Speaker 1: You are listening to table story.
Speaker 2: Deathless is an improvised cinematic narrative with live production, including
music and dialog. There is no script. This story contains violence,
disturbing imagery, adult themes, and a darkness which may read
you doubting. For you, Lord, proceed at your own risk.
Speaker 3: A lodge of shape from shade, loget of fact from me.
Speaker 4: That he says, stand up for the thing you can't
stand a louse.
Speaker 2: The walls breathe slow and wet, exhaling trickles of blood
that run like sweat. Four vampires stand still, each caught
between suspicion and hunger, as the room thickens with the
scent of old iron and betrayal. No doors, no windows,
just the pulse of something ancient watching from the walls.
Speaker 4: I ah want to go back out into the hallway, so.
Speaker 2: I turn.
Speaker 4: My back to it and I walk out of this room.
Speaker 2: I think we rolled for that last time if reserves.
Speaker 4: Do you remember that?
Speaker 2: Because I can easily have you roll again, But I
feel like you rolled successfully and went through correct.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 2: Then yeah, you no one is looking at you when
you do this and you back up, are you looking
at anyone else? Is you back up into the into
the wall.
Speaker 4: I think I'm no. I think I've closed my eyes
because I am thing scared of that. Acknowledging the wall
in any way means I can't get through it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, you back up slowly into the wall, and
I don't know if you're expecting to for it to work,
because you didn't see Moog go through, but you know
he did. And I don't know if there's a part
of you that doubts this is going to work, and
you're expecting to feel the wall hit your back, but
it doesn't happen, and you keep walking, but you never
hit anything. So there comes a moment where I think
you probably stop and turn around, open your eyes, and
you're in a very long and tight corridor and you
can't see anything. It's very very dark.
Speaker 4: How long is the hallway?
Speaker 2: It was It's long. It's extremely long.
Speaker 6: All way.
Speaker 2: Oh god, that's my favorite meme from this show. It
was about this long.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I will shout out into the hallway, Hello.
Speaker 2: Do does she hear anything back? Because you two would
hear this probably.
Speaker 4: Hello?
Speaker 6: Yeah, And that's why, man, you will I'll be dead
before you catch me playing Mortal Kombat three. Que let's
say it off.
Speaker 7: What do you.
Speaker 8: I don't fucking care?
Speaker 6: Oh you don't want me to talk?
Speaker 8: If you would stop talking for even just a fucking second,
you would know that someone's down the hall So what
so what you know? What? Maybe they're gonna kill you? Fine?
Speaker 6: Oh no, great, I guess I'll stop talking. How about
you do all the talking then? Go ahead?
Speaker 8: I crossed my arms.
Speaker 9: Walk Hello.
Speaker 8: Who the fuck is.
Speaker 4: That h visionary?
Speaker 6: Sorry I'm not allowed to talk anymore.
Speaker 8: Oh my fucking god, it's another one of you. Just
fucking talk to her.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's a real grump down here. You just come
down the hallway.
Speaker 10: You'll see us. Eventually.
Speaker 6: We'll start walking towards you.
Speaker 4: What the fuck is going on? And I just start
walking towards the voice.
Speaker 8: Slowly. Don't try anything stupid.
Speaker 6: I'm moving normal speed. I'm walking. There's a long asshollway.
How long it took us to even get down to
you guys? It felt like weeks.
Speaker 8: Whatever, Just go.
Speaker 6: A dead eye. Just come this way, okay, don't expect
a party or anything.
Speaker 4: What do you mean?
Speaker 11: Ah?
Speaker 6: Nothing, nothing?
Speaker 4: Did I hear another voice?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Yeah, yeah it ain't moved. There's a lot to
tell you. I don't understand that well, I understand probably
more than that should.
Speaker 8: But what do you understand?
Speaker 2: That is a perfect moment hot swap over into the room, Edward.
Speaker 12: Do you wish to come with us? Or stay here?
Speaker 13: Are you going to come with us?
Speaker 12: Who are you speaking to?
Speaker 14: I'm looking up at pulse rate, up at the ceiling.
Speaker 15: Still, I'm hanging upside down and I'm looking at him,
and I smile and say, do you.
Speaker 8: Know who the room is?
Speaker 16: I think you see my mouth like gape for a
second tonight dramatically.
Speaker 14: Put a hand to my chest.
Speaker 17: And I'll say again, are you going to leave the room?
Speaker 15: I think you do? I think you do know?
Speaker 18: Oh, And I'm still staring up at you.
Speaker 15: Me yes, you wouldn't be hiding something? Would you.
Speaker 18: Hiding something? And I start to take slow steps backwards
from you.
Speaker 15: I I'll follow you, but I'm on the ceiling so
like my head is bobbing up and down towards you.
Speaker 16: And I'm not breaking eye contact with you. But my
hand that was on my chest is now reaching inside
my red satin bathrobe around the chest.
Speaker 7: What do you have there?
Speaker 16: Taking step by step. I pull out a little tiny
shiny bell and I'm looking up at you and I
start to jingle and ding, and what it seems like
out of nowhere, from out of your vision, is none
other but Rock and Stone, my bodyguards six foot five,
tattooed biking leather.
Speaker 14: Keep going and they approach you and they're grabbing at
you at the ceiling. They're both grabbing for you at
the ceiling. They're not touching you, but they're grabbing for you.
Speaker 15: I'm dancing around them.
Speaker 14: But now they're really they're really trying to get you.
Are you Are you moving around? Are you evading it?
Speaker 15: Yes, I'm running around on the ceiling, like trying to
move in between there they're grabs, they're grabbing.
Speaker 14: So the Balthazar, where are you looking.
Speaker 12: At this point, I'm looking up at the ceiling with
like my head kind of cocked and just like a kiss.
Speaker 6: Again.
Speaker 14: Yes, okay, so you're looking at Rock and Stone.
Speaker 12: Yes, chase for pulse rate.
Speaker 14: Pulse right around the room, So pulse rate. As you
are evading this, these guys like get really close to
you and you see a hand from one of them
face through your hand. It's just like a complete accident,
like one of their hands gets too close to you,
and what you think was going to grab you, it
just goes right through.
Speaker 15: Oh you're a lie too, And.
Speaker 14: In that moment, if both of you were not looking
at Edward, I want to back through the closest wall
I can to me?
Speaker 2: Is anyone.
Speaker 10: Do you do?
Speaker 15: You make a noise when you're leaving the room. You
have like an evil laugh.
Speaker 14: You would have to hear like some.
Speaker 8: Bye, we're freaked.
Speaker 15: Okay, Yeah?
Speaker 14: Am I able to back up?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 15: You?
Speaker 2: Which wall are you choosing?
Speaker 7: It?
Speaker 8: Would? I don't remember which way I.
Speaker 12: Was facing indicated I pointed at the wall the water.
After painting the diagram with blood on a piece of
paper from the book, we identified which wall.
Speaker 2: Okay, they left.
Speaker 14: Getting Visionary went through. Okay, okay, so I'm going to
a different wall. I want to go to a different wall. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: So what we did all those moons ago was roll
a one D four for me. I know which one
they went through, So roll one D three and I'll
just say therefore, and I'll pick one.
Speaker 7: Okay, if it's.
Speaker 2: The three, I'll lose my mind. That's all I'm gonna say.
I'm gonna throw it out there early.
Speaker 11: Let it just be uh slash slash.
Speaker 2: R space and then one D three H three wonderful.
I will tell you what happens in a second. I
cannot believe that. I mean I can, but also cursed.
