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Speaker 4: A logit of fight from Shade ho loget of fact
from me.
Speaker 5: That you say, stand up for the thing which you
can't stand.
Speaker 3: Alud It is COR's turn. What do you do?
Speaker 6: Oh boy, well, I imagine that this entire time go ahead.
And I was saying that everything that has happened up
until this point has probably just spanned a couple of minutes.
It's chaotic. People are just trying things, moving around using
our new abilities, seeing what kind of damage we can
do to these creatures. But at this point, I think
I would see that the situation is pretty dire. We've
only taken out one of them out of the whole group,
and I would like to do something kind of drastic.
I think I'd like to try to use my new
ash to ash ability to try to take out another one.
Speaker 3: Yes, who totally forgot you had that me? Okay, okay,
this isn't so bad.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, well we're gonna see what the what
the dice say?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. It is up to the dice. Okay,
go ahead and make a roll for me. It should
ask you for the difficulty like last week, which I
think for you for these creatures. Sorry, I have gone
through like five different iterations of the sheet in the
last like two hours, so I have to roll back
to the working version, which is I think we gave
you sixty I think, so difficulty against these creatures?
Speaker 7: Yeah, well was it lower when they were reverberated? I
think it was forty when they were reverberated.
Speaker 3: No, because reverberated makes it easier for you guys to
hit them. Okay, yeah, so for her it's it's sixty.
She also just has ishna, so that should work.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, my dine, yes, please, okay, success Okay, but
I don't know if that's actually correct?
Speaker 3: Is that correct? Is that working properly?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yes, it is? Okay, wonderful. What do you think this
looks like?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 6: Who in this moment is the most in danger?
Speaker 3: Are you asking me? Or are you asking your eyes?
Or are you asking is ishna?
Speaker 10: Like?
Speaker 3: Where are you calling on this information. Yeah, it's a
great question.
Speaker 6: Yeah, probably in this case, a mixture, a mixture of
my eyes in Nishna.
Speaker 3: Then I think, oh my god, you ask such wonderful questions.
I just want to lick your brain sometimes. Then I
think the answer that you get with your eyes is
that Fenn looks really really fucked up. But he also
looks like he's having the time of his life. So
it's kind of hard to tell if he feels like
he's not doing well, but he yeah, he looks bloodied
and yeah, but I think Ishna would pull your eyes
to Constantine down the street, surrounded by two of them, okay,
by himself.
Speaker 6: Yeah, then that is where I will direct this. And
I think from what we established, it felt like fire
in my veins. Yes, it felt like burning up. I
will focus that that feeling down the street and lock
on to whatever I can see, if the shadow creatures,
and just release it on that.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, So this means you take to burn, and
when you do this you have a total of five
burn And to just remind everyone, the way that burn
works is as you take it, it incrementally adds like
negatives to your future roles. Like just shifting until you're
able to remove it. It's kind of like a you know,
it's a sanity or some form of that kind of mechanic.
You take two burn every time you do this, you
have a max of five, but the fifth burn, when
you take it, you do automatically succeed at whatever it
is that you're trying to do, but then you have
to roll a death safe. So it's like a big
deal if you get up there. So I'm just reminding
everyone that level five burn does mean you succeed automatically,
magically beautifully, but you do immediately pass out and also
run the risk of death. So if you do this
more than twice, you know you're you're running that risk.
So okay, So now I'm going to ask you. I
have an offer for you, and this is only because
you have eh no with you that is excited to play.
You can do this to two of these enemies and
take four burniemmediately, or you can only do one your
choice all two creatures four burn or one creature to burn.
Speaker 7: Yep.
Speaker 3: And this is probably and just to clarify, this is
probably the only time in which you will be able
to uh. This fight is the only time in which
this ability you'll be able to use on more than
one creature at a time. But it's because you just
got the ability, you're testing it out. Eashna is with you.
I'm not doing it to be nice. It makes sense
narratively that, you know. Eashna is like, yeah, let's fucking play.
Speaker 6: Yeah, super juiced, super powered. Okay. So and you're saying
to two creatures completely not just even doing half health,
but like taking them out for four burns.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see what happens. But you did roll a success,
so you are going to do quite a bit of
damage here.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll go for the four burn okay. And in
this moment, I think I would be looking at Constantine,
surrounded by the creature, seeing just how isolated he is
down the street and how this can go very bad,
very fast. And I would think about the way that
he pulled me from the rabbit and pulled me from
the danger there and stood next to me with our group,
and so I would want to help him.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, do one more dine roll for me. And
this is just for flair for something else unrelated to
the success also sixty yes, yeah success thirty four too,
only two above that, dine, that's nice, Okay, So I
think burn I have to kind of because you're taking
four all at once, and this is also to this world.
You've never experienced the burn mechanic before because you're from VTM,
So I think what this feels.
Speaker 9: Like is.
Speaker 3: I will use the matrix because I know you love
it as much as I do. So it is like
you are downloading twelve years of martial arts, but not
just the information. You're getting all of the muscle fatigue
and the experience of actually having done martial arts for
twelve years all in a second. That's kind of what
burn feels like. So you are overloading your magic quite Yeah,
it's incredibly painful this and it's a physical ache that
you're feeling in your body. But you feel it for
maybe five seconds, which probably feels like a fucking eternity
before Ishna realizes you're feeling this and comes in and
takes it. Eases it a little bit for you, but
it is quite substantial and will probably knock you on
your ass. All roles unrelated to this. Now, because of
the burn, you have a mind, you have a fifty shift,
so it's like almost impossible for you to succeed when
you're carrying four burn until you find a way to
remove it. But you do absolutely turn these two creatures
surrounding Constantine to Ash.
Speaker 11: Okay, now did I witness that? I witness that I witness?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean you're looking at one of them and
it completely turns to Ash, So absolutely you did witness it.
If whether you w I don't think you witnessed Cora
because you weren't looking at her. However, I will say
that Stalker did witness this because he's been watching the fight.
Estebon you can have noticed this as well. I think
it's kind of fucking hard to miss. Again, all magic
users kind of probably cast magic in the same way.
I don't know if you're familiar with her clan or
anything like that, but if anything, it hits you how
powerful she is because this is some crazy magic, and
typically I think it's pretty common for something like this
to need a ritual or some components to go along
with it. But she's not doing that other than she's
doing probably three you need at least three things. So
she's doing some sort of gesture with her hands. Her
eyes are lighting up because she's using Ishna and she's
speaking some incantation you cannot hear, and she's probably mumbling it,
not shouting it, unless you would be shouting it. You
think Cora.
Speaker 6: Mumbling to you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's just like her lips are moving,
so you know she's saying something, and her eyes are
probably completely like flame. Now you can't see any iris
that you can't see anything as she does this spell
and then they turn to ash and her eyes kind
of slowly fade back into herself, and then I'm assuming
she just looks like she got hit by something and
falls to her knees. But I'll leave that up to
a can to describe.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, definitely. I think the the light I imagine
like orange orange fiery light used to rim my irises.
I think it would lead over my entire eyes, and
then after it all fades, I would probably stagger against
the planter that I'm standing against, maybe like just slowly
sit down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I am. I am personally a little less terrified. Okay,
I had cast successes. Seriously, quick quick question before quick answer,
let's hope they match.
Speaker 12: Does Cora's scent change when accessing this ability?
Speaker 3: No, nothing changing to you her scent has been the
same since you left the thing the what you might
call it, because I don't I don't think you tried
to smell her before she got Yeah, just.
Speaker 12: Like I was in her abode. So just like whatever
I got there is what I get.
Speaker 3: I think, I think, I think for you, we do
have it that you can kind of sort of smell
the way people can see Auras sometimes, right, so you
can like smell magic. She absolutely reeks of magic in
that moment, but it's you know, that makes sense because
she's you know, making a large cast.
Speaker 7: But yeah, I would have.
Speaker 12: No to discern ish as magic from her as anyways.
Speaker 3: Exactly that is correct, although I will tell you there
is a tinge of that rotten egg smell very thin. Okay,
Next up is Gunner, my dear, with the car. What
do you do?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I was trying to remember where I was
last week.
Speaker 10: I think I had ripped the car in hand in
half and struck the one in front of me here, Yes,
and then we had a sort of struggle with our
with our arms, like he got control of me and
then I regained control on him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you like bounced it back and his arms are
stuck he can't do anything with them this next round.
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, So I.
Speaker 10: Think it would be my first reaction or thought to
get another weapon. And I know I said the car
wasn't or the car was done last week, but I
think that there is debriathe that I could possibly use
as a weapon. So I imagine that I pick up
like punks of metal or like car doors or you know,
anything to use as a weapon, and I'm throwing it
at him.
Speaker 3: I like the car door, yeah, yeah, okay, because I
feel like you would pick that up and maybe look
at it. I'm just imagining gunner picking it up, looking
at it like it's a shield, and then you like
are using the car door part to carry it like
a shield, and then that way you can like bash
and and do things you might be a little bit
more familiar with. So yeah, okay, cool, all right.
Speaker 7: I want to bash him, all right, I use my
turn while he's a tacking yes, because I'm going to
try when I think it will assist. I having kind
of steadied myself after seeing there was this giant wrecked
where we'll howling in the middle of the street and
looking over the gunner and really, you know, I've had
two failed attempts to try to hurt these things physically,
and one of them I jumped at it and I
just kind of like it just looked at me and
waited and I went through it and then it reassembled.
So and also having seen my shadow do some weird
ship which I haven't seen before, I think I'm going
to a squat down close to the ground and look
at my shadow and try to get to do something.
So I'm gonna have to roll for this and I
really will see if it.
Speaker 3: Well, can you tell me what it is you're trying
to do.
Speaker 7: I am going to ask you.
Speaker 3: To set your own difficulty. That's the only reason why.
Speaker 7: Well, this is the tricky thing. So I want to
basically tell it to do something basically to I want
to have it hide like cover gunner while he's doing this,
so it maybe you can't see.
Speaker 8: Him or something.
Speaker 7: I don't know how their vision works, because I had
there was an ability I had before where it would
create an area around me to kind of blind people.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, okay, go ahead and roll for me.
Speaker 7: What is the difficulty?
Speaker 3: So this is something that your shadow doesn't do from VTM,
So you're trying some other world bullshit.
Speaker 7: Which is the other thing, which means going to be difficult.
Speaker 3: However, you did see that it is doing. It is
exhibiting behavior that you're not used to from VTM. So yeah,
I'm still asking you to do this.
Speaker 7: I'm asking it to do this based on the at
it like, like what it did and how it was standing. Yeah, yeah,
because there was something familiar about it.
Speaker 3: I'm going to ask you a question that border okay,
the borderlines like meta stuff, but like, how confident do
you think es sebon is that he can do this?
I know that's such a hard question, so sorry.
Speaker 7: No, it's I think it's it's confident is This is
more like I'm curious and I'm very excited. Okay, see
if I can y Yeah, like this is your line
is one hundred and confident. Yeah I can't.
Speaker 3: It's a it sort of feels like a trick question
because it's like I don't know how confident I would be.
But sometimes people are like, what, like I bet I
can do this. It's happened. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay,
so yeah, we're gonna it's still difficult. So we're going
to say it's about forty not three fingers crossed.
Speaker 7: Oh what is six? Which is otherworldly success?
Speaker 3: Okay, wait, what the fuck happens?
Speaker 7: Maybe it goes to more than one person?
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, except I accept.
