Speaker 1: M Valmont.
Speaker 2: The Black Raven Chronicles created by Jonathan Miller, produced at
Ember and Echo Studios. Voice direction by Jacqueline Burns.
Speaker 3: None of you can stop it. My creature will massacre
you all. How have a breath, bit you ugly motherfucker.
That's not possible. What have you done? You worthless waste
of flesh. I will tear your soulda ribbons. I swear
you will suffer.
Speaker 4: Go to hell.
Speaker 3: Holy shit, good shot, pretty boy. Not now, kittie, we
gotta move. Where's Kane? Hold up?
Speaker 4: Kine? He bought a large building on Marion Street one
that's thirteen stories. What's he got to do with this?
Speaker 3: He's got Kira. Him and Senator Kinsey were behind all
of this. You worked for them.
Speaker 4: You're accusing a sitting US senator of being behind the
worst supernatural attack in almost two hundred years.
Speaker 5: You're damn right, I am, And they have my friend,
so they're gonna pay.
Speaker 4: All right, Fine, give me a few minutes to organize
a response team and we'll have that way. Kaine is smart.
You're not gonna get him by yourself.
Speaker 6: He's stopped going by himself. We are going with him.
Speaker 3: Geez uh yeah, sure, but you're right.
Speaker 5: I will be when I put a hole in Kane's head,
just like I did to that asshole A Frank. Wait, Sarah,
he's gonna torture her. I don't have time to.
Speaker 7: Wait, I know.
Speaker 8: Just be careful. Okay, we're right behind you. Gokay, gass.
Fred get ahold of SWAT commander. Tell him there's a
situation at the Monarch Building. Single suspect has a senator
and a woman hostage somewhere in the building.
Speaker 9: Uh yeah, of course, right, hostage situation.
Speaker 8: Dad, Listen, A Frank's in trouble. I'm on my way,
but he needs some help. Here's what I want you
to do.
Speaker 3: I felt like an idiot. How could I not see
what was right in front of my face.
Speaker 5: He'd always been there, at the Harbor Club, at the
Knightwood Hall, probably even at doctor Johnson's. At some point
he inserted himself into the investigation, and I just assumed
he was gonna be some pompous opportunist trying to milk
the situation. But in reality, he was the situation.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 5: He had Kira as a hostage, and if I didn't
move fast, he was gonna get away.
Speaker 10: You're being awful applid over there.
Speaker 5: I hadn't even seen the small black cat slip into
the car, but there she sat on the passenger seat,
silently watching me. I should have seen this coming. I
should have known Simmons wasn't the mastermind type.
Speaker 11: You couldn't have known. There are too many pawns on
the board, had in the king.
Speaker 3: You're a chess expert.
Speaker 11: Now, there's plenty of things about me you don't know yet,
but you won't find out if you go in there
with your head on.
Speaker 3: Miss You're right.
Speaker 5: All of this was a game to came, all pageantry
and show. He could have killed me at any time.
I wouldn't see it coming. He wanted me to screw up,
throw me off my game.
Speaker 10: Maybe because at some point you scared him a little.
Speaker 5: That's when it hit it. When we shook hands at
the Harbor Club the first time we met, for a
brief second, surprise flashed across his face. He tried to
show me how strong he was, and I showed him
I was stronger because I did scare him. I showed
him up twice.
Speaker 7: Good.
Speaker 10: Now let's go make his fur reality.
Speaker 3: Oh, for fuck's sake, what now, mister Belmont.
Speaker 10: We're gonna be blocking the road to head for you.
Speaker 12: Just put a Hema down and will in God an honor.
Speaker 3: Well would you look at that?
Speaker 5: We get a police that scored, might want to dig
your kitty.
Speaker 9: All right, now, look alive, everybody here comes our boy,
God damn it, or fraid. I'm at the cabin cleaning
my guns and you gotta come interrupt a perfectly good
date night.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: I want to know why, what the hell is going on?
Speaker 9: My daughter called asked me to give you some help.
And when my humming bird asked for something, you know,
I can't say no.
Speaker 5: I appreciate it, Sarge, but I've got to get in
that building and find a girl being held against her will.
It might get a little crazy in there.
Speaker 3: We'll get to it, son. We'll keep a perimeter to
make sure no gets in or.
Speaker 12: Out without your say urrah, Sarge, sympathy.
Speaker 3: Marine. Oh that guy with the big dogs, he's with me. Oh, now,
what the hell? Shit security? Look, I want King's head.
Speaker 5: But these guys are just doing a job, so let's
try not to kill them.
Speaker 10: Uh, those ain't guards.
Speaker 13: Guls.
Speaker 6: Fuck, this is bad.
Speaker 3: What the fuck is a ghoul?
Speaker 6: They're like old school zombie movies, but worse. The good
news is they're really slow news they're really hard to kill.
He's got a planet. Come on, let's keep moving. Head
for the elevator.
Speaker 3: The elevator is not an option.
Speaker 5: I guess it was too much to ask for Caine
to make it easy.
Speaker 10: Stars.
Speaker 6: Shit, it's thirteen floors up.
Speaker 3: I hope you stretched because we're getting a workout. You
sure Griff has that.
Speaker 6: He's good at drawing attention and finding places for cover.
And if he has to, there's always the last trick.
