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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 Deedless, Constantine est Bonn and I or Stocker
there too. I wonder if he's still there. I can't
see him, can he hear me? We chatted a while
stalk her open day door, and I believe we were
too scared to enter. Back at Cora's apartment, they returned
a new fellow is there, talkative one stalker in him.
They had a bit of a dossile. I wonder if
they'll get along.
Speaker 2: I think that's a perfect place to start.
Speaker 6: In the alleyway, where are you situated? Who's in the front?
Did you guys put yourselves on the map for me?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 8: Okay, so I'd imagine we said we went deeper into
the alleyy, so the bottom of the map would be
where we were headed to get out of there.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, I need you to choose where you
heard the voice from. I'm gonna let you decide which
direction me eh any, okay, all three of you, oh
can decide. I mean, it's no secret things might get
a little tactical, so you should you know, you can
make your decision based on that, if you'd like, is
what I'm getting at shoo, let's see.
Speaker 9: I think constinctively I will always kind of stand in
front of whatever. So if we hear a voice, I
would like to position myself in front, okay, closest to where.
Speaker 5: We hear it.
Speaker 2: Okay, So then I think it came.
Speaker 8: Up the alley like the same way we did after us.
That cas my light again, I'm very sorry.
Speaker 10: That's okay.
Speaker 8: Every time I hit my desk it flies.
Speaker 2: Did see that ping?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: There?
Speaker 6: So from that direction okay, And I know you can't
see it yet, chat, don't worry. Okay, you hear a
voice coming down the alleyway and Constantine, I need you
to go ahead and roll again, just to refresh us.
Our previous roles for this encounter were the ninety nine
from Constantine, which is Double's failure, and then the eighty
eight from Gunner, which is also crazy Double's failure, and
then Esteban yours was a six? Is that correct?
Speaker 8: That is correct?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 8: All right, so I think I have the only two
good roles last week.
Speaker 6: Yep, So just roll for me one more time. Constantine Nope, Constantine.
Speaker 11: Difficulty thirty. All right, Oh my god, we're well, well,
well what do we have here? Deathless?
Speaker 6: Only you see this person for a second first, Esteban,
but we all hear it, well, you all hear it,
but only you see this person.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 6: My question for you, though, and the reason why I
told you guys last week and I made a certain
player take their headphones off, is so that I could
ask this question. Would you recognize this person?
Speaker 8: Because I don't know. We all split off.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, then you do not recognize who you're looking at.
But I also don't think it occurs to you that
they might not see you.
Speaker 2: Who's standing in front of you?
Speaker 8: Ah? Hello, what are you doing here?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 8: I don't know if this is any of your business.
I have some questions for you as well, if you'd
like to go back and forth a little bit.
Speaker 2: Are you with him, and she points to Gunner. Yes,
when did you get here.
Speaker 8: And in this alleyway? Just say a little bit ago?
Speaker 2: Now, I mean in general, you know exactly what I'm
talking about.
Speaker 8: Well, who are you? Why am I answering any of
your questions? You do not seem afraid to say this
word like many other people are.
Speaker 2: Why would I be afraid?
Speaker 8: Do you mean.
Speaker 7: I hear them? Do I hear them?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 5: Yep?
Speaker 7: But I do not see them?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, so I had you roll for this, but
I think yep.
Speaker 6: Okay, Yeah, I'm just gonna we gotta stick with it.
You rolled a ninety something. I was going to see
if you could recognize it and have you roll again,
But you rolled ninety eight or something ridiculous, and then
ninety nine before that, So I don't think you recognized
this voice.
Speaker 8: Do you have to wait another week to find out?
Speaker 2: I could you imagine? Sorry? What was the last thing
you said?
Speaker 12: Uh?
Speaker 8: I would not be afraid? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Why would I be afraid?
Speaker 8: Well, there are three of us and you do not
know us, so perhaps you should be maybe just a
little bit afraid. It will be smart.
Speaker 6: Oh, well, there's one of me and you don't know me.
So perhaps you should be afraid.
Speaker 8: Perhaps would you like to find out, Well, perhaps we
can talk first.
Speaker 5: Perhaps you can introduce yourself, stranger.
Speaker 2: Ooh, okay, go ahead and roll roll for me. Gunner
Difficulty forty.
Speaker 8: I would like to whisper somebody. I would like to
whisper something to see. I mean she may hear it,
but I guess it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: I mean she's a little further down the alleyway.
Speaker 8: So I would assume if.
Speaker 2: You whisper something that you guys can hear.
Speaker 8: Remember, be careful with the names. Apparently this is very
important here.
Speaker 5: Of course, my friend always careful.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 5: Thirty five.
Speaker 2: Okay, so.
Speaker 6: Your eyes will start to as soon as you say,
perhaps you should introduce yourself.
Speaker 2: Can you describe what it's like?
Speaker 6: Because you're acutely aware that this is suddenly a power
that you are using, or an ability that you are using.
You are your eyes are adjusting to this darkness that
surrounds you, but also to their presence, and then you
are kind of sort of snapping them into focus. They
may have been cloaked, but they're no longer going to
be cloaked because you are doing it.
Speaker 2: So what is that like.
Speaker 5: It's kind of like caf your to have a flash
light and trying to locate something might be looking around,
but just using the light, and then all of a
sudden it's there, exactly why you are shining it.
Speaker 2: Perfect?
Speaker 5: What do I see?
Speaker 2: What do you see?
Speaker 6: Is a great question, Constantine. Will you please describe from
your memory the I believe it was a blonde Southern
woman that you killed on your first night here?
Speaker 7: Oh mine got.
Speaker 4: Oh damn?
Speaker 7: Okay, question? Describe her as she is now or describe
her how she was.
Speaker 2: That how she was then. There are some changes, unfortunately
to how she looks now.
Speaker 7: I'm sure I cannot believe this is happening. Wait, why
this is crazy? Okay? Oh no, oh no, oh no,
what have I done? Okay? So she her hair was
up in a ponytail tied back, but it wasn't like
super tightly tied back or anything. She had a sort
of general coziness to her that is I think unique
to that sort of Southern vibe, I guess is the
best way that I can describe it. She was wearing
she was wearing like a brown top and jeans, and
she had like a little purse with her and she
looked great, but she was smoking outside the bar and
she didn't It was a club, I think, and she
was kind of over the fact that her friends were
in there and she wasn't really having a great time.
I think she was wearing probably like a smoky eye
and some lipstick, probably like an auburn, deep nineties brown.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what she looked like before. And now she.
Speaker 6: Has a big gaping hole in the front of her
throat and her shirt. She's wearing the same clothes that
she was wearing before, but they are stained with blood,
dried blood, old blood, and her eyes look a little milky.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 8: So she doesn't look like she healed or anything. She
looks like she just stood up.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Okay, ah, you are.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 5: What we are?
Speaker 2: Wh I sure do?
Speaker 7: Do you.
Speaker 5: Still learning?
Speaker 7: I lean close? Sorry? Sorry, no, go for it.
Speaker 5: Go for it.
Speaker 7: It's gonna say. I lean into where Esteban is standing
and I say, can you can you see Tee?
Speaker 8: I can? I can see her? Is plain his day.
Speaker 7: I'm sort of looking in the area where they're talking,
and I'm you know, squinting, trying to see if I
can see anything flutters in the air or something.
Speaker 8: She does not look like she should be moving, let
alone talking. Oh, all right, she looks quite dead.
Speaker 6: There's her focused on Gunner right now. I think you
hit a question for me.
Speaker 10: Right, Oh, sort of.
Speaker 5: Get into my defensive pouncing type position. Introduce yourself. Shut
a woman.
Speaker 6: Oh I don't think you're ready for that. But I
met you before, and I I gesture towards Gunner.
Speaker 10: That's right.
Speaker 6: Well, she smiles ever so slightly, and then just for
a second, her eyes rolled back and become completely white,
and then go back again.
Speaker 2: You don't remember little old me.
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 12: But I wasn't only talking to you, was I.
Speaker 2: I believe there's only one of me here right now.
Before there was two.
Speaker 6: This one's long dead, So it's just me and you.
You'll have to forgive me for not coming to meet
you in person.
Speaker 8: God, of who else do you want?
Speaker 2: I want to know?
Speaker 6: Well, at first I wanted to know if you were
what I thought you were, but you actually are. First
I was a little confused. How many of there are you?
Speaker 5: I will not tell you anything.
Speaker 2: Fair enough? Do you know where you are?
Speaker 8: Any sense? To an extent?
Speaker 5: Wizo?
Speaker 6: And I look over to you kind of Maybe I've
been very focused on gunners since I said, but I'll
look over to you now.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 6: Well, I can understand your trepidation. I can be a
little intimidating at first, but I imagine you're gonna need help,
and if you want my help, I might be willing
to provide it.
Speaker 7: Rule is gunner offering their help to us?
Speaker 2: Only me so far? Unless you got anybody else?
Speaker 7: No, I mean, who are you?
Speaker 2: Like I said, I don't think you're ready for that yet.
Speaker 5: Is it us that needs out? Pours it you an hour? Oh,
I'm sure towards.
Speaker 2: There, perfectly safe, like I said, And a gesture to
the body long dead, I'm just borrowing.
Speaker 10: Dead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dead.
Speaker 6: And I think, for a second, I think her her
eyes will go back to the white again, and then
it looks like she starts to fall limp. You see
any color draining from her face, you know, from what
it's been twenty four hour corpse.
Speaker 2: I guess it's been about twenty.
Speaker 6: Four hours, right, sixteen something something like that, somewhere around
in the twenty hour mark corpse. And then her eyes
will go white again, and then she'll stand back up,
being puppet puppeteered?
