Speaker 1: You are listening to table story.
Speaker 2: Deathless is an improvised cinematic narrative with live production, including
music and dialog. There is no script. This story contains violence,
disturbing imagery, adult themes, and a darkness which may lead
you doubting for more. Proceed at your own risk.
Speaker 3: A logit of fight from Shade Ho loget of fact
from me.
Speaker 4: That you say, stand up for the thing which you
can't stand delude.
Speaker 2: The dead King lifts his hand again as if to
flip another coin, but this time he holds still in
the silence. One of our party members is tasting blood
on his tongue, the coin clutched tight in his palm. Constantine,
It is your turn. Oh you're muted, so sorry? Can
you go again?
Speaker 5: Oh yep, yes so uh moment ago, I saw a
moog get hit by a pretty hard hit. I was
able to mitigate some of the damage and help him
exploding my using my last uses of the vial that
I got from Sonny. But I know that he's probably
still hurting, so I am going to I'm going to
approach him, and Moog, I look at you, and I
say may I, and I reach out my hand.
Speaker 6: I thought you'd never ask I accept the hand.
Speaker 5: Uh ooh okay, okay, okay, I have to roll some thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because.
Speaker 5: Merg's no Samita here. That just holding his hand is
the best thing that Constantine can do to heal him
at this moment. But I need to know if constantinou
know that or at least like.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's one hundred for those listening.
Speaker 5: He does not know that, Yeah, he does not know that.
Okay that I will. I will step forward and I
will put my hands on your shoulders and I will
try to heal you. I will try just try to
heal you straight on using sanctioned touch. So let me
just see here.
Speaker 7: We'll roll my well, hold one rolled, you rolled one hundred?
Speaker 2: Not okay, thank goodness, good catch.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, well now I passed my own twenty.
Speaker 2: Thanks chat, thank you.
Speaker 5: Okay, great.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I I continue just holding your hand and I'm looking
at you pretty intently. My grip in your hand is
not too firm, uh, not too soft. I would say
that it a comforting amount of pressure. And I bring
my other hand to the opposite side and kind of
cup your hand in both of mine, and I would
like to heal you do don't cool, it's thirty difficulty.
I believe all of them are so.
Speaker 2: Seventy seven doubles. So again we can do an offering.
You can still heal him, but there there should be
a great greater cost.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Here, because of the seventy seven doubles.
Speaker 5: The dice have really ruined my epic plans for this
turn that I had.
Speaker 2: I think it's also possible that you are pretty exhausted
from what you just did because it was outside of
the typical rules, not of the game, but of what
you think you can do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay. I also think like, aside from I have
consistently rolled pretty poorly when it comes to Mook, almost
every time I role rather poorly, except for this last time.
Speaker 2: Why do you think that I have a very specific
question for you? Does he discuss you on some level?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: I mean his existence made of clay.
Speaker 5: It's not my fault, no, because I think to some
extent I could be made of clay. Philosophically, I'm not
made of clay, but you know, humanity is made from
clay or something. I was then made with blood to
become a kindred.
Speaker 2: But you weren't made with the specific purpose of being
a battery for someone back.
Speaker 5: If anything, I would feel pity for him instead of disgust.
Speaker 2: I think that that pity might influence some of your
magic towards him.
Speaker 5: It could be, but I think it's actually that he
is extremely closed off. I think he's a wall. He
feels like a wall when you talk to him.
Speaker 2: He's all like.
Speaker 5: Quips and jokes and hiding. I think he reminds me
of myself in some way. Yeah, nothing is earnest in
a way. It's impossible to get to know him, So
how could I heal him. I don't even know who
he is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's super interesting. I will take an oblivion, yeah, absolutely,
So what we do when it's the doubles I think
we talked about last time after the episode was over.
If it's doubles, we do two to flip it into
regular into doubles. I think on the other side, like
a wind doubles, or you can do one to just
make it a general success. But it won't be a
it won't be like a doubles. You're not flipping it completely.
I think, Yeah, I think I really liked what we
were gonna do, but I think the I think oblivion
will work for now.
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, I'll do one oblivion and then he It
sort of is a general healing, and so you would
get two HP. Well, now the question is physical gesture.
Would that is this hand? I mean, I would see
this as a standard part of my healing. So I
don't know if it's like an extra symbolic. Is it
extra symbolic? I guess?
Speaker 2: So? Is it to you to constantine?
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, touch is always pretty symbolic to him, meaningful,
but I don't think so not in this case. Like
it's I don't know who this guy is, Like I
don't know how to explain it, but he's like a
deliberate stranger. He wants to be a stranger.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So, well if you wanted to, because I know
what you're referencing. You're referencing the part of the ability
of like if he gives you something extra, we could
just let you, guys rpe the scene out for a
second and see if anything extra comes about. And if
it does, great, okaynot okay, sounds good. Yeah, so you
would have to run up to him, Yes, I.
Speaker 5: Run up to you, reach out my hand, May I
you take it? I envelop your hands and then you
would you would feel I don't. You would feel probably
like a warmth and like a rejuvenation. And I think
it's up to you if you can place a specific
feeling associated with that warmth. But I don't know what
it is when I'm doing it, you know, so it
could just be general if you But if you accept
more of the healing, then maybe it becomes more personal.
Speaker 6: Now I know exactly what it feels like. It's uncanny.
I look down, I pull my sunglasses down a little bit,
and I stare at you. This warmth. This it's never
felt rejuvenating before. It's similar to when we my best
friend and I would.
Speaker 2: Use his abilities for.
Speaker 6: Minor bets, seeing what's around the corner, trying to seem
more intelligent by looking down at the end of the
movie before it was ending, all these little things feels
very similar to that, that warmth that it's almost welcoming. Yeah. Yeah,
So I'm looking at you and for a moment I
think I see the visionary not actually just in your
eyes maybe, And I catch myself doing this and I wink.
I say with a touch like that, You're getting a
kiss later, aren't you? Oh no?
Speaker 5: Or maybe cock my head at you with a curious expression.
Speaker 6: Now I do need this hand back if you're quite done.
This hand is my burning hand, but also this one
is too. But together, Oh, I cannot wait to show
the King what they can do together.
Speaker 5: I squeeze your hands lightly, and then I let them go.
Speaker 6: Thank you, and I stretch out a bit and I'm
feeling the rejuvenation as it takes hold, and I look back,
thank you.
Speaker 2: And as good.
Speaker 6: I have no idea what that means.
Speaker 5: That's fine. I give you a wink.
Speaker 6: Oh, you're definitely getting a kiss.
Speaker 5: Later, Greg said, oh, you think I'm a stranger that's
changing today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's offended. Yeah, from here, give me those lips. Okay,
whose turn is it next? Let's see? Oh okay it
is Stalker's turn. Yeah I think I think so top
of the round. Yeah, it's top of the round. So
the bell is gonna go off, and yeah, because I
wanted us to finish, but then something crazy happened, and yeah,
we just left it for Constantine's turn.
Speaker 8: All right, I sent you a DM okay, m.
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, okay, oh okay. So this is the first
time I think in a while that we've done something
like this. So I have an idea if you will,
Aladin trust me, Okay, fantastic, all right, go ahead and
show me the world. Yeah, I will if you roll
well enough. So go ahead and make a roll. It'll
be against your magic ability.
Speaker 8: Here, okay, let me uh hold on, I was in
the other deathless game. I gotta get back.
Speaker 2: It'd be interesting if you just roll it in that
game real quick if you want. Yeah, it's easier because
it's already there, right, so go ahead and do it.
Speaker 8: I just so you know, I have to. I was
in the so then I had to go back. I was.
I was in the old one, and then I went
to the new one and now I have to go
back to the old one again. So it's just taking sorry,
but yeah, here we go. So it is a I
have to remember how to do this.
Speaker 2: Should just be the should just be on the sheet
where you.
Speaker 8: Hit yeah here it is. It's so, but it specifically says.
Speaker 2: And then if you just want to screenshot it and
send it to me so you don't have to say
it out loud. I love the man. They're so fun.
This isn't crazy at all.
Speaker 8: Okay, hmm hour days.
Speaker 2: Okay, So follow up question what typically happens to you
when this occurs? Like what you don't need to go
into full detail because it's not actually happening yet. Okay,
what does it feel like when it starts? Because I
imagine you know it's about to happen.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think it starts with just one thing.
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry.
Speaker 6: I don't know why. It doesn't even matter how hot
I keep that in mind.
Speaker 5: In my mouth.
Speaker 8: Okay, all right, I think it begins. I think it
would be very strange right now because it's a feeling
that the feeling that it starts with hasn't occurred to
him in a while. Days.
Speaker 2: Could I maybe ask for the last time that this
happened to you?
Speaker 8: But we see the last time that this whole thing happened, Yeah.
Speaker 2: The last time you did the thing? And then yeah, yeah,
can we see that scene? Can we just flash back
to maybe when that was Okay?
Speaker 8: Sure, I think that it's been a long time. I
think years, decades. Perhaps, I think maybe we're in we
are in a we're in a old time, like like
flat in New York City.
Speaker 2: So when you say old time, what do you what
do you mean? Exactly? Are we talking early nineteen hundreds.
Are we talking nineteen.
Speaker 8: Thirties, yes, somewhere around the nineties. No, I'm just kidding,
like the well, I mean, it's not the it would
have been built in like the nineteen hundreds, but it's like,
you know, thirty forty years ago. Okay, the fifties, and
we're on the Yeah. Stalker sneaks in through the roof.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, I lost your audio for a second. Sneaks
in through.
