Speaker 1: Deathless is an improvised cinematic narrative with live production, including
music and of course dialogue. There is no script as such.
The story contains violence, disturbing retrey, adult themes, and a
darkness which may leave you doubting who you are. You
proceed at your own risk.
Speaker 2: LOGETI shape shame.
Speaker 1: Hoget that you say, stand up for the things you
can't stand.
Speaker 3: For.
Speaker 4: This episode of Deathless, the players are going to be
playing different characters. But before you think of skipping ahead,
these characters are very, very important. The players just don't
know it yet. They were given five different biographies to
choose from, and today we're joining four of them. And
today we join four of them. Dead Eye has been
kissed by death, herself known to all as a walking corpse.
Her appearance alone is enough to shatter the masquerade, making
the night a treacherous time for her. She is a
shadow that lingers on the edges of society, a silhouette
of control and mastery, wielding power with a quiet, lethal precision.
But the past has a way of catching up, and
her every step is haunted by the consequences of her
past and decisions that one seemed necessary. A predator, being
hunted even as she remains the hunter. Pulse Rate a
name that carries with it an unspoken understanding of his
unnerving ability, a talent to perfection, capable of sensing the
subtle shifts in truth and falsehood with a precision gifted
only to the supernatural. His intellect is sharp, unforgiving, and
the blood that courses through his veins is potent, enriched
by the life blood of his kind, giving him a
power that you can almost feel, a raw surge of
energy thrumbing from his skin. Yet for all his composure
and control, there is a hunger within him, a gnawing
need at whispers of the lengths they've gone in order
to maintain their edge. The Visionary, as he is known,
is a name whispered with equal parts reverence and fear.
Within the chantrys hallowed halls. Time often whispers secrets to
the Visionary, allowing them to glimpse what others cannot. Draped
in the luxuries of a destiny foretold, they are a paradox,
a creature of immense power beyond the weight of their
own pitaittal. Beneath the layers of privilege and expectation, there
is a brittleness to them, a frigility that hints at
the cost of their gift. Not all strength is physical,
and the mind, though powerful, is capable of turning on
itself in moments of weakness. Moog is a figure of
quiet allure, a subtle magnetic pull that draws others in
without them ever realizing it. There is an eerie beauty
to the flame that flickers just outside their door, enchanting
those who see it, luring them closer, like moths to
a deadly flame. Humans find themselves standing at Moog's threshold,
unaware of how they arrived, and before they know it,
they are at Mug's mercy, their memories blurred, their blood
enriched to a potent sweetness that makes the feast all
the more satisfying. But Moog's true danger lies not in
their fire or their surreptitious ability to feed, but in
the subtle, incitious way they control and consume, leaving nothing
behind but the lingering scent of smoke and the echo
of a forgotten memory. All Trameir, all located within the
Tramir chantry in New Orleans, and that is where we begin.
So I think we agreed that you were all sired
New Year's nineteen ninety correct, So it's been five years
since you've been sired, and why don't we go around
actually and do one thing that one moment that you
all shared with each other. So like we'll start with
Mergs and then you pick somebody and then you will go, Okay,
this is one memory that we have and we share together.
In the last five years, you all work very closely together.
You all do work very closely together. So for the
last four years it's kind of been like Tramer chantry school.
And if you don't know too much about the chantry,
it's kind of like the it's the Tramer church ish
kind of thing, and it's their way they kind of
do their organization. There's like a big library blood magic
knowledge and experimentation with magic is very very popular among
the Trimer. So I will say that in New Orleans,
the Tramer kind of dances between the Sabbat and the Camarilla. Technically,
they're serving the Camarilla and they're following the Camarilla's laws
and rules. I think the temptation to align with the
Sabbat is always there and has always been there for
the Tramer because it would allow them to just kind
of have the freedom to do a lot more experimentation.
I think the threat of annihilation from the Camarilla is
also very present. So although some of you you might
have feelings of, yes, it would be nice to why
can't we just join the Sabat since they're almost definitely
the dominant leader here in New Orleans. If we did
that vocally, then the Camarilla might send a bunch of
people to exterminate the Trimir, and in fact they do
in nineteen ninety eight, I think they do send a
bunch of people to exterminate some Tramer clan that vocally
allies themselves with the Sabat. So just a little background
on the Trimir. If you did not know that, any
other cool tidbits trench that I'm missing on the Trimir
that might be fun to include.
Speaker 2: I think you got all the basic stuff. They particularly
the gang Grail and the Smeeche hate them a whole
bunch because those are two. I mean, this was ages
ago that they experimented on them. But you know, people
don't forget, so we're vampires, don't. Yeah, but I think
you got it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yes, they do experimentations of vampires. Yes, yeah,
you know, and over time they obviously have you know,
their own bloodline and abilities that's been changed, but they
have been known to experiment on other vampires, which is
obviously a big no no. So okay, yeah, let's go
around and do one thing that you guys have shared
during your school time. You sent air quotes for the
school time.
Speaker 5: I'm going first, if that's all right, Yeah, please go ahead.
I convinced, forced coerced all of you to join me
breaking into a movie theater in the middle of the night,
killing whoever was inside because I wanted to watch the
opening weekend of water World came out July twenty eighth,
and I think it's a visionary film. I think it's
really going to be the future. And I forced you
all to sit and watch it with me, and it
was a very important moment for me. I don't get
out much, you know, So.
Speaker 4: Who's next?
Speaker 2: That's pretty good. I politely requested that Moog go with
me in nineteen ninety three to the Louisiana super Dome
to see the Sugar Bowl between where the Alabama Crimson
Tide beat the Miami Hurricanes to win the National championship.
As I am a big fan of the Crimson Tide
of Alabama.
Speaker 5: Are you saying you didn't invite me?
Speaker 4: No you're aren't you the one that's the known dead person?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can't go. Everyone will know you're dead, and
it'll be breaking the masquerade.
Speaker 5: It's this all over again every time I ask m m.
Speaker 2: Oh, I love it.
Speaker 4: I love it so much. Okay, okay, who's next? Greg?
You're up? Yeah? I hi.
Speaker 1: Actually asked very politely to accompany him over to that
sports game, and I manipulated the dead one to go
ahead and as we can all go see water World
and kill the entire theater.
Speaker 5: It was my idea.
Speaker 1: M m oh, my mistake. Yes, that was your idea.
Speaker 5: It's a visionary film. It's the future.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Kevin Costner, I heard he stood up for that
film himself against the executives. Why wouldn't we go see it?
And I thank you for making that your idea.
Speaker 5: A hero among men?
Speaker 2: It was crazy, man. They had to drink their own pears.
Speaker 5: I had to drink my own piss ones.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, we all know.
Speaker 2: Not this story again.
Speaker 5: I mean it's a pretty good one.
Speaker 4: You're left out, hey, porkish, that's great. Rather, Yes, I.
Speaker 6: Caught Moove in a lie impossible and he knows it.
M hm, a lie that might turn others against him.
Speaker 1: To define against really, so he owes me mm hmm
for my silence. Loose loose favor really just a tiny
little thing.
Speaker 5: What is it? Tell me?
Speaker 4: Ooh, he owes you a favor? Does he?
Speaker 3: Okay, unless he wants me to tell.
Speaker 5: I want to know.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what they say. Opposition and opportunity are
just a couple of letters away.
Speaker 5: Oh p p oh are don't.
Speaker 4: Think about it too hard, dear, h okay, I like that.
So we're going to start inside the chantry. And in
New Orleans it's like a very ornate, mostly library. But
if a church and a library could have a baby,
that's what this chantry is. There are a lot of
secret corridors. There are a lot of different sections, not
all one massive library, but you might have a library
focused on the early seventeen hundreds or something like that.
But there's a lot of information in here, scrolls, things
like that for studying, for magic, and for experimentation. It
is safe to say that you are all very familiar
with all areas of the chantry. There are some forbidden areas,
but you know what they are. Okay, that's for ritual experimentation,
that's for this But they've been very open with you
about what is where and where you can and cannot go.
So that's something that you're very familiar with. There is
an open area of this expansive library for the public
to come in and enjoy the library. Those books are
obviously maybe.
Speaker 5: Not so.
Speaker 4: Educational as to what you all are doing, but I
think you do pay attention to who is picking out
what books. Nothing ever really interesting, i'd say in the
last five years, where somebody has come to pick up
a book that was on the no go list, or
you might have books that are on a list for
you to go. Oh, this person might be a potential
sire because they're interested in the things that we're interested in.
Or rather a child, not a sire, but we are
going to sire this person. So once again, you do
know that it's very unusual for a group of people
to be sired on the same night for the true
but the way that the Tremier sire is based on
the clan's needs. But nothing was ever said to you
about why you were sired together or what the plans
for you are other than maybe a couple of you.
I think it's understood that there's expectation that you will
rise in the ranks of the chantry, but nothing else
about why you've been gathered. So it's been relatively calm,
i'd say, the last five years. However, you are now
about to graduate and I'm using quotes for that in
the form of the chantry, and you will be given
roles in the chantry shortly. So maybe talking and discussing
about what your roles might be is something that is
commonly done. It's kind of like, once you get your role,
that's it. That's what you do until they move you,
because that's just your assignment. So I think it's fairly
reasonable to assume what some of your role might be
based on the skills that you've been exhibiting. But nobody's
given you your role yet. So we're going to start
within the library. You are all here for maybe some
downtime from whatever it was that you were doing and
whatever it is that you're about to do, whether it's
making rounds around the chantry. Mostly right now, you do
menial work, clergy work for the researchers. You haven't really
done any serious experimentation on your own. Yeah, but we'll
start in the library. It is dark, it's raining outside.
You can hear the pitter patter on the window. There
are candles in the chantry. There are a lot of
individuals that can't use technology here, so you'll see things
like floating candles, or candles that never die. The flame
never goes out, they never need to be re lit,
things like that. So it's very moody lighting here. And
I will give you all the floor.
