Speaker 1: You are listening to table story.
Speaker 2: Deathless is an improvised cinematic narrative with live production, including
music and dialog. There is no script. This story contains violence,
disturbing imagery, adult themes, and a darkness which may lead
you doubting for more. Proceed at your own risk.
Speaker 3: A logit of fight from shade ho loget of fact
from me.
Speaker 4: That you say, stand up for the thing which you
can't stand.
Speaker 5: A loud.
Speaker 6: Slaying a demon. It'll cost you everything.
Speaker 5: You sound like you know that from experience.
Speaker 7: Yes, do you have any experience you can share with us?
Speaker 8: Mhm?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 5: Would you share your experience with us? What you are?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 5: I wasn't paying attention. I was looking at the thing
in the middle.
Speaker 6: Oops.
Speaker 7: So then how did you kill it in the end?
Speaker 6: Sacrifice?
Speaker 7: Well, I think we have a mood here.
Speaker 6: For that.
Speaker 5: Me sacrifice. Now, I'm all stringy, and it wouldn't really
amount to much, I don't think.
Speaker 6: Besides, if you lost more.
Speaker 5: That's right, it wouldn't be much of a sacrifice since
most of you don't even like me all that much.
So what are you getting out of it? Nothing?
Speaker 7: It feels like we will be in trouble then as
I do not know if any of us have such
things left to sacrifice, or am I wrong?
Speaker 4: I think sacrifice is what brought us all here.
Speaker 5: I think there's always something that can be taken away.
What's the old saying you never really know what you've
lost until it's gone.
Speaker 10: If it has gone long enough, do I forget it?
Speaker 5: Is that not use?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 11: They does matter if you don't remember.
Speaker 5: I think it matters a great deal. And I think
these tests you've been completing but also indicate that, yeah.
Speaker 7: What I want to know as if that sacrifice was
planned for what they want us to lose. All of
this is too much for me. I'm supposed to be
pouring drinks in a bar, making you laugh, sing dance.
I'm not meant to be solving riddles and merely surviving.
What does eternal life for? Anyway, If you're only meant
to survive.
Speaker 12: The waste, Oddly enough, that might be the least depressing
thing I've heard of this group.
Speaker 5: I think there is more now. I know there is
more to all of this than just surviving and consuming
and just trying to get from point A to point B.
Is that not what you've all sacrificed? Or was taken
from you?
Speaker 7: Taken? Yes, I prefer the word taken.
Speaker 5: Yes, it is more fitting.
Speaker 7: But you know who can I still always find things
to enjoy.
Speaker 9: Bash.
Speaker 7: We're together in this room. What does this room look like? Again?
Speaker 2: You are in a dome room. Whereas the previous rooms were.
The previous room was littered with paper, it seemed like,
and the other one salted stone. This one has returned
to normal stone. You have one pillar in the middle
with a what looks like a strange glass lighthouse with
colored panes of glass on each side. In the middle
looks like there should be light, but there is none,
and one of the pains is broken. There's nothing else
in here, okay, but it is as big as all
the previous domes that you've been to so far.
Speaker 7: For example, this room. Now we are locked away, Yes,
but we could sing, we could dance, we could throw
a party with what little we have. We can choose
to find lightness. If it is there, that's the key.
It is always there. You can make it, just as
you make darkness too. I think that is the difference
between surviving and living and not always in control of things.
You could get locked up in a casket or one
hundred years. Wake up, Everything you know and love is gone.
Very dark stuff, but no one can take away your
choice to find levity? Is that's the word. You have,
fine body and good eyes, good voice, I imagine, mook,
can you sing me?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 6: Sure?
Speaker 5: Why not? Everyone can sing? Yeah?
Speaker 7: I actually agree with you. I think everyone can. Some
choose not to.
Speaker 2: I think I have to correct a statement. I think
the light is lit in this version of the room,
but the pain, one of the pains is shattered.
Speaker 7: See look at this, I walk up to the thing.
You see how this pain? Yeah, it's broken, but look
how much more of the light comes out of it?
Now you can see it's so much better. Will you
sing for us?
Speaker 5: Mook? Oh, I don't have any songs prepared or anything.
I mean, would you like Rocketman or would you prefer Oh,
I don't know.
Speaker 7: I don't know that one. Oh, it just occurred to
me how different music must be since I last heard it.
Speaker 5: Well, I wouldn't want to ruin the surprise for you
for what you have in store.
Speaker 2: I mean you heard some in the shop, that's right, yep.
Speaker 7: I want to hear more songs. So we have to
get out of this.
Speaker 6: No agreed. Is there a purpose to this conversation?
Speaker 7: Purpose?
Speaker 5: Was there a purpose to that comment, Sanderson? Yes, to
be little one's need for distraction, to be little one's
desire to survive beyond this moment. Or could you not
truly comprehend.
Speaker 6: What he was so.
Speaker 5: Then enlighten us, please.
Speaker 6: We should try to understand what has happened to us
or try to get out of this room.
Speaker 5: And do you not think what he said has anything
to do with that?
Speaker 6: That's why I asked.
Speaker 7: We are not being punished yet or we are for
something we have not yet done will do. This is
not a prison, but they want it to be. So
what I say is you cannot be punished if you
do not accept the punishment as punishment. It can try
to take things from you, but it cannot take everything.
Speaker 11: Do you think this is punishment?
Speaker 6: Oh, we are being used, We are needed for a task.
Speaker 13: See this seems more of a test or an education
in something.
Speaker 11: Than a person.
Speaker 7: An education on gods, on the death of gods. So
that's Martin vellyez, what do you want to do? Then
I look at the lighthouse more deeply. It's just one
pane of glass that's gone.
Speaker 4: Yeah, broken, not broken yet? What color is broken?
Speaker 2: Gold? I believe. I apologize because I am on pain
killers and this last time when I did the puzzle,
I didn't take notes. So if anybody in Chad does, remember,
this isn't a PBu thing where I'm trying to fuck
things up. So if that is wrong, correct me. But
I'm almost positive it was the gold one that was correcked.
And Chad has gone back and forth on whether the
light was on or off, but it's on now and
that's canon, so we're just gonna go with it.
Speaker 11: But how many of them are there?
Speaker 7: For?
Speaker 2: There are four total?
Speaker 7: There are four lights?
Speaker 4: Yeah, blue, red, green, and gold.
Speaker 7: I think if you look hard enough, it should be fine.
Of right, Like I think four is a wrong? No,
just continuing the joke, our track joke that was the
whole thing. But what that was the whole thing In
the episode, they were like, there's five lights, and he's like,
there are four lights.
Speaker 13: Check the date that aired. Someone might know this might
be in here making the joke.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's me.
Speaker 13: Before we were onto that, I look at Cora for
a moment and then I look at Constantine. There's something
that you should know appears something I did not know
has been taken from me, be it an achievement or
a mistake that I have made that has not been removed,
and we were doing what we were doing. It appears,
I don't know how exactly. I do not believe your
sire as dead as I thought he is.
Speaker 7: Bos call it a.
Speaker 13: Feeling or whatever I have now. But but you saw
it too, right, Cora, we did.
Speaker 4: I don't know how if he was once one of
your jailers, but I believe he is the last person
in the coffin.
Speaker 5: Us.
Speaker 7: Can we just point of order some information really quickly?
Have we've talked about the fact that Ishna, I just
want to make sure before I approach this. We have
not talked about where you got Ishna right.
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 7: That's still a mystery, Okay, Okay, I just want to
make sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as far as anyone knows, she's said it the
whole time.
Speaker 11: Okay.
Speaker 13: I had a bad feeling about the coffin, but it
was not that kind of bad feeling.
Speaker 11: So I confusing, as is everything.
Speaker 7: Else kind sin doesn't make any sense. So then he
was a victim like us.
Speaker 13: Well, I would not go that far, considering what I
have seen him do to have a gunner.
Speaker 4: That's right. I think in a way him being in
that coffin is another form of punishment, but not for
him or something else.
Speaker 13: One more thing, mergs just also, I believe you did
see him like sending the whatever rumor to Cora go
to the cript. You know he's alive, I think or wash.
Speaker 7: Yes, thank you for that reminder.
Speaker 4: We weren't sure what version he was because he doesn't
have a tongue. Yeah we have a tongue in that flashback,
but we were like.
Speaker 7: Live, yeah, yeah, okay, plus okay.
Speaker 11: So he had something to do with getting us, getting
them there and getting us out. But if he's also
in there, so he trying to get himself out.
Speaker 7: Trying to get himself out, so it could be that.
So it doesn't. I cannot believe that he would harm
so viciously the way that you describe what he did
to Connor.
Speaker 2: Oh point of order. I do think last time you
had said, as you were remembering when he sired you,
that you had imagined that it was nice, but when
she brought that memory back to you realized it was
very violent and he did not seem to give a
shit about you. So just reminding that that did happen.
Thank you.
Speaker 7: I'm so sorry, guys, thank you for the reviery weeks ago.
Speaker 13: Okay, there is more. I turned to look at the
Moog the Guardians as we spoke of the smell you
remember from your sire, whatever you remember happened to you,
and the taste in the blood of the ghoul that
I fed from when I awoke after being turned.
Speaker 11: One would think the same person.
Speaker 5: But that doesn't make much sense, does it.
Speaker 13: There's not, and the even less so. Somehow, seeing or
experiencing feeling the Cora how she was turned, I feel
it was the same person as my sire, but it was.
It was the same person that first had gone her
in the coffin, but that was she would put them
in the coffin. But he turned Cora. But it was
the same. I have no way to explain this. It
is just something I know.
Speaker 4: Yes, I don't know how it's possible. But the woman
I saw in the vision from a moment ago, I
recognized them, but I've never seen them before. Something about
the stance, the way they moved, the way they weaned,
it was familiar.
Speaker 11: The way they looked at us.
Speaker 7: It feels like it feels impossible to understand the actions.
I don't know if we need to understand them to
figure out what the purpose is. But does it? Does
it matter why us? I mean, naturally, yes, it does
matter why us? But I'm no longer so convinced that
we will find real answers there.
Speaker 4: Everything we've learned in here has revolved around gods and
godhood and the death of gods. What I don't yet
understand is who is the gods in the situation us,
the proxies, the members behind this whole lot.
Speaker 7: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 4: M.
Speaker 7: When we did, when we used our abilities in the
New World, did not feel to you like you could
do anything if you just understood it well enough and
wanted it much. It feel like we could do.
