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 A loud.
Speaker 5: Previously on date list.
Speaker 6: After harrowing battle with a bunch of scary skeleton guys
they are intreviate group of vampires and one perhaps not
a vampire, or perhaps something more, and made their way
back to the only place we assumed had not changed
since the last time we had been here, in Corre's apartment.
As some of us discovered, and one of us discovered
even more, something was different about this place, but due
to the injuries and the conditions, these have not been
addressed yet. Gunner helped Constantinu to the bath and myself
my best to help Cora and discovered more than I
had expected, and out in the hallway, two very dangerous
men are about to kish. I'm sorry, whatever I don't
mean to power Game, but you know we all want it.
Speaker 2: I do, I do.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry start.
Speaker 6: Yeah, are live, I will say, I estevan in all
in total in a total serious way. So we must
have been in the apartment and they're fighting outside, which
is what actually was happening. So we must have even
while that was going on. I'm assuming gun or two
at the very least must have heard all kinds of
stuff going on and noises and growling and bumping and stuff.
Speaker 2: So oh yeah, actually I didn't consider that you guys
may have heard bits of their battle. They'd fight outside.
Speaker 8: We ever say what like floor er?
Speaker 5: I think third?
Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, so.
Speaker 2: Maybe the door was open. I know that much because
everybody walked in and then yet you guys didn't. Yeah, so.
Speaker 5: Oh the door is open too, Okay, yep.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine that you did.
Speaker 6: Probably went Gunner and walks out into the living room,
and I'm in the hallway and I probably walk out
behind him.
Speaker 5: Maybe we noticed something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Gunner just like catches the two of them, like,
you know, fighting, and goes no, but I'm going to
sleep for the first time in undisclosed amount of Oh yeah.
Speaker 5: That's right.
Speaker 6: Okay, up, just like, yeah, I think that I iron yeah,
I think after Gunner's on the couch having I probably
am a little kind of shaken still, even though I'm
feeling better things in part the gunner, I'm going to
walk towards the door and kind of just look out
and look at them. I guess no longer fighting right,
and say, uh, it's everything all right out here, that's fine.
Speaker 10: Ah.
Speaker 8: I I I think I have my back to the stairs,
and I am swaying back and forth, back and forth,
looking down at then. I think I'm a few steps up.
He were equal height and he changed and now I'm
a little taller than him. He is of the steps,
and I sway and blood is gushing from my chest
and collar, and I try to catch myself, but I
don't realize that thinking about there's a step in front
of me, and I stumble forward, about to fall.
Speaker 9: I'll catch him.
Speaker 7: No no, no, no, no, no, no no no no.
Speaker 2: Those of you listening to the fucking podcast version of this,
you have to go and watch this moment because Orcish
literally like does a girlish like glance over to Greg
to see if he's like, I'll catch him. Okay, I'm
not making it up. It happened. Go and look.
Speaker 5: Bring him inside, Bring him inside, bring him inside.
Speaker 8: Listen to me, audio viewers, that is not true.
Speaker 9: Listen to me, audio vie true. I wouldn't lie to
you about something like this.
Speaker 11: I'm gonna believe Greg's voice because it's deep and gravelly,
like a dragon's. Also, what can you describe?
Speaker 7: How you catch him?
Speaker 8: So I'm stumbling, So it's like a like a jerky
motion where I'm trying to catch myself and then all
of a sudden, my uh, my shoulder would probably be
hitting your chest.
Speaker 9: Wait, aren't we going up the stairs and my back
is to you?
Speaker 8: No? No, I think you're in I think my my
back because I led you in the front door. I imagine
that I led you in the front door, and our
fight kind of took us a few steps up the stairs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because he said follow right.
Speaker 5: He was.
Speaker 8: He was chasing me right and swiping at me, and
I think I went up the stairs a little bit
and then he changed. So I'm I'm like on step
five and you're on like step one or two, okay,
and then I'm falling down yes him, No, I'm facing
we're facing each other.
Speaker 2: Okay, I thought you had told him it's fine. Yeah,
whatever you guys want to say. I just thought you
had said follow and had already started going side. But
I like this, Yeah, a very good I have no idea,
go for it. This is way cooler for sure. It
doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 9: So you're falling face first towards me. Yeah, So I'm
going to try to get you over my shoulder. I'm
not gonna do a firefighter carry, but you're like over
my shoulder. That's that you're falling that your chest hits
my chest. So I'm gonna grab you almost from like
right below yours and then I'm gonna put you over
my shoulder.
Speaker 11: How do you cuss hit each other and nothing else where?
Speaker 8: Are your heads? Were your mouth?
Speaker 7: I'm so sorry, dudes, I'm so sorry. I'm pulling it.
I'm raining it in. I'm getting it together, I'm walking in.
Speaker 6: I hope everyone's ready to just be in this apartment
for the whole episode.
Speaker 2: Want to.
Speaker 5: Get upstairs?
Speaker 2: There in three areas total up the whole show before
I continue to where you're carrious about any other body
parts or.
Speaker 11: No, no, no, this is a slow burn.
Speaker 6: Okay, sorry, fan bring him up here quick, I mean,
breaking him up here.
Speaker 9: Quick, going as fast as I can. He's I mean,
I don't know why I'm putting on a show. And
I just go up the stairs because I'm very strong
and he can't be like as heavy as I don't
know a car or a van. So going up, man,
I look at Esteban. He's probably gonna need some help.
Speaker 6: But bring him inside, bring him inside, Yeah all right, yeah, going,
it is good to see you again like this. Yeah, sure, whatever,
I'm gonna go over to the I walk in. I
crossed the threshold, and I think I would notice that
the place is inverted because I spent most of my
time in this apartment staring at the door waiting for
Constantine come home. So I feel like I have a
pretty good idea of the layout.
Speaker 9: So say this, this is a bit different, huh. And
I look at Cora. Well, I look at Esteban.
Speaker 6: I run into the other room and look at Cora.
So I web, gonner is he's out cold on the couch?
I said, bring him here bringing me or bring him
into the floor in the kitchen. It's easier to clean up.
Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, all right, fine, And I not so gently
just kind of throw him on the floor.
Speaker 2: I am so sorry. In all of the hubbub Stalker
is bleeding, you said from whence do you bleed? Good sir, I.
Speaker 8: Think, well, I think I'm bleeding from a lot of
different places. I mechanically, I have two out of ten health,
so I think, oh, I'm bleeding from the last claw
likedash that he gave me. But I think the rest
of it you may not notice immediately. Okay, but like
my my cloak and shirt is soaked in blood.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how much did he do to you versus the
rest two out of ten is pretty big.
