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00:00:39Hello, one and all.
00:00:41You mentioned 20 City Council of Darkness.
00:00:43I'm your humble dungeon master, Brennan Lee Mulligan.
00:00:44With me, as always, are our intrepid heroes.
00:00:45Say hi, intrepid heroes.
00:00:47Hi, intrepid heroes.
00:00:49Last we left off the town of Purpy, Oregon,
00:00:53was in the clutches of our coterie of Camarilla Kindred.
00:00:57Wow.
00:00:58Wow.
00:00:59Alliteration.
00:01:00Alliteration.
00:01:01Did you write that beforehand, or did you just come up with it?
00:01:03That's off the dome, baby.
00:01:05That's exactly the kind of intro that we get some of the time.
00:01:08Folks, our kindred leapt from the skywalk
00:01:12of noted author Estelle Laurent's lovely manner,
00:01:15racing into the dark after Aaron Bowe, a vampire hunter,
00:01:18who had taken a shot at Darkness Man from the wood line.
00:01:22Darkness Man suplexed an old-growth oak tree
00:01:25into the rubble as Bat-child used-
00:01:27I said it was old-growth.
00:01:29It's so funny.
00:01:30So, I mean, like, a beautiful-
00:01:32It's a stunning, rare-
00:01:33A stunning, rare-
00:01:35Big up to me.
00:01:35Yeah, it's Pacific Northwest.
00:01:36No, that's true.
00:01:37Yeah, it's mostly-
00:01:38I'm a dozen.
00:01:39I will say, oh, it's mostly conifer around here.
00:01:41Sure.
00:01:42It took Aaron Bowe straight to the mat, Bat-child,
00:01:46using powers of oblivion to wither his flesh,
00:01:48before Zaith Bandana flew right into his chest,
00:01:51and he got eaten in front of everybody.
00:01:54Also, two unrelated people were killed.
00:01:58As Zaith flew into a vampiric frenzy.
00:02:00What are you going to do?
00:02:00You guys frenzied it.
00:02:01Not my fault at that.
00:02:02What's he going to do?
00:02:03With a slick cover, the three of them jumped on the back of Gorse the horse,
00:02:06who took off over the ridge as Levante Worthy came out.
00:02:09And aiding his persuasiveness was on a phone call.
00:02:14He was getting word that this was a Banksy.
00:02:18It's not me.
00:02:18That's not coming from me.
00:02:19That's coming from the phone.
00:02:20It's hot off the presses.
00:02:21Exactly.
00:02:21Who got the call?
00:02:22Who got the call?
00:02:23You never had to explain who you were on the phone with?
00:02:25It wasn't Banksy.
00:02:25You never do.
00:02:26It was Banksy.
00:02:27You never do.
00:02:27That's what happens when you're all 12 successes.
00:02:29You never have to explain.
00:02:30That's true, actually.
00:02:31That was a huge role for you.
00:02:32Huge role.
00:02:32Thanks, man.
00:02:33I got your back.
00:02:37The Connery took off after that party
00:02:39and got their plan together for, indeed,
00:02:42rather than pushing Helena Latour
00:02:43in this sort of interim appointment period,
00:02:46they set up Florian Whitaker,
00:02:48a man going through a rough divorce
00:02:51to take the fall as they put noted journalist Nancy Danderhoof
00:02:55on the trail of this insane home-stealing swindle
00:03:00that the Silver Meadows nursing home
00:03:03had basically seen fit to, you know,
00:03:06use a bit of legal footwork to rob people of their houses.
00:03:11Putting Nancy on the foot freeing you guys up
00:03:13for your main downtime activities,
00:03:15which were running down Cody,
00:03:18one of the proprietors of the Crescent Moon Hostel,
00:03:21who ended up being, we presume, a werewolf.
00:03:25And a pretty nice guy, frankly.
00:03:26And a pretty nice guy, frankly.
00:03:28Strong.
00:03:29Hard to make an argument.
00:03:30Why would you eat him?
00:03:32Well, we don't have to eat him.
00:03:33We just have to repel him.
00:03:34Well, I don't want to.
00:03:35Frankly, it's hard to repel him.
00:03:36Yeah.
00:03:37Because he's nice.
00:03:38Because he's so nice.
00:03:39Because he's so nice.
00:03:39He's a warm guy.
00:03:40I don't want to kick him out.
00:03:41We found out that the Second Inquisition
00:03:43was not present in Purpy,
00:03:45but that some maybe, like, you know,
00:03:47people that the former Aaron Bowe
00:03:50had, like, associated with
00:03:51were, like, a right-wing group
00:03:53up the road in Medford a bit.
00:03:55And we also discovered
00:03:56that our friend Herbert Melvin,
00:03:59the city councilman,
00:04:00had a weird gargoyle of an ancient spirit
00:04:03with a ruby in its beak
00:04:04that was shattered
00:04:06after the ruby was taken by Batchout,
00:04:08who was not struck dead on the spot,
00:04:10even though the curse was to stop her heart.
00:04:12Could be anything.
00:04:13Could be anything.
00:04:13Could be anything.
00:04:15Maybe that is how it goes to Batchout.
00:04:16I just don't understand bat anatomy enough yet.
00:04:18I just have to keep studying.
00:04:20Keep studying bat anatomy.
00:04:21I just don't know enough about bats yet.
00:04:22Bat to school.
00:04:25Going bat to school.
00:04:26Exactly.
00:04:27Going bat to school now.
00:04:28Batchout, using her relationship
00:04:30with Herbert Melvin,
00:04:31was able to thwart the Douglases
00:04:32from getting a second seat
00:04:33on the city council.
00:04:34Did we find out
00:04:35if he was the sole person voting against
00:04:40or did...
00:04:41Marisol also voted
00:04:42and because Marisol and Herbert
00:04:43were both going to vote for Florian,
00:04:45Jean Douglas is going to go with it.
00:04:46Okay.
00:04:47You guys also bought
00:04:48the Rogue County Lumber Mill.
00:04:50Infested with cinnamon gummy bears?
00:04:52Naked bears.
00:04:53Naked bears.
00:04:54Naked bears.
00:04:55Rogue County Brewery.
00:04:56I have both about gummy bears.
00:04:58Oh, right.
00:04:59Okay, yeah.
00:05:00We can see what they like.
00:05:01So, with that purchase,
00:05:02Cody asked if you guys
00:05:03wanted to all meet with him
00:05:05and Maya basically stunned
00:05:07that in your short time
00:05:08here in Perpi,
00:05:09you had located the source
00:05:11of this ghostly power
00:05:12protecting the Whitakers,
00:05:14shattered that monument,
00:05:15that you had undone
00:05:17the town's hunter,
00:05:17which it seemed that Cody
00:05:18was also worried about
00:05:20as a fellow monster,
00:05:22and that you guys
00:05:23had not only done that,
00:05:25but had somehow done something
00:05:27that enabled Bigfoot
00:05:28to return to the land
00:05:29after being repelled
00:05:30for so long.
00:05:32So, three huge wins
00:05:33for the Coterie.
00:05:34And we saw a Smiling Nixon.
00:05:36And you still have
00:05:36Smiling Nixon
00:05:37down there somewhere.
00:05:39So, we return...
00:05:41Big bad.
00:05:41Big bad of this.
00:05:43Smiling Nixon.
00:05:44The most loud smile.
00:05:45The date is January 12th.
00:05:47Listen from it.
00:05:48The nights do begin
00:05:49to grow shorter,
00:05:50though they are indeed
00:05:51still long here
00:05:53in mid-January.
00:05:54The summer will bring
00:05:55challenges with it.
00:05:56the ever-present sun
00:05:57here far north
00:05:59of the equator.
00:06:00Kosche has said
00:06:02he is coming.
00:06:03Say, that is the last
00:06:03piece of info you have
00:06:04as all of you return
00:06:05on January the 12th
00:06:07with news of Florian's
00:06:09all but assurance
00:06:10to the city council
00:06:11that Kosche is on his way.
00:06:14Did he hang up?
00:06:15If you're still
00:06:15on the phone with him...
00:06:16I wasn't sure
00:06:17how I'm kneeling,
00:06:19but on the phone.
00:06:20Yeah.
00:06:21Kosche beholds you.
00:06:24Zath, I am coming
00:06:26to make sure
00:06:27all is going well
00:06:28in Purpy.
00:06:30Uh, it's actually
00:06:31going really...
00:06:32We have figured
00:06:35a lot out.
00:06:36It's going really good.
00:06:37This is very good
00:06:40to hear.
00:06:41I am on my way
00:06:42with Ermin.
00:06:43We will be checking
00:06:44in on you
00:06:45in Purpy
00:06:46to make sure
00:06:46that all is going
00:06:47according to plan.
00:06:48Probably don't even
00:06:48have to come, but...
00:06:49We will be there
00:06:50tomorrow night.
00:06:51Tomorrow night?
00:06:51Click.
00:06:54Where were we?
00:06:55I think you guys
00:06:55can all gather
00:06:56back together.
00:06:57Cody says,
00:06:58meet up with me
00:06:58tomorrow night
00:06:59and I'll talk
00:06:59to you guys
00:07:00and I'll bring Maya
00:07:01and we'll talk
00:07:01to you guys.
00:07:01Great.
00:07:02Okay.
00:07:02Uh, so we met Cody.
00:07:04Cody is a werewolf.
00:07:05Cody is awesome.
00:07:07But he's really cool.
00:07:08Very chill.
00:07:09He's really chill.
00:07:09He was cool.
00:07:10He figured out
00:07:10that we were vampires.
00:07:11How?
00:07:13Just so chill, I think.
00:07:14It just didn't, uh...
00:07:16It didn't go well
00:07:17when we were trying
00:07:18to sort of sniff him out.
00:07:19He sniffed us out.
00:07:20That's kind of what he does.
00:07:20He kind of sniffed us out
00:07:21because he's a werewolf,
00:07:22I think.
00:07:23Mm.
00:07:23Um, but, uh,
00:07:24he knows Maya
00:07:27and was talking about
00:07:29all of us getting together
00:07:30tomorrow night to talk.
00:07:31He's seemingly against
00:07:33sort of the Douglas Whittaker
00:07:34situation.
00:07:35So it doesn't seem like
00:07:37a, an enemy really.
00:07:38No.
00:07:39Ooh.
00:07:39Um, I have a very important
00:07:41piece of information
00:07:42that's maybe going to shock
00:07:44everyone.
00:07:44Oh my gosh.
00:07:46Um, go ahead
00:07:47and sit down.
00:07:49Okay.
00:07:49Okay.
00:07:50All right.
00:07:50I'm going to lie down.
00:07:52Lie down if you...
00:07:52I'm going to hang upside down.
00:07:53I'm going to lie down.
00:07:54You might hit your head,
00:07:55but...
00:07:55I'm going to lie down.
00:07:56Coach is coming
00:07:57tomorrow night.
00:07:58Oh, no.
00:07:59Oh, no.
00:08:02He wants to check in
00:08:03on how we're doing
00:08:03and I said,
00:08:04we got a lot figured out,
00:08:06but, uh...
00:08:07And he's coming alone?
00:08:08He's bringing, um,
00:08:09sorry, what was that?
00:08:10Ermin.
00:08:10Ermin.
00:08:11The Tremere Primogen
00:08:12of San Francisco.
00:08:13Oh, no.
00:08:15So...
00:08:16We're looking alive.
00:08:18We got a couple of things.
00:08:19We are looking alive.
00:08:21I think we closed
00:08:22on the rogue lumber mill.
00:08:24Yes.
00:08:24Yes.
00:08:24So, Elysium,
00:08:26theoretically,
00:08:27let's go make that look awesome.
00:08:29Let's make the lumber mill look sick.
00:08:31You know what?
00:08:31I had a thought
00:08:32and tell me
00:08:33if this is too crazy,
00:08:35but you have some info
00:08:36about these fire bears, right?
00:08:39Nude fire bears?
00:08:40Gumboos, yeah.
00:08:41If there's a way
00:08:42that we can lure them out
00:08:44and into the weed dispensary
00:08:47to infest there
00:08:48and live in that building
00:08:50instead of in ours,
00:08:51that'd be cool.
00:08:52Can I look at my book
00:08:53and see if they like weed?
00:08:54Go ahead and give me
00:08:55a cult and intelligence.
00:08:57Okay.
