Speaker 1: You are listening to table story.
Speaker 2: Deathless is an improvised cinematic narrative with live production, including
music and dialog. There is no script. This story contains violence,
disturbing imagery, adult themes, and a darkness which may lead
you doubting for more. Proceed at your own risk.
Speaker 3: A logit of fight from Shade ho loget of fact
from me.
Speaker 4: That you say, stand up for the thing which you
can't stand.
Speaker 5: A loud.
Speaker 2: Cora steps forward, trembling slightly, and drops her offering into
the bowl. The air at its rim ripples as if
disturbed by heat. Her lips form a name in the
shape of a whisper, and the sound curdles the air itself.
The braid drops in and instantly ignites a sudden, greedy flame,
devouring her offering. Darkness slams over the room, leaving only
the sputtering light crawling up her face from below, stretching
her features into something hollow eyed and corpse like. As
she whispers Ashna, power detonates through her frame, as the
walls tremble, light fractures.
Speaker 6: In the room.
Speaker 2: Howls with a force that does not belong to this world.
Speaker 7: Prayers, I listen where there is an end, I begin,
And for as long as something is so.
Speaker 8: Too, shall I be?
Speaker 5: Thank you?
Speaker 9: My sweet sweet corn.
Speaker 4: Is this valery created the way it wasn't the vision?
Speaker 2: It has in fact been recreated as it was in
the vision. And now you have a chance to make
a statement. You get three things in the similar format
to what Ishna just said. And I can give you
no more guidance than.
Speaker 4: That, because, like we discussed, what I'm doing here is
like a god powered boost.
Speaker 2: Yes, yep. It is similar to what Gunner did when
he consumed the hand and it gave him beyond mortal limits.
So something similar is happening right now. So you have
the opportunity to mirror back what Ishna has just said
about himself.
Speaker 4: Hmmm.
Speaker 2: Which I'll say it again. When man prays, I listen,
where there is an end, I begin, or as long
as something is so too, shall I be?
Speaker 4: Okay, then I would address him. This is me bringing
the tale around to the mouth. But I also won't
be left behind. When I beckon, you come, when I
command you obey for as long as you exist, so shall.
Speaker 2: I power erupts through her body. It's like a sound wave.
It's going to knock everybody in the room back. The
walls tremble as this happens in the flame immediately after
she says this out loud so to be clear, nobody
in the room hurt Ishn's part, save Cora. But you
did hear what Cora just said, if you've got keen ears,
I like to think she kind of like whispered it
or said it low. It's not like she was shouting
at or proclaiming it very loudly. But if you want
to have heard it, you can absolutely have heard it.
And then the room will fall silent. The darkness engulfs
you all. There is no more light in here whatsoever.
Everyone is blown back against the wall except for Cora.
What do you do?
Speaker 4: I think, in where we left off last time, something
about this process opened a door or we heard a
door open.
Speaker 2: Yes, So when we sense that, yes, I think, well, yeah,
you definitely sense that there is a door that is
opening or will be opening. Trying to decide if I
should give you a moment with Ishna here for a second. First,
why don't we go ahead and do that before the
door opens.
Speaker 7: Then when I beckon, you come, when I command you
obey for as long as you exist so well on,
very clever, very clever in the.
Speaker 4: You may be my dark passenger, but I am also
your vessel.
Speaker 7: I wouldn't power it any other way.
Speaker 10: Is she speaking out loud? Just say that out loud?
Speaker 2: I don't think so. When she speaks to Ishna, I
imagine it's in her mind. At least that's what we've
done before. So it's not like she means to say
anything out loud, except for that she needed to say
out loud her declaration. All right, and with that door
slides open in this room.
Speaker 11: Did we hear her say Ishna?
Speaker 2: That is up to you. She whispered it. So if
you'd like to have heard the name she whispered, then
you can roll. You can make a roll. Absolutely, it's
always possible.
Speaker 12: Okay, So I sort of get up from the ground.
Plus with us, what did you do?
Speaker 4: I recreated the spell that we saw in the other room,
Offered the hair that will one day be faded of color.
Speaker 11: Offered to who.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure, but I think we need to keep
these things in play. Doing this now will ensure that
it will be there in the future.
Speaker 12: I would like to incite her, sorry acorn insight. Yeah, yeah,
like I wanna, Yeah, I want to read you.
Speaker 2: Yep, So go ahead and make your social role there's yeah, okay, difficulty.
Difficulty is thirty at the moment, yeah.
Speaker 12: Forty two partial success.
Speaker 2: Okay, so it's not It wouldn't be partial because it's
just saying that on the sheet because it's rolling king
Maker's style. So thirty. So you did not You were
not able to read her at all. She seems to
be unreadable at the moment.
Speaker 12: Okay, all right, then this means what we can move on.
Speaker 11: Though, Well, there is something. There is the problem with
what you say. We have all seen the ceremony before,
and some of us heard the name. Do not make
an offering. Two. I don't know. I heard names.
Speaker 4: I heard a name too, That's why I recreated it
exactly the same way.
Speaker 11: So what name did you say? I am just curious.
The door is open, so I am.
Speaker 4: Ah, you already know of him. I don't think you
know his name?
Speaker 12: Ah, oh monogamous.
Speaker 11: I am a bit too familiar with this one.
Speaker 12: Or well, I hope you have a long and happy
life together.
Speaker 4: It is the only way we've gotten this far. It's
the only reason we've gotten this far. I anticipate that
things will only get more dangerous and more dire from here.
We can use all the help we can get.
Speaker 12: What sorts of offerings? Do you prefer?
Speaker 2: Blood?
Speaker 12: Kisses? Shall I lick your foot?
Speaker 4: I look at you confused? Are you saying you want
to make me an offering?
Speaker 12: Do I need to?
Speaker 4: Do you want to.
Speaker 12: While not here with all these people around.
Speaker 7: Taking to God? Well last year?
Speaker 4: Uh, do we notice anything else that's different about the
room besides the open door, like smells or you would
power residents?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you go ahead and make a role, uh with
your mind now, because essentially mechanically, again, we did something
very similar to what happened when you know Gunner consumed
the magical hand and basically he took power and then
was able to exceed his stat above the cap, which
is what you just did. So you have now ascended
beyond the skill cap. So the world is going to
look a little different to you now. Okay, there are
also there are also some like costs and downsides to this.
So it's it's like you've ascended to you are a
purely supernatural being now, whereas you maybe could have gotten
away with some workarounds before. But now if there's like
magic in a room to prevent supernatural entities from entering,
you're going to classify as one of those. Now, same
as Gunner really but yeah, okay, so go ahead and
make a role. Your mind stat difficulty is going to
be we'll say forty for now.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, sixty four.
Speaker 2: You can spend a burn to make that a success
if you would like.
Speaker 4: I think as of last time, I was at burn
level two, so they.
Speaker 2: Are clear of burn now after this, oh okay, and
same thing with oblivion if you have any you've basically
got a full fucking restart your health as at max
as well.
Speaker 4: Okay, then yeah, I would like to use burn.
Speaker 2: Okay, then I think that you you are oh plus
you have the double focus double think ability where you're
able to see the kind of overlay of the other
version of this. Right oh yeah. So then I think,
because this is just a success and you you know,
you flipped a burn, so you succeeded, but it wasn't
like a critical or anything like that, I'm going to
say that you look around the room with kind of
new eyes. Whereas before things were kind of overlaid on top,
you now have the ability to kind of like, you know,
focus your gaze on a point and see only one
or allow it to double layer or see the other.
So it's almost like you can kind of like if
you focus on it for a second, you can switch
between both and see like what is on the other
side and what's here. But also you're acutely aware of
power coming from down the hall, like supernatural entity type power,
like more creatures like yourself or something else. And you
know exactly how to get to that like coffin room
where you were before. You know exactly how to leave
as well. You know the fastest route to your goal
and the fastest route out.
Speaker 4: Okay, but we are still on the other side of
the dungeon. We're on the PBu side of us, right,
the dungeon versus BT, which is on the VTM side
of the dungeon. That's right, Okay. Then I would take
all this information in sensing power in the distance the layers,
maybe just testing how it would look to see one
then the other then double almost like letting my eyes
cross and uncross.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think you get the sense that there
is power happening. I think narratively it's dope. If b
team is in the version of this room. I don't
think technically that's where they are. They're in the version
of the statue room. So I feel like you've kind
of sensed them as well a little bit and conflict
coming from behind you, I guess because that's the room
you guys just left. So forward you feel something and
then behind you you feel something as well.
Speaker 4: Okay, then I might also have like a moment of
confusion where I just am taking in all this new
information and feeling like my awareness has expanded, and so
I would probably say, kind of distantly to the group,
remind me, where is our destination again? Where are we
trying to get.
Speaker 11: To where we started? Was it not?
Speaker 4: Yeah, coffins case, then I think the way is through there,
and I point in the direction of the coffins where
I feel like they would be.
Speaker 11: I have a question, does it feel different to be
near Cora now?
Speaker 2: I personally think so. I also think that there's probably
an otherworldly feature that you gain, like eyes or something
that you can't hide as human anymore. So I think
that's up to you, my dear Cora. What do you
think that feature might be? It doesn't have to be
visible you can choose like a scar or a mark
that you can eat hide if you would like. But
I do think you gain maybe even like if you
were a mortal woman, you'd have pointy teeth, whether or
not you were a vampire, you know something like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, is it? Does it have to be a permanent feature.
It's permanent yeap, so it could be seen at all times.
Speaker 2: Yes, but you can hide it if you want, like
if you want to put it somewhere on your body
where you could like wear a cloak or put makeup
on top of it. You can do that if you
want to do a mark, but it is entirely up
to you. But you have been permanently changed.
Speaker 4: Okay, because I really want to do something with the eyes,
but that's going to be too obvious.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and hard, I mean hard to hide. Magic does
exist to hide it. It's just if people have the
ability to true cite you, then they can see that
your eyes are fucking weird. But you could end up
wearing like a charmed necklace or something that makes your
eyes look like a normal human blue.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, I want to do that. Yeah, So I
actually I don't know what it would what it comes from.
But there's like a certain type of eye that I'm
I'm thinking of the kind that like it's almost okay,
I think it's like when a dog or an animal
is at night in the shadows and the light hits
it just the right way and it kind of flashes.
Speaker 2: It looks almost like like uh, like an animal at
night acrossing the road or whatever, where you just get
a flash of that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but almost like.
Speaker 11: Looks like a reflection, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But it's also specifically kind of like opalescent sort
of where it's like, oh, it's shifty.
Speaker 2: I like that. So it's almost like almost like looking
into a mirror, but not quite as strong.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh that's crazy.
Speaker 4: I can't think of an animal that does that. If
I've seen the effect before somewhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh man, I'm into that. I'm into that, I guess.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Also metaphorically that's interesting too, because it's like if
they try to search your eyes for an answer, they
don't really get any which is kind of interesting. Okay,
So yes, she does feel different to you, as Deeban.
If you want to roll to kind of see how
well you can sense a change in her, we can
do that, but otherwise I feel like it's like, you know,
how the air shifts when there's this big storm coming.
That's kind of how I imagine around her, it feels
like that or smells like that, if you're a smelling creatures.
Speaker 11: Potential for something yes distracted to happen.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 11: I don't think I do. Like we already all got
pushed against the wall. She we you know, we saw
some pretty powerful people doing this ritual already.
Speaker 12: So she's also acting differently, like genuinely just from the
what Acorn is saying alone, like just pointing and going, well,
we can go that's the way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 12: Know what I mean. Like I immediately A'm like, okay,
something has happened. Something definitely happened. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Now does anybody else do anything? Or are you guys?
What do you do? How about that? What do you do?
Speaker 5: It takes me a bit longer to get off the
ground and looking around. All the lights are out, but
they were on previously that we had. I'm gonna make
a fiable just so I can see a bit better,
and I see Kora pointing in the direction we need
to head to, uh that way? What makes you so
sure it's that way specifically.
Speaker 4: Love, it's hard to say. I just maybe I recognize it.
I just know it's in that direction.
Speaker 5: Hmm, But like, why not the opposite way?
Speaker 8: How do you?
Speaker 5: How do you know what you're seeing? You can trust.
Speaker 4: It's not what I'm seeing, though, it's what I'm feeling.
Doesn't the room feel different to you?
Speaker 5: Does the room feel different to me? Narrata or anything else?
Speaker 2: Well, you can roll for it.
Speaker 5: It'll do hard love to roll for you.
Speaker 2: Okay, difficulty is going to be yikes, difficulty is going
to be pretty hard. But if you get it, something
crazy will happen. So I'm going to say twenty you
got to roll under a twenty.
Speaker 5: Difficulty twenty rolling now closing.
Speaker 2: My eyes and you can't use a burn to flop
this one?
Speaker 5: A forty eight?