Speaker 11: It, have done more than I have ever done before.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's almost like our abilities are unlimited, unlimited, we
just don't know how to access them, where before we
were working within the bounds of what we were capable of.
Speaker 7: I would like to I would like to access my
abilities as I still have been thinking about them, instead
of necessarily like magic. But I want to feel am
I still on PPU rules.
Speaker 4: That's a great question.
Speaker 2: Go ahead and roll for me, PBu so D one hundred,
D one hundred. You can just do a flat D
one hundred if you want. Okay, But I have some
follow up questions for you after you roll.
Speaker 7: Okay, sounds awesome.
Speaker 2: Thirty three, come on, sixteen is good enough? Do you
want to be.
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Why because previously you were adamant about going home?
Speaker 7: Yeah? Because I think it's a mix of two things.
One is a selfish reason, and that I felt more
powerful and therefore more safe somehow, like more capable equals
safety in a way. And the other is that it
feels like that is part of the answer, whether it's
that I can use it to answer this question of
like are we the gods?
Speaker 4: Or Yeah?
Speaker 7: I think it's that those two things.
Speaker 2: If you were in my position and somebody gave you
that answer, which one do you think is the real answer?
Speaker 7: Because I wanted to feel powerful, it's always power for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, then yes you are. And if anyone looks
back at the lighthouse tower, the yellow Paine is now fixed,
but I imagine it will take a moment.
Speaker 7: Oh shit, okay, cool fucking awesome.
Speaker 6: How does it fix itself? Because I'm on one side
of the room looking at the rest of the group
across the story would be in my mind.
Speaker 2: Of well, we'll say that you can roll for it, actually,
because the easiest answer would be that it would be
on the other side, because it doesn't fix itself. You
switch realities, so it's just suddenly fixed. So if you
want to say that you are looking directly at it,
then we'll let it roll the side if you are,
or if it's just maybe it's on the opposite side
of where you're standing. So we've got blue and red
and green.
Speaker 6: Okayh yeah, one hundred, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I always like leaving things up to chance. Fifty three
I think then that means that because the way I
was going to say is like, if you succeed, it'll
be directly in front of you, and if you don't,
it'll be directly opposite you. But fifty three is right
on the line, So I'm going to say that it's
on one of the sides. So like you're standing completely
opposite the rest of the group on the other side
of the room. This pillar is in between you and
you've got one panel. Let's say the red panel is
directly in front of you, and then on the side
is and gold is the broken one, and then directly
opposite you is the fuck was the last one?
Speaker 7: Blue?
Speaker 2: Blue, blue? Now I need to write that down. So
what did I say? Red in front of.
Speaker 4: You, front, blue behind, gold and green on the sides.
Speaker 2: Gold is on the left side of Stalker's perspective, so
on your guys right side? Got it? Den?
Speaker 7: Okay? I will uh raise my hand into the air,
and it's like I want to I want to do
like the PBu equivalent of like ball of fire in
my hand, to like see the power that is that
I can manipulate. But I think it wouldn't be a
ball of fire. It would be like I think it
would be like some sort of light or or something.
I don't know.
Speaker 2: Okay, So here's the question. Is that a you thought
or is that a Constantine thought? Because in a way,
you're right, Constantine is getting his power from somewhere. But
if you're if you just went through and I mean,
maybe maybe I'm crazy, and you know, for once, chap participation,
go for it. But like if you went through all
the things that Constantine just went through, and you've been
going through these rooms about like becoming gods and all
this shit, I think your reaction of being like, Yo,
can I try to fucking matrix this? Can I just
summon a fireball? Makes sense to me, and I will
allow it because it is a form of light and
it is related, so we can try that. It'll be
harder to do, but it's still possible.
Speaker 7: I think I would rather it be like just a
straight up orb of light, Okay, like golden light. Yeah yeah,
a golden shimmering sun light makes more sense to hn. Yeah, yes,
all right, so go ahead and roll for me then, Okay,
so my magic yeah, m hmm.
Speaker 2: Okay, difficulty. We're going to do thirty. Okay, it's gonna
be a little bit tighter than that. You're gonna have
to do their partials. Okay. I don't know why I
said partial when the thing was thirty. Oh, because it's
in between your stuff. Okay, then I think you will.
You'll feel energy rising up through from your heart. I
think all of a sudden, you become acutely aware of
the of your heart beating and the dark magic that
is forcing your heart to beat. And I think it's
the first time you've ever been aware that your heart
isn't beating like it used to when you are alive.
There is some form of magic that is forcing your
heart to beat and to keep you alive. And I'm
not saying that that's new. It's probably always been that
way for you as a vampire, but it's the first
time you're aware of of the way that it is
being for Yeah, the magic. Yeah, and I think you
feel yourself pulling some of that magic that keeps your
heart or is forcing your heart to beat. You pull
that a little bit, skim off the top and it come.
You feel it as it goes, Oh, through your shoulder,
down your arm, past your elbow, and into your hand,
and then you are able to summon a ball of light.
What does this look like? I know you said just
a golden orb.
Speaker 7: But I think, yeah, I think, Okay, I'm being honest here,
and it's weird because it just happens to coincide with
the puzzle that is in front of us. But I
think it looks like panes of glass, like yeah, yeah, oh,
And I think it's like a golden almost like a
golden jewel that's like shimmering as it moves, as this
light is catching the sides of it, and it's like
has a light source from within but it's also catching
light from without as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that. I love that so much. I
think probably now, unless you've already noticed it and we're
gonna reveal it later, Stalker, your eyes flit to the
pane of glass and you notice you you probably have
to step to the side to look at it, but
once you do, you will notice that that golden pane
of glass is fine, and it looks maybe like there
might be something etched on it.
Speaker 6: I step closer.
Speaker 2: However, Constantine has just summoned a fucking ball of light
in his hand, which is not a normal thing that
vampires could do either. So whichever one catches your fancy first.
Speaker 7: I sorry, sorry.
Speaker 2: I don't know it was go ahead, Marks, it was
originally your moment. I was just letting you know. Yeah, Stalker, No,
he can see that now if he wants to, if
he hasn't already.
Speaker 7: I think I'm absolutely fascinated that this was created through
dark magic that is going through my heart, And so
I say out loud, oh, come, how much can my heart?
Speaker 14: Oh?
Speaker 7: And it's this like mix of I'm like, it's curiosity
at this point, not hunger for power, but it's curiosity,
like I would like sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 6: You say that out loud. Yeah, approximately five leaders.
Speaker 7: I would like to float the light out to hover
over the lighthouse.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: As you extend your hand softly, I imagine that your fingers
unfurl very very slowly and gently, and this ball of
light leaves your hand. You will feel the tug of
this light and the magic pulling more off the top
from what is forcing your heart to beat. As you
try to do this, you know exactly where this power
is coming from and that you are and PBu terms.
This type of magic is a transference magic. So you're
taking something and you're using it to do something else,
which is a whole subset of classes. And that's very
exciting for me that you're doing this on your own.
So you kind of like send this ball of light
into the middle of the into the middle of this
glass pane lighthouse. And as you do that, as it
crosses between two panes, for just a moment, it looks
like something lights up on the wall, but then it
disappears as it gets into the center of the lighthouse.
Oh yeah, I pull it back, and are you trying
to find the.
Speaker 7: I'm trying to Yeah, the sweet spot like it looks.
Speaker 2: Like if you it looks like if you merge or
overlay the panes of glass on top of each other,
there may be an image that appears and you use
your light to light it up. There may be an
image that appears on the wall.
Speaker 7: Put the glass together on top of each other.
Speaker 2: Almost at the same time, I think Stalker has stepped forward.
I think he's realized this at the same time you have. Yeah,
at least that's what I imagine. Please correct me if
you wouldn't actually do that, Stalker, but just kind of
saw it in my head for a second.
Speaker 5: Sure, yeah, do you.
Speaker 2: Touch the pain of glass, Stalker and pull one out?
Or oh okay, that's crazy, yeah, madness. Does anybody else
move forward to help Constantine?
Speaker 13: I've lived closer, definitely. If there's a ball of light
that he created, a yeah, yeah, it around, I'm like,
I'm very curious now, I'm just kind of close and staring.
Speaker 2: Okay, and Cora steps forward after a second, when nobody
else seems to step forward to help Constantine. And which
pane of glass do you remove?
Speaker 4: I think I would. I would look to Constantine and.
Speaker 2: Ask that.
Speaker 4: Which colors.
Speaker 7: All of them? Should be aligned.
Speaker 4: Okay, So I would go over to the case and
gently try to inspect the glass panes and see if
I can remove them, if they like slide out somehow
or pop out somehow.
Speaker 2: Yep, they can slide right from the top. There's like
a little ridge on the inside of the corner posts
where you can just slide these things into it. You
can move them around if you'd like as well.
Speaker 4: Ooh, okay, yeah, then I would slide all four of
them out and kind of cradle them. You want them
in a line?
Speaker 7: Is that how I interpreted that they would be like
side by side or would they be overlapping each other?
Speaker 2: I think technically it would be overlapping each other, but
you wouldn't have been able to see that because they're
not actually overlapping each other. But I'm just assuming because
maybe this istographer in me. But there's there was probably
a split second with your vampire eyes that you caught
where the light bounced on both and put something up
on the wall as it's been going through them, because
that's how light works. So just for a second you went,
oh shit. And then Cora goes over to pull these
pains out and notices that there are there's like a
thin line where you can pull the pain out, but
there's another one behind it or in front of it
where you can double them up. And so she probably
notices like, oh, you can put two in one spot.
Speaker 4: However, there are only four, okay, chiperside at least here. Yeah,
And I would convey that to Constantine.
Speaker 7: Well, I trust two, Princess, which ones do you think
should go?
Speaker 4: I glanced at the light that he has conjured, and
the warmth and the golden color of it, and I
would gently put down the bl and the green maybe
on the floor to lean against the case, and then
slide in the gold and the red together.
Speaker 2: Sorry, you're doing two and two, or just just.
Speaker 4: The gold and the red. Put down the green and
the blue onto the ground.
Speaker 2: Okay, perfect.
Speaker 4: So now there's just two pains on one side.
Speaker 2: On the wall. Now are sketched lines. It's almost stop
motion kind of animated, but it looks like a kind
of a cave drawing or something like that was drawn
on this wall. And then magic is used to bring
it to life. And you see a woman who some
of you may recognize. She bursts from a cathedral flame
coming from not her skin but her bone worshippers are
burning in ecstasy at her feet. Someone calls her by
a name that you've never heard. She smiles and has
too many teeth and then turns into light, and then
the scene ends. If you leave it in, it repeats.