Speaker 7: Can I can I do hmm, I know that I
already rolled for this, and I got to ninety three,
so there's absolutely I know that I'm not Can I
try one more time to like, what, recognize her, to
see her, see her because I can't see her right.
Speaker 6: Or oh no, he focused, He pulled her into focus
so you can see her now.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, oh.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we can say that it took you some time
so that it's only happening right now. But yeah, he
used his power to pull her into focus for all
of you, for you as well. Okay, that should have
been more clear on that.
Speaker 7: I have to be way more dramatic then I yeah,
I just and I stumble back and I'm I'm already pale.
But now I'm like white as a ghost. How can
you do this?
Speaker 8: How did you?
Speaker 2: How did I what?
Speaker 5: Why would you do this?
Speaker 2: Why? Because I wanted to talk to you and I
didn't want to do it in.
Speaker 7: Person, I'm taking small steps backwards away from you.
Speaker 2: Oh I take it that this was your doing, a
gesture to the injuries on my body, and then I
point to Constantine. I didn't know that, thank you. You know,
at first I thought it's a bunch of couse players.
Speaker 6: Then I thought maybe it was people who got a
little out of hand, caused players that got two into
it and then murdered some people. It's no way, I thought,
no way would there be deathless here in my territory,
in my city.
Speaker 13: And yet.
Speaker 6: Here you are announcing yourselves threatening me, threatening nod towards Esteban.
Speaker 8: Oh, I'm surely for the person who runs the city.
That is barely a threat.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 6: Doesn't mean that that wasn't your intention when you were
doing it.
Speaker 8: Well, do you know a little back and forth? Well,
if you're sensitive, I will be careful.
Speaker 2: I have no reaction to that.
Speaker 7: Really, can I roll to normally? I think this would
be ourp stuff? But can I roll to see if
I'm able to get myself back under control?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely? Yeah.
Speaker 6: After this time, you want to leave anything up to
the dice, I'm all for it. I love chaos of
the dice. Okay, so you may do that, and you
can choose your own difficult however difficult you think it
would be for you based on I mean, I feel
like it was a fundamental break of what you believe in,
so probably more than a fifty.
Speaker 7: But and then on top of that, the fact that
my reaction just now informed this person that I had
done it. Yeah, you know, like that I was so
out of control of my own self that it gave
them more information about me, and like, yeah, the shame
that I've committed. Okay, I'm gonna go with forty.
Speaker 2: That sounds That's what I would have suggested as well.
Oh oh wow three three.
Speaker 4: Ooh.
Speaker 6: I feel like you should get something extractability, right because
it's another really success So something about controlling your or
poker face something like that.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, okay, okay, sick Okay, I'm going to call
it smooth operator for now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds good.
Speaker 6: And yes, for those wondering, just for clarification, we are
I believe we're in the alleyway or near the alleyway
where Gunnar had his first encounter a couple of twelve.
Speaker 2: Hours ago about I don't know how long ago, but.
Speaker 6: It was everything's been happening within the span of twenty.
Speaker 8: Four hours day ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah it was day night. Yeah, okay, yeah, he's the
previous night.
Speaker 8: Yes, probably pretty late. It was like three o'clock in
the morning, so he was around twenty four hours and.
Speaker 6: He met a man that was saying things to him
and then got puppeteered.
Speaker 2: So to be clear, this is.
Speaker 6: I'm seeing this man or no, you're seeing a totally
different person that you don't recognize.
Speaker 2: But they're clearly dead.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're And based on Constantine's reaction and the fact
that they said, oh, I take it, you're the one
responsible for this, they're just poppeteering one of the dead
bodies the other.
Speaker 5: Night yep, got it. Okay, so boring everything pines in
the shadows when they seem to need something. Why can't
you face me? Are you scared? You know what I am?
Don't you so face me? Why do you bring a cold,
dead body to talk to us?
Speaker 10: Face me?
Speaker 5: Show us what you.
Speaker 2: Are God and roll for me. Forty difficulty. It's intimidation.
Speaker 8: Through partial success success.
Speaker 6: I think you and only you see this for just
a moment, a fraction of a moment had happened so
fast only your other worldly vampiric eyes can catch it.
But the shadows behind her, her shadow that she's casting,
suddenly look for just a moment like they have eight
legs sticking out of her body.
Speaker 9: Okay, Jesus, and I'll see that for just a moment and.
Speaker 5: Reconsider my bravado internally for a second.
Speaker 2: It does you do? What you've said?
Speaker 6: Seems to have bothered her though for just a moment
as well. On her face she seems annoyed, or this
body seems annoyed.
Speaker 14: I should say, well, we uh, I believe we were
coming this way just to find you in order to
introduce ourselves.
Speaker 8: As it turns out, but there is some confusion as
to your appearance here as you can understand.
Speaker 2: Are you being honest?
Speaker 8: I am? That is why we came over here to
find those who he had spoken to.
Speaker 6: Okay, and there's no like hid an agenda you have
that you're hiding. I just need to know if I need.
Speaker 5: To do well.
Speaker 8: There is contingencies on how it goes. If we don't
like them, right, I'll try to trade body parts of
them to the bar. The main thing that I want
to know, but generally it's it's like a smaller thing
because we heard about vampires and we don't know any
other that they exist there A powerful witch doesn't know
they exist, and the people that came into the Magic Bar,
I think they don't exist. Yeah, so okay it is
I would say, let's say, eighty twenty.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's enough for her to not really notice.
Speaker 6: Okay, well, I think an introduction requires names, don't.
Speaker 7: You lovely to meet you? I've been constantine and I
put out my hand like I kind of do a
little curtsy, Constant. These are my friends. Can I Have
we spoken to each other about other names that we
have used?
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 7: I don't think so, right, just.
Speaker 6: That it's not a good idea, Like he said, be
careful with names. Just a second ago.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I did give a jokey name that I wasn't
serious about when we were in The Lucky Rabbit.
Speaker 2: But what was it? Forever?
Speaker 8: I think it was Elvo?
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, have you made gunner? Did you give make
it up? I?
Speaker 5: Never? Never?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, you got it?
Speaker 2: You got it?
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, yeah, if.
Speaker 8: You do it fast enough, I wouldn't I wouldn't interrupt,
So go for it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay. Uh oh god. It's the worst when you're
rping and you're like really ready to RP and you're like, yeah,
let's do this, and then the moment you have to
come up with a name for someone, it's like your
brain just turns to literally down, like the toddler brain.
That's like, I don't know number, I'll just.
Speaker 8: Ask you what you want for dinner tonight.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and all of the ideas that are immediately coming
to mind are so lame. But what whatever? Maybe Constantine's
lame at this. This is my friend el shadow. That
means shadow, right yeah? Yeah? Does quevo mean shadow?
Speaker 8: No, but that's what you said.
Speaker 7: Okay, so okay, this is my my friend l shadow.
Speaker 8: And what can I tell you?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 8: What's what's? How do you say shadow in Spanish?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 8: It's sobra like the clan?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, Can I change my Can I? Can I
change my thing? Because I think it's canon that Constantine
speaks a little bit of many languages. Okay it is.
Speaker 8: Do you want to know what it means? If you do,
if you do know what it means, or you want
to just say that still.
Speaker 7: I would know what it means, I think, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 8: But you wouldn't know. No, okay, well I just know
I'm just checking.
Speaker 7: Go okay, I.
Speaker 15: And then.
Speaker 8: I look very confienced.
Speaker 7: Uh hold on.
Speaker 2: I love this, By the way. I'm content to sit
here for another twenty minutes while you figure out.
Speaker 7: I know, I'm so cringe. I should have like, if
Meyer was here, Meyer would have been like yeah, but
then I'd.
Speaker 2: Be like what already?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Great, but here are the names that they should tell
her right now, mr, right now.
Speaker 8: He's written a Reddit first about this scene, already breaking
it down.
Speaker 7: Okay, And then I turned to so dumb. I turned,
I reached out to a gunner and I say, Icekinnig,
Ice Cinnach, who I know?
Speaker 2: I don't think I do. Okay, fantastic, wonderful who told you?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 7: Well, very clever. We may be deathless, but we still
have minds to work with. We picked it up.
Speaker 2: I don't suppose you tell me from wire.
Speaker 8: Oh we were just having a night out at the bars.
Do you know people talk?
Speaker 2: Oh, go ahead and roll for me, Estemon. This one's.
Speaker 8: Uh just my usual, my normal stat yep.
Speaker 2: Your or your minds or yeah, mind stat for you.
Speaker 8: Seventy eight.
Speaker 2: Rs on bourbon straight.
Speaker 8: Yes I'm saying it on purpose.
Speaker 2: Yeah mm hmm.
Speaker 5: I'm not quite sure what the alleyway meeting customs are
around here, but you have given us no name, no
reason why you are here, and you ask yeah.
Speaker 6: I just want to see how much I can get
away with it's not really like her to be very
generous and helpful.
Speaker 8: Oh she wasn't, but does not mean we did not
learn anything.
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 6: And you won't tell me how many of you came with.
I'm trying to decide if I want to help you.
Speaker 7: A question, then what would prevent you from helping us?
Out of the goodness of your heart? You seem to
be here giving us a conversation.
Speaker 6: So no, I'm trying to find out if it's gonna
benefit me at all, if it's going to be more
trouble than it's worth. I'm also trying to figure out
if you've been gotten to already by somebody else.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Ah, well, I can assure you we've not been gotten
too in any meaningful way.
Speaker 2: And you are being very honest right now, right, Yeah,
your dislike for Ophidia is radiating from your bonds, okay?
Speaker 5: Or do you assume we need to help them?
Speaker 6: Maybe you don't, But I assume you know, running around
here killing people willy nilly, And I pause and I
look at Constantine for a second.
Speaker 2: Uh, he is not how you're gonna survive around here.
