Speaker 1: Deathless. He's an improvised cinematic narrative live production, including music
and dialogue. There is no script. This story contains violence,
disturbing imagery, adult themes in the darkness, which may leave
you doubting who you are. Proceed at your own risk.
Speaker 2: Oh shame.
Speaker 3: How that he says, stand up for the things you
can't stand. Previously on Deathless, Stalker decides to make a
deal with us. We need to care revenge on who
or what imprisoned us. Here we all enter in a
chord with Stalker, who won't let us leave until we
do something. Something else has Cora's attention, though, as she
touches the final coffin and we learn that it contains Ishna.
Ishna makes a deal of his own with Cora, but
you'll have to go back and listen to the last
episode for those details. As we cross the threshold, we
hear echoes from another life Mooke hasn't come back, and
an eerie song that go through the halls. As we leave,
we've learned that things have changed. Some see more change
than others. Pora tells us of her apartment and offers
to guide everyone the safety. However, I stay behind, hungry,
and cold and naked. I feel something watching over me. No,
not something stalker. And as I put on a black
denim vest from one of the graves that I've dug up,
I think we begin our session. I can, I can
see you up there. Stalker might as well come down.
Speaker 4: I don't want to be that guy, but we did.
We did make a deal last week, you and me,
that story girl would hear something you want him to hear.
Speaker 3: I've forgotten.
Speaker 4: I've forgotten, so why don't we start there?
Speaker 1: Then?
Speaker 4: How are you feeling picking up this denim.
Speaker 3: Jacket, I'm I feel empty and I don't know why
this is making me feel sad. I feel this reminds
me of something very specific. But what I'm thinking of
isn't that emotion. It's not sad, it's it's not sorrow,
it's anger. It's betrayal. It's and as I think about
these emotions, they're swirling around. I'm thinking of there's a
fire in there's my bond in the middle of it.
My arms begin to take on their claw like teachers.
And I can't look at this anymore. I need something
to get me out of this. I need my eyes
scan the denim vest goes right for the chest.
Speaker 4: Three patches.
Speaker 5: What do you see?
Speaker 3: The name is scratched out. That shouldn't be that it's
scratched out. Ah, this is helping this. The fires go down,
the hairs recede, My hands go back to their previous date,
their mine again. Why can't I feel anything? Why can
I feel my bond? I put on the black denim vest.
I take the pants off of the gentlemen laying in
the grave in the coffin in front of me, and
I put them on. Certainly not the worst smelling thing
I've ever worn, and take a look at the name
tag once again, just trying to focus on that, the
lack of identity on this vest. Scratched out name is comfort, huh.
And then I move on to the next, still hungry,
trying to find anything to satiate me. Off there, and
off there in the distance, there's another, this one not
as fresh. I run full speed, fast as my tired,
atrophied legs can take me, and I bury my hands
into the soil and just rip the grass and the
mud and everything into till I reach my meal. This
is disgusting, but I'm just so hungry, and I feed
and it is it is, can hardly keep it in,
and yet it feels not as bad as it tastes,
if that makes sense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I bet it feels pretty good.
Speaker 3: It shouldn't this is I mean, just look at this
and I'm looking at its heart shriveled. It's what is
that on this? And then I bite into it like
an apple? Oh, I feel a little stronger, I think. Uh. Okay,
I look up at the sky, the rain just caressing
my face running down. You know, I used to really
hate the feeling of wet clothes on my body. That
doesn't bother me so much right now. I try to
feel again. I try to reach out. Do I Can
I feel anyone? Anything familiar?
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's make a roll.
Speaker 3: Okay, what would I need to roll?
Speaker 4: Let's take a look here, and I think it's goes
without saying stalker. Then you've witnessed the thing that he
probably didn't want you to witness. Was him eating a
dead bodies for food?
Speaker 6: What is that?
Speaker 7: Or is it the.
Speaker 8: End?
Speaker 4: Oh? Good, good question?
Speaker 3: It was the hands Okay, Orkish secrets.
Speaker 4: Okay, I will say it is. You know, it is
pretty rare and or strange to see a vampire eating
off of a dead body. That's usually a big no. No, okay,
I think I gave you. I have something for you, Yes.
Speaker 2: A role.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's a little twist. I would like eyes of
the Beast under your protean. Please difficulty for and your
second stat if it gives you one is.
Speaker 3: A resolve, eis of the beast? How do I roll on?
Speaker 4: So you will be rolling your like your protean ability
this one?
Speaker 3: Okay, yep, I'm so sorry. What did you say? The
attribute was.
Speaker 4: The second one's resolve that's already there.
Speaker 3: Sorry there, okay, go for it. And you said difficulty
for yep, perfect beastial failure three out of four.
Speaker 4: Okay. Now you said a key word here Instead of
why can't I feel my bond? You said, can I
feel anyone or anything familiar?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 4: I think you do. But whatever it is, you don't
like it because that's that beast deal failure. So I'm
gonna let you decide what it is that you feel
that upsets you.
Speaker 3: So I I feel it's not a familiar person. It's
a familiar feeling, okay, and it's something I've not felt
since I was a boy, and it's someone watching me
and maybe it's stock or maybe it's something else.
Speaker 4: Thank you for my gift. I appreciate it, Okay.
Speaker 3: Okay, And with that being the only thing that I
can feel, I'm gonna make my way. I think to
the street, and I would like to look for a payphone. Okay,
because it's nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 4: Yep, that is accurate. Do you call Stalker down or
do you just The only reason I'm asking is because
you had originally. It's fine if you don't, if you
just know he's there and fuck off towards a payphone.
But he's probably gonna watch you go to that payphone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, which is fine.
Speaker 4: If your character does don't care. Your character doesn't care.
Speaker 3: I don't think I care, Okay. I think he's gonna
follow me no matter what I do.
Speaker 4: Stalker, Is that true?
Speaker 6: That was the deal that I had made with Cora.
Speaker 4: So let's pivot then for a second. You're walking towards
a payphone. I want to know what Stalker was thinking,
and we're feeling witnessing what he just witnessed.
Speaker 6: It's not the first time I've seen a desperate, kindred
stoop to something like cold blooded feeding. I don't judge him,
but I am curious about his hands. Is he going
to lose control? Will I have to stop him?
Speaker 4: Do you follow him out of the cemetery?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 3: Kay?
Speaker 4: Follow up question, do you leave the bodies as they lay?
Or stalker?
Speaker 3: I think I old Cora I would put everything back
as I had found it, and I think, with the
exception of the vest, everything.
Speaker 7: Is.
Speaker 3: It's recently dug up and it looks disturbed, but it
do my best in my state to put things back
with the exception of that one.
Speaker 4: Okay, you don't have to roll for that. You have
hands and eyes and you know it's fine. Just asking
because I don't want to be that gems that that
is like you didn't mention it, so it didn't happen.
But we're not actually there. So if you were actually there,
you may have looked around and been like, oh, I
can't leave that there. Okay, Okay, then now let's pivot
over to the other side of the cemetery where we
have Cora.
Speaker 2: And her entourage.
Speaker 9: It has been a long time since I was invited
back to someone's apartment.