Speaker 7: What is the name?
Speaker 2: You'll have to roll for me?
Speaker 7: I'm rolling for you. I've never rolled harder for you.
What is the as?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Nineteen?
Speaker 2: You recognize it from somewhere? Do you know what I'm
about to say? I feel like you might know deep
down in your heart. Okay, Okay, you don't know what
I'm gonna say. It's in a poem or a letter
you read somewhere at one point, So yes, with the initials.
Speaker 7: Mariam Hale.
Speaker 2: It's not no, it's MH. But it was it was, Yeah,
it's MH. It was signed something different I think in
the letter, or referenced as something different in the letter. Yeah,
but that's okay, But that's the name you here, And
you think for a second, You're like, where have I
fucking heard that before? Because you had found letters of
your sires in the apartment, and one of them, yes,
and the record that you played No, excuse me, my
mistake it's not from a letter. You recognize it from
the top of the record that you played the woman
who sang the song that your sire wrote. Her initials
were mh but her name was like Helen or something
like that. It was a different name at that time
in history, and so married Helen. That's it. Yeah, So
you see that flash on the record as you realize, like, wait,
that's the woman who sang this fucking record, which was
your sire's song.
Speaker 7: I begin singing the song. I don't know if it's
going to do shit.
Speaker 13: I roll my eyes.
Speaker 11: When hearing these familiar words.
Speaker 15: Oh.
Speaker 2: Nothing happened, Oh nothing repeating. It's repeating on the wall.
It repeats okay three times before it fades out and
stops working.
Speaker 13: She looks the same as she may have done in
Gunner's memory and when she was in the chantry.
Speaker 11: So some of us may recognize.
Speaker 2: Her, yes, and it's up to you whether or not
she looks slightly off from what you remember, but either
could be true.
Speaker 11: The teeth would be off.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, that's but I mean, like you know, her
standard place, she's kind of like yeah, m hmm, Like
her eyes could be a different color. Yeah, yeah, that's
your choice. And bone's on fire. Yeah, I mean, I
think that's the only thing your brain could think, because
her skin wasn't lit up, and it looked like it
was coming from within her like a match.
Speaker 6: When you say too many teeth, are we talking about
like a few extra or like a shark situation?
Speaker 2: Shark situation?
Speaker 16: Oh god?
Speaker 4: Oh shit hot? And she smiles with too many teeth
before what happens she bursts into flame or she disappears.
Speaker 2: Or because she becomes light. She doesn't burst into flame,
she just turns into light.
Speaker 7: Okay, Okay, I.
Speaker 6: Think we've found the so called gone we are too slay.
Speaker 11: That's the third one Gunner's memory. That is her. She
looks different, stronger, different, but that is her.
Speaker 7: I know her name to be Marie Helene. She sang.
Speaker 2: A song.
Speaker 7: My sire wrote a song and she sang it. It
is the only recording I used to play it in
the bar.
Speaker 2: And now you might remember the letter that you found
that was signed MH.
Speaker 7: Yes, okay saying this.
Speaker 2: I think it was just like you wrote this thing
and it's.
Speaker 7: Beautiful and yeah, it's there's nothing. If I remember like,
there's nothing, I mean, if I remember in character. I'm
currently reading the letter, but there's nothing in the letter
that seems out of place to me, like it just
looks like I read it out loud. Yes, dearest d
I trust this letter finds you well and in good spirits.
It is with great admiration and no small amount of
pride that I write to extend my heartfelt congratulations on
the publication of your most recent work. News of your song. Nay,
your heartfelt ode has reached me, and I am told
it has already begun to stir the souls of those
fortunate enough to hear its melody. How wondrous it must
be to see the fruits of your labor take flight
upon the winds, reaching far beyond the humble quill and
parchment from which it was born. Your words, infused with
such depth of feeling, remind us that even in these
trying times, beauty still flourishes in the hearts of men.
It is no small feat, I assure you, to capture
such emotion and render it with such elegance, as though
you have plucked the very strings of the human heart.
O phantom winds, ye mock my cries. No soulives found
beneath the skies. Thy voice, once soft, now haunts my dreams,
a whispered shade through hollowed seams. Indeed, your work shall
surely endure the test of time, for it possesses that
rare quality truth, the truth of longing, of sorrow, and
of joy, which all who hear it will recognize as
if it were their own. May this be but the
beginning of a long and illustrious career, and may your
pen never falter in its pursuit of the sublime. The
world is richer for your efforts, and I look forward
with great anticipation to whatever your next muse may inspire
in you. I remain your dear friend, Yours most sincerely, am.
Speaker 2: Is there a dation that last? I'm sorry I should
have just liked, but.
Speaker 7: It wasn't on this I know the date of the
song being written, So.
Speaker 2: You know the date the record came out, right? Or
do you know the date? No, the song was written,
because you have the original on paper.
Speaker 7: I have the original on paper, and the song was
As far as I know, the date is April seventeen
seventy four. I think that's too early for the record
to have been recorded.
Speaker 2: Far too early for the record you've been recorded. It's
a it's a hint as to someone lives long, too long.
It was a hint like I had no idea which
direction you guys were going to go in. But for example,
if you went in this direction first, the time difference
between the record coming out and being sung by a
woman m m h and the letter being written is
far too long. She would have to be She would
have to live a long time.
Speaker 7: Eighteen eighty one. I have the recorded version was done
in eighteen eighty one.
Speaker 2: Okay, I wish I had the math overlay for the
whole group just then as we all went, hold on.
Speaker 7: How long was that?
Speaker 2: But yes, so I think you would recognize that it's one.
Speaker 7: Hundred and seven. Yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 13: A shame he had no others after that one.
Speaker 7: I just sigh petulantly. Shall we look at the other colors?
Speaker 4: Yes, just because I'm under the opposite. I take out
the gold and the red, lean them against the case,
pick up the green and the blue and put them
in together.
Speaker 11: I walk. I'm very eager to see who comes. Thanks.
I'm right up there.
Speaker 2: No one else is doing anything.
Speaker 7: I am watching. Do you keeping the light?
Speaker 2: Do you slide it? Into the same slot, Cora, or
do you pick a different one.
Speaker 4: I think I'm just using one side.
Speaker 2: Same ways, yep, Okay. There on the same wall. The
same woman is walking bare foot through a garden of
blood pomed flowers. There are children following her. They're laughing,
and they seem to be untouched by time. Whatever that
means to you, you feel it. She kneels beside a
tree made of teeth and sings lullabies to it. When
she turns around, there are no children left.
Speaker 5: How many children?
Speaker 2: That's a great question. Twelve.
Speaker 6: Tell me about the teeth, please, shark like mm hmmm,
so triangular not human?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: Correct?
Speaker 6: Would you think that I might believe them to be
demmonic in nature?
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. Viewers from Nocturne might recognize them as well.
They're usually associated with a particular type of being in BBA.
Oh shit, it's not that it's not that being, But
those who have watched it will notice that's what they look.
They look like that where they suddenly just become far
too wide. So you've got this whole stretch of teeth
going up this strange tree. And I think if you
were to maybe I think that the winds around this tree.
So if you were to take it out and extend it,
it is one large cheshire like grin, but it wraps
up the tree at the moment.
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, so it's a regular tree with a toothy smile.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I see.
Speaker 6: I walk up to it, and I'm assuming is there,
So there's light. It's like a projector, right, so like
it's projecting onto my back, and I jump and I
touch the teeth and I say, perhaps not a god
but a demon. And then I turn and I look
the light that whoever might be standing behind it.
Speaker 2: It loops exactly three times and then flickers and fades out.
Speaker 7: You're looking at Cora, right, Is that what you meant?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Sorry, you're looking at the light and me at
the same time.
Speaker 6: I can only see the light because it would be
blinding me about when it goes down. I assume you're
still standing there.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: By the case, all right, let's do the next see
you doing another?
Speaker 4: Okay, in the same place. In the case, I take
out those pains and I combine red and green.
Speaker 2: Next bank odd sits on a throne of judgment, fanged
and somehow radiant, holding scales in her lap. A man
kneels before her and he's confessing that he invented her.
She thanks him, then vanishes from the room, leaving only
his reflection.
Speaker 5: I have two questions, what what does the man look like?
And what does his reflection look like?
Speaker 2: Well? D one hundred one hundred, please, just a regular
D one hundred two? Oh so close to that? Thirty three?
Holy shit? I think he looks like someone you recognize,
but you can't put your finger on who, and his
reflection matches. It's more of feeling, hm than a person
like deja vous? Almost?
Speaker 5: Does he not look familiar to anyone else?
Speaker 1: My rol for it?
Speaker 2: You don't need to because he said it. Yeah, absolutely,
everyone will have that same feeling.
Speaker 7: Okay, I cannot place him.
Speaker 11: So we can clearly tell this is a god like
That's what we get when we look at it.
Speaker 4: The woman, Yeah, yes, is it the same woman as
the other, same woman?
Speaker 6: He looks like a kindred.
Speaker 2: Oh based and didn't stare at the images on the wall.
They loop exactly three times before flickering and fading out.
Speaker 11: I wonder.
Speaker 7: If we are so powerful here they look like kindred,
but we are not kindred in this other place. We
are more. You must feel it. Also, we're more frightening
as well.
Speaker 4: Do you mean to say that we transformed when we
came here? You're more than Kindred here?
Speaker 7: Well, perhaps it's the way a box store becomes a
video store in this place. That bookstore is a video
store in this place. Kindred are more than Kindred. I
don't know if it's so much transformation as it is
observing a new way of being.
Speaker 5: Creating us. But with the rules of this world.
Speaker 7: A Kindred could be a god. So then who invented her?
Speaker 11: Is that all there is?
Speaker 6: There?
Speaker 11: It is just her?
Speaker 7: I would wait?
Speaker 4: So sorry, Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 7: Who wrote the book that we come from?
Speaker 4: Which book?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 7: Remember it was we were told that we came from.
Speaker 4: Okay, oh, do you mean that the game book, the
roll game, something like that.
Speaker 11: I don't really, we never made it around finding it.
Speaker 4: Sadly, Yes, bookstore changed.
Speaker 5: Hey, wave my hand. We have a book. What do
you mean, my? My, my brothers and sister. We have
a book. Okay, Marion gave it to us, well left it.
But somehow I now think Maan given mh the woman
with the teeth and the fire and the children.
Speaker 4: Yes, but Constantine just said that it was Mary heleneh.
