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Speaker 3: A logit of shit, some shade hoget of fact.
Speaker 4: D you say stand up?
Speaker 5: I will walk over a tors kora to try to
get her out.
Speaker 6: The bubble is around her. Do you want to try
to Yeah, it's like blood in black smoke or like ink.
Speaker 5: Oh no, no, no, no, surrounding her. I kind of get
as close as possible to just kind of look to
see if she's moving.
Speaker 2: She's not moving. Do you want to try to cross cross?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 5: I want to know. I'm sure of this blood and
shadow magic bubble. I'll just run through it. I would
like to hold up my hand and see if I
feel anything from this, like if I can tell what
it is or where it is coming from.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can do that.
Speaker 5: We'll roll, okay.
Speaker 2: And roll your magic step please.
Speaker 5: Any particular difficulty.
Speaker 6: Yeah, thirty unless you have special bullshit, which not for this.
I actually think you.
Speaker 5: Might okay for this, Yeah, I definitely do.
Speaker 2: So we'll say forty for you for this.
Speaker 5: It is nineteen.
Speaker 6: Okay, I'm going to need some assistance, do you. I
don't know what you know about Ishna or what you
felt about her passenger.
Speaker 2: I've forgotten that.
Speaker 5: I haven't really felt anything specific. At one point I
got blocked up by Isshuna when we had our moment, okay,
when I tried to connect. But but I know the
feeling around the coffin that Ishna was in, and that
like kind of feeling that I was like, I got
to get out of here. We can't handle this right now. Okay,
But I think that's about it.
Speaker 6: Okay, then that is what that lockout that you're that
you felt during the fight is what you're feeling right now.
Speaker 5: It was something I didn't even know. I didn't know.
It was just like I got a feeling from her
and he just hid it from me. It was like
not a thing. I knew. I was getting blocked. No,
I know, but I thought I was feeling the truth
and it was him lying. But then something came out
of it.
Speaker 6: So I think that you feel that same energy of
the blocking right now. But you have the clarity now
of knowing what that was and then also being able
to go, oh, I felt.
Speaker 2: That back then.
Speaker 5: Something is keeping me out, yes, yes, keeping us.
Speaker 6: Out yes, and also kept you out back then. So
you can apply that clarity to the previous instance in
which you felt this.
Speaker 5: Police, you certainly know.
Speaker 8: I would like to walk up and see if they
are living or like feel their life force. Basically, I'm
checking to see if I can feel for an energetic heartbeat.
Speaker 6: Okay, and how do you do that? What does that
look like or constantine?
Speaker 4: H m hmm.
Speaker 8: I mean I think it's I am. I don't know
what I'm doing still, you know, like I'm guessing as
I do things all the time. So I think I'm
I raise my hand in the air and I try
to focus.
Speaker 9: On them and almost willing myself to feel anything I can.
Speaker 8: From their bodies. Okay, Like this is so this reference
or this comparison is so stupid. But like when you're
a child and you're trying to do magic, yeah, and
you're like just trying so hard to move the wind
or you know, for.
Speaker 6: Me, when you're a kid, it's more in the waiting
for it to happen, because you kind of sort of
expect that it's going to happen because you don't believe
that you can't do it. So I guess my question is,
you know, like, does Constantine believe that he can do this?
Speaker 2: Is he trying to do something new? Where is where
is his mind?
Speaker 8: I think I think it's the same. It's the connected
to the same as like my healing abilities. I think
I don't think it's something new. I would be considering
it as an extension of that healing ability.
Speaker 9: Okay, And.
Speaker 8: I think I can do it. I feel confident that
I can do it, even though previously I'm not sure
because in the world I was in before, there were
sort of plenty of things that I could do that
were powerful outside of myself, like convincing people and sort
of what's the word, what's the word making them like
think or feel things without touching them. So I think
I'm kind of.
Speaker 2: Oh, could you do that before previously, like in the
VTM world, that was one of your abilities?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think, so, let me just quickly double check
so exactly which ones.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing.
Speaker 6: It's technically in PBu obviously very possible for you to
be able to do this if you believe well enough
that you can do it, but it's incredibly rare, so
typically you'll need to do three things. You'll need to
have like three kind of the aids to help you
succeed at this.
Speaker 2: Are you using.
Speaker 6: The the gift that you got from Sonny?
Speaker 2: It's not really a gift, but sort of.
Speaker 8: I don't think so, because I think we discussed that
it has sort of like a max number of uses,
so I wouldn't be Okay, I'm looking now I can.
In my original in VTM, I had sense the unseen,
and then I also had entrancement sense the scene.
Speaker 2: Will you sense the unseen? That makes sense to me? Okay,
go ahead, and difficulty is going to be thirty Uh,
actually it'll be forty for you as well, because you
do know her secret, don't you?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 10: I do?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 11: Oh my god, Okay, oh my god.
Speaker 2: For those listenings, she rolled a one.
Speaker 5: Holy shit, best possible.
Speaker 6: It's the best possible role you could get other than
like an eleven or a twenty.
Speaker 2: Two or thirty three. So let's I'm gonna say, you
have to learn something transformative here. I think.
Speaker 6: I think it's visual for you. I think in the
moment that you reach out to kind of sense the
unseen or feel their heartbeat. You will see very clear
Cora's heart beating in her chest, nice and slow. Because
I think in my idea of what vampires are, and
I know this change is from lower to lower, but
I always thought that their heart would be incredibly slowly,
like so much so that a human ear wouldn't be
able to feel a heart beat or know that it
was beating. But if you were closer to feeding time,
like you had just fed, then it's a little bit
louder and or faster because it's pumping through with fresh
blood or whatever.
Speaker 2: So it's been a while since you all fed, I think.
Speaker 6: So it's pretty slow, but it doesn't strike you as
holy shit, this is naturally slow. I think to you,
you go, this is what a vampire's heartbeat should be like.
But it's very very slow. And you see a tether
attached from her straight to Moog, and Moog's is also
going incredibly slow. The two of them are still. They
would ask for dead in any other circumstance, but you
can see their heart beating almost like it's double exposed,
maybe a little bit. We're like an X ray and
you can see right into their bodies and then you
will absolutely see a humanoid form of a like demonic
creature that is crouching over Cora.
Speaker 2: And it is.
Speaker 6: I don't know if she has given you a name
or if you are aware of a name, but this
creature is going to look at you and see you,
and you know it sees you, and you know it
knows that you know it's there as well, and it
is not going to let you or anyone else get
anywhere near Cora. This is a protective barrier around Cora
and Moog, and he is doing it.
Speaker 8: It's from o him ah cool.
Speaker 6: I think you actually probably gives a very wicked grin
to you when he notices that you see him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good question. I imagine a very like lanky
ooh you know what.
Speaker 6: Actually in Constantine they have creatures similar to this that
they're very small, but they're very lanky and kind of
like that's what I'm imagining, this like hunching, very limy
type creature where you can kind of like see the
muscle definition and things like that, and you know, just
like fucking horrifying. But I do imagine his face being
very skeletal and almost kind of obscured by shadow because
he can change it. So I don't imagine like horns
or anything like that, but I do imagine this very
like skeletal deep and you know this like no eyes, right, yeah,
no ice, absolutely none whatsoever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so just the hollows.
Speaker 6: But you know he's looking at you. You know you
can feel that boring into you.
Speaker 8: I am able to tell yeah that this is the
same entity.
Speaker 5: With the one.
Speaker 2: It's the same entity whatever.
Speaker 6: I think you can even have the knowledge that you
know it's it's.
Speaker 2: It's been there the whole time. Yeah, it's definitely definitely.
Speaker 6: No, it's protecting her and it's not going to let
anything get near her or moog because you can see
the tether right and you know she's told you. They've
told you guys that you're basically connected and if if
Mood gets hurt, she might get hurt too.
Speaker 2: So he's just protecting them both at the moment. And
I will say with your one that you know that
he is very strained at the moment. This is costing
a lot from him.
Speaker 3: Ooh okay, I will say to him, do not worry.
Speaker 8: We won't do anything to your treasure. You can rest
if you want.
Speaker 2: Oh that's so interesting.
Speaker 6: I immediately went into my Ishna voice without the fucking
thing on there. I'm so sorry, but I'm not gonna
be able to reach the thing.
Speaker 2: So he.
Speaker 6: I don't think he will move. I think maybe there's us.
Maybe he might still and look at you and try
to maybe assess and take your measure, but he's not gonna.
Speaker 2: He's not gonna risk drop in the.
Speaker 8: That's totally fine.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I will.
Speaker 8: As he like looks at me to take my measure,
I will sort of subconsciously prevent, like present myself for that,
like I'm holding the space, and then I will turn
to Esteban and the others and say, I think they
are taken care of for now. We need not worry further.
Speaker 5: What are you talking to and how do you know this?
Speaker 8: I flash you kind of like a grin.
Speaker 12: Oh damn, m hmmm.
Speaker 8: I don't really want to tell you. I want to
keep chorus secret, but you caught me talking. Gora has
a uh protector, a night not so shining armor. But
it is our business, not mine to tell.
Speaker 10: We'll saying that.
Speaker 5: Sorry, Drench, go ahead.
Speaker 10: That's all this is happening. M I have.
Speaker 7: Turned my back to Cora and Moog as they fell,
and Constantine and Esteban went to go check. I've turned
my back to face the rest of the room, as
if a threat was there, and I've been slowly reaching
behind to my belt where I lift up my coat,
and I'm holding on to both of my axes, now
still tucked into my pants, and I can hear what
they are saying, but I'm mostly listening for something else.
I want to know if I feel that same presence
in the room as I did when I was.
Speaker 10: Preborn.
Speaker 5: Oh you clever bitch.