Speaker 10: Yes, well, we'll see if there's enough room to house
all of you. It's right this way. If you want
to follow me.
Speaker 9: Oh, don't worry, darling. I don't take up much space
in the bed unless you want me to, then I
can take up all this space.
Speaker 10: Just seems to startle me, and after I stare a moment,
I decide not to say anything and turn and make
my way out of the graveyard, expecting them to follow me.
Speaker 9: I am delighted by her surprise, and I'm following. Just
to be clear, I was.
Speaker 1: Sat down by the river, looking across at the lights,
and my head reeling at the sight of all that
is before me, now feeling this incredible hunger, a bit overwhelmed,
a bit there is too much, almost I cannot handle it.
And then I feel the water of the river that
is there. And this my hand has fallen into the river.
It has been placed there or I put it there
without even thinking, and I feel the water just running
between my fingertips, and this, for whatever reason, is calming
me down. And I'm gathering my composure, and eventually I
stand up by straighten out my clothes is best I can,
and I head the back of the hill and I
suppose I see them a little bit of and if
they are walking out, then I have to begin to
follow them to catch up.
Speaker 7: At the doorway.
Speaker 3: The exit.
Speaker 7: After my moment, I I ripped the tattered tunic off
and toss it to the ground. The rain starts to
wash away the dried blood from my body. I've been
following Constantine for a while now out of the crypt
but the more I walked unless I understood why, and
I follow the group, but more so Cora. Now I
feel so weak, and I continue with the group.
Speaker 1: Are we walking? Is their car? How that we were walking?
Speaker 4: I think you're walking through the cemetery, and she's going
to lead you to the edge basically of the cemetery.
And then the neighborhood that backs up onto the cemetery
is her neighborhood, so she's gonna take you through those
winding streets. It's a little bit of a smaller neighborhood.
I think we determined last time. We can move forward
if you'd like, But this is really your first opportunity
to speak to each other, so I didn't want to skip.
And if you're walking in silence, that makes total sense.
Speaker 1: Once we have will come together, I will have him
composed myself. I will say I apologize for the informal introduction. Before.
My name is Estevan. Would you mind telling me your
names again?
Speaker 9: To meet you? Esteban Constantine aus Deutscheland. See, we are
European friends. No, Spain and Deutsche Land have worked well together,
not like the French.
Speaker 1: Right o hell escape find there are people from many
different places you can find common ground, and I have
been to several but never anywhere is this? Oh, to Germany?
But obviously this was a very long time ago.
Speaker 9: Oh whereabouts?
Speaker 1: Oh? I believe I was seen Munich? See see I
ever been to Munchen? Munchen? And then I have taken
I took a little cruise down to Berlin.
Speaker 9: Berlin. A question for you? Have you ever seen a
bar called dis onal Lee? When were you in Berlin?
This is.
Speaker 1: Well, if it is nineteen ninety five, he said, this
is two hundred and forty years ago, right, yes, well,
perhaps a bit before your time.
Speaker 9: Not before my time, but before my bar. Certainly, I
hope my city treated you well.
Speaker 8: At the very least, I've had a glorious time, perhaps
some of the best trips I have ever taken in
my life.
Speaker 9: Is he lying to me? Are you lying to me?
Speaker 1: How are you going to find out? I want to
know if you can roll, you can roll asking.
Speaker 4: No no, no, no, no no no, yeah, we can roll
for it, insight. Let's see. I want to do the
contested Homebrew rule that we've been doing, which is, uh,
you can set the difficulty estemon.
Speaker 1: I will set this at a.
Speaker 3: Two.
Speaker 1: This is contested. It's me versus her.
Speaker 4: We did a Homebrew rule where we're making it easier.
So you set the difficulty for her to reach, and
if she reaches it, she reaches it. So you're not
fighting her on it. Okay, yeah, unless you would like
to fight her on it, unless you would be hiding
this for dear life.
Speaker 1: Then yeah, no, no, this is it too. Yeah, okay,
Actually I want to say a trace is okay?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, And sorry, I was going to say if
at any point I say we're going to do this role,
our homebrew contested role. It's just to make it faster.
But if your character, if your character would hold on
to that info and actually fight it, then tell me
and we'll.
Speaker 1: Do the actual allows to make this even faster by
changing my mind again and saying too, okay too.
Speaker 9: And the second attribute.
Speaker 4: This because you did insight, we're gonna do wits composure
your choice.
Speaker 9: Oh okay, well wits it is? Yeah, oh best of failure.
Speaker 1: I had perhaps the time of my life in Berlin
either one.
Speaker 9: Okay, even though I am so hungry and I look horrendous,
the worst I've ever in my entire undead life, I
glow beneath the praise of my city and knowing that
you enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: See, it was a shame. I never had time to
make my way back there again. But did if I say,
a beautiful a few weeks I was there.
Speaker 9: Well, perhaps sometime, once all of this business is over,
I can take you myself and give you the grand tour.
How does that sound?
Speaker 1: If there is something to eat? I will gladly do
anywhere at this point. But that sounds wonderful to me.
Speaker 7: Lovely, I think this whole time might be staring at
Estemon kind of weeks stare from under my brow. I
still remember witnessing how he came out of the coffin,
and now he stands completely normal. Guy. I'm just watching
him as they converse.
Speaker 1: And what about you, Constantine? Have you traveled much outside
of your home?
Speaker 9: Ah? Yes, you've caught me. I have not, to be honest,
I've never really been out of Berlin a little bit here.
Speaker 1: Very surprising. I see, even in our current situation, you
have the air of someone who is very worldly.
Speaker 9: I take that as a great compliment. U s. I
reach out and I I uh put my hand on
your shoulder, and I it's just a light touch, and
then I pull it back, but it's a sort of jovial,
sensual touch.
Speaker 1: I smile warmly, and not just in acknowledgment.
Speaker 7: Of this moment.
Speaker 9: Yes, I am uh. I have always uh tried to
be above all things adaptable, so.
Speaker 1: Things can change very quickly, I said, we have seen.
Speaker 9: Yes. So I pull my attention back to Cora. How
long have you lived in this town?
Speaker 1: I speed up a little bit so I can be
closer to Kora as this conversation starts, as if to say,
I wish to be involved, and I'm listening very closely.
But it is noticeable.
Speaker 10: Cora doesn't seem to hear the question Constantine asks. She
seems distracted. Every so often, her head tilts as if
she hears something otherwise, She's attention to the streets. It's nighttime,
and she knows that a neighborhood well, and she takes
this route a lot to go work at the graveyard.
Speaker 11: So she is.
Speaker 10: Specifically taking a route that is more in shadow, more
away from crowds, away from cafes, and where people would
be wandering about, knowing a state visually of the group.
Speaker 9: I am at your non response to me. I give
a sort of a cheeky conspiratorial look at my large,
quiet friend. Then I say, I suppose listening is not
part of this century. It wasn't when I was put
in that damned coffin.
Speaker 10: With that, she seems to kind of tune back in
and seems distracted, but goes, m, did you say something?
Speaker 9: Oh? Yes, I asked, how long have you lived in
this town?