Speaker 7: To where the two dangers are. So he Squat's down
and he's he's looking at his at the shadow and
he says almost a hu whogart ale, and then it
kind of now, all of a sudden, it I guess
it just kind of splits and I think you see
it race across the ground. It goes right right under
Gunner and Fenn, and then they're just, uh, I think
you might see it. Yeah, it's just like a shadow
like crawls at the back of them quickly and then
just kind of folds around them.
Speaker 3: So with that strange grin, I imagine.
Speaker 7: Oh, it is so pleased. It is super super super
pleased right now. So then I think they basically.
Speaker 5: Hm, it would this follow you or I could have
moved with.
Speaker 7: You or it is it's you're like wrapped almost in
in like and like it's just around you, like it's
covering you completely and as you move. So the hope
is that when you're hitting this thing, it has troubled
seeing you. So when you make your move, hopefully it'll
be easier to hit.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh wait, okay, hold on, we have to think though
for a second. I'm thinking. I'm thinking. I'm thinking, I
think this would actually work, not that not that it
just because you're way of where your magic from is
not the same place as this obfuscation that they are
doing right now. The fact that it's different, it's different,
So I I do actually think that you are.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is like a whole of nothing. It's just darkness.
Speaker 7: Also, just to add, this feels super like. I think
I would like I wanted to move as he's doing it,
so it's like he can't stop. But there's definitely like
a weird, slight hungry feeling from it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like it's not trying, it's feeling hungry, or it is.
Speaker 7: Like it is feeling hot, like, well, let's see what happens.
It's I think in the moment he would notice this afterwards,
well it's.
Speaker 3: An otherworldly success. I think he can notice it now
or he can think about it later and be.
Speaker 7: Like, well, I mean, I mean, it's not going to
fuck him up while he's he's no, he's like fucking
raging out and about to crash smash this thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for all he knows he's doing it, Like, I
don't think he's looking at you at all, so I
don't think he knows exactly where this is coming from right.
Speaker 7: Away, although I mean I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 7: Like I said in Spanish, let's play hide and seek.
Speaker 3: Yeah, fucking ridiculous. Okay, okay, gunner, go ahead and make
your role. This is now going to so please keep
in mind that the resonating bones has stopped because cores
turn ended, so we are going to be doing slightly
less damage, but I'd like you to still make your role. Please.
Difficulty is forty. I think when they're.
Speaker 7: Not even does he get a bonus from my thing?
Speaker 3: I think because it's normally thirty, I'm giving them a
ten bonus. So it's forty while they're not resonating if
I remember correctly, and Chat can come in and be like, no,
it was forty by default, but I'm pretty sure it
was thirty for you guys to hit them when they're
not resonating. Okay, okay, mm hmm, okay, failure eighty two.
What do we think happens?
Speaker 5: I just think.
Speaker 10: Them, well, this is on my attack.
Speaker 3: Yes, with the door.
Speaker 10: Yeah, so I think that your your magic is very successful.
And if you're looking for the eyes of this thing
in front of me, you would just see Gunner kind
of just disappear, maybe from the bottom up, and he's gone.
Speaker 5: And I would.
Speaker 10: I would try to use this car door as like
a shield, and I'm holding it like through the handle
like as a shield.
Speaker 8: Would.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I would try to jump up behind this thing,
like over and behind it and strike it in the
back of the head. But I think it just with
the weapon is not that effective.
Speaker 5: So maybe it's just I have.
Speaker 3: An offer for you and Astemon. So also I like
the idea that when you fail, it's not always that
you fail to do the thing, So it could be
that you hit him and he just reforms immediately like
that way, Gunner is still making his strikes. But I
have an offer. We can let him reroll if you'll
take the shadow away from the other one.
Speaker 7: Okay, so does it see him? It misses, and then
it all of a sudden, right before it starts to
cover Fen, it turns around and runs back to him
and like jumps on him as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay, that'll work, or the shadow comes up,
you know, underneath this other guy and is doing peekaboo
behind this skeleton, right, which I think is ridiculous.
Speaker 7: And I think it changes direction because it's like, oh shit,
that's a werewolf and yeah.
Speaker 3: That makes sense. All right, gun reroll for me still
forty Sorry pressure, I know, I'm sorry.
Speaker 9: Finn's hurting, I know.
Speaker 3: A ninety one? Oh my god. Okay, all right. Yeah.
I assume that it's something like these shadows are playing
hide and seek with with you, Gunner, and also the skeleton,
and maybe it's like I think you make your swings.
I think you hold like a shield and you're just
trying to figure out what these things are and observing
kind of what's happening. And that's maybe why these two
attacks don't connect.
Speaker 7: Don't worry, they're trying to help. I think.
Speaker 3: Perfect. Okay, Esteban, you did your turn, So next up
is Fenn, my dear, Okay, what do you do?
Speaker 12: I have been thinking of this, I know, I know,
all because I don't I maybe have a next turn?
Speaker 8: Maybe?
Speaker 3: Well no, I you know, you can take a few
more hits, but that's it. You can only take a
few more.
Speaker 9: So yeah, yep, yep, man you think she just arca me.
Do you think perhaps I should go first. I might
be able to help you with whatever is you're abound
to do.
Speaker 13: But I leave it up to you, beauty from before Brawlin.
So you m you first?
Speaker 8: I know. I'm pretty Yes, what I'm saying that, Cupcake?
Speaker 5: Oh way, I.
Speaker 9: Am Stoker visibly shivers. Now yeah, I'm going to run
up behind the the monsters.
Speaker 3: Then or the skeleton, okay, and I want to.
Speaker 9: Grab his head from behind, and I'm going to try
to phase him back out of obfuscation.
Speaker 3: Okay, go ahead and make your role. That was weird, Mergs.
I don't know why that happened.
Speaker 9: Okay, mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Sorry you said you're ripping him from obfuscation. What are
you doing? I'm so sorry, mer.
Speaker 9: Okay, what I'm doing.
Speaker 3: I cannot believe that my brain allowed me to do that.
Speaker 9: Okay, Now, what is the What is the difficulty?
Speaker 3: I'd like to The difficulty is thirty when they're not resonating.
Speaker 9: I see. Okay, I'm sorry, even if I'm a master
of obfuse skate.
Speaker 3: But yeah, because you're trying to rip him from obduse
skation unless you have something from VTM that allows you to, like,
you know, do that with other people. I could maybe
see that, but like you can see him, it's just
the difficulty because their bones aren't resonating.
Speaker 9: What if my din is thirty one? Does that matter?
Speaker 3: No? I don't think so, but I think maybe if you,
I mean, if you were all a fucking thirty one
right now, I'll eat my shorts and I'll change my mind.
But yeah, we'll just say difficulty is thirty for now.
Speaker 9: That's a big failure.
Speaker 3: Okay, So but here's the thing, and this is really
important because I want to make sure that Stalker understands
that the failure is not because he cannot do this.
It is because he just doesn't have the right way
to do it yet. Do you know what I mean?
Like you can feel that this might be something you
can do, but for some reason, it's out of your breath.
Speaker 9: Entire bottle has been very eye opening to me. I
have been in a lot of fights, but this is different.
Speaker 3: Okay, next up, what does it look like, Stalker? Do
you like come up here and then like grab this
thing and try to rip it out? Is this a
physical thing or.
Speaker 9: My my hands are on its skull?
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, and I.
Speaker 9: Am trying to pull it into I understand that ambuscation
here is not abfuscation where we are from, as I've
been doing it here. It feels different. It is not
where we are from. It is a mind trick on
those observing us here. We are stepping into a different
place a halfway. So I'm pulling him, attempting to pull
him out, and I'm doing it wrong, but I think
I have learned.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say, do me a favorite role
one more time, same thing, dine, same difficulty. I'm just
curious about something. Eight Okay, okay, okay, okay. You have
unlocked a new skill and the skill is called its Layers.
You can't use it right now, but that's the skill
you have unlocked, and we will talk about it after.
But this knowledge you trying to do this and fail
and then the otherworldly success. You've got a new skill
underneath your dye. Okay, cool mergs, you're up, constantine. What
do you do?
Speaker 7: So?
Speaker 11: I was like holding onto these guys and then they
just incinerated in your hands, and I think it's you know,
as my eyes adjust beyond where I was previously looking,
I think I would see Cora having dropped to her knees, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's like grabbing onto the potted plant thing that
she was like holding herself on and she's down on
the ground. Yeah, but she's she's okay. I think it
looks like she just got hit by a car or something.
Into Like she is breathing pretty hard, but there's no
visible blood or anything, but she's like sweating. She's taken
some damage.
Speaker 11: Okay. It's like the hardest decision on planet Earth for
me at this moment to decide if Constantine I would
think I'm thinking to do this, but I'm trying to
figure out if Constantine would like to do this. Yeah,
can I can? I can I roll?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? Leave you yeah, leave it up to chaos for sure.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Do you want to talk us through that process?
Speaker 11: What I'm trying to do, yeah, is I want to
see if I can heal her with my loving touch.
I don't mean it like that, but I mean like
I want to see if I can like go over
and restore remove some of that burden.
Speaker 3: What are you thinking? Because that's myrgle's mechanics speak, But
what is Constantine thinking there? Like he sees her in
danger and what is his thought.
Speaker 11: Pro sys, I can make it better.
Speaker 3: That's okay, let's roll. If you get a fucking other
worldly success that is a new skill you have unlocked.
I can make it better.
Speaker 11: Okay, hold on, uh do my dying.
Speaker 3: Bro imagine I can't because you rolled an insane amount
like that was all you rolled last week was just
other worldly successes. It blew me away. What's the difficulty?
It's forty because Ishna doesn't like to share.
Speaker 11: Oh okay, oh my god.
Speaker 3: Okay, with your permission, with your permission, Kora.
Speaker 6: Go ahead, I think.
Speaker 3: Okay, Constantine, when you go over there and your thought
is I can make it better, I think this is
fifty five. By the way, for those listening, it's failure.
It's doubles, which means it's you know again, failure doesn't
necessarily mean you don't succeed at the thing that you're doing.
It just means there's a cost or there is something
that ends up happening to fuel the narrative and maybe
in a conflict y type way for the team. So, Constantine,
when you do this, I think you unlock that skill.
You now have the skill. I can make it better. However,
you are the first one to realize there's a passenger
within Cora because you go to do this and it
meets you and stops you, and it burns your hand
when you go to touch her.
Speaker 9: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I don't know, like, I don't think you
have a name, I don't think you have a face,
but you know that there is a presence within her
that doesn't want you touching her right now?
Speaker 11: Uh, that's so sick. I stagger back and I kind
of like hiss, like yeah, And then I look at
her and my head kind of cocks like a cat,
and I just say into the sun, and I'm no
longer look as concerned as I was before, and I
start to back off.
Speaker 3: Cool, Okay, it is now my turn.
Speaker 7: Did fed go?
Speaker 3: Yes? Did you not? Okay? I didn't see you in
the turn order. That's why I skipped before me. Okay,
all right, go, I'm so sorry. Thank God.
Speaker 8: I'm fixated on this this thing in front of me.
I can't quite see it, but I know it's there.
I've been wailing on it. But I Constantine's pain STAPs
me out of this craze and I look over and
I see everything's fine, and then I look at my
own body and it's just ravaged. It's bleeding. There's one
of my ribs is poking out like I'm not in
good shape. My hand is broken, and I'm wondering why
I haven't healed yet. And so I'm going to do
I'm going to do a monstrous leap on top of
this building, and I'm going to look inward and try
to find that healing within me.