Speaker 6: Okay, yes, let's roll h difficulty forty for you as well,
because you felt it before, that would be mind yep,
whatever you were a magic gize the body then oh yeah,
so for you it would be you can use your
body for it because you're the rolling mind for magical Okay,
oh okay, okay, absolutely you can have Okay, yep forty.
Speaker 10: Not feeling great about this one, hell yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay? So oh what is this?
Speaker 5: What is this like?
Speaker 6: When you tap into this? Is it are you thinking
back to a memory or are you feeling? Are you
using power to do this? What is this like for Gunner,
I'm more.
Speaker 7: So tapping into what I felt upon leaving the coffin.
There was a moment where it was very clear that
there was something we couldn't see, yeah, in the room
with us, and I would liken it too, like that
feeling of being watched. Yes, and maybe even more so
for a warrior such as myself when.
Speaker 10: You think the enemy is close.
Speaker 7: So it's really like using all of your senses hearing
to try to locate where it might be.
Speaker 6: Oh man, okay, I love this because I feel like
we're developing your supernatural hunting abilities. So how do you
think Gunner would interpret the sound of a demon nearby?
Speaker 2: Because I'm imagining.
Speaker 6: It's just like, yeah, so like if you were to
use magic to try to hunt down a supernatural creature.
Because this is just how I imagined Gunner, right, Like
you know how we would be quiet in the woods
and listen for the sound of twig snapping or whatever
to identify You're like hearing on another plane. So I'm
imagining you still yourself. We see Gunner like take a
deep breath. He's quieting himself the way that you would
in the woods, and he's straining to listen, and he
just hears like like almost like a fireplace crackle. And eventually,
maybe not now, but eventually there will come a time
where he's able to go, oh, that means there's a
demon nearby, like because I know that sound, and I
know that's an infernal sound. Like he doesn't know it's
a demon now, but maybe that's what he would then
associate with demons in the future.
Speaker 2: But that's a fear this yeah right now, yes, absolutely so.
Speaker 6: When so, first of all, you do feel that same
sensation because it's a it's a thirty nine, it's a success.
It's the same sensation you felt in the crypt when
you woke up of something being there, something watching you.
But I'm going to give you something a little extra
this time, which is that hearing that we'll just say
for now that fire crackle. If it changes later, it
doesn't matter. But it's almost like a little bit of
a fireplace. But you know, it's not like an actual
fireplace for you. You know, that's some sort of clue
to know what type of monster is in the room
with you. Now, what do you think you're how do
you think that you would hear a vampire? How do
you think Gunner would know there's a vampire in the room.
Speaker 13: And I don't think it's visual or audible, Okay, I
don't know.
Speaker 14: You just.
Speaker 6: Like a very feeling yeah, yeah, like the hairs on
your arms stand out to.
Speaker 13: Say, like like a like an animal, like yeah, like
a you know, you feel like something's wrong before it's
even as you know, And yeah, I would say mostly
the hairs stand up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, I like that.
Speaker 6: And then maybe if Fueral was like a two or
something like that, you might hear like theh of blood
pumping to know that it's like, oh my god, this
is a vampire. Cool, cool, cool, I love that.
Speaker 10: I get a sense of direction from this.
Speaker 6: Or oh absolutely, and you see the you see the
like red smoky blood bubble around Moogan kor So I
think it's very safe to say that, you know, like
you feel it coming from that direction for sure.
Speaker 10: Okay, So I'll turn.
Speaker 13: Then I'm like I'm grabbing my axes and I'm I'm
hearing this and I'm kind of like locking in on it,
and I'm now turning my body to face move and
Cora on the ground and the rest of the party.
Speaker 15: While everything was happening I think instinct would take over
for me when they fall to the ground. I would
have speached for obfuscation without thinking about it, and trying
to observe places where silent and not visible objects could
be thrown shot or otherwives projected into my patriots.
Speaker 6: I don't think you have to roll for this, because
you climbed the wall. You've been in the room for
however long. There's no door in here. There are simply
the statues. Everything was shaking and crumbling for a little bit.
The statues have fallen apart, I think into disrepair. They're
not completely gone, but you know, you might have a
jaw missing from one, and they've just been It's almost
like you walked into the room two hundred years ago
and then once you saw the puzzle, it's the room
as it is now, but you felt the transition between them.
So you can kind of see these the crepit old
statues that haven't been cared for at all. However, Moog
is on the ground, so I don't think the place
is lit anymore.
Speaker 2: You're all in darkness.
Speaker 6: Because he was the one who lit it, right, yeah, yes, yeah,
but your vampires so you can still kind of see each.
Speaker 15: Other I have an eyeball that can see through magical darkness.
Speaker 6: So yeah, so for you you can look around and
see there's doesn't appear to be anybody in the room,
and you can see all areas of the room because
it was just like this dome area that you guys
were in, circular room. Not not quite a dome, but
you know.
Speaker 15: But I check the the chest that was holding the
plates again, Well, I know something happened when I opened
it when I was looking for traps before, but I
don't know what. Can I searched for some sort of
blue as to if something deadly came out of that
to cause them to collapse?
Speaker 5: Oh sure?
Speaker 2: And are you looking for something deadly physical like gases
or are you looking for something deadly magical?
Speaker 15: I think my first instinct would probably be physical, but
I would if that failed, I might try to check
both if that's if I had time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, we have time. But I imagine your powers
kind of coming into your desire to find an answer,
Like I don't think it's necessary always a conscious decision
that you're making.
Speaker 2: So why don't you go ahead and roll?
Speaker 6: And if it you know, if you roll well enough,
we'll just let that magical part have happened, whether you
intended it to or not. So that'll be whatever your
magic stat is probably should be body because you're looking.
Speaker 15: For body is not my magical step? Do you want
me to roll down?
Speaker 2: I think it should be body.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then if it's good enough anyway, we'll still
have something magical happen. But I think because you're looking
for a physical thing with your eyes and stuff, then yeah.
Speaker 15: What is the difficulty?
Speaker 5: Thirty?
Speaker 2: Shut the fuck up?
Speaker 16: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What are your roles today? You guys? That's a three
for those listening.
Speaker 5: A corn and Greg can take off more.
Speaker 6: Okay, need success, So I think instantly, Okay, I'm gonna
turn this over to you for a second because I
just imagine it's like instant. You don't smell anything in
the room, like you've just been doing this for how
many years? At least over a century? Right, So yeah,
you don't smell anything, and you know within a second,
but then something magical happens to you to help you
additionally search for something. What does that look like or
what does that feel like to you?
Speaker 2: Lean back?
Speaker 15: Lean back?
Speaker 2: Yeah, lean back? Thank you? Sorry?
Speaker 15: Everyone, take care of your lower back.
Speaker 10: Yep.
Speaker 15: I think for me, it feels like a guiding and
a almost righteous path or lack of a better term. Thanks,
is something I felt before. It is something familiar. Perhaps
it's familiar because I see it where it isn't sometimes
but then you just wan where to look?
Speaker 2: Is that what I'm am? I understanding that Quictly your
eyes dart to the statue of the Faceless One.
Speaker 15: It's almost like having really good luck.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, yeah, then yeah, I think I think you
just feel this pull and before you know it, you're
looking at that statue. Which statue, the one without the face,
the faceless one.
Speaker 15: I would look at that statue and do I notice
anything different about it.
Speaker 2: Other than it's uh just older general older? Yeah, look
to it. Yeah, And I think, like.
Speaker 6: Geologists in the jet help us out here, But I think,
like if memory serves, there are certain ways to identify,
like where you are in the world based on what
happens to the stone under when you're underground over time.
And I imagine for some reason, I feel like you
know this kind of stuff too, Like I feel like
you would recognize stone and over time what happens to
it because you're kind of like a fucking supernatural detective
in a way.
Speaker 2: So I think you recognize.
Speaker 6: The stone and this was once underwater. Whether that's like
a smell maybe even almost like a hint of a
briny smell.
Speaker 15: Yes, there is there like barnacle growth.
Speaker 6: No, I don't think it's anything super obvious, but you
notice it. Yeah, like some of this damage to these
statues was done by water.
Speaker 15: Do we know what kind of stone?
Speaker 2: I think I said slated originally, let me check the
out let me check my notes, but.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we'll go with slate for now. I think I
did actually write this down, so give me a second.
Speaker 15: Mm.
Speaker 10: Also, did this statue break like the rest of them?
Speaker 6: Yes, ye, yes I did. And we can say it's
arm is gone, It's left arm is missing from the
elbow down, and otherwise it's just generally kind of like
deteriorated and it's been eaten away a little bit.
Speaker 15: M hm.
Speaker 2: Yes, it was slight and the plates were copper.
Speaker 15: Oh what do the plates look like?
Speaker 6: Yeah, and that's a very good question. So the plates odized,
they would be oxidized. That's exactly right.
Speaker 15: I lift up a plate and I look at Gunner
and back down at the plane. See, am I able
to catch his attention or turning at you.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I'm sorry as usual, I I don't say anything.
Speaker 15: I just set the plate back down and I think
we're but I'm sorry.
Speaker 10: Can I see you because you're obfuscated?
Speaker 15: Oh that's right, good question.
Speaker 10: I am like we connected, stalker.
Speaker 15: I feel like I think you can always. I feel
like I know where you are all the time. You've
always seen me. I don't. I don't think so, right,
I know we have some strange connection from before.
Speaker 2: Maybe he can feel you. Maybe it's that uncanny luck
where he just knows where to look, but he doesn't
know for sure.
Speaker 15: I think plate, did you did you pick up? I
did pick up a place.
Speaker 2: So there's just like a floating plate like.
Speaker 15: Yeah again, because I didn't even I didn't even think
about ob your skating. I probably I might not be
thinking about it at all. I think it's just happening. Yeah, so,
but I want him to see me in this moment,
so I think it drops.
Speaker 5: And hold on.
Speaker 2: I have follow up questions. Sorry to interrupt you. You
want him to see you because you're talking.