Seems like he just showed up and started eating somebody
else's table.
Speaker 7: I promise you it was not willy nilly.
Speaker 8: Oh no, I may have been a bit nilly at least.
Speaker 7: No. I take such things very seriously. I will allow
my I was my expression to reveal, and it's controlled.
Now I'm revealing a small bit of remorse, remorse.
Speaker 2: I was just gonna say, but I didn't want to
say it in.
Speaker 7: Case it was yeah, okay, yeah, remorse.
Speaker 2: Confusion.
Speaker 6: I think on her this, you know, puppet dead puppets
features for just a moment and eyes linger over you.
I don't think they were expecting a vampire or a
deathless or whatever to feel remorse over a kill.
Speaker 2: So I think this surprises them a little.
Speaker 7: Bit underneath, just for our peace sake, underneath my cold exterior,
I feel a pang at seeing the look of confusion
on this particular face.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, if you don't need my help, you don't need
my help, let me not be hasty.
Speaker 8: Let it there's no reason to be hasty. I think
we can tell you some things, as we are here
for truly bizarre reasons, and there are many things we
do not know about your city. I think we can
all agree that we could help each other out in
this situation.
Speaker 2: Well, I have one situation. I need help with that
urban street.
Speaker 7: It is a big street.
Speaker 2: There's only one part I care about.
Speaker 8: You have seen this web I made it?
Speaker 7: Oh curious? I assumed it was a US that's the point.
Speaker 2: Surprised you could see it, though? What else can you do?
Speaker 8: Our friend said, I think we are still learning.
Speaker 7: We can have good drinks, sing wonderful songs and make love.
Speaker 6: How about this, If you survive, then you can come
back here two nights from now and we'll have a
conversation face to face.
Speaker 2: What do you think.
Speaker 7: Are you not curious? You seem the curious type.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm very curious. I want to see if you survive,
do we have a deal?
Speaker 5: It's my little reacting in any way here.
Speaker 2: Oh, that is such a good question.
Speaker 6: He is he was sleeping, But I think at the
feel of your tension, he will absolutely kind of like
wake up and you know, kind of clutch onto you
are you are you feeling like you are asking him
for assistance? Like he's reading your body right now. So
if you are tense and you're like, hey, what should
I you know, if you're calling on him, then there
might be a different response.
Speaker 9: I'm I'm very tense, but I'm more so trying to
see if he was like frantic at all.
Speaker 2: And oh, I think he's pretty uncomfortable.
Speaker 6: You can tell he's you know, like clinging onto his
many many, too many fingers are probably digging into you
a little bit.
Speaker 9: So like a sudden like jolty. It woke up and
then it like latched onto me like really tough.
Speaker 8: Okay, h.
Speaker 9: H.
Speaker 7: I look to the other two. Well, if we have
nothing else scheduled for that night, I cannot imagine why
we wouldn't be able to go for a walk.
Speaker 5: They want something in return.
Speaker 8: We've already given, probably in just information about how the
hell we got here, Why did we come here? They
don't seem to know, and.
Speaker 7: We've already given a lot. I don't see how it
hurts us yet. We may give up information, but.
Speaker 8: They speak as if they know something will be trying
to get us.
Speaker 7: It is a gift. They're warning us already. Sorry, color,
Oh no, it's fine.
Speaker 5: What would we have to survive?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 8: I think you know, perhaps this is in reference to
those skeletons that have attacked us.
Speaker 6: But sorry, to be clear, Gunnar, were you asking her
what do we have to survive or were you talking
to them? That's what I thought, Okay, oh okay, Yeah.
The gold of her hair, which I can't tell. I
cannot remember if she was blonde or brunette, but either way,
the color from its sours darkening like to a deep,
deep black like rott blossoming beneath her skin. Her cheekbones
will sink, her lips peel back in a rictus grin.
Speaker 8: Wow, me.
Speaker 1: And roll initiative.
Speaker 8: Oh fuck, I thought it was gonna be that. It didn't.
We had to ask survive?
Speaker 5: What jeez?
Speaker 8: What do we roll for? Initiative again?
Speaker 2: You're gonna roll your body set unless you're unless you're
using some sort of magic. Yeah, everyone should do body
I think.
Speaker 8: It doesn't matter what the difficulty is, right.
Speaker 16: Nope, we're just going best roll here sixty six woo
double get out of there, okay, thirty nine just to
hear this song again.
Speaker 8: It's worth getting our asses kicked.
Speaker 2: It's a good one. I like it a lot.
Speaker 8: We're gonna be fighting for two days.
Speaker 2: Apparently m Constantine was an what okay, perfect, okay, and
then I just have to roll.
Speaker 8: Fuck off.
Speaker 2: It's on the screen. It's on stah.
Speaker 8: If we survived the big.
Speaker 14: Oh.
Speaker 6: For those listening, I rolled the two, okay, so that
means that I will go first.
Speaker 2: So a wet.
Speaker 6: Sound like an over ripe fruit splits, splitting is the
sound that you'll encounter as her hands pop back breaking.
Her bones are breaking. She's breaking her own hands and
her jaw unhinges, flack and eager, and then her shadow
stretches until there are eight legs behind her and she's
going to do an opening move.
Speaker 2: Webbing you. So I need each of you to roll
your defense. Please.
Speaker 8: I'm just going to do body because I would just
try to jump the hell out of the way.
Speaker 2: However you would block. So either your physical prowess or.
Speaker 6: The difficulty is going to be forty for the whole
fight unless I unless specified otherwise.
Speaker 8: Three holy shitty okay.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, here are all the roles you saved
them last week for this week?
Speaker 2: Okay, sir? So I think we see a you know,
the eight.
Speaker 6: Arachnid like legs stretch out in shadow form. One of
them will grab and pin Constantine's shadow constantly.
Speaker 2: You cannot move when this happens. How the how did
you other?
Speaker 6: How did the other two in the party Dodge, please
describe what we see?
Speaker 8: Oh, I know I wrote body, but I.
Speaker 6: Mean it's an otherwordly success. If you want to have
some sort of magic with that, I'm fine with it.
Speaker 8: I think my shadow just moved out of your way.
Speaker 2: Yep, your shadow just moves without you.
Speaker 8: Can I Okay, I didn't. I mean it's it's a
low number. It wasn't a doubles or it wasn't a one.
I was going to ask for something since it was
so low.
Speaker 2: I mean, please, yeah, it's.
Speaker 8: Can my shadow push constantine shadow out of the way?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'll let you have it.
Speaker 10: Yep.
Speaker 8: Okay, Oh that was a ninety eight.
Speaker 2: But yeah, So I think.
Speaker 6: What I think should probably happen is that the just
so that you, as your characters can learn this information
and use it.
Speaker 2: For the rest of the fight.
Speaker 6: The leg the show, her shadow leg comes down and
pins Constantine's shadow, and then your shadow comes over and
just like kicks the leg off. So that way you
guys can use the information that her shadow is able
to pin, you know, like inter.
Speaker 8: Yeah, definitely was like whatever my shadow is noticed it
was coming and just moved.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then yeah, and then kicked, so Constantine, there
is a moment where her shadow comes down and pins
your shadow and you are feel you are unable to move,
and then you see Esteban's shadow, which it isn't I
need to be clear, it's not actually his shadow. It's
like like a smaller Childlike is that right?
Speaker 8: Or is this it's kind of it's kind of you know,
it can change shape and it bends, but most of
the time it just feels like it's younger and smaller,
even if it's stretching.
Speaker 6: Okay, so that comes over, kicks the leg out of
the way, and then you are free to move and Gunner,
what is it?
Speaker 2: How do you dodge this?
Speaker 5: How high can I jump?
Speaker 2: You're a vampire. You can jump pretty fucking high.
Speaker 9: I just if there's something shooting at me, I just
jumped straight up in the air.
Speaker 2: So your shadow is also jumping up out of the way. Okay, perfect. Wow.
How how high do you think you jump?
Speaker 9: I think I jump above the buildings.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I'm not.
Speaker 9: Directly like above the alleyway, but maybe like three buildings
worth high. And I know, like most New Orleans buildings
are that tall, so that's probably like six stories seven
stories damn.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's fantastic.
Speaker 6: Okay, and that is actually where we're pausing and switching
to COR's apartment.
Speaker 2: Don't die. You guys were in the apartment, right, okay,
just double checking.
Speaker 17: Yeah, we were in the apartment and uh, stalker just
got back and found Moog.
Speaker 2: Oh that's right. Yeah, and he decided not kill me.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He broke through the glass door shattered the glass everywhere.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, you've probably got to pay for that, buddy.
Speaker 17: Yep. Encore was just basically, uh doing introductions and saying
Moove is our new party member, and actually in the
place of Fin.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, okay, I should have made popcorn puck. Okay,
I'm ready. Who's so we'll start right where we left
off the last episode, which is Korra saying he's our
new did you say, like party member, new group member,
group member?
Speaker 13: Yeah, actually taking the place of.
Speaker 4: Fin yep, Yes, who Who's Who's.
Speaker 10: I'm still holding the dagger and I'm watching Cora's movements.
Does it look like she's surrounding me?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 17: I think she after coming into the room and seeing
what's going on, she is kind of like like this,
being like hang on hold on, this is introductions, and
here's what's the situation is.
Speaker 13: She's not aggressive?
Speaker 4: Oh was he that blonde fellow, the short king, as
it were, that who I.
Speaker 17: Begin to nod at the blonde and then look confused,
right because I'm a short king.
Speaker 13: Essentially. Yeah, I nod.
Speaker 4: Yes, okay, all right, yes, yes him, yes he. I
look at Stalker and the knife being pointed at Cora,
and then I pause for a moment. You don't think
she killed him, do you. That's not there wouldn't be
a thought, because your friends and your party members and
you trust each other implicitly. Yes, thinking about how Coorra
introduced me.
