Speaker 1: Valmont. The Black Raven Chronicles written by Jonathan Miller, produced
at FBL Studios in Charleston, South Carolina. Original compositions by
Paul Flowers.
Speaker 2: I apologize for all that back there. Some of my
kind still turn to old prejudices. I'm Daniel and this
is my wife Rose.
Speaker 1: It's an absolute pleasure to meet you, mister Valmont, though
I do have to say, it feels like we've known
you forever. Rahawk, isn't you really that close?
Speaker 3: Two weeks in medical together after getting blown up? We'll
do that to you. I just wish I had been
able to save all of him.
Speaker 4: You know that you did everything that you can.
Speaker 1: But you, being bonded like that and so new, probably
really helping the situation right now? Do I make myself clear?
Speaker 5: Rose, Darling? That is a bonded We're not bonded? Wait,
are we?
Speaker 1: Darling? He doesn't know. She han't told him yet.
Speaker 4: I haven't exactly had time, and you know this isn't
the time either.
Speaker 2: He doesn't have a clue, does he.
Speaker 3: Okay, what the fuck are you talking about?
Speaker 4: When you tried to save me in the tunnels, you
performed a bonding ritual. You bound me to you.
Speaker 5: Wait, I did what?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 5: How the hell did that happen?
Speaker 4: You made me drink your blood? You didn't offer it
or even allow me to take it. It's typically the
other way around. A vampire feed someone and kind of
makes them loyal, but occasionally it works in reverse. It's
a frown upon practice. But I don't blame you. You
didn't know, and even if you did, you would have
still risked it to save me. I realize that's who
you are now.
Speaker 2: It's also the cause of division between werewolves and vampire
the legend of Fenrier and Sylvia of Constantinople, two warriors
bound in blood and battle who betrayed one another. It
basically started a war that lasted hundreds of years. Ever since,
relations between our kind have been tense.
Speaker 5: Wait us, you're not vampires?
Speaker 2: Were you just going to let him run around completely?
Speaker 5: Cluely?
Speaker 4: Things have been moving fast and I didn't have time
to tell him everything. Also, his mind is damaged, damaged.
Speaker 3: What the hell are you talking about? And what are
you doing in my head? How are you in my head?
Speaker 7: Ah?
Speaker 1: Fred, that's what the boond does, Dear, she's seeing your past,
and because you're human, she's also experiencing your trauma. Vampires
aren't used to that. They hear from traumatic experiences a
whole lot differently.
Speaker 4: I promise you I'll explain later, but right now, we
need to focus on what's in front of us.
Speaker 2: Here's right, Fred. If what she tells me is true,
we may all be in danger if this creature isn't stopped.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess you're right. We need to handle this first.
But we are coming back to this.
Speaker 1: Why are you anxious?
Speaker 2: Because this could be all they need to find us here.
If we don't fix this, hunters could descend on this
city like the plague.
Speaker 1: Well in that case, we need to make a.
Speaker 3: Plan, all right, So what can you do to help
us catch this thing?
Speaker 1: We can try the creature from a distance. All we
need is is scent, and honestly, you're still covered in it.
Speaker 3: Track it by scent. What are you a bunch of
werewolves or something? Holy fuck, you really are? So that
makes you like an alpha?
Speaker 5: Then we call it primed.
Speaker 2: But yes, Rose and I are primes of this clan and.
Speaker 4: The rest of the world. Don't leave that out, Daniel.
Speaker 1: Oh, hush you, it embarrasses him. That's my job.
Speaker 5: I'm so confused.
Speaker 3: Are you saying this guy is the top werewolf in
the entire world and I saved his cousin in some
shithold desert when we were Marines.
Speaker 2: Almost all American werewolves are jar heads, a freig. We've
been in the Marines since the beginning. How do you
think we managed our own little peaceful spots so close
to Black Raven and Parris Island? Of all things?
Speaker 1: Why do you think they're called devildogs? Huh?
Speaker 3: Okay, that's some new information. Werewolves in the core I
can handle it. Wait, are you saying that Hawkins he's.
Speaker 2: A since the day he was born. It's probably the
only reason he survived He hadn't been a werewolf. You
probably would have walked away from that explosion alone.
Speaker 4: I know this is a lot, and you have a
few questions, but now really isn't the time for all
of this, whether.
