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Speaker 2: Deathless is an improvised cinematic narrative with live production, including
music and dialog.
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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.
Speaker 6: A loud.
Speaker 7: Hello, everyone, and welcome to the dawn of the third day.
Now you might be thinking to yourself, Moog. When we
last left you, you were prying information quite gently and
quite suddenly out of Gunner and everyone else. And you
were really, really were astute with your observations and definitely
didn't mess up any details whatsoever. And I would say
you were correct. But what you've forgotten, my dear friends,
is that Esteban had a meltdown. I don't know what
that's about. It could have been about anything. Maybe he
killed a man, maybe he didn't. You'd have to go
back to the last episode to watch it. And then
we all went to bed. So here's how it all
went down. Gunner passed out on the couch. I passed
out on my wonderful recline. I mean Cora's, it doesn't matter.
Cora's probably not too far behind. Stalker is standing silently
staring at us from the shadows. Esteban went to wherever
Esteban went, and Constantine got the bed, of course, and
now we're all waking up in record time too, I
might add, I don't know why you will take so
long doing this.
Speaker 8: Perhaps because you left me floating in the ether. There's
no need for all the details. We will remember this
for next time, exactly now.
Speaker 7: You're getting it.
Speaker 9: I will wake up first. I am concerned about Esteban
and how he's doing, So I'm going to uh wake
up and then sneak around the apartment silently and see
if I mean not sneak as silently as Stalker would,
but I'm just gonna take a little peek in on
Aesteban and see what's up. Is he still sleeping.
Speaker 3: Estemon?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm trying to think where the heck I would.
Speaker 8: Be, because the first night I slept on the floor
in the kitchen, I know I probably would have just
gone or anyone else that told me to go after
what happened yesterday, Let's say there's some blankets on the
floor in the kitchen.
Speaker 9: I guess yeah, yeah, I peek in, and I'm looking
at you creepily.
Speaker 10: I suppose probably still asleep.
Speaker 9: Yeah, then I'll go out and open the balcony and
go out and take some dusk air. It's a dusk
twilight twilight air.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's about six o'clock. Yeah, it's August though, so
it's probably not the sunset until like nine pm.
Speaker 9: Oh okay, then I do not go outside and bathe
myself in my brain.
Speaker 3: If the sun isn't fucking up and visible, you're good.
It's probably not the most comfortable experience for you, but
you're not going to fucking irrupt unless the sun actually
touches your skin.
Speaker 9: Okay, all right, Yeah that's me.
Speaker 3: Then who else is awake?
Speaker 7: I'm passed out on the recliner, completely out and just snoring,
probably or whatever vampires do. You snore, just not graceful,
not pretty pretty, just.
Speaker 3: Pull out, not grace Well, that's I find that very interesting.
What would be graceful sleep? According to Moog.
Speaker 7: It would probably be mouth closed, proper, laying on your
back or side, and maybe your eyes flutter a little
bit from a dream. There's certainly no drool or any
liquids whatsoever, just proper, proper sleep.
Speaker 3: So but you have drool and liquids, is that what
we're Yes?
Speaker 7: Yes, and one leg is draped over the arm rest,
and yes, it.
Speaker 3: Looks you've just ragged alled on wherever it is that
you are.
Speaker 7: Exactly if you were to walk by, you'd say that's
not comfortable. There's no way, but it is all right.
Speaker 3: I found a little like a like a dog or
a cat when they just lay and you're like, how
the hell are you comforting? Exactly fantastic. I love this.
Speaker 9: You're spluting. That's what that's called, I think, isn't it?
Speaker 10: I don't know, but I'm going to use that they splute?
Speaker 11: Is that what you call it?
Speaker 5: Sticking out?
Speaker 3: I just looked at Acorn, who was like nodding, like yes,
that is the thing, and I was like, yep, y,
I t that thing. I just I just don't know
that it's a thing, all right.
Speaker 9: It's lying in a spread eagled, prone posture. It is
Wikipedia page for it and everything. Ha ha.
Speaker 11: I will wake up next and not make a joke.
I think that I am laying under the couch.
Speaker 3: It's yep, under the couch, coffin who here.
Speaker 11: Has seen the next generation Star Trek. You know who
Jordie LaForge is and how he rolls underneath the closing
doors of the engineering room every episode. That is how
I leave the couch.
Speaker 3: People have no idea what you're talking about, rapidly googling right.
Speaker 11: Now, I silently rolled out from the couch and stand
straight backed and observe the room.
Speaker 12: You would see me laying on the couch. I'm still sleeping,
but I'm not curled up like I was the last night.
I'm kind of more sprawled out or straight. I like
to picture that I'm laying on my back on the couch,
and obviously maybe my feet are hanging over the side
because I'm probably longer longer than what I can lay there.
But I want to say that hansl's on my chest, yes,
and he's uh, I still have this shirt of like
blood and beasts of that tongue, and maybe he's like
playing around with whatever little specs of whatever's left on
my shirt, or he could be sleeping as well, but
I think he's Oh.
Speaker 3: I'm sure that he is actually Oh, wait, you want
him to be awake.
Speaker 12: No, he could be sleeping. Oh my chest rolled over on.
Speaker 6: Him or something.
Speaker 3: Perfect. I have a question for you, Gunner, how do
you feel after knowing that you're or do you know
what was shared with Esteban last night?
Speaker 12: I think I've been kind of putting it like together
over the past maybe a few hours when we're talking
about this, that yeah, we all are very connected. We
come out of the crypt together. And maybe what Esteban
saw and how he related to what I saw just
kind of like affirm that for me, enabling me to
get like an actual good night's sleep and like rest.
Maybe this like weight off my shoulders where I was
able to finally like have a deep sleep.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, okay, I was wondering if that's kind
of why you were a little bit more laid out
on the couch this time. Interesting, okay? And what do
you do when you wiggle out from under or roll
out from under the couch? Stalker?
Speaker 11: Nothing, I just walk around the room and sorry, what
was that I was making a the second decision? I
was thinking about doing something and then I decided not to.
Speaker 9: So you were going to talk to that lady in
the spirit realm again, weren't you?
Speaker 11: No, I do nothing. I walk around the room and
I stare at everyone, silently awaiting them.
Speaker 9: Well, I'm awake.
Speaker 11: Yeah, oh yeah, didn't you? Did you go? You didn't
go out on the balcony? Or you did?
Speaker 9: I did? Yeah?
Speaker 3: He did. Yeah, he's out on the balcony as the
sun kind of goes down or as low in this guy.
Speaker 11: I stay inside.
Speaker 5: I guess i'd be the last one to wake up.
I think I slept in the library office room. There's
probably another chair in there, so I emerge and come
into the living room see what everyone's up to.
Speaker 9: I peek my head in from the balcony. Guten Morgan,
good morning. Did you sleep like a princess?
Speaker 5: Maybe like the princess and the pea chair wasn't too comfortable.
Speaker 9: I've been meaning to ask you about that pee. I'm
sorry another time.
Speaker 11: Though I am not familiar with the Kingdom of.
Speaker 9: The it does a fairy tale. A princess is only
a princess if she can feel the discomfort that comes
from having a pee under many mattresses or something. Anyway,
have have you woken up yet?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 10: But I'm about to.
Speaker 8: Well, she wanted you guys want to talk about something first,
no pressure, but I just didn't want to interrupt.
Speaker 10: But I'm about to get up.
Speaker 9: I'm waiting for you to get up.
Speaker 8: So I think I wake up on the floor in
the kitchen. I assume I have been tucked in in
some manner. I don't think I've really moved much. My
eyes open up, and I feel relieved to see the
inside of the house and not any of the faces
or things I saw over the course of the half
a second of eight hundred years that I had experienced
the previously. So I put my hand in front of
my face and I look at it, and then I
get to my feet, and I just think. I slowly
walk into the living room, but then I kind of
just don't look at anyone, and I walk into the
bathroom and I close the door. I assume there's still
the alphabet on the walls with all the bile and
the tongue bits from previously, and I'd like to go
over to the sink and look in the mirror.
Speaker 10: So I'm going to roll and that's what I'm going
to do right now.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's do it, mm hmm.
Speaker 10: Just so everyone's ready, I'm abouta role.
Speaker 13: Okay, I'm ready.
Speaker 3: I will say though, that your previous role was in
ninety nine. I don't know if you really feel rested,
if you're okay with that, I feel like with that
ninety nine, I don't know if you slept much at all,
so I think you probably have.
Speaker 8: I think I may not have been RESTful, but when
I was in the coffin, you know, I have a
way to at least feel safer even if I'm not resting.
Sort of, but yeah, I've I'm cool with that being
rested obviously.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I was going to give you a point of
oblivion to carry over from the ninety nine that happened
last night.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and I'm just looking in the mirror. I'm not
It's just my eye. So, uh, what am I rolling with?
Any difficulty here? For what I'm doing, I will add five.
Speaker 10: I'm looking in the mirror, you're just what's still fucked up?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, I would just do normal. You can just
do your normal eyes if you're not doing anything special.
Speaker 8: No, not doing anything special too, Just up and is
there a difficulty?
Speaker 3: Nope, Let's just do fifty to fifty.
Speaker 8: Okay, plus but minus five for the oblivion yep, okay,
so forty.
Speaker 6: Eleven.
Speaker 10: This is how she balances out.
Speaker 9: Oh my god, I'm ninety nine and i'll eleven.
Speaker 3: Well, well, well the swing I have to interpret this
mm hmm, because we allowed the ninety nine to still
be a success. But it's just obviously so overwhelming that
it was very heavy for you. But I think the
way that I would interpret this, and you're welcome to
come in and interpret it in a different way, but
the way that I would interpret this is that you
will not you don't have any identity issues from this,
Like you're looking in the mirror you've rolled in eleven.
I think you see there's no kind of like bleed
over from his memory from that ninety nine. Well, it
will still carry it, but.
Speaker 8: No, because I was trying to see myself because I
haven't been able to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's what I'm saying, is that you will
see yourself. You don't have any identity problems, so.
Speaker 10: It's not going to be blurry.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not going to be blurry. You're not going
to have you know, because it was possible that you
would see Gunner's reflection there too if you had failed
spectacularly enough. So yeah, The answer to that question is
that you do see yourself for sure, and this is
the first time you've seen your own reflection in how
long so we all.
