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Elysium
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The coterie goes to Elysium where they meet the Mad Prince, ruler of Houston, and are given a quest to find three missing fledglings made the same night that they were. They meet a lot of the important vampires in town, some make friends, some get their wrists broken.
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Introduction and Theme Disclaimer
00:00:02
Speaker
Hello mortals, just a quick disclaimer before we begin. This is a vampire podcast and as such we'll be dealing with issues like drugs, alcohol, mental issues, violence, adult situations, death, and of course blood. So enjoy the show!
Podcast and Game Introduction
00:00:34
Speaker
Welcome, mortals. You've stumbered into the lair of the Integrated Dice Management podcast. Tonight, we'll be playing Houston After Dark, a Vampire the Masquerade fifth edition chronicle. I'm Ron Bjork, your storyteller for the night, and joining me is the one and only Jaden. Hi, I'm Jaden. Next, we have the Lord of Chaos himself, Frank. Hey, I'm Frank.
00:01:03
Speaker
After that, we have the man with the mesmerizing voice, if his mic worked right, Bill. Hey there, everyone. I am Bill. I'm going to be playing Jerry Wilson, the lovable, wonderful guy. Yeah. And last, and by his own admission least, Hayden. What up? Okay. The end. The end.
00:01:30
Speaker
The end of the intro. That was, that was pretty decent. Yeah. I think we should all like work on that, but like, that was actually pretty good. Yeah. We should work on our parts, but Ron, you've got, you've got your shit. Yeah, that, that was good. That's what I meant. Work on our parts. I wasn't expecting to
Current Events and Game Mechanics
00:01:45
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go first. I was, I was startled. I was scared. I'll do it in different orders randomly. I was actually expecting to go third person. If that's always my intro, you always have to do me last then that's okay.
00:01:58
Speaker
I was also going to call you like the horniest of the group or something like that. All right. So let's see. This would be the night of January 4th, 2020 holidays of note, national spaghetti day. Top news. Trump threatens Iran with, uh, with attacks on 52 sites uprising hundreds of first time pro first time pro gun activists flood the NRA town hall in Virginia.
00:02:28
Speaker
That's interesting. First, first time pro guy. Okay. Booger McFarland draws huge penis on screen during Texans versus Bill's game. And the Irwin family saves 90,000 animals injured in the Australian wildfires. Training on social media, a hashtag NFL playoffs, Barcelona, and whoever the heck Derek Henry is. To be fair, I felt like 2020 was about this long as well.
00:02:58
Speaker
this, this long? What do you mean? Like, like, like, this is like the fourth day of 2020. 2020 felt like that. Yeah. Yeah. It really did. Like, it's been like several weeks since we recorded and it, it feels like it's been several weeks of 2020. Right. Yeah. Um, okay. So the first thing that needs to happen is everyone has to roll for hunger.
00:03:24
Speaker
So at the bottom of your character sheets, there should be that hunger chart or whatever. What is it called? Rouse. So does that mean I just gained one point of hunger or does that mean? Who gained one point of hunger yet? Or Maxwell gains a point of hunger. Gosh, Frank. You rolled. I am like. Okay. You rolled a two, which means you do get hungrier. It was behind me. I haven't woken up hungry like at all since we started this.
00:03:53
Speaker
Cole does not get hungrier. Okay, so Cole doesn't get hungrier. Maxwell goes up by one. Jerry goes up by one. And Wesley does not get hungrier. Okay, now Jayden, Wesley, make a willpower roll. So click on the willpower button. Critical hit. Okay, so throughout the day, your phone has been blowing up. But because you're a vampire,
00:04:22
Speaker
You don't normally wake up to such things as a simple as a phone blowing up, like, well, not blowing up, but you know, going off. But because you rolled a critical hit, I'm going to say about halfway through the day, you groggily wake up to the sound of your phone ringing. Okay. You are presumably in your house in the darkest room of your house because you previously mind controlled, you know, had your wife,
00:04:52
Speaker
and children or whatever mind controlled and you're, you know, wherever, where would you be in your house?
Characters and Vampire Society Dynamics
00:05:01
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If, well, there's no basements. So I guess just the center room of the house. Okay. Like, like a bathroom or something. Well, I don't know. Maybe, maybe I have a layout that has like a room in the middle, kind of the stairs or something.
00:05:20
Speaker
Under the stairs, so you're like in the Harry Potter room? Yes. OK. It's your gun safe room. Yeah, exactly. He's inside of his gun safe. So your phone is going off. Is it a phone call? Yes, currently it's a phone call. I'm going to answer it. OK. When you answer it, they say, oh, miss. And you saw that it's from a random name, Jared.
00:05:51
Speaker
Johnson, one of the members of the board at your company. Okay. One of the members of the board of directors, Jared Johnson. Like I got the most two basic white people names. Yeah. Those are the first things that popped in my head for some reason. Hey, y'all. My name is Jared Johnson. It's great to meet you. I'm super duper white.
00:06:17
Speaker
I almost Jared Lido, but, uh, our friends with Seth Rogen, you don't need another actor. Uh, Mr. Isaacs, uh, finally I've gotten ahold of you. What the hell is going on? What do you mean? Did you authorize, uh, the, the, uh, sale of 10% of the company? Yes.
00:06:42
Speaker
Well, I don't know what you were thinking. This man, he's already bought out two other members of the board and now owns a third of the company. And he's calling for a meeting of the board of directors this Monday night. I knew this was going to happen. How could you authorize such a thing without at least consulting your CFO? You see? That means chief financial officer.
00:07:14
Speaker
Sometimes you need to make big financial decisions on your own. Well, we've put a temporary lock on any further
Meeting the Mysterious Prince
00:07:25
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shares, sale of company shares to prevent him from buying out the rest of us. There's probably a couple more weak links, but I think we're safe now, but he owns almost as many shares as you now.
00:07:42
Speaker
Don't stress about it. I'll talk to him. Don't, don't even worry about it. Tell everyone to be, it's going to be okay. I will talk to him. We'll figure something out. And, uh, we won't be losing anything today. Give me either a, let's see what, what are your skills here? A role to calm this dude down. You've got persuasion. You don't have ship.
00:08:09
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Yeah, persuasion could work. Insight? No. You already know why he's freaking out. So you could do persuasion or you could even argue like if you wanted to, this would be a better dice pool for you, a finance plus intelligence and give me some financial mumbo jumbo.
00:08:37
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but you're gonna have to speak that. Come up with something. Okay, I can do that, I think. Okay, give me a, okay, so click finance plus intelligence. Intelligence. All right, so yeah, give me a little bit of a successful financial role. Like just start talking about it? Yeah, just something that sounds vaguely convincing. We're not finance experts here. Okay.
00:09:06
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So listen, man, that's obvious. So whenever he owns as much as I do, we're basically becoming partners. Okay, so once we kind of own enough of the company together, we'll be able to share some of the bigger ideas and expand into other aspects of other companies financial decisions. And
00:09:36
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That's why we shouldn't be worrying about anything because this is gonna be very fruitful for the future of the company. Well, I'm still a little bit worried, but I'll trust you, sir. Don't worry. I'll get y'all donuts on Friday. It'll be good. Okay, but we're meeting Monday night. Well, then I'll get donuts for that too, then. Okay, okay. Sounds good.
00:10:05
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All right. He, he hangs up. You gotta be fresh to us. Yeah. Um, and if anyone has spent, uh, any of their willpower, I know Wesley specifically you did, there's a slash on one of your willpower. Anyone who spent it can regain at the beginning of a session, you can regain up to
00:10:31
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Either your composure or resolve in willpower. What about my health? I have three flashes. Your health. Recovering health. Well, you have to roll rouse checks to heal any time. Even if I sleep? Healing. Superficial. At the beginning of a session, mortals can remove superficial up to their stamina. Vampires can remove a number of superficial damage levels from their health tracker by rousing the blood each turn.
00:11:00
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Yeah, so you don't automatically heal it from sleeping. You rouse still. Yeah, each so additional rouse checks to heal yourself. Like as many as I lost. As yeah, as many as you want, because each time you do it, you have you risk the chance of getting hungrier. Hayden, I think you might actually heal more than everyone else. Yeah, I do. Yeah.
Elysium and Vampire Aristocracy
00:11:28
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Think you heal like two at a time.
00:11:31
Speaker
I'm going to browse once, I guess. All right. You get hungrier, but you heal to health. I have three dots. OK. Yeah. So you're pretty hungry, but it's not like you're out of control, hungry. So. Do I heal when I feed? No, but you can rouse check as you feed and basically, you know. If so, if you get hungry, you do. Well, you take a point of blood, rouse check.
00:12:01
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Maybe you lose it, maybe you don't, but you can always take another point. Yeah. OK. Yeah. So for those of you who I know, Wesley, you're back at your house. Bill, where did your character spend the night? Imagine probably at the, I'm assuming what would be the haven that I've been staying at. OK. Yeah. And I believe Maxwell probably would have
00:12:31
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Yeah, they still stayed at the warehouse. Yeah. And Cole, she at this point wouldn't have cared, like would have let you go home if you wanted. I probably wouldn't have gone home. I probably would have went back to my like parents house in the old neighborhood. Are your parents living there? No, they don't live there. I just went there. Of course they're there.
00:13:01
Speaker
What? I don't know. You're a vampire and you're gonna go stay at your parents' house? Sure, you might eat them. I mean, he's not hungry, but... I mean, I'm a bagger, so... Yeah. Well, that doesn't mean if you had high hunger, it doesn't run the risk. Because once you get too hungry, you know, even the slightest drop of blood could potentially send you into a frenzy. True. Okay, I probably would have just, um... I mean...
00:13:30
Speaker
It's fine. I'm not married. I don't have any kids. I probably have a shitty apartment. So I guess I could go back to the shitty apartment. Yeah, and just. Sleep in a closet or something till you get the chance to aluminum foil your windows. Yeah, you probably have some duct tape around the around the edges of the inside. All right, so those of you who are not currently with your sires, basically you were told that
00:13:59
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You're supposed to meet up with them. So you're meeting the prince tonight, and you're actually supposed to go to a private meeting before you're going to be going to what's called Elysium, which is basically the, it's sort of like a party, not necessarily a party party, but it's basically neutral ground where vampires from all sex can come, sect, S-E-C-T, not sexes. Although vampires of all sexes as well.