00:08:58Do you have a PDF?
00:08:59You could just control F.
00:09:00Difficulty is one.
00:09:02Yeah.
00:09:02Difficulty is one.
00:09:03Difficulty is one.
00:09:04Intelligence, what's it called?
00:09:05I do have a specialty
00:09:06in zoology.
00:09:07So you can go ahead
00:09:08and add a die
00:09:09for that specialty.
00:09:10So you're already
00:09:11to an auto pass.
00:09:12I think I know
00:09:13what the answer's gonna be.
00:09:14I have a feeling
00:09:15I know what the answer's gonna be.
00:09:16I fail.
00:09:18Wait, willpower.
00:09:19Willpower.
00:09:20You is willpower.
00:09:21We can't make
00:09:23Batchild use willpower
00:09:24if she doesn't want to.
00:09:25Look, my mind
00:09:26is elsewhere right now.
00:09:27I apparently
00:09:28don't have a heart.
00:09:31Yeah, you're a vampire.
00:09:32You have a heart.
00:09:32You have a heart.
00:09:33I'm not a vampire.
00:09:35We all know
00:09:36that Batchild
00:09:37is half bat,
00:09:38half child.
00:09:40And full vampire.
00:09:41She seemed like
00:09:42a full half bat,
00:09:43half child.
00:09:44Half bat,
00:09:45half child.
00:09:46That's where
00:09:47the name come from.
00:09:48Not a vampire.
00:09:49When we go
00:09:50to the lumber mill,
00:09:51maybe we'll have a chat.
00:09:52Is this on the way?
00:09:53Look yourself in the mirror
00:09:54and tell yourself
00:09:55you're not a vampire.
00:09:56It's empty.
00:09:58That's a trick mirror.
00:10:00Just like every mirror
00:10:01I've seen
00:10:02since 2003.
00:10:04H.J.,
00:10:04we've known
00:10:05this was a delicate
00:10:05I know.
00:10:06I'm sorry.
00:10:08I'm just feeling wild
00:10:08because Koshay's coming.
00:10:10We gotta
00:10:12sit you down
00:10:13and have a little talk.
00:10:14Just to be really,
00:10:15I mean,
00:10:16I hate to be this guy,
00:10:17but I gotta be this guy.
00:10:18Kind of eternal war
00:10:19between vampires
00:10:20and werewolves.
00:10:22You're not,
00:10:22you're 100% sure
00:10:23this guy's on the level.
00:10:24I just,
00:10:25here's the thing.
00:10:25He wears shorts
00:10:26in the winter.
00:10:27I came at him
00:10:28so hard.
00:10:30Yes.
00:10:30And I tried
00:10:31to sneak around
00:10:32his place
00:10:33and he saw me
00:10:34just go into his garbage
00:10:35and he just acknowledged
00:10:36that I did that
00:10:37and then I kicked
00:10:38down his bathroom door
00:10:39after saying
00:10:40I had to go
00:10:40to the bathroom
00:10:41and then I was just
00:10:42dressed as a superhero
00:10:43and then I started
00:10:45yelling at him
00:10:46and he just like
00:10:47asked that we speak
00:10:48calmly
00:10:49and then we did
00:10:50and he knew
00:10:50I was a vampire
00:10:51but he was still like nice.
00:10:52And I tried
00:10:53to get him on our side
00:10:54by being just
00:10:55kind of helpless
00:10:56and also scared
00:10:57of darkness
00:10:58by being a pervert
00:10:59and he did not
00:11:00buy into that either.
00:11:02Wow,
00:11:02he didn't buy into
00:11:02darkness by being
00:11:03a pervert?
00:11:04No.
00:11:05He might be on the level.
00:11:07It's irresistible sometimes
00:11:08so that is actually
00:11:09very measured.
00:11:10It's kind of pervy.
00:11:11So like
00:11:11it's an eternal war
00:11:13but what's a few more
00:11:14days, weeks, months
00:11:15to an eternal war,
00:11:17you know?
00:11:17I guess perhaps alone.
00:11:18So when are we
00:11:19supposed to talk to Connie?
00:11:20Tomorrow night
00:11:21and when does Koshia
00:11:22get here?
00:11:23Tomorrow night?
00:11:24Tomorrow night.
00:11:24Oh, he's going to be
00:11:25so mad.
00:11:26Oh, man.
00:11:27We're going to have
00:11:27tooth in the box.
00:11:28We're going to have
00:11:29tooth in the box.
00:11:30The boss is coming.
00:11:31We can do it.
00:11:32Here, we'll put up
00:11:33a wall in the lumber mill.
00:11:34I can't believe.
00:11:35Okay, okay, wait, wait,
00:11:35hear me out.
00:11:37Koshia shows up.
00:11:38We are in the middle
00:11:40of expelling
00:11:42the lupine.
00:11:43Have him go.
00:11:44We'll write a script.
00:11:46No, because Koshia
00:11:46will do a whole thing
00:11:47where they'll like
00:11:48kill him or something, right?
00:11:49And I'm sure
00:11:49we'll do it perfectly.
00:11:50And we'll do it perfect.
00:11:51I think if some of us
00:11:53host Koshia
00:11:54at our new Elysium
00:11:55and some of us
00:11:56go and have a chat
00:11:57with Kobi.
00:11:58And we don't get
00:11:58lit on fire,
00:11:59that's so dangerous.
00:12:01Yeah, well,
00:12:01we've got to give it a shot.
00:12:03He's trying to light us
00:12:04on fire as vampire.
00:12:05Oh, Bad Child
00:12:05is reasonable, you know?
00:12:07It makes sense
00:12:07because we have
00:12:08to have our freaking
00:12:10Elysium established
00:12:11before he gets here.
00:12:12That's like bare minimum.
00:12:13Maybe me,
00:12:14Bad Child,
00:12:15and Zaith
00:12:15host Koshia
00:12:16at the new Elysium
00:12:17and work it out
00:12:18with the bears.
00:12:19And then the three of you...
00:12:20And Koshia, you speak
00:12:20to animal, right?
00:12:21So maybe you can talk
00:12:22to...
00:12:22Oh, yeah.
00:12:23The lull,
00:12:24the naked bears.
00:12:25So I really just have...
00:12:27I have an ability
00:12:28to bond with animals.
00:12:30I have one specifically
00:12:32strong bond
00:12:34with one horse.
00:12:35Sure.
00:12:35And I'm sure
00:12:36it's going to translate.
00:12:37Let's give it a shot.
00:12:38So you've got to
00:12:38bump the horse
00:12:39and take on
00:12:40each little bear
00:12:41one at a time?
00:12:42And I can't...
00:12:42And I don't know
00:12:44if I can do that,
00:12:44but I'm not going to.
00:12:46Sure.
00:12:46So me and Gorse
00:12:48are going to just
00:12:49see what we can...
00:12:50And you, Bad Child,
00:12:51you know all about animals.
00:12:51You have the book.
00:12:52You're a zoologist.
00:12:54We got everything.
00:12:55What do we need?
00:12:55I actually don't
00:12:56have any special abilities
00:12:58with animals.
00:12:59What?
00:13:00Wait, what do you need?
00:13:01You're Bat Child.
00:13:03You're half bat.
00:13:04You're half bat.
00:13:05You don't have
00:13:05a special ability
00:13:07to half of you?
00:13:10After, um...
00:13:11After I got bit
00:13:12by a ghost bat,
00:13:14I tried to live
00:13:15amongst the bats.
00:13:16I went to Bracken Cave
00:13:18just outside of
00:13:19San Antonio.
00:13:21It's the largest
00:13:22summer colony of bats.
00:13:25Okay.
00:13:26And you just got to...
00:13:28What happened?
00:13:28You got in the flow
00:13:29of things.
00:13:29I can't speak
00:13:30at the high frequencies
00:13:31they speak at.
00:13:32Oh.
00:13:33I'm dog shit
00:13:34at hunting wasps.
00:13:37I...
00:13:38They eat wasps?
00:13:38I can't...
00:13:39Yeah.
00:13:39And it hurts
00:13:41to eat a watch.
00:13:42Were you able
00:13:43to get up there
00:13:43with them
00:13:44or were you down...
00:13:45Where?
00:13:45No.
00:13:46No.
00:13:46You were just
00:13:47at the bottom of the...
00:13:47You were on the ground
00:13:48eating bees?
00:13:49You were in there shit
00:13:50just eating bees?
00:13:51You were just in the guano?
00:13:52Yeah.
00:13:52You were knee deep
00:13:53in the guano?
00:13:54I was knee deep
00:13:55in guano.
00:13:57That's commitment
00:13:57and that is a superpower.
00:13:59That's true.
00:14:00Yes.
00:14:01Commitment
00:14:01is a superpower.
00:14:02Gassing each other up.
00:14:03It's a superpower.
00:14:04This is it.
00:14:05You've got this.
00:14:07Knowledge
00:14:07is a superpower.
00:14:09Yeah.
00:14:10You got to get
00:14:10knee deep
00:14:11in the guano of...
00:14:12You got to get
00:14:13nip deep
00:14:14in the guano
00:14:15of fire bears today.
00:14:18Okay.
00:14:18Okay.
00:14:19We'll get you some waiters.
00:14:20Look, I don't want
00:14:21to throw a wrench
00:14:22in tomorrow
00:14:23but it's also my birthday.
00:14:27Oh, man.
00:14:28Oh, my God.
00:14:29Okay.
00:14:29It's January 16th.
00:14:30It's your birthday.
00:14:31I forgot.
00:14:32January 13th, Zay.
00:14:33No, it's not.
00:14:34Oh, you're right.
00:14:36It's all right.
00:14:37You have to get
00:14:38the new calendar.
00:14:39I actually...
00:14:39I have to use
00:14:41the bathroom again.
00:14:42No.
00:14:42And I go upstairs
00:14:43and I try to order...
00:14:45Oh, shit.
00:14:46I have to run out
00:14:48to the bathroom
00:14:49and I leave
00:14:50and I get on my side.
00:14:52Where are you going?
00:14:53Oh, shit.
00:14:54I have to go
00:14:56to the bathroom.
00:14:57I got to go to my...
00:14:57What's that, Gorse?
00:14:58Yeah, one second.
00:14:59I zip through the streets
00:15:02looking for a store
00:15:03that's open
00:15:03to get a gift.
00:15:04I go to some
00:15:05student's house party
00:15:06and just shoplift
00:15:07from the students.
00:15:09Great.
00:15:10Everyone runs out
00:15:11to go get a gift
00:15:11for that.
00:15:12I'm staying home.
00:15:15I'm going to admit
00:15:16I forgot your birthday
00:15:17like a man.
00:15:18It's okay.
00:15:19It's okay.
00:15:20I meant more like
00:15:20I don't mean to put
00:15:21more on our plate.
00:15:22Something I think
00:15:23she might really like
00:15:24is something stolen
00:15:25from the precinct.
00:15:27From the what?
00:15:28You're going to steal?
00:15:29Okay.
00:15:29From the police precinct.
00:15:31This whole episode
00:15:31is just going to be
00:15:32you disappear.
00:15:34Us finding you in jail.
00:15:36Murder ape.
00:15:37We're going to go around
00:15:38who all leaves
00:15:38to find Bat Child a gift?
00:15:40One, two, one.
00:15:41I do a laugh
00:15:42and I come back empty.
00:15:43Here is what I would like
00:15:43to get for Bat Child
00:15:45on the computer.
00:15:46Oh, okay.
00:15:47Got you.
00:15:47Okay.
00:15:48So I do a little thing
00:15:49on the computer.
00:15:50I come back.
00:15:51I don't get anything.
00:15:53HJ, you go to
00:15:54the police precinct.
00:15:55This is what I would
00:15:56like to get for her
00:15:58at the police precinct.
00:16:00Great.
00:16:00You got it.
00:16:01She says a gun.
00:16:03Great.
00:16:04Okay.
00:16:04So you walk
00:16:05into the police precinct.
00:16:06A person working
00:16:07at the front desk
00:16:08looks up and points
00:16:09at the bell on the door
00:16:10and says, I'm sorry.
00:16:11And walks up
00:16:11and takes that off.
00:16:13I don't know how that...
00:16:13I thought that was weird too.
00:16:17I say, good evening.
00:16:20I'm here to see a client.
00:16:24Oh, you're a public defender?