Speaker 8: Know, doing the math a two hundred and eighty years,
about two hundred and seventy nine years.
Speaker 3: What's your reaction.
Speaker 8: I'm pretty pretty messed up still, and I went in
there for a reason. Maybe I didn't think it was
going to work. Maybe it's just you know, like I
didn't sleep and experiencing that much time as someone else,
even if it was just not really doing much, well,
we'll get that confusion going. And it was really just
I think kind of a like I checked to what
you said, Am I still the person that I think
I am? Am I still holding on to myself.
Speaker 10: Word. I just look in the mirror and it's a.
Speaker 8: It's a shock, but I don't think I I don't
think I flinched because I already was thinking, you know,
we can do things can't do here, but you know
in other places, and.
Speaker 14: I'm like, I just look and I'm.
Speaker 8: You know, luckily, I look a little tired, but I
don't think I've aged too much into two hundred and
eighty years, so it's not too It's a face I
haven't seen for a very long time, but it is
still very familiar as it was the last one I saw.
Speaker 10: And I just stare, say, hold on, here we go.
It's good to see you again, and we'll be back.
Speaker 14: And then I leave the bathroom and go into the
living room.
Speaker 12: Think at that point, I'm just getting up now sort
of like come to a seating position, and I'm still
seeing these faces in my mind, and my handsl goes
back into my coat and I'm kind of like ringing
out my arm with the tattoos, still kind of a
little fucked up from yesterday or last night. And I
think as you enter the living room, I'll like give
you a little.
Speaker 10: Look the I'm gonna sit down on the couch next
to Gunner.
Speaker 11: Sorry, I am standing right behind the couch, just straight up.
I'm so sorry, that's just where I am.
Speaker 12: Also look up behind me, like and give you a
little look stalker.
Speaker 11: Good morning.
Speaker 8: It is not bet anyone who bluster said something to
me and I sat down.
Speaker 9: Well, now that we are all awake, I think we
have some talking to do. What a lot happened yesterday.
Speaker 8: The dragon sat Daus. There is the name of the man,
the second one who has put these marks on your arm, gunner.
And it is the name of the man I had killed.
I believe it was in seventeen seventy eight or so,
give or take a few years. I had the good
reason to believe he was, in fact my sire, the
one who had been so theating me to a routine
amount of suffering. Ever since I was turned by him,
I could not remember the night happened, you said, blur
to me. So when I believed him to be the one,
I had found out where he lives, who works for him,
who he works for, all of these things, and then
I took his tongue with his spell. He shriveled it
in his mouth because he was a poet and his singer.
Speaker 10: He did not want to.
Speaker 8: I just needed to take back from him as he
has been taken from me. But you see this was
not enough. So a few years later I traveled all
the way to Germany. I sailed down the Danube, and
I came to him in your city of Berlin, where
I killed him in his home, and not before.
Speaker 10: His so all of his possessions burning to the ground.
Speaker 5: And what year was this?
Speaker 8: This was perhaps seventeen seventy eight.
Speaker 5: I turned to Constantine. Were you in Berlin at that time? H?
Speaker 9: Yes, I never left Berlin until I was here, but
seventeen seventy eight. When in seventeen seventy eight.
Speaker 8: Sorry it's hard to recall at this point, but my
memory is a bit jumbled right now after last night.
But it dragged him out onto the street so he
could watch, and I killed him in front of his home.
From getting it right, I remember the time of year. See,
And as it turns out, I was embarrassingly it was.
I was strict he was. I do not believe he
was my sire. As he goes in my plan, I
had permission to do this. You cannot just go around
to kill someone who is important like he was without permission.
So I got permission to kill my sire.
Speaker 9: What did he look like?
Speaker 8: A handsome man, strong joke. He had a shock of
white in his hair, short hair.
Speaker 9: A shock of white?
Speaker 11: See?
Speaker 6: What was he like?
Speaker 8: I don't remember. It doesn't matter to me what he
was like? Nice poems, But fortunately he was a victim
here too. But it seems it's not if he was
not as innocent as it appeared. I only have came
to this realization he was the wrong man around twenty
years later, and they waited that long before they pulled
me from what was to be one of the best
days of my life, dragged me into my gallery and
in front of my paintings, informed me that I had
killed this man. The last thing that was said to me,
as I protested before they staked me, was you had
permission to kill your sire, not Dragon Thadaeus.
Speaker 10: And then it was black, and then it was you.
Speaker 9: I look very serious as you tell this story. When
in seventeen seventy eight did you kill him?
Speaker 8: I think it was late in the year, was sturing
to get cold.
Speaker 6: It cannot be.
Speaker 9: He was handsome, see very silvering hair, see berry.
Speaker 6: What's his name?
Speaker 10: Dragon? The dragon? How they say sadly use?
Speaker 6: And he was a poet, see.
Speaker 9: I uh, kind of stumble over to a chair and
slide down into it.
Speaker 10: Is this name familiar to you as well?
Speaker 9: I never do his name? He didn't tell it to me.
Speaker 10: So you'll know this man.
Speaker 9: The chances are absurd, but we are all, each of
us connected to each other in ways that we do
not know. That is why we are chosen for those coffins.
It cannot be coincident. I believe you killed my sire.
Speaker 10: This seems my aim was off by a little wit
who told you.
Speaker 9: That he was your sire. Where did you get that information?
Speaker 10: When I was sired, I had woken up.
Speaker 8: In another country, in another city, by myself, with one
person sitting. Every woman, woman with dark hair, was the
only person around who I was confused. I was starving,
I did not know why, and she let me drink
from her arm. I didn't know what I was doing,
but I know what I was doing, and that was
the last I saw of her. For nearly forty years.
I had come to believe she was not my sire
but a ghoul, a servant that I believe had been
sent by my sire. Then there was a time, many
many decades later, when I saw this woman again. It
is not someone you would forget. She was in the
company of this dragon Thadius, traveling away with her.
Speaker 10: I assumed it was his servant.
Speaker 8: So when I saw the man, I had to I
had people identify who this was and the trail led
to him. I did more research and did.
Speaker 10: There was.
Speaker 8: The more I think of it now, the more clearly
I have been tricked again, But I can only assume,
my sire.
Speaker 9: Huh, do you have any idea how many years I've
spent wondering if I would ever see him again? And
he was gone before the year ended. A breath after
he took my life. I loved him and I did
not even know him. He found me in grief loss.
The man I loved more than anything died of a
simple illness, something that could be cured today in an
after noon, and he found me in this grief and longing,
and he locked me away in it, gave me, gave
me a chance to find what was beautiful about living,
which is a bit ironic if it is the same man,
which well, if we'd had this conversation a week ago,
before all of this strangeness, I would not have believed.
Speaker 11: But we are.
Speaker 9: Entwined, all of us. It is right. Sorry, go ahead, no, no, no,
you go ahead.
Speaker 8: It's strange your sire was doing this to Ghanna while
he was in his coffin ye hundred years and then
someone had tricked me to get me to kill him.
I could only assume, my sire, but it could.
Speaker 10: Be perhaps anyone who is an enemy of him and
know of me the other two.
Speaker 8: I did not recognize the other two, right, I.
Speaker 3: Don't think so. No, okay, you'd have to know more
than I would. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 10: No, no, no, I don't. I don't think so.
Speaker 3: Okay, I don't think you did either, okay, other than
like through his memory of yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8: Yes, I'm wondered these Oh no, not this one again. Yeah,
I'll turn.
Speaker 15: To Estebond in my seat. Don't forget, brother, those are
the only faces you saw. If it is someone sire
in this one causing this, how many of us know
who our sires are?
Speaker 13: Cold?
Speaker 15: They be those other faces?
Speaker 12: Now?
Speaker 15: Like, shoot, Constantina, look.
Speaker 9: This, princess. Do you know who your siah was?
Speaker 5: H pyebe? Would I have seen his face?
Speaker 3: I don't think so. I think before we had established
that you didn't when I asked you. So that's what
I've been going with. If you want to try right now,
you can try to recall something if you'd.
Speaker 5: Like, sure, yeah, I'll roll for it.
Speaker 3: Okay, go ahead and roll me your mental stat It's
going to be pretty difficult. We're going to give it
a thirty difficulty okay, But I think for you to Okay,
if that works. Yep, No you don't. It's just that
it's just shadowy figure.
Speaker 9: Okay.
Speaker 5: Yeah. When Constantine asks this, I uh, I'm frown and
shake my head. No, I never got a clear look.
He was always in shadow.
Speaker 9: And stalk.
Speaker 8: What was the circumstances? Where were you when you the
last you remember, Cora?
Speaker 5: I was at a carnival, a festival.
Speaker 10: I always had a very large ship, gala myself.
Speaker 5: That fact has haunted me ever since. How a predator
like him could have hunted me and taken me. I'm
such a busy, loud right place.
Speaker 9: It is amazing what people will not do when they
see something horrible. You shouldn't blame yourself, No, I blame him, stalker.
Speaker 11: You. I am aware of whom my sigaries.
Speaker 9: You are aware, but you do not know them.
Speaker 11: I know them.
Speaker 9: Mhmm. We need to get back the place where're from.
These powers that put us here know us, made us.
Are we weapons? If they can travel, so can we?
So how do we find them?
Speaker 15: And what if we don't have all of what we need?
Speaker 9: Friends, Darling, he's not here?
Speaker 7: What if we're missing a piece?
Speaker 5: I think the key really, I haven't quite worked it out,
but I think the key is something to do with pockets.
There's something strange about this apartment. It's remained when everything
else about the city has changed. I believe the crypt
might be another one of those places, possibly the Lucky Rabbit.
I think wherever time space, whatever it is, has been
ripped open, those are the places where I think travel
is possible, or we can find the things that will
laugh for travel.
Speaker 9: Oh no, you don't want me to say this, my
inclina princessing. I think we need to do magic. That
is what this world asks of us, That is what
it wants us to do. I can feel it. Can
you not under your skin a niche sparkling?
Speaker 7: I can?
Speaker 5: This world has different kinds of magic, kinds I've never
experienced before, never witnessed or touched before. It's like going
to a place you've never been and hearing the language
you've never heard and trying to understand and straining your
ears seeking the meaning, but being confused.
