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 lead you doubting for more.
Speaker 3: Proceed at your own risk.
Speaker 4: A logit of fight from Shade ho loget of fact
from me.
Speaker 5: That you say, stand up for the thing which you
can't stand alud.
Speaker 6: Last week I'm Deathless. Estebon and Constantine tried to get
information from Aphydia, the bar keep. They go through a
dance some information, answering one question for another of equal value.
It doesn't go the way that they expect, though, resulting
in them having to leave empty handed. Outside, Gunner and
Stalker encounter a strange creature, a hand seemingly patched together
by body pieces. They try to ascertain what is trying
to tell them and eventually find their way to the
bar or. Estebon and Constantine are exiting, but meanwhile back
in the apartment, Ben and Kora find themselves alone. They
look for Stalker and in the process are transported to
a strange place, someplace dark with maroon wallpaper in a
long hallway filled with the voices of two people they
don't know.
Speaker 3: That's actually where we will start. And I had the
two of you roll on the entanglement table here so
they each got something special, which will be revealed as
we continue onward. However, Moog, yes, dark you are looking
through the flame?
Speaker 7: Correct, Yes, that is correct. I'm looking. I don't trust
these voices right the end of the hallway. Why should I, Well,
technically I'm closing my eyes. She has what she said,
she said nothing about bad.
Speaker 8: Close your eyes, man, yeah, so close your eyes.
Speaker 3: But you're going to peek through the flame anyway.
Speaker 7: Yes, that seems fun of me.
Speaker 3: When you do that. There is a very brief moment
where you know exactly what you are and who you are,
and who she is and who she is to you.
Before the room that you are in, the friend that
you are standing beside, the hallway that is stretching back
behind you now at this point fades away, and you
are left standing in darkness opposite Cora. Two of you
can speak in this space.
Speaker 7: Hello, Hello there, I.
Speaker 6: Look around confused.
Speaker 7: Oh, there's nothing, It's all darkness, just me and you,
you and I us. Well, I guess you more appropriately.
Speaker 8: Hmm.
Speaker 6: Normally I think this is where I would ask who
you are? But I I think I already know that.
Speaker 7: Yes, what do you know?
Speaker 6: I think I'm I don't know. Yeah, where was that
at least with the room?
Speaker 7: That is a very good question. I found myself in
the whole way, just outside, wondering the same thing, not
a moment ago. And then I heard a voice, the
voice of a man a little bit shaky, wreaked a fear,
and then you.
Speaker 6: Or me us, I nod. I don't know how I
got here. I don't even know if this is the
same place I was moments ago.
Speaker 7: Well, where where were you moments ago? Tell me.
Speaker 6: A kitchen, my kitchen.
Speaker 7: That's boring.
Speaker 6: Well, it may have been before the wall started bleeding.
Speaker 7: Oh that's interesting.
Speaker 6: Would you happen to know anything about that?
Speaker 7: I wouldn't touch it. Did you touch it?
Speaker 6: There wasn't time, But I guess now I'm glad that
I didn't.
Speaker 7: Yes, I've learned that if wolves bleed, just leave it be.
Oh they're rhymes. I look very proud of myself for
the impromptu rhyme.
Speaker 6: The tension that I had going into this moment starts
to fade. Away, and I think my brows would kind
of draw together quizzically because this is not what I
was expecting. Per se. They were bantering in the hallway,
but I think in this moment I would realize, no,
this is literally who he is. He wasn't putting on
a on a scene or anything. He really does talk
like this and act like this.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 7: Oh sorry, I wasn't meant to hear that bit.
Speaker 9: Mm hmm.
Speaker 7: So, Cora, is it?
Speaker 6: Yes? And what do I call you?
Speaker 7: You may call me what everyone calls me, moog. Don't
make that face at me. It's a wonderful name. It
sticks with you, It's got staying power.
Speaker 6: It's it's memorable. But I wouldn't say that's a name,
but it's Oh sure if that's what they call you. Okay, Moog?
Speaker 7: Are you this charming on every first impression? Or am
I just lucky.
Speaker 6: I should ask you the same thing?
Speaker 7: Yes, the answer is yes, of course. Actually I'm I'm
toning it down a bit for you.
Speaker 6: First impression, why were you coming down the hallway?
Speaker 7: Well, the door on which I arrived in wasn't there
any longer, and there was a flame at the other
end of the hallway, I.
Speaker 6: Like fire, do you? So you weren't looking for anything
or were you?
Speaker 7: I was more looking for a way out, Oh yes,
to be reunited with my brothers and sister.
Speaker 6: So you're trapped in this place too.
Speaker 7: For the moment, it will note that one of my
brothers found me my favorite one.
Speaker 10: Hmmm.
Speaker 6: I think at this point I would try to look
around and better understand what's happening here. One second, I'm
pressed against the wall with Fenn, trying not to be found,
and now I'm in this liminal space. Yeah with this person.
Speaker 3: Go ahead and roll for me like it feels like
yours have gone by since we have done this.
Speaker 11: Not in one week that we miss difficulty thirty, difficulty
forty for you, okay forty six, failure forty six okay,
So you, I think as you.
Speaker 3: I'm imagining this is like a way of centering yourself.
At least it seems like that's the way Kora interfaces. First,
she goes, I see what's around me, but then also
I'm going to internally use my little magical compass to
kind of figure out what's going on. So when you
go to do that, you can see that you are
still up against the wall with then I don't know
if you had reached out to cover his eyes or
anything like that, but the two of you are still
up against the wall, and you can see that from
the space in which you're standing, but it's kind of
like you can barely make it out, but only because
you're concentrating and looking. And then maybe if you kind
of glance, you can see potentially two shadows by the
hallway where they're about to enter in, but they haven't yet.
And you're aware that this space that you are in
currently is like it's almost like a mind palace made real.
I guess for you to stand in and speak, and
Ishna is doing this for you, the two of you,
and it seems like he is straining a bit in
order to hold this space for you, which I think
you would find a little bit strange. But I don't
think you know with the failure, I don't think you
know how he's doing it or exactly what it is
that he's doing, other than that he is holding this
space for you.
Speaker 6: Okay, so you two don't implode, and do I get
a sense of like because he was Ishna was very
specific about how much danger we were in, how we
cannot see each other. Yeah, do I get a sense
of like impending explosion, this is really bad? Or does
it seem like it's a suspended moment.
Speaker 3: It's a suspended moment. And I think if you feel
anything from him, it's a little bit of annoyance. Okay,
he's a little bit annoyed at the situation. But other
than that, he's he's holding the space open for you.
I think he might also be curious as well, a
little bit as to what's happening here. I think he
was just as surprised to see this proxy as you.
Speaker 6: Okay, then I would turn my attention back to Moog
and say, you know what we are to each other? Right?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 6: How is how is this the case?
Speaker 9: Hill?
Speaker 7: You tell me?
Speaker 6: It's as much of a mystery to me as it
is apparently to you, Unless you're lying to me.
Speaker 7: I would never lie to someone i'd just met who
may or may not just be me or I'm you.
I don't know how this works quite.
Speaker 3: Would you like to roll?
Speaker 7: Yes? I would love to roll.
Speaker 3: Okay, go ahead and roll for me, and you can
do it on the You're gonna be rolling a D
one hundred, but you can do it on the VTM.
Speaker 7: On the VTM, I do have both of them up.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you can roll on the PBE one because
that's the one that I have up on the screen
and it just makes it easier for me.
Speaker 7: A twenty six.
Speaker 3: Uh you, obviously I don't want you to have to
wreck on anything if you wouldn't have lied. You know
that that's fine. But now as you say this, you
do know exactly that you are the proxy to her.
It is not the other way around, and you kind
of maybe have an idea of exactly how this is
supposed to work. So a refresher for those who don't
remember is oooh, I'm trying to think of Well, I
actually think you would know because you're from the chantry, right,
you would know all about this. I think. So you
would be used as either a backup battery for potentially
her or potentially someone made you in order to get
to her, like if they hurt you in some sort
of ritual, they could get to her. She could also
potentially kill you and harvest you for magical resources if
she needed to. Again, she also doesn't have to kill you.
She can just pull from you as that backup battery
and then when you both rest, you know it would
be fine. There are many reasons why someone might make
a proxy, but usually you have to go through a
lot of effort in order to do this, and for
her to not be aware that you exist has some
pretty serious implications. It's probably not intended for a backup battery.
Speaker 12: Then.
