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Speaker 3: O Logit of shit from Shade, Loget of fact from me,
the he say stand up for the thing you can't
stand ald.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's my turn, all right. Previously on death Listen,
there was something about a hand that was made of
other bits and pieces that they were trying to play.
I don't know pictionary with us, something of charades, doesn't matter,
doesn't involve me at all, so who really cares? If
we're being honest, I had a very sentimental goodbye with
my best friend as I made a new friend, and
turns out my new best friend is kind of me
or I'm kind of her, so really it checks out
if you think about it. We had a brief discussion
in some sort of shadow realm zone thing, and it
turns out did you know that Cora has it's a
spooky voice that speaks to her. I wonder if her
friends know that.
Speaker 2: Speaking of that's a great place to start on the rooftop.
Speaker 6: No, we cannot bring it home. I'm very sorry.
Speaker 7: I stand up after welcoming this little critter inside my coat,
and I face you, guys, it looks like it wants
to follow.
Speaker 6: Shots. Of course it wants to follow. It has its
eyes on us. It's I apologies.
Speaker 2: It's like hiding in his coat for sure.
Speaker 4: Now do you do you want to help this beautiful creature?
Is that what you like? Because we could probably find
a better way to help it.
Speaker 6: What does it even eat?
Speaker 7: It'sing to fish some sort of like disappointed in my face?
Speaker 6: Oh no, how disappointed? Do you look.
Speaker 8: Moderately disappointed as I imagine the sky is crawling inside
my coat?
Speaker 9: Ah?
Speaker 6: Well, fuck, what can we do? We cannot, We cannot
bring it home. Don't look at me that way, Connor
as the one we have to bring it home.
Speaker 4: Well, there are a few things we can do. As
I said, I have heard from this fiddle player about
a chap that says magical things. Perhaps they can tell
us more about this creature, and there's a way to
separate it from the bruha and the bar. Perhaps there
is one also, Perhaps perhaps there are ways to hide
it a while. We go somewhere we don't want her
to know about.
Speaker 6: The magic place was not the same place the bar.
Speaker 4: Right, No, it was a store. There is a merchant
that serves magical items that he got this fiddle from.
That he's given him great success. Since I don't know
if you remember the fiddle player, but there were other
people on stage with you, it was hard to.
Speaker 6: Notice, oh you, But yes, of course I remember.
Speaker 9: See.
Speaker 4: So we can head to the store and ask some questions.
We could find out other things as well, or we
can find some sneaky way of hiding it that probably
some of us could come up with.
Speaker 6: I would like to lean down and sort of look
at the creature hidden in your coat, Gunner, Like, open.
Speaker 7: The breast of my coat, and I'm not sure if
it's there or not.
Speaker 2: Oh it's there, Yeah, it's there. I think it was
moving around until it found a spot against you and
then just used its too many fingers to latch on.
And it's been holding in that spot. But when you
open the coat, the eye is wide and staring directly
at you. Constantine, would you like to roll for me
the first roll of the session.
Speaker 10: I would It will be your mind stat please okay, difficulty.
Speaker 2: Forty h.
Speaker 6: Seventy Yeah, nothing, nothing really happens.
Speaker 2: It's just this big, wide animal. I I don't know
if you would recognize an owl I looking at it,
but you know it's very big and it's just sitting
there focused on you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I lean down and I look at it. Hello,
Han Tien, no question for you. If yes, wiggle your
one of the fingers there, and if not, you don't
have to wiggle anything. If we take you home with us,
will she be able to find where we live?
Speaker 2: It's I will move around like it's looking around, and
then it does both of the things. Did you say,
wiggle or don't wiggle for another answer?
Speaker 6: Wiggle for yes, don't wiggle for no.
Speaker 2: Oh. I think it will do like a weird wiggle
with its hand. And then actually, you know what it
might do because it does have too many fingers. It
will probably use like two fingers to stand, and then
with the rest of the fingers it does a wave
of like this.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, well how about this. We can bring it
home if we can find a way too. As Estebang
you said, keep it from you know, reporting back.
Speaker 4: I think a good start might be to move away
from her domain here. Yeah, yes, we are right outside,
so maybe we should get off the roof and at
least start walking away from this place before we are
pulled back in.
Speaker 11: I agree to be sure that this thing is connected
to that bar.
Speaker 4: Not one hundred percent, but I would say the woman
and we spoke to him there seems to have a
great interest in the body parts of others. She was
asking for a piece of my tongue. She's staring quite
greedily at the constantine's eyes, not in the way he
is probably used to.
Speaker 6: What do you mean by that?
Speaker 4: I mean that you probably get people staring into your
eyes with great hunger, but not because they want to
remove them. Although I do not know what kind of
people you had at your bar.
Speaker 11: Stock What is it you asked.
Speaker 4: This name?
Speaker 9: Uh, he's our mental connection still working as I.
Speaker 4: Have walked a roof. Oh, I thought Gunner had to.
Speaker 2: I thought you guys were walking as you were talking,
because we need to get them. Yeah, we can just
assume you guys have been walking and we're.
Speaker 9: Not on the roof anymore.
Speaker 2: Assume you guys were moving, moving away.
Speaker 9: I asked it, if ah, it did tell me that
whoever did this to him is in that bar. If
it can be trusted.
Speaker 11: The name that it has given us, where is it from?
Marrigam Ale?
Speaker 9: I do not know.
Speaker 6: That does not sound familiar.
Speaker 4: We must remember as well with this. According to the Ophidia,
somebody's name is a very important thing to have. Is
when I asked for a name of someone who could
do or has been done to us, she said, I
would have to pay a very great cost, which is
a chunk of my tongue. So whoever this is, they
would probably not be very happy we have their name,
which's good for us to have it. Then, whoever they
may be.
Speaker 11: The way I see it is this little friend of
ours spend maybe well one of the first things to
provide us with honest answers, And I'll close my jacket.
Speaker 2: It snuggles up against you. You can feel it kind
of like clutch back onto you and kind of nestle
into I don't know, groove and you're musculature or something
like that where it just kind of nests probably like
somewhere here between your shoulder and your neck.
Speaker 5: We'll let him for.
Speaker 11: Rich take along before we bringing back.
Speaker 9: Maybe to the what was it Esterman.
Speaker 4: Magic Shop. There is a magical item seller, see we
were told about.
Speaker 6: Yes, it's a good lead.
Speaker 4: I assume the Sophilia knows about this story. She would
if somebody in the bar knows about it. I'm sure
she does as well, So not too much risk. But
we should be wary about what else we say, although
it's a constantly point that she did learn quite a
bit about us.
Speaker 6: Also, we might not want to walk in burying this
creature outright in the new store.
Speaker 4: I'm sure he can stay hidden in there.
Speaker 11: Do you hear a little friend? Will you try to run?
Speaker 2: It's hey? There is no response from it. It doesn't move,
and if you open your coat to peek on it,
it is eyes closed.
Speaker 9: I do. I look at it and.
Speaker 11: Oh, it's sleeping.
Speaker 9: It lost my code again.
Speaker 6: That is the cutest thing I've ever seen. I'm looking
at gunnor not the hand.
Speaker 4: I think the hand that will do what we ask
as long as we are helping and bringing it away
from this place for now.
Speaker 6: But I must admit I feel as though we are
hitching ourselves to our dooms. But then again, we've been
imprisoned and taken to a world that is not ours,
as far as dooms go, I think we're in it anyway,
and we.
Speaker 4: Have learned a few things. So even if we are
headed to our dooms, at least we are headed in
some direction for a change. Who knows what we might
find along the way. Now, if I remember, though it
was a couple of hours ago, I believe it is
over somewhere in this direction. They told me the name
of the street.