You fade away, You go through this wall. No one
is looking at you, not even your illusionary bodyguards. And
when the two of you turn around to look for him,
he is gone.
Speaker 15: They disappear when he leaves bodyguards mm hmm still there.
Speaker 8: M h.
Speaker 15: Okay, Oh they're a lie too. And I look around,
where did you go?
Speaker 12: And it's just hopefully wherever the others went? Are you
coming down from there?
Speaker 15: Maybe? Do you want me to.
Speaker 12: Well, unless you want to be left here with the
blood breathing walls and whatever song you've been.
Speaker 15: Singing an ever song I've been singing, Oh, it's one
of the best songs.
Speaker 12: I think our taste of music is different.
Speaker 15: I start singing, here we are gone to wakings where
the princess of there you ever, I'll start dancing around
the ceiling.
Speaker 12: I think I watched this for a minute, and then
take the tone that I had received earlier the book
I'm still holding on to it, and uh because it
because I didn't see where Edward went. I would probably
go towards the wall that I had figured out was
the wall everyone has been through now it had in
that direction.
Speaker 2: I forgot. You have the tone, don't you with them?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, cool, I forgot because it's been so long since
we've done a proper B team. Okay, Then as he is, like,
you know, up on the ceiling, singing to himself, you
take them when he's not looking to kind of look
down maybe at the tomb, hold it close, and back
up through the wall, and we'll actually follow you this
time and go back to the crew in the ever
expanding hallway.
Speaker 12: Right going through out, I would look for Edward, assuming
he wouldn't be too far ahead of me. But I
don't see him.
Speaker 2: Right, No, you do not. You only see these three
probably they're probably I'm I know you have like an
equivalent super dark vision, So I imagine that you can
turn and immediately recognize two of these individuals, but you
don't recognize Fenn standing down there. M hm, you do
see dead Eye and Visionary.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I would approach them then as they're talking.
Speaker 4: So what do we do now?
Speaker 6: I mean he told us when we need to just
go back right. We got to get out of that room.
Speaker 4: And you are I turned my attention to then you
are who exactly?
Speaker 8: Don't worry about it.
Speaker 4: Don't worry about it.
Speaker 6: You can't tell whylor, don't worry about it. Where is
this whole thing? Wow? We gotta tell everybody. We got
to get everybody around, got to see what mister Edwards
says about all this. It's pretty high level stuff.
Speaker 12: Yes, speaking of Edward, is he not here?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 6: Oh, it's boutizaar, Hey, bouthizar. Come down and no, it
doesn't look far, but it might take you a minute.
Speaker 12: Yes, I'm on the way. Has no one seen Edward?
Speaker 6: No, No, he's not in the room.
Speaker 12: Ah, he went through the wall ahead of me. But
he must have chosen the wrong one.
Speaker 6: Oh man. I figured he'd know how to get out
of there, and he's like the smartest one alright to
yo yo. Yeah, but we gotta get back in the room,
get Pulse right and get the fuck out of there.
Go back into the chantry, and then I'm getting the
fuck out of his chantry.
Speaker 12: I think I think it's safe to say we'll find
Pulse right where I left him. He doesn't seem to
want to part with that ceiling.
Speaker 4: What do you mean he won't get off the ceiling?
What's he doing singing again? Fine, I'll talk to him.
We get in, maybe I can get him to stop.
Speaker 12: I wait a second, I don't recognize this one. Who
is this?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Where is Moog?
Speaker 6: There's a lot to explain. I mean, we got it.
It's better if Paul Fred comes through, we'll explain it.
But if not, we got to go back there because
everybody needs to hear it, whether he's singing or not.
He needs to know.
Speaker 12: Well, we're all here except for Edward, so we can
just head back.
Speaker 6: Edward probably knows all this anyway, probably tell us.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I just I come through the wall.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and.
Speaker 6: I love it?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Are you coming up? Is it on the ceiling? Are
you just like scuttle through the ceiling side?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 12: Love trauma like midline mid tune.
Speaker 15: Yeah, oh yeah, I love it. No man can understand.
Speaker 6: My power is in my own hand, perfect, perfect, you know.
Speaker 10: In this hallway a lot better than that.
Speaker 2: It's just like going down there.
Speaker 6: It's great.
Speaker 4: It's a very long hallway, all right, Okay, Once again.
Speaker 6: Let's get down to get down, and we run down
the hallway, so we're all together now, I assume.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, And just so that I understand, there
is no right or wrong answer, but you are heading
closer to pulse rate or you're waiting for pulse rate
to come down to you. Are you closer to the
room or.
Speaker 10: To the Okay, we're closer to the room.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, okay, the pulse.
Speaker 6: Rate looks like he's having a great time, so better
to just join him.
Speaker 15: I'm dancing, yeah, all.
Speaker 2: Right, and you are all crowded down in this little
I will say it does feel significantly like I know
that this hallway feels oppressive and scary, and that other
end of the room felt oppressive and scary, but there
is a weird, like strange magic here that exists in
the space that doesn't exist in the other room. And
in the other room it did kind of feel really
a little bit more intense. Obviously, the walls are like
bleeding and whatnot. But if one were to feel safer
than the other, then I do think this hallway feels
a little bit safer than that that room, even though
so you can feel it as you're getting closer to
that wall where you're going to go back through, you
can feel a little bit of that like dark evil energy.
Speaker 4: I don't like this guy's I don't feel very good.
This is weird. I don't like this. Where is mook?
Speaker 15: Who are you?
Speaker 6: What's going on now?
Speaker 18: Look?
Speaker 6: Look this guy? Okay, I came in the hallway, Moog
was like halfway down. I caught up and we heard
some people in the room and it was this guy
and a lady who kind of looked like, you know,
like like a pretty version of Daria. But the thing
is that's funny is that this guy has like like
a shitty personality like Daria, and she seemed a lot better.
But like so it's which is kind of funny considering
what what I'm about to tell you next, right is.
Speaker 10: You remember how I learned about this?
Speaker 8: Can you keep on talking like someone who doesn't want
the lower half of their jaw?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Look, what the fuck?
Speaker 4: What the fuck dude? We just met you? What the
fuck you can't come here and talk to us? Like,
what the fuck you?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 15: I Spider walk over to him up from the ceiling
and like my head is swaying in front of his
who are you? And I like kind of am swaying
in and I'm like it smelling him? Oh you smell strange?
Speaker 8: Okay, well, hey look.
Speaker 6: Man, you want to explain it, go the fuck right ahead.
But you're a mister. I'm not saying anything.
Speaker 4: Okay, Like is moog okay? Where is?
Speaker 6: What's another lady left to? Where this guy another lady
came from?
Speaker 8: So moves the talkative one.
Speaker 10: Then oh, yeah, he talks a way more than me.
Speaker 8: Then he's probably dead by now. And I chuckled to.
Speaker 6: Myself, thinks, so man, mooh, you don't know where he's going.
Speaker 4: I don't, I don't, does anyone else? No one else?
Freaking out right now?
Speaker 14: Like what?
Speaker 4: It doesn't make any sense. What's happening? What do you
mean he's dead? Where did he go to?
Speaker 6: We've been lied to?
Speaker 8: What do you mean you've been lied to?
Speaker 6: We've been lied to you, not by you, but by
the fucking chantry. Man. They're keeping us as backups, like
a couple of double a's in my mama's side drawer
next to the fridge, just sitting there waiting for someone
who needs him.
Speaker 12: I looked, perplexed. What nonsense are you sad the.
Speaker 6: Way it's proxies. Proxies, man, we're proxies. I don't even
know what it means, but I know what it means.
