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Speaker 2: Deathless is an improvised cinematic narrative with live production, including
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Speaker 2: 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 4: A lodge of shape from shade, loget of fact from me.
Speaker 5: That he says, stand up for the thing you can't
stand A loud.
Speaker 6: By visiting a sailor's tavern in the Port of London
three times. Three times I left the tavern and sailed
to America. Three times I entered and met a woman
named I May. She was kind, she was wise, She
was devastatingly alluring. The first time I was a listless sailor,
a drunk alout with no purpose. The second time I
was a curious student, an observer, a boy looking for answers.
The third time I was a confident activist, an acolyte,
a man with a desperate justification. She could have turned
me any of these three rendezvous, but she turned me
on the third, eave me my cause, and I will
always owe her for that.
Speaker 5: Well was she good? What? In bed? Was she good?
Speaker 6: We didn't.
Speaker 5: I you sailed to America three times. She must have been.
Speaker 6: Put She didn't sail with me.
Speaker 5: I met her and sailed to her right. Or am
I mistaken?
Speaker 6: No, she was in the port of London.
Speaker 5: Oh, y'all gonna look at him. He's blushing.
Speaker 6: I I don't. I don't know. She sailed properly for it.
Speaker 7: Three times, and he didn't sleep with her.
Speaker 5: No, sh sailmen man, Oh my god? Did you have
no idea what she was interested in?
Speaker 6: She was interested in.
Speaker 3: My Yes, you know, yes, we know, But did you
know at the time?
Speaker 6: What does it?
Speaker 3: Sounds like you didn't? Sounds like you still don't.
Speaker 6: There wasn't anything romantic.
Speaker 8: I ah, she was.
Speaker 6: She was my maker. I didn't think too.
Speaker 5: You never thought to, not even once. I'm not sure
to yourself that she was alluring.
Speaker 3: Of course, like alluring in the way that you know
kindred are alluring or alluring in a different way.
Speaker 5: It's all the same, is it not?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 3: No, I don't think so either.
Speaker 7: Not alwors not even a kiss on the cheek.
Speaker 6: She kissed me.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, hold on, wait a minute, whoa, Okay, we'll
go back to the other thing. In a second she
kissed you. Are we talking kiss or death? Or are
we talking like actual? Kiss? Was their tongue.
Speaker 6: Her tongue was used at times.
Speaker 5: I'm so sorry.
Speaker 6: At times that normal.
Speaker 5: Oh it's painful. Someone told me.
Speaker 3: I reach over and like I grab your hand and
I squeeze it.
Speaker 7: Oh oh this sad man, I like slap them on
the back.
Speaker 3: Okay. So, so she kissed you. Did you kiss her back?
Her tongue was used occasionally.
Speaker 6: Did you elt it was acted of me?
Speaker 3: Oh? Oh that's that's awful.
Speaker 7: I liked it.
Speaker 5: Okay, very complex?
Speaker 6: Am I not supposed to track? No, you are.
Speaker 3: It's just it's it's the whole like, oh, I felt
like it was expected of me. So I kissed the
back like if I got that, if I got that
feeling her, I'd be like, no, fuck this.
Speaker 6: Are you telling me that you knew what you were
supposed to be doing when you atturned?
Speaker 3: Oh so we're talking about something else.
Speaker 5: We're talking about something We're talking.
Speaker 3: About something else. She gave you the kiss of death,
and you know, got all riled up while she was
doing it and kissed you. Was there blood in her
mouth with her tongue and all that yes, Okay, she
was turning you and got excited, and I meant, like,
you know, other kissing, why.
Speaker 6: Would you up at least you're talking of, But say, man,
I was standing gas.
Speaker 7: Listen, Ladies like Quanner a little wild. You take a risk. Yeah,
you went back and forth so many times, but you
got to kiss her back. And if you don't then,
or if you did, she might not have doomed you
to an eternity of loneliness or whatever this is. Listen,
some things are just better left unsaid.
Speaker 5: Do you feel lonely then I don't feel lonely at all.
I have you three.
Speaker 6: I'm great, I'm great. You know the rules romance is
behind us. We are called to a greater purpose.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean we can be called to a greater
purpose and still, you know, think about it. Right, as
long as we don't do it wet each other, is
all right?
Speaker 5: The extract Theresa.
Speaker 6: I did not I was asked for the first time.
Speaker 3: Well, but you know you didn't have to describe her
as alluring and you didn't have to mention the kissing part.
I never But I'm grateful that you did. We are
grateful that you did.
Speaker 5: Yes, thank you very much, thank you.
Speaker 6: For sure. As this conversation is happening, there is a
smoke that billows over the tree tops to our east.
The smoke is a strange, violent color. That's the signal.
Remember it is a quite large barn. It is abandoned
towards the edge of the town. This town has always
had a kindred presence.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's never had an issue before. Right.
Speaker 6: No, we are in a place called Massachusetts. But where
exactly it doesn't matter, all right. What matters is we
complete our mission.
Speaker 5: Yes, can you run us through it again?
Speaker 6: We believe that Kindred I've been committing the greatest crime here,
the abri. There have been reports of someone very powerful
in this small town.
Speaker 3: Yes, but Diablerie is not really. I mean, it is
our business, but it isn't our business, right like? What
makes it our shit? They were warned, you see, Okay,
all right, all right, and the punishment.
Speaker 6: Death. They must be stopped. They use our orders. Now
as far as entering the barn, I will go with
Fenria to the front. Yaga, you will take the rear.
I want Crust to go to the roof, into the
rafters and watch over us.
Speaker 3: Do you want to inform or out.
Speaker 6: Mm hmm. Start, but be prepared for anything.
Speaker 5: Yes, of course, all right.
Speaker 9: I start to like like jump like lightly where I'm standing,
Like I'm like hyping myself up. Just tell me where
you want me.
Speaker 3: I start doing that as well, a little bit like
just following the lead, like oh yeah, okay, I want
to do this too, Okay, okay, just tell me where.
Speaker 7: You want me. I'm your guy, I.
Speaker 8: Remember I am.
Speaker 6: What's the approach him? And I start I start hitting
his chest? Ah, yeah, you reckon?
Speaker 7: Yeah, of course, of course on your lead this time.
Speaker 6: Yes, you'll know the signal. Okay, when the doors brank open,
we'll take them by surprise.
Speaker 3: So the door's breaking open is the signal. I'm just worried.
I don't want to tell situation happening where there's a
very clear signal and I'm not picking up on it.
Speaker 6: Oh I don't understand.
Speaker 3: Yep, that's so that's what I was trying to avoid.
So doors breaking down is the signal that's down. Okay,
that's okay. I'll be a waiting, I'll be listening.
Speaker 6: Let's go. Okay, let's go.
Speaker 5: I suddenly swiftly leap into the air and then transform
into a moth.
Speaker 6: All right, I would say, honestly. Less than a minute later,
we're on position where vampires were very fast, and I
I take Rod Fenrier's cloak and I put them close
and I say, this is it, brother, this is pat
him on the chest. And then together I think yes,
we both kick the door down, break it open on three.
The burth through the door and in front of us
there is an empty barn there. Yes, something is wrong.
Speaker 10: What is that?
Speaker 6: It stinks of something.
Speaker 3: Smells like rotten egg.
Speaker 7: Yes, I'm scanning the room like at a low stance,
still like really hyped up, but checking. Do I see
anything in the barn?
Speaker 6: So it is dark in the barn, but on the
other side you see Yaga. She's in a shadow. But
in the center of the barn there is a wooden chair.
It's not a wooden chair you'd find in a town
like this. It looks ornate and it is shining in
what little moonlight is coming from the rafters. Blessening, I
should say.
Speaker 3: With blood? Is it like blood? Sorry you went You
went into GM mode and I went into the player mode.
Is there blood on this chair?
Speaker 6: You couldn't tell from where you are Okay, okay.
Speaker 5: I would like to roll. I'm in the upper rafters
and so I can see quite a lot of things.
Speaker 6: What are you What are you trying to roll?
Speaker 5: Investigation, some sort of investigation.
Speaker 6: Okay, let's do a role.
Speaker 3: Do you want me to step in or you? God it?
Speaker 6: Let me see here? So investigation should be Is there
an actual skill for that? Or is it too said?
Speaker 3: Yes, if you're doing it could be wits awareness. It
usually is like surprise, but if if you're using any
sort of magic, you could do like WITS or aspects.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's up to you. I think investigation should be
one of the roles, but you can use whichever. You
can use WITS or if it's magic, it would be
it would be like WITS and then your magic.
Speaker 5: Right, Yes, I don't. I don't have any aspects ability,
So I'm just going to go with investigation wits.
Speaker 6: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 5: Difficulty level one two three four two.
Speaker 6: All right? And what are you looking for exactly?
Speaker 5: I'm just trying to get to lay of the land,
everything that's in there.
Speaker 6: Your from your position, you can see that it is
blood covering this chair, and there are dark patches of
blood underneath it. As well, and directly underneath the chair
is a drain.
Speaker 5: A train. Yes, we would certainly have some sort of
signal between my math self and the rest of you.
The question is what.
Speaker 6: Can are we linked in some way with us?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 5: I think I would be able to I think I
must be able to know.
Speaker 3: Do you imagine that the Klan, when you work as
a team, you do some sort of ritual magic together.
Speaker 6: I was going to say we did a ritual when
we became a team, and it probably marked us as well.
I believe we each have what might look like a
tattoo to everyone else.
Speaker 3: But through this I'm so sorry because I'm obsessed with
stocker backstory. What does it look like? And the Stoker
still have it?
Speaker 6: Well, if Stalker still has it or he doesn't, that's
for you to discover.
Speaker 3: What what does it look like?
Speaker 6: Well? I think we should decide together what is what
is this group? Is it a knife, a dagger, a thing?
Speaker 3: I wonder if it's something from each of us, because
if it's it's still Oh it's not BBU, it's VTM,
so it can be whatever the fuck we want.
Speaker 6: What if it's a small katana crossed with a bolt
from a crossbow a dagger. They're crossed and then the
dagger is upright in between it and behind them is
a moth.