00:14:28
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can come and meet on neutral ground and no violence is allowed. No use of powers is allowed. Any use of powers or committing violence basically forfeits your safety while you're there. But your guaranteed safety to and from Elysium and while you're at Elysium. So no one can attack you when you are obviously on your way.
00:14:54
Speaker
when you're there or when you're obviously on your way back. The prince's protection extends to you during Elysium. And it's basically a place for all of the vampire aristocracy to meet up and mingle and anyone who needs an audience with the prince can come to Elysium and do it there. But you guys are supposed to meet around 10 p.m.
00:15:21
Speaker
for a private meeting with the prince before the start of Elysium. What time is it now? It's still January, so it's early, like, I don't know, 6.30 to 7. It just got dark.
00:15:39
Speaker
So if the, if vampires like just automatically go to sleep or, you know, not automatically, but like are almost basically forced to go to sleep as soon as the sun comes up more shortly thereafter. And we just, you know, sit up straight into, we just do that at any given time. Like you normally would as a human, or do we get up all at like six o'clock? Um, so it depends on, it kind of depends on how old you are, but basically.
00:16:06
Speaker
The younger ones, especially, will usually wake up right at sunset, like sometimes before the sun is completely down. In which case they can still be burned if they're not careful. That's good. OK. Yeah. What about if you're older? Do you wake up later? If you're older, you don't wake up until it's completely dark, usually. What if you want to be an early bird?
00:16:33
Speaker
I think there is one of those traits that you can get to do that. What are they called? The merits and flaws type stuff. I think there's one that does that. I mean, I just thought about like setting an alarm for like maybe five thirty. So well, for like five thirty, the the sun is just barely starting to go down. And as a young vampire, that wouldn't be too difficult.
00:17:04
Speaker
And the alarm would probably help. So when the sun is up, usually a vampire has to, technically they have to spend a willpower point. I just made Wesley roll it because I forgot. But he would have gained it back anyway because he gains back three. But to wake up when the sun is still up, you have to spend willpower for like every, I think it's like every
00:17:34
Speaker
So I don't remember exactly how long, but I feel like it's maybe every few minutes or something. But it also kind of has to do with your age and stuff like that. Well, your age and your blood potency. Because if you're also your blood potency increases with age, but also you can spend experience to increase it. And if you have really high blood potency, you are essentially the equivalent of an elder vampire.
00:18:04
Speaker
Who all is going to attempt to feed before the before you have to leave? I should probably do that. I'm definitely going to. All right. Do I still have a little bit of that wine in a bottle? Yeah, I'd say you probably got one more feeding of that. I mean, I don't I'm not even hungry, so it doesn't really matter. So, Bill, since you are still with
00:18:33
Speaker
your sire, you can choose to feed on one of her patients, and she'll let you do that. What is your hunger at? I'm at a two. Yeah, so you can choose to feed. We're not going to go through the details of it so we can not spend this whole session feeding again. But yeah, you can take a hunger from one of the patients. Hayden, your sire does not conveniently have
00:19:04
Speaker
someone for you to feed upon. But we can do a role. Since we kind of changed yours up, basically, you've got to find someone who's not an innocent. So I need to come up with a role for you to do that streetwise plus
00:19:31
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probably streetwise and wits to see if you can find yourself a criminal just wandering, you know, out on the streets. A non-innocent person. One success. So, I'm gonna use this in this book here. Let's see what you find. You find a guy jaywalking. A D-50, roll a D-50. Me? No, I'll just do it.
00:20:03
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There is 18 all right Yeah, you you actually do find a guy jaywalking he's stumbling across the street Wobbling around clearly drunk That this is who you find you don't you don't really know if he's innocent you've got to determine that In the eyes of the beholder
00:20:31
Speaker
Yeah, that there's a drunk dude walking across the street. And he is jaywalking. Top this man. Fucking kill him. Eat him. I guess I go up to him and just try to strike up a conversation and be like, hey, man, where are you coming from? Oh, did you come from the bar? What? What do you want? Damn.
00:21:02
Speaker
Like there's. I have no idea. Like, what am I supposed to do? I wrote one success, so I let you find somebody. Yeah. He's got public intoxication and jaywalking. Yeah, I asked him, how's your time at the bar? What were you up to? I mean, I was I was drinking. Yeah. No friends, not going home with anyone.
00:21:31
Speaker
Oh no, nobody tonight. Damn. Um, you got any, you got any, uh, any booze on you? Do I, would I? Probably not. Yeah, I don't think I would. Um, I don't feel like I really want to like drink the blood of a man jaywalking. I mean, that's not really like,
00:21:56
Speaker
I mean, you don't have to drink his blood. Yeah. So like, but I'll say I'll ask him what bar he came from. What was that? You don't have time to find anyone else before you get to. To the meeting or before it's time to go. Yeah, no, I. I'm not going to drink from him. All right. So, you know, he just kind of stumbles on his way and then you get a text from.
00:22:24
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Um, what's her face? Uh, yes, Tim saying, Hey, it's time to go. So you're going to, you're going to just going to be a little hungry. Yeah. I mean, three hunger is manageable. Four is when you have to start making like rules for like this, like three, unless someone just gets like their blood spilled, like a ton of blood.
00:22:48
Speaker
you're
Insights and Tensions in Vampire Society
00:22:49
Speaker
not going to have to roll anything for that. Four is when like small amounts of blood can potentially make you go insane. And then five is you go insane and jump on the nearest person. Um, and then Jerry, uh, you were able to get, uh, a drop, uh, a point of blood from your person. Uh, and so you are all either meet, well, you all meet up with your various sires. Um,
00:23:18
Speaker
And this is the first time all four of you will have been together since the party. Yeah, you've met each other. You've all met each other, I think. Well, I don't know if everybody has actually met everybody individually. Jerry has certainly met. Like, I don't know if Jerry and Max have ever met. No, I don't know, Jerry.
00:23:43
Speaker
No, I haven't. Wesley knows of me. I know of Wesley. Yeah. But I have seen Jerry. Yeah. And Cole around at the party. I saw them. Jerry would call Wesley. Probably has seen Cole, but I doubt he knows him very well. Cole's not doesn't work for Wesley. He's just the programmer who was involved in Jerry's app.
00:24:13
Speaker
Yeah, so, but Max and Wesley have fed together and Jerry and Cole have fed together. So you do have that experience with each other. So all of you arrive, all eight of you technically, because your sires are with you. And they, you know, they take you in their various vehicles to a small building in downtown Houston
00:24:43
Speaker
near the, in the museum district, the area where all the museums are. And this is just like a small random like little shop or something. You go into the back room and there is a guy whose name is, did I make a name for this dude? My notes are out of order. Let's break into the museum natural science and hang out with it. Hang out with the dinosaurs. All right. Well,
00:25:12
Speaker
Um, you are, uh, met at the door. Uh, you probably don't, you know, you don't all arrive at the same time, but as each of you arrive, you're met at the door by a, um, a man. He's wearing a suit. He's got one of the mustaches that do the curls and, um, and he's got a bow tie. And he's like, yes, welcome. Come on, come on in, come on in. The prince will be.
00:25:42
Speaker
Uh, make a. I know wits plus composure is to detect, like to detect surprise things, but probably. Awareness. Yes, awareness and wits. To know all of us rolling that or? I mean, Frank wants one asked, is he a vampire? Oh. So you don't he's pale scanned, you don't detect any
00:26:12
Speaker
obvious signs of the living. He's not using the blush of life. So he's probably dead. Yeah, yes, come in and he ushers you into a room. And it's like, it's kind of like a just like a maybe a meeting like there's some chairs. There's a couch, there's a desk, there's another door leading into another room. That door is locked.
00:26:42
Speaker
And if you mess with it, the guy's like, oh, please, don't mess with that. The prints will be coming through any moment. Don't touch what? Just the door. I'm just saying, if anyone tries to mess with the door on the other side of the building, he tells you not to mess with it. How far away is the door? It's not a large building. It's just like you're brought into this room and it's just like,
00:27:10
Speaker
a room that someone's put some chairs in and there's a desk in there and then there's another door. And he said, don't, don't mess with the door. He just said the prince will be coming through any moments. Don't mess with it. And it is locked if you did mess with it. Do, do I have a bucket and some water? No, you don't. Damn it. Okay. There are seven chairs. Uh,
00:27:38
Speaker
As the four of you arrive, the man ushers each of you to sit in a chair. Your sires are not offered chairs. They stand, well, I mean, they're mingling for now, like the ones who know each other, see each other. Carmen makes a comment about Imogen's outfit and David. Like a path of aggressive comment.
00:28:07
Speaker
That's a passive aggressive comment. David, you know, kind of comes up and slaps, you know, Tiv on the back and is like, you know, that they talk about their latest meal. I pull out my phone and start playing with it. It works. And with that many successes, it works for the night. Cool.
00:28:35
Speaker
I start playing fluffy bird again. All right. Carmen does notice you're on the phone and she comes over and and whispers to you when and all of you would have been coached on this person who you're meeting with is the most powerful vampire in town. Please be respectful, pay attention, things like that. Be on your best behavior when he arrives. And once once you all get there, eventually the the weird little man
00:29:05
Speaker
says he looks at his pocket watch and says, oh, yes, the prince should be here in just one more minute. And he goes and stands over by the door that he told you not to mess with. And literally 60 seconds later, he reaches and unlocks the door. And then right after he does that, the knob turns and in walks a man who
00:29:35
Speaker
I'm pretty sure his picture is in old style, so imagine him in, I guess, modern clothing. Prince Augustus Chapman Allen, Prince of Houston. Oh, look at this handsome dapper gentleman. Oh, I guess I should say before he walked in, you were all asked to have a seat. There are seven seats and only four of you. Your sires kind of stand against the back wall, just kind of stand over there.
00:30:05
Speaker
Do all of you take seats and do, you know, be on your best behavior or what are you doing? Yeah. I'm playing Flappy Bird. Still? Yeah. God damn it. Hey, the prince gave my sire a, well, told the sire to make me a person so that I can do things with tech. No, he didn't.
00:30:32
Speaker
I know, but that's what my, my, my character's thinking right now. Right. Right. Like it's been several days. There's been some weird shit. So I am just showing off that I can do stuff. Okay. Um, I, I like make it a point to like edge my chair away from him. Yeah. Um, Tiv is so Tiv Carmen.