Speaker 3: If that's the case, and I think you know all
of this in an instant when you look at her.
Speaker 7: Oh, I believe I look into her eyes, and this
is the first time that I do this. I'm always
averting my gaze or looking somewhere else at her, but
never directly.
Speaker 9: At her.
Speaker 7: And once I do that, all of that information comes
rushing through. My posture changes a little bit, slouches as
I look like I'm I can't even hide it. I
am processing everything. I'm thinking about my life, what I
think was my life before the New Year's Eve party,
thinking what I thought I knew now it's all irrelevant.
And then I think about Visionary Dead I the one
that sings.
Speaker 3: Pull three.
Speaker 7: Yes, I remember the one that sings. He likes to
sing weird deep cuts. Anyways, Ah, I think to myself,
are they proxies as well? They must be, That's why
oh oh, that's why we've been getting special treatment this
whole time. I look at her. I am in a proxy.
I am the backup, I am the voodoo doll. I'm special.
Speaker 6: What kind of emotion would I see on your face
as you say this?
Speaker 7: Finished with a smirk.
Speaker 6: I think being a proxy means, yes, you are inherently special.
But I want you to know this is not something
I asked for. Your existence is as much of a
surprise to me as it seems to be to you.
Speaker 7: Yes, doubly so. I stared at her. It's a wonder
in my eyes. Who wants to hurt you?
Speaker 6: The look of pain goes across my face and then
I it goes, It vanishes.
Speaker 7: What was that hold that What was that look of
pain that vanished? Bring it back, pulled onto that truth
could be in that.
Speaker 3: You like, that's a great place to switch scenes. Holy shit, sorry,
Drand Okay, So in the on the Street we had
Esteban and Constantine walking down the street. I believe you
have just caught the gaze of Gunner, who is also
walking toward you. But nobody knows where Stalker is except
for maybe Gunner just knows that he's up on the
rooftop somewhere.
Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, I think Constantina just shot me a dirty look.
Speaker 9: Left.
Speaker 3: Oh that's right, that's right, that's right. Okay, it's a
great place to start. Oh that's right. You guys just
left the bar.
Speaker 13: Oh that's going to be a problem. I'm trying to
remember exactly why I shot you a dirty look.
Speaker 8: Either, because it's being nice at the end to the
person who was who you perceive as being a huge
bitch to you and they were no fun and they
ignored you at some point.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, petty little bitch. Okay.
Speaker 3: He also told her everything.
Speaker 13: Yeah, okay, all right, I show you a look and
then I don't I don't say anything.
Speaker 8: Oh, I don't know what that was for. I believe
this was a very a very good start here. I
think we have learned quite a bit and we have
a lot to do. I know we have. She can
clearly help us. We just have to find something she wants.
Speaker 12: That is all.
Speaker 13: You want to work with her again.
Speaker 8: I don't see we have any other option unless we
find the other dead lives in the city. I have
to imagine your borrow. We said I'm nicer than this one.
Now you know.
Speaker 13: I I think she can help us.
Speaker 8: Truly, they do not feel how I felt when we
walked inside this place. I could not. I lost every
bit of my free will, and that is not something
I will ever hand over to anyone freely.
Speaker 13: She took it from you, she did, and she'll deal
with her again, I will.
Speaker 8: Hmm. You know it is only fair in a business, right.
If somebody takes something from you, you have a right
to take something from them. So perhaps down the road,
when we are done with her, can take whatever the
fuck we feel like. But she is very strong, this
brewe Harf of Bourbon Street. So we uh just have
to be smart, all right. But we know there is
I've never felt this magic before. There is very powerful
things going on here. Perhaps they are more like her.
Perhaps she is the only one. We should find this
other kindred in the city. Maybe there'll be a lot
more her speed, but I would hope so, and then
maybe we help them. She doesn't seem to know they exist.
Speaker 13: I hope she is wrong. Oh that they do.
Speaker 8: Ole sair walking across the street towards us. He's very
hard to miss. We we have to get him the
fuck away from this place. I whisper we we have
to leave right now.
Speaker 13: If you whisper that to me, then I will rush
forward and hook my arm around Gunner's arm and sort
of spin you around and try to walk you down
the street in a different direction.
Speaker 8: Hello shots, I followed the quickly too. I'm keeping up
like we're like, we're already have an idea like we're
going somewhere, which we don't.
Speaker 14: Think I would. Yeah, I came there to try to
retrieve you guys, So now I'm walking with you arm
an arm.
Speaker 8: Hell, we are very glad to see you, Ghannah. Very
there is a very powerful witch in this bar, and
we need to get away from here very quickly.
Speaker 14: Am I seeing this web? I forgot if I asked
this already? But am I seeing physical web?
Speaker 3: So you know that it's there, You know that it's magical.
You know that other people can't see it, and if
you stop focusing on it, it goes away. But if
you choose to see it, you can. You rolled, if
I remember correctly, you rolled really really well to see
this web, so as the.
Speaker 7: Bark guys a so that it was pulling me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, both of you can kind of if you think
about it, you might see the glint in the in
the space, but you know, it's like a like an
actual spider's web, so really you can only see it
if you're in the appropriate spot with the light and stuff.
But every once in a while you can see the
shimmer along the line.
Speaker 15: So as I walk with Constantine, what do you do?
I think you are doing by yourselves after the night
we've had. There's things that are interested in Usia, and
you'll never know when you find yourself in there. Rich,
come on, let's walk, let's get out of here.
Speaker 13: If you look at me, I am pouting, but not
like a like pretending a pretend pout, like an actual
like petty little pout.
Speaker 8: That's that's a very distinct difference those two noises. And
I'm not even being sarcastic that I appreciate that, you know, No,
it's really good. It needs to be called out. That's awesome.
Hm hmmm mmmm, I got it.
Speaker 7: I think I.
Speaker 14: Would if I'm locked arms with Constantine and one, I
would like find Esteban's arm and kind of just h
I rolled my hand down his arm till I like
am grasping his hand or wrist and kind of like
pull him along with us.
Speaker 7: I'm like both pulling you guys.
Speaker 8: You know, don't have to tell me twice. Let us
get out of here.
Speaker 7: Then I stop, Wait, what is it.
Speaker 9: Stuck?
Speaker 5: Are you still there? What did the spider get you?
Speaker 9: Two?
Speaker 13: That's fun? Should I still love us? What do you say?
What's going on?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 8: He's probably around this right now.
Speaker 7: And I'm like.
Speaker 3: The energy I want when we come back after missing.
Speaker 10: A week.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 8: You know, he could be anywhere here.
Speaker 13: I start like, I start like cringing closer and closer
against Gunner, like looking at the empty space around me.
Speaker 8: Yes, it's all fairly spook. He could be anywhere.
Speaker 12: An.
Speaker 3: I love this idea that you guys will be talking
to the air. And then Stalker's like, I'm over here.
I'm like, no, I'm over here. Just continues a conversation.
Speaker 13: Okay, a clap of lightning randomly, there's no storm, clap
of lightning. He's standing right behind us. I got you donuts?
Speaker 14: Yes, sorry, doesn't respond immediately. Would I be able to
tell where he is?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Because of that role on the web, So you if
I just checked my notes, So not only can you
see the web when you concentrate, but you can also
know the general direction of where he is located.
Speaker 9: And I am on the roof. I think I'm on
the building, possibly the bar itself or the building next
to it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you were the building next to it.
If you want to be on the bar, that's cool,
but we'll just roll. But yes, I don't.
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, I just was trying to remember. I wouldn't
respond right away. Well, I'm busy while this is happening.
Speaker 16: So I've stopped and I ask if you're still there,
and then I'm scanning the rooftops were I decide what
building you're on top of. And I released my grip
from both Constantine and Nestemon, and I walk towards the
wall and I started to climb.
Speaker 10: Uh, oh, what wish walk?
Speaker 14: Are we still in front of the building that sorry
stalkers on or.
Speaker 2: Did we assume you walked forward a little bit? Just
a little bit.
Speaker 3: I don't imagine that you would go far before you
remember to call on him. But I'm trying to tell yeh,
go ahead.
Speaker 14: If we walked like down the block, then I would
have looked back up to the room.
Speaker 3: I think you would see him if you had walked
that far, because what we determined last time was that
you were on one side of the street and then
he was on the other side watching you. But he
wouldn't be able to see you if you were like
in range of the bar. So if you've left that
kind of like bar, you can look up and see
where he is. And if you want to climb up
the wall to the roof, you can. I just need
to know if you're climbing up the bars, hex and hound,
if you're climbing up that wall, I would.