Speaker 8: The roof, and what makes his way down into the
study where his target is feeding. This particular individual has
been marked for several weeks and I have been waiting.
He is vulnerable because of how he feeds, is consuming
more than just blood. I get close enough, and I
think he is unaware of my presence. But when my
sword he is taken from its sheath, he turns and
sees me. Struggle ensues. He is stronger than I expected.
He knocks the sword from my hand and we begin
fighting brutally. Blood is spilled, mine and his. When we
are grappling on the ground. I taste it.
Speaker 2: Imagine You're incredibly careful. How does it get into your mouth?
Speaker 8: I was gasping in pain when he wounded me. At
the same time, blood from his neck ripped into my mouth.
I do not remember what happened, but roughly an hour
later my target was dead and there was a big mess.
Speaker 2: Do you dream yes? Do you ever dream about these instances?
Speaker 8: Yes? But I suppose more of a nightmare.
Speaker 2: Is there any panic when this feeling begins as you
lick this coin?
Speaker 8: Only at the beginning?
Speaker 2: Okay, you don't have to answer this next question, but
I am ever curious. Why take this risk? You just
assuming that it wasn't a specific type.
Speaker 8: I thought it would be important to know what manner
of creature it was and hope I had the strength
to resist.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, back in the PBu game, go ahead
and roll against your magic stat Yes, difficulty thirty five
actually instead of that thirty oh, thirty eight? Okay? Do
you want to surrender right now?
Speaker 8: I think I want to tear open this creature's neck.
Speaker 2: Follow up question, and this is for Stalker. Well, this
is for a deep part of Stalker that he's probably
not even aware that he has are Is there a
part of you that wants this to happen because you
want to be able to do this without the consequences
of your order, because you live by such tight rules
all the time, and now you have this enemy in
front of you that is posing a little bit of
a challenge or could continue to pose a little bit
of a challenge. Is there any part of Stalker that
is like, oh well, at least if I lick this
and it is you know, this does happen, then there's
a part of me that's not really responsible for what
happens in the moment.
Speaker 8: I don't think Stalker would be aware of that.
Speaker 2: No, he's not. This is for like a very deep
part of him that is he's not aware of. But
you Orcish might be aware of the I'm aware of it.
Speaker 8: I think that's entirely possible.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, go ahead and describe what happens as you
go into a frenzy.
Speaker 8: Yes, my thangs come out, and my eyes lock on
to this creature's neck. I for a moment just stare.
Then the coin falls my fingers as I leap onto
this creature's back and attempt to bite, rip and tear
it's neck.
Speaker 2: You don't have to attempt, you can just do it.
You're in a frenzy, for sure. Your attack normally does
two damage. Right when it's a reaction.
Speaker 8: When it is a reaction and I catch them unaware.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh he's unaware of this for sure. What does
it look like to the rest of your party? You've
never seen you go into a frenzy before. Do you
look any different to them? Other than your extremely dilated
eyes and protruding things.
Speaker 8: I think some of my usual grace is replaced with
a feral, monstrous strength, a best your prowess. It is different,
but no less deadly.
Speaker 2: Okay, everybody else roll whatever your let's not do magic.
Everybody roll your mental stat for me, please. Difficulty is
forty other than stalker thirty five twenty three from Constantine,
thirty five from Esteban.
Speaker 6: I don't know what my mental stat is.
Speaker 4: My mental is my magic?
Speaker 2: That's oh, that's just mind. Yep, yeah, it's just mind.
Speaker 6: Sorry.
Speaker 2: Sorry, everybody roll your mind and you said thirty yeah,
or forty is your difficulty?
Speaker 6: Sorry?
Speaker 2: Horror rolled in ninety six. That's okay, you are preoccupying
eighty four thirty four. The two of you remain clueless. However,
Esteban and Constantine, I don't know how you know this,
but and come in and stop me whenever orcish If
this does not, but the way that you've described this
and set this up, this is kind of what I'm
seeing here his usual grace. I imagine that he stands very straight,
he's very still. He only moves when he absolutely needs to.
There is no real shifting of the weight unless it's needed.
But now we kind of see his body slump, maybe
a little bit into a slouch, and his arms dangle
alow by his knees, and an image will strike one
of you. I don't know if it's Esteban or Constantine,
but one of you remember seeing this image of this
horrific beast that would come in the night and haunt
your dreams, and it was hunching exactly like this, And
in this moment you recognize this lore of the Sandman
as he's like instantly through your bone. I don't know
if it sends a chill down your spine, but this
is this creature before you, and that image will pop
up in your mind, either from a book or you know,
maybe a painting in Esteban's case, but absolutely you recognize this,
and the stories for both of you rolled super super well.
The stories go not only that he would come in
the night and feed on your dreams, but there seems
to be this underlying element of maybe this is where
Crompus came from, this idea that he'll come if you're bad,
and you know, he'll spy on you in your dreams,
so you better be good or he's going to, you know,
feast on you, and he's going to you'll be sick
and you'll be drained. So there are a lot of
different overlapping kind of mythology that lead to this, this
idea of the Sandman creature. But that image strikes true
into your mind as you see him kind of like hunched,
and I think both of you would maybe recognize in
this moment that this is not a necessarily a conscious decision.
And that is right before he likes lunges bestily onto
this king and begins tearing at his throat with his teeth.
Does anybody react or do anything?
Speaker 5: Oh, this is the first time I would shout Sandman.
Speaker 1: Ool.
Speaker 7: I would because I'm right there. I'm definitely taking a
bunch of steps backward. It's like I'm going back backing
up to here. Yeah, yeah, Okay.
Speaker 2: Moog and Cora, you're completely unaware of the lore, but
you do obviously still see him suddenly hunch and lunge Besteely.
I'm going to say that you would recognize a frenzy
of your own. You would normally be able to recognize
one another vampires in frenzy. But that's not what this
looks like to you. So I don't think you identify
it as him being in a frenzy. This looks like
something different. I think it looks more like a werewolf
losing control than it looks like a vampire losing control
and feeding. It's not quite the same, but it is
more more beast like in nature. Like that does any
other part of you change, Sandman, Like do your fingers elongate?
Or you are your teeth longer than normal?
Speaker 8: I think it might look that way. One arm is
going under his arm and the other one's going over
his other arm, and like I have a hand around
its throat. The other hand is like dug into its
probably its open cavity, like holding on to the rib
cage of my legs are also wrapped around. Uh, it's
torso or legs. And I'm just I don't think you'd
be able to see my face. It's just a hood
that is just clamped down.
Speaker 2: On incubus succubis imagery there, Like there's actual imagery of
creatures like this, sitting on people's chests and feacing. That's
so cool.
Speaker 8: I think I'm on his back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, like I'm.
Speaker 8: I'm so latched on Yeah, like a parasite just draining him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're biting into.
Speaker 8: Him so well. Yeah, I don't know what I can
train or not. I'm trying.
Speaker 2: Does anyone else do anything before we move to the
next turn.
Speaker 6: I'm cheering him on. Okay, I think this made This
is my first time seeing him fight other than having
a knife directly to my third Actually, this might just
be how I think he because he crashes through windows
as far as I can tell, and now he's an
incubis essentially. I thought he'd be all quiet and stealth
and crossbows in the shadows. But I'm maybe have to
reevaluate my opinions on people and judging them based off
of their cover.
Speaker 5: I whisper quietly and softly again epically, Yes, son man
in German.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm, you're right next to Moog, so moog you
would hear that?
Speaker 6: That's creepy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I knew it was somebody.
Speaker 7: I of course, being from Spain, which I totally knew
before two minutes ago, would whisper Coco, which is like
the Boogeyman in Spain. Yeah, which we all.
Speaker 2: Knew estevon, it is your turn. Nothing happens immediately right.
Speaker 7: Now, Okay, so we don't know why. We don't know
why he You know, only one person really knows why
he didn't throw a coin right, Yes, the last round.
Speaker 2: He raised his hand to do so, but then lowered
it again. Perhaps he even started to make the motion
where the coin would come out in between his fingers.
Speaker 8: But yes, may I know, Yes, how much damage I did?
Speaker 2: Well, you don't have to tell me.
Speaker 8: If you don't want to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm treating it like a CRIT because you
went into frenzy. So I'm just imagining you did double damage,
So that would be like and I don't mean a
normal crit where you only get one extra. I mean
like you rolled a wand on the die because you
went into a frenzy, so yours would be too normally right,
So I.
Speaker 8: If he's if he's unaway and I'm using the reactionability
I technically wanted.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I say you were. It was your turn,
but you can you can react at any time, So
that's fine. So yeah, I basically just did the the
full flour there, as if you had rolled the one
on the die for the frenzy and all the story
that you gave us. However, if you want to stay
latched on him, we can just continue to do damage
to him each round, assuming he doesn't.
Speaker 8: I don't think I'm moving.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I figured you're not. But we'll get to what
you're sucking out of him in a minute on Europe.
Speaker 8: Very exciting.
Speaker 7: Yeah, with that going on, is it looks like, you know,
the attacking of him is is pretty well handled, And
I honestly don't want to go anywhere near him right now,
judging by all of a sudden the change and behavior.
Speaker 2: It would be really a shock.