Speaker 6: Yeah, let's go there.
Speaker 2: Okay, I assume that you are all going, but I
don't actually know if stalker would join you, So I'm
just gonna double check.
Speaker 9: Ah my world, maybe I would follow obvious skated if
I can.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're still obfus skated from last time. I think, right,
you didn't drop it or anything.
Speaker 9: Oh are the rules the same year? I don't know.
Speaker 2: Are Uh No, they're not. You're in a totally different reality.
So now they're Did you drop it when you were
speaking to them at all, or did you say in
your intention? Was your intention to stay obfuscated?
Speaker 9: I think I would expect that it would fall off
on its own when I started speaking, But if, okay,
it didn't.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you know that it didn't, right,
I think you maybe assume that it did, but it didn't,
So they just heard your voice and they don't know
that you tried to drop it. So yeah, I think
you probably yeah speaking, Yeah, I think you're probably unaware
that it didn't. It didn't drop.
Speaker 9: Then when I try to again, what does that feel.
Speaker 2: Like when you try to obfuskate again?
Speaker 4: Yeah, roll.
Speaker 2: To do difficulty twenty actually, and this would be with
my whatever your yeah ability is.
Speaker 9: Well is it is it my ability? It's layers or
is it just yep, it's that one okay? And you
said fifty or thirty twenty actually one day my big
failure seventy five.
Speaker 2: What does it normally feel like for you when.
Speaker 4: You do this?
Speaker 9: Like, do you know the feeling when it is so
cold outside, It's like it wraps itself around you. It's everywhere,
It's like enveloping, enveloping coldness.
Speaker 2: Is it hard for you to breathe at all? Like
sometimes when you step out and it's really cold, there's
like that sharpness in your lungs when you inhale.
Speaker 9: Mhm.
Speaker 2: It is bracing, Yeah, sometimes, so you brace yourself for
this feeling, but nothing comes.
Speaker 9: I see I before they step inside. I would like
to if possible, try to. I'm going to try to
see if they notice me my companions and I will
step directly in front of Constantine.
Speaker 2: Always a chance. So Constantine, Constantine, you can go ahead
and roll and difficulty is going to be twenty.
Speaker 6: Which am I roll?
Speaker 2: You may use your eyeballs mind or you can use
your magic step. Either one one is you know your
actual eyeballs and the other is something special.
Speaker 6: I think I'll just use my actual eyeballs, right, Sorry.
Speaker 2: How I wanted that to be like a ten. I
was like, that would just be so cool. Okay, so
but it's a forty three. So I think you oh
my god. You know when you are walking down the
street and it's dark and you kind of feel you
feel like something goes in the corner of your eye
that happens to you, but just in front of you
for just a second.
Speaker 6: I stopped and then I'm looking with my magic. Yeah,
I'm like looking around or I'm trying to feel out
what's going on, because from the last battle we had
where we.
Speaker 2: Were completely attacking, it was like, yep.
Speaker 6: We don't see what's going on, and yeah, it was
all speed and whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think as you begin to look around, stalker,
you would notice that Constantine is looking around, not necessarily
directly at you, but did seem to sense that you
were there in front of him? And I don't We're
not going to roll for the same thing a second
time with a difference that totally totally yeah.
Speaker 9: I won't say out loud, I didn't mean.
Speaker 1: To start a dove.
Speaker 6: Thus far fuss us and I sort of like thrust
my hand in front of me.
Speaker 2: What did you just say? What did you just say?
Speaker 6: Fuck you? What was that?
Speaker 4: That was?
Speaker 6: What was that?
Speaker 2: Okay? Okay, yeah, I thought I recognized one of the
words you said, and I was like, that.
Speaker 6: Is that's not us? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, okay, fike d
that's what's.
Speaker 4: Sound like you casting a spec it did?
Speaker 2: I was like, ah, did you just.
Speaker 6: What was that? What was that?
Speaker 11: Secretor?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I thrust my hand forward to be like, well, what
the fuck? Can I feel you? Like? Are you a
physical being in front of me? How does this work?
Speaker 9: I don't If this one is where we are from, yes,
I don't know.
Speaker 2: Then I think you will feel him here for right
now at least, because that's how he expects it to work.
Speaker 6: Can I roll to be able to recognize his packs
from touch alone.
Speaker 2: I don't think you have to roll his.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4: He said something.
Speaker 6: He did speak, He didn't speak.
Speaker 9: Grab you do grab my peck.
Speaker 6: Though, Yeah, I grab your chest and I put it
on the record. Yeah honk, No, I just like put
my head, put my hand on the front of your
shirt and kind of like grab your your shirt and
hold on, and I'm like, you scared the ship out
of me. Is basically what's happened.
Speaker 9: Apologies, and then I'll move aside and watch them enter
if they're that's what they're doing.
Speaker 2: Okay, when you say enter, where are we going?
Speaker 6: Where are we going?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're going to this magic store that I was given, Yes,
the direction?
Speaker 2: Did he give you the directions to it? Or did
he tell you like, oh, it's here and it's on
this street? Like, how do you imagine that?
Speaker 4: He I don't remember that. I think I because he
would tell me the name of it, and I would
probably ask where it was in a general sense from there,
so maybe I would at least have the name and
then uh so i'd probably ask people along the street
if they have seen it. If we're going to general
direction I'm sure he pointed on a direction. It depends.
It would a magic store be on Bourbon Street.
Speaker 2: Because he just said, not tricking me into answering that.
But the answer is if.
Speaker 4: It's on if it's on Bourbon Street, this is I'm
saying that. He would tell me it's on this street,
it's just down that way whatever.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 4: If it's on another street, then I don't know where
the fuck it is.
Speaker 2: It's somewhere else. It's kind of like, uh so, Bourbon
Street I think borders on the French Quarter, so you're
gonna have to cross the river and get to the
edge of Yeah, well there's a small I think wait
hold on, let me look at the map. Back over
to the.
Speaker 4: Mapsis was there like a little inlet.
Speaker 2: Looking looking looking looking looking looking it's a highway so
much like.
Speaker 4: It's on the other side of the highway. It's fair enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he would have said that, Yeah, it's on the
other side.
Speaker 4: But then I don't know what the fucking highway is.
Speaker 2: It's by the Oh yeah, that's true. That's true. You
wouldn't so it's like between the Garden District and the
French Quarter. So Bourbon Street comes into crossway there. But yeah,
it's it's not on Bourbon Street.
Speaker 4: You can say it's off Bourbon Street on the other
side of the highway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's in the office. I assumed you guys
were heading back in the direction of chorus in the
Blood Club. Okay, because it's behind you, you would have
to walk in the other direction. I can give you
the directions and you can mark it on your map.
Speaker 4: If you'd like, if you think we could get it
from those directions. Otherwise I would have the name and
I'd have to ask somebody.
Speaker 2: Okay, I will give you the description in a DM
and then you can just mark it on the map
wherever you happen to think that it is. But for now,
it is in the opposite direction.
Speaker 4: So if I will say that, I say this place,
I believe it is in the other direction. But I
also want to say something. From meeting this Bruja in
the bar, she said she would find out who around
had enough powerful magic to do what has been done
to us, give us the name. And I had offered something,
but she said she does not believe it now. She
who is incredibly powerful the magic which she has no idea.
