Speaker 1: You are listening to table story.
Speaker 2: Deathless is an improvised cinematic narrative with live production, including
music and dialog. There is no script. This story contains violence,
disturbing imagery, adult themes, and a darkness which may read
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Speaker 3: O logen of shape and shade, loget of fact from me.
Speaker 4: That he says, stand up for the thing which you
can't stand a louse?
Speaker 2: Do you remember what you were feeling?
Speaker 4: I do not. Actually, can we remind what happened like
in the last second because there was cut away?
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, you solved the puzzle of when is a
god's true death? And then the doorway revealed itself and
you walked through, and Esteban was the last one to
go through the hallway or through the doorway.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: Yep, Okay, when you get to so it's the same
situation as the last time you go through this long,
very tight hallway. I'm probably about anyone who's got broad shoulders.
You're maybe angling a little bit to get through this hallway.
It's a very very.
Speaker 4: Skin I'm very tall, so that that's how to know that.
Thank you.
Speaker 6: There you go, mars.
Speaker 5: I feel like you're average?
Speaker 7: Are you.
Speaker 2: Fucking christ? Okay, you don't know, because it was what
we were talking about in the pre show and she
got me. I'm so sorry. Okay. When you after you
walk through this long hallway, you guys get into yet
again another like uh stone dome room, but this one
is completely destroyed. There's no real sign of anything. Like
the previous room, you had parchment paper. In the room
before that, you had the statues. This one looks like
there may have been things inside it, but it's they've
been moved, perhaps maybe hanging on the walls. There are
no lanterns or no. There's nothing on the side of
the dome for you. But right in the middle there
seems to be a cracked and broken what maybe looks
like like a glass case that held something inside. It's
probably it's it's like rectangular, almost like the shape of
a lighthouse maybe, and it's very thin. There used to
be something inside, but it has since cracked and broken
and there is no glass left. What do you do.
Speaker 6: When you see like a lighthouse? Does that mean it's
sitting standing up on end?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Well, all right, it looks like we were too late.
I guess we should just turn around and try another
room or the room we came from, or anything else.
There's nothing there. We were late.
Speaker 4: You don't even want to look at all.
Speaker 8: Well, very clearly, that was the important thing in the
middle of the room.
Speaker 6: Yes, I wander closer to look at the case. Do
I notice anything about it?
Speaker 2: Ooh, let's roll and if you want to do you
can roll your magic or you can roll your body,
which is just regular eyeball observation. It's up to you,
but what you get might be different.
Speaker 6: Let's do I actually feel like doing body? Okay, yep, yep,
and see difficulty.
Speaker 2: Ah, we'll do forty for this one, because you're just
using your eyeballs. Oh my god, forty two Okay, Oh,
I know exactly what happens here. For a second. When
you look at it, you see because you have the
double exposure thing that's happening a little bit as you're
moving through these rooms. So you see what it looks like,
finished and not broken for a moment. So there is
colored glass panels, different colors on each side. There are
four sides total, and there is something in the middle.
It's not a light bulb, but it is illuminated, but
I don't know if you can really see what that
is with this quick moment that it passes and then
is gone.
Speaker 6: And it's illuminating the inside of the case. Is there
anything else inside that is illuminated?
Speaker 2: Not that you could see. It was very brief, but
you did see blue, red, green and gold panels like
painted glass.
Speaker 6: Blue, red, green, gold.
Speaker 8: Yep.
Speaker 6: Okay, I think upon seeing this, I would like blink
and process what I just saw and then look back
at the others. I think we're still moving through layered space.
It's almost like there's different versions of the rooms and
the things that we're looking at. I thought I saw
this case restored, but it was so fast.
Speaker 5: Hmmm.
Speaker 8: And I go up and I look directly at the case,
and I'm circling it, trying to see if I can
see what Chra sees.
Speaker 2: You can roll, if you'd like, yes, so specific with
your words. I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 8: I don't know if she rolled body, or if she's
looking with her eyes, or if she used her magic.
But I don't know that as I know that as me,
but not as mug. Yeah, so what would you say
I would roll?
Speaker 2: Well, it's up to you. Do you think Mug would
instinctively use his eyes or because I think you're very
specifically trying to see what she could see, right, which
is not necessarily using your eyes, it's using hers. So
it sounds like you'd be using magic.
Speaker 8: Yes, and what would the difficulty.
Speaker 2: Be forty.
Speaker 8: Forty five.
Speaker 2: Fifty five failure doubles? Man, you definitely see through her eyes,
but it's not what you're looking for, So I need
to think about, like, what what that looks like in
a way that would hinder you, mog, Which is interesting
or what is more important to you? Where you came
from or where you're going.
Speaker 6: That is such a difficult question. I think they're both important,
but for different reasons. So what kind of importance.
Speaker 2: What do you think Mug would find distracting? Or what
do you think you would find distracting?
Speaker 6: Ooh, maybe a remnants of from my human life? Yeah,
or some sort of clue for the person I'm looking for.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say that can we do? And it's
going to require you and Greg working together improv style here,
But I like the idea that it's like you didn't
remember this, but it's something that you did see and
take in. But it's something that you that is only
just now coming up now because he's experiencing it through
fresh eyeballs. And it could be something as simple as
they had dark hair, or you had seen them the
week prior, or something like that. You know, like that
kind of level of information that he's able to give
to you now. Even though this is a failure, Doubles,
I think this is this still counts because even though
it's giving you new information, it's information you might find
upsetting and distracting to your current situation. So yeah, I
think go for it. Take away.
Speaker 8: I think. I look through Cora's eyes and I'm immediately
hit with this feedback, and I'm launched onto the floor
and I kind of look at her, puzzled a bit.
Speaker 6: I kind of lean lean down and offer a hand,
just on instinct. Are you okay?
Speaker 8: I you're looking for someone? I think, yeah.
Speaker 6: My hand falters and I like pulled away. What do
you mean?
Speaker 8: It's no, it's very clear. I know who are you
looking for.
Speaker 6: I'm looking for someone who destroyed my life, the person
who brought me here.
Speaker 8: Help me. You're very intent.
Speaker 6: Wouldn't you be too if everything you loved was taken
away from you by one person, no.
Speaker 8: Love, I'm trying to prevent that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And in a way you do understand, I suppose
I do, trying not to think too much about it,
while at the same time it consumes me. I had
to stare at him and nod briefly, like that's exactly
what it is. I look at the case. Did you
see anything, because for a moment I thought, weirdly, it
reminded me of a lighthouse. There was like a light
and glass panels in place. But I obviously didn't get
thrown to the crown like you did. So what was different?
Speaker 8: Their eyes?
Speaker 6: What eyes?
Speaker 8: Are you looking for? Gold? Red? Green? Now it's all
I can see. I picked myself up, and I'm stuck
right in this, this moment, this and it's almost as
if I could have seen what you say, and I
see the gold. I think, I see the gold and
the green and the red red eyes. I look at Cora, huh.
I adjust my sunglasses, realizing the red tint of the
mirrors on them, and for a moment I think of
taking him off, But I don't.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: The thing about memory is enough time goes by, sometimes
it starts praying around the edges and if you dream
about a memory enough, it's almost like it infects the original.
I've seen his eyes in my dreams so many times,
I don't think I remember what they actually look like.
I'm sometimes worried that even if I do find him,
I may not recognize him.
Speaker 8: Interesting the layers in your memory only clouded by dreams,
and yet fraying across the edges. Have you ever considered
the praying might be revealing the true memory.
Speaker 6: If it is, it hasn't right enough.
Speaker 8: What makes you say that?
Speaker 6: Because it's different every time. I feel like if it
was revealing something true, eventually that true image would stay
and it would be all I'd see.