Speaker 2: Okay, I think other than feeling like you know, an
oncoming storm or tornado or something like that is impending
the way the air changes around her and smells potentially
if if you've got a good sniffer, then I think, no,
you don't feel anything differently. However, that is the only
door that has opened and presented itself to you, and
so far every time you successfully solve something, the door
opens and you guys continue forward. The only other way
out of here is through the way that you guys came.
Speaker 5: All right, I'm sorry you said smells. I do know
what Cora smells like. Yeah, does that smell any different?
Like just I'm not actively looking.
Speaker 2: Or sniffing her well stronger, I think I think it
smells you smell that stronger from her, but also like
that smell of a storm before it's going to rain
is now missed than very deadly. Some people can smell
when you know you're about to or feel. I haven't
ever been able to like feel when you get close
to like those electric like when you get close to
like an electric box or something like that. Some people
can actually feel that, like tension change in the air
around them. If you're one of those people, then that's
what it feels like to get close to her, Like
watch out, she could shock you if you step in
the wrong spot.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, I step closer to her, and I'm feeling
this and it smells a little bit different, And I
look at her, something's different about you. Did you change
your hair?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 11: You washed it?
Speaker 5: That's what it is. It always looks different after it
gets washed, doesn't it.
Speaker 4: I just stare at him with the eyebrows slightly raised.
Speaker 5: All right, love, if you say that's the way, then
that's the way. We must go to the coffins everyone,
and I also point the way.
Speaker 4: Isn't that why we're here, the whole reason we came
here to find our way back to the coffin room.
Speaker 5: Sure, I'm here to help you, to help me get
back to where I need to be.
Speaker 12: Maybe this is the hardest thing on planet Earth because
I know what has happened. We all know what is
ha happened. I feel like our characters.
Speaker 2: Are like walking into a trap.
Speaker 12: This is like not good, Like I don't know. Also,
it's really hard to not just like be like, wait, no,
tell us what happened? Tell us what happened?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you kind of did. And she was like,
I don't know, I know, and that's so exactly what
they did.
Speaker 11: We got blown against the wall, knocked over.
Speaker 2: And then she was like I feel a little different,
but that's it, you know, like I feeling I.
Speaker 12: Failed an insight roll on this, which is like beyond me.
Like this is very difficult because it's like I can't
imagine that at this point. Yes, maybe at that time
that I wrote the insight, but I feel like at
this point there's no way that Constantine is not just
like what is going on. But anyway, I also.
Speaker 11: He wants to get to the coffin room too, so.
Speaker 12: Yes or his make yeah? I saunter towards the door.
Well shall we go? I do a little flourish with
my arms.
Speaker 11: I follow, But as I walk by Cora, I say,
we all want the same thing here. I know you
want the same thing as I do. I do not
have to hide who you are anymore.
Speaker 4: That's just kiding.
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 11: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Do you think I understand everything that's happening here?
Speaker 12: I laugh from the door.
Speaker 11: I think you understand it. But I think you'll know
the choices you're making, so be proud of it. That
is all I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I'm making the choices that I think will lead us
to where we want to go.
Speaker 11: That is why you should be proud of them. That
is all I'm saying. I'm not doing this to make
you feel guilty. I am saying there is no need
to hide.
Speaker 4: I don't feel guilty.
Speaker 11: The gruth I don't want you to, but we do
not need anymore. I don't know. There's no reason to
do this, That is all I'm saying.
Speaker 7: It's calling you a lawyer.
Speaker 4: Yes, Esteban, are you calling me a liar right now?
Speaker 11: Well, you said I don't know who I made the
offering to, and then you said, yes, I made the
offering to the name. I'm not say is that a lie?
Speaker 4: I've made the offering with the name. I was just
recreating the spell that I saw as to who it
goes to. I don't think any of us know that.
Speaker 11: How many spells have you cast before you are invoking
a name? You know there's power in this? Yes, I
do well, I find you. Then you do not know
what you're doing, but we will go the way you
want to go. We do not need to dwell on this.
I was just merely trying to help.
Speaker 4: No, I'm actually curious. Tell me more, what are you
trying to help?
Speaker 11: I don't know why you feel you cannot tell us
everything you are doing.
Speaker 4: Have you told us everything that you're doing?
Speaker 11: I have when I have been asked.
Speaker 4: Asked, then, what do you want from the end of this?
Speaker 11: I want to destroy the person who has done this
to me, who has done this to all of us?
So do I That is what I said, we want
the same thing. Sorry, I have never been very good
at PEP talks, always been a weakness of mine.
Speaker 7: I very well to talk about.
Speaker 4: We've all been brought into this from disparate parts of
the world, from dimensions, it seems, but we were brought
together your pain and loss, and I think we all
want to make the people who put us here suffer
for that.
Speaker 7: Very good purpotle.
Speaker 11: Yes I have I know what has happened to you.
I understand. I am not questioning this at all. We
should all be doing everything we can do to get
the ones who have done this to us. And if
you are doing this, there is nothing to be ashamed
of or to hide. That is all I'm saying. If
you are, if you are not hiding anything, then I
was wrong. It will not be I definitely will not be.
The first time.
Speaker 4: I kind of look at him with slightly narrowed eyes,
just like a kind of like looking him over. I
guess in a questioning way. I think at this point
you know everything that's going on. Is there something you
want to ask me?
Speaker 8: Okay?
Speaker 11: No, I just well shall we say there wasn't. But
since you asked this friend of yours who has been
helping us, well, you are not very eager to tell
us about him until we learned about him, and after
meeting him. I have a great understanding of why.
Speaker 9: This is.
Speaker 11: All I'm saying, is this sort of thing. You don't
need to hide this, That is all. We all have
friends our friends don't like and they don't get along.
This does not mean anything.
Speaker 5: I don't have that.
Speaker 11: Are you sure?
Speaker 5: Yes, everyone loves me. I'm invited to all the parties.
Speaker 11: But you have friends that your other friends don't like.
Speaker 5: No, well they've not met you all yet.
Speaker 11: There you go. I am sure you will experience this
soon if we are all to meet regardless. There is
all I meant, this sort of thing. But I don't
think any of us need to hide anything anymore. If
it helps do what we are here to do, why
not share it? This is all. Is not a judgment,
just letting you know you can't do this.
Speaker 4: Yes, and I thought I had. You know, I sought
help and was granted it. The friend, as you're calling it,
has been helping us this entire time. That's not news.
That's not a surprise, that's.
Speaker 11: Not there, not anymore. That is so.
Speaker 4: I turned to the rest. Anyone else have any questions
they'd like to ask me?
Speaker 12: Nope?
Speaker 8: What why don't we just sacrifice?
Speaker 4: What was the question?
Speaker 8: What did you sacrifice.
Speaker 4: When just now a bit of hair.
Speaker 8: For your friend?
Speaker 4: What did I sacrifice for my friend?
Speaker 13: An odd term warrant, I would say.
Speaker 4: I consider that I sacrificed my solitude because now I'm
not alone anymore.
Speaker 13: Then you are a fool. And what makes me a
fool to think that is all you've sacrificed. Perhaps you
just haven't had to pay yet.
Speaker 7: He's right, I probably at some point would have.
Speaker 6: Course, your uncle.
Speaker 7: Arrangement has changed, is it not?
Speaker 2: In my head?
Speaker 4: And I respond to him, yes, that was the point.
Now we're bound together, and anything that risks you risks me,
and vice versa to stalker. I walk up to him
and look him in the face.
Speaker 2: Our eyes have changed, s soccer. They have a weird
reflectiveness to them, and I think you see some of
your features.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter what I sacrificed. I am willing to
sacrifice it all. I thought we were all the wating page,
and just to check what is it you're willing to
sacrifice by the end of this, can we rely on
you to sacrifice what needs to be sacrificed.
Speaker 13: I don't think I would sacrifice as much as you would.
Speaker 4: And what if that means you fail, then I fail.
I turned to the rest of them. We're all here
because we didn't want to go back. Well, we didn't
want to go live the life that we were give
in in this new place. We wanted to go back
to our lives. We wanted to seek the people who
did this to us, if we still want to do that,
And as just we go through the door and see
who I was waiting for us.
Speaker 12: Couldn't talk better myself, darling, after you shuts adjustured to
the door, and my eyes are like, I have a
sort of casualness, you know, But I think if you're
looking at me, and you see me long enough at
this point to notice that my eyes are darting between
them sort of phrenetically.
Speaker 5: All right, and not for nothing. Sandman has already sacrificed.
You've sacrificed, And I look at him, young brotherhood, haven't
you and I walk through the door.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I kind of just nod and walked through the
door after him.
Speaker 2: All right, well that's next the door.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm stood like next to the door, like with
my arm out to kind of usher people in. So
I would like to be last out.
Speaker 2: Of the room. Okay, I can't imagine Stalker puts his
back to Cora at this stage. Am I correct in
that assumption?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I would go next.
Speaker 12: Then, Yeah, if you go next, as you walk by,
I do a deep dramatic bow and then look back
up at you, but my eyes are not full of mirth.
Speaker 2: And then Stalker has last through the door. I'm gonna
give Constantin and Stalker a moment to have an exchange,
should you choose to before you walk through the door.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I think I would put my hand on your
chest to like stop you, and then I would just say,
quietly under my breath, just let her do what she
wants to do, and then we get out of this.
There's nothing more you can do. She's made a choice.
I would not tang go.
Speaker 13: I will do what is required of me by the
oh I have taken.
Speaker 12: I would very much not enjoy seeing you die today.
Speaker 8: You're so sure that is what will happen.
Speaker 12: You're so sure it's not.
Speaker 8: Just in the future.
Speaker 12: I'm just saying it would be a crime for this
handsome body to see an early death when you could
live forever fighting a foe for no reason.
Speaker 13: At this point, do you think I should fight them?
Speaker 12: I think you should do what you can to live.
Speaker 13: And if everyone felt the same way, where would the
world be?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 12: God, do not understand what I'm saying. I'm not trying
to have a philosophical discussion, although it is a very
nice one. I just don't want to see you die.
I like you.
Speaker 14: Unfortunately, I awkwardly raised my arm and pat him on
the shoulder.
Speaker 8: Do not despair. A future is not written.
Speaker 2: Well, that's going.
Speaker 12: First, yeah, and then I will follow behind. But I'll
take one last look at the room before I go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Constantine look back behind him over his shoulder
at the bowl, I think, the offering space, and you
can still see the air around it moving, rippling from
the power left behind. And then we see him leave
and walk through the corridor really quickly, because it's been
like two months since we've been with this crew. Can
we get a physical assessment of everyone real quick? Oh?
Speaker 12: Yes, like what look like?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 2: I just mean you're fucked up, right?
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, I had a question for you. Yeah, so
I met to get granular about it and not RP
about it. I met half health, so I'm not looking
so hot. I also don't know, never mind because that
thing has not yet happened to me.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, it's not happened.
Speaker 12: It's not happened to yet.
Speaker 4: Ye.
Speaker 12: So so yeah, yeah, not not looking too hot.
Speaker 10: Okay, I'm in perfect health. I didn't take any damage.
Speaker 5: A wonderful meal. I don't know what everyone's problem.
Speaker 2: Is, sort of, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 10: I don't think I did I get anything from that?
Speaker 2: Oh you did not, because I actually had that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I just didn't take an damage that fight. I
was just being a sneaky boy the whole time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, anybody else in rough condition?
Speaker 5: I am mechanically missing three hit points as well as
I'm at two burn Okay, so everything's a little bit
more difficult right now.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, and Esteban, you are a little fucked
up too.
Speaker 11: Right, I was, but I got healed by my friend here,
so I'm at eight out of ten okay, and I
believe I have one oblivion.
Speaker 2: Okay, fantastic. Okay, So as you guys walk through the hallway.
We're actually gonna pause on you all for a moment,
and we're gonna switch scenes in the coffin room where
they are headed. Now, we're backing up a little bit
in time, just the smallest amount. Cora makes her offering,
and the sonic boom erupts from her trembling the walls.
In this room, there are five coffins that are opened.
One is missing a door. There's it's overturned. In fact,
the door is broken. In fact, I think it was
thrown across the room at one point. So there are
a bunch of opened, damaged coffins, but one remains fixed
in position. It is entirely black, made of some strange
like obsidian looking stone, but it tends to ripple and
move as if it's watery or smoke some sort of element.
It's magically imbued stone. There does not appear to be
a way to open this coffin, But right when this happens,
there is a line that appears with a hiss, all
the way around this coffin, and the lid is now off,
or rather it is possible to open, but it doesn't
pop off, and it doesn't move as sid do you
do anything.
Speaker 6: The coffin almost records despite it being made of this
obsidian like rock. It's almost like it's water in this moment.
And I place a hand against the inside of it
and push slowly and let lid fall.
Speaker 9: To the ground.
Speaker 6: As I still in this coffin, look around expecting familiar
faces and seeing none.