There are other Kindred in this city. She said it
is not true. She would know if there was, So
I said, well, if we know there are some, and
we can give you proof, so you know that there
are these monsters in your city. And she just would
not believe me. She said, I don't know if it
is true, and it is not worth It's such a price,
is the name of someone so powerful and magic. So
if we can find these people that you ran into
each other, Kindred and now, perhaps we can get information
from them as well. But if they are not cooperative,
or they do not want to help us, or we
generally do not like them at all, we can use
them and their names and their existence here to trade
with this witch in order for information or knowledge of
who could have done this to us, or as any
question we want to answer to, Well, what is more
valuable than to know that there are a bunch of
death lists in your city right under your nose, when
you don't even know.
Speaker 11: While I'm walking and listening to Estabond, I have the
equivalent of four body goose bumps, whatever that might be.
That what you were talking about, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Why, So I am kind of just like walking and talking.
So I don't think I would notice even it's stiffening
up or anything. But my question is should we go
back to the store where I this? I believe because
we were left here that night. The place in the
alleyway where you found those people with the blood is
not far from here. But then I'm worried about the
hand because then she will learn without us. But we
have an idea for this.
Speaker 2: We also need to consider the time, because you guys
went bar hopping for a bit, right, but I.
Speaker 6: Think we said two hours around eleven.
Speaker 2: It's probably one in the morning, yeah, which is fine,
but I'm just letting you in.
Speaker 4: We would see, well, it's Bourbon Street, so bars are open,
but stores would be.
Speaker 2: Closed, probably unless they were something specific.
Speaker 4: Magic story.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Well, I would go so far as to say
that the Hand has heard everything that we've spoken about
just now.
Speaker 4: That is fine. She will don't believe me to begin with, right, Uh.
Speaker 6: It would be nice to find others of our kind.
At least we could then find how we may feed
in a way that keeps us relatively unseen.
Speaker 4: What do you two think?
Speaker 11: If you do not trust our new friend, I can
take it somewhere else.
Speaker 2: What is your face?
Speaker 4: Sure.
Speaker 6: Sorry, I was just gonna say, what does your face
look like when you're saying this?
Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on, hold on. Let me just help
you out here, because I feel like this this will just,
I don't know, somehow make a difference. Hey, what does
your face look like? Let me just play the sad
music like you. I'm sorry, I never droll like that, but.
Speaker 9: I want to.
Speaker 7: Say I was slightly disappointed looking before, but now I
returned to my usual determined looking self.
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 7: Oh, I don't strike you as.
Speaker 11: Playing a game.
Speaker 6: Okay, I'm so sorry to have interrupted.
Speaker 7: No, You're fine. But then I'll say, it is a
curious thing.
Speaker 11: We can trust and not. We may all have the
same goal, but can we truly trust each other to
see it through. If it makes you feel better, I
will take it away.
Speaker 6: Okay, out of character. This is the most manipulated I
have ever been in my life. But if it makes
you feel better.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't need listen.
Speaker 4: I need.
Speaker 12: In my in my early twenties, my post early twenties life,
my recent memory life, the last two weeks of my life.
Speaker 4: Since I've recovered from my illness, since I.
Speaker 2: Today, Yeah, he said, I'm out of character. Is like,
this is the most I've ever been in my life.
Speaker 6: Maybe just had like flashbacks of every time I've ever
said anything to ever. Whoh yeah.
Speaker 5: For the flu.
Speaker 4: Wiped your trauma.
Speaker 6: You don't have to have a podcast, by the way,
Zammy by Chess. You know what I a podcast? Right?
You haven't written any books? What was I saying? Yeah,
he's just saying like, well, if you don't trust me
or it, I guess I could take it away.
Speaker 9: Get closer to you.
Speaker 6: It's working.
Speaker 11: God, is that what you wouldn't want for me to
get rid of it?
Speaker 6: I look blankly at you for a second.
Speaker 2: Oh goodness, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna mute myself. Same same.
Speaker 6: Okay, you know what, you clearly have taken a liking
to it. I trust you, and it is very cute
when I look at it from this close up, So
why not keep it? I want you to have nice things.
The things you like and want can be rewarding to
take care of something. I reach ore a n h.
Speaker 7: Chest my hand like.
Speaker 8: Just rose up from being by my side and grabbed yours,
and I say.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 9: I don't no to trust you, but I can still
feel you and let go of your end.
Speaker 6: I sort of like exhale as you do that quietly,
and then I will look quizzically at Estevan. I would
look quizzically at stalker. But I think you're still unseen, right,
correct us.
Speaker 4: Reach your hand out for a pay?
Speaker 9: Yeah, shrank.
Speaker 4: Well, I do have a thought as if we are
going to minother king Reddy, it's good to show our strength,
as I'm sure you all have experienced before. So I'm
wondering and looking around the Stalker. This thing you are
doing right now? Do you think you can do it
with our new friend? And do you think this would
help keep him from seeing or being found by he
the one who made him?
Speaker 9: I need to know if we are out, like what
time is it right now? And all we out in
the open? Like can we be seen?
Speaker 4: It's one am?
Speaker 2: We're probably about one right because you guys went dancing
for two hours, but then you talk to Ophidia and then.
Speaker 4: Yeah, probably two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd say it's about two in the morning.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I first wonder, I want to stand somewhere that they're
not looking, and when I start speaking, I want to
try and figure out if there they still can't see
me while I'm talking, so.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think you have to roll for that,
like Constantine was looking around and then reaching out for you. Like,
I think it's clear that at least he couldn't see you.
But yeah, it's probably a situation of you stand, you
open your mouth, and then they look to where your
voice is, so they didn't their eyes don't follow you.
Speaker 9: I say, I do not trust anyone who creates these abominations. However,
when you all follow me this alleyway, and when I'm
in the alleyway, I want to try and open a
sort of gateway for them to all uf uscape themselves
as they step in, something I was thinking about earlier.
But now that you mentioned it, we'll try again.
Speaker 2: And how do you go about trying this? Because this
is not an ability you had in your realm, your world.
Speaker 9: Right, So we tried this once before and it went
very badly, and I guess this time, I try to
focus on the feeling I get when I obvious gate
and as I'm holding that feeling in my mind, I
would like to tear with my vampire hands, tear open
a pathway from this place to that place.
Speaker 2: What does Stalker think he's doing.
Speaker 9: He thinks that he's bringing them to another layer of
existence that can still interact with this world but cannot
be seen. He thinks it's the same layer that he
is on now, and it is the same layer, the
same layer that those creatures were on before.
Speaker 2: Okay, yep, okay, go ahead and roll your layer's ability.
Difficulty is going to be difficulty is going to be thirty.
Speaker 9: Mm to ninety six. I'm really bad at this.
Speaker 2: No, So the high rolls don't always mean that you fail. So,
but in this specific instance, I'm going to ask you,
would you like to succeed with some detriment to the party,
or would you like to fail?
Speaker 9: M I'm always going to say yes, Okay, why.
Speaker 2: Don't you go ahead and describe what this looks like
as you successfully do this?
Speaker 9: So, I think from their perspective, if they were to
follow me, which I'm assuming they did, inside the alleyway,
they would see fingers coming out of nothingness and tearing
a hole through the air. They would see my face
and then my body and the alleyway behind me revealed
to them. But they can see the outline of this tear.
It is smoky and blurry.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's what they would say, it's the and to
be clear, it is the same alleyway. It's just blurry
and smoky and purple, murky colors here. But you do
it looks like he is. It looks like you see
fingers peek out, and then maybe the tearing of paper
almost or wallpaper, as he just kind of rips reality
open for you all, and then you see him standing there.
What do you do?
Speaker 6: What do you think we should do?
Speaker 9: I you are asked, if I could, i'd someone else.
This is the best way I know how though it's new.
Speaker 6: I reach out and I I would like to see
if I can touch the space like yeah edges, Oh
you mean like.