Speaker 3: Holy shit.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, and the weapons actually look like the moth's pattern.
So to anyone else it would just be why do
you have that butterfly tattoo?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Oh fuck yes, it's definitely not on our lower backs.
Speaker 3: No, I love it.
Speaker 6: So we are connected with this mark, and I think
you can communicate with limited vocabulary to us maybe thoughts, feelings, images,
but it's not like talking when you are in your form.
Speaker 11: Okay, then in that case you all get a sudden
image and it is of my perspective of the chair
and the blood all over it and the floor. It's
almost if it's not as if you're seeing through my
eyes necessarily, but you're getting like sort of an after image,
as if you had.
Speaker 6: Yes, I am, I grab, I'm been there by the
clock again, and I say, what is that?
Speaker 7: I don't see anything there? That doesn't mean that there
isn't anything.
Speaker 10: There's some sort of I don't not feeding chair or something,
and they strap their victims to it.
Speaker 7: Come with me closely, yes, and we'll like start inching
our way towards it, if you're still like holding onto
my cloak from behind.
Speaker 6: Yes, As we get closer, there is sort of a
eye pitched, slightly insane laughter that comes from all around.
Speaker 3: Us immediately obvious skate.
Speaker 6: Yes, I think I would as well. I tried to
move to the darkness. A voice, it comes through. Have
you come for me?
Speaker 12: I suppose I could give you a gift?
Speaker 6: And as these words echo through the barn, another noise
begins to field in sound. It is the sound of
trudging feet, many hudging feet coming down the main road
towards the barn, unmistakable to our keen ears their feet
slapping in the mud. One. Yes, many many.
Speaker 7: Come for you. Yes, we have and I will unsheathe
y katana.
Speaker 8: Yes.
Speaker 9: And then I want to obfuscate as well.
Speaker 6: Yes, everyone abuse skates successfully? Who wants to? I have
my daggers out, crash down? Are you doing anything?
Speaker 5: I'm trying to look around myself. Being in a moth
form does leave me a little bit more vulnerable, So
I'm considering what my options are. Either I leave my
farm in order to use ob your skate, or I
stay where I am and hope I am not found.
So I I like to land on a wood beam
and try to hide in away.
Speaker 6: All right. I think there is actually a stealth for
all you could do. All right, so would probably be
like stealth and and see what's that dexterity?
Speaker 3: If she doesn't have an actual obuskatability, then yeah, you
could do.
Speaker 6: She's in her moth form, so she's not up, she's skating,
She's just trying to lend in.
Speaker 5: I'm thinking of the way. Yeah, I'm thinking that I
cannot do both at the same time. Is now I'm
thinking of it personally. Yeah, I do.
Speaker 3: Think moths in my brain would kind of sort of
have an advantage, maybe one extra bonus die for camouflage.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I think there's a you can put a
bonus in.
Speaker 5: Right, So difficulty then would be.
Speaker 6: Two. Difficulty would be one. Okay, easy, you're in the
dark in the rafters, okay, and yes, so succept you successfully,
You're no one would see you unless they were right
next to you. All right, perfect, you're very very well
camouflage there. So as we do this, we each find
our bit of shadow. The doors start shaking as fists
are pounding on it. We know you're in there. Our
lady wants you. We will tear you apart. All of
these different voices are screaming. There is a frenzy. It
feels as if the mob has come for us. There
are lanterns that are shedding a pale golden light through
the tracks of the barn. There are many shadows flitting
across the light of these lanterns, and we've are surrounded.
The main barn door is being banged on, The back
door is being banged on. People are climbing up onto
the sides of the barn to get into the rafters,
to get into the lofts. What do you do?
Speaker 5: I try to center a feeling through the bond that
we have of a beer.
Speaker 13: Should we escape, you would definitely be able to sense
that there are all mortal humans that are outside.
Speaker 3: That changes things, right.
Speaker 6: You can smell their blonde you. Perhaps they are fighters,
perhaps not.
Speaker 3: But but I just remembered it is nineteen twelve and
we do have a duty to uphold the masquerade here.
So if these people are coming hunting something that we
are also hunting, we probably don't want to leave them alive.
Speaker 7: Yes, I think you would see me be rather calm,
and I'm approaching the chair. Still I want to do
I see anything in it?
Speaker 6: There's nothing in the chair. You can see you you
can roll to an investigation and I waits, roll and
we'll put the difficulty in too and see what happens.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I would like to do that. I'm really taking
a look at it. Let me see here, what's investigation?
Speaker 6: You click on the investigation first and then quits can
be your secondary.
Speaker 9: Okay, this is probably not gonna work, but we'll see.
And then he said two yeah, oh sorry, bear with me.
One second full size modifiers A zero.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, that is a success. So yes, you look
down at the chair and you it matches the image
that was sent to you earlier from Craster. It is.
The chair is this sort of old oak. It was
probably very delicately crafted by a master hand. The intricacy
of the carving of the back of the chair is impressive,
and there is a sort of like at the top
of the back of the chair. There is a beautiful
like gargoyle almost carved into it with its mouth wide open,
bang and coming down all of all of it. There
is blood coming out of its mouth all down the chair,
all across the seat, covering the arms lengths and all
of the blood appears to have pulled underneath the chair
and there is a drain there, just a standard grape
over the drain, and the blood is all pulling and
draining down that way.
Speaker 3: I wonder where that goes later.
Speaker 6: Yes, as you're investigating the thing. Yeah, so as you are?
You two are go ahead?
Speaker 3: Oh just question. Uh, we've were bonded, We've worked together
for a long time.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: Do I know what our method of escape is?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 3: I know I can go into a puff of smoke.
I know you can turn into a moth. I know
that Sandimon can Obbu skate. And when you're do you
have shape shift as well protein I imagine I imagine
that you do, right, you must turn into a wolf
of some sort. Yeah, okay, that makes sense. I don't
know if it would be on the sheet. I'm just
asking what you imagine your character would be able to do.
Speaker 9: I think I would be used to like Obvy skating away.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, so you do ab you skate and we
turn in the mist and moth. Okay, got it? Okay,
just so I know how the fun we get out
of here?
Speaker 6: Okay, we we do have the ability to We're used
to sort of observing and investigating from afar, and if
we need to, we can pull out quickly so that
no one even knows that we were there there and
that's important.
Speaker 3: So that's waiting, okay.
Speaker 6: But we we've been working up to this moment, like
this isn't something that we were just told about yesterday.
We've been planning this and this is the day, this
is the night, okay, And we expected them to be
in this barn. Everything said that they would be based
on the activity in the town.
Speaker 3: Were we expecting the mortals?
Speaker 6: We knew that there were the people in the town.
We were not expecting them to all.
Speaker 3: Rush pitchfork okay, got.
Speaker 6: It barn with pitchforks and torches and so yeah, so
there's still like rattling of the door and there the
door is broken, so they're coming in like that. We've
only had moments.
Speaker 3: I was about to unlatch it so that they could
come in. So that's right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we kicked the door open, so it's broken. So
they're coming in. But as they do, you know, you
do your investigation, and I am I'm sending everyone a
signal saying we will you're not run this is our night.
We must complete this.
Speaker 3: I send them back French kissing.
Speaker 6: I'm confused, no one. I think that means that you're
ready to go, so I certainly does.
Speaker 7: So.
Speaker 6: I yeah. So the first I think that I would
actually say wait until they all come in, I think,
is what I would. We want to do this on
in one. So the humans like, they all start bursting
in there, and they are who can they see right now?
Is it just because I'm anfuscated?
Speaker 3: I think we're all abfu skated?
Speaker 6: Then we've gotfu skated as well? Yeah, okay.
Speaker 9: When I heard that giggle, I was like, it's time.
Speaker 6: To yes, okay, right, So they all run in and
they're you know, they have a sense of urgency. They're
like they're kind of like the the boyfriend at the
bar who just saw like someone messing with his or
like that kind of energy. They're like headstrong, just like
foolish charging straight Yeah, foolish, charging straight into this with
no idea of you know what's about. They don't care.
They're just ready to punch. They're ready to stab with
their pitchforks, light things on fire with their torches, well,
which you are actually at lanterns but so they they
get all the way into the barn, they pour in
from the broken door, and some come in from the
back door that Yaga came through. And then they come
through the back door that yeah, yeah, yeah, they like
break it down if you if you latched it, and.
Speaker 3: They definitely let it open.
Speaker 6: You let it open, okay. Yeah, So they come in
that way as well, and then there's some that come
into like the loft as well, which would be near
the rafters. So you know, it's a standard barn. So
there's like half of the barn has like a lot
over it where they would keep hay up there, so
there's like there's no hay. To be clear, this barn
is completely empty except for the chair. But yeah, these
so these people come up to the they're up on
the loft as well. There's probably about, i want to say,
like twenty twenty five people in the barn.
Speaker 3: I send a feeling imagery of is there anything on
the floor, Like I'd like to look with magic eyeball
to see if I'm getting a very bad feeling that
whatever is in here wanted these people to come in
here and spill blood on this very clean floor. So
I'm looking to see if there are sigils or anything
on this floor.
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, let's roll. You can also investigate, but I'm
sure do you have anything let's meet you special?
Speaker 3: Uh no, I do not not for this, So I roll.
Maybe a cult investigation or a cult awareness.
Speaker 6: Or yeah you want to so you're looking for magical stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to see if there's any sign of
a ritual fucking bullshit on the floor.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's going to be a difficulty of three.
Speaker 3: Okay, would you like intelligence or wits? That's my second attribute?
Speaker 6: How are you? What state of mind is your character
in right now? Is she calm?
Speaker 3: And it's pretty calm. I'm yeah, I'm a little excited,
although I will say I'm excited thinking, oh, here comes
some mortals and we're gonna have some fun and this
is what we've been waiting for. But then, yeah, it's
just very quick. I suddenly realized the barn has been prepared,
it's empty, there's nothing in it, there's no hay, and
then I go, what the fuck would I do? I
would lure them in Spider. That's probably an image I
would send to the group as Spider in the web,
like be careful, I said, so they did this on
purpose or maybe slight bit of like oh.
