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Speaker 4: A logit of fight from Shade ho loget of fact
from me.
Speaker 5: That you say, stand up for the thing which you
can't stand. A loud.
Speaker 6: Let's Devocha and Deathless, a familiar face from Constantine's most
recent past, arrives. But are they puppeted by whom a
strange woman we assume, trying to offer us a deal
or rather a test. We begin a fight, but Gunner
runs away to get help, returning back to the apartment.
He's the second of our group to meet Moog. What
will happen when the rest of us do or will
we even survive this encounter?
Speaker 7: So sorry you, I don't want to interrupt, but you do.
Forget a couple of details there. I got choked again.
It's very very traumatic for me. Also, Stalker fucked something
up per usual. What's this week? Three four in a row?
So we're going into a trap potentially or something is
going to bite our heads off. But yes, yes, you said,
will we win the fight?
Speaker 8: Just to be clear, I did not forget the part
about you being choked. I just thought it was irrelevant.
But yes, we can continue.
Speaker 7: Oh I see what kind of love you are forgetting
the details.
Speaker 8: All right, you do not know love, darling?
Speaker 7: Oh is that a novel?
Speaker 6: We could do this all day?
Speaker 9: Let's move on, not next time?
Speaker 3: Oh god, it's perfect, It's perfect. Okay, that is a
great place to start. Well, somebody roll me a one
D two please.
Speaker 6: I can do it perfect Varnich's why two?
Speaker 3: Then we're going to begin in the alleyway.
Speaker 5: Soon?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, do you remember exactly where you were, the
two of you? Y yep, go ahead.
Speaker 6: I had just leapt back from her and her spidery web,
and I think I think I had just said something
about if I can heal, I can do harm, and
right now I'm trying to harm her. But my last
role was not good, So that's right.
Speaker 3: I remember that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, And I had defended from her mental attack temp
to take me over twice. Yes, I rolled. They're fourteen
on the last one. I think that was the last thing.
Speaker 3: Okay, so she is, But I also think you had
her trapped, correct.
Speaker 9: I had her with I have tentacles that previously I
have tentacles now shadow tentacles. They had pinned her down,
but I pulled them off because I was They're like
coming back that whatever the shadow is that I have,
is trying to get it out of my head.
Speaker 3: Okay, perfect, because is kind.
Speaker 9: Of frantic, as someone pointed out last time.
Speaker 3: Right, Okay, So then her body is sort of slumped
but still standing. Her limbs are loose, her head is
wrenched back at an impossible angle. Right, you've disco Yeah, okay,
her mouth gapes, her lips are cracked, soundless scream, frozen
in place, and I believe it's her move. So I'm
going to go first.
Speaker 9: Yes, So is her turn on her turn? Or is
it my turn or her turn? I defend from it
because that was the last thing.
Speaker 3: That happened, Is that you turn?
Speaker 5: Ye?
Speaker 9: Okay? Do I have to defend on my turn or
it's hers?
Speaker 10: Right?
Speaker 3: No, it's on her turn that you defend.
Speaker 9: Okay, Now make a move. I want to. I want
to try to cut off. See, I don't know how
she works, and I know I wonder if she's in there.
I want to try to cut off what she's doing
by putting this disability where I covered the hand around
myself to try to block anything out.
Speaker 3: And didn't you also do that once before? Or have
you only done it the hand.
Speaker 9: Did with the hand, and I did it in when
we had the fight with the skelter fiend.
Speaker 3: That's right, that's right, Okay, I did it on a gunner. Okay,
So you'll have a ten shift on this then.
Speaker 9: Okay, So we're going to make it so it makes
it fifty well, because this is.
Speaker 3: For you to use an ability, so I would have
said this is thirty, right, okay, so we'll make it
forty all right as your target difficulty for this, all right.
Speaker 9: Because it's not against her, this is just doing it right.
Speaker 5: Right right, yep? Okay, and good luck?
Speaker 7: Hey, thanks.
Speaker 9: I'm sure my roles will always be good and they're
not going to go bite me in the ass at all.
Ye forty six failure.
Speaker 3: Okay, we can make that a win since it's so close,
if you'll give me something in return?
Speaker 9: Am I agreeing to this blindly?
Speaker 3: Mm hmm? Always.
Speaker 9: I would very much like for this to work, and
I feel like in the moment, I would probably do
whatever I could to stop this from happening and losing
control of my will.
Speaker 3: Perfect. Okay, then why don't you go ahead and describe
what happens is you succeed at doing this, or at
least what it looks like from our side watching estebon.
Speaker 9: So you know, I just the feeling I described was
it felt like like spiders crawling around in my skull,
like looking for purchase, like looking to kind of put
a web around it or whatever it perceived. It's her
trying to take control of me.
Speaker 5: M hm.
Speaker 9: So I think I'm frantic, and I'm like reaching at
my head and this shadow has pulled off of her,
and these tentacles are now just moving around like you
see them, like going in my eyes and coming out
my ears. It's just trying everything I can to try
to stop this what's going on, Like it's panicked, it's frantic,
and I've been fighting it for a couple of times,
and I start to regain some composure and just kind
of this memory of other times where I wasn't sure
what was going on. I was afraid I was going
to lose myself, where I was really like genuinely afraid
that something was going to happen. I didn't want to
and it's just this moment of learning to like slow
down and not panic, make sure both your feet are planted,
and then it's all about focus and kind of for
the moment you know this thing is happening, but not
focusing on it, focusing on what you have to do
to stop it. And as I do that, all of
this shadow thing that's swirling around kind of just slows
down and stops. And then wherever it stops, it just
kind of spreads out and connects all around me until
it's just one big, black, Esteban shaped void.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, you're encasing yourself. Yes, I thought you were
encasing her. My apologies.
Speaker 9: Okay, oh yeah, that was another thought. But I'm stopping this.
I'm thinking about stopping this. That was my next move.
Speaker 3: That works, That works.
Speaker 9: Just to be clear, when I do that next, I
had thought of it already.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, sorry, it seems like that's trying to do. Okay,
so you are then you are encased in this shroud
of darkness, Constantine, what do you do? It's your turn?
Speaker 6: Okay, I'm trying to figure out how far I am
from her?
Speaker 8: Probably not so far.
Speaker 6: I I still there's something about I rolled poorly on
the last turn. Can I ask you a question always?
I know that we don't often want to like reroll
for the same thing, right, but in combat, can we.
Speaker 3: If it's a new turn and you want to spend
a new turn doing anything, absolutely, Oh, you can spend
your turn however you like, because otherwise it would be
like I try to attack and I fail, and so
then I'm not letting you roll to attack again. And
that doesn't make any sense. Yeah, It's more like when
you roll to do a thing and then the dice
say no, and then you go, well, I just try
again and again and again and again, and that's that's
not what I like to do. So but this.
Speaker 6: Doesn't count, okay, because I would like to try to
harm again with the same Okay, but it didn't work
last time, so let me think this through. It didn't
work last time, but I did learn that emotional resonance
is an important part of it, and that I'm like
on the right path in terms of how I'm thinking
about this, And I think maybe the reason why it
failed is because I'm still looking at the body of
someone who I hurt and I feel like remorse about
because she's still occupying that body.
Speaker 3: Okay, so I am totally totally fine to do that. Yeah,
so this is not me correcting you at all. Oh,
you need to tell me how your your character feels.
But if I remember you had switched from remorse to anger, yes.
Speaker 6: That is correct.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, yeah, yeah, just yep, yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that is that is right. Okay. So maybe it's
that there's like a lingering remorse there and now that
I know that the resonance about the anger, I'm trying
to explain the last failure. I would like to double
down on the rage and strangely allow myself to feel
it fully instead of trying to keep control over it.
Speaker 3: Wow, instead of.
Speaker 6: Trying to keep control over the emotions that I have,
trying to release it even just ten percent, to like
tap into that actual anger that I think, in my opinion,
all vampires are very emotional beings and they feel keenly
and I think.
Speaker 3: Humans dialed up to yes eleven in every sense of yeah.
Speaker 6: And I think that Constantine has on a lot of
control to maintain a certain aspect of yes.
Speaker 3: And you have bonuses disappearance. Yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 6: I think I'd like to let the tap loose a
little bit, let it run.
Speaker 3: Okay, Now we did mention this last time, but for
those who missed it, you have uncovered something very important
in the realm of other world and how magic works,
and that is that emotional resonance matters, and using your
emotion can sometimes give you more power but have great effect.
So we're going to find out what happens here as
you kind of just let the rage flow through you.
All right, go ahead and make a role. So what
you're trying, Yeah, exactly, do it? Thank you. So you're
trying to.
Speaker 6: Attack, correct, Yeah, I want to like the way that
I would heal, the way that I think about healing
is like restoring, So I want to I want to remove,
like I want to suck the life from like energy,
like you know. Does that make any sense?
Speaker 3: Yes, it does, I want to Okay, yeah, okay, So
I guess my my initial thought was, and this is
more just an exploration of your magic, whether it's like
healing or or decay, and that's kind of my My
question was, is it that you are speeding up time
in some sort of way in which they are decaying
or are you robbed? Are you like like a vampire
sucking the life?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's I think it's more about like
rotting the flesh less about time.
Speaker 3: Okay. So it's.
Speaker 6: Like, obviously we know that time is what would make
that happen, so of course it makes sense that I
would have like time power, but I don't think of
it that way.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking like it doesn't need to So I guess
my question for you is are you stealing or inflicting?
Because I feel like those are two different ways.
Speaker 6: I'm inflicting, Yeah, yeah, I'm inflicting.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, So you have no intention of like gaining
from this, You're just causing No.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm causing harm.
Speaker 3: Yeah all right, perfect, all right, go ahead and make
your role. It is a forty, but I am going
to give you. I am going to give you a
five shift on this because you're just doing your anger
for the first time. If you had done this before,
I may give you a ten shift, but for now,
it's going to be five.
Speaker 6: Okay, So that would make the difficulty thirty five. Difficulty
is forty five forty five forty five because for her
it's forty when you're attacking her.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, dude.
Speaker 9: Okay, it wasn't a ninety something.
Speaker 6: Yeah, at least true, it was not a ninety.
Speaker 3: I will offer you the same thing I offered Esteban. Ooh,
we can let this. You can make this a success
if you'd like, if I get something in trade.
Speaker 5: She got a fifty for those of you listening.
Speaker 3: Yeah, close. So it's the same thing with Esteban. Close
enough that I can offer you a trade disease everything.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think part of yeah, I think part of the
like emotional breakdown here is that I'm not paying attention
to the consequences in the way that I might if
I was in full control. So yeah, I'm willing to
do that.