Speaker 2: Where the torn Yeah yeah, oh yeah, okay, yeah, absolutely,
go ahead and roll your magic stat and that'll be
difficulty twenty please.
Speaker 6: Yeah, ninety three.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna offer you the same thing. Would you like
to fail or would you like to succeed at a
detriment to the party?
Speaker 6: Now, detriment to the party is such a strong word.
Speaker 2: I'm choosing it on purpose, being honest with you in
this moment. Yeah, because normally it's like, you know, yesand
and something crazy cool could happen. But yeah, yeah, I
just want to be clear. It's yeah, okay, I'll fail,
I'll take the film. And then when you go to
reach your hand out, were you one of the ones
that saw him in the fight. Yes, yes, okay I
thought so. So when you reach out, you feel that
same presence that you felt before, like you know, not
Lord of the Rings, but Lord of the rings, the
fucking eye moving over and suddenly like you know, it's
looking for you, and that's all you feel is just
like as you go to touch this, like side ridge
and paper, you just y you can feel that opressive, great, big,
beastly hunger and searching for you. But it doesn't, you know,
like I think you know that it doesn't see you yet,
but I think the feeling is if you touch that
it might.
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, I snatched my hand back like it's burned
or something.
Speaker 4: What do you see?
Speaker 6: Something looking for us? It can find us if we
have you felt this, stalker, Have you felt this before?
Speaker 4: What do you mean?
Speaker 9: What are you talking about?
Speaker 6: I want so badly to be like the eye.
Speaker 9: Have you read the books?
Speaker 6: I have read the books. There is something looking for
us and it's in between. I can feel it. I
cannot go where you go. I can see, yes, the
way I think maybe if they are the.
Speaker 4: One that.
Speaker 6: Put us there. Wait, I feel terror when I see
this thing, right.
Speaker 2: You did previously, you don't this time.
Speaker 6: I don't feel terror, but I know that this is
supposed to I feel as though I know that this
is supposed to be terrifying. Bad. Do not engage with
this thing that is looking for you?
Speaker 2: Is the vibe? Yeah, I normally don't inflict emotion onto
your character because you determine how you feel. But unless
it's a magical instillment, so I think you would realize
that right now, Like, if there is a lack of
that feeling of terror, there might be a moment of
That's strange because I did feel this terror before. Yeah,
but you might if you don't feel it now, then yeah,
that might I strike you as odd.
Speaker 6: Where we're still standing.
Speaker 2: Like you're kind of like he I imagined, he took
you into an alleyway and like you guys got a
little into the alleyway hidden from you before he did this.
So yeah, you're you're in the alleyway, out of out
of prying ice, out of view of priyan ice.
Speaker 6: Excuse me, could we have been brought here for our safety.
Like if there is something looking for us, then it
knows it does not know that we are here.
Speaker 4: I do not know, but I would certainly love to
meet the people who were looking out for us if
that was the case, which we still do not know.
You will think that they would. I want to be
thanked at least.
Speaker 6: Mm hm, because why others? Why else would we be moved,
you know, like we've moved for whatever reason, Stalker, you
say it's an injustice against us. We were plucked from
some kind of obscurity. I mean, me, not so obscure,
but we're plucked and then hidden away, moved, and something
is looking for us, it does not know we are here.
Speaker 9: Why are you saying?
Speaker 7: And this whole time, I've been staring through the tear
at Stalker, and I'm sort of responding to Constantine here.
Speaker 9: But those coffins.
Speaker 11: Were to keep them or us safe, Because I can
tell you that wasn't safety, It was punishment in pain
and imprisonment.
Speaker 6: Well, then I suppose we can add another adversary to
our list of things to avoid.
Speaker 9: While the first time Constantine mentions being watched, I too
have had that feeling in the past, and I want
to know if I feel it now.
Speaker 2: If you try, then yeah, you can roll like I imagine
it goes like this, you didn't feel it before, and
then as soon as he says it, you go, wait
a second.
Speaker 9: I think I look like, yeah, yeah, looking for something
watching me?
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead and roll for me. Your whatever your
magic status, you can actually roll your its layers. Ability
difficulty is going to be twenty What is happening. That's
another ninety two, you guys has been ninety six, ninety three,
ninety two. Now we just need to switch to you know,
Cora and Moog and they need to roll the ninety
five and the ninety four. Okay, So I'll offer it
to you one more time because it makes doing this.
Speaker 9: I'm going to TPK. Well, yeah, I'll take I will
always take it. I always okay, yep, yep, okay. Personally,
I think it's more interesting and I'm in character. I'm
always going to try to succeed. So yes, I take it.
Speaker 2: So you turn and you look right with your eyes
to try to see if something's watching you.
Speaker 9: Well physically yes, but I'm using my my newly found
magical powers here and.
Speaker 2: See what is that like for you, like when you
how are you using your powers to search? I guess, like,
what does that look like or feel like for us
or for the viewers watching?
Speaker 9: I think Eve, It's would look like anything to the viewers.
But the feeling is of just penetrating a veil. I
think of magical power, like, is there is there something
locking our site? Is there a layer that I can
peer through? I'm searching, and I'm also searching for that
feeling that I had gotten in the past. So while
it looks I guess to the audience like me sort
of snapping my head to the side and looking up.
M hmm, that is what I'm doing.
Speaker 2: Okay. So I think for you it would feel like
diving into still water. It feels like you're breaking into
that you know, a surface that it bends to your will,
but it's very tangible feeling against your skin as you
do this. Now, if I recall when you woke up
from your when Fen woke, when Fenn woke, you roused
you right from your dream? You did you remember it
or no? I can't remember. It's relying on you.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's your first mistake. I believe that I usually
make notes, so my bad. Remember it was Gunner that
will come up.
Speaker 2: Ultimately, it was gun up, yeah, and Gunner saw. But
I don't know if you remembered.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think I did.
Speaker 2: Okay, then it's that it's that same uh. I think
you recall you're not actually there, because you're still standing there,
and you're still very aware of where you're standing in
the alleyway and everyone in it and everything around you.
But you do suddenly remember and maybe even smell that
mildew a little bit, and then the damp earth and
then the crunch of the dry earth underneath your boot,
and then that endless horizon that you remember seeing is
now just one huge beastly cloud. I'm gonna say cloud
because I think that's probably all you can discern at
this moment. But it had as I'm gonna go with wolfish.
So it's got two very you know, predatory eyes, no
teeth though all you see are those eyes. But it's
been staring at you the whole time. And I think like,
as you start to recall the dream, you recall walking,
and you recall this thing just watching looming over you
the whole time, kind of rolling along the horizon like
a storm cloud wood.
Speaker 9: It was watching me in the dream. Do I recall
it in the dream, or do I recall it the
whole time I've.
Speaker 2: Been here, anytime you are in this space, since the
moment you failed that first role in opening this rift,
it has seen you, and it has been watching you
and following you. And I will also give this to
you now, because you traded for it. It wasn't a dream.
You were somewhere else. You are wherever this is. You
weren't dreaming. You were actually on a different layer.
Speaker 9: I will close the tear and I will drop the obfuscation. Okay,
does the sensation fade.
Speaker 2: Only a little bit?
Speaker 9: Something has been following me, something vast and powerful.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, that's a fast and powerful good words.
Speaker 2: Was that perfect time to switch m back to the
two of you?
Speaker 5: Mm hmm, yes, all right, then beat me up. Let's
return back to your friends acquaintances.
Speaker 13: Well, the problem is, I've been trying to do that
this whole time. I don't know if I can get
us out of here, but I I'll try again.
Speaker 5: I just had a terribly sentimental goodbye with my best
friend for me. Otherwise this is going to be real
awkward for me.