00:16:26Yeah.
00:16:26Great.
00:16:26What's your name?
00:16:27Boris.
00:16:29Not getting a Boris.
00:16:31Weird.
00:16:32Like, do you mind
00:16:33if I call them?
00:16:35Yeah.
00:16:36What's the point?
00:16:37What's your client's name?
00:16:38Boris.
00:16:39Are you saying Warris?
00:16:40Yeah, I'm here to see Warris.
00:16:42Your name is Boris.
00:16:43My name is Boris.
00:16:44I'm here to see Warris.
00:16:45Great.
00:16:46Give me...
00:16:46I'm just going to hop
00:16:47on the phone really quick.
00:16:49Pay phone?
00:16:52I just try to step to the side
00:16:53and if they turn around
00:16:54I make a run for it.
00:16:56Towards her...
00:16:57You step...
00:16:58What's happening?
00:16:59Deeper in or to leave?
00:17:01Towards the evidence room.
00:17:03Great.
00:17:04What are you doing?
00:17:05Roll me intelligence investigation
00:17:06to know where the evidence room is.
00:17:08I've got this.
00:17:09The open door of evidence room.
00:17:10I've got this.
00:17:11Right.
00:17:11I'm going to...
00:17:12What the fuck are you doing?
00:17:13I pass.
00:17:14Okay, great.
00:17:15Knowledge investigation.
00:17:15Difficulty of four.
00:17:16Okay.
00:17:18God damn it.
00:17:19That's two.
00:17:20I'm going to re-roll.
00:17:23Okay.
00:17:24Okay.
00:17:24There we go.
00:17:25Four.
00:17:25Great.
00:17:25So you see down the hallway
00:17:27an evidence lock.
00:17:28I wait for them to look the other way.
00:17:30You see the person says
00:17:31did you make the appointment today
00:17:33or did you...
00:17:34All right, great.
00:17:34Do you have celerity?
00:17:36Not at all.
00:17:37Of course not.
00:17:38I have presents.
00:17:41So is there a way to do the absence of...
00:17:43So you're more visible, if anything.
00:17:46Great.
00:17:47So you run...
00:17:47You're getting texts that are like,
00:17:48I'll come back.
00:17:49I bail.
00:17:49I bail.
00:17:50I bail.
00:17:51No.
00:17:51I bail.
00:17:52I bail.
00:17:53I grab his gun
00:17:54and that'll be good enough.
00:17:55All right, great.
00:17:56Go ahead and give me
00:17:59Dexterity.
00:18:00One in Dexterity,
00:18:01lowest death.
00:18:02You're going to have to wear
00:18:03your fake face
00:18:03for the rest of the campaign.
00:18:06Don't threaten me
00:18:06with a good sign.
00:18:09Give me
00:18:11Dexterity Larson.
00:18:13This is going to be
00:18:14a difficulty of three.
00:18:16A difficulty of three.
00:18:18I forgot to roll this one.
00:18:22I'm going to re-roll.
00:18:24Okay.
00:18:26It's like you have a crit.
00:18:29Three failures.
00:18:30Three failures.
00:18:35What the fuck are you doing?
00:18:37Let's just pretend this
00:18:38never happened.
00:18:39No, I want this in there.
00:18:41I want this in the final cut.
00:18:44Let's just pretend this
00:18:45didn't happen.
00:18:46It's me talking to the cop.
00:18:48You just like
00:18:49touch the gun
00:18:50and then stand there.
00:18:52Let's just pretend
00:18:53this didn't happen.
00:19:02I'm scooting home.
00:19:04Okay, great.
00:19:05I'm scooting to Beth.
00:19:05You go to grab his gun
00:19:06and he goes,
00:19:07hey, hey, hey.
00:19:08Let's just pretend
00:19:08this didn't happen.
00:19:12Great.
00:19:13Awesome.
00:19:15Straight.
00:19:16Fuck.
00:19:17What can I get her
00:19:17if not a hot gun?
00:19:18Okay, as you
00:19:20take off the first scooter
00:19:21behind you,
00:19:22you hear,
00:19:23whoo, whoo, whoo.
00:19:24I go to Beth's.
00:19:27That's the next best thing
00:19:28I could get her.
00:19:29Peel off.
00:19:29A female friendship.
00:19:33No, I go home.
00:19:35And we just start,
00:19:36we go right back
00:19:37to where we were.
00:19:37We're kind of
00:19:38all in the room together.
00:19:40Okay.
00:19:41Okay.
00:19:42Go ahead and give me
00:19:44dexterity stealth
00:19:45if you'd be so kind.
00:19:46Okay, great.
00:19:46We can't keep pulling
00:19:47this Banksy shit,
00:19:48all right?
00:19:50Blood surge.
00:19:51I mean,
00:19:51the masquerade's still happening.
00:19:53Yeah, of course.
00:19:54They might just go to jail.
00:19:55Yeah, exactly.
00:19:57That's a one.
00:19:58One success?
00:19:59Okay, great.
00:20:00As you pull away
00:20:00on the bird scooter,
00:20:01the cop cars begin
00:20:02to pile onto Main Street.
00:20:04You're going right down
00:20:05the main road.
00:20:05I start changing my face.
00:20:11Hold on one second.
00:20:15Okay.
00:20:17Are you making an attempt
00:20:18to dodge
00:20:19or to resist
00:20:20with fortitude?
00:20:21Oh, yes.
00:20:22Yeah, yeah.
00:20:22Let's do that.
00:20:23Give me stamina
00:20:24plus fortitude?
00:20:25I can do,
00:20:26I have protein
00:20:27and I also have dominate
00:20:28that I have better stats.
00:20:29Okay.
00:20:30For right now,
00:20:31you're just being shot at
00:20:32with a lot of guns.
00:20:33So go ahead
00:20:34and give me stamina
00:20:35plus fortitude.
00:20:36Jesus.
00:20:37Yeah, you got it.
00:20:38So we're not actually
00:20:39just cutting back
00:20:40to where we all were.
00:20:41I mean, I get it.
00:20:42I'm going to blood surge.
00:20:43Okay, great.
00:20:44I pass.
00:20:45Great.
00:20:45So let's wait for that.
00:20:46We're good.
00:20:47And then I added two
00:20:48because I blood surge.
00:20:49H.J. just dies.
00:20:51We got one.
00:20:51I'm going to re-roll
00:20:52with willpower again.
00:20:54Okay, great.
00:20:56This is just bad child
00:20:57of me just sitting
00:20:58in the living room.
00:20:59I came back.
00:21:00Oh, great.
00:21:01Jesus, that's insane.
00:21:02Sitting in the living room.
00:21:03H.J.,
00:21:04you take 10 points
00:21:06of superficial damage
00:21:07halved to five
00:21:09as you are just being
00:21:11riddled with bullets.
00:21:17You get to the bridge.
00:21:21The question is,
00:21:22I go off the bridge.
00:21:23You go off the bridge
00:21:24into the water.
00:21:26Bird scooter destroyed.
00:21:27Bird scooter riddled with bullets.
00:21:29You sink to the bottom
00:21:30where you do not need
00:21:31to breathe
00:21:33and you see
00:21:34the cop cars pull up
00:21:36and begin to shine
00:21:36lights into the water.
00:21:37What do you do?
00:21:38I hide under the bridge
00:21:39if I can.
00:21:40Okay, you hide under the bridge.
00:21:42How deep is the water?
00:21:43Can I go deep
00:21:43where the light won't touch?
00:21:44You can go deep
00:21:45where the light won't touch.
00:21:46I get down, like,
00:21:48anglerfish deep.
00:21:49You get anglerfish deep.
00:21:49You can also probably
00:21:52spend the rest
00:21:53of the night
00:21:54crawling up
00:21:55or down river
00:21:56on the bottom
00:21:57of the river
00:21:57to emerge
00:21:58where the cops won't see.
00:22:01Great.
00:22:03They just
00:22:04think they shot you
00:22:05into the river
00:22:06and you just...
00:22:09Can I luck check
00:22:10find something
00:22:12actually really beautiful
00:22:13and antique
00:22:14that's been thrown
00:22:15in the river
00:22:15to give to Bad Child
00:22:16once I get home?
00:22:17Roll two dice
00:22:18and if they're both successes,
00:22:19you'll find something.
00:22:21Fuck.
00:22:21One.
00:22:22One success.
00:22:23One success.
00:22:23It's mostly just rocks
00:22:24down here.
00:22:25Grab a rock.
00:22:27I'm gonna write
00:22:29a poem on it
00:22:29in Sharpie.
00:22:30So,
00:22:31HJ is not present
00:22:32for this next scene.
00:22:36Where's HJ?
00:22:38I thought maybe
00:22:39we were all kind of
00:22:39doing, like,
00:22:40a scatter moment.
00:22:42Finding something cool
00:22:43coming back.
00:22:45Vaith doesn't get one.
00:22:46I didn't find it.
00:22:47I just asked the computer.
00:22:48Where did Madeleine go?
00:22:50I'm gonna go
00:22:51to these fuckers' houses
00:22:53over here.
00:22:54Rory and Miranda?
00:22:55Rory and Miranda
00:22:55and I'm gonna steal
00:22:56the most disgustingly
00:22:57tiny pair of underwear.
00:22:59Great.
00:23:00For everybody.
00:23:00What?
00:23:02Ew.
00:23:03Wow.
00:23:04Establish early on.
00:23:06That's what Bad Child likes.
00:23:09Other people's
00:23:10tiny underwear.
00:23:11Other people's
00:23:11tiny underwear.
00:23:12This is definitely
00:23:13a gift that Madeleine
00:23:14thinks is quite a good give.
00:23:15Great.
00:23:16So, Madeleine,
00:23:17go ahead and give me
00:23:18Charisma Persuasion.
00:23:19Great.
00:23:20Difficulty's one.
00:23:21I got it.
00:23:22I don't need,
00:23:23I'm gonna have.
00:23:23You wanna have?
00:23:24Yeah.
00:23:24Great.
00:23:24You walk in,
00:23:25Rory and Miranda
00:23:26both say hi.
00:23:27Nice.
00:23:28Oh.
00:23:28Yeah, I got three.
00:23:30Yeah.
00:23:30You grab a nice
00:23:31little piece of underwear,
00:23:31you come back,
00:23:32Bad Child,
00:23:32you get some underwear,
00:23:33that's the only gift
00:23:33you get for your birthday.
00:23:34Hey, I give Bad Child
00:23:35a Hallmark card
00:23:36with no money in it.
00:23:38How did you know?
00:23:39It's the thought
00:23:40that counts more
00:23:41than the money.
00:23:42I've always thought that.
00:23:42It's the thong
00:23:42that counts.
00:23:43That's what they say,
00:23:44the thong that counts.
00:23:45The thong that counts.
00:23:46Um, and you'll get
00:23:47your present for me
00:23:48on your actual birthday.
00:23:50Is it a singing birthday card?
00:23:52Oh, wait,
00:23:52is today your birthday
00:23:53or tomorrow?
00:23:53Tomorrow.
00:23:54Oh, yeah,
00:23:54tomorrow you'll get it.
00:23:55We have all this time.
00:23:56We have so much time.
00:23:57I also wasn't even
00:23:58asking for birthday presents.
00:23:59I was just saying, like,
00:24:00hey, here's, like,
00:24:01just another thing going on.
00:24:03I know.
00:24:03So this is more than
00:24:05I ever could have expected.
00:24:06Where's H.J.?
00:24:08I'm texting H.J.
00:24:09He's not, I mean,
00:24:10he just kind of ran off
00:24:11to the night.
00:24:12I can't lie.
00:24:12He's been doing
00:24:13some new drug
00:24:14that I think is
00:24:15really playing tricks
00:24:16with his thong.
00:24:17Yeah.
00:24:18I noticed a lot
00:24:18of sort of flexing.
00:24:20Did you see how he kept
00:24:21taking his shirt off
00:24:22yesterday?
00:24:22Yeah.
00:24:23The X.
00:24:24Yeah.
00:24:24No shirt,
00:24:25but a woolly stock.
00:24:25Pretty unreliable
00:24:26if you need a number two,
00:24:27you know.
00:24:28Hey.
00:24:32He's crawling along.
00:24:34The bottom of the stream.
00:24:36It's a creek.
00:24:38The bottom of the creek
00:24:39is fucking vampire.