Speaker 10: Look at Cora, and sir, you replaced Fan with this.
Speaker 8: Poor oh my heart, fool.
Speaker 4: I'm not the one who owed hundreds of dollars in
window repair of bills, sir.
Speaker 5: It opens.
Speaker 17: I didn't do any replacing Fenn decided to stay wherever
we found ourselves.
Speaker 10: I would like to do some sort of inside check.
Speaker 6: M hmm on Cora, Yes, okay, I've actually forgotten how
we did this because I was just changing some things
in the system today. I believe the way that we
did this was we let her set the difficulty right,
that way she could hide if she's lying or not.
Speaker 2: I think, so, yep, go for it. So you'll go
ahead and roll insight.
Speaker 6: She'll set the difficulty and then give you an answer
depending mm hmmm.
Speaker 18: Uh, I'd say like sixty difficulty.
Speaker 10: I failed with a seventy three.
Speaker 4: It's all right, I don't beat you South.
Speaker 10: If if you're going to do that out of character,
then I'm going to start doing it out of character
because I've had a response for you with every single
thing you've said. But Stalker would never say that. This
is absolute torture for me.
Speaker 2: You got it, so good with it? Opens man? What
the fuck? Okay?
Speaker 10: So what does that? What does that mean? I have
no idea.
Speaker 2: Sailed, So I think she's pretty unreadable, right, Okay.
Speaker 10: So I'm narrow my eyes as I studying her. I'm
expected to believe but then abandoned quest define the truth
and that they're stranger.
Speaker 4: Luke put my Indian singer Point of Florida. Sorry, continue.
Speaker 10: Means there's no you.
Speaker 13: Know, well, well, I can't speak for him.
Speaker 17: I just know that.
Speaker 13: Fenn and I.
Speaker 17: Were in the kitchen and then we found ourselves in
a different place, and after encountering him. He's said he
would stay behind it. He said it smelled like home.
Speaker 4: Ew, I can't imagine where it came from. Then it smells.
It smells horrible.
Speaker 10: There's sometime where you came from doesn't mean I like
the smell, and then you not imagine it?
Speaker 4: What didn't come Well, I came from there, but didn't
come from there. It's very confusing. Potentially there, I found
myself there from I'm not quite sure where I'm from
now that I'm thinking about it.
Speaker 10: But youse, have we of someone like this?
Speaker 4: I'm very useful. I can feel awkward silences. I am
a little bit strong. I suppose people tend to like
me anyways, although sometimes they a little weary, but mostly
they like me. And besides, I couldn't hurt you all
if I wanted to, even if I tried.
Speaker 10: I am not looking at him while he's yapping. I'm
staring at Cora.
Speaker 17: Would you Does your expression change at all with what
he just said?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 17: I think he is tied to whatever's going on. I
think somehow he might be connected to the person who
brought us here.
Speaker 4: Interesting choice of words.
Speaker 10: And you brought him here? I say, prisoner A bargain
bargaining trip.
Speaker 17: No, I brought him here to keep an eye on him,
to keep him safe, see if he can help us.
Speaker 4: And I you my friend, and I you, well, I
didn't bring you, but you know what I mean. I'm
keep each other safe. Yeah, eyes behind your back, as
a back of your head.
Speaker 5: How does that go?
Speaker 4: Yes, back your head.
Speaker 17: I don't know how much he knows or doesn't know,
but he might have something to point us in a
new direction.
Speaker 10: You brought upon of our greatest enemy in our midst.
Then he's gone. And you said, nothing makes me believe
any of that is true?
Speaker 4: Well, if it helps. It really was just a last
minute decision. Yeah. Although if I was paranoid Sanders in
this and I heard myself say something like that, I
probably wouldn't believe it either. But then if I don't
say it, then I would buy it.
Speaker 10: I grab her, I grab him by the collar, and
I go, who is this Sanderson? It's here?
Speaker 5: Who we work for?
Speaker 2: A bunch of comics? Try to play serious?
Speaker 10: Vampiream you think I'm doing a great job like this job?
Speaker 2: You're doing such a good job. Strange?
Speaker 19: Uh, it's just what I call you because I refuse
to call you stalker because it seems kind of derivative,
and it's also it's.
Speaker 4: Not the best look.
Speaker 5: Can you please let go of my collar.
Speaker 10: Now, Iron, loosen my grip slightly, Cora, can what use
have we for a fool at a time like this?
Speaker 4: Explain yourself.
Speaker 17: I'm quiet for a second thinking about the situation, and
then I look at him and ask, do you know
what a proxy is?
Speaker 10: Do I?
Speaker 6: Let's roll for it's roll for a baby I on
the outset. I want to say, probably not because on
your character sheet you had zero in occult knowledge. But
there's always a chance, so let's roll for it. But
it's probably going to be like twenty or thirty. It's
got to be under under that. Let's give it a
roll and see what happens.
Speaker 10: This would be.
Speaker 2: Mind Uh, yes, it is correct, all right?
Speaker 6: And twenty twenty or thirty, Yeah, we can do thirty.
Speaker 10: No, I'm doing twenty. Oh okay, confuse? Oh are yeah?
Doubles sixty six? Little horn is ground of my head?
Speaker 19: No?
Speaker 6: I think shit, okay, maybe I am Sanderson. No, write
this down, Write this down, okay, Because when we switch
to the B team, y'all, the person who is the
proxy for Stalker is just going to start speaking this
stuff whatever he says here in a minute. So that's
what's going to happen. So let's remember this moment. Take notes,
all right, Stalker, go ahead, nothing happens.
Speaker 2: But no, you don't know what a proxy is. You've
never heard of that.
Speaker 10: Explain to me what a proxy is.
Speaker 17: I don't think I was fully aware of what it
was until I saw Moog.
Speaker 4: Hello, How I bang my hand on Lucky's furniture?
Speaker 10: Ow, I'm still lightly Oh then it's not a strong
grip and I am still holding your jacket unless you
want to.
Speaker 4: Oh, then I'm danged my hand on your arm. Then
when I go to wave hello Moog proxy, pleasure to
meet you.
Speaker 17: Someone has gone to great lengths and used a lot
of intentional magic to make I mean, you've been here before.
Like a voodoo doll. They're copies. A proxy is tied
to their source, but they're like an iteration of them.
Anything that happens to one happens to the other. They're connected.
They can be used for energy, battery, whatever, but they
can also be used to get to the main person.
Speaker 10: You're telling me, is one of these things?
Speaker 17: Yes, he is, and I have a sneaking suspicion that
there's one for each of us, not just the ones
that came out of the coffins, Constantine, Gunner, Esteban. There's
one for all of us, you and included. When we
were wherever we were, Fenn said that he smelled me
and Constantine coming down the hallway, an a gesture at Moog.
Speaker 13: Obviously that's not me.
Speaker 4: My stinky. I smell myself. No, not stinky.
Speaker 10: Are you telling me here's your proxy?
Speaker 17: Yes? And I think the others are where we left them.
That's why we are to stay.
Speaker 10: I may need to roll for this, I don't know.
Speaker 9: But.
Speaker 10: I would like to give a little nick of my blade.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you need to roll for that. He needs
to be able to have a chance to defend himself.
Speaker 10: On moods arm somewhere non vital.
Speaker 6: Okay, So what we're going to do is the defender
is gonna roll. So Moog, you roll your body or magic,
depending on how you want to dodge this.
Speaker 4: Magic is in mind. Yeah, yeah, for you.
Speaker 2: You chose to do mind right. Yes, I like that.
I thought about body in the beginning, but you're right.
Mind is better.
Speaker 4: And fifty difficulty.
Speaker 2: I'm actually safe for me. Yeah, like he's not like
super trying, but he is good at what failure? Yeah, failure,
but yeah, he makes you.
Speaker 4: I would have done that myself to ask, well, I
was thinking we could have done this really cool trick
where if you had a cigarette, I could inhale the
smoke and then she could exit. There are other ways
to do this is the point silence, Ushy.
Speaker 10: Are study the wound on hers arm.
Speaker 6: So some things have to happen ritualistically speaking for or
the for it to start working. Otherwise you would have
been feeling things this whole time. You are correct, Uh, Cora,
that is how it works. But he hasn't been properly
prepared yet. I was gonna say lubricated because between but.
Speaker 10: M all right, So there is no magic sorry on her, Oh.
Speaker 2: There is not. But Cora would know what you're trying
to do, and I'm giving her an opportunity to explain
should she choose to.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I don't think I know everything about it, though
I probably have. Yeah, heard of the concept of proxies,
but I don't think my clan yeah used them, So
I'm going off of vague knowledge. And then what I've
come to understand by seeing Moog. Yeah, but I think
being a magic user, I probably understand like, well, probably
it can't be that simple. Yeah, and I look at
you expectantly.
Speaker 13: I don't think it's as simple.
Speaker 17: Otherwise I would be covered in paper cuts and bruises
and random things.
Speaker 4: If I don't get rid of the cuts where I
get papercause I don't get bots. That's not that many
if the movies of films.
Speaker 17: Regardless, I know what I know now seeing him and
the fact that Fenn smelled Constantine makes me believe that
Constantine also has a proxy. And if all of us
somehow wound up in this other dimension world whatever you
want to call it.
Speaker 2: Oh, this is news to you, I think, correct.
Speaker 15: Mm, yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure you thought.
Speaker 6: I mean, you went into this attic of the Chauntry,
but I don't think you were expecting to fucking dimension
of But who knows if that's what you If it
means that way, you could just mean, O, we're out
of the entry.
Speaker 2: But yeah, sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 17: That amount of attention. I think this is just another
sign that there are things happening outside of the scope
of what we can see bigger things. Someone had a
plan bringing us here. They obviously if we all have proxies,
potentially it could be connected part of the bigger plan.