Speaker 12: Now with that, Like rap, I was just gonna say.
Speaker 2: The moment that he says that all of you would,
it's like a key unlocks in the door you didn't
even know you had closed within you and you recognize
the truth in that statement. And it's up to you.
I think now that we've you know, kind of revealed
this and you as players know what that means, I
will allow you to know as little or as much
of the extent of what that means. You know, for
for fundsies, you can do whatever you can kind of
have a vague idea. But what he does say about
proxies ring something happens within and you you're like, oh,
that is true, that that is absolutely a true statement.
Speaker 6: What the fuck? What the fun is guy? Some on
one of us is a proxy for him. Moog was
a proxy for the lady that was here, and he
left with her. Tell me it would be fine, of course,
and I couldn't go with him, of course.
Speaker 14: But.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 6: I'm done. I'm not gonna be back up for nobody.
I'm getting the fuck at back and I'm getting the
fuck out of his chantry.
Speaker 4: Well, how does it even work? Like, what do you
mean back up?
Speaker 2: For?
Speaker 4: How does it work?
Speaker 6: I got no idea.
Speaker 8: No one does really yet.
Speaker 4: And you you were with them?
Speaker 12: Are they good people?
Speaker 8: Depends who you ask.
Speaker 4: I'm asking you.
Speaker 8: So, like I said, I wouldn't count on Moog coming
back in one piece.
Speaker 4: And you let him go, I like, smack, Visionary, whoa,
what the hell?
Speaker 15: I don't let him go?
Speaker 6: What am I gonna do? I try, I couldn't do anything.
He's like your best friend man both. Yeah, well he
told me he was, you know, don't it'll be fine,
you know, he said, the way he talks, and he's
just very convincing.
Speaker 5: Huck.
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't understand any of this that's going.
Speaker 8: If I remember correctly, you were too busy, worried about
being important, and I look at Visionary, Oh what are
you talking about?
Speaker 6: I had a full fucking conversation with him. I mean,
obviously you're not a guy who has friends, but you
tell your friends you're feeling uh huh. Now, one of
these days when you unclench your b hole and get
a friend. Maybe you'll understand that that's what happens. I'm
allowed to.
Speaker 8: Do that, sure, whatever you say.
Speaker 4: Okay, so what is?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 6: Are you just like where you came from?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 6: Why don't you go back? If you're so cause you
don't like it so much? Go walk back down the
hallway and when you get there a week later, go
back to wherever the fuck you came from? Or can
you do it? Or not? Can't do it?
Speaker 10: Can you?
Speaker 6: Without that? Lady?
Speaker 8: You got it all figured out there? Champ? But don't you.
Speaker 6: I don't got shit figured out.
Speaker 4: Evidently.
Speaker 8: I need to make sure that you all don't get
yourselves killed. And now I'm seeing that going to be
a challenge.
Speaker 4: You suck at that shit or something.
Speaker 8: No, I just think you're really good at trying to
get yourselves killed.
Speaker 6: We've been doing fine without you around, man, sure, I mean.
Speaker 4: Like have we though? Because what the fuck are you
talking about? Proxies?
Speaker 10: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I would like to try and figure out who's who
at this point.
Speaker 17: M hmm.
Speaker 2: I was wondering if you were going to do that.
Go ahead and roll for me. And this is weird
because oh, you'll be using your VTM sheets.
Speaker 10: So what do you have to.
Speaker 2: Yes, you will be using your VTM sheet.
Speaker 15: Mm hmmmmm.
Speaker 8: What do I have?
Speaker 19: VTM wise bloodhound mm hmmlve Oh geez.
Speaker 8: I have to be ready to do this now.
Speaker 2: I will say. It does feel weird, you know, being
in this space and being so close to uh, you know,
the room here, which to you would feel more like
your old self than in the PBu. Essentially you're at
a threshold crossroads here. I don't think Fenn realizes that,
but you, as a player and I can realize that,
so you know how to repee it out.
Speaker 8: I also need to figure out how to roll this,
so I need to do awareness plus or resolve us.
Awareness is what I need to do difficulty three.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is correct.
Speaker 8: Awareness is right there, and and resolve.
Speaker 6: The same mood Roland anymore. You got this.
Speaker 2: One out of three successes? Oh boy, then I think,
for whatever reason, it's very difficult for you to discern.
I just think they don't really smell like anyone you
would recognize other than the ones you've already discovered.
Speaker 20: M if I may, I think I know why I failed. Absolutely,
I'm overwhelmed. Yeah, of course there's all these idiots chattering
about and I'm trying to.
Speaker 8: Sniff out who's who, and I just keep on this
rage that I have that was already pretty elevated my emotions.
I'm trying to contain that we'll do this, and that
takes priority over this, because if the other way around happened,
then they're maybe all dead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, there's a little bit of that undercurrent of
concern as well for where they're at.
Speaker 15: Ye so uh.
Speaker 4: Sorry, yeah, So like if I just walked down this hallway,
what we'll find Mook again?
Speaker 6: No, I's gone.
Speaker 12: I look uh lost.
Speaker 2: A little.
Speaker 4: Balthasar with What do we do?
Speaker 12: I've been watching Fenn and looking around the group, kind
of taking in the hallway a bit. All of this
started with that woman, the one with the green eyes
who turned into a bat who bit you. We came
here looking for her, and yet found ourselves here in
this hallway. I'd say we table this for now. I
look Fenn up and down and return to where we
came from.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, break, We're just gonna leave him there, leave
Moog there.
Speaker 8: There's no you can't get to him. He's in the way.
If he's even still alive, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 4: Okay, sure, yeah, fine, I guess I'll just go back
to the chantry without mood and deal with the fact
that we're proxies, whatever the fuck that means. I was
supposed to go see a movie tonight. This was a
normal day. This was a normal day, and in otherwise
otherwise pointing out my face, normal life. I guess. I
guess we can't just like be nor again. Yeah, it's
not gonna happen.
Speaker 8: No, and believe me when I tell you this, there's
absolutely nothing normal about today.
Speaker 4: Have you ever seen water World?
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 8: I only watch good movies.
Speaker 4: Fuck you, I hate this fucker. I hate them. Can
we leave them in this hallway? Why the fuck do
we even need you?
Speaker 8: The walking corpse hates me. What am I gonna do?
Speaker 21: Oh?
Speaker 6: Yeah, you better watch yourself, man, or you're never getting
the fuck out of this hallway. We got it. If
you want to get out of this place, first of all,
this hallway and then the fucking room we're trapped in,
and then we're in a goddamn tremir chantry. Do you
think you're making it out of there alive by yourself?
Speaker 8: So you're trying to get free? Three prisons deep Now
you think you're getting out of there, and if you
think that's your home, I gave you too much credit.
Speaker 6: All right, well, good luck do it yourself.
Speaker 10: Have fun.
Speaker 6: We'll go tell everybody the new guy from another world came.
Speaker 4: And he was a fucking asshole.
Speaker 8: I mean, call worse.
Speaker 4: Point of pride?
Speaker 2: Weird?
Speaker 4: Is that a brag?
Speaker 14: A fuck?
Speaker 7: Shrug?
Speaker 8: And I'm just so you all know, my arms are crossed.
Speaker 6: We know.
Speaker 8: Not what's a difference. I'm a different There's a difference
though with this one is more more like hunched over
a bit. I'm definitely like closed body language right now,
where before I was feeling a little more like a
little more open about it, if that makes any sense.
Speaker 4: Steven Pulse Ray to stop fucking singing.