Speaker 5: I'm just saying it makes me cry every time.
Speaker 2: Oh what, he's still talking about water World again.
Speaker 5: No, Charlotte's Web, Okay, when Charlotte dies, she dies.
Speaker 4: You didn't know that.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 1: I made it like I don't know chapter in and
then I started to read the first, middle, and last
page of each chapter, and then I just kind of
got bored.
Speaker 5: You're a waste.
Speaker 1: I've been called worse. And I'm playing with the flames
that never go out, trying to get one of them out.
Speaker 5: I am cleaning a sniper rifle.
Speaker 7: I have.
Speaker 2: A stack of books, half of them I brought with
me that are stacked up around me. As I'm turning
through them and reading them.
Speaker 4: Can we know what books?
Speaker 6: Do you know?
Speaker 2: That's it? Yeah, so the books I brought in, there's
a couple of books about mythology, and the other books
are science and physics books. And I've definitely been seen
with these before. I have tons of both of these
types of books in my apartment, and I've been reading
these sorts of things for five years.
Speaker 4: Okay, book, I will say, you have no problem manipulating
this fire this point.
Speaker 1: Oh, you are one of the few that's unexpected, but
a wonderful man.
Speaker 2: Don't put that out. I'm trying to read.
Speaker 1: They say, can't be put out, and yet here I
am putting it out. And then I well leap frog
from each flame, and as soon as one goes out,
I may reignite the other, and I just kind of
play with it that way, so that way you cannot read.
Speaker 2: I grab one and pull it close to me and
try to cover it up with my hands.
Speaker 1: Careful, you'll burn yourself again.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna be burning myself. If I get burned,
I know who it is.
Speaker 3: Uh huh, it's your own faulty.
Speaker 1: And then I make the flame go a little hot,
little hotter, a little lodger.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to just read.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to help you read more. It's not the learning,
I just like, it's more the vehicle behind it.
Speaker 2: All Right, I'm in my vehicle. You get yours and
leave mine alone.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm perfectly happy in my fele believe me? Are
you really?
Speaker 5: What the fuck are you two talking about?
Speaker 1: Just play with your gun please, and don't put out
your eye.
Speaker 5: Sorry, Paul's what was that.
Speaker 3: Thing?
Speaker 1: Uh huh.
Speaker 5: I'm just saying, imagine we get our assignments right, and
we do them so well that one day a spider
will write some peg in a windowsill that'll be special.
Speaker 1: Why are you so concerned with special in doing a
good job. You'll do the job that you're meant to
do for to be picked from our merits and our
skills and our abilities. It only makes sense that we
shouldn't have to try.
Speaker 5: You ever, wonder where Stallion went? Remember he was all
about how he didn't have to try and I I
don't know about you, but I haven't seen him in
a couple of years.
Speaker 1: He's not trying to be seen clearly.
Speaker 5: I'm just saying, don't get comfortable. You know, everything can
always be taken away, especially when you're not in control.
And I'd like to remind you, as great as you
think you are, we are the spiders of this place,
and squshed under a boot uh huh.
Speaker 1: The old boots and make us fear and tremble in
front of it, and yet we're meant to praise it
and kiss it at the same time. I'm just saying,
try a little less harder, and maybe you'll feel a
little more comfortable, and through that comfort, maybe you'll achieve
what you wish.
Speaker 5: This comfort is not a luxury that I have, and
you know it, yes, And then I look up and down.
Speaker 1: I suppose not.
Speaker 5: I'm unfazed by this look up and down. I get
it so often it means nothing.
Speaker 4: How are you treated in the chantry? Do you think?
Speaker 5: I think people like talking to me when they cannot
see me. They don't like being reminded what I look like.
I think that our kind likes to pretend we're as
far from death as possible, that we're untouched by it,
And unfortunately I'm a reminder that the flesh can rot.
Speaker 4: I happen to agree with all of that. I think
it's probably a situation of pity if vampires could feel
pity for each other. Yeah, these are probably the only
people you really talk to on a regular basis. Yeah,
please continue.
Speaker 5: What do you think you'll get? Where do you think
they'll put you?
Speaker 1: Oh? I don't know. I suppose I'll get what I
get and I won't get upset on her. Maybe something
out in the field, though, I would love to just
play with the toys out there, the little puppets. There's
strings on you.
Speaker 5: To see the stars.
Speaker 1: Ah, yes, the stars in their pictures.
Speaker 5: What about you, paulse.
Speaker 3: What I will be nice to you.
Speaker 7: Me?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Whatever basement, the lowest level, wherever they choose to hide
me away. It's a shame, though I'm a pretty good eye.
I'll never see it.
Speaker 1: You can go out once a year at least. Surely
maybe they'll have me making the.
Speaker 5: New library cards. That could be nice stamps. I love
the smell of the ink.
Speaker 1: I am going to figure out how to get you
out more than once a year, though, stamps and inks.
Speaker 5: Hey, vision, what about you?
Speaker 2: I look up for my book. Well, I know what
one of y'all is gonna be. I got a feeling
about myself, giving my proclivities and as much as the
chance for it seems to enjoy when I do what
I do. But the rest of y'all, who knows you,
all the possibilities are undless. You could get eaten by
dragon tomorrow and you don't get positioned anywhere?
Speaker 7: Is that?
Speaker 5: Could that be an option?
Speaker 2: Anything is an option? Who can tell? I mean I
can tell, but not specifically right now.
Speaker 5: You can't tell me where you think I'll end up?
Speaker 2: Where you no, But I mean my guess would be
just about as good as yours. If you want me
to try to lay my hands upon your decrepit face
just to find out what job you're gonna get, because
I could do that if you get them to stop
flickering the lights.
Speaker 5: If you're offering decrepit face, I'll take the touch as
long as you can stomach it.
Speaker 2: Now, is there anything? This is me asking?
Speaker 1: Is there anything?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 6: What I know?
Speaker 2: Is there anything weird about her face that could affect
my hand that would it's just.
Speaker 4: The look, It's just the way she looks, that's correct.
Speaker 2: But I I really just put my hand right on
that face, and just is it working for you? Because
I'm getting nothing right now as I want my hand.
Speaker 1: Don't mush anything, please, it's got enough proper.
Speaker 5: This might be the first time I've been touched, like
in I don't know how recent. I can't remember the
last time I was touched. So I'm like frozen under
your hand.
Speaker 2: I'm holding my hand there and just I go back
to reading my book.
Speaker 4: I would like you to roll. Actually, okay, let's see.
Speaker 2: Is it a resolve plus aspects?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 4: Okay, thank you so much. And I think correct me
if I'm wrong. But I think it's safe to assume
that you're kind of half fasting this. This isn't something
that you're really This isn't a rouse check worth right,
This is just you putting your hand on and seeing
what happens. And if something happens, great, and if nothing happens,
oh well yeah.
Speaker 2: I think generally this is what if I'm really trying,
that's when I have to do the rouse check and
if something just hits me, you know, But this is
kind of I don't really think something's gonna happen though.
Is there any modifyer?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: No, modify difficulty two. Okay, it's their job.
Speaker 4: I think it's probably fine. I am okay, why don't
you describe for us?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: This is going to be fun and tricky because it
is technically a vision of the future, you think, But
I wonder how you receive these. I wonder what these
look like to you, because they're different for everyone. But
there is no job. But you see something, but there's
no assignment.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 4: It's not like you get nothing from them.
Speaker 2: I think in general, and I get the visions. It's
all my senses are overtaken, but they can vary. There
can be Probably most of the time, the ones that
get are flashes of images or sounds or smells and
things like that, where it's stuff we have to put together,
and very very rarely get something super specific, like a
specific image.
Speaker 4: Okay, so something smells and sounds.
Speaker 2: You said, yeah, smells any kind of sense.
Speaker 4: Okay, So then I think copper, there is a strong
smell of blood. You're very familiar with the sense, so
I will just give that to you. H there is
a dampness in the air that you smell. I'm assuming
that your senses are really honed then, because you do
this a lot where you're getting these visions and you're
focusing on what you can taste and smell and hear
and maybe not see and you try to maybe ignore
the images because you've learned over time that when you
try to focus on what you're seeing, it's almost distracting
because a wall is a wall is a wall, and
you're never going to be able to see unless it's
somewhere that you're absolutely intricately intimately involved in this area.
Would you be able to recognize it later or like
in a vision where you go, oh, yeah, that's the
Chantry Library. It just doesn't happen that way. So over
time you've learned to ignore what you see and focus
only on the other senses. So in this case, you
smell a dampness, You definitely smell lots of blood. There
is a foul stench that you can't quite place either,
and entrails.
Speaker 2: So as this happens, though, and my hand is just
sitting on their face. When it happens, my hand, you know,
I'm not too strong, so it's not that big a deal,
but it will tighten around their face, and I think
at this point, after five years, they would know that
I'm getting something and that there's some vision coming, and
I would pretty much go stiff. I would probably my
head would slam down into my book until the moment
where it came back up. I imagine this would be
very quick though, and it's just all those senses just
processed very quickly, or a smaller one, and then my
head would come up. I'd take my hand back. They're
gonna keep you busy doing something. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well that's as long as I'm not dead.
Speaker 2: I don't know you live and.
Speaker 1: Well live.
Speaker 2: Can't say so much for other people. But you're doing
your thing. Okay, No dragon's eating you just yet.
Speaker 5: Thanks. This is good news.
Speaker 4: This is good news.
Speaker 2: I'll go back to reading. I'm reading about spiders right
now in a mythological sense. Oh yeah, the Greeks that
thought that, uh, the goddess Athena had turned the lady
into uh spider because she was too proud. You know,
she's really good at weaving, challenging to a contest, and uh,
well she didn't like what she weaves. I thought it
was a bit too presumptuous of uh, of a mortal
to weave a picture of the gods themselves and boom
does forget the spider.