Speaker 10: And whoever made him a proxy could use him and
the others against us.
Speaker 17: Yes, obviously not as easily as just cutting them or
you know, slicing their throat or anything. I don't think
it's that simple. There's probably magic involved. But yes, their
existence to me is really concerning.
Speaker 10: I don't believe our death is their goal, at least
not at first. They need us for something, probably something.
Speaker 4: Worse worse than death. I just look at him.
Speaker 10: I want to be very clear on my expression when
I gaze upon him.
Speaker 2: Please tell us some great details. How much this creature
before you?
Speaker 10: I think it's it's a kin to the it's a
it's akin to the way that that.
Speaker 6: Like I was just gonna say the things spinning through
my brain right now to just interrupt you and answer
the way my dad looks at me like like.
Speaker 10: There's a million different things that I can't choose.
Speaker 2: I'm kidding, by the way, I'm just joking.
Speaker 10: Yeah, of course, I think I look at him like
a multi billionaire would look at a bike messenger.
Speaker 4: Yeah, don't look at me like that.
Speaker 8: You like me?
Speaker 5: I know it.
Speaker 4: I could see it looking at me. I suppose there
are things worth worse than death then, yeah, like forever
being held by the shirt by a window breaker glanced
down at his hand. Oh, this is getting uncomfortable. Can't
you please let go of my shirt? I really like
this one?
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, sorry, I would have. I would have let
go when I cut your arm.
Speaker 4: Oh all right, then I'm standing beside or a behind Cora.
Speaker 10: Behind, I take I.
Speaker 4: Take one large step and then just try to get
there as quickly it's possible.
Speaker 10: Okay, we shouldn't detain him.
Speaker 13: Well, he's not going anywhere.
Speaker 17: He doesn't live here, he doesn't know where we are.
Speaker 4: Where am I going to go home? Can't do that
new dimension.
Speaker 7: You are in?
Speaker 10: Want place in your dimension?
Speaker 4: I meant, what's a place in right to mention? I mean,
what do you mean?
Speaker 10: Is it called land? You were in.
Speaker 4: America?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: This is killing or.
Speaker 8: Killing him, killing up that.
Speaker 10: I just was really hoping he'd start singing my country.
But since he doesn't, Yes, but more specifically, what region?
What state?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 4: City, New Orleans?
Speaker 10: Of course?
Speaker 4: What about you and your mother's maiden name, and and
I prattle on a bit.
Speaker 10: Yes, I'm looking at Cora again.
Speaker 7: I love how we've gone to the point where he
just because I prattle lot of it, Coura.
Speaker 10: We cannot trust him. He could find his way.
Speaker 4: How can you go to new dimensions? It took her
quite a few tries, and she had to borrow some
of my power to do it. Oopsis.
Speaker 10: I don't have a whole lot of expression on my
face most of the time, but my eyes, my eyebrows,
who go off slightly?
Speaker 4: Oh you like power?
Speaker 10: I look at Kora again.
Speaker 17: Really, I don't know how it happened. I don't even
know if it was me. Just I was tended in
the kitchen and then all of a sudden, Fenn was gone.
And then the next thing I knew I was with him,
and then I think we came back, and then it
was confusing.
Speaker 13: All I know is that we.
Speaker 17: Left the kitchen and we're in a new place, and
I don't know where that place was. The Only thing
that might tell us more is I heard one of
them say chantry.
Speaker 10: I would pause for a moment at that. What does
this have to do with using him like a battery?
Speaker 17: Exactly?
Speaker 10: You used him as a battery.
Speaker 17: Yes, I borrowed some of his power because he offered.
But if he was found in a chantry building, would
it be that the chantry are behind this? They're the
ones who made him, made the rest of them. And
I turned to Mook and I say, how long have
you been.
Speaker 13: Kindred?
Speaker 4: Let's see, it's nineteen ninety five. Carry the four five years,
give or take a little bit more. Why are you
looking at me like that?
Speaker 17: How possible is it that these things have been in
motion for five years or more?
Speaker 4: But don't look at me. I don't know.
Speaker 17: Yes, well, we have that in common, it seems if
you're being truthful, and you don't know where you came
from or why you were made, only that you were
made to feel special from what I gathered.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, man a friend, and my brothers and sister,
Yes special.
Speaker 17: Well, I would say, a proxy made off of an
unsuspecting Kindred. That is certainly a special existence, isn't it.
Speaker 4: Well, I'd like to think so. But it's not why
you will create it. I think it's what you do
with it. Don't you think.
Speaker 12: You are.
Speaker 10: Made against your will?
Speaker 4: I don't really think of it like that. And I
put my hand up to my mouth and I take
a moment to ponder I don't and then I stop.
And then I look up and I look at Sanderson
and I look at Cora.
Speaker 5: I feel like.
Speaker 4: I'm doing all the talking. You know, what about you two?
What do you enjoy doing? What about? I was left
to believe there were more of you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if one of these fight the alleyway just for
a second, the back because this is an anime in
my head. Mm hmm.
Speaker 10: Are we actually switching?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 6: No, no, I just said smash cut and then cutting back.
Speaker 10: Yeah, there's just five seconds of like blood spraying and
punctures being.
Speaker 4: Thrown in the air, screaming.
Speaker 8: Timbers and thor from Marvel rivals.
Speaker 10: And we said he was above the buildings.
Speaker 17: Anyways, I look at Mog and say, wait, how many
are in your group?
Speaker 13: You said brothers and sister?
Speaker 4: Yes, how many are in your group?
Speaker 17: I saw in kind of like half roll my eyes
and go, okay, you say the number at the count
of three.
Speaker 4: Okay, if I can remember me, Greg can remember everyone,
I'm on it because there's always one I forget yep Opedianly.
Speaker 8: You could count the people that you're looking at right
now too? All right, all right people, yes this game mm.
Speaker 15: Hm mm hmm all right, one three then, and just
just to clarify, I feel like this is something that
you would need clarifying on, not literally on three after three.
Speaker 4: So one two three go yes essentially.
Speaker 17: Two three right answers, yes, all right, okay, mm hm.
Speaker 4: Did you want to count? Or am I counting? I
think you should count. I'm the proxy, so you should count.
I feel special enough.
Speaker 17: Two three seven, Oh.
Speaker 4: That doesn't mathem counting on my fingers. And then did I?
Did I count myself twice again?
Speaker 10: Now ye are missing one?
Speaker 4: Yes? Your short one? Well did one of you?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 10: War hm? Why would we give you any information?
Speaker 4: Oh? That's right, I'm the information for you. That's right.
This is not a two way street. Got it? Asked
me another questquestion.
Speaker 10: I'm glad I understanding.
Speaker 17: Yes, Stalker No, he's we are willing to give information,
but forgive us if we're being cautious, and he's always cautious.
I look at Stalker not when it comes to entries,
that is true.
Speaker 13: And I look over the brook A window, cy.
Speaker 10: M oh, and I wouldn't say anything. I'm just standing
there watching.
Speaker 17: We're still at the point where we don't know what
information is going to be useful. All information is potentially useful.
You said there were seven in your group.
Speaker 13: Yes, their names.
Speaker 17: May not mean anything to us, but I'm just curious.
Can you name them?
Speaker 5: I can smile.
Speaker 13: Can you name them out loud? Please?
Speaker 4: I can smile again? Please with myself?
Speaker 5: Please, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: Did you say something, Helia sand name them? Hey Sanderson,
go fuck yourself a smile. No, that's how this is
going to go from now on. You tell me to
fuck myself. That's what I say right back to you.
Oh did your information stream get cut off? So sorry
to a thick pout.
Speaker 10: This is why we should imprison him.
Speaker 4: Being in an apartment locked in with you is imprisonment enough.
Speaker 20: We're not going to imprison him.
Speaker 17: I'm standing there thinking because me the player, I'm also thinking.
Speaker 10: We I will not speak in front of him, but
what he says makes sense.
Speaker 4: And I won't speak in front of him because he's
a little jerk and I don't care for that atitude.
Speaker 17: Okay, Well, also, this is this is just a lot.
I need to go find some cardboard or something to
put an over that broken window. Stocker. Do you know
where the others are?
Speaker 10: Yes?
Speaker 2: And now we cut to the alleyway. That's a good
time to switch.
Speaker 8: That was awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, we are at the top of the
round or no, I'm sorry, we're at the top of
your rounds because you.
Speaker 8: All dodged all right?
Speaker 2: Who rolled the best other than me?
Speaker 8: I think gravity did? Uh?
Speaker 2: Yep, that's right, Zams, you're up. You're the first one.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 21: So I'm I'm still rising in the air and I'm
still in the middle of this jump and I look down.
Speaker 5: Do I see the web? Still? No?
Speaker 2: So the web was.
Speaker 6: Uh, kind of centered around Bourbon Street and kind of
leading towards the Hecks and Hound. But once you get
out this far, there's no web left.
Speaker 9: We're by the Blood Club, so the web would be by.
Speaker 8: The web is by a French quarter.
Speaker 6: Yep, that's right. Yep, Bourbon Street and the French Quarter
and Biophidious Bar. This is a different.
Speaker 5: Section. Would I be able to see Cora's apartment from here?
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 6: But let's roll for it, because there's always a chance
that you can just know where it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go ahead and roll.
Speaker 6: That's thirty difficulty because you are higher than the buildings
excuse me, and you're up by the Blood Club, so
really you.
Speaker 2: Could at least see the.
Speaker 6: Cemetery where you guys came from.
Speaker 8: Like, that's not at all eight blocks.
Speaker 9: Actually it's like a mile and a half, so it's perfect.
Speaker 2: All right, Yeah, let's roll for it. Well, yes, you
do a twenty four.