Speaker 2: I think it's not that different.
Speaker 7: It cannot be coincidence.
Speaker 5: Wouldn't be the most insane thing for someone who's lived
so long potentially to go by a name that's different
but similar.
Speaker 7: I am actually out of character, going to fucking die
laughing and shop a brick. If the book that.
Speaker 17: You have is a BTM, you just like, what is
this Eldrige horror book of poetry?
Speaker 7: And it's just.
Speaker 13: I couldn't read it because it was in French.
Speaker 2: Well no, you wouldn't have been able to read it
because it's in another reality's words right, look foreign to you,
and it.
Speaker 5: Would it fills the void of the rules in which
the world that takes place. So a VTM rule book
could be a holy text of anything. Ancient Tome of Spells,
How to make oh shit, it was called the Cursive strawb.
Speaker 7: How to make a character. It's character creation.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's what fucking hell? Oh my god
of a sorts.
Speaker 7: Maybe my god's going to be al sombra.
Speaker 5: My God's got to control like fire, and he's going
to be so fucking cool, and he just say all
the right things and just be cool to rock star.
Speaker 2: Dude, my God's going to be like, imagine if everything
that you did, if every character you created then began
to exist somewhere.
Speaker 4: I've thought that before.
Speaker 5: I feel for that place, she says, with a smirk
under her breath.
Speaker 7: That means we can meet the monkey.
Speaker 16: I mean manners.
Speaker 2: He has a name.
Speaker 6: Yeah, true, little respect for the greatest character I've ever played.
Speaker 2: The Please you know it's the greatest character he's ever played,
because not only do we have one emotive the character.
Speaker 6: That's what made me think of because so that I
was like, why are there? He's looking at him?
Speaker 16: He's just up to no good?
Speaker 7: Can I roll to see if that statement you just
made Pybe is true in this world that we're currently
playing in right now.
Speaker 2: No, because Constantine is not just a philosophical damn it,
but Constantine is currently being played by myrgles. You know what,
I never say no to a role, but you gotta
do thirty three man.
Speaker 7: Hello, imagine I get it shot.
Speaker 2: In the dark, dude, I would shake harder than at
the beginning of a call nine. I think a version
of that thought can flicker through your mind. I don't
see why not. It's uh what you were all talking
about essentially.
Speaker 13: Okay, colite is there any more? Is it just her?
Speaker 4: Yeah? So I would I would test. Actually, I would
move the original, the original pairing bread and gold to
a different side of the case, to different slots us
and then blue and green. We'll just a test to
see if another side of the case gives us a
different image or if it's all of the woman.
Speaker 2: So when you put the red and gold in a
different spot, it just shows up on a different side
of the wall. Oh, it loops the same image, the
same image.
Speaker 4: Okay, then I would take those out and then do
red and blue next.
Speaker 2: Red and blue? Oh yeah, yes. The same woman is
bound in silver chains. Her head is bowed before a crowd,
all carrying torches. They chant her name in unison. As
her heart is cut out and passed from hand to hand.
Her last breath escapes in the shape of a bat.
The people then weep.
Speaker 4: Can you can you post that?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 4: In the discourse, I can rear it again.
Speaker 5: See what did I tell you? And I slap hmm,
Cora on the back of the shoulder. Maryon Hall the batwoman?
Speaker 4: What what do you mean the batwoman?
Speaker 5: Oh? Did I not mention that she after I brilliantly
lit a flame, a wall flame you in between her
and dead eye, she turned into a bat and.
Speaker 4: Just fucked off, literally before your eyes.
Speaker 5: Well she literally fuck off. That's a ton of phrase.
Speaker 4: But no, I mean the bat.
Speaker 2: Yes, I love them.
Speaker 4: Then, whoever this woman was that you encountered in your home?
Is this same woman for seeing here?
Speaker 5: I think so? Well? I would like to ask, what's
the name that we're hearing?
Speaker 11: It was?
Speaker 2: Oh, the name that they're shouting in this one? Yes, yes,
is the same uh Helene one from before?
Speaker 6: Ye?
Speaker 4: Mary or Helen?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I believe it's technically Helene, but yeah, Mary, Helene.
Speaker 5: Here you are. Isn't that an old trick as well?
I remember was it on? Was it on a television
program Unsolved Mystery or something where if you choose a
name that's similar to one that you're used to.
Speaker 2: Hearing, you get a You get a plus twenty shift
on your next role for making a reference to my
favorite show up all time.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, okay Haulton catch Fire.
Speaker 2: Okay, you get a plus twenty shift on your next
rock Leftovers. Okay, well you minus twenty shift because that's
a devastating bucket.
Speaker 7: Makes a comment about how dark it.
Speaker 2: Is, this my favorite ship. You would be right, You
would be right.
Speaker 7: Why did you come to me when I was not
a young girl, came to me as an old man.
Speaker 2: You come to me now? Damn you ya blass unicorn. Anyway,
I'm so sorry to interrupt, but you mentioned unsolved mysteries
and I could not step out of the dark and
a trench coat.
Speaker 7: This is a PBu. I just want you to know.
This goes into the rule set.
Speaker 2: There no, no, no, for real, there is an actual
class based off of him with a magical fucking trench coat.
Dude and mcgiver as well.
Speaker 16: The brutal murder exactly.
Speaker 7: He's an immortal.
Speaker 18: Actually, you were saying, moog, if you're sorry, if you
you feel hardy to interrupt me all you want.
Speaker 5: Sanderson, on the other hand, I will not stand for it,
will you sing? Will I sit? I didn't know what
you said.
Speaker 6: I was what I said.
Speaker 16: You said. I won't stand for it, Oh you will sit?
Speaker 5: My god, I liked him better when he wasn't funny.
Speaker 16: When you know him funny change, that's what you're saying.
Speaker 7: And you think I'm a trap and you want to
kiss me, and you want to get married.
Speaker 2: That was in game.
Speaker 7: That was in game.
Speaker 16: I wrapped my legs around him.
Speaker 7: That was that was in game.
Speaker 12: That was in game.
Speaker 7: If you say it's what, I'm theater of the mind,
theater of the mind.
Speaker 16: I'm thinking, I'm thinking about Goooner though.
Speaker 5: I knew you always thought of him when you were
with me.
Speaker 7: I was saying, I'm so happy right now. It is
so easy to make me happiest.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, I'm just like updating notes on this horrific puzzle.
Speaker 5: If you were to choose a new name, it should
be similar to the one you're used to here, so
someone calls it out, you would turn naturally towards it, like,
for example, I don't know Greg and Craig yeah, or
that could go on.
Speaker 13: Oh but you want Okay, you can continue.
Speaker 5: Oh you must know. It's because I've not I'm not
great at rhyming. It's an accomplishment whenever I do it.
Ryan and Ryan, there.
Speaker 7: We are, Mook and Stook, Stek.
Speaker 5: I already don't like them.
Speaker 4: Blair and Briar.
Speaker 13: That's gonna be a plus.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I'm sorry the way that I got Yeah.
Speaker 7: We actually win the game. Actually, that's how we won
the game. Oh my god, the game is in the one.
Speaker 2: Wait what year is it? Because they're born by now yeah, yeah,
so I think in two years they get kidnapped. So
somewhere they get the little goose bumps while they're playing. Okay,
oh my god, you know, like an anime. Yeah, yeah,
it's that, or they sneeze.
Speaker 13: Somewhere it means a necromancers talking about.
Speaker 7: You a really hot negro answer.
Speaker 4: While they're talking about names. We're going to take the
pains out and combine golden green.
Speaker 2: Golden green. Ah, yes, okay, and you're doing it in
the same spot again, correct the original spot? Yeah, okay,
confirm for me again the color that you just picked,
golden Okay, same woman. She reaches her hand into a
believer's chest and rips out his heart. She then carves
a new name into it. I cannot believe you picked
this one after the conversation you were just having. It
then begins to pulse with someone else's voice. A raven
sits nearby, waiting, unmoving.
Speaker 16: Is the name Craig?
Speaker 2: No, it's Zunathar.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah wait wait wait, A raven says nearby, and what.
Speaker 2: It's unmoving, it's waiting, unmoving.
Speaker 4: The name carved on the heart is unafar.
Speaker 5: Oh, what do you think this play is about us?
Speaker 9: What is it?
Speaker 2: When the heart speaks with a different voice, what does
it say?
Speaker 7: Sorry?
Speaker 19: Just the sentence alone, it says, directed at the raven,
are you gonna do anything?
Speaker 5: You're just gonna stand there? Come on now?
Speaker 2: It flickers three times on the wall, or it plays
three times on the wall before it flickers and fades out.
Speaker 13: Do we hear that the voice?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 9: Yep?
Speaker 7: Oh my god. I look at Moog.
Speaker 5: She said she's heard of me. But the first time
that I spoke to well, I suppose not the first time.
Speaker 14: Yeah, can I do something crazy?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 7: I don't know if it will. I don't know if
it's applicable to this present moment, So hopefully it doesn't
detour us too much. But I would like to use
my magic put a hand on Moog, and I want
to know unless we already know this, and I forget,
but I want to know how old Mooke is? When
how fresh is his clay?
Speaker 2: Okay, you can step forward and reach a hand out
towards Moove.
Speaker 6: Move.
Speaker 2: Do you let Constantine touch you?
Speaker 5: I'm too much in a shock right now, I'm not present.
Speaker 2: Yep, all right, go ahead and roll D you one hundred,
please just to sta D one hundred.
Speaker 15: Yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this whole episode is probably going to be those
ninety one You have no idea why because he doesn't
feel like Clay, because he doesn't feel like yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 7: Or like he just doesn't feel alive, so there's nothing
there's no time to have passed, if that makes any sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I like that. I also have
another offer, since it is a ninety one.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You won't notice, though, but Moog and Cora will notice
that uh Isshna seems to have shielded some form of
information from Constantine just now.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, for some reason, when what happens when Constantine
touches Moog oh Yishna is shielding something.
Speaker 2: From Constantine?
Speaker 11: I look at Cora bye, I shake my head.
Speaker 4: Like I don't know, because if.
Speaker 6: He knew, his mind would crumble and you would have
a useless welcome thing. You're welcome?
Speaker 4: Would mook hear that?
Speaker 2: Nope?
Speaker 4: Just me, just okay? So I think after Muke asked
that question, and I shake my head like I don't
know my eyes would kind of like drift to the ceiling,
as if I'm listening to something. And then once Eashan
stops talking, I would look at Mug again and just
simply say protection.
