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Speaker 2: Deathless is an improvised cinematic narrative with live production, including
music and dialog.
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Speaker 2: This story contains violence, disturbing imagery, adult themes, and a
darkness which may lead you doubting. For you, Lord, proceed
at your own risks.
Speaker 4: A lodge of shape, some shade, loget of fact, ma.
Speaker 5: That you say, stand up for the thing you can't
stand alud.
Speaker 6: Previously on death List, Stalker recovered from his wounds in
Cora's apartment. Gunner and Cora, after having nightmares, spoke briefly
before finding out information about Gunner's very special tongue. He
then left into the night, where he sat amongst the
chaos of a riot he seemed to inside. Fen and
Cora had a little bit of a confrontation. All the
while myself, Estevan and Constantine we went out into the
city to meet people, to relax, to one wine, to
see what kind of information we can find out, and
eventually he led us to the hecks and hound, a
place where I have seen there is some sort of
web clearly looking to ensnare people, and perhaps I have
made a grave mistake, as we have wandered in and
immediately we have been rendered nearly powerless by the woman
behind the bar, who now holds one of each of
our hands.
Speaker 3: It's a good place to start. Let's roll. It was excellent, Esteban,
thank you.
Speaker 6: Well. You know I was there last week, so.
Speaker 3: Makes it makes it easy?
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, oh yes, remembering things is so easy. What
are we rolling?
Speaker 3: You are rolling? Mind? I think whatever your magic stat
is actually any difficulty thirty oh should be lower than that,
but I'll give you thirty. That makes sense, nice and
safe number we've been using.
Speaker 6: Right Oopsie, oh, I have a partial success of thirty six.
Speaker 7: I have another worldly successive swanse.
Speaker 3: Okay, you have full control over what you share with
her right now in this moment. But she is going
to dig her thumbnails into your palms and draw blood
and then wipe her thumb along your palm, take the
blood up to her lips. She'll put both of her
thumbs in her mouth and she'll suck the blood out,
and then you're going to tell me what memory that
she sees.
Speaker 8: And we have control over the memory yet Yep.
Speaker 9: You both passed well and there is no I'm partial,
so please direct me in some way I think the way.
Speaker 3: I would allow, well, she is trying to so she
we we established this right that she lied to you
about you know.
Speaker 6: Yes, I asked what yeah, and.
Speaker 3: She didn't and then she took your palms, and now
she's trying to figure out what exactly you are. She
was intrigued by the fact that you said no one
else is uh feels comfortable saying what you are out loud.
So I was going to if you had failed the role,
how about this, I'll tell you what happens. If you'd
failed the role, you'd be showing her the moment you died.
So now that you've succeeded, you can change what it
is that she sees. That's kind of what she was
looking for. She's trying to figure out, you know. She
can sense that you're old, that you're you know, powerful,
which is usually the same thing. But I think the
way that I would interpret it as a partial failure
or a partial success is that you might you might
show something that you maybe wouldn't want to because it
is only partial, and that could be not necessarily about
the identity, but just that it was an uncomfortable moment.
Speaker 6: But she's looking to she was looking for the she's
looking for something to show.
Speaker 3: What we are, Yes, but I don't think she knows
exactly to look for. Yeah, so she's going for I'm
going to see if you you know, I'm looking for
the moment you died because you're very old and I
can feel that at least so.
Speaker 7: And we don't know that's what she's doing, right, She's
just doing something to our hands, and.
Speaker 8: We're pretty wid do what we were.
Speaker 6: Also, I'm pretty downstruck still because I rolled a ninety
ninety At some point she released constantly? Did I did
drop in?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 3: For sure?
Speaker 11: Yuh?
Speaker 8: Can I ask you a question?
Speaker 3: Yep?
Speaker 7: Do I get the sense that she has the intention
to harm? Can I roll to see if I get
a vibe.
Speaker 3: That she has intention? Can absolutely roll for this vibe? Yes? Absolutely?
This will be whatever your I believe for you. It's
your charisma, right, yeah, role that your soul stat Yeah,
go ahead and roll your soul stat. This one is
uh thirty as well?
Speaker 8: Okay, failure? Okay, how bad is that?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 10: What were you you?
Speaker 3: You were trying to determine her intention towards you?
Speaker 7: Or if she stays like yeah, yeah, if this is
like because I'm very intrigued by her. Yeah, but I
want to know if there's like if I need to
be smarter and think that she's trying to harm me.
I mean, she's cutting my hand open right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, here's the weirdest way. I'm going to give
you the meta info and then you can digest how
your character would interpret this, because it is a failed role.
But again, failure doesn't always mean that you don't succeed
at the thing. It could just mean that the information
that you glean is not helpful to you in the situation.
But it still could be the truth because that's way
more fun for me anyway as a GM. So she
absolutely would love to hurt you, but I don't know
if that's what she's doing right now in the second.
But you definitely need to be smarter. But no, there's
no hiding that she would enjoy every second of that.
And I think you can get that if you'd like.
Speaker 8: I give her a memory of.
Speaker 7: I give her a very violent and pornographic memory okay,
of a sexual encounter that I had where I like
fed off of a willing participant, but it was particularly
gruesome and the person was into it and it's like
bloody and horrifying, but like they're into it.
Speaker 8: I'm into it. But along with that touch is like
the memory of.
Speaker 7: How much power I felt at that time, how like
strong I was in the scene.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so she is going to glean like your
fangs and everything like this is very clearly she's going
to glean the vampiric nature of this act. Correct, Just
so that I'm clear, because you did succeed. You could
hide this from her if you wanted to. Okay, this
is not a man who hides.
Speaker 8: I'm very sorry. I'm sorry. A song.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean she's going to get it for me anyway.
Speaker 7: So yeah, so like for me, it's like, if she's
going to get this information, I might as well do
it with style.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure, for sure. Okay,
So okay, then before I describe what happens, because she's
getting these simultaneously, Esteban, what do you share?
Speaker 6: I think I share. There's a moment where I am
on a it's like a stone wall, like a low one,
like a low wall like it's you know, it would
be around a park or something like that, or someone's property.
It's a stone wall and there's someone I'm I was
laying down and now I'm sitting up, and there's a
woman sitting next to me. She this blonde hair, long hair,
you know, and an attractive woman. I look very disheveled.
I'm wearing, you know, stuff that looks like I was
at a very fancy party, maybe the night before, but
it's it's or maybe three nights before. But it's open
and it's dirty, and it was like I had just
been sleeping there. And I look very confused. I look
very distraught and worried. And this woman is rolling back
down her sleeve which has I guess she would see
clearly like holes in it that had maybe a little
bit of blood on it still, and she's rolling it
back down and she stands up. I have basically leaning
forward and I have blood on my chin. And she
starts to walk away, and I yelled her in Spanish
weight and she turns around and she says back to
me in Spanish, good luck. Oh no, sorry, oh shit.
She says something very specific to me. But I have
some control, right, yeah, yes, okay, yes, she says something
to me. It sounds like good luck, but it clearly
her mouth was saying something different.
Speaker 3: Oh I love that, Oh I love that's okay, okay, okay, but.
Speaker 6: She would feel this confusion and the NASA. This person's
walking away there, I'm feeling very weak, and it's this
desperation that I don't want them to leave because they
I don't know what's going on, but they do.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay. As she takes her thumbs out of her mouth,
I think we see temporary thangs and she's going to
exhibit some because her eyes are still white. She's going
to exhibit some behaviors from both of you from these
memories in quick succession. So maybe the hissing that you
did as you were feeding Constantine, and I think maybe
very very faintly she says wait, or whatever it was
that you just said, I think he said wait. Yeah,
she'll say, very faintly, wait. So you're if you weren't
acutely aware before that this has happened, and what memory
she has seen she has now you do now because
she's recreating some of that or like mirroring that as
it's happening, and then her eye then the fangs obviously
retracted into normalty. She's not And at this point, if
you didn't know before. She doesn't have she doesn't have
fangs like either of you, and her eyes returned to normal,
a bright blue, and I think she looks at you
with a excited hunger. Now you are very, very, very
powerful beings and she knows it, and I think it's uh.
I don't think she's seen anything like this walk into
the bar in a long time.
Speaker 6: And I'm still ninety nine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, yeah, yeah, I don't think she's gonna She
certainly won't purposely drop it on you now, and maybe
there is some mild excitement as she realizes she's dropped
it off Constantine.
Speaker 6: Does she say anything right away?
Speaker 3: I think she says I think she, very under her breath,
will say deathless. She absolutely will. But then she looks
at you puzzled, after she's kind of digested what just happened?
Why are you here? If not from the mages? Someone
put you here? You said, how do you know?
Speaker 6: Because we do not know how we got here? We
did not know each other beforehand, and now we have
woken up, Yeah, the same place.
Speaker 3: Where did you wake up?
Speaker 6: There is script in the graveyard, but it no longer exists,
or we can I find it.
Speaker 7: Which graveyard I'm looking at Esteban. I'm looking at Stebon now,
and I'm like, what is this?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Mm hmmm. I can take you there if you like.
Speaker 3: She will inhale uh as she considers this offer.
Speaker 6: I do not wish to go back there. I wish
to see this place.
Speaker 3: Interesting.
Speaker 7: I have a question for you. Why are you so interested?
We have much more to offer than where we woke up.
Speaker 3: I'm curious as to how you got here without my detection. Oh,
I'm curious who put you here? If not Mag's, then
can you detect a mutch? Ooh ooh ooh, this is
so fun. Okay, role for me, role for me. Holy shit, God,
I'm sorry, but it's fun to play around in her
brain sometimes. Go ahead and roll your social stat your
magic stat again.
Speaker 8: Yeah, difficulty.
Speaker 6: Detect this.
Speaker 3: I was going to make it easier for you because
she wants you to do it, but also I don't.
I just wants to see if you can do it. So, thirty,
I'm sorry, thirty, I had to work myself through that
for a second.
Speaker 8: Ah.
Speaker 3: She holds out her palm for you.
