Speaker 1: You are listening to table story.
Speaker 2: Deathless is an improvised cinematic narrative with live production, including
music and dialog.
Speaker 3: There is no script.
Speaker 2: This story contains violence, disturbing imagery, adult themes, and a
darkness which may read you doubting. For you, lord, proceed
at your own risk.
Speaker 4: A lodge of shape from shade, loget of fact from me.
Speaker 5: That he says, stand up for the thing.
Speaker 6: You can't stand a louse.
Speaker 7: So who is it going to be?
Speaker 8: I step up?
Speaker 7: Oh hello, shopkeeper, shopkeeper? Not so shy, No more.
Speaker 8: I was gaining my footing. If you must know, you
can't just change faces like that and expect everyone to
just be okay with it, especially one. I've seen some doozies.
That one, my friend, I think takes the cake.
Speaker 9: Oh you flattering me?
Speaker 7: Right down to business before you? I have and I
stroke this tall floored of ceiling mirror you see before you.
Not quite glass. It's polished silver. It has a frame
of brass etched nerd. It looks like wood, but it
ain't as our sorts of filigree, gargoyles, illuminations of pain. Eyes,
that's the eyes on this thing. They say he's in
the eye of the beholder.
Speaker 8: But anyway, Shopkeeper, remind me to tell you later of
a very interesting place. That is, assuming you have something
for trade. I think you would enjoy it.
Speaker 7: Assuming cute All right now, his, I love this thing.
This mirror has many names. I'll give you one though,
my favorite, the mirror of desires. In this shop, I
have many things, and yes I do have more on
the back. This here can help suss out what it
is you want, since I ain't quite too sure if
you know what you want, but I'm curious. But with
your condition, if it works on you.
Speaker 8: I suppose there's only one way to find out there.
Speaker 7: I suppose, so stamp please before I do. Mm hmmm.
Speaker 8: The way I figure it, I look in that mirror,
and you gain information, which is something you can trade for.
Speaker 7: Yes, I suppose. I mean we thought of both gain
a thing or two. I'm trying to sell to you, yes, wow,
mm hmmm.
Speaker 8: I'm trying to make sure we all get our fair
shake of it. Yes, uh uh huh. So I will
look in that mirror, no problem at all if you
she would share with me your least favorite name for
this mirror, Okay, I smile smugly.
Speaker 7: My least favorite name for this. Yes, what is it again?
This ting here has passed through so many hands the
mirror desires. I suppose is a good enough name, Sola.
Someone called it once before, but I only that's too accurate,
so I don't like it much. Solar, you said, uh huh, Solar.
Oh so I m hm oh with the eyes, yes,
I guess that is a.
Speaker 8: Bit derivative, isn't it quite so? Quite a deal to
the deal? Then, I'm a man in my word. I
step up to the mirror, watching him.
Speaker 7: As you step forward into the mirror, you see nothing
at first, maybe a dull glow, a pale reflection of
the room behind you. However, you feel drawn cool, Your
attention seems towards the center something you can't quite make out.
The back of your neck feels stiff. It ain't like
you can't look away. You don't want to. And now
I need you, sorry, honey, I need you to roll
to dash for me. One magic in one body difficulty narrator,
what kind of difficulty would we give him? He's the first,
after all.
Speaker 3: In the shop. It's either thirty or forty. If you're
feeling like it should be easier for them, but I
wouldn't say default thirty in this shop personally, I see
all right.
Speaker 7: In that case, double forty is why not feeling nice today?
Speaker 8: Very kind of you? Good sound twenty three on mind
oo e body, oh sixty seven sixty seven, So.
Speaker 3: That Sunny understands because I know this when I'm looking
at it right now. It reads otherworldly success. But we've
changed that to be one eleven, twenty two and thirty three,
so it's very close. It is still a success, but
basically it's like magical success, not necessarily like the most
insane success of all time. Okay, see take it away.
Speaker 7: Interesting, say yes, this is the narrator, Sonny coming out
here for a second now.
Speaker 8: Laura, why didn't you say so, come here?
Speaker 7: When was the last time you think you've ever seen
yourself in a mirror? It's true self, my true self?
Speaker 8: How long has it been? You'll define true self?
Speaker 7: Well yourself at all? What with all your power?
Speaker 8: Yes, I mean I don't think my clan has the
clan band that you can't look in mirrors.
Speaker 7: So not look in mirrors and see myself? Yes, you
can't see yourself?
Speaker 8: Yes, oh in a manner speaking, yes, not.
Speaker 3: In our world, Sonny, ain't ain't fucking possible. But for them,
because they come from VTM, they can see their reflection
for most of the time.
Speaker 7: And I'm quite pretty how curious indeed, Well, in that
case that changes a few things.
Speaker 8: I'm here to help.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, However, if this is the mirror that I
think it is, then I doubt he's ever seen what
could potentially be in there.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 8: That's why I asked. Depends on true self, and I
think that'd be up to the other narrator maybe to discern,
as I would have no fucking idea what that could mean.
Speaker 3: Let's roll one more time, this one, love, Yeah, this
one will be mined as well, same difficulty of thirty,
thirty or forty, because I've been rolling for sorry thirty
for this one, all right, you know?
Speaker 8: Making sure yep, fifty one would not either way, It matters,
It does matter.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna I'm gonna send this over to sunny
here and then you can take it away.
Speaker 10: Here.
Speaker 7: What do we have here? I see, baby, as you
stare into this mirror and you see yourself, you're oh
so vain, oh so beautiful self.
Speaker 8: That's right, you see it?
Speaker 7: Melt away. Oh no, flickering, licking like the embers of
a fire.
Speaker 8: What is happening?
Speaker 7: And as you look at this silhouette of yourself, you notice,
or at least you feel, this weakness. Can you give
to the mirror with your role, give me your time
where you failed truly helpless?
Speaker 8: A time when I felt truly helpless.
Speaker 7: That's right.
Speaker 8: It was five years ago, over five years ago, and.
Speaker 11: I'm small.
Speaker 8: And weak and I enter a party. Livation's going on
all around me, everyone's happy, their faces twisted now normal,
they looked twisted to me. Laughter maybe at me, maybe not,
but definitely seems at me as they look and small
and helpless. One offers me a drink and I take
it down immediately. They're still laughing at me, still talking
about me. I shouldn't be there, How could I be
invited something like this?
Speaker 12: Man?
Speaker 8: I take another drink.
Speaker 7: And look around.
Speaker 8: The bill. Okay, more drinks. The room starts to spin,
but they're still laughing at me.
Speaker 7: More and more.
Speaker 8: It doesn't make it stop, and I can't do anything
about it. And then one mass drink before call Dania,
and that's it.
Speaker 7: I'm not sure when you notice that you're currently now
kneeling on the floor staring at this mirror. But the
memory you just had and fed to the mirror it
played back to you like some sort of twisted telling.
Novella starts to coalesce back into this flicker and flame,
and then more so into the you you see before you.
Are you helpless? Now? Are you strong? Do you feel strong?
Have you felt strong since then? Oh?
Speaker 8: Yes, I have felt nothing but the strength of fire
since that evening. And I thought I throwned all that away.
Speaker 7: Mmmm. The moon before you grows in clarity and smiles
at you. Do you move at all as you stare
at this mirror?
Speaker 8: I'm still on the ground. Yes, I'm still on my knees.
I'm looking up and I see me. I'm not moving now.
Oh you know what. I move my arm to see
if it moves, even though we're in different positions. I
want to see if it reflects my movement.
Speaker 7: It does as you move, you're all. The moon before
you keeps movement, is all behind him, and then presents
before you in two hands, small doll in front of you.
This thing looks like you. The wall twisted broken, her
monculus of her patchwork, piece of odd needles, and straw hair,
the tiny set glasses. What do you see? I say,
right behind you.
Speaker 8: I see my reflection and it's cute as well.
Speaker 7: Oh, I see, I see, I see, I don't see,
but I see. Hm m.
Speaker 8: I see me in every possible way. Interesting you hear.
Speaker 7: A slide to the side of the store. A drawer
has opened up, and I prays towards it. Oh, I
think this might be eas for you, maybe if you won't.
It's got quite the striking resemblance. I turned it around
and before me is this small little woodoo doll. If
I can congo, this here is a powerful charm a vessel.
You may have heard of vudu dolls before. Folks they
use it sometimes what to curse people? However, Well, in
your own possession, kept to you and yours alone, the
puppet can be the puppet master. This year needs just
a little bit from you, though, two secure the pack?
Speaker 8: And what is it that it needs from me to secure?
Speaker 7: What do you think?
Speaker 8: Look down my scar from which I pick. Yes, I
suppose it's always that, isn't it?
Speaker 7: What can I say? It's hard to break some habits?
Now sure?
Speaker 8: Right now?
Speaker 7: That isn't the doll?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 7: Now sure.
Speaker 5: It?
Speaker 7: However, yes, what's in it for me?
Speaker 8: You get to witness what happens? But what's in it
for me?
Speaker 7: Well? Should you be in possession of a doll like this?
You tell me when someone has a voodoo doll or
someone else saying to say, they twist his neck or
stab it or burn it. What do you think happens?
Speaker 8: I mean anything? Could anything could happen here in this one.
I don't know how it works. It could be nothing.
Speaker 7: What do you think might happen? Min?
Speaker 8: I think you'll ruin a perfectly good door. I smirk, fair, fair,
I will do this and you get to watch and
have a story all future patrons. Yes, however, I will
in part with you something of mine before we part ways,
in exchange for two things. Two things, yes, two items
in here, of my.
Speaker 7: Choosing, of your choosing. That I have many things in here.
I can't just go barking and like that for nothing,
even for the say yourself, and I have to say,
I do like what I see. I see six individuals
with so much.