Speaker 7: Oh all right, So why do I catch that? I move?
Here's the thing I normally wouldn't And I was debating
this entire time whether or not to jump on that.
But then I was, like Acorn deliberately said, I pause
and look to this feeling like I'm listening to something.
Speaker 2: Also, one would argue you reached out to touch Moog
and then Mug looked to Kora like yeah, yeah, so
you'd look over at her, right, yeah, I mean yeah exactly,
like don't worry, Okay, you're all good.
Speaker 7: Did I catch that look and interpret it the way
that she just said it? I feel like I have
to roll like an insider.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would so roll me a D one hundred
because I'm thinking about what you would have seen. Essentially,
what you see is you reach out, you do magic
without permission, but you are attempting to do some sort
of magic, and then all you see is Mug look
at Kora and say why, and Kras has protection? So
I don't know if you would interpret it as her
asking Ishna, or if it's her thinking about responding and
saying I did it to protect you. But I do
think that you would go, Okay, something is being withholded
from me, you know, like I tried something and then
it was prevented.
Speaker 7: Okay, but you yes, seventy I also.
Speaker 2: Know Ehna exists, so it's possible that you can.
Speaker 7: That's what I mean, is like, am I yeah?
Speaker 2: Am I kind of suspicious? Like was she thinking or
was she asking? Yeah?
Speaker 7: Mm hmm, okay, I think with that seventy five, I
might just leave it at I'm suspicious, but I don't
have any other like, I have no confirmation one way
or the other. It's just like normal normal person suspiciousness, suspiciosity.
Speaker 11: Yes, can you handle more?
Speaker 5: I suppose there's only one way to find out, isn't there?
I'm sorry, narrator. In this middle contraption that they're all using,
is it a pyramid or what? What is it?
Speaker 2: Cylinder? Four sided? Okay?
Speaker 5: Thank you? Another one? Kor please?
Speaker 4: Okay? I take out the panes and I replace them
with gold and blue.
Speaker 2: Same woman stands alone in a field of ash. The
sky is colorless. There is no wind. Over a thousand
eyes bear down on her. A small altar before her
bears a single offering a lock of braided hair, long
since faded in color. She reaches for it, but stops,
then looks up directly at you the wall, then smiles
faintly and exhales a name. You smell Gardania.
Speaker 5: Of course I do.
Speaker 11: What's the name?
Speaker 7: Exhaled?
Speaker 5: What's the name?
Speaker 2: Everyone will have to rule for this one. Oh, you know,
you know, it is a name that she's saying, but
her mouth is moving, and unless someone has some crazy
kill like lip reading, no, we're just doing straight. We're
doing straight D one hundreds right now for this session
for reasons.
Speaker 11: Oh my fucking.
Speaker 5: God, who is that?
Speaker 7: Moove and color rolled the exact same. No, everyone knows, Yeah,
both rolled in ninety.
Speaker 2: Now, okay, okay, hold on, hold on, hold on, what's
the name?
Speaker 13: Estevon Greig, It's it's it's a very plain name. It's
just Sophia.
Speaker 2: That's the name of your sire.
Speaker 11: It's doesn't need to be a full name.
Speaker 2: Sophia is fine. But as soon as as soon as
you hear it, as soon as you hear it, you
would recognize that that is the name of your sire
Moog and Kra.
Speaker 13: But she set it up to the sky like she's.
Speaker 2: She looked directly at you out of the wall. She
makes eye contact if possible. She's a drawing.
Speaker 13: It's kind of just like she turns.
Speaker 2: She looks directly at wherever the camera would be. Yeah,
out through the wall. Whoever was drawing this you whatever,
and says that name. However, I think Moog and Kora here,
Ishna and the other two don't recognize anything in particular.
You know it's a name, but you're unable to read
the lips.
Speaker 13: I'm kind of trembling a little bit, loops.
Speaker 2: Exactly three times before it flickers and stops.
Speaker 7: Did anyone catch that name?
Speaker 2: I wish I had popcorn.
Speaker 5: A name. No, I don't.
Speaker 7: Call perhaps, I'm so sorry, even not as like a
person expert. The absolute comic level of what a name?
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? It was so it was perfect.
Speaker 7: What do you mean a name? I saw nothing or whatever?
Speaker 4: Name?
Speaker 2: It's what?
Speaker 7: Uh? So I looked at I look at you shiftily,
but I do not follow it up. Well, I think
it's important if we know that name. But I didn't
recognize anything. I'm looking at everyone m hm, one at
a time. What are you doing, asked BoNT I'm just
kind of staring, just staring and it off.
Speaker 13: Haven't moved, shaking a little bit? No, may more, vampire
should notice I'm shaking.
Speaker 11: A little bit.
Speaker 7: Okay, Yeah, and that's okay, asked the man. What's wrong?
Do you recognize something in this one?
Speaker 11: And nothing is wrong?
Speaker 15: This is uh, she's a good day.
Speaker 5: And why is that?
Speaker 11: I know the name of who I must kill?
Speaker 5: All right? Choosing to sing and dance instead of sorrow.
Speaker 11: You are one.
Speaker 13: To talk about singing dancing. You would like to know
this name as well, that's what you, Cora.
Speaker 11: I try. I assume all of us would.
Speaker 4: Is it the name of the god that we must kill?
Speaker 13: Perhaps it is the name of my sire, she said Sophia,
I like over enunciated too.
Speaker 7: Do I know, Sophia?
Speaker 2: I don't know, do you?
Speaker 11: No woman in red smellly? Didn't you? Guardianius ages? You
did not hear her name?
Speaker 5: I heard nothing. I saw the mouth move.
Speaker 11: It's very strange.
Speaker 4: I don't know, Sophia. You say this is your.
Speaker 11: Sire, Sophia, I know what you're doing.
Speaker 8: Yes, put it in again, orra play it again this one.
Speaker 4: I take the Hanes out, pause for a moment, and
put them back in the same spots.
Speaker 2: The same woman stands alone in a field of ash.
The sky is colorless, there is no wind. Over A
thousand eyes bear down on her. A small altar before
her bears a single offering a lock of braided hair,
long since faded, perhaps it was once red. She reaches
for it, but stops, then looks up at you, smiles faintly,
and exhales a name. You'll have to roll again if
you want to hear my mouth in along, and she
says it. Yeah, so for you it will always be Sophie.
Speaker 7: Yeah, ninety two.
Speaker 2: That's an eighty seven for soccer. For those listening, he did.
Speaker 11: Get a twenty nine before I know.
Speaker 4: Okay, I know, I'm curious.
Speaker 5: I'm just quiet.
Speaker 13: I'm not questioning you. I'm just lobbying.
Speaker 2: Cora got a sixty two.
Speaker 5: So do you old roll again?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep. Everyone who didn't get a one, essentially yep, twelve.
You got a one and a two. So you hear
ishna mook. But it looks like that's not what is
being said here.
Speaker 7: Cora.
Speaker 2: You hear Ishna again and the lips. Everything seems to match. Unfortunately,
Constantine and Stalker same thing.
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, I think that's all we'll get from
this one.
Speaker 5: This looks like familiar though. The eyes in the sky.
Look at Starker.
Speaker 4: We have been there before.
Speaker 1: Us.
Speaker 5: Yes, we tried to get a short cut from Sanderson
over there and ended up being the scenic route.
Speaker 4: Write a scene.
Speaker 11: It was.
Speaker 20: What was he.
Speaker 4: A lot to see and a lot of being seen.
It was the night you and Esteban were fighting that
creature in the alley.
Speaker 7: Ah, so.
Speaker 5: You talked to it, Stoker, Yes, can mean I'm doing it.
You remember what it said?
Speaker 6: Sure buddy?
Speaker 2: From six months ago?
Speaker 7: Sure buddy, specific.
Speaker 11: Please.
Speaker 5: I didn't say anything of note, if.
Speaker 2: I remember correctly. It was in Latin, ancient Latin. You
knew kind of similar to Latin, but you couldn't understand it.
It was archaic. I don't think you understood anything that
it said, but I could be wrong.
Speaker 16: Oh that's correct. Yeah I did not. Oh see, I did,
but in character, I don't think I did.
Speaker 7: What I want to see.
Speaker 2: You know, archaic Latin. I had to fucking look this.
Shut up, you're.
Speaker 16: Crazy I did too. We all have access to Google.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, well you said, see I recognized it, and
I just thought, like you recognized that that live and
I was like.
Speaker 9: Google.
Speaker 7: Yah.
Speaker 5: So we know about Orcish that he speaks ancient Latin, and.
Speaker 2: Today I learned randomly that Meyer knows the fucking Latin
names of specific worms that are specific to cows and
or other animals. Like he just rattled off his favorite worm. Okay,
so it wouldn't surprise me if all of a sudden
you knew archaic Latin.
Speaker 7: What does that say about me? That I just find
that to be attractive? No matter what that that that
thing because sexy.
Speaker 16: That's why you want to know what it's.
Speaker 7: Tell me your favorite worm? Baby.
Speaker 2: I wish I could remember the Latin term because I.
Speaker 7: Would have just used it. Oh my god, ridiculous. But
I have a question, then why is she? If she
is a god yess and she is offering something to
this thing that you met, is it a god maker?
Speaker 4: It is old enough to be one?
Speaker 7: Is it the god? Also?
Speaker 4: Then if it isn't, I would be afraid of what
a god really was.
Speaker 7: You weren't before.
Speaker 4: Being there in that realm with that thing made you
realize that the oldest kindred you've ever met is still
a baby in its eyes, And that was frightening.
Speaker 7: I don't know why, but it just took me out
the baby at all at the moment, you look.
Speaker 6: Like he is that a monster truck Rabby drinking up badweiser.
Speaker 7: Okay, let's see another one. Perhaps it will give us
more information.
Speaker 4: I think that is all of the pairings, that it's
only her.
Speaker 5: It's only her. You said, Sophia was what you heard? Yeah,
see every time six times. That last time.
Speaker 11: It didn't.
Speaker 5: I don't know if it sounds like Sofia to me
or not.
Speaker 11: What did it sound like?
Speaker 5: I couldn't make it out. Otherwise I would just.
Speaker 7: Say Craig, Yes, I do find it interesting that even
after we knew that it was supposed to be Sophia,
I still could not hear it or make it out.
You think that if you know what you're looking for,
you'd hear it.
Speaker 5: Oh, there's more than one answer. There's more than one
thing being said. Yes, there's more than one.
Speaker 7: Chamber reveals the truth.