Speaker 7: To see him go from like, you know, these strikes
with his sword like real precision, and all of a
sudden he's just chomping down I'm like a like a rib.
Speaker 2: He also just doesn't make sound normally, he doesn't sigh,
he doesn't do any of this stuff, and all of
a sudden you're hearing this like as he's like sucking
sucking on this guy, yeah.
Speaker 5: Making noises.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think I would I think I would growl
gutturally and then I.
Speaker 5: Can't imagine it, so you might need to just play
that out. Not a good imagination, so let.
Speaker 2: Me he remember like last year when I was like,
for Mergs' birthday, I think be fun if we all
played super hot vampires. I think that would be really
really fun.
Speaker 5: Yeah a year, this is for my birthday. Make the sounds. Okay,
those themselves you are making.
Speaker 2: Dead.
Speaker 5: I go into a frenzy and leap. Oh.
Speaker 2: I love this game so much.
Speaker 7: But I'm going to turn around to the bowl again. Yeah,
and I'm going to try to hide it again, which
I failed before. But I'm going to use an unmake glance. Okay,
we'll envelop it in this void glove.
Speaker 2: Make a role for me. Difficulty thirty.
Speaker 7: That is a fifty nine. I got to lower my
mind to go anyway. But yes, that's a fail.
Speaker 2: What do you think happens? I think I'm just too distracted. Okay,
do you want to chase an oblivion or a burn? Okay?
Speaker 7: I I am still distracted. I'm kind of just keep
looking over my shoulder as I'm trying it. Yeah, I
think this this this might cause his problems. But now, okay,
would you try to be rolling with the penalty for
my burn and oblivion?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 2: Okay, if you have and you have oblivion, then yeah,
you need to be adding that on unless your ability
says that it ignores it, which okay, it doesn't.
Speaker 7: At the moment, sounds like I needed I needed the
twenty five for twenty then yikes.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, you're gonna have this brutal for all of us. Yeah, yep, Okay,
do you do anything else right now?
Speaker 7: I'm gonna use my reaction now that I've brought up
my penal, my my penalization of my die, I'm gonna
try grasping elsewhere, which will bring up these shadowy shadows
nearby to grapple this target that he's holding on to,
to try to keep it in place, and if it
holds around it does want damage? Okay, not really, because
it does damage. But the last thing I want is
this guy suddenly moving.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay. Does that require a role or an active action?
Speaker 7: Well, I guess I don't know this, but my hope
is I'm doing this because it's a reaction. I'm doing
this because I'm hoping it's going to hold his hand down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I was thinking. You're going to reach
up and try to hold it down to his side, right, Yeah.
Speaker 7: It doesn't matter because it doesn't work. I'm far too
distracted by the Sandman going ape shit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so I think, like I think the shadows
maybe come up from the ground. They're in these like
tendril like hands as they reach for this this king's hands.
But his hands are twitching and jerking quite substantially. As
you know, Sandman is on him and like you know,
trying to feed from his neck, and you were unable to, yeah,
grab onto him, and your eyes are wide And would
you be able to share potentially a painting or where
you were or the moment that you realized who this
was in front of you.
Speaker 7: Oh, it's the stories from growing up. Yeah, okay, it's
a story they tell if you're a disobedient child, Coco
comes in the night and either eat you on the spot,
like devours you whole, and you disappear.
Speaker 2: You never get seen again.
Speaker 7: But it's so story that my mother told me, you know,
you don't she would, you know, she wasn't saying it
to She would say it to scare us a little bit,
But it was half joking enough that you thought, ah,
you know, it's not that real, but is it?
Speaker 2: And now to see this again? Yah, yeah, watch out.
Speaker 7: He will take you away somewhere and I will never
get to find my son again.
Speaker 2: You know this sort of thing.
Speaker 7: It's the description of this creature who will come in
the night and knows how you have behaved, and if
you have been bad, he will open his jaws wide.
Then he will eat you up and no one will
ever know. So go clean your room.
Speaker 2: Yeah, perfect, Okay. Is it safe to say that your
little shadow child might be hiding from this individual in
this moment.
Speaker 7: That is a very fair thing. That's probably why he's
probably like literally behind me. Yeah, that's why I couldn't
yeahs before he dropped to his knees in front of
the ball, and now.
Speaker 2: He's just kind of like, okay, fantastic, all right, next up, moog.
Speaker 6: Oh, I don't think these two others are gone? Yeah,
I remember this one is.
Speaker 2: But yes, there collapsed onto the ground, unmoving.
Speaker 6: Oh well, I don't want it. I don't want to
interrupt a meal. This is very curious.
Speaker 2: This was chime six or five halfway halfway? Do you remember?
I want to say it was six six is fun? Yep, yeah,
I think so.
Speaker 6: Well in that case, I suppose time is of the essence,
isn't it. I'm going to I look around. I see
Sandman latched onto his prey. The King's arms. Are they
trying to rip Stalk off? Are they to its side? What?
What do those look like?
Speaker 2: His arms are down by his side and they are
jerky and twitching as this as Sandman basically is, you know,
on him at his neck from what you can tell,
feeding on him in some way, but he is not
making any moves to try to push him off.
Speaker 6: Wonderful. I look at Cora. I hope I don't regret
this one. And I run to the opposite side of
the king and I grab both hands and on one
arm of each year and I am I'm so nervous
because I'm not like a body guy, and I don't
rip things off of things. But this seems like it
might be good. However, there is gold in there, golden coins,
and those can melt. I think I'm going to I
want to melt the coins in his arms.
Speaker 2: The coins are in his chest Kevin chest.
Speaker 6: Oh, then I just want to destroy his arms.
Speaker 2: Oh, perfectly.
Speaker 6: Okay, right, just get rid of the delivery system. Stoker's
got the chest and knuckles taken care of, all right,
I'll use moths touch on that one. I'm gonna use
my tear two because I cannot use tier three just yet.
Speaker 2: And Stalker has described like being on his back grabbing
into his neck. So I'm just saying, his forehead is open.
If you wanted to do your I do.
Speaker 6: I absolutely want to give him and they said on
the forehead, Yeah, but I must do.
Speaker 5: You offer to give me a kiss too. Now I'm
understanding what you were offering. It was a thread.
Speaker 6: Or a ritual. Didn't you to be part of a ritual?
You seem like a guy who likes to be parts
of riches. It doesn't matter anyways. Let me roll the
dice and I am at one burn at the moment,
which puts me at a negative five, which puts me
at twenty five difficulty sixty nine. You know what music,
I am going to use a burn to make that
a success.
Speaker 2: Okay, and do and do ye burn two at the moment.
Speaker 6: Yes, I was at one from the last session. And
then wait, hold on, I have to remember what this does.
I'll figure this out. I'll figure out my burn situation.
Yeah doesn't, but it.
Speaker 7: Doesn't clear half the the burn for the damage it
does or something like that.
Speaker 6: It does.
Speaker 2: You get that. You get to choose to do that.
If you want it to do that, it can. I
believe you.
Speaker 6: I'm going to here, so I'll keep myself back at
one burn as well.
Speaker 2: However, you were at two before this move one?
Speaker 6: I said one before this, because I did. I was
at two and then I chose to clear it last.
I've been clearing it and no one stop. So I've
been consistently at one, and with kissing the forehead, I'll
have an even I won't need to do any mathematics
next one because I don't even itself out.
Speaker 2: Alrighty okay, so what does this look like as you
do this?
Speaker 6: So I rush up to him, to his he's facing
me at this point. I take his hand gently yet firmly.
Speaker 2: Is twitching hand, yes.
Speaker 6: And I kind of smirked myself because it's the exact
same way I constantly grabbed my hand, so I'm kind
of like, look mean. And then I just grabbed the
other one pretty roughly, pretty ferociously, and I look up
into his eyes, and that same charge that comes from mind, yes, yes,
chest that fire right into his arms and they begin
to burn a bit, and the bandages that were wrapped
around his arms maybe begin to singe and fray. I'm
not sure how much it's two damage, so I'm sure
visually how much that would be, but it's starting to
take hold.
Speaker 2: I think, well, yeah, you scorch the bandages right off
and reveal like, you know, kind of rotted skeleton underneath,
with a bunch of blade marks all over his bones.
Oh my, as you look up into his eyes, the
only reason why I said I specified that they were
bandaged is underneath the bandage. The only thing that you
can see really is the spot, you know, where his nose,
it's his nose cavity. Everything else is covered, including his mouth.
So as you look up into his eyes, you do
see an ember like burning in both the sockets, very
similar to your own. That kind of ignites as it
makes eye contact with you.
Speaker 6: Question Mark, Well, it's probably questionable. Who's where anyone's eyes
is between the both of us, Me with my sunglasses
and this with the bandages, I.
Speaker 2: Think it's probably questionable. Any of you are considered a
who at all?
Speaker 6: I mean, I consider myself a who uh there is
a nose though, Yeah, no, there's just like a nose
so good of a once, I'm not sure if I
can do that as a reaction. I would like to
try to see if that circuit is actually there.
Speaker 2: And how would you like to do that?
Speaker 6: The same way that I looked at my reflection outside
of what was once Sunny's in which I saw.
Speaker 2: My clay form m.
Speaker 6: I want to.
Speaker 8: Use.
Speaker 6: I want to see if the king is that same
way using maybe my How do I want to do this?
Speaker 2: Unless there's like an ability that you have that's like
a quick magical recognition which we can roll for, I'm
totally fine for that. This might be a little bit
more involved than just a reaction. Yep, there we go.