Speaker 8: I want to say he did four damage to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 8: With two different hits.
Speaker 2: Okay, will you do me a favor and roll for
me please? It is going to be under Actually, just
roll me a flat D one hundred. Same with Fen
and Esteban. Well, Fen and Esteban, you're going to roll
mind please. That's your governing stat right, Stalker. Yours is
for your magic is mined right.
Speaker 8: Away?
Speaker 2: I think it is.
Speaker 8: Okay, like if you're only yeah, I guess for its
layers and that's that kind of one stuff.
Speaker 2: That's what I want stuff that's the one I want.
Speaker 5: Okay, any difficulty to wait?
Speaker 8: Did you want me to do a flat one hundred
or do.
Speaker 2: You flat D one hundred? You do flat D one hundred,
And these two are going to do a mind roll.
The difficulty is going to be thirty please.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, I failed thirty five?
Speaker 2: Whoa close?
Speaker 5: Eighty two?
Speaker 2: Okay? And then what yours was the sixty four stalker?
Speaker 8: That's that's right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So Fenn, what does home smell like to you?
Speaker 9: Home smells like an open field?
Speaker 2: To me, you get a faint smell of an open
field when you when he's like bleeding on or around you.
Right now?
Speaker 9: Oh, I like an estamon. You smell that.
Speaker 5: The only smells like blood.
Speaker 2: You get to roll again, Semon, and you can have
a twenty shift, sorry ten shifts, So that'll make your
difficulty forty instead of thirty.
Speaker 5: Yeah, thirty four, I have seed.
Speaker 2: What does home smell like to you?
Speaker 5: But is a tough question in this moment, I will
say the smell is like the ocean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I would have guessed as well. Okay,
so then I think that's what it smells like to
you as well.
Speaker 6: Smells like the sea. The open field, see Haw said,
smells like salt.
Speaker 9: Smells like grass with it end of dew and sunflowers.
To me, nice open, how very strange.
Speaker 6: I am going to get towels or something or something
to help clean this up. But you have to feed
him to help him. That is what I did to Cora,
and she's feeling much better now.
Speaker 9: Oh am I going to feed him with Oh, the fridge.
Speaker 5: There is nothing in the fridge.
Speaker 9: There might be something in the fridge.
Speaker 6: I have looked already. When to fed Coorra, she had
to drink from my arm. I am, I cannot do
this again.
Speaker 9: Hey listen, all I know is we came out of
that crypt and everything's different. So if we're not looking
at something, maybe it'll.
Speaker 5: I pull open the fridge.
Speaker 2: You can roll if you want. Hmm. It's going to
be another mind role. I have a very particular question
for you. How much of Stalker's blood is on you.
Speaker 9: Is on me?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I would imagine a lot. I was carrying him.
Speaker 2: I imagine a lot as well.
Speaker 9: Keep chests just like it's all over. Probably my shirt
super bloody. I'm probably going to need.
Speaker 4: A new shirt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, difficulties thirty.
Speaker 9: Yeah, failure seventy not even nothing.
Speaker 2: Nothing's in the fridge, do you see.
Speaker 9: Well, I don't know what's going to happen if I
feed him my blood. I don't even know what's going
on with my blood right now. It can make them worse.
I think I've already done enough damage for one day.
Speaker 6: But then at least, oh, I assume his wounds are
a little bit too big to lick.
Speaker 9: I look at huge. The hole's got to be huge
because my wolf hand was gienormous. Look at this like
keeping wounds. It's gonna need a lot of licks. I
don't think it's gonna do it.
Speaker 5: All right, wait here, wait here, and I run out
of the room for a moment.
Speaker 6: All right, fine, well, I go over to knock on
the bathroom door. I've knocked everything over. This is how
urgent it is. That was just my light. Don't worry,
it's more moody now. Yeah, hello, Constantine, how are you feeling?
We have a very injured person here. We need to
help or can I grab a towel or something from there?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 7: I'm rushing to get out of the.
Speaker 6: Bath and it is stalker. He's bleeding all over the kitchen.
Speaker 7: What happened?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 11: Towels, rushing to get my clothes back on, pulling towels
off of the racks, Throw the door open. My hair
is probably like not completely wet, it's like half wet,
as though I didn't put my head under.
Speaker 5: And I will say probably, but so.
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry. It's totally fine. But you did yourself
because you couldn't breathe or you didn't need to breathe.
Speaker 11: Yep, you're right, I completely forgot. Apologies, reckon, you're good,
You're good. My hair is completely soaking wet. As I
stare at.
Speaker 2: You, it seems like I'm being nippicky, But I imagine
I just know in advance, because we're doing reality shit,
that these kind of details are going to matter at
some point if they don't already.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I would also prefer to not have forgotten. Yeah,
I would door open.
Speaker 6: Come, come, he's in the kitchen. He has a bleary,
giant hole in his chest. I don't know what to do.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I rush, I follow What how did he get
a hole in his chest?
Speaker 6: I believe probably that his assets. We are walking into
the kitchen and look, Fanny's back.
Speaker 11: Hello, Hello, then how did this happen? I crouched down
in front of Stalker, and I'm looking at the damage.
Speaker 9: He fought me.
Speaker 7: He thought to you, I did this.
Speaker 11: As a wolf. I look back at Stalker. You're not
have you lost consciousness?
Speaker 8: No? I think I'm kind of like my eyes are
kind of rolling around sometimes I'm nodding off. I'm holding
my chest and kind.
Speaker 12: Of it looks.
Speaker 8: Like I'm sort of just looking around at all of
you trying to focus. My eyes are narrowing.
Speaker 11: I would like to sort of cup your face and
kind of angle it towards mine.
Speaker 7: And lean in. Stalker, can you hear me that? I
need you to tell me.
Speaker 11: I switch tactics and I put my hand on just
under your neck, like on your chest here probably above
the wound, and I would like to feel how I
could heal you best, like to feel for the the
thing that would soothe you the most. So what would
I be rolling yours?
Speaker 2: Is social? I think we decided your main staff is
going to be that if we haven't fully switched, like,
I would suggest you fully switching your dine over there
because that's where I'm going to have you roll for now.
So if you need to bump your dine up to
your your charisma. I would just go ahead and do that,
but that's where I'm going to have your roll from
now on.
Speaker 11: Can you remind me which one's soul mind? Which one
is charisma based soul soul?
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, I'll.
Speaker 2: Just switch that is your riz.