Speaker 5: Perhaps, perhaps.
Speaker 7: I find it interesting though, that she said, the one
thing that you have always wanted to know.
Speaker 11: Is that her hair. I wonder.
Speaker 7: I don't suppose it would be a good idea for
us to meet your friends stalker and give a piece
of hair.
Speaker 6: Are you saying you want to go to that place?
Speaker 7: Got No? I want to live. I want to stay alive.
I want to drink and chance and make merry again,
hopefully with all of you.
Speaker 6: An interesting idea, though, And I pull out the dagger
and examine it.
Speaker 2: What are you looking for?
Speaker 6: I'm more contemplating using it than really just looking for anything.
Speaker 4: Pep, Do I recognize anything about the offering? Yeah, itself,
that's your hairs of the offering. It is my hair.
Speaker 7: Okay, that is so weird because a second ago, in character,
I was going to make a joke about it being
Cora's hair that we use.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's her hair, and that's probably when it hits you.
I only said red the second time.
Speaker 4: Okay you did. Yeah, yeah, I think.
Speaker 2: That's exactly how it happens. You watch it the second
time and then you look at the hair. There's also
I also described it as and I'm so glad you
guys caught this because I had to get up and
stretch all of a sudden. But there's no color on
the wall. It's just drawings, right, So Corey, you just
know it's a faded red. Yeah, and that's probably when
it hits you, Holy shit, that's my hair. But I
was very careful to collect it. That's right after we
went in, That's right, and I disposed of my hair.
Where did you put it?
Speaker 7: It was a full braid right in the image.
Speaker 4: It was like a little lock. It was a little
lock that braid.
Speaker 7: It got it?
Speaker 2: Okay, where did you put it?
Speaker 4: I think I would have burned it when.
Speaker 2: I got back to I'm not doubting you. I'm just
wondering what you did with that.
Speaker 4: I think after I collected it, yeah, I probably would
have put it in my bag until we got back
to the apartment, and then after everything had calmed down,
it would have like gone to burn it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Then I think all of that goes through your
mind and you're like, but I you know I burned it.
Speaker 5: You do it right?
Speaker 15: M hm.
Speaker 7: Me?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I am just doubting time right now. How many moments
are really passing in between the ones that we see?
Is it? I think that was my hair from the
very first night, but after making the offering with Stalker,
entering the crypt, finding you all, and exiting. I took
it and I disposed of it.
Speaker 5: Did it all the same when you collected it? Then
when you dropped it off?
Speaker 4: Did it phoebe.
Speaker 2: Roll for me from your actual sheet.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm, difficulty.
Speaker 2: Forty six. That is the sixth an otherworldly success, Alicia.
I don't know how you're gonna know this. I'll let
you decide, and maybe we can all work together to
figure out how the fuck you know, the braid that
you saw when you came back that you picked up
wasn't the same one that you put down. You haven't
done it.
Speaker 4: Yet, Yeah, And I think it's because I've phrased it
the way that I did, using about how much time
is really passing in between the moments that we see
and how the order of time really is happening, that
I would probably recognize that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And maybe that allows you to connect some other
dots or even potentially just reference like, Okay, well there's
more than just this instance where this is happening. Right,
we have you know, this sire who put him in
the coffin, but then also was in the coffin, or
you know, and then but was also the one that
gave me the clue to come down here. And if
he's in the coffin right now, how can all of
this be you know what I mean? So it's thoughts
like that probably going through your mind. And then you
would also recognize that the hair in the thing that
you recognizes your hair isn't that hair either. You haven't
done that one yet either.
Speaker 4: The hair in the image.
Speaker 2: Image on the wall, yep, you haven't done that one
yet either. And I think you know you take your
own hair back, just not when you thought you did.
You know, like you thought you picked it up and
went home and burned it. But it's not the same
one it's your hair because you would have known, yeah,
but you're the one that does that for some reason
that you can not understand yet.
Speaker 4: So like not going in order. Okay, I've put down,
I put down hair number one Schrodinger's hair, yep. Yes,
number ones yep. And come back and pick up hair number.
Speaker 2: Question mark yep. We'll just say hair number two to
make it easy. You come back here, number two, number two,
burn it thinking it's number one, but you then burn
it yep.
Speaker 4: And then in the image I just saw, I see
hair number three that's correct, that I haven't interacted with
at all yet.
Speaker 2: That is correct. You haven't done it yet, Well you haven't.
You haven't placed it yet. Yeah, it could potentially still
be hair number one and you went and grabbed it
and then used it. But you haven't done it yet,
And that's the thing that goes through your mind.
Speaker 13: Then hair number one's in VTM world, right, Yeah, And
we didn't come out in VTM world.
Speaker 2: That is correct.
Speaker 4: It was placed in VTM world. It could have been
picked up, used and then put down. It could be
the same hair that's just traveled through time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a cell phone.
Speaker 13: Yes, we haven't been back to the cemetery in VTM world, right.
Speaker 2: Not that you know of shit, But I think and
I am amazed at your brain, Acorn, because when I
made this puzzle, I put down the color combinations that
I thought you might pick, because I assume they were
going to let you be the one to do this.
The very last one is the one that you picked,
the blue and the gold as the last one that
reveals the braid. It's like, if you look at my shet,
you goes all the way down. You didn't pick the
other ones in the right order. But you left the
blue and the gold for last. But I think with
that six otherworldly success, I think it strikes you, especially
because the realization about the hair and things and time
and exactly what you said. I think it also hits
you that there are four other panels of glass, or
at least three in the other version of this room,
and there are four things for you to light up
on different sides of the wall. There seem to be
four different stories that you could tell on the wall,
but you have to go back and get them because
you're no longer in the original spot.
Speaker 4: I was wondering about that because we only got six
and I thought there would be twelve. Yeah, so that
makes sense, yeah, yeah, So the other six are on
the other side.
Speaker 11: Ye.
Speaker 2: And this is where you learn you can switch. You
just have to figure out how.
Speaker 4: So out loud, I would say there are no more
combinations for these pains. But I think we can all
recognize we have been watching the death of a God
only half of it. I believe the other half is
in the other version of this room, wherever it exists.
If we want the full story, if we want to
see that it's more than just this woman. Marym Mary
we would need to get there. This is where I
want to ask about the door knowledge that I got.
Speaker 2: I fucking was pulling it up. I was pulling up
because I knew you were gonna ask. And I apologize
because I lied to you when I was like, yeah,
i'll give it to you next week, don't worry about it.
And then I just didn't mention it again because I
knew if you looked at this you would recognize it.
Because in Nocturne, you need a breed of rope from
different strands of a tree, So that comes up again here,
but you can also use other worldly hair. You also
need a black thread or a wire nodded twelve times
around the braid. You need a mirror or a reflective
surface smeared with ash or sleep blood. I don't know
if you know what that means, but you notice it
and okay, And then you need the name of the
person that the braid belonged to, and you need to
speak it backwards. So as you are now this was
in this was what Ishna stole, and so as you're
trying to be like, oh yeah, what was that again,
the information surfaces into your mind. Good luck. The requirements
for this. You need to cast this during a moonless
night or inside a place where no one remembers their
own name. The braid must be held against the heart
during the incantation, and the caster must bleed into the
reflection just to drop the spell. Will know the difference.
Those are the notes that were on the page to me, Yeah,
I can. There is one note scrawled kind of like
as an afterthought at the bottom. If the braid unravels
on the other side, you won't come back the same,
if at all, And I'll send.
Speaker 4: You these, okay. I also want to vocalize to the group.
We just did six pairings of the pains, but we
got only one.
Speaker 2: Woman.
Speaker 4: We tried the first pairing of the pains on a
different side. It was the same image. So we got
six images, which seems to be half of the twelve
for the death of a God. But then Pebe just said,
it hits me that there are four other panes of glass,
or at least three in the other version of this room,
and there are four things for them to light up
on the wall. Does that make sense? Four things to
light up on the wall, not six?
Speaker 2: Because you got you have to put them together. You
have to put the pains together, right, you need two
to make all imasses.
Speaker 11: Okay, yep, it's broken right.
Speaker 4: And the gold one's broken on the other side. So
now I'm wondering, do we have to fix it? Will
it still work?
Speaker 11: Well?
Speaker 5: We could bring those pains to the working one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the gold pain from this one with us.
Speaker 13: How do we get there? What if we just break
this cold pain? It was broken before, but we.
Speaker 4: Could have been seeing the broken pain in the other place.
Speaker 5: When it is there a difference, though, I.
Speaker 4: Think the difference is in the place itself, not with
the things inside of it.
Speaker 5: No, But I mean, if we break this one, does
this one not then become that one?
Speaker 11: Or is it just this one that's broken?
Speaker 4: When did the pain seem to repair itself? What happened
was that when Constantine used his magic.
Speaker 7: It is when I made my light. Yes, once I
been keeping it on you.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, just roll me a random D one hundred, okay,
Constantine M.
Speaker 7: Ninety three.
Speaker 2: You're feeling pretty tired because if you remember, it's pulling. Yeah, yeah, okay,
So your heart beats very very slow. I always imagine
vampires heart beats being pretty slow anyway, which is why
they look pale and all that shit. But it's very
very slow.
Speaker 7: Now, I will stop you stop the light. What does
it feel like in my heart when that stops?
Speaker 2: Uh, like you've stopped skimming off the top of something
that doesn't belong to you.
Speaker 7: Is the top permanently lowered?
Speaker 2: I don't know if you know that, h but I
just that's the feeling that you would have gotten. It
was not borrowing, you were taking it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and it's not mine?
Speaker 9: Then?
Speaker 2: No, I think very You're very acutely aware. You you
said it yourself. Your magic isn't dark like that, It's light.
Speaker 7: Yeah. I oh, okay, hold on, hold on, I go
to touch the walls. Okay, I'm running my fingertips over
the walls. I am looking for Who are we inside?
Speaker 2: Right now?
Speaker 7: Is my thought?
Speaker 2: Who are we inside?
Speaker 7: Yeah? What do you mean like I'm pulling magic? I
was pulling magic from something that is not who Yeah?
Whose magic is it? Where are we all?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 7: Who's feeding this place?
Speaker 2: Roll me a d one, just a plain one here.
I'm just removing any spoilers from this note that I'm
about to send a kora here.
Speaker 17: M h.
Speaker 7: Forty three.
Speaker 2: A god, oh my god.