Speaker 7: Assume we walked away from in front of the bar.
Speaker 5: So, yeah, they tried to guide you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I was trying to push them.
Speaker 14: Get him down the block a little bit, so or
maybe like a building or two.
Speaker 3: Down on the block that you don't have to roll
for it. Then you can just spider climb your way up, just.
Speaker 7: Like effortlessly up the b and get to the roof.
Speaker 3: What does he see?
Speaker 9: Well, I have to ask you something, Sure, do you
think it would make sense that I might have a
piece of chalk or something that I would use to
draw my client symbol.
Speaker 3: I think that's entirely up to you on whether or
not you would have chalk. I don't think that.
Speaker 9: I think.
Speaker 3: I asked last time if you used chalk, and you
said you used blood. Do I care if you have
chalk for other reasons? No, if you think that your
character would have chalk, I'm down to do that, But
I don't know if you do your symbol in chalk.
Speaker 12: Do you.
Speaker 9: I might and then use the blonde for part of
the central part of it.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can have some chalk if you want. If
it's part of your standard kit, then yeah. I don't
see why not.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: So I'm I'm kneeling down and I'm I've just finished
drawing the symbol of my of my faction, and I'm
speaking to this preacher. Oh okay, I I say, little one,
are you in pain?
Speaker 3: Cannot remember if it was one? It's one for no
right and two free us. Yeah, okay, so then it's
just one hop.
Speaker 5: Do you.
Speaker 9: Do you wish me to pass judgment on the one
who did this to you?
Speaker 3: I think you see this homunculous hand creature kind of
like turn. It's got an embedded owl ie or what
we assume is like an owl ee. It moves around,
it's studying you, I think, and then it just goes
back to doing what it's what it was doing, which
is like looking around maybe the rooftop, kind of like
scurrying around, maybe like a like a dog trying to
find something. And I say, Gunner, you do see this?
You also will see the hand by the way, or
I keep calling it a hand, but it's really it's
like a bunch of body parts that have been put
and sewn together, and a lot of it is a hand.
You see way too many fingers, like seven or eight,
and a bunch of fleshy bits. And then this owl.
That owl, one singular eye is embedded into this hand
or the soft pocket perhaps of where your thumb and
your index finger meet. And then also some teeth have
been sewn into this creature in the form of a mouth.
But obviously it's not it's not really meant to speak.
Speaker 17: There's yeah, I say, do you wish me to give
them a gift of justice?
Speaker 3: The hand will kind of like jerk around. Its eye
is moving very quickly over you again, and it starts,
you know, kind of like scurrying around your body, and
then two hops or wait, one hop, no, then it
probably sees Gunner as it turns around to address you,
and we'll back up, and I'm like.
Speaker 14: In a sort of like creepy or like a creep
stalking defensive mode, like crouch down kind of like and
like I'm.
Speaker 7: Seeing like.
Speaker 14: Something unknown, something maybe maybe a threat.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 14: I react a lot about like is this a threat
or something like that, So I'm kind of like in
a defensive stance. And I will say that the way
I did kind of stop and climb that building, Estemond
and Constantine could probably infer that I was like cautious
or worried about what was going on.
Speaker 3: They would like to have I was just gonna say,
did you guys follow him?
Speaker 13: I don't know if I would have followed him up
the wall. I think I would just be watching him
go up the wall. I assume that he's going to
get Stalker because he was just talking about Stalker, So.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I guess can we can we watch him? I'm
assuming he went around the corner because he's not on
the front street or something like around the side of
the building.
Speaker 3: Or can you climb up the front see him?
Speaker 8: Can we see him climb up and then get him?
Can we see them on the roof.
Speaker 3: And you see him on the roof until you can
no longer see him anymore because he goes, gotcha, you
know your your view, But yeah, you do see him
go up onto the roof and then he goes somewhere
towards in the direction of the room.
Speaker 8: I think we should follow. Is there a problem?
Speaker 13: Maybe? All right, let's follow. I will take a step
forward and start to climb the wall.
Speaker 8: Their balconies we could jump to, or she's a flat wall.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, no, there are probably most definitely balconies you
can jump to, because it's I don't think Orleans Bourbon Street.
Speaker 8: There's a claw through the bricks type.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you'd rather do the jump up?
Speaker 8: Yeah, okay, it's a very important detail.
Speaker 9: Yep.
Speaker 3: I think it is the under underworld jump and hop right.
Speaker 8: He's called barcour and he said, definitely a Spanish invention
from many centuries ago. Okay, yeah, so we'll we'll like
I think we'll probably see him get up there, we'll
lose sight of him and go. You know, if he
thinks stalkers up there and something happened, we should probably go.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, we go.
Speaker 8: Yeah. So then we arrive a little after.
Speaker 14: It on the roof and like coming over the blind spot,
you would see me kind of crouch down, and I
turn back to you both and I just slowly like
raise a finger to my mouth, like to be quiet,
and then I turned back around to face Stalker.
Speaker 9: I think I would probably know he's there, since we're
connected right now.
Speaker 3: But I mean, I'm sure you hear him. I don't
think he was being super unless he was being super
quiet climbing up the thing. I think he was intent
on finding you, so I would imagine that he you
would be able to hear him as well. Also, the
little eyeball creature hand creature reacts to this thing behind
you and backs up, so I imagine you know something's
there for sure.
Speaker 9: I just didn't want to our game being super cool,
but I'm I don't look back, and I say, Donner,
this creature has been enchanted to protect whatever created it.
Speaker 5: What in the world are you saying? Stalker is.
Speaker 9: Abomination was created by someone in the in the building
below us.
Speaker 3: You can see it like occasionally hopping behind him Gunner.
First time he helps, one, second time he ops twice
in quick succession. After he says, stuff.
Speaker 9: It has some will of its own butt it cannot
betray I believe, I I get lower. What is it.
Speaker 5: Or doesn't work with us?
Speaker 9: I'm not entirely sure. It struggles to communicate.
Speaker 3: I think it bends its body, and the teeth that
are sown in as some sort of fucking joke will
kind of bend as it frowns.
Speaker 13: Do we come up now? Is this like around the
time that we arrived?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 13: I think so. We wouldn't have waited too long after.
Oh my god, what is that?
Speaker 8: What is this little monstrosity here?
Speaker 17: Okay?
Speaker 3: I think that it it like kind of initially backs up,
but at the sound of curiosity and being pleased if
I read that correctly and as the mons voice, yeah,
it will.
Speaker 8: It's just curious. This is weird.
Speaker 18: What's this?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it will kind of maybe scurry a little
bit towards you, uh, and then pause, and.
Speaker 8: I think I kind of lean I'm leaning forward, like
I'm not crouching yet, but I'm leaning forward, like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's doing that thing where if you lean a
little bit, it's frozen and waits, and then if you stop,
it'll go forward.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then you guys are doing that a little bit,
and so you can absolutely get a little closer if
you want.
Speaker 7: I mean, sounds.
Speaker 3: Just the just the weird popping sound of the yeah, yeah,
like that.
Speaker 14: It sounds like that, like it's appears like something that
is there.
Speaker 3: It's not like, oh yeah, it's not ethereal or ghostly
or anything like that. It's it's actually a bunch of
body parts that have been put together into a creature
and then enchanted or a spell was put on it
to make it move around something like that. I think
you can absolutely tell this is a magical creature. But
it is very much here, like someone else could see
it if they walked by.
Speaker 9: Where did you find our companions?
Speaker 8: We have just come outside of the bar, which we
advise do not go into this bar. It is a
very dangerous place. We're lucky to get out of there.
Speaker 5: Wait there, you told me to come in the bar.
Speaker 8: When did we tell you this? Said this? Yeah, we
said we need to get away. Don't you remember a
few minutes ago.
Speaker 5: I heard your voice.
Speaker 13: Well, it was a fiction, and that is concerning.
Speaker 8: I do not know if you can see this, but
above us there is the web of a spider that
is leading us to this bar. Do you not feel
the pull to come towards this place as we did?
Speaker 5: And I'm staring at Ustemon like squinting and confused, and
then my gaze shifts to the hand.
Speaker 3: It's big owl eye that was fixated on Esteban will
slowly dip and roll over to you.
Speaker 18: Oh no, oh no, that's a disconcerting.
Speaker 8: Lad.
Speaker 13: Here it comes.