Speaker 8: There's no such thing as a singular true image. It's
all differences, and if you combine the differences you will
get the truth. Or maybe the similarities, or.
Speaker 6: Is there a difference, like these rooms were walking through precisely,
these worlds were traveling the.
Speaker 8: Same yet different. You destroyed and intact.
Speaker 6: You think, if we travel enough, you see enough, the
real image will reveal itself. Maybe I look at him
and cock my head a little bit to the side.
Do you have a dream that visits you more than
the others? Do you dream at all.
Speaker 8: I would like to rule to see if I could
remember a dream or not go for it all? Right?
Would it be just a flat T one hundred do
you think?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 8: Would it be a stat of some kind?
Speaker 2: You can do a flat D one hundred for fundies
because you're rolling for funzies. But if you want to
roll magic and something cool happens, then there's possibility I
give you something interesting, so it's up to you. But
something bad could also happen.
Speaker 10: So well, yes, I'm well aware of that.
Speaker 8: I'm more I more wish to roll because me as
a player, I don't know if.
Speaker 2: That's why I was like dreams. Yeah, yeah, you're leaving
it up to chance, which I'm totally for sod. So
if you want to just roll a D one hundred,
that's okay. But if you want to throw in magic potential,
we can do that forty nine. I think that means
What does that mean to you? Do you think that
means you dream? Do Android's dream?
Speaker 8: Oh my god, I don't know, And that's why I
rolled the dice. Let me think. I don't think, but.
Speaker 10: This is.
Speaker 2: Okay. Hold on, let's open it up to the table.
This ship I love this show for this reason because
we can do this. Do you guys think it's more
interesting for him as an improver to be able to
dream or not? Does he realize in this moment that
he has not been dreaming?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think that. I think that seems because also, like
a huge part of his character over the last many
episodes has been the realization and imagery of like him
being a clay person and being made in all of
that stuff, So that sounds like it would fuck him
up the most.
Speaker 8: To be honest that this also I was I don't
know if this breaks any canon or anything, but if
he does dream but it's not his dreams, perhaps memories
of past incarnations.
Speaker 4: Or he does dream but it's all Korra's dreams.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's what I was going to say. But hell,
he's an observed you know. Sometimes you have like some
some control over the dream. But he's just like watching
the dream like it's a movie.
Speaker 2: Okay, But is it her her dreams or is it
her fucking life? Like, it's not her dreams, it's her
actual life. It's dream You think it's her dreams? Well,
because you're Sandman, you're into dreaming. But I'm okay with
that because it ties you guys together in a really
interesting way, and I think improv wise, that's very cool because.
Speaker 10: You go into dreams.
Speaker 2: He's dreaming her dreams, and they might find out right now,
you know, like he might be like, yeah, I've had
a dream and then.
Speaker 4: Woop, I have that dream.
Speaker 2: Also my votes for that, it's up to Greg, but
I think that that's the most interesting one.
Speaker 10: I agree, I agree. I think that's sope as fine.
Or it's like my dreams are boring, it's me doing laundry. Yeah, yeah,
just like a regular life.
Speaker 2: Shit, yeah that's yeah. It's either that or it's just
like her doing things and yeah, he's like, I don't know,
but it would have to be if you're an observer,
it would have to be you could never see her face,
because then you wouldn't because you'd know immediately the first
time you saw her, you'd be like, oh shit, you're
the girl I've been dreaming about. Right, So it either
has to be from her point of view or you
got it?
Speaker 10: Please got it?
Speaker 2: Yeah you knows? Okay, okay, okay, all right, of course.
Speaker 8: Of course I dream then never as exciting as my life.
But I have this dream where I'm living with this
young woman and she could never, never acknowledges me, almost
as if I'm always looking through glass at her. And
she couldn't be bothered with really much of anything except
her bird. She must have loved that thing. It would
sing its songs, and she would take out a blood
bag and just pop it, just sit there and drink
with a straw. No, it wasn't a straw. Was it
a spoon? Is it like a pudding?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 8: I couldn't be layers as you say.
Speaker 6: I think I kind of pin him with like a
are you kidding me? Look? Have you been talking to
the others?
Speaker 8: I mean I've been trying. Yes, very very very difficult
to talk to anyone except you.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 6: It was a serious question, But if you just want
to joke about it, then fine.
Speaker 8: I'm not joking. That's my diagn then all right, all right.
If you don't like that one, there's one where it's
the same woman. I can never say her face, but
I do very much like the overall aura around her.
And she likes to walk through a grave fear, very
much like the one we just came from.
Speaker 5: The entire time you two have been talking to each other.
I have been kind of like stood a step back,
but in between you two looking.
Speaker 8: Yeah, just lying starts.
Speaker 5: I just say dreams can be very telling.
Speaker 8: What does that mean, Sanderson? Do you think I'm lonely
and I have an unrequited love somewhere and I'm just
itching for the connection.
Speaker 4: And my guests would be yes, but.
Speaker 8: Of course the bar keep I would say, so.
Speaker 4: Just find Stalker. Is me standing.
Speaker 3: Away?
Speaker 2: You're just sitting where you kind of like filt sideway,
and you're like I would say, yes, this is the
moment where everyone realizes you're in a tiny room.
Speaker 10: I've I've laid down across on the floor, across from Stalker.
Just listen on my side like this. You're forgotting this
way O.
Speaker 5: We would be eating popcorn if we had it.
Speaker 6: Just you say, dreams are telling. What these dreams are
telling me is that look thinks it's funny to joke
about how all of this started with us. I don't know.
Speaker 8: I mean that would be funny, yes, but oh what
it's it's not about you love. No, your your flat
was different from the one of my dreams.
Speaker 6: Yes, but the bird, the bird cage, the bird, the graveyard,
because if.
Speaker 4: You're the only woman alive with a bird and has
walked a graveyard.
Speaker 6: Yes, but what you're describing is exactly what you all
have seen.
Speaker 4: So then how did he see it?
Speaker 6: Like I said, I think one of you told him
about it, and now he's making it into a joke.
Speaker 4: Princess, listen, if you if you, if.
Speaker 6: You dream and you just want to keep your dream secret, fine, whatever.
Speaker 5: No, No, those dreams are a secret, I mean maybe
not from you.
Speaker 8: Have you seen my dreams?
Speaker 4: Sanderson was why is he even considering the question? Is
that something you can do? Have you seen mine?
Speaker 8: I think everyone knows what yours are without having to
see them.
Speaker 4: I don't like how you assume things about me.
Speaker 8: I don't like how you assume things about me.
Speaker 12: So there, fine.
Speaker 8: I look at Cora, and I'm trying in my mind
to superimpose the dream with Cora right now?
Speaker 2: Do you do anything to help facilitate this, like, do
you touch her?
Speaker 5: Do you.
Speaker 2: Things?
Speaker 8: Yeah, circling her. I'm more focused on the face and
the hair because those have been masked, for lack of
a better term, from in my dreams, and to close
those could all be anything usually dark and I've seen
her seen the dream having a meal, so I assumed
Kindred already, have.
Speaker 2: You ever seen your hands in this dream?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 2: Okay, then I think this is a I think this
is lovely. I think the apartment that you're seeing the
version is actually the old lady's version of the apartment,
and this dream is from that perspective, the old woman's perspective,
and she can occasionally have seen Cora, but Cora could
never see her. So that's this dream, and this apartment
that you're describing will be that. And so sometimes when
you in this dream, when you look around the apartment,
you'll see things that are yours that you know, you
know the way you know in a dream, Oh that's
mine and you don't even question it. And those are,
you know, these old woman's things. And then occasionally you'll
see things and go, okay, wait a second, that's her
and in her apartment. But you know, everything's just slightly off.