Speaker 6: Shit, yeah, I would. I would say that if you
think that your character is being analytical in this moment
of there is some chaos going on, you know, like
all these people are flooding in and you guys are
in combat mode. But if you think your character can
just pause the instincts of battle and be analytical and intelligence,
otherwise I think it'd be wits.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna go wits. I don't think I
have time to sit and patiently analyze the floor. I
think I'm just really quickly like, holy shit, are we.
Speaker 6: Fuck mm hmm, that's words for sure, I think.
Speaker 3: Okay, any amodifier? Are we good? At zero?
Speaker 6: Zero?
Speaker 3: Difficulty? You said was four three oh three? Ok?
Speaker 6: Wow, right you got to create there?
Speaker 3: Yes I did.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So you were, uh yaga is you know, like
standing in the shadows next to this back door and
these people are uh, you know, flashing in past her,
and you have a moment where you think, wait a minute,
something this feels like familiar and off at the same time,
and you think to look around, and you're looking down
the floor, and as you're looking at the floor. You
see as the people are running in, someone runs in
with a lantern and it lights up the boards of
the wall a barn next to you, and there is
a schigual.
Speaker 3: Do I recognize the sigil?
Speaker 6: I think with that occult wits roll of six successes?
You do? And yeah, your instincts are right, okay, but
as you well, what do you do? Yeah?
Speaker 3: There is We can only send images and feelings to
each other, correct.
Speaker 6: Or is that all break your obscation?
Speaker 7: Yep?
Speaker 3: Okay, So then I think the image that I send
to them is definitely a can we send what we're
actually well taken? Matter?
Speaker 6: We you and I can send words to each other
because we're not a moth right now?
Speaker 3: I think that's right. Okay, But I think this is
very fucking interesting and I love it, so I'm going
to lean into it. I'm gonna send you an image
of a fucking huge ass spider in a corner with
a whole bunch of flies on the floor, and then
there is there is a red sigil on the floor
of the web. So it should be very clear to
you all that, like I've just said, this imagery of
a trap because I don't think I can send you
what I'm seeing through my eyes. I think I'd have
to actually spend magic to do that, So I'm just
sending you a fucking daydream image of a spider in
the room looking at us all. And you can feel
my You can feel my slight concern because I know
we're hunting something serious. You can feel it a little
bit of confusion because I thought what we were hunting
didn't do blood magic like this, So there's a little
bit of confusion there, and then there is an underlying
current of excitement. I kind of want to just this
happen so we can watch and see what we're up against.
Mm hmm, okay, which is not what we should be doing.
We should stop this from happening.
Speaker 6: But right, yeah, you so before we continue, I need
to know where everyone is exactly. I know that you
were by the back door, right you unlatched it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I unlatched it. I'll be like off to the
side of waiting for them to come in. But I'm yep,
I'm very much.
Speaker 6: I'm by the I'm by the front door that we
kicked in the chair.
Speaker 5: Again and I'm still in the rafters.
Speaker 3: I'm yeah, she's just on the feeling like we're flapping
like here I come. Oh my god.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I think your response from from Sandman is
sort of like, I understand what you're saying. This could
be slaying, these mortals could be a mistake. And I
reiterate that to the other members and then I say,
you know, caution, give it a cold and you know,
let's see what happens.
Speaker 3: Wait, you and I can talk to each other though, right,
we can speak. Then I'm going to try to speak
to you.
Speaker 6: Does this with our minds?
Speaker 13: Yes?
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, Either we let them get killed and potentially
power whatever is happening, or we kill them outside the
circle and prevent this from happening.
Speaker 6: We could lure them outside, would you.
Speaker 3: Like me to do that? Beside?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 7: Can I can I hear this? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you're not.
Speaker 6: I think she can hear it. She just can't talk.
She would just be she would just yes, send images back. Okay, okay, okay,
Before we do anything, though, the all the villagers are
now inside, or the once folk are now inside. They're
holding their lanterns up there. You know, some of them
have shotguns and some of them have you know, actual
you know, like pitchforks and like tools and stuff. But
they are all sort of looking around like they were
supposed to be in here. We're here to protect you, mistress,
and they are just searching the whole barn. And then
you might notice that the actually give me, somebody, give
me some kind of like perception check. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
give us a perception check. So that'd be I think investigation.
Speaker 3: Right WITHS awareness usually because if you're aware.
Speaker 6: Let's do WITHS awareness. So awareness is the first thing
you click, and then where it's just a difficulty of
uh I think actually read because everything's happening so fast.
Oh not quite okay, So yeah, you you notice that
the some of their movements are like the group is
it's it's quite a few people on the ground floor.
There's maybe like a half dozen in the in the loft,
but everyone on the bottom floor is it's it's kind
of prouded. It's a big barn. But you know, there's
someone close to everybody in this moment. There's a couple
of people close to all of us. And you can
tell that sometimes when one person turns, like two other
people in your vision turn the exact same way, and
it's a little strange, but not everyone is moving like
you know, automaton is all exactly the same. But anyways,
as they're searching for you, uh, you know, you get
the feeling that they can't see anyone. But then you
hear hiding from me. I think not. And there are
five villagers next to fen Rear that all of a
sudden just sh all of their heads turned to him,
and in that moment been rear. You can see that
the color of their eyes are not brown or blue
or green or gray, but red. And they look right
at you, and one of them tries to all at
the same time. One of them tries to stab you
with a pitchfork, one of them shoots their shotgun at you,
one of them, you know, has a kitchen knife and
charges you, and the other two similarly attack you. But
you're a vampire. So what do you do.
Speaker 7: I'm able to get hit through OPU scation.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it doesn't make you invincible. So what obfuscation is
is you're tricking their mind into not seeing you. You're
still Yeah, it's a jedimi, Yeah you're still there.
Speaker 7: So yeah, I.
Speaker 9: Think what the like, just shock of it all, seeing
that they can see me in the middle, and they
all locked onto me. I think I would get pretty
like surprised by this amount of damage coming in that
I like just like fly back, maybe like back into
the chair. I want to say if I'm.
Speaker 6: Like, oh, yeah, okay, So you stumble back into the
chair and discover that like it doesn't budge, so you're
just sitting in the chair and like a splat sound
as your posterior smacks against the pool of blood in
the seat. Yeah. Does anyone else do anything? Oh?
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, if he's been attacked, for sure.
Speaker 6: The rest for we can see because we're all in
the corners and we have better vantage points that all
of the villagers are looking at fen rear and running
towards him.
Speaker 3: I'm send, then are we doing something?
Speaker 6: Kill them? Kill them all.
Speaker 3: Wait for your command, and then I immediately as soon
as you say that, I'm going to I'm going to
do blood sorcery. I'd like to do blood puppet. It's
a roused check and I gain temporary control over one
singular target's body, and I can force them to perform
an action against their will. Draw all weapons, speak my words,
drop a relic. The victim can resist each turn with
a resolve compose usure test. The effect lasts for one
turn per margin of success.
Speaker 6: I mean, you're this is a mortal, you're a vampire.
You do this?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 8: Cool?
Speaker 6: I want them to do.
Speaker 3: And fucking castic the limb. I just pick one, probably
one that was closest to and actually that's not true
because he can take care of himself. I'll take one
of the ones that's closer to me and that's running
towards him.
Speaker 6: They have a kitchen knife in their hand.
Speaker 3: Perfect. I want them to start repeating, Oh, there's no TV,
it's nineteen twelve. I want them to start repeating an
etiquette book that I read that I thought was absolutely bullshit,
talking about how to prepare for a dinner party. They're
just shouting at the top of their lung and then
they turn to their neighbor and they just start going
like and you serve for three people, and they just
start stabbing the person next to them. Yea, And I
have a wicked grin on my face and my eyes
turn yellow in the dark, just a tiny glink on.
Speaker 6: The right salad fox in the right exactly, and they're just, yeah,
so there's blood, Yeah, you kill one of the one
of the people on the ground floor. That way, what's
going on? So up in the loft, these people are
jumping down trying to get to fen rear. Like a
couple of them break their ankles and they're dragging themselves
across the floor. Okay, they are. They are stirred up
into like a frenzy. This is really strange behavior. You've
never seen. You've never seen this many humans act this
crazy all at.
Speaker 5: Once, Like this, all right, I will leap off of
the rafters that I'm currently hiding on and lap down,
and as I'm in the air, I will transform back
into myself, and as I am sort of falling down
to land on the ground, uh, I will use scorpions
touch in order to change my blood into a paralyzing poison.
And then as I'm like when I land, I'll bite
into my wrists and throw my wrists out and just
splash my poisonous blood all over.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry to keep out, but do you know what's
so cool about that is that you're biting and then
you're spreading like wings. You just go shit, that's so sick.
Speaker 5: And any mortal that takes damage from this will go
unconscious whoaicked.
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, so you you do this and like as
you're gracefully falling from the ground and you sort of
move your arms to the side and this this uh
spray of blood. It goes acros. I'm gonna say, probably
like five people get hit by this. They yeah, they
sort of. They're all like some of them are crawling
towards Fenrier. Some of them are sprinting full out, you know,
like they have guns, they have kitchen utensils and pitchforks
and other like farm equipment, and they all just the
five of them just sort of collapse to the ground.
After about half a second from when your blood hits them.
Speaker 5: I will stop one of their heads.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it smashes like a ripe pumpkin.
Speaker 3: That's right. I forgot killing mortals for vampires is like
crazy easy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's like unless these guys were, you know, a
Seal Team six or something. I don't think you should
really have to roll for most of this.
Speaker 3: I think they say that. I think they say, you
don't really and you're finding moral lessness just.
Speaker 6: So I guess yeah, my turn. Yeah, I immediately am
I'm coming up behind those that are running towards been
rear and I have dual daggers, and I'm just hitting
neck like severing spines, you know, hit you know, taking
out like tendons in the legs and stuff so that
they're hamstringed. Like I'm just I work through like three
or four of them and then they some of them
do get to ben rear though, and I think I'm
gonna do I'm just gonna do a couple of rolls here.
Uh okay. Yeah. So like the the guy with the
pitchfork like tries to stab you, and I think you're
able to do you think you would dodge? You think
that would be your move or would you like grab
it or because he fails this for some reason, we
can't hear you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I would.