Speaker 1: You like it or not. She's right, honey. Now the
question is who to go with you? If Hawkins could,
I would say him, since y'all have fought together and
y'all have a rapport. It's a shame he's DNA. Leg
suppose barring that, Caleb and Lisa are a pretty good pick,
don't you think so, Daniel? Hmm, Now, Kitty does have
a good rapport with you. Y'all seem to get along well,
but who else it's a seame. Eddie's gone and Jacob's
worth us fuck. Unfortunately, that just leaves Griff and she
can cover the high ground. You're definitely gonna need that tactically.
Speaker 2: You're probably right, But are you sure we need Kitty?
She does tend to stand out.
Speaker 1: She's got a call he as all, she's wearing it.
She'll be practically invisible.
Speaker 2: That sounds like the best plan of action. Then I'll
get everyone ready and we'll meet outside of your place
tonight at dusk.
Speaker 3: You sure your friend isn't gonna be a problem?
Speaker 2: Griff can be territorial, and his clan hasn't benefited from
the same good relations with vampires that my family's had
for the last two hundred years.
Speaker 5: Dude, your two hundred what?
Speaker 2: No, Man, don't be ridiculous. My great grandfather fought alongside
her father, and our families have been cordial ever since.
Speaker 5: Oh man, I'm gonna need another drink.
Speaker 4: Lucky break for you to be in a bar then.
Speaker 2: And I'm pretty sure I can convince the bartender to
give you a tab.
Speaker 3: I figured a good five or six hours of sleep
wouldn't be too hard to get, but my phone apparently
had other ideas. It started ringing at just after six
am and didn't stop ringing even after I threw it
into the hallway. I was almost to the point where
I could even sleep through that when Kira busted in
and dragged me out in my comfy bed. There was
a lot of yelling, a rush shower, and next thing
I knew, we were sitting in a doctor's office.
Speaker 4: We're waiting because you took forever to get ready.
Speaker 3: We're at a doctor's office. Waiting is a part of
the experience. How do you not know this.
Speaker 4: I've never had to see a doctor, typically vampire's heel
without much medical care.
Speaker 5: Well, the insurance companies must love that.
Speaker 4: I don't understand why they would.
Speaker 3: I guess you don't need insurance either. Holy shit, that
must be nice.
Speaker 4: I have insurance on my car, but I've never understood
why one would needed for medical care.
Speaker 5: You're kidding me, right, No.
Speaker 4: I'm not human. Healers demand money for something that should
be an honor. Hualers are sacred in the world endowed
with the gift to preserve life. They should be treated
as such and have no need for money, therefore no
need to demand it of the sick.
Speaker 3: I wish the real world worked like that, but it doesn't.
Every poor schmoe in here has got to pay through
the nose to see old Doc Johnson.
Speaker 4: No they don't.
Speaker 3: Yes, they do, either through insurance premiums or copays or
some other weird charge they're paying to be here. It's
just how healthcare is in America.
Speaker 4: No, a frig These people don't have to worry about that.
Look around you.
Speaker 5: Holy shit, No one here is human.
Speaker 4: No, they just looked like it because you still see
the veil.
Speaker 5: Holy crap, those aren't tattoos. Those are actually scales. And
she doesn't have legs. How did I miss that? Wait?
What's the veil?
Speaker 4: You are so funny when you're confused. The veil is
what we call a human's natural ability to ignore things
right in front of you. Your minds are so unique,
you're able to just gloss over things so you can
focus on whatever it is you're truly interested in.
Speaker 5: So wait, we just gloss over the whole world like everything.
Speaker 4: Typically if it doesn't affect you. You tend to ignore it,
and if someone tries to bring it to your attention,
you can deny almost anything. Honestly, it's a bit amazing
how well you do that.
Speaker 5: I don't do that a frig We've.
Speaker 4: Been sitting across from a sasquatch for twenty minutes and
you didn't notice.
Speaker 5: I'm an abolationan skunk ape actually, but it's okay. I
rarely get noticed.
Speaker 3: Geez man, I'm sorry. This is all new to me.
Yesterday I was just searching for dogs. Not like your children, though, ma'am,
what lovely pups you have.
Speaker 5: Help me out, please.
Speaker 8: Mister Velmont, Doctor Johnson is ready to see you. Now,
please follow me.
Speaker 5: Oh, thank the gods.
Speaker 4: You should never ever try politics.