Speaker 7: Okay, I need you all to listen to me right now,
stay with me. It may not make sense, but then again,
nothing does at the moment, so we're all just going
to have to trust each other. Nah. When I made
that light, I could feel it. I could feel where
the magic was coming from, coming through my heart, and
it was dark. And it occurred to me when I
finished that it was not mine, that I was taking
it from somewhere else, from something else, these.
Speaker 4: Walls, this place, this is the god. I glanced at, mood.
Could it be that you were taking from your proxy?
Speaker 7: Do I have that feeling? But that's a possibility.
Speaker 2: I have an answer for you, but I'm just curious.
Go ahead and yeel again. I really like rolling when
I can see that the player has had an extra thought,
just because it means we can do something extra. So
forty eight eight maybe, but also maybe you have just
become aware of the type and the nature of the
magic that creates a revenant or a vampire or a kindred.
Do you think you're born the way people are born? No,
you know that's not true. What exactly creates a vampire?
Speaker 11: Then?
Speaker 2: Is it just the bite?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: The bite is a part of a ritual, a spell
that is being performed, and maybe it is that magic
that is forcing your heart to beat when it would
otherwise stop, at least here in this space and this reality,
in this world. That's how it works.
Speaker 7: We are children of it. Yeah, we are children of
this god.
Speaker 2: And if you want to ah replenish that, you're going
to have to take it from somewhere. But it is
absolutely what is keeping you immortal. You have discovered how
to kill a revend.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Also, I am going to clarify something here because I
misunderstood you. You said, what are we inside? And even
though I asked you to clarify, I still misunderstood. I
didn't mean this place. I meant you, what are you inside?
You're a god?
Speaker 7: Okay? And in moment.
Speaker 15: If we.
Speaker 7: Are gods, but we were made.
Speaker 9: God.
Speaker 4: Oh the many faith, the many eyes in the sky
representing Kindred all part of the same hole, peering out
of different eyes.
Speaker 7: Okay. So then we are looking at our creator, Marie
Helene or she just created like us, She's part of
it too. She's offering something to the many eyes, many eyes,
many teeth.
Speaker 4: Ah Tibi in the one that we just watched where
she has the hair, and she's facing the many eyed. Yes, God,
does she look kindred?
Speaker 2: Yes, Okay, she looks the same. She does smile, I believe.
Let me just read my fucking notes. I'm pretty sure
she smiles slightly.
Speaker 11: She does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I got on purpose.
Speaker 4: Yeah, does in all of the scenes that we just saw,
does she look noticeably different across them? Age human versus kindred?
Speaker 2: And it's such a good question. Yes, I think that
as you look through it is It's hard to tell,
but I'll give it to you because your kindred, and
you've all lived, you know, some of you have lived
longer than others. But you know, maybe what age looks
like on a kindred And it's not necessarily that their
skin wrinkles or their pallor changes. It's simply there is
something about the way they carry themselves that imparts carrying
more knowledge, more experience, more pain.
Speaker 7: Okay, so then the specific experience. I'm like saying this
out of character, but let's just say that this conversation
is having in character as well, so we can like
table talk it a little bit. Maybe I felt like
I was pulling the magic from something that does not
belong to me, that does not indicate to me that
I am a god. That indicates to me that I
am pulling from a god. If I was a god,
it would be mine also, if I was part of
the same whole. That's how I'm imagining it.
Speaker 2: Why you've just learned gods are made by something or
someone in the last four rooms three rooms.
Speaker 7: Yes, I was made. But isn't what makes a god
the power you have access to so it's given, it's
given by the people who believe in you.
Speaker 2: That's possible.
Speaker 7: I'm trying to figure out where where the magic is
coming from.
Speaker 2: I think what makes a god is exactly right what
you said here. And the fact that they it's the
power that they have, yes, is it theirs? Or do
they just have the ability to take it? Yeah, and
use it and wield it?
Speaker 7: Well, I mean it's very like human right, Like we
don't have control over our environment. We've just learned how
to take from our environment to have what we need
and or want. But that's the difference between humans and
a god. It's the God can create that, right.
Speaker 2: And man was made in his image supposedly.
Speaker 7: Supposedly, and humans did create the concept of a god.
Speaker 2: I think it's fine for constantine to be confused by
the feeling of what are we inside? And the answer
that comes back is a god? And then your life's fine. Yeah,
you know, it's fine. Yeah, But you asked what you
felt in that moment, and that's that was the answer
that echoed back.
Speaker 7: I just want to understand, like deeper, I want to
know because it feels like I don't know if that is.
It may not be the answer to any of this,
but it's an answer for us. It's so, what are we?
What are we doing here? How did we come to be?
Et cetera. And it's one thing to believe that you've
been given a gift of eternal life, and it's another
thing to be a god. I've never felt like a
god before. I just felt like I was lucky to
get to live for longer.
Speaker 2: Does a god realize they're a god?
Speaker 16: If?
Speaker 2: I think if aspect like, we've got a bunch of
lore around, you know, vampires, but take that away for
a second, and let's say you met a fucking vampire.
You met someone who had teeth like a fucking cat
and they could move quickly, Like, what would your instinct
be if you didn't have a word for a vampire,
what would that be? A monster? Maybe a god, a demon, demon,
any of these things, any of these words an interesting thought.
Speaker 7: Yeah, philosophically, I mean, isn't it being a god is
defined by the fact that you know that you are one,
so you can behave as one. Is it not in
just the behaviors of being a god that makes you
a god? Because otherwise you could just you know, not
do anything, And then what kind of god are you?
You wouldn't be one, right, And who.
Speaker 13: Wouldn't want a god to realize they're a god? Other gods?
Speaker 2: Bingo.
Speaker 7: I seek that magic within myself and I want to
take it to move us to the next room.
Speaker 13: Okay, oh, I announce what you doing?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, you do announce what you're doing?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I do announce yeah yeah, yeah, I'll say it
out loud.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna let them all.
Speaker 7: Uh, you can stop me if you want, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna give every opportunity to do something here.
Speaker 4: What what do you say out loud that you're going
to be doing?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think this is important.
Speaker 7: If we are gods, and we are, they do not
want us to know that we are them. That power
is ours, whether they believe it is not we can move.
What if I just take us there now, the other
version of this room? I must be answered their questions.
Speaker 5: Someone can try, someone else can try.
Speaker 7: Together.
Speaker 5: Oh I'm I'm just gonna say it. Santas and brought
us to the place with the eyeballs. Yeah, a knife
and the cutting into whatever. Perhaps that could be a way.
Speaker 7: No, I'm what I'm describing is remember how we were.
Just I want to make a door that brings us
to this room. I'm not asking for something else to
fury us there. I am the knife and the eyes.
Speaker 5: I don't you don't know where you're pulling this power from?
Speaker 7: Is it not ours? It's I mean, I don't. I agree.
Speaker 4: You said it felt like it was you were taking
it from somewhere else, from something.
Speaker 7: Else that doesn't belong to me, right, But it is.
Speaker 4: Also something that you are finding within yourself, like a
fountain tied to some other source.
Speaker 7: Is that's how it feels for you?
Speaker 4: If I look inward and think about that, what it
feel like?
Speaker 17: Oo?
Speaker 2: Go ahead and roll for me, just to standard one hundred.
Speaker 4: Thirteen.
Speaker 2: You see the recipe that I just gave you. You
see that the thirteen is like crossed out twelve thirteen.
Mm hmmm, what a magical number you have randomly fallen
on in on D one hundred. M Okay, phrase your
question for me again so that I know how to
perly answer.
Speaker 4: Constantine just asked me if it feels that way for me,
the feeling of I am filled with another with a
power that comes from a different source, but it is
mine to tap into. Is that right, Constantine?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, yes, that's youa. But I know you're
asking very specifically for yourself. Yes, with A with A thirteen,
I'm going to say that you kind of have access
to the same knowledge now, and that is just maybe
you feel it too. You would actually recognize this as
necrotic magic if you were to put a turn a
term to it that you would understand this like dark
magic that is forcing your heart to beat. It is
a spell. It is some strange magic that doesn't belong
to you, that was put on you to keep you,
to turn you into this form that you are in.
It doesn't belong to you. You weren't the one who
cast the spell. Someone else did, but it does keep
you alive in this form as a kindred And then
obviously you've got Isshna's power that you could pull on
if you wanted to. I don't even think he could
stop you. If you wanted, you could just consume him
in his entirety, maybe become something else if you wanted to.
Speaker 6: I I'm still holding the dagger, and I sire using
a power that you do not understand as great risks.
And I'll look at Aura and if if it's okay,
I would kind of want to know what is Cora's
like passive perception?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean you don't get to know what her
character she says, but are you trying to provide her
maybe with some information because normally we just have a
role for it, right, sure, Yeah, if you're trying to
hide it or be sneaky, then we just have a
role to see if she can see it. It's not DND.
She doesn't have a passive perception. Unfortunately, I.
Speaker 6: Go ahead.
Speaker 2: Enroll a D one hundred. Cora, do you know how
difficult it? Well it's in ninety so I'm assuming she
does not see unless you want her to.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I said I'm done.
Speaker 2: Now next Oh okay, oh okay, sorry you just looked at her.
You didn't do anything else.
Speaker 16: Sorry, Okay, I said what I needed to say.
Speaker 2: Okay, okaynlogue. That was the monologue.
Speaker 7: I'm done.
Speaker 16: I'm done. Now, who's next?
Speaker 4: I think, uh so, if just if Soccer says that
as he's holding the dagger, then my attention would be
drawn to him and I would look at the dagger.
There's a lot about this that we don't understand. I
think whatever Constantine just discovered about this dark magic, there's
still more to be understood about that. There may be
a way, a safer way to try to get to
the other side. And I point out Stalker's dagger. Might
we use this?
Speaker 6: Is that your suggestion?
Speaker 4: I believe I know a spell that we could try,
and one of the things we need is a reflective surface.
Speaker 11: There's also his glasses.
Speaker 5: I could also try to make glass.
Speaker 4: It needs to be a reflected If whatever it is.
Speaker 6: A spell, where did it come from?
Speaker 4: From the magic shop? I learned it in our time?
Speaker 5: There there is talks of using a lot of magic
that is not ours.
Speaker 2: Right now, of Corey, you would know when you're doing
a spell, you are calling on your own you know,
kind of like magic and ritual. I mean, you're using
objects to kind of help you. But you know for
some reason, because this is PBu not VTM. But this
is just the information that kind of flows through you
that you know the ingredients are helping add your odds.
They're shifts to help your odds become better at doing
what it is that you're trying to do. But the
power would come from you and or maybe also if
you needed it.