Speaker 5: I want to leap out and grab it.
Speaker 14: I wanted I wanted to do the lighthouse killing the
seagull bit for a second, just swinging it around.
Speaker 7: But no, I want to I want to grab it.
Speaker 14: I want to jump from my pouncing position and like
jump on top of it.
Speaker 3: And you absolutely can do that. It is not fast
enough for you, so you can grab it, for sure, but.
Speaker 8: It will you see now you see now don't monster?
Speaker 7: Do you keep? And I'm like holding it in front of.
Speaker 3: It's got it's got the five five five in like
blue pen and whatever whatever. Yeah, it's got the phone
number that.
Speaker 8: Oh fucking that yuh Constantine wrote.
Speaker 9: Down a written on him.
Speaker 3: Oh I'm sorry the phone number changed to be the name. Correct, Yeah,
it changed in real time. So the name that is
on the hand is Miriam Pale.
Speaker 8: But he saw the number first to know it was Kyle. Right.
Is it changed?
Speaker 19: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Right, yes, yes, yes, okay, yeah, yeah, but you you
only see the Miriam gotcha.
Speaker 9: This preacher was made like this against its will. I
believe it to be human or.
Speaker 13: It was, well, I rather hope so.
Speaker 8: Terrible faith to have to be turned into this mass el.
Speaker 9: Tempting to communicate with it, but it is difficult.
Speaker 14: And I'm still like, is it putting up a fight
or is it? Can I just grab it freely and
hold it in front of my face.
Speaker 3: It definitely squirms when you, you know, kind of snatch
it and grab it. If you're not putting pressure on
it and hurting it, then yeah, it may eventually settle down,
but it is I is darting around very quickly.
Speaker 7: It is. I'm not trying to hurt it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's still very much afraid of you. It's
eyes darting around quickly. It's hard for me to kind
of describe what a weird mesh of body parts is
acting like, but I think it is acting a lot
like you know, maybe a small dog or a small
count or squirrel even you know, it's just kind of
got that like, you know, moving around. But you when
you look at it, you can get a now that
it's much closer to you, you can get a really
clear look at the stitches and everything like that that
have put it together. It looks like more than one
person's body was used for this.
Speaker 5: Go bring it closer to my face or looking directly
in its eye?
Speaker 9: What are you.
Speaker 12: So?
Speaker 3: It won't do anything other than the I darting around.
I think maybe it squirms to try to like move,
but other than that, it just is looking at you,
big wide owl.
Speaker 9: I it cannot speak.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, as you look at it, the teeth that
are sewn into it, I think it's pretty clear that
it's you know, it was never really meant to be
able to speak. It's just the teeth are there in
some sort of weird.
Speaker 5: Uh joke.
Speaker 9: I guess.
Speaker 14: I turned a stalker and I'm like a pretty fired
up expression in my face.
Speaker 7: It doesn't speak, but.
Speaker 20: It answers your questions, yes or no questions, though I
think it gets confused and perhaps he is enchanted.
Speaker 9: Two protect whatever created it, it's naster.
Speaker 3: It's squirming around in your hand a little bit.
Speaker 7: We will take it.
Speaker 6: You're muted.
Speaker 8: Okay, Now I see the different body parts this is
made of, and I remember some of the talk and
some of the actions and the staring at the eyes
from inside the bar, and I said, no, no, no. If
this belongs to who I think it belongs to, we
do not want her to be around us in any form,
certainly not a servant of hers. If this belongs to
the witch inside this.
Speaker 21: Bar, worming around it's master using the bar below, we
do not want this she is she looks for body parts?
Speaker 8: Does it seem to squirm whenever we mentioned the bar
and her. You can roll for me if you'd like, okay,
and no, I just it's not obvious. I'm not really
looking at if we say okay, I think it's obvious.
Speaker 3: But I also don't like. There's only certain ways I
can answer this, I think, without spoiling it for everyone.
Just roll your D one hundred or your mental set
or whatever you'd like or magic.
Speaker 8: All right, what is what is difficulty.
Speaker 3: Fifty?
Speaker 8: That is an eighty?
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm dming you something, okay, and then you can
rp it out.
Speaker 9: Okay.
Speaker 3: So it's still squirming a little bit a.
Speaker 15: Lot, tighten my grip on it if it's trying to
squirm a lot.
Speaker 8: I don't know how this works, but if somebody can
do this to a human and make them into this
adorable little monstrosity. There is more it can do, and
we do not want to give any hint of what
we are doing to its master.
Speaker 3: Start squirming again.
Speaker 8: I think when I when I say master and it squirms,
I think. I walk closer to in his hand, and
I look at it, and I go ophidia, just to see.
Speaker 3: Yeah, can you roll me? Not from your sheet, just
roll a D one hundred.
Speaker 7: For Meka.
Speaker 8: Forty one.
Speaker 3: Uh it's I widens a little bit. I it's the
only way I can describe that, actually, because it doesn't
have a fucking eyelid, so the pupil will dilate.
Speaker 8: Oh, well, he knows the name, but it seems he is.
Speaker 5: This is your master.
Speaker 3: Oh video, it's squirming very much, so now shouldn't.
Speaker 13: But I'm just feeling that this is all a very
bad idea. I think we should leave this wretch.
Speaker 3: Little tooth mouth frowns again as it bends its hand.
Speaker 8: What is written on it?
Speaker 9: Instead of word, you choose your name? Oh, marry a mile.
Speaker 7: I do not know it.
Speaker 9: Is it the name of someone you met in the bar?
Speaker 12: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I only were told the name was Sophidia. Perhaps this
is If this is someone's name, this could be very
valuable to know, apparently from what we learned inside, asking
for somebody's name a task that deserves an extremely high
price in return to find out somebody's name.
Speaker 13: I don't imagine someone would be easily writing down their
own name onto a creature such as this easily to find.
Speaker 9: Was not written it changed into that name rich know
on it twas some numbers.
Speaker 13: Const I have any meaning?
Speaker 3: Yes, and roll for me. Are you looking at it now?
I've just been assuming that you're kind of like disinterested
in this thing, if you're looking at it now when you're.
Speaker 13: I'm not disinterested, but I'm disgusted by it, so oh yeah,
I would be looking at it with disgust and like
a bit of horror.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, go ahead and roll for me.
Speaker 13: You are just my stat mental okay, yep?
Speaker 3: Or your charisma, which is your your soul, which is
your magic stat either one, it's your choice.
Speaker 13: I think I'll go for mental and difficulty thirty Uh.
Speaker 3: No, fifty, Okay, we'll do fifty.
Speaker 13: To fifty fifty eight failure.
Speaker 3: That's your handwriting.
Speaker 13: I stepped forward and peer closer to look at it.
It's my handwriting, but it's says Mary and Hale.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mariam Hale, Yeah, Mariam Hale, Yeah, it it is.
Speaker 2: So again, I don't think that, you know, failures mean
that you don't succeed.
Speaker 3: At the thing. So I'm gonna go ahead and take
the failure to you know, and bank that kind of
and have it affect it in a different way. I
just don't think there's any way that you would look
at this and go holy shit, you know, like that's
your handwriting. You know what your handwriting looks like. But
also I think you might recognize the pen, right, because
this is what you You wrote on Kyle's hand a
number or did he write yeah, this is actually really important?
Did you write it on his hand I think you did, right,
because you kidsk you did. Yeah, I think you did
as well.
Speaker 13: I'm trying to remember because I I want to say
that he came out and tried to give me his number, yes,
and he gave him a yeah and yeah, okay, so
then I gave him the fake.
Speaker 3: One okay, yep. So then it's in whatever color you
remember writing on his hand yours.
Speaker 13: I'm going to be completely honest. I don't think I
put these two things together.
Speaker 3: Awesome. I think that's familiar then.
Speaker 13: Yep, yeah, I think I'm just This is sad to say,
but I don't think Constantinus thought about Kyle at all,
and that interaction whatsoever since that happened.
Speaker 3: So it makes total sense.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So all you see then is your own handwriting, or
what looks like your own handwriting.
Speaker 7: He had a girlfriend.
Speaker 13: Huh, that looks like my writing.
Speaker 8: I think if this is a tool of the witch
inside this bar, we should not bring it with us.
Speaker 9: No, can we feed?
Speaker 8: It will be here if we come back again.
Speaker 5: The girl kind of raise it up now so everyone
can see it is bits and pieces of something at
once was.
Speaker 7: Just like us.