Speaker 7: I take it mm hmm gently in my hand, and
I look up at her and I bare my teeth
and I show my fangs. I like extend them out
because I think in this universe we all agree that
we can make them anyoti yep. So I uh pull
her hand close to me and I'm looking up at her,
and my teeth slide out of place, and I make
to bite her hand, but instead I lick a stripe
up her palm and then let her go.
Speaker 3: Okay, and that's where we're gonna switch scenes for a minute. Dude,
It's only because you shared what you shared too. I
don't think she would have done that otherwise had you
not been so egregiously violent in your memory. Okay, now
I kind of want to switch to Gunner. Gunner, where
are you? What are you doing? Are you still at
the cafe watching all this craziness happen or have you
gone somewhere else.
Speaker 12: I think I've left there after this fight, know, just
utter chaotic fight, you know, probably fizzles out at some
point and and I am probably just walking away from
the cafe with the fight in the background, like what's
left of it? You know, people really like giving it,
they're all. But I think, yeah, I'm leaving, and I
think I would probably am I feeling hungry at.
Speaker 3: All for blood, like you're used to feeling hungry or
something else. Yeah, okay, I feel like.
Speaker 12: That thought might cross my head, like am I? Like?
Speaker 3: Am I? Okay? So you're checking in with yourself to
be like, shouldn't I should be hungry about now? No?
You're not?
Speaker 12: Okay, So if I'm not feeling hungry, I think I would.
I think I would try to start making my way
back to chorus.
Speaker 3: Okay, I will have you roll whatever I guess for you.
This would be body difficulty forty. Why do you let
whatever is following you continue to follow you? I can't
imagine there's a world in which you are not aware
of its presence, but you let it follow you.
Speaker 13: Why?
Speaker 12: I think if I can recognize something's following me, then
I would view it as like a potential lead. You know,
if something's follow me, then they might you know, they
might know something. So maybe I'm trying to lead it.
Speaker 3: So like glure it. Okay, yep, somewhere around because you
went to a nearby cafe on the like main strip
and now you're walking back to Korras. I think that
they're somewhere around the cemetery. Ish you know that they're
no longer following you, or they've stayed back potentially, but
you can, even though that says seventy nine, you can
recognize this presence again when it So if anytime you
want to say, do I feel this thing, you can
and we'll roll for it. But you do have a
chance to recognize this thing again when you get to Korras.
So we have to do something funny because we're down
two players today. We're down fending Hora, but Stalker is
still here. So I'm not gonna speak for where Cora
and Ben might be, but for now, we're gonna say
they're still having a conversation, so they think they were
talking to each other previously, So we're gonna say that
that's what's happening right now and that's why you can't
encounter them at the moment. One more role for me,
which is your mind when you get to chorus.
Speaker 12: Okay, so yeah, I think I would arrive at Cora's
and maybe wait by the downstairs, like on the street level,
just maybe lean up against one of the walls and
then roll my mind.
Speaker 3: Okay, difficulty is going to be forty damn dude. Okay,
we got you to we got to get you to
eat a heart or something. Okay, So, yeah, it looks
like the same old apartment. Yeah, it looks like the
same old apartment. Okay, you can head in, what do
you do?
Speaker 12: I think I would be there to check on the
others and just to you know, I went out kind
of blew off some steam, I guess you could say,
and then I'm coming back. I did want to ask
what time is it, though, because that.
Speaker 14: Would be.
Speaker 3: The sast time, because we decided it wasn't that late, right,
and then you guys went out from your bar trip.
So I actually think it's probably around like two or
three in the morning, now, okay, yeah, that would make
sense to me, right, how long do you think you
guys were gone for? Constantin and Estevan.
Speaker 6: We've gone to two bars, good question. One was pretty
quick and we walked around a bit.
Speaker 3: So yeah, maybe it's like midnight actually two hours? Yeah,
because yeah, yeah, okay, all right, so we'll say it's
about just after midnight. A clock strikes twelve as he
walks through the goddamn door. Uh huh.
Speaker 12: I think I would just kind of be opening it
very slowly for some reason. I don't know why. I'm
like cautious and kind of like just look around when
I poke my head in through the apartment and just
slowly close it with both hands till it locks in again.
Speaker 3: So you definitely feel the presence of Cora and Fenn
in another room somewhere, or you hear them or whatever
with your extreme amazing revenant senses. And you also hear
Stalker shuffling, maybe slightly in the other room in the kitchen.
Still right, that's where you were, Stalker with your propped
up a little bit on the all.
Speaker 11: Yes, Okay, I think I would if Stalker is awake,
if I could see that he's awake, I would I
would go to him.
Speaker 12: So I make to make my way to wherever he
is in the apartment.
Speaker 3: I think he previously said, and correct me if I'm wrong, Stalker,
But I think you'd said that you're kind of like awake,
but your eyes are closed, right, You're still aware of
everything that's happening around you.
Speaker 15: Okay, Oh, fantastic, I've been I've been fully asleep or
that entire session okay, last.
Speaker 3: Week, all right, fantastic. Do you want to stay asleep?
There's no wrong answer here. By the way, you can.
Speaker 10: Basically I will. I would like to state to my
other players, I'm so sorry, but there's I think I
would sleep. I think you might sleep. Yeah, okay, unless
unless something woke him up, you know, like a big
bang or like somebody I'm gonna.
Speaker 16: Have right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say, your speighty senses might go
off because you have this big fucking scary ass thing
in the room with you. So we'll have you roll
whatever your awareness would be, so you can choose to
either do like a physical presence role like you're like,
actually your physical senses you can smell, you can hear whatever,
or you can do magic roles and you can sense
this crazy magical being standing next to you while you
are vulnerable your choice.
Speaker 10: This is a tough call. I think Stalker probably uses
I think he's used to using his physical senses, even
though in this world it would be he hasn't learned
yet how he used his mind in that way.
Speaker 3: I don't think.
Speaker 10: Yeah, okay, what what is the difficulty.
Speaker 3: We're gonna go with forty? What's your level of oblivion
and burn? Right now?
Speaker 10: I have no oblivion. I have two levels of burn.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeap, So don't forget to add that shift.
Speaker 10: Oh true, I mean I would have failed either way.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, so you rolled in eighty six, so
you are completely oblivious to Gunner's presence standing in the
kitchen over you. He looks pretty fucked up Gunner, and
so he's you know, if you because I don't know,
And again step in if you think you you know,
he wouldn't do this, But I guess I kind of
just imagine him standing in there, expecting him to go, Okay,
here's another warrior who's going to sense my presence, and
you kind of like, wait for a second. Maybe you
even shift your weight to give him the cue of
like I'm here and whatever, or maybe you're just seeing
how fucked up he is. But he is in a
deep sleep and oblivious to your presence.
Speaker 14: You're there.
Speaker 3: You can roll again. I'm not gonna let you willingly
wake up because you said you'd be sleeping, So you
can roll again to see if this disturbs you or not.
Sorry to be an ass, but you said it, not me,
So forty again, and do I need to put in?
Speaker 17: No?
Speaker 3: No, no, well no no, no, I'll I got it. My brain's
got it, So we get the sheets working the way
I want them to. Eighty four. He's basically dead. He's
not moving, he does not stalk.
Speaker 14: Can you hear me?
Speaker 10: Are you closer? Are you touching? Are you just I'm
standing at the same.
Speaker 14: Just standing there, just kind of.
Speaker 10: I would absolutely love Gunner and Stalker like they're the
guys in the party that are standing with their coats
on against the wall.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's no one around. Do you want
to see my ball bring that up?
Speaker 8: He couldn't help him.
Speaker 6: I couldn't help it. It was super perfect. No context,
no context, no context, Let's continue. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 12: From the fridge kind of grabs some whipped cream from
the fridge and puts it on Stalker's hand and tickles
his nose with a feather.
Speaker 7: I really thought that was going like a totally different direction.
Speaker 6: Just now, sound you're waiting for him to say, puts this,
puts one foot up on the counter.
Speaker 12: Grabs a peanut butter, My good, dude.
Speaker 10: Let's get serious. Jell okay, serious, seriously. That Stalker reaches
down and takes his top off, and.
Speaker 12: Okay, so I'll sort of kneel over now and like,
get a little closer to you.
Speaker 14: Oh, you're not looking too good.
Speaker 10: This is all this, This is where I would argue
that he would probably wake up.
Speaker 3: I know, but I'm going to be a total dick
and make you roll for it again because I agree
with you. I agree with you. But let's just roll
because I'm curious to see what Gunner would do if
you're still, if you're helpless here. Okay, I've got a
bunch of fucking monsters in a room together, and I
want to see what they do. Okay, all right, Yeah,
we can make the difficulty fifty to fifty if you want.
Speaker 10: But okay, yeah, let's do that and seventy nine.
Speaker 3: Oh the dice don't lie. That's the other thing too.
You rolled in eighty six and in eighty four, so
my brain was like, man, you're fucking out of it.
I also have another plan for you. So I think
you're not here at the moment. Okay, he doesn't just
wake up.
Speaker 14: You rich my hand out slowly.
Speaker 3: With the intention of touching him. I assume.
Speaker 14: Gets a little closer to his collar of his cloak,
and I want to grab his cloak.
Speaker 3: Okay, now now we need the role soccer I need
your roll me A one D six.
Speaker 9: Okay, uh three, Okay, you are not in the apartment
right now?
Speaker 3: You are, I believe, I assume you believe you are dreaming.
The world around you is wet, damp, mildew almost like
there's no fresh air that moves around here. Everything feels
stale and uncomfortable, and you've been here for a while.
The landscape is mostly empty. What do you do? Do
you walk around? Do you stay in place?
Speaker 6: Do you.
Speaker 10: I'm so sorry my audio actually cut out for a
bit of that. Yeah, sure, I got that. It's wet
and damp and it's mostly empty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that works, mostly empty, Which so I was asking
what would you do? Would you stay here or would
you walk around? In this dream?
Speaker 10: So I'm what kind of a place is it? Do
I What do I see?