Speaker 8: Not sure if this matters for the role, but I should.
I want to say it now in case it does.
Stalker would be as closed off as he can be
in this state.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so too. I also so think I
think Constantine. I don't know if you've ever seen a
vampire about to die, but I think it's pretty clear
to you that he is having a hard time focusing
on you. I imagine his eyes are dilating a little bit
like a cat's, and then back and forth as he's
trying to focus on you. And I think when he says, yes,
he sees you, but he's looking right through you. Yeah,
he's sweating a bit, he's bleeding a lot, and it's
almost like, I mean, yes, we know he was that.
We know he was injured by Fenn, but he was
also injured during that fight, and he kept it together
until he walked through that threshold, so it's almost like
it all hit him all at once. But he looks
really bad. He looks really rough.
Speaker 11: Before I roll, I would like to try something first,
and if it doesn't work, then I.
Speaker 7: Would like to pull your crossbow. Do you have? It's
on you?
Speaker 8: It's on a strap over my shoulder.
Speaker 11: I fussed to get it off of the strap and
to pull.
Speaker 7: Is that possible? Sorry?
Speaker 8: I would weakly like try to paw at whatever you're doing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I would then.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I would then take the hand that you're using
to weekly paw at me and put it on the crossbow.
And I want to like put your hands on the
crossbow as though you're holding it, and then aim it
towards my chest, making sure it's not loaded. I would
like to, you know, de doc any moading aim it
towards my chest, and then I would like to grab
your forearm firmly and try to heal you this way.
Speaker 2: Holy shit? Okay, oh my god? Am I understanding this
correctly and that you're trying to get him to feel safe?
Speaker 13: Yes?
Speaker 2: Is your Yeah, this is your attempt to get him
to feel safe with you. Okay, I can't decide that
only stalker can let us know if this act of
familiar I am pointing the thing. You know, I have
this weapon, and I I am safe if that would
actually make him feel safe in this moment or safe enough.
Speaker 8: Ah, it's a tough, a tough call. I think I'm
fairly conscious. I think I'm and I think then floating
in and out of a dream state for me is natural.
So I don't know if I'm seeing you at all,
But are you.
Speaker 2: The feeling dream state your hand?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I also think while flowing in and out of a
dream state is natural for you, I don't think I
and I don't know, correct me if I'm wrong, But
I don't think you've ever been this close to death before.
So yeah, this is also other world, uh, mechanics and death.
So even if you were close to VTM vampiric death,
it's very different from I would imagine what this feels like.
But uh, yeah, I you know, it's up to you.
Speaker 8: This would be a very strange sensation to you.
Speaker 2: I would imagine. So because your magic is different here,
it feels different here than it would it would make
sense that, you know, dying or getting close to death,
or being very powerful, all these are new sensations for
all of you. So I think, yeah, I think this
is a very different feeling.
Speaker 11: I think what I'm I'm trying to do is create
a physical grounding, ground grounding, familiar, tactile thing, you know,
something that you can actually hold on to that feels familiar,
that you've touched times, that.
Speaker 2: Will keep you here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8: I like the crossbow in my hand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Okay, then I think you can have a
shift when you rolls, which is I think what you
were attempting to do. Yes, yeah, yep, absolutely.
Speaker 11: May I ask my target difficulty forty okay?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh wow, my goodness, that's an eleven doubles for those
listening and we're all just reacting for a second. Wow. Okay,
take it away. I will step in if need be,
but otherwise what happens.
Speaker 11: Yeah, So I grab your hand. I put your hand
on the trigger of this crossbow. I'm you know, I'm
supporting it, but I'm allowing you to feel its weight.
And my other hand is still on your chest, just
above the wound. And it's not that I'm trying to
focus on the wound.
Speaker 7: It's that I'm.
Speaker 11: Focusing on you because you are a whole thing. I'm
not focusing on the thing that makes you less whole.
I'm focusing on the thing that you are, which is
already whole.
Speaker 7: And I'm just.
Speaker 11: Pleading for your flesh to knit back together, telling it
that it wants to, that it wants to be together.
It doesn't want to be a part.
Speaker 2: Now. When we discussed your class last, I believe the
conclusion we came to is that you're the person that
you're healing, would get to have some sort of intimacy
with you, vulnerability on your end. So I think the
best way for us to do that is I think
he experiences a memory of yours, something that you probably wouldn't.
It's not necessarily your deepest darkest moment or your happiest,
most sacred moment, but it's also not something you would
tell a stranger.
Speaker 11: Okay, not my deepest darkest moment. I am walking the
streets of Berlin.
Speaker 7: I'm on a date.
Speaker 11: I don't know this man very well, but he's sweet,
kind a bit naive. We've maybe seen each other a
few times. He does not yet know what I am,
but he pursued me intently, and my fear about what
I am and that he was mortal. Was cracked by
his persistence. He'd been on the edge of my vision
for a while. But in in.
Speaker 7: No way was he.
Speaker 11: Incredibly close to me, you know, But it would be
foolish to say that I didn't care.
Speaker 7: I was not young, but not as old as I am.
Speaker 11: Now, and I had just sort of started thinking about
dating instead of having fun. He was insistent that he
wanted to do it the right way.
Speaker 7: We were out in the street and.
Speaker 11: There was a fight happening of some kind, and I
approached to find out what was going on. And it
is a flurry to me, something that I'm confused about
with my senses that I lost track of time within
the movements of what happened. He was shot and he
bled out.
Speaker 7: In my lap, and I left him on the street
because I didn't know what else to do. He was dead.
I stayed with him until he was gone. What I thought,
who would I call? No one would have.
Speaker 11: Stopped to find out what happened to him if they
knew why we were out together.
Speaker 7: And what do I call them? Mortal Palitzi or guards
or so?
Speaker 11: I stumbled back to my bar, thinking how easily.
Speaker 7: Small coal.
Speaker 11: Can make someone leak out until they're gone.
Speaker 2: Follow up question, I know what I think would be.
I know I have an answer to this question. So
if you don't I have one, don't worry. But I'm
curious how you view your power. Do you think you
know what memory he just experienced or do you think
when you do this it is just a shot in
the dark and you have no idea.
Speaker 11: It's definitely undirected, like I wouldn't have chosen it.
Speaker 2: No, you don't choose it. That's part of the power, right.
Speaker 11: Yeah, Yeah, And I think I think we experience it together,
and I think that he knows that he's getting that
one in this moment.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to pause it another offer and you
can choose. It doesn't matter to me either way, because
it's how you view the power. But I think you're
more vulnerable if you know he has experienced something of
yours but you don't know what it is. I think
that's scarier personally.