Speaker 5: I am to keep it. I will ask Cora from.
Speaker 3: Permission, perfect opportunity to switch them.
Speaker 2: Back inside the liminal space which is holding Cora and Moog.
Speaker 7: That pain right there. You are so eager to dismiss
what is that?
Speaker 6: It's not that I'm trying to dismiss it. It's that
I don't want to focus on it. But why At
a certain point you get tired of being in pain.
It's better to just distract yourself from it, not focus
on it all the time.
Speaker 7: Would it not be better just mend yourself?
Speaker 6: You say that like it's easy, could.
Speaker 7: Be keep on poo pooing it away? Never will.
Speaker 6: You say? Who wants to hurt me? I have a
question for you. Sure, who made you?
Speaker 7: That's a big question, nar raita M. I do not
know who created me?
Speaker 3: Is I don't know how to answer that, okay, because
I check your notes. I don't hear any of this, right,
I actually don't know if you were present? Actually, hold on,
I can't answer this. Were you? Were you present when
the people who were there for the reveal of of
the drinking of dead eyes blood? I don't think you
were there for that, right?
Speaker 8: Uh? No, he blasted with fire? Okay, I'm just we know, yes,
that's who did it? Or we just know you.
Speaker 3: Would have to you would have to check notes because
some of you rolled well and did learn.
Speaker 8: Okay, Yeah, I remember we heard the name.
Speaker 3: Yeah, some of you had memory of that person being
the I.
Speaker 7: Know for sure, and I did not. I remember that
I had bits and flashes.
Speaker 3: Then you that's all you.
Speaker 7: Can ghosting your song somewhere and be useful. I don't
I don't know who created me However, I can tell
you that mouths and dark hair was involved. But then again,
that's most days for me.
Speaker 3: Teh.
Speaker 6: Right, So you don't know who made you? Nope, you
just woke up one day and this was your life.
Speaker 7: Well it's a bit more complicated than that happened. Sure,
it's quite the life. Why would I question it? Everything
seemed pretty solid up until five minutes ago, about five
seconds ago. I don't quite know how time works in
this realm of shadows in which you've got us.
Speaker 14: M.
Speaker 6: And that's the difference between you and me, because the
day I was sired was the start of my curse.
Speaker 7: Ah.
Speaker 6: Do you really mean to say that you enjoy this life?
Speaker 7: Oh? I love it? M. What's not to love.
Speaker 6: Most things in my experience?
Speaker 7: Yeah, you don't enjoy walking the earth eternally limited by
the occasion old rule or two.
Speaker 6: When it compares the bounty that I lost in life? No,
and that was that.
Speaker 7: I want to know about that? Please? Can you tell
me about that?
Speaker 9: Please?
Speaker 7: Gora?
Speaker 6: In short, my future, everything that I had that was
leading somewhere was taken from me. Huh?
Speaker 7: And where was your life leading you? If not for this?
Speaker 6: She like, all right, I look away. You can tell
I'm getting intense and a lot of emotion is happening
in my expression, and I kind of resenter myself and
say enough about me. So you're telling me you were
created by someone you don't know as my proxy, and
you're just happy for it. What do you want out
of life?
Speaker 7: Well, I've been getting it up until you wouldn't tell
me anymore about yourself?
Speaker 6: And what's that.
Speaker 7: It is? Ooh? How would I put this? Freedom? It
is family in a sense, it is life after life.
Speaker 6: M funny, I don't see that way at all.
Speaker 7: But what was it about your life that was so
sweet that it just will not allow you to enjoy
this gift?
Speaker 6: Her expression gets a little sharp, My expression gets a
little sharp. Freedom. Family, Yes, belonging you.
Speaker 7: Don't have that now, a sense of belonging. You have
an indefinite future. Now do you know?
Speaker 6: Why would I want a future where I'm relegated to
wander it alone with the memory of everything I actually wanted.
Speaker 7: Well, that's a bit of a choice, isn't it.
Speaker 6: No, it wasn't a choice.
Speaker 7: No, not to be, but to continue being, to create
new connections.
Speaker 6: Easier said than done for some, I suppose.
Speaker 8: Perhaps hold on.
Speaker 7: You say you don't have family or connections, but I
looking through that flame, there is another with you in
that room. And what's that if not another connection in
the making? Or are you dismissing that connection as easily
as your sadness?
Speaker 6: No pain, I've found it's more worth my time to
focus on my goal now the past. No, my goal
is to settle my past with my future and to
track down the person who did this to me.
Speaker 7: And who did this to you.
Speaker 6: You can tell I hesitate, don't hesitate.
Speaker 7: I am you.
Speaker 12: Can I eat him?
Speaker 8: Can I can?
Speaker 7: I hear hear that? If I'm in this space?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 3: Okay, I mean you can roll for it.
Speaker 7: I would love to roll. I will always a chance.
Speaker 3: There's always a chance. Yes, difficulty okay, mm hmmm.
Speaker 7: In VTM, I don't move, does not have a sheet.
In other world, I think it's a roll.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just roll, yep, just roll fifteen. Then you do
hear it. I hear it. You absolutely fucking hear it.
It comes from around you and above you, inside you,
But you hear it. Say can I eat him now?
Speaker 8: Or yet?
Speaker 3: Or whatever it was that he just said.
Speaker 7: I am shaken. And then I look at Cora. You
didn't tell me we weren't alone.
Speaker 6: I look surprised, a little shocked that for the first time,
after all this time, someone hurt.
Speaker 9: Him, oops with oopsies.
Speaker 6: Cheeky. Well, yes, I'm not alone because I found something
that can help me, potentially give me an edge where
I had my other eyes fail.
Speaker 7: Sure, I can respect that and understand it to a degree.
Speaker 12: And thought that yes, was for me eating him.
Speaker 7: Unfortunately, I can assure you, strange voice all around me,
circling and underneath me, that I am, despite my appearances,
not that delicious. I doubt that I'm a bit charcoally tasting.
I would imagine, maybe smoky, but not in the right ways.
Speaker 6: Yes, but one could argue that was what you were
made for, for being eaten.
Speaker 7: Yes, the same could be said for you.
Speaker 6: Yes, well you are my proxy. Yes, why shouldn't my
friend eat you?
Speaker 7: You wouldn't they?
Speaker 6: Yes, but I'm not alone and you are.
Speaker 7: I look around, look at the darkness. I look at
my pocket. It's the lighter in there that visionary gave me.
Speaker 3: So Yes, but also you, I'm going to say the
same thing that I said to Kora, Like, when you
look around, you can see where you were or where
you are currently your your body, and I think that
you were reaching in your pocket at that time as well.
Speaker 7: Correct, I had the fire already going oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, then that's what then, and that's what you
can you know, that's what you know is happening over there.
Whether you can see it or not. It's very very
faint in this darkness. But so you can pull a
lighter out. But the only reason it would be in
your hand in this liminal space is because you know
what it feels like. Okay, you know it's not an
actual You're in a liminal space. This is all in
your mind.
Speaker 7: Can I still control my body? Or is it stuck?
Speaker 3: Do you like to try?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 3: I would love to try. Go for it?
Speaker 9: Awesome?
Speaker 7: Uh another one hundred and eighty Nope.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going to say, I think you how do
you go about trying to control your body? Actually, this
is a really interesting question. Do you move like your
own leg or is it like you're looking at yourself
and going fucking move.
Speaker 7: I'm I'm trying. It's not really controlling my own body.
I think I misspoke. What I'm trying to do is
I'm trying to get the flame that's already burning in
my hand, my body's hand, to etch something into the wall. Yeah,
you can do that. Okay, that's too cool. Okay it
is going on the word proxy with a heart next
to it.
Speaker 8: Oh holy sh.
Speaker 7: Now, now we get a little frazzled. Mm hm the
coorra My my sister, my friend, my new connection. We've
made so much progress, don't you think. And there's other
meth there's other uses for a proxy, and not just
to kick about, not just for harm. Yes, you could
take me this gift and use it as an additional
aid to you all seeing, all powerful, all terrifying friend.
Maybe give them a bit of a break once in
a while.
Speaker 6: Are you offering to help me?
Speaker 7: If you tell me a bit more, you know what? Yes,
I am offering to aid, because, after all, I am you,
and why would you not help yourself?
Speaker 6: My issue is not with you. I admit that keeping
you close would probably serve me well in the end,
because then I could keep an eye on you and
make sure nothing happens to you that I'm not aware of.