Speaker 9: And everyone is asking you to understand them. Yes, I
think it is a hunger, and we feed. So I
look around at everyone. Where do we learn.
Speaker 12: Is smook still sleeping?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 7: And it's a big spectacle of a thing snows. He's
scratching his stomach and he's I've not woken up.
Speaker 12: I take out Hansel, I have him in my hand,
go wake him up. Can I let him down.
Speaker 3: On a hundred percent? Bitches put holding your nostrils clothes,
not that I need to breathe, but you know, hopefully
it's uncomfortable enough.
Speaker 10: I shoot it.
Speaker 7: Oh, it takes a moment, No two, If as I
shoe it, I mean five more minutes, please please forrse
rate I just no more.
Speaker 3: Wait until you open your eyes and there's just this
huge owl eye staring at you.
Speaker 7: Hanzel there there, thank you. I opened my hands up
for hands or to go and walk into and I
carefully createle them back to KNNA wonderful alarm clock. Definitely
the first thing I want to see when I open
up my eyes after a good morning's rest. Oh, thank you?
What are you all looking at? Why are you looking
at me?
Speaker 11: Like that?
Speaker 3: Drool just like crossed down his face.
Speaker 10: I stand the wave away.
Speaker 7: Who died?
Speaker 10: Who didn't? That's a fair question. We need to go.
We need to go back into this crypt.
Speaker 7: See yes, the crypt, so then we could go back
to where we're from, and then potentially reunite you with
your friend.
Speaker 9: Then yes, yes, that is the plan.
Speaker 7: Because we need to mentioned.
Speaker 8: When we were there, we could not get in, So
how did you get in the first time?
Speaker 10: What do we need?
Speaker 5: That's that's the part that is unclear. The first time
there was a clear opening, there was an entrance and
an image on the wall, a carving that indicated the
things that should be sacrificed. After three sacrifices, we were admitted.
Speaker 9: The thing is.
Speaker 5: Even though it visually looks at the same graveyard, it
feels different. My magic is not there. Everything that signified
it as the place that I was caretaking it's gone.
I don't know if that means an entrance still lies
there or if the entrance is just in a different location.
Speaker 9: Well, you're clever and powerful, can't you just make a door.
Speaker 5: The only way we've traveled is while inside of a pocket.
If a door could be made, I think it would
have to be made inside of such a pocket. But
what I don't know is if there can be many
doors in one place, or if pockets have only one.
Speaker 9: I find that it is impossible to know free thing
about what you are going to do. The only way
you can learn is by doing it, so I stand up. Also,
what do we need?
Speaker 5: I think we need supplies information whenever we can gather.
You all have seen more of this New New Orleans
than I have. Have you found or heard of any
place that would provide those things?
Speaker 10: See?
Speaker 8: When Constantine and I were out, there is a man
that I think I have mentioned this before with a
magic fiddle. He said he purchased their story, told me
where it is. Ever since he has it, his music
is better that people pay him, more money, more people
come to see him.
Speaker 5: Well, if we're seeking to do a magic I think
a magic music shop would be a good place to start.
Speaker 10: All right, your voy he's off, we go.
Speaker 7: A LOANSI before we Before we go, though, I am
going to try and pull us top on the side
very quietly. Yes, Bog, your sire, brown hair smell of Cadania.
Speaker 10: Perhaps I don't not remember my shire.
Speaker 7: Long doccir, you said.
Speaker 8: The one who I was there when I woke up? Oh, yes,
that one, short black hair, short dark hair smell. I
don't remember if I said there was a smell.
Speaker 7: Oh you did not say, But I'm asking you if
you no.
Speaker 10: I don't remember if I ever all right.
Speaker 11: On we go.
Speaker 10: Must have been a dream, you said, long hair? See
did I short?
Speaker 6: Long?
Speaker 11: Bald?
Speaker 10: What color eyes?
Speaker 7: What color eyes?
Speaker 11: You know?
Speaker 7: I don't think I mentioned.
Speaker 12: Two.
Speaker 10: If you think this is someone, what color of their eyes?
Speaker 7: I don't remember. It seems all memories both have a
gap in them. See narrator, My dear friend, I would
like to try to rule to see if I can
remember a bit more detail.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, difficulty thirty for you.
Speaker 10: Of what remembering?
Speaker 3: My sire of whoever you were speaking.
Speaker 10: About was working? Okay?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Yeah, sixty one failure.
Speaker 3: Roll of sixty one estabon, I dare you.
Speaker 10: Sure?
Speaker 11: Wow?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, this is the Why would you do?
Speaker 10: I wasn't even trying.
Speaker 3: I know you weren't, but I was. I like to
offer it in case.
Speaker 8: This is the person I woke up to. Right, that's
what he was asking me about.
Speaker 3: I'm just I sent you a DM to clarify.
Speaker 8: Yeah, okay, he's asking about the smell.
Speaker 3: I'm asking you a question as to how your your
ship works. You rolled a three, so I can give
you this if you want. I have no idea how
he did this, okay, but.
Speaker 10: Yes, all right, so I guess. Uh we should go. Yes,
after you, good son, Gordena, you said, yes.
Speaker 7: Calming around these ponds a bit old though.
Speaker 10: Maybe a bit familiar to me.
Speaker 7: Abe, smell it, let me know. Yeah, oh if you
remember smelling.
Speaker 6: It either she do you know? Who?
Speaker 10: Who do you ask?
Speaker 7: Curious? Trying to make friends, trying to find a common denominator, strange.
Speaker 10: Very specific smell?
Speaker 6: Who do you know?
Speaker 10: The smells of gardens?
Speaker 7: Um an old hookup.
Speaker 10: I'll let you know then.
Speaker 8: If you do not wish to tell me this is
I cannot.
Speaker 3: Okay, Sorry, I enjoyed the hell out of that.
Speaker 10: Terrified to roll again?
Speaker 3: Yeah, no kidding after that. Okay, so we are traveling, Sorry,
go ahead, Acorn.
Speaker 5: He rolled a three and we're not going to know
what happened.
Speaker 3: I know, well I gave him the information.
Speaker 5: Okay, mm hmmm.
Speaker 12: As we're going to leave, I kind of like wave
over stalker.
Speaker 6: Like, come on, stop.
Speaker 3: Standing there, Come on, We're going shopping.
Speaker 9: We have to get stocker related blanket.
Speaker 12: To another lay.
Speaker 7: I hope.
Speaker 11: I take out my knife, I cut open a door,
and I open a door to the shop. Not really, yeah,
I assume. Okay, two blocks away.
Speaker 3: It's a little bit further than that. But that's okay.
You guys can navigate over there is that you're going
to the the directions that the drunk person gave you, right, Yeah, it.
Speaker 10: Was the fiddler.
Speaker 3: The fiddler. Yeah, the fiddler got this fancy fiddles.
Speaker 8: On the other side of the hext and Hound because
we went and when we were going, it's in the
other around.
Speaker 3: You have to pass the hextun but you can go around.
You don't have to go down Bourbon Street. I mean, hell,
you guys could also grab a cab or you know,
you don't have to you don't have to walk on
a cab shure. Yeah.
Speaker 9: Well we're being environmentally friendly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, people still believed in it.
Speaker 10: We're I think we purposely avoid the bar.
Speaker 3: I'm going to assume. Okay, that's fine. Okay, so you're
going to head in that direction. Everybody roll for me
as you approach this building.
Speaker 5: What difficulty we're going to go for?
Speaker 3: Thirty?
Speaker 10: Just our magic stat?
Speaker 3: Yes whatever, your magic stat.
Speaker 7: Is failure for me, fifty seven failure.
Speaker 12: I'm sorry, well, just the difficulty thirty yep, yah, go.
Speaker 9: Oof Stoker oh whoa Stoker and gunner?
Speaker 6: Oh shits that my twenty two.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, favorite number ooh, eighty three, fifty seven, sixty four,
seventy eight, and then twenty six and twenty two.
Speaker 9: It's enough for him to bumble us at log.
Speaker 3: Pretty damn good.
Speaker 11: Um.
Speaker 3: Okay, who failed? First, Let's get that I got an
eighty three, I got a seventy eight, and then the
sixty four is cora, cora? Okay, so in order all right?
Speaker 7: Move Also, oh I got a fifty seven as well.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay. So for those of you that failed, you
are walking up to what looks to be, you know,
kind of a touristy magic shop. There are you know,
crystals in the window, there's probably a tarot deck or two.
It doesn't really seem like this shop would be what
you are looking for, at least on the outset. And
it absolutely when you, I guess, in the way that
you innately feel the magic around you, you feel nothing
from this shop. However, Stalker and Gunner, more specifically Gunner
than Stock or Stalker, you can tell there's real magic
in here somewhere. Gunner. I don't know how you know this,
so I'll leave this up to you to interpret. But
this is things are not what they seem here and
every thing is has a double meaning, and you must
be very careful when you're in here. Don't touch it
unless you want to buy it.
Speaker 12: I who's standing closest to me as we approach me.
Speaker 3: I enjoyed that immensely.
Speaker 12: No, I think that this is perfect because Stalker and
Gunner have like this bro relationship. I think since the
start of the show.
Speaker 11: Since we started Brows, everyone would definitely just bros. We
lived together, were roommate the rooms.
Speaker 12: I'll like, lean into him if he's close by, and.
Speaker 15: Be careful, you brother, do not touch anything. Things may
not be as they seem.
Speaker 3: And the rest of you just see a sign for
Sunny souvenirs and spell works and it looks cheesy as
all hell.
Speaker 7: I hope they have novelty lighters.
Speaker 9: I'm sure you can get all kinds of kitchy things
you seem to like so much. I look them up
and down.
Speaker 7: What are you looking like that fall? This is fashionable,
I will have you know. And I flap my large
leather jacket. Everyone loves it.
Speaker 9: I'm so sorry. It just walloped me in the head.
How much moog is just like season five? Season five?
Oh no, wan to Spike from Buffy.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it should be legal.
Speaker 9: It's all petulant like whiny, and I know it's crazy. Yeah,
so good, oh good.
Speaker 3: Okay, we have to get.