Speaker 9: I would grab the pitchfork like in my hand, like
right before it hits my chest.
Speaker 6: Do you want to just like counterattack him right now?
Speaker 7: I just want to like push it through him, like.
Speaker 6: If the handle, Yeah, you push that hand him.
Speaker 7: Yeah, grab it and then push it through him.
Speaker 6: Do you lift him? Do you lift him up like
a four year old?
Speaker 9: Like I think just by the like this year like push,
he's getting like lifted up in the air.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's just like tossed you. Yeah, you
destroy his spinal cord when you're doing this, so he
can't move. He's just laying on the ground. But if
you take the time to notice, he's still murmuring, still live,
I will. Yeah, he's still alive. I will. He's murmuring
for the mistress, you will die. The next one is
like someone throws a kitchen knife at you and it
just kind of like clangs harmlessly against the chair. And
then somebody else punches you in the face and it
does absolutely nothing, and they start grabbing their hand like
in pain, but they're still looking at you and they're saying,
like for the mistress, you will die. And then the
last person levels a double barrel shotgun at you and
unloads both rounds and it does sort of like it
does hit you. And I'll let you tell me how
it's not like your you're a vampire. You can take
a double barrel shot and shell, but like it does
strike true. So it's how does does health work in this?
We have like six or something you lose like one, we.
Speaker 3: Have aggravated damage, and then we have superficial damage.
Speaker 6: This is superficial damage, so you bleed but it's not
gonna even slow you down.
Speaker 3: I think technically norsels can't even do superficial damage to it.
Oh really, I think I think if as they hit
a certain I'll double check. You keep going. I'm just kidous.
We do whatever, So.
Speaker 6: How do you you can you can narrate this if
you want. It hits you.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Like I like dodge that knife and then get
like punched in the face from the other side, and
I'm just like, what the hell is going on? Like
and like I feel like after I get punched, I
like look up at like sand Man through the crowd
and we like lock guys and you see, like like
I'm kind of worried for a second, like just completely
took by surprise since the moment I got shot back
into the chair, I'm like, what.
Speaker 7: The hell, why are they all coming for me? And
I like lock guys with you, And then.
Speaker 9: You just hear like boom boom from the double barrel
and it like hits me in the chest and I
don't think I think you said that chair is not
budging right, Like it's yeah, So like I just like
smack back against the back of the chair again and
there's like smoke raising up from my chest from where
the bullet hole is.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I just want to like, yeah, that's super cool. Sorry, yeah,
really cool.
Speaker 9: I just want to like push those bullets out of
me though.
Speaker 7: If I could, just, like.
Speaker 6: In two thousand and two, balls out of his forehead. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah,
that's exactly what happens. And I think I'm gonna skip
ahead in the turn order and I'm going to go
next and a dagger. You're looking at this guy who
just shots you with a shackgun, and all of a sudden,
a dagger handle is protruding out of the side of
his head and he slumps to the ground. I just,
you know, tossed the dagger right into his temple. And
then I throw another dagger and I hit the guy
with the pitchfork, and then I will I come up
behind one of them and I take his hand that's
on a revolver, and I use his finger to pull
the trigger, and I just start gunning down a few people,
and then I save the last bullet for him before
it's the next person's turn.
Speaker 3: Top around, I think me, yeah, you can get next, Yeah, okay, yep.
Then I am going to I'm going to boil some
blood here, Yeah, and I pick three mortals that are
closest to me, and I begin to blood boil, so
I think it's just they're running forward and then stop
and stiffen for a moment as they start to twist
and scream as they're boiling from the inside out, and
then they will explode and do damage to other people
around them.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, the the person you had control over is
like shaking their head and they're like they're on top
of this mangled chest of the person that they were
stabbing and talking about out like dining room etiquette too.
And if you had a moment to look at them,
the audience sees this. I don't know if we do,
but they sort of shake their head after you do that,
and their eyes are blue for a moment, and they
take in the room and the knife in their hand
and the blood all over everything in complete and utter horror.
And then some caustic blood hits them in the face
and melts into their neck and they die, gurgling, confused, horrifying.
That's yeah. That you kill a few of them with that.
There's not a lot left going on in the room
at this point. There's maybe four or five people still standing.
Speaker 5: I would like to, uh go up to one of them.
I'm seeing this skill. I don't know if this is
how this skill works, but I would like it to
work this way scour secrets. I would like to drink
the blood of one of these mortals and see who
this lady is and who we're fighting, and like what
is going on here?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean you can easily come up behind one
of them and just start drinking blood from their neck
if you want. You want from the neck, from the wrist, whatever.
Speaker 5: From the back of their neck.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll just come up and like literally just like
the base of their skull.
Speaker 6: Yeah. There's a guy with a hunting rifle who's like
aiming a shot at Zambie right now.
Speaker 5: I will go from him.
Speaker 6: Yeah. You fall down on him and you or you
come up behind him and you just start feeding into
the back of his neck.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I'll I don't know exactly how I do.
I do have that spell actually on one of my characters,
and I think I've.
Speaker 5: Been trying to look up exactly how it works.
Speaker 6: I might have it written down to make sure for
the VTM fans out there, we can make sure that
we're getting this right.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, which, by the way, while you look that up,
I did look up the damage and damage from mortals.
They are it is superficial damage. However, vampires have the
superficial damage they take from any non supernatural source rounding up.
So if they shoot and deal three damage, the vampire
only takes two and it's superficial. So it's very very
hard to kill a vampire if you're immortal.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it would probably then end up being like one
superficial damage whatever.
Speaker 3: All fire damage is aggravated damage. So if they're using
their torches, then we might.
Speaker 6: Say for their lantern their oil lanterns at us. That
would that could get us, we.
Speaker 3: Would, Actually, I don't think that's how this works.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you unleash rivulates of your own blood and you
search for information on the subject. Yeah, I use this
once in the campaign.
Speaker 3: There also there is a there is a like I
think it's a ritual though, where you drink someone's blood
and learn.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's a tte for blood. You taste a drop
of blood, the user can discern certain basic traits of
the one to whom it belongs, But that's more.
Speaker 5: Like determining someone's stats.
Speaker 6: Or sire or sire Yeah, determined resonance and intensity. I'm
going to say you can get something from this if
you want to do it, if you want to drink
this guy's blood and roll a Resolve plus blood.
Speaker 5: Sorcery roll I literally, I'm sorry. I just googled using
blood to find out information without putting on VTM, so
my Google just thinks like psychopath.
Speaker 6: Okay, so just roll old resolve And I just love.
Speaker 5: Playing in the PBu so much because I can just
be like peeb I would like to do this, Yes, roll.
Speaker 6: On, roll one D one hundred.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we could do Wits resolved because she probably
doesn't have blood sorcery on her sheet or you do?
Could I don't do a cult.
Speaker 6: Forty one forty one Okay, yeah this works. He's a
mortal and you're an awesome vampire, so this isn't very hard.
It was like a fifty. So you got it? Uh?
Yeah you? So you taste his blood and it gives you.
Speaker 3: It's like old spices.
Speaker 6: Sorry, yes, it tastes like old spice, na spe You
taste his blood and the the barn goes silent for you. Everything,
the light from the lanterns the moonlight coming in through
the rafters fades away. You are in blackness, darkness, and
all you can see and you don't know how because
there is no moonlight, but you can see this sort
of violet and green sort of smoke around you, and
a woman's voice is all you can hear.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 12: You want to be mine, don't you.
Speaker 6: You want to make your mistress.
Speaker 12: Happy, kill those in the bond, and you can have
anything you desire.
Speaker 6: And that is that's the vision I'm going to give you.
After this, the smoke sort of fades away and the
light comes back from the moon and the lanterns, and
this feels like it's like a full thirty seconds for you,
But as you come out of it, you realize it
was a half a moment.
Speaker 5: Okay, crazy, that's the end of my turn, I assume. Yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 6: Do you want to send a message or something.
Speaker 5: To that person?
Speaker 6: To your team?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 6: Yeah, more thing if you want.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would like to send the image of that
that I just saw to everyone if I can.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean you can. You're not a moth right now,
so you can talk to us too. But if you
want to say the image, okay.
Speaker 5: Do that weird thing. I think. I never speak to
you guys. I think I'm always like I think, because
I can't do it as a moth. I think maybe
in my mind half the time, I think I'm Almo.
Speaker 6: So okay, so yes, do you know what I mean? Yes?
And when we were having the conversation like around the fire, yes,
before we came in here, or maybe there wasn't a fire,
I don't know, but like when we were all talking
sitting on some stumps, some tree stumps about my you know, siring,
we like universal translated your images into words.
Speaker 3: Yes, the whole time you were using Yeah, yeah, I
love it.
Speaker 6: I love it.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 6: It's just been images and we're so used to it
that we just automatically turn it into words.
Speaker 5: Oh my god.
Speaker 6: Because we're all connected, it's always the same words for
all of us. We never like get confused and one
of us think you said blue and the other one
thinks you said violet.
Speaker 7: You know what I mean.
Speaker 6: Like, it's always I love that song, Okay, yeah, yeah,
you send that image out to us, no problem. And
then Zambie, there's three more. Actually there's only two. There's
two more of them, and they're right in front of you.
One of them, one of them is holding a lantern
and like a like a rolling pin. She's wearing like
a like an apron, and the other one is carrying
like a he's carrying like an old rusty like scythe.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I want to use some.
Speaker 9: Celerity and like anime flash step behind these people with
my katana and I just want to like cut one
in half and then like step and cut the other
one and half and like a very like a split second, just.
Speaker 6: Like yeah you yeah. So like they're running at you,
and they're they're speaking, you know, they're shouting, they're like
for the mistress, for the mistress, and they're running at you,
and like there's a moment where they kind of like
stop and then the top halves of both of their
body just slide off and you know, they slumped over
and you know all their innerns spill out and that's
the end of the combat, or so you think. But
what's strange, especially this would especially be uh strange to Crasta.
The mortals that you put sleep are standing up again.