00:24:41Like a fucking aquatic
00:24:42grinch.
00:24:43Thank God this setting
00:24:44doesn't have you die
00:24:44in running water
00:24:45for vampires.
00:24:47Oh, so do we
00:24:48want to try to set up
00:24:49the lumber mill a little bit?
00:24:50Yeah, I think so.
00:24:51I think if there's
00:24:52a party store in town
00:24:53or just somewhere
00:24:54that has decorations
00:24:55or, you know.
00:24:56Just work on, like,
00:24:57cleaning it
00:24:57because we should,
00:24:58you know,
00:24:59we should let them know
00:25:00that it's still
00:25:00a work in progress.
00:25:01Yeah, but I mean,
00:25:02say, if you could, like,
00:25:03spray paint some stuff,
00:25:05you know.
00:25:05Oh.
00:25:06Really, you know.
00:25:07Yeah.
00:25:07You know what Koshay likes.
00:25:09Spray paint some stuff
00:25:10he likes.
00:25:10Yeah.
00:25:11Maybe we get long
00:25:13reams of red silk fabric
00:25:15and just have it hanging.
00:25:17Let's go, team.
00:25:18Do we have about
00:25:19a thousand candles?
00:25:20Oh, good idea.
00:25:21I mean, we can get
00:25:22at least a hundred.
00:25:23to the silk
00:25:24so it feels like
00:25:25it might set on fire.
00:25:26Do you want to text Tyler
00:25:27and see if you can get
00:25:27a thousand candles?
00:25:28Tyler, I need a thousand
00:25:30candles by tomorrow
00:25:31at the Rogue Lumber Mill
00:25:32by 3 p.m., 4 p.m.?
00:25:36You get a text from Tyler
00:25:36immediately saying
00:25:37in my car
00:25:38on the way to Medford
00:25:39Big Box store,
00:25:40we'll have them.
00:25:41Store is open till midnight.
00:25:42That's my big dog
00:25:43and then a gif
00:25:44of a barking dog.
00:25:47Tyler, unscented.
00:25:48Make sure they're unscented.
00:25:50Thumbs up emoji
00:25:50react immediately.
00:25:51You guys take off
00:25:52or just go over
00:25:54to the lumber mill.
00:25:55Are you guys really
00:25:55going to, like,
00:25:56go physically there
00:25:57to start getting
00:25:58it ready tonight?
00:25:59Yeah, I mean,
00:26:00I think we might have
00:26:00He's getting here
00:26:01tomorrow night.
00:26:02Yeah, we've got some time.
00:26:04Yeah, that way we can,
00:26:05some people can give him
00:26:07a tour while others
00:26:08go and talk to Cody.
00:26:10Hell yeah.
00:26:10You guys arrived
00:26:11at the Rogue County
00:26:13Lumber Mill.
00:26:14Where am I?
00:26:16I'm closing, right?
00:26:18I'm, like, probably right here.
00:26:18Closing distance, yeah.
00:26:19I think you're down here.
00:26:20I would imagine
00:26:21I ran.
00:26:21I want to say you're here.
00:26:23You kind of got
00:26:24turned around.
00:26:26It's a little bit hard
00:26:26to tell where I'm going,
00:26:28but I believe it.
00:26:29Yeah, I'm coming over here.
00:26:31Let me ask,
00:26:32in terms of,
00:26:32in terms of,
00:26:33look, time is passing
00:26:33kind of weirdly
00:26:34in the waterway
00:26:35as you're traveling
00:26:35and you really don't
00:26:36want to get grabbed
00:26:36by the police.
00:26:37So as you're moving,
00:26:38go ahead and give me
00:26:42intelligence survival
00:26:43for how long
00:26:45you should take
00:26:46to, like,
00:26:47getting out of the river.
00:26:48I'll say that,
00:26:49I'll say that
00:26:49you're looking
00:26:50for four successes.
00:26:51Okay.
00:26:51But,
00:26:52but you just don't
00:26:53want to get
00:26:54less than three.
00:26:56Am I a blood slurge?
00:26:57Blood slurge?
00:26:58Blood slurge?
00:26:59I got it.
00:26:59Great.
00:26:59Five.
00:27:02One, two, three,
00:27:03four, five.
00:27:04Five successes.
00:27:04Great.
00:27:05Cool.
00:27:05You get out
00:27:06wherever you want in town.
00:27:07Do I find,
00:27:07like, a little pearl
00:27:08or something?
00:27:09No.
00:27:12You got to ask, though.
00:27:13You got to ask.
00:27:14We already rolled for that.
00:27:15You don't find a little pearl.
00:27:16But I just, like,
00:27:17nailed it so much
00:27:18just now I thought
00:27:19maybe I'll find my way
00:27:20I was going to have you
00:27:22come out of the river
00:27:22in Medford
00:27:23and have to run back.
00:27:25All right, fair enough.
00:27:27So can I get out
00:27:27right by the lumber mill?
00:27:29You guys pull up
00:27:30by the lumber mill
00:27:31and you see H.J.
00:27:33H.J.?
00:27:33What?
00:27:34Riddled with bullet holes.
00:27:36What the hell happened?
00:27:38What happened to you?
00:27:39Did you get any
00:27:40of our texts?
00:27:40Is your phone wet?
00:27:41My phone's long gone.
00:27:43How did you know
00:27:43to come here?
00:27:44I knew that
00:27:45we have a lot of work
00:27:46to do, gang.
00:27:47Let's circle up.
00:27:50H.J., you good, man?
00:27:51I couldn't get it.
00:27:53You couldn't get what?
00:27:54I had a really good idea
00:27:55for a present
00:27:55and it just seemed like
00:27:57everything was against me
00:27:58all at once.
00:27:59Do you have your bird scooter?
00:28:00I can charge it.
00:28:01Oh, God, no.
00:28:02It's gone.
00:28:02It got shot up by the cops.
00:28:04It got shot up by the cops.
00:28:06Yeah.
00:28:07Anyway, happy birthday.
00:28:08I got you something
00:28:09but I'm not done with it.
00:28:11That's fine.
00:28:12And I try to hide the rock
00:28:13that I'm holding
00:28:13but it's really big.
00:28:16I look at the rock
00:28:17like I really want it.
00:28:19Okay, good.
00:28:20You're going to like
00:28:21even more when I'm
00:28:22trying to pull him on it.
00:28:23All right, let's all
00:28:24get in the lumber mill.
00:28:27You guys,
00:28:28having closed on the property,
00:28:29Giannis was understanding
00:28:30about it because you guys
00:28:31were moving the finances
00:28:32pretty quickly.
00:28:32There's a small lockbox.
00:28:33He's giving you
00:28:34the code to the keys.
00:28:35You're able to open
00:28:35the big padlock
00:28:36on the front of the lumber mill.
00:28:38You open it up
00:28:39and see first
00:28:41a bizarre smell.
00:28:43Ash mixed with tons
00:28:44of fire extinguisher.
00:28:46There's like sort of
00:28:46that fire extinguisher
00:28:47like flame retardant material
00:28:49that's like scattered
00:28:49all over the floor.
00:28:51Enormous ceiling mounted
00:28:52buzz saws,
00:28:53catwalks,
00:28:55huge like open saw tables,
00:28:59carpentry stations,
00:29:00workbenches, vices,
00:29:01big heavy duty equipment
00:29:02in the back,
00:29:03a large sort of staging area
00:29:05adjoining the back
00:29:07sort of warehouse,
00:29:08upper level sort of
00:29:09offices or administrative places.
00:29:11You can see that the,
00:29:13near that sort of
00:29:13larger staging area,
00:29:15there's again like
00:29:15huge table mounted saws
00:29:18and wood panels.
00:29:19The equipment here
00:29:21looks pretty nice
00:29:22in terms of being
00:29:24an actual usable working space,
00:29:26but obviously it's not,
00:29:27it is not set up
00:29:28like a brewery right now.
00:29:31I'd also ask anyone
00:29:31that wants to give me
00:29:32wit's awareness.
00:29:34I'm going to text Tyler
00:29:36actually scented.
00:29:38scented,
00:29:38actually scented.
00:29:41Two.
00:29:42One.
00:29:43Five.
00:29:45Or six.
00:29:47Oh, I crit.
00:29:48Four, five, six, seven.
00:29:50How many did Zaith get?
00:29:51Two.
00:29:52H-J.
00:29:53With two.
00:29:55Yeah, we're like literally
00:29:55in a battle right now.
00:29:57It sounds like initiative.
00:29:59Levante,
00:30:00looking down at your phone,
00:30:02Tyler immediately hits you back
00:30:04with do you have exact smells?
00:30:06If not,
00:30:08give me three evocative words.
00:30:11Winter, warmth, tropical.
00:30:13He gets back to-
00:30:15Tropical winter.
00:30:16Tropical winter warmth.
00:30:18Hawaiian winter.
00:30:19Wow, I love.
00:30:21I can smoke.
00:30:21I would buy that.
00:30:23I would buy that.
00:30:24Okay, tropical winter warmth.
00:30:26As you say that,
00:30:27Levante, you suddenly look up.
00:30:29Darkness Man, Batchild,
00:30:30your superhero senses kick in.
00:30:33Snuffling from under one of the tables,
00:30:35you see an enormous shape
00:30:38lunge forward towards you.
00:30:41It's sort of pachyderm,
00:30:44elephantine skin,
00:30:46like a rhinoceros or an elephant,
00:30:47is choked with creosote.
00:30:49It squeaks like the thick ash
00:30:52of a wood stove
00:30:53scraping against each other
00:30:55with the movements of its bodies.
00:30:56Enormous digging claws,
00:30:58more like that of a wombat or a badger
00:31:01than of a true bear,
00:31:02as this ursine shape
00:31:04leaps out of the darkness,
00:31:06going...
00:31:09Its nose lights up
00:31:12as sparks snuff out of it.
00:31:15And you guys see that a gumbaroo
00:31:18charges nude and screaming
00:31:20from the shadows
00:31:21underneath the buzzsaw.
00:31:23I run at it and I tackle it.
00:31:25So I've read about gumbaroos.
00:31:27What do they like?
00:31:28What would I, a zoologist,
00:31:31have clocked about it?
00:31:31Give me one more.
00:31:33You can do so with two extra dice
00:31:34from your zoology skill.
00:31:36Give me intelligence
00:31:38plus either animal ken
00:31:40or a cult.
00:31:42Whichever you prefer.
00:31:46Four.
00:31:47On four successes,
00:31:48you know a couple different things.
00:31:50Number one,
00:31:51this thing leapt out from the shadows
00:31:53underneath one of the tables.
00:31:55As it does so,
00:31:57what you see
00:31:58is a thin veil of ruby light.
00:32:01You and Madelaine
00:32:02both see in this moment
00:32:03that this creature,
00:32:05you are catching it
00:32:07on its first night
00:32:09fully on this side
00:32:11of the veil
00:32:12between life and death.
00:32:13All of its other attacks
00:32:15on the property
00:32:16and the people
00:32:16that must have seen it
00:32:17must have seen it
00:32:19under liminal circumstances.
00:32:21Perhaps there were
00:32:22ghostly events happening
00:32:23or it was a solstice
00:32:24or an equinox
00:32:25or something else
00:32:25was going on.
00:32:26On four successes,
00:32:27you realize that
00:32:28whatever that owl creature was
00:32:30in the Templar's basement
00:32:31has been undone
00:32:33when Herbert cracked
00:32:34that statue in half.
00:32:36And it is very thankful
00:32:38that you guys
00:32:39are the first people here.
00:32:40Otherwise,
00:32:40this thing would have
00:32:41openly breached
00:32:42the masquerade
00:32:43and escaped from the lumber mill
00:32:44at the next possible opportunity.
00:32:46That's what you get
00:32:47on four successes.
00:32:47Okay.
00:32:48What you know about this is
00:32:49this thing is a
00:32:50potentially fatal encounter
00:32:52for all six of you.
00:32:53Whoa.
00:32:53It uses fire.
00:32:55You remember online
00:32:57seeing in some column
00:32:59associated with some
00:33:00piece of research
00:33:00you were doing
00:33:01that someone had hinted
00:33:03towards a possible weakness
00:33:04but on four successes,
00:33:06you do not remember
00:33:07exactly what its weakness is
00:33:08but you remember
00:33:08where to look for it.