00:31:02
Speaker
and Imogen are all standing up here respectful and stuff. David is kind of slouched leaning against the wall. He's not saying anything, but he's not putting on a show. So the prince walks in right after the door opens. If anyone wants to make a perception check to see what was in the room that he wants. I can try. I would totally like to perceive what happened. OK.
00:31:32
Speaker
Yeah, me too. I should tell you how to do that. Wits plus awareness or awareness plus wits. Three successes from Cole. Almost a crit. How do I roll a zero? Zero is 10. Oh, OK. Did I roll? No. Two. Everyone got a decent amount of successes. Who? So in the room that it came from,
00:31:57
Speaker
From what you can pretty clearly see through the door, it was a room with no other doors. The door was see through? No, when he opened the door and walked in, you guys could see into the room he came out of. And it was another room that had no doors leading out of it, besides the one that, you know, he just came through. So he was literally standing in a room with no doors, except the door that was in.
00:32:25
Speaker
Yes. And he sweeps in, uh, he's wearing a, a top hat and a long flowing trench coat. I've decided, I don't know what he's wearing in his picture, but that's what he's got on. It looked French Cody. Huh? It looked kind of okay. He's got the kind of jacket that he's wearing, but it's got one of those, like those tail things, you know, like the long tail. Yeah. The long tail. And he's got on a top hat. Does he have a cane?
00:32:55
Speaker
Yes. I have a cane. Definitely a cane. He walks in, he twirls his cane and says, welcome, welcome. Oh, good, good. I'm so glad you're here. I just wanted to meet you all. Please, please introduce yourselves. You there on the phone. Who are you? I kind of jerk and look up at him because I didn't realize what was happening because Flappy Bird is addictive.
00:33:24
Speaker
And I'm like, oh, Mr. Prince, yes, I am Cole Stone. Yes, like the creamery, but no ice cream included. Good. And your sire, he looks and Carmen steps forward, just like, that would be me, my lord. And he's like, all right, all right. And you, Benny, he looks at Jerry. James?
00:33:54
Speaker
Jerry Wilson, I'm curious to be here. Imogen brought me here and. Still not 100% sure if this is real or not. Oh yes, I'm sure we're all wondering if this is real and you and he points at. Max. I kind of like.
00:34:20
Speaker
Do like a little head tilt and I go, my name's Max. I'm honored to be here. Honored. The honor is all mine. And then last but not least, who is this fine gentleman? Wesley. Wesley Isaac. How's it going? I would say it's going splendidly. And he looks over at the man and he's like,
00:34:50
Speaker
Quick, I need a name. Because I didn't name this guy. He said he's old. Well, no, but he he's like a butler. Jeeves. Jeeves, really? He looks at the he says tonight would be splendidly, except Jeeves, tell me how how many how many child
00:35:20
Speaker
How do they say it? Childer, for some reason they say, it's child R-E. How many childer do you see here before me? Four, my lord. It's like four. Four. If I recall, I asked for seven. Well, I don't know where the other three are, and it's like,
00:35:47
Speaker
There were supposed to be seven and he swings his fist and... Where's his character sheet? Why didn't I open that? Open. He swings his fist at the guy and that would be... All right, that's eight successes. Is this a success? Nine successes.
00:36:15
Speaker
Um, yeah, he swings his fist at the dude and the guy's lower jaw just flies off and goes across the room. And then he, he, uh, he turns to, um, uh, he's like, why, why would I only want four when I asked for seven? Do any of you know, do I look mad? And, uh, uh, I roll politics to see like.
00:36:46
Speaker
Give if I have like any idea why because my character knows a little bit about this because it's kind of like what he talked his Sire about yeah the the Civil War in The Politics plus I guess intelligence As a side note, I slowly put my phone in my pocket Five successes
00:37:15
Speaker
So from the Civil War, you don't know any reason why he would do this. You do know that specifically your sire called him the Mad Prince. Yeah, that's that's one thing I know about him. Don't say that to his face, of course. Yeah, he comes from a group that like legit has visions. Yes. And it was his visions that told you all to told him to create them.
00:37:44
Speaker
And he turns away from you guys and says, Jeeves, where are Maya 3? And Jeeves kind of like, oh, you know, can't speak. And he's like, oh, useless. Very well then. It will be your task. And he looks back to you guys to bring me the other three. And then he turns and walks out of the room. Have a nice night. And walks back into that room with no exit. And shuts the door.
00:38:12
Speaker
And Jeeves is just like, he's still alive because he's a vampire and picks up his lower jaw and looks at it and then looks at you guys. And then he goes and locks the door to the prince's room and just kind of makes a gurgling noise and kind of motions to the door.
00:38:42
Speaker
Are we supposed to go in door for you guys to leave? And I'm going to turn to everyone. I'm like, wow, he likes to make an entrance and an exit, doesn't he? And then Tim is like, yeah, that that went about as well as I guess we could have expected. Let's get the hell out of here. Did anybody else notice that there's no other door in that room?
00:39:07
Speaker
I mean, he can probably teleport to an effect. I know that's a power. I'm going to I'm going to whisper. I guess who would probably be the closest, the closest other one to me. Of the group of the. The party member or the NPC. Yeah. Of us, but of the of the group. I don't know. You all can determine what order you wanted to be in.
00:39:37
Speaker
I can be sitting next to him. All right, I'm just gonna whisper to you really quietly. Is he fucking insane? I mean, they do call on the mad prince. Holy shit, are you serious? Yeah. What the hell? We take our P's and Q's from this maniac? I mean, that's kind of how it happens. Crazy people become the most powerful.
00:40:07
Speaker
I hate that you're right. So you guys, I guess, eventually head out of the room. Look, I asked him, like, where are the other ones? I mean. I didn't know they were supposed to be other ones, says. Honestly, like, I knew that there were others. I did. I didn't have a number. She glances over at at Jeeves and he just kind of.
00:40:34
Speaker
You notice that a little bit of his jaw has grown back because, you know, Rouse checks. But there's only so much you can do against aggravated damage. And it'll probably take him a few nights to fully get his strength back. And then he starts to make a noise and then stops and then pulls out a little notepad and writes down something, passes it over to Tiv.
00:41:03
Speaker
And then he takes his jaw and he leaves. And she said, he said he'll get us the information, that he'll have the information for us by the end of Elysium. Yeah, so your people, they're like, well, I guess we should go to Elysium. That way you guys can meet some of the others.
00:41:30
Speaker
uh other vampires and it's kind of expected like this was an unofficial meeting of the prince like you still have to go and like and this is um tiv talking and she's like you still have to go and she puts an air quotes meet him publicly so that like everyone knows you guys are allowed to uh exist here um i guess we'll find out more information about those
00:42:00
Speaker
missing three later. I don't know what's going on with that. And so they they lead you across the street to the Museum of Fine Arts. And you see a sign that says sneak preview of the hats off Halston. Hats from the Masterson collection, which doesn't open until the public until January 11th.
00:42:29
Speaker
but you're getting a sneak peek of it. It's a collection of various hats, wigs, and hair accessories from the mid-20th century. And then Carmen stops when she sees that, and she's like, oh, shit. We probably should have dressed up for the, oh, well. So when you guys go in, there's going to be that there's various vampires and weird hats and wigs.
00:42:56
Speaker
And there's hats and wigs on display because that is what was at the Museum of Fine Arts in January. Specifically from the mid 20th century, which I don't even know what that, let's see what mid 20th century hats look like. 1950s. 1950s.
00:43:24
Speaker
Yeah, like the bowler hats. Yeah, yeah. So a bunch of bowler hats with like, I don't know, signs describing why this hat is special. But that's not what anyone's actually there for. Wandering around the museum are various waiters and waitresses, and they've got goblets of blood
00:43:53
Speaker
fresh enough for even the pickiest vampire to tolerate. Some vampires only like blood straight from the source. But this blood is fresh enough. You don't know where this blood came from. You don't know if it's innocent blood or not. But hey, it's blood if you want to drink it. I will attempt to grab a glass as it walks past. And they don't stop you? I take a glass. Yep.
00:44:24
Speaker
Do you drink it? I drink it. Yeah. When you drink it, you can tell that this tastes almost as fresh as it did when you drank from that woman the other night. Like this was probably from tonight, you know. That's great. I drink the rest of it. Less than an hour old. It still falls in the bag or carrot of the glory because it's bag or blood.
00:44:51
Speaker
I mean, any of you are allowed to drink this blood. None of you have things that specifically say you can't drink blood out of a cup. I pull a flask out of my pocket and fill it with the next thing. Yeah. There are a lot of like a pretty big mix of people mingling around. I'd say maybe 30 or 40 people wandering around this place.
00:45:20
Speaker
Some of them are clearly seem out of place. You spot a guy who has like, there's a couple of vampires that straight up look like monsters. They've got like weird, elongated jaws and pointy ears and
00:45:48
Speaker
And all of their teeth are long and pointed and they've got like long claw-like fingernails. And these are the Nosferatu, the ones who are cursed with the monstrous appearance. There are incredibly beautiful vampires. There are normal looking vampires, I guess. And after a little while,
00:46:17
Speaker
So what does everyone do at this party? I'm kind of just awkwardly like doing that whole take your husband to the mall thing. I'm just kind of awkwardly kind of. Yeah, yeah. As you enter one room, random room, you know, there's there's a few rooms in this museum. As you enter one room, there's a chair and you notice the prince is sitting in the chair. He's already there.
00:46:45
Speaker
Um, and, uh, sitting in this chair with this top hat on and there's like a line of people, you know, waiting to speak with them. Are there like groups of people that like are obvious parts of clans? Um, I would say you guys don't know well enough. I mean, the Nosferatu are obvious. Um, but the rest of the people like,
00:47:12
Speaker
There are some people who look like they literally came in off the streets, and some people who are wearing Armani suits. And everyone is being relatively respectful to each other. There's obviously a few clicks of the beautiful people are over there, and the punky people tend to hang out with each other. Yeah, so I guess the beautiful people, I would know
00:47:42
Speaker
I want to find one of them because they're useful gossips. I remember this from session one. At least I wrote the notes down. You find a pretty beautiful woman talking to a group of people. What are you going to do or say? What are they talking about before I arrive?