That's go ahead and roll for me. Yes, don't forget.
You're at that one burn. So I think you have
a special ability that allows any perception to be normal. Right,
that's your character. Some of you have overlapping abilities. But
somebody's got a sick thing where it's like perception and magical.
Speaker 6: Figures.
Speaker 9: Not that one normal, not that one? Um about that one?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 6: Gain A I have a passive ability. Yeah, my tier too.
I gain a plus ten percent shift on rules requiring insight,
senses or supernatural perception.
Speaker 2: So I actually, could I choose.
Speaker 6: Not to use my plus five from the ritual on
this one? Or do I have to use it? I'm
fine either way. I'm just curious. Put I pocket that
for my next mate.
Speaker 2: Do what you want. I'm a find with that.
Speaker 6: Okay, So then I will be a difficulty of thirty
five and then at twenty one.
Speaker 2: Oh, how do I answer this in a way that
doesn't that is not misleading? Does not smell like Gardania?
Speaker 8: All right?
Speaker 2: It smells like.
Speaker 8: Cora.
Speaker 2: Now you say Cora.
Speaker 6: But I remember when last time you said Cora and
then I went on a tangent. Yeah, So is it
smell like Cora or does it smell like a stinky.
Speaker 2: It is a twenty one.
Speaker 9: Cora.
Speaker 2: Do you wear perfume?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I would.
Speaker 2: Smells like Cora's perfume, which smells like what I know
that's putting you on the spot, but doesn't have to
be super specific.
Speaker 4: Uh, probably like bamber oak lavender.
Speaker 2: Yeah, something like that, okay, And I'm like a little
bit of earthy mixed with some herbs in there. I
don't know if Moog would interpret the lavender is soap,
but that seems like something Moog would do. It smells
like earthy textures and a little bit of soap.
Speaker 6: No sulfur, Oh, no sulfur.
Speaker 4: Okay, Cora, I'm currently paralyzed.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6: This thing smells like you. She probably knows.
Speaker 2: She's just like eyes wide. She can't move or react.
It is the King's turn. Oh this is gonna be
fun workish. Do you want to roll me a one
D five please?
Speaker 8: Oh sh.
Speaker 2: Moog? Yes? Oh no, fuck, I need to subscribe. I
need to describe a recent dream that you had.
Speaker 6: A recent dream that I had.
Speaker 2: It needs to be hold on. I have to specify this,
and I think this is a fun little clue as well.
It must be before you met any of these people.
Speaker 6: Right, well, then Korra is going to have to describe
that because it would be a scene from Korra's life,
because all of Mook's dreams we established episodes ago, are
all just visions, whether it's in cores apartment or it's
all just involving Kora.
Speaker 4: Were they were they all or were they like mixed.
Speaker 2: In as gonna say, you never had any dreams about
the people that your friends or anything.
Speaker 6: Like that, I guess not or anything that was I
mean day dreams maybe if that counts, you know, in
the waking. But now, if it's samba, then the way
in which this this magic worked with proxies or whatever,
all of mood streams, maybe it was just a weird
side effect. Maybe it's not necessarily a proxy thing, but
it's all just spin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, So then I will hand it over to
Kora to describe something, or the two of you can
work together where she'll tell you what it was, and
then you describe the disjointed version that Sandman receives as
he is unable to suck blood out of this king
because the king has no blood, but he is leeching
a dream from him, and it is going to be
this one. It would need to be before any of
this happened, before you ever set foot in this place.
Speaker 4: Okay, yes, before meeting stock Er, before meeting the others.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: Okay, uh Oh, that's a really good question because I
think I think it could be either from before she
was a vampire or events during her vampire life.
Speaker 2: During If I were to guide you in one way,
I think it would be during your vampiric life.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Okay, then I think it would be a a
dream that she had that was set in probably the
same club where she first heard the rumor. Okay, it's
a club that she spent a lot of time in,
So I think it would appear in my dreams, and
I think it was it would be one of those
dreams where kind of driven by paranoia. I guess where
I was standing in the in the bar, and it
almost felt like a shift came over the room, almost
like the weather changed. Yeah, but it's indoors, and all
of a sudden, the air was a little cooler, and
there was like an electricity, and everyone inside the room
felt like their attention turned to me, and their attention
felt like knives hauled up my back. And then the
thought of that manifested knives in the room that were
pointed at me wherever I turned, wherever I moved, and
feeling like I was in danger, I tried to leave,
but the wood floors turned into tar and my feet
would get stuck, and as I moved through, I started
touching the knives or running into the knives and getting
cut as I was trying to make my way towards
the door to leave the bar.
Speaker 2: Did you say anything in the stream as you were
being cut?
Speaker 4: Probably not. I think it would be again one of
those dreams where it felt like my mouth was so
and shut it wasn't able to talk to get away.
Speaker 6: Well, perhaps your mouth wasn't there at all.
Speaker 2: So sand Man, as you are feeding on this king,
this is the memory that you will receive and again
come in and add in or correct if I get
anything that you think would be slightly different. But the
way that I imagine that a creature of this Sandman
variety would feed when they're getting this is like all
the actual sensations and smells and all of that that
comes associated with the dream. It's totally up to you,
obviously how you find us if this is intoxicating or exciting,
or if this isn't exactly your feed type, because this
isn't necessarily a memory where Klora felt like she had
done something bad, which is what I imagine is the
most intoxicating potentially for the Sandman. Is anything where they're
feeling either ashamed or like they know they've done something bad.
This isn't one of those cases. This is a dream
where she felt trapped. But as you are feeding off
of the back of this king, I will say that
anybody that is watching this happen, there is a bit
of strange dust that kind of like a glitters in
this low light that is being removed from the eyes,
the nose cavity, the mouth cavity, the ear cavity of
this being. As it is all like coming into Sandman
as he is feasting on this king, and his arms
jerk as he is being cut by these blades in
her and they the marks on his arms that were
cut with the bone begin to bleed. But it almost
looks like it's simply a trick of the light because
there's no smell of blood that you can see. It
seems to be happening as this memory is being or
dream is being delivered to the Sandman. The King's mouth
opens slightly as he tries to say something, but nothing
comes out. It's just air and wheezing. And then it
is Cora's turn.
Speaker 4: So when mog went to damage the king's arms, he
burned away the bandages, right, so the king still has
function of his arms.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, technically speaking. I mean, he's jerking and he's
not really. He's almost like he's been hit with a
paralytic of a fucking snake that has bit him in
the neck. He can't move. It looks like to you
he's jerking. He's moving, but it seems to be in
reaction to what's being done to him. He's not fighting
him off.
Speaker 4: And would I be aware of that dream being sharedpe
across the room.
Speaker 2: Nope, because it only went into the Sandman. Okay, I
don't even think he knows it's yours either. I don't
even think he's aware of where he is right now,
to be honest.
Speaker 4: Okay, So I think that witnessing Sandman becoming this creature,
even if I didn't make the association of like to
the Sandman lore, I feel like seeing him transform would
just remind me of everything that he is and reminds
me of the fact that we first met when he
walked into my dreams. Yes, that is correct, So I
think dreams would be on my mind. So I'd like
to try to use witch Spike.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, What's that?
Speaker 4: That is an ability arranged ability where I, if I'm
reading this correctly, I can enter in through someone's dreams
and do damage yep, or at least entering through their mind.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe. Yeah, it is you can enter into
their mind, especially if you've already made a contact, which
you have done previously. So go ahead and make that
role for me. Does it change to the difficulty then yeah,
we'll go difficulty forty instead of thirty.
Speaker 4: Okay, sixty four.
Speaker 2: Do you want to spend a burn or an oblivion
to make that a success?
Speaker 4: Yes? Okay, and that comes with yeah, that comes with
the question for you. I think I'll do oblivion, so
I'll have two of each, I know. Okay, that might
be the limit there, unless unless we go with burn
instead and make it three burn and see if that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it gets do that instead it gets see close
to Yeah. I think that's a good idea because then
you're riding that line and if you need to, you
can just instantly do it, and then you've got kind
of like a nuke in your back pocket essentially. Yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 4: So the other thing about this ability is it says
I can hurl a jagged nail or bone chard into
the target, which deals to damage and prevents healing the
next round. Yes, I wanted to ask if we could
interpret healing as the shielding that the king normally does
prevents him from moving into a like into something that
helps either heal or shield himself.
Speaker 2: I think it's better if you prevent the healing, Okay, Yeah,
and I do think that the reason why is, like metaphorically,
where your power comes from, it comes from a place
of damage and being unable to heal. So I think
you're using that to prevent other people from being able
to do that and not shielding if you want to, Weekend,
but I think it's I think it's helpful in this fight. Also,
if you stick with the healing, we haven't witnessed it yet,
but yeah, that sounds good then. Okay, so what does
this look like as you do this then? Because this
has been switched into a success.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I kind of imagine I'm still paralyzed. So again,
all this is happening in my head, but I imagine that
as I look across the room at the King where
Stalker is wrapped around him, almost like a I don't
know how to call it. It's like a like a
blur appears around the edges of my vision and the
center focuses in sharpens, so I can see a lot
more detail and then.