Speaker 3: All right, So why don't you describe what we see?
What do you do to her? This body?
Speaker 6: Okay? Anyway, Yeah, you know those uh you know those
sped up decomposing videos where it's like time laps of decomposing.
It's that it's that on the body until ideally there's
nothing left but like soil residue or something, you know,
like dust.
Speaker 3: So this will do damage, but it's not an auto kill.
So that's wonderful. What do we see on Constantine's face
as this is happening. I want to know what you
look like as you're doing this.
Speaker 6: I'm relishing it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Okay, are you making eye contact with this
body as you do this?
Speaker 6: I think i'd have to.
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Why do you say you'd have to? Because you
think your power needs to be on a fixation point?
Speaker 6: Yes, And I also think it needs to There needs
to be vulnerability there. So if I'm harming, yeah, it
needs to be personal.
Speaker 3: So if I'm.
Speaker 6: Harming, I'm making the commitment to do so to their face.
Speaker 3: Okay. Her body jerks once and twice. Her fingers are twitching,
her jaw clenching, even though it's stuck wide open. It's
almost like something inside is resisting a pull and a
tug from outside forces being you. A breath hisses out,
and there's a sickening snap as the tension breaks and
her body begins to decay, and we see Constantine with
a giant smirk on his face as he is enjoying
relishing in what he is doing to this body that
he just apologized to moments earlier. She's still up, however,
and now it is her tr u roll me a
one D two one of you.
Speaker 6: Y I did it last time, so you should do it, yesterdam.
Speaker 8: No, uh.
Speaker 3: Okay ah, rule defense for me, Constantine forty. Actually I'm
calling in my thing right now. Okay, that'll be what
did I shift yours to five? You rule five fifty?
Then your difficulty is now thirty five instead of forty. Okay,
just so everyone knows what I was doing there.
Speaker 6: Fifty five failure doubles. Okay, I don't like this sound.
Speaker 3: She is going to snap back up after you've done this.
She's in a beginning state of decay with you. But
she's also grinning as well. Now, even though her jaw
is broken open. It's this grotesque, wide half smile. Only
half of her face is working, it seems. But she
makes eye contact with you too. It's very personal, and
she's going to try to possess you and enter you.
And she has succeeded on two roles now because you
ruled double failure here, so she only needs one more
to possess you. Why don't you go ahead and describe
what this feels like to Constantine, this invasion.
Speaker 6: It feels extremely physical. It doesn't feel like it's in
my mind. It feels like there might be something trying
to crawl under my skin, in my guts. There's something
alive moving within my like against my organs, like shifting
me around.
Speaker 3: And how does Constantine react to that?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I collapse to my knees and like grip my
body and I'm suddenly extremely out of breath, like I
can't breathe.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's the bond. It is your turn.
Speaker 9: Well, I've had this brilliant idea to use this ability
on her.
Speaker 3: Brilliant idea.
Speaker 9: It's a brilliant idea. Really, Yeah, I mean I guess
there are there some I'm sorry, there's like physical signs
that this is happening.
Speaker 3: To I mean, Constantine has just dropped to his knees
and is clutching his body.
Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, yeah, and also the head, well the back
of his head, wherever the head may be directed. And okay,
I'm aware. Yeah, I'm going to try to slip this
abystal body suit off myself and over around this corpse
and hopefully cut off the Wi Fi signal.
Speaker 3: Okay, go ahead and make a role for me, and
I'm calling in the uh I'm calling.
Speaker 9: Also, I think I would say, you know, truly all
we wanted to do was talk and find out information
about where we are. I did not have to come
to this, but perhaps we will have a chance to
talk another day.
Speaker 3: I'm calling in my role now, so you're gonna go
for it thirty five as well.
Speaker 11: For this, this.
Speaker 3: Is technically an attack on her, but also it's moving
your power. It's using your power again. So we're going
to do that thirty five instead of forty.
Speaker 9: Okay, gotcha, fifty two.
Speaker 3: So I was thinking to myself, like, please roll a
fifty five. That would be insane. Obviously I don't want that,
but also how crazy would that be? Okay? So what happens?
Do you think? Why can't you think? Remember, it doesn't seek.
Speaker 9: I make myself to go to do it, and like
I've like I say that, and I'm with the intent
that is going to cover up and we're going to
be out of there, and I think it just doesn't
This thing doesn't want to move. It just wants It's like, uh,
I get the sense it's like, oh no, no, you're
safe now, So I'm not I'm going to stay here.
Speaker 3: Do you think Esteban fears for his life right now?
Speaker 9: He doesn't fear for his life, not at this moment,
but he he fears that she was going to take
over his mind. Yeah that's the bigger fear.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, so, but I mean he feels like, you know,
like deep down he maybe doesn't want it to go,
and so that's why it does for sure.
Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, or something doesn't want it to go.
Speaker 3: Sure, Okay, Constantine, it is your turn.
Speaker 6: Okay, I would like to fight this uh force that
is trying to enter me.
Speaker 3: How would you like to do that?
Speaker 6: I would like to revoke consent.
Speaker 3: Okay. What does this ability look like or how does
it manifest as you do this? Hmmm?
Speaker 6: I think this would fit into I think this ability
might fit into the control ability that I got last week. Maybe,
like I'm trying to find a way to not have
like a thousand different abilities or anything, you know, and
try to stack them together in a way that makes sense.
Speaker 3: I mean, the dice will do that for you naturally,
because the more you use one ability, the stronger that
ability gets, and the more you kind of try to
dilute yourself, the harder it will be for you. So
do whatever you like, essentially, is what I was saying
in The dice will decide for us what sticks around
and what doesn't.
Speaker 6: You'll have to forgive me for taking a really long
time with these turns because I'm still trying to figure
out like what Constantine's powers are, and like what are
the limits and things that I can do?
Speaker 3: So and so is Constantine. So you're a new world
where your power feels very different. So yeah, experimentation is
totally fine. It's the point.
Speaker 6: Because honestly, it's just very basic. It's just like no, yeah,
get out at me, yep, Okay, I don't.
Speaker 3: It's a rejection of her presence. So okay, so we're
going to go ahead and rule. If you succeed, then
what will happen is you will get a shift on
your defense in the next role. Okay yep. So basically
you're using your turn to defend.
Speaker 6: Okay on your next role. Cool, and it's forty yeah yeah, okay,
twenty six.
Speaker 3: Other worldly success perfect. Okay, So you are going to
get kind of the max shift because it's another worldly success,
which is fifteen on your next roll, yep, okay, which
brings it back around to my turn. So please roll
to defend dear Constantine with your fifteen shift.
Speaker 8: So fifty five, fifty five.
Speaker 6: It's interesting that I rolled a fifty five, uh huh.
Speaker 3: And then anyway, very interesting indeed, forty two right success,
she does try to take this moment to cease control
of you and take advantage of the fact that she
has mechanically speaking, she's done two out of the three
that she needed to be able to you know, possess
you or to enter into you. And so she's making
a kill shot sort of essentially here as she goes
in and so Esteban, you may notice that there is
a moment of weakness here that you see an opening
as she goes you know, as she is completely using
all of her focus right now to try to make
this you know, this takeover on Constantine and is unable
to do. So, why Constantine do you simply neo matrix?
Speaker 5: Know?
Speaker 3: What does this look like?
Speaker 6: I don't want a neo matrix, No, but I feel
like that's.
Speaker 3: Why that's one of the coolest things that's ever happened.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it'll literally just because it feels so op. I
feel so op to be able to do that. So
I think there's like this part of me that doesn't
want to. Yeah, it feels like it's OP.
Speaker 3: But I can't think of any We'll unpack that another day.
You can just say no, it's not OP.
Speaker 1: You just be like no, okay, well let's be Neo
in the matrix?
Speaker 3: Was opie?
Speaker 6: Okay? Fine, I say no and I'm just like mm hmm. Yeah,
it's like a wall, like she just tries.
Speaker 9: To someone who consents.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is powerful word. Yeah, yeah, yeah, jokes aside.
I think it's the most fitting for you to just
say no and then you barred entry.
Speaker 9: If it helps. If you say it in German, it
sounds way more powerful.
Speaker 11: Nine.
Speaker 3: Perfect. So we see Constantine clutching his chest, probably with
his left hand up near kind of maybe his collarbone,
and the other hand is clutching his side on his knees,
breathing heavily, and then suddenly he stills and whispers nine,
and then tension releases from his body and Constantine gasping.
If you look up at her, you too will notice
the moment of weakness. However, that translates to Constantine she
she's vulnerable right now because she was trying to make
an attack on you. Okay, that is now as the monster.
Speaker 9: Okay, I'd like to use my tentacles again. Hmm, it's
the weird sentence to say, and I will get more
confident about it. May I use my tentacles?
Speaker 5: Please?
Speaker 12: Nine?
Speaker 9: I think i'd like because this the thing that's covering me,
which is usually more the little shadow that has ran
around wasn't listening. I think I will then think about Okay,
these these tendrils that came out of me, I want
them to go. I would like to grab onto the
shadow of this corpse, and since it's holding it there,
I figure, well, why can't I pull on it and
throw it down the fucking street?
Speaker 3: Okay, so you're gonna try to wrap your tentacles around
the legs of this shadowy spider.
Speaker 9: Well that's the question, is is it? Yeah, of the spider. Yeah,
of the shadowy spider, and then just so that it
like throws the body down all way or into a
wall or you know, something far down the road.
Speaker 3: Okay, perfect, roll for it.
Speaker 9: You're okay? If we flipped? Okay, we flipped? Yeah, I
think well go ahead, Oh no, please go ahead. Oh
don't you gonna say something I thought it was?
Speaker 3: But I you know, it's.
Speaker 9: Well, I think that I mean, if it's I think
they'll respond and they'll come out, but she's ready, ready, She's.
Speaker 3: Not ready, So something else happens. Normally I would say
whatever your glasses and I miss no. I don't think
you miss either, but I don't know what.
Speaker 9: Then it doesn't. Then it doesn't. Well okay, okay, I
think these tentacles come out and I tell them what
to do and they just kind of like turn and
just like and they're just like this and just are
looking at me. They're not listening either, I.
Speaker 3: Am okay to keep that that they don't really listen
to you. Or alternatively, you do grab her and you
do move her, but it's not far. Perhaps you expected
her shadow to weigh nothing, but it doesn't. This actually
feels heavy to your tentacles, okay, because I like failures
to help you learn how your magic works.