Speaker 15: To him, well not in words, but yeah, yes, interesting, okay,
we're communicated. Yes, yeah, okay, is it just curious? Sorry,
please continue? Mhm. So it drops. I pick up the
plate and I look at him, and can you do
you look at the plate at all? You are you
just locked onto me?
Speaker 18: I think what I do is I I'm looking at you,
and when you appear, I'm like, I lock eyes with you,
and I'm imagining you are like I'm in between Stalker
and the rest of.
Speaker 7: The party, and I like be looking at you, and
then I'll look back at the the others.
Speaker 10: And then I look back at you again.
Speaker 19: And I'm like, not you.
Speaker 8: I'm so sorry. I witnessed them looking at each other
right like, so I didn't want.
Speaker 6: To interrupt Orcish. But if he's okay with it, I
don't think it drops. I think he can just see
him because that's who he wants to be able to
see him. So you guys still see a floating plate,
but Gunner sees Stalker.
Speaker 5: That makes sense.
Speaker 15: I think how the magic works in BTM too, because
it's me like messing with other people's minds. Yeah, yeah,
so I could just choose, not.
Speaker 6: Just exactly, And it's like you're not even thinking about it,
but you're you turn to him to have a conversation
to him. So of course he can see you, you know,
but they can't. Nobody else in the room would.
Speaker 2: Be able to see you. Yet you see a floating plate? Yeah, yeah,
I don't know if I don't know if Stalker knows
that's what he's doing at the moment.
Speaker 15: But yeah, yeah, this is because this all happened so fast,
it was and it's his it's his training, so.
Speaker 6: It's yeah, and I in PBu I just eventually see him,
you know, depending on what happens in the story or whatever.
Speaker 2: I just eventually see him as this you know.
Speaker 6: That fucking thing in the peripheral of your eye where
you're like, well, there's something over there, but then you
look and it's not there. Well, yeah he's still there.
It's just so yeah, yeah, oh yeah, I'm so glad
you agree. I mean, he's so creepy.
Speaker 15: In the most in the most innocent way that creepy
can be, I think, but I don't.
Speaker 2: Think, but yes, yes, super creepy.
Speaker 15: Be well, no, he's not really innocent, but he can
be creepy without like, I don't know how to explain it.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think that's possible if there is a
non non creep in the room. I just think I
get non creep vibes. But when there's a creep, you
know it's a creep.
Speaker 20: Right.
Speaker 15: He's creepy because just by his name, by his nature,
but not by his intention.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, okay, okay, how do we.
Speaker 13: Make stalker like the Michael Sarah of deathless?
Speaker 8: Also, I now I can't imagine Michael Sarah as stock.
Speaker 21: Stop Michael, guys, lean back, lean back, You're gonna kill her.
Speaker 6: I'm so sorry to drop up for those listening. I
have injured my back, which I think we mentioned in
the last episode. So if you hear them yell at
me to lean, it's because I'm leaning forward thinking about it.
So I've given them permission to yell at me. So yeah,
that's what that was, all right? Please continue?
Speaker 8: Oh man, that got me too, dude, that whack that
got me so hard?
Speaker 10: Wait?
Speaker 8: What? Oh? I laughed? O what whack wrote in chat?
That's why I laughed. I thought we were all laughing
at that. I'm alone and I'll die alone.
Speaker 5: So anyway, who stare just getting a character?
Speaker 15: Okay, sorry, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 21: I can't believe Samy betrayed me with Michaels Sarah comment, Bye.
Speaker 10: Okay, I am.
Speaker 13: I'm looking at you, and I might glance at the
plate that you're holding after like I watched you know, floating.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I'll like rub my thumb into the oxidation and
you know, like, oh my god, sare with the classmates.
Speaker 2: Tell everyone what you've done.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry, I just youre sent a gift of Michael
Sarah winking at us.
Speaker 5: All looks from Micael Sarah winking. So you can join in.
Speaker 8: Our immersive experience.
Speaker 2: Man, I love this show.
Speaker 15: My character stakes himself and falls over.
Speaker 8: You know what's really saying? This would have worked on
me if I was like twenty three still, So there's
that no now silence. Great, Thank you so much everyone,
Thanks for coming. Okay, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 15: That's it, okay, Okay, I'm so sorry. Yeah, I like,
I like kind of rubbed my thumb across the I
was gonna say thumb it, and I was like, I
can't say that.
Speaker 2: Hold on, I have the perfect sound effect. I don't
think you could hear that. Yeah, it was me drinking
out of a straw. But I realized you guys couldn't
hear it was like this very strong sip.
Speaker 8: I've already heard some of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 6: Don't you guys wish this was like a a different type.
Speaker 2: Of podcast that you were listening to where the ship
was edited out.
Speaker 8: I don't An and Craig are gonna come back and
they're gonna be like, what happened last episode?
Speaker 2: Is wrong with you?
Speaker 15: Guys?
Speaker 2: Put your ship together?
Speaker 15: All right? So I'm thumbing the copper.
Speaker 5: What is it?
Speaker 8: No, come on, that's not our fault.
Speaker 2: That one is not our That was definitely not That
was incredible. Okay, sorry, yes, what are you doing?
Speaker 16: I'm gonna thine God, don't move, guys, get it.
Speaker 5: Together, okay, okay, oh wait did we go live yet?
We're on the airy.
Speaker 8: No one drink anything.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be please, Okay, I use.
Speaker 15: My thumb.
Speaker 7: Okay, let him go.
Speaker 15: To rub.
Speaker 8: Keep going.
Speaker 15: No, I'm just my god, you know I will. I
just used my thumb to rub off the excidation on
the on the metal plates and some of I'm sure
some debris would fall off, and I just I look,
I look at Gunner and then I dropped the plate
and I walk over to the statue and I touch it,
noticing the same well, noticing a similar What would happen
to slate if it was Underwater's Google?
Speaker 5: I'm not a geologist.
Speaker 15: I think slate actually holds up.
Speaker 6: That's why I think I picked well. Slate is generally
resistant to water damage due to its low water absorption
in decks. However, prolonged exposure to water can lead to
some issues, particularly if the slate contains mineral inclusions like pie.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 8: Interesting, We're supposed to be better than them, you mother.
Speaker 15: I can't believe you just said that.
Speaker 2: I can't believe you just said that.
Speaker 5: We had passed it. We had passed it, only I
had to.
Speaker 2: Back Okay, Okay.
Speaker 5: Oh god, here's the thing.
Speaker 7: There's the thing.
Speaker 2: No one's gonna fucking know what that joke was unless
they watched the Friday Show. Okay, why would you tell
them where they could find it?
Speaker 8: Just let people not us?
Speaker 6: Okay, anyway, continue, Yes, so it's it's it's got I
feel like like really.
Speaker 15: Really small pox for where the piride is.
Speaker 2: That's what I was imagining as well.
Speaker 15: Yeah, so I yeh, I rubbed my thumb on it.
Speaker 10: I want to communicate to you.
Speaker 15: Yeah, you use our mental lean link.
Speaker 10: I want to. I don't want anyone to hear me.
Can I still do that?
Speaker 2: I'm saying yesterday, with the scene past this awkward.
Speaker 22: Point, you don't even got a.
Speaker 2: Roll, Yes you can.
Speaker 6: And now it's cannon and that's gonna come and bite
me in the ass later.
Speaker 7: The statue just and then I touched.
Speaker 15: I didn't say where I touched the statue.
Speaker 8: I think we can guess.
Speaker 19: Stock.
Speaker 15: Yes, we are danger.
Speaker 7: There's something happening here. The secrets that have kept there,
one of the only ones.
Speaker 4: It is back.
Speaker 10: Do you feel it too?
Speaker 15: I try to. I try to feel the presence that
I felt in the crypt.
Speaker 2: That you'll have to roll for.
Speaker 23: I think again, Yeah, what would I use?
Speaker 6: We're gonna go with mental I think and difficulty thirty?
Speaker 15: Whoa, it's it thirty three, which is well under my mindset?
Now is that good or bad?
Speaker 6: So the difficulty was thirty, but it's thirty three, and
that's a magical number for me. So I am going
to absolutely say that it's a pass instead of a
critical fail or whatever. I'm thinking about what this would
manifest for you.
Speaker 2: Have you ever dealt with a demon before? Stalker? I
don't even know if they have demons in VTM do
they I don't think they do.
Speaker 8: I think they do.
Speaker 2: Let's google.
Speaker 8: I think they do, and by lets.
Speaker 2: I mean one of you do it so I don't
have to lean forward.
Speaker 15: Yes, demens exist in Vampire the mas Graade fifth edition.
They are primarily featured in the Demon the Fallen line.
Their presence and influence are also felt in other White
Wolf settings, including Vampire.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, so then the question stands, have you ever
dealt with a demon before?
Speaker 15: I certainly would have heard of them and perhaps encountered
vampires who might have some sort of connection to demons.
I think it's possible. I mean I think I could have,
but I don't know. I don't know. If I don't
want to be like, yeah, of course no, no, Well.
Speaker 6: That's you get to do that because it's a thirty three.
So if you, I mean, if we want to say that,
then yeah, that's absolutely.
Speaker 15: I would say. Early on in my career, I was
involved in hunting a demon with several others, but it
wasn't I wasn't going after the demon itself. I was
going after a vampire who was let's say, using the
demon's power.
Speaker 2: And how did that end?
Speaker 15: Bloody?
Speaker 6: And have you seen oh wow, the just This is
why you roll for everything, and this is why you
just ask random questions like have you ever encountered a
fucking demon before? Have you, specifically stalker, seen any of
these faces that have been floating around. I'm relying on
you guys a lot for these notes now, like Miriam
Hale or any of these other individuals, because I don't
think you have. I think everyone else has.
Speaker 15: I've not seen any faces. Okay, I've seen the name
come up on our friend who's holy shit, go with us, Okay.