Speaker 9: Oh, mister Valmont, it's good to see you. Thank you
for coming all this way. And there's some incredible things
I need to tell you. Mindy, but do be there
and go fish number eight.
Speaker 10: For us, of course, Doctor.
Speaker 4: Doctor Johnson, your message said it was urgent. I can't
think what would be more urgent than working on the
cure right.
Speaker 9: Now, Absolutely right, my dear, you are absolutely right. That
is exactly why about you here? You see I can't
trust that doctor Simmons with what I discovered.
Speaker 7: He's not.
Speaker 9: One of us, you see, at least not as far
as I can tell.
Speaker 4: Honestly. Other than stinking of sulfur, he smells completely human.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, he seems pretty slimy. But I'm not one
of you either.
Speaker 9: Now, boy, were you not paying attention? You just forget
to clean your ears out? I told you I finished
your tests. I've made some startling discoveries, quite startling.
Speaker 4: Indeed, Yes, that's great, But what does that have to
do with the cure? Sure?
Speaker 5: Everything?
Speaker 8: Here we are doctor Johnson's number eight.
Speaker 10: Her name is it's Tousha Tusha Raymond. Is this the man, doctor,
the man whose blood saved us?
Speaker 9: Yes, it is, mister Valmont. Your blood was the key
to the cure I use to save this patient. Is
because of you we'll be able to end this.
Speaker 11: Not mayor thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
Speaker 8: I thought I might never be able to hold my children.
Speaker 10: Or see my husband again.
Speaker 12: You are my year.
Speaker 5: Uh, no problem. Anyone could have done it right, doc, Doc.
Speaker 9: Have you listened to a damn word I've said? Boy,
I swear I was trying to thank yours bad as
an unplugged last night, only you could have done this.
Speaker 5: You're unique and.
Speaker 9: Most certainly not human.
Speaker 4: What that explains the bonding? You're not human? Wait? What
is he?
Speaker 13: Then?
Speaker 6: Doc?
Speaker 5: What the fuck?
Speaker 6: Am I? Well?
Speaker 1: An?
Speaker 9: Absolutely no? Damn, my dear, you are a one of
a comcreature. Something I've never seen before, and boy, I've
seen it all.
Speaker 3: This isn't making me feel any better? Doc, what's gonna
happen to me? Am I gonna like shape shift or
start craving kidneys or something?
Speaker 4: Really, you're combining b rated zombies and organ harvesters.
Speaker 9: I can't see exactly. Examined your DNA and your blood.
Your immune system is fascinating. You were deb to any infection,
even utilizing to help heal your wounds if capable. The
only reason you seem to have taken as much blood
as you did was your body literally used it as
raw materials. It's similar to UH ancients and godly avatars. Really,
do you know who your parents were?
Speaker 3: They were gotten down in Bosnia when I was really young,
but I was raised by my uncle Dimitri.
Speaker 5: He survived cancer.
Speaker 6: Is this why?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 9: Your uncle clearly isn't related. He's your mother's brother.
Speaker 4: No, his father's his mother's family wasn't around much. And then,
holy shit.
Speaker 3: Will you stop that my mom's parents were part of
a cult in Texas. They died in a big FBI
raid before I was born.
Speaker 9: That this cult may have answers.
Speaker 3: Dude, I'm pretty sure they all got wiped out. There
was a massive fire.
Speaker 9: I'm sorry to hear that, boy, would have to do
some research for you, hopefully find a few more answers.
Speaker 4: That can't be all you needed from us. You called
us here like it was life where death.
Speaker 9: It quite literally is. Lives like miss Raymond here are
in your hands, mister Raalmont, in the very blood in
your veins.
Speaker 3: Like you even got to ask Doc. Just leave me
enough to get through the day, and I'll make sure
to come through tomorrow too.
Speaker 9: You are many things, Afric Valmont. One thing I do know,
have a bit more humanity than most humans do.
Speaker 14: This case is different from what I'm used to. Usually,
the conspiracy doesn't start until after I get here.
Speaker 7: You think this is a typical workday for me and Thompson. Hell,
up until yesterday morning, we were just missing persons detectives
sitting on a huge caseload. Now I know where all
my victims are, but I can't figure out what the
culprit is.
Speaker 15: Again, really, God, chicken, here it's looking amazing.