Speaker 9: Okay, that's not. If that's the case, then yeah, that
makes sense.
Speaker 3: So yep, you maybe needed a bit more power there
than you expected to need. Okay, Constantine your turn.
Speaker 6: Okay. I am currently trying to figure out if I
would HM, how vindictive and petty am? I? Probably pretty petty,
I would imagine, so, but there are still lines that
I don't cross.
Speaker 9: If I may help this person is using someone you
murdered against you and you feel shitty about I think
we've gone way past petty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, how was I trying to try?
Speaker 3: Was I supposed to know that a great vampire regretted
such a delicious kill?
Speaker 6: Oh? Not enough imagination. Maybe maybe I would like to
let's see how that feels to her, and I would
like to return the favor of trying. I don't know
if I want to possess her. I don't want to
possess this body. Yeah, I want to go through the
body to get to her, and I want to be
like stab her in the mental eye. I want to
do mental piercing damage.
Speaker 3: Okay, Like you know, you are welcome to try this.
There's always the ability to roll and try to succeed
at something. However, your magic is in charisma, not in mind,
so it will just be very difficult for you to
try to achieve it should you choose to do now.
When I say this, this is like me mechanically speaking
to you. But I do think that somewhere in there
your character has an idea of where your power comes from,
and that you would have to drop from somewhere else.
To be able to do this and that it would
be extremely difficult.
Speaker 6: So then question what she was doing to me was
all mind based?
Speaker 3: Then that's correct.
Speaker 6: Hmmm, sorry, I'm thinking, hm, hmmm. Can I just force
her to not be able to possess this body any longer?
Just push her out?
Speaker 3: How would you do that?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Yeah, let's just go. I'll go with mind and
I'll see how that works. Yeah, I probably give her
a taste of rown medicine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's probably gonna you gotta roll under twenty
or an eleven or twenty two. I will allow it
twenty two and a thirty three just for shits and giggles.
Speaker 6: Okay, do I have a higher difficulty for this or
same difficulty as.
Speaker 3: It's twenty So you got to roll under a twenty,
but I will accept a twenty two or thirty three.
Speaker 6: Oh, ninety six.
Speaker 7: Didn't want you to do it?
Speaker 3: Okay, I did not want you to do it. What happened?
Speaker 9: Message received?
Speaker 3: This is really bad. I know it's not doubles, but
it's still in ninety six. So I think something happens
to give her an advantage on her next role here.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I'm losing control entirely. My rage is
taking over, and so I'm just becoming more and more
vulnerable to a person who has the faculties of their
mind still at work.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And I also think that this action, which is what
I was trying to figure out before, I think if
fundamentally goes against Constantine's morals, Like he's vindictive and petty,
but he would never The reason why he can say
no is because he would never do the belief. Yeah,
he believes so strongly that you should never cross certain lines.
And so I think in him trying to be like, yeah,
let's see how it feels.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you use the key phrase here. Yes, you can
reroll if you want to take an oblivion, because you're right,
it is morally reprehensible, but you've chosen to do it anyway.
So if you want, you can take a point of oblivion,
which means that you get to reroll, but it means
you're going to have a minus five shift on everything
else until you clear that oblivion. We've really only used
burns so far, but it's the same thing. But it's like,
you know, for your mental state.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think morals, Yeah, I think I'm out of
control now. I don't. I think feet like leaning into
that sort of narrative. I'm past it. I'm not really
paying attention. So I'll take that.
Speaker 3: Yep, Okay, go for it.
Speaker 9: Take that.
Speaker 3: Take the point of oblivion, which means you'll have a
negative five. It's all your rolls until you clear it.
But it allows you to reroll this without the negative five.
Speaker 6: Okay, so twenty yeah.
Speaker 3: Yep, still twenty. I'll take a twenty two or thirty three.
Speaker 9: Hit those buses.
Speaker 3: Buses in the.
Speaker 6: Chat forty two. The chances were pretty low.
Speaker 3: We're pretty low. Yeah, you can take another oblivion if
you want. I'll let you do it. You can take
as many as you want.
Speaker 6: I'll take another oblivion takes you to ten, I'm pissed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is what the oblivion seven are. By the way,
all right, you're at ten. You have a total yep.
I was gonna say you have up to five.
Speaker 9: Get on the busy.
Speaker 6: Five otherworldly success. So I'm just like freaking out about that.
Speaker 11: Did you just use like.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna take it oblivion.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take it oblivion?
Speaker 6: Fuck it, fucking fuck it.
Speaker 3: And then you got a five? Dude? Are you kidding me? Okay, yea,
So please describe what this looks like to us. Keep
in mind, you are hitting, you are hitting three stages
of oblivion as you do this, So you are you
are pushing your mind to be able to free your mind.
You're doing You're actually pulling a knee out here as
you just go no, I'm gonna get in here.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I'm so. I'm like sort of knelt
on the ground. I'm like down on one knee. I'm
hunched because I was just holding my body like trying
to protect it, like from this invasive, horrifying feeling something inside,
like you know, ripping me up. In this situation, this
entity who has come here, everything's starting to pile up
on me. I do not like what I have been
forced to do since I have been here. I do
not like that. I'm so angry because it feels so good.
It feels so good. I feel powerful, and this rage
it's almost like it's uncontrollable and stubborn, the stubborn core.
And I try to go for her with my mind
and it doesn't work. I hit a and I do
not give up. I'm just like enraged. My teeth are bared,
they're long, I'm like, you know, like I look probably feral,
and my nose starts to bleed, and my ears are bleeding,
and maybe my eyes are starting to bleed as this
oblivion is stacking, and I just keep going until I
feel the pressure break.
Speaker 3: She crumples like a marionette with its strings cut. There's
probably a strange howl that escapes her mouth. At first,
it's reverberating off of the walls, and you probably recognize
after a moment that it is two voices, not just one.
It is this body's voice. Then there is something else,
this disembodied screen that you hear embedded inside of it somehow,
and then there's nothing but silence. After she hits the
pavement with a dull, wet thud.
Speaker 6: I dropped to my hands in my knees, and I'm
spitting blood from my mouth and sort of just gasping.
As soon as I hear the thud.
Speaker 13: All the color leaves the body, not that there was
much in the alleyway is still.
Speaker 9: I take a quick walk over to the body and
just look, and it looks very inert. And then I
walk over to Constantine.
Speaker 6: H forgive me, I whisper, don't forgive me to the ground,
and I'm like shaking, probably quite a lot like just
the animalistic, like post car accident shaking.
Speaker 7: I think.
Speaker 9: I get down on one knee in front of him,
and I reached a hand under his chin to lift
his head up to meet my eyes, and I said, well,
I'm sorry, but you were wrong. I could not do this,
but we could. Did you say you were vomiting blood?
Speaker 6: I was like spitting it out, not full vomit.
Speaker 9: Okay, perfect?
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 9: Then I am afraid little shadow tentacle comes over and
seemingly wipes it away from maybe your chin. It may
also have just sucked it up. I don't know, but
whether the blood that it touched was not there anymore.
I said, I apologize. I do not know what this
is doing. This is very new to me. What what
did you do?
Speaker 8: I tried to show her what it feels like what
she was trying to do to me. We are monsters,
are we not?
Speaker 9: Perhaps by this moment I stand up. When I reached
my hand out extend my hand to help him.
Speaker 6: Up, I don't take it. I stand up on my own.
Speaker 9: But I was saying this moment, we are better monsters
than she is. But perhaps in two days we would
think otherwise when we meet.
Speaker 8: Her, better monsters.
Speaker 6: Into acn'd an interesting idea things like her should not exist.
So what does that say about things like us?
Speaker 9: I don't know if you have. If you have noticed,
and these tentacles are moving around, it seems I am
very much a thing like her as well.
Speaker 6: I take your wrist and I bring it close to
my mouth and bare my teeth. Then my eyes flick
to yours.
Speaker 9: May I please be my guest whatever you need.
Speaker 6: I for the record, I'm not trying to do anything
or get anything from you. I literally just want to
taste your blood. I just want to bite you. So
I bite your wrist with no intention other than just
tasting your blood.
Speaker 7: I just watch.
Speaker 3: What does it taste like?
Speaker 9: Estevon, huh have we talked about what? I didn't describe it?
I think when I when Cora had fed off me, right,
I don't think I described a taste.
Speaker 3: I think you described a feeling which didn't feels either.
You can describe how this might you know, present itself
or feel I try not to, you know, describe how
another character might feel that's totally up to them, or
how they might interpret but there are some exceptions to
that rule, and that's when magic is involved and kind of,
you know, forcing a feeling. I think this is one
of those situations where your blood might make someone feel
a certain way, whether it's euphoria or whatever, blah blah blah,
and I think it can change from person to person.
Speaker 9: But and please, but either of you tell me if
this doesn't make any sense. But in a case of constantine,
I'm willingly doing this, so he in particular might get
maybe a little more. That's what I think too, just
because Okay, this is like a moment.
Speaker 3: Of vulnerability between the two of you, so I think
it's like you are allowing him to see part of you.
It's ironically probably very similar to what you did with
with the Fidia, right, but it's just different because she's
not a revenant or a deathless that can suck your blood.
But it's something very into that.
Speaker 9: I think you feel it's a little salty, a little
on the saltier side, but I think as the blood
you swallow it down your throat, it's probably pretty rich
just the taste. Wise, you get a sense of a
loss of This is very specific, but I'm sure Constantine
might have had this feeling, but the feeling of when
you're around a lot of people in a crowded room,
but you feel like you're alone right at the end
because you're not taking a big drink. There's also a
feeling of content like that's okay. Whether or not it's real,
I don't know if you drank enough blood to know that.
Speaker 8: I am.
Speaker 6: What do I think?
Speaker 9: I imagine you are. You're a man of good taste.
The last time someone rank for me, it was a
totally different experience.
Speaker 6: I don't answer you. I pull your wrist from my mouth,
and I lean in and I kiss you, and my
mouth is full of your blood, and I kiss you
extraordinarily gently, like a lover, like a familiar lover, a
lover that we've been together for a long time, you know,
almost as if there's a familiarity in it. I think,
and then.
Speaker 9: I while this is happening, this is this is very strange,
but this is what happens. Right while this is happening,
you hear something and it sounds like it's a thousand
miles away and you're hearing the barest sound of it.
It feels like, you know, like if you're in your
home and there's people like two blocks in a two
block away having a like a big party, and you're
just like, what the hell was that?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 9: But you hear it sounds like a you know, a
small group of people, the cheering, like like like like
someone just won something or they're celebrating.