Speaker 9: You a mug that says kiss the cook and you
can drink the word out of it.
Speaker 3: It's perfect, all right. So just so that I'm clear, Gunner,
you warned Stalker. Did you make a point to warn
anyone else or just lean in? It's fine that you didn't,
That's totally cool. Okay, you only warned Stalker out right. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 12: The other guy that could feel something from the believe.
Speaker 3: According to the you don't know that, to be fair,
So yet.
Speaker 7: Not even Constantine, from which you shared many a.
Speaker 3: Tough with, to be fair, he doesn't know that. Constantine
doesn't know it.
Speaker 7: You know that's true, that's fair.
Speaker 11: True.
Speaker 3: Okay, So the bell as you guys walk in, you
guys are going in, right, I assume everybody's going in,
all right. So the bell above the door is gonna chime.
It's like a wind chime, And the air kind of
smells faintly of old parchment and lavender smoke like maybe incense.
The shelves kind of sag beneath jars of a collection
of weird shit, like obviously fake taxidermy and stuff like that.
There's like nothing in here that looks real to any
of you. It just looks like weird souvenir witchy stuff
that you might buy in New Orleans, because that's kind
of the the rumor in the tradition down there. But
none of it looks like like you might see a
grimoire or whatever. And it's just this ridiculous, like you know, book,
but there's nothing real in here. And there is a
woman behind the counter. She has long, dark hair, and
she has a little bit of a glint in her
eye and a very very wide smile, and she greets
you when you come in. Well, hah, how can I
help you?
Speaker 6: Hello?
Speaker 7: I step up and hello, how are you today? Dear?
Speaker 3: I'm excellent and you I'm wonderful.
Speaker 7: My friends and I are here because and I snap,
because I have forgotten why we're here. We need things
for a thing, And I wink at her, catch my drift.
Speaker 3: Things for a thing.
Speaker 7: Ingredients for for an open house that we're hoping to attend.
Speaker 3: An open house. You need, like sage, look.
Speaker 7: At Cora to see if this is ringing a.
Speaker 5: Bell, I am standing just inside the door. The door
might actually still be open and leaning against me. I
seem to be paralyzed.
Speaker 7: Would you excuse me a moment, my dear, my friend
is seem to forgotten how to use doors or lost
the memory of walking. I'll overturn. Have you met my
friend Esteban over here? And I reach for Esteban? Where
are you?
Speaker 8: Do you want me to talk to this person now?
I mean, do you want me to talk to this
person right now? Or do you want to go see
what's happening with Cora before I go at this helper?
Speaker 7: Um, I'm gonna go see it, just what's going on
with Cora, but if you would like to discuss things
with her, then.
Speaker 8: Please before eli vice, we need to do a magic
spell or serious one, and we need help figure out
what we need to do.
Speaker 3: This will aren't you delicious? What kind of spell?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 8: The one who'll kind of come in the doorway will
probably know more than I will.
Speaker 3: In this case, you're invited come on in?
Speaker 5: Does that do anything.
Speaker 3: Remind me of what the text says exactly on this
fucking thing that you have? Oh? Okay, I cannot believe
I'm so to be fair, I just need you to
know that I wrote this description for the shop before
I knew that that had happened to you, and I
forgot about it, and so this is a fun way
to discover this. So if you don't move when I
say you're invited, well that's mighty interesting. And I reach
over and I think I touched the wall a little
bit and the bell chimes again.
Speaker 8: So when she does to grab touch the wall, I'm
gonna grab her arm before she does. Oh, I don't
know what she's doing. Yeah, okay, but I don't. I
do not mean too scary or anything, but what are
you doing?
Speaker 3: You're gonna need to roll to see if you actually
make you can touch this individual. Don't touch it unless
you're ready to buy it.
Speaker 10: That means she sounds cute.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, roll difficulty because I'm just body difficulty.
Speaker 10: Thirty Yeah, okay, forty three.
Speaker 3: You go to reach for her arm, but for some
reason you you miss. And it's not that you weren't
grabbing for the arm. It's more like that arm is
not where you thought it was.
Speaker 10: Like that, like I go through it, I just it's
not like you.
Speaker 3: Go through it. It's more just more like it's just
a moment of like, wait, a fucking second, I was
reaching for where I thought the arm was, but the
arm's not there. Yeah, yeah, I just.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but hold on what you're doing.
Speaker 3: I'm letting your friend in.
Speaker 8: I think, all right, but I don't know what you're doing.
And this is a magic shop, so I was a
bit worried.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm doing magic, honey.
Speaker 10: Okay, people get a bit nervous around this. My apologies.
Speaker 3: Okay, I can see that you got reason to be nervous.
Speaker 10: I do not, But people get nervous around you. See
then why is there? Maybe you'll find out, but let's
hope not.
Speaker 11: Fun.
Speaker 3: I lack fun. The bell does not do anything. So
after a moment of that not happening, then I think
that core you feel are being released from this paralysis.
But it wasn't the bell going off a second time.
Do you want to tell the chat what has happened,
like what one of your entanglements was, or would you
like to leave it?
Speaker 5: It's pretty obvious it's the random entanglements that I rolled for.
Is bells paralyze you?
Speaker 10: Oh wow?
Speaker 3: Yeah? And I totally forgot so yeah.
Speaker 9: But do I observe this behavior? Do I observe this behavior?
We all see this happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, And I mean the shopkeeper is like,
you're invited and then that doesn't work. So yeah, unless
you're somewhere else in your mind, I guess then I'm gonna.
Speaker 9: I think I am a little bit considering like the
bomb that has a bomb of information that happened earlier.
But I'm gonna point at the bell and say, do
you sell that.
Speaker 3: The bell?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 9: Yes, it was a joke.
Speaker 6: Sorry.
Speaker 9: I looked at Cora and give her like a devilish grin.
Speaker 5: I think I would be confused because I don't think
I knew what I got. Yeah, so this is the
first time I'm finding out about it, so I probably
look confused, concerned, and maybe like a little unsettled as
you're giving me that devilish expression.
Speaker 3: You've been playing with magic sweetheart? A little bit entangled?
Speaker 11: Or are we.
Speaker 5: A lot has happened? I have no answers for it,
but it seems that is the case.
Speaker 3: Are you all in here now just so that I
can understand? Okay, stalk her because you're you often will
be like no by the way, I wasn't in there, Yeah,
I'm just checking.
Speaker 11: I do think that I was. I was taking up
the rear. Yeah, so I was probably behind her when
she stopped, and I was just very confused as to
what because I can't hear maybe what's happening inside and
just waiting.
Speaker 3: Okay, so then when she yeah, so then when she
finally moves and comes in your whole. You're the last
one in holding up the rear? Can you do one
more role for me?
Speaker 11: Yes?
Speaker 3: Difficulty?
Speaker 11: Is this my magic status or failure?
Speaker 3: Sixty eight? Okay, no worries. You're the last one in, yeah, yeah, yeah,
all right, it's fine. You're the last one in. The
door shuts behind you. There's no more bell sound going off.
So what kind of spell do you need help with?
Must be very serious for a group black you.
Speaker 10: I've wave Cora up, I.
Speaker 5: Go up to the counter. Did I hear everything that
was said while I'm paralyzed.
Speaker 3: A small shop? Just your body was paralyzed, nothing else? Okay?
Speaker 5: Yes. I would walk up to her and probably think
for a minute about what exactly we would be asking,
and I'd say, well, the thing is, we don't really
know what the spell is going to be We are
trying to figure out both the ingredients and the spell.
At the same time time, we were hoping we might
be able to find information as well that'll help us
guide guide us in the right direction.
Speaker 3: Okay, and what is this love spell? Is this help
me get a job? What kind of spell are we talking?
Speaker 5: We're trying to find something that is hidden and gain
access to.
Speaker 9: It, creating a door, if you will, right, we're.
Speaker 10: Finding a door we have left through, but we cannot
go back.
Speaker 3: In interesting or will you roll me your magic snap please?
Difficulty thirty mm hmm, forty one uh okay ooh uh
roll again with the difficulty at forty huh a one
oh okay, oh okay. Well, okay, the room darkens around you, Cora.
So I was having you roll for two different things there.
So the first one is to see if you notice
something before it starts to happen. But because the second
one is a one, I'm just going to roll them
in together. So you actually feel like Ishna rising up
in curiosity and greeting almost like a ooh, what's this
that we have here? And as soon as you feel
him rising in within you, the whole shop changes around you.
The the sky outside kind of like darkens is almost
like the shop has black curtains, you know, like blackout curtains,
and all of a sudden, all of the shelves change
with different objects. It's not that you, it's just like
you're seeing. And this is the term I use for stalker,
so I'm going to use it here. It's like you're
seeing another layer that you didn't realize was there, and
the you know, opacity was just slid down and now
you can see what's really there, including who the actual
shop keep.
Speaker 16: Is a do you say curious?
Speaker 6: Care to elaborate share?
Speaker 5: Oh my god?
Speaker 11: Okay, is that Leah at your service?
Speaker 3: Narrator? Uh huh?
Speaker 5: Just to clarify, do I sense anything concerning about the shop?
Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah.
Speaker 5: I place a lot of stuff on just Isshna's reaction.
But I think this would be such a startling change.
Speaker 3: I would be like, all right.
Speaker 5: We got to do a security check real quick.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, I think Isashna is very intrigued and excited,
but I think you know him well enough to know
that that's usually if you're standing in front of a
fucking viper, he'd be like, ooh, what's this exactly. So yeah,
if you look behind you, there's no door anymore, though
you have walked into the viper's nest, which was your
failed forty one there.
Speaker 6: As I leave, and I didn't get the term of
phrase anyway, my mind has been a long time since
I've seen someone quite like yourselves. And it's such a
number too. Did you go on?
Speaker 5: Have you met people like us before?
Speaker 6: People? Yeah, people like yourselves A long long time ago.
I haven't seen someone quite like yourself ever.
Speaker 5: And out of curiosity when you met these people in
the past, they call themselves anything.
Speaker 6: People, well person maybe it was quite some time ago,
but baby, names have power. I can't just go ahead
and call you something. Well, you got a case of
mistaken identity. You came here for a spell. Didn't you
to talk about the spell? Or we can talk about yourself.