Speaker 2: That's right and act not only do not see them
who you're expecting to see, but the fucking rest of
the room is a mess.
Speaker 6: You see or a serious looking European man a little
bit disorientated from the lid coming out of this coffin,
sharp cheeked bones, strong joweline, deeply set, pale blue green eyes.
Speaker 9: He's dressed like.
Speaker 6: A widower, all in black with silver and unkempt hair,
which sort of gives him a rakish appearance. He's a lean,
athletic build and would stand at a solid six feet
be As he steps out of this coffin, he seems
almost hunched over, a little bit, almost turned in on himself,
like it hurts for him to take up the physical
space he should. And he looks around at the mess.
Speaker 9: Of a chamber he's woken up in, and he just gives.
Speaker 6: A worried grunt. Grunt is doesn't quite fit. It's the
only word it can really think of it in English
that works for this. But it's almost more melodic, more
soft around the edges than a grunt.
Speaker 9: But I'll say a grunt.
Speaker 6: And slowly they'll make their way around the room to
try and gauge what must have happened here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go ahead and make a role. You can
join the roll twenty now if you haven't yet, and
then I can assign your sheet.
Speaker 12: So the best day of my life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they did not know, and it's not in the
roll twenty yet because we didn't want to spoil anyone.
So okay, I see you. Now, let me give you
your sheet. Here. We are going to make you a
role to see and it's just going to be body
for a couple of things for the remainder of the
scene to see, like how weak you are and how
you're feeling. Okay, perfect, You should see it now and
if not, then refresh. I see it, okay, So yeah,
go ahead and make a body. Roll difficulty is thirty
at the moment. You also have a steak in the
middle of your chest. By the way, you can remove
it any moment.
Speaker 6: But I truly think it's a case of my step
and walk around and I try to move my hair
out of my face, and I bump the stamcast.
Speaker 9: I raise my handle.
Speaker 2: Oh I love that.
Speaker 6: Okay, I pull the steak out of my chest.
Speaker 9: Let's see you find me difficulty thirty.
Speaker 2: Yep, you got it. Okay. So I think maybe you
were preparing for this. I don't know how you're able
to do this. I can think of a couple of
different reasons narratively why this would be the case. But
even after all this time of torpor, you maybe stumble
for second, and then you're able to kind of regain
your footing and walk around without much lag or much
of a problem. Your reflexes take a minute, but then
they're there. It's almost like you were sleeping and not
in torpor. Crazy.
Speaker 6: I think it's it's it's a meditation I've done even
before this, of basically take into account every part of
my body.
Speaker 9: Every day I wake up, I register.
Speaker 6: My fingers, my hands, my wrists, my knees are yet
my body, and I think, initially just west to understand
my body. But I had the added bonus of apparently
recovering from torpor very quickly. Yeah, I pull out the steak.
Speaker 9: And I'll walk around.
Speaker 6: I'd as well cry this chamber yep, to see what's
going on slept behind.
Speaker 2: So we have. Of all of the coffins are open,
I think the most alarming one to you, there's one
you don't recognize, actually, and I don't think you know
what was supposed to go in there. But it is
a silver coffin, so potentially you might be able to guess.
But it is broken open in a way that doesn't
I think it's more animal like than you would be expecting.
And the other coffins were opened, I believe somewhat normally, right, guys.
Nobody punched their way out. It was only afterward somebody
through the door of one. And there's dried blood on
the ground as well. And if you want, you can
bend down and try to identify blood, or you can
touch the coffins whatever you would like to try to
figure out what's going on in the room.
Speaker 6: I'd like to if I can figure out how long.
Speaker 9: It's been since he's been opened, even if it's.
Speaker 6: Just by the bloods on the ground, to see how
long it're taken for it to dry off his tryt.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, let's go ahead and make a mind role difficulty
forty Jesus fourteen. Okay, two days. It's fourteen, man, it's
under twenty. Are you kidding me? Yeah? You know blood,
it's been about two days. And this is weird to
you because it's not there's a mix here. There's blood
of kindred and then there's mortal blood and it's a
mix and it doesn't smell great. Quick question that I
need the person that this belongs to to DM me.
Do you have a blood type preference? Would there be
a particular blood type on the floor or can I
just be like it doesn't fucking matter. It just sounds
like a weird thing to be so picky about. But
if we're doing detective stuff, this may come into play later.
Speaker 12: Who are you asking?
Speaker 2: I will DM no one move right now?
Speaker 9: Everyone looking to you.
Speaker 2: Okay, perfect. So it seems to be a mixed mix
of different mortal blood on the floor. Okay, uh you
rolled at fourteen. I'm gonna say I think it's clear
there was probably some bagged blood used here. It has
that smell, that medical smell that you identify immediately. Maybe
you can even smell residue of the plastic. You will notice, though,
that the Vikings coffin is open and his weapons are
missing as well. There are a couple of other ones
you identify immediately as being open, and I don't need
to name those two individuals, but you immediately recognize those
as well. You also are missing something pretty huge, and
you notice that right away as well. Yeah, immediately, And
I think even like you know, the grogginess of oh,
you know, is it hiding and then going oh wait, no,
I don't have it is pretty alarming. But you don't
know what was supposed to go in the silver coffin
at all. That's new to you. That's a new addition,
and I think that's it. I think that's it. There
might be a cross bow bolt on the ground. Actually
I don't know if he picked it up or not.
Speaker 6: Oh, I think I would pick up the if the
crossbow bowl is so there, Yeah, I'll pick up the
crossbow bolt.
Speaker 2: Yep. Star Would you have picked it up or would
you have left it?
Speaker 10: I think actually unless I fired two, I don't remember,
but I think actually Gunnar picked it up because he
used it in a later scene.
Speaker 2: Yep, Okay, then there is maybe a broken one. I
feel like you fired twice.
Speaker 10: But I might have fired twice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so let's say that there's like a broken one
there for you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, oh, grab the broken crossbow bolt. I think, take
a deep breath. There is a moment of panic initially, but.
Speaker 9: A moment for.
Speaker 6: Me is much shorter than the moment for most of
this there is, and that's fraction of a second.
Speaker 9: Do they take a deep breath? I don't need to.
Speaker 6: Take anymore, but I've gotten used to using it to
the centering action. Do I see a door, any clear exit?
Speaker 2: Yeah? You actually know this place fairly well. So there
are multiple doors in this room, but there's only one
that's visible to the naked eye, and it has the
it's got that large archway, and then it's got the
Latin above it, which it does look like they exited.
I think someone was bleeding, so there's probably a trail
of blood that leaves out that way. You can also
make another body roll for me. Difficulty forty sixty four
was gonna Yeah. You don't hear anything coming down the
hallway or nothing. You don't feel anything else down there,
but you do see that blood and it's a couple
of days old, although yours shouldn't have opened. So you
do know that too, Like something must have opened yours
and you don't know what it was if it wasn't.
Speaker 6: I didn't sure. I didn't see it as a ripple.
Speaker 5: I think we did.
Speaker 2: I think you did. I think it's what woke you up,
and it's what opened the coffin and what's pulled you
out of torpor. Well, I mean technically you're not really
in torpor very much anyway, but like it was like
this weird, you know, kind of drug state that you
were in. So I think that opened your coffin, and
the unseiling of the coffin let you kind of like
slowly wake up from anesthesia almost in a weird way.
Speaker 5: Do you why?
Speaker 9: And I know what's on the other end of that tornway?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's a series of trials. You know all
the answers, but if you do them, you might fuck
something up.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I do. I know a way someone to use
these trials if it can avoid it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know the way out, which would be you know,
you could use that way and go through. They would
have had to take this way to get out. Yeah,
unless someone that you know, has betrayed you again and
led them out a different way. That's also a possibility.
Like I think the things going through your brain right
now are like, Okay, if somebody led them out one
of the extra paths, okay, but the blood is leading
out this main doorway, which is visible to the naked eye,
So it implies that maybe they didn't have a guide
to take them through, and they just walked through this
main pathway. It was a couple of days ago. But
if that's the case, then they'd be able to walk
right out. They wouldn't see the trial until they came back. Yep.
So it's possible you could just try to track them
if you wanted to.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I want to try and track them. I'll go
down that hole.
Speaker 2: And trying to track Okay, so go ahead and roll
your body one more time for me. Difficulty forty And
we just see him kind of lower down onto one
knee and he reaches out and touches the blood on
the floor.
Speaker 9: Sixteen.
Speaker 2: Okay, yep, Okay, now I need some help. Who fucking
bled in this room? It was Constantine? Yeah, then that's it.
That's all I need to think. You immediately recognize this
blood on the floor, and you're able to track this
with no trouble whatsoever. You can follow it out.
Speaker 6: The moment I noticed that it was it's Constantine's blood,
I just let us sigh and begin following.
Speaker 2: Okay, and now back to you guys walking down.
Speaker 12: The corner back to us.
Speaker 5: You must give her a moment.
Speaker 12: Or two to.
Speaker 2: Walking down the corridor.
Speaker 5: I look disappointed in the corridor because the hallways not long.
Well that is the joke, but the more serious I
was hoping for space. I think again, I don't know
where this door came from. I was hoping it was like, yes,
summoned door. So I'm looking around and I feel probably
what stone or something? A bit disappointed.
Speaker 12: Does everything smell the same? Ye? Like, is it starting
to smell like the Okay.
Speaker 2: Yep, I will say, though, Cora, and you don't have
to roll for this. This is bleed over from your
previous role. There comes a moment where you know there
is a door immediately to your right, even though you
can't see it. Shortcut maybe if you were it'll take
you there, but you basically won't have to continue doing
any trials should you choose to sneak through that way.
Speaker 4: Then, Yeah, maybe as we're walking, if I feel it
coming up, I reach out of hand and I start
trailing my fingers along the wall until it maybe hits
the door and I feel it.
Speaker 2: There's no door. It's more just like there's a there's
like a doorway you can go through the passage, and
it looks like there's a wall there, but there isn't
actually a wall. You can just walk right Yeah, you
like each of you can put your hand on it,
and there's a wall there, but you also know you
could just walk right through it and it'll be okay.
All right.
Speaker 4: Then, Yeah, as I feel it coming up, I'll probably slow,
so whoever's behind me will run into me, I guess,
unless they stop, and I'll tell the group wait and
face this part of the wall and maybe feel the
dual absence of stone but also visibly being able to
see the stone, and I'll reach out my hands and
put them on try to put them on the wall,
I imagine, depend on how why the door is maybe
like one or both of my hands goes through it. Yeah,
I don't know where this leads, but this is I
don't think we noticed this last time we were here.
Maybe it's a shortcut.
Speaker 12: Well, if you think so, I don't recall walking through
any walls, but you're our guide, Well, I.
Speaker 4: Stalker, I believe if we continue on down the hall,
we'll reach the trials, right, we'll have to solve puzzles
to get through to the coffin room.
Speaker 13: Even more, I don't recall any trials.
Speaker 2: There were no trials on your way in. Just like you,
it was eerily easy to get in. I think you
got it if you remember so, Cora, because of your
ability to kind of overlay your blueprints in your brain,
I think you know that this shortcut is going to
take you to that easy path where you guys just
like went in. You'll still have to like roll for traps,
but they're like laughably easy for you to get through.
You probably wouldn't even need to because they're in the
same exact fucking spot they were before, so they're probably
still technically disarmed.
Speaker 4: Yep. Okay, Well, I imagine whoever built this needed their
own back passage to get through to the end. Maybe
that's what this is.
Speaker 11: And how do we open this?
Speaker 4: I like push my hands further and they just like disappear.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, It just like looks like it goes through
through through the wall. It looks like she's clipping through
the fucking wall, got it.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, I'm like doing this, but maybe part
of my hands and like wrists are like gone. You
can't see them because they're going through the wall.
Speaker 2: It's really interesting because you can also take your hands
and put them on the wall if you want. It's
more just like when your intention is I'm going to
go through the wall. It's like you're expecting there to
be a wall there, and there will be a wall there.
You can pat it, it'll be damp, it'll feel like
a fucking wall. But if you know that you can
walk through it, then you'll just you're just gonna walk
through it. So it's like what you expect in a way.
Speaker 11: Oh as well, I walk through it.
Speaker 2: Yep, all right, yeah, I follow us upon. Okay, is
anybody not taking the shortcut?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 9: I'm following?
Speaker 12: All right, cool, I'm also following.
Speaker 5: I do look at Sanderson though, and I say, someone
probably should have checked for traps before walking through the
wall that's there, but not, Yeah.
Speaker 8: Usually the first person through would do that.
Speaker 5: Well, I suppose it's a good thing. We're not the
first people through then, huh. And then I swing around
and walk through backwards.