Speaker 6: I should note also that because my eyes in my
nose and my mouth was bleeding from before, like my
blood would be mixed in to this kiss as well,
so it's like both of our blood at once. But
I don't know if you would be able to taste
any you know, it's just like remnants. And I pull
back from you, and I look at you with a
strange expression, like a bit confused.
Speaker 3: And like.
Speaker 6: I'm looking all over your face and your body, and
I bring my hand to your shoulder and I kind
of squeeze it, almost like I'm trying to convince myself
that you're real. Figure out if you're real, and then
I'll say, where is Gunner?
Speaker 3: It feels like the perfect opportunity to switch. Okay, so
Constantine and mostly for the audience. Constantine is at level
three of oblivion out of a five total, which means
that he has a minus thirty shift on every future
role until he manages to, you know, fix this and
the way that I have the oblivion broken down for
the players. I know you guys can't see this yet.
Is limbs tremble? Wait no, no, no, that's burn, colors dim
and warp. Reality bends like light through water, and trust
might feel alien. So that is kind of where Constantine
is at at the moment. All right, we're gonna shift
over quite actually into the other scene with the other group.
Why don't you describe what happens as you arrive. However,
one person will be missing, and that is Gunner is
not with you when you all arrive and take stock
of your surroundings.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, did you say we're arriving at the scene
or we're in the so he has.
Speaker 3: So Stalker sliced open a layer and then you guys
all went inside. Yes, yeah, like it's it's dull and
brute used sky. You've got a smear of sickly light
over a land that forgot how to live. It's completely
desiccated and dry, and despite that, it'll still sound like
wet mud underneath your feet for a moment before it
makes a cracking sound. You know that air smells mildewy
and like salt a bit, And every time you wet
your tongue against your lips anything like that, you're going
to taste something like the air is thick enough to taste.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not a pleasant experience. And it's eerily silent. Here.
Speaker 7: I turn around a stalker. Is this where you left
your friends? I am.
Speaker 5: Looking up? M hm uh sorry, I just got the
Emaire je Willem Dafoe and that looking up gift that's
me looking up like the sky A nice No. Oh, no,
not again?
Speaker 7: I'm sorry? Did you say not again? And I look
at Cora and then I go to look for Gunner,
and oh, is this how you lost your seventh?
Speaker 5: No, it is watching house now.
Speaker 7: When you say it, do you mean something weird, alternate
personality inside you that's really dormant, not super dangerous, or
do you mean something in the sky that.
Speaker 5: Could just squash us like bugs?
Speaker 7: I mean.
Speaker 5: The nightmare you've never had the courage to have.
Speaker 7: I mean.
Speaker 5: The end of our being.
Speaker 7: Is here, wonderful, That's what I like to hear. Um.
I suppose I've only myself to blame for this, And
I reach into my pocket and my hand is trembling.
Speaker 11: Next to you all, I'm looking confused, and I go
up to Stalker, noting his tone and what he's doing,
and I stand in front of him and peer at
his face and ask, what's wrong? Where did you take us?
Speaker 3: Stalker and moog? Role for me? Please?
Speaker 7: What can I roll for you?
Speaker 3: I will allow? Nope, mind, I'm so sorry mind for
both you and Stalker. And difficulty is thirty. I was
trying to let you guys choose between the roles, but
I just don't think that would happen here.
Speaker 7: By the way, narrator, I hope you're doing wonderfully this afternoon.
Speaker 3: I am thank you for asking. Oh, perfect, settle common,
catsy goes a long way. What about you, stalker? I
hate you, that's understandable.
Speaker 5: Seventy six.
Speaker 3: Okay, now, when Cora steps right because stop me if
I'm wrong, Coorra. But you said you stepped right in
front of him right like you are making yourself like unavoidably,
you're taking his attention. So when she does this, only
for a very brief second, her skin will flicker between
texture and a charred leather like maybe slick with tar
or something raw writhes beneath her skin for just a moment.
Speaker 7: Oh stop, good? Do you see that often the distance
over there, off in the horizon. I think that's your
nightmare that you're too afraid to have right over there?
Speaker 5: Do you want to take it? Look I looking at
the sky stone I don't.
Speaker 3: Oh, so you don't look at Cora. You look at
the sky, then you don't see that? Then just move
sees it because I imagine he's watching what's happening. But if
you don't, then neither of you see it.
Speaker 11: Since he mentions the horizon, I will look behind me
where he's looking. Do I see anything he's referring to?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Role for me?
Speaker 11: M body or mind?
Speaker 3: Mind?
Speaker 9: Okay?
Speaker 11: What difficulty?
Speaker 3: Forty?
Speaker 6: Okay? Okay?
Speaker 3: Would you like to describe for the audience what just happened?
Would you like to tell them what these rolled in?
Speaker 11: Eleven worldly doubles?
Speaker 3: Yes? Okay, so I think so this is eleven so
you get to unlock an ability here or should you choose?
Speaker 9: Kay?
Speaker 3: So remember we get we get three under each category,
which is body, mind and charisma or whatever the hell
I'm gonna call that. Sure, shit, ain't riz, but you
can unlock something in mind if you'd like. Remember you
only get three, so if you start to unlock more,
you're gonna may have to make a tough decision of
what to overwrite. Ye, but you absolutely can do something.
Do you want to see the truth? Is what the
name of this skill would be.
Speaker 11: Writing that down? Do you want to see the truth?
Speaker 3: Yep?
Speaker 11: Amazing? Okay, sorry, what was the question?
Speaker 3: So this, this is going to be your your skill
and you're able to do that yep. Okay, So it's
going to start with a ten percent shift that skill.
Speaker 9: Okay.
Speaker 3: Anytime you want to use this in particular to try
to see what's really there, then you absolutely can. So
the horizon will ripple. Okay, So as you're looking up,
maybe you don't really see anything at first, but then
your eyes do a us and you see the horizon rippling,
and it's not with hills, but with eyes dozens, hundreds,
blinking in slow, uneven rhythm. Some are too large, clouded over,
like drowning moons, and then they notice you, all of
them at once.
Speaker 11: Okay, but there's distance between us and them. It's almost
like a destination where the eyes are.
Speaker 3: It's almost like they fill the whole sky, like if
you were to if you were to look up and
imagine your distance between you and the clouds, it's almost
like they replace the clouds. Okay, you are inside of
a realm or a bubble, and they are They are
either the realm or they are able to watch you
from a safe distance. The eyes will shift and roll
once they're fixated on you, So if you were moving,
if you look, they will move and look and follow you.
Speaker 11: Yeah, okay, I would find this so startling. I would
probably stumble back a few steps, maybe back behind stalker
again where I was when I first walked through the portal,
and I probably want to clarify. I would ask, moog,
are you seeing what I'm seeing?
Speaker 7: I think it's just a face that's carved into the shadow.
Is that a face? Or is that a foot? Or
is that a belly button? I can't quite make it out.
It's definitely something, though, for sure. What do you see?
Speaker 3: Stock?
Speaker 11: Or where are we? What is this place?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 5: We are in its layer waiting?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 5: Poor, what's next to me?
Speaker 7: It's teeth?
Speaker 3: Then, Poorah? You feel your passenger retreat into the smallest
space possible inside of you.
Speaker 11: Okay, I think self preservation would be kicking in and
I would turn around looking for the portal that we
came through, intending to leave.
Speaker 5: Buddy, are you all right?
Speaker 7: What do you see?
Speaker 11: I don't think we can be here. I think we
need to We need to leave right now? Stock or
what is this place? Why are we here? What did
you do here?
Speaker 5: Before? I thought I thought it was a dream.
Speaker 7: We definitely not a dream. What is this place? Please?
And thank you? I've told you what it is? And
why have you brought us here?
Speaker 5: I did not?
Speaker 7: Did you not open the door? And my misremembering things?
Speaker 5: But have you done something? Brought us here? And they
just used me to make it happen.
Speaker 11: I walk up to Soccer again, face him, take his
arm and give it like a good tug to get
his attention and take us back.
Speaker 5: I can't.
Speaker 11: What do you mean? You can't just open another portal?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 14: Just do you just?
Speaker 7: Yes, I'm clawing on the shush to make it worse.
But then how do we make it better? I'm sorry? Yes,
how do you know? And I step behind Glaura.
Speaker 11: And yes, I would like to know how we can
make this better.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure.
Speaker 11: I would unease look over my shoulder at the distant
horizon where the eyes probably inevitably still are.
Speaker 5: Is the ground made of dust?
Speaker 3: I mean it's you know, desiccated ground, So yeah, I
think probably, even though there's that like squish of wetness
when you step, when you look down, you will leave
a bootprint as if the ground was wet. But sand
does kick up or dust does kick up when you walk.
It's like a So I could.
Speaker 13: I could draw?
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, I will.
Speaker 5: I will draw similar for my order in the ground.
I look very confused. Yes, I start, I start drawing.
It takes it's pretty big. It takes a minute.
Speaker 7: Uh cora.
Speaker 5: Cora, mm hmm.
Speaker 7: Yes, What the fuck.
Speaker 5: Is he doing?
Speaker 11: I don't know, but I don't like it.
Speaker 7: Do you like it?
Speaker 11: In my moove?
Speaker 7: You like it more or less than the current predicament we're.
Speaker 5: In his actions?
Speaker 11: I don't know yet, and I don't like that feeling.
Speaker 7: Do you feel as if you could ferry us out
of here? Potentially?
Speaker 11: I would kind of have like an expression like it
just dawned on me for the first time, like I
might be able to do that.
Speaker 7: Couldn't to try? Also, have you seen anything like this
place before?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 7: Me neither last question. I promise, I absolutely promise. What
are you seeing? I cannot help if you don't tell me.
What about? What about our friend.
Speaker 5: Does it?
Speaker 7: What does he have to say?
Speaker 5: I wink.
Speaker 7: I pulled out my sunglasses and I wink.
Speaker 11: There are many reasons why I don't think we should
be here. Mm hmm, that is just one of them.
Stalk er, what are you doing?
Speaker 5: I I think I have one last gambit, and I
finished the simpol It is a serpent in a circle
with a blood drop in the center.
Speaker 3: Oh, to be clear, Kora, you feel nothing if you
go to reach for Ishna.
Speaker 5: And that.
Speaker 3: Sound that you heard, if you choose to hear it
right away, is coming from around you somewhere. But not
to be clear, Okay, what did that sound?
Speaker 11: Say?
Speaker 3: Maybe we'll hear it again. I'm not gonna okay it. Okay, Sorry,
you're too smart. Anybody else asked me? Sure, not you.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry. Now you are looking wonderful again, per usual.