Speaker 7: All right, I don't like it, but I'll take it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, Well, I think that's the nature of the power,
is that you feel seen and vulnerable. Okay, so then
that is what you would experience stalker as you are
as you are healed.
Speaker 8: Can can I ask a couple of questions? Oh, Am,
I experiencing this from my first person is point of view.
Speaker 2: Yep, you're experiencing it from yes, absolutely, when it's over.
I know you're in kind of delirium right now. But
when it's over and you reflect back on it, you
will understand the nature of his healing ability is that
he has to like he sheds a part of himself
as he's doing it, and so, yeah, you got to
experience it from his perspective, but you're acutely aware that
it was his perspective. All right, go ahead and roll
a one D four mergs and double it.
Speaker 13: Okay, yeah, you gain back to health.
Speaker 2: Putting you at four. She rolled a one for those listeners,
you gain back. But to me, the dice don't lie.
It makes sense. It's a new, new to you version
of your power, so it makes sense even though it
was an eleven. But you do stop bleeding, and you
can actually remove either No, I'm sorry, I take that back.
You can remove your one one oblivion, but you're going
to keep your tuburn.
Speaker 8: If this helps, I don't know if it would make
a difference, but with that healing. I, like I said before,
Stalker would be as as resistant as he can be
with a little strength that he has. So maybe that
contributed to this little I don't know to the to
the to the low roll there.
Speaker 11: Yeah, uh, can I posit something even more? I think
that I don't even know that that memory has been taken. Yeah,
that that's part of how this goes.
Speaker 7: I don't think that I even know that that's how
this functions.
Speaker 8: Oh wow, okay, the memory is gone you no longer?
Speaker 7: No, no, no, I have it.
Speaker 2: He has it, but he doesn't know that. You know,
he doesn't know that you have experienced it.
Speaker 7: That you witnessed it.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that's better, Like.
Speaker 2: Because I was just it makes total sense time. Yeah,
you haven't been in this world. You don't know that
that's how that works. Yeah yet unless someone tells you,
and then it's your choice on who you heal. I guess, yeah,
that makes sense.
Speaker 11: So I just look at you with no change in expression.
I'm just watching the bleeding stop, and I'm I'm feeling like, Okay,
I did something good, but I.
Speaker 7: Have no clue.
Speaker 2: I think, Yeah, I think as this is happening, Constantine,
you will see his skin knit back together. He is
no longer bleeding profusely. And I think around the around
the wounds that were open and now have closed, you'll
see immediate bruising blossom, almost as if you've kind of
like sped up that healing a little bit.
Speaker 11: And I will run my hand down over where the
wound was and kind of touch the flesh that has
sealed up, beautiful like a painting.
Speaker 8: How much better do I feel?
Speaker 2: That's such a tough question, because it's true health, but
it was elevens, but we had a role for the health.
So you only get too health back, but your oblivion
is gone, so you're at four out of ten. But
you've got to burn as well. So probably still rough.
But you can be conscious in talking and speaking, but
your body probably aches. It's up to you to kind
of determine. I don't know what Stalker's been through, or
if he's been in fights that leave him like this
before you know, it's totally up to you. But you're
not on death's door anymore. Sure as.
Speaker 8: His hand goes over the wound, my own hand shoots
out and grabs his wrist. My eyes narrow and focus.
Speaker 7: I hold your gaze.
Speaker 8: I look around the kitchen.
Speaker 9: Where are we?
Speaker 7: You are in Cora's apartment. You had a fight.
Speaker 8: What did you do to me?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 11: Looking at what I see here, it seems I spared
your life.
Speaker 7: It was not looking good. I think I have healed you.
Speaker 5: A touch.
Speaker 8: I and I might start getting maybe flashes of this.
Speaker 9: Memory.
Speaker 4: You ain't got me.
Speaker 8: Not What else did you do to me?
Speaker 7: I do not know that I do anything else.
Speaker 8: Yes, I'm still holding onto your wrist.
Speaker 2: And right, yeah, okay, I.
Speaker 8: Pull you closer to you and trying to lean to
your ear.
Speaker 2: Do you resist, constantine? I think you could if you
wanted to. He's in a weakened state.
Speaker 11: I think I instinctively start to resist, but then I
let go and I lean forward.
Speaker 8: Oh, you played with my mind.
Speaker 7: Hardly. I do not think I possessed such abilities about
the fast bow in your hand. I healed your wound,
that is all.
Speaker 9: What was his name?
Speaker 7: What are you talking about?
Speaker 12: You are walking with him?
Speaker 7: What are you talking about?
Speaker 4: You put this.
Speaker 8: In my mind?
Speaker 12: And I.
Speaker 8: Let him go and rest my hand back.
Speaker 7: I stagger back.
Speaker 11: I pull my hand away really quickly, like he like
I'm burned, And I take a couple steps back.
Speaker 7: He will live, and then I walk out.
Speaker 14: Of the room.
Speaker 5: Well, I suppose that was better than letting him feed
from you.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I suppose I'm gonna go over to Stalker.
Speaker 6: I'm going to leave the room to go check on Constantine.
Speaker 9: Uh, do you need to sit down or something. I'm
avoiding Stalker's eyes making eye contact. Ah, we're all away again.
We're at Cora's apartment, but it's inverted. That's why it
looks weird to you. I think the walls are a
different color too.
Speaker 4: Why can.
Speaker 8: Can I make a role to see what kind of
shape my mind is in right now? Like, if I'm
just want I think I'm just gonna do one hundred
one hundred.
Speaker 2: Are you trying to leave it up to chance? Or
is it because you're just not sure with the new
mechanics or because I can help or we can just
leave it up to chance. I'm fine. It's just really
hard with the way that the system is set up
to succeed at roles, and I don't want you to
fail if you don't have to unless you want to,
which is fine.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Like I know that, like just ten fifteen minutes ago,
I like looked in the window and this place looked
very different, and all that stuff happened, but I also
just had I just mind. Yeah, like I'm exhausted, and
I'm pretty i'll pretty tired after the healing, and I'm
pretty injured, and I'm just like, how foggy is my brain?
Am I gonna be able to think like that? Or am
I just thinking like I just want.
Speaker 2: To go Yeah okay, I'm leaving it up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's fine. Why don't we just but why don't we
go ahead and roll your strong stat which is your
mind instead of flat D one hundred and we'll go
fifty to fifty?
Speaker 8: Okay, I do have to ask you a question about that.