00:33:10There was a path
00:33:11online for it.
00:33:13You also potentially
00:33:13could have it in your book
00:33:15if that's traveling
00:33:15on your person.
00:33:16You would have brought it,
00:33:17I think,
00:33:17because we're like,
00:33:18we're really trying
00:33:18to fix this place up.
00:33:19Hell yeah.
00:33:20We either would have read it
00:33:21or brought it.
00:33:21So it's definitely on me.
00:33:22When it gets to your turn,
00:33:23it will be
00:33:24Take a read action.
00:33:24Like a read action,
00:33:26essentially.
00:33:27Darkness Man,
00:33:27you're going to lunge
00:33:28at this thing first.
00:33:29Yeah.
00:33:30I don't have all the info.
00:33:32I'm just doing
00:33:33what I would do.
00:33:34Punch it, Mitch.
00:33:35Punch it.
00:33:35I'm going to tackle it.
00:33:36I don't know if it's
00:33:36a good guy or a bad guy.
00:33:37Punch it in the nose.
00:33:38I don't know if it's
00:33:39a good guy or a bad guy.
00:33:41Give me brawl plus strength.
00:33:42Okay.
00:33:44I don't know if you're
00:33:45good or bad.
00:33:46Be careful.
00:33:48They shoot fire.
00:33:49Okay.
00:33:49Yeah, try to dodge the fire.
00:33:51I'll try to just like
00:33:52get around back.
00:33:53So I am going to blood surge.
00:33:54I successfully don't get a hunger.
00:33:56Are you going to move around
00:33:58it in such a way?
00:33:59I'll try to not get
00:34:00sprayed with fire if I can.
00:34:02I'm going to try to like
00:34:02dive on its back.
00:34:03So you're less trying
00:34:05to do damage to it
00:34:05and more trying to
00:34:06I'm trying to literally
00:34:06grapple it.
00:34:07Trying to grapple it.
00:34:08Cool.
00:34:08Okay, awesome.
00:34:09Only you've gotten that gun.
00:34:13That hot gun.
00:34:15Imagine if we had a hot gun
00:34:16in this scenario.
00:34:18Only that thing
00:34:19that sets on fire
00:34:20on a hot gun.
00:34:20The gunbaroo crits
00:34:22for a total of
00:34:22eight successes.
00:34:23Okay, okay.
00:34:25I think I'm in trouble.
00:34:28I've got five so far.
00:34:30Your willpower reset,
00:34:31by the way.
00:34:32I'm going to, yeah.
00:34:32I'm going to use a willpower.
00:34:34Okay.
00:34:34Do I get to add
00:34:35anything for potence?
00:34:36Yes, you add your potence
00:34:37as dice.
00:34:38On top of brawl and...
00:34:39On top of brawl and strength.
00:34:40Okay, great.
00:34:41Okay, so I actually have...
00:34:42Okay, so I actually
00:34:43am going to roll six more,
00:34:44so I might not be in trouble.
00:34:46Okay, five successes.
00:34:47So five successes.
00:34:50Oh my god,
00:34:50I rolled so bad.
00:34:51Fuck.
00:34:52Just six.
00:34:53Okay, you go to grab
00:34:55this thing.
00:34:55You see it rolls
00:34:56onto its side,
00:34:59keeping its mouth
00:35:00and nostrils pointed
00:35:01towards your companions.
00:35:04Perversely,
00:35:04you have actually gotten
00:35:05out of whatever
00:35:06its snout looks like
00:35:07it's pointed at
00:35:08and are sort of now
00:35:09not in the cone
00:35:10of influence, potentially.
00:35:12But you see that
00:35:13your friends,
00:35:14it's still...
00:35:14It's just wiggling
00:35:16on its side.
00:35:16It has that animalistic
00:35:18way of moving
00:35:18where wrestling it,
00:35:20it's just so flexible
00:35:21in its spine and joints
00:35:22that it gets its hind legs
00:35:24around to scrape and turn.
00:35:25Batchild, that's going to be you.
00:35:27Okay, I'm just gonna...
00:35:28I'm gonna look
00:35:29for the weakness.
00:35:30This is going to be
00:35:31intelligence plus either
00:35:32a cult or animal, Ken.
00:35:34Give me...
00:35:34Oh, can I add my zoology?
00:35:36You can add your zoology
00:35:37to this as well.
00:35:38I'm gonna blood surge.
00:35:39Okay.
00:35:40Okay, um...
00:35:44Oh my...
00:35:44Okay.
00:35:46I will...
00:35:48Willpower.
00:35:48Okay.
00:35:52Yeah!
00:35:52Okay.
00:35:53One, two, three, four, five, six.
00:35:55Six.
00:35:55Wait, wait.
00:35:56One, two, three, four, five, six.
00:35:57Seven.
00:35:58Seven successes.
00:35:59Unbelievable.
00:36:00In this moment,
00:36:00I will allow you to choose
00:36:01between learning
00:36:02one of its immunities
00:36:03or learning one
00:36:04of its vulnerabilities.
00:36:05Vulnerability.
00:36:06Okay.
00:36:07The gumbaroo
00:36:08is deathly harmed
00:36:10by fire.
00:36:12What?
00:36:13The gumbaroo
00:36:14is deathly harmed
00:36:15by fire.
00:36:15Fire destroys it.
00:36:16Well, we have a lot
00:36:17of candles on the way.
00:36:19Everyone!
00:36:20It's hurt by fire!
00:36:22Doesn't it make...
00:36:23How does it...
00:36:23How is the fire...
00:36:26It comes out of its mouth?
00:36:28On seven successes,
00:36:28you read the paragraph
00:36:29further mid-combat
00:36:30as this thing is wrestling
00:36:31trying to get Mitch.
00:36:32It looks like
00:36:35that these things
00:36:36both breathe fire
00:36:37and are highly flammable
00:36:40and that when they are set
00:36:42on fire,
00:36:43they die because they explode.
00:36:45Oh, get outside.
00:36:47Okay.
00:36:47Okay, so everyone,
00:36:49I think we just gotta get outside.
00:36:50Levante,
00:36:51you now watch a gumbaroo
00:36:53that you are in the middle
00:36:53of fighting,
00:36:54this piece of lumberjack
00:36:56Americana folklore
00:36:57that you realize
00:36:59very well may destroy
00:37:00a significant portion
00:37:02of your liquidity
00:37:03here in Burpee.
00:37:04Terrifying.
00:37:05Nothing scarier than that.
00:37:08Levante will open
00:37:09the doors wide
00:37:10and run outside
00:37:12and start jumping around.
00:37:15Eat me!
00:37:17Come eat me,
00:37:18you big stupid bear!
00:37:20Incredible.
00:37:21This is going to be
00:37:23manipulation animal can.
00:37:25Great.
00:37:26I have no animal can
00:37:28and I have some manipulation.
00:37:31Can I use presents at all?
00:37:33You can use presents here,
00:37:35potentially.
00:37:35Right.
00:37:37If you want,
00:37:37that daunt might be the...
00:37:39Yeah, I think I want,
00:37:40I want to look big
00:37:42and scary,
00:37:43big and scarier
00:37:45than Mitch somehow.
00:37:47I take my double breast
00:37:49and suit
00:37:49and I open it wide.
00:37:51Nice.
00:37:53Nice.
00:37:54We'll power these two.
00:38:00for a total of
00:38:02all successes.
00:38:03Six successes.
00:38:04Six successes.
00:38:06You get outside saying,
00:38:07come eat me.
00:38:09Mitch, ride it.
00:38:10Ride it toward me.
00:38:23Give me stamina plus fortitude.
00:38:25Okay.
00:38:26Three successes.
00:38:28Three successes.
00:38:29This thing slashes into you
00:38:32for,
00:38:33it was seven successes
00:38:35of damage.
00:38:36Now four
00:38:37halved to two.
00:38:38It has not used
00:38:39any of its fire breath yet,
00:38:40but just
00:38:41slashes across you
00:38:42with a big claw.
00:38:46I'm not strong.
00:38:50Oh, god damn.
00:38:51Oh, shit.
00:38:53Oh, it's a $500 shirt.
00:38:56No.
00:39:00Zayt, that is your turn.
00:39:02But did it come outside?
00:39:03It came outside.
00:39:04Okay, okay.
00:39:04It is now about,
00:39:05it's now about 15 feet
00:39:06outside the front doors.
00:39:08Is it worth trying
00:39:09to just sort of bond
00:39:11with this?
00:39:12Ah, do something, Zayt!
00:39:15All right.
00:39:17Zayt, I'm going to like
00:39:18get on Gorse
00:39:19and go up to him
00:39:20like,
00:39:20whoa there.
00:39:21Easy.
00:39:24Easy now.
00:39:26Give me manipulation
00:39:27plus animal chem.
00:39:28Okay, I got
00:39:29four.
00:39:30Does beauty work on animals?
00:39:32Beauty does not work
00:39:33on animals.
00:39:34Are you sure?
00:39:35The gum broo
00:39:35doesn't think
00:39:36he's hot as hell?
00:39:37I'm going to use
00:39:37my blood surge.
00:39:41Hell yeah.
00:39:41Nice.
00:39:42Great.
00:39:44Okay.
00:39:46All right, man.
00:39:49See ya.
00:39:50Oh, crit.
00:39:51Crit plus two,
00:39:52so six.
00:39:54Six.
00:39:54Six successes.
00:39:56What are you trying
00:39:57to communicate
00:39:57to the gum broo
00:39:58in this moment?
00:39:59You don't have
00:40:00to do this.
00:40:01I was like you once.
00:40:04blowing up
00:40:05at any chance I got.
00:40:08And like you,
00:40:09I was always
00:40:10burning myself.
00:40:14You see,
00:40:15it bows to you
00:40:16and begins to charge
00:40:17down the street
00:40:18with Darkness Man
00:40:19on his back.
00:40:20I figured it out.
00:40:24It's all good.
00:40:24Is Darkness Man okay?
00:40:26Are you where you want to be?
00:40:27I'm there, do it.
00:40:28Are you where you want to be?
00:40:30Zayt does successfully
00:40:31shoo the gum broo
00:40:32away from the...
00:40:33Is it going towards
00:40:34the town?
00:40:35It's going towards
00:40:36the town.
00:40:36Okay.
00:40:37It looks like it's headed
00:40:38down Mill Road.
00:40:41Okay.
00:40:41Can I try to...
00:40:42Okay.
00:40:43I have Relentless Grasp.
00:40:45Can I try to pull it
00:40:46towards the Weed Shop?
00:40:47Sure.
00:40:48Absolutely.
00:40:49Yes.
00:40:49Absolutely.
00:40:50HJ and Madeline,
00:40:51is there anything
00:40:51you're doing this moment
00:40:52that you want to run
00:40:52after the gum broo?
00:40:53Before, yeah,
00:40:54can I catch its eyes
00:40:55as it's passing with him?
00:40:57Okay, I just want to...
00:40:59You've told us a little bit
00:41:00about getting the ruby, right?
00:41:02Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:41:03Okay.
00:41:03I want to use Mesmerize,
00:41:05which is eye contact,
00:41:06so that's why
00:41:07I want to just catch it.
00:41:08Yeah.
00:41:08And I want to say
00:41:09heal to the Jack of the Pines
00:41:11that's on your back.
00:41:13Okay, hell yes.
00:41:15I'll hold up the ruby.
00:41:15Go ahead.
00:41:16Give me Charisma Persuasion.
00:41:20Okay.
00:41:21That's two.
00:41:22Okay.
00:41:22Blood Surge first.
00:41:23Got it.
00:41:24Okay.
00:41:27You can also roll presents here
00:41:28if you have it.
00:41:29Oh, nice.
00:41:30I have two in presents.
00:41:32Oops, didn't need to roll that one.
00:41:35There we go.
00:41:36Okay, so we got...
00:41:37Two, three, roll.
00:41:38One power.
00:41:41Got one extra.
00:41:42Three.
00:41:42Three senses.
00:41:43As you say that,
00:41:45as you speak to it,
00:41:46it does not understand
00:41:47the words that you are speaking.
00:41:49The Mesmerize power requires
00:41:50there to be a shared language.
00:41:51As you say Jack of the Pines out loud,
00:41:54you all hear the wind picks up,
00:41:58the pine boughs shake,
00:41:59and you see far distant,
00:42:02all the way across town
00:42:04to the heights,
00:42:05you hear...