Speaker 10: She passes a moment considering, then says, my whole life.
Speaker 9: Actually, Oh, so you must have seen a great rise
and fall. Then what is it like when you were
first knew? Did you watch these towering behemoth of metal
grow into the sky.
Speaker 10: Well, when you say first new, which life are you
referring to?
Speaker 9: Lippiin, I mean this one, the one that brings you
to graveyards and opens up coffins and leaves you looking
so delectable.
Speaker 10: Yes, a lot has changed. I spent some time away.
Speaker 11: After and.
Speaker 10: Came back after a few years. And certainly there are
new buildings in the city has grown up a lot,
but I think at the end of the day, it
still feels very familiar.
Speaker 9: I would like to do an inside check, darfish inside check.
Speaker 4: Mah and mm hmm okay, who are you inside checking?
Speaker 9: Cora? Okay, looking specifically when she said I left, I
went away for a while after dot dot dot vague
information and then continued down. I pick up on these things,
and what do you look?
Speaker 4: So I guess my question is what are you looking for?
Because it sounds like you picked up on it naturally,
if through role play, so you don't have to roll,
you can use that, you can use.
Speaker 9: All right, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, all right, then
I will I will keep that information. Where did you
go when you went away?
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 10: And there? There's much to see when you are newly kindred,
much to experience. Ah yes, promise there by the way,
just a few more minutes.
Speaker 9: So it's a charming neighborhood you find yourself in.
Speaker 1: What is this place called?
Speaker 11: We're heading to buy water?
Speaker 1: Buy water is the name of this glory? Are you
a city?
Speaker 10: Well, it's the name of the districts. The city itself
is New Orleans.
Speaker 9: Is it because it is by water?
Speaker 1: I imagine, so New Orleans. I know the name it has.
I have traded with people who were here a long
time ago. I don't know if perhaps some are still here,
but I have always thought about going. This is not
the way I had imagined. But here we are.
Speaker 9: Oh, you were in trade. I touched you again.
Speaker 1: See hey, I was, if you had to label my
profession for a while, I was a trader and merchant
sort of delivery and collector than trader, than big collectors
sort of thing. But I see the It's funny. In
Vain had taken control of this area from the French,
so there is a lot of business going back and forth.
Speaker 6: Hm.
Speaker 1: However it wasn't There wasn't a lot coming towards Europe
because I had a deal in a lot of art
cultural items. So you know, mostly everything coming to Europe
to go here for people who have been over here,
very little culture coming back towards Europe.
Speaker 9: My interest peaks. You see that. My head sort of
snaps towards you while we're walking when you mentioned art
and culture fascinating, Well, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't go that far, but it is certainly something
that made it a lot easier to do.
Speaker 9: Work my eyes, rake your body. I would love to
hear more.
Speaker 1: When you have time, that is, perhaps over dinner we
can discuss and when we figure out this whole revenge thing,
who has done this? Where the fuck we are and
all these other things. I will gladly what the tru
year ear off about?
Speaker 7: Art?
Speaker 9: You can take the whole year if you.
Speaker 1: Like, but do not tell me. I am very hungry
right now.
Speaker 4: Speaking of some of you are at max hunger. So
I think what I'd like to do is I'd like
to give Cora a chance to successfully navigate, ah you
away from people. But like I said, before, you guys
are you've been in torpor or of you.
Speaker 1: So the last time when we've done this, we were
escaping a couple of people. I think we're all at
five A couple of people failed and you said, the
next time you feed is going to be crazy. Yeah, okay,
so but we're going. So is that still on or
has it been still on? That's still on?
Speaker 4: You're starving, And I've as much as I love the
conversation because chill walking. I imagine it's like this. You
haven't eaten in a hundred years, so yeah, yeah, I
think the second you smell another human, you're going to
I think.
Speaker 9: I think, if I remember correctly, Ishna took my need
for food, so I'm not super hungry right now, but
as soon as I am about to eat, then I
will go into frenzy.
Speaker 4: Yes, and then I think, if I'm not mistaken, Ishna
said to cor I don't feel like doing it anymore.
Oh yeah, yeah, I think. I think the deal was,
you know you're going to take up to your house,
so I could I could keep it for a while,
but I don't know if I feel like it in
any moment, it might drop. Okay, well, we're going to
say that it's been on so that you could have
had this conversation without it being immersion breaking, But right
now is when it's dropping. So we're we're gonna allow
Cora a role though, because if she succeeds in in
this role in getting you back safely, then Isshna can
have his playtime. So Cora, why don't you go ahead
and roll first? And I think you know you are
acutely aware that he said to you I don't know
if I'm gonna I don't know if I feel like it.
So I think, you know, at any second, he could
just stop doing that, And so I will allow a
bonus to your role because you're probably purposely going out
of the way to make sure that you're not letting
them run into anyone from your neighborhood.
Speaker 10: Yes, that's okay. The reason why I've been purposeful and distracted.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because you're focused. Okay, So let's go ahead and roll.
Oh you have some bullshit? Would you like to use
some bullshit?
Speaker 11: Sure?
Speaker 4: Okay, you have oblivion sight, so you could you could
use that now to see very far in the dark
and make sure you're well out of the way of
anyone else. It would allow you to roll necromancy for this,
which would be aces because you've got a three in that.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that sounds good.
Speaker 4: Okay. Let me go ahead and make sure that this
is set up and ready for you to roll. Yeah,
that's fine, that'll be fine. We will do awareness as
your second Okay, so now you should be able to
click the button on that discipline and give yourselfers one
bonus die yep, and difficulty. Uh, I'm sorry, let me
allow you to into my brain for a second. I'm
trying to decide how playful Ishna is being and if
he's purposely drawing anyone to you, which may be the case,
but I actually think he's he kind of likes you
a little bit. So maybe not because I think he.
I think he just wants to suss you out first.
So we'll go with three, not four.
Speaker 10: Okay ooh that is for successes yep, out of the
three required.
Speaker 4: So even if I had said four, you still would
have succeeded perfect. Okay. So then let's say, uh, by
some fucking miracle, or it gets you back to her
apartment without running into anyone, And by some miracle, I
mean Cora's actual ability. Do you want to describe what
that looks like? I know there's a description on that,
but you don't have to have it look like that.
It can look like whatever you want it.
Speaker 3: To look like.
Speaker 4: Yeahs.
Speaker 10: As she's walking, an expression of concentration comes over her
face and her eyes bleed black, so eventually no whites
are left because her whole eye is black, and from
her perspective, the darkness of the night, the deep shadows
around the street, lamps, anything that is passed in darkness
illuminates as if the gamma is brought up or the
brightness and the world turns into this I would say,
fully lit, but that you can still tell that there's
some shadows left, but it's as if the balance of
the image is brought up to where she can see everything.
Speaker 11: This also allows her.
Speaker 10: To see so clearly that she can make out the
shadows of people in the distance, and with that knoll
that she's able to lead them down streets and alleyways
and side streets and maybe pausing briefly to wait for
a group of people to pass by in the distance
before she moves them on.
Speaker 4: What do you think ghosts look like?
Speaker 7: Do you?