Speaker 3: Okay, I want to lick your brain as well. Uh okay,
this is not an ability you had in VTM at all. Right,
this is new shit. You're trying.
Speaker 12: The way that I'm trying to wrap my brain around it.
In VTM, there's two types of.
Speaker 3: Damage, yes superficial and yes yes.
Speaker 12: And so one of Fen's abilities this is almost like
a retroact kind of thing right now, one of his
abilities is superficial. It gets converted into or like whatever
is like the big bad damage gets turned into bad
like not so bad damage.
Speaker 3: Yes, So you actually have that here. It translates to
when someone would do like light like a medium hit,
it does one less, so you take one less damage
than what they're actually doing to anyone else. So you
do have that and that's okay, but I'm letting you
know that I did translate that skill over to you,
so this is technically something else that you're pulling from
and that's fine, yes, but I'm okay with that. Okay,
So it's new magic bullshit, because as far as I know,
in VTM, you couldn't you know, just regenerate anything. However,
in PBu where wolves can absolutely do this, So let's
give it a go. Mm hmmm hmmm, all right, go
ahead and roll. It's difficulty forty. Again. It's a really
tough fight. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 8: What should nothing to be sorry about? What should I roll?
Under body?
Speaker 3: Yes, yep, difficulty forty forty yep, other worldly success. Okay,
I'm so glad. I was stressing the whole week about
the fact that you might die. So you have unlocked
a new skill as well. It's a regenerative one, like
you can grow your limbs back and shit, it's hard
for you to do that, but yes, you can take
some healing. So we're gonna roll a one D four
for now. That'll increase as you kind of level up,
but you'll you'll heal one D four worth.
Speaker 9: Of this one.
Speaker 3: Amazing great love that better than nothing.
Speaker 9: Yep.
Speaker 3: Okay, so that's good, all right.
Speaker 7: So you do that?
Speaker 3: What does it look like for our eyeballs? Though? As
you do this.
Speaker 8: With just the one damage, that rib that was poking out,
it moves itself back in and the wound closes and
the fur grows back on top of it. But it
still remains a scar because it's not quite what he's
used to. It's that I look at the scar. I've
never I've not had a scar, not as far as
I can remember. Everything's just been.
Speaker 9: Perfect.
Speaker 8: And the other wounds begin to close a little bit,
but they're going to leave scars. Well, it's as if
this world is leaving a mark on him, on me.
Speaker 3: Okay, King, let's go roll another one D four please.
Speaker 8: Sweet?
Speaker 3: Okay, next round, you're going to recover that much if
you don't move, Okay, if you make an action that
does not happen, okay, okay.
Speaker 8: I can't do anything. Next round, I get three.
Speaker 3: You cannot do anything, and you'll recover three hit points.
If you do something you could still you know, depending
on what it is that you're doing. If you want
to do another action, that's fine. I'm just making it,
making it a difficult decision for you. Stay still, don't
help your party and heal or try to do something
help your party, and you run the risk of fucking
dying because I'm an asshole.
Speaker 8: Time will tell what choice.
Speaker 9: I mean, Okay, now I wanted to controls that something
or oh su surely one of my arms is broken,
so only one hand is on this pretty cher?
Speaker 7: Are you sure?
Speaker 3: Because I think it's super fucking bad ass for you
to still put both even though one hand is fucking
one arm is broken.
Speaker 9: Oh my arm's broken. I can't move it up there.
Speaker 3: I mean, you're still a vampire. I imagine you could
move a broken limb around, it's just not as strong.
How fucking scary is that the arm is broken? And
he's just like, yeah, I'm still moving the lump around
Like I'm just saying, you don't have to control that
if you don't want to. But if you do, that's okay.
Just one hand reaches up and grabs onto the skull
of this thing. Okay, who's next me? It is now
my turn? Okay, Okay, that makes this easier. Stalker, You
go ahead and roll your defense, which what is that
it's your body? You're yeah, you're moving out of the way,
unless you're doing something magical to defend yourself, like a
like a shield or something like that.
Speaker 9: Me up, I think I would rely on my instinct,
which would be body. Okay, what is the difficulty?
Speaker 3: They are still not reverberating, so forty.
Speaker 9: All right, and again arguing for for our lives.
Speaker 3: Yes, lobby me always.
Speaker 9: I They may not be at a disadvantage, but I
am still very good at these kinds of close quarters combat.
I'm good at dodging. I'm good at avoiding being struck.
Speaker 3: Have you ever fought an infernal creature before?
Speaker 9: Have they ever fought me?
Speaker 3: I don't think so unless you you know I'm asking
you because you've it's your character. Have you ever done
anything like that before?
Speaker 9: Oh no, I'm I'm countering with they've never seen anything
like me either.
Speaker 3: Oh that's fair. Fucket, that is fair. I will give
that to you. That is absolutely fair. Y'all are fucking
rare ass creatures. Okay, so we'll bump it. You'll get
a ten shift then, so difficulty will be fifty to
fifty eight out of fifty to fifty showing getting out
of the way.
Speaker 9: Take it. Yeah, success Dom.
Speaker 3: Alright, I'm sorry to scream at you, but it's not
even just success doubles. It's my number. It's thirty three, motherfucker.
Oh my god. Okay, what happens?
Speaker 9: Ah? Well, how does he attempt to attack me? Does
he reach for me? Does he trying to break it's on?
Speaker 3: Yeah? If well, no, because he can't do that ability anymore.
So actually I think, uh, I think his body will
erupt in spikes, so his bones shift and move around
so that if you're in close enough range, or he
lunges at you and he's gonna attempt to impale you
with these spikes. This is a thirty three, So if
you allow it, I would like him to do this
to you. I would like him to reach out and
impale you with these spikes. But then you do something
insane where it like doesn't damage you, or whatever the
case may be. Maybe it's like, oh my god, maybe
he like reaches out and spikes you, and then if
we were if it were a fucking movie, we would
like pan and you're standing right next to him. It's
not actually you, it's where you were a second ago.
But because your speed and your obvious skate is like
met all that magic mixed together, you were able to
leave a clone of yourself behind, not a clone, but
like an illusion of yourself behind, especially because in VTM
it's all mind illusion magic, right, So if I were
to translate in that into this world, then I think
some of your abilities would look like this.
Speaker 9: I agree completely. I think this is leaning a little
more on his body celerity, moving very quickly, but there
is a bit of that sort of ob uscape magic
mixed in with it. Yeah, leaving an image of me
behind for just a moment, and it looks as though
his attack struck true, But then I am here.
Speaker 3: Now, I'm okay, I've ved so and this is your moment.
I don't need to tell you this, but I just
want to make it explicitly clear. This is the moment
where you're like, holy shit, I can do shit that
I could not do before. Magic or power or whatever
it is works differently here. Okay, Gunner, my darling, I'm
so sorry. You need to roll to dodge this thing. Okay,
he is totally covered and you, yeah, you are covered.
You also have an advantage because this guy. You immobilize
this guy for a round, so he's trying to do
something different, and you are shielded by the shadow. So
we're going to say this is a difficulty of sixty.
That's not bad, pretty good on odds.
Speaker 11: Oh no, you said that was so funny.
Speaker 3: Other worldly success. Fuck yeah, finally, holy shit. Okay, so again,
what do you think? What do you think happens?
Speaker 10: I think I would recognize that he was going to
try to like take control again, yeah, attempt to attack
and not be tricked this time. So I would maybe
try to get a little bit of distance on him
or before he could, you.
Speaker 5: Know, get me.
Speaker 3: Okay, do you think you do you think you step back?
Do you think you are just suddenly back? This is
this is an otherworldly success. This can be a superhero
as you want it to be. It can be like
it looked like you just suddenly we're back ten feet.
Speaker 5: I'd say, yeah, I want to.
Speaker 10: I would try to get into an advantageous position, and
I think with Esteban's.
Speaker 5: Shadow over the yeah, yeah, i'd.
Speaker 10: Just be gone by the time this thing could register it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that. Well if I mean, you can
move very quickly and move around, so you can come
back and fuck this thing up another turn anyway. But
I also think it's just really neat only if Gunner
would if you just submit to the shadow from Esteban
and you just stand there, But then this thing can't
fucking see you and it can't fucking hit you. But
it's acknowledging that you recognize that this shadow is gonna
shield you while you stand here if you want.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, okay, otherworldly kind of just the counter of like, no,
I'm more powerful or right now in this moment, and
I have this shield, so I'm not moving, so I
just say, yeah, I stay.
Speaker 3: Okay, then because of the shielding and because of this success,
and you're like obfuscated from this thing. Don't let me forget.
But you do have a shift, and next time you
try to attack it, it'll be easier for you to
do so because it can't see you. Okay, that's it
for me, because there aren't that many left. Fantastic, Cora,
my darling. You are not doing so well, but you're
also doing very well. You did a great job.
Speaker 7: What do you do?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think at this point I would be on
the ground, like recovering, taking note of how I'm physically feeling,
but still focusing on the on the battle, and I
think I would know not to overdo it, so I
would like to try to do something just to support
from a distance, like, yeah, trying to use my subduability
again or uh, some sort of some sort of disruption.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you are at you are at level four burn,
which means that this is going to be extra difficult
for you, and that includes here's the deal. I'm just
gonna be real with you, Eashna is not going to
stop you from pushing yourself over the limits. So basically
this can just be a normal role for you.
Speaker 14: Yeah, but if you if you succeed, you have to
be super careful that you need to hit under that
limit because if you start to fail, it's going to
really start to fuck you up real bad, and he's
not gonna protect you from that.
Speaker 3: And I feel like you would feel that like he's
excited to see what you can do and he's just
gonna let watch you just see how what you do.
So this will be a cause their bones aren't reverberating
right now. So this is a difficulty like everybody else
because of that offset. So we'll go forty difficulty.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, and I think I recognize that this is
more of like a almost like a Hail Mary kind
of thing, like, I don't think this is gonna work,
but I'm just gonna try to do something.
Speaker 3: Okay, you said the magic words. You can take a
burn and automatically succeeded this because you're at level four.
But you do have to roll on a D here,
don't you dare? Shit your head. This is fucking sick
as hell. You have to roll a D one hundred
now before I'm like, what are the fucking odds. Here's
what happens on the D one hundred table. Okay, if
you roll a one, which is a critical success, you're
gonna pass out. You'll wake up tomorrow with a little
bit of a migraine. If you roll a one hundred,
you will die. Yeah, that is the only instance in
which you will die. Everything else in between is you
wake up in a varying state of like it takes
you a fucking week to feel at yourself again, but
you will automatically critically otherworldly succeed if you would like to.
Speaker 6: I I don't think I would be focused on eating
right now. I think I'd be focused on doing something
like I think I think my mental thought here is
kind of like I'm already on the ground. I'm already
like exhausted, and I don't know what kind of like
what kind of recovery I have in front of me.
But I'm also still in this dangerous situation. So even
in my mind, doing something here probably feels like throwing
pennies at like an enemy. But I just want to
do something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, let's let's do it. Okay, holy shit, man,
so forty die yeah forty yep?
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, failure.
Speaker 3: You're gonna take a hit point. You're gonna take some
physical damage from that, just one. Okay?
Speaker 6: Do I mark that or does it automatically?
Speaker 5: Yep?