But as you are trying to connect with Cora and
kind of I guess you want to telepathically send her
this dream, and you're focusing really hard on doing that.
You're looking at her hair and her face, and it's
exactly what Kora just said where the more you try
to remember the dream, the more it can be changed
and morph and replace the original version of the dream.
But you're experiencing that in real time as you watch
these features kind of fill in in your memory and
become Cora, and you're thinking, oh my god, maybe it
was Cora. As you are trying to do this for her.
But is there anything that you're doing to assist the
lubricating of information from your mind into her mind. You're
circling her, but are you doing anything else? Are you
touching her? Are you.
Speaker 8: If it's from the perspective of the old woman, then
I'm going to stop just in front of her and
I'm going to get myself lower to about that eye level.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yes, so that you're in the position and
you're kind of like getting into a spot where you
have seen in the dream before. Okay, anything anything else
to assist?
Speaker 8: I'm hmmm, yes, there is something else I want to
see if I can phrase this correctly. She had ball
rowed a bit of my power episodes ago. I'm going
to try to make a connection with that power and
see if.
Speaker 10: This is that.
Speaker 2: This is exactly how it works. Grooves in the mountain
grooves in the Yeah. Yeah, you're going to follow a
groove that you've already that's already been established absolutely Kingmaker's reference.
But yeah, this is exactly how it works. So you're
basically feeling around to see if you can find this
groove that connected the two of you, that allowed her
to take your power, and you're going to send this
dream through that groove to her. Yes, okay, go ahead,
and roll difficulty is going to be thirty five. Okay,
so you rolled the fifty five doubles and now you've
rolled in eighty eight doubles.
Speaker 10: Oh my god, Goldfish. Yeah, okay, hold on, I think this.
Speaker 2: I think this is crazy. Eighty eight failure right after
your fifty five failure. I kind of want to allow
this connection to happen, but also something has to happen
in return. There has to be a cost other than
just the sharing of information. Oh, I know what it
is that you're going to deepen. You're going to widen
and deepen the groove. It's going to be easier for
her to access your power from here.
Speaker 8: That's I was going to suggest you even gets a
bit more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, so she will get this memory, but she'll
get a bit more and you can share what memory
she gets. But it's not a dream. It's an actual
experience or or a memory or if you've ever dreamt
or thought about or you know, with dead eye or
anything like that, anything with your friends where you're kind
of like imagining it. She can grab that too. It
doesn't have to be an actual experience. It can be
a dream, awaking dream in a sense, daydream.
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, all right. So it is a party at
New Year's Eve, and if you're seeing it through my perspective,
seems like it's a bit shorter than it should be.
You feel maybe you just naturally hunch over, and you
see people laughing and having fun and sharing drinks, and
you know, all sorts of festivities around you, and they
don't really look at you, but you feel as if
they are. And you see in the corner someone leaning
against the wall. She's sharing a drink, just kind of
looking around, keeping to herself a bit, but you're drawn
to her. You don't really know why you find her gorgeous,
although it's you'd find her gorgeous, but she's not more
than average in terms of looks. It's this butterflies in
your stomach. Oh, you just knocked into someone and spilled
their drink, apologizing profusely. You look up and she's gone.
Turn around you see someone slinking through the back. He's thin.
It doesn't matter. It's probably up to no good. Someone
offers you a drink and you take it. Someone offers
you a bump of something and you take it. And
this is where the memory gets fuzzy and the connection
ends right there.
Speaker 6: So keep I think this is the first time I've
actually like seen her just been talked about. Can I
roll to see if I recognize her?
Speaker 2: Yep, you most certainly can.
Speaker 6: Okay, h magic yep, and difficulty.
Speaker 2: Thirty I hate eighty one. Okay, you feel like this
individual is familiar, but it's hard for you to tell
if that's because it's this memory that's being shared or
if it's yours. That's going to be pretty difficult with
this memory as part of his eighty eight. I think
for this specific thought now, Moog, it's a little muddled
for you too as to what details are the same.
I think I'd like to take a couple of details
from her siring and put them in this memory now,
and then details from yours now go into hers, and
they've kind of confused each other. So I think that
the woman at the party moog with the red hair
now has red eyes. And Laura, I think I think
you remember seeing your or thinking that you've seen your
attacker before, like either at a cafe or at a
grocery store.
Speaker 6: And I like the idea of seeing him in the
same position the woman was leaning against a wall testing
a drink.
Speaker 2: Yes, I don't know where, but.
Speaker 10: You don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And I think I and I think there's
a part of you that goes, wait a second, this
is that's real, and this is allowing you to maybe
unlock a truth that you didn't even know was accessible
to you through this misinformation, you know, this weird blending
and sharing of information. It's like you got a puzzle
piece that wasn't related to your puzzle, but it caused
you to go, wait a fucking second, he did, you know,
Like I did see someone standing like this up against
a wall looking at me. Weird, and this was like
weeks before this happened, you know, like that kind of
thing where you can start to kind of maybe get
an idea of who this person was that was you know,
kind of stalking you prior.
Speaker 6: To wait, are you saying that by sharing this memory, Yes,
it's confusing both memories, but yes, we've also gotten truths. Yes,
the woman actually had red eyes, and I actually did
see him before.
Speaker 2: Or more that yours had red eyes, and you didn't
know that because you couldn't see his face. But you
are looking at his predator and seeing she has red eyes,
and it's from yours, and it's now allowing you you
to go, wait a second, you know, and if you
were to talk to him now, he can't because his
memory is going to be confused as well. But when
he originally told the story, he told it with she
had different eye color. So I think it's allowing you.
It doesn't have to be right in this moment. You
don't have to have the lightning bulb, but you can
if you want of Like, holy shit, I remember now
that he had red eyes, and I think I remember
seeing somebody at a fucking party against a wall who
looked like they had red eyes, and I brushed it
off because that's not possible or whatever. It must be
glint or it must have been a reflection or something
like that. But yeah, absolutely, that's exactly what's happening. Your
memories of your own instances are getting confused, but there
is truth buried in there for both of you.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: And also you do see his dream and it is
your apartment. He is dreaming of you. He was dreaming
of you, and that is true. Holy shit?
Speaker 8: Yeah see did that work? Did you?
Speaker 12: Ah?
Speaker 6: I think so? It's it's strange. I I don't think
I've seen that woman before, but I've seen those eyes before.
Speaker 8: What are you talking about? I was trying to the dream,
not your apartment, yours?
Speaker 11: What I.
Speaker 6: No, I'm trying to sort through all of the whatever
you just did sent a lot of imagery. I'm trying
to sort through it all. There was the yes, that's
that was my apartment.
Speaker 8: And no, no, no, no, no, yours is different. It
was the walls were different, the layout was different.
Speaker 6: No, but it was it was like that before. What
do you mean before You've been walking through this crypt
and there's been two versions of each room. My apartment
is the same. There were there was one version, and
now there's a new one.
Speaker 8: This is going to be a whole thing, isn't it?
The entire time? I think you one place. You have
to really look at it.
Speaker 5: We were in both playsuits. I thought you knew that.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry, I'm new to all of this. I'm a
non experienced multi dimensional traveler. That's not me.
Speaker 4: So then does that mean that we are in both
places right now? I start like tapping on the floor.
Speaker 10: Speaking of it. Wasn't this hard to get out of here?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 10: It's much harder to get back in.
Speaker 6: It is, and there's more. The first time there were
trials to overcome and puzzles to do, but nothing like this,
not entire rooms with statues and flights and blocks. All
of this is different. It's also hard to tell if
we're in both places at once, because we seem to
be passing through places that exist in more than one world,
but we can only see the place one world at
a time, except for moments just a second ago, where
I saw that case and I pointed to the one
that is broken with the broken glass. For a moment
I saw it restored. So maybe that version exists somewhere
right now, but we're standing here in this version.