Speaker 5: Well, we came here for a lot of things. But
as you say, names have power. So are we going
to do business without introducing ourselves?
Speaker 6: Well, I suppose where my man is? My name's on
the door. You can call me sonny.
Speaker 9: I'm freaking halwful.
Speaker 5: Can anyone else see this? Or is it just me?
Speaker 9: I hope to God we can see this, I want
to remark upon it.
Speaker 3: Actually, I'm gonna change it for the whole group, I
think so with a one. Are you kidding me? Yeah?
I think you just kind of Yep.
Speaker 6: However, I would like you all to romatic for me,
as I flipped my eyes between each and every one.
Speaker 3: Of you, and you do have you do have to
listen to him, by the way, he's the narrator right now.
Speaker 5: Yep, what are we rolling.
Speaker 6: Romantic for me? Baby?
Speaker 5: What difficulty?
Speaker 3: Probably, I think is either thirty or thirty five. It's
up to Sonny.
Speaker 6: Thirty five will do just nicely.
Speaker 13: Oh oh oh, well that's about right.
Speaker 3: Wow wow, wow. Me for those listeners, that was thirty
five eighteen nineteen thirty seven. They're all so close to
each other.
Speaker 6: Eighty seven for me eighty seven. As I introduced myself
as Sonny and my eyes flipped between each and every
one of y'all, even those who did succeed, you feel
a bit of a dread, fermenting in anxiety, you like
you want to throw off You're not to show exactly
where this feeling's from. Then you remember the dawn, the
morning sun. It's that same dread, that same existential fear
you feel every single day coming out of my eyes
and for you, baby, who did fail? As I look
at you, it is my eyes, my gay as caresses
your skin, You feel it fleay. You feel as if
your hand is out there in the morning sun, peeling back.
You look down at it. Though I'm sure you do instinctively,
you ain't sure why. The rest of you all just
feel queasy.
Speaker 7: I retreat behind Cora and whisper if he wants to
play with fire. I suggests he finds another partner to
dance with, and I rub my hand.
Speaker 6: My apologies, baby, this place is far too tight for dancing. Now,
what was your name? Baby dah?
Speaker 5: Not quite knowing what Muke was referring to, but we
could read your lips.
Speaker 9: I was deliberately, I was mouthing it. Tell him everything
he wants to know.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't know what Mouke was commenting about, So I
think I just kind of like situated myself like more,
folding in front of him, and look at this shopkeeper
and respond, you can call me Cora.
Speaker 6: Oh my my, I think I will miss Cora. So
tell me true, do you have those? Sorry if I'm
being a bit rude here being such a while, I'm
not even sure if it's true. Can I see your mouth?
Speaker 3: Sorry, I will meet my damnself.
Speaker 6: You look to the corner of the room. There's a skull.
You think youhould come from it?
Speaker 5: M At this point, I think I'm more locked in
to what's happening. Leading up to this point, I think
I was like more going with the flow, like oh,
just a magic shop, we'll see what we find. But
I think now in this interaction, I'm more locked onto
what this person is saying and really looking for any
subtle changes in either them or the environment. So when
they ask this, I would look them up and down
and say, I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
Speaker 6: Baby, what you see before you is enough, I think today.
Otherwise I don't think I have dhi me to clean
up again. How about this? I pull out a bell
and I ring it bunny chairs? This is out of character.
Have any all watch television? Re sure? Mm hmm ten seconds?
My face is frozen in a smile looking at you,
Miss Carra.
Speaker 5: Am I paralyzed right now?
Speaker 6: Ooh you might just be twenty seconds?
Speaker 3: Hm?
Speaker 6: You hear footsteps?
Speaker 7: Where's it coming from?
Speaker 6: Behind down the stairs. You see before, here's someone wearing
or lockdown. Whether that summer dress. I ain't too sure.
She's clad in pearls. She's got this vacant style on
her right now she walks towards you all one. Are
y'all going to recognize this person? You've seen them on TV?
They stare at you. Lift a leg, slam it down
on a footstool, bring out a razor and cut She
always me, don't you worry? Who's thirsty?
Speaker 3: Wait?
Speaker 5: Does she cut herself?
Speaker 6: She cuts herself in her thigh. I don't trust it
into a little tin bowl, any takers.
Speaker 7: It seems to me, friend, you're work getting on antiquated knowledge,
and I look very smugly, arms crossed. You ain't thirsty.
This lady is looking right at you. Move as you talk.
It's clear that she's not in a stupor. She feels like,
almost as if her time is being wasted. Don't look
at me in like that, love, I'm not the one
wasting your time.
Speaker 6: Very well, very well, you are dismissed. Upping the ball.
There it does in the smell it No, it smells
just like blood from the fomorial, from a femur, not
necessarily for mobile. She's not going to belete out to death.
Don't you worried? But it's her leg.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I lick it off my finger.
Speaker 6: Oh it is sweet, my dear, it is choice. It's
a good vintage. I'm sure.
Speaker 10: I say, mm hmm, leave the.
Speaker 6: Ball daland and I will watch no teeth, nothing.
Speaker 7: Nothing from me.
Speaker 10: I just I do one.
Speaker 6: Be still my beating high. So it is true. Well, anyway,
since we have mm hmmm acquainted ourselves, should we say
the spell? What about it?
Speaker 5: I think at this point twenty seconds it's probably passed,
so I might not paralyze anymore.
Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, you can talk, baby, I'm just jamming to
my music.
Speaker 5: We seek a lot, and hope you are selling it.
We're looking for ingredients as well as knowledge. But first,
what currency do you take?
Speaker 6: Oh? I am so glad you ass I take it all, baby,
I take it all. Well, do you have anything to
bottle with?
Speaker 5: Before we left? I would have grabbed my bag and
packed it with just random things I think would be useful.
So I would kind of pat the bag with a
hand and say, uh, I brought things with me. Just
depends on what you're looking for.
Speaker 6: Oh, okay, let me see what you got. Also, I
want to know.
Speaker 5: If you are actually selling what we're looking for.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, well i'll tell you what. M Well, I
see one, two, three, four, five, I see six yachds,
I feel seven? What's that about?
Speaker 7: You feel seven?
Speaker 13: Mmmm?
Speaker 7: And then what does that seventh feel like?
Speaker 6: Not quite like? Y'all?
Speaker 11: Small?
Speaker 6: Scared?
Speaker 9: H I think I can't stop myself, but I think
my eyes quickly dart to Cora and then back.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, there's like a little quivering creature hiding in Gunner's coats.
Speaker 6: Uh as. I'm sure you can tell I'm a purveiled things.
Speaker 5: Anything you're looking for, Oh.
Speaker 6: Baby, I'm looking for it all. I'm looking foid all. Oh,
but to have six of you in here and not
your bottle, it's fill the ashes, you know? This is
all I have. Really, I ain't never seen a tooth before.
Speaker 7: H hm, you ain't never seen a tooth before?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 11: No, fang, you know.
Speaker 9: Well, I think you could probably sell it pretty al
right if you were missing one.
Speaker 6: Oh, I'm sure I ain't just never seen one. Oh.
I had someone come by before you green look in
their face. Oh, it was so long ago. All they
broke back was this little bottle. I lick my finger,
stick it inside with jaw, put it to my mouth.
Tastes like you smell. I think it's the real deal.
But look at you so whole.
Speaker 5: I imagine mm hmm. Oh, go ahead, moove.
Speaker 7: No, I'm just gonna say I've retreated fully behind you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I imagine if you take all kinds of currency,
that probably means you have all kinds of things to sell?
Speaker 6: Aren't you perceived?
Speaker 5: He tell me? Have you ever encountered an object that
has taken up space in more than one place at
the same time?
Speaker 11: M h.
Speaker 6: That I have what you speak of.
Speaker 7: I'm nervous, visibly nervous.
Speaker 6: Mm hmm. You stepped into my shop, didn't you.
Speaker 5: Do you have any such items for sale.
Speaker 6: For sale, for sale for sale, my child? Yeah, he
was only in here because I'm so very curious about
you all being here today, because of which I showed
you me and I showed you my store. However, if
you want to purchase something inside this place, first, you.
Speaker 5: Have to play math, aren't we.
Speaker 6: Where's your seventh.
Speaker 5: I glance at Gunner, maybe.
Speaker 12: Think I am I like I have a trembling hand,
and I tremble this hand all the way to my
coat again, nay, open up the pocket or the breast
and look at my also trembling friend. And then I
look up to the shopkeeper.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he handsel is definitely like wide eyed and kind
of shaking a little bit and holding onto you. So
if you do, you just open your coat and show.
Speaker 12: It to the shop I'm checking on him, well, I'm
looking for myself, and I think I see that he's scared.
Speaker 6: And then I look.
Speaker 12: At the shopkeeper and I bare my teeth.
Speaker 13: I'm like, oh, how cute.
Speaker 7: Now now now, gunner, hold on, and I walk up
the gunner. I put down my sunglasses a little bit,
give him a little wink, and then I reach my
hand into his pocket and then my hand comes out
with the middle finger. Here's your seventh right here.
Speaker 6: Did I or did I not see it? Or did
I just see you were a sneer at me there
for a second, the gunner, you.
Speaker 12: Could see it. I opened it up enough to see it,
and I think at this point, I'll I'll even take
him out.
Speaker 6: Mmmmmmmmm, how playful.
Speaker 3: Fully attached to gunner and like trembling and holding onto
his hand and like, you know, all eight of his fingers.
I love how every time I describe him he's got
more or less fingers. All eight of his fingers are
just like grabbing onto.
Speaker 10: You, fall off and grow right every once in a while.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just weird homuncular stitch together creature is, you know,
grabbing onto you as best he can, but definitely trembling
a little bit.
Speaker 6: My mama. It seems you folks keep some rather quiet,
dangerous company. How much for it?
Speaker 5: He's not for sale? You asked who our seventh was.
We showed you.
Speaker 6: I see what are you willing to pay? What am
I willing to pay for one of a fitty's? As
I breathe almost with my breath, you notice to the
side of the room there's what looks like a rectangular
aquarium inside, floating, glowing with my breath, you see for
the briefest moment several such monkey liar, lifeless, floating dead.
I ain't never got to have one that's still move before.
Speaker 7: Pretty valuable.