Speaker 3: So if you click on your token, you can just
do minus one in the green box and it'll do
it for you, or you can just change it to nine.
It's up to you, all right, yep, either one will work. Okay,
all right, now, gunner, you're up. What do you do?
Speaker 5: I want to rip this thing's head off?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay? Are you dropping the shield and you're just grabbing
it and ripping that?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 10: I can't be seen and I don't need this weapon
right now. I want to inflict damage. I don't think
these car parts are doing it anymore. Okay, I want to, yeah,
just leap up and land on his head and rip stalker,
but I'm attempting to just live or like rip its
head off his shoulders.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, go ahead and roll for me. You
do have the shift from being obfuscated, and you have
the shift from your success. So this is sixty again. Okay, easy, easy,
you got this. We shouldn't have said that. Yeah, we
shouldn't have said that. Success. Okay, you leap up. You
are fully obfuscated by this. I don't know if this
shadow of stebonds makes any sound or anything like that,
but I think you can feel a little bit of hunger,
a little bit of playfulness as it is engaging with
you and covering you from this beast. As you kind
of maybe show up behind it, all of a sudden,
you grip its skull in both your hands and you
simply lift it up. And I think it's probably its
feet are dangling. It's like kind of fighting you back.
It's arms dangle a little bit because it's got a
couple of broken limbs, and then all of a sudden
you just like pushed down as if you're going to
drop it down. On the ground and yank it back up,
and its head fucking pops off. You hear something, giggle, Yeah.
Speaker 7: I was gonna.
Speaker 3: I wasn't sure if it made sound or not. And
then there's like a little.
Speaker 7: Like like a and echoey like it's far away.
Speaker 3: You know, Okay, and you do some damage to it.
Its head is its head is disconnected from its body
at the moment.
Speaker 10: Yeah, And I'm just like holding it over its body
and I want to say, just roaring as I'm like
ripping this thing off and h.
Speaker 5: Is still in hand.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, like you've got it. Yeah, Okay, it's
still like moving around. It's not like dead dead, but
it's hanging on by a thread from the damage that
you have done. Okay, that's the bun.
Speaker 7: Okay, I assume I only have one of those things
around now, right like because I had the success, kay,
as I am feeling pretty juiced up that what I
tried worked, like realizing that I could not do this
before and now I can do this now. And who
is this? Who is this funny, funny dark man that
runs around and does what I tell him for this
and helps me out? And the being a little stubborn
myself and seeing him tear these things. Well, I can't
see these things still, right, can I see them?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 7: I's going to go after this pieces all over the floor.
Speaker 8: I don't know what.
Speaker 7: I think. Seeing uh, he just did something and there's
one left, and seeing Cora on the I think I'm
I'm going to run over and just kind of stand
in front of Cora.
Speaker 3: Okay. I also think that the way that the shadow
ability works would be similar to you kind of have
to pay attention and concentrate if you.
Speaker 7: Were I'll do that again. Ye, I'm going to do
it again.
Speaker 3: You can still run over and stand in front of Courra.
Speaker 7: I'll do it, but I'm going to Okay, then what
is the difficulty higher?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 3: I don't think you have to roll, is what I'm saying.
Like you've let this shadow thing do its thing. If
you wanted to change the command, I think you'd have
to roll again. But for now, I think you could.
Speaker 7: Just leave if I want to. Oh yeah, I'm going
to leave it on. Can I move it? I'll have
to roll to move it, right, I think?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 13: Can I roll?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 7: Can I roll again to have a jump to somebody else?
Speaker 3: Yes? You absolutely may, okay, go ahead.
Speaker 7: Uh what's the difficulty? Because I know I can do
it now and it was forty before.
Speaker 3: I think it's still forty because there, Yeah, it's not
a skill you've technically unlocked yet or haven't rolling that skill.
Speaker 11: But.
Speaker 7: That is a failure, so it's an eaty one.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's like wear wolf No. Yeah, so what happens
when you try to move this?
Speaker 7: I think, uh shit, I think it probably. I think
if I can do that, I think there's probably gunner
might feel like almost like a like a tiny little
squeeze like but almost around like low around his waist
like something like it like it doesn't want to And
then yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: It doesn't a question for you, okay, And it's it's
another fucked up meta ish question because it would be
so easy to just answer in a way that makes
it good for you. Guys. But do you think that
your shadow disappears or do you think your shadow is
now doing its own thing.
Speaker 7: Because you lost No, I was going to say, I
was going to say it. I think it in a
sense stops off for the rest of the tyrant, like, yeah,
it can like like I told it to stop doing it. Yeah, okay,
oh yeah, yeah, but I think it would be doing
its own thing, So it's really I think, yeah, I think, Okay,
the thing is I think it would stay with Gunner
because he just pulled the thing off and it giggled. Okay,
so it stays. That makes sense.
Speaker 3: I think it stays with Gunner. I just think you
couldn't control it.
Speaker 7: I'm learning about it. Yeah, exactly as.
Speaker 10: I was ripping this thing's head off and I hear
this giggle. It was sort of like when we first
got back to the apartment and you're feeling all these
emotions and I hear that knife get unsheathed in the
other room. Yeah, it's like maybe I didn't know it
was you and at the time, but that same feeling
of like just hearing something but not really registering it.
Speaker 7: I'll say this too. It sounds like it sounds like
a kid giggling to make it creamier.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 7: And then you feel I think you feel like a
tiny little squeeze around your waist and then but nothing changes.
That's all. It's like a quick like, yeah, that's the
shadow likes you more than at the moment.
Speaker 3: At the moment, yeah, kids, right, okay, all right, Fenn,
My darling, what did you decide? Are you going to
take three hit points automatically or are you going to
try something fun?
Speaker 5: I have a why'd you say it like that? No?
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, because you're you, but I love you for
it very very much. I do have a question for you, though, Yes,
what color is this.
Speaker 9: World that we're in?
Speaker 3: That is a very good question. I have a follow
up question. When you were hold on, I have to
think about how I say this. When you were born,
m what color was this guy? You think in that
story they tell in that town.
Speaker 8: It was a dark sky that day, and that's then
that's what this world looks.
Speaker 9: Like to you.
Speaker 8: Okay, I ask because I'm just gonna sit on my
butt and take my three.
Speaker 13: H pos before.
Speaker 8: However, however, I asked that because when I look at
my fur that is over the scar tissue. Yes, that
fur is the color of this world.
Speaker 3: That's okay? Then, yeah, then your fur is the color
that that like dark. I don't know if you were
imagining like a dark gray or a dark bluish gray,
but that would be the color of your fur then,
And that makes total sense. We're on the same page.
Cool and his my arm my broken arm fixing itself.
Speaker 8: The three h.
Speaker 3: Sitting there smiling like yeah.
Speaker 8: Like he had just breathing it in and feeling the
regeneration and feeling.
Speaker 9: Here's some of the breaths.
Speaker 3: Just for you.
Speaker 15: There.
Speaker 8: You are orkish, you can you can clip that later.
Speaker 13: That's free.
Speaker 3: It's free for.
Speaker 8: You, my friend.
Speaker 11: It's just nice when you know someone's looking out for y'all.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 7: It's remixing really doing it for Miranda.
Speaker 3: But thank you Miranda.
Speaker 11: Oh my god.
Speaker 7: If anyone in if anyone in chat were like their
name said you by Gunner, just get from his page,
get the booster, Greg and treat your grandmother this Christmas.
Speaker 9: Soccer. Yes, yes, I am. I would like a narrator, Yes,
Pumpkin scary mm hmm. I would like for you to
listen carefully as I describe what happens here.
Speaker 3: I am listening.
Speaker 9: Stalker looks down at his own hand, realizing what he
can do, and he reaches it under the rib cage
of this beast and grasps the spine, and this time
he will pull this creature out of the realm into
this one.
Speaker 3: So you're technically using your skill, which is its layers,
which is going to start at a fifteen shift. So
while this would normally be forty or forty difficulty, we're
going to bump it. So you now have fifty five
difficulty for this. Good luck?
Speaker 9: Did you did you tank into account my extreme confidence
in the way I described all of this, Okay, I
just wanted to make sure I'm sure to say that
everyone's life.
Speaker 8: Jess, I took away points for that.
Speaker 3: Okay, so close, but it's very close. It's sixty five
for those listening, So it was very very close to
what you needed ten off. So when when it's like this,
I just want to stress that you feel like, as
you're trying to do this magic, you feel that it's
just out of reach, something has falling under the bed,
You can't read. Your arms just aren't long enough.
Speaker 9: If I might, I think I grab the spine, and
I think it's a moment perhaps where this creature and
I boxstairs and it maybe I'm not sure, maybe it
senses what I'm trying to do. Maybe it doesn't, but
maybe it grabs my arm with its own hand and
there's a struggle, and that slows down the process of
what I'm trying to do. Perhaps that's why it's not
a complete success here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you take a burn, I'll let you roll
again with a higher shift difficulty.
Speaker 9: Yes, I will take a burn.
Speaker 3: Okay, fantastic. Do not know how to record it, Just
write it down on anywhere for now, and then we'll
add it to the sheet later. But so your difficulty
was I think we said fifty five? Right, Yes, your
difficulty is now sixty five your failed role. So as
long as you beat that, you'll you can you can do.
Speaker 9: This failure, doumbles, I got a seventy seven. I think
he breaks my other arm.
Speaker 3: I think he either breaks your other arm or breaks
your other arm and pulls you in your Now your
party can't see you. You are now fully like obfuscated.
While you fight, you're with them in that layer of
space and time.
Speaker 9: Is my arm broken as well?
Speaker 3: I think so, sup, both my arms are broken. If anything,
I think this confirms your theory.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I also think that you should increase your your p
for this. Its layers by one. It's a failure, but
I think it's still you fail, you learn, you get experience,
So yeah, i'd bump that up. So now it's a
it's up by one point instead of fifteen at sixteen
and can slowly increase this ability.
Speaker 9: It's all right with you ill. Stalker looks down in
his hand and he has this calm demeanor as he
usually does. He reaches carefully underneath the rib cage and
grasps the spine and attempts to pull, but as he does,
a ice like grip in the skeletal hand wraps around
his forearm, and instead of Stalker pulling this creature, it
pulls Stalker and it looks as though they're about to
take a step forward, but instead you see Stalker sort
of walk through a veil, as it were, and he disappears.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fucking crazy. Which I don't know if they
would register that you're not just obfuscating yourself like normal,
But I'd like to think it looks a little different,
like maybe there's some infernal stuff happening around him. As
he goes to give you all a clue that, yeah,
it's not him doing it willingly.
Speaker 9: The purple smoke and shadow that you see when Stalker
does it here is replaced by.
Speaker 3: I amber and ash and like floorsh Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, earning smoke, it's orange. It's infernal.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 9: Smells of sulfur if you're close enough to smell it,
or if you're a werewolf.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's see next up Constantine, my darling, what do
you do?
Speaker 11: Yes? How's everybody else looking.
Speaker 9: Well?
Speaker 3: Stalker, who just disappeared into nothing, looks a little worse
for where Gunner is looking pretty hurt Esteban, and I
don't know if you can see up on top of
the roof where your new werewolf friend is literally regenerating limbs,
but he seems to be doing okay, like Gunner's worth static.
