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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 read
you doubting. For you, Lord, proceed at your own risk.
Speaker 3: A lodge of shape from shade, loget of fact from me.
Speaker 4: That he says, stand up for the thing you can't
stand a loud.
Speaker 5: Previously on death This, we fought and fought and fought
these strange, unbearably strong beings in this new place. But
I think what was most interesting was that I saw
some of my companions do things that made no sense,
and I did things that made no sense. My question
now is, once the battlefield has been picked clean, what
is Cora hiding?
Speaker 6: And boy do I love to keep a secret?
Speaker 7: Amazing.
Speaker 2: So we are on the street, the battle has ended,
the rain has started to fall. Cora, you are in
super rough shape. But despite that, I think, for just
a moment, your eyes will dart towards the edge of
the street, quite a ways away. Perhaps you were looking
for any sign of any more enemies. Perhaps you just
felt something calling to you, Perhaps your eyes were moved
by your passenger. Either way, you notice someone standing at
the edge of the street. His figure lingers, tall and lean,
with an effortless stillness that speaks of control. He has
blonde hair, it's tied in a low ponytail, and some
of the dim light like the glint of a blade
before it strikes you. Blink and he's gone. The emptiness
where he stood is heavier than his presence ever was.
And where are the rest of you?
Speaker 6: I am standing next to Gunnar. He shielded me.
Speaker 4: I am standing next to Constantine after being given me
prize from the dark Finn. It was a.
Speaker 5: Bone of the arm of one.
Speaker 4: Of them creatures, and I hold it in my hand.
Does it burn me? Still?
Speaker 2: Oh, that's a very good question, I think after a moment, Actually,
I'm gonna have you roll for it, because I think
normally it would be turned to ash. But let's go
ahead and do a roll. Ah, just a flat D
one hundred is fine for now. Or you can roll,
you know, like if it's easier for you to hit
the body button, you can do that too.
Speaker 4: I rolled the fifty nine on a D one hundred.
Speaker 2: Okay, I think I think it does burn you a
little bit. But there is a moment where it seems
like and I don't know how Gunnar would translate this,
but for a moment, it feels like you could have
stopped this from turning to ash and kept it, but
it's just slightly beyond you. So for a moment you're
able to you feel that it's going to go away,
and you're you're holding it to prevent it from leaving.
But then it turns to ash in your hand, and
as the rain kind of hits it, steam comes up
from it as well, and then it disappears.
Speaker 4: So I stand there, take the bone into my hand,
and for a second I feel and ah too familiar
feeling helplessness as it to sintegrate some dust between my
fingers and wash us down with the rain.
Speaker 2: Ah go ahead.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 8: Ben Fenn is still in wolf form, his eyes rolled
in the back of his head, breathing in sharply quickly
and exhaling once smooth motion. That is the only movement
you get out of Fenn.
Speaker 4: Having seen that day, I look at him like I
pity him for a moment, but I do not persist.
Speaker 9: Is his fan still a wolf?
Speaker 4: Yes, m.
Speaker 9: I will beckon, I'm going to try to pick him
up a fireman's carry? How difficult is that for me
as a strong vampire?
Speaker 8: Or who?
Speaker 2: Which one are you trying to pick up? I'm so sorry. Ah,
that's a contested role because I don't know if Fenn
would just let you.
Speaker 9: Is he unconscious?
Speaker 2: No, he's just standing there.
Speaker 9: Oh sorry, I thought you were on the ground. Now
we there's a brow Okay, and I will aunt see
that and I will run to the nearest alley and
shout to everyone over here quickly, come quickly, come on.
Speaker 6: All right, all right, I follow, but I'm keeping an
eye on Cora.
Speaker 2: She's gonna need help. Yeah you might too as well, Constantine,
because you're at level three burn right, Yeah, so you
and Cora are pretty fucked up. Corra will probably need
help walking.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 5: In that case, I'm probably leaning quite a lot of
weight against Gunner.
Speaker 6: Yeah. I'm still looking at Cora. Does someone get her up?
Speaker 7: I think she has raised to her feet, right because
I helped her up, unless she has fallen down again.
But right before this happens, I think I am over
there looking at my shadow and moving and just like, oh,
aren't you a funny little thing and seeing if it
is doing what I'm doing, and this sort of thing.
I think it is not always moving exactly as I am,
like waving, and then maybe it goes behind something then
comes back again. But it's just being very playful, not
exactly listening to me. But when I hear them say this,
I turn around to see Cora standing there, pretty attired,
and I say, okay, come on, come here, and I
will assist. Get a little bit lower. How tall is Cora.
Speaker 10: Not at all? Probably five seven or something.
Speaker 7: You just say, I'm only a couple of inches totter.
So I just go down a little bit, very important detail,
and I get his shoulder around her, arm around my shoulder,
and I started helping her across the street where everyone
is going. I say, yeah, that was that was said?
Uh you really, you really saved us? There is this?
Is this something you could always do? Because I have
done some things I have never done before.
Speaker 10: I think I would now that the battle's over and
the danger is gone, I look really tired, as if
I slumped into myself, and I am not really receptive,
but I think in that moment I would probably mumble
something along the lines of the seames that this place
has a lot of surprises for all of us if
I've never done before.
Speaker 7: See if she is feeling that weak and she kind
of starts to fold, I am just going to lean
down and pick her up like this and just carry
her across the street.
Speaker 10: I think I would resist for a moment and then
like wanting to stay on my own two feet, But
then I would relent and probably relax gratefully.
Speaker 7: Lady is fine, you have done more than enough. Allow
us to do something.
Speaker 10: For you, and nod weekly.
Speaker 2: Okay, So you all steal away into an alleyway. Does
anybody not listen to Stalker when he says to get
into the alleyway?
Speaker 9: I don't offend those non okay, Oh go ahead, Stalker, you.
Speaker 4: Go if you're in the alleyway. If I'm next to
Constantine still, I want to turn to him and and
lean in. And I'm breathing hard as well, and I
understand that Constantine looks pretty worse for worse, and I
want to lean in and I want to ask if
I can help you. And as I lean in, you
might think I was going to bite you, but I
speak to her, to Constantine, to him if you were
to look at me, you could see uh shine glimmer
on my tongue. But I want to ask you if
you would allow me to help you to the alleyway.
Speaker 6: I uh just not. I'm not I'm weak.
Speaker 5: I close my eyes and nod with whatever strength I
have left, And with the nod, I.
Speaker 4: Just scoop you into my my arms, cradling you, and
we walk towards Stalker.
Speaker 9: So I won't. I stand at the entrance to the alleyway.
The four of you are in, and then you stood out.
They're still yes, yes, I looked too fain and I
beckon him over does he respond?
Speaker 8: He if he were to have an idle animation right now,
it would be unfazed. He's continuing these short inward breaths
and one long exhale.
Speaker 2: Hm.
Speaker 9: I approach him.
Speaker 7: Are you sure you want to do that?
Speaker 9: I am five feet away. I calmly tak another step.
Speaker 4: Unchanged.
Speaker 9: I mm hmm. I step again with the mas range.
Speaker 5: I know we're supposed to be scared right now, but
that is not the feeling I'm having.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's the feeling I'm having fear. I'm a little nervous.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: What's gonna happen? He could just like reach over and
you know, fuck up his whole day if he's lucky. Okay,
I'm so sorry. Please continue.
Speaker 8: While being within arm's length, Fen's eyes quickly focus on
stalker mm hmm, suddenly seeming aware of his surroundings.
Speaker 9: I block gaters with him. I do not break eye contact.
My calmly lean closer.
Speaker 4: Follow. He shifts his.
Speaker 8: Weight back into a less idle stance. Head tilts to
the side.