If we're rolling mind, am I shifting over my dying
stuff to my mind? Does that include the increased number?
Speaker 12: Yes?
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, okay, because my dine is thirty three and
my mind is thirty three right now? So should I
put my mind at thirty six or leave it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? You can put it a thirty six. We're merging
them anyway, yep. Okay, we just won't be rolling the
dine at the moment. I'm testing some things out.
Speaker 8: All right, then I'll roll my mind, And I'm just
I was just going to do a fifty to fifty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fifty to fifty works.
Speaker 8: Yeah, okay, I got a fifty three for those listening.
Speaker 9: I think.
Speaker 10: I look at and and what was exactly the last
thing you said?
Speaker 9: Do you remember was that this is this is chorus,
this is chorus apartment. But yeah it's and I think
the walls are a different color too, That's what I said.
Speaker 12: Mm hmm.
Speaker 8: Nothing makes sincere. Someone is fucking with us?
Speaker 9: What do you mean? Who's who's fucking with us?
Speaker 8: I think I tried to like kind of brush past
you and move to the corner, and when you ask that,
I stop and turn back. If I knew that we'd
be one step closer to being free of them.
Speaker 9: Why would they be fucking with us? Why would someone
free us and then just fuck with us? Why not
just leave us down there and fuck with us down there?
Does it make any sense?
Speaker 8: Mm hmm, I'm not sure they did?
Speaker 9: For you? Then, how did we get out?
Speaker 8: I was looking for you.
Speaker 9: You're looking for me because you thought that I killed
my bond.
Speaker 8: That's part of it.
Speaker 9: Well, what's the other part?
Speaker 8: Curiosity? And then I continue stumbling towards just a corner
in the kitchen.
Speaker 9: I got a curiosity for you. Well, why do you
smell like two different things? To two differ from beings?
I narrow lass specifically, I crossed my arms, still avoiding
on contact.
Speaker 12: This place.
Speaker 8: He's a wamp. Mysteries.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and I find it interesting that the two people
that freed us are responsible with us getting out, are
the talkative of the group. Really yeah, so if a
higher purpose didn't manipulate you or Colora to let us out,
then you did that of your own free will. Why
you're just curious that you just wanted to look at me?
Speaker 8: The crimes committed against you four are very unusual, and
I heard a rumor. I wasn't just there thinking perhaps
I could find you, perhaps investigate a far worse crime.
Speaker 9: And what was that crime? By c.
Speaker 8: Cock my head and furrow my brow? What happened to
the four of you?
Speaker 4: What do you mean?
Speaker 9: Lock what up?
Speaker 6: Like that?
Speaker 9: I already told you. I don't remember fully.
Speaker 8: I know, but whoever did it? Likely is there of
a stake?
Speaker 9: And I remember our arrangement still honoring it. Clearly. I'm
more curious while you're answering my questions with more questions.
Speaker 8: I have given the four of you more informationn't than
I have ever given anyone outside of my order. I
have been very cooperative. I have been trying to help
us all.
Speaker 9: Uh huh. So then why do you smell like two
different things, the two different beings other than this place
as a web of bullshit?
Speaker 8: Why is this apartment different? Why is everything different? Why
is your other personality different?
Speaker 9: That's actually really insensitive to say it's not another I
don't have another person at It doesn't fucking matter. So
you're suggesting that everyone's shit is just fucky? Is that
what you're saying?
Speaker 8: I make a rare hand gesture. Usually my hands are
at my sides and I'm just standing straight, straight backed,
and I sort of open my hands in a gesture
and say, apologies if I offended you.
Speaker 4: I do not know.
Speaker 8: Much of your life style.
Speaker 15: Condition Jesus Christ, it's fine, Just stop apologize, say it's
very well.
Speaker 8: But yes, and your eloquent description, shit is in fact fucky.
Speaker 9: But okay, so your power comes from your blood. My
power comes from my wolf, and yours comes from your blood,
and that's why it's different. But then how come no
one else smells that differently.
Speaker 8: While you aren't talking to me. I put a hand
against the kitchen wall and lower myself to the floor.
I sit down.
Speaker 9: I would have you down.
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry this is such a loaded question. I
don't mean to, but I have to. Uh is your
own blood on your hand?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 2: Okay, perfect role for me? Mind again? Please difficulty thirty. Yeah,
I'm please continue. You are helped down by Fenn. There's
maybe you're leaving a smear of blood on the wall
a little bit as he helps you down.
Speaker 8: I arrest my back against the wall. My knees are
up and my arms are resting on them as my
head is bowed. I'm sorry, what.
Speaker 9: That doesn't matter, It's just it's really it's I'm not
saying that I don't believe. I don't don't believe you,
but it's just weird that you smell mm hmm, like
how I remember my home to be and I've not
smelled that in a very long time.
Speaker 8: And I an smell differently to someone else.
Speaker 9: Yeah, which I'm assuming is also their own m I think.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm.
Speaker 8: I think you will all soon discover where our strength
comes from here.
Speaker 2: And that is a perfect moment to switch scenes. Gunner,
Oh you all thought I was going to Astaban and Constantine,
didn't you? No, no, no, no, no, no no, Gunner.
Would you like to roll me your body please? Difficulty thirty?
Speaker 9: Sure, thirty?
Speaker 4: Right, yep.
Speaker 9: Yeah, roll day ninety one fail.
Speaker 2: Okay, you dream? Unfortunately it is not a pleasant one.
Would you walk us through what you dream?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I collapsed on the couch.
Speaker 9: First.
Speaker 4: I fell down face first, where.
Speaker 5: I laid straight.
Speaker 9: But as time went on.
Speaker 4: I curl slowly into the feetal position and I lay
on the couch with my knees stuck to my chest
and my head tucked in tight. You know, I've lived
the past hour of my life many times. After a battle,
after a hard fight, all do you want to do
is sleep, get your strength back. That's what I was
trying to do. I'm afraid my mind went elsewhere.
Speaker 9: But there I.
Speaker 4: Am into a ball. Sticks and bones pierce into my side.
I am. I am in a nest when people come
to die and I don't see anything here. I am alone.
Start to try and stand, but I am too weak.
The battle was very hard and most of us, and
some of us never made it back to camp. You
see there's been a fairy, very strange thing going on.
Speaker 9: Where people.
Speaker 4: Are wounded, have been going missing.
Speaker 5: I get up.
Speaker 9: And in my hand.
Speaker 12: There's a skull.
Speaker 4: In the force of me trying to raise myself up.