Speaker 6: Then I say, I'll say, I say, I say, how
about one of these? And I raise my hand and
then word shadow in the corner behind me once was
you Now see there is a pedestal, and on that
pedestal is what looks like a paw, a monkey's paw,
three fingers.
Speaker 12: On for.
Speaker 6: You see one of these before a hand for a hand?
Speaker 7: Sure, well, not seen, but run about right?
Speaker 6: Well, this one here is the real McCay hoard to
tom By how to still to verify?
Speaker 7: So you're offering us three wishes that could go horribly wrong,
that will most undoubtedly go horribly wrong for a trusted companion.
Speaker 6: Oh, a trusted companion. Now that is curious. Why you
want more? You want to bother, you want to haggle. Mhm.
Speaker 7: I look at Cora. I I don't know what you're
talking about. Cross my arms, eyes, I face just another direction,
but my eyes can't help but focus right on you.
Speaker 6: Sonny ooh, say my name again. I would love to
sonny Ah say my name again.
Speaker 7: I think twice is quite enough, don't you.
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 6: I look at you and your skin bubbles.
Speaker 7: Straight shop keep mmm.
Speaker 6: All right, Well there's x nay there on the monkey's
paw noted.
Speaker 9: I'll tell you, do you have anything that you can
actually help us with?
Speaker 6: You have not been so forthcoming with what you actually want.
I have a lot of stuff here, which I could
give you a moment to look around if you'd lie.
Speaker 9: I think that would be lovely.
Speaker 6: All right, then I say in the roller Body Staff
for Me roller and Perception Difficulty.
Speaker 3: Forty, Well that's happening. I just need you also know
the anxiety that I'm feeling right now while I feel
like my children aren't standing in front of the scariest
motherfucking thing, and I'm like, please, please, please, please don't
say his name three times? What are you doing? Like,
please tell me that everything that I've taught you for
the last twenty some odd episodes is here now, because
I think the fucking DM I had Tomire today was
you have free reign, take their souls if you can,
and I was like, do it, go like fucking do
whatever you want. And now I'm sitting here.
Speaker 7: Like what have I Oh my god, I will add
the thought of saying his name three times crossed my mind,
just to see if we could kidnap him and Nick
my pot.
Speaker 12: Are we all rolling or just the people searching?
Speaker 6: Anybody who wants to look around can roll me boudiestat
Search difficulty forty. I rolled the roller Magic for Me
difficulty thirty. Come again, now, baby, what you roll twenty
four eighty twenty four, fifty nine, fifty two sixty seven. Well,
in that case, my store remains the same as it
was for y'all. Twenty seven, right, twenty four, twenty four,
all right, twenty four. As you turn around and look
around the store, you notice that on certain shelves that
just kind of used to just have things on them,
or perhaps there were two doctors. See, even with your
beautiful eyesight, all of a sudden things become a little
bit more clear to you. You also become familiar or
aware with the fact that above you there's several paintings.
A couple of them are covered you with your twenty
four You notice I'm one of those paintings. It's very old,
very angry, very ugly looking man. He's hunched over, bones
broken in places. He looks older than no humans should
ever need to be. He looks bitter, foul, he's missing
bits off his face. Syphilis done took it. But there
it stays up above, looking at you, holding a wine glass,
oblivious to his own oblivion. I look, I follow your gaze,
and I say, no, baby, you won't be needing one
of those, don't you? Worry now around you? So at
twenty four? What did I put here for twenty four?
All right? So rom me one D six?
Speaker 9: All right, try three three.
Speaker 6: Or what's our favorite number?
Speaker 11: Narrator?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 6: Baby? You found where you see three things each more
interest In the next m h to the side, leaning
against the wall, by the shelves, you see what looks
like a spear. It's gilded, looks like bits were added
to it after the fact. The blade itself is simple,
the small rivulator blood on it. M hmm. And then
by it you see a display. In that display you
see several fine glasses cups looking at it. You feel
power coming out of that display. I don't bound it
with chains? Cuse well should you ask about it anyway? Then? Lastly, ah, lastly,
on a bookshelf, you feel a book calling to you.
You ain't sure why, poorole, second highest.
Speaker 3: Second best, yes, second highest or second? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, mook.
Speaker 7: It looks like I rolled the uh the magic stat
for you?
Speaker 6: Yeah, oh oh the magic stable? Was that what you get?
Speaker 7: I got a fifty two on that one.
Speaker 6: Fifty two not enough, I'm sorry, Although when you said
my name, your tongue failed. Ashy who rolled the second
lowest observation.
Speaker 5: I think that was me sixty.
Speaker 6: Seven sixty seven things that tickle your fancy. Well, there's
a jar that sparkles. Looks like it's for of crushed glass.
You do see oohs assorted dried sage, my gord, better, donna.
You see a bottle labeled one step from gold. It's
for the black lead heavy cooled. Second choral, third lowest
esteban and eighty nine, My dear, you only see one thing.
You see an array of talismans on a shelf. Now,
if you have a church going fellow, you might recognize
some of them saints. All the while I'm looking at you,
looking at my thing, you see, I'm tip tap tipping
my fingers on my desk.
Speaker 3: I'm just going to come in really quickly here to
let you guys know that in mechanically, and I think
you would feel this when you're looking at some of
these items. When he said talisman, it's the same as
Stalker's subtle knife. You get to use it in that way,
it will it's kind of like a major staff. These
items that you can buy in here, they will give
you buffs and increases when you're using your magic, but
be careful because you get entangled to them, and the
more you use them, the harder it gets. The I mean,
the better your buffs get when you're casting your spells,
but the harder it gets for you to cast the
spell without the talisman or resin or whatever the item
is that you're using. But you you know, you're welcome
to buy anything in here, and yes you do get
to keep it and use it in the game.
Speaker 17: So just so you know, mechanically, I finished looking around me,
and then I regard you again, Sonny, did you.
Speaker 6: Call him my name? What did you just? Are you
telling me.
Speaker 9: That was a character?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a good thing to make sure of. Yeah.
I look at you and say, I'm curious what the
interesting things need to be interested enough for you? You
have quite a collection. I can see that you have
m quiet desire.
Speaker 6: Well, baby, everything's interesting to me, but anything catch your fancy.
Speaker 9: I look back up at the painting. I don't suppose
a story about how you came across that.
Speaker 6: You want a story, Like I said, I don't think
that's gonna be much use for you. How well, hmmm,
you want a story, you gotta give me someone first,
even the story is worth something? What's your story with you?
Speaker 9: Humhm I I'm curious too often. Do have any items
that I might help someone with? Healing others?
Speaker 6: Others?
Speaker 9: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 6: As I say that, I started drooling black Acre, well,
healing the way y'all heal is a bit different from
the way others do. The answer is too fold. You
want to heal people. I take that that's nick nay
on that story.
Speaker 9: Then well, I suppose I'm not very imaginative when it
comes to what I could possibly pay you for your story.
And you make a good point, what is the value
of such a thing? I wouldn't want to give you
something that's not worth it.
Speaker 6: Tell me about it, Tell me about tell me about you.
How do you get there pretty things in your mouth?
Speaker 9: I kind of look at everyone, take a deep breath,
and out of character, I say, in for a penny,
out for a pound. Well, you see, I loved someone
very much, and then they died.
Speaker 11: And I.
Speaker 9: Became a well caught rabbit. This gentleman found me in
a bar stinking with beer. As I did not recognize him.
He took me to his home and he turned me.
Make me this. I bear my fangs for him.
Speaker 6: Ooh, can I have one? Do they grow back?
Speaker 9: Do they grow back? Because I feel like in some
lord they do.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you know that here though you
never lost that fang. It's a fair question. I'll let
you decide.
Speaker 9: I don't think I have.
Speaker 6: Are you willing to play a game for something to
help heal your friend?
Speaker 9: Oh goodness, I suppose I would not look very nice
without with a big hole in my face.
Speaker 13: But.
Speaker 9: Dang it, I reach up into my mouth and I
uh grab one of my fangs and I yank it
out of my mouth.
Speaker 6: Do you then get to me?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I walk up to you, and I do you have like.
Speaker 6: A roll for me man in the shadows, but one
in my rolling body?
Speaker 13: Thirty oh sixteen nine?
Speaker 6: Nah?
Speaker 11: Excuse me?
Speaker 6: Oh boy, you reach out to try and grab this
tooth from your friend. If I wasn't such a good mood,
i'd have two fangs in my hand right now, But
instead I have per fan in my hand, and your
index finger is broken. A deal's a deal. I turn
around momentarily, and I reached down and open up one
of my cubby holes, and I take out a very
peculiar item. I think it's a vile maybe a two
fingers thick, no label clear. The substance is crimson sanguine
as even in this dim light it catches flex of
gold or it. And I present it to her, and
I say, I don't have many clients who need this
sort of thing, but in your company, and I look
to your mouth into your friend's finger, you might need it.
I don't need to make a sound now, curse or
deal's a deal. It's here's virgin blood. Don't look me
like that. No, it's not just any old virgin blood.
It ain't no forty year old soul so playing imaginary
games or dice in the basement kind of blood. No,
just from a cove. And I have a deal with.
Speaker 9: I step forward.
Speaker 3: You don't mean me here, I'm just gonna peace out. Sorry,
go ahead, please continue.
Speaker 9: I step forward, and I gingerly take it from you politely,
I would say, I would like to add politely, do you.
Speaker 6: Want the instructions better? Now? I wouldn't open it or
drink it now. I don't know exactly what I'm dealing with. Apparently,
I say, looking to move. Rules have changed. What a
waste of blood? However, should you drink that. Well, let's
say shit's potent. Otherwise I feel it ten you magic,
try hear your friend's hand or try.
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 9: Okay do I? You said like mix? You're not sure
if I should drink it? Here? Right?
Speaker 6: Do not drink it? Here is something you do not
want to do.
Speaker 9: Got it? Okay?
Speaker 6: To do it? Do not drink it, do not open it? Okay,
but it is in your possession, and that is enough. Awesome.
Speaker 9: I hold it in my hand and I walk over
to stalker and I take your hand in mine.
Speaker 11: I pull away.
Speaker 6: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 11: I want nothing to do with this.
Speaker 6: Why is there.