Speaker 9: I turn and walk calmly back to the alley, not
looking behind me, then follows. Once we are all in
the alley, I'm going to attempt to do something something
I believe I can do in this place.
Speaker 2: Magic bullshittery Are you trying to take them all to
a different layer? What are you doing?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Exactly? Okay, holy shit?
Speaker 11: Right?
Speaker 2: Oh boy? Okay, So how do you want to do this?
Speaker 9: I think, to them they wouldn't see anything, but to me,
I aren't there and step through and beckon them to follow.
Speaker 2: So this is still something that you'll have to roll
to be able to do. But I guess what I'm
asking is are you trying to And it doesn't sound
like you're trying to take them all at once, So
at least you're not gonna half a d buff for
trying to pull a huge group all at once. If
you try to take them one at a time. We
can just roll one at a time to see who
you can pull through. But you're going to need to
go ahead and make your layer your ability. It's layers role,
and we'll see if that's the success, then we'll go
ahead and start trying to pull people through.
Speaker 9: Very well and wanting to stay difficulty.
Speaker 2: You were just in this layer. Well, actually, I don't know.
I actually have no idea what layers trying to take
them to. I'm assuming you're trying to take them to
the layer that you were just in, correct, a layer
where you kind of obviuse skate. Yes, yes, yeah, then
you were just in this layer. However, you've never really
done this before. Kind of this is new in this world.
It's not like it's a regular thing that you do. However,
in VTM you do obviuse skates, so you kind of
have that ability, and that's kind of how you unlock this.
I'm gonna say it's still a little bit difficult though,
so we'll do forty instead. Of a flat fifty to
fifty shop.
Speaker 9: I have to burn.
Speaker 2: Would you like to use burn?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 8: You have to burn?
Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, more difficulty.
Speaker 2: Okay, yep, so then then yeah, to burn is ten percent,
so it's going to be thirty then find.
Speaker 9: Now okay, I got a ninety nine.
Speaker 2: Holy okay, what do you think happens? Because this is
really bad? But it again, I'm going to stress until
the very end of this campaign. It doesn't mean that
you fail at doing the thing. It just means that
there are negative consequences for you and your party, whatever
those negative consequences may be. So if you want an example,
could be you do manage to take them all into
another layer, but something knows you're there.
Speaker 9: Well is this I'm sorry, I'm confused. Now is this
to take them all into another layer? Or is this
for me to go in?
Speaker 2: This was for you to open the layer?
Speaker 9: Right? Okay? Yeah? Yes. Then I pull my hand in
and as soon as I start, I notice something is wrong.
It burns my hand. Okay, And as I pull it
open and let go, the burning sensation leaves. But I think,
unbeknownst to me, this is not the same layer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just going to say, I love the
idea that when you fail spectacularly like this, you learn something,
even if it doesn't bump your experience quite literally up
by one. I like the idea that now you recognize
that there are many layers, so you're going to have
to figure out how to open the one that you want,
and the one you just reached into was not the
same layers the one you normally obfuscate to. So at
least Stalker can have the knowledge that there's more than one.
Speaker 9: Yep, so I know that this is not a correct layer.
Speaker 2: Yes, not only do you know it's not the correct layer,
but you recognize there are multiple layers. If it were
not a ninety nine, I would give you more information
than that. But because it's a ninety nine, I think
that's just it. It doesn't feel like the same, it
doesn't feel the same, and you know it's not the
same one that you just came from.
Speaker 9: I look to my companions. One hand of time. Ben
is hardly responsive, cor eyes nearly unconscious, est Upon seems
mostly okay, but he's carrying her own the same, and
Constantine also looks very tired. I think I must try again.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, okay, we need to get to safety. Yeah,
so I think I think this is taking another burn
to do that. Or I think I think your class,
even though I haven't finished building it yet, I think
your class that can actually take oblivion, which is mental
damage to do this. So it's up to you.
Speaker 9: Yes, I don't think I'm taking oblivion.
Speaker 2: Okay, yep, okay, give a rerule, yeah, push my hold that.
Speaker 7: Do we see something open up in front of us? Like,
is there a fucking portal there?
Speaker 2: I think I think that you would see something, because
I think even if Stoker normally intended you to not
witness this he rolled in ninety nine, but I want
to leave that up again. Do you think they see
you like, like I don't know, claw or slice or
make a hole in reality essentially and like peel it back. Yeah?
Speaker 9: Yes, yeah, yeah, I think they could if they were
paying attention.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's kind of with a ninety nine.
I imagine it's hard to miss. I imagine they hear
it as well. That's like sizzling as you stick your
hand in and like go to slice the sky.
Speaker 9: It's almost as if I pour a wound in some
sort of fell creature. Yeah, burning there is certainly a smell,
and it looks sloppy, I would say.
Speaker 2: I mean again, ninety nine is like one of the
worst rules that you could possibly make other than the
one hundred. So I think it. I think it's loud.
I think it's you know, bright. I think it's you know,
super hard for you all to miss and to be
able to reroll a spectacular fail like this. It's going
to take a toll on you mentally, So you're going
to take that oblivion here to reroll this. Let's go
for it.
Speaker 9: Yes, I stand After looking at my companion's I turned
back around and I swipe at the air, lose sight
of this gateway, and I try again this time, I
am gentle confirm.
Speaker 2: Okay, so this is the Devil famires again. Jesus, oh
my god.
Speaker 8: An inverse I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Shouts so wild number number crap. Okay, I have to
think about what this means. But what do you think
we see? What do you think happens to Stalker at
this particular moment?
Speaker 9: Mm hmm. I think we open a different round, but
this time someone in there sees us.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it's straight up feels like Frodo and
Lord of the rings right where you like open this thing,
and all of a sudden the eye is on you,
and or you know, you feel that something is watching
you and knows exactly where you are, and maybe you
maybe you jerk your hand back. I don't know what
Stalker's reaction to this would be, but I think with
two failure doubles right in a row like that trying
to open this layer, I think, yeah, I think you're
gonna be unable to try to do a layer ability
for a while. And also I do think you know
without a doubt that something has seen you when you
tried to do this.
Speaker 9: Right, And I won't close it, yeah immediately and say
we must find safety, and I'll, I guess, try to
lead them deeper into the alleyware, a place where we
perhaps cannot be seen.
Speaker 2: Okay, we can dart over to the map if you'd like.
We were right across from the cemetery before. So where
would you like to take them? Because we you know, again,
the world is your oyster, But we do have a
map to look at in terms of alleyways and things
like that.
Speaker 7: So Corra's apartment is not far from here. We could
get there in less than ten minutes if we hurry.
Speaker 5: Kind of rock and Gunna's arms when you say that
doesn't even still exist.
Speaker 7: We were there after we came out of the crypt,
right and we left and then say everything was different,
but this was the same.
Speaker 9: He's the map there, I don't see it.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's in the other roll twenty which I have opened,
but you don't. It's in your VTM one. But here's
what I'll do. I will put it in the discord
so you guys can see it. No I have we
have a city map, is just an older one, yep.
I'll do the updated one here. Okay, so yeah, you
can while I'm doing that, you can head to you
can head to chorus. He's right, it'll take you about
ten minutes if you're quick, which might be difficult with
everyone that you've got essentially stalkers. Now at you know three,
you're at three burn and one oblivion, two two burn
and one oblivion, which is pretty intense. So you've got
three people that are pretty fucked up. So I don't
know if it'll it'll have to be like I think
it will take you that long. I think it'll.
Speaker 7: Still like ten eleven o'clock at night or something like that, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's about eleven probably yewhere.
Speaker 7: Else to go.
Speaker 9: They are I don't remember like where.
Speaker 2: Everything is, but hold on, it's right here. It's in
the group discord. That's the updated map. Uh at least
like the area of where you are. Yah.