Speaker 11: It's so horrific. Wait, so remember how I rolled since
the Unseen and I was able to see all of
these creatures just by your offe skate. Can I still
see Stalker?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, but I think yes because that was an
otherworldly success And I literally am amazed that my brain
was able to visually recall that, like I can actually
see it in my head. That role you you can
tell the difference. There was a visual cue between where
he is now and now he's kind of, like I'm
going to say, in that layer with them. But I
don't think Constantine understands what that means. But for you, merkles.
It's like he's on a new Photoshop layer.
Speaker 11: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, because I don't understand what
that means, I'm going to move towards him.
Speaker 7: Yep.
Speaker 11: Uh, and I'm gonna try and reach out and touch him.
Speaker 3: Okay, cool? And are you trying to heal him?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay cool? Yeah, go ahead and roll. And this
is where confidence and ignorance are the same thing. Yeah,
you don't understand that.
Speaker 11: They don't understand this. Yeah, I'm like you're the same.
Speaker 9: Yep.
Speaker 11: It just makes you.
Speaker 3: Can see him, so it should be you should be
able to touch him.
Speaker 8: Yep.
Speaker 3: So okay, ahead, and.
Speaker 11: Yes, should I roll this new skill that I have
or should I roll just my flat dyne?
Speaker 3: So you're going to be rolling the skill that you have.
But basically the skill gives you a shift. It raises
that difficulty so it's easier for you to succeed, but
the other worldly success is still low. So it's you
want to go ahead and roll that, which I think
starts at fifteen, just like everybody else's new skill. So
the difficulty would normally be forty, so now you're at
fifty five. Yep.
Speaker 11: I'll just type in fifty five then yeh, yep.
Speaker 3: Yep, okay, perfect one day, the sheet will work forty
five success. Damn that's that would have also just been
exactly what you needed without the shift as well. Cool,
that's good, okay, okay, So what does this look like?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 11: So I see him like getting pulled around, and I
don't understand what's happening, Like why is this thing just
yanking him about? Like his arm arm is broke? Is
it the is it just the one arm? We decided
both arms are broken?
Speaker 3: Yep?
Speaker 11: So he looks horrible. It's I I'm finding it like, okay,
like empathetically repulsive, you know, where you're just like, oh god,
oh god, no, I'm sorry this is happening. Oh you know,
like you recognize how that.
Speaker 3: One time when we went on that road trip and
I opened up the and I was like, oh god, yea, okay,
that's exactly what happens, exactly fantastic.
Speaker 11: Empathetically repulsive, like, oh that's horrifying. I'm sorry that's happening
to you. And so I I just I reach out
and I don't grab obviously where his arm is broken,
but I grab his arm and the intention. So how
I'm thinking about it. Mm hmm, is it's still ignorance.
Constantine wants to make things better, he wants to help.
He's not deliberately thinking like, oh, I'm doing magic now.
I'm thinking like I'm just there's an instinct that is
taking over that makes me want to touch them because
I touch things and make it feel good and better.
And yes, literally, this instinct has just taken over. So
I think I just touch, I grab your arm, but
it's gentle, and uh, can I describe how he feels
or is this like a thing that he would.
Speaker 3: I would let him describe how he feels, but I think,
like usually my rule of thumb is like, if it's
a magically induced feeling, then yes, you can describe it.
Speaker 11: So in this case, it would be like I would
imagine I'm trying to Yeah, I'm just trying to make
you feel good, but in a sensuous, not sensual, sensuous way,
and I think it would.
Speaker 3: Bring so sorry, I think, because I don't think Constantine's
power would forcibly make people feel a certain way physically
more emotionally. But I think how you can present it
is like what you know, what is a moment in
which you felt like relief, right, And that's what Constantine's
power is, allowing him to describe kind of what that
relief feels like or sensuous.
Speaker 11: To me, and then sharing that feeling.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, I like that.
Speaker 11: I like that way. I think it's like being slowly
lowered into a bath that is the perfect temperature, h
and there's like peace, nothing is coming to bother you,
and you know that once you get out of this bath,
good things are going to happen. Yeah, it's like a
warm bath like hug.
Speaker 3: Bath like hug. Go ahead and roll a Wendy four Constantine,
and then we'll see how We'll let Stalker describe what
he feels like for the audience. Oh my god. Okay,
for you are going to recover, So let me do
the math on that. Because you took medium damage, you're
going to recover two.
Speaker 9: Soccer she did I just in that turn when I
was trying to pull him and he pulled me. How
much damage did I take?
Speaker 3: Two?
Speaker 9: Two?
Speaker 3: Okay, so she's just undone that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, right, So I think I think mmm, I think
she heals my other broken arm, my left arm. The
right arm is broken on the forearm where he grabbed me.
My left arm was broken higher, so that sort of
knits back to other as this sensation of I would
say perfect for me is quite hot water those over
my shoulder and arm. I can feel the ability to
move it again easily return, and I think a look
of confusion goes over my face as I you're touching me, right, yeah,
as I turned to observe constantine, I am confused, but
feels good.
Speaker 11: I think I'm also confused because I don't know what
I'm doing. I'm just doing.
Speaker 3: It, I think. Can I just say, I really like
how you narratively chose for it to heal the other
arm and not the arm where this thing, this creature
touched you. It also allowed me to remember that these
things do not touch very often, so you probably where
it did touch you to break you. If you guys,
remember all the damage is being done because they break
their own limbs. And then so you probably have a
mark on that arm where it actually touched you, like
maybe an infernal skeletal burn mark from where it touched you,
and that's probably where the two damage came from, from
touching you, not ripping you through.
Speaker 9: Yet that's the tattoo I'm getting at the end of this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just like an infernal skeletal hand. Yeah that's
kind of cool. Yeah, okay, so next up, Nice job, Cora.
Oh no, it's me. I'm so sorry. I skipped my
own goddamn turn. Okay, Gunner, you're gonna roll to defend
and Stalker you're also gonna roll to defend body for
both of you. Difficulty is the same forty.
Speaker 7: He still has a hug from my shadow.
Speaker 3: I'll have a hug from the shadow. So your difficulty
is higher than that. We're doing fifty for you. Fifty
to fifty.
Speaker 9: Shop here we are fifty difficulty.
Speaker 3: Mm hm, what the sixty?
Speaker 9: Just over?
Speaker 3: Okay, you're gonna take one damage. This thing normally does two,
but it can't use the ability that it used to anymore.
So you're gonna take one damage. And what does this
look like? Because he hasn't succeeded at this with you before,
so I think maybe as you're standing there and you
take a deep breath in, you're gonna smell You're gonna
smell burning. You're gonna smell the burning of skin, And
I think this is actually potentially something you have smelled before.
In your past, so there is no mistaking it. That
is what you're smelling right now. Maybe it takes you
second to like look around, maybe you look down at yourself,
maybe you look at around at your party members, but
there is burning flesh coming from somewhere, and you don't
know where it's coming from. And your feet feel hot,
and if you look down at the bottom of your shoes,
they've melted as the ground is touching you and you
take one damage, doesn't touch it.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm holding this thing skull and maybe I like
look into it, Yeah, look into it's like face, and
I'm getting this familiar scent, but also.
Speaker 5: You know what is actually going on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I also think that if you're touching its skull,
you might not notice this right now because you're in
the heat of battle, but it's gonna leave a little
bit of a tender burn on your hand, like you
just touched a hot kettle or something like that. But
for now, it's okay and it's not doing any damage
to you. Yep, okay, okay, fuck, yeah, all right, Cora
my dark Oh wait stalker, did you oh your money,
my dear.
Speaker 9: I wanted to confirm with you last time. I was
able to increase the difficulty to fifty. Is are we
changing that back to forty to attack.
Speaker 3: Me because you're in the same layer. So yeah, that's
why I did.
Speaker 9: It makes sense, all right, which.
Speaker 3: Makes it a very easy way to describe it twice
second thirty three, you motherfucker.
Speaker 9: Okay, it was just so you know, it was for
the same thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what the fuck? Okay, I think I know how
to dodge like this? Ye now yeah, okay, what is this?
What does this look like? So to give you an idea,
and I'm describing this to you, my friend Orcish, so
that you can probably describe what this looks like. But
I don't think Stalker has any idea what's happening. But
in using that same analogy, it is burning you like
a dodge and burn on the layer. So the what's
just happened to Gunner is happening to you as they
try to permanently attach you to this layer. So you're
gonna smell skin burning, You're gonna smell whatever. But for
whatever reason, you're able to get out of the way.
Speaker 9: So it is trying to burn, it's trying to stun
fh and spragically sort of glue into this lag.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, he's trying to He's trying to keep you
here on this layer permanently attach you. And the burning
skin and the smell and all of that and the
melting of the shoes is residue. It's what happens because
he's trying to do this. It's basically mechanically, it's going
to take him a couple of rounds to permanent lock
you here, unless somebody were to magically unlock you. So
that is what is happening. But he fails this first
round trying to get you, lock you in.
Speaker 11: Is my hand still on your arm?
Speaker 9: Well maybe it was, but it won't be after I
avoid this attack. I think he he has my left
arm grasped and my left arm is holding his spine,
still arm broken, but being held there. I think he
brings his other arm around with a bone spike for
truding out of it, and he's trying to grab me again,
and I just see it coming, and I I'm not
sure what's going to happen when I do this, but
I phase, well, this is my body, so no, I
just dodged the same way that I did before. And
it happens so quickly.
Speaker 3: It's a thirty three. You can body phase if you want.
Speaker 9: It's a.
Speaker 3: Phase through him.
Speaker 9: I face through him, sick and as I'm going through.
Do you know how when you're a little kid and
you're running past, like.
Speaker 3: Is it dangerous game you just played with me?
Speaker 9: She immediately starts crying. You run past like a light
pole or a guard rail, and you grab it as
you're running past, and it sort of swings you back
around the momentum. Does that make sense?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it makes total sense.
Speaker 9: So I I phase through him and I grab his
spine with my now repaired ride off. Yeah, and it
swings me back around. So now I'm behind him.
Speaker 3: Having his spine. Yes, I love that. That's fucking awesome.
Sick as hell. Again, when you touch his actual body
and spine with your bare hands, it is going to
burn you a bit.
Speaker 9: Very well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, fantastic. Anything else, I'm going to argue for
something now, sure, Yeah, go for it.
Speaker 9: Thirty three again on this dodge. I believe you gave
me something. You gave me. Oh, I believe that I
maybe have a dodge ability. Now what do you think?
Speaker 3: No, I don't help because you are dodging at the
moment I would normally, but right now, you guys are
learning your attack abilities first, yes, but otherwise yes, two
of you would have learned something new.
Speaker 9: Could I can I argue for a counter attack?
Speaker 3: You could normally. Why do you think you'd be able
to counter attack right now? I think meta out of it,
mechanics out of it, or want to carrying out of it? Yeah?
Why do you think Stoker like? Seriously? Truly though, why
do you think Stalker would feel like he would be
able to get an attack out of this?
Speaker 9: I think that we're playing this game of tongue of
war where we're trying to pull each other into one
another's world. Yes, and I did a very good job
at dodging his attack here, and I just the momentum
of me spinning back around as soon as I'm my
feet are planted again, I'm going to try to pull
us both back into our realm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, absolutely. I will let you
try to pull him into your realm, but you'll take
a burn if you want.
Speaker 9: Mhah, go for it. Yes, stinks are high enough, Yeah,
it was.
Speaker 3: You're at two burn now, right, yes? Yes, okay, yep,
so sixty five, then don't forget that she burn makes
all other roles at a minus ten shift at this point.