Speaker 5: I don't know fast can I get there?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 6: Well, mile and a half. You're a vampire, though, so
the fastest this is me going. The fastest runner.
Speaker 2: Is about like six minutes, right, So I'd say a
mile and six minutes or shorter if you're really really sprinting,
So I'm gonna say four minutes it would take you
to get there.
Speaker 5: I reach the apex of my junk. I look down again.
Do I see in the alleyway?
Speaker 6: You see the corpse that is being reanimated by the
same voice that you spoke to before facing off against
Esteban and Constant. But probably what draws your eye is
the very clear from this high up spider shadow that
this woman has that spans from one side of the
alleyway to the other.
Speaker 5: So I don't see any legs or their shadows there's
shadowy legs, but not actual legs from her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just her shadow.
Speaker 5: Think Esteban might be able to fight this thing better
than me, but the others must know. And as I
start to fall, I start to glide.
Speaker 6: Bitch, I know why you were asking for the web.
You wanted to send a message. Do you want to
try to send a message anyway?
Speaker 5: I wanted to.
Speaker 9: I asked about the web because if I was if
I knew I was in this, things like domain or
their their, they were affected by the surrounding area. I
wanted to try something, but I was really fixated on
if I knew we were in.
Speaker 5: The web already.
Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, the French quarter is one way and Korra's
apartment is the other. So I have to choose here, yep,
And I want to get back to the apartment.
Speaker 5: I want to warn the others.
Speaker 2: Right, it's going to take you four minutes back to
the fight. Oh no, I'm sorry. You rolled doubles, so
Constantine wig did.
Speaker 7: Yeh, But I rolled like.
Speaker 6: But you got doubles failure doubles, So I'll go after you.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, goodness, well I'm going to h how do
I so I'm not I'm not an offensive character. I'm
like buff's right. So I'm trying to think of how
I can buff Esteban's shadow or Esteban Uh sorry, I'm
trying to dig into everything that I remember about Estebans
so that I can find the exact right thing to
do in this moment. H I can I whisper into
Esteban's ear and make him feel something like?
Speaker 2: Try?
Speaker 7: Okay, yep, I would like to sort of put my
hand on your shoulder and whisper in your ear. I
would like to whisper the Spanish for it. You can
do this like I would like to say it for everyone.
I apologize I do not speak Spanish, so but yeah,
you can do this basically. And I would like to
whisper it into his ear. And I would like to
give him the feeling of the sea on his face,
like the warm weather and the smell of the sea,
and sort of like a familiar feeling and of a
place where he might have felt powerful and capable.
Speaker 2: Would you like to roll for me?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Difficulties forty in the fight unless otherwise specified yet, Okay.
Speaker 7: Ninety five, dude, what are my roles?
Speaker 14: So?
Speaker 6: Could I argue that you do this, but the but
the because the sabon.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't think you would feel powerful
with that feeling, would you? I think it would it
could Oh okay, okay, not with Yeah, well, I just
meant it's possible that that he does succeed at this,
But it doesn't have the intended effect, right because I
don't think that that would make you feel powerful. But
if it has the possibility to do so, it would.
Speaker 8: Certainly make my action different than what I had, Like,
it would make my move be something very specific. If
that worked, whether it was good or bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, then I think probably nothing happens. I'm sorry, Constantine.
Speaker 7: Yeah no, that's totally fine. I think it makes I.
Speaker 6: Mean other thing, You're touching his shoulder gently and saying
you can do this in Spanish.
Speaker 7: You know I'm getting off, Like you know, I always
give off anora.
Speaker 8: In Spanish. I say back, I can do this, What
do you do one? Okay? I think that's a lot
of legs. I try to stop. I have a terrible idea,
so that thing I did, I can't do this. After
said I could do this, I'm gonna see if my
shadow can grab a couple of the arms. I know
that's got a lot more for me. Yep, okay, my
chatow if you.
Speaker 6: If you do the standard forty cool, but if you
roll at thirty, I can come.
Speaker 2: In and assist you. If you succeed, it was something cool.
Speaker 8: If five roll, oh enough, I have something cool. But
now I've just completely chinks myself. Oh my god, I'm
dm you.
Speaker 2: Yep, okay, watch it be the same thing I was thinking.
I would not be surprised. Holy shit, dude, yep, that's
what I was thinking. Go for it, go for it.
Hold on, I mean, don't go for it. Yeah, hold on, Okay, okay, okay,
now I'm ready.
Speaker 8: Okay, I think he's stein says this to me. I said,
you're right, I can do this, and I think about
I say, oh hey, miho, and I grab this. And
then it doesn't do exactly what I said. I think instead,
it like covers me, and it runs around me, and
it's spinning around, and it's uh, I'm kind of confused
and getting annoyed, and all of a sudden it just
stops and I don't think anything happens, and then suddenly
the tentacles come back. When i'd say probably. I mean eight, Yeah,
you roll the five, you can have tentacles come out
of the sides and around my body and my back
and they're covering over it like this, and I.
Speaker 5: Look a little a little.
Speaker 8: Oh, thank you, you have told me how to do something.
And then I think each one grabs one of their
legs yep, and holds it there.
Speaker 6: So we've got this fight between the spider and the
something the other monster. But it's all in shadow, so
it's the shadows on the ground.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's just to kind of greech out. And if
I roll the one, they were going to get inked.
I am very excited. My god, I believe you are correct. Constantine.
Speaker 2: We candle this, okay, Constantine, roll me a defense forty?
Speaker 8: Can I add something to yeah, of course. I think
it's kind of like all connected on my back. Yeah,
I'm constantinehind me. It's kind of like creeping up over
the back of my head, like onto my forehead, like
it's sitting the edge of its sitting right here. And
we'll see how long this goes.
Speaker 7: Yeah, ninety eight Jesus Christ, Then what the fuck this is?
Speaker 8: Balance?
Speaker 6: I guess without really missing a beat, so Esteban. The
tentacles come out, and it is exactly like what you
saw in the in the crypt right where you saw
these tentacles come out and pull him and lift him up.
It's almost as if they have the mind of their own.
He seems a little confused by their presence at first,
but they wrap around these spiders' legs and hold her
in place. And you see that she is restrained in
the same way that you felt restrain when her legs
stabbed your shadow.
Speaker 2: So you know, in this instance she cannot move.
Speaker 6: She's paralyzed, even though nothing's touching her physical body. But
she looks at you without missing a beat from that
after realizing that she's been restrained, and she mouths something
that you cannot quite you know, Latin.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 22: That is a really good interesting question because I believe
it was like very normal to learn Latin in Germany
and the time that I was.
Speaker 8: Yes, a good church boy.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's the question.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, like he was pretty good at stuff like that.
So I'm gonna say yes, maybe like fifty percent ability,
Like I don't think I can do I'm not fluent
in Latin, and I probably have forgotten a lot of
it over in my years. But yeah, if it's like
a very well known or just very yeah, straightforward.
Speaker 6: I don't know if it's well known, but I think
it's just the reason I'm giving this to you because
I feel like, again, vampires or deathless have the supernatural
physical ability as well, So for you to be able
to read somebody's lips as they're mumbling something is much
easier for a vampire in my brain than it would
be for a normal human. And then to also compute
something at that speed, you know, with your brain.
Speaker 2: It just makes sense to me.
Speaker 7: Let me, can I can I just check something? I
want to check my I want to check MYTM version
of my character sheet because I believe I actually also
put points in a cult.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in which case, yeah, if you do, thank you.
If you do have did that not mute?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 12: Did?
Speaker 2: I just need to know if you did.
Speaker 8: But I just saw your pain, thank you?
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 7: No, I do not have any points in a call
never mind. Okay, I think I must have moved them around. Okay, Yeah,
so here's what I mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here's well.
Speaker 6: The ninety eight is for the actual effect, not for
you to recognize what's happening. Okay, So I think that
what I will give you is that you if you
watch someone else's mouth this, you'll know what it was.
You'll be able to put two and two together. But
for now, you don't know what they've said.
Speaker 2: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 6: Like if Cora were to say, if you described to Coorra,
this is what happened to me, and then Cora rattled
off some things. Watching her mouth, you could go, that's
the one.
Speaker 7: Okay, you know what I mean? Okay, trying I'm aware
of that specific yeah, okay.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, So you're watching her mouth, so she's casting
a spell here, she mouths something in Latin that you
don't know what's happening.
Speaker 2: But then you are right back into your kill.
Speaker 6: Yes, I'm sorry what you're right back into the kill
the act of what happened. She mouthed something to you, yeah,
and then you are now reliving that moment.
Speaker 2: Could you describe for us what happened again?
Speaker 7: What happened was that I approached this woman and I
looked very frightening, and we got to talking, and I
was so hungry, and I was trying to charm her.
I was trying to get her to be comfortable enough
to consent to me feeding from her basically, which is
a funny version of consent, obviously. But I was charming
her and it wasn't working, and the hunger was just growing,
like it's like beyond some sort of beast or animalistic instinct.
It was just singular focus. I ceased seeing or being
anything else, and she became frightened. And I knew if
she made a sound that I would be found out
and that she would run away, and that I wouldn't
get to eat, and I would be hungry forever. It
would be this forever, because I'll never die, and it
will be this forever. And I cut her throat with
my hands. I just tore her throat out, and it
was like a waterfall, and I wanted to bathe in it.
So I tipped my head underneath the gushing of her
blood and let it fall into my mouth like rain.
And I'm remembering I'm remembering the sensations, the sensations specifically,
I'm not really remembering the much of the details around
what the street looked like, or I remember her face,
her eyes wide as she stared down at me while
I let her blood pour into my mouth and as
she died in my arms and I couldn't. I can't
remember if it even tasted good. It didn't taste good,
but I was just too hungry to notice the difference.