Speaker 2: Almost like of like him before you go in. Yeah, boy,
he looks like you, which is a weird thing to think,
but like you know, how you just recognize your own
posture in the way that you're standing and stuff. Uh huh,
as that kind of sharpens and focuses, you recognize. Maybe
it's the way that his head is tilted back and
his you know, jaws tight. That's the thought you have
as you are about to enter into his mind.
Speaker 5: Okay, m hmm.
Speaker 4: Well, after I have that moment of recognition, I feel
like my vision would kind of like warp and then
I would be inside his mind and probably just like
let loose a one or the other, the jack and
nail or the bone shard.
Speaker 2: Ye, I imagine it's a bone shard, just because he's
made of bone and it's what you have handy here.
You could even use one of his own. Yeah, Okay,
a bone shard kind of like strikes him as you
are inside. However, if you are inside his mind, do
you imagine that you are able to now witness this dream?
Speaker 5: Maybe?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. I mean, it depends on how
you interpret entering somebody's mind. If you are in this
moment experiencing what is being leached from him, even a
tiny bit, then I'm totally fine if you want to
take that knowledge now because you have entered in So yeah.
Speaker 4: Would it be Could it be really fucked up if
I enter into his mind and with the intention of
releasing this bone shard and doing damage. But as I
enter into the mind, I am not prepared for the dream,
and I walk into the bar in the dream, letting
go the bone shard, and it goes into dream Kora,
yes and pierces her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, yes, yes, yes, I will allow it. Where
does it pierce her? And do you have a scar
from this in real life?
Speaker 4: I don't know. I think I would have to roll
for it.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: Where it would pierce is probably where the coins would be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, like somewhere in the chest cavity area,
like below the fourth rib or something like that. Yeah, okay, yep,
I accept this.
Speaker 4: And so the moment is really confused, where I'm not
expecting this and I'm just expecting to attack this this
sack of bones king in a random crypt And then
the moment before I go into his mind, I recognize
myself and then I go into his mind and I
open the door and release the bone sharp and it
goes into into me. Yeah, as I'm looking at myself,
what would we roll for a scar?
Speaker 2: Uh, let's roll a D one hundred and we can
just do a flat D one hundred. It doesn't have
to be against anything that you've got. And do you
want to just do fifty to fifty because this is
just fun, our piece stuff. We just want to see
what happens. Mhm, fifty three fifty three? You think you
have it or you don't.
Speaker 4: Normally under fifty would be yes, and over fifty would
be no.
Speaker 2: Right yeap would be a fail. Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Think that makes sense. Yeah, because it's more of an
illusion that I'm witnessing, is it.
Speaker 2: Maybe?
Speaker 4: Maybe I think it's an illusion.
Speaker 2: And that's why we don't have one. Mm hmm Okay.
I think there's a brief moment maybe as this is happening,
where she gets hit in this dream. Again, I don't
think in the way that Sandman has been described, he's
aware of anything that's happening right now. I don't think
he'll even when he wakes up. I don't or you
know comes out of this. I don't think he'll recognize
that he was feasting off of you in this dream.
It's going to be something he comes to when he
dreams again. But you are fully aware that this is
what is happening. And you have this brief memory of
waking up from the stream, like you so clearly remember
when you had this dream and waking up and thinking
like oh, you know, and looking down and not seeing
a scar, and maybe there is this like itch and
desire for you to reach up and you know, maybe
rub a thumb over your ribs to see if the
scar is there, But you can't move because you are
frozen in place in this moment. But I will say
that something floats up into your mind here as this
is happening, and it is let me just look here
she bursts from the cathedral like flame from Bone, that idea,
that image surfaces in your mind here as this is happening,
and you remember flame from Bone Yep. It's one of
the slides that you guys put together before yep, And
you remember the twelve stages to the death of a God,
and that kind of floats back up to your mind.
Do you do anything else? This turn.
Speaker 4: I think I would have been really thrown off by
this and kind of stunned at the end of my turn.
Speaker 2: Yep, Constantine, you're up.
Speaker 5: May I propose something?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 5: Always, I am at three oblivion and I just suddenly
witnessed Stalker do this thing man, But yes, Sandman, and
I think the combination of the memory and the like
reality bending effects of being at three oblivion, I think
I'm a bit horrified, and I think I might be
seeing things when I'm looking at Sandman feeding on this king.
I hmm, Yeah, so I think I'm actually useless this round.
Like I think my oblivion and then what is happening
just means that I'm not all there. It might take
me around to come too, I guess. Yep, Okay, but
can I roll to see how horrific the site is?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely?
Speaker 5: Like what am I actually seeing? Yeah, I'll go for
mind seventy six failure.
Speaker 2: I think you were one of the ones that rolled
to know this myth in this story, So I think
twenty three there's a bit with the oblivion mixing with
this childhood story, and maybe maybe you're just kind of
like in and out of reality for a moment as
you're going back into the story and you know remembering
being afraid of it as a child, or any of
these things. As you kind of are witnessing this, this
creature from your nightmares. You know, this is like I imagine
you heard stories of this. This is the monster under
your bed and you're you're watching. Oh no, not only
is it real, but it's right in front of me,
and it's feasting on this forgotten king.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, does the king look the same?
Speaker 2: Yes, he does, Okay. He his hands are twitching back
and forth. His mouth is slightly open as he's trying
to speak. You do see, looks like it might just
be a trick of the light. But as his arms
are jerking, it looks like he's being cut and there
might be blood coming from these slash marks in his arm.
But then you look again and there's nothing. Okay, okay,
all right. I feel like you are willingly passing your
turn for the sake of RP. Both you and Kora
just did that, and I think that's super dope. Just
make a note on your character sheet, please, so I
can give you guys some experience, because I'm going to
forget after the session is over, for sure. It is
the top of the round. The bell chimes. We are
now in round seven. It strikes seven times. Sandman, do
you stay latched onto this guy?
Speaker 8: Yeah? I think I do. I I uh continue to
dig deeper into his neck, biting more and more, chewing
through what is left of his desiccated flesh and bone.
I think I dig in deeper.
Speaker 2: Do you can do it to just consume?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Because basically I'm considered, Yeah, you're just going to continue
to are satisfied? Okay, roll me a one D four
please estebone excellent prediction orchish.
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 2: Okay, So dream from when I was a vampire. Yes,
bonus points if it's something which I don't think is
possible for you, but something that you actually feel guilty about.
Speaker 10: We felt like I'm going to get in trouble. I
could do that, Okay.
Speaker 7: In the dream, I kind of, you know, you just
find yourself somewhere.
Speaker 2: I find myself.
Speaker 7: It's this very It starts at as a large wooden
room and there doesn't appear to be any doors or
window's definitely in the windows, but it's very large. But
as the dream progresses, it gets smaller and smaller. And
as this is happening. I am looking around and calling
out to people. The ceilings are very tall too. There
is a suddenly, I hear a slam behind me, and
I turn around and where there was no door, there
is still no door. But somehow someone has come in.
I kind of see their face this kind of you know,
not shadowy, but you just can't see their face. It
is a dream, and I am frozen.
Speaker 2: And I stand in there.
Speaker 7: I don't know who it is. I call out to them,
who are you?
Speaker 2: Where am I?
Speaker 7: This sort of thing in this dream? I am, you know,
an adult? I am, you know, still the same person
I am, and I'm having it. And then they take
a step towards me that they yell again, they don't
come closer. Who the fuck are you? Where the hell
am I? This sort of thing, And then they take
another step and it kind of sounds thunderous again, and
they take another one, and the more I yell, the
faster they walk towards me. And there is this thing
that happens. I start to back away. You know, My
instinct at first is to go towards this person, go
through them, find out what I need from them. But
for whatever reason, my body will not do it. I
just keep going backwards. I think these very strange things
happen where they get they don't seem to close. They
definitely have gotten closer, but it's more because the room
is shrinking. And then they reach out to me and
all I suddenly see, or all that is in my
head because I'm not really seeing. It's just this big hand,
like bigger than I could fathom, and it just is
getting closer. And I start pulling away and I'm now
screaming more fear than anything else. I can't do anything
against it. I actually start to try to hit it finally,
but nothing happens, and it just gets closer and closer.
It just totally like wraps itself around me, this big hand,
and I kind of once it does, I just crumple
up and I I am sobbing. You know, when I
open my eyes, the hand is not there, but this
person is standing over me. There are normal size but
I am just crumpled in this little ball, just sobbing
and sobbing, feeling shamed and embarrassed and how could I
let this happen to myself? And then I wake up?
Speaker 2: Stalker, can you roll me your defensive stat and I
know you're like, I probably wouldn't defend because I'm feeding
on this thing. This is just to see if he
manages to knock you off.
Speaker 8: Ah, Okay, what's the difficulty?
Speaker 2: Thirty thirty four? Okay, thirty four. So I think we
see this king with this gold crown that looks almost
fused to his skull as he is like shrinking back
and you know, fighting you off. Now, all of a sudden,
he manages to kind of knock you off a little
bit before you latch back on to his back and
continue to feed on him. But then he slowly lowers
to the ground and you are now like feeding off
of his like back and shoulder as he is crumpled
onto the floor.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know this has happened, right, Nope. I mean
it's up to you if you want to recognize I mean,
why the body language and stuff. I mean, it's the
same thing with with Cora, where I feel like if
you would intrinsically recognize the way that you walk and
the way that you stand, that might be a little
fucking weird. You might, because he's he does completely shift
in this moment, by the way, because before he was
standing the way Cora would stand, et cetera. And now
he's shifted to the way that you stand, and those
are intrinsically different, whether or not you recognize.