00:48:11
Speaker
Uh, that they're kind of talking about like, oh man, then those, uh, Australian wildfires, you know, that, that, that's definitely going to be the biggest thing we talk about this year. I walk up to one of them and go, Hey, did you, uh, hear about the missing new bloods? Um, the, the, the woman that the beautiful one, um, she turns and, uh, uh,
00:48:41
Speaker
She kind of like looks you up and down and says, she's like, I heard about them. I know they were supposed to be seven. Why are you one of them, I assume? I am one of them. Apparently the prince got pissed and busted someone's jaw off. Now we're tasked to finding the other ones. Jeeves, I assume he's had to grow that back a few times.
00:49:10
Speaker
Poor dude. Yeah, it's a tough position being the prince's butler. Yeah, I don't know if I would be adequate for that job if I were to put it in a good way. If you want more information, you'd need to roll something. Yeah.
00:49:36
Speaker
I'm just trying to figure out how to say it and then roll for it. I guess I would say. I mean, I know our. My sire was specifically talked to about this happening. I assume it happened to the other stars as well. Do you have any idea who they might be? Give me a role. Would that be?
00:50:07
Speaker
Persuasion? Yeah. Persuasion plus charisma or manipulation, depending on how you want to call it. I'll go charisma. I would say charisma or manipulation. Based off what you're saying, it could be either. But if you chose manipulation, a failure could be she's realizing you're manipulating her type of thing. Oh, yeah. I don't want to do that. Yeah. I'm actually trying to be friends. Right.
00:50:38
Speaker
Do I add any modifiers? No. Three successes, all right. So that gets you all of her secrets for this purpose. She says, well, my name is Laurie, by the way. Oh, it's nice to meet you, Laurie. Sorry, I'm Max.
00:51:04
Speaker
She she holds out her hand in that like way for you to like kiss it. Oh, I do that. Yeah. Most gentle of kisses. A pleasure to meet you, Max. So I do know that another another Toriador, Olivia, was supposed to embrace one of the the new kindred for the prince, but I don't know where she is right now. I do know she she frequently
00:51:32
Speaker
likes to frequent a nightclub called Darkspire. So Olivia was supposed to sire. She's supposed to be one of the ones who sire them, and she's known to frequent a nightclub called Darkspire. There's also, I heard there's a gangro by the name of Jess, Jess Krauklis.
00:52:00
Speaker
begrudgingly answers to the Camry. I wouldn't be surprised if she had refused to embrace someone at the orders of the prince, but I have no idea where she might be. And as far as the third person, alas, I don't know anything about that one. It really does irk me. I mean, how am I supposed to become the Harpy if I can't find something like that out, the Harpy?
00:52:28
Speaker
It's like the spokesperson for the Camarilla. The public master of whispers. So you have the name of two of the sires that were supposed to embrace people. And who's Gringle? So Jess is a gangrel. Oh, he is a Gringle. Let's see. Bill?
00:52:58
Speaker
Yeah, fine. I had an interaction that was gonna happen for you. Oh, I'm so happy because I was actually about to I was actually about to faux pas my way up to up to a fucking Nosferatu. Oh, you're Yeah, you can do that. Oh, shit. Well, then I guess I should just stick with my with the faux pas interaction. I'm gonna kind of
00:53:23
Speaker
I'll grab a drink, just to kind of blend in with that. I'm not really drinking. Is there is there a way I pay for the gossip? I remember that being like. To pay for the gossip. Yeah, because I remember you saying like you give gossip for gossip or there's some exchange. Not an official way. OK. Bill.
00:53:53
Speaker
wants to go up to a random Nosferatu. Yeah. And yeah, I'm basically just going to have a, I'm basically going to have, you know, a drink and not going to be like drinking. I'm just going to kind of have it just kind of fit in, you know, cause again, awkward husband at the mall kind of feel from him right now. I'm like, uh, I'm a bit overwhelmed. I'm a, I'm a bit overwhelmed.
00:54:20
Speaker
So yeah, there's there is a Nosferatu nearby. He's kind of standing quietly in a corner observing. And yeah. Alright, I'm going to kind of. Edge my way over to him just a little bit and I'm going to turn to him be like. How's it? How's how? How is it going? He looks at you.
00:54:48
Speaker
and smiles at a toothy grin revealing his, you know, serrated teeth and says, it's going, it's, it's, it's going splint, it's, no, I don't want to say splendidly again. Why is that word in my head? It's what old people would say. Trying to find the accent, I don't know the accent, it's going great.
00:55:15
Speaker
That's that's gone for you kid And by the way bills not starting this is all Jerry I'm I'm I'm good What
00:55:39
Speaker
I'm just going to come out. OK, I'm sorry. I'm just going to come out and say it. What's what's going on in my face? I wasn't going to say it so bluntly, but yes. Don't worry about it, kid. A lot of people want to know what's going on with this this masterpiece here. Yeah, it's a curse of the clan. You know, all of you, you other types, you get to look pretty. But but but we know Sforatu.
00:56:09
Speaker
where we, and Bill, you've read about the Nosferatu in the documents. We didn't get so lucky in the cheekbones department, if you know what I mean. Right. So out of curiosity, why are we doing this? Exactly. This whole meet and greet type thing.
00:56:39
Speaker
It's tradition. You've got to be presented to the prince that lets all the other bloodsuckers here in town know about you, know you're a thing and know you're welcome here. Otherwise, if you're a rogue vampire walking through town, anybody can just pick you up and take you home for dinner if they wanted. So everyone, everyone, everyone pretty much kowtos to that
00:57:09
Speaker
that the guy that comes and goes out of the room with no other way in. He chuckles at that and he's like, well, let's just say he's the baddest of the bads in town. I mean, you've seen Jeeves, right? You saw what happened to his jaw.
00:57:37
Speaker
That's a children's play compared to what he can do to your brain. What do you mean? What can he do to my brain? He can drive you insane just by looking at you if he wants to. You think he's insane. He can turn your mind into a bowl of pudding if you want it. Oh.
00:58:07
Speaker
Okay. Shit. And it won't even be blood pudding. Funny. That's adorable. So, out of curiosity, I noticed, you know, the stuff I was made to read, it said, you know, we all get along during these meetups, but what about all the rest of the time? Do the clans get along? Well, I mean...
00:58:37
Speaker
The clans, I guess, get along fine for the most part. But individuals, when you live hundreds of years, you're bound to find, make some enemies. And everybody's playing the game. They all want that top seat.
00:58:55
Speaker
Right. So out of curiosity, who's who are the big power players to keep an eye out for here? Because you seem like the type that's not going to care about about your about these formalities so much. He he just like belly laughs at that. And eventually he you know, he catches his breath. And he's like, well,
00:59:22
Speaker
I mean, you're right. I don't care about playing the game, but you're looking at one of the power players, Oscar Peretta, Permigin of the Nosferatu. Permigin, your book, your information is one of the council members, basically, of the city. He points over to Max, who's talking to an incredibly beautiful woman. That there's Lori.
00:59:51
Speaker
Laurie Harris, she's the Torridor primogen. He points over at the prince. You already met him. The prince, the stiff standing next to him, that's Joan Ellen Ridge. She's his sinus chal, which basically means she's kind of his, like Jeeves is his butler, but she's actually his right-hand man.
01:00:19
Speaker
Uh, he glances around the room. Uh, he's like, Oh, up over there. You got two fun. She's the, the sheriff. Don't piss her off. She's got the authority to just, uh, take your life. If she, if she, uh, thinks you're a problem. Um, what was it? What was that last name? The one that you said could end me murder you on T U P H A N T U P
01:00:51
Speaker
There's this that I don't see it right now, but there's the Ventrue primogen James Oliver Jason he points at a dude who is out on he's like there's like some light music playing and the guy's just like grabbing, you know Random vampires out of the crowd and like dancing with them that over there is Jason
01:01:16
Speaker
Jason Moser, he's the Brupah Permigian. Oh, yeah. Somewhere around here, she doesn't usually pay that much attention to these things, but she's probably around there. Wait, is that a shear? Kiet von Tran, that would be the Tremere Permigian.
01:01:48
Speaker
And yeah, I think those are the big players there's definitely some other people Who you know are worth meeting but uh, you know that you'll have to get to know them on your own These are the public figures anyway Myself included All right All right, that's uh, well great to meet you Yeah, you ever need anything let me know
01:02:15
Speaker
You're new, so I'll let you know. Nosferatu, you need secrets. We got them. For a price. What's the price? Depends on the secret. All right. Do you have anything on the prints? You couldn't afford that. Yeah, that's a big price there, buddy boy. Well, I thought I'd break the ice, ask the question.
01:02:45
Speaker
If I wanted information on him, what would the price be? What kind of information are you looking for? You got to understand that kind of information is kind of information that could get me killed. So I'm going to need a major boon at the very least. Information that he definitely doesn't want someone of my caliber noticing. And what would it cost me?
01:03:15
Speaker
Well, when I say cost, I don't mean money just so you're understanding. I mean favors. Oh yeah, I get you. I get you. That's something that I want to ask Lori if there's like a favor I could do with her. What can I do for you right now with what I've got for some information with the level I'm at?
01:03:41
Speaker
And it doesn't need to be on the print. It can be just something to help me get by. You're going to have to be a little more specific. I mean, there's information. You want to know where somebody's haven is, or you want to know what the next winning lottery tickets are. There's different levels of information. All right.
01:04:10
Speaker
I don't know what the next living winning lottery ticket is Well, well, it's a good thing. I don't gamble No, what I want to know aside from information on our wonderfully Wonderfully, let's say eccentric Prince Is there anyone in this town that I need that we need to watch out that I need to watch out for that's not a
01:04:36
Speaker
let's say, of a clan. Of a clan. You mean like humans? Pretty much. I've seen movies. I always see the big premise is vampire hunters. And if I've got to be like this, I would rather not be iced too quickly. Well, no hunters that I know of in town right now.
01:05:05
Speaker
I can tell you that if we knew there was a hunter in town, that'd be public knowledge. That's a threat to us all. There's always the risk of attracting them. So always watch out for that. But I can't think of any major human threats you'd need to know of right now. All right. Then is there any two questions, two last questions then, and then I'll let you get back to your party. One.
01:05:35
Speaker
Is there any way I can contact you when this is over, and two? Actually, give him some sort of roll. You're wanting, let's see. You're not intimidating him. You're not leading him. I mean, it'd be persuasion probably plus charisma. OK, persuasion.