I assumed that was you. Snow, what did that sound?
Speaker 3: Maybe you'll hear it again if you'd like, But I
don't want to interrupt. Sorry, you said you draw the
symbol into the ground. You say you have one last gambit.
Speaker 5: I look to my well, to the people that I
am with me, and I say this will likely kill me,
but CHIN know of no other way.
Speaker 7: I am biting my tongue. I'm wiggling a bit uneasily.
Speaker 11: You know, Stalker, I would rather I know what it
is you're doing, because I think the last thing we
want is for you to die and leave us here.
You're the one who brought us here. Can we try
to leave?
Speaker 5: I think if we try to leave the way we
came here, we will only make things worse.
Speaker 7: If any.
Speaker 5: We all hear?
Speaker 8: That?
Speaker 5: Is that what they said? If any, honorph Any.
Speaker 7: And if any?
Speaker 11: What was it you just said, Soccer before.
Speaker 5: I said, if we try to leave where we came here,
it will only make things worse.
Speaker 7: I just heard.
Speaker 11: Phineas I'm hearing something. I can't make it out at
this point. I'm kind of like closer to Moo than
I am to Stalker, and I feel like I would
have like maybe like a shoulder in front of Moog,
kind of in like a bracing type of stance, waiting
to see, like what's about to happen? M What do
you mean one last gambit? What does that mean.
Speaker 5: I use this symbol to communicate? Is that Latin?
Speaker 9: You?
Speaker 3: Anybody who would know Latin can roll if you'd.
Speaker 5: Like, I think I would.
Speaker 3: I think you have a zero in a cult though,
so let's not forget that. I will let you roll,
but it might be harder because I think there's always
a chance. But I do remember that you had no point.
It's an occult. But I know Cora does and Moog
don't you.
Speaker 7: Actually, I was thinking about this.
Speaker 3: I know you you're the chantry, so I will allow
a roll if you want. But also if Moog was like,
fuck that, I ain't learning that, then that's fine too.
I'm leaving it up to you. Guys.
Speaker 7: I think it's do a die time. I think that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I'm just wanting.
Speaker 3: To be like, yeah, let's just try to see if
I can summon up that fucking hop quiz. Come on,
you're gonna do the mergles mm hmm okay.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the well the visionary.
Speaker 3: Yep, yes, that's right. The visionary does it too. Uh Okay,
everybody can go ahead and roll. We're gonna do a
difficulty normally in this place would be twenty, but we're
gonna do thirty for you, all right, and yes we're
gonna do mind for this.
Speaker 7: Wonderful failure at forty.
Speaker 11: Eight failure eighty nine?
Speaker 5: Did you say thirty or forty forty eight?
Speaker 7: Finny, difficulty is difficulty is thirty?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Fifty seven?
Speaker 3: Okay, I think all of you recognize. Yeah, that is Latin.
But it is perhaps a bit more archaic than you're
used to, or there's something strange about it that for
some reason you can't piece it together. Whatever is being
said to you.
Speaker 5: That was.
Speaker 7: Latin?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think, But I'm staring at Stocker as if
something just dawned on me. Was this intentional the whole time?
Did you bring us here to trap us? Why?
Speaker 5: Why would I do that?
Speaker 11: Why are you trying to contact your order?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 5: I'm not trying to contact my order.
Speaker 11: You just said that symbol is how you interact with them,
how you contact them?
Speaker 5: I said, it is how I communicate.
Speaker 11: Fine, communicate, communicate that you got us right where you
want us so they can come and do. What have
you been lying this the whole time? Do you are
you just pretending to mess up the layers?
Speaker 5: I did not say I was communicating with them, But
I find your guilt. Interesting guilt. Why would I want
to trap you?
Speaker 11: Because I am just as much in the dark as
the rest of the group. I don't know where I'm from.
Speaker 7: You also did say you wanted to imprison me as well.
Speaker 5: I've been very open with you. My orders fairly well known.
Speaker 11: Yes, I know of them. I also have no deception
in my order. No people in your order are just
sent on missions to punish other kindred. Yes, interesting, how
all the kindred in our group have been punished? Why
don't if I'm wrong and this isn't why won't you
try to open up another portal? Why don't you just try?
Speaker 5: If my suspicions are correct, it lonely hasten all, and
perhaps there is another word.
Speaker 7: Then that is really starting to get on my nerves.
Look at it, that's taunting me now, I swear to
fucking God, it is taunting me.
Speaker 11: My eyes glanced at the distant horizon, but the eyes
still looking at us.
Speaker 3: Absolutely I agree.
Speaker 7: Oh I hate this.
Speaker 5: I hate this.
Speaker 7: I hate this. It seems here we have of communication
and trust. Now normally I would just stir the pot
and laugh and chuckle, but we need to get the
fuck out of here, right now, STALKA, what the fuck
does this thing?
Speaker 10: To?
Speaker 5: Cora?
Speaker 7: What are you seeing that you keep on looking at?
We should? I would like to leave this place in
one piece. Please. We can rip each other to shreds
once we leave.
Speaker 11: Yeah, what I'm seeing, oog is a sky full full
of eyes watching us. And honestly, I find it very
suspicious that Stalker was not surprised by this and seem
to expect it.
Speaker 5: I poor ju I thought it was a mhm. I
did not sleep after a my injury. I only came here.
Speaker 14: I don't know why, all right, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3: As soon as she points out to you that she's
seeing a bunch of eyes, if you look up again
and even just try to see what she's seeing, you
will see it. Oh oh, ween, say that it took
a second and it's just happening to you right now.
Speaker 7: Yes, Oh, remind me never to ask Cora or she's seeing.
If I don't see it, I'm moving my aunt, my
hand moving around. I'm seeing if they follow me as well?
Huh they follow me? Cora, give me a favor. Can
you walk three paces that way? And I'm going to
walk three paces in the opposite direction.
Speaker 11: I glanced next to me and make sure there's nothing
in the way, and I.
Speaker 7: Keep your eyes on the.
Speaker 11: Eyes facing forward, keeping everything in scope. Yes, I take
a couple of steps to the left.
Speaker 7: Who do they follow? Narrator?
Speaker 3: That is a great question. Both of you roll for me?
Speaker 11: What have we been rolling?
Speaker 3: Mind difficulty thirty just to there's no real failure. I
just want to see who's got who's more interesting?
Speaker 9: Yeah, twenty.
Speaker 6: Ninety.
Speaker 3: They are fixated on Moog.
Speaker 7: They're following me interesting.
Speaker 11: Maybe they're curious because you have your eyes hidden.
Speaker 7: Hmmm, or I'm a proxy amongst well you two.
Speaker 11: I like the first theory better. I like to think
they've just never seen sunglasses before.
Speaker 7: That's a good one. I'm gonna write that one in
my journal later on tonight. Feeling optimistic, perhaps foolishly. Ah, well,
this wouldn't be the first time that all eyes were
on me. If they're all watching me and Stalker, this
is who or what you're so afraid of?
Speaker 5: These eyes? Are they gesturing? Are you gesturing to the
sky or something?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 5: The preacher here is all that is here. If you
see or fear something, I believe that is yes, So.
Speaker 7: Everything in this realm is the creature that you're so
afraid of.
Speaker 5: I think so.
Speaker 7: And if you try to open up a doorway, it's
going to get mad and swallow us whole.
Speaker 5: I do not know that. I only suspect that is
what it wants me to do.
Speaker 7: All right, Perhaps a distraction is in order, then you.
Speaker 5: Are I'm willing to try to leave if that is
what you want.
Speaker 7: What do you think, Laura?
Speaker 5: But we could also try to communicate.
Speaker 7: But what good is a phone call going to do
at this point? And call us a taxi?
Speaker 5: I meant to communicate with the being itself?
Speaker 7: Oh well, that could be better or worse than my idea.
Speaker 5: That is what the symbol is for.
Speaker 7: I do have a question, though, what if it does
not speak English? What if it speaks Oh, I don't
know Latin.
Speaker 5: Would understand it?
Speaker 7: Mostly are you understanding the whispers on the wind?
Speaker 5: Then I can't quite make them out?
Speaker 7: And you think that's not a language barrier. That is
a reception issue.
Speaker 5: I'm not understanding what you mean.
Speaker 7: You don't know recept like a television cell fox sakes
you think that there is mountains in front of the
smoke signal.
Speaker 5: Clouds in the sky, something m the communication is not clear. Yes,
if what we are hearing is from this beast.
Speaker 7: But do you mean if what we're hearing is from
this beast, is that everything in here is this beast?
Speaker 5: I think everything in here is this beast. From now,
I know every day ice for two hours. Perhaps I
know very little more.
Speaker 11: Than you do, all right, and yet that's two more
hours of knowledge that you seem to just forget when
you brought us here.
Speaker 5: I already told you I did not intend for us
to go here.
Speaker 11: You know, I won't even ask how you expect to
communicate with the thing using a special symbol from your order.
But I'm not interested. I don't want to talk to it.
I don't want to be here. I want to leave,
And if you insist on not helping us do that,
then I can try to figure it out my own.
Speaker 5: I just told you I would try if that is
what you want, But I think it will kill you.
Speaker 11: And what basis do you have for that, because to me,
it sounds like that's the perfect thing someone would say
to another person to keep them from leaving a trapped
Oh no, you're safer here with me. If you try
to leave, you'll die.
Speaker 5: To me, your suspicions sound like the perfect.
Speaker 11: Deflection, perfect deflection for what.
Speaker 5: We are missing, a member of our party in this
strange jersey here now.
Speaker 11: Yes, like I told you, Fen stayed behind wherever I went.
Speaker 7: It's just as she said. He grumpily just walked off
down the hallway, quite large, quite long, and with my
best friend.
Speaker 5: Nonetheless, I find it hard to believe would abandon us.
Speaker 11: Mm, he didn't abandon us. He's seeking information for us, honestly,
probably doing more than you are right now.
Speaker 5: I'm now this. I've gasped, Well, what is it you want?
Speaker 14: Kora?
Speaker 11: I want to leave.
Speaker 5: You want me to try to open another parental.
Speaker 11: I also want to know why you seem to have
so much context for everything that's happening, but refuse to
give it.
Speaker 5: What if I refuse to give? I have been.
Speaker 11: Very open, You've been open with your assumptions. If we
try to leave, will die? If we stay here, we
could communicate with the beast. If I just draw the
symbol on the ground from my order, I can talk to.
Speaker 5: It, I said, I think I could talk to it.
It is the simple I use to communicate in this place.