Speaker 12: We're also might come for him.
Speaker 7: They also might come for me, just like this, said Wiggle.
I could, Yes, I do enjoy dancing see wall in
a court. Then move does not get eaten and aids
you on your quest for revenge or something very murky
on the details. Vengeance, yes, vengeance, all right, vengeance?
Speaker 9: It is.
Speaker 6: Then you and I may be connected, but as we've
found in this conversation, there are differences.
Speaker 9: Sure.
Speaker 6: I just want to make something very clear aside from
our connection, I don't care what you do as long
as you don't get in my way.
Speaker 7: I would never.
Speaker 6: Narrator. Do I feel like he's telling the truth?
Speaker 3: Oh, that is such a good question. Let's do what
we I think we're going to do contested roles, and
then he just he's gonna answer that way he can
hide if he is actually lying or not. So we'll
just do flat D one hundred. Since he doesn't have
a sheet yet in the PBu fie oh eighty five,
you may answer her.
Speaker 7: You don't get the sense that he's lying at home?
M I wish you rolled a bit better than that, though,
because I'm standing on something that I want to say,
but I won't. I can't, shouldn't.
Speaker 6: I think I just accept it for what it is.
I think I look around again, and I'd taken the
situation where in the liminal space we're in, and then
look at him and shrug and say, well, I didn't
do this, so I'm not quite sure how to get
out of it.
Speaker 7: Oh, I've not done this either. It would be a
lot less uniform if it was me doing it.
Speaker 6: Mm hmm.
Speaker 7: I don't even think I could do this if I
wanted to, I built it.
Speaker 8: Doubt what it would be?
Speaker 7: Less uniform? Oh no, it would be it would it
would It would be a bed and it would be Oh,
my friend, I don't think I want to say exactly
what it would be, but it would be marveless, an attractive, seductive,
fun and wiggling.
Speaker 12: Are we taking with us?
Speaker 6: I suppose we are. How interesting will that be? You'll
find out? You see, like you trying to get out
of this hallway, I'm also trying to get out of
something except as much bigger.
Speaker 7: I doubt it. This is a cool, very long hallway.
Speaker 6: I'll take your word for it. I've only seen this room.
Speaker 3: I think both of you now get the sensation that
while Cora knows that this is Ishna, I don't know
about you, Moog, but you will both get the sensation
that this presence is looking for somewhere on your body
that you may easily hide something. Right now, there is
a tingling sensation on the bottom of your tongue, all
the way in the back. But it's kind of like
he's waiting for confirmation from both of you for something.
Speaker 6: Is a tingling sensation on the same location for both
of us?
Speaker 3: Ah, it is. But I don't know if you two
know that about each other. But yeah, he's poking around
for something, and you get the sense that he is
looking for, like, can you hide this spot? If I
choose this spot, can you hide it? But for what
you don't know?
Speaker 6: Okay, under the tongue works then for that mm hmm.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I do speak quite a bit, but I suppose.
Speaker 3: It's your tongue immediately starts to burn. There is a
magical brand that is forming on the very back bottom
of your tongue. All right, we'll have this happen and
after a moment it fades and the pain is gone.
Speaker 12: All right, don't let anyone see it. Worry each other
without too much trouble, now.
Speaker 7: What Oh, this is fine.
Speaker 12: You may look at each other without too much trouble.
Speaker 6: Now, I say, don't.
Speaker 12: Let anyone see it, and don't let anyone take it off.
Speaker 6: All right, boss, I trust that you follow directions me.
Speaker 7: Yes to a fault, perhaps too well. Some might say.
Speaker 3: You are both out of the limital space. You are
back in the hallway.
Speaker 7: Not enough.
Speaker 22: Stop stop visionary, Stop your muted visionary. I cannot hear
you when you speak so softly. Yeah, I can't speak
to you when you like this.
Speaker 8: It's no I know.
Speaker 3: Yeah I meant to do that.
Speaker 8: No I did. I did, Okay, okay, yeah, but but
if he says I can't, I can't hear I just
because I'm trying not to make a goddamn sound.
Speaker 7: Man, No one.
Speaker 8: Everyone's been quiet for like ten fucking minutes. I don't
want to break the silence.
Speaker 7: Oh that was happening in real time then, I.
Speaker 8: Don't know what the fuck was happening. How long did
it take?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 9: This minute.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 7: It's so fucking all right, right, but they're going to
I take it's all right, it's.
Speaker 8: Fine, come back, man. I was going into full defensive
Ricky Schroeder's cat mode, where if I had my eyes closed,
they couldn't kill me. I don't know if that's how
it works. But I'm gonna use for everything.
Speaker 7: Now, that's not how that works. That's all you know.
You don't even know.
Speaker 8: You don't even have to just explain it to you.
Speaker 7: You know what, between the two of us, you're the
one who got usten to this hallways, it's a quantum
probably quanto?
Speaker 8: Yes, all right, Wait, what's happening?
Speaker 7: Come?
Speaker 8: How do we put this delicately? We're proxies, me and you.
We can't we're vampires. We can't be that religious. But
I don't know what is a proxy.
Speaker 3: You were you, I would know the chantry.
Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely, they would tell us stuff. Okay, so I
know that they make proxies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's Uh. There are lots of different
variations of proxy rituals. But yeah, you know this.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I will clarify. I mean, do I I know
what it is? But do I know that I am one?
Speaker 3: So as soon as he says it, yes, but I
need to clarify something. They did not teach you this.
But as soon as he says it and tells you that,
you know it to be the truth. If you try
to remember being taught about proxies in the country, No.
Speaker 8: No, no, no, you know what it is and we're back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know exactly.
Speaker 8: No, it can't be right now. We're not proxies. We're important.
Speaker 7: Look at me. We are and we're important because of
what proxies.
Speaker 8: No, I don't I know, you don't understand. I was
told by the lady that made us that was going
to be really important, and that's what I was letting
her do it. Okay, and we are and we are,
my friend, my brother, we are. I'm not somebody's backup playing.
That's not being important. It's being a fucking spare tire
in a trunk.
Speaker 7: That's so important and more important than you're giving it
credit for. Now, I need you go back and tell
the others before they turn the corner, where are you
going going on a little adventure.
Speaker 8: I'm going to wait a while. Why can't I go?
I don't want to go back down that fucking halloway.
Speaker 7: You need to go back down the hallway to tell
that I impulse rate exactly what I told you, because
it awakens something in us and we need all independence
from this cycle. We are not going to die as
someone's puppet. You understand me, I am, It's all right.
I will be okay, you will be okay. Pulse rate,
it's not okay. But I wouldn't have done this if
I know. It doesn't matter what you would have done.
Speaker 8: She told me I was gonna be like a big
deal and now is really important and all this you want.
Speaker 7: I like this.
Speaker 8: You can you can spin it any way you want.
Don't you understand what happens next?
Speaker 7: My friend?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I go back in the goddamn room.
Speaker 7: We are going to be the first proxies to become independent.
Speaker 8: Yeah, fine, go ahead, I'll go back there. I'll tell them, hey,
chin up, the worse fates.
Speaker 7: Besides, you haven't met your whatever double yourself.
Speaker 8: I don't want to meet the man. I'll fucking kill him.
Speaker 7: Oh, don't kill them.
Speaker 8: I'm the only one of me. I'm the only one
of me, that's right. I don't want another me.
Speaker 7: There isn't I've met mine.
Speaker 8: I'm screaming this in the hallway back, Okay, just to
make sure.
Speaker 7: Settle down. It'll be fine, It'll be okay.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna try something that's definitely not gonna work, but
I'm gonna try it because I'm emotional. I'm going to
step into the doorway and look at these people and
just try to I'm going to try to read their mind,
which I have never done before, but I know people
can do, so I'm trying to do.
Speaker 9: I'm just I'm.
Speaker 3: Okay, you're gonna step into the hallway. I believe they
were hiding if I am not mistaken, but I know
they're in there. You do know that they're in there.
So we're gonna go ahead, and have you rolled a
D one hundred in this space? You can do it
on the regular sheet here. And Cora, has anything changed
now that you know you're kind of like taking him
with you? Have you dropped the because it was you
that was kind of like hiding the two of you
in the darkness.
Speaker 7: Mm hmm.
Speaker 6: I think I would have dropped it.
Speaker 7: Yep, yep.
Speaker 3: Okay, So then yeah, he's gonna turn the corner and
look right at the both of you.