Speaker 16: Sorry, I just really look the sandwich.
Speaker 6: This case, by the way, sucks.
Speaker 14: Yes, well, typically I don't like involving locals, but right
now we're up against a clock.
Speaker 7: Did you guys have any more luck with that arm
than our emmy did?
Speaker 14: No? Not really. Peril lab techs say it's human like,
it's only a couple of months old. I'm sending it
to doctor Simmons. It's slave more pharmaceuticals right now. Hopefully
his people will be able to tell us something.
Speaker 7: Maybe if we go back through the files with a
new set of eyes. When Thompson and I started, we
didn't think people were being hunted by a monster.
Speaker 15: Oh hold on, Sarah, maybe we don't need to look
through but just try triangulating all of them. I think
that's the right way to say it, kind of like
trig trigonometry back in high school.
Speaker 16: Fucking heeded that class.
Speaker 7: What are you talking about?
Speaker 14: Hang on, Cline, he's onto something. Maybe if we run
lines between the discovery sites and the reported missing sites,
we can find out where this thing is going to ground.
Speaker 7: Like finding a spider in the center of a web.
We tried that before, but we didn't have all the
information now we do.
Speaker 3: And welcome to behind the podcast about everything on.
Speaker 11: This place is a mass.
Speaker 16: I shouldn't have called her here. I should have gone
to her, but there's no telling where she would be.
Speaker 8: I am never too far for a friend, Gabriel, though
I was not expecting you to be here.
Speaker 16: Oh that's Reel. You still sneak up on me after
all these millennia.
Speaker 8: I guess death does that to everyone. I'm sorry, it
wasn't my intention. Why have you called to me? You
typically don't deal with life and death.
Speaker 13: Do you remember when we asked to investigate those murdered
morhals years ago, the.
Speaker 8: Couple in Bosnia? Yes, it was a terrible tragedy that
they died so young. I confirmed they were not angels,
but I also told you that I could not tell
you who they were. Is there something you want to
ask me about them?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 16: Not about them, well maybe yes, about them. They had
a child, a boy. His name was of course, Yes,
so you know this already.
Speaker 13: Lucifer and I have kept close watch over him in
these past few decades.
Speaker 8: Really, you have you and Lucy all this time. I'm
sure whoever his parents are, they'd be thankful to know this.
He has two of the most powerful guardian angels.
Speaker 13: Well, we stepped in occasionally, but it wasn't like that.
Speaker 16: We were looking for clues to his origin. Then something
unexpected happened.
Speaker 11: He resurrected.
Speaker 16: We assume that was kind of a fluke, but it's
happened twice.
Speaker 8: More so, he is beyond my touch. This is an
unexpected situation, but that isn't a unique trait. The old gods,
the angels, the Ancients, the Adversary and many others do
not yield to the rules of mortality.
Speaker 17: That's what worries me, Asrael. He was born from what
we do not know. Could he be from the Adversary
or one of his dark kings.
Speaker 8: The Adversary may be beyond mortal, but he and his
ilk called no power over me, and in the end
I shall claim them all as one day I will
you and your siblings. This is not a threat, but
a fact. Everything that begins eventually ends.
Speaker 18: Does that mean a Fred could be destined to end
as well? He takes risks, and it worries me. I
see such a light in it.
Speaker 13: But the darkness as well.
Speaker 16: I wonder if I should intervene.
Speaker 13: Perhaps, but it's not something that's ever covered before.
Speaker 8: Perhaps you should just talk to him, be honest, and
see where the conversation leads.
Speaker 16: Of course, it's so simple. We'll tell him the truth
and see his reaction.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 11: I appreciate all your bomb ready.
Speaker 14: Ahem, baby, you don't.
Speaker 19: Give me a sec Fred, I'll be right with you, honey.
Speaker 8: I know for a fat Fred doesn't have legs like this.
Speaker 19: Okay, what the what are you doing here? Tell me
you're not so bad off you're considering these idiots?
Speaker 5: Absolutely not.
Speaker 20: I may be driven by my hormone.
Speaker 8: Sometimes there is no way I'd stoop that away. I'm
here to.
Speaker 19: Collect you, kay, I'm in the middle of the shift.
I can't just golf shopping or bar hopping with you
any old time.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 20: I am well aware that for you, these machines do
more than any muscard stood to turn you on. All
a guy needs is a shivvy big block. But we're
going on a different kind of hunt. A hunt, yeah,
a hunt, So get cleaned up.