It may work, but everything is a gamble.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, Cora. Do you not want to talk to
this thing because that's using some shady snake, blood drop,
crudely drawn image. Well, do you just have something against it?
Asking for our friend.
Speaker 11: Talking to whatever might be here in this realm that
we are suddenly in.
Speaker 7: Yes, perhaps it's not the worst idea. I am just
asking because there's something we have not tried yet, and
if you do not want to talk to it, then
I won't try it.
Speaker 11: I just said Stalker can try if he wants to
talk to it, talk to it. I don't want to,
all right.
Speaker 7: You don't want to, then I don't want to. I
am curious why Stalker wants to so badly.
Speaker 5: No one wants to do anything in this place that
I think communication is better than opening another portal?
Speaker 7: Why?
Speaker 5: Because the portals are connected to this thing somehow?
Speaker 7: How do you know that.
Speaker 5: There is something a new type of not magic. This
place we have come to is strange. I can do
things I could not before. This thing I can do
is complex and I did not understand it. But this
thing has been watching me for some time. I think
because of the portals I see, and this is something
you shared with the rest of your friends.
Speaker 7: Yes, as soon as it happened reported.
Speaker 5: I did not realize it until I woke up. But
when would I have that time?
Speaker 7: It seems to me that while your order doesn't lie,
they certainly withhold information, don't they.
Speaker 5: You don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 7: I is no new for a total of oh twenty
minut or so, and you've been forthcoming with assumptions better
when they are convenient for you.
Speaker 5: You think I have some hidden agenda.
Speaker 7: I think you all do. If I'm being honest, I
don't even know the others, and I think you all do.
There is a distinct lack of information and communication, even
from the big one.
Speaker 5: What is it you want to know?
Speaker 7: I don't want to know anything. I just want you
to know that I know or have noticed you're all
not being as secret if as you think so, we
might as well work together and get the fuck out
of here. If you won't do it your way, but
you will, you said you would.
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm may die, though you.
Speaker 7: May die or we may die. Those are two very
different things, my friend.
Speaker 11: Well, since we're working off of assumptions, I guess we
can just assume he will die, and that's going to
be the outcome, or.
Speaker 7: We'll die and I'll just be out of this miserable situation.
I'm too bad right.
Speaker 5: Now, Bora? Do you think I should know everything that
will happen?
Speaker 6: What is?
Speaker 5: What do you want from me?
Speaker 11: I don't expect you to know everything. I expect you
to use what you already know. You make sound decisions.
Speaker 5: That is what I'm doing.
Speaker 9: Okay.
Speaker 11: Well, if the only way you know how to communicate
is with that sigil on the ground, be my guest.
I'm just gonna stand back here though.
Speaker 7: All right, that seemed like the long way to get
back here. Okay, I'm with you. I stand behind Gora,
so okat them?
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, I count open my hand and finish the
symbol with blood, and I attempt to communicate with this creature.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's do a role please thirty difficulty However, before
we do that, because this may cause some shifting of
that difficulty here? How does Stalker perceive that this is
going to work?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 3: I know that this is how he communicates with his clan,
but how does he expect to use this to communicate
with this thing?
Speaker 5: Well, I'm just I'm going to use it as like
an anchor point for me, and I'm going to try
to enter this creature's mind speak to it. Okay, this
is a symbol that I know and recognize, and it
is it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is a symbol of power for you, whether
or not you are trying to, you know, communicate with
your clan. So I recognize that in other you know,
in VTM, it may have only specifically allowed you to
reach your clan, but in other world, iconology has power,
and so for you this is this is a symbol
of power. So I recognize that. So yeah, let's go
ahead and make a mind role. Difficulty is going to
stay at thirty however, all right.
Speaker 5: Is this still considered a layer's ability?
Speaker 3: This is a communication ability?
Speaker 5: All right? A seven?
Speaker 3: Okay, why don't you describe what happens.
Speaker 5: I think it happens just as it always does. Or
at first, I kneel down on the onto the ground
in front of the symbol, and I concentrate on I
am trying to communicate.
Speaker 3: With and how do you do that? So let me
help you. So mechanically, you're going to need to do
three things. This is like a ritual that you're performing.
This is a magic spell that you are doing. So
you're going to need to do three things because you
rolled that seven. You don't necessarily have to. But I'd
like for you to come away from this experience with
the knowledge of what you have done. So rule of
three here, yep, go for it.
Speaker 5: Can the symbol be one.
Speaker 3: Yes, the symbol can be kind of your tool to
get you from point A to point B. The second
thing is gonna need to be the thing, and the
third thing is going to need to be you. So
you've got your bridge, you got you and the other thing.
Speaker 5: Yep. Then I focus on the smell that has been following.
Speaker 3: Me, perfect perfect, perfect example.
Speaker 5: And then I focus on order, the order within who
I am, what I have made myself into. You don't
like that one as much.
Speaker 3: No, I'm thinking about I'm thinking about how to help you.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I was lost in thought of trying to
guide you but also not spoiling but also helping you understand.
I think if it's okay to say, stalk or may
not think of this, but you get the urge to
pick up the ground and put it in your mouth
as a way to help bridge one to the other.
As soon as you go I'm focusing on that smell
of that mildew. Then maybe you reach down, you pick
up the ground in the earth, and you go, I'm
going to taste it as well as smell it, right.
Speaker 5: I will. I'll see that and raise you that I
pick up the ground with my blood in it.
Speaker 3: No, that's fine, No, no, I'm just thinking of the implications
of that. I'm sorry. Let me digect that. Yeah, absolutely,
you can do that. For sure. Your blood has scattering power. Yeah,
for sure.
Speaker 5: The connection between me and this thing, mm hm. Those
are the three things then, yes.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so I'm sorry. The first thing is you're
going to focus on the smell and so that you
grab the dirt with your blood in it, pick it up,
put it in your mouth. And the second thing is
the symbol on the ground. And the third thing is what.
Speaker 5: I will. I will hold the hilt of one of
my daggers and think of my purpose.
Speaker 3: That is perfect this dagger. Then you will be using
like a resonant item, so like an artifact or it's
going to be something that you will run a risk
of entangling yourself to. So using this dagger in this
way is going to give you potentially a greater shift
or success towards doing what you want. But if you
try to do this again without using the dagger, it
will be more difficult for you to do so, so
we'll go ahead and roll on the entanglement table when
this is over. But you have now succeeded in kind
of like making this dagger a thing that will give
you power, which is something that you would normally have
to spend an exorbitant amount of money on getting from
a very special like magic shop or something like that
in other world. So you have just kind of sort
of created yourself one of these artifacts or Okay, fantastic, Okay.
So when this happens, however, your eyes will roll back
into the back of your head. Your irises, everything like
is white, correct if I remember correctly when you describe this. Okay,
So that's what it looks like. As Stalker begins to
do this, his eyes are white, and his head is
back and his mouth is slightly agape. Stalker, you are
now in darkness and you are surrounded by these eyes.
Speaker 5: What do you do? Glance round and say? What are you.
Speaker 7: Say? Say?
Speaker 10: Say?
Speaker 5: Is that Latin? Okay? So I think I would have
a decent grasp of flatten, but I workish have a
zero grasp of latten.
Speaker 3: And memory, my darling, we did. We had this conversation
ten minutes ago, and you rolled for it.
Speaker 5: Remember, Okay, so.
Speaker 3: You do not understand what is being said at this moment.
You do understand Latin, all of you do, but you
rolled to see if you could understand what this thing
was saying. And it's some form of like arch heyk
Latin that is out of your reach.
Speaker 5: Excellent? Uh? Then I say, what do you want?
Speaker 1: Said?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 7: Can we not hear that? It's only stock and I
can hear that. Yeah?
Speaker 5: Do I sense anything?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? Is there something uh in particular that you're looking for,
like maybe the feeling behind the words, maybe the intention?
Speaker 5: Yes, the intentions.
Speaker 3: I will allow you to just go ahead and interpret
the inflection or anything you want. You don't need to
roll for it. If you are looking for me to
assist with that, I can do that and we can
roll for it.
Speaker 5: Okay, will you set us free?
Speaker 7: We saved?
Speaker 5: Sounds like it's asking me questions as well. I I'm
going to try to instead of communicating through my words,
I will try to communicate through feelings and images.
Speaker 3: Hey, plus go ahead and make a roll for me.
Difficulty thirty and this is mind. We can actually bump
that up to forty because you did another worldly success
at your communication. So I'll let that roll into the
scene a little bit and give you shift up, so
difficulty forty.
Speaker 5: Seventy four. He's so old. I say, is there some
sort of connection that I feel with this and with
this thing? Can I feel more of what it is?
Speaker 13: And?
Speaker 3: Oh, that's a really good question. And I don't think
you have to roll for this because you rolled to
connect and you specifically said the words. The reason why
that role was so low and like difficult for you
to do is because you said you wanted to enter
its mind, you wanted to like and that's like insane
levels of madness. So but you succeeded at it with
another worldly success. So absolutely, I think you can feel around.
But I don't know, I don't know what words I
would use to describe to Stalker specifically as to what
he's feeling. Howbould I put it this way? A long
time ago, great archaic, horrific creatures were written about, probably
with your clan, creatures that you could potentially summon, but
they were apocalyptic. They are world ending. You are speaking
to a world ending entity at this moment, and I'm
sure that probably as you look around at the many,
many eyes, it may strike you that it has quite
the appetite and has consumed many, many many A world.
Speaker 15: Puck recess datas is what it says to you one
final time, and I'm leaving that without the changer on,
so you guys can write it.
Speaker 3: You can write it down. I'll let you take that
with you and if you remember any of the others,
go for it. But I know that it's sometimes hard
to hear with the echo. But if you say nothing
else or try nothing else, I think it will expel you.
Speaker 10: At this point, I am dor mama, I have come
to bargain.
Speaker 3: Wait, but actually do you say that?
Speaker 7: Okay?
Speaker 3: I was like, holy ship, dude, your face. Yeah, I
was like, who you said? Yeah, it's this cast doing
should I never expect I'm fine with it.
Speaker 5: He would never do that. I would. I would say,
too bad, you've already done it. You made the joke.
Speaker 3: No, I meant too bad. Isn't that too bad? He
wouldn't do it strong?
Speaker 9: Yeah, it is too bad.
Speaker 7: I would love to see what would happen.
Speaker 13: I can.
Speaker 3: I can kill this character if you like, right now,
right here.
Speaker 10: We can.
Speaker 3: We can make up another one more that will take
more risks.
Speaker 9: That's rigid.