Speaker 15: I have stopped singing. I'm standing silently on the ceiling.
My hair is like kind of you know, down around me,
and I have a blank look on my face.
Speaker 4: I'm uh sure, someone lead the way. I guess we're leaving.
Speaker 6: I'm kind of looking down the hallway still after this
towards really very guilty. Yeah yeah, okay, probably not dead?
Speaker 8: Maybe? How good is he? A following directions?
Speaker 15: Oh god, that was perfect, and faintly hear the crash
of a window.
Speaker 4: I will start walking, okay, and we're going to do
the same method where you guys kind of face.
Speaker 2: Back to the wall, but you can't be looking at
each other.
Speaker 6: As you do this.
Speaker 2: What I need to know is, do you let Fenn
know how to do this or are you just gone?
Speaker 6: I do yeah, okay, I I I while I say,
hey man, look, you gotta look at me. It's the
only way to get out of here. It's this whole thing,
Ricky Schroeder's cat. I don't have time to go into
the explanations of it. But you just can't watch or
you can't get through. Otherwise you'd be stuck here unless
you can figure out another way to get the fuck out.
Speaker 8: So you just no one sees you. You walk, you
walk back through, walk backwards.
Speaker 10: Do you look at the wall.
Speaker 6: Maybe there's a way through, maybe there's not. You don't
know until you go through.
Speaker 8: And in his mind is like, shit, I'm going to
fucking die in here, and he's idiots are going to
be the one that do it, all right.
Speaker 6: Just look, you look down this way, give it a
minute and you'll see they're gone.
Speaker 8: And I'll go first. Then I guess now.
Speaker 6: You don't want to go first. You don't know what
you're going into.
Speaker 8: It sounded like a room with bleeding walls.
Speaker 6: It's a hole. It's a little bit more than that.
And I'm already like talking to him if they're gonna go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Who goes in first?
Speaker 4: I take one last look down the hallway to where
Moog apparently disappeared, and I close my eyes and back
up and through the wall.
Speaker 2: Okay, if no one is looking at you, which I
assume nobody is, you go through without any issue.
Speaker 12: Okay, I would go a second.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, I think Balthazar would probably follow you.
The question is, pulse Ory, do you go in after
Balthazar or do you wait and watch these two.
Speaker 15: I'm not paying attention at all for what they're doing.
Speaker 2: Okay, perfect, what are you doing?
Speaker 8: Then?
Speaker 15: I think my mouth is a gape a little bit,
and I'm just kind of staring, got that thousand yards stare.
Speaker 6: He ain't looking, man, See they're gone. You could go now,
I'll turn around and he ain't looking. You just go
right through. Best not to look at the wall though.
You got it back into it.
Speaker 8: I look at the wall. I'm not backing it. I'm
just looking at the wall and I'm trying to assess
if it's a wall or wharfits something more.
Speaker 6: While he's doing that, I'm trying to get pulse rate's attention.
Like I'm jumping quietly and I'm just doing if he looks,
I'm just doing this and like pointing to eyes. And
then I go through the wall as he's doing that. Okay,
I was trying to get him to look at him.
He was looking at the wall.
Speaker 15: You're trying to get me to look at it. Yeah,
I wasn't paying attention. Yeah, I start singing again, what
are you singing? I'm not gonna lie. I'll not be
a gentleman behind the boat house. I'll show you my
dark secret. And my eyes kind of open and I'm smiling,
and I say, oh, the song has changed. And then
I walked through the wall.
Speaker 8: I liked it.
Speaker 6: I say, I like this one. As I'm looking down
the hallway the other direction towards where mook. Yeah, yeah,
I'm looking away.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay, can you make me an awareness role? So
with's awareness?
Speaker 15: Please?
Speaker 6: Okay? I Difficulty ah three.
Speaker 2: Two out of three successes. I think you just get
this uh feeling of impending doom when you look down
the hallway.
Speaker 6: I'm seriously considering going down there again, because even though
I got mad, I was yelling at him, like what
him saying like you're too busy worried about being important
or whatever. It was like like like I got me good,
you know, but uh, for better or for worse, I
trust my friend. So I think I walk down and
I go through the wall after trying to do something
to them and just like completely failing. Yeah, like I got,
I got, I got nothing in nothing that could do
anything to help. And if Moog is it can't survive
in that place, and I like really doubt that I can.
So I slink back into the other room.
Speaker 2: You are now all in this room, aside from Edward,
who is still missing, and his bodyguards are no longer
in this room either, but you have returned to a
room with no walls, no windows or sorry, no doors,
no windows in the walls. I mean, I guess you
could say there are no real walls, because when you
look around, it just looks like, you know, waterfalls of
blood really that are slow and trickling down the wall,
they seem to get slightly better than when you left,
and now they flow a little bit more freely. Once
you are back.
Speaker 15: In, I continue singing like as I come in, I
just keep dancing on the ceiling and I'm singing, I'm
not gonna lie.
Speaker 21: I want you for mine, my blushing bride, my lover,
be my lover here.
Speaker 15: And I'm like dancing around dead eye and like trying
to dance with her, and I move my hands around
her head and like.
Speaker 4: Pulsory. Can you just fuck off for a second, I
like push them away from.
Speaker 15: Me, dance away, keep singing.
Speaker 4: I'm going crazy, man says is. Do you guys feel sick?
Is this place making you sick? No? Well, I doubt
you can feel anything.
Speaker 8: There where the fuck is Edward?
Speaker 4: You can't leave without them, or I guess we can.
Speaker 6: Apparently can and he might have left already. Maybe he
went to get hailed.
Speaker 4: Fine, I guess we which one of these goes back
to the chantry?
Speaker 13: Do you know?
Speaker 4: I point at the walls?
Speaker 12: Oh, so I think we didn't figure out which wall
goes back to the tantry. Just the wall where people
kept disappearing through, that is correct, And there was something
else going on with the ceiling and some sort of
clock that pulse rate was interacting with.
Speaker 2: And the clock has since stopped correct like the clock
I think stopped at one point when the first person
went through towards the hallway. So when you guys come
back in and take a look at it, it has stopped.
Speaker 4: So we just try each of the walls then.
Speaker 12: Together, unless there's another door.
Speaker 4: Fine. I turned to Fenn. He hasn't told us his
name yet, right right. I look at you and I
stick out my hand. Did I you got a name?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 7: And now.
Speaker 8: If I don't want to say this, Fenn is thinking
of the Lucky Rabbit right now, hm hmm. But even
though I wasn't there the player, he was, and he's
thinking of and how important they are. And then I
look down at the vest that I wear with the
name scratched out on it. I look at dead eye.
I shake her hand without hesitation.
Speaker 4: Scratch, Scratch, good to meet you.
Speaker 12: Scratch.
Speaker 4: You know his name? I like point at visionary.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Moog said it about fourteen thousand times in two minutes.
It was impressive.
Speaker 4: Yeah, talks a lot.
Speaker 16: Uh.
Speaker 15: I dance over to Scratch and I'm dancing around him.
I will treat you well, my sweet angel, and I'm
trying to dance with him.
Speaker 11: So help me, jeeesus.
Speaker 8: Does he have a mute?
Speaker 12: Did Muke have a mute?
Speaker 4: Do you have a volume?
Speaker 5: Up?
Speaker 8: I do, but you wouldn't like it.
Speaker 15: What did you say? Your name was.
Speaker 8: Scratch?
Speaker 11: Ah?
Speaker 15: Is that a lie? And I just danced away from you?