Speaker 9: You can do it. I believe in you.
Speaker 13: Okay, so if I try this, I'm rolling mind with
what kind of difficulty?
Speaker 2: Forty? Are you using ishna?
Speaker 13: I think start out with no, because every time I
tried I would, I was denied, So I think I
would just kind of like, well, let's try again. Yeah,
fifty one failure.
Speaker 2: It's that itch in the back of your mind again,
this feeling of I know I can do this, but
I just I'm not sure I know how. But you
almost had it?
Speaker 5: Are you just walling up? Or are you you have
to dance stretch something.
Speaker 11: Or is it did not work?
Speaker 13: If I stand there with like a perplexed concentration face,
it's it's like reaching for something that's just too far
away on the table, or trying to scratch an itch
that you can't quite get to. I feel like I can,
but maybe there's something about this place that's preventing me.
Like I said, I've been trying. I don't know why
I can't.
Speaker 5: All right, all right, do you have a metaphorical broom
that you could use to or a hockey stick or
glarium what I'm trying to be helpful?
Speaker 13: Yes, let me just unpack my broomstick underneath this jacket
that I'm wearing, that's going to get us out of here.
Speaker 5: I'm talking metaphorically. If only there was a handsome, charming,
devilishly handsome power source that was your proxy, that you
could use temporarily to grab what's just out of reach.
Let's test how this works. It's exciting.
Speaker 13: You're you want me to use you as a battery,
which is.
Speaker 5: Because if we don't use it, now follow me on
this one, it's crazy. But if we use it when
we're in danger, then we don't know how I will react,
and I might be thrown out of the fight or anything.
It's better to do it when it's just me and
you and a potentially awkward conversation in twenty minutes.
Speaker 13: So you're saying, test it here when we're not in
dire straits, so we can see.
Speaker 4: Just don't use like all of it.
Speaker 5: Yes, I think.
Speaker 13: My my lips kind of pressed together and I look
like I'm remembering something, and I nod slowly. Yes, Well,
it wouldn't do us any good to drain you dry.
Sure we can try it, all right?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 5: And I cut my hands together and rub them excitedly.
I can't even find the words, this is so exciting.
Speaker 13: Yes, well, I don't really know what I'm doing, so.
Speaker 5: That's what's so fun.
Speaker 4: Me neither.
Speaker 13: Okay, So I think I try again at this time.
Instead of pulling from myself or pulling from the space
around me, I imagine I wouldn't pull directly from him.
I think like magically, I would almost like create a
foundation with my own madge and then pull from him
to add on top of it, so it's not just
away from him. Yeah, it's like it's like a blend.
But where my magic hasn't been doing it by itself,
I would like start it, create the structure, and then
try to complete it with his magic or his essence
or energy or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, moog, what does your magic feel like?
Speaker 4: Currently? Hot?
Speaker 5: It feels it's almost a burning sense sensation to it
if you're not too careful, feels like sticking your hand
in an open fire.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 2: Okay, So, Cora, as you start to do this and
you go to reach for his magic, that is what
it will feel like. But you know intimately and immediately, oh,
this this is just what his magic feels like, and
that everyone will have a different feeling to you. If
you were to you know, somehow be able to connect
in this way. You wouldn't be able to do this
with just anyone. Obviously, you can connect directly to his
magic because of what he is to you. But go
ahead and make a role.
Speaker 13: All right, what difficulty?
Speaker 2: Difficulty forty again?
Speaker 13: Okay? Yeah, sixty three failure.
Speaker 2: Doing math? Okay, and both of you wrote me D
one hundred please.
Speaker 5: Yeah, incoming. It's a very hot to see in these
flash in these yeah, shave yep.
Speaker 13: Forty three for.
Speaker 14: Me, yeah, sixty five for me Ooh okay, I apologize
in advance.
Speaker 2: This one sucks for you, Cora, and yours was sixty five. Yes, sorry,
Oh this is hilarious. Why, well that's pretty good. Okay. Yeah.
So they've rolled on the entanglement table for those listening,
and I decided to DM it to them so that
they can simply role play it out as it's happening.
So why don't you go ahead and describe what we
see as this you do. You are going to succeed,
but it is going to strain you quite a bit.
And I will say that when you do finally dip
into his magic, it is whatever core is interpretation of
feeling very good, or like taking drugs or something like that.
It's going to hit you really hard and it's going
to feel really good. It's like this power was made
for you to have and to hold and to use
and to wield, and it's just been sitting here and
you can just take it all if you wanted to
right now, and it would be yours. You'd never lose it.
Speaker 9: Hmm.
Speaker 13: Okay, So by doing this, we entangle ourselves, but we succeed. Yes,
So do we find ourselves back at the kitchen?
Speaker 2: Yes? That the Yeah, you absolutely will. You imagine this
feeling doesn't hit you until you're back in the kitchen.
Speaker 13: I think I would feel it in the transition. So
maybe like as we're moving back to the kitchen, this
familiarity and almost like rush is like what I'm processing. Yeah,
And it probably takes me a few moments to like
collect myself and I'm I don't know if you could
feel this, but I would probably like release it a
little reluctantly.
Speaker 2: He can absolutely feel it, Okay, yep.
Speaker 13: And so we're going to be back in my kitchen,
probably staring at each other. I don't know what my
face would be doing, would look at him and say, well,
I guess we now know it works.
Speaker 5: Yes, we know it works. And look at this and
I hold up my hand and the lighter from Visionary
is just stuck to my hand without me holding it.
I would it's a side effect. Does it's happened to you?
Speaker 4: Ah?
Speaker 13: Is this like the magic trick you pull out at
parties or something?
Speaker 5: No, this is new. This is wonderful. I wonder what
else it works with. And I start going around the
kitchen and trying to like see if I feel any
pull to any of the appliances or anything.
Speaker 13: I would watch them bewildered.
Speaker 5: This is wonderful. Do you think it's from my magnetic personality?
M hmm, it had to be said. Also, wonderful job,
well done. I applaud your efforts.
Speaker 2: It's probably at this moment, when you go up to
clap that you will feel a very abrupt drain of
energy mood. It's a delayed response. And I think you
know immediately it's so you don't fight back if she
were to take this from you, so you won't ever know.
I think in this moment, you realize if she were
to drain you, it will you will be delayed in
realizing how much she is taking.
Speaker 5: All right, how draining? Does it feel like I.
Speaker 2: Need a naw, she didn't take a lot. She didn't
take a lot. She took so let me explain mechanically,
so you guys know how to role play. So she
took what she needed to pass the role.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, I understand, yes, yeah, yes, yes, yes,
all right m o.
Speaker 6: H.
Speaker 5: I blink a couple of times and you wouldn't be
able to see that behind my sunglasses and I crack
my shoulders a bit and then my neck, and I say,
all right, we are.
Speaker 9: At your.
Speaker 5: Lovely abode.
Speaker 13: Yes, how does it look? Maybe?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 5: How does it look?
Speaker 4: Narrat?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Why don't you go ahead and rule for me? Cora?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 13: Body using my eyes or mind?
Speaker 2: No, let's do your mind. Let's do your magic. Okay,
And this does not count towards your entanglement thing. This
is specifically like when I call for that type of rule.
Speaker 13: Yeah forty umm yeah, yep, yes, that is correct.
Speaker 9: Today.
Speaker 2: I don't think we've had a single success. This is
crazy one. I mean then I think, and I think,
as you look around the room, it's like and you've
got glasses, so I know you know what this feels like.