Speaker 3: Just just let me consume you. Just let me eat you,
become one of my eyes.
Speaker 5: Oh god, it sounds awful.
Speaker 7: I don't think you'll think it, yes, saying that as
if you don't secretly think about that all the time.
Speaker 5: I mean, there's no way to communicate with it, So
I think I try to leave it. With my desire
to leave this place.
Speaker 3: It expels you. You come back to your body a bit,
maybe with a shudder. I do think that this will
feel different from when you normally communicate, like I think,
and I feel like you've described this once before, coming
back into yourself after the communication is over, But this
one needs to feel a little a little more other
worldly and a little less safe. And I want you
to come away from the experience realizing that your body
was actually in a state of death when you left
it and came back to it. So perhaps when you, you know,
kind of come back, you're taking a breath, and it's
sharp and painful, almost as if you've been held under
water for a while. And you know then you're breathing
in air. I know you're deathless, you're a vampire, you're undead,
so you don't necessarily need air the way that we do.
But you need something when you come back to this body,
and perhaps that in itself is pretty jarring to you.
I think you'll feel your bones. I think you'll feel
that they feel cold and brittle when you come back in,
and you're acutely aware of your meat suit, and it
just feels strange.
Speaker 5: For a moment, I take a sharp breath in and
my eyes snap back into focus, and I look down
at my hands, and I come back to reality and
realize where I am again, and look around and taken
my surroundings, and I stand slowly and look at the
other two.
Speaker 7: I'm looking at expectantly.
Speaker 5: I look at them and say, we're fucked.
Speaker 7: What did it say?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna switch scenes. I'm sorry, it was so perfect,
it was so perfect. Well, I always let it hang
for a second, just in case. Right, Oh, we gotta
we gotta switch after something like that. Back in the alleyway,
what are you doing here? What are you doing?
Speaker 6: What are we doing?
Speaker 9: Sorry? I'm still processing that. Holy shit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, oh, roll for me the two of you. Please,
I'm sorry, I totally forgot this. No mind, please mind,
all right.
Speaker 9: Difficulty thirty eighty two, I got no rolls today.
Speaker 6: Thirty five okay, failure, I mean, I know, but.
Speaker 3: The target was thirty and or five away. So I
will give this to you if you'll let me do
something else in turn, I'll let you shift it. Although
this time it's not going to be as simple as
a shift on your next role, because last time it
was like, oh, I just give you five plus five
on your next role, and I don't want you thinking
that it will be that all the time. There will
be a cost for this information. But it is perfect
that it was you.
Speaker 6: I will say that, damn it. Yeah, sure, I'll take it.
Speaker 3: So you were you were the one that felt the
thing before, right, um.
Speaker 9: Yeah, as you touched the side of the portal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the side of the portal, and you've got the
feeling and you were like, oh fucking god. So that's
why I'm like, oh God, okay, so you're going to
immediately go to oblivion four as this happens. But and
I know this doesn't feel like potentially constantine a power
that he might have, but just us fall with me
here for a second.
Speaker 6: Okay, with you.
Speaker 3: It's because of some a connection that you and Stalker
shared before. But I think you are going to I
would like for you to get a feeling or a
glimpse of the feeling of danger of where Stalker is.
And if I remember correctly, you helped him out of
this dream state he was in before. Correct, And I'm
using air No, that was gunner, Gunner. But when did
when you healed him though? Correct?
Speaker 6: I healed him?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, uh no, I healed him after he was
fighting with Finn him and.
Speaker 3: That's right, that's right. Okay, Okay, So then that's yeah, yep,
that's right. I remember that. So you guys have a
little bit of a weird connection happening right now. So
I think I think then I I retract what I
was going to do, but I will do something you
know close and similar and that it is just that
same feeling that you got when you kind of like
touch the portal before, that feeling of you know that
I and that dread and something. But your instinct says
Stalker is maybe in trouble or in that kind of
and your feeling that comes with that trouble is very
distinctly the feeling you got when you touch the portal.
But I can't keep you any more.
Speaker 6: From that, Okay, and now I'm at oblivion for yees yep,
there isn't any change to the experience from three to four. Okay, nop.
Speaker 3: It's just a shift in difficulty. And if you take
one more oblivion, you roll on the table. But it
means it means that you auto succeed at the thing
that you are trying to do and you roll a
D one hundred and depending on your role, I mean,
there is a chance you could immediately die. But it's
if you roll.
Speaker 6: A hundred and every other life I take another. Yeah,
So if you I mean, I'm not going to take another.
I'm going to do whatever I can to not have
to do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you say that now until you're in a situation
where you feel like you're going to put you in it,
and I feel like an auto win is the only
way to win. I'm just saying just so that people
know how it works. You can't get close to an
auto win like that unless you're at oblivion for so
you kind of have to put yourself in a situation
where you're on the borderline, so that you have the
ability to be like no, oh, no, I win, I
auto win.
Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, okay, I.
Speaker 9: Think I mean, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 6: Can I choose when I get this information in the scene?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely cool, yep, Okay, go for it.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 9: I think we're in the same position where we were. Yeah,
I just pick up from there and we're talking about
how the blood my blood tastes and all this stuff.
I think I'm definitely where your blood was there, and
I say, well, I have We're still like this. I
think I have tasted my blood many times before. I
have to say, yours tastes very nice, CIEs like a
fine wine glasses. Of course, how do you feel? I'm
not excited.
Speaker 6: I sort of like take a slight step back from
the embrace and put my hand on your shoulder to
study myself. And I think that there's a level of
weariness that you might see on my face.
Speaker 8: I think I need a bad.
Speaker 9: Well we can find you about, But my friend, you
must enjoy this moment. I don't pardon if I have
projecting onto you, but we have just fought someone who
claimed to be the prince of a city. I don't
know about you, but this is something I could do before.
Perhaps the city is here or not. It's great, but
I have never seen someone who could do this before.
I have never been able to do these things I'm
doing before. Isn't this wonderful? Isn't this something new?
Speaker 6: As you're saying this, my vision is swimming. Everything is
starting to like blur, almost like I've been drugged. And
you're saying this, and like the smile that you have
just full of like joy and sort of power and prowess,
it's starting to look menacing and frightening and twisted. And
I take a step back, and then I feel the
sudden clench at my heart as the weight of danger
and stalker being in danger, and that feeling hits me.
Speaker 9: When this happens and I see it, I go right
up to Constantine. I go right up to you and
goes to the back of your head, so I wrench
your head to meet mine. I put our four heads
together like this. We are victorious. We have done something great.
Do not let this feeling slip away, revel in, enjoy it,
do not forget what's just happened, and then we can
move on to the next thing.
Speaker 6: Say, I'm clinging to the front of your shirt like
fists tight and I'm shaking in your arms.
Speaker 16: Stocker, Stalker, this goes he here is cafelic danger?
Speaker 9: Ah, well perhaps gunnery stare as well. I don't know why.
Speaker 6: No, you're not listening, and I push him back, but
my hand is still like in your shirt. I think
she think God siska felis there's danger. They're in danger, Stalker.
We must go.
Speaker 5: We're fatally going.
Speaker 8: They having conside, having conside?
Speaker 6: Uh? Can I can I sense how to get to him?
Is there any way that I can kind of like,
I don't think I know how to how to I
don't think I know how to do this, Like, I
don't think I've ever done this before. But I am
looking around the alleyway frantically and because I'm so my
oblivion is so high and everything looks so fucked. What
am I rolling?
Speaker 3: You are rolling? Technically mine? Okay, sorry mine thirty difficulty
and you are sorry you have oblivion four now? Yeah,
so I believe that puts you at minus thirty.
Speaker 7: Is it thirty?
Speaker 13: Holy shit?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think it's it's pretty intense. I think it's
thirty or forty, but I'm going to say thirty for
now to make it easier on you guys.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I definitely don't pass. There's no way that I
can like do anything. Probably that's not true. You should
roll for it, Okay. I rolled forty one.
Speaker 3: Oh okay then yeah, yeah, then no, because you can
always still roll in like a one or eleven, thirty three?
Yeah okay.
Speaker 9: So a question, hm, So if just an oblivion, if
it's thirty, yep, does that mean you just have to
roll a one? If you got to roll a one
or eleven or.
Speaker 3: Thirty three, yep, any one of those, you can roll
another worldly success and succeed. But it's got to be
one of those numbers. Or I mean, you could just
take oblivion five and no that's not.
Speaker 6: No, that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 9: How do they have the apartment? We can go back
to the apartment.
Speaker 6: I sort of nod, and then I whip my head
to you again and I go, that's the one. Yes,
I look very disoriented. Uh, And then I'll say quietly like.
Speaker 8: Don't believe.
Speaker 9: I will reach out my arm like for him to
take I come along. The night will land sooner than
later we should move. Then we stroll out of the alleyway.
I hope.
Speaker 3: I was gesturing for you guys to just switch. So
we're gonna switch scenes. Go for it?
Speaker 7: What the fuck do you mean? Where fucked?
Speaker 5: This creature consumes worlds and it's looking at us.
Speaker 7: I look up at the eyes, realizing that they're actually
looking at me. And they told you as much. Yeah,
it was.
Speaker 5: More of a.
Speaker 7: Feeling, all right, So we know absolutely nothing.
Speaker 5: Then, I guess you could choose to not leave my.
Speaker 11: Feeling, narrator. Would I know anything about these beans?
Speaker 3: You can roll for it if you'd like.
Speaker 5: Okay, is there a name for them? Oh?
Speaker 3: Yes, do you know it? Probably not unless you want
to roll for it. There's always a chance that inspiration
will strike, but it didn't necessarily give you anything that
made you go, Oh, that's what I should call it.
I don't think anyway. But again, you can roll both
of you would be rolling mind difficulty thirty or if
you want to draw on power from Ishna, it'll bump
it to forty. If you want to draw on power
from Moog as well, it'll bump to fifty.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I'll just do thirty. Yep, go for it forty three.
Speaker 5: I got a partial success.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, not only did you get you mirrored
each other forty three and three four?
Speaker 11: My god, do.
Speaker 5: We look at each other for a moment.
Speaker 3: Uh huh yep, yep, yep, And at.
Speaker 5: The same time we say.
Speaker 11: What would we say?
Speaker 3: Yeah, what would you say? It's a good question. I'm
gonna I'm gonna leave it to you, guys, because I can't.
Speaker 5: Really for a name. That's why it was rolling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's a partial so I'm just gonna let
you make something out there. Yeah, I'm not gonna to
give you the truth.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that film has not come out yet.