Speaker 8: At least he stops singing.
Speaker 12: I've been standing next to or near dead eye, and
I take a step forward and just offer a hand.
Speaker 8: Pathasar hey, shake his hand, stare him right in the eyes.
Speaker 12: I meet his eyes and just have a serene smile.
Speaker 2: Ah, both of you roll for me? Please?
Speaker 12: When are we rolling?
Speaker 2: It's just a D one hundred PBu bullshit.
Speaker 12: Fifty seven.
Speaker 2: Seven Ah. This was totally random, but I can't believe
that it happened to both of your sets of characters.
But you're looking You're looking face to face at your
proxies like you both recognize in that moment, the moment
you shake hands.
Speaker 6: What did I just d.
Speaker 2: What did you just dm?
Speaker 5: Me?
Speaker 6: Look at it right now?
Speaker 2: Okay, hold on, okay up, yep, Yeah, I know that's
why I didn't. Yeah, I saw that and I was like, well,
I can't reply to that. And also it was it
was fucking random, so I can't believe that it because okay,
the audience doesn't know this. But basically I gave them
bios for b team and everyone got to pick one
and be like, oh, okay, I'm picking this this one
and that one and that one. So they had no
idea what they were doing and they just randomly it
just randomly ended up this way.
Speaker 15: Anyway, we followed the bios exactly.
Speaker 13: Yep, no deviations, figure.
Speaker 2: Of quiet mood, no twisting at all on me, rearranging later.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he was for.
Speaker 8: About five minutes.
Speaker 6: It's a good.
Speaker 13: Wow.
Speaker 12: Okay, So I think then if that's the case, what
Fenn would see is my just very like calculated, just
like serene mask, the pleasant face that I give just
anyone slip a little bit and my eyes search his
more earnestly with confusion, and my hand probably tightens in
his a little bit, and I just stare at him
and probably whisper something like you you, how can this be?
Speaker 8: I don't fucking know.
Speaker 12: I drop his hand, suddenly, take a step back, kind
of collect myself, probably put on the mask again. Dead
I is right. I woke up and thought this was
going to be a normal day as well. It seems
that it is full of all kinds of surprises.
Speaker 4: How are we going to explain him to the chantry?
When we got back, I.
Speaker 6: Got no idea.
Speaker 8: Who says you need to explain anything?
Speaker 6: And they got there's a lot of magic in this place.
You might set up an alarm.
Speaker 4: Okay, we know everyone who's in there. I mean, it's
don't exactly have visitors. Can't get you a badge.
Speaker 10: I oh, that lady was in there. No one seemed
to new you know.
Speaker 4: Well she was obviously a freak. Yeah, but Balfas are
you should be able to, you know, say something and
he'll just be like, yeah, both his arm knows what's up.
Speaker 12: I'm sure we can figure out something. In the meantime.
I maybe I'll just keep him in my quarters. Okay,
he can lay low there until we figure out what
else is going on.
Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, that's any alarm is still kind of go
off though, it sounds like as long as I'm in.
Speaker 12: Here, Yeah, the alarm is already going off. That's why
we're up here in the first place, all right, So.
Speaker 8: Then we can just walk out.
Speaker 6: They're not just going to let everybody walk out, especially
someone they don't know, when someone they don't know had
already been in the building.
Speaker 12: What I'm saying is the alarm is already going off.
If we can sequester him away before it ends, we
might be well to keep him from being discovered.
Speaker 19: Yeah, it's a good idea. I have another idea. You're
all proxies, which means that there's a connection between you
and your other I think if that's the case, maybe
there's a way we can talk to the others, like
a walkie talkie or something or a phone.
Speaker 4: Okay, can we we can figure that out. Maybe if
we just leave where we are right now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we need to get at it.
Speaker 4: It's doing my head in.
Speaker 8: Well, that's the thing. Who I want to talk to
is an expert at getting in and out places while
being unseen.
Speaker 6: Okay, let me get this straight.
Speaker 10: You want to.
Speaker 6: Call someone for advice on how to sneak out of here?
Speaker 8: No, I want to call someone for a ride.
Speaker 10: So let me get this straight.
Speaker 6: If he can come over here and bring you somewhere,
how about he just brings mood back to us.
Speaker 8: Why would he bring mood back to you.
Speaker 6: Why would he come help you.
Speaker 8: Because oh, I don't want to say this because I'm
of important to him.
Speaker 6: Just now he do have a friend.
Speaker 8: No, it's not friends.
Speaker 4: It's like you're about to say friend.
Speaker 10: Mission, it's a boyfriend. Man, Yeah, to say, you know.
Speaker 4: You're no judgment here, I must pray. I mean everyone
has different kinds of arrangements, you know what I mean,
Like we call it no judgment right, uh huh. Some
people are into like you know, so you're the I
would have thought you would give off like no, I
get it sub energy for sure. That makes more sense
to me. And man, you got like a whole intense
thing happening right now. And you can see you might
want that to someone to come in and kind of
like take the weight off your shoulders by telling you
what to do.
Speaker 6: You know, yeah, you might want to stay in a
chance for a while. We're all locked in here for
the most part. Things got real freaky on Fridays.
Speaker 8: I thought you said this was your home.
Speaker 6: It is when we went to the movie stuff.
Speaker 8: Well you a latch key kid or something.
Speaker 4: Isn't everyone? I mean, what, it's the nineties.
Speaker 6: It's fair your parents are together.
Speaker 10: Will good for you.
Speaker 4: Your parents know you're alive.
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Wait, wait do you say that in character?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Don't fucking talk about my parents?
Speaker 10: All right, man, it's just a joke.
Speaker 6: We all watch Full House all everything that every arrangement's cool.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna say it one more time. Don't talk about
my parents.
Speaker 6: I understand you, no matter what speed you're talking at.
I get it. And yet you keep on doing it
well to protect us. So what are you going to
do protect us by killing us?
Speaker 8: I don't have to kill you to protect you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, what we'll do to your friends or your arrangement?
Speaker 8: Let's find out now?
Speaker 20: And I okay, take my head up and it's a
claw and I scratched my own arm?
Speaker 10: Did I already know?
Speaker 8: I do it on like the front though?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 10: But I think did I already know?
Speaker 8: He was?
Speaker 10: He was awarewell from earlier.
Speaker 2: You'll have to I do not know unless I wrote
it down.
Speaker 6: I don't think so, yeah, I don't. I was wondering
because there was some weird shit.
Speaker 2: Okay, sorry, I was rolling for something else.
Speaker 6: Please continue, I said, Man, we get freaky here anytime.
Speaker 10: Don't worry.
Speaker 6: You're not getting out of here without us, So threaten
me all you want you do something to me?
Speaker 10: That's it. You're stuck.
Speaker 6: You know what these mages do to somebody here, they're
going to have a hell of a lot of fun
with you. And it ain't no Freaky Friday, that's for sure.
Speaker 8: I'm ignoring him.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I look at Balthasar and I want to see if
his arm is bleeding as well, scratched exactly where I
scratched mine.
Speaker 2: Balthazar, go ahead and roll me, uh resolve plus wits.
Speaker 13: I think.
Speaker 2: It might be wits resolve that might ask you. I
always fuck up which one goes in? Which order?
Speaker 12: Is that one? Yeah? Any modifier?
Speaker 6: Uh? One?
Speaker 2: Actually?
Speaker 12: And difficulty uh three?
Speaker 2: One of three?
Speaker 6: Three?
Speaker 7: You?
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna but is this not a ten?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: That's a ten. So that's a crit on that one.
