with us during our experience of
moving to the US, we which we've did we forget that or does that
still in our minds? I feel like that's one of the things we just
forgot A question. Yeah, so you know, I'm gonna go with h
for which you have no corresponding memory. I don't think we remember liltt do
we Let me don't check, but I believe lil It is gone now.
Yeah, so let's forget that. The help of liltt sleh has just been
lost. It's crumbled time that makes the most sense. It's like who yeah,
yeah, okay, okay, cool. I imagine for for Miley,
this is just sort of staring off into space during like just a quiet moment
like mm hmm, what was that? Do you think You're like, oh,
where are You've forgotten? Something? Like the thing of like you walk
in a room to get something and then you walk in the room you're like,
I could not tell you what I was looking for. I think that's
exactly the feeling. It's walking into her room thinking that you need something and
then huh and the help of Lilit's ale, you know, being helped by
mortals in the past. Maybe there's that sort of sense of like connecting something
to the past with the new friend of Charles Basker hanging around a mortal and
not killing him. Still sort of a fresh new thing after the one hundred
years sleep. So yeah, you're still getting your groove back for sure.
All right, Cool, that's that's easy. Cool. Yeah, it was
an easy one. We don't have to make any memory or experience for this
one. So here you go, give me another role. Okay, here
it goes all right, we got a two on the ten and at six,
so we are going back for okay, okay, oh cool, you
know where the old things are create a resource and make an enemy character into
a friend. Okay, this is cool. So Kennedy Marshall, who we
turned and was the oppressive head of a secret US government agency. Yeah,
so I imagine he was an enemy, but now he has become a vampire.
Correct, So I would say, you know where the old things are?
Should we incorporate the prompt into the reasoning here? It's such a curious
way to phrase that. It's very like, I don't know. It could
be anything, It could mean anything. Yeah, I guess it's like the
old things? Is that like if you're looking at Kennedy Marshall, is that
like I don't know, some sort of because it's also like the resource,
like, are you finding an old thing that is useful to him, like
an amulet of some sort or some sort of potion or physic Yeah, that
might be two arcane, but there is like a lich guy in this game,
so it could happen. I'm gonna say that. M M thinking on
this. So I create a resource and make an enemy character into a friend,
So I would say that perhaps there is something historic like maybe oh yeah,
so there are maybe passages underneath Chicago that are hard to access and a
great place to hide during the day or to stash bodies all that. So
I think that crossing Kennedy Marshall's path likely through the scent of blood drawing him
near. Sure, we have an opportunity to connect, share that that meal,
and then through that communion lead into a safe place where we can meet.
Yeah. Yeah, it's like, hey, sorry about all that.
Anyway, here's some here's how to move around, and like how to hide
out. Yeah. I think that Molly feels a sense of responsibility to yet
another creature. She has given this eternity too. And I believe that during
that time period of Marshall coping with this, he hasn't exactly done well,
Like it's good that he's in a big city, but yeah, a lot
of people would kill a lot of people would kill a lot to adjust to.
Cool cool, Okay, so now how do you remember this? How
do I remember this? Or like what memory? So this is a new
experience and a new gonna need to be a new memory. So first of
all, what memory would you like to forget to make room for this?
Before we get into that memory, I still need to create a resource.
Yeah is that not the tunnels themselves? Just like a new place to be.
That's a good point, all right, Yep, that's the tunnels is
the place to be and the resource. Got it cool, right, It's
also useful to like to move around, like if you are getting chased,
you can just like dip into the tunnels and find your way to safety again.
Exactly. So at this point, let's see there there are different hues
on these memories. But it looks like we'll have to forget something in order
to incorporate this, right, yes, correct, right, I don't want
to forget the non because uh yeah, that seems pretty critical with Charles.
I'm gonna say we're gonna forget unholy right now. I think that Molly is
both taking taking a turn for the better but also maintaining the worst, because
sure, you've got to kill to survive, souls give you, that's the
thing. It's like, what do you want me to do? What do
you want me to do about this? There's no more Catholic shame though,
there's no there's no more connection to that. That's all been forgotten along with
you come to America and you're just like it's business. Yeah, exactly,
so I'm not the worst. We're in an era of of barons and god,
what's the name for the railroad tycoons. Yeah, we're in an era
of tycoons and barons. They're the real monsters. Yeah. They don't even
use the bodies that they kill when there's yeah, there's a b strike the
ethical butcher of Molly. But yeah, okay, cool, cool, there
you go. So do you need like a wording for that memory or now
in that series of all tunnels? Can wait until we have like more things
in common with it to like give it a label. Yeah, yeah,
all right, do you need me to roll again? Yes? Please,
let's kill one at least, let's do one more. I see how long
it takes, and then we'll go from there. All right, So it
looks like I've got a two on the Oh no, I've got a two
on the ten, three on the six. That takes us back one and
we are at thirty two. Okay, thirty two? So about that being
ethical? Yeah, you keep a prisoner, why this particular person? Why
don't you feed upon them, create a character and a skill related to keeping
them captive? Okay, damn it should go. You know, it could
be a kind of perverse morality. I'm gonna say that. Go on this
prisoner was I'm gonna say that Molly targeted a woman who was on the outs
in a very tough position, offered her meal, and slaughtered her. Turns
out she brought a child with her and they remained outside the building. So
after feeding upon their parent, Molly experiences a lot of guilt about this and
decides to take them to the to the catacombs, not the catacombs, the
tunnels, and create a character and a skill related to keeping them captive.
