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In a side room of the office, after mortal grievous wounds were inflicted,
two of our cell are surprisingly not dead. Two of ussel have obtained
the mark, and in a side room together recovering, they are surrounded by
the dark silhouettes that perhaps they would rather ignore the what's going through your head?
I didn't think I was gonna die in a ship bed after being run
through with a bully sword like some sort of many evil night, You know
what I mean. But you're not dead, and you don't think you will
be yet. You're sure about that. Maybe it weren't a blade. Mm
hmm. What do you think when you look at the mark death? That's
why we're surrounded by it, Cala. This is probably quite a weird experience
for you. The wounds hurt, you feel a little bit drained by what
would otherwise be a lethal shop. But you're not dead, and you two
have a mark on your hand. What are you thinking when you look at
it? That we're probably going to die if this mark gets removed because we're
technically already dead probably so the moment the mark disappears, I think we will
die from the wounds that we have already, that have already been inflicted,
and that if we were to accumulate any more then it would probably also hit
us as well. That's what I'm thinking about anyway. I don't know if
that's for sure, but I imagine that that is the fate that awaits us
if we are successful. And then if we're not successful, then what we're
just gonna live potentially for a lot longer forever. What does that look like?
Does that mean we're hunting forever? Does that make us the same as
the monsters? Thoughts like this? Who speaks first? There you go?
Not as well? Have that? Thanks? All those things? Yeah,
I didn't. I didn't mean to stab you. I mean, I meant
to stab you, but I I didn't really have control in that moment.
I'm sorry, what'd you mean? I mean? I knew it was a
risk touching Haba after so long and communicating with it was the risk that we
all decided was worth taking. But I didn't know what is what Haba?
I don't know. It's some sort of entity. That's what I was trying
to talk to Allian about how you find it. It just showed up in
my room one day. I just walked in and did it open the door?
No? I mean I woke up and it was there. I assumed
it was a gift from someone from the forum. I was weird. Things
have happened they It offered power I didn't I have access to myself, and
it wanted to slay the same monsters I wanted to, so I assumed it
was some sort of magic. I mean, clearly it's that, but I
don't think I trust any magic anymore. I don't matter anymore, does it?
We're dead? Do you know that? Right? And not from the
fucking cut order bullets? Do you think someone's going to come to collect us?
I don't think we know enough, do we. Yeah? I don't
know how you feel about everything, but I'm going to assume that it's somewhat
similar to me. I wouldn't want anyone going out of their way making deals
or being foolish putting themselves in danger to try to save me, would you?
Nah? I wouldn't, but all of the probably will. I think
if it comes to that, I think it already has. I just thought
you should know. Maybe you should talk to him and say what I mean,
you don't have to. I just thought you should know, as been
dead men walking and all. H Yeah, it was kind of opening it
and be the other way around. I'll get to save him for once,
you know. Yeah, well maybe you don't. Probably seems like that with
me bowling around with guns and everything. But when I was younger, I
was kicking a ball around right and this car pulled up, shitty little Fiesta
ship brown, it was spare tire on the front, and then these three
lads got out, picked up my football, threw it in their car,
laughed and drove off. Later on I told Ollie I cried. Actually we
didn't have much back then. You know, Ollie was working and I was
in school. I was supposed to be in school anyway. Next night,
only comes in with the football in his hands, gives it back to me
top of his knuckles, all cut up and read. Not a word from
him. He was like having a guardian angel to me, you know,
like I heard someone actually looking out for me. Never thought I'd be able
to repaying, you know, he looked after me. Maum was dead.
Dad fucked off. He was there, he fed me, you know what
I mean, Yeah, paid the bills, got the football back, and
then he wrote off that fucking car fucked his back up, and it was
me looking after him sort of. A couple of years. There was a
lot. I don't think he even wanted to live anyway. He got his
ship together eventually, but even after, like you know, helping him for
a few years, I didn't feel like i'd really repaid that debt. So
that's why when I drank that blood, I thought, maybe, you know,
if he had enough of it and he was walking again, it might
bring some of that life back to him that he used to have. But
that ain't life, is it. Life ain't about being broken and being fixed.
It's about playing the cards you dealt and then you live your life,
whatever it looks like, and that's your life. You lived it. You
know, we can judge that quality on someone else's scale, but it's about
the quality of your life as you made it for yourself. I think you
learned that. I don't think I did, And how would you read the
quality of your life don't. I ain't had a normal life, but I
ain't hated it. I don't want to die yet, not till I repaid
that debt. You know, will it ever be good enough anything you do
to repay that debt? I sort of imagined, you know, one day
he'd settle down with someone else, and then once he'd done that, I'd
be able to do that, and then we can just grow old. Raise
a couple of sprogs, you know, go over see Uncle Wally. Maybe
something like that. Let me feel like we made it or something. But
I don't think we're going to make it. I think mine was a waste.
I don't think I have done anything of value. What a joke calla
It's obvious to you that whatever it was THEO was describing saying is obvious to
you now as well. Do I see everyone he sees? Or do I
only see like mine? There are indistinguishable silhouettes swelling about the room. Okay,
but you see both those and ones that are probably yours too. Are
you ignoring them or are you watching them? I mean, I probably glance
over. I'm assuming Sonny is there. It's a pretty good guess. I
actually I'm not sure I know, but I think I suspect because I only
met the caterer posing as him. So I don't know if I would immediately
recognize the silhouette, but yeah, I think it makes me uncomfortable. Yeah,
you definitely notice a similarity. H Do you think we're gonna move joints
them? Ah? Nah? You think they are marked? I don't.
I don't know. I don't think so. Now one of them is me?
Mum? Really? Yeah, she died a long time ago. Weren't
no mark? What then? Are in? I think I only recognize the
one of mine. I don't know anyone else. I never had anyone else.
How fucked up is that? H don't know. Maybe that's nice to
die weightless. I'm gonna die. How is that weightless? No one will
remember me, No one will worry about you either, No one will fall
into another fucking two year depression, no one will blame themselves. Get to
die guilt free. I guess I'm finally the perfect hunter in that regard.
Well, you fucked one of them up? One and how many? There
is a matter. I don't want to die in vain, do you?
I don't want to die at all. I'm sorry I stabbed you. Yeah,
I still don't know why you did it? But how I told me
to all of a sudden you wouldn't die and and asked me this, and
then it took over. I'm sorry, but still sucking up. Yeah,
I know I didn't have control. I'm sorry. I think we're going to
heal up. Okay, it's probably going to kise, but who knows.
Maybe we've got a few years left. Must still be able to get another
one before we drop. Yeah, maybe listen, if there's a way to
save you, I will try. Well, if there's a way to say,
made as a way to save you. So maybe I just think you
can remember then, you know, for the next time you you're about to
kick the bucket how you felt this time, and you can make amends.
Sounds to me like you've got a lot of work today. Yeah. In
the other room, it hasn't been a very long time since Elouise came down
that elevator. M She has been in a very difficult to communicate with the
state. She is distraught. She keeps apologizing for what happened to cala Ollie.
Yeah, what is it that you are reading? Well, I have
the grim Moore. I've mostly been skimming, but there's some interest in things
about the power of marks the power of names, the nature of what the
mark maybe not represents. But in the same wheelhouse, it's all related to
death. But I don't think the market itself is death. It's obviously the
mark they have is a protection against that. How good that protection is that?
That just stop them passing on? Are they still dead without the mark
or can they be healed? If they're not currently dying, the mark is
not protecting anything and could be removed. But it's a deal. It's a
packed with someone Fay, demon, the beast. It's unclear. It reads
like a flow of consciousness. It's almost like a diary. I can't I
can't figure it out. The mark appears usually when something horrific happens, or
when aw Luis is around. Mm hmmm do you say that aloud? Yeah?
If it has a pact, mm hmmm, it has entered against the
will of the participants. If it's a deal, who's making the deal?
Because you can't make a deal if you don't know that you're making one.
Correct, So is it Elouise that has made the deal? Perhaps, and
you are providing the bodies. You're gonna be honest. This book doesn't really
go into consent and you're right, they clearly don't need to agree to this
to be saved from death. I mean, she's an estate. We're not
getting anything from her, or i'd really like to let's state. Is she
in hunt master, She's trying to calm herself. So it's it's not as
if you would never be able to talk to her. It's just through that
it is. It is difficult too, especially since she arrived to get a
full conversation out of her. But you could try. Shall we try again?
We have to. We've got nothing else to go on right now.
We need a name. Who's making the pact? Who controls the pact?
All right, Eloise, I walk into the room where around the corner where
years she like wipes away snot in tears and just kind of looks at you.
I start making her a cup of tea. Turn the kettle on.
Now. I know it's been quite hard. It's been a long evening for
you, I'm sure. But as you can understand, our friends, well
there, we would like to know everything that you know, small details,
things you might not think are important, but are I didn't do it to
them, all right, I'm really sorry I didn't. I don't know what's
or why? When did it start for you? Ah? I saw a
wolf right and and then something happened to my sister, and then it just
kept happening. So it started with your sister. Yes, the wolf go
on only at a wait of you? Can you communicate with the wolf's it's
just been chasing me. It hasn't said anything, I think, and it's
it's trying to torture me. I can't get away from it. Did something
happen before you met the wolf? Something difficult, tragic, full of emotion
that looks like a yes? Did you ask for help? I? My
sister was she was dying. She died, and I didn't really know what
to do it. It had been going on for so long, and she'd
be getting worse and worse. And I if you never wished that you could
just stop it, just turn it off, like they're going through hell.
And she I caldn't remember anything at that point m hm. And I felt
like I had already lost her. M hmm. I'm sorry m hm.
And then and then it happened h m hmm. She left me. So
you asked her hungry? Where did you go? Ellouis? When you were
angry. I went out into the woods. I fucking screamed. I was
so angry, and I don't I don't fully remember it, but it was
like I got chased out of there. I was. I was asking for
help, and I think something answered. Yes, which woods? Do you
remember? H? I've I've not been there since. I don't. I
don't really remember where it was. It was a joy member. What you
said, I didn't want to see anyone die ever again. H I don't
want to see anyone die again. That's quite the request. Mm hmm.