I break it in my hand and I scream in
my ear. Is this where she wants me? Is it
my turn?
Speaker 9: I rise and.
Speaker 4: Stare down the bellows of the nest, thorns and sticks
and bones and blood stains those same sticks h at
the end, I think I see her?
Speaker 8: Is that you.
Speaker 4: Have you come to hit me too? And I take
a step forward and a stick goes through my foot
and I scream again. I fall forward.
Speaker 5: There there, there there.
Speaker 4: That's all I can remember of this dream first dream.
Speaker 12: My bad.
Speaker 2: God, damn, thank you? And we switch scenes. Aura. Would
you like to roll me mind? Please? Difficulty thirty. That
is a forty four, which with a difficulty of thirty
is double's failure. You dream, and unfortunately it is not
a pleasant one. Would you care to walk us through?
Speaker 16: I think, even though with Esteban's leave, I'm physically healed
more than I once was, I think mentally I'd still
be stuck in that place where we both were he
and I I think I would be dreaming and confusion.
I think I would feel like I was wandering a dreamscape,
trying to find the way out but not being able to.
And I think at the time, with how confused my
thoughts and emotions would be, you would also create a
surrealist landscape in the dream, where I would just be
moving from scene to scene, images ripping, bleeding into each other, stretching.
I would feel exposed, like anything could fall upon me.
I would see images that were familiar to me, but
in this place they feel eerie, threatening. Slabs of raw
meats hanging on hooks, the scent of decaying flowers in
a nice white vase, but with the smell of death
around them. Other kinds of flowers strewn across the ground,
leading to a coffin the top of it open a
form inside I don't recognize, but instead of looking put together,
impresentable to the living, it's decayed skin, leathery drawn over her,
gaunt face, bones sticking out.
Speaker 2: Sockets.
Speaker 16: I try to get to something that I recognize, something
that will bring me peace, comfort, familiarity, anything, But as
I wander, I don't find relief. Instead, I wander into
a thicket of shadows. At first I think they're trees,
but then I see that there are people, or at
least humanesque forms, stretched and tall, their arms interlinking above me,
forming a cage above my head, around me. It's hard
to move through them, and as I move through them,
their limbs tug at me, try to hold onto my arms,
my legs, my neck, my hair, trying to pull me
into them. The whole time I'm trying to follow some
faint glimmer of light in the distance, but wondering if
I'll ever get there, And as dreams do, the forest
melts away, and then I'm just hanging in emptiness, in darkness,
feeling like with every passing moment, everything that is me
is just bleeding away from me, my skin dripping off
of my bones, my mind stretching into the past, into
the future, stretching so far that I can't hold it
together anymore. And I think it's in that moment that
I just drift, too tired to fight it.
Speaker 2: I think when you let go and you drift that feeling,
that presence of your passenger will present itself. He will
come up and cradle you in this darkness, this feeling
of floating of falling away, of being trapped somewhere with
no escape. You freed him from two hundred and fifty
years of being trapped. It's not the first time, it's
not the longest time, nor will it be the last time.
And you feel all of this. He says nothing, but
you can feel his understanding of his own future, and
in a strange way, with that forty four failure doubles,
he is going to give you a bit of his patience,
which may seem like a gift, but we are talking
about an entity that has survived a long, long, long time,
and often that time is nothing but waiting an emptiness.
So I imagine this is a bit of a double edged
sword here, and you may take this and run with it,
however you may.
Speaker 16: Moving on from here or in this moment both. I
think the way that would feel is probably soothing in
that I do recognize it as patience and calmness. But
it's like drinking a really cold drink on an empty stomach.
It fills me up with ice and a little bit
of the warmth that I tried to cling to is
taken away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a little bit of numbness required to be
this patient I think yep. And there's probably a tiny,
tiny bit with that forty four doubles, a vindictiveness of
venom of what comes after the patience, and that is
the joy of the strike, of the feast, of what
you will get when you're released. You may wake with
that forty four doubles and we're going to switch scenes.
Thank you, by the way, both of you. That was incredible.
Holy shit, Constantine and Esteban, Now.
Speaker 6: Hold on, clearly you get you. You gave them warning beforehand,
and Mark's and I got none. So can we have
some warning? Mm hmmm, No, I'm just commenting.
Speaker 5: That was so good. It feels like they had it
written out. Yeah, it's all fucking crazy.
Speaker 2: If you want, we'll just take thank you, so just
write it out. Yeah, yeah, thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 5: So Esteban, you are very hot, grassyass.
Speaker 2: Holy that was so good. You're like you need to
smoke a cigarette after both of those scenes. That was
so incredible. Good luck you too.
Speaker 8: I'm glad it's not me now.
Speaker 2: Just lower lower.
Speaker 11: The expectations now, everybody lower them now?
Speaker 6: All right, where are you actually where you close your
eyes and have a dream together, get your ship together.
Speaker 2: Let's go locking the fucking constantine off to Yeah, I
left the.
Speaker 5: Room treated to the tub.
Speaker 11: I'm sorry, is there a balcony?
Speaker 7: There's a balcony, right, there's.
Speaker 5: Like a fire escape.
Speaker 2: Fire escape's the question for Cora.
Speaker 6: It's her partner may Stalker had peeked in from there too, right, Yes,
well he.
Speaker 2: Took the he took a fire escape, but I just
want to see the balcony. Yeah, and he's one of.
Speaker 16: Those like New Orleans styles where you have like the
long balconies, cool long outside.
Speaker 11: Yeah, okay, I have migrated to that.
Speaker 2: There isn't typically fire escapes either in the in that
New Orleans like architecture. So I think I'm just gonna
say he probably went up maybe a back staircase, because
they will often have like those staircases that you you know,
walk up before you get into the series of apartments.
So if that's okay, I I will reckon that and
say that that's uh, you know what, you what you
walked up before to check the window? Okay, yep, so
you're out on the balcony.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I've gone out for some air.
Speaker 11: And the view from the balcony, like, can I see
any of the city or anything from where I am.
How how high are we?
Speaker 7: Probably not super high?
Speaker 2: Huh yeah three three yeah, third floor. So again, typical
for the New Orleans architecture is to have like a
little courtyard in your backyard so that you can see
maybe other apartments. Maybe there's like, uh, you know, a
bull of places to sit and at a table and
enjoy your afternoon lunch. But you kind of have this
enclosed space between the buildings next to you and across
from you. So I don't think you've got you know,
you don't have a fourteen story view of the city
or anything like that.
Speaker 11: Yeah, okay, okay, So then yeah, I'm just out on
the balcony then, and I'm I'm my arms are crossed
and I'm leaning and looking up at the stars.