01:06:07
Speaker
I'm good at that. So let's see a couple things. Let's see. Something I picked up on the radar recently, there's a. Actually, there's a vampire club that started up that that somebody opened up over at at University of Houston. Far as I know, it's not actually anything to do with vampires, but more people who
01:06:36
Speaker
Like, I don't know, maybe they're into Twilight or Buffy the Vampire Slayer or something. But it could be an interesting opportunity as long as no masquerade breaches occur. That's kind of all you're going to get for two successes. Right, right. All right.
01:06:56
Speaker
Good to know, a bunch of posers, that's good. Is there any way I can contact you after this? And also, what would I find that you would definitely want? I mean, I want anything secret. Anything secret, okay. Well, fun fact. I may or may not have access to secrets on a number of high-ranking humans.
01:07:27
Speaker
in the city, political figures and whatnot. I tend to meet a bunch of people. I tend to meet and try to help a bunch of people. Now, most of the people I'd interact with are not going to be people you'll be interested in and are not people I'm interested in divulging information about. But occasionally, I come across some things about certain people that usually someone would be interested in.
01:08:00
Speaker
Well, I'll tell you what, mortal world, less interesting than the immortal world. But if you find something particularly juicy and you want to try and get a hold of me, he hands you his card. Oh, fancy. OK. All right. Well, I appreciate all the information, Oscar.
01:08:31
Speaker
No problem. And with that, I'm going to do something stupid. If you want to go to someone else right before I do this, you can. But that Tufon lady, that Oscar warned me not to piss off. You will piss her off. I'm going to go over there and just see to what extent I might qualify as pissing her off.
01:09:00
Speaker
OK, we'll get to that. Before we go back to jump back to Hayden, were any of Jaden or Frank, did you want to do anything? I think Jaden's not here anymore. He's probably dead. Yeah, Jaden's gone gone. He's not even in Discord. Oh. He pissed off too much. Apparently. All right, well, Jaden's gone. That means any of the Jaden-specific information you could have learned is lost.
01:09:33
Speaker
What were you going to ask? Lori. If there's any favors that I can do. Oh dear, I don't need anything from you right now. Alright, and I guess that's when I say, well, if you do. Since it seems like the Prince's. I'm revolving around the Prince right now. And you need anything.
01:10:00
Speaker
Here's my number. All right. She, she takes down your number, you know, you give it to her. Frank, what are you, what is Cole doing? Um, so as we know, Cole is, um, a stereotypical geek, uh, tech nerd type person. Um, so he does not.
01:10:28
Speaker
He does not have very good social ability. Yeah. So he probably like, as everybody kind of dispersed into the crowd, he probably just went over to whatever the equivalent of a bar would be and ordered a blood. Yeah. I mean, there's, there's a bar, I guess.
01:10:59
Speaker
Uh, but, uh, and it does, it is a fully stocked bar, but yeah, they've got blood. So I go up to him and I'm like, I would like one blood, please. Uh, coming right up, sir. And the guy, the guy, uh, you know, goes under the counter, pulls out a bottle of red liquid, pours it into a cup, hands it to you. Before I take it, I say, uh, Qantos S.
01:11:27
Speaker
I don't know which is which is how much in Spanish? Oh, it's on the house. So no, cool. So I just take the bottle instead of just taking the glass. I mean, he doesn't really object. It's like, would you like salt with that or perhaps a shot of whiskey? I the whiskey has to be in the blood for me to make it work, right? Yeah. We've also got a number of drugs. I
01:11:56
Speaker
A shot of whiskey in the bottle of blood should be fine. All right. He drops a shot of whiskey and shakes it up for you, then hands it over. One shot. If you're taking the entire bottle, one shot is not going to really give you anything, but it'll change the flavor. I'm just looking for a little bit of a flavor enhancer.
01:12:22
Speaker
So, um, I accept the bottle of blood from the guy that he's dropped one thing of whiskey in. Um, I pour, I pour as much into my flask as possible and then just probably just drink straight out of the bottle. Cause fuck it. Yeah. Um, and so I turned to the guy and I'm, and I go, so, um, do you like D and D? Uh, I've heard of it. Doesn't really think, doesn't sound like it'd be my thing.
01:12:52
Speaker
Oh, it's everybody's thing. Eventually, isn't it like, like, I mean, I don't know. It's it's all pretend and when you when you when you become a vampire, like play in a game where vampires exist. Like, what's the what's the point like? But you could be a vampire in a game. And then you're a vampire real life, too.
01:13:24
Speaker
It's like Inception, but not as cool. I mean, I guess. I mean, do you want to roll to convince him to want to try J&D? No, I was just trying to start up a conversation that I don't talk about. So yeah, it's like Inception was a good movie. Roll that persuasion, Frank, to make him like me.
01:13:53
Speaker
All right. We can play. We can play that the hell game within the vampire. Actually, the vampire podcast I'm listening to, they did a D&D game as their vampire characters playing D&D. And that'd be so it was good. The role rolling to roll, bro. Good Lord. I'm a new player to do. That's another dude.
01:14:24
Speaker
Yeah, that's some next level. Yeah. You have to role play as your character, role playing your other character. Yeah. Good. Fuck, dude. That would be way too difficult. Well, one of them was a Transylvanian, like very classic, you know, blah type vampire playing a lawful good paladin. Yeah, it was he was he was the best part of that episode.
01:14:54
Speaker
So what do I got to roll to persuade this guy? Persuasion plus maybe charisma? Yeah, yeah. That would work. One success. He's kind of like unconvinced, but says, I mean, I'll give it a try, like buy it a GameStop. I mean, you're better off going
01:15:25
Speaker
You're better off going to your local comic book store. Oftentimes, nerd congregates in these types of places, and you might be able to find one that is open-linked. In which case, I'm sure they could have a table and ready for you. And if you don't like it, then, you know, it's a late night stack if nothing else. All right, hold on. I need a random name generator. Random name generator. Boom.
01:15:56
Speaker
God, that's terrible. Yeah, my name... My name is... Chin-Wei Guatom. Chin-Wei! Chin-Wei! I guess, I don't know. I think you found the wrong character generator. Well, I didn't, uh...
01:16:26
Speaker
change any of the options to it's just on all so i have no idea where that name comes from oh my god i can generate life story hold up okay he's masculine type child no he's not a child nationality uh well his name changed so maybe this isn't isn't right okay let's change his name to uh
01:16:55
Speaker
He's French. He was born January 31st. OK, this is not working. It's a child. He has liver disease, OK? And he's whatever. His name is Chin-Wei Guatam. He's not French. Well, nice to meet you, Chin-Wei. I am Cole. Nice to meet you.
01:17:25
Speaker
Cole. Here, here's my card. Here's my card. If you can, if you ever find me by that's developing apps. I do that sometimes. He takes your card. Also, if you find a late night DnD store, please let me know. I must change my game time. And my previous group probably will not join me. Seeing as how I am now a vampire.
01:17:54
Speaker
like you. Oh, I'm not a vampire. Oh, thank God. Oh, God. This is I was really. But I know all about you. I mean, I'm I'm I'm what they I don't really like this name because I don't feel like one, but I'm called a ghoul for some reason. I can try to turn you into a vampire. Oh, I don't I don't think my master.
01:18:25
Speaker
Possible have you ever seen the show? Um, uh, oh my god, what's the name of that show? Um Is it? It's so stupid, uh But it involves vampires The vampire electron no No, that was a book series the comedy. Um, god, I watched this show recently
01:18:51
Speaker
What we do in the shadows? We do in the shadows. You ever watch what we do in the shadows? No. Oh, OK. Well, basically, like I'm what's called a familiar. In that show, but they call me a ghoul and and like I hang out with vampires and and and like they they sometimes they give me their blood and like it makes me strong. But you can't turn into a vampire.
01:19:19
Speaker
I mean, you know, they don't want me to, at least right now, because I can go out in the daylight. Yeah, but I could totally turn you into a vampire. But then I couldn't go out in the daylight? Yeah, but you get to stay up all night. It's almost as good. But like, my master, he needs me to go out in the daylight for him. Right, but I mean, then we could be buddies and you wouldn't have to worry about having a master.
01:19:50
Speaker
I mean, I guess we could still be buddies. He's not like an oppressive master. Trying to persuade him? Hold up, let me pull up stats for ghoul real quick so I can do a roll for him. That is the highest I can roll, and it is three successes. Not bad, yeah. Well, you could get a crit. You could get a crit. True. Also, what's your hunger at?
01:20:20
Speaker
Uh, zero. It should be a one. Okay. It's that one. Yeah. You can only go to zero if you murder somebody. Okay. That, that matters because if you get a crit on your hunger dice, uh, bad things happen. And well, it depends on how you look at it. Supernatural things happen. Um, um, I don't know this guy, that would be.
01:20:49
Speaker
What do you do to resist persuasion? He says, look, I mean, that sounds, look, I've got your card. That sounds pretty tempting. Like, I'm interested. I'm interested. But also, did Carmen in your player notes, the notes that talked about the thing, did Carmen tell you about the blood bond?
01:21:18
Speaker
Um, she did. I see it in basic vampire powers. So you would know that, uh, someone who drinks a vampire's blood becomes bound to them. So it's, it's, it will be very difficult for him to like not do what his master wants. But I made three successes. Yeah. So he's considering it.
01:21:44
Speaker
Like literally for him to actually go try and do it, he would have to like make lots of willpower rules and stuff. He's, he's fully blood bound to his master. So it's like three successes for you is good, but on the difficulty chart, that's only a medium 16. What, what if I gave him some of my blood? Well, if you do give him some of your blood, um, you can begin forming a bond to him.
01:22:14
Speaker
Okay. I, I would like to give him some blood. I mean, he's definitely going to take your blood if you offer it. He likes it. I take my flask and pour the, the boozy blood back in the bottle. And, and then I take a, uh, I'm assuming they have some sort of paring knife for like the lemons and lines and shit behind the counter. I take that and like Nick, my, my, uh, wrist and then.