Speaker 10: I think it depends on the strength of the ghost
anything from answer anything from like a mist to like
a like a spectral vector moving sheets type of image,
to maybe even a fully rendered outline of a person
that's probably a little more like your typical depiction of ghosts,
where it looks like a person but you can still
tell that they're see through.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay. When you use this ability, it does also
give you the gift of seeing those who have passed
on mortals, So you this is normal to you when
you use this power. But I will say that what
is not normal is that this time they move away
from you. Before they've kind of never really noticed you
because this initial ability allows you to see them, but
you can interact with them, and they don't really notice you,
or so it seems they never acknowledge your presence. And
this time it's not like they look at you and
then walk away quickly or anything like that. But it's
almost like you're exuding a natural odor or repellent or
something and they just navigate away. But they all do it,
and I think you're a smart cookie. I think that
strikes you as a little strange. But you do take
them to your apartment without incident, Thank goodness. What does
your apartment look like?
Speaker 11: It's on an upper floor?
Speaker 1: Hold on, pardon, perhon. I would like to say something
so when we arrive, if they see a building or
at home.
Speaker 4: That's why I'm asking.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know where it is. I would like
to hold the door for everybody and insist they go first.
Speaker 5: Everybody, including cors.
Speaker 1: Yes or three of them fairly.
Speaker 10: Core does a slight nod leads the way inside. It
is an older building, uh, two, possibly three floors, and
once inside, she leads them.
Speaker 11: Up a creaky staircase.
Speaker 9: Up to.
Speaker 11: Let's just say the third floor.
Speaker 10: I know most most buildings in at least the old
buildings in Orleans and Louisian in the South, they tend
to not be that tall, but we'll say the third floor,
and leads them up to a door, unlocks it brings
them inside.
Speaker 11: And inside it's somewhat dimly lit.
Speaker 10: You can tell that there is age to this place,
old worn wood floors, dark wallpaper, rich wood accents. The
wallpaper is a deep green, some sort of floral design,
kind of filigrey esque across it gives the room a
sense of almost being inside, like a hedge maze or something.
And all around the room it's decorated with just various
odds and ends. Persian carpet, it's leather furniture, paintings, bookshelves,
and it's probably also obvious that there's a lot of
occult things drying herbs, skulls, books with weird symbols in them,
maybe scrolls hanging on the wall with like symbology of
some kind. You can tell that it is a place
where she spends a lot of time there are things
out in the middle of being looked at or pondered
over or set up for something.
Speaker 4: What's one thing that's been left out.
Speaker 10: In pendicular various ingredients, including the ones that she brought
with her to the graveyard.
Speaker 4: Interesting, Okay, I like that. That would make sense to me.
But also you weren't expecting company, so it makes sense
that it was left out.
Speaker 10: And there's also in the living area in an empty
bird cage.
Speaker 9: The moment we step in to the room and I
see the beautiful things that you just described, I immediately
stroll in like I'm comfortable, like I'm welcome, and.
Speaker 4: So I'm so sorry to interrupt you. She does actually
have to invite you all in. I'm assuming that that happened,
So I'm just going on record because I don't want
it to be like later you weren't invited in. Then
well we walked into chorus, So I'm just okay, sure.
Speaker 10: I think if I was aware of that, I would
just be as I was unlocking the door, you know,
saying welcome to my home.
Speaker 4: Am in Yeah, okay, so sorry, please continue, let's scood.
Speaker 9: I stroll in and I'm immediately touching everything my hands
are as you're describing the wallpaper, My hands are sliding
across it. I'm feeling it's texture, it's grittiness. I'm touching
the leather. I'm walking around and basically everything I look at,
my hands are gently making just grazing, gently grazing everything.
You have a lovely home.
Speaker 10: Once she notices Constantine touching things, she would become more
focused on That would Constantine go over to the place
where the ingredients are in the books.
Speaker 11: Or as more general?
Speaker 9: It's more general. I don't think that you see that
there's I think you would notice that the things that
I'm interested in are not of a cult or anything
like that. It's just the things that I'm interested in
are things of beauty, wallpaper, textures, materials. I mean, I'm
not bending down to touch the carpet, for example, but
I'm running my hands across beautiful woods and things like that.
I don't seem to have any interest in. If I'm
going near the books, it's to touch the exterior of
the books. But I'm not showing any particular interest in
the content of the books. I'm not reading what they're
saying on the spines or anything of that nature. Just
tactile interfacing.
Speaker 10: Really I see, okay, I think as I go into
the apartments, I instantly go through what you recognize as
like a ritual of you get home. I take my
bag off, I hang it on a hook. I busy
myself tiding things up. I think it's obvious that I
have a growing awareness of, oh yes, I left things out.
I wasn't expecting company. Let me quickly just pick things
up and tuck things away and get the space more
prepared for other people to be inside.
Speaker 9: I think Gunnar has not spoken at all, right.
Speaker 7: So yeah, I think as I come in, you can
see that I'm much more on guard than I was
on the walk. And I stayed quiet through whole walk
and didn't even really give my attention to you when
you addressed me one more so, just followed Cora and
kept my eyes on her. So when I come into
the apartment, I take like a few really nervous steps.
Speaker 3: In and.
Speaker 7: I sort of just like lean up against the nearest wall. Well, uh,
maybe you are going around the apartment and I'm still
watching Cora, and I want to ask if I would
have seen maybe some kind of change in her after
the coffin, because I was standing with her at my
coffin and she was really helping me, and then I
asked her if she wanted to open the last one,
and she didn't. I'm wondering if I would have noticed
any sort of change in her behavior demeanor at all.
Speaker 10: Oh. I think last session when she was at the coffin,
PEB said that any fear that she was feeling was erased.
Has that continued PB, or was it for the time
going out of the crypts?
Speaker 4: Okay, so welcome to a permanent boosted sense of confidence.
Speaker 10: Okay, I think so any change you see is she's
probably more relaxed. Maybe her body language is more relaxed,
shoulders down more, head higher, posture a little bit straighter.
But maybe now in the apartment she's just a bit
more like.
Speaker 7: And I could have noticed a demeanor change, like directly
at the coffin, possibly like I was thinking, like to
see if something's wrong, but it's the opposite, like something
came off her shoulders there. Yeah, so I'd say, yeah,
I just prop myself up against the wall and I'm
just kind of still looking at you, and then I
start over to Constantine and Estemon momentarily and I'm just quiet.
Speaker 1: I think I am looking around like I am in
New seeum almost at least there are strange things that
don't even know what they are. I think my hands
are you know, I'm holding my hands behind my back
and leaning over to look at things. A question. Is
the kitchen a separate room? Is it connected? Yeah?
Speaker 10: I actually I am. Maybe this building is unique in
that similar to like a like a penthouse type of deal.
Maybe the third floor takes up most of the square
footage of the building, so it's a little bit more
sprawling and there's more room, and the kitchen would be
probably off the living area where we entered. You can
tell based on like the opening in the wall. You
can see like you know, countertops and whatever through it.
Speaker 1: I think while they are talking, I will wander around.