How that is possible, you don't know. Usually when you
put mortals to sleep with your blood, they're asleep. For weeks,
like they go into comas because of this. So but
these guys are up again, and they're not going after
Fenray anymore. They're going after you, after me, yeah okay,
and they're saying for the mistress. One of them grabs
your ankle, and the other four are charging you. One
of them has a lantern, you know. The other three
you just have like small handheld makeshift weapons. And I'll
let you try to.
Speaker 5: React to this. Okay, Yeah, I will turn into a
moth the moment one of them touches me and then
flop away.
Speaker 6: You're gone.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean obviously I'm keeping an eye and everything,
but yeah, I'm hiding again.
Speaker 6: Okay, what.
Speaker 5: They're I have a plan. I don't know if I
can execute it now though through your plan? Do it.
Speaker 6: They're like slipping around on the on the ground, like
trying to get to their feet.
Speaker 7: So much blood.
Speaker 6: Ground is so bloody at this point. They're slipping tripping
over the bodies of people that they used to know
and love. They're trying to pick up like any good
weapons that they can find from their fallen comrades, and
one of them is you know, like they're looking through
the darkness with the lantern. Remember it's dark in here,
so like it's hard for them to see without these lanterns.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I turn into a.
Speaker 6: Moth, so they're like, you know, looking around for you.
Speaker 5: I turn into a moth, and then I send you
all the image of the Great beneath the chair, and
then I'm going to fly into the grate beneath the
chair to see what's under there.
Speaker 6: You successfully fly underneath there, and we're going to come
back to you in a minute. So what does what
do you two do with these remaining humans you first
been there?
Speaker 9: How many are there are left town?
Speaker 6: There's about five of them. They're all sort of One
of them has like a broken ankle and is crawling around.
The other four are kind of slipping and trying to
get to their feet, and they're stumbling over their their
friends and stuff. They're looking for them off.
Speaker 9: Does the one with the broken ankle have a weapon
in his hands?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Yeah, he has like a like a butcher's knife.
Speaker 9: I want to like come up on top of him
and like grab him by the back of his neck
and then like lift him and then like shake him
like really hard. Does he drop the knife?
Speaker 6: Yeah, he drops the knife and his neck snaps.
Speaker 7: Oh god, Okay, that was what I want to do.
But I drop him on the ground.
Speaker 6: Okay, and uh that's how we are. And then.
Speaker 9: It's like, okay, uh, so I want to get my
hands on one of these people, so then I'll start
walking towards the other group, and they're all kind of
like fumbling around. I think I'm gonna just chop through
them until I could get to like the weakest one
or maybe one that doesn't have a weapon.
Speaker 6: Mm hmm and a huge of Okay, So would you
leave the one that's just holding a lantern for last,
or would you leave the one that is holding like
a I don't know, another like a hunting knife.
Speaker 9: I think I'm just so annoyed by the like the
knives and the gunshots that I just like chopped through whatever,
like whoever's holding a knife or something and then goat
for that lantern.
Speaker 6: The one holding the lantern was the one that grabbed
one that grabbed crast his ankle before she turned into
a moth. He's sort of like by the back wall,
but on the opposite side of where the back door
is underneath the loft, and as you're approaching him, he's
holding the lantern and he's looking at you, and he's
for the Mistress. He's still saying those words and his
eyes are red. What do you want to do with him?
Speaker 9: I just want to grab him and like pick him up.
Speaker 6: Yep. He drops the lantern, shatters.
Speaker 9: Lanterns at our feet and I'm like holding him up
and I'm looking in his deranged eyes and I'm like,
who are you?
Speaker 7: What are you doing?
Speaker 6: Okay? Yeah, he says, I am the Mistress's servant and
I am going to kill you to get my reward.
And he's he's like his it would be like a baby,
like a literal baby, trying to strangle you. Like there's
no way, no power. He is trying. Yeah, he's trying
his hardest.
Speaker 9: So he's gotten like his hands around my throat while
I'm like holding him up, and I'm like okay, and
I just like in my hands just yeah, snap them,
I think.
Speaker 6: Okay, you just want to like break his neck?
Speaker 9: Yeah, just break his neck.
Speaker 6: You just squeeze and his neck like turns into kind
of like it would probably feel like tendons and like
raw like hamburger meat, and you know, like some some
brittle bones in there too, just like like a candy cane,
like you just squeeze and it all shatters and his
his world goes black.
Speaker 9: Yeah, toss him to the ground beside me.
Speaker 6: Yeah. So as we look around the barn, it is
hover and blood. The corpses across the floor are leaking blood,
and all of it is slowly moving towards the grate
that Krasta went into. And we are now with Krasta.
It's very dark down here. With your vampire eyes, you
can kind of make out what's going on there is
there's sort of like an altar, like a flat raised surface.
It's a circle right underneath the great and there's a
body laying on it. All around that grade in this
what you think is a circular room, the blood is
slowly rising. The figure itself that's laying there is drenched
in blood. It almost looks like the figure is blood.
It's so covered in it. It's so bright red that
even in this darkness you can see the color. Yeah,
you're just kind of like hovering there as a moth
and you're taking all this in. What do you do?
Speaker 5: I will sort of say to all of you, I'm
going to speak, but obviously you're receiving this in images
and feelings. Okay, but now that we've established that you
can convert my images and feeling into word. Mh, you
all won't fucking believe this. And then I am describing
there's a woman a woman? Is it a woman? Yeah?
Speaker 6: No, Oh, it's a man.
Speaker 5: There's a body down here. Blood everywhere, the blood is.
I think it's feeding it. I think we were meant
to kill them.
Speaker 6: You were meant we were meant to kill the the townspeople.
Speaker 5: The mortals. Yeah, yeah, yeah, to fill this room with blood.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And as you're saying this, like so much blood is
pouring down It's not drips. It's like it's like, you know,
like a four or five faucets of blood have been
turned on, Like it's just pouring down here. It almost
seems like there's more blood pouring down there than could
possibly be in these morals. Yeah, that is. It is
coming from them, does it.
Speaker 13: You?
Speaker 6: Yeah, you have a chance to react to this, to
do something else if you want, and then we'll go
back to the top. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Is there anything else that I can see? Is there
any like sigils or rituals.
Speaker 6: You want to see if you can see more.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would like to be the same around.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this you can use if you think you're calm,
you can use your intelligence as your secondary. Or if
you think that you're just kind of reacting. I think
it would be more wits awareness or an investigation. Have
we seen you seen anything? You've seen a lot of blood.
I mean you've definitely seen some messed up stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I don't.
Speaker 6: Think this is like gonna shake you, but it's a
little weird, like it's you haven't seen this specifically.
Speaker 5: Okay, so I'll go with vampires hunters.
Speaker 6: We're vampires that hunt vampires, so we see crazy, nasty,
gory stuff often. It's probably not going to phase us.
Speaker 5: All right, Then I'm going to go for investigation intelligence.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, you're gonna analyze. We'll give it a difficult
It's really dark down here, so I'm gonna say three.
Speaker 5: But I'm a mom.
Speaker 6: Nocturnal dark? They are nocturnal? And are they just blind?
Speaker 7: Though?
Speaker 5: Okay? Well, according to uh Google, Gemini moths have specialized
compound compound eyes and neural adaptations that enable them to
see effectively at night, particularly in low light conditions.
Speaker 6: Okay, whoa, but this is almost no light. However, I'm
still going to give you a bonus pool or whatever,
like you get a bonus to this, Okay, awesome.
Speaker 3: It's basically you have dark vision, is what it is.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're a moth.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's so cool.
Speaker 5: Okay, sorry, So difficulty two.
Speaker 6: No, it's it's three. You just get a you get
an extra pool.
Speaker 3: Bus. You just add one.
Speaker 5: Okay, let me just quickly do that. Then intelligence bonus
one and then difficulty three not twenty three.
Speaker 14: Two?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 6: Oh no, okay, dang, Yeah, so you don't. It's really
dark down here. But you do notice a couple of
other things. For one, you can see that the room
is made of it's made of stone, but it's like
smooth and polished, and it's probably I think it'd be
really easy to logic that it is sealed. So like
that's how the blood is rising so quickly, Like there's
nowhere for this to go. It's like a polished stone
that's perfectly sealed. So it's just filling up like a
like a bathtub wood, like a porcelain tubwood, or like
a you know, a pool swimming pool would fill up.
It's just rising very steadily from your perspective, it does
look like more blood is coming down there, then makes sense.
But would you say that you have an analytical brain?
I know that you've rolled investigation intelligence, but would you
say that you're that kind of Okay? So I think
you could also logic that while this seems like more
blood than the human body could let out, it actually isn't.
It's just more blood than you would expect to come
out of the body. There is that much blood in
a body, yes, how it but like how it like it?
Basically all of the blood is coming out, not just
like fifty sixty seventy percent of it. All of the
blood from each of these corpses is coming out of
it and coming down here. So that's what I'll give
you for that. But you can't make out any sort
of like sigils or anything like that.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right? Can I make any movements?
Speaker 6: Yeah, you can leave if you want to like to leave.
Speaker 5: I would like to fly back out of that great.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you fly back out of the grate. And at
the top, what are before you fly out? What is
everyone else doing as they're noticing all this blood moving
towards this the center?
Speaker 3: I would like to cast the spell ashes to ashes,
which will turn the blood to ash before it gets
down there.
Speaker 6: Nice, okay, and is there a role.
Speaker 3: It's a rouse check actually, okay, so let me do that.
Speaker 6: So you just get to do this, but it could
cause you to get hungry.
Speaker 3: Okay, rowse check failed, so I do get hungrier, you
get hungrier.
Speaker 6: You're at two hunger now, Okay, but you do succeed
in this yep. Yeah, So the blonde that is on
the would offer I need to make another rouse check
if I want to get all this blood. It's a lot,
I think you. I don't know what the spell says, but.
Speaker 3: It says it's for cleanup on like you know, dead
bodies and blood and shit. But there's just so much.
I could do two more rouse checks just to see.
Speaker 6: I think you can't get to the blood that is.
Speaker 7: Below.
Speaker 6: Yeah, just the stuff, the blood that's on the top.
Let's say you get you get like half of it, Okay,
most of it has gone down there at this point.