Speaker 3: It's a mostly empty landscape, maybe like maybe you see
like dirt and earth and rock, but the rock is
weirdly dry looking, even though the world around you feel
it feels like a dampness and things smell slightly off
here as well, like again that mildew and that that staleness.
Like I think if you were to lick your lips
or try to swallow. You can't get that. You can't
get that taste of that rot out.
Speaker 10: You said, I knew I was dreaming?
Speaker 3: Is no, I said, I think you would assume you
were dreaming.
Speaker 10: Is what I would assume I'm dreaming, and I would
be very curious. Usually I can find whose dream it is?
Speaker 3: And how do you normally do that?
Speaker 10: I can all on things and find where are they?
It came from in a way, in a sense, and
it always goes back to created this place with their mind.
Speaker 3: Always comes back around. Okay, what does this feel like
when you pull on these things?
Speaker 10: Is it like?
Speaker 3: What is it like?
Speaker 10: It is like finding two jigsaw pieces that fit together perfectly, satisfying,
but the process can be jarring during result m it
can be viscerng, it can act.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, and is this a I'm assuming this is
a physical thing that you do, because the way that
you described yourself just now and that you use you know,
you're used to using your body rather than your mind.
So I'm imagining that you actually might trace a what
looks like a jigsaw piece in the air around you
or on rocks and things, to try to find your
edge of your puzzle piece. Is it a physical tactile
thing that you do, because in PBu you use you
need like three things at least to kind of like
do your ritual or your magic, and people don't realize
that what they're doing sometimes is part of the magic.
But physical, you know, drawing or doing tactile touch is
one that you could use here if you wanted to this.
Speaker 10: When I said physical, in this world, diamond his senses,
my senses of when someone is there is still physical,
even though my mind would probably work better. But in
the dream world, it is my magic.
Speaker 3: Okay, So how are you there?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, how do you amplify your magic?
Speaker 10: Then when I'm in the dream sometimes objects call out
to me and I can interesting them, pick them out,
and they look that same, they feel like they could.
Speaker 3: Fit somewhere else. Okay. So it's it's like a it's
a feeling that you're getting that something in this puzzle
piece is wrong, or like, oh, this piece connects to
this piece. You don't know how it is that you're
able to determine this, Okay.
Speaker 10: If I could give an example, yeah, that'd be great.
If I was standing at an office desk and.
Speaker 3: I definitely thought you were going to go back to
the previous joke and say, like, if I was in
this dream, bro, I was one hundred percent ready for
you to go there.
Speaker 10: Anyway, we were out in front of the other vampires
and they flashed me. I could have done that, yeah, anyway, Sorry,
it would have been very me. But now, if I
were standing in an office and I saw, let's say,
a a small globe on the desk, perhaps this globe
reaches out to me and I take it in my hand,
and the dream shifts and it is visceral. Okay, But
when I place the globe back where it is supposed
to go, it is the in the hands of the
person who imagined it, receiving it as a gift from
someone else.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay. It's that horrifying Reddit lamp story, isn't it
where you focus on the fucking lamp and you're like,
that's wrong, and yeah, that's so cool, that is so cool,
but also horrifying.
Speaker 10: No idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's this thing.
Speaker 10: Oh my god, it makes me want to say.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, it's this whole thing where someone had a
dream and they dreamed an entire life, but they kept
looking at this lamp in the living room, and it
was wrong and they knew not to keep looking at it,
but they kept looking at it anyway, and then they
woke up and realized that their whole family was dead
and that they were just dreaming. They had been in
an accident or something crazy. It was, Yeah, it's horrifying,
but it's that you have that ability, but you do
it in somebody else's so and to me, it's almost like,
if you're okay with this, but I think you know,
you guys are vampires. You're you're scary bad you know,
not maybe not bad, but you're scary very powerful things.
So I kind of really like the idea that you
could walk into somebody's dream and you could be like,
look at the lamp, look at the lamp, Look until
they wake up, right until they realize they're dreaming, and
then you speak to them. They don't necessarily wake up
from this space. You keep them there, but you're able
to give them the lamp in their hands until they
you know, viscerally, I'm like, I'm fucking dreaming, and then
you go, let's have a chat now, which is horrifying.
Speaker 10: I really don't want to make my dream walking God
Dear powerful, but I would I do imagine that. Yeah,
the potential for how you could control a person's mind
through a dream would be very strong. Yeah, so I'm
sure we'll find a way to limit that. But yeah,
the possibilities are not how I am.
Speaker 3: Somebody wrote me out of a fucking show once and
I went, Okay, yeah, cool, that's fun. Uh yeah, I'm
cool with that. We'll figure it out. But the thing
is is, like, there's always a chance that someone can
fight you, whors there's always a chance that you can
pick the wrong mind and trap yourself forever. You know, Like,
there's always a risk, so don't worry about it. Yeah,
it's an op power, but with great power comes great
risk and great costs. So I'm fine with that for now.
I don't know if you can necessarily know that you
can do all of these things in PBu, because you
just got here and your power does operate differently here
than it does in VTM in the world that you're from.
So that said, I think you when you're looking around
this space to see where these puzzle pieces are, you
don't see any There isn't anything that stands out to you.
As a lamp where you go. Okay, that's gonna wake
whoever this is up. That's going to show me whoever
this is. You don't see any of that. However, you
will hear and be unable to do anything about it.
You will hear Gunner speaking to you, and.
Speaker 14: I'm grabbing his collar. Hey, wake up, wake up.
Speaker 3: You hear him, but you are unable to do anything
about it at the moment, or at least, you heard
all of his Like are you here? You don't look
well all of that that just happened. You could hear it.
You're in this space, you're where it's Gunner's voice, but
there wasn't anything that you could do. Now he is
shaking you, so we'll have you roll like to get
out of here.
Speaker 10: Sorry, I'm have I been in this place and I
know time is timey? Whymy oh?
Speaker 3: I thought you're gonna say fucky, but that's cool. Time
is fucky.
Speaker 10: Well, I don't know where that would be from.
Speaker 3: No, not a clue.
Speaker 10: I was gonna say time, would I I'm trying to
how long have.
Speaker 3: I the entire past?
Speaker 10: For the whole two hours I've been in this place
and I haven't been able to figure anything out.
Speaker 3: That's right. I don't know if it's felt like two
hours to you, like, we can play with that. You know,
it can feel like you've only been here a few
minutes if you want.
Speaker 10: Well that. Yeah, I'm just trying to figure out if
I would want to eat his words or if I
would be more interested about where I am.
Speaker 3: You want to roll for it? We can roll a
one D twenty and see how many hours it's felt
like for you.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that'd be great.
Speaker 3: Let's do that.
Speaker 10: Then it's been it's felt like thirteen hours. Okay, I
think if we were in there for the vampires are patient.
Speaker 3: We are, yes, absolutely anything that lives that long.
Speaker 10: But I think it would be jarring to hear something
after thirteen hours of damp nothingness, So I would argue
that it would be I would want to, Yeah, go
for this voice. So what am I rolling?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 3: You're rolling the same thing again. We're going to do
fifty to fifty until something happens to turn the odds
in your favor on nine nineteen. Okay, yeah, you he's
shaking of your collar. Why don't you go ahead and
describe what happens as you exit this space? It will
be very similar to how you normally exit a dream.
Speaker 10: Yes, it's not very dissimilar from going to another layer
oddly enough, but with dreams aerries at the end strange
almost euphoria, tingling of the body when you realize that
you are attached to it again.
Speaker 3: Oh like you're foot falling asleep and then waking up
something like that.
Speaker 10: Yes, okay, but I think it feels I think it
feels kind of good. I don't think it's.
Speaker 3: Because this is this is like where you get your power, right.
I can't imagine it would feel good to anyone else.
You do this too, Okay, take it away, you two.
Speaker 12: You have to wake up, I said, tug on your
cloak a little more.
Speaker 10: My Actually no, I think my hands flex and I
don't know how injured I am now? Am I still
the same? Has anything improved?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry to do this too. I'm gonna have
you roll again. I can explain why if you'd like,
you don't have to.
Speaker 10: Okay, unless you think I need to know.
Speaker 3: I don't think you would want to know, because I
think purposely you will go out of your way to
like you repeated back to me, I know this is
a dream. Right, even though that's not at all what
I said. But you want your character to go this
is a dream. So therefore I learned from that moment
that you would maybe want me to withhold some of
that info so that you can just operate the way
your character would operate.
Speaker 10: What you should have learned from that moment is I'm dyslexic,
and I so words around in my head some.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, that's mine too. I thought I thought maybe
it was purposely, I don't know, some sort of you know,
just the way that you were kind of reforming things
in your head to stay in character. That's fine too.
Oh no, no, no, then okay, then I will tell
you to heal. You need to actually be sleeping and
not using an ability. And though you think you were dreaming,
you were not. So yeah, so I'm gonna have you
roll for it was that otherworldly success.
Speaker 10: Oh I'm sorry, I thought, but just so we're on
the same page. And you said that, I thought that
you meant I think that I'm using my ability, So
that's what I would have assumed. What do you mean
somehow I'm in someone.
Speaker 3: Else's dream, that's what you think?
Speaker 10: Yeah, not that I'm sleeping, Well, you think in my dream?
Speaker 3: Ay the way, you're not in a dream. You're not
in a dream. But Stoker would assume that you were
in a dream and that you were using your ability.
But that's not where you were just now, right, So
that's why I'm not letting you heal, because you were
not resting. You were somewhere else, if that makes sense.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So but is this other worldly success? This nineteen the
one I just asked you to roll just now to
wake up? Oh that was to wake up. Okay, roll
me one more, and it's going to be your body.
And the only reason I'm doing this is because it
felt for you. You were gone for twelve hours, so
it's possible you recovered some stuff. So we're going to
roll for it.
Speaker 10: And what is the difficulty?
Speaker 3: Fifty to fifty just for funzies, not ten ten other
worldly success? Okay, roll me one dy six.
Speaker 10: Four?
Speaker 3: Kay, you can recover four health. Your burn is going
to stay the same, you're staying at two burn. You're
recovering four health. But this is really important. This happens
instantaneously as you exit this space.