Speaker 5: Sounds familiar, doesn't it? A kind of like gesture around
me at the chantry.
Speaker 1: Why is that what happened at the end of Charlotte's
Web the Spider?
Speaker 5: Yes, it is.
Speaker 1: Done something every day. I suppose Spider's Web is part
of Greek mythology in a sense connections.
Speaker 5: Man, the Greeks were fucking weird, man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of this stuff is about punishing people
for getting too uppity to the god.
Speaker 5: So why are gods so concerned? You know, like it
seems pretty uh heady week to care so much about
what mortals do.
Speaker 1: Perhaps the difference between the Boots and the Spider isn't
as much as they would have us believe it is. Yeah,
some pig, I don't understand that reference.
Speaker 5: It's fine, so false. You said you know.
Speaker 4: What you said?
Speaker 5: You know where you're going to end up?
Speaker 3: Yes, so.
Speaker 5: Share with the class.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: You want to know where I will be or where
you will be?
Speaker 5: You I know where I'll be. He just read my future,
not in a dragon.
Speaker 1: Have you made that clear?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, I think that it's likely I'll be exactly
where I belong.
Speaker 5: According to who though, like the Greek gods?
Speaker 3: No where do you think the Greek gods would put you.
Speaker 6: Me?
Speaker 5: Haven't I been punished enough already?
Speaker 1: Right you are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, underwhel that's what you make underwhel.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a basement, That's what I said before.
Speaker 4: It's at this moment, as you're talking, you see two
chantry members enter in through the east doors. They're in
a little bit of a hurry. They're talking to each
other in hush tones, and they scurry across the floor
and head out the back doors.
Speaker 5: Do we know these chantry members?
Speaker 4: You can roll? Sure?
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 4: Let's see.
Speaker 5: I would like to think that I'm like a lingerer.
You know, I don't get out much. I like to
think you know, I'm no slick, you know, Frisbee, go.
Speaker 4: Ahead and do a social role. Okay, what you got
on your sheet here? Yeah, this is going to be around.
I was gonna say, we'll do like awareness and you
don't have any like etiquettes. That's okay, that's okay, we'll
figure this out here. Let's do Let's do either any
mental skill that you want plus your awareness.
Speaker 5: Okay, or you were just you were describing last session
the difference between intelligence and wits.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so intelligence is in this system. It's you. It's
kind of like your your book smarts. Yeah, your ability
to kind of cast magic and things like that, whereas
your wits is what you would use to not get
so easily trapped by somebody else's mind both which I
always think is resolve, but it's not always resolve. Resolve
is sometimes just your ability to just maintain a spell,
almost like concentration in D and D from what I understand.
Speaker 5: Okay, so intelligence is like being able to write the essay,
and wits is being able to get out of the
escape room.
Speaker 4: Yes, okay, that's perfect.
Speaker 5: Cool. I'm gonna go with wits and then awareness difficulty
too if that okay, This.
Speaker 4: Is really just to see kind of chance if you
know them or not.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, what do we get for successes out.
Speaker 3: Of the two?
Speaker 4: Needed? Amazing? So you do recognize them? Who are they?
They are?
Speaker 5: Sharon and Valfa are.
Speaker 4: Sharon and balf As are Okay.
Speaker 5: Sharon is relatively new, I think, like from the early eighties,
so not that much older than us. But Balthazar has
been around for a while, and I don't really know
how old they are. And I do see them hanging
out with Sharon every now and again, but it never
makes sense to me why, Like, it doesn't make sense
to me that they'd be friends, and I'm fairly certain
that Balthazar didn't sire Sharon, and I've noticed that they
do spend a lot of time together recently, but it
just doesn't make sense to me. I don't know of
any assignment that would have led them together that sort
of thing.
Speaker 4: Okay, one of these individuals is kind to you, Which
one is it?
Speaker 5: I think balthasars.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so too, That's what I would have
said as well. He's unusually kind to you. Not that
anyone in the chantry is particularly mean girling you, because
that would be looked down upon. But there is very
much an air of oh, you will never be great,
You will never be someone that we need to worry about.
You will never be someone that will threaten my power.
So there's always that when people are speaking to you,
even if they're being polite.
Speaker 5: I think when Sharon speaks to me, she doesn't look
at my face. She looks at my clothes, looks at
your collar maybe yeah, or like off in the distance.
Speaker 4: I think this is a good time for you to
describe what you look like.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I look like a course, I look dead,
I look like I have been rotting for a long time.
And my face is palk marked and flesh eaten, and
just sort of I still look approximately enough like a
person that you can recognize that I was a person once,
And I'm sure it feels I can imagine how disconcerting
it is to look on me.
Speaker 4: Look at me.
Speaker 5: My skin is like a very pallid grayish tone, and
there are throbbing blue veins all over my very paper
thin skin, hanging over my skull. And I'm not particularly
like skeletal, which I think makes it even worse, because
it's like the flesh that was eaten, you can really
see where it's been taken from where it's gone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if I may, there is one particular rather large
pock mark that's just a bit off center, and whenever
I speak to her, I stare directly at that. I
find it a bit easier to look there then anywhere
else in a gorgeous face.
Speaker 4: Do you ever have moments of mental weakness where you
wonder why you, out of the rest of them, since
you all share the same sire, ended up this way?
Speaker 5: Of course, of course I hate that about me. I
hate that I think that way, because I think it
would be so much better if I could just handle
it with dignity, you know. But sometimes when I look
at a pulse, especially when I look at Visionary, just
eats me up, burns me up, you know, like I
used to be beautiful once. Why let the flower die?
Speaker 4: If you had to pick one person to trade with,
who would it be?
Speaker 5: Would I be them? Or would I be me? But
with their abilities, you would be you.
Speaker 4: With your abilities, they would just have the disease that
you have.
Speaker 5: Visionary.
Speaker 1: Interesting, I thought for sure it was me.
Speaker 4: I also thought for sure it was.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 5: Then you're not a sweet talker. You don't touch my face.
Speaker 1: That would be a sweet toucher, then, wouldn't it.
Speaker 5: You could find out.
Speaker 1: Another time. I don't want to overstimulate you.
Speaker 4: That's a good opportunity for you to describe what you
look like.
Speaker 1: I look like a rock star, I am. My hair
is messy, but very purposefully so I have it's nineteen
ninety five. Yes, I have nineteen ninety five sideburns, for sure.
I usually wear shirts in which I can leave unbuttoned,
maybe a button too much undone for sum's comfort. I'm lean,
I'm tall, I'm tattooed all up and down. It's if
you were to just it's just you couldn't discern one
tattoo from another. They all lead together in a tapestry of.
Speaker 3: Beauty and chaos.
Speaker 4: Perfect visionary. What about you, Well, I.
Speaker 2: Look a bit more put together now than I did
five years ago. I am currently wearing I guess you
call a golf shirt, and it's tucked into some it's
a plain old chinos or kahaki pants or whatever you
might call it, but they're tucked in kind of coming out.
I have on a trucker hat still, well, I have
taken it off since I got in a library to
reveal what is clearly a regular boy's haircut. That one
might get a lollipop for getting just that level of basic,
just a basic playing part on the side, and everybody
would know that I don't even like to dress up
this much. This is only because somebody is trying to
improve my decorum and the way I look. I have
I would say, they would know my advisor, my mentor,
who is assigned to me to improve me to better
function in this particular society. His name is Edward, and
the longer he is not around, the more untucked my
shirt becomes. But to say, as long as my face
is not particularly ugly. It's not particularly attractive. I'd say
it's quite angular, quite long. His chin probably sticks out
a little bit wiry, not particularly it doesn't look like
he was in shape at that point.
Speaker 4: Oldrick, by the way, is your mentor's last name, so
Edward Aldrich. And I think it's well known in this
group that there are only two with mentors or people
that they can easily rely on very quickly, And that's
probably because they're expected to rise up in the ranks
and have great responsibility. So the visionary does have somebody
that's taken quite an interest in him, specifically and educating him.
Pulse rat, what about you.
Speaker 6: I am short, probably five six, I have unkempt air
and unkempt clothing, probably wear a hoodie, and I keep
it up often.
Speaker 3: I'm thin.
Speaker 6: And not very.
Speaker 3: Muscled. I don't talk much. I keep to myself, and.
Speaker 7: That is.
Speaker 3: Sort of obvious by the way, I hope myself.
Speaker 4: Very reserved and very still controlled.
Speaker 3: Yes, all right, Now back to.
Speaker 4: These two people that you recognize as they are scurrying
across the and by scurrying, I don't mean on all fours.
I mean they're just moving very quickly from one end
of the chantry to the other. Authors are would normally
always take a moment to acknowledge you, maybe even just
a short nod, But this time it's like he doesn't
even know you're there. And that's very strange because he's
usually very observant.
Speaker 5: Hm, I get up, and I would like to follow them.
I just I just get up and I walk. Yeah,
and I follow them.
Speaker 4: Does anyone go with her? Or do you all stay?
Is this normal behavior for you? Sometimes you'll just get
up and wander off.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because no one pays attention to me. No one
gives a shit. So it's like I could disappear and
it would be fine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I will still give to the floor. Since
you all were in the middle of a conversation, you
all see this as well. You see these two vampires
kind of like scurry off. They're they're higher than you
will say that in terms of stance within the chantry.
Does anyone go with her?
Speaker 2: I've currently moved over to reading some sort of a
science book, and without looking up and still reading the book,
I stay end up and start walking after her. Okay,
y'all might want to come along.
Speaker 1: Yes, all right seeing what she was getting up to
this time.
Speaker 4: Okay, one person in the group, we're gonna do an
awareness role. You can choose whoever has the strongest just
so that we're not spending time everybody rolling for the
same thing. However, if the role fails, it means you
all fail. So that's why I'm allowing you to choose
whoever's got the strongest stats for.