It's moving unnaturally quick, like it's not like zoom and
it's not like Sonic the hedgehog, moving light, light and fast.
But you know how blood would trickle slowly, It's moving.
Speaker 3: Faster than that they're using. Actually, yeah, it's they're withdrawing
it from the body. It's fucking awesome.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so yeah, so what Yeah, you you take out
half of it? Are you gonna do another rouse check
to try to take out the rest?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think it's fair for me to do more
than one, otherwise it's too much.
Speaker 6: You've hailed again. You succeed in turning all the blood
in this barn that's on the main floor of the
barn to ash, but you are now at a three hunger,
which is significant. You're hungry and all the blood just
turned to ash.
Speaker 3: I think it's like, I think, you know, my eyes
glow yellow a little bit. They kind of pulse like
an ember, and I think my skin starts to crack
a little bit, like rotting bark, and you can see
the hollows in my cheeks are more prominent. You all know,
I have another like, I have a beastly form that
it looks like I am starting to slip into by mistake,
because I am trying to do this quickly. I realize
we've made a huge mistake. When I saw the ritual,
I should have You know, we knew, and we just
we're too ego centric to worry about this and this mistake.
So yeah, okay, look.
Speaker 9: At me, look at me, and I'm like jumping up
and down like we were before.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that was cool, right.
Speaker 3: And I like I nod my head at him, but
I'm not bouncing up and down. Then every couple of
seconds are darting back to the blood on the floor,
and I'm really keep.
Speaker 7: Looking keep looking at me. Yeah, it was cool. The
guy with the shotgun, come on, keep looking at me,
and I'm like trying to rouse you up, phipe you up.
Speaker 3: And it's clear I'm struggling, but I'm trying really hard
to listen to you.
Speaker 6: Okay, So that's what's going on up here. I Sandman
approaches you and approaches you both and says, remember to
stay calm. I do not think this is over. And
did you send us an image right of a person underneath?
Speaker 5: So yes, I.
Speaker 6: I am trying to like remove the chair.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like.
Speaker 6: I'm using vampire strength to do that, and I'll actually
get been real to try and help me. So can
you do you want to do a role for me?
Speaker 7: Absolutely?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think this would be like athletics strength.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'll like come up to you and be like,
let me help you with that. Yeah, I like get
like shoulder to shoulder with you.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, so, uh brawl, we can do brawl. If
we're like you're like going to destroy the chair, we're
gonna beat it up.
Speaker 3: Well, it's strength based athletics is.
Speaker 6: Not is athletics the dexterity one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so have fucked that up. I always
fuck it up in VTM, But brawl, I think is
the better one when you're trying to do your we
can do.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're gonna brute strength, so we'll do brawl strength
roles and we'll do this is what we're gonna do.
We're both gonna put ourselves down as a difficulty of
uh three, and we but we can use each other's successes, okay,
uh yeah, go ahead, the difficulty of three. All right,
so I failed terribly, but you did great. You got
six successes and I got one, so together that's seven
and that is a that is a success. So we Yeah,
I think we like push our shoulders up against this
thing and it doesn't budget first, but then you know,
I'm still like kind of like rocking back and forth,
like shouldering into the back of this chair and you
get like a running start, and I want to say,
if this is okay, I'll narrate this. You just tackle
me and the chair at the same time with like
a full tackle, and like your shoulder goes into the
small of my back, and then all of our strength
together just sort of pushes this chair and we hear
this like this snap, like this big snap as the
oak breaks and the chair falls forward.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and we like, I'm like, my arms are wrapped
around you, and we like roll and like slide in
this blood on the ground and I'm like yeah, laughing
like a hearty laugh, like.
Speaker 6: Like yeah the team, Yes, we always come out on top.
And I'm on top of you. We Yeah. So the
the four legs of this oak chair I've snapped and
we tumbled forward with it. But the like the bottoms
of the legs are still like stuck to the to
the stone of the floor. And but it doesn't look
like they're like it's not like cement that they're sitting
in or anything like that. If someone wants to take
a closer look. But if you you know, that's it's weird.
It's weird for sure.
Speaker 5: I think as you do this I'm like flying up
through the grate, and you'll hear me sort of right, Yeah,
you'll hear why over you as you Yeah, you'll hear
me go like, Sandman, are you sure that we should
do this? Should we believe? This is not what we
thought it would be?
Speaker 6: Yeah. I pause as we're on the floor, and I
I say one word that basically means like I want
everyone's opinion, and it would just be thoughts. Thoughts.
Speaker 3: I think you hear a strange squawking sound like from
a chicken. If you look over at me. My one
hand is turning into like a claw talon, and I
look like a yawning skull right now, and I cannot
speak to you. I am in the middle of potentially
beastly transforming, which means I want to fucking fight.
Speaker 6: I try. I would immediately try to open the grate
so we can get to some of this blood for you, Okay,
I help you.
Speaker 3: I would like to go on record saying I tend
to lose lose it, and I do not make proper
decision making, which is why Sandman is the leader here.
When I'm in this form, I just want to kill, kill, kill,
so I don't maybe count on my judgment.
Speaker 5: I'm flopping around your head as you're trying to lift
this great because I'm like freaking out, and I would
just be saying, like, if you open that, it'll be
it'll be potentially it'll be good for Jaga, but it
could be very very bad. There is something down there.
It's not good.
Speaker 6: You cannot feed on each other, you know.
Speaker 3: This, and over and I've now i just take my
chicken hands, you know tel and then I grab the
fucking grate and I rip it up. Yep, absolutely Strengthen
I'm just like fucking yes, let's go.
Speaker 6: You you tear this grat off. It actually was just
a heavy grate. It wasn't like latched in there or anything.
As you're doing this, as myself and and Fenrier are
like on the ground, we might notice, or at least
the audience noticed that the the oak chair wasn't fully oak.
It was inside of the oak twisted into the oak
was dried blood. But it was strengthened somehow, and it
made that chair something that it wasn't. Yeah, exactly like
a resin. It was twisted into the oak. And so
we can see those kind of like broken twisting like
veins of blood, almost like the oak chair was a
living thing. But we're we've fallen back from these four
like posts that have been broken, and you see the
like spiky like snapped veins still sticking out with like
wood splinters next to it as well, and you know,
the great gets tossed aside, and there's a ton of
blood down there. What do you do? You can smell it,
you know it's there. There's a lot.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm drinking.
Speaker 6: Did you jump down?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Okay, you jumped down and you're splashing around in the
blood and drinking just like.
Speaker 3: Mouth open neckback. I'm just taking as much of the
blood as I possibly.
Speaker 6: Can as this is happening.
Speaker 3: Yeah, almost distirsty me.
Speaker 6: And the moonlight with the great gun can can show you,
guys the scene down there a little bit more. The
moonlight from like the big open windows that that Barnes
have is spilling in and you can see down there
that Yaga is covered in blood and drinking it in
and she's it's probably like eye deep pool of blood
in the small chamber, and it's the blood had just
just barely reached the top of the pedestal altar thing
that this body was laying on. And there's a moment
where the three of us, like time sort of slows
down and we can see the blood slowly pooling and
creeping across the altar, and it just barely touches a
small finger of this figure. And as that happens, a
scream comes from this body and it both arms out,
its head up, rises from the plinth, straight out of
the open grate, and it's unmistakably a kindred covered in blood.
And I will give everyone a chance to react to
this pre you guys, do.
Speaker 3: Is this our target?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I leap on him and rip his throat open.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so you're you're in the you want to jump? Well,
he's he's risen out of Do you like grab on
him or something? As he's the.
Speaker 3: Moment I recognize that it's our target, I'm gonna you know,
I'm gonna reach out and I'm gonna grab them with
my talents basically, and I won't stick them into his
back and latch onto his ribs and use those to
pull him doumb.
Speaker 6: And like him for all strength, Yes, please difficulty for.
Speaker 14: Oh boy, can she get pluses for being in her Oh?
Speaker 6: Never mind, she nailed it. Yeah, I probably, yeah, we
probably could have done that, given you an extra thing
for being in your form, but you you nailed it. However,
I want you to keep in mind that two of
those roles that was technically a success, but two of
those roles were on hunger dice. Keep that in mind.
Although you're probably it's yeah, it's messy.
Speaker 3: But you're narratively that makes sense.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you you you can probably take one of your
hungers off because you were just drinking in a pool
of blood. You didn't get to do it for very long.
So we'll just say one, okay, and then uh yeah,
so you this bitch though you're well, you're clawing at
his like his mid section, in his stomach and like
you're grabbing onto him as he's floating up right. So
I'm gonna say that you you're you tear into him
and his flesh is rendered and his blood sprays onto
you as well. He is still raising up into the
air by some strong force that is not him, so
he uh, he's going up into the air and like
his his his body is torn.
Speaker 3: He's uh, I'm like, am I going with him? Am
I just like relaxing and.
Speaker 6: What I want to know is when his blood is
spraying onto you, do you have the will to resist
drinking it?
Speaker 3: Because I'm drinking it. I'm drinking him. I'm trying. I'm
so hungry.
Speaker 6: I know, I know you are aware. You're not supposed to.
I know you're not supposed to drink from Kindred. Okay, yeah,
so you would need to then roll a Hunger Frenzy
test of difficulty to plus two.
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry. What's the scariest, chocob and it took
me out?
Speaker 6: You are the scariest. You would need to roll a
Hunger Frenzy test of difficulty to plus two?
Speaker 3: So difficulty right, yeah, yep, okay any pool MOI fire? No, yeah,
I don't think. Okay you said four, yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 6: So you are now in a frenzy, which I believe
means that you lose control and you just attack whatever.
Speaker 3: I just drink its blood, even though I know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, you're yeah, you're uh yeah, we're gonna we're
gonna say that your turn ends with you like he's
rising out of the hole and this weird like half yeah,
half owl bird, half vampire. Are you fully transformed?
Speaker 3: No, I'm just part You're like, so my my skeleton
is showing. It looks a bit like cracked bark. I
have those why yellow eyes, and I have the weird
chicken a talent for hands, and I'm just like there
may be some feathers somewhere, but I'm latched onto him
and I'm just immediate. I have a beak as well,
a little bit and I'm just like eating him. I'm like,
shouldn't it be?