It's like when you wake up, you know, first thing
in the morning, and you know, everything's just a little
bit blurry, and then you put your glasses on and
everything kind of comes into focus. And like sometimes you
put your glasses on and it's still not quite in
focus just for a second until it focuses. That's kind
of what happens with your apartment, as in, the walls
are still bleeding. Everything looks like the way that it
did right before you left, and then it just kind
of slowly focuses into what your apartment should look like,
except it's still mirrored and broken. Okay, the one here,
not the one there.
Speaker 13: Okay, well this is how I left it at least,
so yes, I suppose it is.
Speaker 2: The mode.
Speaker 5: Well, I see all taste and interior design has not
been mirrored.
Speaker 13: Wow, I'd argue, there's a lot that hasn't been mirrored.
And I think i'd walked through the doorway of the
kitchen to look around to see if anyone has come
back or if we're still alone in the apartment.
Speaker 2: I think you're still alone in the apartment, unless these
guys think they would have come back in your direction.
If you guys want to chat it out, that's totally fine.
I'm just curious. I think they're gonna chat it out. Okay, then, yes,
nobody's back yet. Okay. However, you will notice as you're watching,
you know, I know you walked by him, but as
he was touching your appliances, he did roll on the
entanglement table that he's slightly magnetic. Now, so you would
have seen like as he's like touching stuff. He yeah,
he's just got a little bit of mathiotisms stuck to us.
And well he's just slightly magnetic because he can roll
this again and become more magnetic. So yeah, right now, mm.
Speaker 6: Hmm, glasses can never come off again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe God, Okay, yes, I'm sorry.
Speaker 13: So no one's here, Okay, yes, after checking and not
seeing anyone, I mean a lot's happened since I saw everyone,
Like we got back from the from the battle, we
had our nightmares, I had a brief conversation with Fenn
and Gunner and then went off to my room to
look in the chest and then came back and everyone
was gone, and all of this has happened, so like, yes,
just to add another thing to the list, also, drank
your blood and had that little interaction. So I think
at this point I would also I would be like
not quite sure where I left off with things like
what was I doing?
Speaker 2: Where were we? Where were we going?
Speaker 13: Like what do we do from here? Does move follow
me through the house?
Speaker 9: Of course?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, well you'll probably turn around and just talking.
Speaker 5: This is and what what is this curtain and the rug?
And I'm pretty sure I don't I don't know if
you got this discount or not, but I'm pretty sure
that the lettering might be inversed on this thing. No
need for concern if you look at it in the mirrors.
And I'm just going on and on and on every
little thing. I'm over stimulated and excited and I just
need to get.
Speaker 13: It at When he's doing stuff like that, I silently
take it from his hand and put it back on
the show.
Speaker 2: Like everything he's picking up, You're just like me, get down.
Yeah that's great.
Speaker 13: You mentioned my friends. I seem to be missing them. Uh,
actually what happened to stalker? And I'm like, you have
a stalker And going back through my head of like
where did everyone leave off? No, just he calls himself
that that's his name.
Speaker 5: Why would anyone call themselves stalker?
Speaker 13: I can't wait for you to ask him same?
Speaker 5: All right, all right, it is that like it's a
Christian name, Stalker, Sanda's in or something.
Speaker 13: I hope not.
Speaker 2: That's actually a perfect place to switch back.
Speaker 6: So Stalker Sanderson.
Speaker 2: I feel like I get this feeling that this show
if it you know, like if it were an anime
or anime or anything like that, it's it just rides
this line of comedy, like dark comedy, so her being like,
I hope not, and then it just immediately cuts to
Stalker's face close up and then he's like, something is watching.
Speaker 4: Us, you know, just like.
Speaker 2: That ship that vibe of like yep, my god, some
try gunshit.
Speaker 6: Okay, yep, Stalker can recognize game where watching.
Speaker 9: Some sort of omnipotent stalker.
Speaker 4: Who stalks the Stalker?
Speaker 9: Do you mean God, perhaps God of sorts?
Speaker 6: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: Well, perhaps we can do something about this witch watching us.
I don't know about this other thing. It's concerning as
it sounds. What did it feel like? Mm hmm.
Speaker 9: It's like an emptiness it owned with decay and eyes
estualize watching are fast.
Speaker 6: I do not think it is the witch best of all.
Speaker 4: See, but I think we can do something about the
witch at least, yes, I do not know. I'm going
to walk over towards gunner end. I'm going to lean
down to where I think the hind is and I say,
and my friend, would you mind coming here for just
a second. We can try to find to hide you
a better way to keep you safe.
Speaker 2: I think it stirs a little bit.
Speaker 5: Sh don't wake it up.
Speaker 4: I have to wake it up. I don't want him
to be scared what I'm going to try to do,
but it will keep him safe, I promise. Do you
remember what I did to you during the fight. I
want to try to do it to him to keep
him from prying eyes, so he cannot be seen by
creepy things from whatever place they come from.
Speaker 11: I open mind jacket again.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to hurt you, I promise, little one.
Speaker 2: Its eye is still closed and it's kind of you
know it. It's sleeping or resting in whatever way again, Yeah,
good morning? Yeah, okay, yeah, then it's I dog that
weird slow like wide blink and then you know, just
kind of slow blink as it moves over to you,
and then focuses and then kind of like becomes rigid
and waits, would you.
Speaker 4: Mind coming out here for a second. This is going
to and you can go back to sleep. I promise.
I'm going to ask you to close your eye anyway.
Speaker 2: It's eye immediately moves up to gunner.
Speaker 9: What we used to be so class And.
Speaker 4: I got a new friend.
Speaker 8: Okay, guys, everybody, if this thing understands me, okay.
Speaker 4: I've waited centuries.
Speaker 8: So I'm standing there with like one one hand opening
my jacket up and and I take the other hand
to like let it get on mine.
Speaker 2: If if it's oh yeah, yeah, yeah. If you if
you're kind of like yeah, okay, it's it's you don't
need to speak to it. It can kind of sense
your the energy that you're putting out. So if you're
if you're relaxed and you're like okay, yeah, he'll just yeah,
he'll storry down.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, we don't. We're so close, we don't even
need to say. We know what each other's thinking.
Speaker 8: So if it gets in my hand, I'll raise it
to be in front of your face.
Speaker 4: Don't even need it here. Okay. Now I'm going to
try to do what I did when I'm trying to
hide him during the fight from these skeletons. I'm going
to try to cover this thing in this dark, this blackness, voidness,
so that he cannot be seen.
Speaker 2: Okay, hopefully, oh aheadn't roll for me.
Speaker 4: I'm terrified to roll right.
Speaker 2: Now, your magic, I know it's been so bad.
Speaker 4: I'm going to say, now you can close your eyes.
It will be just I'm going to explain to that,
it'll be just like you're closed. You will still be
in his hand. Put your back in his jacket and
you'll be there. You could close your eyes. It'll be
the same thing, but nobody can see you, not even
the one who has made you. I think.
Speaker 2: I immediately it relaxes, and then it's like, okay, like
it kind of I'm making a gesture as if I'm
like squaring my shoulders, but obviously it's a fucking hand
utilated weird creature. But that's the vibe that you get
as it kind of moves it's its hand around, like, Okay.
Speaker 4: I need some of these buses. Okay, we need all
of the buses to drag borders to another part of chat.
The nineties do not exist because we're stuck in the nineties.
Speaker 15: We are, we are okay, and the difficulty thirty Okay,
because I thought, I still don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 4: Okay, I see buses.
Speaker 2: And even oh my, oh my god, it.
Speaker 4: Chat listening a fucking hands. Great, I'll take it. Okay.
Speaker 2: I have to think about this for a second, because
this is like other worldly success. So you get you
sixty eat it the thing, but you also get either
extra information or extra feeling or anything related to what
it is that you're trying to do.