So you feel it. But it's up to you whether
like there is a split second. I don't know how
else to describe this, but you know instantly you can
let this happen or you can control it. And I
don't know what would be more beneficial to you in
this moment is to let him think that he can
do it or that he can't. But it's your choice.
Speaker 10: You can.
Speaker 2: Let the cut open or you can make it small.
You have complete control over what happens to this cut.
Speaker 12: Hm, I think I would let him see.
Speaker 2: Okay, so a cut opens up on Balthazar's arms, so
all of you would notice this, then that he cuts himself,
and then Balthazar bleeds, begins to bleed.
Speaker 12: Yeah, and I probably hiss and hold out my hand
or my arm in surprise.
Speaker 8: You see, not dead, hurt. I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't like this.
Speaker 12: I don't.
Speaker 15: He's he's bland, dripping onto the floor.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think it's a cut that big unless
it was Benn.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't think.
Speaker 8: The point was to display the connection.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I reach up and I I'm like scratching at
my cheeks, but my face is like rotting, right, that's
kind of the vibe. So my fingers are kind of
like sliding in and out of these open, gaping wounds.
Where's Mook?
Speaker 12: Yes, I don't think you've told us where you came from?
And now where Moog is?
Speaker 4: Why hasn't he here?
Speaker 8: What do you mean where I came I came from?
And I pause and struggling with something.
Speaker 4: We were going to see a movie.
Speaker 2: That I shudders in this moment, and her flesh begins
to sag, as if heat has sort of struck at
it from the inside. Then she kind of slumps downward
a little bit, and her limbs begin to ripple, and
she collapses into wet, boneless clay. The mass quivers and
bubbles and reshapes with unnatural speed until it stretches taller, broader.
The shoulders bulge beneath this slick clay surface, and with
a crack like a splitting bark, gunner tear's free from
this clay shell, eyes wild, his body steaming from the shift.
Speaker 8: Everyone stand behind me, now what the fuck man?
Speaker 6: Right now, don't fucking break Get behind me.
Speaker 8: Right now.
Speaker 6: I get behind him tonight, start.
Speaker 17: Clawing my way to my feet and get up, laughing,
looking all around.
Speaker 11: Mm hmmmm.
Speaker 8: Easy, look at me, you know me, m.
Speaker 13: And I'm looking at you. I would imagine I'm bloody
and steamy, and it's about as strong as you've ever
seen me.
Speaker 8: Easy, Remember the lucky rabbit.
Speaker 15: M hm.
Speaker 8: Am.
Speaker 2: I hungry, No at all. You weren't hungry, were you?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, you're not. You do feel a lot stronger.
Speaker 6: Though, Thank god.
Speaker 13: Brick my contact with Finn to look at the rest
of the group and I'll just roar and beare my
fings that the rest of the group?
Speaker 6: Who the fuck is this?
Speaker 14: Man?
Speaker 6: Where's DEADA?
Speaker 8: Oh shit?
Speaker 6: Who was my friend?
Speaker 8: Oh fuck?
Speaker 6: Who the fuck is this?
Speaker 8: Did you die? Were you killed? I'm looking. I know
he's not looking at me, but I'm trying to get
his attention. Did I apparently not? What's the last thing
you remember?
Speaker 7: H h?
Speaker 9: What could have been? And what was stolen from me?
Speaker 6: What the cut? Does that mean?
Speaker 8: Cotton?
Speaker 6: I'm gonna calm down. My friend is exploding. This guy
came from inside of him.
Speaker 13: I look down at my feet. What do I see?
Speaker 14: Ah?
Speaker 2: You see cracked clay, small pieces of it. Your body
is steaming, and I think, Uh, roll me a one
D one hundred and we'll let the dice decide.
Speaker 14: Fifty three.
Speaker 2: When they say dead eye, I think you feel a
pain of something. I think it's a little bit of loss,
a little bit of worry, a little bit of concern
for mood. So I'm not sure if you had that yourself,
but that is what remains. And I think it's pretty
clear as you look around and you see Fenn you
know where Fenn went, Ben went with the proxies. So
I think it just hits you quite suddenly that you've
just utilized your proxy, and even though you were ready
to let go, you've you've ripped out of the body
of your proxy in front of all of her ference.
Speaker 15: I am still on the same and I walk towards him,
and I release the ceiling and gracefully land on the
ground in front of him, and I look at him
for a moment, and then my eyes slide off of
him to the floor, and I kneel down and I
pick up little pieces and I start.
Speaker 11: Singing and be my angel, and be my angel.
Speaker 9: Well, I promise you.
Speaker 15: Wait, Well, I knew.
Speaker 2: It, Edward. It looks back into the room.
Speaker 8: I look at Visionary Edward.
Speaker 6: I assume, yeah, that's mister Edward.
Speaker 4: I knew it. You're all proxies.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I thought I was going crazy there for a while,
but I knew it.
Speaker 8: What do you mean you knew it? Ho?
Speaker 6: How long?
Speaker 4: I'm sorry? I think I have an apology to give
all of you. I've known for a while. Well, I suspected.
Speaker 8: I want to see if he's full of shit or not.
Speaker 2: Go ahead and roll do you have any special bullshit
that allows you to discern the truth other than your nose?
Speaker 8: Umm, I'm looking. I don't think there's any like deception bullshit?
What else do I got here? What is this?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 8: I got some things I can maybe do if I
fail a.
Speaker 2: Role that I don't have any.
Speaker 8: Implicit like you can see through deception or anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, but you do have a special scent ability? Right, Yes,
I'll let you roll that one.
Speaker 8: Excellent, thank you. Where I'm getting better at this pool
size modifier H none difficulty is three one of three geeza.
Speaker 2: Unable to discern if this person is lying or telling
the truth. But you get the very faintest sense that
reminds you of Cora.
Speaker 5: You see, I had a job to do, a mystery
to solve.
Speaker 4: Ah, it is a bit sad it happened like that.
Speaker 12: I look down at the clay. I liked her.
Speaker 4: What was left of her. So we figured it out. Hi,
I'm Edward. That's the name you're getting from me. It's
a terrible name, but you're not going to get the other.
Speaker 8: All right, whatever, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4: Listen. I know this is very confusing because it is
primarily but let me help you. We are good guys. Yes,
do you want to be them?
Speaker 8: It's not confusing. You're full of ship. Your set gives
you away. H Smell like one of my friends, but
you can't be her proxy.
Speaker 4: Is that right?
Speaker 8: That's right?
Speaker 4: Smell like one of your friends. Uh huh, got a
pretty good nase there, Yeah, why would that be? Listen? Yeah,
this whole situation, all of you. I've been trying to
figure it out. I've been trying to get to the
point of the point. You know, the point of the point.
This is the point of the point. Do you want
to stop a god one that's not yet one to come,
one that was one that will be again? Hm hmmm,
pass no answer.
Speaker 8: I lean back. I have already intercepted in a chord
from someone else.
Speaker 13: I'm going to lift my feet out of this clay
zuck that I haven't I imagine it makes a squishing
noise as I step out onto the floor of the room,
and I'll get close to Fenn.
Speaker 8: Easy, and my eyes dart around the room looking for
any clues or anything we have to get back. I
look at his hat, and then I look at the
clay on the ground. Easy brimstone.
Speaker 13: We have to get back.
Speaker 8: Why who killed you? What happened?
Speaker 9: I wanted to die then.
Speaker 8: Now it's.
Speaker 13: Now I want to live.