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're so. I want to say that quick question.
Speaker 3: We're not allowed to kill another vampire?
Speaker 6: Are we not allowed to drink kill other vampires? No? No,
I mean clan bane is if we drink, we can
go into a frenzy. If we drink other kindred perfect,
that's what That's what that is. But that's why we're
not supposed to do it. But Pom like, yes, no,
it's not You're not like breaking in.
Speaker 3: Okay rule or any othay. Just Lord dropping for everyone.
Speaker 6: Makes it harder for us to complete our task when
people lose control.
Speaker 12: M hm.
Speaker 6: So I want to say that one talent is like
hooked into his his ass honestly, like okay, like that's
not like his you know, like his the meat of his.
Speaker 3: I was imagining into his rib cage, like fucking poked
right in there.
Speaker 6: Into his rib cage. Sure we can go both.
Speaker 3: On his hips, right, Like an one is on the
back his lower back or like the top of.
Speaker 6: His butt, and then like the other one is like
on his bigh and then you've pulled your beak up
and you're like, yeah, chewing into his like lower abdomen.
Speaker 3: Perfect.
Speaker 6: So he's raising up and this weird owl bird creature
is like eating his lower his lower intestines, just like
just getting in there. And yeah, so he he rises
up out of this hole, and yeah, what what is?
What are the rest of you guys do?
Speaker 9: I think I would like stand you up, sandman. And
so we're like both clutching each other's cloaks, and I
like lean over the edge in the hole and see, uh,
what's going on down there? And then I like look
back up at you. I'm like, let's keep going.
Speaker 7: Baba, she she's handling it. We're doing pretty well, so far,
let's finish it.
Speaker 5: We cannot hear you, sandman.
Speaker 3: Maybe try refreshing, Okay, So as I'm the body is
lifting up, but you probably see that he's coming up
out of the great flying and I'm just kind of
attached to him.
Speaker 7: What do you do.
Speaker 2: Merks?
Speaker 5: Yes, I think I would come out of being a moth,
land on the land on the ground, and my question
would be how we kill things? Like what is the
ritual or the routine?
Speaker 6: Check?
Speaker 3: Yes, we can hello, take other way?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 6: Right? So what are you doing again?
Speaker 3: She wants to know how we kill things?
Speaker 6: With our we kill things, we would know how to
kill whatever the target. We would research that and we
know we need to behead this person.
Speaker 15: We need to be headed, okay, nothing wrong with snacking
on some intestines first spaghetti, So I think I.
Speaker 6: H we would also know that as a group, our
best like our strongest dude. As a wait, which one
of you has the katana sam Zambie does, right, Fenrier,
the big strong guy has a sword, so we lean
on that a lot for this kind of stuff.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, So I will come out of moth form
and land on the floor next to you, you guys,
and say, are you sure? Say the word yes?
Speaker 6: Yes? Yeah, okay, we must kill.
Speaker 5: So then I will. I'm just like flitting in between
like being a moth and being like it's easy, so
I flip back into a moth. I fly up over
him and then I will turn back into my right
like my vampire form, so that I land on top
of his shoulders and I'm trying to use my weight
to push him down, and I'm holding his head in place.
Speaker 6: You're holding his head okay, per yeah, Danby, what do
you do?
Speaker 9: Are you like like his ears? Are you holding like
his head still? A are you holding like under his neck?
Speaker 5: Or I think I'm holding his head still. So I
think my my hands are like this on his on
his head. Okay, So we have access to his neck.
Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe it's like tilted back and she's like stepped away,
so there is a clean spot where you're yeah yeah, yeah,
nic can go right through and it won't touch her
and it'll just she'll just be holding his head when
you're done.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 9: So I like look up at Cresta holding him and
like in a moment like look back at saying man,
and I just kind of give him like a look
like I don't know how to explain it, like is
this what you want me to do? You want me
to get up there and cut that thing's head off?
Speaker 6: Yeah? You you you can tell that I this is yes,
do it quickly.
Speaker 9: Okay, So I would Uh, I would leap like a
dramatic leap up into the air where I'm like completely
leveled with this thing's neck, and I would attempt to
slice it clean off with the katana.
Speaker 6: Yeah. The katana comes in and it's like many other
times in a way where we've had to do things
like this. Yaga has gone off course a little bit
because she got hungry, but her ferocity has put us
in a position where we can finish the job. The
katana comes in for the killing blow, and right as
it's about to connect with the neck, it instead hits
the meat of this Kindred's forearm as he's blocked your blow,
and he speaks and says, are.
Speaker 7: Of a purpose to serve.
Speaker 6: I will serve the Mistress, and no Kindred or any
other it will stop me. And he throws both of
you off of him. Baba Yaga, you uh fall to
the floor. Uh the you're you're not injured, but you
sort of fly off of him and crass that you
fly off of his his back and he is floating
there and he says, you will now face the true
raft of a Kindred with more power than you could
possibly imagine. And he continues to float up into towards
the ceiling, the rafters of this barn, and blood is
coming up out of the uh that room underneath the drain,
and it is sort of twisting around him, and it
is entering into his flesh from the from the wounds
in his legs and his belly, and it is it
looks like it's sort of replacing what was lost, but
it's also seeping further into him, and it's coming into
his mouth and his eyes and his nose, it's coming
into his fingertips. It's all being pulled into his body,
and he no despair for it is here. And then
it all crescendos. The swirling blood stops as it you
realize it's all been absorbed into him, and he stops
for a moment at the peak, at the very top
of the ceiling, where his head is touching the rafters.
He opens his eyes and then he fucking explodes, and
all of this blood showers everywhere, but there is still
some blood floating where he was. It's not just blood, though,
it is blood and shadow, and together it has formed
a shape. It's humanoid, but different. Instead of fingers, it
has talans, three of them long. Instead of feet, it
has hooves instead of a normal head. It is one
adorned with great goats horns. This creature is not one
of skin and sinew, but one of blood and shadow,
and it smiles that you.
Speaker 3: All, phie, we're recogniched.
Speaker 5: Who gave us this information? Who sent us here?
Speaker 6: We don't have time for questions like that.
Speaker 3: We cannot stay.
Speaker 6: You must go leave, scatter, I will leave you, so
you would all know that the command to scatter is
we all we obvious skate. We do whatever we can
to get out of there. Do you guys attempt that?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think you've given the order.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would, but I think in my head it's
hard for me to do that. If I'm in my
beastly form, I think I'm at.
Speaker 6: The Also, you're also frenzied, so I drank.
Speaker 3: His bloods so I think that removes the frenzy because
it hung. Yeah, yeah, gotcha, so frenzy for return. But
then I'm.
Speaker 6: Okay, Zamby what is Fener saying to us?
Speaker 9: I think I would want to watch what you were
going to do?
Speaker 7: Sand man?
Speaker 9: Am I did I get blown back from this explosion?
Or am I like back on the ground.
Speaker 6: You probably like stumbled back. He just kind of threw
so he threw them off. Then he rose into the
air and then this like his it's almost like an
outer shell. The kindred exploded right and his skin and
bones and guts went everywhere. What was left is blood
and shadow is what it looks like. It looks like
a shining sort of deep red swirled in with like
this green and violet smoke, dark green and violet smoke.
It's a strange sight and it makes the shape that
I described.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so I like fall back to the floor and
I'm staring up at this thing, and I'm like, we
can still do it.
Speaker 7: We can still kill this thing together.
Speaker 6: Whatever we do, we must do it together.
Speaker 3: It's your coat sentmon.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I how do I feel? What am I feeling
from my closest friend, fen Rear, my brother in arms?
Is he enraged? Is he anxious? Is he confident?
Speaker 7: Confident? Yeah? I'm like.
Speaker 9: At this moment, still confident that we could kill this thing.
And I feel like, you know, I don't want to run.
It's like the duty that we're doing here is like
was my main goal, the mission. So you get a
feeling that I am confident in steadfast in the in
the mission.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, so uh, Sandman says, guidelines clearly dictate if
if and then I feel you're this wave of like
confidence come from you, and I say we stay together,
let's end it. And that is the command too. Yeah,
you guys know that's the command to like keep fighting.
Speaker 3: I fully release myself to my beast storm.
Speaker 6: What does that look like?
Speaker 3: I think it looks like. I know, I look very barkish,
like a tree. I think I think I have bits
that come out alongside my face that are like elongated thorns.
I think I like have a almost like turtle like
bark skin scale, and then I've got the spikes on
either side. My eyes go from yellow to rotting green.
There's like a strange mist that seeps from them. I
think I have a lot of festering rot dead leaves
everything all around me. My skin is very thin and stretched,
like a light lavender or purple, and it's just an old,
scary chrome. I look like a crow, some sort of bird,
and I have horrifying beak and I am like twice
the size I am when I am in my vampire form.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're how big are you in your vampire form?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 6: What is your Are you a smaller person or you average.
Speaker 3: Five eight? Maybe you're kind of yeah, so average average, that's.
Speaker 6: Not average, Okay, so yes, but you're you're huge. Now
you take up like a quarter of this barn almost
like an entire corner is your corner right now. No
one can exist in that space with you there.
Speaker 3: And I think you all would know to like my
abilities when I am not in my beast form are
you know, rot decay, But it's a lot of utility.
I protect you, and when I'm in my protein beastly form,
I am just a tank. I cannot help you or
protect anyone. I mean, other than physical strength. My magic
is all spent on keeping me in this horrifying form,
right Okay, yeah, but then.
Speaker 5: When you say that, and when I see her go
like this, I am going to use extinguished kay so
that I can increase her hunger to make her more
vicious and more powerful. Okay, yeah, yeah, so I have
to do a rouse check to do it.
Speaker 6: Do it? Yeah, whether you failed the round check or not,
it succeeds. And I think that with this extra hunger,
I'm going to say that you get like a bonus
to your pool. Okay, keeps like you're you're at your
peak right now, You've never been stronger.
Speaker 3: I feel like I drank and it brought my hunger down,
and then I drank again from here, so it put
me at hunger one. If I feel like I should
be at three now instead.