00:42:10I feel almost drums in the distance
00:42:13as the gumbaroo looks up
00:42:15towards that far distant hill,
00:42:17and you see it sees
00:42:18bright green light
00:42:20that flashes for a moment.
00:42:22And the gumbaroo goes...
00:42:24develops a massive erection
00:42:26and starts to charge over the...
00:42:30I can't...
00:42:32I can't let this thing...
00:42:35I can't let this thing
00:42:35run through town, right?
00:42:37What are you doing?
00:42:37What are you doing?
00:42:38What are you doing?
00:42:39Are you pervert?
00:42:40It's freaking pervert!
00:42:42Bitch, kill the bear!
00:42:43Don't fuck it!
00:42:45I'm not fucking in!
00:42:49Madeline,
00:42:49is there anything you're doing?
00:42:50There's nothing I can do here.
00:42:51I have no physical skill.
00:42:52I'm just wandering
00:42:53through the space going,
00:42:54so these catwalks up here,
00:42:55maybe we can have models
00:42:56dancing up here.
00:42:58The sword blades
00:42:59coming up,
00:42:59sparks coming out of them
00:43:01into the dance hall.
00:43:03They're great ideas.
00:43:04There's a huge...
00:43:05There's a bear
00:43:06with a huge erection
00:43:07out here!
00:43:08Okay, Madeline...
00:43:09Don't kink shame.
00:43:11Some people like that.
00:43:12Maybe don't this man
00:43:12found this person.
00:43:14Madeline,
00:43:14go ahead and give me
00:43:15either composure or resolve
00:43:17plus awareness
00:43:18in this moment.
00:43:20What a two.
00:43:21I'll re-roll.
00:43:22Three.
00:43:23Three successes.
00:43:24You can go ahead
00:43:24and add two dice
00:43:26to whatever roll
00:43:27you use to prepare
00:43:28this place
00:43:29when it comes time.
00:43:30And I think in this moment,
00:43:31you also look
00:43:33and realize
00:43:33that in terms of
00:43:34taking charge
00:43:35of the design
00:43:36of this space,
00:43:37you find yourself
00:43:38here in this moment
00:43:39doing some work.
00:43:40This is some work.
00:43:41Oh, no, this isn't work.
00:43:42This is decorating.
00:43:44It's not work.
00:43:45It's not work.
00:43:46It's something else.
00:43:47We go to the top
00:43:48of the order.
00:43:49Darkness Man,
00:43:49that is you again
00:43:50as this gumbaroo
00:43:51charges over the railroad track.
00:43:53I try to pull it
00:43:54towards the weed shop
00:43:55and I'm going to try to...
00:43:57Relentless grasp.
00:43:58I'm going to use
00:43:59my relentless grasp
00:43:59and once again
00:44:00pull against it.
00:44:01I'll do a blood search again.
00:44:03Maybe your relentless grasp
00:44:03is causing...
00:44:05It's also a romantic
00:44:07inspiration.
00:44:07Your direction.
00:44:09He looked in some
00:44:10green light
00:44:12across the way.
00:44:13Pulling on it.
00:44:13I swear,
00:44:14that's what I heard as well.
00:44:15All right.
00:44:16Stop pulling on it, bitch.
00:44:19This is straight out
00:44:20of the great God's feet.
00:44:22I'm rolling insane over there.
00:44:24That's nine successes.
00:44:25I have a chance.
00:44:27Come on.
00:44:28That's a lot of dice.
00:44:31Okay.
00:44:31And this is all
00:44:32for jerking off the bear?
00:44:35Stop.
00:44:36Most sexiest episode yet.
00:44:38Two, three.
00:44:39So you have nine successes.
00:44:41Meets it, beats it.
00:44:41So nine successes
00:44:42means you can pull it
00:44:43in the direction.
00:44:43Pull what?
00:44:45It beats it?
00:44:45It beats it?
00:44:47I've got six.
00:44:48It beats its meat?
00:44:49Six.
00:44:49You're so close
00:44:50to beating it.
00:44:51Oh, you beat that meat.
00:44:53And I've got a crit
00:44:53so I can maybe get...
00:44:55If I got one more crit,
00:44:56come on,
00:44:57meet that beat.
00:44:58Beat that meat.
00:44:58Meet that meat.
00:45:00I did it.
00:45:01I did it.
00:45:02Beat the meat.
00:45:02Beat the meat.
00:45:03Unbelievable.
00:45:04I got a...
00:45:05Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:45:06He comes fire
00:45:06and it kills you.
00:45:07You, you...
00:45:08So like,
00:45:09as this thing's running,
00:45:10with an arm
00:45:11around its neck,
00:45:12you, by the way,
00:45:13are covered
00:45:14in this reeking creosote.
00:45:16This like,
00:45:16almost like petroleum ash
00:45:19and soot
00:45:20all over its body.
00:45:22There's just a constant
00:45:23squeak
00:45:24as every time
00:45:25you move on this thing.
00:45:26So all you guys hear
00:45:26from outside is...
00:45:31As you begin to pull it,
00:45:32pulling its ear
00:45:33and it's like
00:45:34heavy elephantine jowls.
00:45:36It charges down the street
00:45:37trying to pull across
00:45:38the railroad track,
00:45:39continuing getting pulled back
00:45:40and it looks pissed off.
00:45:42Fire in its eyes
00:45:43looking at you
00:45:44as you prevent it
00:45:45from following up the hill
00:45:47towards where it wants to go.
00:45:48you see in its throat
00:45:50and you begin to see
00:45:53sparks and embers
00:45:54coming out of its mouth.
00:45:54Get out of there!
00:45:55Bat child,
00:45:56that's going to be your turn.
00:45:57What?
00:45:57But you are halfway
00:45:57to the weed shop.
00:46:00Okay.
00:46:03Could I use...
00:46:04Try to use
00:46:05Touch of Oblivion
00:46:06to like,
00:46:07seal its lips shut?
00:46:09Potentially.
00:46:10Okay.
00:46:10You could run up
00:46:11and then you're going
00:46:12to be closing
00:46:12on this very dangerous thing.
00:46:15Are you staying here
00:46:17or are you going
00:46:18to hop off?
00:46:18I'm going to hop off
00:46:20once somebody
00:46:21lights it up
00:46:22or something.
00:46:23Okay,
00:46:23then I'm going to
00:46:24try to seal its lips.
00:46:25Okay.
00:46:26Go ahead and give me
00:46:27your attack roll.
00:46:28So that's strength and brawl?
00:46:30That is strength and brawl.
00:46:32I'm going to do
00:46:34the thing to get two extra.
00:46:37Okay.
00:46:40Kitty willpower?
00:46:44I got two.
00:46:45Two successes.
00:46:46You go to lunge for it.
00:46:48You don't have to spend
00:46:49any arcane resources
00:46:50as a result of this.
00:46:51As you go to lunge for it
00:46:52to try to like,
00:46:53melt whatever thing it is,
00:46:54you just pull
00:46:55and some of the ash
00:46:57and skin just comes off
00:46:59as this thing just
00:47:00fades away in your hand,
00:47:01causing some superficial damage
00:47:02to this creature.
00:47:04It roars at you
00:47:07in this space,
00:47:08looking to try to throw
00:47:09Mitch off in front of it.
00:47:10Levante,
00:47:11you're going to be
00:47:11the last to act.
00:47:12The last to act?
00:47:13Before the Gunbaroo act.
00:47:15I'm going to throw
00:47:16my phone to Madeline.
00:47:17Just tell Tyler
00:47:18what you need.
00:47:19And I'm going to
00:47:19just wander off
00:47:21down the street
00:47:22after Darkness Man
00:47:23and Bat Child.
00:47:24You go run into it.
00:47:25You know what it likes?
00:47:25Is there a way
00:47:26to find that out?
00:47:28Bat Child's got
00:47:28all the data.
00:47:29Anyone who wants
00:47:30the book can have it.
00:47:31Am I crazy?
00:47:32Do I let this?
00:47:33I feel like we can't
00:47:34let this thing go, right?
00:47:36I'm inclined to just
00:47:37let it go.
00:47:38It looks like it's
00:47:38just got something green
00:47:39that it wants to go far.
00:47:40But isn't it just
00:47:41a giant ball?
00:47:41That's all the way
00:47:42across town.
00:47:43It might breach
00:47:44the masquerade.
00:47:45It doesn't get
00:47:46breaching the masquerade?
00:47:47And then we got
00:47:47other people in town.
00:47:48Yeah.
00:47:49Oh.
00:47:51Levante, you have to act.
00:47:52Throw me the book,
00:47:53Bat Child!
00:47:54I'll throw you
00:47:55the ruby as well.
00:47:57If I can get the book
00:47:58and the ruby,
00:47:58I'd like to read the book.
00:48:00Give me intelligence
00:48:00plus a cult.
00:48:02Well, I don't have
00:48:03a cult,
00:48:04and I have
00:48:05little intelligence.
00:48:06I'll blood surge.
00:48:08Okay.
00:48:09I succeed.
00:48:15Oh, God.
00:48:18One success.
00:48:19God, I can't read fast
00:48:21and while moving.
00:48:23Pages fluttering
00:48:24in the wind.
00:48:25You rush up.
00:48:26You have also,
00:48:26you're holding a ruby
00:48:27so you can't turn
00:48:28the pages
00:48:28as you're running up.
00:48:29The gumbaroo
00:48:30is going to try
00:48:31to breathe fire
00:48:31on Darkness Man
00:48:34and Bat Child.
00:48:36First of all,
00:48:37it's going to try
00:48:37to throw you
00:48:38off its back
00:48:39in this maneuver.
00:48:41Go ahead,
00:48:41if you'd be so kind,
00:48:42and give me
00:48:44strength athletics.
00:48:45Does my relentless grasp
00:48:46do anything?
00:48:47Yes.
00:48:48You can add two dice here.
00:48:49Okay.
00:48:50Bad roll from the gumbaroo.
00:48:51You're only looking
00:48:52to beat five successes.
00:48:53Okay.
00:48:54I'm going to
00:48:55blood surge.
00:48:57Fail.
00:48:58I get a thing.
00:48:59Beep, beep, beep.
00:49:01Oh, shit.
00:49:06What am I trying
00:49:06to beat?
00:49:07You were trying
00:49:08to-
00:49:08Five.
00:49:09Okay.
00:49:10I got his willpower.
00:49:14Failed.
00:49:15Failed.
00:49:15He throws you
00:49:17off his back
00:49:18just in time
00:49:19to breathe fire
00:49:19on you
00:49:20and Bat Child
00:49:21simultaneously.
00:49:22I'm going to
00:49:22roll in the box
00:49:23of doom,
00:49:24fire coming your way.
00:49:25Here's the deal
00:49:26with fire damage.
00:49:27If you are able
00:49:31to dodge this,
00:49:32you can potentially
00:49:33add your celerity
00:49:34if you have,
00:49:34I think it's like
00:49:35cat-like reflexes.
00:49:36Yeah, I have rapid reflexes.
00:49:37You have rapid reflexes.
00:49:38So you can roll
00:49:39like dexterity
00:49:40plus celerity
00:49:41in that moment
00:49:42to try to avoid.
00:49:45You can,
00:49:45if you have fortitude,
00:49:46you can also
00:49:47just roll fortitude
00:49:48to attempt to like
00:49:49withstand the fire damage.
00:49:51Don't have fortitude.
00:49:52I have fortitude.
00:49:53I only have one
00:49:54in celerity
00:49:55and two in dex.
00:49:56I have one in fortitude.
00:49:57I'm going to roll
00:49:57box of doom.
00:49:58However many successes
00:49:59is however much
00:50:00aggravated damage
00:50:01is coming your way.
00:50:02That roll looks
00:50:03so fucking bad.
00:50:07Wow.
00:50:08A garbage roll.
00:50:10Great.
00:50:10Oof.
00:50:11One aggravated damage
00:50:12coming your way.
00:50:13So you need
00:50:14only a single success
00:50:16on your fortitude die.
00:50:18Is it just fortitude
00:50:19or fortitude stamina?
00:50:21Unfortunately,
00:50:21because it's aggravated damage,
00:50:22it's only fortitude.
00:50:23Just fortitude.
00:50:23You can't use
00:50:24your normal toughness
00:50:25to withstand it, essentially.