Speaker 10: Okay, yes, okay, So if I remember correctly, my injuries
I have, yes, still probably a very tender wound on
my upper chest. And then I think one of my
arms is still broken. Yes, And I want to say
it was that it was at two and then Constantine
gave me two, so it was that Four'll.
Speaker 3: Be at eight. Yes, and you've got ten totals, so
this is good. So just give you an idea, like,
you're going to be feeling physically pretty good. You're going
to have that mental, that physical exhaustion of the like
of the burn, but physically you're gonna heal quite a
lot here. You're gonna heal four in in in rapid
succession as he's grabbing you. Now, my question for you is,
and I'm trying to think of how to word this
in a way that keeps the mystery for you a
little bit. But this isn't how you normally heal, right,
because when I imagine being going to be crazy, Yeah,
when I think, I think when vampires or anything like
heal you. Guys we've talked about like it's slow, it's
there's no real pain associated with it. But I do
think that there, I do think there is pain related
to this. It might feel good to you based on
the way that you described, you know, the the numbness
of your feet and things coming back to you know,
that idea as you exit. But I do think it's
more like, okay, I have It's more like you were
time was stopped for you, but it was ticking up
a counter all that time, and then you're going to
experience it as you exit this space.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I get it. It's like the guy who
picked up the wrong Holy Grail, but the opposite, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Sort of.
Speaker 10: Instead of my face melting, my arms going to yep. Yeah.
So he's grabbing my collar and I I think my
eyes actually shoot open in that case, and with my
good arm, I grab his wrist and my eyes go wide,
and I lift my arm, my broken arm up and
it's clearly you can see the bone. It's in terrible shape.
And I and I'm looking into his eyes as my
arm knits itself back together and my chest knits itself
back together, and I just eyes wide, What are you
doing to me?
Speaker 12: I think I would use my strength now to hold
him down, because I don't know if he's coming to
attack me or whatever. So I'm now forcibly kind of
keeping him down.
Speaker 3: You don't, you don't have to roll for this, because
I think that you know, you are waking up from
from dream state for lack of a better description, and
you're kind of you're healing, and I don't think you
have the wherewithal at the moment to try to resist him.
If you'd like to argue that that, we can do that.
But I don't think he needs to roll for this.
What do you think is soccer?
Speaker 10: Well, yeah, I think I'm on the ground already, so
he can hold like he can hold me.
Speaker 3: Ye, okay.
Speaker 10: My reaction to that though, I think like I'm grabbing,
I'm holding his arm, he's pinning me down. I think
it would only be natural for me to like reach
down and show him my balls. That's great.
Speaker 18: Have the look of these, he's just commando under that cloak,
just completely commando.
Speaker 14: They but just nothing.
Speaker 8: He's just Donald ducking it all the time.
Speaker 10: So people think I'm wearing plants like a whole line.
It's breezy today, you guys have been noticing like he
does say it's breezy a lot. That's weird. He's always
saying he knows that the windows all the time gives
him a plus one.
Speaker 3: I can't be wearing.
Speaker 8: He's never wants adjusted, he's never wants as.
Speaker 12: Sucker shrinkage. Hell, when I'm holding him at at all
during that, Okay, it's not serious that I'm not.
Speaker 7: When you're holding them tight and clash.
Speaker 12: Him when before he even woke up, Am I feeling
anything from contact with him? Oh?
Speaker 3: That is such a great question. Go ahead and roll me.
You can do body if you want.
Speaker 16: Okay, forty yes, please, I'm sorry you said body, yes, please,
twenty six.
Speaker 3: All the times for you to fucking roll this when
you've been, like all of your roles lately have just
been fucking awful, this one is so good, bro. Okay,
m I don't know how you know this, but you've
rolled for it and you get it. So I'm gonna
leave it up to you to figure out how this
interpretation happens. Maybe because you're Gunner's magic comes from his body,
I feel like it has to be something related to that.
Maybe you actually feel like you are for a second
ripping him out of somewhere else. But there is not
a doubt in your mind. He wasn't dreaming. He was
he was somewhere else.
Speaker 10: Just now.
Speaker 3: And you can smell mildew on him, go ahead.
Speaker 10: I was just I just wanted to ask, like, would
he feel like it feels when I I don't actually
know if this replies, because I don't actually know what's
going on, but what I feel like it is when
I'm pulling someone around in a dream. Yep, okay.
Speaker 14: So now my other hand grabs your cloak as well,
and instead of pushing you down, I pull you close
to me.
Speaker 19: It's okay, I can't you.
Speaker 14: You're okay, And I pull you to my chest and
I want to say I wrap her on around you.
Now you're okay.
Speaker 17: It's just me.
Speaker 10: This is so strange for me. This is the most
of all of the incredibly strange things that have happened
in stalkers in entire existence, as.
Speaker 14: Uh uh.
Speaker 10: Vampire has ethless, this is probably the weirdest.
Speaker 3: Yeah, forget fucking slayer travel or anything like that. Getting
a hug, bro, what what SO will say before you continue?
Because I just looked to see what your previous role
was and it was a ten other world success and
his was another worldly success too. So in the future
when you're attempting, I know you don't really know what's
going on yet, but in the future when you attempt
something like this, you will be able to use Gunner
as a grounding pole. So interpret that however you wish.
But you only got out of there because of him.
I think you know that, and I think you probably
realize you were trapped wherever it was that you were,
and continue take it away.
Speaker 10: I in that moment of shock when all of this
is happening to my body and it's knitting itself back
together painfully, but feels similar and euphoric like it might
when you when I normally come back my body. But
it was a shock, and then to be embraced by
this strange giant leaves, my posture goes from rigid and
aggressive to just rigid and still. I think I s
straight in my back. I we I'll say, do you
know where I was? No?
Speaker 14: But you're here.
Speaker 10: With me now. I have to ask question to our
lovely narrator.
Speaker 3: I like the way you sing, narrator. Sorry, continue, I went.
Speaker 10: To British for a moment. I think, maybe has this
ever happened to me before?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 3: Getting a hug?
Speaker 10: I know the answer to that question. Twitching trapped in
what I think I think is someone's stream.
Speaker 3: Ooh, that's super interesting question, and I don't. We can
roll for it if you'd like, because I think the
possibility has always been there, Yeah, for you to get
into a mind that is considering what the work, the
nature of your work and what you do, and the
type of people that you kind of hunt down. I
would assume that there has probably the chance for you
to run into somebody who is expecting you and you know,
might have some vampiric ability to fuck with you back
is fairly high. So we can roll for it if
you'd like.
Speaker 10: Yes, but I have when I guess what I'm asking
is without my intention, do I end up in other
people's streams? Because I did not know?
Speaker 3: That has never happened before. Unless your unless your clan
will pull you. Does your clan do that to you?
Speaker 10: I don't think so. I once you get to a
certain place within my clan, there is no more testing.
It is very methodical, It is very rigid with how
we work. So something like that, I don't think so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, then, yeah, you have no idea this has never
happened to you before. Then for sure, just going to
sleep and randomly ending up in somebody's dream that you
didn't purposely go because I imagine you have to have
and we talked about this in a previous session, right
where you have to have some intention you kind of
like sit down, you prepare to do the thing. None
of that happened this time. You were just somewhere else
and you were trapped there, and you're lucky that somebody
tried to wake you up.
Speaker 10: Then my next words would be, I think who ever
brought us here just sent me a very clear message.
And I think I would loosen the grip of the
perceived hug and then back to your cloak around your
collar there, slowly lowering you back to the wall.
Speaker 19: Well, what did it say?
Speaker 10: We are in their power completely and undeniably and there
is no escape.
Speaker 3: Perfect im to switch scenes back at the hex and hound.
Speaker 8: Yeah mine shots.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she extended a hand, you licked it and then
let it go right. Yeah, So she holds her hand
out for a moment. I think maybe she tilts her
head a little bit at you, like, interesting, I let you,
I gave you this opportunity, and you are like naw that.
I think she's interpreting it as you're saying, that's too easy,
that's not as fun. So she'll then take her hand away.
Speaker 6: However, I stick my hand out. Wait what I sticks?
Speaker 3: Or to her?
Speaker 11: Now?
Speaker 6: To her? Uh?
Speaker 3: Interesting again? Okay, yeah, she will absolutely kind of take
your hand very gently. She's making eye contact with you
the entire time, waiting to see what you do when
she because you know what's coming, right, Do.
Speaker 6: You do know I'm going to bring her mouth up
to take blood from her. Wait, I'm taking her hand.
Speaker 3: Oh you want to take her hand?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 3: I see, I see. I thought you were offering your hand.
Speaker 6: No, no, I'm putting it out like that or either
whatever it is.
Speaker 3: Roll for me, okay, uh soul, I think, which is
also your statue?
Speaker 12: Right?
Speaker 3: Where is your mind?
Speaker 14: Mind?
Speaker 3: Okay, roll me mind?
Speaker 6: Then I'm assuming this is like thirty or lower. Yep,
thirty is it?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 6: That's five?
Speaker 3: Close thirty five. She'll let you take it.
Speaker 6: Yep, since I am ninety nine. Now, I'm going to
lift it up like this towards my mouth, going to
say may I.
Speaker 3: She doesn't say anything, but she waits. She doesn't take
her hand away.
Speaker 6: I think I'm going to do the same thing and
use my nail.
Speaker 3: And do you do the same thing that she just did,
which is use the nail and then you lick it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, then they drag it across the palm and then oh.
Speaker 3: Okay, and you're using your index finger instead of the thumb.
I just need to know if you're repeating.
Speaker 6: I'm going to do the same as I'm doing the
same use, then that.
Speaker 3: That makes it easier for you to cast the magic.
If you're repeating exactly, Yes.
Speaker 6: No, I would. I'm so I'm so trapped in this,
I would do the same thing, Okay if I was.
If I wasn't, I'd be a lot more loose with it.
I think, what are.
Speaker 3: You trying to do? Though? Are you trying to get
a memory from her?