Speaker 11: I wish to know if you murdered the kittendred in
that jar.
Speaker 6: I turned to the jaw ashes. Oh baby, yeah. The
long and short answer to that one, there is no.
Someone did sell me those ashes because I'm curious, eyes
as curious as eye as old. I only seen one
of your kind before, was a long, long time ago.
Speaker 11: I would like to see if I can discover if
this really weird person is lying somehow.
Speaker 6: You may roll twenty or less.
Speaker 11: All right, I think I would use body for this.
Speaker 6: Body. I tell you what he wrote, body for twenty.
That's body language. That's a different answer. If you wrote
mind or magic with twenty or less, I'll give you more.
It's up to you.
Speaker 11: I I don't think that stalker is used to using
his mind or magic or something like this. He would
be reading body language very well. Eilier eighty eight eighty A.
Speaker 6: You're trying to read my body, LANINGUI what can I say?
I'm a lot? What do you think happens to you?
Guys upon me, looking in my eyes, looking at my body,
looking at me for whatever I whatever I am? What's
your forfeit big or small?
Speaker 10: You choose.
Speaker 11: Big?
Speaker 6: B oh oh. I don't want to punish you for
trying to gaze behind the veil. Now, I tell you what.
I'll help an our hindle for eighty eight. I don't
know exactly how this system works, However, you're gonna take damage.
You look at me, I look back at you, and
I think you feel that bubbling sensation moments before dawn
and again burning in you. It hurts and it's visible.
Your flesh undulates painfully. Who is this person? What is it?
Why is it? I think in your mind the only
word that's going through your mind is why? And it
dawns on you. I am very old.
Speaker 3: Very old, older than you. I'm just gonna come in
and say that Stalker, this is for stalker, right.
Speaker 6: That is right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, older than you for sure. Also, don't be nice meyer,
go for their throats. Okay, I'm ready.
Speaker 6: All right In that case, Stalker, one of your eyes bubbles,
bursts and pops the laying trickles down your face and
cut us to the floor of rolling into the corner. Hmhm,
I mean it was a change.
Speaker 11: Ah. Yes, I grabbed my face and hiss.
Speaker 6: A for your eighty eight. I did say I've seen
one of your kind before. Might have been the first,
you don't know, feels like it might have been. Where
was I?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 6: Yeah, you want to help your friend, right, only if
he wants it. He seems like he might need it.
Speaker 11: Stalker, I'm like holding my face and rouched, uh, staring
at this creature.
Speaker 6: Creature I bent down.
Speaker 9: I will not do it unless you don't, unless you
want me to.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I don't think he would think he would stop you.
But yeah, I don't think he would ask for it either.
Speaker 9: So Okay it looks pretty bad, yeah, like in a
lot of pain.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't want to scream because my
window is open. Yeah, and they hear enough crazy stuff
coming out of this apartment already. But yeah, I think, okay,
I think he would. I think he would initially probably
scream a little bit.
Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, I'm holding.
Speaker 3: Yes, will you roll for me? Please? This is me
trying to help you while he's trying to kill you.
Which one of us difficulty you?
Speaker 9: Okay, my magic's tet Yeah, ninety three failure.
Speaker 6: Oh shucks.
Speaker 9: Yeah. I I feel like this place is already extremely
magical obviously, Like I feel like the air is thick
with it. I'm holding I'm holding the item that I
just got, the blood, and I'm going to crouch down
in front of Stalker. And I don't want to heal him,
but I would like to take away the pain that
he's feeling so that he can so that he can
like decide for himself, because the pain is what's keeping
him from.
Speaker 3: I see, you know, I see.
Speaker 9: So I don't I don't want to like fully heal him,
but I just want to like stop the pain so
that he can I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so he can give you permission to heal him. Yeah, yeah,
I see.
Speaker 11: Yeah, he's not it's not like he's writhing on the ground.
He's he screamed at first, and now he's holding his
eye and his other eye is focused on this thing,
and he's like crouched down like we're in a fight
right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's not going to ask you for help, but
he'll take it. Is how I took it. But yeah,
I don't know if that's how if that's explicit enough
for Constantine.
Speaker 11: I like initiation was just rolled. That is what is
happening to him.
Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, uh yeah, then I'll just come over and
I will m I'm holding this thing. I'm trying to
remember the last time I healed. I feel uncomfortable doing
what I normally do when I heal people, which is
like doing an action that shows how well I know them,
because we're in this place with this person, and I
don't want this person to learn anything about him from
I was that my actions.
Speaker 3: You fucking figured it out. That was what I was
trying to do when I came in to help you. Yeah,
and you failed, but you figured it out by yourself.
And that is just the reminder that any one of
you performing a spell in this shop is teaching him
how you where your magic comes from, and that is
something you can sell by all means. Cast the spell
you know, but that's information can sell.
Speaker 9: Okay, hold on or don't don't give.
Speaker 3: Him because that you are giving him information about how
you guess magic and about Stalker in this moment. But
his eye is missing, so you may want to help
him out and that's totally fine. And I'm stress eating,
don't judge me.
Speaker 6: Magic. You'll see my chest rises, but I make no sounds.
But as you focus on that magic, all of y'all
in the room here sound badger quick? I pause.
Speaker 9: I pause, and I turned to look at you, and
I say, I believe I paid for this, and I
hold up the I hold up the blood and then
I say, so what will we get for what you're
about to see from me?
Speaker 6: Oh mm hmm? How about insurance?
Speaker 9: Well, you know insurance men don't often work clean insurance
for what?
Speaker 17: What?
Speaker 6: If you fail?
Speaker 9: Then you'll do it?
Speaker 18: Am I If you agree.
Speaker 9: How bad I make it ex strae lovely for you?
And you answer my colleagues questions, And I look at Cora.
Speaker 6: How you make it extra lovely for me?
Speaker 9: I kneel down in front of uh Stalker and I'll
put my hand out and place it over his hand
that he's holding to his eye. I'll let you watch.
Speaker 6: You know, I had nothing doing to day. I was
gonna leave closed shop. I don't know, maybe go play
binger this this this is a.
Speaker 9: Sunbait, all right, uh, and then I will attempt to
heal him. I'm still this is a This is where
I'm hoping that the sort of talisman or the focus
is going to kick in because I'm still not willing
to reveal anything about Stalker, but I'm willing to reveal
only about me. And obviously I know that that would
not heal. That would like historically, not be as effective
in healing, you know. So this is where I'm kind
of hoping that the already.
Speaker 3: You've already healed Stalker once before, so you have that's
true what we what is called in other world. Oh
my god, this is so exciting. Well, you have what
we call a residue, emotional residue, So you've already done this,
so you do have some some history with him. But
right now I need you to go ahead and roll
D one hundred for the entanglement table, because you are
about to use this item as a talisman.
Speaker 9: Yeah, twenty five.
Speaker 3: Okay, I will look this up. But in the meantime,
you can have a ten shift on this role for
your healing for him, which will be hold on. Let
me let me just double check something, Sonny. Are you
allowing this in your shop or are you trying to
make it more difficult for her?
Speaker 6: Dear m, I ain't evil. We gave you that impression.
Speaker 3: I'm just I'm just asking her, just double checking before
I give her the difficulty, because you know.
Speaker 6: You know, she's a value customers. I was intending to
do this. I was int then to give her a
plus twenty shie.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, all right, yeah, yeah, okay, you motherfucker okay, yep, yeah,
all right, all right, alright ti okay, Well there you go.
Speaker 9: Okay, So plus twenty then, I don't know he was gonna.
Speaker 3: Give you twenty, okay, and I gave you ten. So
you get a plus thirty shift on a thirty difficulties.
So your difficulty is now sixty.
Speaker 9: Okay, god damn it. Thirty two.
Speaker 3: Ooh holy shit.
Speaker 6: So yeah, okay, this is fun.
Speaker 3: Seventy two.
Speaker 6: Wooo never mind.
Speaker 3: Okay, however, not never mind for me, So give me
one second, I gotta pull up your entanglement. Why don't
you go ahead and describe what happens, and then I'll describe.
I'll send you the entanglement here in a second. Sounds good, okay.
Speaker 9: So I my hand is over your hand stalker, and
I look into the eye that you're currently like, your
undamaged eye, the one that's trained on this being that
we're speaking to. You're not looking at me, right, no, okay?
So I look into your eye and I just think
about how beautiful it is, all of the freckling, the
gradiation through your iris, and even the blackness of your pupil,
how it can reflect light, how it can reflect a face.
I think about the fact that this is how your
experience of life is perceived through this one small, fleshy
orb that can be taken away and I give it
back to you.
Speaker 11: Question, are you saying that the eye that is on
the ground comes back or are you saying a new eye?
Speaker 9: Peers, I think you get a new eye. And then
I will reach over and pick up the eye that's
on the ground and hand it to you.
Speaker 6: So for clarity, you don't pick up a ball, you
pick up a lands that I didn't come out neat
it popped.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, okay, follow up question. And this is only
because of the entanglement you got, and it's fucking sick
as hell. And you rolled on a D one hundred
and the odds of getting that are crazy long.
Speaker 9: You have to read it.
Speaker 3: But it feels like it's related to the eyeball. So
I would love for both of you to roll a
D one hundred real quick. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, right,
like this game is fucking haunted.
Speaker 9: That's fucking haunted.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So Orchish go ahead and roll me a D
one hundred, and then Constantine myrgos rolled me another D
one hundred real quick, real quick. Somebody get a double
six okay.
Speaker 11: Sixty nine God, okay, sixty nine.
Speaker 3: In a row. I know that's I was gonna say
that the second time you've rolled that, right, I.
Speaker 11: Feel like nine twice.
Speaker 3: Okay, here's what I'm thinking with that thirty two plus
you've got you know, you've got Sonny helping you. You're
you're so I'm thinking like, you're casting this magic in
this place. You're using your own magic. You're also using
the blood as a talisman. You're casting inside Sonny shop,
and Sonny is helping you. I feel like I feel
like Stalker gets something cool with this fucking eyeball that
you've just given him, because you specifically said you give
him a new eyeball. So what do you think this
new eye can do? That is old I could not do.
Speaker 11: I have an idea, don't have to take it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but what.