Speaker 10: Like the statues of the gods, they were complete and whole,
and then they were in ruins again.
Speaker 6: I didn't see the change. I passed out. But when
did that change happen? There didn't. There wasn't water when
we entered the room.
Speaker 10: When we said the names say.
Speaker 5: The first time, dons this room have water damage?
Speaker 2: No, this room does not. It actually looks like looks
more like wind image.
Speaker 10: Well, I would probably have something to do with gods again,
since this seems to be whoever built this is their interest?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, wrong, Sorry.
Speaker 4: I wonder why they built it this way. It feels ancient,
like it existed before. What was it made for us?
Should we come back?
Speaker 10: It feels like they don't want us to come back.
Speaker 6: If it has made for us, well, then the coffin
room seems to have been made for you. But we've
still yet to reach that.
Speaker 10: Perhaps the coffin room we were put in is not
the same coffin room we woke up in.
Speaker 8: That seems more likely to me.
Speaker 6: All of this traveling and shifting world's dimensions, I don't
know which it is, and then delicant mood, the memories
and things shifting, and it's really hard to tell what
is true and what is illusion? What is ours? What
is not ours? We were brought together for some reason
and what if I look at all of them? How
do we know we all came from the same world?
Speaker 2: Everyone?
Speaker 11: Roll?
Speaker 4: Please?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 10: Yes? No magic?
Speaker 12: Yep?
Speaker 10: What difficulty?
Speaker 2: Ah? Thirty please it's actually thirty three. But I don't
think you can type that in and have it work.
You can, ken, all right, let's do it.
Speaker 10: Three five.
Speaker 2: You rolled a thirty five.
Speaker 6: All the rolls, every single one of us got otherworldly success.
Speaker 10: Oh I got I'm gonna my pants?
Speaker 4: What's just happened? Insane? Am I alive? Is this real life?
Speaker 10: Do you want to know what's crazy too? It goes
thirty five, twenty nine, twenty sixteen, twelve, It counts, it's
going down.
Speaker 4: The count down stop stop?
Speaker 2: Oh my god?
Speaker 10: Okay, I had them up. Okay, does it make three
three three?
Speaker 12: Listen?
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm crazy, but I'm not that crazy from that crazy.
Oh my god. Well, ship.
Speaker 4: One hundred and twelve opens.
Speaker 8: Okay, now divide it until we get thirty three, which
is almost.
Speaker 10: One hundred and eleven times three.
Speaker 2: Okay, you're here's the deal.
Speaker 10: That is correct.
Speaker 2: That is a correct thing that you have hit on,
and you all will realize it in this moment. And
I don't know how because I never expected you all
to succeed at this role if this were to ever
come up at the same time. But how do you
look at each other and know that you're not all
from the same place, including Stalker and Cora, you are
not from the same place. None of us are from
none of you are from the same place. Now, I
think we went back to your auras in the very beginning.
Do you remember that what colors were you?
Speaker 4: I do not remember. I'm note taker is checking.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: The only time I have aura in my notes is
when with Fox and b they inspect Soccer and Fen
and read their ores and appearances.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we don't have colors. We don't know which ones. Okay,
that's okay. So it's not necessarily the color. It's going
to be something inside the aura, like either black flex
or like ash or something like that that's moving along
inside the aura that maybe you couldn't see before but
now you can see. But it will tell you that
they're not from this. You know, it's not from the
same place you are, because everyone else that you look
at doesn't have that element in it. It's really hard
to be able to train yourself to be able to
see that kind of detail in an aura. It's kind
of rare, so I can't imagine that this is how
you see. But there's something in you that realizes all
of a sudden that you guys are not from the
same place, and that wherever Esteban may have been, your
bar may have never have been there. You know. It's
like that kind of realization.
Speaker 4: Hold on, yes, well then I have questions. Yes, I
look at Estevan and I say, but you killed.
Speaker 10: My sire, I perhaps killed the version I know, But
then where did he go for you?
Speaker 4: How many statues again, were there in the previous.
Speaker 10: Room, well as we all remember because we were just there.
Let's go through all the names.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to say a word.
Speaker 4: It's I think it's exactly the amount of coffee as
there were and people in coffins, right, so it was.
Speaker 6: I have to scroll more.
Speaker 4: It was there was more, I thought seven, Oh, yeah,
it was.
Speaker 8: The map itself has seven statues. It looks like one, two, three, four.
Speaker 10: Which is seven plus the coffin. The extra coffin.
Speaker 6: We have an idea seventh okay, seven statues.
Speaker 8: Seven b team members as well, m.
Speaker 4: How do you kill a god?
Speaker 10: And all those gods were from different pantheons.
Speaker 4: Different pantheon You make worlds culturally, you then away so
no one remembers them.
Speaker 10: Well, here's the problem with that is, I don't know
how it was for you, but they made a point
to you know, we weren't exactly gaining followers where I
am from. You know, perhaps my people are a bit
less secretive than others than the Camarilla. But any of
you have worshippers.
Speaker 8: I have many worshippers and friends. I'm very well liked,
have you know.
Speaker 4: No, I'm not talking about.
Speaker 8: At least it's more I think, no, I killed that one.
Speaker 4: This is this is bigger than the Camerailla. It's bigger
than what we thought we were.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 10: But I'm saying is we are not gods who have
been taken from their their flock.
Speaker 4: Not yet. Not yet.
Speaker 6: You were taken for some reason. You were put in
coffins for some reason, I.
Speaker 4: Assume, to prevent us from becoming gods. Nah. And maybe yes,
you could argue it is insane to suppose that we
could become gods. Right, But what is a god? It
is a thing with power. It is a thing with
power in which people believe in it until they don't
and then it dies. Why why were you taken? Do
you know why you were put in those coffins?
Speaker 5: I do not.
Speaker 4: I have no idea. I did not commit any crime.
Speaker 6: You had a bar, you had influence in your community.
Then asked, didn't you say you were opening a new
art gallery.
Speaker 10: Tree there was to be on the day it was
to be recognized as a royal gallery of the throne
of Iswania. But look, I I do not know about
all of you. I had a wonderful life. I had
some manner of power in my say, but personally I
have already in a few days, felt much more powerful
in this place we have gone to them where I
am from.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, because things work differently here. But what if But.
Speaker 10: If you don't want to make someone a god by God,
send them to a place where they can click one.
Speaker 4: Perhaps they didn't send us there.
Speaker 10: Well, I can tell you I have experienced the people
keeping Gunner in that coffin for eight hundred years. They
very purposefully put us here, in the place where we
can go somewhere else.
Speaker 6: But maybe they didn't expect you to get released.
Speaker 13: Or perhaps in this gone that must be currently use
none of us. Perhaps we are the ones who need
to do with the killing.
Speaker 6: It seems to me everything we just went through in
the previous room, the twelve steps of a god's death.
In a god's life cycle, there is is the miracle,
and then the ascension and then the worship. What if
both of you were in the ascension stage? What if
you were about to be worshiped and you were about
to become gods and someone wanted to stop it?
Speaker 8: But how would they know? Do you know how many
Kindred bar keeps there are? How many vampires who run
art galleries at night?
Speaker 4: Well, I'm feeling a little bit offended. I am singular,
not really.
Speaker 10: Mine was opened during the day as well, but I
wouldn't tell. It's you know, no windows in parts of it.
Speaker 8: How many clever art galleries with no windows, and I'm
sure mood lighting to accentuate certain things. It's not all
that unique. Not yet?
Speaker 4: Are you the the Jesus Christ to Korah's God?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 8: I hope not.