Speaker 8: Potential, hm, six individuals rather five in one copy?
Speaker 7: Ah Well, this little puppet became a little bit more
app now, didn't it? There are no stress on me, sir.
Let me start playing with you. Now, I hand you
the doll and I say, would you please? There ain't
no words or fancy things with this. It's straight up
blurred magic. All right.
Speaker 8: Pick the scar opon and I bowed my hand up
into a fist, and I let a single drop of
blood drop on the door, and then I licked the scar.
Speaker 7: What a waste. I glide up towards my first client.
I pull out my pinky fingers, which you now notice
is quite long, quite sharp, and quite beautiful, and then
I shove it straight into his neck.
Speaker 8: Into the door.
Speaker 7: Then happens now into your neck, go into my neck?
Roll body for me real quick, please, I would do
to roll body for me.
Speaker 8: You know, I went into this session thinking I want
to roll as much as I possibly can, because if
you're not rolling, you can't succeed. And what speaking of success,
what difficulty can I roll for you?
Speaker 7: You're gonna roll me a forty right here?
Speaker 3: Wonderful mind?
Speaker 8: A thought of mind? Oh sorry, no.
Speaker 3: No, I said, I'm very kind.
Speaker 8: Oh there was a forty nine.
Speaker 7: A forty nine? Well, ain't you lucky? You have this doll? Long?
My finger sticks into your neck. I pull it out
and there's nothing left but down on your doll A
stitch pops.
Speaker 8: Oh you did.
Speaker 7: I see.
Speaker 8: A smirk?
Speaker 7: You took a care of that.
Speaker 8: Now, of course I take it and I give it
a little kiss on the forehead as I took it
away in my inside jacket pocket.
Speaker 7: But safekeeping, all right? Well, I was interesting. I licked
my finger. I still have a vampiric fang in my
out like a lounge m who's nay?
Speaker 9: I stepped forward?
Speaker 7: Shop keep.
Speaker 9: Oh, I would like to make a deal.
Speaker 7: A deal, well way something okay, okay, okay, okay, two
very different things. You have made twings. Therefore a second,
I have made a.
Speaker 9: Deal, and see where the conversation goes.
Speaker 7: Mm hmm. Get a step before the mirror.
Speaker 9: I have already seen everything I need to see from
a mirror this earlier today. So and I don't need
help knowing what I want and what I desire. It
has been clear to me for a long.
Speaker 7: Time, is that?
Speaker 9: See now you said you have been a for a
very long time. True, so very long, and before today
the only thing you have seen of our kind before
is a little bit of dust in your jar.
Speaker 7: Narrator should oh. She throws her hands in the air,
invisible to the guests. I think it was a long
time ago, and I need to show you all are
from here, so to speak. At least that's what you're
let know. So what is mine may not necessarily be
what is yours.
Speaker 9: So then it's fair to say that we are the
first of us you have ever seen in your long
time on these earth.
Speaker 7: I was so right, at least not dust for.
Speaker 9: Correct. Now I am looking for a few things. We
will see if what I have to offer you is
enough to get these things. First off, I would really
appreciate if you would teach my friend over here. I
motioned to Kora to perform whatever she needs to do
to open this door. When it opened again, hmm, Now
that is an ass because I have no idea what
this door is, and it certainly ain't here. If you
cannot help us, I can ask for something else.
Speaker 7: I'm thinking, I'm thinking, I'm thinking. I've taken a long
drawn bread and as I do the floorboards again, croak.
You hear the wind, the rush behind not just your ears,
but all your ears. It's been a while since I've
been able to just leave I may be able to Hell,
I mean, what else did you have in mind? Well?
Speaker 9: If it is, maybe, then I will have to ask
for other things for myself. I don't know if you
have an item like this, but I I've tried something
when I was here before I know I was here,
and I do not know how well will go if
I should do it again. So I would like something
that might give me some assistance should I try to
do this thing. I'm about to tell you again.
Speaker 7: As you talk about eyes just staring at your mouth,
sorry crying.
Speaker 9: I smile with my fangs out, so is saying my apologies.
I do you have anything that would assist me in
bending the will of others to my own?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 9: Of course, pretty simple. It sounds like very common for
you here.
Speaker 7: Well. I mean folk come from all around the place
with different kinds of things. How specific? Do you want
a love potion?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 9: I want people's minds to be pliable when I tell
them what to do, which I come probably do without it,
but it would be nice to have some help.
Speaker 7: Ah, I see.
Speaker 3: Okay, so he might be asking for and this is
just me coming into help. If you don't need it,
you can do whatever. Seriously, I meant it when I said,
you can give them whatever your brain comes up with
if you want. But I assume he could potentially be
asking you for a talisman that gives him like a
you know, plus five or plus ten shift on rolls
of that type. So that is something that is pretty
common for a shop like yours, where people will come
in and ask for a focus or something like that,
like air Fear's staff was a focus on his feather
was a focus for him. Gives him a bonus on
his roles. So that's kind of what's happening here, or
you could do anyway.
Speaker 7: I understand, Thank you, mom. Look at him dead in
the ah to your will? How permanently he are we talking.
Speaker 9: Until they finished telling them what I want them to do.
I see sometimes it is less enjoyable if they never
realize that you are doing it to them.
Speaker 7: I think I may have just the thing. I strut
towards a cabinet, and amongst it, I started to just
wash my hand back and fall little talentsman's here, necklaces,
pandits bees, you name it, and then within I lift
up what looks like and you find this kind of
ironic the pray be now these here, These belonged to
someone quite influential folk. And I suppose you'd have to
forgive me because also they're a bit more modern. Now.
This fellow was able to get a lot of people
invested in him, real invested life through him. They were
going to see the promised land. Oh sadly all they saw.
All they saw was a blanket and a nice tall
glass of cool aid. But there's power and belief, and
these was his. I think these and your general genes
se QUI could be quite the partner. What's in it
for me?
Speaker 9: Well, I have two things I think it would be
very interested in. But perhaps the drink is as effective
as they might be. I do not believe it will
be enough. However, I will tell you one of these.
Speaker 7: Things very well.
Speaker 9: Have you seen a web?
Speaker 7: A web?
Speaker 9: Ah, you have not seen a web.
Speaker 7: Seen many ways what you're talking about.
Speaker 9: If you have seen this web, you would have known
the web I was talking about.
Speaker 7: I like the way you talk. I love the way
you talk. You make me so curious. Speak.
Speaker 9: There is a web mm hmm over a part of
this city, a web of magic that myself and one
of us have seen. And I have spoken to someone
else who I would have assumed and knew it was there,
And as far as I know, she does not I see,
which is very strange because it is right over her home.
Speaker 7: M you, why is this?
Speaker 8: Why do you think this is an interest to me?
Speaker 9: Well, as someone is a practitioner of magic, there is
some sort of magical web over part of your city.
Perhaps it is outside above you right now. Perhaps you
will know. Perhaps it would be nice if you didn't
know narrator or even to tell him about this. Even
to tell you about this has given you something to
look for.
Speaker 3: Hmmm, you were asking Yeah, that was creepy as hell.
You were asking me if you knew something, right, that's right,
and you asked me specifically what it is.
Speaker 6: You would like to know?
Speaker 7: Do I know of this where.
Speaker 3: You leave your shop very often.
Speaker 7: In a manner of speaking? But no, not really.
Speaker 3: I didn't think so. No, I think I think this
is probably news to you.
Speaker 7: So that's it. Then that's the extent of your your
story here spy the web for this?
Speaker 9: Would you like me to go outside and see if
you are caged in by this? Or would you like
to check for yourself? Because does the value change if
there is a fact above your head. I have told
you it is already above the head of someone else
who's friends. You collect.
Speaker 7: Believe you me, I am not caged in here.
Speaker 9: As far as you know.
Speaker 7: Roller roller body check for me.
Speaker 9: Okay, thirty or forty.
Speaker 7: Difficulty thirty thirty eight, I think with a thirty eight.
You notice the way I say that doesn't sound as cockshore.
There's all the other things I've been saying so far
away of you say.
Speaker 9: Huh, hold on, I want to go outside and see
if I can see it above us here.
Speaker 3: So you walk towards the door, Sonny, do you let
him ountain.
Speaker 7: He walks towards the door.
Speaker 9: I'm just going to say, allow me to look for you.
Speaker 7: I watched him go. Do you open the door.
Speaker 9: I looked through the window. It's blacked out. You can't
see how I opened. I opened the door.
Speaker 7: You open the door, and inside you see five fellas,
one in the hood, one with a WHI had brimmed head.
Someone who's gorgeous standing next to a mirror.
Speaker 8: Oh you're too kind. Oh you're talking about Constantine.
Speaker 7: Sorry.
Speaker 13: I kind of freeze there and go all right, Well,
perhaps several check when we were.
Speaker 7: Done close the door. If you please close the door.
I snapped my finger. You hear a door unlock, and
then for a second.
Speaker 9: You may now I opened the door again.
Speaker 7: You see outside.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. He wanted you to see where you were
and then let you out. That's scary.
Speaker 9: That's scary my character.
Speaker 7: But I want to just say, how fucking cool is this?
Speaker 11: Okay, it's okay.
Speaker 3: I'm the audience right now, so I will react, I think, so.
Speaker 9: I think after this though, like it is very unsettling.
So I I, I don't know if this seems crazier
to do, but uh, I kind of just lean my
head out so I don't as I can, so I
don't completely leave, but I lean my head out and
I look up into the sky.
Speaker 3: You get a roll? Okay, mind thirty now, yeah, I
don't know.
Speaker 9: If it's been longer than ten minutes since we arrived
and some stuff happened in here, I would assume because
I had a bonus, Okay, forget it all right, Well
when was your bonus from when I drank the blood from? Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, you still have that for sure? You still
have that?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Yeah, that was five, I think right, I think it
was five. So thirty five, Yes, okay.