Speaker 5: Of just two.
Speaker 6: Does the spell like just give her hunger or does
it give her strength and hunger? What is the.
Speaker 5: It just says in use this increases another Kindred's of hunger.
The victim can determine who uses power against them that
they can see them. Let me just see if there's
any more information I can get, because I'm looking at
like a table right.
Speaker 3: Now, I would probably rule defense and then depending on
fails as how many youngers i'd take. Potentially That's how
a lot of the abilities in BTM work. But yeah,
I think it just narratively makes sense that I, you know,
I suffer more than just one, so I think two
makes sense to me. I'm willing to do that. You know,
puts me back right where I was on the edge.
Speaker 6: That's fine. Yeah, let's just do that. Okay, we'll move on.
But yeah, well, well also I'm also going to give
you like you have a bonus, like you're a vicious
beast right now.
Speaker 5: Okay, it does say the user can intentionally remove the
un life giving properties of some of the blood in
another vampire, stoking their hunger as the victim's inner reserves
curdle into impotence. So yeah, I'm thinking I just make
you frenzy like crazy, perfect, and I will draw my
I have a couple of daggers.
Speaker 3: They're not very special voiced onto by the way, poopsy.
Speaker 5: Doopsie, sorry everybody, And uh yeah, so I just pulled
my daggers out and I prepare myself.
Speaker 6: Right on, okay, and uh zam's what are you up to,
big old keep beautiful? What are you doing?
Speaker 7: I want to.
Speaker 9: I want to prepare myself for another leap up there.
Speaker 6: And you can leave that thing.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I would leap up there, and I think I
would like try to like basically like levitate in front
of this thing.
Speaker 3: Can we like, can you just run up my bird back?
And I fucking like yes.
Speaker 9: Yes, due, yes, get so I want to get up
like face to face with this thing. And they see
like this red cloak just like flowing in the moonlight,
and like I just use my katana and I'm like
doing I want to attack it. I'm doing like very
skillful like strokes with this katana, but like lightning fast,
and I'm.
Speaker 6: Like continue, no, go ahead, go ahead. I was going
to say, we're all connected, right, so we have you're
thinking about doing this, and we know what you want
to do. And I slide across the floor onto my
knees and sort of brouch over. You run and you
leap off of my back. You your next step is
on like the the bird creatures pebs like arm, so
you like leap onto me, leap onto the bird, and
then you leap towards the thing and you sort of
levitate there. You use your own power to levitate there
for a moment. And I think, maybe, like Miranda, you
do something to like maybe blind or distract. Do you
have anything that can do.
Speaker 5: That I would love to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let me just quickly powers me up?
Speaker 15: Right, I powered Yeah, I powered you up?
Speaker 5: Okay, But there has to be something that I can
do to help Zams now in this moment light.
Speaker 6: Yeah, if you make fight to like blind a.
Speaker 5: Flight, like, can I give him the ability to can
I give him like the model push moth push yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So you give him yeah yeah exactly.
Speaker 5: It's almost like little air underneath his feet exactly.
Speaker 6: You get. So while he's up there, he kind of
like hovers for a moment from you, and then he
does this insane like like glory of attacks on this
creature and how how uh? I mean do you are
you just like slicing into it or are you stabbing
his head?
Speaker 9: Or if you are looking at this from like the back,
I'm just yeah, slicing like every direction on its body,
like probably like two dozen slashes in like a few seconds,
you know, like it's that fast, And I'm just like
trying to dice this thing up, like up close.
Speaker 6: To the person with all these different slices are going
into it, and as it happens you, why don't you
go ahead and roll and see Let's see how devastating
this attack is for this creature. So with uh, with
melee weapons, it would be a melee attack. Plus you're
it can be strength or dexterity. I believe it depends
on how you're wielding the weapon. So are you brute
strengthening this or are you more of a finesse fighter
with your katana.
Speaker 9: I would say, yeah, it's very like it's it's very
like skillful, like trained with the sword, like strikes are
like it appears lightning fast, but they're all like perfect form.
So I would say probably dexterity.
Speaker 7: Is that what you said?
Speaker 6: Yeah, melee, dexterity, melee?
Speaker 7: Where am I looking here?
Speaker 6: Melee's under skills on the left side.
Speaker 3: Yep, all the way down the left and then you
you just click on the melee and then when it
comes up.
Speaker 7: You can go.
Speaker 9: Difficulty.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna say this is a difficulty of four, but
I since we used a team move, I'm going to
give you a bonus pool of one.
Speaker 7: Three.
Speaker 6: Correct, it's still it's still a four. You just at
the next question is like bonus pool and you added
one for that.
Speaker 5: I think the bonus pool comes before it.
Speaker 6: Does either way.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Sorry, Yeah, so difficulty for rolling, you gotta grit. So
we needed four successes and you got eight. Yeah. Man,
So you it looks like an anime like if we
were in one, it would be the Castle. It would
be Castle Vanya, right because it vampires and you just
you're just your katana is going super fast and it's
just slicing into this thing. You notice as it's slicing
into this creature made of blood and smoke, it is
physically there and you are cutting into it, but some
of the cuts are like forming back together immediately. In fact,
all of them are forming back together as you're cutting
into it. But the when you notice this, you kind
of like give it some extra juice and you go faster,
and you notice that the healing can't keep up with
how much you're cutting this thing. You're doing damage you. However,
you your character would understand that you're hurting this thing.
You are. It sort of grunts and yells, and then
it's going to back end you. Backhands you across the
face and you're gonna take You take like one point
of real damage there, like that was a serious blow
and you're going to fly back across the You can
roll dodge? Is there a dodge in this? Yeah? What
would that be like?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: It's usually athletics and wearing this hold on one second,
because you usually need some sort of something that's implying
you are you have your wits about you.
Speaker 6: Athletics wits.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it might be athletics wits.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you want to roll athletics athletics wits, but it's
going to be a difficulty of five. Okay. So you
don't quite get out of the way in time. You
your your innate ability to like move out of the
way turns on and you you twist as this backhand
comes at you, but it still connects solidly and you
you take some real damage here. You are injured, and
you fly back and hit the barn wall and slide
down it amongst the dust and the empty corpses on
the ground. I think that that is everyone's turn. That
was like a group attack. So I think this creature
turns to Krasta and says, oh, little moth, do you
want to know what it feels like to have absolute oblivion?
And he uh reaches out with these uh blood tendrils
that come out of his like shoulders, and they all
shoot into like your body. It's you can roll to dodge.
It's gonna be a the same role that Zambi just did.
Athletics wits.
Speaker 3: Okaytics, you might have an actual dodge ability, but I
don't think any of our characters have it. There is
an actual like Connie had it, but a pool size modifier.
Speaker 5: No, okay, difficulty five.
Speaker 6: Okay, two out of five. Yeah, yeah. So he these
tendrils come out and they start launching into you, and
they're still connected to his back. It's almost like it's
more like tentacles, I guess you could say. They come
around and they stab into your side, into your arms,
into your neck, into your spine, and they're seeping in there.
You can feel them grasping around your spine and lifting
you up into the air. And fires burn into this
creature's eyes as it says.
Speaker 8: I gift you your.
Speaker 6: End, and he tears you apart. You are ripped in half,
and the world goes black for you. Cross up, No,
and I'm going to jump in and try to attack
this creature. And he swats me away much like he
did fen Rear, and he turns to Yaga. You look
like a big meal, and I'm hungry.
Speaker 3: And I pull my head back and I screech. It
is a mournful cry. One of my pact has just fallen.
And I think our ritual bond we feel that painfully.
So I know with certainty that she has just fallen
and had her true death. And I dig my talents
into the wooden floorboards and I push myself forward and
I strike recklessly at this creature with my beak and
my talents.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we don't even need to roll here. Your strikes
are are incredible and they do massive damage to this
You can tell that you you take off its foot
or it's hoove. You. You slices off it's hoove you.
You cut deep into its chest. It is screaming and ring. Ah. No,
you cannot, You must die next. And it it doesn't
use the tendrils this time, which is what you. I
think instinctually you were expecting. So maybe you would have
been ready for that, but you weren't ready for He
lifts his hands up and as they come down, this
adorned sort of like this axe comes down with it,
and it has these spikes that come out of it
that almost look like like insect antenna or something coming
off the back of it. And he brings it down
and it sticks right into your head. Yeah, and I
think that you have a moment of consciousness left.
Speaker 3: I think I stumbled backward and immediately am transforming back
into my human form as I have this mandible, this
weird acts like mandible sticking out of my collarbone and chest,
and I feel the I feel the infernal power seeping
into me, and it is my kryptonite also, So I
just start screaming and I fall to my knees. It
is intelligible what I'm saying. I'm speaking, maybe in a
language you've never heard me speak before. I am crying
tears of blood. And I look at you Sandman, and
I cannot help but think, why didn't we run before
I die?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 13: I uh?
Speaker 6: And Man looks at the dying form of his longest,
oldest friend and he grabs Fenrare. We're sitting next to
each other with our backs against the wall. We've both
just been thrown back. And he grabs Fenrare's cloak for
the third time and.
Speaker 8: Need Yeah, they're God, we.
Speaker 6: Have to finish this. Go now, No, it is finished.
You must go. I will never leave you, brother. You'll
do this together. You on the right, were on the left.
Kill it.
Speaker 7: There you lie. You will die.
Speaker 6: Just like them.
Speaker 7: If I die, you can run.
Speaker 6: I pull you close and say, if you die, we
die together, as it was meant to be. Now, let's go,
and I pull you on your feet and I stop
running at this thing. Do you come with me?
Speaker 7: I run.
Speaker 16: Just as fast as you right behind you, and my
arm reaches out and grabs your shoulder mid stride.
Speaker 6: I look back at you with confusion. We've done this
hundreds of times, charged into battle together. You've never grabbed
me like this. As you do, I realize too late
that a sword made of blood and smoke was coming
straight for me. When your grasp pulled me out of
the way, and the sword struck true on your chest
instead of mind. Notice when Fenra fell, what happened next time?
Hardly remember? I know I still thought I had too.
What choice was there? Slaying a demon though, slang a demon,
I'll cost you everything.
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