This could have been ditch water and I'd have drank it.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 6: Wow, that is where you are. You can roll at
the end of your next turn to try to break
out of this, but you are essentially paralyzed, dropped in
your mind.
Speaker 8: I am yelling Constant, thin, go through the body, kill it.
You have to get rid of the woman.
Speaker 7: Ah, we're gonna If you spoke to me, I didn't
hear it.
Speaker 6: I'm I think we just hear it. In the background,
we see we see Constantine standing there kind of maybe
maybe swaying just a little bit back and forth. We're
going to do one more round before Gunner arrives at
the apartment. So as nothing happens, Constantine doesn't do anything.
Speaker 8: The appears we are on our own. And I turned
back to this spider woman. He's a herd. Turn.
Speaker 2: No, she moved, she did a spell.
Speaker 8: Oh she did that. Okay, Then as I am going,
I am attempting to smash this thing's head right off
his shoulder. So there is nothing for the shadow to
hold on to. I'd want to destroy the body with
my body.
Speaker 6: Okay, go ahead and rule for me. This I think
has to be twenty or under. And the only reason
I'm saying that is because you're doing the tentacles at
the same time.
Speaker 8: So if you want to keep it, okay, huh okay,
So the tentacles are holding the shadow, so I can't
just run up there while they're still holding, right.
Speaker 2: That's what we're trying to determine. If you can do
that right now? Oh okay, yep, because I feel like
it's it is actually taking your power to do the tentacles.
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, okay, So you need to be able. If
I feel that, then.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, you'd be able to. You need to be
able to do two things at once. It's possible for
you to do this.
Speaker 8: I get it, but it's the first time. The first time. Yeah,
the going on okay.
Speaker 2: I have a mind of their own, but they're sort
of coming from you.
Speaker 23: Yeah, okay, I if you fail, you will simply just
stake strange.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 2: So if I'm not going to the tentacles or anything.
Speaker 8: Right, if I do anything like if I wanted to, like,
let two tentacles go so I can attack her body.
Speaker 2: We could to thirty if you want to let two
tentacles go.
Speaker 8: Yeah, like I'm going to use the tentacles to hit
her though, hit the body. Oh like they let go
of it. Okay, well, but I would do it. Yeah, Okay,
I would do it. I'll just let go of if
I'm just gonna try let's go twenty. I'm just gonna
do it, yep, while we're holding on. That's why I
did it.
Speaker 2: Nineteen for those less things. Okay, what does it look like?
What do you do?
Speaker 6: So you feel that you need to have power to
be able to hold the tentacles in place and then
also still physically move your body, but you have it
when you need it.
Speaker 2: So what what do we see?
Speaker 8: I think it's it's a weird feeling because I feel
like even though they're grabbing on, like I'm moving, like
I should brace myself, but I don't have to, Like
it's not taking my weight to hold it in place.
And I think when I realize that, I think, even
though it's not taking my weight, I kind of I think, oh,
I can move around, I can move around, and then
I go. It would be nice for a little a
little tug to get me going in that direction. And
I think there's a bit of like a little bit
of a yank, so maybe she moves forward towards me
a little bit and I just like, like sprint forward,
and I think, really, just put a boot like because
it's a dead body.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it most certainly is.
Speaker 8: I'm going to put a boot right where the hole is.
Speaker 2: In her throat.
Speaker 4: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, Okay, it looks weak, right, yep. I think
her head snaps. I think her I think you snapped
the spine and her head falls back.
Speaker 8: And is like is bobbing there with the body with
the body I figured, Okay, I guess I'm just standing
right in front of it now, right.
Speaker 2: And Constantine, you can roll the brake out of this, prizy.
Speaker 8: You look a lot better.
Speaker 7: Now, cool? Yes? What am I rolling? You're rolling your mind?
Speaker 17: Yep?
Speaker 24: Okay, okay, breakout of finally, Holy shit, dude.
Speaker 7: I even though this thing happened to me, I'm saying
it's never.
Speaker 2: It didn't happen to you. You did this to someone else.
Speaker 7: Yes, I can't exact.
Speaker 24: There, like drowning in this blood Okay, sorry, sorry, I'm
talking about the feeling of hunger.
Speaker 2: I know what you meant, and.
Speaker 7: Also you're right, but yeah, yeah, I think uh. I
think because of the control that I was able to
get earlier, there's something still in me that is activating
that level of control. And I think I just white
knuckle my way out of this moment because it is
abhorrent to me that I did this. I don't want
to relive it, so like, even though I'm reliving it, obviously,
I don't. I want to get away from it as
fast as possible. So I think that sort of control
comes back and I'm able to pull myself out. Do
I get Do I get a turn?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 2: Unfortunately trying to break out? Ye yea, well it is.
It is a twenty eighth. I will allow you to
do a second move.
Speaker 6: I think anything under a thirty right now will allow
you to do something special.
Speaker 2: But why not? Uh, you are a deathless.
Speaker 7: I would like yeah, okay, I would like to lunch
forward to the body and put my hand on the
back of its head, slalling head and say that's too
miss or that, and then I would like to use
my power to expel whoever is in this body out
of this body?
Speaker 2: How do you imagine I'm doing do that?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, how do I imagine I would do that?
Speaker 8: Like?
Speaker 2: Where does that?
Speaker 6: Where does Constantine power so far, which we know is
like healing, translate to being able to expel this body out?
Speaker 7: This body is a foreign object, it's a foreign force,
or like this entity is a foreign force in this body.
I know this body is a life because I took it.
It does not belong, it does not deserve to be
used this way.
Speaker 2: But you are restoring your like healing at least.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry. Yes, I'm like as tut Manzola means, I'm sorry.
So I am pouring all of my feeling of remorse
and sorrow and apology, which obviously doesn't do anything because
I fucking killed her. But just to be clear, but
you know, I'm still yeah, yeah, that's how I'm thinking
of it.
Speaker 6: This one will be difficulty thirty or twenty, man, because
it's a new way of using a power that isn't
healing that you haven't done before.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we'll say thirty thirty. I'm feeling generous.
Speaker 7: Yep, thank you, Come on, man.
Speaker 2: Buses in the chat us is in the chat y'all,
So once again.
Speaker 8: I gotta wait for the buses. I'm just saying, good point.
Speaker 7: Good point.
Speaker 6: It's that situation of like, you can feel that your
power is malleable, you can shape it into whatever you
want in this world for whatever that reason is. You
you can feel that in your balance, but for some reason,
when you go to do this, you're unable to do so.
Speaker 2: And it might not be a failing on your part.
Speaker 6: It might just be that whoever you're fighting against has
a deathlike grip on this body.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, okay, I am going to make a move,
and then we're switching scenes to a gunner's arrival. My move, okay,
Stevan roll me uh mind defense please.
Speaker 8: Forty yep, okay, sixty eight.
Speaker 6: This thing is going to try to hop into you
and take you instead. So, however, there is going to
be oh boy, why don't you go Yeah?
Speaker 8: Sorry, it clearly doesn't need eye contact, right.
Speaker 6: Uh no, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, you're touching it though
you touched it. Yeah, So can you describe what it
feels like when this person like probes your brain and
is gonna trying to prepare to take over your body?
Speaker 8: M I think I suddenly feel like a tickle behind
my eye, and I kind of like shake it, you know,
maybe said eyelash or something. But then it feels like
more than one tickle. And then it feels like something's
crawling inside my head, like crawling around and like searching
for something inside my head. Okay, it's not even like
I know, it's like I realized it's not actually there,
but it just feels like I need to open my
skull and get these things out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we switch back at Corp's apartment.
Speaker 4: I don't know I am I by at this point
because time is going as the fight's happening. Single is
I'm sweeping the broken glass?
Speaker 2: Okay, window or comes in and breaks more crap, all right.
I just think that's a.
Speaker 8: Hilarious kool Aid bands through the wall.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hi, yeah, Gunner. So how do you arrive?
Speaker 6: I imagine you did your leap and then you kind
of go, you know, we're gliding down a little bit,
and then you were anime running real quick.
Speaker 9: I'm no, I'm on rooftops, jumping rooftop to rooftop, not
subtly at all. I'm I'm like using my all fours
on each pounds to jump even farther towards Cora's apartment.
Speaker 8: Okay, and I'm making.
Speaker 23: A lot of noise, yep, okay, all right, like it's
really barbaric.
Speaker 9: And yes, I come crashing through the other window of
the apartment.
Speaker 4: I stand up, I drop the broom and look at
Cora and I say, I'm not I'm done.
Speaker 8: Fuck done.
Speaker 5: I come rolling in like right through the no in
a flash so fast, and I get ab off the
ground and I'm looking at mook and I.
Speaker 4: Lie to my head, quickly goes into my pocket for
the light time.
Speaker 5: Hello, oh no oh.
Speaker 2: I was like, did we lose zams?
Speaker 8: Going to okay?
Speaker 10: Send no?
Speaker 25: I I want to grab your neck, will.
Speaker 5: And I get you up against the wall. Easy the
fuck are you?
Speaker 4: I'm I'm a mook and you all need to figure
out better introductions. Then grabbing me by the neck and
breaking into Cora's apartment and I look at Cora.
Speaker 10: Is she.
Speaker 5: Close by?
Speaker 17: I'm standing there holding a piece of cardboard that I
found for the one broken window, and I think I'm
so startled at his entrance that I just I'm like staring,
going what the and then finally kind of snap out
of it. And go Gunnar Gunner. Let let him go,
Let him go. This is this is mooke.
Speaker 10: We'll happen rest the restaurant in trouble.
Speaker 9: Pretty pretty frantic bomb holding mook against the wall. I'm
looking at you and my face. I'm looking pretty distraught.
Speaker 5: I saw Constantine, Shadow Spider.