Speaker 3: Was yours the one that started high and then every
time you used it went low and then stayed at five.
Speaker 9: No, I get a bonus from constant.
Speaker 3: Okay, just making sure, okay, ye, all right, yep, five works.
Speaker 9: I got a blood from drinking. I got a bonus
drinking blood from the woman. That's right, okay. Sixty eight.
Speaker 3: You don't see anything. I'm sorry.
Speaker 9: I lean back, and good news, there's no web here?
Speaker 7: Mm mmmmmmmm do you step in?
Speaker 9: I lean, I lean back in. I just suck my
head out like that.
Speaker 7: Okay. If your body was anywhere near the door, you
feel the heavy pressure pushing you back inside before the
door firmly locks behind you.
Speaker 9: Well, there it is. But someone or something has put
a web over what is called Bourbon Street, m specifically
for someone who is on Bourbon Street.
Speaker 7: I see.
Speaker 9: You seem interested in what she is doing, so, oh am,
I I do not believe she knows of this herself,
but I cannot be sure about that.
Speaker 7: Interesting and you think that it's worth this.
Speaker 9: For something you have sitting in the cabinet with a
bunch of other ones. I would say, so it was
particularly special. You would have some other place on display.
Would you Knowerhames covered by one of these starts?
Speaker 7: Oh baby, this isn't a mess, you know it's it's
an organized mess.
Speaker 9: No, No, I just mean there is a bunch of
them together. I know you know this one from this
kool aide, But I am also merely just asking for
an enhanswer, not please give me the power to dominate people.
I have this already. Just say a little bit more,
a little woof.
Speaker 7: This is a little bit more.
Speaker 8: Sorry, it was dominating someone in an option.
Speaker 9: There can be.
Speaker 8: Stupid fucking door.
Speaker 9: I thought you were asking for yourself.
Speaker 8: M That depends how many drinks I've had in the
mood i'm in. I shuffle away behind some and her
shelves or something.
Speaker 9: But now I am going to ask for more because
I still would like you to teach her, perhaps if
you know anything about this ritual, so I can also
tell you what has made this web.
Speaker 7: Row me a D one hundred no shift.
Speaker 9: Twenty seven.
Speaker 7: Oh I'm interested.
Speaker 9: Okay, fine, Now this is to help her and for
this wonderful trinket you are have in your hand.
Speaker 7: Please call it a welcoming gear.
Speaker 9: Oh, thank you, But it is for both.
Speaker 7: That depends on her.
Speaker 14: Look at, Cora, how does it depend on me?
Speaker 9: Would you like this? Do you agree to learn from him?
Speaker 6: If he has the information? I don't know if he does.
Speaker 7: Mm hm the information To open a door, well, in
some circles, all you gotta do is just twist the
knob and pull. Sometimes you slide, other times it push.
You know, I've heard it. Sometimes they kind of spin around.
Well that's a fiz.
Speaker 8: You're right, Cora, he has no idea about any door.
Speaker 7: I don't.
Speaker 9: I say, some sort of ritual to help open this
door which we have come through. But can I find
the game? So if twisting and pulling is the ritual,
then that would be fair.
Speaker 6: I look, I look at the window in the blackness outside,
the fact that wherever we entered from doesn't seem to
be out there anymore. And I look around the shop,
and I say, there's a lot of interesting things in here.
I wonder if it's possible, our dear shopkeeper here hasn't
accounted for everything. We seem to be finding doors in
unexpected places, places that exist in between your Have you
noticed a door someplace in here?
Speaker 7: Roll me two D one hundreds.
Speaker 8: I'm leaning on the mirror.
Speaker 7: Holy shit, careful na smackings it was smu.
Speaker 6: I got a I got a one and a seventy nine?
Speaker 7: Who you know, narrator?
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm sorry.
Speaker 7: Holy shit, there was that one covered. It was always stuck.
I wander could she be talking about that?
Speaker 3: Mm hm m hmm.
Speaker 7: I have something of the sort.
Speaker 3: But why you wouldn't have ever been able to open
it though, or at least you were never curious enough
to try. Yeah, but that can float to your mind
for sure. Holy fuck, I.
Speaker 7: Look at her lights, just lazies in my eyes.
Speaker 6: Go on, what is it you would like to know?
Speaker 7: I'll tell you what. I have something here. I've got books.
I've got many books. I may have something for you
for your as rituals, to help you do things, to
elevate your magic, to find things beyond roomie one more
D one hundred. See which one is it gonna be?
Without turning away, I lift one hand and shove it
back into the wall behind me to the bookcase. With
a twist of my wrist, a chain falls off. The
bookcase swings to one side. With two fingers, pull oud
a tone it too, bound in what looks like a
silver chain. Mm hmmm, Now, baby, I've been quite generous. Honestly,
Visitors like yourself come once in a lifetime. However, everything
comes out of cars.
Speaker 6: Wow, you keep talking about how special we are. Just
start your presence enough of a price to pay.
Speaker 7: Baby, baby you mishearv I I will give the world
just to see you happy. But it's not what I want.
It's what it may want, or it may take. And
I saw him to over with this book? Can I
place it on a lectern in front of my dead
little friend? Here? I blow it a fine patina, dust
billows up into the air, stale but smoky. Now this,
if my source is to be correct, is the lesser
key is Solomon the Limington Apparently now legend has it.
This here thing can use to invoke, used to bind demons,
used to peer through the veil. Now yours truly? And
also I'm a sure present company. Well I believe we
is sort of the subject matter here, this book to
some degree, and so the cost of the knowledge within.
I rubbed my hand on my lenen shirt where my
fingers touched this book, and as you can see, almost
looks like ash is coming off, like I'm masking the
fact this thing fucked me up. Certain answers may be
in here which can help you with your door problem,
and maybe mine too, who knows. However, the cost is
one that even myself can't simply narrate to you.
Speaker 6: Are you saying the cost is great?
Speaker 7: It could be.
Speaker 3: This is a named item which I've mentioned a couple
of times, but it's like equivalent to like a legendary item.
He's got a like a legendary spell book in here.
He's put in front of your face.
Speaker 6: I want to touch it and see what happens.
Speaker 7: Roll me narrated? Would it be body.
Speaker 3: Eat either when she can choose body or magic?
Speaker 7: Choose for my baby.
Speaker 6: I want to do magic? But can I get a
little help?
Speaker 3: Yep? Absolutely? Who do you want the little help from?
Or justishna? I think justa yeah, okay, all right, fine, okay,
So what would the difficulty be, Sunny? I was thinking, Okay,
so you Shouna can bump into forty for you. Okay,
you can take an oblivion to or burn to reroll
it again if you want.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like you might want to try. You
can do that as many times as you want, by
the way, Okay, you can alternate between oblivion and burn
for this Holy shit, you only needed the one reroll, Okay,
and you let me know if you're taking burn or oblivion,
because Sonny will recognize what's happening to you.
Speaker 6: I think I am still currently at a burn two,
so I'll just bumped up to three.
Speaker 3: Okay, wow, wow, Okay. So Sonny, as you are watching
her reach out to touch this book, there's probably a
moment where you go, well, you know, touching it is
going to have some sort of effect and maybe potentially
a cost, but perhaps your curiosity wins here and you
want to let her touch it just to see what happens.
But you see her touch it, and there was probably
about to be some sort of like magical trap that
goes off, but it's it stops, and she takes She
takes some burn, mechanic burn, which just means that she
pulls from deep within herself to stop this from happening
and reroll, but she's not aware of what she's really done.
It's more just like she's put her hand on it
and she's gone, okay, and it's an insane amount of
burn too. She burns to level three to be able
to do this. Normal people probably go to level three
burn when they're trying to their baby's been run over
by a fucking car and they're trying to lift the
car up. And she's just done it right here because
she wanted to. So yeah, it's it's yeah, it's pretty
interesting to watch her be able to do this without
breaking a fucking sweat for the most part.
Speaker 7: See I see little miss car as he read shout
out to this book. Can you describe to me what
you think this burn might look like? This extra effort.
Speaker 6: I think we have that somewhere, don't we.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we do. I mean you can say it looks
like whatever you want it to look like. But I
did provide like a little general idea of kind of
just so you guys could figure out the scope.
Speaker 7: In this moment, just for me, just a little low
on me. As I watch.
Speaker 3: Sweat drips from your brow as your body feels like
it's unraveling. Even the simplest tasks will see monumental and
your focus will slip like sand through your fingers. It's
scorching pain burn three and you have a negative twenty
five shift until you're able to remove some of it.
So you know, for you. I think, because you know
you're vampire and you have Ishna, we might see I
think you might potentially. Actually, I'm so sorry, Sonny. You
might see. There a ring of fire in her eyes
for a second as she reads, as she re rolls
that moment. So when she reaches out and touches it,
nothing happens, and then her eyes fucking light up with
the rings of fire, and it's like you can tell
she's doing it again. And then she has a little
bit of the sweat from her brow, and then she uh.
But otherwise she looks fine.
Speaker 7: She does I die in front of her, in front
of the elect and as she does this, I'm looking
her up and down my heads and moving in this
cicadic movement sycopated, syncopated. That's the one staring at her.
You ain't dead before you the book. This silver chain,
the clasp breaks open, and the book is ready for you. Now,
maybe you just done unlocked it. But I ain't touching
that thing no more. That thing is unbound.
Speaker 12: Okay.
Speaker 6: I'm kind of wanting to now that I can touch it,
now that I can interact with it, I kind of
want to see if Ishna can explore it.
Speaker 3: Oh, well, are you.
Speaker 6: Sure read something.
Speaker 5: Apparently creating a god a demon god.