Speaker 2: This might be me, it's definitely not me, as I
have I have heightened senses, so I have my aspecks
right into all perception roles.
Speaker 1: So that's.
Speaker 2: A total of what is the perception role?
Speaker 1: This is just awareness and.
Speaker 4: Awareness and wits.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's eight die for me. Yeah, okay, you don't mind.
Speaker 5: Yeah, please?
Speaker 2: And then what difficulty.
Speaker 4: Too? I promised you it wouldn't be hard forever. Okay,
those are four successes out of the two required. Uh So,
I think when you make it through these doors, I
mean they went very quickly, so about the time you
got up and followed after them. When you open the doors,
you don't see them anymore. But there's only so many
different ways they could have gone. So I think you
probably you know, you know this place, you're assuming and
you choose the right door to go behind. Again, you
don't see them, but you know this is kind of
probably where they went, whether it was a squeaking door,
or maybe it was left slightly ajar, or you could
just tell that it had just been closed with a
little bit of movement that you can catch with your
vampiric eye. But when you go in to this third room,
you do see a figure hunched over a tome, and
she is all at once both mundane but also very
unsettling to look at. She was wearing simple dark robes,
but they seem to absorb the light around her, so
it seems to get a little dark just around where
she is, almost as if the shadow has been to
her will. She's pale, very pale, and I think that's
all I'll do for now, and none of you recognize her,
but she does notice you, and she looks up and
locks eyes with you. First looks you straight in the eye,
you will notice, yes, and then moves from one to
the other and surveys all of you before looking back
to you. Since you are in the lead, and by
you I mean are walking undead, but I will say
that pulse rate, you will notice that her pulse is
very visible, slow, steady, controlled, but you would get the
sense that she's doing it absolutely on purpose, visibly displaying
a pulse, and that might strike you as a little
bit odd, like she's putting energy into making her pulse
a little bit more visible. I'm assuming you approach or
do you have a sidebar before you go up to her?
Speaker 2: Do we see the other two?
Speaker 4: No, they're not in here anymore, but you see this individual. Yep,
just her.
Speaker 5: She looks me in the eyes. What do her eyes
look like?
Speaker 4: Her eyes are cold blue. They're probably the only light
thing about her, if that makes sense, because everything else
seems to draw in darkness.
Speaker 5: Okay, can I help you with anything?
Speaker 4: Is that really what you want to ask me?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 4: Try again?
Speaker 5: What are you reading?
Speaker 4: She slides the tone in front of you and then
leans back to look at the rest of you.
Speaker 1: Now I'll walk over and.
Speaker 2: She pushes a book up to look at the book.
Speaker 4: M hmm. Okay, yep, then both of you roll. This
is a cult. You need to see if you can
read a magic book. Okay, of course, otherwise it looks
empty and anyone who yeah, it is going to be
a cult. And I believe this one is resolve.
Speaker 5: Okay, difficulty four ooh mm hm ah, dang okay.
Speaker 4: Re read those roles out loud for me and for
those listening, if you don't mind.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got one success out of four, so I failed.
Speaker 2: Okay. God rolled seven and I only got two out
of four.
Speaker 4: Okay, So to both of you. The parchment glistens almost
like it's submerged in water, and you're seeing the reflection
and the light bouncing from the top of the page,
and it moves, but there's nothing on the page. You
know it's a magical book, but you can't read it.
You're not attuned to it. You haven't done the appropriate
ritual to be able to read it. There's a lot
of different things that these books sometimes require, but for
whatever reason, you can't read it. And then, without a doubt,
you would notice the smug look on her face as
she knew that was probably going to happen. Oh, I am,
I didn't pass the test.
Speaker 5: One can try.
Speaker 4: You passed mine, Mary and hale. She extends a hand.
Speaker 5: I look at it, and then I raise my hand
out and I look at her her again like and
then I grab her hand and shake it.
Speaker 4: Probably haven't been looked at like this since before you
were turned. She just looks at you like normal, Yeah,
like you used to be observed or in exchange of
shake hands, she shakes your hand and then extends it
to our other reader, the visionary.
Speaker 2: Here, I shake your hand. Nice to meet you, ma'am.
They call me visionary. You probably know that already.
Speaker 4: I didn't, but thank you for telling me.
Speaker 2: Now you do?
Speaker 4: Now I do, and you and looks over to pulse three.
Speaker 3: I'm assuming that do do vampires have pulses?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, we do.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I shake her hand.
Speaker 1: Hello.
Speaker 4: Hello. I will say that some vampires can make their
pulse completely disappear. I will also say that the pulse
depends on whether like sometimes it's a little bit more visible,
as if they've just fed. So I, because this is
your jam, this is what you do. I'm going to
give this to you. I think the idea that she
is putting energy into making her pulse visible. It's making
it look like she's fed recently, which would make her
potentially at the peak of strength. So that what you will.
But yeah, she's putting effort into making it look like
she's just fed.
Speaker 3: And you can I, oh, yes, go ahead, Can I
ask you a question. I don't know how crazy this
would be to do. I love crazy, but when I
shake her hand, hmm.
Speaker 6: One of my fingernails is sharp. Would I be able
to stealthily draw a little bit of blood?
Speaker 4: You may try, You may always try.
Speaker 5: The danger.
Speaker 4: I will say that this is a very bold move
that you are doing right now. If you're caught, it
could be bad news, bears, because you know, obviously blood
is a big deal, and you know you can't or
shouldn't take somebody else's blood without them knowing or without
their consent. But if you'd still like to.
Speaker 3: Do it, go for it.
Speaker 4: Let's roll. Let's see what would this be. I'm assuming
this is going to be something like dexterity unless you
have like a crazy move that allows you to do this.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think I have any crazy moods.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's fine. I still think this is fucking sick.
Let me just look through your stuff here. Oh okay,
I because I think this is fucking cool, I would
very much like to maybe suggest on your sheet at
the very very very very bottom you see that move. Yes,
it's weird, but hear me out. What if your hand
just had no presence to it anymore. You will say, cool, Yeah,
so you could potentially feel she wouldn't feel it, that's right.
Or she wouldn't necessarily feel the weight of a normal hand,
right Like, obviously you're still gonna prick her. You're still
going to try to slice her.
Speaker 2: But.
Speaker 3: She wouldn't feel the pressure of my finger.
Speaker 4: That's right. Potentially, if if you, if you rolled correctly,
So we're gonna go ahead and do that one. So
go ahead and roll that. So that's going to be
This isn't a reaction, so it's not gonna be wits
versus survival. We're gonna do this. I think this is
a composure role, don't you. This is something you have
to you know, keep your shit together. The power is
radiating from her, So we'll say composure and then dexterity,
and those are both strong stats for you. So I
think you've got to get a chance at this.
Speaker 5: Do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, all right, what's the difficulty.
Speaker 4: I don't think she's expecting you to do this, so
we'll say three. Oh my god, I don't think she
sees this coming.
Speaker 2: Yeah, please pass.
Speaker 4: This would be nuts.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's a failure.
Speaker 4: Okay, two successes of the three required. What do you
think happens though, Because I I again, when when failures
happen in all of my games, I don't like that
to necessarily mean that you don't succeed, or that you
fail miserably, or whatever the case may be. So I'm
open to what you think happens here. Ah, I.
Speaker 6: Is she the kind of person that would be taken
aback by having no weight to my hand when I
shake it.
Speaker 3: When I shake her hand?
Speaker 6: Or no?
Speaker 4: But I think what if you want, I'll just I'll
tell you what I think her reaction would be to
the weightlessness of your hand. But I do think it
means that she kind of has an inkling that you
were up to something. I don't think she knows you
were going for her blood, but she knows you were
doing something funny with your hand. So when you go
to extend your middle finger and drag it across her palm,
she actually mirrors you and drags her middle finger across
your middle finger and like sensually slowly drags it until
you're hands part and she's just looking at you like, oh,
you were maybe doing a playful yeah, like you were
doing something playful. She doesn't know you were going for
her blood, or maybe she does.
Speaker 5: Can I burgles date this character?
Speaker 3: So I would bashfully look down and say, excuse me,
and you must be moog.
Speaker 1: Yes, you've heard of me that I have interesting hum.
I glanced down at the book then piqued my interest.
Speaker 4: M go ahead and roll to see if you can
read the book and the others?
Speaker 1: What was it?
Speaker 2: It was?
Speaker 4: What was what do I have to roll out? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Cults?
Speaker 4: A cult and wits?
Speaker 5: No, it was resolved.
Speaker 4: Oh, yes, resolve because uh yeah.
Speaker 1: I won't tell you what.
Speaker 2: I'm leaning back in the chair with my arms crossed,
looking a little bit annoyed.
Speaker 1: Difficulty You said four, yes, four out of four, so
you succeed?
Speaker 4: Oh my lord, okay, I'm we need to work together
on this because you're going to get.
Speaker 1: Pick a sense A sense yeah, oh, site for me, site.
Speaker 4: Sight okay, pick another sense. Taste okay for the next hour,
you can't taste anything at all, but you will see
what's in this book. Uh can you do you have?
Are you the one that has a special language skill?
I don't know. I gave that to one of you,
and I don't remember which one.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 4: If you have it, you're in fucking luck. Yeah, what's
it called. Somebody in the group has a merit that
is an additional language.
Speaker 7: I have it.
Speaker 4: It's you. Okay, So it's not you moog, So I'm sorry,
but okay, So you are actually going to see And
I'm only basing that. I'm only saying this. I'm not
being a GM that's just like saying no to you.
But I'm only basing this on the fact that you
said you kind of don't like to read and do
all the other academic shit. So I don't know if
you were to recognize this text, but I will put
in the discord what you see here? Please hold it's
not this specifically, but it looks these are the kind
of like letters that you're seeing, the alphabet that you're seeing.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I look at her. You can read this,
so can you?
Speaker 4: Apparently I can see it. Sure, Oh, but you don't
understand it, not yet.