Speaker 2: I was gonna ask if you do it that way. Yeah,
there's a reference to the other crew. Yeah, all right,
as you're walking through into this passageway, and now it
is suddenly as you all remember, it was like a
long three hour trek through this whole place the first
time that you did it. But it was, like I said,
it was really easy for you to leave and enter
through this place. You are now on that passageway that
is going to lead you through here, so you can,
you know, make your way through. You've already done a
significant amount of the travel through here, even though you
went on the other pathway. So yeah, you guys slide
over into this place that you all recognize from when
you left, and yeah, you I'm assuming you guys like
b line it towards the chamber, the center chamber. Yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 12: I think that's a safe as assumption.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I will happily put you guys in, said Changer.
Speaker 11: I just wanted to sorry, the moment we recognized this
is how we got in and out, there's no reason
for us to Okay, I.
Speaker 2: Just wanted to make sure. Yeah, okay. So then once
again you find yourselves like at the mouth of this chamber,
and I think you uh, you know, you see the archway,
you see the Latin on the wall, which Moog you
now recognize right.
Speaker 11: From the yes front.
Speaker 5: Then that's right.
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody else recognizes it though, so but
Moog does, which is so fun because I didn't expect that.
I expected jumping from one to the other, but I
didn't expect them to switch teammates. Fun. Okay. So and
then you enter into the room. The first thing that
you notice is that everything appears to be the how
you left it. The coffins are open. There's the silver
one or the wooden one was the one that or
which one busted? One of the doors is busted. I
can't remember which one it was a year ago, literally
a year ago, you guys busted through the door. And
then the other thing you'll notice is that the coffin,
the black coffin, the weird magical obsidian is open. The
lid was moved to the side, and there it appears
to be empty.
Speaker 12: I uh, I don't I don't like run to it,
but I swiftly stride towards that coffin, and I am.
I put my hands on it. I'm looking in. I'm
running my hands over the walls of it. He's not
here where I see. I look at everyone. He was here, right,
I didn't imagine it. This was closed before. It was
definitely closed before. Do I While my hands are kind
of like running over the coffin, can I roll to
see if I get any like magical sense?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 12: Cocord in a different place now.
Speaker 2: So absolutely go ahead and roll in your magic stats
if you have any any abilities that will help you
with this.
Speaker 12: I have an ability. Actually I'm trying to remember. I
wouldn't be using any of the combat abilities that you
sent me, I don't think. And I have abilities still
written on my sheet, and one of them is remember me.
And unfortunately I don't remember why I named it what
it is, but I feel like that might be I
feel like that might be a good direction to go.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, let's let's try to go for it.
Speaker 12: Okay, So going to be difficulty.
Speaker 2: It's going to be thirty. Basically, the difficulty in this
room will be thirty unless otherwise stated, same thing before.
Speaker 12: Yep, good, good to know. Oh one hundred.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, ah, oh shit, it happens now. It
happens right now, dude, rules decide when it happens. This
is when it happens. Right now. You have the visionary
ship right now as you touch the coffin.
Speaker 12: Okay what whoa?
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, Oh my god. So I believe you immediately
take three health as well. They're gonna three yep, immediately
three health off. But narratively speaking and also metaphorically, that's
just super awesome because of what this fucking coffin is.
Speaker 10: Shit.
Speaker 2: So you touch the coffin, and the fact that you
touch the coffin at this moment is like allowed visionary
to also reach out to you in this moment. So
you have this scene of visionary right now as you
touch this coffin. And then basically what you guys see
is Constantine reach out to touch the coffin, and then
he goes incredibly stiff. He arches back a little bit,
his head tilts back. You can his hair is like dangling,
his eyes are wide, his mouth is slightly agape, and
he is frozen for a moment. And it's maybe three
seconds maximum before he snaps back into place. But he
immediately falls to his knees, and he is clutching his
chest and gasping as he takes this damage.
Speaker 6: I think with blinding speed, something rushes past orders Toy
in the doorway grabs Constantin, but scuf and yanks him
away from the coffin and standing over you, Constantine is
your sire.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 12: Okay, sorry, I can't role play. I have to be
myself for a second, which is crazy. Okay, uh yeah,
I'm I'm I'm still like. First of all, my HP
is super low now, so I'm like very weakened. I'm
looking up at you and maybe I don't know. I
don't know when the last time you saw me was.
I haven't seen you since you left me, but I
imagine suddenly I look up at you with like the
most open, all my most childlike expression, like how I
looked when you cared for me after you turned me.
Speaker 6: I crouched down and I take your hands tightly in
mine and then lique in the eye, and I don't
say anything, you know, I don't say anything. Yeah, but
I look at you the same way I did the
last time you saw me.
Speaker 12: Sorry, I get lay right now. I have to be
myself for a second.
Speaker 2: This is the most literally literally so difficult.
Speaker 12: Guess I'm I'm ruining it too, by the.
Speaker 15: Way, Like this could be so powerful powerful that I'm
just like.
Speaker 10: Whoa, he's about to blow.
Speaker 12: Well, okay, because I'm like, honestly, I'm froz. Okay, Yeah,
here's what's happening to Constantine. I'm frozen.
Speaker 2: You take your damn moment for a second.
Speaker 12: Okay.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Cora, the second this happens, do.
Speaker 7: Not let him know you have for me. Do not?
Speaker 2: And instantly you kind of I think he's sharing with
you in this moment, which is unlike him. Usually you
have to roll to get any information from him, but
he's willingly letting you, you see, Slash experience this a
little bit from him, which is being tricked into that
man and being trapped in that coffin. And there is
maybe the smallest hint of embarrassment or shame, which is
weird because he doesn't really give off any emotion normally
to you other than like, you know, a sick, twisted
sense of joy or potentially annoyance, but never any real emotion.
But there is a little bit of shame at being,
you know, potentially being tricked.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm, Okay, I just perceive the information with like
a mental nod and go I won't do not trust him.
Why is he not to be trusted.
Speaker 7: If he wants to consume you and me.
Speaker 4: Or the ritual that is correct.
Speaker 7: I must stop speaking to you now, okay.
Speaker 2: And you feel him completely retreating too.
Speaker 7: You.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm back to Constantino, who has recovered. Yeah, okay, yes,
I've recovered.
Speaker 12: I raise my hand to your face, and my hand
is shaking, and I don't speak to you. The only
time I spoke to you was the last time you left,
as I feel.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I place one on it to steady it, and
I place my other on your face and oppress my.
Speaker 9: Forehead against yours.
Speaker 6: And then I will turn to the rest.
Speaker 9: Of the group.
Speaker 2: There's one person in particular you recognize. Do you address
him differently at all?
Speaker 6: I look to Esteban and then to Constantine, and I
think wordlessly, just in the look in the eyes they
ask a friend of.
Speaker 12: Your I nod slowly. I'm like, I'm not the Constantine
that any of these people have seen so far. Like
I'm different right now, I'm like totally subdued, frail, vulnerable,
I cannot control it.
Speaker 6: Oh, take your hand and help you back up on
your feet.
Speaker 11: I walk over to the coffin I was in and
I just kind of like lean sit down the edge,
maybe splash around in the water.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: And I look at her, sire, and I say, dragon,
have to say, you look fantastic for some of the
I thought I had eaten.
Speaker 6: The slight smile on his face in response to that,
it definitely doesn't meet the eyes, and there's a slight
twitch of there's a little bit of frustration.
Speaker 9: At seeing you. But they say.
Speaker 6: And would look to you specifically Esteban and make a
writing motion.
Speaker 11: No, you're right and got you in trouble quite some
time ago. Are you sure you want to do it again?
Speaker 2: The sun?
Speaker 6: There is a laugh, and it seemed very purposeful that
he opens his mouth as he does this, as you
see no tongue, and again that's the writing motion.
Speaker 11: I think I'm going to reach into the I'm going
to reach into my jacket pocket.
Speaker 2: Oh. I thought you were going to say the water
of the coffin, but yes, jacket pocket works. Also.
Speaker 11: Oh, I'm going to pull out the knife from Cora's
kitchen I had put in there.
Speaker 5: So long ago.
Speaker 2: Oh oh my god.
Speaker 16: Okay, didn't kind of hold it up to them.
Speaker 11: I'm gonna toss it to them, hit the ground.
Speaker 2: I was gonna ask you a quick question. Do you
do you try to catch it? Do you like reach
out or do you just not even attempt.
Speaker 6: I don't attempt. I let it hit the ground, but
then I will bend over, I pick it up, and
I think we'll walk over. Silver coffin has its lid
like intact, like someone on the floor, right, or is
that the one that's been busty opened?
Speaker 5: The lead is across the room, yep.
Speaker 2: Okay, the lid of the silver one is across the room, yep.
Speaker 6: I think immediately they'll go to the nearest lids. I
say not the nearest. In fact, I think that's because
we go to the silver lid and with the knife
with almost expert precision, will slash across the silver over
and over, and then pick the lid to the center
the room for everyone to see and carved into it
to be weird if I can.
Speaker 2: But let's do the gold one, because gold is more
malleable than the silver.
Speaker 9: Right, Okay, yes, yeah, ye.
Speaker 11: Cutlery, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: You do there is a there's a gold one, and
I'm sure you can use your magic to make it
slightly more malleable, but just for my brain, we'll do.
Speaker 9: The gold one.
Speaker 6: I was literally thinking of, like the oxigeon stone thing.
Probably too hard the silver or gold.
Speaker 2: So yeah, a Constantine's coffin. So there's like, I don't know,
there's a metaphor there in Constantine's coffin.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think carved into it is just a simple phrase.
Speaker 9: Where we it?
Speaker 10: That is simple?
Speaker 5: Thanks?
Speaker 17: Okay, Cora, what do we do? I don't feel like
we should speak this now.
Speaker 11: I'm sorry you're whispering, so.
Speaker 5: I'm whispering. I speak. I'm just I feel like we've
walked into a very big soap opera.
Speaker 11: Now, this is a very fortunate development for us. You
see Dragun here. It's one of the people who have
done this to us. I saw him. I saw his
face through Gunner's memories. He was there for a while. Well,
they kept him in his coffin and tattooed on his
arm every hundred years or whatever.
Speaker 7: It was.
Speaker 11: Him and the other two women, the one who looked
maybe Spanish, the other one who had big hair up door.
I saw you there. This is our enemy, but he
is alone. Now, if any of us are curious, perhaps
he'll be eager to give us answers. And if not,
well I can recommend he tastes delicious.
Speaker 5: I mean, not for nothing, but I think Constantine might disagree.
Speaker 11: Yeah, he has done this to Constantine as well.
Speaker 4: My look does seemed to be hurt by this?
Speaker 2: Did you know?
Speaker 12: I don't answer you. I look up at Dragon and
you did this? You did this to me? Did you know.
Speaker 2: This is?
Speaker 12: Did you make me for this? Am I a thing?
Speaker 6: I will crouch down by the coffin lid again and
scratch into it.
Speaker 2: No, I should not have asked you like four questions
in a row, of course, Like I just to break
the tension a little bit because I feel like it
might be needed. I do that on stream all the time,
where I'm like, hey, guys, do I do this thing?
Or is it this thing? And the answer is yes
to like to the opposite question, and then I'm like, oh,
I'm a dick because now you say yes, and I'm like,
what do you mean? And they have to clarify yep.
So you know I do that all the time. You're
not alone?
Speaker 12: Did you do this to us. I'll last once.
Speaker 6: I'll cough into the coffin the night I disappeared. It
was to trap it.
Speaker 2: Trap what.
Speaker 7: I dare you, the writing bitch do it.
Speaker 5: A little think of exact same thing.
Speaker 12: I dare you.
Speaker 9: Who hust carve aims have power?
Speaker 12: Are you with us? Or are you our enemy?
Speaker 9: Are you on the side of it?
Speaker 12: I don't know what it is, but I am on
the side of continuing to be alive and not participating
in whatever madness was done to us. I am on
our side.
Speaker 6: I'll take a step towards you, constantine.
Speaker 12: Okay, do you move?
Speaker 9: Do you flinch?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 12: But I think you would see like there's a my
skin goose flushes.
Speaker 6: I will press, if you allow me, my forehead against yours. Okay, yes,
and I think you feel my brow furrror a little bit.
And I look over at my coffin and then back
at you. In your mind it's very quiet, but you
a voice that you can only assume as he looks
into your eyes.
Speaker 9: Is the Gods?
Speaker 6: Can you hear me?
Speaker 12: I answer back in my mind, yes.
Speaker 7: They not.
Speaker 6: As if relieved that worked.
Speaker 9: The demon.
Speaker 6: I was a ideal vessel to trap it with no
tongue thinks to your friend, that made me more ideal
for the job.
Speaker 9: But it's gone.
Speaker 12: I know where it is.
Speaker 9: They pulled back. I think a flash of fear and
then worry across their face.
Speaker 6: But then I think it quickly dissipates, as they believe
they would have been able to sense if it was
in constantine.