Speaker 3: So you when you say so, you want him to
basically read it. You're trying to get this knowledge without
taking the book and paying the costs. Just so we're clear, right,
you're asking him to read the book and then sneak
away as if you haven't touch it.
Speaker 6: Also, a book that was bound by chain to a bookshelf.
Is he offering me to take it?
Speaker 7: It's not an I mean I.
Speaker 6: Kind of assume this was like a here's some information,
but the book stays here kind of situation.
Speaker 7: Well, I mean that I'm really quite in one of
the moods right now. It's like someone's covered side. There's
a celebrity in my midst right now.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 15: It's how sometimes like a like a coper can come
and I'm like, oh, here, have a free cup of
tea or something, you know, like oh, of course, miss Brittany,
have some shoes, aspawn, see you.
Speaker 7: I'm curious right now.
Speaker 6: Because if it's if it's just like a book that
I can flip through and explore and just see what
I find, then I'll do that.
Speaker 7: Oh do you think you can just flip through it.
Speaker 6: That's what I'm wondering.
Speaker 14: I don't I just want.
Speaker 6: You, baby, I don't think so.
Speaker 3: Mmm, yeah, you'd have to take a risk, I think
flipping through it. But I yeah, I don't know if
you know what will happen if you do it? Yeah.
Speaker 7: I turn to her friends who are awfully quiet. My
eyes dart piercing the shade where a hooded friend is
who I believe is just watching everything now like a hack,
and I say, fool disclaimant, now caveat am tore By, Beware,
I have wound her. What you see what she's about
to do? Well? The prize can be steeped, and that
does not exclude the ultimate prize. Also, I'm gun holding
these and AH pulled out my rosary of Saint Jones
and I hand it over to my friend Cora.
Speaker 3: If you want to browse the book, I just needed
to roll me a D fifty please one D five
zero in the in the row twenty you can do
the slash our space on.
Speaker 6: One D fifty.
Speaker 9: After he hands that to me, I want to lean
into his ear and say please and say.
Speaker 7: The web was made.
Speaker 9: By one of our kind who is here and not
one of us there is another.
Speaker 7: There is another, and they have been here for a time.
Speaker 9: Teams.
Speaker 7: Interesting.
Speaker 9: Perhaps if I am to visit your shop again, I
can tell you what they're like after I meet them,
or you're coming back, I'll be happy to Oh, I'll
make sure the place is better looked after when you
come back. Don't worry, all right, And I appreciate it now.
Speaker 7: It was.
Speaker 6: While this is happening.
Speaker 7: Sorry, no why this happened?
Speaker 5: In Bavid, I'm I'm watching all of this happen silently
after my interaction with h this.
Speaker 7: Shopkeeper, even out of character.
Speaker 5: And I'm watching him, and I really I think I
can guess what his desires are. But I kind of
want to see if I can get more specific, like
I want to I want to know what fuels this curiosity.
Because you've made a deal to be here, and you've
been here a long time and you just collect things.
So why what do you get out of the things
you collect?
Speaker 7: That's a very interesting question, you know, you asking me
that question in CHCT out of cact, How do you
expect to get that answer from me? I ain't no
open book. That's the book I'm me.
Speaker 5: I would like to use my magic ability to read
you to read you. You know I'm observing and I'm baby. Yeah.
Actually I will cut in and I will ask, so
entity like you?
Speaker 7: M entity?
Speaker 5: Well, I don't want to presume what you are. I
admire it, nonetheless. What I am curious? What is the
most exciting thing you've ever obtained in your collection? Curiosity?
Speaker 7: Only the most exciting thing I've ever collected? Well, six
of a kind at the moment, temporarily accords.
Speaker 5: It would be bad business this otherwise.
Speaker 7: Hmm, I'd say, I'd say, why you interested? Or you
want a tour?
Speaker 5: Well, I just admire anyone with a passion for what
they do.
Speaker 7: Oh baby, And I'm full of passion.
Speaker 5: Okay, now I use my magic.
Speaker 7: All right, you gotta roll for me. You asked a question,
so I guess. I guess the answer is on my mind.
But you gotta roll low. We gotta roll. Difficulty even
twenty for an inkland.
Speaker 5: Baby, okay, oh, partial success, thirty.
Speaker 7: A partial success? I think grom one more time for me?
What was the difficulty? I said? Twenty?
Speaker 5: Oh, yep, okay, fair, same difficulty.
Speaker 7: Same difficulty.
Speaker 5: Seven other worldly success seven.
Speaker 7: Alright, alright, don't be celebrating too quick.
Speaker 5: Now mm hmm, would never dare Mmm.
Speaker 7: So you're probing my mind, trying to understand me, understand
what it is I'm doing here, Why I'm doing what
I'm doing? What I want? Well, whether twenty or lower,
perhaps maybe you would have had something with it thirty
then a seven. Mmmm, As far as you know, I
like to collect things. I love. I love things with power.
I love things with history. Things are power and history,
and we have something common. I suppose you surmise I
could not leave this store for one reason or another.
You might be correct. You need too sure why.
Speaker 5: I cast my eyes to the painting at the roof
once again? Sorry, this continue.
Speaker 7: That old thing that's about client. Don't worry about that thing.
That's the safe Keith. And you surmise that, well, I'm
amassing something. I'm looking for something. Maybe there's power amongst
all these trinkets and things, but maybe it maybe it
might be just something else that I'm looking for. Now
with your seven, what does that mean? What am I
looking for? Why would I be looking for it? You
surmise that I cannot leave, and I am a mess
in power? But that's all you get from these lips.
Speaker 5: Doncushion day, not.
Speaker 7: It's someone from that radio want a gale.
Speaker 9: That come from the book?
Speaker 5: Did you imagine that came from the book?
Speaker 16: I jumped as I was walking past some sort of
device that.
Speaker 3: Just sort of love that actually fucking turns well, no,
because you don't. Technology doesn't work near you.
Speaker 16: So it's the Singing Fish Radio.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I love that. Actually cannon, yeah starts. I love it
so much. Okay, wow, oh sorry, yep.
Speaker 8: I was gonna say, while this is going on, and uh,
dear esteemed mister red eyes over here is paying attention
to Cora, I'm going to attempt to slip into the
back room, as you referenced it, and I want to
see if you have stuff out here that looks like me.
What kind of crazy shit you got in the back room.
You don't have to pay attention to me now, but
I just want you to know that is I've slipped.
Speaker 3: Off, well no, no, no, you have to roll to slip
off into another room.
Speaker 7: I would like to roll for that, then roll the
body and then imagine in the difficulty thirty thirty.
Speaker 3: He's been very kind. I would have said twenty.
Speaker 8: The body is of sixty eight and the magic is
a seventy four, A trip over something I think on
the way over.
Speaker 7: The second you take a step away from me, you
hear the floorboards go. I ignore that and you keep going,
or you can keep going.
Speaker 8: Do your eyes dart to me? Or do you not
pay attention?
Speaker 7: You don't see my eyes dot? You don't feel your
skin bubble? No?
Speaker 8: Yes, then I think that I despite that, I think
I've succeeded in slipping away. I wouldn't stop. If there's
no reaction, I'd be he's too preoccupied with the book.
Speaker 3: He might be, but the shop isn't. Yes, of course,
as you cross this threshold into another room, he did.
Speaker 7: Roller seventy four already for the marriage.
Speaker 3: I wasn't sure if that was for you to react
and not the shop. But yes, if that was for
the shop and yours was the other one, then yeah, okay,
then I can growmatic again.
Speaker 8: Actually I am curious.
Speaker 7: Course at twenty four, at twenty four, twenty four, it's
not a twenty. The shop's difficulty is twenty. You push
the door and you feel an immense pressure. There's no
noise with it, but there's string stress as you push
the door, and some light filters through dim dark red.
Do you keep pushing the door.
Speaker 3: Saying it's very close? With that twenty four, I think
you know that there may be something that might occur
if you cross this threshold Moog. But yes, you know,
you feel like you could do it if you want to.
Speaker 8: If you do I sense, oh I want to do it? Yes, Okay, yeah,
I mean, do I sense any Is there any like
there's a has sticking up on the back of my neck?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 3: There's great power here behind this door and on this
door and in this door. And I think with the
twenty four, I think you recognize that there is magic
in the shop, but not just on the shelves. The
shop itself was pretty magical. So while you're hoping not
to alert him, I think you realize, like you know,
surveillance can sort of exist, but they're magical.
Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, that red.
Speaker 7: Light, now you do realize that on the back room
door it says they're on a plaque staff only just
to let you know. It does say that you may
keep going if he's.
Speaker 8: Well that light you said, there's a red light back there, Yes, flickering,
not flickering, filtering, Oh, almost carried in the motes that
does as he pushed the door open. When is the difficulty.
Speaker 3: Or twenty no thirty This time twenty was for so
see if the if the fucking place just let you in.
Thirty the place just lets you in.
Speaker 7: And she pushed the door open. You hear gasps, something's
taken you in. You smell a moisture and it ain't
mil de.
Speaker 8: I was just gonna ask thank you for clarifying.
Speaker 7: It smells like like a napertoire, like awful, smells like
buchered animals, many many budget creatures.
Speaker 8: As right, are you in here?
Speaker 7: Do you step through all the way? Yes? Are you
holding the door open? Or have you stepped through?
Speaker 8: And which way does the door open?
Speaker 7: It's a push door.
Speaker 8: I'm through the threshold, but the door is to my side,
holding it open for the moment. Roll a body for
me and the difficulty twenty oof one hundred with an all.
Speaker 7: Mighty slam this door. The hinges. You see what used
to just be the flat side of a door. You
start to see Kendrew's teeth sticking out. The actual doorknob
sloughs off and before it instead you see what looks
like a meat he tongue. It grabs your wrist it
pulls you back. The door slams with a thud. The
pull is strong enough to dislocate your arm, and you
were stuck in darkness.