Speaker 7: I assume you come to find me.
Speaker 5: I have a moment. I see.
Speaker 2: He's writing.
Speaker 6: I walk out all I just I'm reading the DM. Yeah,
I walk out onto the balcony. I think I lean
on it next and next to him, next to you.
Speaker 7: It's funny.
Speaker 11: The stars are all different, they're not familiar at all.
I suppose there's still stars though, So there's that.
Speaker 6: I have a question, a PBu question. Are the ways
the stars arranged in the sky different in this world
than the one we previously were.
Speaker 2: Role for me, that's such a good question.
Speaker 5: Just a regular D one hundred.
Speaker 2: There is an answer, yep. So you go ahead and
rule your mind.
Speaker 5: Okay, let me just add in my dine to this.
Speaker 2: Okay, difficulty is going to be thirty because you've never
been here either in this world? Have you? Oh wait,
have you?
Speaker 4: Nope?
Speaker 2: Okay, I didn't think so okay, go ahead, Well just
the uh.
Speaker 6: I guess it was to ask too well, because then
I wouldn't. I mean, I definitely wouldn't. This is why
I'm overthinking it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 2: Are overthinking it because the answer it would have been
so easy for me to say, well, you've never been
to this part of the world, so of course this
guy looks different to you. But that's why I was
having your able to see if maybe I got something
else magical that tells you, yeah, the stars will completely
so because it is a failure, I will say the
stars look completely different to you. It's something that you
I do think. However, you were a seasoned sailor and
you used the stars to navigate, so even with the
seventy nine failure. I think there's maybe a constellation or
two you might recognize, but it's positioned differently.
Speaker 6: I was really asking so I could talk about that. Yeah, ye,
what was the last thing you said, constant tea.
Speaker 7: I said, yeah, the stars are different.
Speaker 5: Yes, okay, sorry, that's why I was asked.
Speaker 7: At least they're still stars. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I look up, Well, there are a few that appear
to be the same, if in different places.
Speaker 5: Do you see those three in a row right there?
Speaker 6: Kind of gesturing with the end of my fingers to
point out the a three fingers I'm looking. This is
Oriyon's belt, the belt of the Great Hunter in the sky.
I am used to seeing it.
Speaker 5: Well, it is there.
Speaker 6: I'm used to seeing it somewhere back behind this house.
But it makes sense we are in a different part
of the world.
Speaker 2: How hm hmm.
Speaker 7: How small? So small?
Speaker 11: All live's gone? Perhaps in an instant it has me wondering,
you know, it's not a strange thing to think about.
What was it all for? I think you're mad if
you don't wonder every once in a while. But when
even the stars don't deign to stay the same, what
chance Dewie may flies on the wind ready for harvest.
There was a time when I was looking forward to
seeing those stars never change, despite everything else around me
doing so, being the only thing that didn't. I look
down at my hand that's still covered in stalker's blood.
Speaker 7: Did you know I can knit people back together?
Speaker 5: This seems to be true. Did you not know this?
Speaker 16: No?
Speaker 7: I did not, though I wish I had.
Speaker 5: It seems you are changing quite a bit as well.
Speaker 11: My eyes flicker to you, and I hold you your
gaze kind of seriously, and then the skin around my
eyebrows smooths out.
Speaker 2: Hm.
Speaker 7: Well, enough of that, shall we? You know I could
use a drink.
Speaker 6: Well, there is a beautiful idea if I have ever
heard one. There is something very strange about this apartment.
I'm sure you have noticed.
Speaker 7: Oh yes, I did.
Speaker 5: Wrong way around, different color as well, see.
Speaker 11: But you could see it as this way an opportunity
to see things from another perspective. I wonder how the
city has changed.
Speaker 5: Well, I have been to one very strange bookstore and one.
Speaker 6: Very dark alleyway, two very dark alleyways, so I am
more than happy to learn about this place.
Speaker 5: I believe this change is a is a gift.
Speaker 6: Even if it was not the intention of it, and
it is one I intend to enjoy as much as
possible before we are confronted with the inevitability of our situation.
Speaker 11: Yes, listen, I sort of lean back and I put
my hands on your chest and kind of give you
like a little tap. What do you say, getting out
there making them, making them mush, they buried us deeper.
Speaker 5: I would like to meet some of the locals.
Speaker 11: Any information that we could get, we can get from
such kind individuals. I'm sure people love to talk, love
to hear themselves talk.
Speaker 6: See And I must say the meal we had on
our first night was one of the best I have
had in two hundred years, so I would not mind another,
especially after this evening. I am still feeling a little
bit up.
Speaker 11: I climb up onto the edge of the balcony and
I take a deep breath in and I remember that
moments ago I closed a hole in someone I didn't
care about, and think about all of the people I
once did, and I leap off of the balcony with
a grin to est von.
Speaker 6: I turn around quickly, I run into the apartment. I
don't know if anyone sees. I don't care, but I
have to grab my jacket and I run Balka out
of the balcony and I leap off behind him.
Speaker 2: For half an hour early, I can't fucking end the
episode there, Insoles, but that was so fucking good.
Speaker 11: How am I supposed to not do that?
Speaker 5: Well, so we're still here?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I am going to switch to Fenn and Stalker. However,
as you two abscond into the night to hunt together
and play together. I also think Fenn and Stalker see
the two of them, or hear at least with your
superhering sound that they leap off the balcony. I will
also say that your your strength from VTM, if I'm
not mistaken, you have to really kind of pump into
mechanics that make you kind of dexterous and like almost
like you're flying in PBu. You do not have to
do this, so when you leap off this balcony, it
is very easy for you to do that what you
envision the stereotypical or in rice kind of like vampiric speed,
which is what I imagine all vampires can do that.
You don't have to speck into that, so you two
can actually do this thing where you're like, and you're
going through into the shadow and the alleyways together as
you go play to begin your hunt, and that is
what I am envisioning as you do that, and then
we will switch to Stalker and Fen.
Speaker 9: He's going somewhere in a hurry.
Speaker 8: Stalker just size and Ling's his head back against the wall.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I suppose I can't blame you off for being reckless.
It's been.
Speaker 9: So long, Okay, I guess nature is just I'm gonna
take over at some point, even if that nature isn't ours.
Do you feel weird here too, Stalker? Besides the smell of.
Speaker 8: Your blood, there are things I can do here that
do not make sense.
Speaker 9: Yeah, like what.
Speaker 12: Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm.