Speaker 6: Yeah? I think one that I want to know. I
think even though I'm so just like in wrapped and
locked into this, it still wouldn't stop me from wondering
what the fuck she.
Speaker 3: Is okay, and wondering what the fuck she's like.
Speaker 6: I don't know because we walked in. You know. I'm
trying to think about how aware I would be that
something's happening to me and she's the cause of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Probably not with the ninety nine, I would say, Okay,
but what would frighten you because you failed so she's
going to give you one she wants to give you,
and I think tough question. It is a tough question for.
Speaker 6: A first something that would frighten me from someone else.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, because you're gonna you're gonna experience it and
you're gonna mirror it the same way that she did
for you. She's willingly let you you know, She's like, yeah,
for sure you can succeed at this and whatever you
want to know, I'll give it to you. But I'm
gonna I would say, well, I do it.
Speaker 6: I can think. No, I would say go for it.
Speaker 3: Hold on, I have to dm it to you to
make sure that this is accurate. Like that's the first
thing that came to mind, because it's relevant to you
with the water correct Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah,
I'm going to be as deelious as I can with this.
But yeah, okay, so you are. You are in a bathtub.
You can feel it as you are banging up against it.
You are struggling against something that is far, far stronger
than you. You are drowning. You cannot breathe, and I
think your head gets hit up against the bathtub. So
you know, you can hear the sound you know that
it's a bathtub, and it's that moment extended for thirty
seconds as you're drowning.
Speaker 6: Thirty seconds, thirty seconds.
Speaker 3: She's gonna purpose.
Speaker 6: Standing there for thirty seconds, or it just feels like
thirty seconds to you.
Speaker 3: It feels like thirty seconds. Yep, you know, maybe even
timeslows a bit as you're thrashing around and fighting against this,
but there does come a moment where you give up.
Speaker 6: Okay, he would be then when it ended, yea, even
though I don't need to breathe, I am, I am,
I am sorry.
Speaker 8: And I whipped to look at him.
Speaker 6: I'm not even looking at either of them, not even
looking at her anymore. I'm just kind of like looking down,
really just ashamed.
Speaker 3: She is probably grinning by this, as fucked up as
that is. I think this also would release you from
that ninety nine. Actually, I can't imagine that you would
stay enamored. You'll probably have to roll again in a
couple of minutes, but right now, Yeah, for the moment, Yeah,
I gave you. Yeah, she willingly let you do that,
which would break you out of it anyway. So yeah,
for sure, for that, for that brief moment while you're
kind of recovering her eyes will dart over back to
Constantine for a minute to see how you're reacting to
Esteban's reaction.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I immediately look guarded, like I look probably how
she would imagine I should look like. The whole time
I've been mm hmmm uh behaving in a surprising way.
I believe to her, and I think now it is
congruous with how she should expect me. Okay, but I'm
looking at her yea, because turn for him, look for sure?
Speaker 6: Yeah, sure, I have another question. Yes, I did just
taste her blood. You did, and I did, and I
am a death LISTI vampire, And now I realized this
is a very overwhelming and a pretty powerful feeling for me.
Speaker 3: You can always try, so you can.
Speaker 6: It was just a little bit of blood yep, But
do I get any I mean, I'm I mean, now
that I'm out of it, I'm getting the sense that
she's fucking powerful. Do I get any actual sense of
how much power is in her blood?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 3: Okay, role for it. Okay, I think it's got to
be under twenty considering that you.
Speaker 6: I mean, it doesn't just hit me. I mean, that's
part of what I guess what's hitting me is that
my own power, and I think I think because or
with that itself. Just tell me how fucking strong she's
that she made me just gasp for everyone.
Speaker 3: I want to give you a chance. But the only
reason I did it that way is because you failed.
So she's playing with you, right, so absolutely that you
could take that as like a powerful thing. But she
still let you do it, so there should still be
some risk to her because I did let you roll
whatever your which is mind, I think for you mind
and anything under a twenty and pray you get doubles
because that would be fune.
Speaker 6: No, yeah, I think, Okay, I just know she's strong
and and nothing else about it, okay, cool?
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, So you are watching you are
watching Esteban, and what are you thinking about right now?
Just concern for him?
Speaker 7: Correct, yes, okay, I'm concerned for him. Yeah, concern for him,
I think is yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: Not fear. Just to clarify, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, no, yeah, yeah,
I don't think she expects that, to be honest. Okay,
So it's at this moment that someone walks into the bar.
But I need to know. I think Cora is the
only one who saw the person in the alleyway. Correct this.
I don't know what Constantine did. I think we gave
you the opportunity, but I think you were like it was.
I think it was just Cora as well. Okay, wonderful, Okay,
So we see as in the audience, we see that
it's the same figure from the alleyway, tall, lanky hair
tied back in like a loose ponytail. It manages to
somehow always catch light the ponytail. But his face is
very gaunt and pale, and he it's like he's always obscured,
partially in shadow. As he walks around, like the shadows
move to cover his face for him, and his gaze
moved towards the two of you, and there is a
black void in his left eye that as he looks
over you, it's just for a moment, and then his
eyes dart back to her. But when that happens, you
catch that like that flare that animals have in the
night when you can see their yeah, see their eye
like that. It's just that one eye that does it.
And then he looks back, not for long, but you know,
just enough to make the space between you feel much
much smaller, and then he says something to her and
I can't do his voice, and I'm going to put
you on the spot, trench mouth. No, it's not who
you think it is. Can you can you? Can you do?
Speaker 10: Do you?
Speaker 3: Can you read?
Speaker 6: Try it?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Okay, we.
Speaker 6: Need to fucking talk now.
Speaker 20: Yep.
Speaker 3: That's that.
Speaker 17: That's it.
Speaker 3: That's it. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Okay, yeah, wow,
that's perfect.
Speaker 10: Okay.
Speaker 3: So then the two of them, she just she doesn't
acknowledge you anymore. Her eyes are totally focused on him
and only him. As he walks into the room, you
will notice that he doesn't he is steady in this
space anything that. Oh, did you get a thumbs up from? Yeah,
he's steady in this space where you've kind of felt
your power draining. If he feels that, he shows no
sign of it. Yeah it is. Yeah, he shows no
sign of it. He is absolutely seems to be very
comfortable in this space. And the closer you got to her,
the more you felt your power draining. He clearly doesn't
feel that way, because he'll like walk right up to
her and they move to an aside. She just ignores
you and goes to him, and they go stand over
in the corner for a moment and have a conversation.
What do you do?
Speaker 8: Can we leave?
Speaker 3: You can leave if you want. You absolutely can leave
if you want.
Speaker 7: I will get up and I will grab Esteban's wrist
and I will pull him to the exit and where
we're leaving, which I just want to clarify here kills
me personally as a human being.
Speaker 3: I love this so much. It's what you would do.
Speaker 8: It hurts me so violently.
Speaker 7: I want to stay, but I just, yeah, I think
at this point I would be like, no longer interested
in this little fun game. First of all, she's stopped
paying attention to us. Yep, it's not fun. She stopped
paying attention with I don't care about this guy who
just walked in. Wow, okay whatever, And she made him
feel weird.
Speaker 8: I'm not into that.
Speaker 3: Did she make him? He asked for her hand and
she just gave it to him. I don't think, you know.
Speaker 7: And then he looked all yeah, well yeah, but then
he looked all like weird and he was breathing hard,
and then he said I'm sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh god,
you know what, Okay, give me a second, Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, no, well a little let's take a moment. They're talking,
so you can take a moment to discuss with each other.
Speaker 8: I'll kind of let you tug. I'll tug at your wrist.
Do you want to leave?
Speaker 6: I straightened myself out. I feel like I'm recovering. I'm
not locked down under her anymore, and I'm processing what
has happened.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, hold on, yes, I like the sound of that.
Speaker 8: What would make Esteban feel better?
Speaker 3: That's such a hell? Can I you cannot?
Speaker 10: In a damn it?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I already feel better her because I will say,
do not worry. This was not my memory, This was
not me. I would never do what she did. What
did she do? She gave up? Or at least this
is what she showed me.
Speaker 8: I look at her while she speaks to this individual.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, Oh that's such a good question. Go ahead
and roll for me. You can look with just your eyeballs,
or you can I'm looking just okay. I was gonna say,
you know your magic is locked here, but you can try.
You can always try. Okay, Well, have your eyeballs.
Speaker 7: Very I mean, I have a high social stat so
I mean that's a question.
Speaker 6: Right, That's what I mean.
Speaker 3: If I want to just your eyeballs or do you
want to try to read the I want to read
the vibe. Yep, so go for the social.
Speaker 8: Difficulty.
Speaker 3: Uh thirty Okay. I actually I feel like I want
to give forty for you because I don't think they care.
I yeah, I could do forty. I don't think they
give a shit. If you're looking one probably doesn't. Oh,
doesn't matter what you told the Okay, so this is yeah,
this is a rizzk lord. You rolled a five, which
is an otherworldly success, and that means I need to
I really want to give you something magical here, and
it can't be from magic because you don't have magic here,
but you roll the five, and I'm going to give
this to you. So somehow, I don't know if it's
body language or what you're going to get. You're going
to get something from.
Speaker 8: Them body language.
Speaker 3: Now my question is I want you to very specifically
ask me what you want to know in regards to
the nature of their relationship, and I can answer that
for you. Otherwise that you know, I'll just pick something
at random. But I feel like Constantine has a remote
goal here.
Speaker 7: I'm going to list off a couple of the questions. Yeah,
you can decide which ones you want to answer.
Speaker 3: Yep, yep.
Speaker 8: Are they intimate? Clearly? Have they have? Have they had?
Do they have an intimate relationship?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 8: Which one speaks to having more power than the other?
Speaker 3: M hmm okay, And what's your third question? I'll answer
all three with that five rule of threes.
Speaker 7: How much do they care about what they're currently talking about?
Speaker 3: That's such a good question. Okay, So I have a
follow up question for you though, when you say intimate,
because my answer to that is yes, But I don't know, like,
are you asking specifically your version of intimacy, because.