I will wander into the kitchen and at least seeing
a sink and other things i've recognized told me that
something is cooked here. I'm going to look if there
are any knives laying around.
Speaker 11: They'll probably be like a butcher's block.
Speaker 5: Counter take.
Speaker 1: If there is, there's a medium, but you know, not
a huge knife, but something not a huge knife, but
something like I literally if there's a knife there, and
if there is, I will just pick it up and
put it on the inside of the coata I have
on and keep looking around. If somebody sees me, that
is fine. If not, that is also fine.
Speaker 10: I think if you're in the other room doing that
and I'm picking up I personally probably would not see it.
Speaker 1: Would be it would take me a couple of minutes
to wander around and get in there and see. But
then I just go about opening to see the handle
and see the refrigerator and just looking at everything. But
casually just you know, going over to the butcher's black
and pulling on the handle and seeing the size of
taking one of you know, a reasonable size.
Speaker 7: Would it make a noise you're picking up the knife.
Speaker 1: Ah, it'd probably be pretty ginger. But if there was
no other noise going on, you might notice it because
what it was just wood, right would on the knife
coming out of wood.
Speaker 4: And atropheed muscles. I'm going to say, everything you guys
do is not quiet, you know right now? You guys
feed you guys are Yeah, you're fumbling around.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, know what it is it is? I pull
on out that is too big? And when I push
it back in. You hear it, definitely, the hand will
go back into it, like the thunk will be pushing
it back in, and then maybe another and then the
last one you don't hear. You don't hear the final
as if I put it back.
Speaker 7: I think I would hear a little metal, recognize the
son of a blade being unsheathed or coming out of something,
but maybe not think too much of it.
Speaker 1: There's probably as I'm doing it, there might be that
the slightest that hum of metal being slid out. I
think you might you would be probably you know, that
might just turn your head. I think would be fair
to say, especially if you heard it three times, because
it would be at least a couple of them are
pretty big. So I put them back, so it's like
she funk s funk, and then she a little lighter
but she and then no funk.
Speaker 7: After this, I think it would be pretty hard to
hear with the constantines kind of moving around and picking
things up and putting them back down. So maybe I
just kind of picked my head or perk my head
up a little when I hear the knife noise.
Speaker 1: But then you hear me. I mean, what would be
the sound of turning me sink on and turning me
sinc off, and that sort of thing. Probably do that
a whole bunch of times. The fridge door closing, maybe
a couple of cabinets closing, very noisy, but it's just
out of just wow, what is so? I mean, cabinets
I have seen, of course, but what is synt them?
It could be a futuristic mystery to me. But then
after that, if you're still talking, I would just walk
out into the room as well, because I would like
to converse.
Speaker 9: I think I've taken notice that Gunar has Now I
don't know if I remember that your name is Gunnar,
So just to be clear, I think i've taken notice
at the large northern looking man in the corner was
not really responding to me. So I think you would
see periodically my eyes darting to you. In general, my
eyes are sort of darting around all of you, like
paying attention to what I'm doing, and then darting to
look at each one of you sort of in turn
and yeah, sort of calculating almost, well, come on.
Speaker 10: In, right, we're allowed to stay here. No, at this point,
I think I'm done tidying up and I probably turned
to Constantina nod and go. If I recall, you are
very concerned about cleaning yourself up, if you'd like, the
bathroom is through there?
Speaker 9: Oh you angle? Yes?
Speaker 4: Could you?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 9: Is it the same as it used to be?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 9: The water getting a taut? Can you show me? Really?
Speaker 10: I smile Riley and realize, from what I've gathered, Constantine
probably comes from a time period where they had to
warm up pictures of water and dump it into a basin.
So I say, yes, of course, and lead them into
the bathroom.
Speaker 9: Really, I just wanted you to draw me a bath,
I think to myself. I'm not saying so loud to you.
This is for the audience.
Speaker 4: I love that, and I'm sure the audience does too.
Speaker 1: This is very lovely and generous of you to bring
us here to your home and invite us in what this?
And I when as I say this, I am taking
steps closer around but definitely making my way towards Cora.
And as I'm getting closer and facing her and looking
at her directly in the eyes, and say, at first
very dramatic, look down, and I say, but this still
begs the question, why are you being so generous and
we heard what this stalker wants from us? What do
you want from us is the same. Do you seek
revenge and we here to be your agents of revenge?
What do you want from us? Stop looking? Ah, I'm
waiting for answer.
Speaker 6: There is a knock.
Speaker 10: I take that moment to go to the door. Look
through the p the people.
Speaker 6: Stalker and Benex.
Speaker 3: My arms are crossed but tapping.
Speaker 10: I see them unlock the door, open it, give them
a nod.
Speaker 11: Please come in.
Speaker 1: And when she turns around, I have walked pretty close
behind her and I'm waiting.
Speaker 6: I hand you a blood bag.
Speaker 11: Esteban for me.
Speaker 6: I am passing them out to everyone. Where do you
want them to open these?
Speaker 10: So TeV has the appearance of the blood enough or.
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: I have to roll.
Speaker 4: All right? I'm like, yeah, it should be fine, but
I have to remember Ishna doesn't care. I'm like, I
don't want to mess up your house. I like having
them just like fucking get blood everywhere. But well, you're
in luck because I've moved my dice somewhere that I
cannot easily reach. Oh, there they are. I have rolled
a ninety nine, which in PBu. That's really good doubles.
It's about as good as you can get other than
the hundred. So I think he's feeling. But what does
that mean for Isshana?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 4: I think that that means it rolls in your favor.
So he will he will not allow them to just
rip the bag open, but it's gonna be pretty close.
I think, you know, to hurry, maybe put them in
the bathroom or something.
Speaker 9: Is that food? I'm already in the bathroom.
Speaker 6: So I had one to ask upon and walk past him.
Then I hand one to be.
Speaker 1: Uh to.
Speaker 6: Oonar Gunnar Gunnar, and one to Constantine and then turn
back around and and one to Fenix.
Speaker 9: I'm so sorry, apologies, this blood? Was it given freely?
Speaker 6: I do not know? Fine, men, what do I know
who owned a bood bank or who is working at
running it?
Speaker 4: I don't think so unless you asked specifically. Because you're
new to this town, right, you could probably ask Cora.
But I imagine you walked in there and just acted like
you remember the city and didn't ask too many questions
and just said, you know, tried to blend in and
were like six bags please. I imagine you actually stood
in line and listened to people get some and you
picked a number that seemed reasonable so as to not
be detected. So now I don't think you know, Okay.
Speaker 1: I would say I am. I would say I am
so hungry at this point that the side of blood
has broken my my concentration on getting an answer to
the question. But is there instructions to go to the
bathroom to do this?
Speaker 6: If I only asked, I asked her where they should feed?
Speaker 4: So yeah, almost Corus says something. I think he's implying
he's just going to open the bag right here.
Speaker 10: I would gesture towards the kitchen, which is probably you know,
like Alia or.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have a random Do you keep fake food
in your fridge? Or if when somebody opens the fridge,
are their blood bags in there?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 10: I think I don't typically bring people over. Yeah, so
I think your fridge just blood bags?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, question because if I saw them.