Speaker 8: All right, I'm just stepping in and I see them
you are Yep, you do, And I do the really
lame I just do this both.
Speaker 7: No, No, don't, don't.
Speaker 8: And then I nothing happens, no, And I just stand there,
my arms shake a little bit, and I say fine,
good luck, and I just start walking down the hallway. Hey, visionary,
but I don't turn around.
Speaker 7: Look at me?
Speaker 8: What look at me? I turn around, I smile.
Speaker 7: I do love you and the others.
Speaker 8: I love you too. Man. If I run into me,
if I run in if I run into that Adeline again,
I'll fucking kill her too. I don't know how, but
I'll learn how to do it. That's not what I
asked for, it's not what she promised me. Just don't die.
And I turn around and start walking away.
Speaker 7: I watch him walk down the hallway, sure of what
to do next, unsure of what to say for once,
and I mud under my breath. Thank you again, my
friend for coming for me. And I take that emotion
and I put it to a side and I spin
around and walk back into the room with Cora. All right,
then beat me up, Scottie, not to.
Speaker 3: Make your life more difficult. I is been reacting to
all of this.
Speaker 7: Um, who the fuck is this guy?
Speaker 8: Thank you for not tearing my arms off and let
it finish.
Speaker 3: I was slightly concerned when you did the like finger
gun motion. I was like, oh, but I think, uh yeah,
We'll just see what Cora tells him.
Speaker 8: I don't think it came off as very threatening when
he did it, like I'd like as an animal, is
this Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say though that as soon and as
soon as he says proxy, you know what that means?
Speaker 3: Uh? And when he turns the corner, you can you
know now what the smells that you were smelling?
Speaker 7: Holy shiteh Cora, what's going on?
Speaker 6: I think Cora takes or I take a long look
at Mooke, and I think, Moog, if you're in attention
to my face, I think hearing that emotional exchange of
affected me. Listening to two people who very much care
about each other part ways interesting. And and then I
would turn to Fen and say, I wish I knew more.
I think the simple answer is our journey just got
a little bit more interesting. Yeah, a little more complicated, a.
Speaker 7: Lot more vulnerable. We have proxies, We have an open target.
Speaker 9: On us.
Speaker 8: Mhm.
Speaker 7: At any point any one can go after them and
kill us with all of our power or strength or might.
There's a direct access.
Speaker 6: I nod and glance at Moog and say, he offered,
but that's why I want to take him with us.
Speaker 7: But what about the others finger guns over there? He's
vulnerable he's open.
Speaker 6: You don't know anything about their life. For all we know,
a person who made them is keeping them well protected.
They were made for a reason. When we don't know,
you're willing to take that risk with your life, Well,
I am bringing my proxy with me, so I guess
I'm risking it less. Do you think the reason we
found each other, the reason our group was brought together,
is because of this? Do you think there's a proxy
for each of us?
Speaker 7: I think so. Every step of the way has been
shrouded in mystery and has been really confusing and just
has this air of I don't know what importance or something.
So if you have one and chuckles over here has
a friend who is one, they remember when I asked
you how you could be in two places at once,
it's because I was smelling you on it him hm hmm, Right,
that means the other one smelled like Constantine. Really, yeah,
everyone smells or all wrong all the time. It's frustrating.
Speaker 6: Constantine questioned stalkers and my role in all of this. Honestly,
we just heard a rumor that eventually led us to
the crypt. But I'm starting to wonder if it was
all orchestrated if there was someone who brought us together
on purpose and this is just And I stopped talking
and look up at Moog and kind of look around
and say, did you hear them before he mentioned the chantry?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 6: Here who before in the hall way one of I
think the other one that smells like Constantine mentioned the.
Speaker 8: Chantry visionary, Yes about it.
Speaker 6: I'm just starting to question what exactly is going on here.
Speaker 3: I think she's talking to Ben, I think, but then
lowered her grace to be like they mentioned the chantry
is and their kindred yep, yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so, which makes me think.
Speaker 7: Ah, what, yes, what mind's your business? I will oh,
I love to do things with Jaws and it's not
like that. You want to see my trick? No, not really.
If he talks one more time, Cora, I swear to
fucking God.
Speaker 3: You do not hear that anymore. Mood, I figured, yeah.
Speaker 6: Tell me something fun. You mentioned before in the kitchen
that stalkers smelled like calm, and then you smelled other things.
Mm hmm, what does this place smell like.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna smell again to see if anything changed.
Speaker 3: Ye don't usually like rerolling for the same thing if
you've already failed for it.
Speaker 7: I don't remember if I failed or not either.
Speaker 3: I also don't remember why I'm allowing the reroll.
Speaker 7: But okay, so I'll do it and this one and
fend my sheet. That would be better than what would
you like? Need a roll?
Speaker 9: Here?
Speaker 3: Your body stat which is also your magic stat for
your spot.
Speaker 7: Oh in even though I'm in BTM.
Speaker 2: Yes or no? No, no, Fenn is rolling on his
PBu sheet.
Speaker 7: Okay, sorry, nope.
Speaker 9: You're good.
Speaker 5: Body?
Speaker 6: And what is the different now thirty?
Speaker 7: It's eighty four?
Speaker 3: Uh, it's it's twenty five.
Speaker 8: Scroll down?
Speaker 3: Oh jeez, where am I at least success?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Oh wow? Oh, I now remember you did pass because
I remember describing the same thing to you that you
were getting this or wait, maybe that was Kora, that
you were sensing all of the people that went into
making this room. You can suddenly smell that that it
probably took hundreds and hundreds of people. And this is
definitely I think you smell a supernatural liminal pocket space
or like pocket dimension, like a you know, kind of
house has been erected here. The chantry has done this,
and it has taken a lot of blood, a lot
of sacrifice, a lot of souls to keep this place open,
and they live in the walls.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 3: Some of them are aware of what's being said and
what's going on. Some of them are not long gone,
So you smell all of that. But then you also
do faintly smell home down that hallway. But you're also
acutely aware that it's possible to get stuck here forever
and never be able to leave. And then you smell
where you were recently on both you and Korra, but
nowhere else.
Speaker 7: I'm as I'm smelling, and as I'm learning all of
this information, staring at the walls, eyes darting from each wall,
I run my fingers against them gently, respectfully. This space
came at a great cost. I think all of this,
all these people sacrificed for this. This is really kind
of sad, don't you think.
Speaker 3: You look at Cora, and that is where we're gonna switch.
I'm so sorry to interrupt you, Cora. We're gonna switch
to the other group. Was a good spot back on
the roof of B in Bourbon Street.
Speaker 13: No, Gunner, we cannot keep this creature. The woman it
belongs to is dangerous.
Speaker 3: The fingers will kind of like wrap around your handgunner
as best they can.
Speaker 13: She will hunt it down or use it to listen
in something.
Speaker 5: I'm still kind of holding it in front of me.
You are right, it would.
Speaker 9: Be unlike me.
Speaker 5: Told another captain. However, it chose to come to us,
So I may give you that choice again. And I
loosened my grip.
Speaker 13: Should you go? Uh, it chose to come to us?
How do you know that? Can it choose anything? Can
it not be at the behest of the individual that
created it? I didn't choose to enter that bar moments ago.
Speaker 5: I'm not holding onto it anymore.
Speaker 3: It doesn't move from your hand, I think first it's
I moves towards esteban for a second, and then it
settles in on.
Speaker 8: Your hand, and I'm going to hold out my hand.
Speaker 3: Oh it'll absolutely leap over to your mind. Yeah, yep,
it will. But then it, you know, maybe scurries up
onto your shoulder and then sits there for a second.
Speaker 10: Shit.
Speaker 8: I don't want to keep this thing, but I want
to keep this thing. Well, we can see if we
can meet us here again later tomorrow night, if you like,
if we find something for it.
Speaker 9: I pull out a dagger and I walk towards it.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's gonna scurry back, like kind of crawling down
behind us. The bond's back hiding from me.
Speaker 8: Surely, sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 9: We should offer it the gift of and and to
its sick existence.
Speaker 19: No, if I can block your way, maybe.
Speaker 5: It wishes to be free.
Speaker 8: Yes, I have an idea. We I do not know
the magic that makes this or that commends this. Oh
I hear was under my jacket. Okay, hold on. As
I was saying, they're going to have to get out
of there. As I was saying, and as we were
going around the city, there was a person who told
me of a of a a merchant here who I
believe sells Oh that is a little too low, a
little too low, sales magical items. Perhaps they have some
knowledge there are something that could free this creature or
break a curse or something like this. We could always
go there and ask, you know, not specifically, but perhaps
it will be a way to help this person and
maybe they can answer more questions about what is happening
in this city and if if they know of any
powerful people who may have done this to us.