Speaker 7: They constantine would be thinking yes, I would be thinking
about mmmmm, yeah, I'm I'm looking for.
Speaker 8: I'm looking for vulnerability.
Speaker 7: But each other, like an authentic openness maybe not okay,
authentic might be a strong word.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're not guarded. No, there is an intimacy here.
Speaker 8: There's an understanding, but there is.
Speaker 3: An intimacy here. Yeah, they're intimate in one way or
the other.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't really care in what way.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Second question was who's stronger of the two?
Speaker 7: Which one of them seems like they have more power
over the other, like.
Speaker 3: And I don't mean I don't mean like yeah, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 8: I don't mean magical power.
Speaker 3: I mean like who is it's about equal, it's about
about equal. Yeah, it looks like Yes. I think if
you were to try to gauge that, it might switch
in the middle of a conversation, right, do you know
what I mean? We're kind of why yeah, where you're
watching that, like it's like a like a game maybe
that they would play with each other without realizing that
they're doing it, because I don't think they're intentionally doing that,
And I think you can gauge that. And the third
question was how much do they care about what they're
talking about? Yes, very little. How you find it? They
find it mildly interesting, intriguing.
Speaker 8: That's so interesting to me.
Speaker 3: But she can't take her eyes off of them. She
doesn't acknowledge you at all.
Speaker 8: That is so interesting to me.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, would you like to leave?
Speaker 3: I'm having a.
Speaker 7: Hard time hearing you now now I'm just staring at them, Okay,
Will the intensity with which she reacted to us, and
then this person comes in and she doesn't seem to
care about what she's talking about with him, and he
doesn't have power over her in any way, and she
no longer cares about us. Being here is so interesting. Yes,
let's go, but I want to remember this place.
Speaker 6: Well, we kind of leave with us saying goodbye? Can
we not? And I want to vampire speed run right
next to the two of them while they're talking.
Speaker 3: Whoa okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 6: And immediately I'm going to start talking. Well, I'm sorry,
my friend, and I will go. I apologize for interrupting.
I swear I did not hear anything. But perhaps next
time we come back we can have a drink and
then I vampire speed out unless she does something before.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing, and I want to I know you do.
So here's the thing. Here's the decision that I have
to make, and i'd like to together.
Speaker 6: Yes, were they like off hidden somewhere, but they're in
the open? Okay? Then yeah, I walk right over to it,
zip right over.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, okay, So here's the decision.
Speaker 6: Without any type of Yeah.
Speaker 3: Here's the decision we need to make, and i'd like
us to make it together. Are your abilities of your
physical abilities as a deathless? Are they intrinsically tied in
with your magic, because I'm inclined to say this is
one of the reasons why people are so afraid of you,
because your physical prowess is not affected by.
Speaker 6: By magic.
Speaker 3: So I'm willing to say you can absolutely do this.
And it's weird, right because most people would never be
able to do this, but you are a revenant, you
are there are reasons people fear you.
Speaker 6: This can the reason I would say, well, because here's
I want to think about it in terms of you know,
like Stocker or Gunner. I mean, I don't know what
the fuck's going on with Fan anyway, it's a whole
nother bag. But where they have, they might have magic
that makes them stronger and stuff too. So, but if
there's like a baseline for because you even said earlier,
you know, you're like you guys are vampires, you're revenue.
You can do a bunch of supernatural shit. Yeah, But
then people like Gunner, their magic is what makes them
go higher, up right and go beyond where he could
tear our fucking limbs off, even though we're as strong
as we are.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, it's like the difference between being a
mage and being a natural born predator. It's like you,
if you can if the magic that if our abilities
only come from magic, then what is our difference from
just a highly skilled mage. What makes us more terrifying
than a wizard or anyone else who.
Speaker 3: Can do exactly exactly.
Speaker 7: I think it's got to be like a biological Yeah, yeah,
I think I agree with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think for sure that you have the ability
to do this, because that's just startling by itself.
Speaker 6: Like yeah, and I and I think we, I mean,
we would be able to feel that we could still
do this stuff, especially now that I'm aware that I was,
I'm being smothered like whatever magic stuff I have. Yeah, well,
because then just to go into it, it's I'm sitting
there and she did this to me, and then she
just walked away like we're nothing. Clearly wear something because
she wouldn't have done that in the first place. So
now now it's like, if you, if you want to
act like we're nothing, let me remind you that we're
still very much something even if you stamp out our magic.
But as friendly as I can be, but it will
be extremely started, like to.
Speaker 3: Imagine, So then I need you to roll actually mine, Okay,
difficulty thirty.
Speaker 6: This has not been great for me after the start.
Speaker 3: Just don't roll in ninety nine, you'll be fine.
Speaker 6: How about a twenty nine? Okay, just under otherworldly success.
Speaker 3: This is what you've been waiting for. But it was
with the wrong person. So I think he looks over
at you as you approach. They probably both do.
Speaker 6: Actually, I mean, can they see me approach?
Speaker 3: I mean when you are there, So they are there, right, yeah,
so they're gonna look over, and you know they look
at you. She is, I think a bit more startled
than he is. Actually, she's very clearly was not expecting
you to be able to do this. But when you
look at him, you feel what you felt at the coffin.
So whatever that dark magic that terrifies you, you feel
that here.
Speaker 6: I think looks as I am saying, well, it was
lovely to meet you, and I'm talking this, and I'm
feeling it. By the end, I'm completely turned and looking
at him instead of really my intention was her. Yeah, yeah,
And I probably looked for a second and I feel
it and then I try to turn my gaze back
to her.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you also rolled a twenty nine, so there's something ooh,
there's something strange here, and I don't think you don't
think you understand why, But for some reason you think
of Cora here as well. There's something about both.
Speaker 6: Of I'm going to look at this other. If they
don't like fucking blasphemy or something.
Speaker 3: I don't think they do.
Speaker 6: Actually, okay, they don't.
Speaker 3: They're not violent with you here. I think she's looking
at you. She's going to speak, but I'd like to
see what you do first.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was wondering what they call you. Should we return?
Speaker 3: She is now gazed on you, but says, was it them?
I turned to him, yeah, and he says yes. And
now both of you can roll whatever your mind is.
Speaker 8: Oh boy, is it mine still for me?
Speaker 3: Yep? Or yes? Yes? Because this is a this is
a thing she's doing to your thirty yep, thirty again.
I'm so sorry, twenty eight.
Speaker 6: I'm getting lower.
Speaker 17: Yes, I'm having internet issues.
Speaker 3: You're getting nice.
Speaker 6: Holy shit, Oh my god, you're n twenty nine, twenty seven.
Speaker 3: That's so cool. Okay, So I think for you, this
isn't something that she is doing purposefully to you. It
is your distance from her. So I think if you
remember when you first came in here, the closer you
got to her, the more you felt your power being
you know, kind of drained. So that is absolutely what
happens here when you're very, very very close to her. However,
you also feel sort of amplified standing next to him.
So I'm going to say that that is why you've
got this twenty nine time, because I don't think you
know enough yet to know how to fight something like her.
So but you are aware with this fucking otherworldly success.
You're aware that she's negating or taking from you, and
he is amplifying both her and you when they're standing
next to each other, and it feels really good.
Speaker 6: But she doesn't say anything.
Speaker 3: She will if you don't do anything after I ask
you out, So I'm gonna let you Okay, Yeah.
Speaker 6: I'm just I'm going to feel this. I mean, if
I can, I mean, if I can keep my composure
enough to be like what the fuck is happening? Yeah,
like I'm really I'm really focused on I need to
get something back because that was really brutal for him,
Like that was like, yes, yeah, hey, here's some trauma
from that that you will that will smack into you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, totally. You had a fight in the street.
Speaker 6: Oh we did.
Speaker 3: She will gesture to these stools at the bar. I
would like you to sit and tell me about it.
Speaker 6: That would be happy to But what do I call you?
Speaker 3: Please? Charisma or mind whatever you would like.
Speaker 6: But I think you tell me which is more if
it's crazy about.
Speaker 3: Charisma because you're you don't have your power here thirty.
I'm actually going to give you a forty because you
fucking walked over here with lightning.
Speaker 6: Speed twenty four. Now I can miss.
Speaker 3: Really been done before. Okay, don't say that, don't.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's not gonna last forever. I might as
well gloat. Now I'm not going to ask to do
anything for the rest of the episode.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it, Ophidia.
Speaker 6: Phthia.
Speaker 8: Is she lying?
Speaker 3: You can roll for it.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I just choose to believe her. Yep, especially after what
everybody when we were in the Rabbit and they're talking
about using other names and things like that.
Speaker 3: Ninety eight failure on if she lied, Yeah, I think
you're not sure. But what I will give you with
a ninety eight is there is a slight enjoyment she
gets using this one.
Speaker 8: Okay, cool, Yeah, what little puppy she is?
Speaker 6: Oh, Phithia. I believe my friend and I will perhaps
stay for a drink after all. I apologize again for interrupting.
Speaker 3: Perfect.
Speaker 6: I think I will look at the other guy very
quickly and go, have we met before? Oh okay, because
of the feeling yeah thing that they said.
Speaker 3: Feeling yeah yeah, yeah, I just need you to roll
one more time for me.
Speaker 6: Okay, oh shit, so sorry? Yeah, what is this one soul? Again?
Speaker 3: No, this is your mind, right, because that's where your
magic comes from, thirty or forty thirty seventy eight. It
is just as un settling as that coffin when you
look at him. So I don't know if you maintain
eye contact or if you casually try to make it
you know.
Speaker 6: You just I think it's I still unsettle. That was
more unsetting because I just woke up and I don't
know what the fuck was happening. I mean, I still
don't want anything to do with it. Really, yeah, but
it was. But it's familiar and it's and it's powerful
and but yeah, so I'm like, I'm not going to
fuck with him. If he says nothing or just stares.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he I think he smirks. He might
actually say yeah, he might actually say something. I feel
like he would have a cheeky response of like he'd
remember you if you were worth remembering or something like that. Okay,
something along those lines. Yeah.