Speaker 1: Anyways, there's plenty of time to learn. And then I
give a smoldering love.
Speaker 4: Yes, but will you You don't strike me as the type.
Speaker 1: Types can change. Yes, we've been around long enough. Surely
some of us. Ah, yes, some of us. Do you
believe a tiger can change its stripes? Love?
Speaker 4: Absolutely?
Speaker 3: Me too?
Speaker 1: And I am assuming the book was turned towards us
as yeah, so I turn it back towards her. Oh,
tell me what does this say that it was so
important that we see it as a test?
Speaker 8: Ooh?
Speaker 4: Can you do a like a charm role?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Or a manipulation role?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Either one I will allow.
Speaker 1: And the difficulty.
Speaker 4: Three. I don't think she's I don't think she's expecting.
Speaker 1: You to be ooof two out of three I failed.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: She pauses for a moment, but then leans forward and
I have to read this. But she makes direct eye
contact with you and says, from memory lament, Now for
thyself and for those who have been engulfed by this
darkness or death, is not their finale. What do you
think that means?
Speaker 1: I think it describes us.
Speaker 4: Yes, the departed shall be revived, not as the beings
they once were, but were born from the depths of
the abyss, a horror unto themselves and the inhabitants of
all known realms. You still think it's talking about us, Well,
maybe some of us, more than of us.
Speaker 5: No, no way, it's not us.
Speaker 4: And who do you think it might be? That was
real loud ass thunder Wally fucked dude. I was so scared. Okay,
I'm so sorry. Yes, what do you think and who
do you think it might be? Or what do you
think it might be?
Speaker 5: Describing hmmm, something not something created, something to be scared of.
Maybe we create it and then it eats us all.
Speaker 4: You don't think we're something to be terrified of.
Speaker 5: I think there has to be things much scarier than us.
Humans to a mouse are monsters and demons, and we
are monsters and demons to humans, and we can't be
the end end all be all right, there has to
be more. What are we scared of? Don't need a
matter of time before we find out, before we're the mouse.
Speaker 4: She's studying you very carefully, very intrigued by your words,
and that much is clear. She's just listening and drinking
it in.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 4: And then her eyes fall over to I think you
said visionary that you were kind of leaning against a
chair or did you sit down? And you sat down
at a chair.
Speaker 2: Okay, And I couldn't read the book.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, And then Paul s, right, where are you standing?
Speaker 3: Uh? I'm probably just a few feet away from the
from the table. She was reading it opposite sign.
Speaker 4: Uh did you want to try to see if you
could read this?
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm, No, I think I'm watching her.
Speaker 4: Okay, my studious academics in the group, I will allow
you a dandie version of a history rule or like
an occult check to see if you recognize the passage
she was reading. It's going to be a cult, not
just academics, because it's very specific. I guess academics would
kind of work too, but this is going to be
an intelligence and either academics or a cult, depending on
what you choose, my answer to you might be slightly different.
So keep that in mind.
Speaker 1: And difficulty.
Speaker 4: Three maybe two three will go three? Two of three?
Speaker 2: Okay? Oh mayn two of three?
Speaker 4: Okay, oh, pulse rate got a four out of three,
So pulse rate, you would recognize the passage. I'm going
to DM it to you. You don't remember from where,
but for some reason you remember this passage. You can
remember all of it, or you can remember you know,
one paragraph, two paragraphs, whatever the case may be, and
you can either have it happen right now or you
can slowly get paragraph after paragraph as you're chewing over
for the rest of the session. I leave that entirely
up to you. You can slow drip it or whatever. Okay,
and now everyone roll wits and dexterity.
Speaker 3: Please difficulty four? Uh oh, waits and dexterity.
Speaker 4: That's right, five of four. That's incredible, very good.
Speaker 1: Three or four?
Speaker 2: Four?
Speaker 1: Three or four?
Speaker 3: With a crit No, I don't know what crits do.
Speaker 4: Well, this would be I don't know if it's a
it's a ten, so I think you still need the
one extra one, but let's just double check.
Speaker 5: Jesus Christ.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, that's a lot. I have a noisegaate
and you still heard that? Holy shit, bro, I see okay,
so critical? Oh god, damn it. So sorry, everything's fine.
Just get the shit out of me, okay. So, if
you roll three successes, including a critical, it generally means
that you succeed in whatever action you're attempting, but the
result might not be outstanding unless you get a critical.
When a critical success is when you roll two tens
on two separate dice. So this doubles the number of
successes from those two dice, giving you four successes. So
I guess when you roll a ten, it counts as
an extra success, counts as two successes, correct, So that
would not counting that in the Yeah, I see that,
So I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't think it doubles if you get two two, okay,
if you get like two yeah.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, So in this instance, it doesn't help you succeed. Okay,
good to know. Okay. So all of you are thrown
backwards and up to the nearest wall, and you find
yourselves lifted up about seven feet in the air. Remember
this is a chantry, it's like a church, so it's
very very high ceilings. You're about seven feet up in
the air, and you're finding it very difficult to breathe
except for you, my dear, what happens?
Speaker 5: Oh oh, I'm so dead that oxygen doesn't really concern me.
I suppose I stand where I am, and I guess
I'm like wind blown, and I feel a pull like
I feel a strong pull at my spine and my
shoulder blades up towards the ceiling. But for some reason,
it's just not take it's not statching me the way
that the others are. My feet are still tethered to
the ground.
Speaker 4: It's no luck. You have done something to stop from
being picked up by this woman. So maybe let's think
about how that's different. I mean, if you want to
think that it's luck, we can say that. But I'm
also giving you an opportunity to be like no, I
know this is coming, and I know kind of combat it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, okay. I'm very familiar with people compelling and
controlling others, and I don't like it very much. It's
fine when I do it to other people. So I
notice I can see when it's about to happen, like I.
Speaker 4: Can see maybe just the instance before she does it.
Speaker 5: It's like an instinct of like no, not me.
Speaker 4: And to be clear, just because those words are used
in special powers in BTM, this is not a compel
or you know, kind of like a mental thing of
like backup, because a compel would be her verbally telling
you to back up. This is her manipulating the environment.
And I like the idea that you said, I don't
I'm so dead, I don't need the air, and that
she actually was maybe pulling the wind out of your lungs,
but you with it and then pushing everybody up against
and you just didn't have any to pull yeah, and
she wasn't expecting that, and so therefore she failed at
pulling you, or you were able to resist, or maybe
you let the luck, maybe you were able to go.
The wind can go out of my lungs, but I'll
stay here, thanks, okay, because I don't need it to breathe,
whereas everybody else would instinctively try to breathe in and
keep the air in their lungs. And the rest of
you are now up on the wall struggling to breathe.
To be clear, you're not suffocating, it's just uncomfortable as
she puts you up against the chautry walls. You are
something special, am I? Apparently? Do you have a mentor
she's just ignoring the fact that these other ones are struggling.
Speaker 1: Come on, it's her question.
Speaker 5: Most find it uncomfortable to spend excessive amounts of time
with me. So no, I do not have a before.
Speaker 4: And who's your sire? You do not have to tell her?
And yeah, yeah, not answer that question?
Speaker 5: Well fine, did he actually just say that? Yes, I
shoot you a look like what the fuck is wrong
with you?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 5: And then I look back, I actually don't know.
Speaker 4: Would you? And that's I didn't give that to you,
and that's fine. Okay, I didn't give you guys a
name yet. I will give it to you now if
you think you know. And this is why I didn't
give it to you. You were all sired on New Years,
so I'm I want to know. Yeah, I want to
know if you actually know who sired you or not.
And I'll leave it up to you.
Speaker 5: Can we do a vote?
Speaker 4: Yes? Absolutely, talk among yourselves. This is great. I love this.
Speaker 5: I think I'm gonna I'm gonna pose this. I'm cool
with anything, but I'm going to pose that we know
who it is. But they didn't tell us their actual
real name, so we don't have their real name, but
we remember what they look like, and we were conscious
and stuff when it happened. What do you guys think?
Speaker 1: I think I was drunk and high out of my mind,
so the details are a bit fuzzy.
Speaker 2: M I would actually I'd like to say that I
should know, Okay, yeah, okay, because this person approached me,
pulled me aside, and promised me great things to get
beyond the simple life that I was stuck into being
a waiter at a party with a bunch of more
important people than me, okay, and I just bought into it,
hookline and sinker. Okay, I agreed. Basically, I consented. I
didn't know what he was asking me exactly get into
she get into So I have a you know, I'm
aware someone promised me a bunch of stuff. And then
I woke up and I had my whole life was different.
Speaker 5: She asked me to get her into the party I
happened to be going, okay, and I was going because
it was a friend's party. But like a friend had
invited me and it was their friend of a friend,
you know, so like I didn't know who was actually
running the party. I show up and a friend is gone,
I don't know anybody here. Feel incredibly uncomfortable. I do
not drink. I don't even know why it came to
be honest, I fucking hate New Year's I don't know
why I came. And on the way I ran into
this pretty beautiful woman and she was like, are you
going to a party? And I was like yeah. We
just ended up talking and I brought her with me. Okay,
so but I don't know her real name. This is
all the same party. Just so that we're clear, because
the siring then would have happened in very quick succession,
or at least within about, you know, an hour of
each other.
Speaker 4: And what about you, Pulsery, I.
Speaker 3: Was invited anonymously, and I'd never been to a New
Year's party before.
Speaker 4: Okay, why don't we go ahead and say that you
worked for these individuals beforehand? Like, so it was just
kind of like a not necessarily a work party, but
they knew you enough to Oh no, you said anonymously.
Oh okay, that works. What did you do before you
were sired?
Speaker 3: I worked with computers?
Speaker 4: Interesting? Okay? Okay, So you got an anonymous invite? Was
it digital or was it paper?
Speaker 3: Your digital?