00:50:26But I can blood surge.
00:50:28You can blood surge.
00:50:32I have a lot of hunger now.
00:50:34I'm at four hunger.
00:50:35Okay.
00:50:36Okay, so I'm going to do
00:50:37I'm going to do celerity.
00:50:39Hell yeah.
00:50:39I got two successes.
00:50:41Can I make it
00:50:44use my zealotry
00:50:45because literally
00:50:46my man is in the way.
00:50:48Yeah.
00:50:48Can I use my zealotry
00:50:50to make it a messy critical
00:50:51to help if he needs help?
00:50:53I'm going to do
00:50:54the same thing
00:50:54and messy critical
00:50:56because I got a two
00:50:56and I also have zealotry.
00:50:57Okay, hell yeah.
00:50:58You guys both
00:50:59are full vampires
00:51:00here on Mill Road.
00:51:02You guys eat the bear?
00:51:03Yeah.
00:51:04It's 2 a.m.
00:51:05Like right now,
00:51:06it's like late, late, late
00:51:07in the town.
00:51:08However,
00:51:09a big gout of fire
00:51:11is like,
00:51:12it's breathed on the road.
00:51:13You don't know
00:51:14how much time you have,
00:51:15but both of you
00:51:15are visibly monster.
00:51:17Your fangs are fully distended,
00:51:19jaws unlocked.
00:51:20If something catches on me,
00:51:22can I like basically,
00:51:23as it hits my cloak,
00:51:25whip it around
00:51:25and try to throw it back
00:51:26on the...
00:51:27Hell yes.
00:51:28How many successes
00:51:29did you roll to avoid?
00:51:30Two,
00:51:31which I turned
00:51:32into a messy critical.
00:51:33Turned into a messy critical.
00:51:33Gotcha.
00:51:34I think you basically see
00:51:35that that move works.
00:51:37On two successes,
00:51:39you're like,
00:51:39okay,
00:51:40if we need to produce fire somehow,
00:51:41the next time this thing
00:51:42breathes fire,
00:51:43I'll be able to do...
00:51:44You basically use
00:51:45your second success there
00:51:46to ready that action
00:51:48the next time
00:51:48this thing breathes fire.
00:51:49Okay, great.
00:51:50It is, once again,
00:51:51Zayth's turn.
00:51:52We're over here,
00:51:54kind of,
00:51:55by the weed store,
00:51:56sort of.
00:51:57Yeah.
00:51:57Did the bear explode
00:51:59or it's not...
00:52:00Oh, yeah.
00:52:00It's just like...
00:52:02How did the fire
00:52:03seem to affect
00:52:03the gumbaroo?
00:52:04It came out
00:52:05of its nostrils
00:52:06and mouth
00:52:06in a cone
00:52:07that went away
00:52:08from its body.
00:52:08It went...
00:52:10I am...
00:52:11I'm going to follow
00:52:11the way that they went
00:52:12and I'm looking
00:52:13for the first car
00:52:14I see over here
00:52:16and I'm going to try
00:52:17to hotwire it.
00:52:18I'm on the...
00:52:19I'm gorse
00:52:19chasing after them.
00:52:21I'm going to try
00:52:21to hotwire a car.
00:52:22Hell yeah.
00:52:23Go ahead and give me...
00:52:23I have a larceny
00:52:25hot wiring.
00:52:26Hotwire it instantly.
00:52:27It will be a difficulty five.
00:52:29Dexterity plus larceny.
00:52:31But you can also
00:52:32use your specialty here.
00:52:34Okay.
00:52:35I am going to blood surge.
00:52:38Hell yeah.
00:52:40Okay.
00:52:40Don't get any hunger.
00:52:42Let's see.
00:52:44Shoot.
00:52:45All right.
00:52:48What was the difficulty
00:52:50you said?
00:52:51Difficulty is five.
00:52:55That's five.
00:52:56Hell yeah.
00:52:57You leap off of gorse.
00:52:59Just go through
00:52:59the windshield of a car.
00:53:01Go through the windshield.
00:53:01Blam.
00:53:02You are in the car.
00:53:03You reach down
00:53:04and basically one-handed
00:53:06hotwire the car.
00:53:08But I'm just going to
00:53:08drive it straight
00:53:09at the gumbaroo
00:53:10and dive out of the car.
00:53:14Hell yeah.
00:53:15Go ahead.
00:53:16Give me...
00:53:17This is going to be
00:53:18dex plus drive
00:53:20with an additional
00:53:21four damage
00:53:22from crashing
00:53:23your car into the floor.
00:53:25How does the four damage
00:53:26impact the role?
00:53:27It just means that
00:53:27you add four...
00:53:28If you get one success,
00:53:30you get five successes.
00:53:31Right?
00:53:31You just add four
00:53:32if you succeed.
00:53:33I feel like
00:53:35narratively,
00:53:35Zayt should have
00:53:36a specialty
00:53:37in abandoning vehicles.
00:53:39I love that.
00:53:39Yep.
00:53:40100%.
00:53:40Great.
00:53:42Dipping.
00:53:43I blood surge
00:53:44on this turn
00:53:44so I can't do it again.
00:53:46Is that...
00:53:46Yes, that's correct.
00:53:47Great.
00:53:47All right.
00:53:48So this is
00:53:49dex plus drive.
00:53:51This thing does not
00:53:51have a high dexterity.
00:53:52Okay.
00:53:53It only rolls one success
00:53:54so it's going to cancel
00:53:55out one of your successes.
00:53:57I think that's just two.
00:53:59Okay.
00:54:00Two successes.
00:54:01It cancels out one
00:54:02but that one success
00:54:03still means you deal
00:54:03four...
00:54:04Actually, you deal
00:54:04five points of damage.
00:54:06You guys see
00:54:07an old Buick
00:54:08slams into the side
00:54:09of the gumbaroo
00:54:10as Zayt dips out
00:54:12the window again.
00:54:13The gumbaroo rolls
00:54:14a couple times
00:54:15down the street
00:54:15injured.
00:54:16This thing looks like
00:54:17it might have
00:54:17a fucking heavy
00:54:19dose of health, right?
00:54:20However,
00:54:21it has moved
00:54:22further down the street
00:54:23in the direction
00:54:24of this weed thing
00:54:25and you see
00:54:26being away
00:54:27from the sources
00:54:28of its ire
00:54:28you see it looks up
00:54:30and looking down
00:54:31here to this other road
00:54:33that leads into the town
00:54:33it begins to charge
00:54:35down Mill Road
00:54:37its eyes on the far hill
00:54:38but it is getting
00:54:39closer to the weed store
00:54:41right now.
00:54:41Aesha, your turn.
00:54:42Okay.
00:54:43I pop in
00:54:44where all like
00:54:45the equipment
00:54:46and stuff is
00:54:47and I go to like
00:54:47if there's any
00:54:48welding stuff
00:54:49and grab a blowtorch
00:54:51and run towards them.
00:54:52Hell yeah.
00:54:53You grab a blowtorch
00:54:54or sprinting down
00:54:55the street after them
00:54:56you've got an active
00:54:57blowtorch here.
00:54:58I'm going to say
00:54:58you spend your turn
00:54:59just grabbing that
00:55:00and closing distance
00:55:01sprinting down the street
00:55:01as fast as you can.
00:55:02Cool.
00:55:02I'm trying to have it
00:55:03cut from Mill
00:55:04towards the weed shop
00:55:05if I can catch up.
00:55:06Okay.
00:55:07You want to get on
00:55:07the other side
00:55:08of it over here.
00:55:09Yeah, or even like
00:55:10on its side
00:55:11or just like pop
00:55:11the blowtorch thing
00:55:12to have it cut
00:55:13towards the weed store.
00:55:15Hell yes.
00:55:16Madeline,
00:55:17Tyler gets back to you.
00:55:19He's taking a picture
00:55:20of a big box store
00:55:21with a bunch
00:55:22of Yankee candles.
00:55:23Great.
00:55:23I send him a selfie
00:55:25and then I go,
00:55:26Tyler,
00:55:27white,
00:55:28plain candles,
00:55:29no scent.
00:55:30I said,
00:55:31no scent, Tyler.
00:55:32He responds back,
00:55:33got it.
00:55:33You aren't going
00:55:34to send me a selfie?
00:55:36You see,
00:55:36he sends you a selfie back.
00:55:37He is sweating bullets.
00:55:39It looks like
00:55:39he's been running
00:55:40at full tilt
00:55:41through the store.
00:55:42He has four shopping carts
00:55:43filled with scented
00:55:44and unscented candles.
00:55:45Great.
00:55:46They're all like
00:55:47nutmeg mango.
00:55:49I'm hearing
00:55:50the craziness
00:55:51that's happening outside.
00:55:52You are hearing
00:55:52the craziness
00:55:53happening outside.
00:55:53Can I rouse
00:55:55to use my premonition?
00:55:57Yes, you can.
00:55:57To find out
00:55:58what it's trying
00:55:59to get to
00:55:59or whatever information
00:56:02around this
00:56:02that might be useful?
00:56:04You can.
00:56:04Great.
00:56:06I succeed.
00:56:07Hell yeah.
00:56:07You get a premonition.
00:56:08Off in the hills
00:56:10of the Douglas Farms,
00:56:13the Golden Bounty Farms,
00:56:14you see amongst
00:56:16various hay bales
00:56:18outside of a red barn
00:56:19that there looks like
00:56:20a massive stone slab
00:56:23that appears to have
00:56:24a groove in the side
00:56:26running off
00:56:27to drain liquid.
00:56:29Uh-oh.
00:56:30Blood sacrifice?
00:56:31And you see
00:56:32that there are
00:56:33a number
00:56:33of massive
00:56:35twig-based sculptures
00:56:37sort of made
00:56:38of pine boughs
00:56:39looming over
00:56:40in this space
00:56:42that are hanging
00:56:42from vines
00:56:43from various trees
00:56:44around this farmyard.
00:56:47And that's what
00:56:48it's trying to get to?
00:56:49Standing
00:56:50on the altar,
00:56:51work boots,
00:56:53sort of Carhartt jacket,
00:56:54you see
00:56:55his sort of
00:56:56flannel shirt
00:56:57fully undone
00:56:58and fully erect
00:57:00is Boyd Douglas
00:57:01who is screaming,
00:57:06come to the sound
00:57:07of my voice,
00:57:08gumbo-roo.
00:57:09He wants it.
00:57:10He's the
00:57:10Jack of the Pines?
00:57:12A pervert
00:57:12for real.
00:57:14Oh my God,
00:57:15he tried to
00:57:16fuck the bear.
00:57:17Kill it.
00:57:20Oh my God,
00:57:20that's so nasty
00:57:21and I've lived
00:57:22for hundreds of years
00:57:23of the nastiest
00:57:24thing I've ever heard.
00:57:26You get this
00:57:26premonition of
00:57:27Boyd Douglas
00:57:28casting some kind
00:57:29of blood sorcery
00:57:30up on this altar.
00:57:31He left his boots on?
00:57:33So nasty,
00:57:34makes it worse,
00:57:34make him more naked.
00:57:36One of them
00:57:37so naked,
00:57:38one of them
00:57:38so close.
00:57:40I do hate to say
00:57:41he did have his hat on.
00:57:43Oh no.
00:57:44That's so
00:57:45down-low behavior.
00:57:46Tell me he doesn't
00:57:46have a watch on.
00:57:47Watch.
00:57:48He was holding his phone.
00:57:49Whoa.
00:57:51Whoa.
00:57:52But there's porn
00:57:53on the phone, right?
00:57:54No,
00:57:54it was an open
00:57:55email inbox.
00:57:56No.
00:57:56No,
00:57:58psychotic.
00:57:58Psychotic.
00:57:59Psychotic.
00:58:00I got lost email.
00:58:01Yeah,
00:58:01just had to get
00:58:02his shirt open
00:58:02to do a weird
00:58:03blood rune on his chest
00:58:04and then pants
00:58:05slightly down.
00:58:05Try to come with
00:58:05your email open.
00:58:06Yeah.
00:58:07Challenge 2027.
00:58:10Blance at the most
00:58:11recent email you have
00:58:12and try to still come.
00:58:13Bet you can't.
00:58:14Bet you can't.
00:58:15Bet you can't.