Speaker 8: I've used the fire.
Speaker 7: You light a fire, I take out the lighter.
Speaker 8: It's a big lighter with the the black uh paint
on it chipped away as it's been used over time.
I use that, and I would like to extract the
flame into a larger fire ball. I think the lighter
doesn't lie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say, I think with a hundred
you need some recoup time. That's the worst role you
could possibly make.
Speaker 8: So I thought the dislocation plus being trapped in it
with a monster.
Speaker 7: No, baby, I could have torn your arm off. You
ain't done yet.
Speaker 8: I know you're much nicer than me. I would have
done the ten plus ripped my arm off. Although is
my shoulder dislocated or is my doll's shoulder dislocated? Oh shit,
I think that my shoulder is fine. It can't give
me sweet toys like this red Eyes, Black Dragon and
assume that I'm not going to use them.
Speaker 7: Do me a favor on your sheet somewhere, of course,
make it tally for me. Once you reach tally four,
let's make it tally five.
Speaker 3: Let's just do burner oblivion. Pick one either it's hitting
his body or his mind, and that'll be the tally
for you.
Speaker 7: Oh, this is going to stag baby. What I want
is the doll. Essentially he has, Oh.
Speaker 3: Okay, and then it's gone. Okay, yep, that's fair.
Speaker 7: It's not just gone. But on the fifth everything comes
at a cospit. So mark this off.
Speaker 16: M hm.
Speaker 7: Also mark off that little love tap I gave you earlier.
Remember it uses mm hmm. Remember a broken awe dislocated.
Speaker 8: By dislocated you said, dislocated man of our word, oh, a.
Speaker 7: Man of my word. Second ago, I was an entity
dislocated all.
Speaker 16: Mm hmm.
Speaker 7: And the perforated juggular and your fifth it all comes back.
We'll see if you remember chelsee Jesus, how about this?
On the fifth tally you have to roll about it difficulty, narrator.
Difficulty is this.
Speaker 3: To see if he I need to figure out how
you're using it for On the fifth roll he rolls body.
Speaker 7: Should we be because I want everything to come back
at a cost?
Speaker 3: Absolutely absolutely so?
Speaker 7: And he has to roll like a difficulty thirty And
if he fails, it all comes back. Or shall he
roll five.
Speaker 3: Times five times and it has to happen right in
a row? He rolls all five right then, and then
they come back each failed one. That's fair to me?
Speaker 7: Are the rules?
Speaker 8: All right?
Speaker 3: It's kind of like the laying. Yeah, it's delaying you're
and that's exactly how that item should be. Yeah, it's
deep magic. It's delaying your bullshit, and then all of
a sudden it comes, and hopefully it comes when you
have somebody a heeler next to you to help you.
You're just staving it off for a little bit. It's
like a little okay, perfect pretty intense gutter magic here. Okay,
let's move back to Cora for a second. While you're
trapped in the darkness. Hold on, I need to do
something very quickly.
Speaker 9: Do I to say, if you're the proxy of someone
who rolled the one, don't keep rolling because you're just
going to get a hundred, right, because it just makes sense.
Speaker 3: That was crazy, dude, that was fucking crazy.
Speaker 9: They're balancing yep.
Speaker 6: Also, as you're doing that thing, pebe, I think so
to like recap a little bit. We're trying to figure
out how to get into that door. Yes, I ask
about if there's a door inside this shop.
Speaker 3: Yes, am I understanding your intentions correctly, Like you're trying
to find a third.
Speaker 6: I am curious to see if this shop is tied
to any location.
Speaker 3: That's what I thought you were trying to figure out.
You have the possibility to try to figure that out
if you'd like.
Speaker 6: I would like to try that out.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Also, if this is if I can interpret this correctly
with what Sonny did, I ask about a door, and
I imagine you two had the narrator a little aside
thing about the cupboard, So I imagine it would be
maybe Sonny had like an expression but didn't say anything,
and then went and pulled down the book from the
bookshelf and presented it. And so I'm thinking, oh, this
is a book that's going to help elevate magic to
find things beyond, So let me inspect this. But it is.
Speaker 3: Obviously dangerous.
Speaker 6: I think when I am successfully able to touch it,
I would get a sense of like, how freaking dangerous
this book?
Speaker 3: I think Ishne giggles like he's been tickled or something. Yeah,
but yeah, you absolutely know. Sorry one second, So that's
from the fail that crit fail. You learn this from
the shop in the back room. I see, yeah, And
I can tell you more on that later, but for now,
that's what you get from him, from his crit fail,
his cora. I'm so sorry. Yes, you do know that
it is incredibly dangerous. So your initial reaction not to
touch it and to you know, potentially Sendishna in to
get the information is pretty good. I will say. Now,
Sonny is distracted, he's like maybe looking up, He's the
focused on something else somewhere else.
Speaker 7: I looked like someone's put a little ice cube down
my bag, so ticky.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: However, I am looking at you still a little bit.
And I have warned you that this is dangerous. I
have said that this is a powerful book. Well, then
not only has the power to give you what you
need to know about almost anything, really really a cult now,
I mean, and it's in well, I gave you its name.
I should not say it claim again there's power in that.
But the mere presence of this book to a less
a creature of darkness or whatever it is you want
to call beings like uh, it is enough to just
bind it. Yep, completely erase. I most gave too much away.
Speaker 6: There I think I would realize once I touched it
what could potentially happen, So instead, before I leave it alone,
that is where I would probably throw a thought towards Ashna,
like is there anything to glean from this? Is there
anything that would help us?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 17: I'm try not. This is an enchanted spell book. To
prove it cost something, perhaps a year of your life,
perhaps something else, unless you bind it to you and
make it your own.
Speaker 6: No, I don't want to bind it to me. I
can feel what this is. This is a relic best
left of time and not my possession.
Speaker 7: You are so will the last being to attempt to
even break the lock you did. Yeah, let's just say
they ain't having a good time still, but they do
make a good coat rag. None of y'all had coats
I didn't offer.
Speaker 6: Now that I've seen this, mmm, I do have a question.
I would like to know if you have any spell
books to.
Speaker 7: Offer besides the one before you whole. I see, I
see what kind You're looking for? An exercise book, what
to write your own spells down in, or something someone
else had before, something a little bit more age, a
little bit more how do you say, test it?
Speaker 6: Perhaps a bit of both. Maybe there was a spell
book that someone started but they abandoned. Maybe it would
give me a start, a way to understand the way
magic works here better, with room to add my own thoughts,
my own spells.
Speaker 7: Hmmm, I think I have just a thing. She ain't
using it no more. It's a pity of what folk
have to go through sometimes here, every now and then
persecution comes. Find this way, even if people are trying
to do the right thing, or at least they think so.
Next thing, you know, your neck deep in water being
compared to a duck. I turned around, humming a little bit,
and I pull small dusty ledger and I placed it
down on the lectern, and I say, oh, oh, man,
I'm gonna I look back at the tome on the
on the lectern, and still I'm just gonna grab a
little top and just put it over and rotten it's
not there. And put this on the table and say,
for for all y'all sakes, leave that alone and touch it.
You knock it over your body. Okay, this here is
from I believe the word may carry over from my
world and wherever y'all came from. A witch. Perhaps so
I were too strong witch anyway. In here there's some ruminations, spells, well,
a bunch of other things too. I imagine I kind
of lost to interest, you know, I've got a lot
of shock to worry about here to do something like reading.
But it's a spell book unfinished. It's a part diary too,
by the looks of it. When I saw that's why
I was so bored. I flipped to the end. I
think there's still like half a book left. That's something
about all right, I'll I'll leave you to read their
own spoil enough And I'm trying to sell a book here.
And what's in it for me?
Speaker 6: Is there anything that you would like more of? Anything
you're seeking in particular?
Speaker 7: Oh, baby, I'm looking for everything. I look it up
and down and then again as my eyes finally meets
your body again. Whenever my eyes touched where your skin's exposed,
it is not comfortable. It feels like compressed air being
pushed underneath your skin, separating it from your muscle.
Speaker 6: What can you give me, Well, not to make it
a common currency, but you do seem pretty fascinated with
our mouths.
Speaker 7: How could you take an off of me? A kiss?
Speaker 6: I'm thinking of another thing but then again, you already
have one of those.
Speaker 7: I could have to.
Speaker 12: Okay us unless unless you also deal in secrets from
the dead.
Speaker 3: Okay, what is time to return?
Speaker 4: Hello?
Speaker 3: I'm sorry secrets from the dead. Sorry, that was my
fire alarm.
Speaker 7: She's offering secrets from the dead for this little book
I'm about to give her from Well, we'll do that later,
but I'm interested for now. It depends who died.
Speaker 6: Well, I get the impression that you don't leave your
shop very often.
Speaker 7: That's right, But I don't care about any old Tom,
Dick and Harry. Now you know, like who died, what
they do, who they kill?
Speaker 6: Well, we do live in New Orleans. There's a lot
of old dead here. If you directed me to a graveyard,
I could stay the night there, what their secrets and
give them to you?
Speaker 7: Who?
Speaker 17: Who?
Speaker 7: Who? I like this. So you're trying to say you're
gonna come back some other day, maybe by yourself.
Speaker 6: I don't know if I would be by myself.
Speaker 7: Mm hmmm. You can't blame me for trying now from
the day, any day from New Orleans.
Speaker 6: Mm hmm, assuming they still linger by their graves.
Speaker 7: Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: I would wonder if perhaps there was a dead you
were be interested in a particular one.
Speaker 7: I'm curious. Actually, I've always been pretty curious about someone
that used to call Marie Levau aka the Voodoo Queen.