Speaker 4: Okay? And what about that invitation made you decide to
go to the party?
Speaker 3: Never been invited touring New Year's party before?
Speaker 4: Okay? So you just went because it was your first
time being invited. Wonderful? And you said you didn't did
you know her?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 4: Do you have memory of who sired you?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, I'm going.
Speaker 2: To give you.
Speaker 4: Greg is the only one who doesn't really remember anything. Greg.
There was long brunette hair, scent of gardenia, which is
usually like an older kind of flower like it's not
necessarily something like twenty year olds would smell like, but
that is a familiar scent to the south, specifically like
this area in this region, kissing, probably lots of tongue.
You were making out, and that's probably the only thing
that you remember about this at all. That was the
name she gave you, Myrgles Okay. That was the name
she gave you when she sired you. And you have
not seen her since, none of you have ever seen
her again. And I think we talked about this before
where it was like very early on you learned it
was very unusual that you were all sired at the
same time, and you kind of learned to stop asking
about it, mostly because people went, you know, that's not
something we're going to talk about right now, but I'm
going to ask you, visionary, did you ever share the
name with the rest of the group.
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: Wow, okay, okay, perfect, all right. So she says who's
your sire and you say, don't fucking say anything, and
you give him a dirty look and then you say, I.
Speaker 5: Don't really know. I think she gave me a fake name,
and I haven't seen her since, and.
Speaker 4: You haven't tried to find her.
Speaker 5: Why would I.
Speaker 4: Why wouldn't you.
Speaker 5: Nothing to me?
Speaker 4: Nothing? You don't care to know where your power comes from.
Speaker 5: My power doesn't come from her, just as her power
didn't come from her sire. The power comes from somewhere else.
It's in my blood, and the only person who knows.
Speaker 4: It is me. Oh shit, okay, say something?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 6: I don't know if I would. It would be harder
for me to catch my breath or not, because I
am really light right now. But if I could, I
say something often and it is.
Speaker 3: Is that a lie?
Speaker 4: And you might hear me wondering that too, Yeah? Is
that a lie?
Speaker 1: Then?
Speaker 4: Oh? Are you asking me or her?
Speaker 3: I say that out loud to.
Speaker 1: Dead eye, dead.
Speaker 4: Eye, Yeah, that's what I thought.
Speaker 5: I whip around and look at him, and then I
look back at her.
Speaker 3: So what if it is?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 4: You do wonder?
Speaker 5: I wish I didn't.
Speaker 4: Do you feel abandoned?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 5: I like scoff laugh, and then my face slowly falls.
Speaker 4: She's immediately at your side, right next to you.
Speaker 5: I find that comforting for some reason and not terrifying.
Speaker 4: She's going to bite you. Are you going to resist?
And or would you like to roll to get out
of the way to I was gonna say, this is
totally like not allowed, like she should not be doing
this to you at all. But you said my power
comes from me and nowhere else, and she's very intrigued
to see exactly what the deal is with that. So
she's going to drink from you. Yes, mm hmm.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming this room is lit by candles.
Speaker 5: Yes, okay, I need to ask a couple of questions.
Speaker 4: Yes, let's finish with visionary here the room by candles?
Were you asking? Is there a follow up question to that?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: No, okay, just turned my head towards moog and then
I just wa Yes, that was my next question okay,
mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: Hm is if I can manipulate the fire from the
candles too.
Speaker 4: You can certainly try. Yes, okay, so you're gonna you
have an ability if you'll notice in there.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1: Looking at it, and you'll be rolling that. Okay, the bubble,
the word bubble as soon.
Speaker 4: Let me see here the bite or after I imagine
he's doing it at the moment.
Speaker 2: Yes, right, and.
Speaker 4: Protect You're gonna scratch open a scar and make a
rouse check and then you command the fire to hinder
a target you perceive. Magical perception counts for this purpose
a rouse.
Speaker 1: Check this button. Uh huh zero off one. I failed,
So I have one hunger.
Speaker 4: Apply you have one hunger, but you can still now
do the thing. So you get a little bit hungrier,
and then you're going to manipulate the flames here. However,
pause yet, Aye? Yes, what are your follow up questions?
Speaker 5: Okay, I have three things to say. First, First, you
described her as like pale, and she's wearing this dark
robe that is pulling the darkness. But is she beautiful? Yes,
she's beautiful. Okay. When she speaks, does she speak with
I mean, I'm going to assume, based on how you
performed her that she speaks with control, strange, weird compassion. Yes,
and it's cold but familiar in a weird strange way.
Speaker 4: Yeah. If a vampire could be motherly, this is kind
of probably how it would be. But they can't because
they don't have that. They don't have that innate compassion. Yeah,
it's probably the most compassionate way a vampire can be
in my opinion, which a lot of it is performative,
but it's Yeah, if it were there, it would be there.
But I'm performing because it should be, and I know
it's missing, which like vampires don't even bother.
Speaker 5: So yeah, okay, so I know that, Yes, can I
stop them from interfering with her biting me? I don't
know anything I can do.
Speaker 4: So here's the thing. No, I don't know if you
would be paying attention to what he's doing right now.
Right Probably she's coming in to bite you, So I
will say that she doesn't descend on you quickly.
Speaker 5: Okay, it is a slow reach.
Speaker 4: She's making eye contact with you. She's going to tilt
your head and your neck, expose your neck, and then
slowly going to bite you. She's maintaining eye contact until
the last second when she then goes to bite your neck.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I let her do it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is going to give him enough time. So
as she goes in to bite your neck, because you
let her do it, I'm not going to do a
role for dodging. She is going to pierce your flesh
with her teeth and she's going to begin to drink.
She moans into your throat and your eyes. Probably she's
not lulling you under, but you have the option to
look around the room and you probably see at least
a visionary looking at Moog and move, whispering something under
his breath to begin to control flame. Moog, what do
you do?
Speaker 1: I want to create I want to separate the two
with fire, so I think in my haste it would
be a fire wall between the two.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, okay. Perhaps, So the ability is actually that
you're going to inflict damage on her. That's what it says,
like you have you've inflict damage on somebody. You see
flavor text. I don't care if it's a wall, but
just you know it is going to damage her or
try to inflict damage on her, but not not dead eye.
Speaker 3: Yes, be okay with that?
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, yes, yes, I don't know who she is.
Speaker 1: She is.
Speaker 4: Hurting one of my kin Yeah, this is totally not okay,
she should not be very inappropriate. Okay, wonderful.
Speaker 1: So you said in intelligence I have to roll for
it or no you.
Speaker 4: Did your rouse check. I mean, technically you would roll
for damage, but I'm just going to say, it's not
another player that you have to worry about, so absolutely
you're going to go ahead and do it. So why
don't you describe what we see and what does this
wall look like, what does it look like when you
know you begin to control the flames? Do we feel
any heat change in the room as you're manipulating this
Go into as much details you want. This is your moment.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think the air. It depends on how much
how many flames I'm trying to manipulate, and this would
be quite a few to make this wall.
Speaker 4: Yes, this is this is This is quite a feat
because normally you can do a little bit of flame,
but not like a wall of flame.
Speaker 1: Yes, so this is a lot. Yes, this is a
baser instinct. Normally it would be something a little more elegant, like,
you know, maybe a rope or something to pull them away.
It's something a bit more shapely, a bit more theatrical,
a bit more I don't know, more than just a wall.
But I am seeing this play out. So the air
gets still for just a moment as all of the
lights go out and it's completely dark, and the wall
just flashes up. It's hot, it's I think at first
it's blue, and then it returns to its normal orangey
red fire state, and I am exhausted even more. This
taken quite a bit out of me, and I think
I manage to no, I don't think I know. I
managed to say slow down their hot stuff.
Speaker 4: She pulls out of her bite of you. Her eyes
are lit up. They light up a light like the
flame in front of her, and you probably see that
all of you can see that her eyes are red
glowing in this dark that match the flame. And she
pulls back. If there's any visible pain from this burn,
you don't see it, at least not right away.
Speaker 7: And she.
Speaker 4: Has a slight smirk across her face that maybe you see,
maybe you don't because there's only a little bit of
the candlelight. And she says in a whisper that you
will roll to hear a lie. You, my dear, were
sired by the spider.
Speaker 5: A boss.
Speaker 7: Plus plus plus plus. Okay, sorry, I need to ask,
did you decide.
Speaker 5: That mid session?
Speaker 4: Nope, that was already done. It was already written. Stop
when I wish no video. Also, that's where we're ending
the session. If if I had video recorded, you would
have seen my fucking face. I was smirking when you
were bringing up the spider, and then he was like,
I'm doing Charlotte Spiders and yah, dude, man, dude.
Speaker 5: Yeah, holy that is fucking crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, you'll also probably fall to the ground at
this moment she releases you. The second she's hit with
a flame, you'll you will all fall. So I think
that means puls ate, you will float to the ground
because you're not you're weightless. Right now, visionary, what does
it look like? Actually, let's start with pulse rate. Then
what does it look like as you descend into the ground.
Speaker 3: I would like to take ah, I would like to
resist frenzy right now.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, oh all right, go for it if possible.
Speaker 3: While I float to the ground, I got you.
Speaker 4: What exactly is bringing you to the point of frenzy?
Speaker 3: I just saw someone feed one another vampire.
Speaker 4: Oh yep, okay, yep, fair enough.
Speaker 3: It's the difficulty. You think.
Speaker 4: You're in your home environment, you feel safe. I'm going
to leave the difficulty up to you since this is
a self induced frenzy.
Speaker 3: Okay, it was a two and I barely succeed.
Speaker 4: H wow, wow, oh my god. Okay, So I.
Speaker 3: Think you.
Speaker 6: While I'm floating to the ground, I'm swaying back and forth.
The air had been sort of sucked out of the
room by the fire, and it caused a breeze and
I float back and forth, but my eyes are locked
onto dead Eye's neck and the fire reflects in them.