Speaker 10: The same? Build hold on muk do this?
Speaker 5: I refuse. I refuse.
Speaker 8: That's a trap somehow, some way, especially with and his steaks. No,
thank you, I've already been brought back once yeah, I
don't think I can do it again.
Speaker 5: I don't have any nails.
Speaker 4: But that's that's another question, right, Cora stalker Neither of
you were put in the coffin. You were told to
come and get us out right tipped off a mission?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: Does that mean that your people's stalker are Does it
mean that they are part of this?
Speaker 13: I was not sent by my people, sent by curiosity.
Speaker 6: I as well.
Speaker 4: How did you come upon the information?
Speaker 8: Yes? What sparked your curiosity?
Speaker 6: I wonder talk about it. Both of us heard about
the same rumor in two different places, from whom I
don't remember. It was just talk at a bar.
Speaker 4: You don't remember, Try quick, one of you. One of you,
can you mook do that memory thing you just did
see if you can get core to see it again.
Speaker 8: No, I don't think it's gonna work like that.
Speaker 4: Come on, we can do it.
Speaker 10: I'm not trying the thing I learned from the lady
at the bar again. The last time I did that,
I was gone for a hundred years.
Speaker 8: It's also fraying to worry about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, fine, I will do it. I walk over to you,
but I need someone to tell me how, because I'm
I don't know.
Speaker 8: I mean I just it happened and I looked at her.
I made a connection. And you create a connections, aren't
you your barkeep?
Speaker 4: Yes, but I mean you're the son of God. That's
why I worked for you. I'm looking at Dustamond. Now,
can you what did you do before?
Speaker 10: Like your explain that. Yeah, it's the it's explain you
take your thumb to draw blood. There is there is
some sort of gesture, right, and then like this, he
absolutely remember the gesture.
Speaker 2: Yeah you do. It's time.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I am soul out the vial that I'm wearing,
the one that I got from Sonny, and I know
that it's supposed to help me heal.
Speaker 4: But I think I tried to do this at one point,
to like heal someone's memory of something, or heal someone's
mind is how I'm thinking of it.
Speaker 2: Repair repair, you know, got it?
Speaker 4: If it's somewhere talked away and cut from something, was
creating another links.
Speaker 10: Him Before you do this, let me tell you, well,
I'm sure perhaps has not been alive as long as
gone or maybe he haies idea. This can be extremely,
extremely unpleasant if it is not done.
Speaker 4: Right, that is fine.
Speaker 10: I would not deviate too much from how she had
showed it, if anything at all, It's like baking.
Speaker 4: I will follow your instruction. Ah, Cora, are you all
right with this?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 4: Really, it's one thing for me to say I'll do it,
But are you okay with this?
Speaker 8: You don't have to if you don't want to. There
is another.
Speaker 6: Something that is I'm coming to realize, is there is
truth shared amongst us, even if we come from different places.
Whatever you shared with me, Moog helped me see something
I hadn't remembered. If whatever Constantine does now has the
same effects, then maybe we'll learn something more. So yes,
go ahead.
Speaker 4: I bite my thumb and I I'm holding onto the
file and I do the gesture. I'm following Esteban's instructions.
Speaker 2: Okay, go ahead and roll your magic stat difficulty Uh
forty Actually we'll do forty five. Because you are doing
it has been done to you before as well. You're
following the instruction. Plus Esteban succeeded once before, so he's
able to, you know, instruct you on it. I think
that makes it.
Speaker 10: Remember she's not alone in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you still want to do it. God's the team
he brings up a good point.
Speaker 4: Damn that point has hands.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I can try remembering on my own verse. See
if like whatever has happened today has like stirred up
the thoughts and I well, somehow fun and.
Speaker 4: You can ask You can ask your friend to help
you as well.
Speaker 8: But also ask Stalker as well.
Speaker 13: I first heard this rumor in a place called Chicongo,
and it brought me here to New Orleans.
Speaker 6: Which is where I heard the rumor.
Speaker 4: I find it interesting that no one else took those
rumors up the way you two did.
Speaker 10: We've been here for some time.
Speaker 4: You know what for the plot? Yes, I'm still going
to do it.
Speaker 10: Okay, do you remember I was going to say at
that thought? Sorry, I said, what if we both do
it at the same time?
Speaker 8: It sounds like a horrible idea.
Speaker 10: We will both do it just in case.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 10: Then it is if there is a fight that is
more of a fair fight.
Speaker 4: I do not know if it will be much of
a fight. That's all right, I.
Speaker 10: Will be stubborn.
Speaker 8: Watch out for the teeth.
Speaker 10: Do you not listen? I make him mad?
Speaker 2: Now do you remember exactly what your rumor was? Stalker?
Speaker 5: I haven't written down.
Speaker 2: Okay, I wasn't sure if you remember or if you
needed assistance. Okay, got it? And Cora, do you remember yours?
Speaker 6: I also have it written down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, just curious because I can come in to
assist if you need.
Speaker 10: But yeah, okay, stand next to Constant and I kind
of slap them on the back lightly and I go,
this will be just like the alleyway. We will be fine.
Speaker 4: I'll give you a small smile, nice and then resume.
Speaker 2: Both of you roll.
Speaker 10: Then was it difficult?
Speaker 2: Forty five? All right, it's pretty good.
Speaker 10: That's so bad for me last time I tried. Yeah,
the last two times I tried. I'm sure it'll be different.
Thirty six whoa nine?
Speaker 7: Here we go?
Speaker 5: Oh what okay?
Speaker 2: The roles today in the second half it's ridiculous. Okay,
what are you looking for? What are you looking for?
At Constantine?
Speaker 4: Specifically, I am looking for the memory of where she
heard this rumor, who said it, and who who they like,
what they look like, and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: Okay, do you have the rumor handy, Cora? Okay, you
can go ahead and describe where you heard this rumor
and how and if there comes a moment where I
need to come in with truth details. I will do that,
But go ahead and make up whatever you want in
terms of where you were.
Speaker 10: Is yes, now a good time to say that I
lied and I wanted to see something else.
Speaker 2: Yes, now is the time to say that. Yeah, holy shit,
what were you looking for?
Speaker 10: I want to see if who sired what who sired
her is in there somewhere, is in her memory or
her memory?
Speaker 2: Holy shit, dude. Okay, we'll handle yours in a second.
We're going to start with what Constantine's doing then. Okay, Wow,
holy shit, dude.
Speaker 10: She said some very interesting things that have made me
very curious.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I figured. I figured, and.
Speaker 10: After seeing you know, she fed for me too, Like
my brain's on fire.
Speaker 2: Now yeah, okay, all right, Constantine, you are looking for
the rumor. Go ahead, Cora, paint the scene for us,
and if I need to come in and correct you,
I will.
Speaker 6: Okay, Now I'm just describing it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Just however you imagined that you got this information
if you.
Speaker 6: Want, Yeah, I imagine, I imagine. I heard about it
shortly after I became a caretaker of the graveyard, and
that was still early on in I guess, like my
role in the community. It really wasn't until that graveyard.
And I've mentioned this before that like it was more
accepted in the community, the Hikkata community. So around that time,
I think I spent time in a certain Kindred bar
where a lot of Hikata congregate, and I just heard
it in passing someone talking about how there was supposedly
kindred buried nearby.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, oh boy. Then I think in this moment,
as you are because you're going for something else, esteband
so you're not going to experience this. It's just Constantine
and Korra that are experiencing this. You're in the bar,
you're familiar, so you're also feeling some of what Coorra
felt to is just this feeling of familiarity you kind
of finally get accepted. She's feeling a little bit like
an outsider. There's something that she really wants and she's
willing to do almost anything to get it. Part of
that is getting well established in this community. For some reason,
it's important to her, not because she wants to be
part of the community, but there's something that she's looking
for and it's so you're feeling a little bit of that,
and then you see your sire on the other side
of the bar. He looks directly at you, opens his
mouth with a missing tongue, mouths something, and then Coora
overhears this rumor no one ever actually said it. She
thinks she hears somebody talking about it, and.