Speaker 7: Yes, but the character has existed for quite some time.
I will have no.
Speaker 5: Well, I don't think that it Stalker's a super nerd,
so that is fair. Uh, like Round of Hour or
something like that.
Speaker 11: I was rolling to see if I recognize anything about
what he just said about something that would eat worlds.
Speaker 3: And he was rolling for a name yep.
Speaker 11: So I don't know how inverted Roles would like work
out for that.
Speaker 3: I just think it's fucking insane and the odds are
incredibly low. So I'd like to do something cool here. Yeah,
there's in my brain unless you rolled like a one eleven,
twenty two or thirty three, the name that you haven't
ever encountered before isn't just going to suddenly pop into
your head. But I think I think he could potentially
give it a name or use something in this instance
in which to reference it that you guys could use,
which will have effects outside of you know, him just
coming up with a name. But as for you, if
you would know anything about I think I'm going to
do the same thing that I did for Stalker, which
is that you know, in myth in stories long long ago,
there were great, big entities that would consume worlds. So
I think probably, But I mean, I don't know if
Kora would be like but that's nuts, right, because that's
that can't be real. I don't know what your clan
believes in our worships or what core am I believe
in or worship, but I think up until this point
it has seemed mythical, almost like vampires.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, I think that makes sense.
Speaker 5: Yeah. To be clear, I wasn't trying to roll for
a specific name for this entity. I was just trying
to roll for what if I studied or learned about
these things what they were called.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I don't think. Yeah, it's I think world
leaders or something would probably be something that might come
to mind because of your partial success here, or you know,
they're just something with consumption, something like that. It's an
entity like that, or a mythological creature that will consume worlds,
apocalyptic bringer or something like that, something from revelations in
the Bible, you know, shit like that with fire and brimstone.
Speaker 5: Okay, so I say I would just say world ET,
then I guess I would. We would so we lock
eyes and I say world ETA, and you maybe the
flashes of like learning about that stuff would happen at
the same time.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think. I like to think that as you
were saying it, I saw that you really believed it,
that this is what you were talking about, which would
influence what I thought about the situation, because I would
be going off of this is just stuff of myth,
it doesn't exist. But in this moment, I'm like, wait,
maybe this does actually exist. Is he's so sure about
what he just experienced.
Speaker 7: That sounds frightening wonderful.
Speaker 11: That ways, now it's a confirmation of just how dangerous
this place is. All right, Well, now that you've spoken
to it, can we move on to trying to get
out of here?
Speaker 5: I was always willing to attempt to open the portal.
I just think we should try other avenues if you
both want that well.
Speaker 11: I don't think there's much for us to relate to
with the creature that has eaten worlds and has probably
been around longer than existence. I think whatever you found
out from that conversation is all we're going to find out.
Speaker 5: And you both realize this could make things worse.
Speaker 7: How do you figure.
Speaker 5: I could open a portal and we could step through
and cease to exist or become something else. I'm not
sure how it works when you are consumed by something
like this.
Speaker 7: But we are not consumed just yet, are we?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 5: I've been here before.
Speaker 7: Yes, and you left just the same.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Gunner brought me out.
Speaker 11: Wait when was when did Gunner? And you come here?
Speaker 5: Gonna woke me in a way, brought me back to
my body, But I was actually here. It wasn't a dream.
It is complicated.
Speaker 11: All I wish is to not be here long enough
that either my mind or my body finds its way
here again.
Speaker 5: Perhaps you could lend me some power.
Speaker 7: I'm not lending you shit across my arms.
Speaker 5: I wasn't talking to cholorized and my age. I have
seen not do things that un incredible.
Speaker 11: With the suggestion of lending power. I look at moog. Yes,
I think the only expression I would have is just
maybe a little bit of helplessness.
Speaker 7: He could do the thing, or he can do his thing.
I'm saying, very quietly, yeah.
Speaker 5: Are you did you sneak over to her and whisper
in her ears so I couldn't hear.
Speaker 3: You probably just dips so that you can't read his
lips and whispers to her. I will say, though, Kaura,
if you are feeling any little bit of helplessness, I
think there is a moment of hesitant uncoiling of your
passenger to try to ease that feeling for you, but
it is trepidacious.
Speaker 11: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 11: I don't want this to come down to just a
roll and something terrible recently. But also the only reason
we came here was to help the others. To get
to the others.
Speaker 3: We can do a series of three move girls, you
roll and stocker roles.
Speaker 11: Okay, yeah, let's do that. Can I I'm.
Speaker 6: So sorry to interrupt but something that Acorn just said.
We came here to try to get to the others,
and now we're trying to get to you. Can that
do anything whatsoever?
Speaker 3: That's what I was having you roll for earlier. Oh sorry, no,
that's okay, you're good. We'll see if it will assist
them in this moment. But yes, that is exactly how
this magic works.
Speaker 11: Okay, well, I guess makes sense. The rest of the
group does the same kind of roles and we'll see
who yep, gets anywhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so again, same thing for you, miss Cora.
If you want to, you know, bump your difficulty up
by calling on Nishna, you can do that. If you
want to call on Moog's power, you can bump it
up twenty instead of just the ten romishna. But otherwise
everyone's difficulty is going to be thirty or right.
Speaker 5: I'll go first.
Speaker 3: You can try to draw on Core's power if you'd
like it.
Speaker 7: I already got a seven.
Speaker 10: S.
Speaker 3: Okay, next up, Cora, go for it.
Speaker 11: Difficulty thirty is without any without anything, right, okay? Forty
six and stalker?
Speaker 5: So am I trying to open the portal? Right now?
Is that what this is for?
Speaker 3: I think we're doing a role to see if Coora
is gonna, like maybe give you power in which you
can then succeed at opening this portal. Yeah, at least
that was the I feel.
Speaker 11: I feel like we're rolling for entanglement here a little bit.
Speaker 5: Okay, the actual act of me.
Speaker 3: I mean it will I'm not going to make it.
Speaker 5: Okay, So if I am opening the portal, I think,
and you can tell me no if you want, I know,
but I okay, But I feel like it. I'm do
I feel some sort of connection to that dagger after
all of that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's an item that's going to give you a
shift if you use it. If you use it, so
fucking Philip pullman this ship, pull the dagger out in
slice a thing in reality. Let's go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, will.
Speaker 3: Although it as well for him?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so does that give me a shift?
Speaker 3: Yeah, as long as you're using the knife. But remember
the more you use the knife for the thing, the
harder it will be for you to do it without
the knife. So if somebody recognizes that the knife is
an important part of your spell casting and takes it
or breaks it or whatever puts a curse on it,
then it will it would endanger your ability to do
it without. Basically, mechanically, what this translates to is, as
long as you've got the dagger, it's going to give
you a positive shift, and if you're trying to do
something without it, you have a negative shift.
Speaker 5: That's all in all spell.
Speaker 3: Casting for certain spells in the beginning, but if you
start using it for everything, then yeah, you're going to
be entangled to it for your It's like a wizard's
staff essentially. You know, they end up using it for
all their spells because in their brain they're like, this
staff makes me stronger, and therefore it does. But then
when they don't have it, they have a negative shift.
Speaker 5: Yeah I'll use so yep, go for it. And this
is layers, correct.
Speaker 11: I think we're doing a general.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're doing a general role here, but you can
still have your shift from this this ritual yet from
the dagger. My god, Okay, yep.
Speaker 11: I want to I want to give like insight into this.
I'm gonna let you know Stocker. Stocker just said, asked
Cora if she would lend or asked me if I
would lend my power to him. But I'm standing there
because he's witnessed me doing incredible things. But I'm standing
here feeling helpless because the last few times I've tried
to do anything, it hasn't worked. And the only way
to make things work is to not focus on my
own power, but to focus on the situation. And so
I think that has introduced some level of doubt, self
doubt in me magically, and I don't I don't feel
like I can just solve this. So I'm standing there
feeling like I don't know if I can do this.
That's my mindset, which I think translates into that role.
Speaker 3: Yep, I think so too. That's perfect. I'll let you
three take over the narrative and describe what happens here. Please,
you can work together.
Speaker 5: I think we should start with the first role. I
think we should start with mog All right, you're up.
Speaker 12: I believe even though I told Stalker that he can't
have any of my ability, I would do. I want
to get out of here, and I inadvertently give some
of my power over to not him. But I think
the dagger itself and that flame.
Speaker 7: That represents my power that Chorra stuck her hand in
when she's using engulfs the dagger and puts an inscription
on it.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 7: If I can't do that then.
Speaker 3: No, No, I'm always gonna yes. And you okay, Chris,
could I possibly tell you what that inscription says?
Speaker 7: Yes, because otherwise it's going to be very silly.
Speaker 3: Either pick a number one through three or roll for it.
Roll me a one, D three two.
Speaker 7: We're just going to pick two.
Speaker 3: What did you intend to put on this dagger?
Speaker 7: My name as a as.
Speaker 3: A very just fucking belt it in my bones, bitch,
I knew what you were doing. And a name does
appear on the dagger, Zonathar, and that is z u
n A t h A R.
Speaker 7: And I fell to my knees a little bit. That
took him quite a bit out of me and my words.
I fall like rab onto Korra's shoulder.
Speaker 11: To help soften in a little bit, I wrapped my
arm around him to help prop him up.
Speaker 7: I didn't technically help him.
Speaker 11: I nod.
Speaker 7: And I get back up and look over Cora. Thank
you for not letting me fall. Of course, I think
I'm quite done now, though.
Speaker 3: I think normally this would give you maybe to just
so everyone understands kind of the level of power in
which you guys are exerting. I think this is what
normally cost someone two or three levels of oblivion. A
normal person would immediately be at level three oblivion after
what you've just done. But you won't, obviously because you
rolled really well. But yeah, okay.
Speaker 11: I look that stalker and say, I hope you realize
how generous that was of him. Yeah, And I'm gonna
be honest. I think this has changed a little bit
of how I see you. I don't think I trust
you as much as I once did. I'm not going
to share power. You got us in this, you can
get us out.
Speaker 5: Sometimes I forget how young you must be, and I'll
slice open a door.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 5: It is smoky and purple, like before even pink edges
are sharp, or before they were rough, and it is
perfect rectangle and my reach.
Speaker 7: And the.
Speaker 5: Door knob appears and I open it and step through.
Speaker 7: Next next time, Cora, we really just need to fucking
leave this guy so I.
Speaker 11: Can figure out what any of this means and how
all of this is happening. Sure you can consider that.
Speaker 5: All right, you're the boss.
Speaker 11: When you step through or I stup through as well.
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