Speaker 7: Have not, I have not really seen how I walk
and stand too much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, so I feel like, you know, but there
is a change. Yeah, and that might take you right. No,
not at all, not at all. But there's the same
kind of dust yep, same kind of dust coming from him.
He like fights and lowers down. He does scream out.
We do hear this very raspy a error that is
being pushed out of him because he doesn't actually have
a voice box, but it is in the form of
a scream as he lures himself down onto the ground.
Est ubonnet is your turn.
Speaker 7: I'm pretty frustrated that everything I try isn't working, both
in character and out. So then notice again the choru
isn't moving. Yeah, and there's something that has been bugging me.
I am going to walk over to Korra. I'm going
to say I'm sorry for this, and I pull out
one of her hairs and I'm going to put it
in the bowl.
Speaker 6: Oh I know what I'm doing A mind to now?
Speaker 2: Oh wow, Okay, okay, what else are you doing? I'm
going to say, Sophia, okay, roll for me your magic
stat difficulty three. Don't worry.
Speaker 7: I rolled terribly see seventy five.
Speaker 6: Well, now I'm very worried.
Speaker 2: Do one more role for me difficulty thirty. I will
make it even fair.
Speaker 7: I have inspiration which I have never used, so I
will use it now.
Speaker 2: Okay, what for the role that you just did or
for the one I'm asking you for now? Isfferent unrelated?
Speaker 6: Yeap?
Speaker 7: Oh okay, no, I'll roll again to see what happens.
Twenty seven.
Speaker 2: Okay, that was your reroll for this, right, and now
I'm still asking you to roll okay separately, Okay, great, yep,
difficulty thirty. I mean you can use that for mine
if you want, and then do your reroll now for
the other thing up to you, but either way, do
it again.
Speaker 5: Cool.
Speaker 2: I am going to DM you something, but for now,
as you do that, Okay, this is really important. You
pluck you yanka hair from her head, you walk over,
you put it in the bowl, and you say, Sophia,
you're missing one other thing. What else do you do?
What does this look like? Are you trying to summon,
what is it that you were trying to do.
Speaker 7: I'm just, I'm really just. This is what we saw
in the there's a bowl here. There was hair in
the thing that was kind of red.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 7: And are the dead skeletons still there?
Speaker 2: Yep? The ones we beat Yep, they're crumpled on the ground.
Speaker 7: On looking at the one with all the eyes in
the chest.
Speaker 8: Yep.
Speaker 7: I'd be looking right at them. Okay, while I do
it too, Okay.
Speaker 2: And then you say, Sophia, yep, and you rolled a
twenty seven. So for those listening, he rolled a twenty
seven to do this, and then he rolled a seventy seven.
Feel for whatever comes back. Okay, So we're gonna pause
here for a second. Esteban is blown back into the
pillar behind him, and he immediately crumples down onto the floor.
The pillar cracks, uh, and the skeleton with many, many
many eyes stands up. Shit, mother fucker. Moo, it is
your turn.
Speaker 6: Oh it's my turn. Oh no, the one I hate
the most came back.
Speaker 8: Shit.
Speaker 6: I thought I knew what I was going to do.
But if that is a result, how attached would you
say that crown is to the king's head?
Speaker 2: It looks fused into bone.
Speaker 6: Fuck, well, that makes us a bit easier.
Speaker 2: I'm going to.
Speaker 6: I'm furious. I am absolutely this thing, the thousand eyes chest,
whatever it is, should be good dead. It tried to
do a death blow on me, and I didn't appreciate
it all that much. So I'm going to leap over
to the other side. So I'm going to get in
between it and Constantine and I look at straight on.
You need to learn to stay dead when I kill you,
or we're going to have some real problems. Yeah, and
I grab its stupid little skull. We hit this stupid
little blindfold and it's little grin that's not really a
grin because it's a skeleton, but it's taunting me. And
I am going to do my level two moths touch,
but this time I am not going to take back
the burn.
Speaker 2: Okay, which puts you at tu burn right.
Speaker 6: This would put me at the tuburn.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, and I need to reail and then use
a burn to do it. Okay, got it correct?
Speaker 6: So then this this is thirty twenty five, but I
am going to use the five now, so that puts
it back at thirty yep, thirty five.
Speaker 2: Okay, what happens when you do this? What does this
look like?
Speaker 5: This?
Speaker 6: I'm even more furious. The flames are I think, even brighter,
not necessarily doing more damage, but they're just more untamed.
I think before it was still a bit of holding
back on it, even though I it was mad. But
this is a fucking insult right here. This motherfucker needs
to be down and stay down. And at this point
you can actually see the flame through its eyes and
nose and mouth and wherever else there's a hole on
this thing. It's really it erupts and then goes back
into itself, and I'm too furious to kiss it on
the go.
Speaker 2: Ahead, Okay, you do catch a faint scent of gardenia
as you do this. How much damage do you do here?
Speaker 6: This would be the two damage I believe, yes, medium
damage too.
Speaker 2: This does nothing to this skeleton that you can see.
But somehow you know this has caused someone pain somewhere
what you've just.
Speaker 6: Done Gardania, Oh no, And we didn't get any sense
of that into attacking anything else. Just when this thing
came back.
Speaker 2: Just this thing right now, in this moment, as you're
touching it.
Speaker 6: I look at Esteban, What did you do?
Speaker 2: He's down on the ground, he's unmoving, doesn't appear to
be conscious.
Speaker 6: Oh, oh, dear God, Constantine. I fear we're on our
own on this one.
Speaker 2: Do you do anything else?
Speaker 6: I want to so bad, but I don't know. Can no,
I can't. I want you, but I don't know what
I'm going to do. So that is the end of
my turn.
Speaker 2: Okay, next up is the King, so go ahead and
roll again for me. Sandman difficulty forty your body stat
This thing tries to force you off. Its arms reach
up and are grabbing at your cloak and trying to
pry you off of it, and it cannot seem to
get the Sandman to unlatch from his neck as he
is chewing away at bone. I think the Sandman is
I think you're hearing sounds as if maybe he was
tearing into flesh, but there's no flesh there. But he
is dripping him apart, and he can't get him off,
and he is unable to heal himself, and subsequently he's
also unable to shield himself because he cannot throw a coin. Cora,
it is your turn.
Speaker 4: I think, since I'm still paralyzed, I'm going to use
who's another like ranged attack that I don't have to
move for. I want to try to possession Spike again. Yep,
so we can hopefully, uh set them up for the
next time the next round. Okay, I'm gonna roll.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh thank god? A six. Okay, Okay, what are
you trying to do here? Okay?
Speaker 5: So this is.
Speaker 4: The same attack I did earlier where I ride the
mind of the king for first split second, and in
this case, I think the message that I bring with
me for this attack is you are too weak to
go on, with the implication of the next time it's
his turn, he's not able to move.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm too weak to go on? Is what this
thing is thinking right.
Speaker 4: Where I am too weak to act?
Speaker 2: Yep, my arm's too feeble. Yeah, all right, do you
feel this? So I'm wondering if because you're planting the
thought into his mind, but I'm wondering if to do this.
It's kind of like method acting where you kind of
feel like, oh, I'm too weak to go on, and
so you're now pushing that onto him, like potentially using
your level three body that horrific exhaustion that you're feeling
that you then dump on him so that he won't Okay,
you can clear a.
Speaker 4: Burn if you'd like, Oh, okay for how creative this
was absolutely yeah, it's absolutely that like, and I'll give
him a burn. That moment of pulling from what I
was feeling, I was like purging myself up it and
pushing it on him and shed onto him.
Speaker 2: We have some transference magic. I'm go into it.
Speaker 4: Yep, yep.
Speaker 2: Okay, anything else, my.
Speaker 4: Dear, it's been a minute since I've like tried to
look for more information. If there's like anything that the
ghosts are talking about, yeah, anything that my perception would pick.
Speaker 2: Up, yep, go ahead and roll this time for me,
because before I was like, yeah, you're hearing lots of
different things, but this this one, we can do a
mind roll for difficulty for thirty yeah, thirty nine, thirty nine,
I think you would be hearing again. It's a lot
of different whispers. A lot of people have died in
this room, but you pick up on a couple of
different things, and it's mostly just repetition of those twelve
stages of the death of a God that seemed to
be floating to the surface here.
Speaker 4: It's like the word.
Speaker 2: It's over and over, yeah, yep, and multiple different stages,
and honestly, you might even hear ooh. You wouldn't hear
your own voices, but you would hear dialogue similar to
what you guys were saying when you were justifying well, okay,
but martyrdom isn't exactly you know that kind of thing.
It's not your own voices, because you know that's different,
but you're hearing similar things, as if other beings have
been through here and done this puzzle and gotten this
far and then died Constantine.
Speaker 5: You're up, Okay, I would like to shake out of
my haze when Esteban is thrown across the side to
this pillar.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and I'm.
Speaker 2: Going to or over to head for sure. That's okay
fast he was blown back there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, he's unconscious.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay should yeah, damage you will in a second.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm gonna like drop to my knees and uh,
my hands are kind of going all over your chest.
And I'm uh saying to myself because again, like reality
is starting to feel weird because of my oblivion. I'm
saying out loud. He said yes. He said yes, because
I'm trying to remind myself that he consented to this earlier,
and I would like to. Yeah, I want to heal him. Okay, so,
but I'm going to roll for it because my oblivion
is high and I'm feeling weird.