All right, what do we know that could fulfill a request and would have
interest in that kind of request from a mortal? I assume woods. I
mean there are plenty of pagan beasts, demons, gods. Perhaps Josh Alois's
a member of that Saint Basil's church, right, Yes, we're gunny maps
in Manchester. Have you always lived near Saint Basil's Alwaies? Uh? Not
always, but I I've lived here for a while. Oh yeah, two,
yes, I just pull up a map on my crappy laptop on the
workbench. There. What do you for? All forests, thickets, empty
spaces. I'm scanning for those satellite strangely, it's there's a lot of woods
and woodland and stuff outside of the city, but some basils is very quite
central. Mm hmm. And like in the media area around it, it
is just like city sprawl. She would have had to cover miles and miles
and miles and miles and miles before she found somewhere that could reasonably just be
described as a wood. See anything close? I think's the hospital is a
near Saint Pezels. Eloise points to the hospital and it's yeah, it's pretty
central as well, central as well, the same problem Ole, Yeah,
are you thinking perhaps that I don't understand how these things work, right,
But perhaps the woods was part of the deal, like perhaps she was.
Yes, perhaps something was hunting her for a while. The question is what
does it get out of it? Pure energy? Pure energy could be fealty.
Do you how many depictions there are of God's beings, malevolent spirits doing
stuff for fun. You've been on Twitter, something with the power to stop
death in our world, something related to fee days, an actual or God.
What if it was few days? Yeah, this is I mean obviously
unlikely. But if we're talking about metaphorical woods and the power to stop death,
from what I can read, Vree Day sealed something, so I don't
think it's directly free days the dark heart. Yeah, the vibe you get
is that whatever this is is in opposition the fee days. Oh maybe we
can ask free days to help. We need the beast. How the fuck
you catch actually ask God for help? Well, this is not a god,
all descriptions are. It's some sort of fay, a beast, not
not your standard god, although anything powerful enough would seem like a god to
anyone. And why would this being or bus Why would you do this in
the first place, on the whim of someone who's clearly distraught the death of
a sister. He gets something out of here. It needed eloise, But
people forgive me. But people die every day. People are distraught every minute
to live his tragedy. Why this now? Alwa swear? Do you see
the beast normally everywhere you go? I don't see it all the time,
but yeah, I always feel its eyes on me. It is physically manifest
because it attacked fear. Yes, I saw it. It was there when
I went back to get the gun. It looked at me. If it's
physical, we can If it is a fa you get some books looked at.
Molly didn't approach. Diana did not approach. Now, yes, Ollie,
we if we are to end this, I assume you know what it
means. Correct. We don't need no. I know I always say no,
no, no, I fucking don't. What do you mean the human
body has such capability of healing itself. You're not talking about there are fans
that can heal a person, which just when when they heal, then we
can remove the mark. We just need to find out more information about it.
I don't. They're not dead. They are being protected against death.
Yes, I know. And if you are to remove the protection against death,
Yeah, they can heal, they can get better. We can look
after him and then we can remove the mark. No, they're fucked.
They're fucked. If that's the case you saw, they're fucked, they're not.
All we've gotta do is we could get more blood. Case shut up,
he was stabbed. They're not. They're gonna just be okay. The
question then is do you want to find a cure? Wait a minute,
the lab why Jackie works. You're working with necrotic flesh, slowing down the
decay ross slade. Where was that sheet? I'm looking through all my facts
of the scientific reports from Jackie. Mm hmmm, what would you like to
know any mention of something that doesn't seem quite scientific, like mark. Uh,
they haven't been studying the mark. No, but reading between the lines,
there's possibly some non scientific elements to the preservation of necrotic flesh. This
doesn't make any sense. What the hell is that going to do? That's
not even a compound, that's not even a proper compound. Is something?
Oh, nocratic? Are you talking about them living as zombies and this is
not They're not zombies. They're clearly aware and still who they are. I
know. But if we take some mark. So now you're talking about nicrotic
flash and I'm fucking sorry to talk over you, but this is getting even
weirder. Look, maybe they know something about the fay the beast. I'm
gonna call it the beast. I don't know what it is. Always you
said it was following you here. Yeah, maybe well go hunt the fucker.
So I think gone, we can figure a way how to stop it,
contain it. We need to contain it. Maybe I can find a
ritual that can, but I don't know what it is. We need to
know what it is, Diana, Yes, I think it's time for a
WIT's investigation check. Okay, to sort through a couple of it's a fact
in fiction. Yeah. Two and let's kind a willpower. Yeah, if
you want to re roll three, yes, I do, go for it
three D ten. Also, don't forget desperation, dice if you need it,
okay, four. Four is good hearing these things. Ollie is a
little obviously on edge piecing together some of the bits and your own theories.
I think it becomes clear that perhaps whatever it is is not getting something out
of it, because that seems a bit of a fast stretch. Okay,
it is, in that case, probably not doing this of its own accord,
or at least it didn't start doing this of its own accord, I
see, especially given the uh, the fact that Ollie mentioned there is power
in names. Yeah, and a pact, right I where you could find
more? Yes? Where your father's house? Yes, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yea yea yea yeah yeah yeah yeah amazing. Before I would like
to quickly, as this is dawning on me, I would like to look
at Eloise, and I would like to see if I can feel the arcane,
to see if there's any sort of arcane since the unnatural about her roll
your and it's the unnatural, do you want to use desperation dice? Yes,
I feel as an inquisitive this would help you here. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, I think today there are four desperation Okay, so
I get to use all four as a plus four essentially plus four okay,
yeah, huh oh, that's so annoying. You got a one, but
it wasn't like in the first four. That's a shame. Never mind,
no desperation problems for you. You hold the engraved bullet and you look into
what you can only describe as beyond reality, and Eloise is a the colt
one to read. There is undoubtedly something supernatural about her, and after a
little bit of concentration, she actually looks at you in return, and everyone
knows she seems a little bit afraid of what you're looking at her for.
You see an image of this symbol, the mark, the circle with the
three lines, and you know it is a pact. You see a thread
of fate linking her to it, and you also see the unmistakable mind ducks
that you've felt from other things that she is a monster. Unawoken, but
it is very clear from everything she's done so father, she is also quite
human. There is potential there that probably scares you a little bit. Mm
hmm, Eloise, h are you looking at me? Here's your tea,
darling, thank you. We have to run an errand are you comfortable here?
Yeah? Uh huh, I'll stay here, make yourself at home.
M hm Ollie, Jack, Yeah, I have an idea. Perhaps we
can let THEO and Carla know that we're going to be leaving the office for
a bit. Mhm. Believe me. Why don't we Why don't we go
in and see him? Yes, I cast a look back at Eloise to
make sure she's just gonna stay and put So you go and inform THEO and
Color. And I'm trying to do this in the hushest of tones, like
at this point I am not outright saying what the plan is or what we're
doing so right now, I think if Jack and Allie are keeping an eye
on my physicality, I'm trying not to change it very much from the earlier
part of the conversation. But I'm certainly no longer saying locations what our next
steps should be. I'm not Yeah, so I'm trying to play it like
casual, I guess, and hoping that they recognize that I am shutting.
I'm like locking some info down. Are you trying to do this to hide
it from Elouise? Yeah? That sounds like a charisma subterfuge or performance role
to me. Okay, one second, let me see. Can I choose
which one it's higher? Yes, you can, unless you have a very
good reason to give another role. I don't think you could do it with
firearms. I'm gonna go with charisma subterfuge. Okay. Yeah. In true
human fashion, Diana rolls so badly, except for like once every three episodes,
you did just get success, and so it's fair to go the other
way unless you want to reroll. No, I won't on this one.
So you move to the others and you keep you explain everything in it what
you perceived to be very lockdown fashion. Okay, great, you explained to
us where we're going. Okay, so uh yeah, I think I walk
us, lead us into the room with THEO and Cala, and then close
the door, you know, like what someone does when they're not trying to
hide information whatsoever. Yeah, trying to explains my terrible. Yeah, you're
talking about literally anything but Elois. Yeah, yeah, yeah, everyone's together.
How are you two doing? I feel brand now? May okay?
How you doing as good as can be? I guess? Can I inspect
Keller's gunshot wound? Yeah? Yeah, oh I wouldn't just have a look
at it? Sorry? Can I? What would you like to know about
them? I want to know? So usually if you get a wound or
scabbard, which is part of the body trying to heal itself. Yeah,
is it doing that? Yes? Yea, looks as though it is,
I mean, pretty fresh, but doing what normal blood does. But just
a little weird. You know, there's nowhere near as much blood as you
actually expect. How does it look, Ali? It's healing well like it
normally would if you got shot and lived. There's not a lot of blood
though. Does it smell bad? Is it hurt? Okay, it's a
bit awkward, cow, I'm just gonna Does it smell weird? It doesn't
smell weird, No, which it probably would usually because it burnt flesh,
I mean, like death weird. Yeah, it's not like it didn't not
like almonds or just a random question, were any of them contact because I
got really close to him the bullet, like the barrel on my skin because
that would burn. I know you fanned the hammer, but did I get
close enough for you to actually just press the barrel against my skin? Yeah?
I mean possibly if that was the case. If that's what THEO did,
then that's what it will look like. Yeah, THEO, do you
know we're gonna go with Yep, we're gonna go with checkout. He's so
high he just doesn't doesn't said the Yeah, they were checking you out.
Sorry, no, they are checking me out. But I was asking if
you got close enough to put the barrel against my skin for any of the
shots, because I lunched a year, I reckon in the chaos. I
probably only shot you with three of them fired, And I mean probably each
one of the three was you getting closer and closer to me. So one
of them is probably relatively was probably relatively close. Okay, so we'll say
one of them is a contact, which means that it would be it would
have some pretty intense bruising and burn around where the barrel was the last one.
Probably Does that look like I would expect? Yes? Yeah, well
you're not. Sorry, I don't really want to say the word. But
you're not a zombie. That's good. Were you expecting a zombie? A
glance back at like act about what she said earlier. Look, I not
expect just because you said your crowd that. No, we weren't all right.
We listen, both of you. That mark is keeping you alive.
It's not. You're not dead. You would probably succumb to your wounds if
you didn't have that mark. But you're not dead. You're still healing as
you normally would. So with enough time you should be okay. Or maybe,
like with the blood, maybe maybe you'd be all right. We think
the mark is a packed a deal, but not with your permission? How
is that possible? How can you make a deal or without permission? That's
not a deal, cadate deal she didn't want, she said aloud. Someone
else has made the deal, Eloise, now why it wasn't. I don't
know. We're part of the deal. She doesn't even know us, No,
and I don't fucking trust her. She doesn't want anyone else to die,
and somehow she's reached someone who can provide that power. I know,
I believe that Eloise has some pretty natural power to her that she is unaware
of. I felt something incredible coming from her, and I now believe that
she summoned and brought a deal upon a being against their will. I don't
think or she's enslaved this being. I think so. Perhaps I don't know
about now, but at first I believe that she called to it and forced
it into this pact. She doesn't even know, so it's serving her.