Speaker 4: But question, yes, does this become an ability of mine
where it's not something I'm just trying to do?
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, but we're going to talk about that in
a second, because I need to know what else. Yeah, Like,
so you are you know you're trying to Why don't
you describe what Smam thinks he's doing to me so
I don't struggle with spoilers?
Speaker 4: Okay? Yeah, So can I tell you what happens?
Speaker 2: Not yet? Okay, Yeah, tell me what you think is happens.
Speaker 4: Okay. Yeah. I believe that I am taking a part
of a place I have been for hundreds of years.
In some way, there is a an emptiness, a lack
of something, and I'm hiding him in it. It is
a shadow.
Speaker 2: So to be clear, where do you think you were
for the last two hundred years?
Speaker 4: Well, I'm aware I was in a casket, but I
was there the whole time, Okay. But I also felt
I was just floating aimlessly through darkness, okay, kind of
half in, half out.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, perfect. Please describe what we see as you
do this.
Speaker 4: As the last time, this was a shadow that was
doing things for me. I think as he's there, I
fucking love this music. I'm sorry it took me out
of it, but I love it. Okay. I'm looking down
at this little strange creature thinking about how I have
done this before, and I think about I think about
how how I could have protected something I have lost
by keeping it out of sight and by being more careful.
And if I had been safer and hidden this thing,
I would still have it. It is specifically now, it
doesn't make much chense why I would have it, but
I know somebody wanted it for a long time. I'm
not saying I don't believe they are the ones that
have done this to me, but you know, when I
am gone, the vultures have picked it over. And there
is a particular statue in my gallery that I wish
I had had protected it been more or because I'm
sure it is in the hands of someone I do
not like. And this was a statue of Medusa, another
kind of gnarled creature that was created from a greater
power that was angry at it for some reason. And
as I say this, I say, Gunner, I do not
believe you will, but don't be afraid by what is
about to happen on you. And then what looks like
it is my shadow or part of it goes up
his leg, It goes up his coat, and it comes
down his arm into his hand and is now beneath
the creature. And then slowly it looks like it is
pouring around him upwards until he's totally covered, and then
it kind of cuts off, or no, it actually it
kind of pulls backwards.
Speaker 2: Is he no longer visible or does he look like
a lump with a shadow around it? Do you think.
Speaker 4: He just there just looks like there's a hole.
Speaker 2: What do you mean, a hole like a hole in reality?
Speaker 4: Well or just like the black hole? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, Okay, okay, because.
Speaker 4: I'm not necessarily hiding it. I'm not putting him somewhere
else so much as I am wrapping something around him
so things that might come from Afar to detect him
can detect him. Does that make sense.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm trying to figure out how to No. No, no,
I'm not asked. I'm asking how you envision the magic,
just so that we all know what it looks like.
There is no right or wrong answer.
Speaker 4: Your imagine make a creepy body suit.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I was also fully thinking about how to
ask you this next question. You rolled to otherworldly doubles
in eleven, so yes, you have unlocked this ability. There
are some things I would like to say. I think
in this moment, you recognize that you did place yourself
somewhere else to protect yourself for two hundred years, and
that is that place is safe for you. That is
your power. You weren't. It's not like you were in
another realm like stock or going to other layers. It's
it's maybe a place that you recede to in your
mind that you have complete control over. However, that leads
me to the next point of your abilities and where
they come from. And kind of how they manifest. Would
you like everyone around you to forget that this thing exists,
this hand? Because you can.
Speaker 4: I can consciously make this decision.
Speaker 2: You can consciously make like and you're fully aware that
you could. Just everyone could forget that the hand is exists.
Speaker 4: Can I turn that off again?
Speaker 2: Yes? The first Well you know that you can do that,
but I don't know if you know how to do
that yet. But yes, that is something that you would
be able to do.
Speaker 4: And I know this. Do I think this as I'm
doing it or as it's happening? I feel that I
can do it?
Speaker 2: You feel it? Yeah? I mean it's up to you
whether the whether it comes to you in thoughts, but
you get the knowledge however you want to.
Speaker 4: I think that right before this thing is fully covered,
I'm going to lean down to it and I'm going
to say you have to stay in his coat no
matter what. We won't forget you. I promise I will
remember you are there and we will help you, and
then I will make everyone for I will well, how
do I get it back in his coat? I put
it in my coat? I put everyone forgets I put
it in my coat.
Speaker 2: That stole your best friend, gunner, what best friend?
Speaker 6: What are you talking about?
Speaker 4: Did man just be glad I didn't check him in
a fucking dumpster because that was.
Speaker 8: So to be clear, I don't remember offering it to him.
Speaker 2: You can roll because you were just holding it in
your hand. But you're the only one. Yeah, everyone else
does not get the opportunity to do so.
Speaker 4: Oh can you roll before? Or I put it in
my pocket so if he knows, because I'll give it
to him if if he remembers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you can go just trying to figure out
because roll your body disappear okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, just
roll your body because it's your magic stat and it's
uh what you're defending against here. Yep, thirty difficulty.
Speaker 4: That's not interesting.
Speaker 8: How everything went to thirties all of a sudden.
Speaker 2: I remember, what do you mean me or or fifty three?
Speaker 4: Okay, I don't want this thing in my pocket, I
was sure remembers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well wait, do you want him to remember? You
have complete control over this?
Speaker 4: Okay? And that then totally I didn't realize. Okay, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2: But everybody else, can you rolled an eleven? Do you
want opidio to remember? She made this creature, I said everyone,
I mean everyone.
Speaker 4: If I can specifically do that, then then it's.
Speaker 2: Just higher this thing that's on this thing, you can
protect it from and that's what.
Speaker 4: You did yourself. She doesn't remember. Everyone else remembers. Yeah, okay, okay,
sorry I didn't. I was so focused on I was
gonna just.
Speaker 2: Let it happen. But I kept like thinking, like you
rolled in eleven and if.
Speaker 4: You want to remember, you can. Yeah, yeah, you're good. Yeah,
no one will remember horrible things I could do to
my friends rather than.
Speaker 2: Creature.
Speaker 6: Let me remember the horrible things you do to me.
Speaker 9: It will be the.
Speaker 4: Conors of your mind, no, the every Then then she
forgets and we all remember.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay, so as long as this thing that you have,
this cloak of protection that you have on it remains okay.
Speaker 4: She's unaware that it even exists and existed, or that
she made it, or is it just disconnected.
Speaker 2: She just gonna be It's like it's like, yeah, so
it's like that where you go, uh, she's just won't
be thinking about it, But the second it's lifted, she's
gonna go, oh, yeah, that fucking homunculus, I mean, you know,
and it'll come back and keeping and she yeah, she will,
you know, I I she will know that something has
you know, obscured it from her. But I don't know
if she'll know that it's you or whatever. Yeah, okay,
all right, sorry, that was just the doubles. I couldn't
let it go. Yeah, okay, it happens.
Speaker 4: He's wrapped up. I said, you can put them in
your pocket nowe. I have a feeling she will have
no clue what we are doing. As long as he
is like that.
Speaker 9: That is a he.
Speaker 6: That is some very impressive.
Speaker 7: So is it still on me?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, he didn't take it from me.
Speaker 4: He can still move. I don't know if it's still
through it. Probably not.
Speaker 2: Well, you rolled an other worldly eleven, so you have
complete control over this. Yes, so you can all still
allow you to see through it. You rolled at eleven.
Will you be able to do this every time? I
don't know, but you've you've rolled a like fucking best
role you can make, so if you would like to,
everyone can still see this little guy in here. But
he's got this little like, you know, cloud around him.