So the child's name is So this is like, this is a very like
polite imprisoning of okay, kid, sorry about it. Live with me now.
Yeah, I would say even that the child might have witnessed it,
and so they can't be freed. They can't be given to an orphanage because
they know. But there's also this moral imperative of I don't want to kill
the kid. Yeah, there's a real misjudgment on Molly's part in this case.
And I'm gonna say, the character's name is lana U. Let me
actually select an age for this, Okay, roll a D eighteen eighteen.
Is that a real dice? I'm actually just like it's too low. No,
this child is for okay, so you know what, they'll grow up
fast. You can reroll. It's fine, you can do something better.
I think that we're as no, no, no, no, no,
I'm going to go with that. That's what they decided. The dice chose
it. So this is Lana and because they couldn't really articulate their last name,
Molly gives them the last name of Sharp and uh that's good. Yes.
And the skill that Molly obtains in the is caretaking. Okay, so
from bathing, feeding, and providing emotional support when possible. This is this
is Molly's lifestyle for a bit. You know how to and you know how
to cook for her too. Now exactly, yes, this all this this
goes in, It'll be okay. You don't have to feed her fucking rats
or whatever. Exactly yeah. No, And and with Charles as well,
Charles Masker, I mean this could be sort of a turning point like,
oh my my sibling recently passed and now I have to undertake this to like
a makeshift family is in progress, granted that will be after some time of
Now Molly can control humans right in a way, is there mental you have
like magics? We do have dark magics yea, so maybe there's like using
your animal calls. You were able this child. I think that there's a
so caretaking is the skill related to keeping them quote unquote captive. I think
mentally dark magics might be keeping them captive from revealing that secret. I think
I think in the like vampire umbrella, it makes sense to have some like
powers of like suggestion or just like a just like a light like coercive aura.
Yeah, and perhaps this also reminds Molly a bit of their younger sibling.
Maybe there's a hearkening to that, that empathetic call, that's that's feeding
in here. Okay, so this is like the third or fourth child you've
like come into contact with, and they usually just grow up. But this
one is like another one, like, well, let's try it again.
Hopefully I won't go to sleep for a hundred years this time. Yeah,
we'll see, We'll see what happens with Lana Sharp. This is so funny.
This is the one like oh fuck, oh fuck, I guess I
have a kidnap. Yeah. Yeah, Lana's trying to play it low key,
and by low key, I mean adopting a child and raising them in
tunnels. Maybe this will help my relations says woman adopting a child mom?
She ate? Is that all of our roles for this game? I think
that I think that is pretty That's a good place to end it. I
think that's a good if you feel okay with that, I think that's a
good like wine under it to be like and now I have my new nuclear
family quote unquote, Oh do we have to roll for a time like a
passage of time or usually know the prompts will do that? Oh? Okay,
because there's prompts in here that are like years past. I think that
like, if like after a few more it hadn't happened, maybe we would,
But I think that you haven't been in Chicago that long. Wow,
the twenties has taken quite a turn from Molly Sharp from Forrest into a boy.
What a great time to raise a kid America in the twenties. You
know they're never going to want for food though, because that's true. Molly
will take the money from the victims. That's true. Oh geez, Actually
a lot of them are broke, but Molly large numbers. Yeah, all
right, so how do we how do we wrap this up? So?
Catley, tell me where can people find you online? Oh? You can
find me at Katleihong dot com and I will updated. That's a promise.
Yes, that's a promise to you, the listener. It's a threat.
And yeah, outside of that, that's it. That's it. There is
no I'm not trying to promote too much right now. I've just got a
puppy and I am living that dog life. Nice. I've spent so much
money on toys. I need to stop. God, ain't that Ain't that
just the thing? Yeah, it's like it's so hard to not buy them
little things. Oh my goodness, I know that, I know that pain.
But yeah, so is there any other closing statements we need to make?
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