Speaker 10: Bring up Hanzl. Just had to bring them up, yep.
Speaker 6: So I think then, I think what happens for you
is a memory will surface of the first time you
dealt with somebody that was trying to use a you know,
a demon's power. But then you're going to see a
dark haired woman instead of the person that you were
dealing with. And it's very quick, and I think, did
you when you say it was bloody, did you deal
the finishing blow for this individual or was it just
you were there among the aftermath.
Speaker 15: I was there during I was one of a couple
who survived oh.
Speaker 5: So yes, okay, cool.
Speaker 6: So then I want to say that that memory, whatever
that looks like, that perspective stays the same. If you
were kind of being attacked by this demon that was
being controlled by you know, whoever it was, then you know,
just for a brief moment, you're going to see somebody different,
and you know it's someone different. You know it doesn't
look identical to whoever it was originally you are going
to be looking at. Now I have to look at
our notes again. He's told where is Greg is going
to have a fucking field day when he watches this.
Where is your photo of Mary? Can you tag me
in that? Where are your notes with her picture? Because
that's what you're gonna.
Speaker 15: See, my personal notes or the notes the notes.
Speaker 2: For the group. Yeah, because I know you guys have
it in there somewhere.
Speaker 15: Oh, we find it.
Speaker 2: Gregg's screaming right now. I can hear him.
Speaker 15: What Uh I don't see you didn't hear it?
Speaker 5: Perfect slipping his easter ham.
Speaker 2: Okay, yep, he's just like screaming.
Speaker 15: Oh no, it's it's sorry. There's other notes.
Speaker 2: Yes, Okay, you didn't hear either.
Speaker 5: It's not pinned in my I think it's in the
general chat somewhere.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, too many. Okay, hold on, I'm just
gonna search.
Speaker 15: I got it.
Speaker 6: Yep, okay, yep. If you can just link that and repace.
So that's what you're going to see, and then I'll
describe based on what you put in here or tag
for those listening, that's the one. Okay, So you see
a woman with dark hair. I don't think you're able
to properly see too many other features on her face
other than that, she's just kind of like really tall
and has a bit of almost like especially now if
she's in the middle of controlling a demon. Her face
is very skeletal and you cannot see her eyes. It
looks like they're socketless, shrouded in darkness as she is
controlling or using the powers of this demon. And when
she opens her mouth she has fangs.
Speaker 5: And then the.
Speaker 2: Memory would end.
Speaker 6: But what do we see from your perspective, Stalker and
include as much. If you want to leave it there,
that's fine, But if you want to embellish a little
bit on what this was like so we can learn
a little bit about Stalker free.
Speaker 15: Certainly. I So I see this woman and when I
see her. It's the moment when I am certain I
will perish like my brother's.
Speaker 24: But she.
Speaker 15: Stops just short of finishing the job. As to others
hold her back, and I am in the perfect position
to drive a stake into her heart.
Speaker 2: Festibone on the left, gone her own the right holding
her back.
Speaker 15: The expression on her face goes from shock to rage,
to fear to relief, and she falls limp the ground.
I look up. The blood patterns on the ceiling look
as if they have an artist's touch, but it is
just chaos. As I survey the room, shadows on the
ground are all I can see of my fallen comrades.
Uneasiness is in me something I've never felt before. As
Gunner approaches, touches my shoulder, Brother, we have done it,
We should return. His voice brings me back to myself
and my purpose, and we leave that bloodied nightmare behind.
Speaker 2: Do you look back forever or do you not?
Speaker 25: No?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 10: Do you feel it?
Speaker 19: Ruh yes, mm hmm.
Speaker 15: Something I haven't felt in a long time, but I
think I have felt it more recently. Was it the creeps? Oh?
When I found you? I'm not sure.
Speaker 10: I'm just as not sure as you, But I believe.
Speaker 19: They are.
Speaker 10: And I'll turn.
Speaker 7: Just a man, Constantine, No, start to walk over, must
ask themat before Constantine, a night?
Speaker 5: You say.
Speaker 8: Yeah, something like but again it's not my place.
Speaker 5: The slave dragons?
Speaker 8: Are you a dragon?
Speaker 5: I think we're closer to dragon than we are a knight?
Speaker 8: Well, so is she.
Speaker 5: A dragon protected by a knight?
Speaker 8: Would it be so crazy?
Speaker 10: Can you see it?
Speaker 8: My eyes flick over, yes.
Speaker 5: Does she look like a knight? Shining armor?
Speaker 8: I reach out and I brush my thumb over your
bottom lip the corner like quickly, No, it doesn't.
Speaker 5: I can feel this thing. I have felt it before.
But it is not killing them, is it?
Speaker 7: Nine?
Speaker 8: Not yet? Anyway? I think it is. Maybe it is
keeping her alive, safe at the very.
Speaker 5: Least, say from what what had just happened.
Speaker 8: I think it is keeping them safe from everything, but
it and I don't know.
Speaker 10: Whether.
Speaker 5: Does this leave the four of us? Now? Are we
to sit here until he stying decides it is okay
for them to leave?
Speaker 8: We could leave them. I'm not saying we should, ye
what I'm just saying.
Speaker 5: Anyone of us wants to do that? I don't believe.
Speaker 15: I think something happened. They use statues look as if
they venged centuries. It is possible that we are in
a different time, or perhaps we are in a place
where the statues were not cared for. Do you think
the door worked? You think we opened it?
Speaker 5: They seemed as if we were getting all of them right, correct,
the last one. But Constantine did it.
Speaker 8: I get down on my knees and crouch, and I
lick the floor. Where are we?
Speaker 2: What are you trying to do? I mean other than
lick the floor, I.
Speaker 8: Mean I'm trying to see if I can taste like
it's home.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're going to roll.
Speaker 8: It's so funny when something makes complete and under sense
to me and my character and then everyone looks at
you like you're insane, and you're like, wait, am I crazy?
Speaker 5: Floor?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 8: No, but it's like, yeah, I don't know. Maybe it's
because I imagined it a certain way.
Speaker 15: Yeah, did you imagine the liquor?
Speaker 2: It's possible. I'm not saying no, but I imagine. You know,
Constantine's magic at this stage, especially because he's floating in
between security and insecurity about where he is and who
he is. I see it mostly focused around healing or repair.
So this is kind of like identifying where you might be.
And I don't think you licked or tasted anything while
you were in PBu, right.
Speaker 5: Or did you? No?
Speaker 8: I think, okay, No, I'm wondering if.
Speaker 6: You've got a frame of reference or if you're just
hoping that you'll be like, Oh, this is gonna sound crazy,
but this was like home or whatever.
Speaker 8: Yeah, this may sound crazy, but this action feels like
VTM world constantine thing to do, like sensory touching.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, that sort of thing.
Speaker 6: Like, so do you have an ability from VTM that
lets you do this. It's taking everything in me not
to grab my slumbering kitten and just squeeze him to death.
He's so cute, dude, He's just like he's pulled my
sweater up to his face and shoved his face into it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna die. Sorry, Please continue back? Yes, thank you?
Speaker 8: Uh, I don't think so, like, I don't. I think
I would just think of it as a normal, sort
of vampiric like sensory thing, like we can we taste
differences in blood, we can taste metals like that, you know,
So I think, okay, what I'm looking for? Yeah, it
is like a familiar bouquet of stone or like.
Speaker 2: But the I believe the the ability for tasting blood,
resonance or whatever. That's a ritual, right it might be yeah,
and do you have any ability or anything like that?
Constantine doesn't. Okay, okay, so go ahead and roll.
Speaker 6: I will still always allow for there to be some
sort of possibility, but this is going to be one eleven,
twenty two or thirty three.
Speaker 1: Go for it.
Speaker 8: Am I using my magic stat or my body stat.
Speaker 6: Magic because this is a thing that you want to
do right forty.
Speaker 15: Oh yeah, hey before you roll this or I want
you to know. Yes, when I was a kid, I also,
you know, trying to use magic and I'm doing that
right now in this role.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too, because it would be super dope if
you could do this.
Speaker 15: But again, the ground and know what universe you're in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fucking crazy.
Speaker 15: I want to give that to you.
Speaker 4: Let's go.
Speaker 11: Let's go come one two one, magic is normal.
Speaker 15: Taste a single boss until it was too late?
Speaker 2: What slate?
Speaker 15: Nice?
Speaker 8: Gross?
Speaker 5: He is out.
Speaker 2: There's pat Emmy didn't even flinch.
Speaker 15: Isn't the worst thing Constantine's ever tasted?
Speaker 26: No, that is such an in character answer responsible.
Speaker 15: I knew what the answer would be.
Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, I have no idea.
Speaker 5: I have a question. So, and I don't know if
wood this was said when it happened, or if I
don't remember if he was whispering it. But when Moog
said zunithar three times, was it like loud? And I
know he was. He was up on the ceiling with you,
wasn't he or I don't remember. Is that loud enough.
Speaker 2: On the ceiling anymore?
Speaker 5: Wasn't he at that point? Okay, he had gotten.
Speaker 6: Down, I think so, But he's not here, so I
don't think. I didn't imagine him shouting it. But I
don't want to speak for him.
Speaker 5: But we were super senses. We're in a closed.
Speaker 15: Room, and I think he shout. I think it was
like an urgent whisper.
Speaker 2: Because that's the only reason why.
Speaker 5: Volume From what I remember, we solve the puzzle, things changed,
the way opened or whatever it was, and then he
did it.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing.
Speaker 6: He's not here to answer if he was trying to
hide it from you guys, or if he was whatever.
Speaker 2: So here's what I'll say. If you want to roll
to having heard it. We can do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm just just wondering just that I'm not hearing it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm going to delay. Okay, well then you can
answer for how you said it. But I'm imagining that
Moog said it in a very like maybe a hushed whisper,
but it was to you, stalker, and not anyone else
in the room. And yes, you guys have vampire hearing,
but so does Moog, so he knows exactly well how
to speak in a way in which it wouldn't be overheard,
I think.