Speaker 7: Really yes, well yeah that's hope.
Speaker 9: This is worth it.
Speaker 3: Yeah twelve. So wow, Okay, I need to help you here.
I need to be perfectly clear. Yes, oh my god. Okay,
you are going to succeed at yanking this thing onto
the regular real life photoshop layer. But I need you
to know that if anyone is on the street, they
are going to see this thing. Okay, because you guys
aren't off, you know, you won't be obfuscated anymore. Yes, okay, as.
Speaker 9: Careful as I am, I think in this moment, I
have no idea if this, if these things are denis
of this land, this could be the people that shop
in the market for all I know.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Uh so again, hell dude, I do it anyways.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, yep, all right, So you are going to
yank it into this layer, and you absolutely know that
otherworldly success. By the way, bump your ability. It's all
layers up by one point, so it is now increasing.
So the more you succeed at that, the stronger you
get using that ability. Okay, So as you rip this
creature into this layer, and we're just gonna go with that.
We're just gonna call it over. Yes, yeah, it's great.
As you yank this creature into this layer, your hand
will sizzle and burn. But the creature then begins to hiss,
and as you look it over, you realize it's not
hissing from its mouth, it's its actual bones begin hissing
as they burn with the sensation of being here instead
of this infernal realm, and it is going to be
unable to attack for the next round. It is also,
while on this layer, going to take double damage, and
you know that, as I expected. Congrats, that was really good. Wow, Okay, Cora, Yeah,
I know, I know you're up. Yeah, that's the.
Speaker 9: Point of Yeah.
Speaker 6: So we have two monsters left, which one's the headless one,
the one by Gunner okay.
Speaker 3: And then and that one looks super fucked up.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, okay. All right, Well I think I think
I'm in the same spot. Nothing really has changed, So
I'm going to try to do something just again destrictive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, maybe.
Speaker 6: This time instead of trying to subdue, because I think
at this point I have tried it twice and it's failed,
and maybe I'm going to think Okay, maybe I just
can't do that here in this reality for whatever reason.
Maybe I'll try again later. So I think at this
point I would want to try to affect the creature
next to Gunn or.
Speaker 3: His bones, And how do you do that?
Speaker 6: I think as much as I can focus, it's headless,
so I feel like I wouldn't be able to help it.
Notice like the bit of spine that's sticking up out
of it, out of its neck, and maybe by focusing
on that spine I almost magically or mentally trace it
down into its body and use it almost as like
a focusing point to affect the rest of its skeleton
and try to like either have it. I want to
see how the role goes. Yeah, but that's that's my
my thought going into it.
Speaker 3: Perfect answer, All right, let's give it a go.
Speaker 7: Remember while doing this, I'm going to turn around and
look at her and say, haven't you done enough?
Speaker 6: I think I would. I would grin Riley and look
at him and say, well, we aren't out of it yet,
aren't we. What's the difficulty for this?
Speaker 3: The difficulty because you're at burn and he's just not
going to stop you, and it's counteracting itself, is going
to be the same as it is for everybody else
right now, which is forty forty Okay, yep. Keep in
mind that if you fail, you're going to take one
hit point of damage because you're at four burn. Okay, yep, okay,
holy shit, what other worldly success? Okay, now I need
to be perfectly clear. This is all you, Nana Ishna.
So what happens here?
Speaker 6: I know what I would like to have happened.
Speaker 3: Yes, go for it to what would you like?
Speaker 6: Because I can see it's spine sticking up out of
its body and it's easier for me to focus on.
I think what I would want to do is look
at that almost as like a pull string or like
a zipper, and think about magically pulling on it and
dissolving the skeleton from the top as much as I can.
Speaker 3: Okay, this this is not the same as your immediate
ash ability, but you can absolutely do damage with this
otherworldly success if you would like. You can do one
damage to it.
Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, so maybe like the one damage is half
of its spine, so it oh yes, that kind of
flops to the side a little bit and can't really
stand upright as much anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's partect. It also can't reattach its head.
I think that's great. Yeah yeah, and this is also
just because they're resistant to magical damage at the moment.
Otherwise this would have done more. And to be clear,
a human mortal would not be able to do this
ship with level four burn, Cora is just still trying
to still trying to do stuff even though she's totally
fucked up. I love it, all right, gunner, you are up.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm attacking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe you have a positive shift? Did I?
Is that correct?
Speaker 7: So it still has my shadow?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay shift.
Speaker 7: And he has a head and he's screaming second lawyer,
if I can be his lawyer.
Speaker 3: For if I can just step in his attorney.
Speaker 7: He's screaming, he just got hit. He has a head
in his head.
Speaker 3: I think the sixty five is pretty good. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 5: Go ahead.
Speaker 10: And I'm I'm starting to engulf in flames.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's burning.
Speaker 10: Me and I I want to I want to just
finish this thing off.
Speaker 5: I haven't said I want to stab it with its
own horns. Yeah, just attempt to do that.
Speaker 10: Okay, I'm going to roll body sixty five is heard
on Uh huh, come.
Speaker 7: On, you gotta be kidding.
Speaker 3: I will let you take a.
Speaker 5: Burn rolling so bad.
Speaker 3: I know if you take a burn, you can reroll it.
Speaker 5: So it's a burn to my actual hit.
Speaker 3: Point or no, a burn is basically just like all
other you'll have to find a way to remove it later,
like to heal yourself rest. Otherwise it's going to give
you a negative five on all your other roles that
aren't related to this combat. Like, once it's on it,
it's kind of like you like ran the fucking marathon
and then you're like, oh and now my body's going
to be sore for a little bit, like you're pushing
your body to its limits.
Speaker 8: Yeap.
Speaker 10: If we want to do that for like a mechanical reason,
getting like holding the head and getting burns, Yeah, take that.
Speaker 5: Because it makes sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah I think so too.
Speaker 5: Take the reroll. But yeah, I don't want to be that.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, no, no, please be be that. That's what
this is. Collaborative one hundred percent. Yeah, it makes sense
to me, go for it. I wouldn't offer it if
I didn't think it made sense.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I will take it, that will I be lucky
this time, please, yeah.
Speaker 3: Holy shit, wow, I'm.
Speaker 8: Thing.
Speaker 3: No, I refuse, I will I fucking refuse. I just
want to see if you're gonna roll because it was
eighty two and then eighty five. Wow, I just want
to see what happens again. Will you just roll that
one more time for me?
Speaker 7: Anger? Anger meter is building?
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I don't feel Yeah, you don't feel right, Okay,
I was gonna make take another all right. I just
want to make sure she's not fucking broken at this point.
Have you rolled anything other than an eighty dead he did?
Speaker 9: Okay, I rolled something today.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, that's fair. Okay. Next up is Esteban.
Speaker 7: I would like to try to get my shadow to
listen to me again. Okay. What I would like him
to do is, uh, he's doing the high part, but
I would like the seek part. So can he cover
the skeleton so I can know where it is because
I can see well, not that I would see him,
but I could see in that stuff. All right, Well,
and roll for it. What is difficulty.
Speaker 3: Forty for anything related to these skeletons? Unless I say otherwise,
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 7: Well, it's just commanding the thing to Okay, I's all right,
mm hmm, do what I tell you. Get over there, okay, Okay,
so I think it. I think suddenly a gunner who
is covering this and holding the skull, and it's also
fire coming around. I think it kind of almost like
drips off him, like like like follows off of him,
like water running down him and in then onto the
ground and then maybe not over the skull because he's
coming a part of it, stay over the skull, folding it.
Speaker 9: And then did an.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and he's covering all the bones and everything on
the ground.
Speaker 3: I would would offer that with this otherworldly success, you
can cover the skull and it stops burning gunner's hand
if you would.
Speaker 7: Like, because it's around it's trapped. Yeah, and so it's
kind of just like yeah, that pocket of ye what it.
Speaker 3: Is the burning gunner? Okay?
Speaker 7: Cool, mother's the fire yep. And then I think, now
I could see all the parts on the ground. Okay, fantastic,
so it should be well I can see.
Speaker 3: It, yeah, well so can everyone else because it's your
shadow shadows. Yeah, so everyone can see it. Okay, Then,
my dear, you are.
Speaker 8: Up with my wounds healed. Now I look at my
right arm and it's just like a tapestry of like
markings in the fur and Stalker popped out onto the
layer that we can see right with that thing. Yes, yes,
and he's super fucked up.
Speaker 3: So yes or sorry? Who's super fucked up?
Speaker 13: Stalker?
Speaker 9: I have a broken forearm and I'm a little I'm
a little banged up. Yes, and Donner super.
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, I'm looking pretty bad.
Speaker 9: I'm uh yeah, I'm pretty banged up.
Speaker 8: Okay, I'm going to up on this rooftop. I'm just
watching everyone get decimated and take a deep breath and
going to leap right in between where the two skeletal
creatures are, and I'm going to how and try to
get the residents for it. And also, if I can,
I want to try to agrow them to me as well.
Speaker 3: Okay, sorry, you're gonna howl to get the bones to resonate,
is that right? Okay, yeah, go for it, my dear forty.
Speaker 8: Failure, nothing happens. Well, I howl, and it doesn't.
Speaker 3: I actually know exactly why this doesn't look. So when
you howl, I think you're howling in the same way
that you were before. But es Sebon's shadow is covering
this creature and the way that his magic specifically works
is this thing is kind of like in a little
pocket of space, so I think that it's not going
to touch at least that creature and the other one
I think has swapped layers, so things work differently for
him here. I think his bones do shake, like, implying
that if you tried this again, it might still work.
But for whatever reason, maybe it was the transition between
spaces that prevented him from getting it this time. But yeah,
you do howl, but it just doesn't quite work the
way that you were hoping. Okay, Stalker, you are up.
Speaker 9: Yes, now, I'm assuming I didn't forfeit my turn by
everything that happened when he attacked me.
Speaker 3: That was the dodge, yep, I'd like to.
Speaker 9: I believe I dropped my sword and one of my
daggers already. I'd like to swing my crossbow round, kay,
if that's something I can do?
Speaker 3: Incidentally, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like you can
pull out your weapon no problem unless your arm is broken,
so it's up to you if yeah, I know, I
just mean, is it a situation where you can pull
it out safely with one hand?
Speaker 5: Then?
Speaker 3: Yeah? For sure.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll have that up to you to determine.
Speaker 9: It's on a it's on a strap. Yeah, And I
swing it around and I'm going to rest the end
of it this creature's skull and lift it up with
one arm, and I'm going to shoot at point blank.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, go ahead, and roll difficulty is sixty.
Speaker 9: This would be body yes, yeah, all.
Speaker 3: Right, technically it would be a crossbow weapon skill, but
we don't have that. So yeah, we're just gonna roll
body up water. Ah, there we go, forty one sash. Okay,
you are going to do for damage to this motherfucker.
It still stands it's taking double damage in this plane though,
so yeah, describe what happens for sure.
Speaker 9: Yeah. So I just I swing out the around the
crossbow and I rest it on the back of his skull.
And I don't say this out loud, but in my head,
I'm thinking this might be the easiest shot I've ever
taken with this thing. I pull the trigger and the
bolt shoots out and I think it penetrates the back
of the skull, and it probably even breaks off a
piece of this creature's face or the face of the skull,
and it you know, the bolt sort of ricochets off
the pavement, and his skull skitters across, skull fragments, skitterers
across the ground.