Speaker 6: You have chills.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you both experienced that in this moment, My sire
yours Constantine.
Speaker 4: Without a tongue, without a tongue.
Speaker 2: That's correct, He never spoke to you, correct, Nope.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think probably you would feel Coora.
Speaker 11: Like a huge strange wave of elation from me, like
a torrent of adoration and elation and like joy.
Speaker 4: With mixed in with a bit of confusion. But it's
very intense. Guy like to think that Constantine has feelings
on like times one thousand all the time. So yeah,
that's crazy. Okay, that's really crazy. I pull out of that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And immediately as Constantine is kind of removing himself,
you've rolled a nine. So I think you're like, you're in.
You access the information that you need immediately and then
it's over. But right as that ends, Corey, you're kind
of still pulled back in by what Esteban is looking for.
You are looking for any information on who sired her.
Speaker 10: Correct, I want to see what they look like. Yea,
if it's an if it's not like it could be
blocked or something like that.
Speaker 2: So I think this, the nature of this spell is
pretty horrific. So I hate to do this to you again.
I think that you. I think you would experience the
night of her attack, the night she got tired.
Speaker 10: Awesome. I'm sorry, but that's okay. Build a character who
can is used today's ship.
Speaker 6: This is cool because the last time we had an
interaction with the dream sequence, Core was able to pull
you back and you got like vague emotional echoes. You
actually experience it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but now I think you would actually be experiencing it.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 10: But what I never experienced my own So I did,
but I don't remember. I have no memory of that.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 2: That's why I'm trying to I'm trying to see if
this is a moment like Moog where you're able to
remember for yours a bit with this experience. So I'm
thirty six, I'm gonna say, well, it's it's yeah. I'm
gonna say that. As she is describing as little as
you like Acorn, as she describes this to you and
what you kind of experience. You can take a detail
or two and unlock that of your own experience. Yeah,
go for it.
Speaker 6: So if he's searching for this visual information of what
my sire looks like, yeah, I think he would find
himself back in that memory that I've mentioned before, but
this time would be seeing it in full detail. It's
just past dusk, and you're at a carnival, a festival
of some kind, so there's bright lights and laughter and
the smell of food and performers and people in fantastical
costumes and just a lot of people walking around and
enjoying the night. And if you're experiencing it from my perspective,
I would be feeling extremely happy and optimistic and just
enjoying the evening, and my attention would keep getting pulled
down to my hand where there's a ring, because I
had just gotten engaged and was still riding the high
of that proposal, and my fiance and my family are nearby.
I think my fiance just walked away to get something
for us, and so I'm standing there taking in the
evening when I'm approached by a man and I think
this is where there's probably a cutout or a blur
or something. Maybe if you want to step in, yep
at any point, yep, I can.
Speaker 2: I think you did such a good job of describing
this without explicit details in like the first episode or
one of those earlier episodes, so I don't think we
need to do that again. We kind of know what
happens Esteban. Obviously it's not fucking pleasant. She's she's going
to be sired without uh, you know, her consent, and
you know from that moment on everything changes. But what
I also just realized is you saw Gunner's memory, all
of it in explicit detail, and you saw two people
that you recognized putting him in and out of the coffin,
but you didn't recognize the third. This is this is
the third person that was dealing with Gunner. It's the
same person that approached her at the at the festival.
You could if you wanted to describe him in great
detail to her, But I think you also know that
she has blocked out what he looks like. You can
see it. Yes, there's a there was a third person. Correct.
Speaker 10: I thought it was a woman's two women.
Speaker 2: That's right. You did think it was a woman.
Speaker 8: You sent a picture.
Speaker 2: Yes I did, And do you remember how I was like,
take notes because I'm gonna be fucking with your memory.
This is one of those moments.
Speaker 6: Holy shit.
Speaker 10: Yeah it was a well it was a Spanish woman. Yeah,
I don't have to go back and look at the picture.
But her hair was yeah, I mean darker skin, beautiful.
I have a red dress.
Speaker 2: Yep, and I have the male version of this character.
Please hold. Yeah, so you see a Spanish man very
similar features.
Speaker 10: It's clear. It's like very clear twins or something.
Speaker 2: Absolutely related somehow for sure. But like I said, you
can see it because you know you're experiencing it there unfiltered,
because that's part of the ability of this spell. Yeah,
but it's also clear to you that she doesn't remember
what he looks like. It's like her mind is protecting
her from that. So it's up to you if you
want to share that with her.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Sebon would probably see the man approach some sort
of blur and then really just from there, the context
is he says something persuasive and gets her to the
edge of the festival and then into the woods nearby
or whatever is out of light, and that's when the
encounter happens. So in her memory, all that she really
sees is that cut between the light festival and this
dark space and his eyes gleaming out of the darkness.
That's really all that she remembers of him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you a s sebon with your otherworldly success,
your role it is in vampire in the masquerade terms,
its domination magic that is used on her to get
her to follow her follow him out into the woods.
Speaker 10: I mean, I think I've always assumed that. I mean,
I don't remember it, so, and I'm aware that that
is a thing that can be done. So I'm assuming
I always assume that was done to me. Uh when what?
At what point does it end?
Speaker 11: Like?
Speaker 10: I'm like, after you can end after the attack, you
can end it because you sit there and fucking stare
at this person. It's like, while I'm being horrified and stuff,
but I'm not going to be able to stop looking
at them.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, what do you remember, if anything, from when
you were sired.
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 10: Yeah, as of this, Yeah, I remember being at a
big like a gala and everyone's stressed up. That was
a big deal for for me. I've been to them before,
but this was like a new chapter was starting in
my life, you said, I send it to it like
a new social level. And I think I remember following
someone through a door and the sound of the door
closing behind me, and it was something. The reason I
think it still was it's still able to stand out,
it was because it wasn't the first time, like a
door closing behind me was the sign that something really
fucking terrible that I don't want to happen as well
to happen to me. I remember red clothing.
Speaker 2: I was just gonnads. It was a dress. It was
a red dress.
Speaker 10: Dress and dark hair and all that's kind of a
blur together, you know, like like a painting, like just
kind of sort of like the way when I would
look at myself in the mirror before we'd see just
like someone put a thumb over the wet paint. Yeah,
And I think, uh, I think when in this memory,
when the person is done feeding at me and like
stops to if they look would he look at her afterwards?
I think I'm waiting to see him turn around, like
I'm lingering in there, and then he doesn't.
Speaker 2: I just walks away. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't have
anything else.
Speaker 10: Tod ad.
Speaker 6: Am I seeing.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, the nature of this spell would be that you
are able to.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's prepared enough or knows the spell
well enough to block it. So I think that you
are experiencing this as well. Again, I don't think you
saw the face of your attacker, because you know you've
blocked it out. But you'll see the face of his attacker,
and I'll say, yeah, I see yeah, and I'll send
you a picture here in just a second. But it
is a kind of Spanish woman. She's got long, dark hair,
she's wearing a red dress, and it's there are similar
tone is here. When she's done feeding, she gets up
and walks away and leaves him there and doesn't look back.
Speaker 6: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: And the kind of lasts a little bit matter. Yeah, yeah,
so Constantine.
Speaker 10: I'm rubbing my neck a bit. I'm assuming that's where
he attacked, or maybe that's where I was attacked.
Speaker 4: At the very least, I look at Cora. Did you
see it too.