01:22:43
Speaker
fill up the, the, the, the hip flask with, with time back. All right. I got to make him do a roll. Um, let's see. And it's only like, just like a regular hip flask. This is one of those like novelty, very large ones. Like that could double as an armor plate. Uh, yeah, he, um, he, three ones and a nine. Um,
01:23:11
Speaker
He does not succeed his willpower role to resist your persuasion. So he will drink a dose of your blood. Did she explain to you how to create the bond? I assume I have to drink from him first. No. You give him your blood, it creates a bond. Basically, he has to drink from you
01:23:40
Speaker
three different times on three different nights within basically like a month or so. But you'll have a bond level one from doing this, which means he is favorable towards you. So like me giving him a flask of blood is not going to do it? No. He would have to basically like be. When I guess. Hmm.
01:24:09
Speaker
It doesn't really explain that. I guess if he drank some more tomorrow night, cause it doesn't say the vampire blood has to be fresh against humans. Yeah, he takes a swig in the flask. We'll see how this plays out. I tell him that there should be enough in, in there for like roughly three doses. And if he takes it for three different days, then he can become a vampire.
01:24:37
Speaker
Because I think that's how that works. Well, that's not how that works. He becomes your ghoul at that point. Well, he's already a ghoul. He becomes blood down to you. I don't know how to make a vampire. Nobody told me how to make a vampire. Did she? So I am just making an assumption. Yeah. Like, I know how I became a vampire, and that was me dying or something. Yeah. I'm not too clear on the rules. So I assume what I'm telling this guy is the truth.
01:25:07
Speaker
Yeah, I don't see a note in here. I don't see anything in your notes that said that she explained how to make a vampire and that's because uh according to the law the rules of the the traditions the um The the third tradition is thou shall only sire another with the permission of thine elder And nobody told me that No, it's in your notes. She told you that Right, but I didn't pay attention That's true
01:25:39
Speaker
I'm not breaking the rule. I'm only ignorant of it. Bill, you were going to go talk to this sheriff person. Oh, yeah. All right. So so what do you do? Is she talking to anyone? Is standing imposingly have a character sheet for her? She's just standing there menacingly. She's standing menacingly, observing the crowd, making sure no one's breaking the rules.
01:26:11
Speaker
All right, then I'm pretty much just going to kind of walk up and is she up against the wall or anything? I just kind of like leaning. Well, yeah, leaning in the corner in the corner of the room. All right. I'm going to kind of just walk up next door and just kind of lean on the wall next door. Going to be like. Hey, how's it going? She says nothing. Does she even look at me?
01:26:41
Speaker
Make a perception check. Oh, shit. Ron, you know my roles. Why do you keep making me make roles? Awareness plus wits. All right. Awareness. Come on. I got it. I got two successes. Um, I mean, I shift towards you and then shift away. OK. OK, I'm going to do something really fucking stupid here. All right.
01:27:12
Speaker
Yeah, exactly majorly famous last words So I'm gonna Not directly looking at her but definitely speaking it to her So I was informed you're definitely the person I should go out of my way not to piss off Why is that? she Looks at you for for a moment and then
01:27:42
Speaker
She says, basically, I am the prince's enforcer, and then gets up and walks to the other side of the room and leans against the wall. All right. Do I see that? Want to, if you want to be paying attention. Yeah. I see that, and I look at him from across the room, and I go, damn, did that one hurt?
01:28:11
Speaker
I'm gonna look over at him, and I'm gonna, I've met him at this. Wait, I know you. Yeah, no wait, I don't know you. I only met you just now when we got here. Okay, I'm gonna look at you right when you say that. I'm gonna wink, and I'm gonna continue this level of stupidity, and I'm gonna walk over to where she did and lean on the wall, basically on the same side, and be like, so what exactly is it that you enforce?
01:28:41
Speaker
Just out of curiosity, why does the prince need an enforcer? Hold on. Oh, god. Ron's about to make a secret role. Jerry's dead. All right, so she stands up, stops landing on the wall, and turns to you. The lights in the room flicker, and you notice
01:29:09
Speaker
shadows seem to pool around her. Her eyes are black as the void. And she says, I enforce the masquerade. I enforce the laws of the city. And I enforce whatever the prince may ask of me. And I don't like interruptions in my duties. And she reaches out. You are welcome to attempt to dodge this. But she reaches, touch your arm.
01:29:40
Speaker
Like if you can stand there, you know, she's not. Doesn't I mean her if if it wasn't for the darkness and black eyes and stuff, you would probably think she's just reaching out to touch your arm, but you can choose to attempt to, you know, dodge if you want. Yeah, I'm going to do that. What do I need to roll for that? Give me a let's see, that would be Dex plus. Roll Dex plus plus athletics.
01:30:11
Speaker
Athletics. OK. Athletics plus decks. One. That's two successes from her. Dance. Yeah, so she reaches out, touches you, like, places a hand on your arm. And it feels like... Have you ever been shocked, like, touched a shock wire or...
01:30:40
Speaker
You know something like that that like jolt like it like jerks your whole body Y'all probably won't be surprised to hear this but yes several times. Yes, so it feels Yeah, I got I got zapped several feet back when I worked at Jamba juice because about because of a frayed wire and a wet floor You take
01:31:08
Speaker
two levels of aggravated damage and your wrist is broken. Ooh, my wrist is broken. Oh, shit. Yeah, so that would be change two of your health, the red boxes, to X's. Oh, shit. And then she walks away. The good news is it couldn't have been more than two damage, but the bad news is it couldn't have been less than two damage.
01:31:35
Speaker
As as she's walking away, I'm just gonna kind of wins You know, I was under the impression that according to the rules warden we were not supposed to be using our powers here You just broke the rules warden who enforces the enforcer Yeah, those are good points Yeah, it's actually a kind of like the area and then they look at her and they just kind of turn away
01:32:07
Speaker
And she goes back to the other back to where she originally was leans against the wall and looks around. When as she's looking around, she's this is I'm not going to I'm not going to push my luck a second time or should I? Oh. Or should I? I saw it do it. You hear me yell from the bar. I saw that. All right.
01:32:37
Speaker
I'm going to do one last stupid thing. So you see Imogen coming towards you. Are you trying to go over to the Tufon lady? Only within 10 feet. I'm not getting close to her. Just close enough to where she can definitely 100%. I know for a fact she can hear me. And just as Imogen is walking, I'm going to be like, it'll be a shame.
01:33:07
Speaker
If someone if someone has to come and enforce on the enforcer, wouldn't it? And then I'm just kind of kind of. Go with Imogen, I'm sure I'm going to get a scolding. She's like, are you crazy?
Questioning Authority and Social Dynamics
01:33:18
Speaker
What the hell are you doing? And like I don't I don't respect authority. She grabs your arm and like, you know, takes you over to that. Ow, ow, ow, ow. That's broken. Thank you. Do I see Tiv anywhere around here?
01:33:32
Speaker
She's she's mingling much like she did at the party except she's not you know doing the whole thing where she's Always keeping you in an eyesight, you know, she's actually mingling, you know, yeah Hayden you're up go talk to two fun. I look at two fun and I just shake my head and walk away and
01:33:59
Speaker
I'm not gonna die session three or four, whichever one this is. Um... Well, I mean, she can't kill you. The mad prince has demanded... Yeah, that doesn't mean I should put my balls into the fire pan, okay? Um... I mean, you know, a quick dip ain't gonna hurt you.
01:34:25
Speaker
Yeah, just just do, you know, just, you know, like tea, tea bag the water a little bit, you know, just test the waters a little bit. Oh, that's a little too. Oh, oh, kind of like it, though. Oh. Are there any other gringles in this gang area? There. There are none that I mean, they're not recognizable. I guess I would ask Laurie Harris if. There's any present. She's on the room.
01:34:55
Speaker
And she says, no, no, I don't see any here. They're not common in the Camarilla. I guess that's when I go and find my sire, Tiv. OK. Yeah, let's see. She's talking to a woman.
01:35:22
Speaker
This woman probably looks to be of, based off of her, the way she's dressed, African, not just African-American, but like African. Great African. Yeah. Okay. Has kind of like some of the African jewelry. I mean, she could be African-American, but she's just dressed with like African style jewelry and stuff.
01:35:51
Speaker
you know, like she's from Wakanda or something. Wakanda. I walk up to Tiv and I go, so what's the purpose of these gatherings? Tiv turns to you and she's like, well, it's, I mean, for me, it's to speak with some of my contacts.
01:36:20
Speaker
But everybody comes here for different reasons. Some people come here because they want to just suck up to the higher ups. Some people come here because it's a nice, safe place to make business dealings and things like that. Some people just come to socialize. She looks over at the dude who's
01:36:49
Speaker
keeps trying to find people to dance with them. And, you know, it's just it's it's a formal party, I guess. And so I guess I got information on. Two out of three other people. Oh, really, which which two? I was talking to Laurie Harris over there. And she told me about Olivia Taylor and Jess Perkles.
01:37:19
Speaker
I never heard of either of those. At this point, the Wakandan woman speaks up. She mentioned Jess. And I turn to her and I go, oh, I am so sorry, I didn't even see you there. And I offer my hand. She shakes it. Rashida. Rashida. Max. This is my sire.
01:37:48
Speaker
Highly honored to be her. And I look at her, am I consider your child or something? Spawn, little spawn Satan. Tiv, tiv kind of, kind of laughs at that. She's like, yeah, it's what the old timers call new, new vampire. Like I am considered your sire. You're considered my child. Well, I'll refrain from calling you mom. So yeah, yeah, that'd be a little awkward. Yeah. They say the first time.
01:38:17
Speaker
They spell it weird. It's got an E at the end of it. Probably British or something, I don't know. Rashida says, she says, you know, I heard something about an animal attack near Jess's Haven recently, a couple of nights ago. Well, you know, I think New Year's Eve, actually. Oh, that's when I was turned by Tif on New Year's.
01:38:49
Speaker
Yeah. So do you think someone was like trying to stop him from turning or do you think it was like him asking himself up? Is he known to do something like that? Well, she is a gang girl and they do. Oh, they're the ones that like shape for him or something. They're hanging around a lot of animals. Yeah, they do hang around with animals, but but I. Yeah, I don't know the detail. I remember something about an animal attack happening
01:39:16
Speaker
around where Haven is. And she kind of gives you the, did I put where it actually is? I didn't. She kind of gives you the general area where the, she doesn't know where specifically, cause a lot of vampires keep that kind of stuff secret. She doesn't know where exactly Jess sleeps, but she gives you the general area. What's the area called Haven? A Haven. Oh, a Haven. Okay. Yeah.