Speaker 3: As soon as you do that, as soon as you
strike this creature on this plane, in this space, his
entire skeleton will light up with blue inscription. There are
a varying number of symbols, occult other worldly things all
over this thing. It lights up, and a lightning strikes
in the sky, and it begins to rain, and this
thing starts screaming when the water touches it.
Speaker 9: Oh, is there anyway I could roll my mind to
see if I'm quick enough to recognize or read any
of these.
Speaker 3: You absolutely can, You absolutely can. But your ac cult
on your VTM sheet was like zero if I recall yes,
So I don't know if you would recognize any of them.
So I might be able to remember, Oh yeah, oh
fuck yeah, go ahead, yeah, roll roll roal roll.
Speaker 15: I mean.
Speaker 9: Yeah, are they just flashing and then dissipating or are
they just on it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you could be quick enough to remember. I was
just wondering if I should even bother to. I'd like
to just let you have that, Like I feel like
you can look at it, and you can pick one
symbol and memorize that one and then we'll roll on
a table to see what symbol it was. But yet
you don't have to roll to do that, Like I
feel like this one. I do too, But it's difficult. Yeah,
it is difficult.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 9: Actually if I roll, would I be able to risk
risk the knowledge for something extra? Yeah? Always, and I
will always take that option.
Speaker 3: Yep, Okay, then so of course.
Speaker 9: Who I am. What's the difficulty?
Speaker 3: It's in the system. It's literally like take the freebie
or risk the role to get better shit, So go
for it.
Speaker 9: How what's the difference.
Speaker 3: Forty forty difficulty with these things?
Speaker 9: Twelve?
Speaker 3: Unreal?
Speaker 9: I'll take my I'll take my case.
Speaker 3: Actually this is a twelve. This is an otherworldly success.
I think. I think the lightning strikes. You see the
symbols light up on this thing skeleton, You see the
color that it's a light blue, and all of a sud,
all of a sudden, you hear that same sound that
you heard before, which was like a sharp inhale, and
you remember the snapping sound of the fellow that you
were trying to communicate with, right when he instantly died. Yes,
that you're hearing the snapping, you're seeing, you're recognizing the
flash in his eyes, you're seeing the blue of the light.
There there is some sort of connection here between what
happened to him and what is happening to this creature
right now. And you know that in your bones.
Speaker 9: There's a connection, not between the creature and my.
Speaker 3: Just the way whatever is happening to them right now. Yeah,
whatever happened to him and whatever happened is happening to
this creature right now. It's either the same magic or
there's just some connection there between them.
Speaker 9: Thank you, narrator.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Constantine, you're up. It begins to rain.
Speaker 11: Gunner is very hurt. Yeah, I think after I witnessed
what I was able to do with Stalker, I I
think I'm curious about what else I can do, Okay,
And I'm wondering if maybe the feelings that I the
feeling of the healing that I'm doing or the helping
rather would be different based on who I'm healing and
what makes them feel good.
Speaker 3: Why do you think that, as Constantine, because myrgos is
one hundred percent right, But how do you Becaunstantine know
what he was feeling.
Speaker 11: Because everyone has the things that make them feel good.
It's personal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's dual.
Speaker 11: And what makes me feel good a bath might not
do that for a stalker. You know, there could be
more powerful things. And it's about getting.
Speaker 3: To know your absolutely and likes.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 11: So I would like to go to Gunner and I
would like to place my hand, like if I'm standing
behind him. I put my hand on the back of
his head and I like swiped out, like I stroked
down the back of his hair.
Speaker 3: Oh, Gunner is sh is sad?
Speaker 9: Oh no?
Speaker 11: And I say I can make it better. Do you
want me to make it better?
Speaker 3: How?
Speaker 11: And I would like if again, this is like if
he allows me to see it. Yeah, I would like
to see what would make him feel better.
Speaker 3: Okay, So that's kind of like a clear pointed yeah.
I think it is a contested role because I don't
know if he would willingly you know, want to do this.
I don't know, Gunner. What do you think? Do you
think you would allow her to heal you or him
to heal you?
Speaker 10: So yeah, you you just you did the exact thing
that he needed just now, like this feeling that he
would look after it's exactly what you just did. I mean,
if you want me to say more.
Speaker 3: No no no no no no, you shouldn't, you really shouldn't.
You can just describe what Gunner looks like as she
does or he does this, if anything, if he gives
any tell at.
Speaker 10: All, she might not just just the touch, yes, exactly
enough to like get in get reach into him.
Speaker 5: If that's what Constantine was looking to do.
Speaker 3: Okay, then Constantine, you're going to make a roll because
I don't think it's like you get a memory or anything.
I think this was it. I think you just knew
exactly kind of instinctually what to do. So go ahead
and roll to heal him here.
Speaker 11: Okay, fifty five, you've got a fifty to fifty shout
at this.
Speaker 3: Sorry, it's not your normal purview of magic. Oh ninety one,
and I'll let you take a burn if you want
to roll again.
Speaker 11: I will take a burn because I want to roll again.
Speaker 3: Okay, go for it.
Speaker 11: Same fifty to fifty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well you're taking a burn so you can have
a five shift on. So now it's fifty five because
you're at level one burn. Okay, and tell us how
much you heal form god damn dude. One one, sorry, but.
Speaker 8: One.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I take another burn?
Speaker 3: You can, you absolutely can. I will allow you to
take as much burn as you want.
Speaker 11: Okay, Okay, I'm going to do that.
Speaker 3: Yep, Okay, go for it.
Speaker 11: Oh another one? Can they stack?
Speaker 3: No, they can't stack. But yeah, so it's a one.
Speaker 7: It's a big one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're welcome to take another burn if you want.
Speaker 11: Oh, I don't think so.
Speaker 7: We didn't know.
Speaker 11: Here's the problem though we do have, we still only have.
We have these two things that we still have to beat. Okay,
car is out, Yes one of them. I can't really
do physical damage like I mean, I could if I tried,
But I've decided that this is the way that I
can be useful. So I have if this is the
way that I can be useful, and I'm not doing
anything else. Gunner is one of our one of the
three best chances that we have to lay these guys out.
Speaker 3: Sounds like you want I'm going to take.
Speaker 11: Another brand.
Speaker 8: For it.
Speaker 7: Oh my god, for real, that'll teach me to be.
Speaker 3: Okay, one and that was one. By the way that
she rolled three times around risk, I'm not going to
do another one. I would not advise for heavy cause.
And I only say this because the the other world
mechanics are brand new too all. But I feel like
you don't go to four unless your plan is to
use the hail mary at five, right, like four?
Speaker 7: Are you?
Speaker 9: Three?
Speaker 7: Is still thing about the hail mary too, yeah, which
is that if you use it once, then it's then
the next time you do it, it's no.
Speaker 3: That part okay, that's part of the wake up.
Speaker 7: Well, I thought you'd like to tell them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's no, that's that's fair. Once you do that,
if you use that hail Mary, then the next time
you get to level five burn and you try to
use the hail Mary again, your your chance for death
increases slightly. So you can do this as many times
as you want, but you're going to slowly lower that
target number for dying, which is just fucking sick man.
So yeah, you can do it as much as you want,
but you're you're at you're at three burn right now,
You're good?
Speaker 11: Yeah? Yeah, But I think what I would do as
I would just I would instinctually kind of maybe I
feel a slight loosening of the muscles when I do.
Speaker 3: That, you know, Yeah, for sure you recognize this is
something that you can do. Also, don't forget to increase
your eye can make it better by one because then.
Speaker 11: I'm going, Yeah, then I'm just going to simply reach
out and gently take your hat off and then put
my hand on the top of your head and do
it all the way down.
Speaker 10: And as you're doing this, I I'm like slumping back
into you and just like putting my weight on you
and I exhale like really long, sort of like easing
into bed nor becoming comfortable.
Speaker 11: Constantine will remember this.
Speaker 3: And soul murgles for the rest of her life. Okay,
it's my turn. I am going to attack. I am
attacking Gunner again. Please dodge, my dear, and I am
also attacking Stalker. Dodge again.
Speaker 9: Is he sure he wants to attack me again after what.
Speaker 3: Happened last Yes, yes he is. He's terrified. But yeah,
I thought about it for a second. But then you
it's either you or the werewolf, and no, he'll go
with tiltoos you.
Speaker 9: Oh, how difficult is it now that he's in our layer?
Speaker 3: That is such a good question. You're a difficulty sixty
now that he's here. Sorry, Gunner, yours is still forty
that one's still in the other layer.
Speaker 9: Yep, I'll go first, yeap in other worldly success.
Speaker 15: Okay, Okay, you both fucking I feel like this is
like a combo dodge somehow.
Speaker 3: I don't know how, but like, holy shit, I do
feel like there's some synergy here. What do you guys
think happens?
Speaker 9: I think I think we both dodge and then we
kind of if this is if this is okay for
me to go with, I'll let Gunner take it away
in a second. But I think we both dodge in
opposite directions here see on the map, and we run
into each other shoulder to shoulder, and I think we
have a buddy cop moment. But maybe something happens after that.
Speaker 10: Gunner wasn't constant, and you know we were very close.
Is it possible it's just targeting me with this attack,
so before we break free and then we wind up
close to each other. I just I wouldn't want to
just leave Constantine.
Speaker 5: To get hit by something.
Speaker 3: But you can, you can one hundred percent shield and
cover Constantine and take Constantine with you if you would
like to, like the full stay behind me.
Speaker 10: If it yeah, exactly, if it tried to strike in me,
probably drag him with me.
Speaker 5: Okay, as we do this day, we still wind up together.
Speaker 9: I want to say that if that is what's happening,
then I'm doing the same thing kind of. But we
a were wolf.
Speaker 3: Okay, the were wolf is slightly bigger than you.
Speaker 9: But yes, I know, but I'm still putting my arm up.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, Oh my god. You guys were like mirroring
each other.
Speaker 9: Yeah, in the four of them are Okay, I stood there.
Speaker 3: Oh that between these two creatures fantastic. Okay, I love this.
They were trying to slowly pull you onto the other layer.
This one doesn't realize it's going to probably hurt itself
doing so, the one that is now in the same
layer as you guys. But they fail, so they are
unable to do that. And before we go to Kora's
a turn here, we're just going to take a real
quick break. We'll be right back.
Speaker 5: You are listening to that list.
Speaker 7: I don't know why I am telling you this. You're
in the middle of the podcast. What are you doing?
Go listen to the rest of the show.
Speaker 3: Go now, okay, we are back. It is now Cora's turn.
Speaker 7: I'm going to reach out my hand and offer to
help her up.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think at this point at least stand on
your feet.
Speaker 6: I would take his hand and nod and kind of
heave myself up with a.
Speaker 9: Thank you.
Speaker 7: I'm acting like, you know, I'm very strom vampire. I
don't really have to make this noise. Guys, roll me
a ship whoops? Any difficulty or just roll, just roll.
Speaker 3: Just roll. I'm just curious to see what I'm just saying.
Speaker 7: I'm just saying, Okay, I'm just.
Speaker 3: Leave it at fifty and yeah, yeah, just leave difficulty fifty. No,
it's not that I think I think you don't know.
I think you feel Oh, I think you feel a hunger.
Speaker 9: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: That's similar to the hunger you feel with your magic Cora.
Speaker 7: Not now, not in the middle of Okay, I feel
I feel something familiar feeling, Yeah.