It's not chasing her or stalking her here, it's serving her. Perhaps it's
trying to get out of the pact. Can she undo it? I don't
That actually makes a lot of sense. Because she runs into somebody and sees
them and doesn't want them to die, then it's answering her call, essentially,
is what you're saying. Yes, yes, Now, I propose that
we do as I said we could do before, which was to enter my
father's estate and look for information. He certainly has a wealth of wealth of
it that I am, of course, up until now, was unaware existed.
But as I told you, our family now apparently makes deals with these
entities, and he might have an answer, Diana, this family deal.
Do you know what type of being? A demon? Do I know?
Hunt Master? I don't think I do. No, I don't know at
all. Would I know someone like if someone had the power to summon something
to do, they will? Is that more likely to be a demon of
a spirit? In this area you are running on folklore, things get summoned,
spirits, ghosts, demons, devils, the spirit of the earth itself
in an animistic sense. It could be something from another realm. It could
be a fairy, It could be anything. Have I heard anything about the
beast with one eye of via specifically relating to one of those that is,
Yes, I think tracks quite neatly with air several different fairy tales, so
obviously it's linked to the fay. It's also known as a hell hound demon,
so it narrows it down a little bit. But that I mean,
there's so many variations of the story throughout depending on where you are, Like
in the local area it's known as Padfoot, it's known as the bar guest.
All right, I don't know what it is. I would wager personally,
I would wager that it is something of demon, but I have no
evidence for that. It's just perhaps the foulness that I feel surrounding it.
Right, So the plan is we go. You're digging out your pops oh
any other name? Yes, that is That is the plan, unless anyone
else has a has an alternate, better plan. I mean to bring some
books. Do you have a library or family's estate? Quite quite a library.
Yes, there might even be a hidden one, considering now my father
dabbles in the occult now as if he hasn't always. Yes, I only
now know and realize your lineage. That's delf back quite away. I'm sorry?
What was that your lineage? It delves back quite away with lots of
relation John Dene particular. Yes, yes, I never was any good yet
family history lessons was always better at tracking things with a stench. Well,
let's track this down, all right, yeah, all right, wait wait,
wait wait, Brave, I love it, Dan. You ain't going
nowhere. You need to vote for You need to sit here and just get
better as soon as possible. My concern is eloise someone to keep an eye.
Do you want us to sit here and babysit? No, you might
not be able to do it. Think if that's real? Wait, but
had a dog? Does it follow her around? Or what she said?
It followed her? Here? Sis can come with us? That might be
then we've got to come with you. They don't wait. No, but
I don't think no. I intend for you both to stay safe. Looks
should I stay with them? Send my drone with you? I mean they're
not gonna we can sit in a van, all right, they can sit
in the van. All right. I'm gonna I'm gonna die. I'd rather
die doing something sitting here in bed and understand the The question is, Elouise,
we're going on, an't we What happens if she summons the beast?
Were perfect? We are? Okay, we can't. We can't kill her,
yes, but perhaps perhaps we can make another deal. We can ask
it questions, look her out, how to wish We ain't tried everything to
kill it either. I've still got a Oopsilian dagger. We're not going to
kill it yet. That's a terrible idea. I've got a silver pipe and
ship right now. All right, Well, Diana can never go with a
dagger. We're not fucking killing it. It's a monster. Look at your
fucking end. It's keeping you alive. Yes, so what the second that
disappears, there's no way you can both deal with Yeah, but it's it's
not about injuries Ollie, it's about a monster roaming free that can do this
to other people. If you have a chance to kill it, you should
kill it. THEO and I agree on this, right THEO, Oh yeah,
kill it all right one moment. It's keeping things alive. We're already
dead, Ollie, get used to it. You know your wounds are starting
to heel. Yeah, unnaturally so superhuman rate, No, just like they
normally would. What about regards? Is just keeping you alive? And there
you gotta see the vampire, right, it was gonna have a little sip
and I know, or you can sit there in hospital bed and heal up
and then we get rid of the mark. And what about the demon in
the meantime? What if it marks more people? You're willing to sacrifice them.
They're not being sacrificed, Yes they are. If they get marked,
they're also marked for death. No, if we keep Eloise with us,
section, it's stopping death. It's stopping death. But at what cost?
And unnaturally we should have died, we should be dead. The only people
who get the mark are people who have either been around Eloise or in huge
traumatic events. If we can keep Eloise safe and around us, that Mak
can't be put on anyone else from her least and this beast. I think
he's got a point. I'm just saying it becomes it comes between me and
killing a monster. I want you to kill the monster. Fine, okay,
fine, fuck, let's just get in the van. It's not fine,
No, it's not fucking fine. Yeah, I'll be right behind you.
I guess, all right, Evel walk Yeah, yeah, I don't
know about driving, though, it might be a little bit of a bumpy
ride. I can drives, not what is used to. But can Alistair
Oh okay, fi Alistair can also drive. Perhaps we'll get Alistair to do
it, all right, Yeah, all right, there you go. Therefore,
when you put it into second it gets a little bit JANKI. You're
gonna have to really give it some month, all right. So before we
do that, Hunt Master, if they leave and I'm coming behind them,
I don't know if THEO is staying behind or if THEO is getting up to
go. I'm getting uppy gar Yeah, I imagined all of you are going.
Yes, we are going. But before that, I want to try
to talk to the shadows. Yeah, oh yeah, okay, I'm sure
there's a time would you want to be with THEO for this? If there's
an opportunity for me to like grab his sleeve, I will, yeah and
hold him back. Yeah. Everyone moves out of the room starts preparing to
go, and you give him the little tug on the sunlight and you probably
wanted something else to wear. Yeah, I probably shouldn't go out in this
ab Yeah, I was actually thinking you could put on my coat and zip
it up. I'm going to try to talk to them. Have you tried
to talk to them? We just spoke to him. What you're talking about
them? And I gestured to what I assume is his mother figure. All
right, Yeah, now I've been talking to her all week. Does she
say anything back? No? No, go an idea. Maybe. I'm
just wondering if they know if they've already been claimed, or if they're dead.
They might know the name of the entity that took them, or they
might know something I don't even know if they're really here. I sort of
think that they might just be like a ethereal echo. You know what I
mean? Right? Reach out? Gone, I do I don't. Yeah,
I reach out to what I think is Sunny. Yeah, Sunny reaches
out to you wordlessly, and it is freezing where you're hand intersects the shadow
cold, is it. Yeah, that's the only thing that made me think
it weren't in the head. You think we're going to become like them.
Maybe everyone becomes like them. Maybe that's what happens. Can you understand me?
I didn't realize you were speaking Japanese, But no, I'm talking to
Sonny. I think Sonny's hand reaches out to yours. Nope, I'm not
Nope, Nope. I was not prepared for that. Hm. It seems
like there is something blocking true communication because this is it seems very slow and
labored. Is not a way to have a conversation. But there is some
understanding between you. Okay, Yeah, he's not saying anything to me,
or if he is, I can't hear it. Yeah, all right,
I just thought it was worth a try. We'll get your coat of whatever.
We're going to get fucking nicked if you look like that. Yeah,
okay, you wipe off some of the plood and get on your way.
Yeah. I just sat up. Hoo do I think? Yeah? That
good time for a quick break? Sounds good before the final pot. The
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for stopping where you edded shinytown? Helen Matt Yeah? Can do you just
come out of myriad? Yeah? They just cleared the club for some VMPs
or something. Looks like it's an early name for me. Hey, is
that any w been on your jacket? I'm a member myself. Yeah.
Don't let the cab fool you up. You wouldn't believe the stuff you over
here? Did you hear about the murder last night? Eh? Unfortunate.
The whole body was mangled. Right is your club? No? Did it?
We have some people looking into it. Trick. This is trick.
If you're getting this, I hope it's tomorrow. If it's not tomorrow,
it's today, still fun. Stop. But if you do get this,
why don't you give me a call back? It's welcome to It should have
been your life. You know, there's nothing. Why don't you look at
me? What are you going on? Please? What is it? Nobody's
telling me right now somewhere else, I'm Brian Miller. Somewhere do you turn
into like this shadow choice? Choice? Everybody was just so I chose you
here. Any We'll make a cook see whatever you did, no matter how
hard it wants to do. Thank you, Thank you. Welcome to the
dock of this My frocks. Your eyes will just die. Love you,
Bye bye bye. Normally a visit to Diana's father's house is a lot less
stealthy than this. But Van and Alistair driving Diana's car, imagine a distance
away from where they usually park. Yes, side, all right, so
I have a lay of the I have an understanding of my family's like security
and their cameras and things like that. Right, I'm assuming I would have
at the very least if I didn't know, I would have uh caught up
on my way here. And what time is it? Like? Nighttime?
Yeah, it's nighttime. There's probably fireworks going off in the distance. Seems
to be some sort of huge celebration. Huh. And is security Uh,
I'm assuming security is a little bit on the later side at night. Yeah,
it's I wouldn't even say there's that much security, that security Yeah it's
not okay, it's not like they've got patrols. It's your father probably has
some stuff. Yeah, okay, inside, all right, it's probably a
bad idea to go through the front door. What I can do is perhaps
I can try to desave there. You go through the front door and distract
perfect. Yes, wait, why can't? And it's your ass. Well,
we're trying to break him in and get some stuff, so I think
she would like to be seen for that. It's the ass of her father
and need your stuff. Could you draw some man of the interior? Yes,
I can. Can I also can I hack the security camera system and
shut it down? Actually? Oh yeah, yeah, go for it.
Whatever your I assume global access role is watching Big Brother is a skill that
I have. Yeah, go for it. Yeah, yeah, okay.
The I mean this is something you've been You probably haven't directly interacted with before,
but you're pretty familiar with it and you're able to shut it down in
an unnoticeable way while you're here. Perfect, all right, So there will
be a team that can go through the rear entrance. I'll go through the
front entrance, create a distraction, as it were. Ollie and Jack.
I'll need you to access look for a way to access secret rooms of any
kind, and if I can, I'll join you. If I don't end
up in fierce conversation with anyone, understood? Does anyone have any questions?
Kyla Theo. Since you're out here, perhaps you can keep an eye on
what might be occurring outside of the house and if you hear anything, alert
us. We'll have our phones and whatnot. Sorry, is alois with us?
Did you bring her? Well, that's a good question. Staying at
the office or she is here in the van with you. I think we
decided to bring her in the van. Yeah, I think we decided to
bring her in the van and she is okay, Well, I don't need
to be secret about what we're doing. Now, would you like me to
watch the dron jack and you can go in. If you set it all
up, I can probably control it. And then let me show you a
few things. Okay. I'm just gonna show her a couple of things to
look for and ways to change the screen and stuff before I jet. Okay,
yeah, and then yeah, yeah, you got two drones right,
right, So I have a weaponized one and she's got the surveillance. One.