Speaker 8: We have to go back. Are they in trouble? Why
do we have to go back? I don't want to
understand what's going on. You came out of that one
and rage, and you calm down really quick. I realized.
Speaker 9: If that I were to kill everyone here, what would happen?
Speaker 8: I must be a good boy.
Speaker 9: You are the only one who has come here.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I stayed behind, so no one killed these guys,
and they're trying their best to get killed by me.
I'll tell you that much right now. I don't know
if you if you're reborn from one of them, and
look at Balthazart, what happens if they die first?
Speaker 4: All right, no one's listening to me. Here's what I'm saying.
We're all gonna die, everyone, okay, unless we work together
to stop Mary and hale eh ring a bell.
Speaker 6: You with me?
Speaker 14: Now?
Speaker 6: You even knew she was the one who was in here.
Speaker 4: Listen. In order for me to get the information that
I needed to get, I had to kind of, you know,
pretend that I was a tremayor for the last ten years.
But here's the thing. You're gonna thank me for it, right,
because I'm, with your help gonna stop what they want
to do, which is, may I say again, raise a God.
Speaker 6: That will.
Speaker 4: Consume every throughout all of this.
Speaker 12: I have taken a couple of steps away from scratch. Yeah,
and I'm taking it in. But now my attention is
going to Edward. You're asking your identity aside. You said,
do we want to stop at God? When we became kindred,
we put our gods behind us. There are no gods.
The gods are dead. That is what one would hope.
Speaker 4: But it turns out if you believe really hard, you
can make a new one happen. And that's what well
you saw what happened Proxies. I.
Speaker 15: I'm still kneeling on the floor, and I would like
to is the clay wet or is it r It's white?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I mean it's not falling apart immediately, but
it's not like cracked shell dry.
Speaker 15: Yeah. I take a couple of pieces of it and
I put it in my little central.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 15: And then I stand up and I walk over to
Edward and I say, if you want me to trust you,
just give me a taste, and I take my dagger out.
Speaker 4: I don't think you're going to need that, can just
use your teeths And I put my wrist out.
Speaker 15: She's offering for me to bite into her or he
is offering me to bite into his wrist.
Speaker 10: Yes, oh yeah I did.
Speaker 15: Oh yeah, I without hesitating, I like smile, yes, and
I bite into his wrist and I drink.
Speaker 2: Okay, do you have things that you need to roll
when this happens?
Speaker 15: Yeah, I think so. Let me see here.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: I also need to check in with Visionary, who I
imagine is in a state of shock.
Speaker 6: It's just destroyed, just destroyed. There's like, ye, you know,
it's crying because there's blood just running down his face
from his eyes, and it's just like, I mean, it's
just blow after blow after like wrecking balls coming in. Yeah,
but he's a Visionary's gonna walk. I'm going to walk
towards Edward while this is happening.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, all right.
Speaker 15: It turns out I have two abilities. I think one
of them is a ritual.
Speaker 2: Though, so we wouldn't be able to do that one.
Speaker 15: Okay, I need resolve plus blood Sorcery Role Difficulty three
I succeed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, would you like to tell us?
Speaker 12: Uh?
Speaker 13: What you do?
Speaker 15: So when the blood touches my tongue, I can determine
the resonance and intensity of the blood if it's human,
and if it's I can also identify if the blood
is mortal, gul, vampire or another supernatural creature.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 15: And I can determine the relative blood potency of the vampire.
And that's not a critical win, is it?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 15: But that's all I can do.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's go through the list bit by bit. Uh,
what's the first one?
Speaker 15: Are they human? Okay? Are they? I can tell what
kind of creature it is? Then is it mortal, gul
vampire or another supernatural creature?
Speaker 2: So it's another supernatural creature that I don't know if
you've experienced before. But they're kindred, but there's something slightly off.
Speaker 15: Okay, So if they're kind of kindred. I can also
to determine the relative blood potency.
Speaker 2: Uh, let me open the character sheet. I'm pretty sure
it's ridiculous though. Relative blood potency, so I can say
three and that will be sufficient correct Because it's relative,
it doesn't have.
Speaker 15: To be exact. I don't know what the blood potency is,
so I can't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'm just saying it. It doesn't have to
be exact, right, I can just be I can give
you a general idea.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 2: It's pretty fucking strong, very powerful.
Speaker 15: Okay, yeah, more powerful than me. I cock my head
and say, what are you? It's strange, not quite kindred?
Speaker 4: Is that news to me? Yeah, that's news to me,
I say out loud. Relay another mystery?
Speaker 15: First, Can I see if I want to see if they're.
Speaker 2: You don't have to you just drank their blood. You
don't have to roll again. They haven't lied once?
Speaker 15: Oh okay, I've been telling.
Speaker 2: The truth the whole time since they came back in here. Actually,
I don't think when Zam's was playing this character, I
don't think he fucking lied either, not once. Yep, Okay,
I was paying attention, all.
Speaker 6: Right, Den.
Speaker 13: He could be lying.
Speaker 1: M corral was lying.
Speaker 17: She was hiding something, something in her, something in that coffin.
Speaker 13: They didn't want us to see.
Speaker 9: And I need it.
Speaker 2: I need it.
Speaker 8: What's in there that you need? Everything? What you lost?
I look at Gunner and correct me if I'm wrong.
I see a look of that. I can relate to
almost not protection, not like it's a look that I
used to have.
Speaker 2: Yes, yep, I know what you're saying, and yes, yeah, yes,
And I know Zambi would say yes if he knew
what you were saying.
Speaker 8: So yes, I just don't have words right now.
Speaker 2: I no, no, but I know, And I don't think
that you should explain any further because it's way cooler
the way you guys chose to reveal your backstories.
Speaker 6: So go for it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, all right, do you know how to get there
from here? And I point to the bloody clock on
the ceiling.
Speaker 2: Oh, man, Gunner, when you look over at that bloody clock.
Oh wait, you weren't in the clock room? Never mind,
never mind?
Speaker 13: Well I look up at it. Do I see the clock?
Speaker 15: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You do?
Speaker 15: You see.
Speaker 2: A clock with an obsidian face. I believe it's stuck
at to thirty right now. Other than that, that's the
only thing in this room other than the walls seem
to be bleeding.
Speaker 13: I have no idea what this is.
Speaker 7: Yeah, me neither.
Speaker 8: Well apparently need to get out of this room anyways,
to get to your room, or to get to wherever
the fuck they want to go. So I'm at a loss.
Speaker 13: How did you dear exactly?
Speaker 6: Cora?
Speaker 8: Well, kind of. We were in Cora's apartment and the
next thing I knew I was here, Well, not in
this room. There's a super fucking long hallway, and I think,
how long When I tell you you've never seen a
hallway this long before, you'll just have to take my
word for it.
Speaker 13: There, and I'm looking around.
Speaker 8: The room, and and Cora was with me the next moment, Well,
no that's not true. I was, and I went back
and it's fucking I cold my head. She ended up
here with me, and she went back to you with
one of them moog I think they said, said his
name was? Is that ring a bell? Did he make
it to you?
Speaker 15: Where?
Speaker 8: Did? She flashes? Really?
Speaker 4: He is.
Speaker 8: Insufferable.
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna get a smile on my face. I'm
gonna smile on my face because that means he's live.
He says that. Yeah, which one here.
Speaker 13: Is corsproxy?
Speaker 8: That's what I'm saying. She went with her proxy, I think,
And then Army Sure, I look at Edward not so
much anymore though.
Speaker 4: Listen, friends, new friends, old friends, friends across the board,
we've all been used part of something, right, Yeah, so
let's just talk about it for a minute. What we're
going to do next, because we have the power to
stop what's going to happen.