I heard about her, I never saw her. If you
could think that she could get you out of here,
oh no, she's long dead.
Speaker 5: I don't think that means much to you.
Speaker 7: No, mmm, not really. But your friend here was offering
the secrets of the dead, And now I was just curious.
You know how much sway she actually had. Some people,
they're just so good getting their way, getting into the
skin of people, pretending to be who they are, and
people just believe. And all of a sudden people think
they are who they are. But they really hate Charlatunes.
They call and we can do this.
Speaker 6: So what will it be, Sonny?
Speaker 7: Well, how about this? No two fangs?
Speaker 6: You already have one.
Speaker 7: The worden was two fangs, honey.
Speaker 6: I'm offering one to make a pair for you.
Speaker 7: Well, I'm haggling up, and I'm saying one fang and
this information.
Speaker 6: One thing, and the information mm hmm, one secret, one thing,
one secret?
Speaker 7: Very well, then why and seek feel the and I
go back to tossling the claw dangling off my head,
my tooth.
Speaker 6: Please, do I need to do anything?
Speaker 3: You can just reach up and rip it out. You
got crazy strength, you can do it. But I will
say that when you do it, you notice Easha will
numb that pain for you, which might be a little strange.
Speaker 6: Okay, I'll take out the left thing.
Speaker 7: Actually I want the right one.
Speaker 6: Which one did Constantine pull out?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 5: The right one?
Speaker 7: Then I want the right when I'm collecting.
Speaker 6: Rats, Okay, I'll allot the right one.
Speaker 5: Rat's not wrongs, I suppose.
Speaker 3: And I was seeing if my building was on fire,
so I missed it. Did you put the book away?
Or or do you still want to engage with potential?
Speaker 7: Oh? She sidestepped the book and I offered us something else.
I say, well, okay, you want a weekest spell book.
I can get you one of those. And I turned
around and I got one from one of them Persecute
the people. This anagram on it it says b B.
It's part diary pot witchcraft stuff. Who knows folks did now?
And this is hers?
Speaker 6: Yep? Do you hand the book over to me?
Speaker 16: I do?
Speaker 3: Did you still want to do the other thing you
DMed me about?
Speaker 6: Cora uh, yes, yeah, if you If he wants to
deliver that later, that's fine too.
Speaker 3: Um let me just double check here. Yeah, I fucking
knew exactly as soon as you said BB I knew
exactly who it was. It was fucking Aces, Buddy Aces
you fuck you respectfully, fuck offf and Perma Cora, will
you roll me.
Speaker 17: Mind?
Speaker 16: Please?
Speaker 3: Difficulty forty and if you will allow Eshna to take
some of your power this time around, then he can
have fifty. He'll take an oblivion though, I will take
an oblivion. Yep.
Speaker 6: Can I asked what this is?
Speaker 3: Four? Yeah, he's gonna he's gonna try to get some
information from that book.
Speaker 6: Okay, Yeah, we'll do fifty then yeah, ah.
Speaker 3: So seventy six Okay. Then you actually might feel him
disconnect for a time and it feels probably very strange.
And that's all that happens right this second. Like you
both have an exchange, a mental exchange where you're like,
do you think there's anything in there? And he's like lots,
do you want me to look? And you were like yeah,
and then you feel him like leave you almost. So
I don't know how comfortable Cora has been with this
other presence and if you would suddenly feel a wave
of loneliness or pain or fear, because he's been kind
of like numbing some of that for you. But I
will definitely allow you to interpret it whichever way that
you like. But for now, you just can't feel him
at the moment.
Speaker 12: Okay.
Speaker 6: Well, now that I have the book and I've passed
over my fang, I think I will step back yep,
and I think I might actually a glance at Gunner
and walk over to him and whisper. I wonder if
he has something for your affliction.
Speaker 7: I was thinking the same thing, affliction, Mama? What's wrong? Now?
Speaker 11: Oh you heard us?
Speaker 7: Mmm? Oh I heard you? But tell me now, baby,
what ails you? How can I hail?
Speaker 11: Let me think on it for a moment. M hmm,
I mean to keep you waiting.
Speaker 6: Oh well, he wasn't meant to hear that anyway. But
now that we know the shop has ears, it's.
Speaker 7: So most definitely there.
Speaker 16: A walk up to the shopkeeper very closely and with
a blank expression, book into its eyes. What does the
shopkeeper smell like?
Speaker 7: What do I smell like? I think if you take
it quick, weird, you get the aroma of Patrick hale,
like stone that's been rinsed by a spring rain like there.
I smell light there, soccer.
Speaker 3: Do you want to roll for me? Please? Thirty different
roll body. I would say you can roll your layer's
ability actually for me, for something for me. If he's
asking you to roll something else, go for it.
Speaker 7: But I'm rolling for smell, David on what you're rolling for?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm rolling for something else.
Speaker 7: Mm hmm.
Speaker 16: I will roll the smell first.
Speaker 7: Yep, roll a snae now.
Speaker 16: A seventy oh sorry, a.
Speaker 8: Forty four.
Speaker 7: Doubles for the smell. Yeah, I think past that passive
smell you smell before. It's a smell of rot and death,
the kind of death that you're kind e lose.
Speaker 8: This rot.
Speaker 7: Permeates since your nose and it's all you can smell.
It's death. You heard a sense memory before? Tell me
the smell of death.
Speaker 9: Be?
Speaker 7: Does it evoke any memories?
Speaker 16: I am very familiar with the scent of death, even
among them my kind. Are you asking for a specific
instance career?
Speaker 7: Maybe, perhaps one that's not as comfortable, perhaps one that
might be tased with regret.
Speaker 16: I have very few regrets, but.
Speaker 7: You must have one.
Speaker 16: None that I can remember. Oh, I can give you
a memory, an instance of death.
Speaker 7: Very well, let me stop you for a moment. If
you share me a memory, one of death, one that
stuck to you, one profound, you will only have a
negative hand shift to smell from here on here.
Speaker 16: While we are in the shop, or forever.
Speaker 7: Until otherwise informed by a narrator.
Speaker 16: I see, I will give you a memory of death.
This was long ago. A man was sitting in a
dimly lit room, finally dressed in brocated silk, enjoying a
deep red beverage. He had a smug look on his face,
the one he always carried. My target is alone at last, Yeah,
step into position him, my weapon towards him. As I
am about to pull the trigger, figure in white darts forward.
I hesitate too long, the trigger is pulled, the volt
is launched and pierces the wrong heart. I will never
forget the look of surprise that finally re placed a
smokness on a man's face. And I did feel regret,
if only briefly, if only briefly.
Speaker 7: Now, my dear friend, after trying to smell me, this
sense memory comes flooding back, the smell of decay, of regret.
And now, no matter what you smell, it'll all always
come back, bubble into the surface, a memory of this
failure and the stink of death. I'm still just staring
at you sweetly now, looking at you. Can I help you?
Speaker 16: I will now roll its leggers. What was the difficulty?
Speaker 3: I mute it up for all time. Thirty please.
Speaker 16: In eighty four no notes. Sit down cross legged, my
hands resting on my knees, and look up at you patiently. Well,
I will offer you three things.
Speaker 7: I like the reason lot.
Speaker 16: I will offer you truth. I will offer you blood,
And if you answer question, I might offer you what
I believe you desire most.
Speaker 7: I have to ask what you think I desired the most.
That is a curious, curious statement.
Speaker 16: We will get to that.
Speaker 8: Very well. O.
Speaker 7: There I e said.
Speaker 16: The truth I offer you wouldn't be in the form
of a question. Yours to me anything you wish to ask.
Speaker 7: I see my eyes, poor on stalker. I gaze upon
him like that of a predator, not a lie or
even a bird, but like a bug, like a praying
mantis tracking its prey, head cock, looking this way and that,
peering through him, he and away his weaknesses and I
asked him hmm, And I ask him, were you always
like this in the background stuff looking at others? Why
is it you?
Speaker 17: Is?
Speaker 7: How you are the creature? Like yourself. You've got so
much power, but I see no pomp like your friend
who was at the mirror.
Speaker 16: I am que time was molded to be one time
was destined to become?
Speaker 7: Mm hmmm. Curious and who molded you?
Speaker 16: Use that your question?
Speaker 7: Mm hmmm. I suppose this is my question? Why were
you molded?
Speaker 16: Is it not customary first symptoms? I should tell you
what I want for this truth.
Speaker 4: M M.
Speaker 7: I suppose you should. However, I feel like right now
he's in the market. Ain't with haggling's bound I haven't.
I get the one question and I have to state
that's the question. Otherwise I'm just talking and you're giving
me a free b.
Speaker 10: Yes m M.
Speaker 7: Do you want to go back to where you came from?
Speaker 16: Just answer your question.
Speaker 7: That is my question, and you have to speak true.
Speaker 16: I will answer this truthfully. In exchange, I wish or
something that can help me find the person who sent
us here.
Speaker 7: M m m hmmmm. Depending on who sends you here,
that may not be very easy finding them. Mortal's easiest
snapping a finger. We're finding someone like yourself. If it
were someone like yourself, now that's going to be exponentially hard.
I can give you something to help you find people
to track, but I'm afraid that's the most I can do.
Do we have a deal. If you can.
Speaker 16: Help let me find them, offer you the blood.
Speaker 7: Oh you've changed because the stipulations. Now, our little boggain here,
the blood was on the table.
Speaker 16: Yes, that's why my table for another risk.
Speaker 10: Hmm.
Speaker 7: Let's see. Now, I'm just a humble storekeeper. I can't
just be out here being no blood hound. You bloodhound,
but I can assist in helping you.
Speaker 16: I will give you the truth if you try, I
will give you the blonder if you succeed.