Cool. It's going to be a lot harder for to use it properly,
but yeah, it's availible. Okay's breaking in oh white, Diana?
Yes, there, old on, Hold on a minute's around there some way?
I think I put it in a little box that's draft. Uh,
theb cidi and blade. You need it? Are you certain? Bull?
It's don't the dog? H I put silver and normal bullets and it didn't
do a thing, didn't even bleed, just like what the dog comes here?
Well, this thing's bullet profane it what's it going to do? Not
shoot? It's things safer than the rough inside of a president's bunker. Put
that in your pocket, all right? What is there? Ah? It
it'll protect you, all right, you take that rove. It will protect
you. Yeah, I know, I believe you. I don't know what
it is. Wizardry. I slip a relic into his pocket. The book
him book of Jemna work cool, Diana, mm hmm. You it probably
makes sense for you to hop in the car with your your fella and then
drive up like you normally would. Yes, that does make sense. Yeah,
and then you get out, you bring the doorbell and with a slightly
confused look on his face. Your brother opens the door, Martin, It's
uh, it's a bit late. What hello, Martin. I've just had
a couple of drinks and I thought i'd come to buy the house. I
haven't seen you in quite a while. How are the twins? Was it
twins? It will be twins? Yeah? There you? How many drinks,
Diana? Not so many enough to want to see my dear brother.
I thought you'd be angry at me. Come in. How far along is
she now? Oh? Already? Pop? Congratulations? Did I say that
before? I think I did. I can't remember. It was quite quite
a conversation we had, but thank you. I'd like you to be there
for the birth, yeah, or soon after. I know you're busy,
only it can be quite boring, long but exciting. Sorry, yeah,
quite, I'd be honored Martin. Right well, and he sort of very
gently takes your elbow, like checking if you are steady on your feet,
and he leads you through into the I'm putting on a bit of a shell.
You are brilliant, Ollie and Jack, and I'm assuming the other two
are stuck in the van. So Ollie and Jack, you carefully make your
way round to the rear entrance that she described. Who would like to make
a larceny roll larceny huh, nuts, the great and last and amy this
feel you're not wrong? Mm hmmm. I cast a spell of an locking
on it. Oh yeah, how many spell slots you got left? Six?
I don't believe you. Yeah, I can, I can try.
Uh, you can do deck health if you want. Okay, would be
generous. Thank you for being generous. Here's a big ass. You can
maybe break the window. I don't think that's yeah, that's not that's not
the plan. Two. Lock picking is not your specialty, so it's eventually
I imagine what you do is jam one of your tools in the latch and
like lever open the little the sprung thingy that yeah, and managed to get
your way in that way in not at best but maybe effectual. M.
Yes, you are insight. You are well aware that this door will now
not close properly. And I think at this point I would like you both
to make wits investigation roles. Mm hmmmm mm hmmm. Yeah. Four very
good, Yeah, and three also very good. You look at this place.
It is gorgeous, like old money, old furniture, gorgeous, and
I imagine Oliver is sort of led by the nose by the smell of books,
and you smell it fungus. What you know, the smell of old
books. Yes, it's fungus. That gross? Why is that? Why
is that important? Because it's coming from over there? Well? Yeah,
I mean, and I show him the napkin map where it says ibrary.
So I was right, Yeah, follow your nose, I guess. All
right, go into the library and quietly as possible, as quietly as possible,
search around for a little bit. And there is definitely like a latch
under one of the tables, new press. What's this? I push it
it. You hear a click, and a kind of secret bookcase door like
classic slowly creaks open. You see a sliver of light come out. You
believe this shit? What's this? Scooby Doo wh omer after hear all right,
I'm entering this through this door. You get inside and it appears to
be like a reliquary books, weird objects. I think, Olie, you
actually recognize one of these objects as the obsidian mirror that you've heard so much
about. Nah, what it's the obsidian mirror? What? What the fuck
is that. Gosh, what's the obsidian mirror? Though? I've heard so
much about I told you to read the rumors that I sent you. But
no, that's fine. It's ages ago. Sorry I didn't look at the
rumors that the obsidian mirror this is. This is actually a quite famous objects
that is supposed to be in a museum in London. But it is polished
obsidian and you cannot when you look into it, see your face. It's
a mirror once owned by John d. Does it show what's behind me?
It shows the room in kind of vague reflection. Yes. What it is
supposed to be able to do is allow you to talk to the debt jack?
Yeah. Can you see your face in that? No? Not at
all? Am I supposed to be able to? Well, there's a mirror,
you'd expect that. I'm not a fucking are you trying to I'm not
a fucking vampire, dude? You can see yourself in it? Nah?
Oh? If if this is? But this ain't supposed to be here.
This is supposed to be landing, So what what is it? Ah?
Maybe maybe we can use this to talk to the dead and we want to
do that. Why, Well, the mark's got something to do with death
right. It stops death. The mark the beast has been the name of
the beast is something to do with death right. Sure, remember the saying
he could see dead people? Yeah, those two I wonder if can I
can see him too alive? Have you been looking for this thing so you
can talk back to her? I've never tried talking to her. I say,
I seem to know a lot about this thing. Well, it comes
up a lot, especially recently. Mark a dev all right, how about
we piled a friend. Have you got any ideas, uh, any anything?
Have I read anything about activating it? Uh? It is a ritual
object, so seancewers very very standard practices too. Various occult movements probably use
it in various ways. It's it's uh not activated per se. It's you
just it's just the part of the thing. Yeah, it's any candles,
Can you see any candles? Ship kind of fucking I can hear? Let
me see see anything that I can light a torch or some candles. Yeah,
you route around a little bit and you accidentally knock something over quite loudly,
and that is when Diana, you watch your brother look around. Did
you hear that? Oh? What what exactly how are you talking about?
Oh, I'll just stay here. I'll go check. It must be probably
just the fireworks martin a fire works outside? Did you not hear them?
And I think there's a big party being held. That sounds more like it
came from down the hall. I'm going to go check. Can I convince
him to stay? Charisma? Manipulation? Way, no manipulation. Uh,
persuasion plus manipulation. There we go. That's an actual wrong god. Oh
no, yeah. He gets up and uh it's a little bit suspicious.
So he picks up a fire poker and starts to walk towards the library.
Close the door. I'm I closed. The moment he like turns his back,
I pull out my phone and I quickly text Allie, like the soonest
emoji that is in my uh in my keyboard. I'm sorry. There's no
way, Allie thoughts of silence his phone. There's no way, what you're
so smart? No way he would think like that. He's not stealthy at
all, you know, experience fair. Nobody prepped him on that. You
he was too busy being stabbed with an enormous by a person who I trusted.
You two keep it together. You hear a bleep from down the hall,
and your brother goes, who's that? What was that? Fucking Diana?
Get you coming here? I think there's someone here. I'm coming uh.
And he goes into the library, Dana, you follow him? It's
yeah, And the secret door at this point is closed, and I don't
think, Diana, you know about this what it is? Okay? But
he looks around. He sees out the corner of his eye the slightly a
jar exterior door and immediately goes to open with the button. Blick. She
don't intooral But does that get under the table. I didn't know father had
a laborate like this. Nope, it is supposed to be a vault.
It's not really supposed to be opened. Could it just be farther down there?
Who probably doesn't want to be disturbed? You know how he gets Banna.
Do you want to make another role? I do same thing? Uh,
charismas subterfuge. Let's give you a few more dies for this one?
Oh gosh, yeah, three successes. M hm. He is holding the
handle to this secret door on its hinge, and he begins to open it,
and then hmm, a thought seems to come across his mind, and
he begins to close it again and locks it. But Martin, if follows
in there, if you lock it, can he not get out. There's
a there's a way out, there's a key in the hill. It'll be
fine, all right. I think I'm I think I'm quite tired. And
he walks out of the room. Diana, Yeah. As soon as he
leaves the room, a book drops off of the shelf. What right in
front of your feet? Oh? No, what is the book? It
is not a book that you have seen before, but it appears to be
an old diary, ah of your father's. Oh, I pick it up.
It feels like electricity when you pick it up, with perhaps an excitement
that you didn't expect. You flick through and he seemed to be notes that
he made about contacting other worldly entities. And a name comes to you,
the Devil of the dark Heart. And as you are thinking that name,
visions of death flash across your eyes. Do you read this name in the
book? Visions of a symbol, a circle with the semi circle horn and
a quick underneath, very much like the mark on your father's palm. I
is there anything else that I see in here? Various scribbled, evil looking
notes, and m is there something you're looking for Theoretically yes, but probably
don't have the foresight at this moment. So I'm going to pocket the book
in my coat pocket, and I'm going to follow Martin out of the room.
Both. I think your brother returns to sitting room with you, unless
there's anything you'd like to say to him. The other two are locked in.
Okay, sorry, I want to like talk this through. So he
said that there's a way out from inside the room, right, like there's
a button in there somewhere, okay, okay, oropposed to like a rear
exit right, And I'm assuming like he locked it in the sense that he
closed it fully. So if I were to walk and just push the button
again, you pushed the door open. Oh yeah, if you've pushed the
button, it would probably open. Oh well, then on my way out,
I would have quickly like tapped the button and then just kept walking to
follow Martin, so just to open the door a crack and then to like
continue on so that they can get out. Mm hmm. Okay, yeah,
okay, and you follow your brother, Oh yeah, I head back
too. Yeah. After a tense few moments of listening to the other footsteps
behind the door, you hear them move away and the click of the door
opening, and no one seems to come to collect you, and you don't
fucking remedies. What the car is going on? Your ringer on? I
don't think someone would fucking ring me. But that was kind of a play.
I didn't think of that. God damn it. Ali, You're smart,
but your head's always enough. Fucking box. All right, I can
do? Is anyone out there? Travelope? All right? Take a peek,
master, Do I see anybody? It is deadly silent? No second
question? How big is that obsidian mirror? Are we packing that out or
not? It is actually probably a full handspan size, So you can this,
yeah, yeah, it's conveniently portable. It's not one. Can we
take that thing and get the fuck out of Here's anything else in here you
need? Oh? There are some gorgeous huge tones in here, Ollie,
there are some tempting targets. At a glance, Do I see anything that
it really stands out? Just a quick glance? No, okay, I
mean obviously yes, but nothing directly relevantly. So what you're looking at?
Oh? Have we got your back with you of course. Okay, just
put that in there for fox sake, we need it. I understand that.
Can we go Okay, yep, yep, yep, let's go Jesus
all right. So I'm gonna scout the hallway here and see if we can
make it back out. I think at this point the other two you can
kind of hear them in the distance. But yeah, it's pretty easy for
you to scamper out. And you're like you you go in one door and
the monster follows you, and then you come out of another door on the
opposite side of the hallway, and then like you cross paths, and then
you're actually following the monster and then yeah, but you managed to get out.