Speaker 12: And what power is that?
Speaker 4: They need us? Well needed you, They don't need me.
They want to birth something bloodline and a lineage. They
thought I could do it once put something in me.
Two minutes.
Speaker 2: So I'm so sorry. I would normally never do this.
But seconds actually two.
Speaker 4: Seconds, yes, two seconds, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: Probably felt like minutes or much longer, but it was
only two seconds, two seconds.
Speaker 8: Put something in you.
Speaker 4: That what you said, Yeah, they took it out. I
look at somewhere else. It taught me all sorts of things,
and uh, well, I can't blame a guy for wanting to,
you know, prevent the end of the world or time,
end of something real, the end of a reality. So
I came here to find out how we could stop them,
and I figured out something was a miss with you all.
Speaker 6: Eventually I walk, I mean, I walk in front of
Edward and I like, I wipe, like I try to
wipe the tears off my face in my hand, and
I look at him. I say, if we help you,
is it going to save mood?
Speaker 4: I would really want to save mood.
Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, Well she ain't around to do it,
so we're gonna have to. And I stick out my
hand to shake his.
Speaker 4: Hand, take your hand, and I shake it from.
Speaker 6: He does that, I look him in the eye and
I want to use one of my abilities. I want
to use premonition, and you can crank up the difficulty
because I want to see when he dies, and I
hope it's gruesome. Okay, but please note I've used my blood.
I'm touching him and looking in the eyes and I'm
saying I want to know when you die.
Speaker 2: Yep, okay, And this is for.
Speaker 6: Edwards premonition yeah, frad word and it's just flashes of insight.
It's premonition.
Speaker 2: Let's use your roll your ability. Can you do a
six difficulty?
Speaker 15: I sure not.
Speaker 2: We do five, but I think you want it cranked up.
Speaker 10: So my resolve is for.
Speaker 2: Let's let's crank up the difficulty to six if possible.
But I'll give you a bonus.
Speaker 6: The okay, got it? Modifier of one, but difficulty of six.
Speaker 10: It's just a form.
Speaker 6: Four out.
Speaker 10: Okay, I have a critical in there.
Speaker 6: Two nights does us?
Speaker 2: Oh you do you've got one, ten, and then three successes.
It's only four out of the six successes needed, So
I'm gonna yeah, I'm just explaining to those listening why
I'm choosing what I'm choosing. So you're not going to
see what you're hoping to see. But I do think
you see a moment where they did die, or at
least what felt like it. Edward, would you like to
describe what he sees and experiences. It can either be
when you were turned or the two seconds that we
were referring to just moments ago.
Speaker 4: I think that I struggle to remember much about when
I was first turned. After those two seconds happened to me,
and I have been single focused ever since. So you
get the two seconds. I'm strapped to a slab. It's
polished marble, and something is strange. I'm expecting to paint,
but that doesn't happen. I'm surrounded by these people, I
believe one of them you might know. Suddenly I'm seized
with this fear, this huge, tremendous maelstrom of horror within me,
and then complete silence. I see nothing, but I hear
a voice.
Speaker 7: Child, What have we here? Do you think you can
keep me?
Speaker 4: I don't think you want to be captain?
Speaker 7: I do not. Is it you think you can trap me? Oh?
Speaker 4: You could be friends?
Speaker 7: And and what is friendship to you?
Speaker 8: Child?
Speaker 4: I don't know anymore staying alive. Friends do things for
each other, you.
Speaker 7: Know, friends do things for each other like what.
Speaker 4: I don't think I can keep you. It feels like
my body is being torn to shreds everything within me.
It's almost as if my very matter is being ripped apart,
but in my mind I can still be here. It's
a strange dual feeling. Or I'm having this conversation and
I'm present and I'm being torn apart and I'm not
at once, and.
Speaker 2: I think there is a moment here where again, it
was only two seconds, but to you it feels like
so much longer when you're actually experiencing it. But there
is a moment where he immediately begins to probe your mind,
and you can kind of sort of feel that as
he's exploring before he says, Oh, I see you struggle.
Speaker 7: You struggle with your mind.
Speaker 4: It slips.
Speaker 7: I could be your friend. I can help you control
your mind if you will do something for me, doing
your heart?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 4: Oh, what do you want? What do you want me
to do for you?
Speaker 7: Open your mouth and say some words.
Speaker 4: When you say, when you say you'll you'll help me
with my mind? What do you mean?
Speaker 2: And I think it happens instantly. This struggle that you've had, yeah,
with this kind of the struggle that you've had with
your mind and controlling these thoughts and understanding and navigating
is just gone. And you do have complete control. And
in fact, you have you have more control than just
your mind. You're suddenly aware that you can control the
perception of others, that you can control what they see.
This gift that he can give you will give you
the ability to hide in plain sight, to pretend to
be someone you're not, to go wherever you please.
Speaker 4: What are the words?
Speaker 7: Do you know what?
Speaker 4: I'm a quick study?
Speaker 2: Then repeat after me, and that's where it ends.
Speaker 4: Do I know that he has experienced this?
Speaker 2: I'm going to leave that up to visionary. If it
were PBu with the four out of six, I would
say yes. But I'm not entirely sure how the VTM
powers work. But I trust that.
Speaker 14: Well.
Speaker 6: It's a little different too, because it wasn't anything of
the future. But I didn't roll enough.
Speaker 2: For that I mean, see, okay, you say it wasn't
anything of the future, but with.
Speaker 6: Each yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, Okay, Well I'll
say this. I mean, I've been, like you've been mentoring
me for for years here and probably very rarely been
this serious when I said this stuff to you. But
then you you know, when I'm doing my bullshit. Yeah,
even if I'm this serious, so you knew I like you.
I mean, and I said I want to know when
you die. You know, I was looking to see, like
if I could see when you died.
Speaker 10: And then I.
Speaker 6: Usually with my reaction because it never happens when I try,
really is that, I'm like, it's like just like kind
of like deflated. But now it's like I'm just look confused.
Speaker 4: I would like I.
Speaker 6: Say, oh, yes, go ahead. Oh I would say I
should get lucky, You'll get two more seconds.
Speaker 2: I would like to offer that in that in that
moment as well, there is maybe one or two things
that you're your mentor has been instructing you that you
know were come that came from this other voice or
this other entity. He has truly been trying to instruct
you on how to control your mind over the last
however long he's been mentoring you, it has been real
uh help.
Speaker 6: Okay, well I probably do knowing that he realized that
he has trying to help in some way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been getting your real advice.
Speaker 6: Yeah, my friend just molted it. Yeah, I'm just yeah,
but I but I realized that. But I do feel
that a lot of but some really kind of confused
and distant pieces afterwards, my grip, which was very firm,
goes limp.
Speaker 4: I think I see that now, the sort of a
sudden vulnerability that I should have known because I've known
Visionary for so long. Now, I should have known that.
Speaker 12: That was.
Speaker 4: But I was so distracted, yeah, that I didn't really
pick up on it. I reach out and I put
a hand on your shoulder.
Speaker 6: I smack it away.
Speaker 10: A woman, Marion Hale, she's behind all.
Speaker 4: This ear and a few others.
Speaker 6: Are we gonna go kill him?
Speaker 4: Do you want to.
Speaker 8: Fuck?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I do.
Speaker 6: Paul's fray. You want to drink that spooky lady's blood?
I think he's down too.
Speaker 4: I'm very sorry for how this uh has come about,
but for what it's worth, I want to save you all.
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