Speaker 1: And he is so hungry.
Speaker 6: But by the time his feet lightly make contact with
the dusty wood floorboards, he retains control.
Speaker 4: And what does it look like when moog hits the ground?
Speaker 1: It's the least it's the least agile thing in the world.
Speaker 4: It just yeah, you just crumple, right because you use
all of your energy to do the flame right, Okay, yes, okay,
so you collapse in a heap onto the ground. I
think probably At this point the flames go out. The
entire room is dark except for her eyes that are
still glowing like embers. Visionary. How do you come down
to the ground?
Speaker 2: I fucking plummet in hits like a side table and
a plant on it there and just call down.
Speaker 4: Does it draw blood?
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I think I just hit the
table bounced. It's kind of a ridiculous like like the
maybe the table falls over, Okay, but I would like
to look over in her direction and.
Speaker 1: Use and ability.
Speaker 2: I have yep, go for it and describe the soul.
Speaker 4: Okay, this is uh.
Speaker 2: I focus on a person that I can perceive the
state of that person's psyche is a shifting or of
colors that reveal a little precise information. But bye bye.
But there's a essentially I roll against her if she's
really trying to fight it, huh and if when I
got to ask a couple of questions, I really just
want to ask one question right now. Okay, okay, okay
about her statement all that.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm going to give this to you. Because she
was just burned by fire. I don't, you know, like
she's there's a lot, there's a lot going on. But
I want to know what this looks like first when
you do this ability?
Speaker 2: What do we around? Yeah, I kind of just like
struggle to get up to one knee and I look
at her and uh, actually I think I'm gonna point
at my head okay, like a gun. And then when
I'm looking at her, I'm going to pull the trigger.
Speaker 4: Oh wow.
Speaker 2: And then I'm going to ask my question, Okay, what
so for the ability?
Speaker 4: What does this do to her? You are observing her
aura correct, You're not actually like, you know, marrying or anything.
Speaker 2: Anything from her. It's really just you're around her, and
I get some information there are things her emotional state,
the presidents in her blood. If I won't but the
one question I want, if I can get two, I'll
last two.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll give you the three that you get. Yeah,
you can ask as many questions as you want, or
I mean, however many your ability allow you to ask. However,
this is a perfect moment to explain a little bit
about PBu and PBu magic. So what you have done
by putting your fingers to your head and then pulling
the trigger is a not somatic. Somatic is a not
a verbal component. But it's like it's a gesture that
you would use to then signal to your mind that
you are ready to do something. So it's like when
you're doing magic, you could probably do this ability without
that gesture, but the gesture makes it much easier on
you to do it successfully and to do it, you know,
as strong as you need. So yeah, anyway, I had.
Speaker 2: To say too, this is a gesture that my mentor,
Edward has tried to give me to do something different,
and I have them practicing, But in a moment of
stress like this, I just revert to what Yeah, maybe
the less kooth version of the way I do things
but I do that. And the first thing I'd like
to know is under the influence of blood source, rey
or other magic. I guess that means is she being
moved by it.
Speaker 4: She is not under the influence from anyone else. Yep,
everything's her own yep. And the other question now, and
her eyes snapped you when, like at first, I think
she's distracted. She's also a little bit blood drunk because
there is something. Hold on, let me think about how
to say this, because I don't think any of you
have ever fed on dead eye before. Correct, No, we've
never seen anyone feed on dead eye before. But you
guys know what feeding looks like. You guys know what
it feels like when you feed, and it's very obvious
to you. I think even though it's dark, you can
still see her eyes, so you would definitely see the
fluttering of her eyelids as she's blinking rapidly and almost
maybe you can see the sway of her eyes in
the dark as well, so you can tell maybe she's
kind of blood drunk, which is just she wasn't expecting
whatever she got from drinking dead eye. And that's what
I will give you for that next question.
Speaker 2: The other one I get to know, and I think
this is a result of the color of her aura
would show me this. Yes, has she committed diablery in
the past year, Yes, so her aura would show to me.
I believe black lines if going through her aura. So okay,
I now know that she is Diablo. At least one
other vampire in the past year she has destroyed by
eating m.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's not Also, because this is the first time
I think this has come up. It's not necessarily destroyed
the vampire, but consumed their very essence and their soul
and has taken on their power.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and usually that's a big no no.
Speaker 4: However, you can get permission to have done or to
do that on occasion. Do you have one final question
because I think you said three?
Speaker 2: Oh no, I just want to Those are the only
I know, but I think you I'll.
Speaker 4: Give you another one because that's what your skill sets.
Speaker 2: The other stuff I mean, okay, well, I mean, like
you kind of said this in a way, what is
her emotional state.
Speaker 4: That she kind of go for it right now, a
little you for it, very pleased. I think she feels
she's been looking for something and it's like she just
got a new lead, and there's that flutter of excitement. Yeah,
and her eyes will turn and manage to kind of
refocus and lock on you while you are probing her
mentally or however you're doing this. She's aware that you're
doing it. She could try to stop you, which we
establish that is in the ability, but for some reason
she doesn't. She just lets you read her like an
open book. That could be because she's blood drunk. That
could be because she just is letting you. We don't know, because.
Speaker 2: I've heard Moods say cool lines when he does stuff.
I try, I say, ain't nobody invited you for the lunch, bitch? Easy,
and then I'll run out the door to get hail.
Speaker 4: Okay, perfect, I'm yeah, what's happening to dead eye?
Speaker 5: I'm staring. I'm staring at her. I'm ignoring these fools
mm hmm. And I say, the spider, who's that? Do
you know them?
Speaker 4: We need to deal with blood bonding real quick. Oh,
I just need to double check because I think this
is I don't know if this is something that you
have to purposely do or if it just happens when
a vampire drinks from another vampire. I personally like the
chaos of it's just going to happen. Anytime you drink
from another vampire, you bear the risk of this. And
so for the house rule for the rest of the game,
I'm going to say that that's just how we're gonna
play it because it's way more fun. So this means
the first drink, the subject is going to feel a
minor emotional attachment or admiration towards the vampire. You can resist.
You need to make a resolve and a composure role.
I'm gonna say that this is just standard. It's not
necessarily that I'm choosing to resist to this. It's just
what happens. It's in your nature as a vampire to
try not to get blood bonded, So this is just
an automatic thing that's happening. So go ahead and roll
your resolve in your composent.
Speaker 5: I'm becoming blood bonded to her? Or would she become
bum bonded to me because she drank my blood?
Speaker 4: Oh hit, I think it's me.
Speaker 5: I think it's you.
Speaker 4: I think it's me. Yes, let me just.
Speaker 6: Doing Are we doing the deficient blond thing, which is
the bane for tremair? Yes, I totally think they can,
they can't bond.
Speaker 4: There are two different blood bonds or clan banes right,
hold on thee.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we have a variation.
Speaker 3: They're no longer able to create blood bonds with other
kindred through normal means.
Speaker 2: The other one is related to performing a blood surge
and you need to make a rouse shot into severity.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, because it's yeah, that's what I thought,
because I played a Tremir. Tremir vampires are highly susceptible
to blood bonds. When they drink another vampire's blood, it
has much stronger effect on them, specifically blood bond strength
and danger of binding. This increased susceptibility makes Tramir particularly
cautious about who they allow themselves to drink from, as
they can easily fall under the thrall of another vampire.
This vein emphasizes the Trimir's connection to blood magic and
their vulnerability to the powers they wield. Because I played
a Tramera in Leech and I was like, I can't
drink from another vampire and know you're playing hot a ship.
Speaker 2: Well, but I think that, but you can't really drink
the blood of a Trimeir and be bonded.
Speaker 3: I'm reading.
Speaker 2: I guess I'm maybe that's maybe this is the fifth
edition one, yeah, that's this is this.
Speaker 4: Is I'm looking at the Yeah, I'm looking at the
fifth edition as well.
Speaker 5: That's weird, Yeah, because I am seeing like on the wiki. No,
to be fair, this is the wiki, yeah, and the book.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's double check all the things. I know that
there are multiple clan veins that you can choose from,
so yeah, it's so it's possiful that there are two
options here.
Speaker 5: But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So I'm reading that
the bin for Tramere here is deficient blood. There are
variant bains stolen blood, but in deficient blood. If this
person is deficient blood, there it does say they're unable
to blood bond other kindred, though they can still be
bound by other clans blood.
Speaker 2: You can drink blood, you can drink.
Speaker 4: You can drink blood from each other other it's tremer,
but if you drink from another vampire, you risk being
bonded to that clan. Correct.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think so. Trameric can still blood bond mortals
to do their bidding, but the VTA must drink an
additional amount of times equal to their bain severity.
Speaker 4: Sorry, say that again.
Speaker 5: Trameric can still blood bond mortals to do their bidding,
but the VTA must drink an additional amount of times
equal to their bain severity perfect. The wording is weird
because it does say Tremera and able to blood bond
other kindreds, so you would assume that's all kindred. But
that's as though they can still be bound by other clans.
Speaker 2: Well, that means we can. If we drink the blood
of some of another plan, we're bonded. But yeah, they
could come here and use us like sippy cuffs and
they don't get any bond. Yeah, it doesn't feel any
I mean.
Speaker 4: But there's no need to roll for a bond, which
is incredible. And that is even if we find something
else out later. That's our house rule for the game
for Tremir. Okay, okay, they can be bonded by other clans,
but not each other. Sounds okay, that would.
Speaker 3: Mean that mm hmmm, sorry, that would mean something very
specific for Pulse, right, Yeah, so I think I have
tasted her before? Maybe did I?
Speaker 1: I would?
Speaker 3: I mean, I would have to eat something.
Speaker 4: You would have had to have asked her obviously dead,
I are you cool with him having drunk your blood before.
Speaker 5: I was going to say, let's table talk this. Yeah,
because because I.
Speaker 3: Probably I have to eat other vampires.