It's almost like if you yeah, no, I mean because
as long as you okay, Yep, that's fine. Yeah, yeah,
if you want him completely obscured, that's fine.
Speaker 4: I think from now I'm kind of just like, oh,
look at this. Yeah okay, so just looks like this
shadow has wrapped around him and that's it, and we
could still talk to him and stuff, aren't you okay,
hop Yeah, he's perfectly fine.
Speaker 7: Well, so you can go back in now and open
my jacket.
Speaker 2: It immediately crawls back up into the spot and nestles down.
Speaker 9: Now I want to ask one more question.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm, a.
Speaker 11: Friend, could you pinch me if you are the one
who followed me home?
Speaker 2: Pinches you very gently, and I'll close my jacket and nod.
Speaker 4: Well, now we can go and see if we can
miss some other kindred the see. Hopefully nobody else is
watching us aside from this other thing.
Speaker 2: All right, and you head at two thirty.
Speaker 4: Two aware I would say where Gunner and Stoker. Well,
Gunner had that thing where he saw the people with
the blood outside of the club.
Speaker 2: Okay, are you sure?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Are you asking? Like I'm assuming you're asking him to
guide the way, and you guys are all kind of
traveling together. Okay, yep, Okay, So once we get to
the Blood Club. I'm going to take you guys to
the map. Remember how to do this in roll twenty. Okay,
so the Blood Club is kind of like a little
bit northeast on our map. Anyway, you guys are gonna yep,
you're gonna yeah, So you're gonna walk that way. So
it's not going to take you too long to get there,
So probably about fifteen minutes that you're walking. But I'm
going to have all of you roll mind that for me,
and we're switching scenes.
Speaker 4: Right now.
Speaker 2: Roll it, roll it now.
Speaker 15: Difficulty is going to be thirty.
Speaker 9: You're not going I'm so sorry, but I think I
would want to go back to the apartment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's perfect. Actually, then we'll follow you back to
the apartment.
Speaker 4: Listen, I can't miss today. I rolled at six.
Speaker 6: Well, I rolled at ninety nine eighty eight.
Speaker 4: Nowhere somewhere, my proxy is sucked dry because I don't.
Speaker 9: Know I am rolling like this by also roll yeah.
Speaker 2: Shit, no, because you didn't go with them. You went
back to the apartment. Okay, we're gonna switch scenes. We're
following Stalker back to the apartment, and then we will
rejoin you guys at the very end stalker. Yes, you
arrive at the apartment, I'm assuming you do your standard
peaking around before you go inside. I just feel like
that's something that you do.
Speaker 9: Is that correct? The balcony or whatever. I go in
the window and I peak, And what do I see
in the window?
Speaker 5: You would see me on Do you have a like
recliner or some sort of furnished chair, an armchair? An armchair?
Is there any is it swirl swivel, any any which
do anything fun?
Speaker 13: I think it's it's one of those like maybe like
leather or the leather with like the brass, the dormans
or whatever on it that maybe has like a like
a reclining foot thing, so it probably doesn't spin, but
it does recline.
Speaker 5: I would be sitting on that, playing with the recliner,
saying Kora, I'm bored. This is boring. Now everything is
it's it's a wonderful a plumbing, no offense. I'm just
can we do anything else?
Speaker 2: All stocracies is a stranger in coorse apartment, floating around.
Speaker 5: It's reclining, not reclining, reclining not reclining, reclining not reclining.
And then I stop it and then I sit so
my legs are for the arm rest and they're kind
of kicking, and I'm just staring at her. This is
what you do most days, most evenings.
Speaker 4: You just.
Speaker 9: Ext burst. I would Obvius skated, and I guess I
have to ask. I don't think i'd be actively thinking
about this, but would I feel more of that presence.
Speaker 2: That would And in fact, oh, okay, it's our.
Speaker 9: Reaction that I obvious skate when I see him in
the apartment, So I'm not thinking about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah you did it without thinking. Yeah, okay, So I
think that when you do that, you will see this
thing always, now that you know where it is, or
that you know that it's uh, you know, it's a
I'm trying to think about what this put would potentially
look like to you, because it's like a looming shape
that defies logic. It's ever present, right, so it'll shift
in and out of focus, as if your eyes will
refuse to take in its full form. It's that vast
above you. It's the surface of it will ripple with
textures that shouldn't exist. It's Scott's slick, iridescent flesh. It
almost shimmers like stars. One second and then vibrates as
if insects crawl underneath it. The next it's writhing around
like like a stormy sea. And then there are many, many, many,
many eyes that you see this time instead of just
the one, They're all watching you.
Speaker 9: I try to ignore it, and I'm going to dive
through the window, and as I come up, I will
bring my blade out to this man's neck.
Speaker 5: Gora, I think Sanderson's here.
Speaker 9: I press it to you. I press it to his
neck so you can feel that it's there. He's an easy, easy,
and I say no. Next words will be yes on
nothing at all?
Speaker 5: Stand up or imple my arms up?
Speaker 9: Does he not say?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 4: Alright?
Speaker 5: Is close enough to yes? I'm going narrator, Yeah, question, yes,
a knife to my neck?
Speaker 2: Yes he does.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say.
Speaker 5: To any sort of pull or is it just not.
Speaker 2: Strong enough you? Uh, it's very slight. I will say that.
But mm hmm.
Speaker 4: Could I.
Speaker 5: Attempt to reverse the polarity of it to give a
little resistance?
Speaker 2: You can always attempt. Okay, it's going to be under
a twenty.
Speaker 5: Okay, what would this? I'm used to just doing body
all the time.
Speaker 9: What would.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's a great question. I always assumed. I always
assumed Moose magic came from his mind, but it might
actually be from body still because of the nature of
his power. Okay, so it's up to you. Where do
you think his magic comes from.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say his mind, but only because I want
to rule something different with you and not the same
as Finn.
Speaker 2: Yep, yep, okay, mind.
Speaker 5: It is mind, and you said twenty.
Speaker 2: It's got to be under twenty. Good luck twenty.
Speaker 5: Failure seventy five.
Speaker 2: Were terrible rules today. Okay. Yeah, So as you start
to see if you could do this, I think you
just feel the very gentle like tinglely sensation, like when
your football's asleep as you're trying to do this.
Speaker 9: Or yes, yes, yes, all right, yes, yes, yes, explain
how you gott in here.
Speaker 5: I had a ride and I point to Gora.
Speaker 9: He's Cora in the room.
Speaker 13: I feel like I maybe was like going to check
on something, and he's like shouting about how bored he is.
Speaker 2: Well, you also hear the shattering of the glasses he
fucking tumbles through your goddamn of farm.
Speaker 13: Yeah, so I come, I'd probably come into this scene
and immediately go stocker please stop.
Speaker 2: Then he's with me, Yes, I'm.
Speaker 5: With her friend or art allies.
Speaker 9: Remove them from my snack.
Speaker 5: My composures immediately. Just it melts for a moment like
with relief. Hell, yes, thank you. That was not pleasant.
Speaker 13: Mhm stalker, meet moog, mister Sanderson. I guess our name
is mug yes.
Speaker 5: And your name is Stoker. But you don't hear me
making funny you about it.
Speaker 13: He's our new group member.
Speaker 5: He actually sorra very curiously.
Speaker 13: Yes, he actually is taking Fenn's place.
Speaker 5: Who's Fenn?
Speaker 2: And that's where we end the session. That was too good.
That was too good. Oh man, well done everyone, well done,
well done, well done.
Speaker 5: I am so.
Speaker 2: Glad that after the r and all the work updating,
you didn't immediately get murdered by soccer in our first episode.
You know, there was a moment there where I was like,
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