Speaker 2: You can, yeah, okay, I would like to try. Yeah,
what does your thing say? You get a shift towards
sensing this right? Yea, yeah, let me check, oh mergs
immediately recognizing that you two share the same ability on
her other character. Yeah, I did go ahead and make
that role difficulty in this room? Is did I said
thirty right unless otherwise stated? Or did I say forty thirty?
Speaker 6: I think so, yeah, okay, and I get a plus
ten shifts? Are you it's forty then okay, and it's
buddy hip mind uh?
Speaker 2: I think you get to used or it would be
mined typically.
Speaker 6: Would yeah, yeah, yeah, an eight.
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, I don't know what this looks like. But no.
Never However, there is a tiny bit of residue as
if they have encountered this in being in an outward state.
By the way, So what that would mean is like
a summoning circle and the being is out of a
vessel or like projecting itself outward. There's a little bit
of residue, implying that Constantine has encountered it.
Speaker 12: Am I still able to speak with you? I would
like pull you forward so our foreheads are touching again.
It is too late to be trapped. It cannot be.
And we must be very very careful, and you must
leave with me and pursue this no longer. This is
maybe the strongest you've ever heard me sound.
Speaker 2: Anyone in the room as well, I would imagine, yeah,
oh no, no, because you're speaking, yeah, yeeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 6: And I will say you do just see me and
Constantine heads yeah, touching, Yeah, because.
Speaker 12: Of it, we're just like like staring at each other
in the silence.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, it's sire and child, so maybe they're
maybe they're like, all right.
Speaker 12: Let's were doing the sire child stuff.
Speaker 2: Let's give me a moment, man, imagine liking your sire. Jesus,
these two, your sire didn't try to fuck you over.
Rub it in.
Speaker 12: This is not that I know.
Speaker 4: We gunn are in Hilda. Yeah, it is right now, ye.
Speaker 12: Literally, the moment this happened, I was like, Oh no,
I'm gonna have to gun around, aren't I the moment,
the moment that, the moment that eachian I was like,
don't trust him. I was like, ah, man, I'm gonna
have to gun around. Oh no, don't gunner me out? Yeah, okay,
is it one of your friends?
Speaker 9: I cannot trust him.
Speaker 12: I'm not telling you because I don't want you to
hurt my friends. I'm telling you because all of us
will be dead if we try. It is too late.
D also have been struck.
Speaker 9: I found Felts. It must have been what worked me up.
Does magic? Powerful magic?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 12: So if.
Speaker 4: This is the manager had to kill, isn't.
Speaker 11: It I thought I had? It is surprising to see
him existing.
Speaker 4: This is also the man who I saw give me
the rumor to come here?
Speaker 7: Is it?
Speaker 10: Is it who I saw as well? Or did I
not see it? I just heard about it from Like.
Speaker 2: So people are seeing different competing things a little bit.
What are you referencing?
Speaker 10: I have written in my notes that Constantine's tongueless sire
put the rumor of the Chicago princes.
Speaker 2: And yes it's the same, ye, the same.
Speaker 10: For both of them, so I recognized him.
Speaker 2: This is the guy from your encounter.
Speaker 10: Maybe this will say maybe this was covered And I'm
so sorry if you said track, But what language were
you writing in?
Speaker 5: Can I read it?
Speaker 2: Very Yeah, it's a really good question, Damn.
Speaker 6: Okay, I think I would have to be I don't
think I had any of the talk yet, I wouldn't
have esteemed.
Speaker 2: And you were I'm gonna yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 11: I would have loved to be speaking German, but I
will say English so everyone can hear.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I would have would have written in English.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, that's so cool though I'm just suddenly
speaking in German.
Speaker 11: I think the I think the first thing I like
where I was appointing him was probably there was some
German there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for you probably said the same thing you said
to him on the street, right, I'm sure, yeah, repeat.
Speaker 10: You know a couple of languages, but I don't think
I would know German, so maybe but anyways, yeah, I am.
Speaker 5: Sort of.
Speaker 10: Watching this unfold, and I do try to read what
you wrote, uh, And I mean, can I or is
it something.
Speaker 2: He said it was English?
Speaker 10: So yeah, I mean it's like a fanciful secret English,
you know, But I'm like, I guess I just walk
up and read it.
Speaker 7: Then you know what.
Speaker 5: It's his point.
Speaker 2: If he was or like no, I don't think he
was trying to.
Speaker 11: Everybody.
Speaker 9: Yeah I want to see it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say too, like the gold Coffin, like
all the coffins were very intricately like inlay and designed
and whatnot. But when he goes to do this, it's
almost like it's almost like the coffin kind of reacts
and the surface will flatten as he begins to write,
and then after a minute or two it fades back
into the design. Who It's almost it's almost the same
thing is the wall with Cora, where the intention is
to use it for this thing and then the intention
like changed it. So that is something to note. And
he does appear to me, Yes, sorry, go ahead. I
was going to say, either he appears to be using
magic to write this, or it appears to be reacting
to him in a particular way. Either option is definitely
something you can choose to interpret, but it is reacting.
Speaker 10: And to recap really quick, the last thing I think
he wrote before he started talking with his brain was
trap it.
Speaker 2: I think you said where is it?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 9: And I said, where is it?
Speaker 2: The night I disappeared was to trap it?
Speaker 7: Ye?
Speaker 2: Yes? Okay, Oh boy, I'm so excited, guys.
Speaker 12: I'm so stressed out because I literally have no idea
what's going to happen. Like I do not know.
Speaker 2: I hear at the beginning of a culture when I
was like the anxiety I have his premier anxiety. That's
this at this moment of like all of these moving
pieces right now. And genuinely, okay, you guys take a
second to think about. But I just need you guys
to know where we're at. Right. So we got we
got we got the Sire in here, we got Constantine,
we got Estebon who had you know, took the tongue
of the Sire and attacked him and thought he ate him.
Then we got Cora and you know who kind of
like uh uh. And then we got Stoker, who wants
to kill you know who, and so Mike side with
this guy. And then we got mug who who the
fuck knows what Moog's gonna do.
Speaker 10: Oh.
Speaker 2: Also, Constantine, I don't know if you say anything, but
Visionary did have that scene with you, and to remind you,
he did tell you that Gunner was alive and killing
his friends. So just so you are aware that did
happen to you now, ye.
Speaker 11: Kill he's killing me and he killed one of one
of my one of my friends.
Speaker 2: Just reminding that occurred. It's totally fair if you want,
I have let that go out your brain. I'm yeah.
Speaker 12: I mean, like, I had full intention of saying something,
but then obviously when this happened, I think, Yeah, I
don't think I'm thinking about that at the moment because
I'm like, I gave him my thing, ye wasn't it.
Speaker 2: I have his reminding you that that did Yeah, no, no.
Speaker 12: No, no, yeah, yeah, because I did forget, because I literally forgot. Also,
I think it's probably a good sign that I haven't
felt anything since.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean you feel really fucked up after
the exchange. But yeah, if you're asking.
Speaker 12: Yeah, but I haven't had like a oh I think
there might died.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 2: I think there might be some underlying tension for you. Yeah,
a little bit of anxiety. But other than that, I
know you have no message back from him now. Maybe
the anxiety has gone now that you're sires here. I
don't know if that's up to you everybody, all right, Stoker,
I think was saying something sorry, so go.
Speaker 10: Ahead, Yes, uh yeah, I would say something of this, this,
this guy.
Speaker 2: This guy, this guy.
Speaker 11: Hey guys, guy guy.
Speaker 9: What do you mean I speak for the first time.
It's a busting accent.
Speaker 11: You guys are reading a week a lot of trouble.
Speaker 8: Them apples.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I just I look at you, and I'm kind
of I'm kind of always keeping an eye on weirdo
over here, Cora, but so I'm glancing at you as
much as I can, and I say, was your intention
to bring Clan eidl on here or me specifically?
Speaker 6: I'll turn breaking this physical connection with you, Constantine.
Speaker 2: Do I have no clue who guy is? You've never
seen him before in your life.
Speaker 6: I think again, any emotion that shows, like any level
of uncertainty or lack of strength, you see flashes across
their face. Cycically, most people, even kindred can't catch it.
But I think it's the first thing you see, a
lingering look of confusion as you say this.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's all I needed to know. But I nod
at you.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Also to clarify, And this is again just me reminding
that I think this is what was said the eyes
were red in your encounter, both of your encounters with
this individual. They're not red now, just to be clear, like.
Speaker 9: Like a bluish green.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know, both of you, I think would
be like the fuck? I mean, it could be that
he was using magic. Your eyes light up when you
use magic two Kora. But I'm just just reminding because
you didn't actually experience the vision as a.
Speaker 12: Player, I will kind of turn to everyone. Don't you understand?
He is a victim like us, locked away used.
Speaker 10: I want to try and say it.
Speaker 12: Sorry, good, Sorry, you said it yourself, Estevan, that he
someone told you that he was your sire, but he isn't.
He's mine. So someone wanted you to kill him. Someone
used you to kill him. How are you so sure
that he is part of all of this in the
way that you assume? Are you just believing what they said?
Speaker 11: Again, if he is not a part of this, then
he can tell us their whole plan. He can tell
us the names of the other people, and he can
tell us what their end goal was so we can
stop it. And if he is not with them and
wants to get revenge like we do, then he will
be more than happy to fuck up whatever they want
to finish.
Speaker 5: I sit down. We're going to be hell while he
has to cough it into a fucking coffin lit.
Speaker 12: Stoker.
Speaker 10: Please go ahead, Yeah, I want to. I just when
he made that expression of confusion, I just want to
double check on that. I would probably try and ensure
that he is being truthful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead and make a roll. Unless you're doing
like extra bullshit.
Speaker 10: I don't. I don't think I have any extra bullshit
for that. Or well, no, I don't think I do
unless is he a sleep by chance right now? In
this scene? I don't know.
Speaker 12: Well, it's pretty dreamy.
Speaker 2: No, don't laugh. What is the text of that ability?
What does it say? Exactly? Does it say sleeping? It
doesn't say dream like state?
Speaker 10: You you are not welcome in dreams? You go anyone?
If it anyway, if a tagged creature falls asleep, you
may choose to enter their dream.
Speaker 2: Is the second level of that dream like state? Or
does it not say do you not.
Speaker 10: Have the second tier? Is negative shift reduced to ten percent?
Speaker 2: I will allow this, and I will adjust this language
to say dream like state. You may use this.
Speaker 10: I can use this right.
Speaker 11: Oh my God, all right, so he just woke up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, no, that's not exactly why.
Speaker 6: But yes, exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so you go ahead and make your role here.
Speaker 10: I shift. I would not just jump in on him. Yeah,
I would say, if you are being truthful, I can
prove it if you allow me.
Speaker 6: They'll cove kind of looking at me after the comment
about how long it'll take, They'll cove into the lid
of the coffin.
Speaker 13: How sir, I can visit your dreams.
Speaker 6: Because the demon tortured me for centuries. I would not
wish my dreams on my west enemy.
Speaker 10: I look at Cora.
Speaker 2: I wish I could say something to you right now,
in this moment, Cora. But maybe you just feel the
faintest flicker of glee at the bottom of your belly
and then it goes away.
Speaker 12: You guys, I'm gonna have to Gunner the fuck out
of this. I'm so sorry you guys.
Speaker 11: Do not remember? Do not forget that Gunner was also
tortured for centuries by him. He took part in it.
Speaker 12: Are you so sure after I remember? It's what you remember?
Speaker 11: Fine?
Speaker 12: What do you remember?
Speaker 11: I'm down the names of our enemies, write down who
has done this to you, to us, prove it.
Speaker 10: I can prove it.
Speaker 6: Please better let him throw CoV.
Speaker 9: Do you have something to ground you.
Speaker 2: I'm the girl with the hairbrush mother purs you, guys.
Speaker 12: I can't, I can't with this. What's happening, Pepe? What
have you done? Phoebe loves me so much, so much,
you guys.
Speaker 15: I just want you, guys to know that this is
this is wedding vows that Pep has created for.
Speaker 10: I pull out my dagger and I say yes, and
then I'm going to do the first part of this ability,
which is a whisper hook. I tie my mind to
his with an unseen thread. Okay, it's an indivisible thread
of dreamsilk, and I always know the direction and distance
to them until dawn or until broken by magic. Okay,
that's just the first part.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 10: So he doesn't stop me, then I'll keep going.
Speaker 2: Yep. We're going to roll to see how strong this
connection is. So go ahead and make your roll.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 6: I think as the moment you pull out your deck
and say yes, based on the ground, legs crossed, hands
placed on their thighs, and I think the demon tortured
me sometimes to you cope at to go someplace else.
So I'm going to try and enter that state again.
Speaker 2: Yeah okay. Now, if I'm not mistaken, and I'm going
to say this in a way, you have an ability
that can help him succeed at this. Do you want
to use it?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 6: Okay, yes, I'll spend the burn yep.