Speaker 10: So I think we were right.
Speaker 9: Some corras is over there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you are, like you see where the arrow
shows the secret crypt entrance, You're like on that gray
street right, yeah.
Speaker 9: Yes, I'll take them through the some back alleyways try
and get to Cora's.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, So this is going to be a role
for you for stealth, and I'm trying to figure out
how we can do this because you basically have a
bunch of you know, people who are not doing well
with you, so like it feels like having you roll
straight body isn't necessarily accurate because you've got all these
other people. But I don't like it when people roll
a million times for the same thing. So I think
we're just going to do one straight role and it's
going to be stalker for guiding. So go ahead and
make your body roll for stealthily moving them through the alleyway.
Keep in mind you do have that that shift. So
I was going to say, uh, probably I'm going to
let the burn and oblivion set the difficulty for you.
So if it was a fifty to fifty or burn
in oblivion, now makes it like they're thirty, right, because
you've got an authority, so it makes it thirty. It's
the same thing. It just gives you a shift on
your roles. Yep. So you have the five for the
level one of oblivion. So you're at a difficulty of
thirty five all right, which is about what I would
have said anyway without the burn and the oblivion, which
just means the system is working. Well.
Speaker 9: Yay, wait what twenty sincts?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 2: Thank god, because I still see ninety nine? Okay, good?
Oh nice, twenty six Okay, So then yeah, you are
going to go ahead and escort them. I think you
take your time because you see how fucked up everyone is.
You are also pretty fucked up, so it probably takes
you a little bit longer than you had originally anticipated.
But you get there safely, and you're pretty sure, you're
fairly confident that no one has seen you.
Speaker 9: Yes, then I believe our apartment is a few floras
up here. Yes, yes, I want to go up the quickly,
as quick as I can, go up the fire escape
and check if anyone is inside of it.
Speaker 2: There's a dead old woman inside on the couch.
Speaker 9: It's not for his apartment, but she's dead. Hip How
long can I tell?
Speaker 2: I don't think you could the window? Yeah, I think
you'd have to go inside. I think you'd have to
go inside.
Speaker 10: Does that also mean, Pepe that the interior would look
different too?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would like to be a different apartment.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I m I think Stalker is pretty good at
investigating and putting things together. But I have met a
knowledge here and I'd like to roll to see if
he knows a little bit more about what's going on
with that. Like, what what do you mean?
Speaker 2: I just don't know what meta knowledge you're referring to.
Speaker 9: Do you want me to say what it is?
Speaker 2: Well? Yeah, I can't help figure out what you can
roll unless I know what I.
Speaker 9: Orkish knows that Colora is used magic to make it
look like her apartment and also killed that woman, but
Stalker does not know that.
Speaker 2: Orkish is also wrong about that, so I'd be very
careful about trying to bring that info over. But yes,
go ahead. You're playing in a PEB game, which means
that stuff I say to you is for your character
and it's not always the truth. Don't forget that. Okay,
go ahead and roll though.
Speaker 7: All right, I am already carrying her up the stairs
because I have no reason to believe that that there
is anything but her apartment up there, and she's very hurt.
Speaker 2: I think he's checking to make sure that I ignore it.
Speaker 7: And I walk up to what I think is her
apartment that we spent all night in. Yeah, okay, that's
fair because she's very hurt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. In the meantime, though, but
I am going to yeah, yeah, I'm not going to quickly.
You can go ahead and roll Stocker real quick one.
Speaker 9: Who's the difficulty.
Speaker 2: You're I'm just going to let your burn in your
oblivion determine your difficulty. So it's thirty five unless I
say otherwise, not big for Yeah. Yeah, so I think
you just I don't know how you would interpret that,
But this is where her apartment was. There's an old
woman here now and the apartment looks completely different, right.
Speaker 9: I just had I head downs back down the fire escape,
and I tell them there is something strange. I think
that is not and it is not Corn's apartment any longer,
but it is somewhat vacant for now. I guess two
of my companions have already left, but I'll lead the
rest up the stairs.
Speaker 5: I'm sort of nodding out in Gunnar's arms at this point,
them in and out of.
Speaker 2: I'm just as serious as to what Koren does, because
I think she knows what is waiting up at the apartment.
So do you. I mean you're also at level four burns,
so I get it. If you're just disoriented and out
of it.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'd be disoriented and out of it, I think
though knowing or thinking I know that it was my
magic that maintained the apartment, I would be focused on
just like safety. So I might even be mumbling under
my breath like they still be there? You still be there?
Speaker 2: Are you referring to the apartment like you want your
apartment and still be there? Okay, you can make you
can make a roll and it is I'm just gonna
let your burn determine it. And you're at minus fifty,
so your difficulty is going to be a thirty should
be twenty. But we'll make it thirty.
Speaker 10: Who We'll just get a twenty four.
Speaker 2: Then holy shit, dude, Okay, good god, where are you?
Stalker went down back down.
Speaker 7: Right, We're probably you gotta see this.
Speaker 2: Okay, then this is what happens. This is what happens.
You open the door. Whoever opens the door opens the door,
and it's Core's apartment and Stalker, that's probably mighty confusing
because you just looked through the window and there was
an old woman and yeah, I.
Speaker 7: Think we have probably gotten up there shortly after he
went down and said something's wrong. And then I would
you know, I hear her mumbling as we go up
the stairs, and I find this very curious. I said, well,
where else would it be? And I go to open
the door and the door opens and it is the
same see.
Speaker 12: Yeah, And then I go and I I think, I
bring her into the bedroom and I put her down
on the bed, and then I come outside and.
Speaker 7: Expect to see the others up there very soon.
Speaker 2: There are two things wrong with the apartment, Cora, What
do you think they are?
Speaker 10: The living room the way that it was laid out.
The orientation of the furniture is flipped.
Speaker 2: Holy shit, dude, Okay.
Speaker 10: The colors of the drapes in the wallpaper are inverted.
Speaker 7: Okay, wow, wow, okay, but this is definitely noticeable side.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, but is it one of those things where
you walk in and you're like, there's something off, but
I don't know what it is because you.
Speaker 7: You only spend Yeah, true, true.
Speaker 2: You know, but like you're you don't know her apartment
well enough to be you know, I don't know. I
would feel like I would go in and I would
be like what.
Speaker 6: I would definitely, yeah, definite.
Speaker 7: If not for that TV, I would not notice, but
it is not yeah, yeah, yeah, but I think I
take it in and I go oh, and then I
leave her in the bedroom and come out the way
for the And now I'm kind of seeing if I
am trying to remember if I was mistaken or if
something weird just going on. But that is what I
would be doing when the rest arrive.
Speaker 2: I also don't think your devices will work at the moment,
Like if you try to turn the TV on or
any electricity is not going to work at the moment.
Speaker 7: I definitely try to turn the TV on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that doesn't work at the moment.
Speaker 4: I think at this point Gunner and Constantine are nearing
the landing of the apartment, and was the door left open?
It was left of us. I'll just kind of use
my body to open the door and still holding Constantine
in my aunt, and I take a step in the
apartment and I look too. Yeah, Esteban, could you run
the bath? Sure?
Speaker 7: I couldn't do this. I we want to warm bath
or hot bath. I'll figure out if it is too hot,
We'll just let it see it, don't.
Speaker 4: Respond A nice slowly led Constantine onto her feet, his
feet onto the floor.
Speaker 6: Oh does the shots?
Speaker 7: Does the water run? I mean the bathroom? Is the bathroom?
Speaker 6: M hmm, that's fett dunk.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 9: Thanks. I'm waiting on the in front of the door,
and I look back to Fenn.
Speaker 4: Uh fan.
Speaker 8: You'll can I ask Orcish to make a roll for me?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Absolutely whatever.