Speaker 4: I would have gone yeah, you would have gone crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So do you keep them in the freezer or
do you keep them in the fridge?
Speaker 4: Well, I imagine she would keep some probably frozen. This
is me not knowing medical knowledge, and then moves it
to But once you bring it to the fridge, you
can't then, uh not, you can't refreeze it, right, I think,
So there's that. I was gonna say, you've never seen
a fucking fridge before, so we could just say you
don't know what it is, and you're like, what is that?
Speaker 11: I thought it was a weird wall or something.
Speaker 1: Okay, because if I saw it inside of that, I
would have I would have been trapped inside of the
fridge eating.
Speaker 5: Yeah, save me.
Speaker 4: I mean we could also say that it's charmed so
that when people look in it, they see an empty fridge,
so she doesn't get caught.
Speaker 11: That's good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like that one better. So we'll say that,
so you still open the fridge, but you didn't see
anything in there. But yeah, there's uh.
Speaker 1: She points to the kitchen. Walk into the kitchen, I
pull out one of the other knives and I stab
it into the bag and I start drinking.
Speaker 4: Yeap, okay, wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait,
wearing the spout on the top. Hold on, Yeah, I
don't know, Daven.
Speaker 1: This material is just the.
Speaker 4: Idea of one of you with a fucking straw and
a blood bag is sending me right now.
Speaker 1: I need that someone I know, and you're just like.
Speaker 4: Okay, so we looked this up while you guys were
having your scene. A blood bag only takes one hunger
and he was only able to procure six.
Speaker 6: Well, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know if that Oh sorry.
Speaker 1: It's sometimes half for some people.
Speaker 6: Oh right, your blood impotency is higher than yeah, it
would be.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 4: Also, there are some flaws that people take where it
can real that your your blood bag is gives you less.
So please pay attention to that if you have something
like that. Otherwise if you don't. It's just one. So
how many of these do you hand out?
Speaker 6: Stocking one to each of them? Right, I don't know
how much this is here, so.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, so that's four bags. So sorry I misspoke.
He only has four bags. The other two he has
on his person.
Speaker 9: So I the frenzy now, yeah, but I do need
to know if this blood was given willingly.
Speaker 4: Okay, So the thing is is you can you can
frenzy now, or we can save it to the first
actual human you feast on. Ooh, because I think that
would be more interesting.
Speaker 9: Yes, yeah, okay, okay, all right, as much.
Speaker 4: As I love the idea of you all frenzying, right,
here in poor Cora's kitchen. I think I think Ishna
would find it more amusing to watch you do it
to a person anyway, So I think he'll just hold
on for you until you get it together. But you'll
you'll probably lose your ship on the next person.
Speaker 9: Right, Okay, Now, are there negatives for feeding from a
bloodbed that is not your.
Speaker 4: Yes, if if you that is not your type. Only
if it's specifically states you can't do this. So let
me take a look here.
Speaker 1: I believe he'll lose a human or get a.
Speaker 4: But I don't know if that counts for the blood
bags here, So let me just look. It was given willingly.
It's fucking blood dom so it's fine. But he I
don't know if he knows that, but I will tell
you that when you bite into it, it's not like
it feels. I don't know how that is for you.
I don't know if you've ever fed on something that
wasn't consensual before?
Speaker 1: Have you?
Speaker 9: M in my early early days when I was just learning, Okay,
when I.
Speaker 4: Was learning, So then this feels different. This feels like normal,
but it tastes like shit. Just to be clear, bagged
blood is fucking awful. It's like the veganism of vamporism. Okay,
I was vegan for fifteen years. I can say that
delicious vegan food. But also you run the risk of
sometimes getting cardboard. So that's what you got here. You've
got the cardboard of food. Greg, you fed, you frenzied.
How much did you of your hunger? Did you get
rid of because you chose two bodies, right, and you
ate a heart?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't. I don't know how to roll for that,
so I don't know how to determine that. Mccami.
Speaker 4: Okay, let's take look here. In the meantime, please continue
while I look this up.
Speaker 1: I'm in the kitchen just sucking.
Speaker 11: Probably you're all over my kitchen floors.
Speaker 1: The way I went, I would not let it drop
a dish escape face.
Speaker 9: I think I'm in the bathroom, also sucking. Yep, yeap
over the tub. I'm like hunched over. So I've had
this sort of you know, casual, confident, debonair energy this
whole time. There have been moments where obviously it's it's
faded away and you've seen me sort of struggle. But
now if you were to look into the bathroom I'm animalistic,
I'm hunched over, I'm drinking from this thing. My eye
are wild. I look almost like a completely different person.
Speaker 4: Oh sorry, please continue.
Speaker 7: Yeah, when Stalker and Finnex came in, I think I
stood up straight and kind of firmly accepted the blood
bag from Stalker, and then I'll sort of mosey on
over to the kitchen and look through maybe the nearest cupboard.
What I see like any kind of coupp or bowler,
anything like that. In the apartment.
Speaker 10: I think there'd be maybe two cabinets with cups and
plates and bowls, and then the rest is probably used
for storage. Since I don't eat food or cook.
Speaker 7: Okay, I think I take a salad bowl and I
pop it on the counter, and I just pierce my
finger into the blood bag and let it spill out
into the bowl and then stare at it for a
couple seconds before raising it to my mouth kind of
just slowly tilted.
Speaker 3: And drink.
Speaker 10: And since we're socially drinking here, I probably realized it's
probably it's a good idea for me to eat. But
I don't take a bag from Stalker. I open the refrigerator,
pull a bag out of there. And uh for you, peeb,
I will look at them, twist off the top, grab
a metal spoon from a drawer and stick it in and.
Speaker 11: Just drink blood.
Speaker 10: Yeah, like a yogurt to drink the blood like this.
You can tell I do this every day. It is
very common and common uh familiar action.
Speaker 4: I love it. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I look very confused because there was I did not
see any blood when I had looked in there.
Speaker 5: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 4: So I have some bad news, uh, y'all that hopped
out of the coffin, or at least blood potency too,
which I think means that blood bags and feeding in
general give you less or blood beeds. Blood blood bags
specifically give you less. Can speak.
Speaker 1: See unless there is you have a merit or a
feeding type that geared toward there's that an animal blood
is half a hunger.
Speaker 4: So yeah, you all would only gain half hunger from
these blood bags, which is pretty wild. I know inside
the crypt we said one, but I was wrong, so
it did. Yeah, you get half the amount from blood bags,
so you need two blood bags to remove one point. Greg,
sorry Fenn, you it is the same for you too, correct.
Your blood potency is also two?
Speaker 3: Yes, and on my sheet it says feeding penalty, bag
of blood. It is half hunger. But I when I
had the two back of the crypt, I accounted for that.
Speaker 4: Okay, wonderful. So then for you.
Speaker 3: Doesn't mention courses.
Speaker 4: His feeding type is what he's consuming.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So so for you, because you did the two, I'm
gonna go go ahead and say you did the two
bodies there, but I'm gonna let the heart count as
another half of one, even though technically it was from
the same body. It was a really cool thing that
you did with RP.