Speaker 4: But yes, that is the difference between a spell. A
spell is a focusing measure. It allows you to do
precisely what you want to do with your own power,
drawing from a dark fountain of power, one that we
don't know the source of yet I believe is more
dangerous by comparison.
Speaker 5: Trust when you put it that way, I would like to,
I think, try to determine what the power is Constantine
is trying to tap into.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, go ahead and roll a D one hundred.
Speaker 5: A fifty.
Speaker 2: Have fun role playing this because it seems a little
difficult to me. But you can have vague feelings and
your ideas only because Korra figured it out just now,
but you don't for some reason.
Speaker 5: That feels about right. Actually, Yeah, as if I'm almost
as if I learned it in a dream, and I
woke up and said, I'm going to remember this, and
then I forget it later. But that feeling of the
memory remains, just not the memory itself or the knowledge itself,
the feeling of it.
Speaker 13: Where did you say you were pulling this power from?
Speaker 7: It is what is keeping us alive. I could feel
it my heart beat. It's probably not a good idea
to pull on the very thing that is keeping me alive.
Speaker 11: But regular spell sounds a bit safer to be true.
Speaker 7: It is only that you said, who doesn't want a
god to know their god?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 7: And then I got angry and wanted to take it
because there we are God, we should know.
Speaker 11: We cannot take it from her. I wouldn't mind that.
Speaker 7: I agree.
Speaker 5: To do that might bring in her hair.
Speaker 11: How wonderful.
Speaker 6: You say that?
Speaker 5: Now I'm not so sure she's as weak as us.
Speaker 11: What is to be the end of the if not
to confront them?
Speaker 7: It makes a point.
Speaker 5: You feel as if we're ready right now for this?
Speaker 11: Who is to say, well, we're ready for any of this.
I guess the.
Speaker 13: Spell is probably safer, but we have some backup plans
than eh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if the spell works and we can go to
the other version of the room. We will at least
be able to get the rest of the story of
the death of a god and perhaps get more information
from the images that we see. Like your word, Sophia.
Speaker 11: I think that would be wise.
Speaker 4: There are a few things that we will need for this.
The reflective surface is one, but we also require a
black thread and also either ash or sleep blood.
Speaker 11: Sleep blood.
Speaker 4: That is something I don't believe I'm familiar with, but
perhaps Stalker has come across it before.
Speaker 2: Her brain.
Speaker 13: Dude, I did not see any labels at Sunny's. I said,
sleep blood half.
Speaker 20: Price, Stalker, have you heard of that before?
Speaker 16: I have no idea. Maybe by roll Yeah, go for it, yeah, Rola.
Speaker 2: D you one hundred Nope, No, no, no you Because
the failure doesn't always mean you don't have the answer.
I have to be very careful about how I do
this here though. Yes you have, but I'm not going
to give it to you. And it doesn't mean that
you're wrong or you're lying. Does that make sense? You
do know what have Yeah? Okay, yeah, you do know
what it is, but it's got to come from Orchish
brain and not peb brain. Yes, I have.
Speaker 6: That's what.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. It just makes me so happy that
you're like. Yes, Now I ask again, I love.
Speaker 7: And what is it?
Speaker 6: It is very difficult to acquire.
Speaker 7: Do you already have some on your person?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 7: What is it?
Speaker 6: It is bounder, I'm a creature.
Speaker 7: M well, it would have been weird if it was
blood from something that was not alive. But there's a
creature sleeping.
Speaker 6: Not exactly.
Speaker 11: Well I supposed not exactly.
Speaker 7: Yes, okay, I suppose if we have it, we do
not need to know what it is. Only I liked
how to get more of it.
Speaker 4: But we do have an option here. The sleep blood
is used to activate the surface of the reflective substance.
If we don't have sleep blood, or if we are
incapable of using it, we could also use ash. Perhaps
there as.
Speaker 5: Played the fire.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: Is it like a specific kind of ash from a material?
Just ash in general?
Speaker 4: I think any kind of ash would work. Uh, the
remains of a fire, the remains of a person, just
any kind of ash of what once was.
Speaker 5: Yes, I understand what you're saying. I'm not doing that.
Speaker 13: He's a good thing. I took a handful two. I
think we have ash I wouldn't worry about.
Speaker 5: This, but we could also send us and has wooden weapons.
Speaker 2: Yes, maybe you are not asking to burn one of
his weapons after we all just saw where they came from. Brilliant.
Speaker 20: What a dick.
Speaker 7: He also literally told us the story, so it's not
as if we are just you're not just like.
Speaker 2: He did. Yeah, yeah, no, we got to see it
as the audience. But I think he just said it's dangerous.
Speaker 7: I thought that too, But in the beginning of the episode,
we were asking him about it and he said, well,
I just don't tell you.
Speaker 2: Yeah. He just was like, you know, yeah, it's just
the four words that I said, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't imagine he told you a very personal story
to him, at least the details.
Speaker 5: Well I meant like not like I meant like, not
the crossbow, but like the bolts himself. Surely are not
the same ones.
Speaker 2: Oh no, you meant it. You were like, fuck off,
burn burn your weapons. It's fine, no big deal. But
I'm just kidding. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 13: I have in my pocket. I can move on to
what else do we need?
Speaker 4: Also a black thread or wire or wire?
Speaker 5: Well, Stalker has a crossbow that has a black joking.
I could pull the thread out of my jacket should
you need it, or my shirt or my pants or
my shoes? How long.
Speaker 4: Enough that it can be nodded twelve times?
Speaker 5: How big are the knots meant to be as.
Speaker 4: Thick as the thread.
Speaker 5: We have?
Speaker 4: That that is all we need. I can do the rest.
Speaker 7: All right, let's do it then.
Speaker 4: I'll uh so so mean moog supplies the thread?
Speaker 5: Yes, this probably like a loose one inside that he
just pulls right out.
Speaker 11: What say, reflective surface.
Speaker 7: The blade of the knife.
Speaker 11: Can you see yourself.
Speaker 4: If soccer will come it up?
Speaker 7: How polished is it? That's a good question.
Speaker 16: Oh I'm not giving you this knife.
Speaker 2: There's no way moves.
Speaker 16: You ask me for it.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 6: I just stare at you and sheathe it.
Speaker 7: We can use those then that I point to your glasses, mood.
Speaker 5: Not these ones.
Speaker 7: I like these ones, the only reflective thing we have.
Speaker 5: But they will a gift. How do I know it's
not going to get destroyed? Do they have to be destroyed?
Speaker 4: I don't believe so.
Speaker 11: No, just used.
Speaker 4: We can clean them off after.
Speaker 11: Does it even have to take them off?
Speaker 5: Well? I think that if we're going to do a
spell that involves ash although maybe they wouldn't hurt me
as much as I think it might.
Speaker 7: Sorry, we're not using the blood, just the ashy.
Speaker 5: Yes, it was either or I believe right, just.
Speaker 21: Okay, I suppose I'm really fond of these, But I
suppose I could always just.
Speaker 5: Ask her for another pair. Taking off and I hand
them to Cora.
Speaker 4: Do we notice anything about your face or your eyes?
Speaker 16: I think you start crying, my little baby? Yeah, yeah,
little cry baby.
Speaker 5: Unless TV has anything, I don't. I think it's just
it's just sunglasses. There's nothing.
Speaker 11: He just likes.
Speaker 13: Them, Okay, okay, no, no, no, no, no, he's very fond
of them.
Speaker 2: Roll me a D one hundred.
Speaker 5: No I thought so, I thought as much.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no, no twenty three. I have
to be clear. They're not the same.
Speaker 5: The sunglasses.
Speaker 2: For what people are about to see, they're not the same.
But they are kin. His eyes are red.
Speaker 4: It what's kin.
Speaker 2: The his eyes? They are red. They are not the
same as the ones you and esteband remember, but they
are related in some way.
Speaker 16: You never seen his eyes before. This was the first time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the first time he set his glasses off.
Speaker 5: That we have done quick little like these, but like, yeah,
that's it. What do you want looking at.
Speaker 11: Book?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 4: What do you know of your father?
Speaker 11: Hey?
Speaker 5: I don't know much about my father.
Speaker 4: Why I look at Esteban like kind of in like
a do you see what I'm seeing?
Speaker 11: Same?
Speaker 4: See your eyes?
Speaker 11: You have your mother's eyes.
Speaker 4: Or your father's.
Speaker 5: I'm really confused right now? What is wrong with my eyes?
Speaker 2: He just like flips the sunglasses so that I can see,
and he sees they are red staring back at him.
Speaker 5: Oh, I don't think they've always been that way.
Speaker 11: Yep, it's you were not aware.
Speaker 5: I mean this may shock you, but I don't always
go looking at myself in mirrors. Actually, that does sound
like something I would actually one percent.
Speaker 2: You check yourself out every chance you get brouh.
Speaker 5: But I think I always have the sunglasses on.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, maybe you've always known somewhere maybe seeing it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you're looking for Cora red eyes.
Speaker 4: I only recently realized that they were read through the
vision I shared with Esteban.
Speaker 5: The vision that I saw when trying to share with
you my dream.
Speaker 4: That's right, it's not me, is it?
Speaker 5: You've not been looking, couldn't have been me.
Speaker 4: Oh they're different, just similar, like a family trait. But
at the same time, things keep shifting based on where
we are. It's hard to tell which is it's hard
to keep things straight. I don't know what this means.
Almost like as a way to distract myself. I pull
out like a switchblade that I keep on me and
take the thread that he's given me and pull forward
a lock of hair and tie part of the thread
at the top before I cut it off. I braid
that lock of hair and use a bit more thread
for the bottom so both sides are secure. After that,
I take the rest of the thread and not it
ten more times around the braid. I take mood sunglasses
and carefully fold them. And you'll notice that the way
that I handle them is delicate, as if I know
how important they are to him and I'm trying my
best to protect them. I take the same switchblade and
press it into my finger, releasing a drop that falls
on one of the lenses, and I smear it with
my finger before holding the braid against my chest over
my heart and holding the reflective surface facing up, and
I take a breath, look around the room one more time,
and say, blood remembers and bone obeys. Thread bound name
now come unmade. Let silence bend and shadow break. Let
what should sleep begin to wake? I summon not, I
plead no grace. I do not knock. I tear the slace,
I braid, I bond, I vow beneath. I call to
that with many eyes, and that with many teeth open wide,
Oh mouth of dread, Let the door be walked. Not
said A rock, A rock, A rock.
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