Speaker 8: I don't know what static takes observation up about Fenn,
so that would be that would be a mind role.
Speaker 2: But also I did have him roll, you know, kind
of privately but not really. I asked him to roll again.
Now that the furniture in the room looks different, I'm
gonna let you roll again for this, like meta knowledge
that you were reaching for you roll to twenty three,
which is the otherworldly success. And so now what I'd
like to tell you is that it's something with the layers,
but not quite She's something is happening and I don't
know if Again, I don't think you would know that
it was coming from her, But something just happened similar
to your layer ability, but you're not quite sure what.
Speaker 9: But it's not quite the same connect to Klara.
Speaker 2: Well, you weren't near her when she was mumbling please
be there, So yeah, I don't.
Speaker 9: Think that you would. Yeah, okay, have not entered the apartment.
Speaker 2: Yet, Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, but yes.
Speaker 9: When I enter, I will make that connection. What would
you like me to roam?
Speaker 8: Actually?
Speaker 11: Mind?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 2: For for Fenn?
Speaker 8: Yeah, were you were you paying attention to Fen as
you were leading the group or were you just like
trying to make your corall kittens like hurting kittens.
Speaker 9: We were taking it slow, and I was making sure
that all of the all of the party was staying together.
And I think, if I'm not mistaken, you were in
the rear. Mm hmmm, so I was certainly observing you.
Speaker 8: Okay, then a role wouldn't be necessary I think actually
you would notice you gave Fenn the order follow was
the last thing you said, and he's been doing almost
like a a mimicry of that. If you were crouching,
he was crouching when you slowed down, he slowed down.
Speaker 4: M hm.
Speaker 8: So, and you did not give any additional direct orders
to fen during that time, because I would assume stoctors like, well,
he's we're doing good.
Speaker 9: Yes, I would have told him to wait when I
went up the fire escape.
Speaker 8: Okay, one moment, oh uh, when you said wait, he waited,
but something felt off.
Speaker 5: M h.
Speaker 4: A.
Speaker 9: Right, But he came into the building when I beckoned
everyone again, what's fine now? Oh no, he killed me.
I'm dead. Ah, okay, So I suppose everyone else is
gone in and we are at the front stemps.
Speaker 8: And his breathing turns back into that.
Speaker 9: I step close, sir again, how close m within reach.
Speaker 8: His eyes, just as in the middle of the street,
dart directly at you. Nothing else changes.
Speaker 9: Then I again lock eyes and saying through the same
word the command word. Oh no, he.
Speaker 8: Doesn't mm hmm. In fact, he leans a little closer.
Speaker 3: Oh h.
Speaker 8: H m hm.
Speaker 4: Ah h.
Speaker 9: What are you go ahead? Even closer. We don't, I
don't break eye contact.
Speaker 2: I think we gotta do a role, right, Greg, I'd
like to apologize to everyone for this.
Speaker 8: His eyes immediately the pupils dilate and then turned back
into slits, and his giant claw quickly lunges for your neck.
Speaker 9: Okay, now your beat top right from the fact you
are injured.
Speaker 2: Oh he is a little bit. Yeah, he healed a bit.
So I think this is going to be a contested role.
Go ahead and roll your body. Gents, Keep in mind
you're burning oblivion stalker, so so your difficulty will just
be straight like fifty to fifty. But Stalker, you've got
fifty to fifty, but you've got your burn, so it's
going to knock it down to thirty five.
Speaker 4: Fill your doubles for me.
Speaker 2: Probably just saved his fucking life.
Speaker 9: Oh my god, Wow, I believe I still win.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you both take damage. Actually, but I
I'm trying to interpret the eighty eight for you, Fenn,
But I actually think I need to leave it up
to you to figure out what a failure like catastrophic
failure would mean for you, specifically for Fenn. But yeah,
you you both fail miserably. So you're both gonna hurt
each other. There is no winning here in this situation.
You both you're one off from each other. You both
fail fail. However, Fenn fails spectacularly, so I don't know
what that looks like for you. But you guys are
both going to get fucked up somehow, So I think
Fenn does. I'm so sorry. If you can hear my cat,
Fenn does to damage to you Stalker somehow, and then
then I don't know what you're I don't know how
to interpret this. I'm going to DM you. How's that
I'll privately damn you because I have an idea. But yes, okay,
go ahead and describe what we see.
Speaker 8: Well, I type away, So Fend lunges for Stalker's throat
and misses. However, I don't know if I have to
do a role for this, pbe.
Speaker 7: Stocker.
Speaker 8: Stocker manages to get a hit off as like a
counter move, but but it's the counter move that injures Stalker.
It like, yeah, okay, reflects off of Fend's body, that's fine,
and it injures Stoker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's because it's just flavor text. So he I mean,
he's taking the damage. But you're saying that you didn't
you know, you miss, But then he comes at you
and then you are able to reflect that back, and
that's that's what.
Speaker 8: It's because of one of the in my mind, you know, yeah, yeah, okay, okay, okay, okay,
yea yeah, perfect, perfect, perfect.
Speaker 9: It's important to me how I come back at you.
I had a dagger in my hand. I used the
hilt and I bap you on the nose really hard.
That's my counter attack.
Speaker 2: So so how does this hate you? Then you hate
yourself in the nose?
Speaker 9: No, I think he would have had to hit me
a slash.
Speaker 5: I'm imagining that counter of the hilt going into the
nose and then bouncing off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because he's I mean, he's that what happened. But
he's technically using an ability of a reflect So your
attack is probably is what's going to come back and
hit you. So how does that happen? I guess?
Speaker 9: I okay, sure, I I don't know. I'm a weapons expert.
I don't know how I stab myself with a dagger.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess you're just not expecting the fact that
he is a were wolf, right, He's incredibly dangerous. So
he just uses an ability.
Speaker 9: That you're not.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think you have any experience with
were wolves, do you. I mean you can be an
incredible Yeah, you can be an incredible weapons expert. And
it's you know, not that you didn't do it properly.
It's just that he had an ability that countered you,
or you know, whatever the case may be. So all right, yeah,
somehow you are you you you know, damage yourself for
the for the two damage. Yes, okay, and this is outside,
So in the meantime, inside, let's do Cora and Esteban.
Speaker 7: I was going to say as well. I went into
the well. Maybe if growling started, I would stop. But
after I turn the bath on, and then I go
into the kitchen and then go into the refrigerator to
see if there's a bag of blood to bring to Cora.
Speaker 10: I think last time we were here we established that
anyone Buckkoor who looked in the fridge and sy anything.
Speaker 7: Then I see nothing, yep. And I go in there
and I walk in and I say, I'm so sorry.
It seems like you are out of food. Is there
anything else I can get for you that would help you?
Right now?
Speaker 10: I think at this point my face would be contorted
in pain, probably be shifting slightly, as if like I'm
trying to get into a more comfortable position, but every
time I move I wins more. I think it'd be
pretty wrapped up in the way that my body is feeling,
probably continuing to mumble strange things that don't really make
sense to you, like probably still like please be there,
I can't lose how am just like incomplete thoughts that
don't really make any sense.
Speaker 7: It would approach and I would very gently take your
hand in mine again and say you can become There
is no need to worry. We will find out how
to help you.
Speaker 5: I have.
Speaker 7: I have felt something from you, something that I feeling myself.
So I would like to try some bullshit right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah I love bullshit. Let's go, Okay, do you want
to try to do?