Speaker 3: Three plus the heart.
Speaker 7: It was two plus.
Speaker 3: It was the first one, then the jacket, and then
the heart.
Speaker 4: Okay, the hell yeah, then yep, go for it.
Speaker 3: Perfect. So that's one per body or is it?
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Yes, it would typically be one per body.
And it's the same for mortals. By the way, if
you guys were to feed on a mortal and you're
at hunger four, you got to you gotta kill four
mortals or you have to slack from four different mortals
to be able to fully sate yourself.
Speaker 6: So this is.
Speaker 4: Really just taking the edge off. It's like you've got
a migraine and it's just at the you know at
the back there, but the rest of it is still
it's still hovering.
Speaker 3: So then that means I'm at three? How many three?
Or two? Two? Okay, thank you? Or two and a
half technically, well I also had a having I haven't
had it.
Speaker 4: Yet, but oh you're having a blood bag then yeah.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3: And you would just see Fad in the background just
tears open the top of the blood bag like someone
would open up a beer with their mouth and just
start drinking it.
Speaker 4: Hey, everyone has updated their hunger? Correct?
Speaker 7: How do I do that?
Speaker 4: So on your sheep here and let me just open yours.
Speaker 7: Didn't we say we're doing a higher potency or was
it two? Decided on?
Speaker 4: Yours is higher? Let me look, I think your potency three,
which is insane, but that's what you are.
Speaker 1: It doesn't look like you can mark half a hunger,
so we'll.
Speaker 4: Just have to You'll just have to remember, okay.
Speaker 1: Less there are more bags in this fridge.
Speaker 4: I will just let Cora say however many bags she
thinks she would keep on the regular shoes A regular
I will say this though, Cora, you are a regular
visitor to the blood bank here, which is if you
suddenly want to get a bunch more blood, it's going
to be a problem. So you could give them all
this bagged blood, but then you're gonna run into maybe
some issues getting your own back, your your stock refilled.
You probably have a habit of going once a week
and you get a fresh supply, and then you know
kind of like we go to the grocery store.
Speaker 11: Yep.
Speaker 10: Yeah, so they've already eaten four of my blood bags. Yeah,
in the crypts, I probably would not offer anymore.
Speaker 1: Yep, do you have more? This is like, but it
is fine enough for an appetizer.
Speaker 4: Holy shit, I'm so sorry. Blood bags at blood potency
three they don't do anything for you anymore. Oh no,
So I'm going to say that because we definitely let
them do something to you while we were in the
crypt which is fine. But I'm going to say that
this is the last one and it only gives you
half now, and as you kind of start to like
wake up out of your coffin situation, you kind of
start to realize this isn't doing it for me anymore.
I need actual blood from a living mortal, which is
probably your worst nightmare. I'm sorry.
Speaker 7: Okay, So I slammed the salad bowl down completely dissatisfied.
Speaker 6: I can arrange for something tomorrow. As for tonight, we
will have to work something else out.
Speaker 9: I come out of the bathroom having heard this work
something else out. What do you mean.
Speaker 10: Everyone is still hungry?
Speaker 9: Yes, ish vis It's almost as if we were locked
in coffins for a hundred years. So you want us
to work with you make sure we are alive in
the morning.
Speaker 1: What what time is it? What time of the ninth
is sit?
Speaker 5: Right now?
Speaker 4: I'm assuming they came right at wake up time, which
we should decide what we want that to be. I
think it can vary. But let's say you woke up,
maybe your what time of year is it? We decided
it was August, right, uh, Louisiana. Let's say it's around
nine o'clock that you woke up. Then you guys traveled
to the cemetery, which wasn't too far, about twenty minute walk.
Then you were there for two hours. Then you had
your whole shin dig down there, and you had at
least two hours back. So what let's say it was
an hour down there dealing with the coffin situation, which
is probably a little bit longer, but you.
Speaker 6: Know it's going to be at least three thirty.
Speaker 4: I would say, yeah, you still got time before dawn
hits probably like prime midday for you.
Speaker 6: Don is at what six? So we have three hours?
Speaker 10: M I'm perfectly fine with blood bags. So I'll look
at them and say, well, you know where the house
is now, if you need to go out and slake
your thirst, do so wisely.
Speaker 6: They they may not be aware of things in this time.
It would be dangerous and risky for us all for
them to go on accompanied.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know what else is dangerous for you? If
we don't fucking geat mm hmm.
Speaker 10: Who better to lead them through New Orleans at night
in a shadow?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 6: Yes, stalker, Gun's everyone here know what the masquerade is?
Speaker 1: You rolled my eyes?
Speaker 6: I look, I look at Gunner.
Speaker 7: I've turned to face you. No, No, my head whips
the Gunner.
Speaker 9: Curiosity. I no longer look like fierce and angry, but
I look full of delicious, sensual curiosity.
Speaker 3: I do not know any of your wors.
Speaker 9: Mm. Interesting.
Speaker 6: Every city is different, but it would be best for
us not to feed in public, keep our habits as
kindreider quiet. There are consequences if we cannot do.
Speaker 9: This, consequences. Nah, yeah, you may find yourself in a
coffin for a hundred years. Nah.
Speaker 6: The camerilla did not do this. I told you already.
Sure of course, let's go, and I head towards the door.
Speaker 1: Did they bring us new claws? Do we have? Or
we're just walking out? I see it says we were buried.
Speaker 4: It depends on if Stalker stopped by, Like, I don't know,
a Salvation Army.
Speaker 6: I would have I don't remember where my where I'm staying,
if it's near or not, I don't think it is. Yeah,
I would probably have thought to get them some clothing.
Speaker 4: So I imagine you probably just went to like a good
Will or something and or Salvation Army or some sort
of secondhand store, and you probably just grabbed a couple
bags from the donation in the back, and you just
grabbed them and thrust them into Fend's arms and you
were like, carry these, and then you know, we basically
just have a mish mash of clothes when he opens it.
So we can say that the way that you've envisioned
your characters and with the character art and things like
that is what you find in this bag. So, because
everyone loves a good shopping moment, can we just see
what everybody looks like here real quick? After he throws
these food or the clothes down. I mean, I guess
you wouldn't have prioritized it actually because you were eating,
because he brought the bag out first. So maybe when
you say, do we you know, like, are we going
out like this?
Speaker 5: Maybe?
Speaker 4: Then he points to the bags, I don't know. I'll
let you guys real play that out. Actually, my bad.
Speaker 6: You can't. You shouldn't. It's best to be inconspicuous. And
I pick up the bags that I'm assuming Annex has
sat down, and I hand one to Constantine and one
to Astbon.
Speaker 9: I open this bag and I start rifling through it,
and I find I find just a nice pair of
pin stripe slacks and a white sort of off white
buttonup shirt, and I put that on and I the
rest of the bag over to Gunnar. I get naked
in front of all of you. I begin changing right away.
And also I do have a question. The blood bags
was not were not enough to sate my physical appearance, right?
So I still do I still look all.
Speaker 4: Look pretty skeletal, yeah, you need to get your hunger
back down to a reasonable amount, which is one here
for you to even really begin to feel full movement
and motor skills and things like that. I mean, you know,
one hundred years is a long time obviously for us.