Speaker 7: I stare at him long and hard on that one
dimply has on his cheek. Oh, how it burns. It's
like I'm an old anti just pinching your cheek. You're
incorrigible making up these little deals with me. But I relationship.
It's been a long long time, and you is so
so curious to me. I believe I'm here trying to
help y'all find someone anyway. Either way, it's down to
you and how he uses tools only as shardy craftsman
blames their tools, and I'm just here being a purveyor, curator,
dealer of said tools. Oh I would I would so
like just a filter of your blood. Oooh that's so
interesting to me. But I have my rules. I can't
be agreed. And now m hm, this takes me back.
Speaker 16: Yeah, offer you, then, shall we change the deal? I
shall give you the truth for the means to track
someone more efficiently, and if you help us find this person,
I shall give you they are blunder as much of
it as you wish.
Speaker 7: I've changed my question.
Speaker 16: Very well.
Speaker 7: Out of all your friends here, who do you wish
to perish the least.
Speaker 16: In this moment? Coral?
Speaker 7: Then she is.
Speaker 5: Safe and after all we've been through.
Speaker 7: Oh honey, now, don't don't look at me like that.
Why what's going on in your mind?
Speaker 17: Now?
Speaker 7: I look to Constantine.
Speaker 5: Hmmm, I would like to run my finger, my hands
over one of the shelves sensually, like I'm touching a
living thing.
Speaker 7: You notice, as you do, I feel at first my
eyes go wide, like what was she about to do?
She about to push my shelf over and as you
stroke that shelf, you watch me should easy.
Speaker 5: Now, I am curious why a prison would be made
of something you saw enjoy now.
Speaker 7: The only one you've ever called this place a prison
is yourself. Thet's say, no prison there. What gives you
that impression?
Speaker 5: Nix, I believe you were making a deal with my friend.
Speaker 7: Mm hmmm, we're well and now sorry for the interruption.
Speaker 16: I believe I answered your question.
Speaker 7: Mm hmm you did, and then return. He wants something
to help find this person very well, So.
Speaker 3: I'll come in here just to assist, so you can
give him whatever you want to help him. You know,
have kind of like a buff to searching and finding.
But you were absolutely right in that you know you're
you don't have gm MPC knowledge that you can call
on to help. You have no idea who did this
to him. He could have been somebody in this in
another reality. So for you to be able to promise
that you could give him an item to help him
do that, there's no way for you to be able
to do that. You can absolutely give him an item
that will help him find things, and if he applies
it properly, then potentially he could use it to you know,
to to find someone. But I'll give you two tiers
of items here. One would just be whatever you want.
That's kind of a general thing, but a little bit
more of a powerful item that you could offer him.
Here is something like said, but they're like they're pretty rare,
almost mythological. Yours is verified, like it is real. However
you got it. It's totally up to you. But it
would not it would be worth way more than great
or regret. It's going to be worth like blood or
nail or some sort of body part from him.
Speaker 7: So that's see.
Speaker 16: Yep.
Speaker 7: I look at Starker with the devilish green and I
ask him, say, Star, have I heard his name yet?
Have I? I don't think so.
Speaker 16: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I think I said it. I said it, thought so once.
Speaker 7: Yeah, say Starer, just how comfy are you in your
own skin? Yeah?
Speaker 16: Not understand the question.
Speaker 7: That's rhetorical, my friend. I can give you what you need.
I can give you something powerful. I can give you
something I can find most anything, so long as you
were in this plane with it. Now, maybe perhaps it
extends further. Am I do tricksy tricksy tricksy? However, I
don't want no paltry secret. It's a no sleepover. And
I reach down into my pocket, my hand comes out again.
Now this year is going to require a bit more
a pound of flesh. Maybe, how about some actual skin?
How about I flay yourself just to be just to
make a friend, maybe for your little hand buddy over there.
I've always wanted to try flesh craft. You see, I
have so many, so many little dirts over there, and
also I've seen a little handybuddy over there too, but
I've never ever even imagined to make one out of
How do you? Oh, that's interesting to me? Oh?
Speaker 8: How jealous she be?
Speaker 7: In exchange, I casually strive back to my counter, open
a drawer and put out a pull out a collar.
Now here's how it's gonna be this. This is owned
by a very special entity, a dear chum. However, you
don't just show up for nobody like that, not even me.
This year is verifiable, it's the real deal. However, controlling it,
binding it to yourself, that's going to be up to you.
The payment remains the same. About a yard of your
skin from the back.
Speaker 16: Deal mm hm, A yard long and how wide?
Speaker 7: A couple of inches maybe I love me some ribbons.
Speaker 10: I have a.
Speaker 16: Counter.
Speaker 7: Mm hmmmmmmmmm, all right, what is a baby?
Speaker 16: I will take this item and in return I will
give you an entire kindred body under skill.
Speaker 7: Mm hmm. Now my shift to your friends? Which one?
Speaker 16: No? Once I have found and ended them for their crimes.
Speaker 7: No, I don't think so you get two choices. One
might I get you many friends, That's for sure. The
deal's on the table. I swished the collar of my finger.
Now it's happening. Regardless of what you want your skin.
Then my eyes got to constantine than the others, except
the core or one of the others. Your choice.
Speaker 16: Am I to understand that if I do not allow
you to fill my back, you will attack us.
Speaker 7: Attack is such a strong word. No, I won't to
attack you, but I will take what is old.
Speaker 16: I do not remember agreeing to any of this.
Speaker 7: You didn't have to.
Speaker 16: I will lance to my companions with a confused look
on my face.
Speaker 5: He's saying he wants the skin off of your back,
and one of.
Speaker 7: Us, oh, one of you, he gets to choose his
back of yours. Baby. You see, here's the thing. I
love the bottle. I love it when it's me doing it.
But when folk come and they offer and they change
and they offer, I get so mad. Oh, I get
so mad. But it's you. You know, you're unique. Look
at you all, each one, and I'm a cop snowflake
changed and blur, You're different. And so I'm playing nice,
but my niceties can only stretch so far. But I'm
keen to know how far your skin can stretch. So
who's it going to be? I'm even playing nice. I'm
giving you what you want, but I want that skin
off your back.
Speaker 5: Point of order. I just want to clarify what is
the deal for, because it's not clear to me. It's
either it's the skin off of Stalker's back and one
of our backs, or so I.
Speaker 3: Said, he said, or okay, he gets to choose. Yep,
And it's for as far as you can see, it
is a collar. And this item is supposed to help
you find someone. Okay, the magical item that you're trading for.
Speaker 7: Demonstrate the veracity of this item, should I?
Speaker 3: I mean, if they want to ask you to, then sure,
But I mean everything comes at a cost, so well,
I just yeah, everything comes at a cost, so for
you to try to use it to demonstrate.
Speaker 8: It would also come at a call to you.
Speaker 3: And this is a pretty rare item, so it'd be
pretty big costs.
Speaker 11: Does the skin have to come from the back?
Speaker 7: Coo, hey babe, why you want to shed some belliskin?
Speaker 16: I do not understand why I am being punished for
you not accepting what I offered and then me offering
you something else.
Speaker 7: Who said I'm punishing you. I just really really want
some skin right now, and I'm willing to trade for it.
Speaker 11: From the arm.
Speaker 7: From the arm, I said, hold on, hold on a second.
Oh okay, I speak with him about this.
Speaker 9: Before he agrees. As I'm familiar with it, if it's
the arm, I think he means.
Speaker 11: You all have made your choins.
Speaker 9: Yeah, something you wish to say, estermon that what is
on your arm is a large clue to why we
are here. I hope you are familiar with it enough
to remember what it is, because we have not looked
at it. If you are familiar, it's your skin, obviously,
do what you wish.
Speaker 16: I do not wish you to do this.
Speaker 11: Then you should have said my name stock.
Speaker 16: Oh my man, this is my choice, is it not, shopkeeper?
Speaker 7: Well, I suppose in the way now. You invoked my
eye earlier, but I've simmered down, so there is something
about your presence that's just oh so common to me.
It's enough to make my little black heart go a flutter.
I'm not to understand. You do not want your friend
to pay the price for this year item.
Speaker 16: My dear is correct. I would rather give my own.
Speaker 7: I see very well that sound you heard?
Speaker 16: What was the who's the fishing.
Speaker 9: Deal? Unlocked?
Speaker 7: Deal? Unlocked? M So they pulled that into the cannon there.
The second that deal was made, a little rickety toy
made that fanfare. And I say, very well, front or
back of arms, you choose. Right now we are locked
in a trade.
Speaker 16: I walk to Gunner and I and him my dagger,
and I remove my cloak and shirt. Will you do this? Friend?
Speaker 7: Is that what you want? Friend?
Speaker 16: I do not wish you to suffer for my lack
of understanding.
Speaker 11: I've been suffering a long time. Friend.
Speaker 16: Then let me take the burden for today.
Speaker 11: What I offered him was.
Speaker 7: To take that suffering away.
Speaker 16: I do not understand.
Speaker 11: To remove the tattoos. Now, look tust upon that have
already shown us so much. I keep them.
Speaker 16: I'm holding the dagger still, and I look at the shopkeeper.
Speaker 7: Mm hmmmm. I pretend not to be listening to this conversation,
but my eyes died towards somebody looks at me.
Speaker 16: I believe they are now expecting skin from me. Do
you think we should give him yours instant?
Speaker 7: I'm supy, but I am impatient.
Speaker 11: To hold my hand out for them the dagger.
Speaker 17: If you were to a.
Speaker 10: Side, yeah, I I look at your arms and back
up into your eyes or any.
Speaker 16: Mm hmm sign over maybe indecision. I'm staring at you, just.
Speaker 11: Just to be waiting on you. No tell in my
eyes or emotion.
Speaker 16: I throw my cloak onto the floor underneath your arm,
and I gently over your hand. Oh sir, I press
the blade to your wrist, and then I start laying
away the skin from your ararm, gripping your hand tightly.