Speaker 7: I think as I'm there and we had in when
we were during the fight and I helped her up,
I felt something familiar in her, like very familiar to me,
like this what would be in VTM like oblivion kind
of thing. And I guess, since I'm not exactly sure,
you know, tell me if this is correct, because it
is like a mechanical thing, but the burn and visibly
be in function like the burn function. Like, I don't
know what's wrong with her. It's like just in general,
I did a lot of magic and I'm tired. Yeah,
kind of thing. And I think for me, I'm like, oh,
she needs to eat. But but I'm not trying to
help right now. Okay, I want to know. I am
using this in her weekend state to figure out what
the fuck I felt in her that is familiar to me.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, okay, all right, I mean I do want
to help, but I'm curious now you're Yeah.
Speaker 7: So I think I have her hand in mine, and
I put them together, and then there is a little
giggle in the room. M the fun little shadow puts
another hand on top of it, goes my hand, her hand,
my hand, the shadow hand, and I just kind of
close my eyes and see what I feel.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, okay, this is look I also it is.
Speaker 7: I'm curious to know, but because there is something similar,
can I do anything to help? But also what the
fuck is going I I know.
Speaker 2: Where your magic comes from, so I'm trying to figure
out if this is possible and if so happened, I
know I know you aren't. I know you aren't. Yeah,
I know, I'm just thinking, okay, no, it's okay, so okay,
So I think that you can definitely try this. You
can always try Normally, I would say this would be
it's still going to be incredibly difficult, and I know
you don't know that. But here's the here's the deal.
She is weakened. You are correct, but her passenger is not,
and her passenger will protect her. So I think you
can most certainly try this, and if you get a
crazy success, then you will figure something out.
Speaker 7: I am. I am looking for what is familiar in her.
I'm not trying to take anything. Okay.
Speaker 2: I know, I know you're just taking a peak. You're
just taking a peak, but it's you know, she's had
to look at okay, yeah, yeah, okay. I think you're
gonna need to get below a thirty, and if you
get below a ten, I will give you something crazy.
Speaker 7: Uh, don't worry, it's going to be like a seventy seven.
Speaker 10: Don't say that.
Speaker 2: Why would you put that out.
Speaker 7: I'm not going to say it's going to be good.
Is this a why not? Mind?
Speaker 4: Huh?
Speaker 2: Yes, yep? Mind or charisma whichever.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, but we're still not doing dying right, No.
Speaker 2: We're not at the moment.
Speaker 13: Okay, technically it could be if you've got some juice
of skies because I had used it before, so I
was just going to put it into like two into
mind and two into this the other one thing.
Speaker 2: So we haven't moved anything over yet. So just if
dine is an okay role for you to make, I
will allow it for now until I move everything over.
Speaker 7: Is it thirty yes, yep, okay, Well you should have
could have been any because they're all they're all thirty yeah, all.
Speaker 2: Right, forty eight pretty close.
Speaker 7: Why didn't I see it there?
Speaker 9: It is?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, So I think when you try to ooh, I
apologize in advance, but I think this is exactly what
would happen. I think I think Ashna is gonna play
with you and like, let you think that her magic
is exactly your magic and that you are like the same,
and that's.
Speaker 7: Even though she has done nothing the same as man.
Speaker 2: That's correct. Whatever you feel in this moment with this
failure makes you think like.
Speaker 7: Oh, well, the same, the same magic, and that it's
but then it's from her I'm not like now that
it's coming from oh absolutely not right, yeah, not that
there is someone else there. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, I
think this probably happens. I said, this is doing and
this little hand is there, and I close my eyes
and I see everything is black, and I feel movement
down from my head through my arm into her hand,
and I feel it come back to me and go
back through me again, like it's just going around, like
it's all part of the same thing, and that is
why I feel this.
Speaker 9: And I.
Speaker 7: Hear a tiny little clapping like somebody is happy, and
then I go, Okay, she is the same.
Speaker 2: Okay, do you do anything else in Kora? Do you
have a reaction? I think you can feel by the way.
I don't think you will register it now because of
your burn, but later after you feel better, and if
you choose to like recall this moment, you might be like, oh,
something weird happened there. Because I think you can feel
Isshna moving freely around when you're in this state, he
can just do whatever the fuck he wants.
Speaker 7: Really, I think since I have this feeling m it
only makes sense. I'm gonna to cut open my arm
and let her drink my blood to see if it helps.
Speaker 2: Yep, you're right, okay, yep, maybe yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 7: So I think I just I just press my thumb
like into my forearm, and I just pull it down
until it's open, and then I'll reach behind her head
and I lift it up and I just pull it
up to the wound.
Speaker 2: Do you drink, miss Cora? Actually I should rephrase that,
do you want to drink? I think my.
Speaker 10: First reaction to tasting warm blood would be to recoil
from it in like a just dis disoriented like oh no,
like unprepared way. I would turn my head away from it.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Oh I think I will put her head back down.
Speaker 2: Mm hm. And before you do that, I am so sorry.
Don't core. We're gonna do our first contested roll against Ishna,
so you're just gonna ye.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I'm just gonna let the burn determine your difficulty,
which is minus fifty. So it was so you got
to you gotta roll a you gotta roll doubles, So
you have to roll A twenty two to thirty three
or a one. And that's because of your burn, not
because of Eshna, right, because the burn level four gives
you minus fifty. Right, so there's no if I give
you fifty difficulty, there's no way you can succeed unless
you roll a one, twenty two to eleven or thirty three,
which is using mind whatever is your strongest stat yes,
I think for you is drying.
Speaker 10: Yes, well, strongest is dying.
Speaker 2: But then yeah, go for it. Yep, okay that one, yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 10: Okay, So difficulty thirty you're saying.
Speaker 7: Uh, it has to be a crit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's got to be a crit or a double underneath.
But yeah, you can do thirty for now, just so
that it will register properly. So thirty three, uh okay,
ninety one? Uh then I think then I think Ishna
comes up and takes control of your body here and
will feed on Esteban. I'm so sorry. Yeah, I know,
I know, I know. I feel bad.
Speaker 7: Okay, Well, what is it? How does it feel when
she turns away and then I start to put her head.
Speaker 2: Down and then and then she grabs it. Well, here's
the thing is that I don't think. I don't think Ishna.
Speaker 11: I think.
Speaker 2: I think the way that this feels is not like
but I want to do it anyway, so I'm going
to do it. It's more like this will help you.
I know you don't want to do this right now,
but this is going to get your body back up
to the level that we need it to be. And
I think you probably feel these feelings. I don't think
he's going to say anything to you, Kora, but the
feeling that you get from him is this is the
best alternative. Otherwise you have to draw on my power,
which he would freely give to you, but he knows
you don't.
Speaker 9: Want to do that.
Speaker 2: So this is a you know, for your own good
kind of feeling as he does this, and probably it's like, actually,
probably what he does now that I'm thinking about it,
is that he won't necessarily take control of your movement
beyond the point of snapping your head back towards the
blood and then it just smells really good. I think
it's just like that kind of overwhelming like, oh, this
is gonna, you know, be good for you. It's almost
like he just with a hand he didn't have turned
your head back to look at it, and was like,
are you sure, and then you went, actually, I'm not sure.
Speaker 7: I think I think I She turns away and I said, okay,
and I put her down, and then I start to
turn and she grabs my arm again.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, so I turned around. Yeah, and then
you feed. However, you are going to remove a burn
here from that? Okay, yes, that is correct. I forgot
about that, and that's why you were trying not to
do that, because you were trying to spare him. I
forgot about that. Okay, So Esteban, I'm so sorry. Something
happens when this happens, Yeah, go ahead for it. Do
you want do you want to describe this or do
you want him to describe it?