Speaker 3: The familiar hunger or familiar hunger rather All right, shit, okay, yep, okay,
next up, Cora, what would you like to do?
Speaker 6: I think I'd like to throw more pennies. Yeah, just
trying to do anything here for it.
Speaker 3: It's good, yep, all right, go ahead and roll?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 3: Are you attacking? Is that changes your difficulty?
Speaker 6: Yeah, the one that's next to Stockers. I think at
this point you saw what I would be able to
see the other one past them, and I think with
how damage fatigued whatever the word is, I'm going for
like what I can easily access, which is right now
in front of me.
Speaker 3: That makes sense.
Speaker 9: Sorry, I'd like to assist you, so if I could
use my turn before you do this, if that's all right?
Speaker 3: Yep, it is the top of the round.
Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely, stalker is going to I imagine this creature
is on the ground and he swiped at me.
Speaker 3: No, no, he's this one standing.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he's standing now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this one, this one has always been standing. The
other one by Gunner is the one on the ground
as far as I know. Yeah, I see.
Speaker 9: Sorry. I had imagined when I pulled him in he
maybe had collapsed, but I guess that's just in my head.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, so wry this one is still standing.
Speaker 9: M I'm going to take the he that might destroy it. Ah,
take my scabbard, bend, don't try to use it to
hold him.
Speaker 3: Okay, so that she has a better shot. That is
exactly how that works. Yeah, okay, so he's essentially giving
you a shift so these guys while on this plane,
I think we were doing sixty for this guy. So
now you're going to take a ten on top of that.
So your target is now seventy. That's nuts awesome to
seventy difficulty.
Speaker 9: Yep, it's the bronze side of our born in skeleton form.
Speaker 5: M hm.
Speaker 1: Are you.
Speaker 3: We can't say that, we can't say that, we can't
be like, what are the odds? Because then this fucking happens.
She rolled in ninety nine for those listening failure doubles.
Yeah okay, I m yes, okay, these is like are
you sure it hits you?
Speaker 11: Because I'm not sure it hits everywhere or other than.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hold on, I actually think, I actually think it's
really bad. Ninety nine is like the second word, Like
ninety nine, in my opinion, is on par with one
hundred pretty much. They're both critical failures. But I also
don't always like a critical failure to mean you fail
at the thing. So I have an offer for you.
There is a mechanic that is at play here that
we've briefly talked about before, which is your entanglement with Ishna,
which means that it's harder for you to do magic
without him. The more times you do magic with him
and succeed, the harder it is for you to do
it without him. I think this ninety nine increases your
entanglement level with is Ishna, and you can succeed. If
you don't want to do that, that's fine, but then
it is going to hit Stalker and do some damage.
Speaker 6: But I'm also the one who rolled the double failure.
What if like him holding the skeleton still in front
of me means I am now direct in his line
of sight in the skeleton cs that I'm the cause for.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think the skeleton knows that you're
the cause for. But the reason I'm doing the failure
this way with the entanglement is because you're trying to
cast magic without Ishna. This is you by yourself, and
so failure ninety nine. I think this might make you realize,
like it's harder for you to not rely on him
now just a little bit. Okay, So I think, yeah,
your options are increase that entanglement will let it succeed.
It's probably not going to be a critical success or anything.
It'll do some damage or you're going to damage Stalker.
I think those are the two options for in ninety nine.
Speaker 6: Okay, how how many times have I gotten entangled so far?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 6: What level are we at?
Speaker 3: You're at level two? Yeah, you're at level the second
levelent with Ishna.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, Okay, then I'll take that because I think
in taking it, I will realize what's happening and I
will tak that knowledge with me going forward.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I also just think it narratively makes sense that this
whole fight, you know, you were relying on him so
and I think there is a moment. I think there's
a moment where you feel then, now that you're at
level two, he's going to he is going to attack Stalker.
He is going to redirect your energy to attack Stalker
because he thinks it would be funny. And you stop
him from doing that. Now that you're at level two,
you know exactly, you can kind of get feelings from
him more so than you could before. Okay, so you
stop that from happening. Then damn dude, Okay, you will
do one damage to this creature though with this thing.
I am really glad that you did not choose to
hit Stalker there. It's so one before Yeah, I'm sure
it would have been fine, all right, Gunner, you're up
fucking kill this bitch. Let's go. Let's go holding it.
You're holding the other one, Yeah, the one that he
had the head for is.
Speaker 5: Still focusing the one I cannot get.
Speaker 7: He's got the shadows over him, so he sees where
it is. I don't know if he's still resonating.
Speaker 5: But what do I do? I I've tried like everything
to hit this thing.
Speaker 3: Okay, I have a question for you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what.
Speaker 3: Do you have a finishing move that you did back
when you were alive that you can think of? I'm
sure you had a few of them.
Speaker 10: I want to say that like the feeling that Gunner
had doing his ripping the thing's head off, it felt
like he was going to.
Speaker 5: Kill it there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so I just remembered there is something on
your sheet that you don't have unlocked yet. But this
is why I had us do our Vampire the Masquerade
sheets this way, so that I could look and go, Okay,
you're unlocking this ability here in the other world. It
is very specifically to do with the fucking skull of
this thing. Right, Okay, Yeah, I say you make an
attack rolled body, you're gonna have a shift and if
it succeeds, you're going to crush its fucking skull and
you'll unlock this ability hopefully fingers crossed. Okay, so you're
at sixty. Wait, yes, sixty shadow Yep, No, no, sixty
is bringing it because this one isn't in the same
layer as everyone else. Right, so this one was normally
for it.
Speaker 7: Right he could just see your.
Speaker 3: Shadow and it being able to see it bumps over
sixty Yep, so you got a sixty. Sorry, I would
love to make guy super hard. You rolled sixty the
exact number you needed. That's discussing more perfect with you
and fight it just won't give up.
Speaker 9: Thank you?
Speaker 3: Yeah for the bosses chat, Holy shit chat.
Speaker 8: Fuck Yeah.
Speaker 3: So yeah, describe what it looks like as you crush
this thing skull and kill it.
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 10: So I still had this thing in my in my
hands or did I try to attack it, because it's
like I did try to stab it with its own
skull the last time.
Speaker 3: You can still be holding a skull if you want,
or you can reach out and regrab it again. Whatever
you imagine that you like.
Speaker 10: I tried to stab it into him, but it just
it just gave it gave it his bones back and
now his skull again, and it's like maybe like messed
up and different than how it looked before.
Speaker 5: And yeah, very hurt. But I want to just spear him, yeah.
Speaker 10: And wind up on top and just break his break
his skull with my hands.
Speaker 5: Just like crush.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Okay, So I think I think I have a
follow up question for you, because this is something we
happens here as people are watching you. I don't know
if there was anyone that would have been alive during
this time period or anyone that would notice the moves
that you are making, but he moves in a very
deliberate and purposeful way. It's an art form that maybe
you are a form of combat you guys maybe don't
recognize or haven't seen before. But he absolutely like pins
this thing down on the ground. And I just need
to know, Gunner, do you take both your hands and
skull crush or do you only use one? And this
is tying back to like your what you used to
do in battle. Would you just take one hand and
crush their skull or would you use both?
Speaker 5: I think that.
Speaker 10: I couldn't crush anybody's skull, but if I were over them,
and had both of my hands on their head.
Speaker 7: Yeah, then I could.
Speaker 5: I could almost.
Speaker 10: Whatever that looks like. Yeah, I'll let you imagine that.
But you know, okay, I'm a lot stronger now.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, yeah, okay, absolute crush, then stop
me if I do anything that Gunner wouldn't do. So
I think we see Gunner get down on top of
this skeleton and he reaches maybe he goes to reach
two hands out, but one hand was burned, so he
stops and then continues with just the one hand and
places his fingers along the jaw of this creature and
his thumb right where the nose of this creature would be.
But because it's the skeleton, there's obviously no cartilage or
anything there, and he just grips between the jaw and
through the nose and crushes the entire bit of the skeleton. Yeah,
and it falls to the ground, and then it begins
to sizzle under the rain after a moment, as if
it is now on this layer, and then it fades away,
turns to ash, and it is gone.
Speaker 10: I'm also like sizzling too, I was just burning before,
and it's like brain coming down and just steam coming.
Speaker 7: Office there's distant giggling and light clapping. Oh okay, and
this other one is visible now it's in this layer, right,
it's in this layer.
Speaker 9: Yep.
Speaker 7: I'm going to run out and try to put my
foot into it. Yeah, and just to kind of push
it into it, push it into Fen at the very least,
like I want to kick it super hard, but at
the very least I want to push it into the werewolf.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Okay, like here, roll for it, but difficulty, difficulty.
It is here in this plane. Okay, you are going
to so I think normally a kick would not do
any damage to this, but you're going to do one
damage to it because it's taking double damage.
Speaker 7: So it takes right, So I think I turn around
and say to Cora, just say, why don't you take
it easy here? I think we can handle this for now.
And then I run across and like like literally like
just like a boot, like just stick my foot up
and kick it towards towards Fen his waiting arms.
Speaker 9: Yep.
Speaker 3: Perfect, And that's perfect because the snow fins turned.
Speaker 9: Okay, am I not? Am I not holding it anymore?
You kick it out of.
Speaker 7: Oh where were you holding it? What were you holding
on holding it for Cora.
Speaker 9: Yeah, my scambard like under its chin. I was holding it.
Speaker 3: I think you see I mean I think you see
him coming up and you kind of like back up
to let him try it, or something.
Speaker 9: Rolls so well that.
Speaker 7: You got this, man, What do you do?
Speaker 9: What do you do? What do you do?
Speaker 3: We all believe in you, buddy, you could do it.
Speaker 7: Not only can you see it, not only is it
in this layer, but this thing is just totally off
balance because it got kicked into him.
Speaker 3: Is no, it is not resonated, but it is in
this realm, so it is sixty It is your difficulty.
Speaker 8: Okay. So just to clarify, I want to break this
thing apart like you've been trying to do all session.
Is it just gonna regrow again?
Speaker 3: You won't know until you try.
Speaker 8: I'm just gonna do it. I'm gonna That's exactly what
I'm gonna do.
Speaker 3: I will say that stalker hit it and then lightning
struck and it started to rain, So it does imply
that maybe it will take damage. Now, yeah, it's head
in your hair, right, Yeah, it did not repair now
that it's all the Yeah, yeah, well it's not screaming,
but it's falls are pissing as the rain hits it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yep, so this thing hits Fen. And I think
Fenn's back was my back was to him. I turned around,
fur drenched. Now there's new patches of dark fur where
the scars once were, and my eyes are glowing in
the night, and Grin forms scratch scratch, scratch, scratch, scratch scratch,
And I'm going to try to scratch the ship out
of this thing and break it up into a million
different pieces. And you said, what was the difficulty again?
Speaker 3: Sixty?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 9: Huh?
Speaker 3: What happens?
Speaker 8: I am screaming scratch crash, crashed, and I am clawing
at the thing. I am ripping it's uh, it's rib
cage into pieces. It's stupid fucking horns. I'm ripping out
of its head. Its arms are off to the side.
I grab its pelvis and I chomp on it, and
I take its fucking toes and I lick them. You
fucking bees are ship. And then I look, I take
its arm and I offer it to Gunner as a trophy.
Speaker 3: And that's where we end the session.
Speaker 7: Had to make it a little horny. Can't end it
unless it's a little horny. We did it, We did it.
Speaker 8: I Love.
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