Speaker 13: I'm sorry, Shadow Spider.
Speaker 5: We need to go. We need to help them.
Speaker 17: Okay, yes, of course, where take us?
Speaker 5: And I like golf Mike.
Speaker 4: They can't get used to that.
Speaker 10: Stalker. A voice comes from the corner of the room. Yes,
we need you out in the shadows, my friend, where
are they?
Speaker 5: Man? I forgot? Is my little friend doing anything?
Speaker 6: I think he held on to you the whole Yeah,
and he was. He was cleaning very very tight. Yeah,
he's not letting go of you.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: He also can feel your heart beating quickly, so he's
just like trying to stay as still as possible and
not bother you.
Speaker 8: I have a question, since I'm doing this other stuff,
is he's still covered.
Speaker 2: That's a great question that we'll figure out.
Speaker 23: When will he come out of hiding?
Speaker 6: If you would like him to, Like if you open
your coat, but I just imagine that you've closed it
and you're running and he was holding on for your life.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And so if you stand up, then yeah, maybe
there's a little you know, peeking of this thing.
Speaker 2: Is it like.
Speaker 5: Towards moo?
Speaker 2: Oh that's a great question. Oh yeah absolutely, Because you
said who are you? Yeah, so absolutely, he's also like, yeah,
who are you?
Speaker 17: You know?
Speaker 2: And so yeah, he's come out to look at you
moog so moo.
Speaker 6: You see this weird homunculous hand made from random body
parts and mostly fingers in a palm and the inside,
the little soft area between your thumb and your index
finger there is sewn in an owl eye. It's very large,
and it is looking at you. It also has some
teeth sewn into it as well, in a haphazard manner.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Hello, there you shine. Even though I've had a great
practice looking at things that aren't retty, it's still a bit.
Speaker 2: Set a rod that I.
Speaker 9: Ha.
Speaker 2: Oh, that was good.
Speaker 5: I'll put my hand to mook shoulder generally. Now are
you away?
Speaker 10: Yes?
Speaker 4: Friend? Do you consider Cora a friend?
Speaker 10: And I look to.
Speaker 5: Cora, then back at Morgan. Do you know how to fight?
Does Cora know how to fight?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 25: Yes, yes, I'm useful in a pinch. So we're all
going then, and I'll lead them back to the window.
Speaker 2: I can't wait for Songer to be like, no, I'm
actually not going.
Speaker 10: I hear from the voice from the wall says we
cannot trust him, but it's better to bring him than
leave him behind. Now where did you leave them? I
might be able to get this there faster if we're
willing to risk it.
Speaker 2: I mean, four minutes is pretty fast, if.
Speaker 5: We can get there fast, get us there.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but it is by the club and which you
brought the blood from.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, yep, go ahead and make a roll soccer.
This is going to be difficulty thirty.
Speaker 10: Mmm, do you know what I'm doing? I'm assuming you.
Speaker 4: Know what I'm doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I assume it's layers, right, Yes.
Speaker 6: Okay, yep, don't think I didn't recognize your sneaky fucking
way to find out.
Speaker 2: Of course, can fight.
Speaker 6: That was very clever, and I'm just gonna announce it
to everyone so we can all suspect you.
Speaker 10: Can Coora fight reminding us for information this whole time.
Speaker 4: I don't know what you're talking about. I'm just a clown.
I'm just a silly little idiot.
Speaker 10: You said, thy right.
Speaker 2: That's right. Oh my god. Forty four failure doubles. Okay,
I just.
Speaker 10: Want everyone to know I haven't had a successful role
in like three weeks. I'm gonna buy a lottery ticket.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that's a good idea.
Speaker 8: If that works out, it's worth forty four.
Speaker 2: Yep, forty four. Okay.
Speaker 6: So I think I gotta be honest with you. I
think you do this thing.
Speaker 2: You're trying to open layers and get there, right, You're
trying to bet fold space and layer yourself. You're going
to succeed at folding the space, and then as soon
as you get in, it spreads out again and you're
going to be trapped inside with this thing.
Speaker 10: By myself.
Speaker 2: No, all of you. How will you take with you? Yep,
the four of you are going to go into realms.
Speaker 6: Zero because I don't think the failure would hit until
you're there.
Speaker 2: That's the doubles of the forty four. So what does
it look like when you do this?
Speaker 10: What does the portal look like? That It's like it's
always been my claw like vampire and tears open a
portal through thin air, and it's like a like a
wound in time and it is smoky and purple, and
I tear it open wide enough for us to step through,
and I walk in.
Speaker 4: For the record, Cora, I much prefer your method of
travel then this.
Speaker 13: Well, at least he knows what he's doing, all right.
Speaker 5: I walk in, take a step towards the chair, and
I reach a hand to Cora.
Speaker 4: I need you.
Speaker 17: I don't take his hand, but I do follow because
I wasn't there the second time he failed opening layers.
I was only there the first time after the fight,
so I don't know that. I don't know about the
presence and that it didn't work in the past. So
I would be like, okay, yeah, let's take this. Yep,
they're walking this one, and I guess I would follow
after Gunner Yep.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 6: So we see the four of them, one by one,
slowly entering this torn space in which Stalker has opened,
and then once they're in, we see this folded paper
of reality kind of put itself back together, and we
switched scenes.
Speaker 2: Back to you two last round. What do you do
rest them? On Europe? You're muted.
Speaker 8: I think Constantin is supposed to go before me.
Speaker 2: I don't think.
Speaker 8: I don't think so, because I rolled doubles in the initiative,
so I went.
Speaker 2: Second after const a mind palace that has set their
thing back. Yep, you go first.
Speaker 8: Sorry, I didn't mean to do that. That was actually
this accidental, No, I mean this. Yeah, so I'm feeling
these things in my head. Still I could still do something.
Speaker 2: Oh that was your turn, wasn't it was? Yeah, you
were defending.
Speaker 8: I'm going to I'm going to, I guess, let go
of the legs and try to protect myself by covering
myself like I did to the hand.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is.
Speaker 8: This is an ability of mine now, but still just
the same thing, right, because they're doing something.
Speaker 2: Okay, so this is it. Difficulty will be forty.
Speaker 6: But essentially what's going to happen here is if you succeed,
it's going to give her a negative shift on her
second role to try to.
Speaker 2: Take you over.
Speaker 6: She needs to roll three successes in order to take
over your body, okay, or invade your body.
Speaker 8: I should say twenty seven, right, so.
Speaker 6: Wow, okay, yep, you're going to give her a pretty
heavy shift in fighting you. So you a positive defense
shift against the next role.
Speaker 2: Yep, Constantine, what do you do.
Speaker 7: If I can heal, I can harm, so I if
I can make people feel good, I can make them
feel fucking awful. So I filled with Now I think
I'm now filled with anger and rage. I have tried
to heal, trying to get this entity out of this body.
That's still my goal because I think that the only
power she has is through having this body. Otherwise, why
would she be using it. It's fucking useless now, you know,
like it's just a body. Why is she using it?
Why are they using it? Just to be clear, So
I would like to attempt to do what I did
last time, but this time I am trying to expel
them from this body.
Speaker 2: Using hatred.
Speaker 7: Using hatred.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: This is actually exactly how magic work in the other world.
So you can have a shift for this. So instead
of forty, we're gonna go for forty five. Give you
a five shift because you're.
Speaker 2: Doing the same thing, but instead of using like your
sorrow and your sadness, you're gonna use your rage, and
depending on your role, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 10: Go for it, dude, it.
Speaker 6: Okay, seventy four Constantine just the rough roles today. Yeah,
but I think uh, Constantine, I would like to give
you the knowledge that as you switch from this self
loathing orse from the desire to heal and remorse to
this like loathing and even maybe a little bit of
self loathing for what you have done, and all of
this is compounding, you will feel the fire, you will
feel power, you will feel magic course through your veins.
But you're unable to wield it properly yet. But you
know it's there for you to use. You just aren't
really sure how to use it yet. But you have
learned something, and that is that emotional resonance matters when
you're spell casting.
Speaker 7: Okay, yep, can I make a Can I move as well?
Or yeah? Then I would like to move away from
the body. Yeah, I would like to skid at all
speed speed out of there and just kind of like
this vampire.
Speaker 2: I just imagine it's like a like a like a yeah,
just a just back up and it looks like it's
just teleported. Yeah, okay, yeah, yeherfect exactly all right now,
defense rules, that's the box yep. Okay, So instead of forty,
it's gonna be forty, it's gonna be fifty fifty to
fifty shot Okay, now she gives three successes here she
will invade your body.
Speaker 8: And we don't know what she looks like for real yet,
because right, no, no, no.
Speaker 14: Why.
Speaker 8: Fourteen?
Speaker 2: Okay, what does it think?
Speaker 8: As as I'm feeling this and I'm struggling against it,
I feel her trying to take like my will from me. Yeah,
and this is like I'm in it's not quite bits
sort of panic, but it's it's like, you know, I
have lost so much. I have had everything taken from me.
The last thing the only thing I have kept time
and time again is my will, and I will not
let anyone take this from me, no matter how hard
they try. And I am just that's just like full focus.
If all this stuff is like if the tentacles are
probably pouring into my ears or anything, I feel that
it is going to help me stop this thing, all right.
Speaker 6: The shadows cover over you in case you and protect you,
and I think maybe potentially it looks like it's seeping
into your skin and then back out and then back
in again. As it's kind of you, you're merging with
the shadow power that you have in order to kind
of protect yourself from being invaded.
Speaker 2: And that's where we end the episode with YouTube facing
off against this marionette in the alleyway and the other
four having just slipped into another layer of space.
Speaker 8: Can I yell something at her before you stop?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, so you know it.
Speaker 8: It was a threat.
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Speaker 12: Oh my god.