Speaker 8: I'll try to. I'd like to try and demonstrate them
its layers, but on a smaller scale, Yeah, like maybe
phasing finger through his shirt or something.
Speaker 2: Okay, go ahead and roll. It is going to be terribly,
terribly difficult because of the state that you're in, so honestly,
I think it'll be like twenty or less, okay, And
I think that's being generous because I think you've got
two burns still. And if the difficulty was normally thirty.
It would basically be you have to roll doubles or
a one, but we'll say under twenty difficulty.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so I move my finger over your shirt and
I just town't ship.
Speaker 9: And mag.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, sorry, one.
Speaker 9: Like my bloody shirt. When you don't understand what you're saying.
Speaker 8: I'm not sure I can explain it. But things are
different for all of us. H I wonder if those
creatures are common help not.
Speaker 9: I'd like to see them back home. I'm weaker here.
I can feel it physically. I mean things that I
could do I remember doing. We're a little more difficult.
Speaker 8: Perhaps it is not weakness, but unfamiliarity.
Speaker 9: That's the difference. I never had to be familiar. I
was born with all of it.
Speaker 8: And in a way, we were all born yesterday.
Speaker 9: Kind of that's some bullshit. Born yesterday. I didn't know
yet a sense of humor.
Speaker 8: I throw my brows, but.
Speaker 9: Nothing, never mind, not a big deal. Okay, I'll tell
you this though, I'm not turning back into that. I can't.
I don't trust it, not after what it did to you,
and that could have happened to the everyone at any moment.
Speaker 8: I can't tend to understand your The longest pause ever
exists between them as I stare at him, waiting for
guidance on what I'm supposed to say, and then I
just say, very friend.
Speaker 9: That's even worse. Just it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 12: Aunt.
Speaker 8: It has been my experience that denying m outright, denying
what you have and what you are never works out
the way you expect. Channeling the parts of you you
dislike into something else, something useful tends to work better.
Speaker 9: There's no controlling that. It was sneaky. I don't like sneaky.
Speaker 8: If there is no controlling it, how did you end
up here at all? And how am I still alive
or any of us?
Speaker 9: I don't know. It's like I think I know the
answer to this, but I'm gonna ask it anyways. Have
you ever played a video game Stalker? I like a
friend or brother? You know what, Let's take it a
step back. Have you ever been picked on before?
Speaker 8: Picked on?
Speaker 9: Have you ever been an outcast and everyone just laughs
at you and makes your life just miserable. And you're
trying to draw a picture, a really distinct picture, and
every time you get focused, someone moves the paper. That's
what it's like that's what happened. Usually when I have
a control, I'm not really having a control. It doesn't
make any sense. It's hard to It's like I can aim,
but someone something from here move the paper on my aim.
Speaker 17: I don't like that. I hate that feeling. I'm not
going to feel that again. If you were to ask me.
Speaker 8: How to land a shot, and I had my crossbow
on a moving target, I will tell you to wait
until it's standing still.
Speaker 9: And what if it never stands still.
Speaker 8: Then wait and it's inside and you don't have to
account for wind or whether.
Speaker 9: Perfect environment. Just be patient, that's what you're saying. Just wait.
Speaker 8: If you must hit the target on your first shot.
Speaker 9: And yes, every time I miss, one of you will
die and we might not get so lucky next time.
It might be Constantine that goes first. I don't know.
And then who's going to clear that up? And I
motion towards his chest for the first time ever. I'm
afraid of what I'll do.
Speaker 8: Fear he's an excellent motivator. Yes, he's also an incredible
obstacle and I lock eyes with him, Which will it
be for you?
Speaker 12: So what?
Speaker 4: I just.
Speaker 9: Practice going over hurdles until I get it right.
Speaker 2: You have a strange thought enter into your mind right now.
I'm so sorry to interrupt, but the thought is and
it is not your own. I am at a crossroads.
Speaker 9: Is that me?
Speaker 4: Rian?
Speaker 5: That's you?
Speaker 9: I'm saying, not saying this out loud, I'm amusing this.
I'm at a crossroads, and my mind flashes to an
empty street in Chicago. I'm in a door way and
I'm at a crossroads, a frontway intersection, nothing but detail
less buildings and street lamps. It stretches as far as
the eye can see. In front of me is a
hulking figure. Its color shifts every time I try to
focus on it, but its shape remains. I think that's
what I'm afraid of. And behind me, directly behind me,
a wolf form, no scars, no different colors for just
how I remember it, golden fur. I cross my arms
and I look at stalker. I don't know, man, I
don't know. It can't be me. I can't use I've
always used. I can't. When I think about that imagery
again and I look up at the wolf across the
street from me, it's a little bit closer now, be
who I was born to be or be what they
want me to be. I get up a pat.
Speaker 8: Stalk, her shoulder rested up. Perhaps what you are born
to be mas yet to reveal itself.
Speaker 9: That's what scares me. Okay, what if what reveals itself
is even more of a monster than I already am.
I'm not kindred, at least I don't think. I'm not
used to killing, not innocence. From what I understand, you
all have a blessing in that regard. You don't care.
Why would you? It's a cheeseburger. But I am one
of the shepherd's dogs, and those lamb chops I understand
them and I and I'm not so different. My skin
burns when it touches sunlight here. I don't know. Why
do you have any idea why?
Speaker 8: I'm going to assume that that is something I wouldn't
have any knowledge about. I. I don't really know anything
about Werewolls and BTM.
Speaker 2: You also don't have any idea about where you are
or why that would you know? Why that would be?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Perhaps perhaps when these truths about ourselves are revealed and
we understand our place in this new and strange world,
perhaps then you will know how to become who you
are meant to be, as you say.
Speaker 9: Tormentedly, I had just my best. All right, man, you
get your rest. I'll figure this ship out, probably like
the others. Anyways, who knows what Esteban and Constantine are up.
Speaker 2: To and that's for we in the session. Holy ship dudes,
you guys are getting so good at that.
Speaker 9: I'm like, two seconds off, I can you can, you
can feel.
Speaker 2: It, you can feel it, you can feel it, come.
Speaker 3: It and then up.
Speaker 6: It felt like a longer wait today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so so, so, so so good. You've been listening
to Deathless, an actual play produced live by Pumpkinberry That's
me on YouTube and Twitch at table story. If you
like what you here, please consider rating and reviewing this
podcast and visiting tablestory dot tv, where you can find
merch or become a story in and gain access to
our green room, behind the scenes, and more, or simply
drop us a line. Once again, thanks for listening, and
we'll see you next week.