Speaker 5: And also, yeah, he was pretty desperate, but I think
like everything had just opened, like so we're all like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure if you guys would have been
I just want to make sure.
Speaker 5: It's more just like the order of events. That's like
the puzzle was solved, stuff changed, like, yeah, we did it,
and then he did he did that, and then everything
started shaking and everything changed, right, Yeah, yeap.
Speaker 8: Me.
Speaker 5: Do you want just a flat one?
Speaker 6: Just a flat D one hundred. Okay, regardless of how
he meant to do it, whether he meant to do
it quietly or not, it's still reverber it in a
whisper around the room.
Speaker 2: So you'all heard it. Y'all heard that name.
Speaker 5: So we heard him say it.
Speaker 2: They're saying, you heard the name reverberating in a whisper. Yeah,
I don't know if you heard him say it specifically,
but you did hear it like the wind, but it
was a name.
Speaker 8: Can I? I would like to turn back to Ishna?
Speaker 5: Sure?
Speaker 9: Can I?
Speaker 8: This is so I feel very nile today because I'm
just no, Okay, then I'm not going to lick him
all right? Then next thinking that I don't I don't
like him. I was I was going to say, can
I speak to him, like with my mind to him?
Speaker 2: You can absolutely try.
Speaker 8: I will. This is why it's juvenile, because it's like
in this episode, I've been like, I'm a child that's
trying to do magic, and I'm also trying to speak
to him in my mind. But I want to say, uh,
who is Zanathar? I want to ask are you Zanathar?
Speaker 2: You're asking Ishna? Are you Zanathar?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 15: You say that out loud?
Speaker 8: No, No, That's why I'm trying to do it right right, right, okay.
I want to see if you can hear.
Speaker 5: It roll for me.
Speaker 2: Mind staff difficulty thirty.
Speaker 8: Fifty seven nothing happens.
Speaker 6: But he looks at you. You can still see him. Yeah, okay,
and he is in a protective stance over Kora.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna kick at the ground.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Well, I don't know what's happening, and if you all
have a better idea of what to do, let me know.
And I'm gonna walk over to the edge of one
of the statues and like sit down on a corner
of it, cross my legs and just fold my arm's
petulant child style.
Speaker 6: I no one else can see this, just me and
the audience. That statue looks down at Constantine.
Speaker 27: To you, no, laky.
Speaker 15: I move closer to the others and sit cross legged
on the wet slate.
Speaker 2: It's wet, right, I said, No, it's not. It's just
tasted like wet slate. To Constantine, I did.
Speaker 8: Just look it, so maybe you're sitting in my lick patch.
Speaker 15: It's a Liva slate. It's a new fragrance by Constantine.
Speaker 6: Brad's new character and CBO two Sali slate. No one
will get it. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 8: Please continue, Okay.
Speaker 6: Carrie's first character's name was Wyatt. Why it's slate, Like,
why is it late? Because he was a delivery guy. Anyway,
it's fine.
Speaker 15: Yeah, Wow, he's so fine.
Speaker 2: He's so fucking funny, dude.
Speaker 6: It was like episode thirty nine before I realized what
had happened.
Speaker 5: That's fucking great. That's great, and your saliva follow up
was also great.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 10: You're welcome.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Now tell me to lean back.
Speaker 5: I'm kidding.
Speaker 6: Lean back, okayme back, Okay.
Speaker 15: He's gonna tell me anymore? Ye stop telling me.
Speaker 2: We're done.
Speaker 8: Never lean back again.
Speaker 28: Actually, it's impossible, man, It just it's I need.
Speaker 8: You guys to tell me what to do. Don't tell
me what to do.
Speaker 2: I will see a clip of his reaction, because that's
my brain tells me what everyone thinks of that. I'm
impossible to deal with. That's the reaction right there.
Speaker 22: You're impossible to deal with anyway.
Speaker 15: Okay, Well, I will continue, but not because you told
me to. Yeah, I sit down, cross legged, and what
is It's all right? I sit down and I gesture
for everyone to join me. What do we know so far?
There is someone watching, possibly listening, but we have no choice,
I think at this.
Speaker 7: Time, imagining I'm kind of walking across this hole a
level of the crypt from where stalk Car and I had.
Speaker 10: Our moment, and.
Speaker 7: You would just if we're in the dark, you would
hear my steel toed boots against the slate, moving closer
to Constantine and Esteban in the rest. And I want
to approach Constantine, who is currently sitting and pouding cross
leaked or maybe not cross lakeing, but.
Speaker 10: I sort of.
Speaker 7: Emerged from the darkness and I am holding my axes
in my hand. I want to get up close to him,
and I think I'll kneel down before him.
Speaker 8: What's going on here, darling? You cannot approach me like that?
Goodness me, we're in public.
Speaker 10: Don't take h.
Speaker 5: M hmm.
Speaker 7: Don't make me take you to the bathroom.
Speaker 22: I have expected you to be like lean back, it
becomes a lake.
Speaker 10: We figured it out.
Speaker 15: I heard water isn't even that good.
Speaker 11: So I'm sorry.
Speaker 10: Hi, lean for.
Speaker 15: We're broken down entirely.
Speaker 10: What is going on here? I know.
Speaker 7: You know something.
Speaker 8: Well, I don't think I know anything that is of
use mm hmm, nothing applicable to our situation. I have
information about Cora, private information, you know, it's hard business
to tell.
Speaker 10: Applicable to you.
Speaker 8: Maybe applicable exactly what I've been wondering since I left
that coffin.
Speaker 15: Answers stucker Chris ross backstraight on the floor, raises a
lazy hand and sense all information is relevant while investigating
a mystery.
Speaker 10: But there's information and only some of us know, isn't there?
Speaker 15: Yes?
Speaker 10: So what is going on?
Speaker 8: How are you looking at me right now?
Speaker 13: If you're sitting like on your butt against the statue,
I'm in your face.
Speaker 7: Basically I would.
Speaker 8: Be like I would be like on the edge of it. Okay,
so on the edge, and my legs, legs are cross
like a lady's legs are crossed on the edge. My
hands are kind of what does that sting?
Speaker 2: What does that sexist statement mean? Myrles? How does the lead?
Speaker 8: It was the easiest way that I could immediately describe,
just because we have we have crisscross apple sauce over here,
like my legs are crossed and I we're imagining so
far it's been established that crisscross means like on the floor,
criss cross apple sauce, but mine or one over the other.
And that's why I went for the very sexist I
agree one over the other. Yes, yes, yes, exactly.
Speaker 2: And audio listeners know exactly what that was.
Speaker 15: Sorry, yeah, I put one finger over the other.
Speaker 10: So just to be clear, you are sitting on like the.
Speaker 15: Kind of way on the floor.
Speaker 8: No, I'm not on the floor, okay.
Speaker 13: So using my height, I'm not kneeled like, I'm not
like on my knees, but I'm like kneeling down leading
over to you, like pretty close to your face, like
I'm in your face.
Speaker 8: Right And your expression? How are you looking at me? Actually?
What can I read? What can I read in his expression?
Can I roll for that? Sure? I think so? Nobody
expression though, I'm going to go for a soul because
that's like my charm. Sure, thirty or forty?
Speaker 6: I think this is technically a contested roll, so that
would be up to Zams.
Speaker 2: You think that you is even hiding I was going
to say, yeah, do you think you're high? I'm not
hiding any Okay.
Speaker 6: So let's roll anyway because something cool might happen. So
just go ahead and roll with the difficulty of forty. Okay,
it's not your actual difficulty for him, but it's your
difficulty for something else. Okay, No, no, no, no, you're good.
So do you think with the sixty eight that she
can tell your expression. I'm assuming so because you're not
hiding it, but it's up to you. Yes, she could
pick up okay.
Speaker 10: Large you know, like what am I trying to say?
She can pick up my vibe?
Speaker 8: Very yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 8: I feel quite bad because I feel like I've made
us all do a little bit of a run around.
I just want to know if you have soft, gentle,
loving eyes for me as you speak anymore.
Speaker 4: No, not any more.
Speaker 2: I don't care how hinge this episode is it. That
was worth it for that moment right there. Also, I
have to pee and it's going to take me like
five minutes to lift my desk and walk over there,
So please continue without me. I'll be right back, okay
as quickly as I can.
Speaker 8: The okay, Like.
Speaker 13: The moments we've shared before have been very like not
only like intimate, but.
Speaker 10: Like we're caring for each other.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we are.
Speaker 13: Helping each other, and like for the first time, you
see like it looks like I don't trust you at all,
Like I'm I'm looking at you like like first I'm
pissed maybe anger yeah, distrust.
Speaker 8: Hm hmm okay.
Speaker 10: Heavy emphasis on anger though, I.
Speaker 8: Don't know, you would be angry with me. It is
her secret to have that she didn't tell. I nod
in the direction of Cora. And as far as for information,
I did not have much until mere moments ago, to
which I said, I do not know everything, still just
as lust as you. But since the there's no other way,
I suppose I will not be a gentleman and will
share her secrets.
Speaker 7: God believe we've come to far twad secrets now.
Speaker 8: Not even little ones. She is carrying a passenger.
Speaker 10: When did she get the passenger?
Speaker 8: When or where where?
Speaker 29: I do not know.
Speaker 7: I when then.
Speaker 8: That I also do not know. I noticed during that
fight that we had when I went to heal her,
there was something that was resistant, but I just assumed
it was part of her. I assumed.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 8: Her business, in the way that my memories are mine
or your dreams are yours. I did not foresee the
extent to which it truly occupies.
Speaker 7: And you didn't think that was important to share, which.
Speaker 15: That you know.
Speaker 10: Someone was with us.