Speaker 7: Get it all.
Speaker 11: To the shoulder.
Speaker 16: The blood pours out of you down into the cloak.
Speaker 7: Yeah, prove it.
Speaker 16: I finish with some expertise removing all of the tattoo.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 16: I hold it up the shop keep to see lah.
What's your season keeper? Basically a sleeve of my arm
with black rings, eight of them to be exact going
up the.
Speaker 3: Arm magically imbued by the way ah old like at
least eight hundred years old is the first ring. So
this is crazy what he's offering you. However, I do
think you know, and it's up to you to warn
them or not. The shop is not going to consider
this an equal trade.
Speaker 7: Magically in viue, Yeah how old on a moment, this
ain't no virgin flay. What you've given me?
Speaker 16: Is you good?
Speaker 7: The floor around you starts to create and crow.
Speaker 3: I want to clarify that you the shop might not
consider the deal that you've struck to be an equal trade,
but this might still be worth keeping for you. Like
I need to know if Sonny has ever done something
like this before where he knows the shop might not
be pleased, but he's doing it anyway because he wants
the item. If so, go for it, do it. It
was more to see if you were going to warn
them about what might happen to them when they leave
the shop. But this is insane. This item, what he's
just given you is an equal trade in value. It
is equal in value for the item you are giving
so per Sonny's perspective, yeah, that's an equal trade. But
it was no, it was no skin off of Stalker's
back to do this. He's not paying the actual cost. Yeah,
so they will be in trouble with the shop for stealing.
But it's up to you if you want to warn
them or not.
Speaker 7: I'll let you in on something. Since we were just
trade in secrets and stories and tales a while ago,
I don't work in here alone. What you're offering me
I accept. However, it seems to me what you're giving me, well,
it might be just lighting the load of your back
or something. Seems to me it ain't a sacrifice. Now
it's up to you, since you've already gone through the trouble,
if you want to still make the trade. Because I
I'm curious about that fleshy old. However, my business partner
might not be so thrilled every exchange.
Speaker 11: I find it quite interesting, more interesting, and a piece
of my dear friend's rear end.
Speaker 7: Well, you see, the thing is, your friend was a
bit reticent to give away his rear end. Besides, you
were so willing to trade that piece of arm flesh.
Speaker 16: And so.
Speaker 7: I am not the bearer of these scales. And as
I say this, you almost feel the floor of the
store no longer be level. It seems like, perhaps almost
just almost imperceptibly, the rooms askew towards your direction. Now
I say again, we can make this trade. You've already
given me so much, and I don't want to punishing
for not reading the rules, or at least asking about
them beforehand. Make the trade, Make the trade.
Speaker 11: Have something else you're boss would.
Speaker 7: Like one more time?
Speaker 11: If you would like to make the trade fulliskin, then
I will offer.
Speaker 8: Something else.
Speaker 11: That your shopkeeper, boss, whatever you call them.
Speaker 7: I see you want to trade the skin for something
else and leave your buddy stocker here hanging.
Speaker 11: Oh no, want to offer something else to ease.
Speaker 7: Oh scales, I see, I see very well. But no,
what we're trading with here is as valuable as one
of your lives. I ain't asking for your live, I'm
asking for sacrifice. True sacrifice.
Speaker 3: Got to me an equal trade for power.
Speaker 7: An equal trade for power. You believe that.
Speaker 11: Every item here, of course, that's an origin. They leave
a choice.
Speaker 7: I believe they do, don't we All time seems to
go in one continuous life, But does it?
Speaker 8: Have you ever.
Speaker 11: Come across something from another world.
Speaker 7: Another time, another time? Yes, another world surprise and leave
very few, if not ever. So tell me outworlder. What
do you have in my.
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: I think you're muted.
Speaker 7: I don't know why he isn't meat, that's me?
Speaker 11: Okay, who has the item that randomly popped in popped
into my pocket?
Speaker 9: Pack?
Speaker 11: It chorus?
Speaker 8: That will be me locked in the other room.
Speaker 3: No, get you, Greg, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 8: All right, it's all right, I'm sorry.
Speaker 7: I've been devouring all this m devourings of varied choice?
Were it?
Speaker 11: Does anybody remember.
Speaker 7: Who was it?
Speaker 8: Mm hmm.
Speaker 9: Mook, very smoke.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't think we realize, right, yeah, so now
you might.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Oh, I was wondering why I was having a sense
of peace and quiet.
Speaker 7: Where did he go?
Speaker 6: I concernedly hunt through the aisles looking for him.
Speaker 7: Where did he go? I asked coylely, He's not here?
Speaker 9: Oh no, the one who looked in the mirror.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, the funny one.
Speaker 8: Am I bleeding all over?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah?
Speaker 7: Oh I'm so happy.
Speaker 16: The cloak underneath you?
Speaker 3: Ya, I was just about to say that, like, he
puts something down underneath you so you wouldn't into the floorboards,
which was very smart.
Speaker 7: Okay, if there's no blood on the floor. But I'm
less happy.
Speaker 16: Well, I'll use my shirt sort of.
Speaker 7: Wrap.
Speaker 16: I don't have much ability with this, maybe a little bit,
but try to wrap like a bandage on his arm,
and I am sure that's well. I'm doing it just
so everyone knows.
Speaker 8: I'm suddenly shirtless as well.
Speaker 5: I began taking off my shirt. I think I'm getting
the wrong idea. What's happening at this point?
Speaker 9: These grounds are about to be consecrated.
Speaker 11: Kyle is rubbing off on us.
Speaker 9: A new off fore shop keep.
Speaker 7: So what do you have to trade?
Speaker 11: Well, I'm looking for my new friend who has appear
to disappear.
Speaker 6: Yes, where is Moog?
Speaker 5: Huh?
Speaker 7: I wonder.
Speaker 6: I think you know where is he?
Speaker 7: Would you care to finish this trade up before we
change the subject?
Speaker 16: I looked Gunner and saying, perhaps I could give him
my skin and in return for yours you could get
something else?
Speaker 7: That would I wonder what it could be that you
would want from me? Now? Could work, stucker, But.
Speaker 11: If he doesn't have much use for my skin?
Speaker 8: Oh well, nor do I I.
Speaker 11: Want you skim?
Speaker 7: I want it so bad, But what.
Speaker 16: For the color?
Speaker 7: What do you want in exchange?
Speaker 16: For the.
Speaker 7: The collar is currently on offer for your friend over there,
mister Starker. He wants it. I can't accept your payment
for it. You ain't his day. He ain't buying you
like half a talent for him.
Speaker 11: That was the way or the reason why I did this.
Speaker 5: No, I think that is the problem.
Speaker 7: Gunner quite so.
Speaker 5: Cannot pay for him.
Speaker 7: Not worth enough coming from yourself. The scales are not
balanced as they would be from someone else who was
less inclined to give it away.
Speaker 16: I walk over to Constantine, May I borrow your shirt?
It might be bloody when I'm done.
Speaker 5: I suppose I can suck on it. Then I start
to take the shirt off, and I hand it here,
and I hand it to you.
Speaker 16: Okay, yes, I take it, and I put it on
the floor to help catch the blood from my back,
and I offer the dagger to Nah. It seems to
be our only path forward. Seems we both must bear
a burden today. Brother.
Speaker 11: Unlike your brother, I wish for you to get hurt
the least, but as you wish, and I like, grab
his shoulder and turn his body to where he is
fissing away from me. Now, grab like the meady part
of his lower back, sort of pull the skin, stretch
it to where I have a nice hand full. Now
look towards the shopkeeper.
Speaker 7: I rubbed my hands together, watching I look expectantly.
Speaker 11: Just a bit of skin, brother, Yes, just a bit
of skin.
Speaker 18: Take the dagger to us back and just start carving, uh,
carving through hiller, rip off the sound of skin.
Speaker 11: Payment enough for.
Speaker 7: You, indeed, and so now the scales are balanced well
to a degree anyway. And I tossed the collar. It
looks to be made of some sort of leather, although
you can't really place it. It seems to bounce between
hues of deep reds and burgundy oily reflecting the light.
I think it's hot to the touch.
Speaker 8: You tossed it at the ground on us.
Speaker 7: I tossed it at you, gotta.
Speaker 11: I'll catch it, and I'll also throw you the hunk
of flesh.
Speaker 7: Oh. I catch it in one squelch, and I start
to need it like though. And I put it in
a jar and place it on the shelf for lady there.
Speaker 3: And stalker, I need you to roll me a D
one hundred please, And gunner, you may add Hellhound Caller
to your inventory sheet.
Speaker 7: Hold on one minute. This was a trade for Starker,
so sorry, I would have tossed this to Starker. This
goes to Stalker's inventory. This was his trade. My apologies,
it's only fair. He's the hellhound caller.
Speaker 3: Works for me. However, I need I need you to
roll me a D five hundred, which you cannot do,
I know.
Speaker 7: Roll for me. In fact, Stocker rolled one D five
hundred for me.
Speaker 3: That would be excellent. Thank you.
Speaker 7: I think low numbers now.
Speaker 16: One hundred and thirty one.
Speaker 3: For brokering this trade that was not quite equal. You
have another three hundred and thirty one years.
Speaker 7: I tried, so har well you I suppose maybe perhaps
it was worth it in a way.
Speaker 3: Oh, it was most certainly worth it, I think personally.
Speaker 7: And I is curious, you know, to see how far
these individuals can go, and if they stay here long enough,
maybe perhaps they can make a return visit, tell me
how things win and all that. However, I do wonder
how their friend is doing out back. I suppose we'll
see next time. Huh. Until then, thank you all so
much for coming down to my store.
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Speaker 10: Oh my god.