Speaker 2: All right. So he's going to do that, and you
have a ten shift in your favor, so it's going
to raise the difficulty from thirty to forty as he
tries to let you.
Speaker 10: In only ten.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 10: Let me let me lawyer this for a minute to participant.
Speaker 2: Yes it is, Yes, it is, I I will say, also.
Speaker 10: Using magic and taking a burn, yes, And.
Speaker 2: My lawyer back to you is he's not actually sleeping.
You're trying to use your ability in a new way,
and if you succeed, you'll be able to permanently do
it while people are awake. So yeah, okay.
Speaker 6: I will say, as you as connect, you feel out
obscene amount of resistance at first, like like pushing against
a iron wall, and then it's as if feeling that
points where you're hitting it at they bend the iron
just enough for you to get.
Speaker 2: In slip through interesting.
Speaker 10: Sixteen.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, oh my god. Okay, this is the
best day of my life. Yeah, this is incredible. Okay,
what did you do when you started to do this,
like physically? What were your somatic components here? Because essentially
what you're doing is you're kind of you're trying magic.
You've never tried before, but you've succeeded at it now,
so now if you try it again using the same steps,
it'll be easier for you to do it, until suddenly
it's an ability that you can do it all the time.
So did you do anything with your hands? Did you
do the myrgles, like you know.
Speaker 10: I think I do a flick of the wrist, like
I'm tossing an actual line. Yep, okay, yep, okay, So
it's a flick of the wrist and.
Speaker 2: You're visualizing line this thread come through. Yes, okay, yep, I.
Speaker 10: Think I say I think I say whisper hook in
Latin because that's cooler.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, So he says something in Latin,
So we've got a verbal component and then you make
a gesture, so a somatic component. Is there anything else
that you do here in this moment? Other than the
person is willing.
Speaker 10: No, I don't think that there's anything else I do
this time.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's perfect. So these components will if you do
them again, they'll give you a like five shift until
it becomes easier, and then you essentially would unlock visibility
where you don't have to necessarily, you know, have such
a hard difficulty at it. Okay, you enter into his
mind stage one.
Speaker 10: Now I would have to do dream plunge.
Speaker 2: Yes, so I don't. Okay, So here's the thing. You
can find the information yourself with this sixteen where you
can just feel his intention where you know if he's
lying to you or not. Or you can dream plunge,
but you risk seeing things that might be incredibly horrific.
Speaker 5: So it's either or.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's either or, So you with that sixteen you
can just get the intention without witnessing anything. Or you
can plunge and try to try to find the exact
moment or try to find something, but if you roll
poorly then it might be bad. So it's the standard
PB shit of yes, you've succeeded. Do you want the
answer or do you want to push it for something
crazier which you know you may or may not want
to do. There's no doubt in your mind though, that
you can read him right now and you can tell
if he was lying to you.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I porkish would love to have a really
cool dream scene for Dragon here. Yeah, but I also
think that my character is very.
Speaker 5: What's the word.
Speaker 10: Pragmatic?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think and would get the info.
Speaker 10: So okay, he would just take what he needs to
get the job done.
Speaker 2: So I love that. What did you ask him specifically?
What were you trying to find out if he was
lying about knowing you or if he was lying about being.
Speaker 10: Well, I want to know. I want to know, you know,
if he's being truthful about starting the rumor or not,
or like trying to get me here, or like does.
Speaker 2: He know me he's never seen you before in his life.
Speaker 10: And then I want to know if because he's getting
accused of like being part of this plot and like
pulling us all here, I want to know if that's true.
And then I want to know if he truly if
he's being truthful about like trying to he said something
about the demon right, yeah, yeah, I want to know
if that's truthful too.
Speaker 2: Okay, So this is a lot of questions. So let's
I'll make the decision for you will dream plunge. So
you do get that initial reaction of he's never seen
you before in his life and you feel like he's
being truthful in this moment to you. But that's not enough.
You want specific details, So let's go ahead and dream plunge.
Now this one we're going to make the same role.
And again it's a hard difficulty, but if you succeed,
you're kind of growing this ability into something different. So
it's going to be thirty for the dream plunge.
Speaker 10: I would like to use my dagger yep to make
it a forty yep.
Speaker 2: Okay, go for it.
Speaker 10: I'm holding onto my dagger still, and I close my
eyes and I draw a symbol of my order in
the air in front of me, and I speak some
more Latin. We got a fifty five and I'll take
a burn.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, if you'll give me a success for it,
I won't give you success for doubles. You have to
use two burn to not take the effect of the doubles,
because unfortunately it's doubles. If it were fifty eight, then
sure you could use a burn to make it a success.
But unfortunately not when it is an omen or when
it is a critical fail.
Speaker 10: So I have to take two burn to stop the doubles.
Speaker 2: No, no, you take the two burn just to stop
the fucking horrific thing that happens with doubles. You don't
get to flip it into a success when it's doubles
or a critical failure. So you can spend two burn
to stop the bad thing from happening if you would like. Nah, okay,
then in that case, I'm gonna turn it over to
you Drack for what he experiences and what information he gets.
Keep in mind that, and I know you know this
because PBu veteran, but failure doesn't necessarily mean he doesn't
get the information. He just might get it at an
extreme cost. So if you want to give him the
info and then he just also experiences some horrific, you know,
century long torture, then that's that's fine as well.
Speaker 9: I think.
Speaker 6: What you first see and if there's correct a timeline.
Speaker 9: If I'm getting this wrong, Pep, I will it.
Speaker 6: I believe the night I disappeared from Constantine's life was
when Estebon attacked.
Speaker 2: You attack me? That is great.
Speaker 9: So you see.
Speaker 11: A memory.
Speaker 6: First, you see it from the position of Dragon. You
see a sleeping Constantine beside them, and you watch as
Dragon as quietly as they can get up from their
seats they had sat beside Constantine, you can't as see
them and watch them fall asleep, and almost immediately as
they step outside of their apartment, you can tell it's
probably an apartment in Germany, almost amasingly get.
Speaker 9: Attacked by Esteban, and you can.
Speaker 6: Feel the confusion and the generalely shock and fear.
Speaker 7: In that moment.
Speaker 6: I think you can even probably feel that. I start
a bit of frustration as they get away, almost in
a sense of if they hadn't caught me off, God,
I could have done a bit more. And then as
he tried to do a bit deeper into his memory,
he very violently yet from it. Yeah, and in less.
Speaker 9: Than a second.
Speaker 2: Can I add something to that, Yeah, because I think
Stalker would know this, because he has dealt with this
in the past. There is, however, Stalker would interpret because
memory manipulation magic is really strong in VTM, so you
would sense that residue here that somebody has been in
here and manipulated what he remembers.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Yeah, absolutely, can can I say that I have
written in my notes like I need to see if
memory was implanted in my brain about this whole rumor thing.
Speaker 2: Come. Absolutely, absolutely, I have that written.
Speaker 10: In my notes that I wanted to figure that out.
But I think the the time.
Speaker 2: Just like, let's do it now, let's do it right now,
this fifty five doubles, Like, let's narratively have this be
the moment where you're like, oh, fuck me as you
realize like the memory may have been implanted in you
as well, And then if you want, we'll just roll
right now. Sure, yeah, go for it. Why not difficulties
by default forty So if you have something else that
will bump it, because you're going off the back of
this moment in this doubles, I will say you are
when you experience some torture on the way out of
this though with that fifty five doubles.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean I'm still I think that because I'm
in this moment and like I've white knuckling the dagger,
I think I'm still connected to it. Yeah, so I
think I would still use that. Yeah, for sure, I've
used it twice now yep. But I'll take the ten
shift from that If that's.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, absolutely, let's go entangle, go for it.
Speaker 7: Three.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I thought it was another fifty five
doubles broh, okay, ninety three. Now you can spend burn
to make it a success if you want, because it's
not doubles. Do you want to do that? You want
to do that?
Speaker 6: I think so this this is a question played it
would burn yet, so burn if you spend burning just
makes it success.
Speaker 9: It just bumps from.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as long as it's as long as it's not
like a mega failure like doubles or a critical fail yep.
And if it is, he can use to burn to
just stop well unless it's one hundred, but if it's doubles,
he can just use to burn to try to stop
the horrible thing from happening.
Speaker 10: But yeah, I guess I will Okay, suck.
Speaker 2: Yep, spend a burn to make that a success. One
hundred percent. As you go back into your mind and
you see this, there has been tampering with this memory?
Uh for who gave you this rumor?
Speaker 10: And I see who actually gave it to me?
Speaker 2: No, you do not, but you don't you know that
it was tampered with one hundred percent.
Speaker 6: Okay, continue to think as you're as you're yanked from
this memory. When I think you realize that you entered
this memory because it's one of the places Dragon goes
to when the torch just gets a bit too much.
So that's why as a straight path from this place
to the torture about experience as you go through centuries
upon centuries of nightmares so real that they might as well.
Speaker 9: Be on leap when.
Speaker 6: It gets bored and might change things up a bit
once it realizes I'm getting used to it, that I'm
filing a path back to my the other place too easily,
they'll change.
Speaker 9: It up again. You experience all of that, and.
Speaker 6: In a split second before physically and mentally you saw
gone shi out.
Speaker 2: O no spare you.
Speaker 8: I have a question?
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely question.
Speaker 10: Yes you said century.
Speaker 2: Yes, I was just about to come in and clarify this.
So he was in there for about two hundred and
some odd years. But time means nothing to this demon,
and I'm sure he just allowed him to experience century's
worth of whatever the demon's been up to in that
amount of time. So you will have experienced either memories
or you know, kind of feelings I when I think
of like what you know, what Ishna would have subjected
him to, would be even moments where he thinks he's
retreated into his safe space and then the safe space,
like a nightmare, suddenly transforms into not that safe space anymore,
because he was in control of it the whole time
he probably lived, you know, let's do TG style. He
lived a whole life as somebody else, I fucking peasant
in medieval and then lost his wife and kids, like
just like fucking horrific stuff that he subjected him to
over the last two hundred years. But it will feel
and it will have worn on him like you know,
a millennia almost, It will feel like, yeah.
Speaker 10: Do I recognize the torture?
Speaker 2: No, I don't think that you do because of that
fifty five doubles. I also think you take two burn
as you come out of it because you didn't want
to spend the two burn to stop the horrible thing
from happening. But it does. It does hurt you, Okay,
all right, Well, I mean other stuff has happened also,
But yeah, I do think you take some burn as
you come out of that. It's years of torture. If
you have a different suggestion. I'm open to it, but
something happening.
Speaker 10: I mean, I'm glad. I'm glad I didn't take the
two burn.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Looks they got something out of this.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I think outside you see very
suddenly imagine how much of a distance between Stoka and
Tregan is that when you did this, and like, physic
lean the fisical world.
Speaker 10: I can't get too close to you because that would
put my back to Laura. So I was probably like
ten feet away.
Speaker 6: I think everyone else suddenly sees me jump up and,
like I said, physically push Stalker and it's in that
motion that I knock you out mentally out of my
head as well.
Speaker 10: Okay, yeah, all yeah, I think I followed aground.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I think I just point at the coffin
where I carved. I would not wish my dreams or
my worst enemy.
Speaker 12: And soccer.
Speaker 10: Yeah, there's no way I'm able to to speak right now.
I just took three burn in one second, So I'm
just like on the ground sort of zed.
Speaker 12: I'll come over to you. Yeah, I'll come over to you. Ah, sy,
I do not think I can do anything for this.
Oh and then I will turn to Dragon and I'll say, oh,
I can heal now, isn't that neat?
Speaker 9: There's a look of.
Speaker 6: Surprise, and then kind of solemn look crosses their face,
and I think, very quietly, since we're not physically connected,
but you hear, almost like a whisper.
Speaker 9: I am sad. I couldn't teach you that to myself.
Speaker 2: Constantine role for me? Please mind difficulty thirtyly.
Speaker 12: Shit balls forty nine, failure, Dude, what are my roles today?
Speaker 2: You vaguely remember seeing like a coat. I don't know
what kind of doctor's coat or anything would be available
around that time, but in the apartment, as he says this,
you kind of go, oh, I vaguely remember seeing that,
or maybe even a doctor's bag.
Speaker 12: Suddenly, my memories of literally being cared for, like being
fed like a typhoid child, like you know, and just
like being cared for by him during that time but
hit me like a sack of bricks, just because it's like, yeah, good, golly, gosh, stalker,
are you all right?
Speaker 11: Come on?
Speaker 10: I think it would be a few minutes, but if
nothing happens in that time, we can skip forward.
Speaker 2: Yeah, does anybody else do or say anything? As them
on korra.
Speaker 11: Move. I am just waiting to hear who has put
you in here.
Speaker 6: They will begin to cove into the lid, and I
think very notably you see them always like this sign
like an like to write a letter and then abandons
it mid rite and like changes that same letters to
something else as they write. Drink some of my blood.