Good job. And there's a little mm hmm, yeah and mm hmmmm
where I text Diana, who hopefully did remember to mute. Just yea,
we are Anna, Anna you feel your phone vibrates silently against the book in
your pocket. Yeah. I walk up to Martin sitting in the chair and
I put my hand on his shoulder real right. Yeah, I think I'm
gonna go to bed after this, and he kind of finishes up his drink.
I grab the I grab mine, I assume he poured us two drinks.
Really, yeah, you know, siblinging it out or whatever. Yeah,
I'll lean over and finish my my drink and say, right, I'm
sorry it took me so long to come and visit you. I'm not mad,
not angry. Okay, And that's a that's a way off my shoulders.
Thank you. I will, I'll, I'll let you know close to
the time out of the birth and stuff like that. And he sees you
out and I think the whole time you put your hand in your pocket and
feel the book. Yeah, make sure it doesn't go anywhere. Yeah,
yeah, I's still more sweeting my Yeah, I'm sweeting my way out of
this scenario at this moment and charming my way out. Absolutely. And it's
not hard. He's your he's your brother. Yeah. And you make it
back after your goodbyes to the to the van. Hello, all right,
how'd it go? Yeah? We got some got some shit. First of
all, Ollie future reference when you know, trying to break an enter into
someone's home. Perhaps turne off your cell phone, mhm, vibrate what do
you know? Full silent probably is ideal, but I just want to keep
that ring tone to a minimum. Shall we go a library and not a
thief? Speaking of well, now you are a thief. So for future
reference moving, I stole this. Do I know what he's holding up?
Uh? Probably not? Do you have dots and a cult can't remember?
I do, and then this probably wouldn't be hard to figure out. It's
like a relatively famous uh, a cult object. It is the obsidian mirror
of John D My god, your family's great Leslie. You should have seen
some of the ship in there, as long as those snow not see uniforms,
I suppose don't see any any good precious all right, we need somewhere
we can do simple summoning ritual, but we still need a fucking name,
and we got nothing. I have a name, what something? But it's
not these something? Okay, Well, don't stay it out loud, write
it down. I'm I'm not going to Yes, what's I have a name
for the family friend. It has to be related. Is it related to
death? The name? Don't tell me the name. The symbol is similar
but different, and I don't know. Perhaps it's the same thing, but
I I'm not sure I would feel more comfortable if we were at the office.
I can chew you. Then let's get out of here. Feeling a
bit Oh mother fuck? I look at the windows of the house. Are
there any dead people in there? I forgot we can see dead people for
you? Are there any dead People's? Probably one of dead people in there,
secret drugs stash in my van, so I've not really been thinking about
the dead people. Yeah, there probably is a bunch of dead people in
and around that house. Oh my god. Okay, cool, cool,
cool, horrifying. I bet I bet your uncle. All right, I'm
driving driving head and back. Mm hmmm. Uh, I think yeah,
you all return to the office unless there's somewhere else you'd like to go.
Brother, you want against us? Uh? I don't really know if I
can eat anything or not. You tried, no bug? Well, hell
of a stomach ache? All right? Maybe wait on it. Maybe you're
dying of starvation but you don't even know it. Apparently you two can't die.
That's what I mean, Like we're dying of hunger, but it's not
happening because of the part stomach ache is a massive hole in my body.
It's probably what it is run through. That is true that I Eluise is
starting to look really guilty. Mm hmm. Shall be back at the office
or are we in the van? Yeah? You can be back at the
office at this point. But as she's listening to this conversation of yours,
she's like climbing up a little bit. I like to think that Diana notices
that, not me. Yeah, I have a question. Yes, when
she is clamming up a bit and she's starting to feel really guilty, do
I sense any extra unnatural vibes coming off? Is she gaining power with her
emotional state? Yes? I would also like everyone to do a wits awareness
role. Shit, ooh only Jack, you notice as you're going down the
elevator to the office. Oh you haven't. Oh I just did so.
Uh, Diana and Jack, you both notice as you're going down the elevator
there is the briefest flash of black mattered fur and red as in the distance,
it flits between a couple of different shadows. Where is it in the
office, like we're on the side has got it? It's it's you see.
It is kind of perhaps stalking the edge of the site, like the
derelicts site that you've built this place under. Okay, well, the dog
is outside. I just saw that fuck gay side, give me the knife.
They're not go after it, nor get the fucking side. But yeah,
as you're now all inside, you notice that we're starting to climb up
and just guilt written all over her faces as you talk about being run through,
being dead, not starving to death, all of this, and she
just asks, so what happens next? Mm hmm, Well we're trying to
figure that out in the meantime. Don't worry too much. It's not your
fault and we'll handle it. Thank you. Would you like a cup of
tea? Uh? Why why don't I make the tea? Uh? Everyone
everyone for tea? I make tea? Mm hmm. I shoot kind of,
I shoot a look to everyone. Uh. I guess it's like up
to interpretation of what the look means. But it's kind of one of these
like intense when she's more awake. Now when she leaves the room, what
the what the fuck? It is her fault because she made a deal with
something she shouldn't have made a deal with. Yes, color I know.
Uh. I get the impression that the guiltier she feels, the worst things
are, so probably best to just lie a little bit because she doesn't want
things to die, right, so, but just illustrating the fact that it
is her fault because she made deals with something she shouldn't. And I look
at Olie. She didn't make me deal. We don't make deals, right,
right, do we notice? What is I like focusing on Ollie when
she says that, I mean, it's up to you, and I stare
right at it when I say that it's obvious that's yeah, that's up to
you. But we need to do everything we can to stop this, right,
Yeah, But I just think everything we can should stop at making deals
with monsters. Yeah, So I'll fetch me some sand. The fuck are
we meant to get sand? There's some is a little patch around the corner
by the now the green book. Oh shit, yeah, there is.
I fetch him the sand. There is, in fact sand, Okay.
I reach into the bag and I grab a big handful of sand and I
spit in it, and then I do it kind of looks like an ax
where it's much higher to the top rather than in the middle. And I
placed the mirror right in the where it crosses over and light a candle.
Mm hmm. Two questions, who are you trying to contact? And can
you make me a resolve a cultural I am going to use the name that
Diana will write down for me without saying m h. If I know that
that's something that he intends to do, I am not giving it to him.
He's very clearly, Oh dear, he's very clearly doing a ritual to
talk to something. It's I think Ollie also you, I think you said
it. There's the name of the thing that Diana has is not exactly the
name that you need. Right, Uh, so you can attempt to do
this. Can I reroll any of those? Josh, I just realized how
fucking terrible that was. Career roll three if you'd like. But yeah,
are you trying to use Diana's name? All right, Diana, I need
you to write that name down for me. Are you trying to contact this?
Yeah? I don't know how I feel about that. I have to
be honest. Or it's not the ritual. That's true, it's not the
thing, it's not it's not the thing. I doubt it will be likely
to give us tons of answers. What about someone who's already did Oh?
Sorry, uh callous? Yeah, can you see what fioses? Yeah?
Right? Are there any here that don't belong. That's a good question.
Probably there's a lot of them that you do not really recognize. I mean,
I don't recognize half of these unless there was something specific you were trying
to look for. Sorry, I mean we could try and speak to they
seem to be drawn to those two. Maybe they're not drawn to us,
Maybe we can just see them. Maybe they're always here. Or did you
see any different ones when we've been out like at the ass, Yeah,
there were, and my eyes dart to Diana and then back there were a
lot in her house hunt Measter. Okay, So here's the issue. I
have this very dangerous personally dangerous book that has a very scary name in it,
and my friend Allie is asking me to give him the name so that
we can have a nice little chat with a scary name creature thing. I
don't want to do this, But is there a way that I can know
if, like basically should I be doing this? Like can I into it
or like a cult or something to figure out if if this will cause any
damage or if it will simply just be talking. If I know about the
Obsidian Mirror, does it allow me to know what the limits are with the
entities to discuss or whatever. MMM. Like my concern is, Diana is
like, I don't want to do this, but if it is the only
lead that we have and it would actually help. The difficulty is that obviously,
Yes, it's dangerous to your family. Yeah, talking with it,
Yeah, is not dangerous unless someone says something. Probably you specifically say something
very stupid, Okay, and I know that you're saying that. You're saying
that, and I know that. Okay, Yes, I will simply not
speak, not gonna talk at all, okay, related all right, I'll
give you the name your options. I don't know. We have to be
very careful, very very careful. We're just going to speak to it through
the mirror. Now. If we speak to it, we ask our questions,
avoid answering any of its questions, if it gives us any charming repartee
or whatnot. I imagine creatures like this are full of temptation and desire.
So if it says anything to you about oh, I'll save theo's life if
you release me from this mirror or something of that nature, just don't answer
it, don't give it to anything, ask our questions, and stay silent.
Otherwise MM Hmmm, I'm gonna let a demon in the world. He's
fine right now, he's alive, wicked the world, and I'll get it
with the obsidian dagger. I'm just saying, it will know our weaknesses.
It will know what to say anyway I write. That's not I write down
of a thousand truths. It's not gonna fuck everything up. A double in
a dark heart on a piece of paper and hand it to Ollie. Now
that you've seen the name, you also instinctively, and I think probably you
don't need to tell Olli this. He's read about this. You both understand
that this is not a true name unless you speak it with thoughts of someone's
death. It is an esoteric name. Well, can we would I know
if we can still call it based on that? Or do we actually very
specific as to uh what constitutes the name? Got it? Thank you?
So, Ollie? Whose death do you think of as you summon this thing?
Beatrice's well, you've got two successes. So the first thing that happens
is that you feel the pin pricks of yards of glass and the obsidian mirror
cracks. You dare to call me by my true name? Yeah, idea,
your name is not d now as is. Let me talk to her.
She's unavailable right now, very well? Can I have your name?
You can call me the librarian, wonderful librarian seems fitting. Yeah, you
have questions. I have questions of a mark marking like your mark, Yes,
but relate somehow. Yes, the mother of monsters, as many children
will shell duncut. Each of the children is represented by a mark. Show
me this mark. M hm. Oh deah, I lift my hand.
You are subject to its well a protection. You're very lucky. Oh is
it? Where does it come from? M hm? We are both from
the dark heart. And I shall give you a gift if you accept.
I'm shaking my head. You offered me a gift, ordeal. You're the
same thing, ollie or requires information a trade for what you wish to know
something and me a memory or something that you or there information for information?
My glance with you. You want me to give you a memory? That's
tell me something to excite me, Josh, might am I giving it this
memory? Or am I sharing a memory? M you are giving a memory?