Speaker 2: So you do not have to roll for it. You
will die. You guys can die here. You're on roll.
You're on thing seven, so you lost the whole turn
that was fucking sick as well. But you don't need
to roll for this here.
Speaker 5: Okay, then I don't. I would like to heal him
with the hope of waking him up and getting him
up and going.
Speaker 2: You can roll to do that action. But you don't
have to roll to figure out if you would or not,
you know, So yeah, go ahead and make your healing roll.
Speaker 5: Okay, ten.
Speaker 2: The stemon. You don't have to. You don't have to
do the thing in the DMS there. You can just
get up now as Constantine heals you.
Speaker 7: I think my eyes just kind of flutter open. I
see this angelic presence in front of me, and I
grab him. He still doesn't have a shirt, right, you
still don't have a shirt. Oh yeah, I'm sure helpless.
Speaker 5: This little inaccurate.
Speaker 2: We're all about realism here.
Speaker 5: Yeah I am. I am definitely still chest naked.
Speaker 7: I think I I my hands shoot up to the
sides of his jaw, and they say the gods die
when they are forgotten, and I like, quick but pretty
firmly give them a kiss on the math andle the
gods die when they are forgotten.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, okay, I turn and I uh shout to
the room. My hands are still on you, but I
turn and I sort of shout to the room book
at them. The gods die when they're forgotten. I don't
really know what it means to actively forget, but I
am in oblivion, so I feel like I'm just Yeah.
So now I'm trying not to think about the fact
that I'm in this room at all and that this
person is not there.
Speaker 7: Every room at this place is about the same thing.
Speaker 12: Yeah, you're right, but what do we do? They are
clearly enemies. How can we forget them? You cannot do
that again?
Speaker 5: No, I'm not scared me.
Speaker 7: I feel like I probably should have looked at somebody else.
Speaker 5: I think that's the end of my turn. I can't
think of anything I'd like to do.
Speaker 2: It is beginning of a new round. The bell tone
chimes eight times. Sandman, you may wake up from this
frenzy now if you would like, Well, you could roll
to do it, because I imagine this is the first
time you've frenzied in PBu and you're sucking on dreams
and it feels really good. But there is a point
where you know, you kind of do feel like, oh
that was great, and you can sort of surface if
you'd like, or we can roll for it where you
can stay in your frenzy.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I think I think I would just keep going.
I think we're in. We're in.
Speaker 13: Yep, okay, roll me a one D three yeah.
Speaker 8: Two.
Speaker 2: Do you think you are aware of anything else that
is happening in the room.
Speaker 8: I don't know that I'm consciously doing the dream thing.
I think I'm just trying to bite at this point,
I'm chewing through this. I'm trying to chew through this
king's spine.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Like so, no, I'm not aware.
Speaker 2: Of anything else that's happening in here.
Speaker 8: Okay, No, okay, it's only been seconds, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, yep, you're just still chewing through. It's so
as you're chewing through the King's spine. I'm going to
go ahead and say that you you know, you full
on snap the collarbone here and maybe go in for more.
But he again, you're not really aware of what's happening,
So you know, it's one thing for me to say,
like you get the sense that you know there's something
magical keeping him walking in together. He's not made of flesh,
so you're you know the damage you are doing. You
are doing damage. You are hurting him, but you are
not wounding him in a fatal way like you should be,
or like you maybe aren't expecting to. But if you're
not really aware of anything happening in the room, you know,
I'm going to leave that up to you to kind
of interpret if any of that would even kind of
pull you out. Otherwise you're just gonna be gnawing on
this motherfucker and doing a repeated damage like a leech
every round. So we can do another two damage if you'd.
Speaker 8: Like, Yeah, I think I just keep going. Is he
still standing?
Speaker 2: Uh no, he had moved to his knees on the
floor a little bit.
Speaker 8: Okay, So I'm like holding him. I'm holding his head
up with one hand and like his rib cage up
with my other Yeah, and I'm still just You've.
Speaker 2: Put ten even snapped one of the ribs. You've broken
it and it's smashed into the other one. But he
is still like moving around. He's on the floor. I
think he tried to get up, but you rolled a
partial success, so he was trying to get up and
then you stayed latched onto him. So I imagine that
he is still here on the floor. Constantine, Yeah, uh,
I just went no, I mean your dream.
Speaker 11: Oh oh oh, Okay, before you start, give me one second.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to fix a sound that's happening to stream.
Speaker 5: Okay, I not think of the dream.
Speaker 6: I would like to let everyone know that I'm kicking
myself because I forgot everything that you can do with
burn and I'm looking at it right now and man a.
Speaker 2: I fire down. Did that fix it? Chat? Please let
us know. Go ahead and continue.
Speaker 5: I am a boy in my childhood home. I'm laying
in my bed. There's a window outside, but there's a
window to the outside. I'm trying to sleep, but I'm
looking outside and there's so many stars. The moon is huge,
and I hear a sound come from down the hall
my sister's room. I walk out into the hallway to investigate.
I don't feel afraid yet. I know I should feel afraid,
but I don't feel afraid. It feels normal. As I
approach her bedroom, I hear a squelching sound. I opened
the door and she's laying in a heap on the
floor and I look out and through her window, the
moon is closer. It's like I could kiss the skylight
of Ballien already, and it fills my stomach with this
sickening horror. Now I am scared. I run to my
sister and I lift her up, and she's slack in
my arms and her eyes are vacant, and then she
looks at me quickly, time stops, and she says, you
think you know them, but you don't, and I wake up.
Speaker 2: Holy shit. Okay, you are unaware that this has been
sort of taken from you, Estevon, it is your turn.
Speaker 7: I am very torn. I do not know if it
will work, but well have we learned from this place?
That being said, I'm going to I'm gonna try something
I haven't done for many episodes. I'm sorry, I'm gonna
go towards Korra, and I'm gonna look at her, and
I'm going to take out the rosary beads that I
bought from Sunny Shop, and I am willing to use
a VTM ability to try to make her forget that
a bell rang just a few seconds ago.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's the thing, is it like? If she doesn't
know that. I think it's not her knowledge. It's an
entanglement condition. I think this is badass as fuck, But
I don't know if that's typically how an entanglement works.
I think it's happening without her knowledge. It's just whatever
it is. Yeah, it's just she's entangled with the universe.
It's quantum bullshit from the magic that she was using.
I think that idea is super fucking dope about anything else.
Speaker 7: No, I know, I know that could do. I could
go bigger too with it.
Speaker 2: I mean, we can try, because you could always roll
a one. No no, no, no news, something crazy could happen.
No no, no, I don't want you to waste the
turn when that's not really how it Okay, good, Yeah,
thank you for telling me. I am going to do
something safer than and I am going to use I know,
I'm gonna use my my umbrell thing to try to
not it takes a whole fucking turn. Okay, we're runn
out of turns.
Speaker 7: Okay, I'm gonna use my defender tentacles on a moog
so he gets the defended condition.
Speaker 2: All right, go back and yes, we can absolutely do that.
But what were you about to say?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 7: If I use that thing that like like what I
used earlier where it takes Cora out of like like
she's not perceived, then I mean I could also do
it on the fucking King, but it's I'm going to
do it on the King.
Speaker 2: That was my other thought. Perfect, let's do that. Okay,
it just has it does not work.
Speaker 7: I know, I know five times this gun shy, I
get bonuses if I do with the car.
Speaker 2: It's right, we're gonna do yeah, yeah, okay, I'll go
for it. Do you want to take a burn or
an oblivion so that you can make that a success? Yeah?
I'm going to take an oblivion yep. Okay, I'm tired.
I'm tired of it not working. I don't know why
this is happening to you, but okay, so what does
this look like as you do this? As you developed
the King?
Speaker 7: I think, because well, he's on the ground right now,
with the soccer on it, with the sandman on his back.
Speaker 8: Yep.
Speaker 7: So I stand up and I have a very long
look at Cora, and I decide, well, that probably won't work.
So I turn around to look at the king. It's
all happening lightning fast, and you know, I realized this
has been working. It's the reason I put the hair
in there. It's just frustration and frustration and frustration, and
it's and it's kind of like I'm gathering myself and
a good look at the little hold on.
Speaker 2: Does this mind you of anything in particular, this frus
this building frustration of trying to do my whole life.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's his whole life. So I think it's just
over and over and over again. It's not being able
to to do what you want or get where you want,
or make what you want happen. And every time you
think it's about to, it just doesn't work, or someone
comes along and focks it up for you.
Speaker 2: And so it's just more about.
Speaker 7: Music gets me. Uh So I I kind of look
because the little like shadow voyage child is like still
kind of like nervous and like you know, hiding behind me,
and I kind of bend down to him, you.
Speaker 2: Know, feeling this frustration.
Speaker 7: I can't break through this, and I and I but
I like, I try to be calm, and I'm looking
at him and I say, I say, Levante, I must
throw Bajo Borcher. And then he kind of just like
relaxes a little bit and he nods, and then he
kind of I think he'll just kind of shoot off
like the shadow just it's not even really him, but
just extends across the floor. It's kind of going like water.
And then I think you just see it's very it's
not aggressive. It just kind of flows out from under
this king, and you see it just kind of expand
over him slowly, and then when it gets a certain point,
it just kind of just envelops him. And he's gone
from any from what anyone in this room can see.