Speaker 8: I did not know that someone was with us and
told us. Now I thought she had I don't know
something happening, But until she seemed to be working against us,
which I have never felt. I let it be her business,
but now I until once.
Speaker 7: You decided to hold her secret too late?
Speaker 8: It is not too late, or if it was, it
already was. There's nothing I can do about it. I
don't know about you, Gunner, but I'm not exactly there
very powerful. I don't have a lot of steak here.
I'm not sure you could tell. What do I have
to offer her? I cannot fight. Perhaps I can heal
you every now and again. What I'm here to flirt?
Speaker 15: Do you like?
Speaker 29: It?
Speaker 8: Is that all I have for you? You can be
angry at me all you want, but it seems to
me that your anger is being misplaced. The person who
deserves your eye is on the ground over there. Why
don't you go tell her?
Speaker 10: You see it over there?
Speaker 8: Now I do.
Speaker 7: Let's go speak to it. I want to grab your neck,
your collar, excuse me, and lift you up, pull you
out of your seat.
Speaker 8: Is that fresh necessary? We'll fight you off. You can
pull me off into standing, but I'll fight you off.
You can't hold on to me contested roles? Shall we?
Speaker 10: What can I?
Speaker 15: Does he like slap with the palms of.
Speaker 14: That?
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's exactly it. Well, I do have cat's grace.
Speaker 6: Well, so I have arrived, I've returned. My question to you,
is you kind of, you know, slap him off once
you're standing. The question is does he want to let go?
Does he want to stay holding on? Because if he does,
then yeah, we'll do contested roles. But if he just
lets you, you know, get out of his grasp, then
that's fine. We'll leave it there. But if he wants
to hold onto you, then we'll do the contestant I want.
Speaker 10: To drag you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, so contested rolls Constantine, you are rolling body
or you're rolling mind. If you want to magically resist this,
good luck, it's gonna be difficult. Not my magic stat
soul you can so if you either roll body if
you're only physically trying to get out of here, or
you can magic stat.
Speaker 2: If you're going to try and magically resist this.
Speaker 8: Yeah I would.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, go for it.
Speaker 8: What is the difficulty forty thirty?
Speaker 2: Uh thirty? Well, actually roll me roll me body difficulty
thirty uh gunner first, then I can shift out of
shift one way or the other.
Speaker 6: For Constantine. Yeah, that's what I thought. Your difficulty is twenty.
But I doubt you're going to be able to like unless.
Speaker 2: You roll a one.
Speaker 5: He rolled one.
Speaker 27: Oh my god, Okay, okay, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 2: Like I I'm sorry, but like I I do feel
like there's some you know, combat between the two of you.
Not combat combat, but like he rolled a one to
keep you and you rolled an eleven to magically get out.
So yeah, I'll just let you guys take over the
scene here a little bit, and I trust you both
to figure out what happens.
Speaker 5: Let's go. Hold on, I've.
Speaker 2: Got you, I think, Oh yes, I do. Okay, I'm ready.
Are you ready?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 7: So I think like the initial grab is like me
pulling you onto your feet from your seat, so your
legs will have to not be folded anymore, and I
like jump you up, but it's close.
Speaker 8: To me, okay, and I'm I will try to shake
you off immediately.
Speaker 10: Wear your hands.
Speaker 8: I think I will grab your wrists and try to
pull them, pull, like like get off.
Speaker 7: Of home, like holding your collar are on my wrists?
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's what unless you see.
Speaker 7: My face kind of shift back to a more familiar one.
Speaker 10: Just for a second when you touch me.
Speaker 8: Oh, then I keep my hands.
Speaker 6: You need to have magic involved in this in some way,
Constantine's magic, which I believe is in feeling and emotion.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, to get out of here, okay, so
that I keep my hands. I'm holding your wrists then,
and I'm feeling you're slow pulse, and I'm looking you
in the eyes.
Speaker 7: I'm still holding your collar, and I want to say,
my grip gets tighter around your shirt, but my head
leans back a little more, or I'm not looking you
in the eyes any more, but rather up towards the ceiling.
Speaker 10: I feel rain on my face and a hand.
Speaker 7: Down my head to my neck, and it's like, for
a second, dyken hear thruth the chaoss.
Speaker 10: I can hear the rain.
Speaker 8: I will see this, and I don't tighten my grip
on your wrists, but I just say let.
Speaker 4: Go my hands to not move, let go Gunner.
Speaker 29: Bitter feel them Moss, I do.
Speaker 10: But Dad, I had still tilted up words. It's like
I'm not in the moment anymore.
Speaker 8: I will push myself but like, if your hands loosen,
I will push myself away from you. Yeah, I shake
for you for future reference. That is not a touch
I like, and one day you might appreciate the way
I can bear secrets for people. Some things are not
my story to tell. And then I will walk over
to Ishna and say, I'll say hello, it appears we
need to talk.
Speaker 5: After all.
Speaker 2: You may roll again difficulty thirty. Actually, because you've just.
Speaker 8: Rolled in eleven ninety.
Speaker 6: I'm not going to reach over and hit the thingy
yeah yeah, yeah, but you will hear a very strange
like kind of cackling sound as this thing laughs in
your face, staring at you and then says nothing, but
it will begin a more protective stance over Kora.
Speaker 15: I approach with the dagger out.
Speaker 8: Do I see that you have the dagger out?
Speaker 15: Well? I don't know. I have to think about that
because this is all happening subconsciously with my I don't
think I'm thinking about wanting you to see me, so
you probably don't. Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 8: No, I would just be looking at each show. But
if you like walk up with a dagger like holding you.
Speaker 2: Then I would see dagger right yeah.
Speaker 15: But if okay, I'll kneel down or I'll squat next
steal and now you can see me, and I say,
do you think this might work?
Speaker 8: What do you show me the dagger.
Speaker 5: Yes, put that away?
Speaker 8: What put it away? You do not bring weapons.
Speaker 15: To the plomacy weapon. It is a tool.
Speaker 8: We are having a conversation, nah with it doesn't look
like it. Cora's friend here will allow me. I put
my hands behind my back and I assume like a
open and casual pose. Once again, I promise we do
not have any interest in hurting our dear friend Cora,
as I'm sure that you have observed, I have nothing
but respect for her and her power. As you can
imagine a group working together, a secret such as you
can make things difficult for trust.
Speaker 9: Oh no, oh rule okay.
Speaker 2: Fucking christ.
Speaker 8: On one am my wrong.
Speaker 2: Mental? Any ability to stop is about to happen to
your mind?
Speaker 8: Okay, great.
Speaker 2: Difficulty thirty all of you do this? Actually sixty three?
Speaker 5: All mind? All of you?
Speaker 23: Yep, maybe that's it? Yep, okay, so sorry, what was
the difficulty?
Speaker 2: Thirty? My dear Sorry, sorry, Oh you're okay? Yeah, okay, So.
Speaker 6: You are all about to blurt out a secret that
you've been keeping from each other, all of you. It
just comes off of your tongue right now, and you
constantine you're going to hear the cackle of Aashna's laugh
again as he just withdraws this from everybody's lips.
Speaker 8: Give me a second, yep.
Speaker 6: I have an idea or two of you, at least
if you will allow it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's one of those for me. Can you DM
it to me? Oh? Wait, no, do not DM it
to me. Say it out loud, lean back.
Speaker 6: Oh, okay, you know a song? I think you start
singing that song, and so does Estevon. You both sing
it together.
Speaker 8: Yep, I'll take that.
Speaker 2: That's fine too.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna it on now. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or I think you could do both.
Speaker 5: I could do both. Okay.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this is a very chaotic demon that you basically
were just like, yeah, secrets are hurting her, secrets are
hurting us. And then he was like, okay, bitch, like
you reveal your secrets, petty little petulant being here. Oh no,
So the secret that you reveal should be something that
is harming the party by not knowing it, because that's
what he's pulling out.
Speaker 2: Of you right now.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, while Constantine, did you start singing?
Speaker 15: Yeah?
Speaker 8: But I don't really know how this This is the
problem is like I cannot think of a single thing
that I actually believe or no, would be hurting the party.
Speaker 2: That's why I'm telling you to sing this song.
Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, because I don't know that that's you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, okay, So while while you're singing, I look
over to another one would be I was so sorry
I was away.
Speaker 2: Did you see Cora during the life out of somebody
in the Lucky Rabbit?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's that's true. I did do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I feel like you've all purposely hid things from each
other throughout this show that you could reveal in this moment.
Speaker 14: For sure.
Speaker 8: Okay, but I will counter argument that I was keeping
that secret for her benefit.
Speaker 2: Doesn't matter. It's a secret that was hurting the party.
You chose to have fun, sorry, you chose to know,
you chose to keep it right like he doesn't care. Okay, yeah,
so I think or alternatively, you start talking, like, if
you really want me to be Ishna, you're going to
describe how much you enjoyed killing that woman, and it's
going to horrify you and it's going to just slip
right out of your Rather you just start telling the
story about how you you know you she caught your eye.
Speaker 6: While you were walking down the alleyway and you know
you cried, but you fucking liked it. You liked the
way that she tastes. You liked how afraid she was
of you. You know, like that's that's the extent of
like what's happening right now, is he's just.
Speaker 2: Gonna pull something that you're ashamed.
Speaker 6: Of out out and dangling in front of everyone as
as a petty response to what you said. But I
you know, you guys can decide, but it's it's on that.
Speaker 2: Level of horrifying.
Speaker 8: Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, in that case, I don't know
if I would sing the song. I don't know. I
was just giving you off the case that you Yeah,
I think the case that you just gave it's a
much stronger, much much stronger thing.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I was originally going to go with something along those lines,
not that specific thing, but along those lines, and just
like how I actually feel about myself.
Speaker 6: That's fine too, And that's one of the you're you've
been like hiding back, Yeah, because I guess for Constantine
it would absolutely be something of like you know, your
facade that you put us. Yeah, So whatever whatever you want,
and I'm so sorry, please go.