Speaker 3: Why don't they pull that like you did? It could
be helpful.
Speaker 6: It's hard to control. It blurs the mind. It's easier
to just run as a wolf or a fox or
a cat. Let's move afraid listen. If it comes down
to just you remember headshots own. Anything else will just
piss them off.
Speaker 5: Right, headshots just like left for Dead, Not even close.
Speaker 6: I'll clear a hole. You two keep going?
Speaker 3: Who good, kitty?
Speaker 10: Oh sh get ready to back?
Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am, you're so bossy.
Speaker 10: Do you always have to make jokes?
Speaker 3: It's part of my charm?
Speaker 10: This is it?
Speaker 3: It's party time, Talmont.
Speaker 12: How is that pest still alive.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's time for your ass whooping.
Speaker 1: Come on, then, you worthless mortal face death at the
hands of your better.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm gonna show you better.
Speaker 12: Really, you have thought you could just shoot me?
Speaker 14: Pathetic?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're over a thousand and you thought you could
kill me with a swing like that.
Speaker 3: Now, who's pathetic.
Speaker 14: I am going to enjoy killing you human.
Speaker 3: Not in this lifetime, chump. You will suffer off the that.
Speaker 5: Honestly, that's like your seventh threat, dude, to shut up
and fight.
Speaker 3: Sammy a frick.
Speaker 1: I must admit you are more of a challenge than
I could ever have expected. But this fight was over
before you walked through that door.
Speaker 12: Looking Sarah over here, humming bird. What the hell is
going on?
Speaker 8: Dad? It's a lot and I can't really explain what's
the situation here.
Speaker 9: The situation here is SWAT is getting loaded up to
storm the beaches of Normandy. Air one is three minutes out,
and about seven minutes ago a freg and Daniel Michaelson
ran into the building with two wolves, a fox, and
a little black cat. Now tell me what is going on?
Is this some supernatural bullshit? Because I honestly am tired
of this crap.
Speaker 8: Dad, I really can't wait. What do you mean supernatural?
Speaker 9: You know exactly what I mean? Vampires, were wolves, ghosts, goblins, demons.
You think I don't know what goes on in this city.
I have been on this job for twenty seven years. Hell,
I did my time in Special Division, so.
Speaker 8: You know everything. Holy shit, you never told me. Did
you know about Leslie Simon?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 9: You know why. I couldn't tell you. And I knew
enough to realize Leslie was playing a game on all sides.
Just because he helps people doesn't mean he's not dangerous.
Speaker 4: If I could break up this touch family moment, we
have civilians inside fighting an ancient vampire, and who knows
what else we need to move. Bobby, Good to see
you again.
Speaker 12: Same here, Marcus.
Speaker 8: You're right Dad. When Air one gets here, have him
try and keep the helicopters from the roof. That's their
escape plane. We're going in.
Speaker 12: Air one isn't carrying a gunna.
Speaker 9: They can't do much.
Speaker 7: I know. We just need my life.
Speaker 4: That bloodsucking son of a bitch brought gouals to us.
Soil all right, people, headshots, keep it tight. Watch your
six these bastards are slow, but they're tough.
Speaker 8: What's a gool?
Speaker 4: Imagine getting your soul and mind ripped away and being
made into an undying slave until someone puts you out
of your misery.
Speaker 1: That sounds like a fucking nightmare.
Speaker 4: It is, which is why it was outlawed four hundred
years ago. There are still some left overseas, but it's
a crime to even bring them close to us soil?
Speaker 7: Do you think afraid got through them?
Speaker 4: I think we should follow the fox.
Speaker 5: Wow, what's the matter Kane? Having trouble? Keep you up
with those threats?
Speaker 13: You still don't see it, do you? Mister Vaumont. You
may be able to vest me in the short term,
but this is a long game and you are running
out of time. Every dianphilict, no matter.
Speaker 14: How small, slows you. The more you exert yourself, the
more tired your muscles become, the harder it gets for
you to keep going.
Speaker 13: I don't have to beat you out right, I just
have to outlast you.
Speaker 5: Out last this, you bloodsucking bastard. I am sick and
tired of your purpose. Ass your son superior be I
hate your accent.
Speaker 3: Man on stairs, got smoking attitude? Fuck figures a politician
would stab me in the back. Kira, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 11: Graham Fry, Oh God, no, afrak Afrik please answer me.
Speaker 7: Affrey, what's happening?
Speaker 4: Nothing good? Sounds like someone's been killed.
Speaker 2: Balmont The Black Griven Chronicles is a Phoenix Creed of
Works production written and directed by Jonathan Miller, Voice direction
by Jacqueline Burns. Sound designed by David Whitney, Marshawn Fry,
and Nick Hankey, featuring the voices of Adele Valentine, Sam Saunders,
Corey Bishop, Jonathan Miller, Adam Rose, Crimson Rose, Abigail Holmes,
Joshua Slavin, E. C. Hart, Stevie Summers, Nick Hankey, David Whitney,
Marshaun Fry, Jacqueline Burns, Bryan Willis, Toby E. Lucke, Cammy Davies,
Travis Boyles, Jen Boyles, Chris Millington, and Sharon Guildford. Original
composition by Paul Flowers. Produced at Embern Echo Studios. Support
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