Speaker 8: A man?
Speaker 6: I think if he looked at me, my eyes would
be a little too wide. And when I talk, my
voices shaky and unsteady. So which part.
Speaker 4: I turned to the group just kind of look around.
The person that gave you the rumor was my sire.
Speaker 6: How but I know it was until this moment that
I realized it. And I just stop and like my
face kind of shuts down because of the magnitude of everything.
Speaker 10: I kind of regained my composure, but and I walk
over to the kra I think I put my hand
on her, like on the side of her shoulder, and
I say, what was his name? Your fiance mine Teresa?
And then I saw it was the last time I saw
her until I found her grave nearly sixty years later.
Found it was. It was when I finally gathered the
courage to visit her grave. I'm very sorry this person
has done this to you.
Speaker 6: I didn't realize. I'm sorry too. And his name is Daniel.
Speaker 10: And for it is not much comfort when you lose everything.
I know this, but I know that they are not
alone in this happening to you. It's been a long
time since I have felt otherwise, not kind of helplessly.
Speaker 6: It's just ever since that night, I have been alone.
It has an unending loneliness. Even my community just barely
tolerated me. I don't believe what they believe about the
dead because of what happened to me. I don't want
to command and dominate spirits like they do. It wasn't
until I got the graveyard and my own home that
I finally felt some semblance of peace. It's why I
haven't really been forthcoming since all of this happened, because
Well and Kindred have only really treated me one way.
I just assumed it would be the same with you all.
I didn't really realize how much our pass we're shared.
Speaker 10: Kind of take an unnecessary breath, a deep one, a
habit I've never been able to break, and kind of
squeeze your shoulder a little bit. Now you can do
whatever you like and create whatever world for yourself you wish.
Now that we know the faces of those who have
done this to us, these are the same people. This
was the final one. The face I saw from Gunner's memory,
whoever called him in the coffin, he saw a woman.
In your memory, they were a man. But the eyes,
the eyes are really the same.
Speaker 6: What are you saying?
Speaker 10: I don't know? And how I hear that desire of
Constantine I thought I had killed It was around two
spread rumors to.
Speaker 6: You in that memory. I see it now he didn't
have a tongue. Would that not mean it was the
same person?
Speaker 10: Perhaps perhaps he was brought back.
Speaker 4: My face has gone action after witnessing this conversation, and
I turned to Esteban, can you do it to me? Why?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I do not remember very much. But mine was Peter
and he died. He had an illness, something, something that
was untreatable. Could that? Could it not be.
Speaker 8: What I know?
Speaker 4: If if everything is as connected and organized, because it
seems to be that they take him from me.
Speaker 10: I think it can only see what you have seen.
We believe you were there.
Speaker 4: I grabbed the front of his jacket and I fall
to my knees in front of him. Better bitter.
Speaker 10: Nats.
Speaker 4: I need to know bit good?
Speaker 6: I look at it, asked upon.
Speaker 10: I put my hand on Constantine's head.
Speaker 4: Where were we made? Is that's what this is? Made?
Created everything? Our joy, our pain? Was it all designed?
Is it not mine? Did I not earn it?
Speaker 6: You did? The joy you felt was real and it
was yours. The pain and loss, that's the part that
was made by them. If you think there is something
to see, I will do it with you.
Speaker 10: Esteban.
Speaker 6: That's well, whatever it is, you just did.
Speaker 10: Is there something to see in your memory that has
been taken from you?
Speaker 4: Constantine, I do not know, but you can have it all.
Speaker 6: Take it.
Speaker 4: I opened the doors to you. I trust you both.
Speaker 6: You've learned so much. I'm afraid of all breaking right
in front of us. But at the same time, everything
we've learned has been so invaluable. But if there's more,
maybe this is how we do it.
Speaker 4: Maybe they never counted on us. Showering goes with each other.
Speaker 10: Are your kindred when you lost your Peter?
Speaker 4: No, but it was not three months until I was
found by my sire and a bar.
Speaker 8: A nightmare.
Speaker 4: I do not remember those months because I was drunk.
It was my son the light, and I never wanted
to see it again, and my wish was granted.
Speaker 6: Constantine remembers the face of his sire, but I didn't
realize until we shared this that I had seen his
face too, buried in my memories. Are we to do this?
Master upon.
Speaker 10: You need to know what we were looking for.
Speaker 4: H You can look for the memories of Peter Dwindling
his death. And then when I was approached in the bar,
I do not remember much. I was sired outside in
an alley, and then he raised me for a month
or so, I think took care of me, brought me
to strength. I thought he made me to be his companion,
and I offered myself to him because I could not
be alone.
Speaker 10: And then he let while Constantine saying this, I'm doing
the gesture in Cora's palm, so she like over and
over again so she gets it. And then after that
he put the blood and your thumb into your mouth.
Speaker 6: Okay, I follow the instructions and do as he explained,
both of you.
Speaker 2: Role for me, difficulty can actually go straight up to
fifty fifty to fifty shot. Not only have you just
done this, but you have opened a pathway and constantines
and stores are wide open at thirty seven cour seventy nine. Yeah, okay,
Or do me a favor and do one more role
difficulty thirty or something else but related. I figured out three. Okay, narratively,
that just made sense, so I assumed the role would pass. Okay, So, oh,
what exactly are you looking for, Estemon when you go
in here this time?
Speaker 10: I'm looking for the moment I'm looking for when I
want to say, when Constantine is sired. But it's it's
like the guy couldn't talk, Like, what am I gonna hear? Yeah,
I'm looking for the moment he was sired.
Speaker 2: Then Yeah, you see exactly that, And you know, Mergs,
I will definitely let you describe what he sees. I
think it's up to you whether you re experience this,
but it can be similar to Kora, where you've kind
of blocked it out, but he's able to see all
the details.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I would like to say that I have had
a very positive feeling about my turning and my h
this whole time.
Speaker 2: The reality is, I think the reality is I agree,
I agree, and I.
Speaker 4: Do not remember it because I've blocked it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Cora, you will experience some of this and then
part way through something else is going to happen. But
go ahead so you can experience this first part.
Speaker 4: So I stink of alcohol. I stink of the smell
of a human body. It's so pungent. I am stumbling
through the streets trying to find a bar that will
take me in because I've been kicked out of almost
every single one of them by now I find one
in a part of town that I've never deigned to enter.
This point in my life. It's a rough sort of
ced one, very small, and I stumble in and I
take note of the fact that there's quite a handsome
looking man at the bar with silver hair, and he
looks rakish and kind of decadent, and I find that
strange and I'm attracted to him, and I feel fucking
horrible about it because the love of my life just died,
and so I ask for alcohol and they give it
to me, and I just keep asking for it, and
at some point I'm just begging for oblivion. I do
not want to be here, but I'm too cowardly to
do anything about it, and I don't really want to
leave this guy's side for some reason. He's not speaking
to me and I'm not speaking to him, but then
everything starts to blur and he's carrying me out of
the bar, you know, Oh, I'll help you get home
kind of way. And then the next thing I know,
I'm in an alley and I'm confused, and then he
bites me, and I am equal parts horrified terrified, and
it's exhilarated.
Speaker 7: And that.
Speaker 4: It is the worst part of it. I feel alive
for the first time in three months, and I don't
deserve it. Yeah, that's what I recall.
Speaker 2: All right, you will experience that to the full question, yes, question, yes,
But afterwards he.
Speaker 10: Doesn't just leave you.
Speaker 4: There, right, No, he took He took me to his
home what I presumed was his home, and then he
like nursed me. I was like bedridden for a while
and he took care of me.
Speaker 10: Would I recognize the home?
Speaker 2: Yep, yep, Okay, yep, you do.