Speaker 10: I think yeah, okay, so Esteban, you would he would
offer the wound to me. And like I said before,
when I taste the warmth of the blood, I recoil
immediately after a moment, there's probably it's like I recoil
from it. But then maybe I still and I turn
back towards you more calm when Isshna takes over and
I feed on you just like normal, just like you
would expect me to, the only difference is for you,
it's painful, whatever that means for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So I think at first, when she turns back and
she begins to feed. There's a feeling of a brief
feeling of like I'm doing something good satisfaction, and I say, yes,
I'm being very caring, like that is you would drink
of that sort of thing. And then I think I
just probably feel something. I don't even think it starts
in my arm. I think it starts somewhere like in
the middle of my torso, like the low of my chest,
and it's just it's pain, and it's growing out, like creeping,
like expanding outwards, like it's slowly going to fill up
my whole chest and my stomach and spread.
Speaker 9: Down my body.
Speaker 7: And I'm confused, and I probably start to pull my
hand away just because I WinCE and I'm not used
to feeling this, And I assume she holds on tighter.
Speaker 9: In the moment, and.
Speaker 7: I think my knees buckle, but I straighten them out,
and I don't know what is happening. And it hurts
a lot, like to the point where I think I'm
going to feel this where I will take damage. But
I think I'm going to take a burn from this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, But I.
Speaker 7: Refuse to stop until I feel she is done, oh wow, Okay,
And I stand there and I'm probably trembling as it
gets worse and worse and worse, you know, and not
until she stops, but until I feel like, okay, she
has had enough to feel better. Like you know, I've
fed people blood before. I know how long it takes,
that sort of thing. But normally, if I felt this pain,
the reaction is WHOA, what is this? I have to stop?
But I think I just I have been through worse
and this one I'm making tobacco.
Speaker 2: Okay, wow, Okay, then yeah, I think you.
Speaker 7: Just feel I feel challenged.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can take a you can take a burn,
and it will immediately bring her down to level three.
So I'm trying to think of how this will translate for.
Speaker 7: You because we're talking physical pain here, right, Yes, it
is physical.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can take another burn, or you can take
one health and it will take her down another level.
Sorry to help, so if I give it.
Speaker 7: So if I take a burn and then two more
points of health, she'll be down to two. That's that's right, Yep,
it'll take I think I do this because I believe it.
I'm being challenged, okay, and I hang in there longer
than I should. Okay, Yeah, definitely I am down to
something like six health and I'll have one burn.
Speaker 2: Yep, okay, okay, and then Cora, you will feel refreshed.
You will be down to only two burn after this feeding,
which is crazy.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think I am out when she lets go,
I am like, I think, I lean over on my
knees and I'm staring at her. But I know why
this is Like, I know because this is not it's
a clan thing, or is it not? You might you might, yeah,
you might know.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 2: If you want to roll for it, go for it
unless you think your character would know. I feel like
it's of all the clans to have an idea yours
would think. So yeah, so I I personally, I don't
even think you need to roll for that.
Speaker 7: If you you know, can put to roll because this
fucking hurts, Yeah for sure, roll.
Speaker 2: A flat yeah yeah, yep, that's fine too. Oh okay,
so wait a second, roll it on that great? Okay, yeah,
but what do you think?
Speaker 4: I know?
Speaker 2: So you're you're but you're rolling to find out her
clan right.
Speaker 7: Well, it's like, hey, do I know that this is
this is something that happens with a hakata bites and
feeds on someone that's really Yeah.
Speaker 2: But that's a four. That's a four, so I feel
like you get something extra, Cora, What do you think
he gets extra about you?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 10: Man? Do you think it would be more emotional or
I was.
Speaker 2: Leaning towards emotional or visual? Visual is fine. If you
want to do a memory, that's what.
Speaker 10: I've got of debating and debating. I think it's gonna
be a combination of both.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think go ahead. I was just gonna say,
try to help you. In VTM, I think the answer
would be visual and in PBu I think it's emotional
because your resonance gives you power. But if you're going
to do a mix of both, that's great, great and wonderful. Okay.
Speaker 10: I think uh casted upon you would you would see
a confusing blur of colors against a black backdrop, and
after a moment, you would realize the black backdrop is
the night sky with stars you can barely see because
the place that you're seeing is so bright and colorful.
There's people moving past in strange outfits, and there's lots
of sound and smells, and that moment shifts and probably
dissolved a little bit. And I would like to think
that if I was aware of what he was seeing,
I would try to shut it down.
Speaker 2: I would.
Speaker 10: I would it would intentional or unconsciously try to pull
that away from him. But what I think would happen
is he would get the emotion resonance afterwards.
Speaker 2: That would be like the echo of it.
Speaker 10: And before the visual kind of cuts out, the colors
and shapes shift into a different perspective, and you see
darkness and a pair of eyes staring out at the
darkness at you, and you realize in that moment you
are me, and you're in a memory. And then the
imagery fades and instead you have the sensation of falling
down a long, a long pit of darkness, and you
feel losses hitting you like blows. You start with a
sense of loss, and then every moment after it feels
like the loss gets stronger and bigger and hits you
from different perspectives, until you finally get to a point
where you feel like there is nothing left. And maybe
there's even this metaphorical impact, this feeling of you hit
the bottom of whatever you were falling down and you're
staring up at where you fell from, in the sense
of I will never get back up there.
Speaker 2: If I may step in here for just a moment,
I think that a resounding thought that might be happening
for the both of you in this moment is I
can't lose. And that's all I will say, because I
don't want to reveal anything for Estebond, But that was
an incredible fucking moment in nine episodes when you all
realize what the fuck is going on? Come back and
watch this. Somebody bookmark that moment. Holy fuck, dude, I just.
Speaker 7: To if I can stitch this together a bit. I
think what this This happens at a point where where
I'm holding on there because I'm stupid, and and it
gets to a point where like the pain is so
great that it like like I almost like wide out
to that and I experienced that, and then that feeling
in her realizing this is being shared is maybe why
she stops or or what gets or there's Yeah, I.
Speaker 10: Really like that thought of this being just a confusing
almost like like you're in so much pain and you're
widing out, and the wide out blurs into my memory,
and then the memory blurs into darkness and emotion, and
it's almost like we're struggling back and forth.
Speaker 7: In this Yeah, I think, uh, as I'm recovering from
this and and and all of this, and she's in
the bed and I I kind of reach out to
her face and put my hand on her cheek, and
I just I think, I just nod and I say
do you need a rest? And I get up and
I kind of stagger out of the room because the
water is running in the bathtub.
Speaker 2: Yep, I was gonna say, we'll switch over. That was amazing, Okay.
Speaker 11: Meanwhile in the bathtub, we'll say, maybe as you're you're
putting your hand on.
Speaker 4: CORU's cheek, you're in a bedroom, so maybe you would
see if you allow me Constantine to be leading you
down that same hallway towards the bathroom and we kind
of just like look in to see you, like touching
her on the cheek, and pass by the door, and
then I'll open the door to the bathroom and lead
us inside.
Speaker 5: Ful, Yeah, I'm following you. I'm just kind of deliriously.
I'm not putting up any fight. I'm not giving any
like funny quips.
Speaker 7: Really, So I'll close.
Speaker 4: The door behind us and shut the water off, and
then I'll stand tall again to face you allow me
to help you.
Speaker 6: I don't say anything, but I just kind of relax down.
Speaker 4: And I'll take a step towards you. Assume you're wearing
like a button down shirt, and I'll start unbuttoning your
shirt one by one and i'll remove it. I assume
I see.
Speaker 6: Battle scars, bruises.
Speaker 5: It's probably. I don't think I bled. I think I'm
quite bruised, though.
Speaker 4: I'll take a step back now and I'll start working
off my jacket until it falls to the floor.
Speaker 1: And I will.
Speaker 4: Raise my right arm to you, and as I raise it,
you can count rings tattooed on my arm from the
wrist to the shoulder one two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
And I'll hold my own to.
Speaker 9: You your turn.
Speaker 6: I look at you quizzically.
Speaker 4: Gone, allow me to help you drink? And I'm breathing
heavily and look pretty screwed up myself.