Speaker 5: Ahead well, well, I'm gonna have to think of a
different way to say it now because if she if
Constantine's not singing.
Speaker 6: The song, yeah, well you can go to your original
thought if you want.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, it's still good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh absolutely. I was just offering things in case
because this is like a yeah, yeah, go for it,
go for it.
Speaker 5: So when this hits I just for no apparent reason,
turn to Constantine and say, Constantine, have I told you
how powerful I felt after I diablized your sire? It's
very powerful. I have been very strong.
Speaker 8: Do not know why he did not give it to
me as I am weak? Another thing he kept from
me inside his love, something I will never have again, rightfully?
Speaker 5: So, well, did you know he has done some very
horrific things to Gunner, and that to Gunner along with
two other people.
Speaker 8: I am afraid to say, I do not care.
Speaker 12: I loved him.
Speaker 5: Well you always will. Now you'll never learn perhaps how
horrific he was or what horrible things he would have
done to you as well, because you are here, as
are we. I assume by his hand and the hand
of the two others who have done is to Gunner
that I have.
Speaker 8: Seen that we must have deserved it. We are monsters,
are we not.
Speaker 5: Fuse to be a monster? Then be a monster? Think
of yourself that way. You clearly do not want to
be a monster.
Speaker 8: Does that matter what I want or what I am?
Speaker 5: But if you do not have the strength to be
what you want, then perhaps your sire was right. You
are weak? Is that what you want to hear?
Speaker 8: Why were you in that coffin astebone?
Speaker 5: As I said, I have been tricked by whoever is
my real sire, who I am closer to doing now
thanks to moog led me to believe that your sire
was my sire, and my clan gave me permission to
end his life. After I had been after I had
been tricked for well, it had happened many times by
my sire. I went all the way to Germany, and
I took everything he had from him, well maybe not everything,
but everything he cared about.
Speaker 8: You didn't take me, as I.
Speaker 5: Said, everything he cared about.
Speaker 8: I look back at Ashna.
Speaker 6: So the most unnatural, disgusting contorted smile on his face.
I would like you all to know that you definitely
know that you are being compelled to spill these secrets
and be brutally honest with each other. There's no denying
that this is being done to you.
Speaker 5: So there's no like extra oomph on it. That's just
straight truth. There's no like he's not ramping us up
a little bit to be a little more and stick
it in. I'm not saying I have been.
Speaker 6: Oh absolutely, absolutely he can. It's like, you know, he
wants you to be brutally honest. He doesn't want you
to lie. He wants you to speak the truth. That
you would doctor up or pretty in a different way,
or toned down as to not hurt someone's feelings, all
of that's gone in this moment.
Speaker 8: Okay, fucking asshole. Sorry, I hold his gaze. Cora fed
off the life of someone in the rabbit, her dry.
I wondered, then would she be the end of us all?
And I didn't say anything because I hoped perhaps we
could convince her not to. I look back at astebon.
But you cannot convince someone to love you, can you?
Speaker 4: Or care?
Speaker 8: As you say?
Speaker 10: Not for real?
Speaker 5: No, I have to say, I wouldn't really know here.
It's been a long time, if it ever has been.
Speaker 8: Now I start to sing the song.
Speaker 2: Do you know why you were put in the coffin Constantine.
Speaker 8: No, Okay, I have thought I'm gonna say this out loud.
Speaker 6: I was gonna say, like, as soon as you say
why were you put in the coffin? I feel like
everyone might feel compelled to spill the secret. The thing
is is like if it comes up in conversation and
you've been holding back, it's gonna come out now.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I always thought I was put in there because I
was standing up.
Speaker 15: For people.
Speaker 8: And they put me away. I was there at the
beginning of the war when places were being closed down, destroyed, burned.
I thought I'd create a safe haven. I wonder how
many people I failed, how many died because I was
put in that coffin. I thought it was the camerilla.
Why else would I have been put away? I am nothing,
A drunkard, pouring, manipulating, shallow parties, stupid weak. Why else
would I have been put away? I did nothing of value,
was nothing of value. I prided myself on it. It
did not hurt, did not harm, and when I started
to do good, I was put away. Why were you
putting a coffin? Gunner?
Speaker 7: I feel like I want to answer her question, but
also it is what is escaping my lips as well,
son Mike doing both. I was feeding.
Speaker 30: Her, feeding her the barneys.
Speaker 10: Of my fallen warrior. I would bring them back to
her nest, pretty feast, for I was scared if she
were to leave, they'd find her.
Speaker 19: And then.
Speaker 10: When she went missing, I know she had gone back
to him.
Speaker 7: Hi Dravd stinken to his heart.
Speaker 8: And to say we are not monsters. I turned back
to ask them.
Speaker 6: On hold on, Gunner, do you want them like? How
would Gunner feel if they knew about the trial and
your tongue?
Speaker 2: How would the how would you feel? No, how would
you feel if they knew.
Speaker 5: That about you?
Speaker 7: I feel like I would have told anybody at any
time if they would have asked.
Speaker 2: Then I won't force it out of you.
Speaker 14: That's fine.
Speaker 10: But is that the feeling right have.
Speaker 6: Been made to feel, which that you want to share
these things that you're compelled to share.
Speaker 7: My forced honesty, No, it is.
Speaker 2: It is much different.
Speaker 6: So before it was that if you were asked a question,
you couldn't lie, but you weren't compelled to speak. This
is more like you you've I mean viscerally, you feel
like you've all been dropped to your knees and you
are forced to give, Like you feel compelled to give
confession of secrets you've been hiding back from people. Somebody
asks you a question, you feel compelled to tell them
the truth, but the brutal truth, and maybe give more
than you even need to. And maybe it's this feeling
of like, I will you know, my blood will be
on fire if I don't get this out is more
kind of the feeling physical that you have to tell
these things, but specifically it's things that you've been holding
back or hiding and if you would have told them
had they asked.
Speaker 2: Ishna doesn't care. He cares about things that he cares about.
Speaker 6: The hypocrisy of this moment of saying like, oh, her
secret has endangered the party, when everyone here has secrets.
So he's forcing you to get those secrets out now.
So it's really only if you've been holding it back
and hiding it.
Speaker 10: If I had a.
Speaker 7: Choice, I would be I am ashamed of what I've
done and.
Speaker 10: What I am.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and would never like to utter a single word
about the monster that I am.
Speaker 6: Yep, so then yeah, yeah, so just talking about the
fact that you're a monster and that you hate it
and you're disgusted.
Speaker 2: Is good enough?
Speaker 14: Yep, thank you?
Speaker 8: Are we compelled just to speak?
Speaker 6: Yeah, just talking spelling secrets, not just talking spelling secrets,
even holding back things that.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: But Stalker hasn't gone yet, so we'll let him go
ahead and go and then you guys can continue and
I'll let you guys roll again after this round to
see if it keeps going.
Speaker 15: God, I know, I don't think I've held anything back.
Speaker 2: There's not a single thing that you don't want them
to know about you, mister.
Speaker 15: Secret, mister secret.
Speaker 6: Name, like your clan, like anything like it's stuff that
you've been hiding from them or that you would prefer
to them not to know, is going to spill out?
Speaker 15: Okay yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh, you don't have to do your name. By the way,
that was just an example.
Speaker 15: That's the only thing I can think of. Yeah, okay,
I just isn't a secret. They would all know what
my plan is.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, told the plan.
Speaker 15: But like.
Speaker 6: I know, I can think of some things. Aren't there
some things that you're not supposed to tell them from
your clan? Like don't you have rules about things you're
not supposed to share that stuff would just become like
bubbling up and spilling out. But you I want you
to be able to choose what it is that comes
pooring out. But yeah, it's basically secrets that you've held,
how you feel about them. If you don't like s
Sebon or Constantine or whatever, that stuff would be you know,
rising to the surface here.
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, I well I don't yeah, okay.
Speaker 24: Yeah, I I am looking at the ground and I say recite.
Speaker 15: We do not abandon a contract. We do not break
our word of honor to a member of the sect.
We do not sabotage another member of the sect. We
do not refuse to answer summons from a member of
the sect. We do not kill mortals during feeding. These
the rules set down my clan idol On I Sandman
follow them. Primes worthy of killing are many, and if
there was a contract, I would be within my rights
to end each of your lives.
Speaker 2: Okay, everybody roll one more time? Difficulty thirty.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry, can we vote to name this episode? I
sand Man?
Speaker 2: That is that was pretty damn good, but I don't
want to spoiler. That was fucking thing.
Speaker 8: Shit thirty eight.
Speaker 10: Eight No.
Speaker 6: Stalker nineteen Okay, so everyone else rolled failure Stalker rolled
in nineteen stalker. The the feeling you get, the compulsion ends,
but everyone else has another round of it.
Speaker 8: Even though I look back at Aesteban, after everything you've
said about my my sire, I still want your approval, affection,
love yours, Gunner. I need yours too. When you're angry,
I need it.
Speaker 31: I'll die, I'll die. I'm going to die.
Speaker 5: The song you're singing that is the poem your sire
wrote that I used to take his tongue. Believe I believe.
I am confused by this, but Augus somehow made by
my sire as well. At first he believed he asked
as if he were sired in a normal way we were.
But after the store he believed he was created and
another way. So I do not know what to believe anymore.
But speaking to him is the closest I have really
come to finding out who my sire is. And I
am excited and scared to face them, but I will.
I'm afraid of what I will do when I meet it.
I want to destroy them. For many years, I call bullshit.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry in this moment of honesty, are you actually
afraid of what you're gonna do, or do you know
exactly what you're gonna do to your sire when you meet?
Speaker 5: This is what I'm about to say.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5: I have wanted to kill them for all this time,
But now is I feel like getting closer. I am
worried that they may trick me again, and I may
hesitate when I have my chance. I have made a
fool of me time and time and time again. I
have taken everything from me time and time and time again.