Speaker 6: And then but perhaps you have one of those faces?
Speaker 10: Wow?
Speaker 6: Okay, and then excuse me then and I will go
have a seat over to give them some space. It
appears we are going to stay for a drink after all?
Canstantine allow me to buy it for you?
Speaker 3: What do you do?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 8: What what was that I said that I have?
Speaker 6: I have? She has invited us to stay a bit longer,
allow me to buy you a drink of which I
have no money to pay for.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's okay, she doesn't she doesn't feel any coin anyway.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this one is on me.
Speaker 8: I think if she's she's watching me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, her eyes have moved back to you now,
very curious.
Speaker 8: I would take.
Speaker 7: Painstaking effort two from the moment he says that, to
smooth out my.
Speaker 8: Expression and my gestures and my physicality.
Speaker 7: Sort of yes, but it would it would be over
a period of time.
Speaker 10: M hm.
Speaker 7: Like at first I would kind of keep it and
that'd be a okay, twist my arm, you know, and
then I would kind of like lean back into it slowly.
Speaker 8: It wouldn't be I'm keeping on myself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, but I'm.
Speaker 7: Trying to build myself back up to the same thing.
I want her to think that I'm frilly and superficial.
Speaker 3: So okay, I don't know if that's possible now after
you showed her what you showed her. But that's interesting. Yeah, yeah,
but yeah, it's fair. That's fair. Okay, And that's where
we're gonna switch scenes back to Gunner and Stalker.
Speaker 14: I am given what you have just said. I let
go and rise, all the while looking at you.
Speaker 12: Heaven.
Speaker 14: We met eyes during the last thing. You said it
is unfortunate to find yourself powerless, but I don't believe
that is the case. The there's a reason we're all
here but where we were, and it's why I'm here
for you.
Speaker 4: And you.
Speaker 10: To me.
Speaker 14: I think we have much more power pour.
Speaker 5: And you realize.
Speaker 10: I push myself up against the wall a bit and
pull my knees up and rest my head back against
the wall. I'm sitting a little more upright now, and
I close my eyes. Didn't say I didn't say we
were powerless. I just said, we are completely in their power.
But just happened to me? And how we got here
I think is connected, and I believe we are dealing
with someone. Are some people who have more power than
we are used to.
Speaker 14: With that all break eye contact, sort of approach the
exit of the kitchen and grow more relaxed, lean up
against a wall and look back at him. You know
when you're sleep, you are the most vulnerable. When you're injured,
could be something's chance to strike. No, we're here for each.
Speaker 5: Other now.
Speaker 14: And I need your help. Something followed me here.
Speaker 10: I stand up. Believe you are going to help me
find something followed you to the apartment.
Speaker 14: Or yes, but as I got near it faded away
the feeling they could or whatever it is. No, we
are here. We must get ahead of it.
Speaker 10: H tell me.
Speaker 14: You feel it for aunt stalker.
Speaker 10: One moment, I have to check something. Uh all right,
I'm just reading uh the description for level two burn
right now.
Speaker 3: Oh, I didn't want to interrupt. I'm trying to think
of how to say this without uh. Gunner. Let's go
ahead and have you roll real quick. Do your do
your body roll difficulty is fifty to fifty yep, okay,
eighty two. Okay, that's okay, that's so weird, but I
love it. So Gunner has this ability to rally and
kind of like encourage you. So what's going to happen
is you're gonna feel like you don't have burn right
now when he kind of gives you this speech up
for a hunt to interpret that however you want, but
he didn't actually remove it from you yet. One day
he will know how to do this. But for now,
it just feels like you don't have the burn.
Speaker 10: All of a sudden, I feel like I don't have
any burn.
Speaker 3: M I think of it like motivational speech. If you want,
like you can you know, it's not like your body.
You know, you can just be like you know what,
I can fucking do it or whatever however you want
to interpret it.
Speaker 10: Which direction did you come from?
Speaker 14: How about I show you?
Speaker 15: Ah?
Speaker 10: The reason I ask is we should exit via window
the opposite direction and use the roofs to track. I'll pray.
Speaker 14: I want you to follow me in the shadows.
Speaker 21: Yeah, whatever it was might be looking for me again,
very well. I will want you.
Speaker 3: You take him out. Oh sorry, go ahead, So you
take him out of the apartment. My question for you
is do you trace your steps backward? I know he's
behind you, watching from the shadows, but do you kind
of like go back to where you lost that feeling
or do you go back?
Speaker 12: I would, yeah, yeah, I would try to my my
instinct would it be to walk that same path where
I how I how I got to the apartment, Just
basically make that rough same pass, just hopefully that hoping
that it would follow me again.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, okay, go ahead and roll for me. We're
gonna roll body, because that's where your magic comes from.
The difficulty is going to be forty again. This is
not for your success in retracing your steps, is for
something else entirely.
Speaker 14: Seventy one okay.
Speaker 3: Now roll me A one D four takes forty minutes.
Where are you in the forty minutes? Have you gone
all the way back kind of towards the cafe?
Speaker 12: I think I've taken my time getting back roughly to
the French Quarter cafe area, okay, and purposefully taking my
time knowing that stalker is looking over me and just
looking for that feeling again.
Speaker 3: That French Quarter cafe is on the other side of
Bourbon Street. If I'm not mistaken, Can someone confirm that
for me real quick? As in, you're on the other
side of the hex and Hound, which is totally cool,
but it means you guys are kind of like we
see them crossing paths to where Esteban and constantinaar. At
the moment, I think, so, yeah, okay, fantastic. So it
takes you forty that makes sense. Then why it takes
you forty minutes to walk over there to this French quarter.
Speaker 6: It's it's very cool, yes too, it's they're very close.
Speaker 3: So Stalker, go ahead and roll for me your mind gunner,
you two difficulties thirty.
Speaker 10: I just I would be on a different layer, like confuscated.
Speaker 3: Okay, watching him yep. So what I'm going to ask
that you do is when you're trying to obfuskate, you
say OFU skate unless you are purposely trying to do
the appealing layer just because one's going to be easier
for you to do than the other at the moment.
Speaker 10: So yeah, yep, okay, I'm trying to obfuskate yep, like
like I did with the battle with the Skeleton people.
Speaker 3: It is on another layer. But for you and the
way that human the way the mind works is for you,
it's like second nature to obfuskate. So if you're thinking,
I'm going to try to affuskate, it's going to be
much easier for you to do that than it is.
It's the whole entanglement thing too. You've done this one
hundred times before, whereas if you're purposely trying to peel
back a layer, it takes a little bit more finesse
and expertise for you to do that. You though they're
technically the same thing, it's how you're approaching the magic casting. Yep, okay,
so go for it.
Speaker 10: So am I rolling to obfuscate?
Speaker 3: Then yes, your difficulty for that, we're just going to
do fifty to fifty for that. Then I also need
both of you to do a mind role for me.
Difficulty thirty.
Speaker 10: I am obfuscated, I got a fourteen.
Speaker 3: Okay, perfect, and I would pull yep, nope, you're good.
Speaker 10: I would be a little bit. I would still because
I know there are it works differently here, so I
know that obfuscation doesn't work on everyone. I would also
be trying to, you know, follow from a little bit
of a distance and not being standing completely out in
the open, things like that that might help conceal me. Okay,
just so that we know that I'm not like standing
next to him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, relying on obfuse gate Yep, got it. You're still
doing the you're still doing the body work. Yeah, okay, secures.
Speaker 10: Yeah, seventy eight I failed as well.
Speaker 3: Okay, then okay, you are probably about I don't know
how you did this, but to me, it just makes
sense that you did because you are deathless. You didn't
feel it on the way there. You know, when you
pass by the web the way that Esteban did, you
also failed, and I think you have to succeed to
be able to feel this. But you get to the
French quarter, okay, but then you will feel a pull
towards the hex and hound the way they did as well,
because you've both failed and it's not too far from
this French quarter where you were guiding him. So Gunner,
when you feel this pole, I'm curious how you react
to it. You don't know that you're being pulled somewhere,
but you do feel a pole, if that makes sense,
Like you don't know that it's like a I think
it it would probably present itself as like instinct maybe
like oh, I should go over here. But I'm wondering
how you interpret that, Like what does that look like
and seem like for Gunner, I say, the whole.
Speaker 14: Time I've been walking, it's like gine taking a walk
through the woods. I myself, even with the noise of
the city, I feel like I heard a crack.
Speaker 5: Or something.
Speaker 14: Out in the woods noise and interestinct actually want to
follow that direction. I think that's what it would be.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, okay, Salker, you are successfully obfuscated, which to
us is that he is on a different layer at
the moment. So we do see that kind of like
constantine esque, even though it's not infernal. I think we
said you said purple, right, it's talker, Yeah, it's yeah.
Speaker 10: Like a purple with a black smoke, I think is
when I.
Speaker 3: Say, okay, yeah, So we kind of see that, like
you know this version of the street that where there's
you have this like purple wind and strange like inky
texture that is lifting off of things as you move
and you navigate around. You can still see where the
cars are and where the roofs are, but you are
just on a different layer of the of this instance
of what you know you're seeing, and as you are
getting pulled closer to the hex and hound, I'll have
you roll one more time. Mind difficulty is still thirty
because as you're getting closer, you can feel your power
weakening a little bit. So I'd like to give you
another chance to not walk in here. Yo unreal, Oh
my god. Okay, so, oh my god, oh my god.
Speaker 17: Okay.
Speaker 3: So Stoker rolls a seventy four, but Gunner rolls a
seven and other worldly success. So it is the same
thing that happens to Esteban. Okay, you suddenly are acutely
aware of a two things are going to happen here.