Speaker 4: Okay, I can give you more if you're going down that,
if like it continues past that, I can give you
like the my sire left.
Speaker 10: But oh like the last time you saw him. Yeah,
I don't know how far. I wouldn't know if I
would look for that. Well, I mean, if I could
stay in there, I'd keep looking because I want to
find something.
Speaker 4: Out and helpless do anything. That's really like I'm wide
open for it.
Speaker 10: Yeah, okay, if I don't, just as how it works,
as I can stay in there and just keep going
like I'm scanning for something.
Speaker 2: He did a success and lest you you would kind
of be following that memory all the way through. You
can't really scan or fast forward. You have to stay committed.
Speaker 10: And go through, which I mean I've gone through eight
hundred years, I could do a month a month.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know, you go through that experience, Constantine
remembers it as him, you know, coming on to a
sire and then his sire rejecting him and leaving and
never being seen again. But you know instantly the day
that that memory.
Speaker 10: Starts, oh shit, yeah, because.
Speaker 2: You recognize what he was wearing, you know, the weather outside, everything.
This is the day you killed him, and that's why
he never came back, Constantine. And if you want to
Esteban share that piece, you may, but you don't have
to because you succeeded well.
Speaker 10: But Constantine's experiencing this stuff as I'm doing it already, right, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: And it's your choice. You can do what you know.
Speaker 10: I think I've already said he didn't come back because
I killed him, so it's not something I'm so precious about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Well in that case, then I guess what
I'm asking is, would you give him this gift because
it is a gift because he thinks he will, you know,
he thinks his sire was like no and then left
and never spoke to him again. Right, but you.
Speaker 10: Apartment, Yeah, yeah, no, I wouldn't. I wouldn't hide any
of it, I think on some less level as I'm
discovering now, yeah, I guess Ubon thinks that everyone, because
he doesn't, everyone should remember how they were turned. It's
like not it's it's it's like a right.
Speaker 2: Yeah then, And I think this is the moment where
things change for you, Clora. I think you've actually experienced
all of this up until this point, and then something
else is going to happen to you right here, as
Estebon switches into sharing openly his memory, and I think
you know your sire leaves and it blends into him
being outside watching the apartment, and as your sire leaves
the apartment, and then Esteban then approaches and do you
want to.
Speaker 10: I'm going to cut it off at that point. I'm
not going to make him sit through torturing him.
Speaker 2: And yeah, okay, but you do see Esteban recognizing him,
and then you going for him, and Cora, what happens
to you is you are suddenly trapped in a small space.
You cannot move. You are looking around, but there is
no light whatsoever, there's no sound, and then you hear
Ishna's desperate laughter as he shares a memory with you.
Speaker 8: I remember the smell.
Speaker 7: It feels good to get what you want. This would
have worked, but you misunderstood time. You watched centuries slip
through your fingers like sand, and yet you still can't
comprehend what it means to wait. Time is nothing. Time
is dust. And I've been here longer than you could
ever understand. I have waited for millennia, buried in places
you can't even imagine, forgotten by history itself. Time is nothing.
It's less than nothing to me. It's something I watch,
something I play with, I have seen forever and it
didn't even blink back. Oh, someone's coming, aren't they. They
think they're looking for you, but they don't even know
that you are here. They won't. They will feel me,
not you. You are already a memory, fading, forgotten, still here,
but you don't matter anymore. You never did.
Speaker 2: With absolute clarity, Kora, you know Ishna was trapped in
the body of Constantine's sire, and he is waiting in
that coffin. That is who Ishna hated. So when that
face comes up, Ishna comes in and takes over that
same man tricked somehow and trapped Ishna into himself and
has been trapped in that coffin. A couple episodes ago,
we said there are two versions of people in that coffin.
Oh there's Hill. Fuck, this is the other one. Who
was the first one Gunner's lover. Oh I wasn't there
for that?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, Yes, killed, isn't it?
Speaker 10: And the other Oh that was the last thing before
Gunnar died is and goes. So here's the present. You
were sleeping next to your love of your life for
eight hundred years, and you had no idea, and you
left before you opened the casket.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and now Isshna shares with you that Constantine's sire
and who estabond thought he had killed sits in the coffin,
in that void space, and Nishna was trapped there for
however long.
Speaker 6: Alive? Is he still alive in the coffin like the
rest of them?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, and he Shanna takes joy in that fact.
Speaker 6: This is something only I see.
Speaker 2: Only you see that part. You fail to see the
whole thing. But then your partial success is he shouldn't
giving you this.
Speaker 6: I think I would be just stunned with this information
and would probably just like weekly say, Estevan. I don't
think you killed.
Speaker 10: Him that sadly, I think that he's clear.
Speaker 6: No, I mean you may have killed a version of him.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 6: Yeah, grasp how this works, but I think I know
who's in the last coffin.
Speaker 4: What's what do you say?
Speaker 6: It's your sire. He's the last person in the coffin,
in the crypt, some version of him.
Speaker 4: Did you fulld note if they killed Peter or no?
Is there anything.
Speaker 6: Not that I saw?
Speaker 4: M hm, yeah, okay, if.
Speaker 6: You say he died of a sickness, As far as
I perceived, that seems to be the case. We see
repetitions of all of these spaces, these jailers of ours,
but at least around Peter's death, and you're siring, I
only saw your sire, their faces lurking in the shadows.
Speaker 4: So then why did they want him dead all of
a sudden?
Speaker 6: Maybe it was an opportunity. Maybe his dying was the
thread that broke and cut you loose to fall into
all of this.
Speaker 4: I'm almost sorry it isn't more information.
Speaker 6: I still learned something, though asked upon knew. Whatever that
moment was you shared with Gunner. You said you saw
three faces. They were all three of those face were
responsible for putting Gunner and keeping Gunner in the coffin,
including Constantine's sire, Yes.
Speaker 10: Who was the second one after this woman, this vile
woman stopped it, would open it up, and then put
another one of his tattoos on his arm.
Speaker 4: Was it actually him though?
Speaker 10: It looks like the same man that I have known, so,
but I'm not sure what that means at this point.
Speaker 6: Then, between that time when he opened Gunner's coffin and
the time when you all woke up, something happened. It
seems that perhaps one of the jailers became one of
the jailed.
Speaker 4: I want to know his crime.
Speaker 6: I do as well.
Speaker 4: Thank you both, Ben Dunk, I'm grateful.
Speaker 6: I am too.
Speaker 4: I would like to put my hand on both of
their shoulders, and I would like to give them the
feeling of safety for a moment.
Speaker 2: Go ahead and roll for me. Difficulty forty.
Speaker 4: Thirteen.
Speaker 2: Geez Okay. The way that you've described this power before
has never been that they will feel Constantine's version of safety.
It's whatever they would find comforting.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think because of the situation, I think that some
thing that maybe deep down you would have found the
most comforting. Sometimes it's not always comforting the moment that
it is received, So correct me if this would not
be comforting for either of you. But I'm imagining that
it is your maybe the smell of your fiancee or
you know, like your partner, just something like that, that
of a happier time obviously before they were taken from you.
For just a moment, you feel like that security and
that safety that you felt back then before all of
this began.
Speaker 4: A reprieve in the darkness.
Speaker 10: And mine, Yeah, go ahead, Oh, I was just going
to say mine, as I hear kind of like, I
guess it sounds far off, but it's a bunch of
people singing very poorly together.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I think mine is similar to what you said,
pebe the feeling of being in the arms of my
fiance and cheek pressed against his chest, hearing his heartbeat
and the warmth of his arms are on me.
Speaker 2: From this moment forward, you will have a five shift
on any roles dealing with each other. Three of you
write it down because I'll forget. And I think that's
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