Oh? How much do I not want to see those eyes again?
It's up to you. But the vision continues. I wish to talk to
the conversation with her. She is intent on silence. No deals. I
will give you a name. I'll talk with her, then I will leave.
I will speak this out loud. I don't know if the sound is
coming through over it's coming through my voice. Ah, it is coming from
everywhere in the room at once. I look at Diana, up to you.
No deals, no deals. I step forward and I look in the
mirror. You see a shattered visage of wood. It looks like nothing you've
ever seen before, shimmering as if it were your reflection. My dear,
how you've grown. I did not know that you knew that I had grown.
I visited a very long time ago when your father, the first day
you were born, he came to men many of your lineage. Have he
made a deal. We are not supposed to be talking. And I suppose
the option your brother has is no longer available. I would name why is
that something intervened, something protected you? But let me be clear, you
don't get off quite so lightly. So please, when you are ready,
talk to me again and decide your brother's fate. We'll take that information now,
of course. Do you know the legend of the bar guest, not
intimately. The one you seek is called pad fact, and its name is
similar to mine. Please be gentle with my brethren. Did you know that
your brethren was trapped in a deal? Make ideals independently? Darling? I
can see it now, but it makes no difference. Kill it and it
will return to its mother. Kill the girl that has the easiest way to
break the bit. That's the easiest way to break the fact. And what
have the people afflicted? They're already dead. I'm sure you know. I
suppose you know no way of reversing that. Would you like a gift?
This is my last off a girl. Do not try my patience. You
might have a little conversation later, but I do not wish to stay here.
That will be all until we next meet. The visage disappears and everyone
is left with ringing in their eas Nope, no, no, no,
why not let me take the gift? No, it's not a gift enough.
No matter what it is, does it give a curse? So already
cursed? Yeah, you can't be. It's not like Pokemon. Why not?
We don't understand it well enough, dear, you can't. But what's
the worst that can happen. You know what I mean? Do you really
know that? I know we're not doing it. No, we can't.
Yah, you all heard it, and we made no deals. I'm sorry.
No, I'm sorry. We're not we're not doing any h not doing
what Ollie, removing that curse from them. It's their choice, Ollie,
they'll fucking die, that's their choice, Ollie. She's right. We remove
that mark and we're executing them. They didn't choose to have the fucking mark.
If how many other people are going to get this mark? If we
don't we can keep it contained. If we can fucking lock her up in
a cage, I can trap the beast to the thories. It's monstrous.
And do you know that even even what we have to do, it's monstrous.
I can learn a ritual to contain it. I can with enough study,
I can. Maybe her name is Eluise. He's referring to the demon
she summoned. I'm not fucking I rolled away right now. That he's gone,
should get on with it. You don't want to say goodbye? What
you want that to be the last thing? Go on the Dinah? Is
there anything else we can do? Now that we have the name. We
could try to contact this other devil and perhaps we could see what they have
to say. We cannot take what this one said as earnest truth. Yeah,
perhaps a better deal do you want to see? Think that's going to
happen. It's better than nothing. It's still going to have to make a
dodgy nothing exactly. No matter what. We're stuck making a deal that we
shouldn't be making because we don't make deals with monsters. Have we learned nothing?
A lot's been making deals with the same monster what generation after generation?
So can't be that bad. Whatever the funck happens, whatever it's got to
offer, people die, People are already dead. It was going to be
simpler than this, you know. Yeah, Well we were some fire a
put of steaks and they're fucking gone. It's not like that at all.
Yeah, it's not like we thought it would be, not at all.
Give me the thing, how do I use it? What the fucking mobile
stone? I'll give him a call, make a quick deal. I believe
all he knows how to do it, and perhaps you should talk to him.
Listen, Maybe I can work something out with him. You know,
I could sell eyes to a penguin. Yeah, And you think a demon
isn't going to have a silver tongue. You think a demon is going to
stick to its word. You think a demon isn't smarter than you. It's
going to trap you for the rest of your unnatural life. All right,
you will be in servitude to this demon. You're okay with that? You
will do more damage in your unnatural life than you did. Good, I'll
do it. What from around the corner you see uh awkwardly standing probably been
there for a while, Eloise with a bunch of cups of tea on a
tray. You've already made a deal. You have the name, right,
Yes, we do. I can, I can. I can talk to
it. I'll undo the deal. I'll make this better. I'll I'll do
what I have to. And are you even mark? No? Right,
so you're still alive? No? I but I can. I can fix
this. No you can't. No, you cannot. No one can fix
this. I can try and make it better, though I have done.
I have made so many mistakes in the last few months, and this would
be another one. This would be a very big one. This would be
the biggest one you could possibly make. Don't you understand these monster's feet on
our desperation. We are awake. H Then what am I supposed to do?
Die? Let us die as you should have done in the first place.
I can Can we just kill it? Then? I glanced at Fea
like you said, it's smarter than us, Right, I'm guessing it's not
just going to walkz on in and let us kill it. Can it even
be killed? We'd have to ask Ollie that we can't let it, But
I mean we can with it. It's probably going to make and deal with
it with it. Yeah, I think that he might. What did you
say to me earlier on Yeah, yeah, exactly, that's why you let
me do it. And now I don't think you should make a deal.
I don't think anyone should make a deal. Then what do you suggest?
I think we need to ask Ollie if it's even possible to kill one of
these fucking things. If she summons it, it has to listen to her,
and I don't know, there is a chance that we could maybe kill
it. And if there's a chance that we could kill it, we do
it, and then you and I drop dead as should be and all is
well. Yeah, or you could summon up hell on earth isn't that what's
actually happened. No, she made a stupid mistake. A couple of people
have died. Where's Ollie? The way I see it, one of us
has to do it. You go, No, no, what yep?
Go get your brother? Is the stone still in here? Yeah? It
is broken shattered. I looked at the others and say, I don't know
if I can. I can't a bit banged up. I'm looking around for
Ali, Dina and Jack. You go and find him, all right?
Yes, oliver O, where have you gone? I have gone outside for
some fresh air. By fresh air, I am smoking my pipe, so
not so fresh air. Ah, what are you thinking about? I'm thinking
that no one was going to take my brother away from me. I think
across this building as become a shell of whatever the hell it used to be.
You see a very faint red glow. I'm going to go and investigate.
Closer you get, the more it is clear that it is a patiently
waiting, very large wolf with a singular red eye you because it's you.
It pants slowly and maintains a contact. I reached my relic for safekeeping,
and I realized that I gave it to my brother you are weak and unprotected.
You're giving the mark to these people so they can't die. The other
one, I killed my brother and he just doesn't fucking know you. Hm.
I kill something and then save it. Where the fuck are you in
my world? Fucking at my life. I'm not really talking to the dog,
but I'm talking out loud. Carry there's a very faint breeze that flows
in through the broken windows and send shivers up the spine. We're not fucking
sacured enough. M h. We're not paid enough penance for my fucking sins.
Why do I have to fucking lose everything? Why do I have to
keep paying trying to because I've not done things wrong? Yeah, I gotta
pay for it. H h h. Well fuck you, fuck this entire
fucking world. I don't fucking deserve any of this. M h m hm.
And they heard they moon spirit them egoing dictum. The chill picks up.
It feels like familiar arm around your shoulder, very gentle. Perhaps maybe
it's just wind, but there is two words you might be able to make
out, and they are forgive yourself. And that's when I turn around and
you see everyone has come up looking for you. OLLI only are you all
right? Do we see the dog? Everyone sees the dog very patiently,
as if it is deciding whether to pounce or flee. Side on massive powerful,
patiently waiting at the other end of the building. Ah, what what's
going on? Just just go away? Lock that now? What are you
going to do? M Let me take my ventions out in this world and
I m brush the hand that I fill off my shoulder. Oh, you're
not making any sense. I'll get out my sword because I think he means
to kill this dog. Hella dumb the hotel. Where the fuck's the you?
Ollie? Just calm down? Okay, what are you doing preparing for
a fight. I'd try and angle myself in between the dog and Cala Cala
dum. Why why shouldn't she because she'll kill him. I won't kill him,
Ollie. Get rid of that mark. He's did He died when someone
hit him with the car. Oh dead, he's still alive. I can't
pay any more. Color broke. That's what it's counting on. That's what
they try to do to us, break us, use us like instruments.
I'm already fucking broken. Bullshit, Allie, listening to it now? It's
bullshit. I've given up everything and I taking my brother from me, Ollie,
I can't take th Sorry, And does THEO not have a right to
make that decision for himself? What about me? I know, I know,
but what about THEO? It's about both of you. It's about all
of us, every single one of us. It's always about every single one
of us. Your pain, Theo's pain. THEO has a right to his
his own. And I know, I know it's not fair. I know
it's anything but fair. Joy his brother, I know you're his brother.
What would you have him do? Live his life a specter? I can
do have chatting. What if he doesn't want you to do it? I
could fix it? What if he doesn't need to be fixed? M hm.
I slumped in my chair, absolutely defeated. I walk over and I
wrap my arms around him. I don't even care about the dog, Ollie.
Oh, you raised your brother to be good and he doesn't want other
people to be hurt. Hello, it's not fat that hell. I know.
I know dog Carlo as well. Yeah, my heart is broken.
But you don't want Carlo. You don't want anyone to make deals with monsters.
No, we're hunters. We don't make deals with the monsters lest we
become them. This fucking thing don't work. I have the obsidian stone and
my hand sight up the dog and throw it at it. It sails across
and it's really heavy. So when it impacts, you see it shake across
this whole thing's body, and you see a red gash where the chipped and
broken shod of obsidian pit and it begins to snarl. When it begins to
snarl, I send my arms drown at it, and I'm going to try
and light it on fire. Okay, make a your your drone role.
Okay, let's see how do I make my drone row? Uh? I'm
not sure. I think it is probably an intelligence plus tech okay, or
wits plus tech probably gotcha, I can't remember. Okay, teck, m
hmm, what's whah? Three? Your drone um zips over and sprays this
thing with the accelerant and then flicks a small spark at it, and you
watch the fur of this thing instantly go up. And at that point Elouise
looks like she is in pain. We're always happening. What do you mean,
ed, I don't know what's happening. Let's let me deal with this,
Diana. What do we do? Well? Let her deal with it,
right. I stepped back a bit and you can see burnmarks begin to,
yeah, crawl across Eloi's neck as it also begins to consume the pad
foot. M if if it's give its real name to me, I'll do
it. No deals, I'll just give it up, all right, No
deals, no deals. M hm m mmm mmmmmm. I would like to
sense the unknown one last time. I want to get a read on what
she is doing right now, go for it. Do your role. I
ready my blade as discreetly as I can. I will stab Eloise the moment.