01:39:45
Speaker
But she couldn't tell you exactly where it is. We'll figure that out later. And that is the useful information that that NPC has. And I ask, hey, Rashida, by chance, what a clan are you part of? I'm part of the Ministry. Yeah, the Ministry are one of a weird clan. Not much is known about them. Yeah.
01:40:13
Speaker
And I go, you guys special in magic, right? We dabble. OK. And that's when I turn to Tiv and I go, so, Sire, is there anyone that I should talk to or try to find out more about anyone that might know Jess?
Prince's Awkward Welcome and Observations
01:40:37
Speaker
You can mention that. Do you hear a, that's,
01:40:41
Speaker
This is not a glass cup and I don't have a spoon. So that didn't sound right. You hear someone, you know, doing the tapping the cup on the spoon to get people's attention. And it is the sinus sinus shawl, however you say that word. And she is standing, getting everyone's attention. She's like the prince's right hand person. Um, Joe, Joan, Joanne, Joanne Ellen Ridge. Man, there's a lot of female vampires.
01:41:09
Speaker
I mean, there's male ones too. I mean, Bill talked to one. I talked to one. Yeah. Well, now you talk to a human, a ghoul. She gets everyone's attention and then the prince stands up and where is his line? She gets everyone's attention and says, would the four newborns please come forward?
01:41:39
Speaker
I strut my stuff up there, trying to look as confident as possible. And yeah, you all get up in front of the group, stand before the prince, and he stands up. Welcome, he stands up and says, welcome young neonates to Houston and to the Camarilla. May you follow the traditions
01:42:09
Speaker
and enjoy your eternity. And then he stands there awkwardly for a moment and then says, bye, turns and walks out of the room. The room that he walks into, do we see any doors? This is a really important question. Does he walk into a room with no other doors? Well, you don't know. You'd have to follow him. But I follow him. A couple of people kind of like awkwardly clap. Frank follows the prince.
01:42:39
Speaker
The door was a closet and you don't see him. Well, I mean, at least he's getting out like not just walking into a room and waiting for us to leave. And with the the awkward clap silence thing, that's when I turn around and do kind of like a little bow and I go. And when Max turns around, you see the prince on the other side of the room and he's like chatting with a couple of people.
01:43:07
Speaker
and drinking a glass of blood. Nice. Super speed or teleportation of some sort. He's a bit of a showman. Seems much more friendly than he did in your private meeting. It's all a facade, though. Maybe. He's also insane, so. Yeah. That's why it's a facade. Yeah. So you guys have found out about two of the people that you're expected to find.
01:43:35
Speaker
There's one you haven't found out about. That would be one of my questions to Tim about is there anyone that might have any information on the mystery guy?
Intelligence Gathering and Clan Strategies
01:43:50
Speaker
I saw you talking to Laurie earlier and if she didn't know the most likely person would be Oscar.
01:43:59
Speaker
Uh, he, he should be pretty easy to spot. She like, unless he's invisible right now, she like looks around the room and sees the guy that Bill was talking to Oscar Paretta, the Nosferatu primogen that, that he's, he's, he'd be in the know. If Lori doesn't know it, he definitely knows it. She's the town gossip. He's the town peeping top. I don't, she keeps all the secrets. And I go, all right.
01:44:30
Speaker
go do my suddenly duty. And I turn around and walk off to him. OK, while you do that to Fon, well, Carmen had approached to Fon and the two of them are walking over to Frank to Cole. Are you still at the bar? Yeah, well. I might have gone to the restroom.
01:44:59
Speaker
Oh, that's right. You did go look at the closet that the Prince was in. Yeah, I mean, because I'm already away from the bar, so I'd probably go to the restroom, splash some water in my face, wash my hands. They don't go into the restroom to find you, although they probably figure it's unlikely you're peeing. I'd probably, like, you know, mount up to the urinal,
01:45:29
Speaker
And I wait there for a second, you know, like mount that. Yeah. Yeah. You don't you don't you don't climb on top of the urinals. I do not assert my dominance upon everyone in the bathroom. Why not? You should be doing that every time. But after after after realizing I'm not going to pee. I just kind of like shake my head and then like zip my pants back up.
01:46:00
Speaker
And if I want to browse the blood and and activate blush of life, you can make yourself pee. Let's do it. Of course, they have a mechanic for that. It's when we get caught by humans, like prove you're not a vampire. Oh, shit. Let me just shit myself right now. With blush of life, you basically can function like a human. Granted, you would have needed to drink some liquid. I mean, the blood gets absorbed into your your
01:46:29
Speaker
body, your bloodstream, so you can't really pee that out. But although you do cry tears, so I guess you could pee blood that called an STD. Yeah. Yeah. So when you come out of the bed, the restroom, Carmen and the sheriff are waiting for you. And she says, Cole, I wanted you to I wanted to introduce you to the sheriff to fun.
Modern Technology vs. Vampire Traditions
01:46:58
Speaker
And she is the highest ranking of our clan here in Houston and reaches out to shake your hand. I reach out and shake her hand. And your hand does not break. It's a normal handshake. That's awesome. I pull out my phone and say, hey, so I probably get your number.
01:47:27
Speaker
And I turned it on and handed it over to her. It turns off. She looks at the phone, surprised that it was on in the first place, and says, I see Carmen was right about you, and hands the phone back. I do not have a phone number. Oh, that sucks. Well, I mean, you have an email, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Instagram.
01:47:58
Speaker
She does seem a bit flustered for a moment. And then grabs one of the random waiter people and whispers something to them. Of course, man. And they run off. It's like, I probably have some of those, but let me get my secretary. Ooh, do I get one of those? Well, I mean, I pay this person.
01:48:28
Speaker
Oh, can I get one but not pay them? Well, the blood is very powerful. You could certainly bond someone and then they'd likely do what when I say pay, I mean, I pay them in blood. I mean, I do give them a salary, you know, that they live a comfortable life. And then a guy comes out and it's like you needed something, ma'am. It's like this.
01:48:58
Speaker
He's asking for my email. I turn my phone. I turn my phone back on. And she's again, she looks impressed. And the guy's like, oh, yes, of course, you know, he like reaches into his pocket, hands you a card and it's got like a phone number and an email and and a Twitter and like all that good stuff. Facebook page that she's probably never seen before.
01:49:28
Speaker
I tweet out, hang in with the fam, hashtag her name, her Twitter handle, and then take a picture of both of us. Both of you are blurry in the picture. God damn it. Actually, all three of you are. I post it anyways, but damn it. Oh, well.
01:49:56
Speaker
And yeah, she's like, I don't know what that is. But yeah, if you need to get ahold of me, you can get ahold of him. And he handles those kind of things. Awesome. So I'll definitely, if I have any issues or any questions or just need something, I'll get with him directly. Of course.
01:50:22
Speaker
Well, while I have you Apparently I have to go find Somebody Three somebody's actually I don't know maybe you know who I'm supposed to go find well, yes, you're the Of course, you're you're looking for three. Well, I don't know the names of the the newborns assuming that they were created and
01:50:51
Speaker
But I do know the names of the people of the sires.
Investigating Breaches and Vampire Laws
01:50:56
Speaker
Yeah, things like her. She. That there is Olivia Taylor, who is a Toria door, Liam. Hold on. I don't have my notes app open. Hold on. I'll you know, just. Well, no, I was in game. Oh, OK. All right, go.
01:51:20
Speaker
There's Olivia Taylor, the Toreador, Liam Riva, the Nosferatu, and Jess Crouplitz, the Gangrel. Wait, who was the second one? I will copy those three names for y'all. OK, Olivia, Jess, and what was the other one? They're there. Olivia, Jess, and Liam. Liam is the one that y'all haven't found out yet.
01:51:50
Speaker
And she goes on to tell you because it that this she only is interested in talking to you Because you're the new blood Of her clan she goes on to tell you word her no, that's that that's what I write down in my note my nose Okay, Liam River no such as just something the ginger Olivia Taylor Tora doors um
01:52:19
Speaker
I don't. So I don't know where Liam or or Olivia. Well, actually, I don't know where any of them are, but Liam and Olivia have not been on my radar recently. However, figure of speech. However, I did I have been looking into the rumor of a bunch of kind
01:52:47
Speaker
being torn to bits by a beast of some sort. Gangro unknown to have claws, so maybe it was one of them. I can get you more information on this later, but it was near the haven of Jess, and she tells you Jess's address. Well, it's not really an address. It's more like a bridge that she lives under.
01:53:15
Speaker
But she tells you the nearest intersection, basically. These are all things I'm writing in my little notes. Yeah. It's a bridge on a bride. She lives under a bride. Awesome. Well, I appreciate all the information. Yeah. I haven't looked into the incident too much because it hasn't really hit the local news.
01:53:44
Speaker
It's not really a masquerade breach and therefore not really my concern, but it is something that seems like it might be useful to you. Well, I greatly appreciate that, and I'll look into it for you and get back to you with any information. Of course, and if you do discover that it is a breach of any of the laws of the Kindred,
01:54:12
Speaker
either let, you know, get in touch with my secretary, they'll let me know and I'll take care of it. Do you by chance have like a quick reference guide on the laws of the kindred? She looks at Carmen and gives her a stern look and says, your sire should have informed you of the laws. Oh no, yeah, she totally did. I just, it'd be nice to have it in writing. I like to be thorough and... Carmen, or no,
01:54:42
Speaker
Jeffrey, please get him a copy of the traditions. And he's like, of course. He doesn't have it on him, though. I will totally accept electronic copies as well. That works perfectly. Oh, sweet. OK, I'll just text it to you later. Appreciate it, bro. Nux. What did you say? Nux.
01:55:10
Speaker
Knuckles. Oh, okay. He does. Yo, bro. Give me some low bones. I am a socially awkward person. So I try to use as many fun things as I can. So I think fun is the wrong adjective. Fun for me as a socially awkward geek. Okay.