It will allow me to speak to you in your mind.
And they write faster as they look at me.
Speaker 5: Oh, this feels like a trap.
Speaker 7: This.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I like this this.
Speaker 7: M m.
Speaker 5: I look at Cora and then I look back.
Speaker 12: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 4: I do not want to touch this man's blood.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 11: I'll point to the knife.
Speaker 2: Fucking.
Speaker 9: Without even flinching.
Speaker 6: They'll cut a slicense to the palm.
Speaker 12: Walk you do it.
Speaker 11: I'll walk over and I'll very gently take his hand
and I'll just like lick across the wound.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, which does heal it? According to our own
little lore, which means you're gonna have to cut it again,
which I'm sure is what.
Speaker 11: Ston It's not enough blood? Is enough blood?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 18: No?
Speaker 2: I mean I assumed you were vindictively licking it to
lick it closed and not like you know putting your mouth,
you know, like, because now he's going to have to
cut it over again if somebody else need no, no,
if somebody else to do Yeah, that's what I thought.
Yeah yeah he licks it close. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah for sure. So yeah, you get enough, you get plenty.
But if anybody else wants to, he's gonna have to
cut his hand again.
Speaker 11: Still good, you've aged very well.
Speaker 9: I will, buddy too.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, you do not see a reaction come from
them as you very clearly tried to annoy them. You've
seen the visible reaction from them as they they kind
of look down at their hand flex as they see
the flesh. Heel over again and again cut it open
and look to you through many three.
Speaker 12: I'm going to assume that I don't need this personally
because you yeah, yeah, moove soccer and do you make
a move for it.
Speaker 2: I'm also visualizing that as this has been happening, we've
seen some shuffling, you know, where Stalker won't put his
back to Cora, but Esabon is standing somewhat near Cora,
and they're both like, fuck this fucking guy, and Constantine's
close to him and moves like I don't know what
the fuck to do, but I feel like Stalker has
somehow casually positioned himself as if a fight were going
to break out. He's in a position to attack Cora.
He's not standing immediately next to her.
Speaker 10: Not standing anywhere.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well, I mean you fell to your knees,
but I mean like a rig position in the room.
So how about this on the sheet, Let's position ourselves
where we would be, just for for my sake, so
I can see where everybody is, and you should be
able to move your icon as well. Ope did that work?
Are we good?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 2: There you go. You are now the same size and
you are in the room. The alter isn't there obviously,
so just put yourselves where you think that you would be.
Speaker 12: I actually think I'm over by Stalker now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Stalker is probably here, right, so that
he's back, is not the korap? All right? That works.
Speaker 12: To me.
Speaker 2: That doesn't make sense unless you crossed over there, specifically, Stalker,
because you guys entered the room together on the same side.
But if you want to have made a statement like that,
I'm totally fine with that. Yeah, okay, all right, okay, Hey, if.
Speaker 11: No one else wants to. I will just repeat what
he has said to me us.
Speaker 5: Yes, but how would I know that you're telling the
truth if I don't try.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I am wounded, but also constantine. I assume we'll
hear as well.
Speaker 5: Yes, but we're all lying sex of shit if you
think about it in our nature.
Speaker 12: Excuse you to speak for yourself what.
Speaker 5: I would never lie to any of you. I offended
you would even.
Speaker 11: Say that I failed to go on? Then have a sip?
Speaker 9: All right?
Speaker 5: I get up. I was sitting in front of Cora,
and I get up, dust off my black leather pants,
and I guess I haven't gotten this far without taking
a risk or to yeah, who needs to play it safe?
And I woke up.
Speaker 9: I off me my hand.
Speaker 5: So sorry, do you want to cut it?
Speaker 7: Do you?
Speaker 5: I mean, I didn't do it.
Speaker 6: I don't know how this I cut into it?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 5: All right? Yes, I drink.
Speaker 6: And I looked down in my hand, almost expecting it
to also here by see it doesn't.
Speaker 11: I don't look at I'm question, drag, how does your
bood taste? I'm sorry?
Speaker 2: Or how it's a very good question. I will come
in and have anything if I need to about it.
You got it?
Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, this is a weird one, a weird explanation.
I'm going to get to try.
Speaker 9: Have you ever.
Speaker 6: Been okay, this is I'm going to discuss something that
I drag have experienced.
Speaker 9: My family loves cooking spicy food.
Speaker 6: My dad's a cook over the house and he loves
cooking spicy food and it and whenever I come back home,
usually it was back when I was coming back home
from school, I could smell the spice coming through the
door of the kitchen when it's even when it shut,
I could smell the spice of that. When I cut
my hand open, That's what kind of smelled like. And
when you drank it, it was like that door open,
you got a film hit of that like herb or
spicy peppery tastes hit you directly.
Speaker 9: I think because I was listening.
Speaker 6: Cora would have sensed I almost increased, almost like the
door had been opened to let that spell out of
that supernatural energy. Had like sense earlier when they cut
their hand open, it was almost like that door had
been opened. So you can get a much more, much
stronger sense of that power.
Speaker 2: Okay, would also be whatever I guess rotten eggs mixed
in with that, and it would be pretty strong since
that sulphuric smell mixed with his blood. Now probably, like
I mean, I'm not going to say how you would interpret,
but it tastes like power. Lots of it as well,
those of you who you know and this yum yum
yum Howard juice box.
Speaker 12: Okay, we're trying to keep him alive, peep, So you
can't say power from this box with Cora standing right there. Uh, Like,
we all know I want to gun her out, but
we also know that I literally cannot crush people's eyes
and heads, so I'm on two healths.
Speaker 2: So yeah, sorry, Yeah, unless something terrible happens, you know.
Speaker 11: You could get any second.
Speaker 12: Now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, does STALKA or Cora approach?
Speaker 4: I do not, ye know.
Speaker 2: I think Cora stands there completely still, just her eyes
never leaving you. That she doesn't make a move to
go for your hand. Stalker.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think after a minute or so, I like
shake my head clearer, and I don't really know what
is going on in the room, but I see him
holding out a bloody hand and I just got wrecked,
So I kind of stumble my way over. I think,
almost instinctually, there is a hesitation and a look that
he gives Dragon that is like, are you sure.
Speaker 5: Like looking at the permission?
Speaker 6: They look at you, and I think they see how
awful that express must have been going through his mind,
and ted Us.
Speaker 10: Notes, Okay, I brink from him. I sink my teeth in.
I think that he's offering me blood as to sustain me.
I bite into his hand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, try to drink. Yep. Absolutely, I'm just as
asking a question real quick. Okay, yep, you are actually healed.
You can flush your burn his bloody, all of it. Yep,
you can flush all.
Speaker 5: Of your Dude, this guy is stacked.
Speaker 2: Yeah you can, and he does let you. He does
let you drink until you feel better.
Speaker 10: Okay, Yeah, I.
Speaker 13: Like, I believe he's being truthful. Oh, some of what
happened to him remains a mystery to me.
Speaker 8: Yes, and do it much.
Speaker 9: They will tear part of their.
Speaker 6: Shirt and wrap the bag in hand, and in all
four of your minds, but not Chor's. You hear Dragon's
voice is this and he's very quiet at first?
Speaker 9: What do you hear? Can you hear me?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 19: I say, Okay, I don't think church by the way,
Oh never mind.
Speaker 11: Then, so you couldn't hear me? Okay, yes, nice, we
can hear you dragon, thank you.
Speaker 2: So so I'm clear nobody is speaking out loud? Correct?
Or is somebody speaking out loud?
Speaker 7: For Kora?
Speaker 2: You are okay? Yepay, please continue.
Speaker 6: Like I had said, my goal was to trap the demon.
Speaker 9: We were going to use.
Speaker 6: A different method, but then you, as the bond, took
my tongue so made me better than plan A, and
I volunteered. I will say that to trap the demon.
Speaker 7: Better.
Speaker 9: The plan was for me to be in.
Speaker 6: I think the word is torpoor, but it kept me
more conscious than planned.
Speaker 9: So I experienced all of that.
Speaker 10: And then so are we like all can I did
together now? Or is it just one way?
Speaker 2: Like, well, that's up to you actually direct? Are you
kind of just letting it'll be open?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I think as as I'm connecting, as long as I'm talking,
I think it's like all in the same world.
Speaker 2: It's a group call. He can make it not call,
but he's choosing to make it.
Speaker 7: Agree.
Speaker 12: You can private DM yeah, exactly.
Speaker 8: Cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's for corene.
Speaker 11: It's like one of those party chat lines. Yeah, Sven
wrong about it or right, something like that.
Speaker 10: You add you could you press that and then there's
a dial tone and then you call somebody else, Yeah,
and then you back together.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I just want to point out we didn't leave her
out on We didn't leave her out Okay, she didn't
pick up the phone.
Speaker 10: We called and she just we called and she answer
ring machine in nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 4: I'm I'm busy on the other line right now.
Speaker 2: Yep ya. What we'll do is we'll give you guys
a moment and then we'll give Kora a moment with
her line. It's happening at the same time for those listening, though.
Speaker 10: I would say I can verify.
Speaker 13: That he's being honest about this. Though I do not
know why you were placed inside of a coffin in
a room with other coffins that held my companions for
so long.
Speaker 9: Did I? I?
Speaker 6: That happened after I was I was pinning the coffin
and everyone else's put up, so.
Speaker 2: Gonna went in first, if your recall, and that was
a messy situation, and then the only person that went
in after through you. Yeah, that's right. Everything else happened
after you and was not at all expected on your part.
You were not assuming that this would happen. You were
not informed that this would happen. You had no idea.
Speaker 6: Okay, the plan was to put me in Torpa with
the demon within me. Now, with my tongue missing, I
was no I was a useless vessel. I couldnot speak
to cast spells. If the demon were to take over
and with me and torpor and I'll be able to
use my hands to act.
Speaker 9: Them out either.
Speaker 6: The coffin was because if I was killed outright, the
demon would not die with me. So I was stored
away until even here names have power. But my companions
figure out a way to deal with the demon and ideally.
Speaker 9: Keep me safe in the process.
Speaker 6: But I let it be known that if it had
to be both of us, I would accept.
Speaker 5: Oh, yes, I have a question. I raised my hand
and I'm saying this all out loud.
Speaker 6: They kind of like start a little bit at the
loudness of you speaking out loud, and they turned to
you in the same telepathically.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So if the plan was to like your your tongue
so you can't do any spells, and then you because
then you can't you know, use your hands or anything,
and the demon couldn't control you. But you don't want
to kill the demon? Why don't you want to just
get rid of him?
Speaker 6: We were attempting to. All we could do is hold
it back for a while.
Speaker 9: I was the.
Speaker 6: What's the word? I was postponing the I was holding
it back until we figured something.
Speaker 5: Out, a delay tactic. Smart. You are way too smart
for me. I couldn't think of that at all.
Speaker 13: And why what did this demon do?
Speaker 6: Thankfully nothing? It's what the demon will.
Speaker 2: Do is ly true? So that you know if you're
willfully lying, that's fine, I'm sure. Well I guess I
don't know if you know or not, because he could
just be lying to you, and he probably would lie
to you. But he probably showed you a myriad of
things accolades that he did, like oh, I'm responsible for
the death of this king and I'm that massacre was
all me and ha ha ha. So yeah, there's probably
a bunch of shit that he showed you that you
can decide if it's true or not. And Stalker, you
probably saw some of it too, right, But I don't
know if either of you can discern what was truth
and what was lie. But he probably claimed a lot.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 10: I don't know. Do I know that that was a
demon that was showing me that stuff? Well, she told me,
I didn't know who did this torture to him.
Speaker 2: Well, you said, do I recognize it? And I said, no,
you don't recognize the demon. But he did say he
was possessed and tortured by a demon. So I would
assume that you wouldn't know that this was coming from
a demon. But yeah, okay, so yeah, he probably showed
a myriad of things, so I think, but it's totally
fair if you want to be like, I don't know
if any of that was fucking real or just an acid.
Speaker 9: Jock actually say that, I don't think.
Speaker 6: I just didn't realize that. It's a combination of what
he has done and most likely will do if it
continues to be out there free to Rome, And I
think I just tell some of the things I was
shown by.
Speaker 2: I think just for us, for all of us as
well in the audience, Like there is a shot of
a fucking cabin in the future, you know, because time
doesn't mean anything to him. So we get that, we
get that, nod okay, and then it goes back to
the other ship that he showed you.
Speaker 11: And then why are we here? If this is all
about ending this demon.
Speaker 9: That I do not know?
Speaker 11: Then why was Gunner here before I even knew your name,
before I was even born.
Speaker 6: Gunna was the part of the initial plan. The planet
was the trap the demon.
Speaker 11: So all of this they had the demon trapped already,
Gunner for some reason, who had been there for hundreds
of years, for many centuries. Whoops, we found somebody better,
But we're going to keep him in here. And then,
you know what, maybe we'll grab a bunch of other
people as well, all to get rid of a demon
that was already trapped.