Speaker 13: All right, well, it sounds like you all have some
kind of a plan. I'm gonna want to take care
of it. When I say Latin, look at Stalker.
Speaker 9: I must give a warning to whoever created this.
Speaker 13: I can tell you right now it is unnecessary. What
sort of warning.
Speaker 9: They have broken. They've committed a lesser crime in the
eyes of my clan. They must be warned.
Speaker 13: We don't even know if your clan lives here, Stalker.
We don't know if any of us do.
Speaker 9: Look down at myself for a moment and then look back.
What I stand before you?
Speaker 13: Are you your whole clan.
Speaker 9: I am my clan.
Speaker 13: There's no one else in your clan. It's just you.
Speaker 9: No, there are others, of course.
Speaker 13: What I'm saying is that they are not here.
Speaker 9: We are known not but I am.
Speaker 13: There are no laws as far as we know.
Speaker 9: There is when I am here.
Speaker 8: Perhaps and the thing we are afraid of that she
will learn things. If this creature is around, how we
can test Perhaps you can speak through this creature to
this person. I again, it is going to be very
dangerous to anger this, this bruja that is in there.
Speaker 9: Yeh would you put it on the ground? It not
twice to say yes? All right?
Speaker 8: Hold on, all right, little friend, in your he's under
my ejack. Yeah, hold on, please would you do as
a favor of coming out. No one is going to
hurt if we just want to ask you a question
and it'll come out all right, Okay, on his there
he is on the ground. See this is your friend.
He has been asking you questions. I lost twice.
Speaker 9: I squat and say can you're master?
Speaker 3: Is squirming around again? Yeah, you say, can your master
hear us? I think it just is running over Estemond's foot,
back and forth, but.
Speaker 8: It does not Her name inside is ophilia. If this
does not excite him so much as the other word,
what do you mean?
Speaker 9: See?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I see every time. Look when you say it,
he goes crazy.
Speaker 9: Mm hm ah, Darence Ophelia, see through your eye?
Speaker 3: It helps twice or once once? For now?
Speaker 9: Did we change it now?
Speaker 3: Once?
Speaker 9: It helps? Once?
Speaker 3: It helps once?
Speaker 9: Mm hmm.
Speaker 12: Mhm.
Speaker 9: I am still unsure if it isn't enchanted to lie
to us on certain questions. I asked if it wanted
justice of one who did this, and they said no,
which seems hard.
Speaker 13: Perhaps it is pleased to be what it is.
Speaker 3: It doesn't really yeah, it doesn't really move to that,
but It doesn't move to anything you've said so far, can.
Speaker 9: Oh fid dear dear USh.
Speaker 3: I think it's oh through. It hops once, but it
does look to the you know, you guys are on
the roof not too far from the bar, so I
think it does look over there and it you know,
I don't know how to describe this weird homunculous hand
creature is like thinking, but you know, I think the
eye is looking fit word and look like it was parsing.
That's what it looks like, like the fucking loading screen.
It's like huh and then it hops, but it's clear
that it's it's not a confident hop. But when you
say through you, then it'll hop once.
Speaker 8: Oh, we should maybe get away from the bar like
we planned originally. Nice, uh huh.
Speaker 13: That's good enough for me and I kind of like
straightened myself up and look for a way to get
off the building.
Speaker 3: It climbed up on Esteban's It climbed immediately as you
guys are like we're going, It climbs up on Estebah's
foot like, oh, you.
Speaker 8: You have to stay here. We will come back and
see you can. How can you go farther away? Are
you allowed to it does not let go of your foot?
Speaker 3: I think it was okay, okay, yes or no, slatched
itself onto your foot.
Speaker 5: Please let us take it?
Speaker 8: Hm, I do not know what we can where will
we bring it? Do you want this person may perhaps
she can sense it wherever it goes. I can cannounce
them too.
Speaker 16: Well.
Speaker 8: I assume she's going to be at the bar. But
I if you want to take it, I clearly canna
stop you. But we know who does it, We know
who has an that. What is the what are we
going to get from bringing this along? Unless you just
want to be nice to it? Wish again, I'm gonna
stop it from doing this.
Speaker 3: It is no longer on your foot.
Speaker 8: Is also a feaker little thing.
Speaker 3: He has attached himself to Gunner's foot.
Speaker 5: Now, no, lower my hand down to it.
Speaker 3: Big al Alai is looking at you as you do that,
and grab my.
Speaker 7: Coat and open it.
Speaker 3: Like like you know, like come on in yeah oh
then yeah, yeah, then it absolutely will. Just I think
it takes a second. I moves back to Esteban and
basically for everyone for for just a second, and then
uh focuses back up on you and then climbs up
into your coat and hides.
Speaker 5: Maybe I do wish to be kind, I.
Speaker 9: Say, what's another ascent of eyes watching us?
Speaker 12: And I.
Speaker 9: Underworld walk off the roof and.
Speaker 14: And I.
Speaker 9: Ubfus skate halfway down. Yeah, yeah, go towards the edge
work towards uh the street level.
Speaker 8: I think I'm standing there with Constantine. I say, yeah,
perhaps we should have stayed at that second bar a
bit longer tonight.
Speaker 13: Yes, they were quite fun, but then we would have
missed a boy in his dark.
Speaker 8: Yes. Well, when the dogs master It comes looking for us,
we will have to be ready. We need to tell
them too that the other one inside there is also
very scary, and he has seen us fighting those creatures
by the graveyard.
Speaker 13: Yes, lots to catch up everyone on. I wonder if
I'm Corus had a boring evening.
Speaker 8: She must have been there with fans, so I can't imagine.
There is a lot of conversation going on.
Speaker 3: On one more switch.
Speaker 7: Because we have to.
Speaker 3: Back inside the never ending hallway.
Speaker 7: Don't you think, Cora, Yes, Cora, don't you think.
Speaker 6: I think we're getting more questions than answers. But I
do worry about what this means finding out. We have proxies.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know what, I'm tired of getting more questions
for our questions. I'm can't tell you. Look down the hallway,
the scent of home lingering around my nose. I'm gonna
go find us some more answers, and.
Speaker 6: I'm going to make we have time for that. I
don't know who else is coming.
Speaker 7: Then fuck off, I don't know. I'll be fine.
Speaker 6: You're saying you want to stay.
Speaker 7: Someone has to watch over these proxies and getta answers
from the other side. One of them dies, one of.
Speaker 6: Us dies, I mean, out of all of us, I
I think you would be the want to is strong
enough to do that. So if it's what you want
to do, it doesn't really matter what I want to do.
Speaker 7: This is what I need to do right now.
Speaker 12: Who knows.
Speaker 7: Maybe we'll cross paths again.
Speaker 6: Well, we couldn't seem to get out of this place,
so I think that's likely. We got here once. I'm
sure we'll get here again. But do be careful.
Speaker 7: Okay, they're proxies, they're not even real. Kindred. I'll be fine,
And I give a inauthentic smirk as I walk down
the hallway and then I yell after visionary, hey, wait up,
and I disappear into the shadows. As I walk down.
Speaker 6: In the room, I look at Moog, kind of praise him,
look him up and down noticeably a little more defensive
than I was with Fenn, and I just kind of
shrug and say, well, welcome to the party.
Speaker 7: I guess, oh, it's a party. I can't wait, and
I put my arm around Cora, or not not around.
I lean on Cora because I'm a bit taller than her,
and I got, oh, don't be so stiff. It'll be fine.
It'll be fun me, you and our new friend, well
my new friend, your old friend. Tell me more about
that later. Why not, you know, whatever that's up to you.
You want to be mysterious and silent and a bit cold,
no offense, It's fine. Tell me are the the party?
Speaker 3: Are they like you?
Speaker 7: Or are they just more fun or not that you're
not fun?
Speaker 9: Are they?
Speaker 6: I shake my head, Riley loose.
Speaker 7: Lousa.
Speaker 6: I think you're gonna have no problem making friends if
you're this insufferable with everyone.
Speaker 7: That's my secret, dear Kora. I'm this insufferable with everyone.
Speaker 13: And that's where we end.
Speaker 3: Today's episode.
Speaker 8: He did it, Greg did it?
Speaker 9: Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 17: Yeah?
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