Speaker 9: Gone.
Speaker 5: I take a step forward slowly, and I take your
wrist in my hands. I look down at the rings,
and what do these tie you to?
Speaker 9: Peace?
Speaker 4: What put on me by someone NY desperately wish to find,
if only to understand.
Speaker 6: Mhmm, you too, And I kind of like stroke the
rings are you sure?
Speaker 9: May?
Speaker 4: I thank you. I wasn't always given a choice.
Speaker 9: You may.
Speaker 6: I bring your wrist to my mouth and I bite you.
And I think you might be.
Speaker 5: Surprised. But it is clumsy. It's not gentle or soft,
and it's not full of hunger or anything like that.
Speaker 9: It's just.
Speaker 5: Like a sick weakness almost to my movements and my actions.
I don't know if this will work for me, but
you are offering so nicely.
Speaker 6: I drink.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 5: I would like to say that I am also trying
to avoid cutting through the rings when I do it.
Speaker 4: Pas, take your time.
Speaker 6: So I start to feel better.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm holding back my chaos gremlin here, but I
think I'm gonna have you roll something here real quick. Yes, please, Yeah,
because you're biting on the arm with the rings on it, right,
and I know you're trying not to damage the rings
at all. Yes, how close together. I was going to
say you are clumsy, and you did say you did offer.
And also I'm just surprised he offered you the arm
with the rings on it, And I think that's interesting,
and it's interesting when shit goes wrong, we're's, you know,
So go ahead and make a roll for me.
Speaker 6: Okay, what am I rolling?
Speaker 2: Whichever stat you like? Trustfall with me. Your difficulty is fifty,
I'm going with soul.
Speaker 6: Okay, sixty failure.
Speaker 2: You also have burn? Oh yes, yeah, and I forgot
about that, so that that's okay, too big failure, that's
all right. I think I think it just tastes like
blood and it feels good. I don't think you get
anything else from from this. I apologize.
Speaker 6: No, that's okay, mm hmm.
Speaker 2: However, it will heal you. You can choose what it heals.
You can either heal physical health, you can heal oblivion,
or you can heal burn. But basically what we'll do
is we'll do a rough translation from VTM here. If
you're going to spend like five minutes feeding, you can
go ahead and remove a burn, which is kind of
essentially what we did with you know, estebond and Korra
type thing. But he doesn't have to take one to.
Speaker 9: Feed you.
Speaker 6: Okay, well I will get rid of a burn then,
for sure.
Speaker 5: Okay, yep, So I think that brings me to two
burn yep, okay, perfect, Holy I'm still looking like obviously
it's still looking pretty rough.
Speaker 2: I pull back oh, I will give you something, actually,
and I just realized that this is just eyeball shit
that I think you would know. I do think that
the tattoos, and I apologize if you explain this already,
but the tattoos do not look like they were made
at the same time. So up at the top near
the elbow is the most faded, and then it continues
down until there is a very very recent one. The
lowest one is very recent.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, I pull my teeth from your wrist, and
I'm looking down at the marks again, and then I
sort of it's like I remember myself, you know, I got,
I got.
Speaker 6: I kind of.
Speaker 5: Straighten a little and then look to the bathtub. It's
full of water. Yes, I look back at you.
Speaker 6: Would you be a darling and place me in the tub,
And I won't not respond, but give you a deep nod.
Speaker 4: And assist you in removing any other articles of clothing
you currently have and help you into the top very gently.
And I will say that I feel like since you
drank you you get the impression from Gunner, then he
just honestly wants to help. And I lower you into
the top.
Speaker 6: As you do, I'll run my hand.
Speaker 5: On the back of your head again and let it
trail down a lock of hair, and I'll look up
at you and.
Speaker 6: Say, we really should stop meeting like this.
Speaker 4: You take awe the time you need, and I will
stand up. And I'm just am towering over the bathtub.
And I think since you drink sort of sloppily from
my wrist, excuse me, but if you were to look
at my hand, there would be blood tripping down my
palm into my fingers. And I'll turn towards the.
Speaker 5: Door before you do that. I'm so sorry, can I
I would like to grab your wrist and lick the
spot that I just bit and heal it. That's what
I'm I would like to do.
Speaker 6: Like I see that that I just.
Speaker 2: Had that right that you're that you guys, your saliva
or whatever you can heal each other with that. Did
we did establish that?
Speaker 5: Then I do that.
Speaker 6: Then I do that.
Speaker 2: You don't even need it.
Speaker 7: Okay, I'm in the hallway licking myself just like a cat.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe as I turn away for the door, grab
my hand, just snatch it.
Speaker 6: I lick it, and then.
Speaker 5: But I would like to say that the moment you
turn away from me, my expression shifts, so like the
audience would see that my expression shifts and my brow
like kind of furrows, and I look off into the
distance kind of like with a discomfort almost, and I'm
not a discomfort, perhaps like an unease is the better.
And then I slip into the tub and lower my
head under the water for a launch.
Speaker 6: I don't need a Yeah, I just stay under there
for a while.
Speaker 4: I want to be in the hallway.
Speaker 2: Do I see Esteban, Yeah, I think so for sure.
Speaker 7: I think Esteban is leaning against the wall. He's done
licking his arm, so that's not going on. But he's
just kind of leaning against the wall there, just trying
to recover. I wasn't really looking in the bathroom, just
was really in his own head.
Speaker 4: I just want to approach him, and I with the
same hand that was bloodied, well put on his shoulder,
and I don't have my jacket. So you see all
of my tattoos, which you could see the ring as
you could see different room like tattoos on my arms
and no lean into him. Tell me, brother, are you
still afraid?
Speaker 7: I think, looking right at him, I will say afraid.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 7: I am glad that time has not eroded your power.
Speaker 4: No, Lean Closser, I think tonight you have given others
a reason.
Speaker 9: To fear you.
Speaker 4: We must go back to that crypt, brother, and not
take my hand off his shoulder and walk back towards
the living room.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna stay here with Usteban for a second.
What did we see?
Speaker 7: I think with Gunner there, he straightened himself out a
little bit because he's very intense, you know, and I
think genuinely this this fight and you know, the desperation
everybody had and the you know it, eventually everyone was
working together and it's something that and like he's feeling
pretty good thinking about that, and that's what Gunnar made
him think of again. But then he's thinking of this
in this moment and going to the crypt again, and
then everything he saw when he was in pain with
Cora just flows back into his head and pushes everything
out again. He leans against the wall. He just kind
of sits there for a moment, and then I think
he will just stagger into the living room and go
back into the kitchen and he needs to splash water
on his face.
Speaker 2: Do you I'm so sorry, remind me, did you take
an oblivion?
Speaker 7: I took a burn. Okay, it's like a burn because
of the physical pain.
Speaker 2: Right, So Gunner has the ability to remove one level
of burn or ability or burn or oblivion by giving
you kind of encouraging words. Oh so if you would
like to, I think you can do that if you
feel encouraged. However, like if you feel like rallied, I.
Speaker 7: Think so, Like he really he kind of hit on
He hit on something that I haven't even hinted to yet.
So yeah, but that kind of a fight like that
is and then him saying that too is really like
it goes way back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, perfect, thank you. Meanwhile, outside, I'm so sorry guys,
back to you too. What is happening? Are you still fighting?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think we've been fighting this whole time. Yes, yeah,
stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself is the is the
gift I put in the group chat.
Speaker 8: So yeah, okay, we've been fighting this whole time. I
rolled the twenty four before he switched scenes, and I
didn't get to explain what the yes go for it
go far We've not been able to land a single hit,
but the with the twenty four, I think one gets
really close, like a really damaging hit to stalker, but
it gets pulled at the last moment. Okay, And you
were studying Fenn during the previous brawl, Yes, he was.