Speaker 6: All of you happened after I was placed in a coffin.
Speaker 11: So did they lie to you? Your companions?
Speaker 9: That's what I can only guess?
Speaker 11: Well, who are they?
Speaker 9: Can I give?
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm, Yes, you will have to understanding.
Speaker 11: Just have to think it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I just try to think, can I I'm aware
the power of names?
Speaker 11: Yes?
Speaker 6: If I give one of their past names, do I understanding?
Speaker 9: With my understanding? Do I know that has less power?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? Absolutely? Okay, and more recent the name the better.
Speaker 6: Okay, I'll say, I am not sure how knowledgeable you
are when it comes to the power names and titles have.
So for that reason, I will not give their current name.
There's too much at risk if I do, even while
communicating in this medium, and then give you one of
their past names, and I think, on you know, one
of me.
Speaker 2: I'm on it. I'm on it, sir. Please hold I
have I have them both. Well, I was about to
be like you, but let's not do that. How about
I just screenshot both of them? Yeah, hold the line,
hold the line. Wait, wait, wait, wait, I'm assuming I
gave you not this one. Can you confirm?
Speaker 9: Yes, I can confirm.
Speaker 2: Okay, awesome, I'm so glad I did this. Remember when
I was like, this is domb I'm never gonna need this.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, make sure.
Speaker 9: Dawn this guy ready already did I names?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say, I also have hers. I
give you the full one, the full Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
all right, all.
Speaker 6: Right, I think there because I think they have much
more variation in the name. Someone like Okay, that's bad,
but this guy dangers throughout.
Speaker 2: This one would be and this is going to cause
some some problems.
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, okay, that's the current one.
Speaker 9: That's the current.
Speaker 2: Uh no, the very last one on that page for
you is the current one. But this is one that you.
Speaker 6: Can okay, okay, so really that's actually different.
Speaker 9: Than not okay?
Speaker 7: Cool?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, I don't grab any other one.
Speaker 11: There go.
Speaker 6: Edward and Anna.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry. So here, here's what's going to happen. I
say out loud that means absolutely nothing to me, but mentally,
mm hmm, I say, I'm sorry. Did you say.
Speaker 2: Edward betraying Cora?
Speaker 5: Let's god?
Speaker 9: Yes, do you recognize the name?
Speaker 5: I do? However, that is a common name, isn't it suppose?
Speaker 6: So do I have this is mentalk about? What do
I have a surname? To boil that down?
Speaker 2: Is it just to anyone on that list? Anyone on
the list?
Speaker 9: You can any one of those Yep.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. However, I would also like to say, if you
would like to recall their appearance right now, you can
do that as well, And I can just drop the
photos of them in here.
Speaker 6: Yeah I don't, I just I just you can just choose.
Speaker 2: You can just recall it. Yep, you've alread She's okay.
Speaker 12: Literally be so funny if she's like I just post
a screenshot of me with my little beard.
Speaker 2: That is the first one. Oh and the next one
who he hasn't named yet. I'll drop when he drops.
Speaker 9: The name, Oh, I said.
Speaker 2: Oh right, okay Anna for a second, Yeah, yep, Okay,
there you go. So some of you who experienced Gunner's
vision would recognize one of these individuals.
Speaker 11: Haven't I seen the first one in somebody else's memory
as well?
Speaker 2: Yes, you have chorus?
Speaker 11: Yes? Or of these?
Speaker 7: Do we?
Speaker 11: Either of these have any lother of these? Anna or
Edward have red eyes?
Speaker 5: Oh? You know what? I don't think I know the
color of Edward's eyes because his general being has always
put me on edge. I don't much care for him.
Oh well a.
Speaker 10: Bit, But the hippie archaeology professor look was not good
for you. O.
Speaker 5: Well, no, actually he doesn't know any hawkish. If you
went back and listened to the original ten to eleven
episodes that would not broadcasted live, you would know that
you I mean, I had an aversion to Edward because
the visionary acted differently when he was around his mentor,
and Moog didn't care for it. I did not care
for it.
Speaker 10: I'll never make a joke around you again.
Speaker 5: He got nasty. Well, I will you to the B team.
Speaker 11: Strongest ability pause on this.
Speaker 2: Public conversation and we're going to move to Kora for
a minute. You will feel Ihna's surface a bit, as
he's clearly distracted. If you want to talk to him,
you may, and then we'll continue with your guys conversation,
but they're happening at the same time, just so everybody's aware.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and move. Did you relay all of that to me?
Speaker 5: I relayed everything except when he mentioned Edward, and then
I I was saying, I think, I said that doesn't
mean anything to me. That name is nothing.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry Edward.
Speaker 5: And then when I said I'm sorry to say Edward,
that was.
Speaker 12: Mentally okay.
Speaker 4: So I don't here, I don't know Edward Oriana. Okay.
Then yeah, while this is going on and I'm listening
to whatever, moove relais. If I feel Isshna rise to
the surface again, I will mentally ask him. You said
not to let him know.
Speaker 2: That I have you.
Speaker 18: Why he will try to take your tongue and trap
you and me with you.
Speaker 7: He will not let you walk out of here alive,
or he will try.
Speaker 2: And I think and you feel your eyes darting around
the room as he moves them for you.
Speaker 7: I think I know who will side with us.
Speaker 2: Who his eyes flicked to, Esteban and Moog nobody else.
Speaker 4: I agree. I think you're right.
Speaker 7: All he cares about is trapping me, no matter the cost.
Speaker 4: And all I care about if I is finding who
is behind this something that he either does not know
or does not care about.
Speaker 7: Oh, he knows.
Speaker 5: There working with him when I was trapped, and.
Speaker 2: He'll bring the memory of when they tricked him to
the surface of his mind. And now you will see
two individuals as well, the same too, the same too,
that's correct, Which one you absolutely recognize as the man
who was revealed to you most recently from your memory.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you chose to kind of forget
what he looked like for your own protection or not.
But I have to think right now, if Ishna would
would try to protect you from this, I don't think
he would actually, I think he would just let it surface.
He's not going to soften it at all. So if
this is a moment where you're like, holy shit, then
it happens. Now, let what surface the recognition that this
is the man who attacked you because you kind of fire. Yeah,
you had that realization for a moment, and then you
kind of we clouded it a bit for your own
protection afterward. But yeah, right, so that would surface at
least this is the man that you saw when you
kind of went back and walk. Someone was in your
mind and saw this and we decided that you kind
of didn't for your protection, but it would probably if
you want it to surface now you may, but this
is the red eyed individual you would recognize.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, that that part is still a little hazy.
I remember us going over that. Yeah, but I would
in this moment recognize the man, yeah, as my sire,
and also the one that I saw later, Yes, in
that vision that I had recently.
Speaker 2: Where you were at the park and somebody was watching you, right, yeah, yeah,
that's one. Yep, that's the one. And to be clear,
even though he could have pulled this to the top
of your mind and made you experience it, he did not.
So if this is just something Kora was recalling, then fine,
but he didn't do it on purpose to you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 18: Okay, a men, ands.
Speaker 4: Are those their names?
Speaker 7: That is correct? At least that was what was in
his mind when I took it.
Speaker 2: Is he still mhmm?
Speaker 4: Is he still aligned with them? Or is he a pon?
Speaker 7: My bet would be he is. They robbed his mind,
so I would not know.
Speaker 4: Aligned, but willing to put himself in a coffin for
over two hundred years. I think at this point I
would address the group aloud.
Speaker 2: As you get ready to address the group alowed. He
feels that and immediately retreats back in.
Speaker 4: Okay, So I'm sorry. If what we're hearing you say
is the case. You were working with the people who
put us, put them in these coffins, who drew myself
and Sandman here into the plot. You say it's all
for a demail or something. But to me, if you're
trying to stop the demon, why did they not just
kill you when it was in the coffin with you?
If that was the mission, if that was the end
goal to prevent the demon from doing something in the future,
then why let it live?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but I do think you here feel the
faintest flicker of like disgust, And how dare you suggest
that I could die so easily just for a moment,
like in the bottom of your belly.
Speaker 6: I think, uh, for cinematic reasons, exactly as that flicker
comes up.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I say in.
Speaker 6: I think specifically, I think Storker's mind. Well, I say
to everyone, but I think it's almost like I'm besides
Stalker mentally as I say this and just go, can
you tell her that killing me with it in me
would not have killed it?
Speaker 13: The demon is not so easy to dispose of.
Speaker 10: I believe they knew that.
Speaker 5: That means that if they if they killed him, well
he was they were inside, they wouldn't have done anything.
And send us an ease.
Speaker 4: Yes, thank you, mooke, You're welcome.
Speaker 5: I mere to help.
Speaker 4: The more we learn about this, the more all of
this chest seems like building blocks to some strange end.
We were gathered here, some forcibly by being put in coffins,
others through rumors that drew us here. And even the
demon you conjured him, app to him in your body
when it was revealed it was better than Gunner's, and
yet Gunner was still a victim as well. The more
I hear, the more I think this is all leading
up to some grand plan where we are ingredients of
some kind.
Speaker 2: Flicker of pride in your bility.
Speaker 6: Now they mentally we all feel to gone starres if
they're about to say something telepathically, as if to again
play this game with telephone, but instead they walk over
to the coffin, to the coffin lid and go back
to carving for the acsibility of.
Speaker 9: Cora and will cove. I will admit gotta. They paused
for a moment.
Speaker 6: I was part of that plan, Like I said, they
were the initial vessel. Beyond that, whatever happened after I
was putting that coffin, I do not sna.
Speaker 4: Then when Gunner was put in the coffin, what was
the plan? He was the vessel. What were the other parts?
Speaker 9: The same as what happened to me?
Speaker 6: The plan was to eventually cut his tongue out, trick
the demon inside, trap it. And they're right, I delayed tactic.
As they look to Moog.
Speaker 4: I grin like humor, humorlessly. And why are we here?
Speaker 9: I do not know why?
Speaker 11: These other rooms, the tests, the gods? Do you know
this place?
Speaker 6: Yes, the tests, the trials to stop people from getting
to me as I hold the demon.
Speaker 11: So you give them an opportunity to make it. It
is better to put yourself in a vault than to
give people a test to see if they are powerful
enough to make it to the place where the precious
cargo is held.
Speaker 5: Is it not?
Speaker 6: My initial companions still need to check up on me
every so often.
Speaker 11: We left here at need to exist. We left here
with no problem. There is a way in an out
without the trials.
Speaker 12: Why not possible that he doesn't know about that?
Speaker 11: I have not The trials are here.
Speaker 12: Yes, he knows the trials are here. But if he
was back betrayed by his partners, they could have put
other doors in.
Speaker 4: And I told him he went willingly, Cornstantine.
Speaker 12: Yes, he went willingly to trap a demon.
Speaker 4: He went many to trap Gunner, to torture Gunner.
Speaker 13: Why not release Gunner when your tongue was removed and
you decided to take his place? Why keep him here?
Speaker 6: We had already prepared him in case Vessel one failedssel
would do.
Speaker 12: It sounds to me like this, Demil. I am looking
off into the distance.
Speaker 2: Oh, I thought you were gonna say, I started.
Speaker 12: Through Klora that I very deliberately. I am not looking
at Cora, but I am speaking loudly. It sounds to
me like this demon is something one shouldn't have ever.
It sounds to me it should be trapped.
Speaker 4: You know what it sounds like to me?
Speaker 12: M M tell me, Cora, what does it sound like
to you? Now?
Speaker 2: It sounds like.
Speaker 4: They were looking at the demon the same way they
were looking at and I glanced at Moog. The rest
of them a battery to be used, to be drained,
an ingredient to some dark spell, to some unknown end
that benefits them, and leave us all broken.
Speaker 12: You know, just as you say that now, that makes
so much sense. They got exactly what they wanted, did
they not.
Speaker 7: That?
Speaker 12: Oh, Cora, you have no idea, just as I don't,
just as he doesn't. None of us do. I'm very
sorry to tell you, but they have the jump on us.
And you can sit here all day long being mad
at him, a man locked in a coffin, just as I,
just as you well, just as us. But if you
really think it stops and ends and starts with him, goodness, girl,
maybe you are just a beast.
Speaker 4: I think it's I do not recognize you, and I
do not recognize you. You are You are like all
of us, Constantine, your sire has hurt you. You've been
betraying us, not.
Speaker 12: No, I have not.
Speaker 11: Well, then I am sure he would be happy to
join us in ending his former companions exactly, wouldn't you
look what they did to your child? They have been
trade you. I'm sure it was one of them who
made me think you were my sire, which led to
you being attacked. That is why I came for you.
Perhaps if I had not taken your tongue, you would
have been able to convince me otherwise. So tell me,
are you with them or are you with us?
Speaker 6: Epathically, they say, I am with you.
Speaker 12: You.
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