Speaker 11: This started was me doing a perception check with physical ability. Yeah.
I was trying to figure like read someone's body language.
Speaker 6: Mm hmm.
Speaker 9: I have an idea.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna throw it out there.
Speaker 3: Yep, go for it.
Speaker 9: It lets you parse the layers.
Speaker 3: So I think that's a great idea. But this isn't
related to layers. What I think we should do, because
you're a heeler. Specifically, what I think we should do
is this, I can no longer have what just fucking
happened to it happened. It's protected from being taken or
obscured or whatever. He can always still perceive with that eye,
including in magical darkness. Yeah, yep, yeah, I think this.
I can see through magical darkness, especially because that's tied
to what has happened to you. Mergs. It's almost like
equal trade, right.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, yeah cool.
Speaker 6: I kind of.
Speaker 3: Oh the eye, Oh yeah, is it a different color? No, okay,
that's what it is. They do know what his eyes
look like?
Speaker 9: Yeah, like, I think I reconstructed it from the other
one though, so I think it's a perfect replica.
Speaker 3: Oh that's so creepy. Okay, all right, perfect. So you
have two identical look and like fucking irises.
Speaker 11: I have two left eyes, two left eyes, very weird.
Speaker 9: Yeah all right, yeah, it's cool.
Speaker 3: That's super cool.
Speaker 9: I kind of WinCE and I kind of, you know, like,
what's the word that I literally can't think of right now?
Speaker 3: Squint?
Speaker 9: I squint.
Speaker 3: I got to bb girl, thank you so much. You're welcome.
I'm gonna yep. I'm going to shut up and let
him take over.
Speaker 11: Then after after this happens, I lower my hand and
open my eye for the first time, and I'm looking
at Constantine and then I look at this preacher. Do
they look any different?
Speaker 6: Well, I I ain't going to be mean to you.
Make you roll again.
Speaker 11: I'll just say, make me roll again?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, do it? Yeah? Well, I mean you've got
to roll again. It's your new eye or are you
using your eye? Go for it.
Speaker 10: You can roll that eye with a shift.
Speaker 3: Like five, So thirty five difficulty unless he wants to
be kind and give you forty.
Speaker 6: I was going to give ten for the aye, okay.
Speaker 3: Forty it is go for it, bitch.
Speaker 11: My question is is this I is I? Is it
an ability that I'm adding to my body or is
it passive?
Speaker 3: I was going to say it's passive. I would add
it to your sheet just so that we know that
you have it. But I don't think it takes up
one of your special skill slots. I think it's just
a cool thing that you've gotten, which is also technically
how these magic items work. When you get these magic items,
you don't have to put them at you know, fill
up one of your slots with it. It's just a
cool thing that you have. So essentially this I we're
going to treat it like a magic item that you have.
Speaker 11: Okay, a failure seventy eight, I look the same to you.
How how long mergs do you think that this took
for like the healing process and everything.
Speaker 9: I think, hmmm, you're roll to thirty two.
Speaker 3: It can be as quick as you want.
Speaker 9: I think that you felt it come back like it
wasn't just like, oh, suddenly the eye is back. I
think you felt it form and grow. But I tried
to do it as fast as possible, so it wasn't
like horrifying, like body horror levels of So maybe like
a minute thirty seconds to a minute.
Speaker 11: Yeah, all right, that's what I was thinking too. So
you would see as time goes on, Stalker initially he
is thinking we are about to fight, so he's very tense.
He has a dagger. He has his dagger in his hand.
He is watching the creature, and as the healing happens,
and as time goes on, he relaxes a little, you know,
removing his hand, focusing his new eye, looking at Constantine
and then this creature.
Speaker 7: He then.
Speaker 11: Looks around the room and stands back up, straight backed
again and puts his dagger back in its sheath. After
he looks at the shop keeper for a moment, and
then he's just sort of back to normal. Nods at Constantine.
Speaker 9: I hope that that was enough to secure some answers
my friend, lighting.
Speaker 6: M I'll give you one more. They're painting up there.
Reason why I said it won't work for you, because
it won't work for you sometimes mortals find their way here.
And it's the same old saying song, Oh I don't
want to be old. Oh I don't want to be sick. Well,
and I shrug. It's just one way to solve it.
Speaker 9: HM out of character. I totally knew that was what
was happening. And I was like, I want to know,
I want confirmation.
Speaker 6: You've got a bit of Dorian Gray and he here.
Speaker 9: Yeah, exactly. I picked it up. I picked it up.
Speaker 3: I thought when you fucking said you see a painting,
I was like, is this about to be my worst fucking,
fucking childhood sorry with the dot God, damn it, I
was gonna lose my fucking mind.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean not all the paintings are visibles. Some
of them do have tops on and for a reason,
my dear, Okay, now, it was we questions we're buying
or trading.
Speaker 7: I will welcome to the counter.
Speaker 6: Welcome, welcome to the sun. Is how can I help you?
Speaker 7: Have you thought about it? What you will pay?
Speaker 6: What I would pay.
Speaker 7: For our seventh friends?
Speaker 6: M H. I Am'm curious about your little friend. What
did he do? How did he piss her off? It's
most curious to me. I cast my gaze yet again
at that tank full of all those little bead a
monkey lie And I look back to my friend looking
at me, and I say, ah, flashcraft is so playful.
Speaker 11: Don't you think.
Speaker 15: I've been thinking about it?
Speaker 6: Mm hmmm what is it worth? What is it worth?
Speaker 11: Now?
Speaker 6: And I sniff again and again it doesn't come from me.
It's like the room itself has taking your essence in
all of y'all.
Speaker 15: Ah, take him out, and he's like in my hand,
and my hand is resting on the count kind of
like showing you him.
Speaker 6: Mmm, he the little fell.
Speaker 3: What you see before you, sonny, is a homunculous creature
with far too many fingers that's been kind of stitched together.
You recognize this handiwork. Teeth have been sewn into this creature,
even though it has no mouth. It's just kind of
like a fucked up gesture of like, oh, this is
where your mouth would be if you could speak. And
there is a very large owl eye kind of like
in the hand socket so that it has an eye.
And when it moves its you know, thumb and index finger,
the teeth do move, so it can actually replicate a
frown and a smile. If it chooses to do so,
but it cannot speak, but it is terrified if you okay, Oh,
I know, and.
Speaker 6: I'm familiar with old Fiddy his handiwork. I reached out,
look at Gunner and say, may I.
Speaker 7: I sort of take it back a little.
Speaker 15: Across the counter towards myself.
Speaker 11: I have been thinking about.
Speaker 15: What it's worth to sentence a creature to torture in vain.
Speaker 7: Forever.
Speaker 15: And the answer, m h, it's nothing.
Speaker 6: Now that is mighty curious. And I think for the
first time in this conversation my eyes flipped from his
a monculous to himself, and I say, is that compassion
seems mighty problematic to have? How do you feel what
happens to him? Now? As for your topic of eternal
damnation suffering stagnation, you'd have to ask your friend what
did he do? If she don't do this, just anybody,
may I? Then I reached out again, ask for pain.
I'm not sure this one feels pain. Flesh Craft, when
you bring someone and used to be so big down
and there's s something so small.
Speaker 15: I'll call it closer to myself again.
Speaker 6: You got to get rid of a few things.
Speaker 15: I'm leaning in across the counter.
Speaker 18: Mm hmm, like.
Speaker 15: Your tank over there. There's a crypt in my water
with the door that has closed. If you can get
me and my friends through.
Speaker 11: There, he's yours.
Speaker 6: Hmmm. Now curious, can I praise him?
Speaker 3: Yeah? You can?
Speaker 6: Oh, my child, this is after gunner.
Speaker 7: I let you, but I do not let go of him.
Speaker 6: M that's all right, hey, that little one, I say,
I reach out with my index finger and I run
my finger down one of his now so ironic lifelines.
And as I do, your little fella, your friend starts
to quiver the teeth on this thing, touch and rub
in a left. Oh he's ticklish. Uh. Now, the lady,
what done do this to your friend? To go way back?
I ain't sure even I have it in my power
to make him hole you too? Closed? It seem closed.
Speaker 15: His name is Handsel.
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 6: Cute. I tell you what. You've got a door you
can't get into. Six big body people like yourself can
knock down no door. I take your door, and just
no normal door?
Speaker 15: Then is it doesn't appear to be any door at all?
Speaker 6: Mm hm, Oh, save my name again, Sonny, roll a
mind for me.
Speaker 19: As I say, say my name again, ah rolling my
magic for me or a mind either or it's up
to you.
Speaker 6: Difficulty or difficulty. Thirty one.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna fucking barb.
Speaker 12: Seventy four.
Speaker 6: Seventy four. You say Sonny a second time your mouth,
it tastes ash you smoke. Now you do. Something in
your mind tells you you probably shouldn't say that name again.
I mean you want through a door. You want to
get to someplace else? Is that here? You ain't from here?
I know that much for sure. You're all very different
from those of well, from others around. I can help
you with your door problem. I look back at your hands,
le friend. Now your friend, there is a curiosity to me.
It's alive and not today like the other one she's
disposed of. I was just curious as to why she
only does. It's the folk which don't piss her off
quite some. I have no need for no pets. Now, narrator,
do I know anything about this door?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 3: This is very surprising to you. However, you've never seen
you know you've never seen creatures like this before? Either? No,
I have lies.
Speaker 6: No, I have not.
Speaker 3: I think you've heard rumors like very rarely, and it
was probably extremely expensive for you to buy this information.
But there is rumor that there is some do possess
and occasionally, and I mean by occasionally, I mean like
maybe once or twice in the entire time that you
have existed, there have been rumors of people with the
ability to travel between worlds like and that. If you know,
that may be what you're considering here, because they don't
their magic feels funny to you, tastes funny to you.
Speaker 6: Everything smell yeah, yeah, funny. Yeah. We're in a pocket
right now. I'll give them that, the players, but it's
different from where they're from. How cure is how far
those stories go. You watch me lively slide past the counter,
past gunna in between all y'all, to the back of
the room, the lies of mirror covered in a dusty tar. Hmm,
I wonder if this will work? Actually, you see this
dusty thing I use sometimes helps to see what people
desire the most. I'm curious, what do you see? Try
to step up?
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