Speaker 9: But you know, okay, yeah, so I just begin changing
in the room. There's no bashfulness, but I just stand
in front of you.
Speaker 4: I just remember, if you're in torpor for fifty years,
you lose one blood potent. See.
Speaker 1: Oh, there is too a point where you can't go
below where you started. Oh, if they were too rig
generally when they were sired, but if you have gained
any by other ways. I think, if you gained any
by other ways, those go away, I think.
Speaker 5: But we can look then.
Speaker 4: I think everyone's fine. I've accounted for all of that already,
past PB. Good job. Okay, Gunner was the only one
I wasn't sure about. But I think you'll stay at
three because yes, that makes sense to me. So maybe
originally you're at four and then you lost one. Okay,
so sorry, we're doing the mechanics.
Speaker 1: It looks like, let's see, for every one hundred years
the vampire remains active, they gained a dot of blood potency.
For every fifty years they spend into our port. You
lose a dot.
Speaker 4: Yep, you just lose a dot.
Speaker 1: Okay, so.
Speaker 4: One one, you guys are all at blood potency one,
which does mean that the blood bags did Yeah, not
you and not Gunner. Gunner, not you.
Speaker 1: But that's a lot of years.
Speaker 4: That's a lot of years.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of fifty years.
Speaker 4: Okay, that does mean that the bag did one rather
than half.
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, right.
Speaker 12: To fix these, so you pass me the bag and yes,
yeh think.
Speaker 7: If anybody hasn't really looked at Gunner, you would see
he has or I have a a lot of tattoos
and scars on my body, but they're kind of hard
to make out with dirt and still some blood around
his uh, his pants and not super clear.
Speaker 3: But his.
Speaker 7: Arm is heavily tattooed with rings that go from practically
his shoulder to his forearm. And he rummages through the
bag and pulls out a trench coat, dark gray trench
coat and one of those sexy nineties skin tight white
undershirts and some cargo pants and boots. And he's standing
there still in these bloody, tattered tunic pants.
Speaker 13: And you said there was a bath May I use it?
Speaker 9: Oh? Yes, I suppose you could take one first if
I'm feeling generous, which you're lucky I am, and I
gesture to the bathroom. It's just through there. Oh do
you need me to turn on the water for you?
Speaker 7: No, I know.
Speaker 9: I give him a look.
Speaker 7: And I get mosey down to the bathroom at the
end of the hall.
Speaker 1: He quick, my friend, The sun is moving towards us
very quickly. It doesn't have much time.
Speaker 9: Is it not better if we divide and conquer? As
it were? If we got in a group, it would
be much more difficult, I imagine to maintain the muscade muscarade.
Speaker 6: I think it best we staying together for now.
Speaker 1: You're no fun, so you think that if we go
out there's a big group of people that in the
middle of the night, this is going to protect us
from breaking the masquerade?
Speaker 9: Looking how we are like saying this?
Speaker 1: As I say this, I am slipping into a baggy
pair of dress pants that I'm wearing because of the
pantelon is because I'm matching a jacketa matching aged because
with a big sticking.
Speaker 4: Knife shoulder bed yeah, put.
Speaker 1: On a black T shirt over it. And then I
put this on and I'm holding my arms out because
it is I'm used to look baggy clothes, but this
is there's a lot of room, and I'm just in
front of enny of everybody. You see me take the
knife dose in my old coat and I put it
inside the pocket in my new coat, and then.
Speaker 10: I raise a brow at that recognize, you know.
Speaker 1: And then off the ground, I pick up a chain
of gold that has a little bit of cross on
it and I put it around my neck and it
rests over my there, cool nineties black T shirt.
Speaker 4: Le we just see you. Oh you pack it up
and put it on.
Speaker 1: I nearly forgot. I never go anywhere without it.
Speaker 6: There will on maybe four of us, and they won't
see me.
Speaker 1: So four of us stalking down the street grabbing people
in the middle of the night.
Speaker 9: I won't be grabbing, you know. Sit down, have a conversation.
Speaker 1: There are four of us who are hungry, and that
means we need at least four people.
Speaker 6: I believe finnis already made arrangements.
Speaker 9: Arrangements.
Speaker 6: He will not be accompanying us.
Speaker 3: Okay, unless you wish for me to and I look
at Constantine.
Speaker 9: I put my hand on your chest, and it's a
very familiar touch. I just want everyone to know. I'm
going to state how familiar my touches are, but for
the record, every touch I give is almost as if
we have been in a long term relationship, four years intimate.
I touch your chest and sort of run my hand down.
Not to worry at all, Darling.
Speaker 8: M.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I couldn't help, but I was going to say,
there are no hover hands with Constantine.
Speaker 9: No hover hands? What's ever? No? No shuts, Alice, good,
don't worry about it. I'm a big boy.
Speaker 3: Very very well.
Speaker 4: I would like to transition into the bathroom. Yes, what
is going on over there?
Speaker 7: I've run the bath and I'm not in it. I'm
splashing water on my face. Some dirt from my hair
from battle gets in the water. For the first time,
very very long time, I see myself. Wait, can we
see reflections?
Speaker 4: And we can now?
Speaker 5: Yep, we can.
Speaker 4: Now it's canon that you can. Please continue. Nothing stopping
this scene.
Speaker 7: Blood and gut in the water. Hm, see myself, but
something I don't recognize sis what she made me? Since
who I am? Now? I smell smoke blood like many
who fell before me.
Speaker 3: Mhm, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 7: Splash some more water.
Speaker 3: My rise.
Speaker 7: And breaking eye contact. So I throw on my shirt.
Speaker 9: In my.
Speaker 7: Boots, tight tight. I miss you. Where have you gone?
Take me back to your nest? Putty charm through the coat.
I turned for the door. At this point you see
Gunner step out of the bathroom. He's got his hair
wet backed. He's looking stronger now, and I want to say.
He's looking at Stalker from the hallway.
Speaker 6: Well, did anyone else need to bathe before we bathe?
Speaker 9: Honestly, I'd rather bathe when I am have something that
will be actually improved by a bath. I look down
at my decrepit body.
Speaker 6: I look at astebon.
Speaker 1: See. I'm already dressed up, and I am very hungry.
And the sun is approaching. We should go.
Speaker 6: I walk out the front door.
Speaker 1: I follow, I follow as well.
Speaker 6: Personal May I line Stocker, May I narrate for a
little bit. Stalker leads you through the winding alleys and
streets of New Orleans. He follows his nose more than
his memory. Every city is the same. It takes less
than half an hour before he finds what he's looking for.
Speaker 9: That's sorry.
Speaker 4: Now that's awesome.
Speaker 5: O God. Before it was.
Speaker 1: So good, the timing, the song, he nailed it like
you had just nailed it to.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I just want to be a vampire living in a
house with all you guys.
Speaker 1: And see how this Let's see how this night goes.
Maybe you'll change your mind. If we all wake up hungry,
if we wake up, if we wake up hungry.
Speaker 9: I literally cannot wait to feed. I cannot wait.
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