Speaker 2: You all are standing in this room. Sandman is gnawing
on air, and you have no recollection of anything in
this fight that has happened.
Speaker 14: The room is empty, all right, So are we supposed
to put something into the bowl to continue.
Speaker 8: To jump into the I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2: I remember, right, do you want to remember? No, he's gone. Nope,
he's gone. He's gone, I don't want to remember ship.
Yeah I would have allowed it, and then I just
was checking. Yep, yeah I could do it to myself. Great. Yeah, yeah,
there is a move, there is a yes you can uh,
there is a moment you your body feels like when
you come out of a paralysis. Though. Yeah, so stuff
feels weird. Some of you are out of breath, some
of you are fucked up. Some of you are feeling
really weird. But you don't remember why.
Speaker 8: Am I still hungry?
Speaker 2: I think there came a moment where you were saying
by the dreams because you took quite a few. But
I want to leave that up to you whether or
not you're still in a state of frenzy. But you
are if you were to tap into your hunger and power.
You're not hungry. It feels like you just fed on
something actually deliciously.
Speaker 7: So Sandman is still like more hunking still yeah sh yeah.
Speaker 2: Over something, and it feels to him like he just
ate a feast.
Speaker 5: In fact, I stand up and everything still feels strange.
So the fact that I feel strange and everyone has
strange looks on their faces, and I'm at such high oblivion,
I would like to investigate the room.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wait to get out of here. Yeah. Absolutely. You
don't see anything other than there are pillars all around you.
There's one pillar that stands out to you. It's cracked
as if it had been struck by something. But when
you look around, you just see this kind of sacrificial
bowl kind of in the center of the room. There
are these panels that look very similar to the previous room,
or slats where there could be something that was placed,
but there's nothing there. There is a long hair in
the middle of the bowl. There are a few coins
in this bowl. There's a couple of quarters as well.
Other than that, there's nothing else really in the room.
There are no obvious doors or doorways.
Speaker 5: You have.
Speaker 2: Everyone has the distinct feeling that time has passed, but
you don't know what has occurred. You know that something
has happened here in this room, obviously, but you're not
quite sure what. But their magic is afoot for sure.
You can feel that.
Speaker 8: Did you say that there's us quarters in this bowl?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yes, the ones that moved through in.
Speaker 8: Oh okay, yep.
Speaker 2: There are gold coins and then there are quarters as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, I would like to walk up to the
pillar that has a crack in it, and I run
my hand over the crack.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: Well, I do not know about any of you, but
I feel strange here. Maybe part of the doorway. Perhaps
we ought to solve this room unwell called us.
Speaker 2: A clock tower bell suddenly chimes and interrupts her thoughts.
It will chime nine times.
Speaker 5: We also now forget that we're supposed to get out
by twelve.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but it didn't we know the number.
Speaker 5: Well, we did know the number, but now we don't
because we forgot everything that happened.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the door we came in, he's gone.
Speaker 2: Yep, there are no doors.
Speaker 6: There's always a door.
Speaker 4: I I would walk up to the the pillar, the
pedestal thing and look at the panes of glass, and
I want to try to combine to take out I
think the gold one and put it with the red
one and see if anything happens.
Speaker 2: This combo that you did before the red and the gold.
Hold on.
Speaker 4: I just have to look at my notes here. This
is from the other room. Correct, Yes, nothing happens. Ah,
I would do it the other way. The red with
the gold in the gold spot.
Speaker 2: As you slotted in, the whole room is quiet. You
can't even hear those whispers anymore. As you slotted in,
there's just a light click, but nothing happens. What were
you attempting to do?
Speaker 4: I was gonna see if anything played on the walls
like the other room, thinking this is a similar puzzle,
just in a different shape.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. If you remember, there was one that was
like considered a true reveal or something that was very important,
but it wasn't those colors. So you are onto something here,
but it is not the red and the.
Speaker 4: Gold by the player recognized the red and gold being
the cathedral thing that you said, I or A noticed. Okay,
I'm gonna go back to my notes. What was the
big reveal? Then?
Speaker 2: Oh, my god, you did the she bursts from cathedral
like flame from it dead was red and gold. That's
very clever. So I think the way this would translate
into Cora's brain is she burst from the cathedral like
flame from bone. But that wasn't the true death portion.
So what was that one? What is the end of
the story, because you are putting down parts of her
godhood story, but what is the true death of the god?
Speaker 6: Which one was the end?
Speaker 2: And I think probably as you're standing here, you recognize
that there are elements of everything in what you whoa
you don't know what you just experienced, so never mind.
I cannot even assist you with that. I'm sorry, yeah,
stop speaking. But maybe as you kind of like think
back on what you saw. You know, you saw a
version of someone man or woman kind of sitting in
judgment holding some scales in her lap. You saw a
thousand dies bearing down in wand and maybe there's a
twinge of something that feels familiar there as you're thinking
of the thousand eyes, but you don't know why.
Speaker 4: Yep, it's either red and blue or golden blue. So
I think I would try red and blue first. Combine that.
Speaker 2: Yep, you hear that familiar click and nothing happens, okay,
and then gold and blue, gold and blue. As you
slate in the gold and mix the gold and the
blue together, a strange froth sound happens as the bowl
begins to lift up what otherwise you thought it was
connected to this pillar, but now it is lifted up
and floating in front of you. Your hair is billowing
back against this kind of like breeze or this magical pressure.
This bowl is now floating in front of you, but
nothing else happens. What do you do?
Speaker 8: Holy shit?
Speaker 2: Also, is Sandman just like still gnawing at the air.
What's happening here? I'm just curious if he kind of
like snaps out of it or what. I think he
might be always gone. Oh my bad, I didn't see
him leave.
Speaker 6: He didn't leave. He's in character. He's obfuscated.
Speaker 2: Oh right, right right, right, my bad.
Speaker 5: He was like, no one should see me like this.
So the bowl is floating.
Speaker 2: Yes, something is like turned on in front of you.
You know, the is now floating. It's like waiting, warily put.
Speaker 6: The coins in.
Speaker 5: Yeah, perhaps now is a good time to try.
Speaker 4: What is an appropriate offering? Wait a second. As a
reminder to the table, gold and blue was the same.
Woman stands in a field of ash, the sky colorless
and no wind. A thousand eyes bear down on her.
A small altar in front of her bears an offering,
A lock of long faded a long hair faded of color.
Speaker 6: I did it early.
Speaker 4: I think we need to put hair in it.
Speaker 5: Long hair faded of color. Yep, well, your hair is
too beautiful and crimson, and none of us are old.
So I suppose it will have to be mine. Since
it's the lightest.
Speaker 4: I think if I put my hair in the bowl,
will one day be faded of color, even if we
put it in now?
Speaker 5: All right, it's a better idea, since I would look
horrible with a patch gone.
Speaker 4: Yes, let us preserve your luscious locks.
Speaker 5: It appeals to you as well, nicer to look at, no,
a better companion to have around.
Speaker 4: I begin braiding another piece of my hair, basically repeating
the same process I did in the other room. Yeah,
take out my blade and cut it off. Look to
the others. Are we in agreement?
Speaker 2: See?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm kind of scared right now.
Speaker 4: I am too. I feel like we're missing something.
Speaker 6: Yes, I feel exhausted, but I feel better than I
did a moment ago.
Speaker 5: Roche, Remember that fear is for those who do not
live well. We live well, No, we should be fine.
Speaker 6: Who says we're living at all in this place?
Speaker 4: Let us hope doing this will allow us to live.
I tossed it into the bowl.
Speaker 2: Workish had started to say something, Are you doing anything
in this moment?
Speaker 8: I think that I instinctually went invisible. After I sort
of came to okay, and I sort of moved into
the shadows of the pillars.
Speaker 2: But that's okay. Yeah, I was curious as to what
was happening after you kind of woke from your stupor okay,
everyone is in agreement, or you're gonna drop the uh,
the braid into the bowl. Do you remember anything else
from that? And are you going to recreate anything else
from that?
Speaker 4: In that scene, the woman says a name, but it
was a name that was different for each person.
Speaker 2: So I would I don't say, but do you say
a name?
Speaker 4: I think I would feel like I need to recreate it,
So I think I would say a name?
Speaker 2: What name do you say?
Speaker 4: The only name?
Speaker 2: I heard?
Speaker 8: Yesh?
Speaker 2: Now whoa didn't you also hear your name?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Cora drops the braid of her hair into this bowl
and is recreating this image that we saw drawn on
the wall. She stands alone in a field of ash,
But now we are seeing Cora standing not quite alone,
but above this ash and stone altar. The room is colorless.
There is no wind, there are no sounds. There are
several eyes, thousands of eyes bearing down on her. Her
hair begins to desaturate in front of our very eyes
as it loses color as the power is being sucked
from it. She reaches for it for a moment and
then stops, smiles faintly, and then whispers the name Ishna,
and she feels a curling and an unfurling in her
belly of power as Ishna becomes more powerful and shifts
around inside of her. And then we hear the shifting
of a door presenting itself and opening. And that's where
we are today, Sash right, we gotta yes. Yeah, I
was not expecting that. I thought you were gonna say Cora.
I was not expecting you to say Ishna. So I'm like, oh, whoa.
Speaker 5: Wow, Oh, I can't believe we got to the pregnancy
trope of this series. I'm now just fully imagining Ishna
as like a fucking bump.
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Speaker 7: Oh my god.