00:58:16Madeline,
00:58:16you call out,
00:58:17kill it,
00:58:17kill it,
00:58:18kill it.
00:58:18Darkness man,
00:58:19it is your turn.
00:58:19All right.
00:58:20This thing is a little
00:58:21bit past you
00:58:22but surging down.
00:58:23It's basically come,
00:58:24it's like right down
00:58:25here essentially.
00:58:26Okay,
00:58:27great.
00:58:27I'm going to try
00:58:29to get on top of it
00:58:31again less of a,
00:58:32I don't,
00:58:32I'm not going to be able
00:58:33to like fully wrestle
00:58:34it where I want it to go
00:58:35so I'm going to just
00:58:36jump on,
00:58:37grab on
00:58:37and then I want
00:58:39to basically wait
00:58:40until the moment
00:58:41it goes to do its fire
00:58:41and then throw my jacket
00:58:43over its face
00:58:44so that it like
00:58:45wafts it back
00:58:46in its own face.
00:58:47Cool.
00:58:47Hell yeah.
00:58:48All right,
00:58:48you get your jacket ready
00:58:49to make that move happen.
00:58:51Bat child,
00:58:52it is your turn.
00:58:52I see that
00:58:53and I'm going to do
00:58:54the same exact thing.
00:58:55Hell yeah.
00:58:56You get your move ready
00:58:57to do that at the same time.
00:58:58Levante,
00:58:59it is you.
00:58:59I'm going to get a notepad
00:59:00out and write down
00:59:00the name of every business
00:59:01with a security camera
00:59:03in this complex.
00:59:04Oh, smart.
00:59:06Hell yes.
00:59:07You do exactly that.
00:59:08It is its turn again.
00:59:10It is once again
00:59:10going to breathe fire
00:59:12on the two of you.
00:59:13I'm going to roll
00:59:14in the Box of Doom
00:59:14for how many successes
00:59:15you're trying to avoid here.
00:59:19Once again,
00:59:20garbage roll.
00:59:21Only one success
00:59:22in the Box of Doom.
00:59:23You know what?
00:59:24Just to keep it spicy,
00:59:25I am going to have it
00:59:26use willpower here.
00:59:29Okay,
00:59:30three successes.
00:59:31So,
00:59:32I'm going to say
00:59:32you guys have
00:59:33three aggravated damage
00:59:35coming your way.
00:59:36Okay.
00:59:36Here's how we're going
00:59:37to do it.
00:59:37I'm going to ask
00:59:39for each of you guys
00:59:40to give me
00:59:40some willpower rolls.
00:59:42Difficulty of one
00:59:43in this moment.
00:59:45I only have two left.
00:59:47I have five.
00:59:48You have five,
00:59:48so go ahead and roll.
00:59:49Roll through one.
00:59:51I crit.
00:59:52I fell.
00:59:52Okay, so Darkness Man,
00:59:54Batchel.
00:59:55You, Darkness Man,
00:59:56have this insane fear
00:59:58that you are about
00:59:59to be burned to death.
01:00:00So,
01:00:00what I'm going to ask
01:00:01is this.
01:00:02I'm going to ask you
01:00:02to assemble a dice pool
01:00:04that is simultaneously
01:00:05you trying to avoid
01:00:07those three points
01:00:08of aggravated damage.
01:00:10If you can get
01:00:11one additional success,
01:00:13you will get the coat
01:00:15over it
01:00:15with a dexterity melee check.
01:00:17Can I just see
01:00:19that this has all
01:00:20gone to shit
01:00:20and actually
01:00:22just change
01:00:22what my reaction is
01:00:24to make my mouth
01:00:25into a portal
01:00:28to the abyss
01:00:28to swallow the fire
01:00:29to save Darkness Man?
01:00:31You will take
01:00:32that aggravated damage
01:00:33if you do that.
01:00:34And it wouldn't help
01:00:36Darkness Man?
01:00:37I think it could.
01:00:38It potentially could.
01:00:39If you were,
01:00:40at this last minute,
01:00:41let's see if Darkness Man
01:00:42can pull this off.
01:00:45So,
01:00:45you are looking to do
01:00:48dexterity
01:00:48plus celerity
01:00:50to cancel out
01:00:51the damage.
01:00:52If you get
01:00:53one additional success
01:00:54past three,
01:00:55you'll be able
01:00:56to immediately roll
01:00:57a melee check
01:00:58to blow up the bear.
01:00:59All right.
01:00:59I'm pretty screwed
01:01:01because I don't have,
01:01:02I have so many blood dice
01:01:04I can't do willpower.
01:01:06Oh, I can.
01:01:07If I blood surge,
01:01:08I'll have five
01:01:09if I fail.
01:01:10So,
01:01:10I kind of
01:01:11don't want to go
01:01:12to one,
01:01:12I don't want to frenzy.
01:01:13All right.
01:01:14I'll just,
01:01:16uh,
01:01:17two and a
01:01:17beast shield failure.
01:01:19Two and a beast shield failure.
01:01:20No, but you get
01:01:20to roll four, right?
01:01:22Oh, no,
01:01:23you don't get to roll more.
01:01:24Oh, no,
01:01:24you actually do get to roll.
01:01:25Your hunger does allow
01:01:26you to roll more.
01:01:26Yeah, that's fine.
01:01:27Okay, one more.
01:01:29That's a three.
01:01:29Three.
01:01:30Three successes.
01:01:31So, you see,
01:01:31you get your jacket
01:01:32up in front of you
01:01:33and fully prevent yourself
01:01:35from being,
01:01:37from being incinerated.
01:01:38You don't take
01:01:38any damage.
01:01:40You can see,
01:01:40at that last minute,
01:01:41you're like,
01:01:41okay,
01:01:42I'm going to do it.
01:01:42And then you're just like,
01:01:43you're about to die.
01:01:44Fire is going to burn.
01:01:45It's the only thing
01:01:45that hurts you,
01:01:46that in the sun.
01:01:47And get your jacket up.
01:01:49You do not frenzy.
01:01:50You do not lose
01:01:50your will here.
01:01:51Also,
01:01:51you've hemmed in the fire
01:01:52on half of it.
01:01:53You,
01:01:54now knowing that you
01:01:55don't have to save
01:01:55Darkness Man,
01:01:56can roll your
01:01:57ready to action here.
01:01:59Yeah,
01:01:59I just want to push
01:02:00the fire back on it
01:02:01so it blows up.
01:02:01What I'll say is this,
01:02:02because you succeeded
01:02:02on your willpower,
01:02:04you can just roll
01:02:05a full attack roll
01:02:07in which you only need
01:02:08one success.
01:02:09In other words,
01:02:10I will ask you
01:02:10to do one of two things.
01:02:11You either have to split
01:02:12your dice pool
01:02:13to partially avoid
01:02:15the aggravated damage
01:02:17and go for it,
01:02:18but if you don't care
01:02:19about taking
01:02:19the aggravated damage,
01:02:20I'll take the aggravated damage.
01:02:21Great.
01:02:22It was only three, right?
01:02:23Only three.
01:02:24Okay.
01:02:25Can I use Kumite?
01:02:27Yes, you can.
01:02:28Okay.
01:02:28If I get an extra dice.
01:02:30I'm gonna rouse.
01:02:32Okay,
01:02:33take it.
01:02:34Take a hunger.
01:02:38Okay.
01:02:39Okay.
01:02:40Okay.
01:02:41I like what we're seeing.
01:02:44Willpower.
01:02:45Okay.
01:02:47Eight.
01:02:48Eight.
01:02:49Incredible.
01:02:50How much health do you have?
01:02:52I have five.
01:02:52I'm at full.
01:02:53You're at full.
01:02:54Okay.
01:02:54So you take three points
01:02:55of aggravated damage.
01:02:58I'm at full.
01:03:00Worth it.
01:03:01In this moment,
01:03:02you see both of you
01:03:03getting your jackets up.
01:03:05You surround the bear.
01:03:05The fire hits
01:03:07that greasy creosote
01:03:08in its neck
01:03:09and you see it
01:03:09turns around and goes.
01:03:14You guys watch
01:03:15as the gumbaroo
01:03:17explodes.
01:03:24There goes my hero.
01:03:28Watch him as he goes.
01:03:31Wow.
01:03:32Right now,
01:03:33I just re-rolled
01:03:34its fire damage.
01:03:35It rolls again
01:03:35as it dies.
01:03:37Two aggravated damage
01:03:39is coming towards
01:03:39each of you.
01:03:40If you cannot
01:03:41dodge
01:03:42or fortitude
01:03:43this,
01:03:44Bat Child,
01:03:44this I believe
01:03:45is destruction.
01:03:47Can I try to-
01:03:48No, I have two left.
01:03:49You have two-
01:03:49Oh, two health left.
01:03:50I have two health left.
01:03:50So there's-
01:03:50Because I took three damage, right?
01:03:52Yes, you have three damage.
01:03:53But there's two
01:03:53aggravated damage
01:03:54which would drive you
01:03:55all the way to zero.
01:03:56Okay.
01:03:56So there's two
01:03:56aggravated damage coming.
01:03:57Yes, darkness me.
01:03:58Can I take some damage
01:03:59for Bat Child?
01:04:02I'll say this.
01:04:02If you submit
01:04:04to not trying
01:04:05to protect yourself
01:04:06at all from the fire,
01:04:07I will allow you
01:04:08to make a
01:04:11Dexterity Athletics
01:04:12to protect Bat Child
01:04:13in this moment.
01:04:14Okay.
01:04:14And it's three damage?
01:04:16It is two damage
01:04:16coming your way.
01:04:17Great.
01:04:18Okay.
01:04:18I am going to do that then.
01:04:19Hell yeah.
01:04:20Okay.
01:04:20So I'll do
01:04:22Dexterity Athletics
01:04:23which I don't have.
01:04:25Great.
01:04:25I'll try.
01:04:26Can I use my
01:04:27Celerity Rapid Reflexes?
01:04:28You can.
01:04:29Great.
01:04:29Yay.
01:04:32Um, two.
01:04:34Two successes.
01:04:34You cancel out
01:04:35two aggravated damage
01:04:37coming to Bat Child.
01:04:37Bat Child,
01:04:38you see Darkest Man
01:04:39leaps over and covers you.
01:04:41You take two points
01:04:43of aggravated damage
01:04:43plus another two points
01:04:47of aggravated damage.
01:04:48Aww.
01:04:48What?
01:04:49As you fully expose
01:04:50yourself to the flame,
01:04:51you cover Bat Child.
01:04:53What health are you at?
01:04:55I still have two health.
01:04:56Aww.
01:04:57You guys see
01:04:58on top of you
01:04:59a smoking
01:05:00Bat Child in Darkness man
01:05:03covered in an embrace
01:05:04smoking here
01:05:05on Mill Road.
01:05:06Are you okay?
01:05:07Right outside of
01:05:08the largest Christmas tree
01:05:10in the Pacific Northwest.
01:05:11Are you okay?
01:05:12We did it.
01:05:13We blew him up.
01:05:14We saved,
01:05:15we saved the city.
01:05:17We saved Burpee.
01:05:18We saved Burpee.
01:05:18The Christmas tree
01:05:19starts to go up.
01:05:20No!
01:05:21No!
01:05:22We're going to keep
01:05:23that around
01:05:24until Valentine's Day
01:05:24and decorate it
01:05:25for Valentine's Day!
01:05:26Woo!
01:05:28I get in the car
01:05:29and I drive it
01:05:30at the Christmas tree.
01:05:32You see,
01:05:33as it starts to go up,
01:05:34it does become
01:05:34a huge threat.
01:05:35You smash the car
01:05:36into the tree.
01:05:37Away from the bar.
01:05:38Away from the bar.
01:05:39It falls away from Mike's.
01:05:41Into the weed store.
01:05:42Into the weed store.
01:05:43Oh yeah,
01:05:43you want to knock it
01:05:44into the weed store.
01:05:45Is it tall enough
01:05:46to go this way?
01:05:47Yeah, it's huge.
01:05:48Great.
01:05:49Great.
01:05:49Give me dexterity
01:05:50plus drive.
01:05:51And then we have
01:05:52plausible deniability
01:05:53because our bar
01:05:55got on fire.
01:05:56Exactly.
01:05:57Hell yeah.
01:05:57It's the weed heads.
01:05:59It's the weed heads.
01:06:01Ooh.