You're acutely aware of the spider's web that is around
this area of the city. And it starts with a
feeling of rocking. I don't know if you would, oh, yes,
your history, like you're on open water. But then after
a moment, you realize it's not an open ocean that
you feel like you are on. You are in a
web that is blowing in the wind. And then suddenly,
in that instance, you can see the thread of this
like you know, white translucent, but you can catch it
in the light of the street. Lamps and the neon
signs that you are seeing this web that you are on,
and Stalker presumably is on. I think as you look
around you can probably you know where Stalker is, even
though you can't see him. You feel where he is
with this other worldly success, and you may go into
this bar, but it is absolutely there is no mistaking
that it is a spider's web that you would be
willingly walking into, should you choose to do so. But
I also think you absolutely sense with a seven that
Esteban and Constantine are there, however they feel to you,
that's what you feel, Constantine probably more so than Esteban.
Speaker 12: Would I be able to resist this?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? You roll a seven, you can absolutely resist this pull.
You can also, with your newfound skill of grounding your
new friend here, ground him as well, should you choose
to do so.
Speaker 12: Where do I feel Stalker is in relation to me?
Speaker 3: Oh, he's probably like up on a rooftop, you know,
kind of behind you, a little bit following behind you.
Speaker 14: Can you hear me?
Speaker 10: Can I?
Speaker 3: I don't know, I was gonna say, I don't know
if that's how it works, But you guys are deathless
and we're gonna find out if that's how it works,
so go ahead and roll. I think this is so
we have two choices. We're either going to rely on
Gunner's ability here or we're going to rely on Stalker's magic,
and it just will present itself in a different way
depending on who decides to roll that. You may make
a choice. Who's going to roll for this?
Speaker 10: I think it's up to you. You got the seven, yeah,
so if you think there me hearing you means that
you've tapped into my magic, I'll role if you think
it means that your ability is capable of this then
and you're all.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm asking you, so I think it would be
like I'm waiting for an answer from you. So it's
not like I'm projecting my voice to you more. Yeah,
like trying to get your attention.
Speaker 3: Let's both roll then, just because I'm intrigued now by something.
So you're both gonna roll your wherever your magic comes from.
So Gunner that's body and for you that's mine. I
believe Stalker and what is the Yours is thirty and
Gunners is forty. Because he can see the web, he
could potentially follow that line to where you are engineered
fantastic Gunner got.
Speaker 10: A seven seventy.
Speaker 3: Okay, so the I think neither of you know how
this happened. But the voice will travel along where you
are ensnared in this web, and you do hear him
say can you hear me? Do you choose to respond?
Speaker 10: Yes? How I'm sorry?
Speaker 16: How?
Speaker 10: So they swab I am I failed twice. Once I
think makes me drawn to the building, and the other
one means I don't know that my magic is being dampened.
Speaker 3: I believe right, Yes, that's correct. And also the redraw
I was trying to like, I was trying to see
if you could resist the poll, but you cannot.
Speaker 10: At the moment still respond though it's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's you just right now, you feel like
you want to go in there. Yes, please ask the
by and Constantine. Okay, Esteban and Constantine have rolled for
me forty one and sixty five. I think you will
hear you both hear like a you know, just like
it's somebody speaking, but you can't make out what the
words are. But Constantine with that forty one, yes, you
recognize the the cadence, but I mean it's just familiar
to you. But that's it. And then it's gone, but
you do hear it in this moment, something along that webline. Okay,
what do you sidi? Oh, yeah, no, you can try.
I will always let you try, but you're gonna have
to roll doubles under a twenty.
Speaker 6: If we step outside. Are we aware that it was
when we walked in that had shut off?
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, it's the closer you get to her,
I will give you that.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 7: I will stand up from where I'm sitting and I
will kind of put my hands in my pockets casually
and kind of look around, start looking around the bar,
say like.
Speaker 8: Oh, you have a really lovely, lovely bar. You know
I used to have a bar.
Speaker 7: And then I'll just start kind of not fully yammoring,
but you know, I'll just be pointing out things and
looking around and approaching further away from her, and then
I would like to.
Speaker 8: I would like to.
Speaker 7: No, I'm staying inside, so I know that that's going
to make things difficult, but I'm trying not to tip
tip her off.
Speaker 8: Yeah, of course absolutely, And I want to.
Speaker 7: Somehow project and energy magically out for me to take
them to not come in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, stay away, Yeah, okay, so you're yeah, you
gotta roll doubles anything under so doubles under twenty. So
that's what eleven or one. There's always a chance, but
it's pretty low inside the bar.
Speaker 8: Yeah, ninety four.
Speaker 3: So no, oh no, that's not true. Yeah is it?
Because failure doesn't mean you don't do the thing that's right. Okay,
thank you, so so so so much. Okay, back to
the two of you. You both failed, right, but you
the like uh, Stalker and Gunner both failed their most
recent roles for the web, right, correct, except for you
to respond back to him. Correct?
Speaker 10: No, seven, Yeah, I got a seven.
Speaker 3: Oh, you got a seven?
Speaker 12: Okay, but what was the most recent failure for I'm forgetting.
Speaker 6: Now this is to communicate.
Speaker 3: It was to communicate. So you hear Constantine's voice say,
come on in, we're over here.
Speaker 10: But I would do that. I'm sorry you both, yeah,
because I succeeded on the communication, and I hear.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you're responding back to him. Correct.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I haven't said anything.
Speaker 3: Yep, yep, go ahead, you can respond to him. But no,
you do not, hear Constantine.
Speaker 10: I think that our if I the what it would
it be out of I don't understand the magic. So
I have to ask clarifying question, and would it be
out of the realm of reason for me to think
instinctually that our quarry is in this bar.
Speaker 3: Your quarry is not in this bar? So no, I
don't think so. I don't think. Well, because here's the
thing is that you didn't succeed to know that the
where you were being drawn to, so you just kind
of know your instinct is this way. So maybe you think, hm,
maybe my quarry went this way, but you also you
failed on seeing the web, so I don't. Yeah, and
then the only thing you succeeded on was the weird
like him going can you hear me? And so then
you can respond back to him if you'd like. But
I you know, if you want to say that your
instinct to go in this direction makes you think your
quarry's over here, sure absolutely, I mean maybe that's why
you feel pulled that way, sure, sure, sure, sure, yeah, yeah,
but that's up to you.
Speaker 10: Yeah. I so if that's the case, I would be
preparing to possibly I'm formulating strategy on how we're going
to catch this creature in this building, and I'm thinking
he's communicating saying like okay, I'll go in the front
and something or something like that, and so my response
would would be, yeah, yes, I.
Speaker 14: Can hear you.
Speaker 3: You hear that un muddled gunner. That is exactly as
he says it is.
Speaker 14: I took myself in to a corner, preferably a dark corner,
looking still out to the street. Don't move.
Speaker 10: I crouched down on the balcony. I am on and
wait if I can.
Speaker 3: If i'm not, yeah, yeah, it's worth out. He's going
to ground you. Yep, yep, he's going to ground you
with that's seven.
Speaker 10: I think I would even aim my crossbow. I'm thinking
maybe this thing is going to come out.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm. Do one more role for me stalker mind yeah,
or magic that's the bull same one for you. A
difficulty is thirty twenty three. Then it is going to
you hear the wets, a sickening wet sound first, and
then it is a grotesque assembly of things that should
have never been joined together. You have this small cat
like sized creature that is a patchwork of mismatched limbs
stitch together with jagged, haphazard precision. This is someone's work
of art. As ugly as it is, it has too
many fingers, and it crawls up to you, and it
has one huge eye like maybe from a bird, probably
an owl, and it looks at you. It's been placed
into this weird, grotesque tumunculus like creature, and the eye
is darting around, looking you up and down, and it's
like milky unblinking. And somehow it's got muscle and teeth
stitched onto it as well, and it will try to speak.
It opens its jaw for lack of a better term,
it's manufactured jaw and is trying to maybe speak to
you for a second, but no sound comes out.
Speaker 10: It's just.
Speaker 3: A gaping mess. And you can hear that like sickening
sound as it's trying to move its speak to you.
What do you do?
Speaker 10: What when you say, my instinct tells me on threat
or intention, that this creature that is entirely.
Speaker 3: Up to you. I just described what you see.
Speaker 10: It is small though, yes.
Speaker 3: Yes, like cat like size.
Speaker 10: Right, so I don't.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm, you can roll me. I have to DM
you something. Yes, do not react.
Speaker 10: I never do the worst reactor.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 3: I think at the end you were, Oh, what fun
this is? I'll have you roll anyway. Roll mind.
Speaker 10: What is the difficulty?
Speaker 13: Ah, thirty?
Speaker 3: Is that the twenty three? Okay, oh my god.
Speaker 15: I remember, Okay, I know, okay, but this is perfect
because the fact that we can't remember is really.
Speaker 3: Good because forty three okay, oh what fun this is.
I'm pretty sure you were not here, but I feel
like you were at the end, and I'm going to
give you this memory. And I told you from the
very beginning that things were gonna get fucky and you
should write things down. But whether you were there originally
or not doesn't matter. This these are you recognize these teeth.
This is Kyle, the man at the store, or what's
left of him.
Speaker 10: I'm going to say that Kyle was spoken about in passing,
and for some reason I can make the connection.
Speaker 3: M If that's all right, I think you remember being
there at the store. This is a moment where now
things are going to shift for you.
Speaker 10: I see, yeah. I think A full fifteen seconds passes
while I watch it.
Speaker 3: And he wrote something on his hand, and you will
see that on this little like creature that's made. You're
gonna see a little bit of an ink stain of
whatever was left behind that he wrote on his hand.
Speaker 10: Wasn't that a fake phone number?
Speaker 3: I think it was. But right now, and I know
you don't know what's happening, but right now, it can
be anything you want it to be. What was written
on his hand?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think it's a name.
Speaker 3: What name is it?
Speaker 10: I think it's a name that I want to know?
Speaker 3: What name do you want to know? You can DM
it to me if you want. Oh, that's a tough question.
Speaker 20: Roll me a one D three.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I got a fucking I gotta fucking
show you this. You're never gonna believe me. You see
the name Marion Hale written on this hand, and that
is where we end the episode.
Speaker 16: Bro.
Speaker 3: Literally, I'm going to take a screenshop, except I can't
because it will spoil things for you of the order.
And I just went roll a one D three. That
was the third one on the list. On fucking real, you've.
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Speaker 6: Oh my god.