It looks like she's making a deal with this thing because unlike the rest
of you, I have learned my lesson, so with a whole bunch of
successes, Diana, you can sense her connection with this thing intensifying, probably
due to the pain. And it seems like there is a a well of
power that she is accessing, probably unconsciously. And I think, just for
context, Jack theo Kla, all three of you are aware that if you
wanted to, you could you see that the the bar guest padfoot is weak.
You see that Eloise is not paying attention to you. Fully, at
any point you wanted to, you could end either or both of them.
I if she's her back is to me. I am pulling out my gun.
I'm assuming Alie is not here, but I give a look. I
give a look to to THEO and cala Uh. They see me pull out
my gun, and I aim it at the dog. Actually I aim it
at Eloise. I aim it at Eloise. Yeah, I think you know
that a gun wouldn't do it. The obsidian knife would. C O.
I'm at you when you look at me, and I make a stabbing motion
because you have my knife. I don't have it. Oh yeah, okay,
okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okaykay. So I
pull up the knife. Then both of them, damn it. I sense
that there's a big connection between these two, and I think from what I'm
seeing right now with the fire and the burning, if I kill one of
them, the other one probably goes down or it gets free released. Yeah.
So I'm going to look at them and I'm gonna charge to kill the
dog. I'm gonna I'm gonna slip the dog's throat with the obsidian blade.
That's what I would like to attempt to do. Okay, Diana, you
charge at the dog and everyone else I charge. If she's going for the
dog, I have to go for Eloise. I cannot risk one of them
being it's absorbing the other's power and being set free. They have to both
go. I'm sorry, Okay, I'm sorry Jack. Yeah, is there
anything I'll do? Diana is charging for the bar gas right now, right,
Yes, yeah, Cala has picked up her sword and is headed for
Eloise. Yes, you don't have to do anything. I just want to
check. I'm trying to think what Jack would do. She's pretty destroyed over
the fact that she thinks THEO and Calla are about to die, and she
has used her drone on the dog already. So I think I just grabbed
my mouth and I look from THEO to Diana to Hella, and I just
say, just fucking do it. Just do it. Thea checking anything special.
I have no weapons on me, and I don't think I even have
the strength to do anything other than to watch them make the choice. So
I think I'm just standing. The thing is, I'm also back at their
doorway, right, so they're a little further out so I think I'm just
watching this from the doorway, waiting to see. I trust that they're going
to make the right decision. I shoot an apologetic glance at for you.
I just wink. As Eloise steps forward, she begins to say, Padfoot,
I lost my sister and you protected me, so please, And that
is when Diana overtakes her and rushes at Padfoot with an obsidian blade. Would
you like to roll me? Uh? Brawl and dexterity? Can I have
desperation day? Sir? Did I already use my desperation disper today? Uh?
What creed are you? Oh? This is for desperation for you as
research and breaking and entering and interrogation and such. I'm breaking and entering into
his body. Okay, okay, cool, here we go. I have
willpower still, so that's good? Okay? Yeah yeah yeah. Oh that's
two. Can I spend a willpower? Yes? I want to make that
more. Yeah. That is five. This thing is on fire and in
pain and as a huge gash from the obsidian mirror, and it charges that
you right back, and you just hear Elois in surprise, don't do it.
But with a simple step forward, you plunge the obsidian knife into its
neck and tear. Is there anything special that you're doing? Is there anything
you would like to say or do while you are killing this monster? Honestly,
no, I'm I don't enjoy this. I don't feel heroic. I
don't feel like this is what I thought I would feel. I feel just
like I just need to get it done. That's it, and Calor,
how does that always die? No great exaggerated attack like I used to do.
Because Diana's right, we're not heroes. These monsters were once human,
and now I'm starting to believe that what's monstrous about them came from us.
I run her right through. Yeah, she very quickly. I'm sorry,
clost to the floor. I shoot one last glance at the other and wait
to die. Both of you very quickly, feel life train out of you.
Oh. I rush over to color. No, okay, no,
you have final words? Really sorry you too, M please remember me.
I uh. I walk up and I leaned down and I give h I
kiss Kala on the forehead, and I get up and I walk over to
THEO and I guess if he's already gone. I just put my hand on
his heart was artist, and I just sit down on the ground. In
that case, let's go and see where Ollie is. It takes a short
taxi drive, but you eventually arrive at the library. You wheel inside,
you very quickly discover that it is inviting you. No books, no people,
just a very clear doorway to an office. And knock on the door
of the office. It opens, and behind the desk you see mister Jones.
My dear, oh boy, did you figure it out? Yeah?
What was he like? Hell on Earth? Yes? I can feel like
that sometimes, Oliver. You have an incredible mind, and I think you
understand what I'm offering you. Refusal is an option. I'm not going to
take anyone away from things. I would tie them to their life. However,
that comes with its own consequences. Tell you what I want, Region,
I want the power to invent vengeance this fucking mold and he just gleams
with unbridled joy. However, I can teach you so many things. I
am very glad to accept your induction into Clan Tremare. Please close the door,
Pallor. Yes, everything is like except for a grayish glowing outline of
someone that you recognize as sunny, and there is an awkward raise of hand
blow. No, we didn't actually meet. Am I dead? Uh?
Sort of? I think so? My just one of those shadow things I
saw. Yes, I I don't. I don't really know what we are
yet. I'm quite new or what we've been all along? Sunny, what's
that? Monsters? Do you really believe that? Yes? I admired you
so much on the forum. I thought you might be a little bit different.
Honestly, there's no glory in it. To fight darkness, I think
you have to touch it. I think we have to recognize it in ourselves.
We need to take a good long look at our strengths and our weaknesses.
Then we need to understand that the monsters are born from our weakness,
feed on our weakness, and go stronger because of our weaknesses. And I
think it takes monsters to fight monsters. I just killed a woman, Yeah,
yeah, I saw. Why did you do that? She made a
deal with a monster. If we just killed and I find I can't say
the name, and I look confused for a second. If we just killed
what was connected to her, It's possible she could absorb it and turn into
something she didn't know. She had power, she didn't have control over and
I knew I wouldn't be around to help her. I'm just trying to do
the right thing and save as many people as possible, bigger picture and all.
I don't know if that's a good excuse. It's not an excuse,
Okay, I take a step back. You're not funny, are you?
There was at one point, but I don't know that thing. It appears
in this world too, and it's made an offer to you. Yeah,
one last deal. There are always more deals. Are creatures who live forever.
Yeah, but I'm not going to live forever, Palla. I don't
even know what is going to happen to me here from here on out.
So if you want, I'll go in your place and you wake back up?
What Kella? I I love you, and I it's it's stupid,
and I've wanted to meet you for a very long time, and then that
thing came along and got me on it. So it's not like we're in
love or anything. It's just I admire you a lot, and I really
love I really love the form. I don't think you should make deals with
monsters, no matter what plane of existence we're on. I died because I
got shot because I was trying to be smarter than a monster, and I
died because I got pocky when I saw a vampire. I don't think you're
dead yet. I'm already gone, but don't have to be. I don't
want to make a deal with a monster. It's this one's different. How
can you say that after everything you've seen, after everything you've been through,
will no one learn? I feel like I'm going crazy. No, I
mean, I mean this is this isn't a deal, this is mercy.
It's I don't deserve mercy. It seems like this monster has a job and
he hasn't been able to do it for a while, which is why I
got stuck. You deserve a lot, a lot of very good things.
I'll do what you want. I can't go back. I help you alone.
You have all of the others. I've seen them, one of them
seen me. Something has happened to me, Sonny, something broke. I
know, I really wish I could have stopped it. But I know that
they couldn't help you fix it. I don't need to be fixed. I
suppose what I mean is they can help you bear it. I don't want
anyone making deals on my behalf. I don't make deals with monsters, Sonny.
Now this is fun. I never got to do this on the on
the forum, You're always too quick and the monster. Now you said it
yourself. Finally get to throw your own words back in your face. I
am going somewhere else, No, I am. I should get some say
in this, Sonny. You're doing it to me. I asked you when
you made the wrong decision. PLA, please don't send me back. Please,
maybe we'll catch up one day. Goodbye? What and he begins to
disappear. Fuck THEO. You two are in absolute darkness. I suppose I
have a question, M, which is in front of you? Do you
see your mother or Beatrice or his girlfriend or someone else? Mm hmmm.
I think after getting to an hour, i'd probably see mom. H mother,
you can see her, M. She's looking probably a little worse aware
and I it looks like she hasn't really got the courage to say anything to
you. Ah, just me and you here is it we. I think
I never really alone anymore. I don't think anyone else cares enough to look
so. Uh. This is a really weird place. You know. I'm
you're a big boy now, glad to see you've grown? Are you really
glad? You know? Could have stuck around, could have put down the
bottle. I I could have, but it was really really difficult. Yeah,
fair enough. I think you've got a little bit of experience with that.
I'll see you. Yeah. I don't got any kids, are I?
I ain't left anyone behind who needed me? What about Ollie? You
don't need me? I knew you two would be funny because you'd be together
Gambler as well. Then ayah, when the fancy took me? Mm hmmm.
So you're stuck here for good with me? Right? Do we have
to wait for like I'll need to show up? Maybe whenever dad dies,
you're going to join us? Or just me and you? Fucking wasted splace
isn't going anywhere soon, I don't think. I guess we've got plenty of
time for questions. Okay, how'd you leave them all behind? H I
was killed? Yeah, had a choice, though, did I? Yeah?
That fucking dog thing. I gave you some time? Yeah, I
suppose so, but uh, you know more people would have died. I
didn't want to live without my conscience. Well I suppose your conscience be damned.
I've been given a offer. I don't much like you've been given an
offer. I suppose bio, I don't really know one of the dog thing
is all right, we'll see offer. Then you get to go back and
I won't be bothering you anymore. What does that mean? It seems like
there's other places here that I can go, not connected to the real world.
What the fuck that means? Right? What does that mean? I
get to go back? You finally fucking looked out and look after your brother?
All right? Wait? Wait? Is that yes? I mean you
get to fuck off out of a void. I ain't fucking tethered to you
forever, and I get to go back, no strings attached. Fucking lassol.
What Yeah? Am I allowed to be a little bit proud, not
really that much bothered. Basically a stranger to me, Julie, and I'm
just gonna take them, put the deal through. Seems like it's already happened.
See you later. You have a good one, Diana and Jack.
I imagine the last thing you expect is for these two to start bleeding again.