Speaker 8: We're gonna catch a monster.
Speaker 12: A frame one in me. I am hurt to hit
the utol frame. You want to devise something I would
freely give you as.
Speaker 3: A friend, Leslie. That's a ten thousand dollars rifle. I
can't just ask for you to give it to me.
Speaker 12: Val Ma, you are zo on me a favor in
this job. You and men have been asking for the
tools necessary to complete the job.
Speaker 3: This is bigger than some job, Leslie. I don't know
how many of those things there might be.
Speaker 12: All the more reason for me to make sure you
are well prepared.
Speaker 5: I will not lose.
Speaker 12: A friend to these disgusting creatures.
Speaker 4: So he got it for us? Can you really fire
that thing in a crouched position?
Speaker 12: There's not would I can assure there's not a weapon
I could buy or steal that a friend of our
man couldn't shoulder like a child's toy. If thou Mon
says he can handle it, then I believe him.
Speaker 2: I can vouch for it. Hawkins told me all about
how your unit used you to hustle guys with that thing.
Speaker 12: Mom, dear Daniel Michelson, how do y'all always manage to
sneak up on a man like that?
Speaker 18: May?
Speaker 5: She insisted on changing.
Speaker 3: Before we got here, she did that whole biscuit thing
on my five.
Speaker 5: All right here, I.
Speaker 19: Told you to let me drive your old coat. Hi,
I'm Lisa. Caleb's my dad. He doesn't have modern manners.
It really is nice to meet you. This place is interesting.
Is this your truck? Nineteen eighty nine Chevrolets Lvado shan
shot bed, foil drive and lifted. Look say you did
some customizing too, bought over the engine block. Those aren't
fancy camsa here, but that four barrel needs a slight adjustment.
You're probably gonna start fowling plugs soon. The mixture is
a little rich.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Lisa.
Speaker 5: That'll be enough.
Speaker 2: She's really into older cars.
Speaker 5: I can see that. How old is she?
Speaker 19: Holy shit, he's got a seventies moduled Velle in here,
and it's me.
Speaker 3: I'm going to throw her a twentieth birthday party next
week if I live that long.
Speaker 5: Lisa, get out of the man warehouse.
Speaker 19: Please hold light enough, old man, I'm just gonna lay
the land in two legs before I shit.
Speaker 4: Are we all here? Now here?
Speaker 9: We all are?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 9: Look, man, I'm real sorry about how I acted last night.
I didn't realize you was here, You.
Speaker 6: Was is all.
Speaker 9: So if you want, you're gonna have a free shot.
Just get it all out our systems. You know, maybe
let bygones be bygones.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, help us take this thing down,
and then I'll take the freebie and we could treat
it as water under the bridge.
Speaker 9: I like the sound of that. Right, then let's get
to it.
Speaker 5: Was a lot less disturbing than I thought it would be.
Speaker 3: Are the rest of you gonna Oh my god, she's
just stripping naked in my parking lot.
Speaker 19: Oh sweet, it's still so sensitive, just like a human.
Honestly though, I care about my clothes.
Speaker 12: Afraid. This is why I take my lead. I do
not need to be accused of impropriety with such a
young woman. It's not good for my reputation. Take us
back to the club. Rank this part as getting a
little out of hand to sing.
Speaker 2: Lisa, quit trying to show off naked and shift. Your
dad is gonna bite you if you're not careful.
Speaker 6: Fine, So what about you?
Speaker 2: I am here to communicate between everyone. Do you speak
to wolves, foxes and cats?
Speaker 6: Fair enough?
Speaker 5: Everybody into the truck.
Speaker 1: Valmont the Black Raven Chronicles written by Jonathan Miller, directed
by Jacqueline Burns. Sound designed by Nick Hankey, David Whitney
and Marshawn Fry, featuring the voices of Corey Bishop, Abigail Holmes, E. C. Hart,
Stevie Sommers, Sam Saunders, Adele Valentine, David Whitney, Josh Slovenak,
Toby E. Locke, Cammy Davies, Adam Rose, Crimson Rose, Travis Boyles,
Ryan Willis, Jen Boyles, Chris, Jonathan Miller, and Jacqueline Burns.
Original music compositions by Paul Flowers Bring the Night performed
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