Speaker 5: Right, not me though, that's I just want to make
sure that I'm not like sing Power power gaming you
by saying no, you haven't eaten from me when your
character needs to eat from say me specifically.
Speaker 4: That's power. That's you saying no, like you can you
can be like I think I wouldn't have allowed you
to drink from me. Yeah, there are other vampires here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think that you would have drink it
from me. If you tried, I would have. I would
have said no, which is maybe why it's so weird
that I was okay with her drinking my blood just
now okay, and I think maybe okay, if we do that,
then if we know that like this is cool because
if we know that pulse Rate has asked me, and
we know that pulse Rate has fed from us like
the group, and I always said no, then this, yeah,
you would have noticed that I was like willing in
this moment and that some of you out or like
weird you out if you noticed and you cared, So.
Speaker 4: This is important, then why don't we just check and
see pulse rate? Did you app did you ask anybody
else in this group to feed? Which would basically mean
you're kind of revealing. Actually I will allow you to
You don't have to reveal that you need it because
some vampires just like it. It's like having a glass
of wine. It's just tastes better than mortal blood. So yeah,
but would you have asked anybody else in the group
as well?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that I would use my abilities in exchange for
a glass.
Speaker 4: Here and there I see in trade.
Speaker 3: Okay, yep, So when people want to know a secret,
that's what I ask for in return.
Speaker 5: Okay, this is so good because then if you ever
did that to me, I would be like no, but
for a nut Like there are many reasons why I
would say no, because of the way that I feed
and the way that I interact.
Speaker 3: I would have approached you recently and said, I know
something that you want to know.
Speaker 5: Would I know that that's what you're doing? In like,
what I know that what you're trying to get from
me is my blood?
Speaker 4: I think that's known that he this is what he does,
he trades or blood.
Speaker 5: Yeah, then I would say there's nothing I need to
know or want to know that you can give me.
Speaker 3: Is that a lie?
Speaker 5: I do not answer this time, and I let him
walk away. I walk away. But anytime he asks me,
is that a lie? I've never given him an answer.
Speaker 4: I just like you just you're like fuck, I've been checked.
Yeah it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I never replied.
Speaker 4: Okay, so.
Speaker 5: Good, so good.
Speaker 4: Okay, So is anybody else doing anything before I'm doing something,
as Miss Marian Hale, I'm just gonna get up. Okay,
is going to get up from the floor because you've
been You've been fucked around? Okay. I think you hear.
I think you hear a rush of wind, and then
the chittering light, high pitched sound of a bat and
Miss Marian Hale flies out of the chantry. She breaks
a window on her way out. And now we will
allow you to have the floor for a minute to
talk to each other however you do. At the end
of the scene, I need you all to react to
gaining power with the knowledge of your sire being the Spider.
You are all unlocking a free ritual, which is Spider Climb. Yeah,
it's a blood ritual that you can now unlocking. Add
to your sheet but let's roll play through it. So
I'm going to give you guys the floor, and then
when you feel the time is right, you go ahead
and react to suddenly getting you know, like unlocking power,
go for it.
Speaker 3: What is dead I doing right now? She's stood there
in shock.
Speaker 5: I'm yeah, I'm stood there in shock. I'm staring at
the place where Marion was.
Speaker 6: Standing behind her, and with my weightless hand, I take
a drop of your blood that's leaking out of your neck.
Speaker 3: If I can. That's a rule.
Speaker 4: I think, Hey, it's pitch black and be I don't
think she wants that, So it's pitch black. Yeah, all
the all the light went out. The only thing you'd
see was Marion's eyes.
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm cool with I'm not really paying attention. So
I am cool with doing a role and then like
making it like an rather relatively easy role. I think, uh,
because I don't think I don't think I'm paying attention.
I think I'm completely Oh.
Speaker 4: My god, I know exactly what we're doing here. This
is I'm house ruling the opposed roles now, because I
think this is gonna be way more fun when we
have a situation like this where it's like PvP. I'm
gonna give it to you. I will help you if
you need it to set the difficulty and choose the
role sick.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, cool, yeah, all right, I love that. All right.
I think.
Speaker 4: It would be.
Speaker 5: Dex stared dex stare Ay, wait, hold on, Actually I
think stealth and wits because we're like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I think I think self and wits, And then I
think difficulty three because I still have like feeling in
my neck and skin and I'm still like that's conscious,
but it's like, yeah, there's no weight to my hand. Okay, yeah,
that's oh right.
Speaker 4: I think three is still that's still fine because it's
also dark and they're going to cancel each other out right.
You can't fucking see you. He can smell you, though, yeah,
real good, okay, and he can smell that blood.
Speaker 3: I don't understand something on my.
Speaker 4: Sheet, Okay, what is it?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you have written against Kindred. I don't know. I
didn't even know you could write your specialty.
Speaker 2: That is specialty, an extra bonus dye rot against Kingdred.
Speaker 5: Yeah cool, Yeah, that's fucking cool as hell.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: All right, I hope you get this. I mean myrgles
hopes you get this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a three.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Oh damn, I've gotten one.
Speaker 3: Out of three.
Speaker 4: Okay, what do we think happens? Two of you together
work together to describe what happens here, because again, it
doesn't necessarily I think in this instance it means he
doesn't get your blood.
Speaker 5: But why Yeah, okay, I would like to pause it.
But I'm a dead fucking body. I don't have circulation,
so when someone seeds for me, they have to suck
it out. It's not pumping, it's not coming out on
its own. Okay, yeah, it's like I mean, it's it's
still liquid, Like I wouldn't say that it's completely solid
or something, but there's just no heart that's like pumping
it through to create movement. So yeah, maybe it is.
It's like a bit coagulated and kind of gross. No,
you know what, I'm taking it back. My blood is
very sexy, but it just doesn't move and so like
it's not actively like pulsating dripping out of my neck.
And maybe I'm gonna posit this to you. Uh, you
feel free to say no. Actually, I think I would
understand that about you. But I would think that because
I've never let you drink from me, and you've never
witnessed it. You don't know that that's what's like. You
don't know that that's part of my blood situation. So
you are fully expecting to be able to swipe my neck,
and maybe you do and you pull back your hand
and there's not really any blood there to drink because
it wasn't sucked. But I you add as much flavor
as you want or whatever.
Speaker 4: I would like to posit something. Yes, And I'm going
to leave this entirely up to the two of you.
You can succeed, you can allow him to succeed if
you'd like, but that failure is going to mean something else.
Speaker 5: Oh then yes, okay, unless is that okay with you? Orkish?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going to leave it.
Speaker 3: How long have we been living together?
Speaker 4: Five years?
Speaker 3: Do you think in five years I've never gotten a
taste of your blood before?
Speaker 5: Never said yeah, I mean unless you you know, unless.
Speaker 3: You're where and I've found it.
Speaker 4: She doesn't bleed, no.
Speaker 5: Because I don't blieve that's the idea, right, is like
I if and so maybe you've seen me get a
wound and I don't bleed, so maybe the whole thing
of like you not knowing doesn't make any sense because
you would have.
Speaker 3: Seen you're the golden goose. You're the only one.
Speaker 5: I say, no, yeah, yeah, never because you know.
Speaker 2: Definitely given pulse rate in my blood in exchange, like
just poured it in a bag or a glass. Here
you go, man, tickets to someone.
Speaker 5: He actually got you those tickets to that even.
Speaker 2: Like like let me get away with some stuff. Tell
me when someone's not around. Stuff like that, so you know,
as as I am trying to be as they are
my fair.
Speaker 3: Lady and me, what about what about sunglasses?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry you taking my line of nicknames. Uh no,
you've definitely you have something on me.
Speaker 8: So I would imagine he's like he comes knocking like
a booty call, like oh yeah, sometimes you get it
from the source and sometimes you just get it in
a copy.
Speaker 3: Okay, I think that I am. So I've been chasing
this moment and I just saw someone else get it
in front of me. So yes, I'd like to taste
that blood.
Speaker 4: Okay, I need you to roll me a one D
ten please?
Speaker 5: Can I pause it that he has to squeeze it
out of my neck?
Speaker 7: Yeah, like a like a fucking like a fucking gogurt.
He has to gogurt my neck.
Speaker 3: My hand signs up your shoulder.
Speaker 5: Oh my, oh my goodness.
Speaker 3: And you feel you wouldn't You wouldn't feel the pressure.
Speaker 5: Though, is the okay?
Speaker 4: Well she would your hand is weightless. But if you're
still applying pressure, she's gonna feel that.
Speaker 3: You would feel. Yeah, you would feel she just waits.
Speaker 4: Sense it coming.
Speaker 1: You would still I think you would.
Speaker 3: Still feel the touch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 6: So you would feel like air almost for water, okaying
across your shoulder, so okay, the wound and then pressing.
Speaker 3: And here's okay.
Speaker 4: Oh why I was like, anything but seven? Anything but seven? Okay? Cool? Great, wonderful?
Speaker 3: I die?
Speaker 4: You are no, you are?
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: You squeeze her throat, and the blood, while coagulated at first,
suddenly takes on a different form as you begin to
pull it out. It is rich. It is the best
blood you've ever tasted, although there is a bit of
this strange darkness to it in Abyss, and you feel
empowered after you drink this blood. The next time we
play these characters, or the entire session, you have something
called death's mark, and you may mark someone with a
and you are cursing them with imminent death. The mark
will act as a supernatural beacon. It draws bad luck
to whoever you give it, to accidents and other misfortunes
until they will inevitably meet their end. And the mark
is invisible to every single person except for you. And
that's where we'll end.
Speaker 5: I love these guys, Yes, too, fucking nailed it, man.
Speaker 3: I actually fucked up massively. Oh why because I was
struggling between two different ones and I couldn't pick Oh,
and I described this one based on an analgam of
both of them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I was like, Oh, I did notice that,
But that's okay, that's okay, it's Canna.
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