I am embarrassed. I feel shame for what they have done,
for the oak they have made me. I must meet them.
There's nothing else I can do. There's nothing else. I
know what we'll do with my life. Whatever this is,
it is the only purpose I have had is to find.
Speaker 20: Them and to end them.
Speaker 10: Can I move?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 7: Are there like rocks at my feet or loose bits
of debris or rock? I ate answer. I put them
down my mouth and my throat, and I chewt until
there was nothing left, and I'll like reach down and
grab a rock from the floor.
Speaker 10: I did it not I wanted to frae.
Speaker 7: Him, but because I was hungry and I want to
throw one of the rocks and one of the blood orbs.
Speaker 2: Ah, go ahead and roll your body in Difficulty thirty eight.
Who were you aiming closer to Cora or Moog? Cora? O,
it's gonna hit Cora. It's gonna go right through this boundary,
this like inky, bloody boundary, and it's gonna smack Cora. Right,
were you aiming like for her face? Because I don't
want to say that you've just like struck her in
the face.
Speaker 7: But I picture like a very small piece of stone
could not really hurt her.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yea, yeah, okay.
Speaker 7: But I wasn't necessarily like throwing it at her. More
so the orb to testif again go through.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it goes through the orb around her. It's basically
one huge bubble kind of like a dome that that
surrounds both her and Moog as they have fallen.
Speaker 2: They fall closed. Were they standing next to each other,
they might not have been. Were they I don't think
they were.
Speaker 6: I think I think Moog was by the statue and
she was, you know, maybe by the center where you
guys were. So we're just gonna say that that's cannon.
Now that they've got two little domes over them, but
they are separated, They're not next to each other. So
he tosses this pebble towards you know, Cora's bubble dome thing,
and the pebble will go right through the dome over
both Moog and Cora. Flickers for a moment before coming
back up.
Speaker 10: The orb flickers for a second before we're coming back up.
Speaker 8: Yep.
Speaker 2: It's like a little protective barrier over the both of them,
but they both flicker when that pebble goes through.
Speaker 5: Does this feeling permission and persist?
Speaker 2: We're gonna roll one more time? Rule of threes.
Speaker 5: I'm so sorry, but that's all right.
Speaker 10: You would like to do something else?
Speaker 15: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, what do you do? I'm still talking right Yeah.
Speaker 7: After he throws the rock, I ate him because he
was a monster, and so am I.
Speaker 10: And I know I will die down here and I
want to walk.
Speaker 7: Through that orb and and grab Coral out of it.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, go ahead and roll again for me, please.
Difficulty thirty, difficulty forty actually.
Speaker 10: Body, oh yep, fifty nine.
Speaker 6: As you reach this barrier, I think we see Gunner
striding with purpose and determination.
Speaker 2: He's going to go through this barrier. He's going to
pick up Cora and he's going to move her out
of it. But as soon as you touch this barrier,
your body is rocked with pain of an infernal nature.
So fire, brimstone, sulfur is choking you. Essentially, it's so
overwhelming and I think you'll take damage too. You can
try again if you'd like, but it's I'm going to
try again. Yeah, okay, go ahead and roll again.
Speaker 7: Then to reach my arm through there and grab her.
Speaker 2: Yes, just so you know, out of ten, this has
done two damage to you, So it is a significant
amount of damage you just took. But yeah, go ahead
and roll again. Difficulty forty.
Speaker 15: Eighty eight devils double the failure the fun.
Speaker 5: Okay, so.
Speaker 2: The same thing occurs again. I think that.
Speaker 6: Constantine, if you're watching this happen, you can see Ishna's
grin unbearably wide and awful, and that like cackle that
you heard before as he's laughing, as Gunner is absolutely
erupting with pain. You're gonna take four damage instead of
just the two gunner, bringing your total damage to six
out of ten. That you take care as you are
trying to break through this protective barrier around kra.
Speaker 2: I also imagine.
Speaker 8: Pain.
Speaker 6: I imagine the magic from Isshna or from any infernal
being as not just one of physical sensation. I imagine
there is a lot of mental anguish that you are
experiencing in this moment as well. I, you know, because
this is magic, I will go ahead and take over
the narrative a little bit for you. I think we
see you know, Gunner's body is rocked. He starts convolsing
a little bit. He is crying out in pain, as
if he has lost.
Speaker 2: A loved one.
Speaker 6: Tears are streaming down his face as he's trying to
like get through this barrier. His fingers are twitching his arms.
You can see the veins moving something in them, like
crawling through his skin.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then he buckles and falls to one knee. Do
you try again?
Speaker 10: I want to try again.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I try to stop. Yeah, try to stop me.
Speaker 6: Yeah, go ahead and roll Gunner and then you guys
can roll to try to stop him.
Speaker 2: Here in a second.
Speaker 6: Another failure, but at least it's not doubles sixty.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's sixty nine.
Speaker 18: That is.
Speaker 2: Trick save him. That is another.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that is another two damage that you will take.
So now you are have taken eight damage out of ten,
so you've got two hit points left.
Speaker 2: My dear, Now you two are going to roll to
try to stop him. I'm assuming that you are resisting them, Gunner,
or are you?
Speaker 10: If I'm like this.
Speaker 13: Smessed up, then maybe it won't be that that hard,
But I'm not. I just picture like I'm trying to
reach my hands through this thing.
Speaker 2: I'm like, it's anime moment. Yeah, you're like trying to
go through this barrier and it's like rocking your body
and you're still trying to do it.
Speaker 15: Go ahead and spear tackle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead and roll both Esteban and Stalker.
Speaker 5: What difficulty at this point, He's just fucked.
Speaker 2: Up thirty because it's not for what you think it's for.
Speaker 5: Oh shit, body though.
Speaker 2: No mind for both of you.
Speaker 5: Fifty A seventy seven.
Speaker 6: Let's go okay, Esteban, as you get close, because here's
the thing. He is in this thing as he's trying
to go through an anime style, He's trying to go
through this well, yeah, he's trying to go through this barrier.
So you guys, you know coming forth to grab him.
Speaker 2: You're not idiots.
Speaker 6: I'm assuming you're not reaching into the barrier to pull
him out. But the very nature of what's happening is
if you grab him, it's going to go through him
into you. So Esteban, you are going to take two
damage with the seventy seven failure doubles. You are unable
to pull him out. You are also unable to move.
Your feet are grounded. However, Stalker, you have rolled the failure.
You're only going to take damage. But you can pull
him out, uh if you would like. Because he's he
he's not really able to resist you. Yeah, so you
tackle him down and out of the way. You are
going to clean that. Oh I'm so sorry, Sebon.
Speaker 5: You're taking four damage and you.
Speaker 2: Take two, all right, Yeah, I just go ahead with
the scene.
Speaker 15: Yeah, painting him down? Brother, stop this. You feel like
you are a monster. But I can give you peace.
You only have to learn the ways I can guide you.
Speaker 10: I can give you a purpose.
Speaker 30: A warrior rolla, I cannot hear you.
Speaker 15: Warriors are not the only soldiers needed. I can find
a place for you. But this is madness.
Speaker 10: I want to grab your pack, your neck, pull of
your face closer to mine.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and all of a sudden in your hand. You
fear something cold, something.
Speaker 10: Hard and short.
Speaker 15: It is.
Speaker 7: A stake in which you fired at me long ago.
Speaker 10: I place it in your hands.
Speaker 7: Give me peace.
Speaker 15: I look at him for a long moment. You are
you are sure.
Speaker 32: There is no coming back. I froze back to the store,
and I'm just breathe hard, human pain. I cannot follow
another world.
Speaker 31: H nine nine nine.
Speaker 8: You can't, you can't, you can't, you can't. And I
run over and I'm I'm like, I start to fight
to take the steak away from stalker.
Speaker 15: I wouldn't throw throw him off of me if I could.
Speaker 9: No, No, you can't act.
Speaker 15: I cannot ignore it. He wants peace. Who are we
to get in the way.
Speaker 5: I'll stumble over. Are you sure he is of his
right mind? Is an incredible amount of pain.
Speaker 15: He has been in pain since he was released, probably
long before that.
Speaker 8: So so are we all, all of us. You think
it is special to be in pain, to wish for death,
It's not special. It does not matter all of us.
Peace is something piece is something you create. You cannot
give it. It does not exist. Mh you make it.
What if he goes to the fires of hell?
Speaker 9: Nah?
Speaker 8: Have you thought of that, shay sack as if we
are not all suffering.
Speaker 15: Iron look back to Na. Is this your last decision.
Speaker 5: Brother, before you go, Before you decide, I like lay
flat on my back because I'm fucked up next to him?
This one you fed? What was her name?
Speaker 19: Lantern?
Speaker 10: Twist them on.
Speaker 7: It's still on the floor, Kilda. And if you ought
to see her m h, may you just ask her?
Speaker 8: Why?
Speaker 5: Ask her yourself?
Speaker 19: Hm?
Speaker 5: And dieing not knowing?
Speaker 7: Look back to Stuccer, Brother, I am already dead.
Speaker 15: I bring my thumb to my fang. I cut it open,
I tear you shirt away, draw simple on his chest.
I take the steak in my hand and rested gently
point against his heart. Is there anything else you wish
to say?
Speaker 10: My right hand.
Speaker 7: Riches up very weakly, and I put it over yours,
which show what's the steak?
Speaker 10: And I'm just.
Speaker 7: Squeezes generally as I can.
Speaker 15: I grant you peace, and I drive the steak and
do his heart.
Speaker 2: The steak hits home with a sound like splitting fruit.
It's wet, fibrous, and as it does so, Gunner, you
are granted a final gift from Ishna. And that is
the knowledge that in that fifth coffin, there are two
realities in one reality. Right next to you for the
entire time was Hilp and she's still there.
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Speaker 4: My God