He was, so you would notice that his attacks also
seem wildly different. Before it was chaotic and it was
a little bit fairer, but there was like a there's
a point to it. There was almost like a low
level brawler fighting.
Speaker 7: This is just.
Speaker 8: Wild slashes and it's doesn't match at all what happened
in the previous battle, which I think might also strike
you as odd.
Speaker 9: Okay, so where I backed you on the nose, we
just kept fighting.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean he's saying that he is continuing it now.
If you want to try to stop it, you're more
than welcome to. But he's saying that he we're going
back in time, if you will a little bit to
the front of the hall.
Speaker 9: Yes, I'm just confirming. All right. Well, uh, okay, as
we are fighting, I will take an opportunity. Well, I
would try to lead him into.
Speaker 8: The building. What do you follow blindly? Yeah, he's just
gunning for you right now. So if you're leading him anywhere,
you like like kiting a mob and I don't know,
like you just you have his full attention, and he's like, I,
M I need to pull.
Speaker 9: Some strength from somewhere, and I mean to try and
overpower him. I think, do you think I would have
any instinct to be able to pull extra strength from somewhere?
Or am I just doing my best here?
Speaker 2: Where would you be getting your extra strength?
Speaker 9: Like?
Speaker 2: Where would Stalker? I think? Why would Stalker think to
do this?
Speaker 9: Why would he think to pull like strength just you.
Speaker 2: Said from somewhere? Like where does Stalker think that this
can come from? I guess this is my question. Then
I can try to help.
Speaker 9: Guide well, I am from himself. It would have to
be so can I take an additional burn or something
like that? What I want to do is catch his
attack and use some mhm use that strength to try
and I guess intimidate him to stop. This is assault.
Speaker 2: Okay, you can absolutely. I will always say yes, you
can try. But I also like to give you very
fair warning. You're trying to intimidate the strongest thing in
the room, so it's gonna be pretty difficult. Okay, but
why don't we do this? We're gonna approach it like
I see what you're trying to do. Actually, I think
you're trying to alpha and be the stronger one in
the room, So why don't we go ahead and let
you roll first to dodge his incoming attack. We're gonna
treat this like an actual fight because he's coming for you,
and we won't just do straight contested. We're gonna, we're gonna,
we're gonna do it for real, just in case. That
way it's fair. So you go ahead and roll to dodge,
and I'm gonna let your own burn that you haven't
taken that extra one yet to determine the difficulty for you.
So if normally it's a fifty, you got a fifty
to fifty shot, then apply your burn appropriately and that's
your difficulty if that makes it. Yeah, okay, so I
think for you right now, without the extra one, you're
about to take his thirty five just to dodge this
attack here. Okay, So how do you strike him?
Speaker 8: Then he's trying to use my own body weight against me?
Speaker 2: Is that what's trying to yet he's trying to dodge
your attack and I'm just trying to keep the fight there.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely, it's all going for the throat.
It's all going to the throat at this point, he
never uses his mouth. It's all going to the throat
with his hands.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, so he is going to strike you, and
Fenn does two damage when he hits by default instead
of just the one, so you will take two damage.
But now you may try to intimidate him if you'd like,
by making a roll and using a burn to increase
your your chances here my recommendation actually would be to
not use it to increase your chances, but to double roll.
So roll once and then if you don't succeed, take
the burn and reroll it, because that way you don't
just auto take a pie. Does that make sense?
Speaker 9: Yes? Yeah, he hit me with the attack, right, Yeah
he did? Yeah? Okay, so instand I don't know that
he's claws in my throat make a whole lot of sense.
So can we say it's the chest or the shoulder
or something like that.
Speaker 2: I think he went for your throat and you failed
the role, so I think he slices your throat open.
Speaker 8: I have he has been pulling back a little bit.
I did say that previously, so it's not like dug
in there. It's like a slash. Yeah that makes sense.
Speaker 2: So are you cool. Then if we just say that
it went a little low this time, like you're holding back, okay,
just trying to keep it fair.
Speaker 8: If you yeah, yeah, yeah, he's an expert like fighter.
I assume he's great with weapons and stuff. So I
don't think it's it wasn't that bad of a failure.
I don't think it's unreasonable to like he got out
of the way, but it kind of like got his
chest instead or something like that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so this he's fully hail Mary. Then I stop
his hand before he can pull it out, and I
do you do? You know lord the Rings where the
Orc gets stabbed in the chest by Aragorn and New
York just pulls the sword into him, and ah, that
is what we're doing right now.
Speaker 6: Okay, Actually it's I just want to say, but yeah, sure,
go ahead.
Speaker 5: Sorry sorry, sorry, sorry.
Speaker 2: Sorry, Okay, So you are gonna just that makes sense? Actually,
if you're like pulling it deeper into you to try
to intimidate him, what level burn are you at right now?
Speaker 9: Sorry? Two? Two?
Speaker 2: And then you were at an oblivion as well? Correct?
So you have thirty five yep? Okay, So okay, so
I'm still going to make the same advice for you
and to use the burn as a reroll, because the
automatic success only happens when you take burn level five.
Speaker 9: Right, automatic success? I'm sorry?
Speaker 2: What automatic success only happens when you bump your burn
up to level five, and you're only at level two
right now. So my recommendation for you is to make
the role and if you fail the role, take a
burn to reroll, which is how that would work. It
just gives you more chances. Yep, yep, okay, So you
go ahead and make your role. I'm going to assume
that this is either you know, mind or body, depending
on how you want to try to intimidate him. But
I assume it's your mental fortitude you're using here to
not be like I am running his claws through my chest,
all right, But it's up to you. You can you
can roll either one, whichever one you think fits.
Speaker 9: I'll use mind, okay, And that's a thirty five, right, yeah,
that's one. So his hand hates my chest and I
grab it and I pull him closer, and I say
and I say, uru, Kai is just a type of orc. Sorry,
And I say, I say, cease and follow me.
Speaker 2: And you have a choice. You can switch or you
can take a check on your alpha track. But you
gotta do one or the other.
Speaker 8: I can switch back to human form, or I can
do it check on my alpha track. Uh, I want
to switch back.
Speaker 2: I think I think that makes the most sense because
the version that you are right now would kind of
not want the alternative. Yeah, so yeah, okay, all right?
Then then what do we see happen as you shift?
Speaker 9: You see.
Speaker 8: Then immediately I stop in my tracks and I my
cloths still in stalker.
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Or did you pull it out? Oh, it's still in me.
Speaker 4: I swiftly pull it out, and.
Speaker 8: I start to melt all the muscle, the just I
just get smaller. The fur, the golden fur with the
patches of the patches of dark grayish blue, fall off,
and the I'm me again. I'm still wearing clothes. I'm
not I didn't specify that I'm not naked, the clothes
that were pulled from a larger gentleman. So they're all
tattered and worn and stuff, but they're still there, and
I'm I can't even look. I'm out of breath. I'm afraid.
I don't know what the fuck that was. That wasn't me,
That wasn't. That's not what happens when I turn into
a wolf.
Speaker 4: There was something else in there with me that's not
my wolf, that's not my magic.
Speaker 2: And that's why you will end the episode.
Speaker 7: Holy shit, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry, dude, fucking Just so everyone knows, Greg
furiously dming me like, I don't want to accidentally kill Orcish.
Speaker 5: What can I do?
Speaker 2: Can I can I roll to stop this from happening?
Speaker 9: Oh my god, would have been so happy if you
killed me in the storm, just ran feral through the streets. Good.
Speaker 2: It's just like they wake up the next morning, what happened?
Where's Stalker? He's just literally like laying on the on
the ground.
Speaker 8: There.
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Speaker 12: Oh my god.