I think it takes me a long time to notice, actually, because
I'm just sitting on the ground sort of between them. Yeah, I'm when
Diana went to the Yeo, I stayed near Kella, so I'm still near
Kella. I don't think they're fully awake, but you are very aware they
need to go to a hospital. Oh my god, Jack, do you
see that? Yeah? What the fuck? Oh my god, get ugh
Alistair, get the car. Oh my god. Okay, it's okay,
it's okay, it's okay, you're all right, you're all right. It's
going to be all right. We bring a miracle call nine one one.
What we do. We're break them, We're bringing them alistairs. And that's
okay. I think. Is where that scene fades to black and all the
it is clear is a circle with a dot in the middle, rended on
Color's hand, just as a reminder. Just the same for THEO as well.
Run hell down't know what the fuck? Leave ship, bro, come
wait to go and kill my brother then yep, my heart, my heart,
dudes, whole shit, holy shit, holy shit. I did not
expect any of that, by the way, Yeah, that was amazing.
Wait, really, and I didn't expect Ollie to go during the episode.
I expect you to kill both of the things, well, Eloise and Padfoot.
I didn't expect uh you to make the requests during those final conversations either,
yeah, I think like, well, what we didn't see behind the
scenes was I asked Josh. I was like, can I tell if killing
one of them is going to power up the other or like let one of
them free? And yeah, he was basically just like, you have no
idea if she's going to morph into some fucking demon because you kill this thing
that she's made a deal with. And I was like, well that means
they both got to go, yep, you have activated my parent. Well
you've also just activated the flaw that I have now, which is just like,
yeah, all monsters gotta go. Oh man, the fucking tragedy to
dude to come back as a monster dude, And also how it mirrors the
beginning as well, right you know where he you know, was doing what
he thought for the greater good hood hood was but he was really a monster
and she's like, you're just a monster. You shouldn't be moving around.
So the thing about the ability to get shit done, oh for sure.
The thing about the Hood is obviously that harkens back to a character from a
previous series. But that character is when I was building this scenario. Basically
the only character I could think of that would have the actual ability to uh
solve to to let people go like drink their mark away. Essentially, that's
the only character that would be able to take on that kind of burden.
And it killed them, but it let them free from the horrible fate.
Yeah, Like, oh, I had so many possibility possibilities prepared for this,
different different eventualities for this mark thing for all sorts, Like they could
have been like horrible zombies, like fully hollow, and oh, it could
have been so fucking fucking irony. Man of waking up and being like I've
got this mark and then realizing months from now, Like, dude, the
hood guy that we killed was actually setting people free, and I wish I
hadn't killed him because he could set me free. Rate about now? Ah,
yeah, for sure, Yeah, things are new and not the same.
Were not a happy ending, No, it wasn't. We never have
had. Have we ever had a happy ending? No? I don't think
we have. Well, no, that's true. Technically it wasn't the worst.
We won. I mean, yeah, we won, that's true.
I guess it was only a sad ending for me, But in a good
way. You know, like Connie went characters last year, and all of
them had different types of endings. So it's kind of hard for me to
think whether we had a happy ending or not. That's a group. It
was kind of a I don't know, win was a horror show. I
don't know. I mean this was an objective win as well. Yeah,
sort of, I think so. Actually it was kind of like in terms
of what we Oh no, I was okay, like I will tell you
off screen what the possibilities were. Oh no, we still the best ending,
dude, Yeah, did not get the best ending. We never we
never get the best ending based on who died essentially options I had m hm.
I So, yes, it is objectively good because in some ways,
because THEO and Cala are back, they're alive sort of and like they get
got to deal with the raids of people they knew. I was going to
say they loved, but in Theo's case not so much, and they've kind
of got a little bit of closure there. Dope's kind of it's hard to
leverage him emotionally because he's on the real emotional leverage is Olly. He doesn't
know his mum, and I think I'm I mean, I have a parent
that left a young age, and you just can't help a big grudge them
forever. And I was like, it's just it's hard not to think that,
you know, even if his mum and dad was there, he hasn't.
His mom died when he was six to alcoholism, and you know,
you can forgive people and you can understand their circumstances and stuff, but it's
still hard as the child. And I imagine, like THEO is an even
he's a simple man. I think, you know, I've been trying to
play him as pretty straight down the barrel with how he thinks, and he
quickly will just absorb and change his opinion and stuff. But I think with
that there was just no way. So I was like, oh, man,
if she tries to kind of emotionally leverage THEO here, I don't think
he's really going to care too much. But I did know he would take
the deal straight away. As soon as I was like, as soon as
you're like THEO, I was like, ah, fuck his death, whatever
deal gets presented by whatever you could have been a flaming skull. And I
think, like, for sure he would take the deal, but like really
his leverage has always been like the addiction as well, which his mum kind
of basinger at him with obviously, And so that was another thing that I
think, I mean, who knows, I don't know. I do like
the idea that he either gets to kill Olli or Oli just gauls the fun
out of him. I know, are you going to shove at some point
and you're gonna You're literally vaster is the Prince? Basically Lionel's off on a
fucking honeymoon. Yeah, Hey, that's the only happy ending out of all
of that. It's because it means, it means vast one all along he
planned bucks off. Then, I mean, but I think I see the
other thing though, is I feel like Oli Vampire and THEO Gaul Gould THEO
is a pretty cool team. Yeah, a pretty strong team. And I
think it it only makes Vasa's Vassa so much stronger, and it makes the
Tremea so much stronger in Manchester, which is a thing that my Linel half
third quarter whatever I am now fifth is, like, you know, would
be aware of. But Lino is so now Lino is now caught up in
this whole gene thing, you know, in Europe, so advancing across Poland
right now. It's very it's very interesting. I like the idea of like
where Manchester sits after this season because Lionel wasn't even present for a lot of
it. But Vassa's you know, he's literally signed a new vampire. Although
we did discuss something that Lionel has been up to when we were recording things,
and I do very cool. Don't know. I wouldn't count him out
yet, but I would like to say Jack, like I was waiting for
the moment in the final fight where I could kill you so you could talk
to your dead girlfriend. I really really yeah? Have killed everyone? Really?
Yeah? Man, you've got no closure. I'm glad you didn't get
any closure because you get to just be full villain ark Now it's perfect,
but it makes really good sense. It must have been so tempting to not
set off a new and just kill everyone. You know, Stone, he
kills everyone in the discord. The Latin that Ollie said before the Cold Chill
was before my last breath. I will have vengeance. I think he's lost
it, dude, Yeah, I think he has lost it. And as
far as Jack goes, Jack is rushing up to take care of Gramps because
he was still in the hospital last I knew. So that's where Jack's goming.
Oh man, okay, okay, canon, question time. Oh Diana,
how how sad do you when this fucking sell of Hunter's just disintegrates?
Which is that what happens? I mean, she would, uh if everyone
came back and was like alive again, she would basically say, I want
to still hunt with you all if you want, it's up to you.
But I imagine she doesn't. She no longer has the kind of resources that
she did at the beginning because her father is like out of his coma now
and obviously is like not super into me spending all my money for my own
stuff. But you have the name. I do have the name. I
do have the name. So I think, yeah, she wants to kind
of like keep the family together if possible. But also I think this experience
has really made her kind of go like, man, just let people do
what they want to do. Let people do what they got to do,
like it's everyone's individual choice. And yeah, And meanwhile, she is using
that same thought pattern and applying it to thinking about what she's going to do
with the fact that she has this name and that apparently Martin is not going
to like the chain has been broken. So what does that mean is like
a really deady question for her. Yeah, it means daddy gonna die.
It means I'm gonna live, you know, like I could even she might
even be thinking about something like what if I brought Reese back? You know
that kind of thing. We characters survived. This is the best thing we've
had. This is the best yeah. Yeah, But however, her experience
with sorry everyone lived. Yeah, but her experience with Calla being seeing that
that's true is making her change her mind with that. So she she probably
won't make a deal. She doesn't want to make a deal. But I
think if at some point, if we ever come back to this character,
which I highly doubt, but if we ever did, it would be really
interesting to see how many knife twists it would take before she would she would
use that. That's the thing, right, Traditionally hunters do make deals,
right, like they to survive and to do stuff right. Like I'd say,
the majority a little bit, Yeah, the majority of the hunters that
managed to get a lot of shit done do end up making deals and stuff
like that. So it's just like a weird line lesson to learn. I
suppose they don't. They don't have to. Honestly, there's a really like
throughout the Hunt, the New Hunt of the Reckoning Book, which honestly I
recommend this is that's what we've been using. Obviously, like all of the
law and all of the guidance on how to make our Hunter story is amazing,
and there's like there is options for making deals, you know, working
with the enemy of your enemy sort of thing that you don't necessarily like them,
but it's a convenience and you are weak, so it's really cool.
And yeah, so at this point, obviously we have lots of questions,
but I think for my own sanity, this is the point where the game
stops. But yeah, I want to say I absolutely love all of you
so much for your dedication and incredible role playing. We love you, Josh,
Yeah, we love you for your dedication and you're calling and all of
it. So good, Okay, so good another year. I want to
give that XP. Yeah, in case i'd like to say something though,
if you go right now to iTunes, the soundtrack I made is up.
It's only on iTunes at the moment, but it will be on every major
music and how do they find it? Peachy pixelate It's called leech with a
three. So it sounded so much like you were going to say more.
Yeah, I was trying to rush to get it up in time, and
I managed to get it to them with that same situation. We're an hour
over time. So I think we should all thank Valen Vayne for joining us
with I think the most epic table Story or whatever it's called debut. Yeah,
it's so good and all of the links to everybody is in the description
and wherever you're watching that cup So yeah, and yeah, I was going
to say, anyone want to plug anything quick? What was that? Josh
hard by Night cracked Crown on pod by Night starting Tuesday. There you go.
If you want more Josh to tide you over until we literally at gunpoint
force him to do it again. Every year we bring him back to life
with another blood deal. Also, if he wants some horror, drag him
from the void. There is a show starting next Saturday. And there's a
brand new show starting next Saturday, same time Exo r VUM and it is
it's going to be sick interesting. I have been. I'm not saying a
thing producing it, and Dan's going to kill me if I say anything,
but I think you're going to be interested in it, so please tune into
that next Saturday. It is a two part special, So that's it.
Yep, Marvel after the credits scene right right now? Yes, And also
I'm going to put all of those post credit scenes into one video, and
we have an extra one that we made, isn't the one that's about to
be played now. There are seven of them in total, and I'm going
to upload those to the Table Story YouTube channel just as a one thing,
so you can watch the morning one go if you want. Oh very quickly
context for this, which I forgot to add into the episode. Jack,
you managed to decipher a single file on the USB and that's what happens.
Ah mm hmm. Yeah. Can I know when this line goes? When
I stop up with a step side take