01:55:38
Speaker
Man, I had to learn what the heck bet meant. Bet? Jaden is always saying bet, B-E-T. Like I bet you something or like... No, no, no. It's like when they say, hey, let's go out for drinks. Bet. Yeah. Oh, gosh. An affirmative agreement. Yeah. I mean, I figured out what it meant immediately, but I'm like, why? This is dumb. Why is this a word that people use for this? To be fair, like,
01:56:08
Speaker
to get a win, a win, W-I-N, turned into get a W, turned into dub, and now it's dubs, and now a one letter, or a three letter word turned into one letter, turned into a three letter word. Wait, so, I mean, I knew that dubs was W, but I didn't know that it meant win. Yeah, that's what it is. It's like, go get that dub, or let's get that dub. It's get that win.
01:56:38
Speaker
Whenever I heard let's go get dubs, I'm pretty sure I always thought of Buffalo Wild Wings. So I know that be dubs. Yeah, that's be dubs. I'm in reference. They just want wild wings. It doesn't have to be Buffalo. Yeah, it doesn't have to go for. Yeah, the chicken steak wild wings. So you now all three names. Yeah, you have all three names. You have the address of Jess.
01:57:07
Speaker
Do you know that, well, as a group, you know that Olivia frequents a specific nightclub and you have the name of the Nosferatu and one of you, I forget which one already, but one of you was told that, oh, no, Hayden was told that the Oscar dude, yeah, Oscar was, what is his name? Oscar. Oscar would be the one to know secrets like that. And he's a Nosferatu.
01:57:36
Speaker
So I pretty much got all the information that we need by myself, right?
Formulating a Plan for Finding Sires
01:57:44
Speaker
And and Hayden got all the information he needs for us as well. I assume it's going to be a team effort to go look into this, so I thought you've got names for everyone and locations for two of them. And the third one is yes, that's for a guy you have Liam's name.
01:58:04
Speaker
but you don't know where to go to find him. And I got the connections to Oscar. I know where Jess is. Yeah, you know, I've been given her heard the address of her haven, basically. Hey, who do you get? I had literally everyone else besides Liam. I had all that information besides Liam. Cool. All right. So we need.
01:58:32
Speaker
Nobody knows Liam. I guess we've already asked around about Liam and we haven't been, nobody's asked around about Liam. You were the first one to hear anything about Liam. Yeah, besides Liam, I pretty much had all of it. Um, did I already walk away from the conversation with the big boss lady? If you want to have, yes. Before I walk away, can I ask her about the Liam River and who might know information about him?
01:59:00
Speaker
If anyone's going to know information about him, it'd probably be Oscar, but that's when I guess I would be going up to Oscar. He deals in favors. So that, I mean, I couldn't tell you how much he would, how big a favor he would ask for that. Bill, what's your character's name? Jerry. I hear Jerry gives a meme background. I think that would be enough.
01:59:31
Speaker
Uh. No, probably not. Listen, I need to go back over to that wall and brood some more. I appreciate the conversation. I'm gonna go find the other four. Initiates. And and see if we can't figure out what we're going to do. Alright, and she goes back to the wall and Carmen's like. That that one pretty good, yeah.
01:59:59
Speaker
Um, she, she is way nicer than I thought she was going to be. I mean, she, she's the clan, you know, she's good with the clan and, uh, yeah, she doesn't like most, most other people except that she's, she, I, well, I won't comment on that. She likes the pants. I think she, she liked the fact that I could play with my phone.
02:00:30
Speaker
She likes the fact that that is pretty impressive. Do you do you think do you think I got a shot? With two. I well. Was that her name to to Fon? To my name is PHA and her first name is TU. To fun. I need to write that down.
02:00:56
Speaker
Big boss lady name to fund. Gotcha. All right. Yeah, I won't forget. There you go. Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen her show. I mean, if there's a romantic interest in anyone, even the print, she's she's devoted to them, but like. In a. Professional way.
02:01:24
Speaker
Well, she's way out of my league. So there's no chance I'm even going to try. Yeah. Yeah. Probably. Yeah. All right. Uh, she's, she's pretty, she's pretty hot too. Well, I mean, you're, you're not bad looking yourself. Oh, thank you. Even though you, I don't say it's that loud, but I didn't she like 40 something, but still a decent looking. She's, um,
02:01:54
Speaker
in the body of, she appears to be 42. Exactly, 42. I like how most everybody else had a weird interaction with their sires, and I'm just pretty chill with mine. And my clan is one of the more weird ones. Your clan is also a sellout. Your clan is one of the weird ones, but I kind of just decided that they're all pretty chill with each other.
02:02:22
Speaker
This is great. I appreciate it. All right. So, um, whatever the fuck your name is, I'm going to go see these guys real quick. I forgot her name. Carmen. I keep, I don't know why I'm having an issue with that, but, uh, yeah, I'm, uh, I'm gonna go find these guys and we're going to see if we can't figure what we're going to do. All right. All right. Bye, Carmen. I love you. Uh, okay.
02:02:50
Speaker
Did I give him too much of my blood? Shit. Everyone except for Max is technically bloodbound one to their Sires, but Max is un-bondable, so. All right, so I won the round. Only found that his Sire is attractive. I also have that skill point. What?
02:03:16
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I also have that skill point where I'm attractive, so it gives me a bonus on. Oh, yeah, there's no rules. Hayden, you're Max, right? No. I thought you were Max Cox. That's what I have. Max, is Jaden Max Cox? No, I am Max. Oh, my God, Hayden, shut up. OK. You got me double question myself. All right. So I wandered around till I find Max and I go up to him.
02:03:45
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And I go, hey, initiates, I have information for us. Jerry's going to see them talking, and he's going to go over to him as well. I put Jerry as a physical human buffer between us. Wesley, meanwhile, has been talking to the Ventrue primogen, and they've just been talking about business crap.
02:04:15
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It's very boring. Well, I've been I've been meaning to go over to. What's his bucket? What's Jaden's character's name, Wesley? I've been meaning to go over to Western and be like, man, you create a real shit storm in the company, and I've had to deal with that shit ever since you sold 10 percent. You've been no coin show in the past three days. I know. But all my coworkers have been texting me. Yeah, which I think I should send off a text real quick.
02:04:46
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OK, and it like point three to my boss and be like, Oh, hey, I'm. Sorry, I've been deathly ill doctor notes coming. You're well, what is it, 10? Yeah, your boss doesn't respond back right now. Yeah, you see that like the thing where it says they're typing, but then it stops.
02:05:14
Speaker
So that's always the worst. Yeah. Oh, no, you've been left on red. Now, it's my boss. He's lonely as fuck. He's he's up at like 10 o'clock at night. I got nothing going on. It's probably close to life. Maybe two of the parties been going off. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Any for a little while. Any any whore? I turned to to sorry. I turned to Jerry and I go, Jerry, you're a doctor, right?
02:05:45
Speaker
Uh, in a very, in a very literal, in a very literal sense. Yes. I'm not, I'm not a medical doctor. Do you think you can write me a doctor's note? How many times? You're a therapist, aren't you? Write me a fucking doctor's note. I can do that. How many times have you talked to somebody who has a doctor that calls themselves a doctor?
02:06:15
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And they weren't a fucking doctor. I don't really call myself a doctor. I kind of call myself everyone's friend. And then I'm going to kind of turn, and then I'm going to just kind of turn my head like real, real sarcastically. I'm going to go ahead and say, isn't that right too fun? Everybody's friend. I'm getting real drink the Kool-Aid vibes from you. You know that?
02:06:44
Speaker
That's my boss, man. You got to chill with her. She's pretty nice. I don't respect authority. I'm sorry. I'm Texan. Well, I mean, I am too, I think. I have to check my backstory for moments. I get a handwritten note from Jerry and then I put in an envelope and mail that bitch.
02:07:10
Speaker
Max has been super sick, have prescribed holistic medication. He gets fired the next day. I feel like you're fired for being dumb. Also going to send, going to send, I'm going to include my email address. Need to speak to you about his, about his potential mental state meeting therapy. Do not call before 6pm.
02:07:38
Speaker
Call after 6 p.m. Thank you. Oh, he's one of those light customers. God. So down to the five to seven, five to seven. Oh, God, those are terrible. Fucking five to Austin, dude, every day. No, yeah, every every day is a five to every day is going to be going to start at nine. And I'm like, what are we office?
02:08:12
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No, but yeah, so I guess we all trade the information, right? And then we need to go to Oscar. And I go, uh, Jerry, you already talked with Oscar, right? Oh yeah. I got his, got his con I got his, uh, info and everything. So if we need to, if we need, uh, specific information, the only thing is that he works, he works in favors. Oh, sweet. No problem. And I go over to Oscar and like, Hey, Oscar. Uh,
02:08:42
Speaker
What you need, kid? What type of favor would I need to do for you to get Liam Riva's address? He's got a really pretty mouth. And I turn over and look at him like and I. Shh. But he's dead. Given out somebody, somebody's haven, you know, especially one of the one of the clan.
02:09:15
Speaker
I'm not sure I'm willing to do that. We can give you the location of Jess prackles, the ginger is haven. He snorts. You mean under that bridge on blah, blah, blah street? Yeah, I already know that. Oh, what, what, what about Olivia? Well, we don't have our name down.
02:09:39
Speaker
We only have a place where she congregates often. I'm sure he knows all of this. He this is his job. We know where she congregates often. Yeah, OK. Good for you. I thought you wanted to know about Liam. Yeah, I was. I look at Cole and I go, Cole. Yes. Oh, quiet. Thank you. I pull up my phone and continue playing Flappy Bird.
02:10:10
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Thank you. And I go, uh, let me do some roles because this feels like it's getting to rolly situation. Yeah. And I go, yeah, no, I really understand snitching on a clan member. We're not snitching on a clan member, but giving out. I mean, somebody's, uh, where they lay their head at during the day. That's a, that's a big secret. They don't like that to be known.
02:10:36
Speaker
But this is kind of the prince and the prince doesn't get what he wants. Both of our next are on the chopping block. You do understand that decade on the chopping block. He said you got to find out where they are. And it's very true. But if I mentioned to the prince how much of a deep help you were. I'm sure he will recognize that. He he he glances over at the prince who's back in his chair. He's like,
02:11:06
Speaker
Yeah. Furry, just keep me out of your business with the prince. I'm rather fond of my jaw. All right. So if you help us, I'm sure he'll leave you alone. We'll make sure that. All right. All right. So sounds like you're intimidating him. All right. Yeah, I guess I'll. Oh, fuck. I don't want to intimidate.
02:11:36
Speaker
What I'm trying to communicate is. I mean, you with first you were definitely persuading, but now you basically threatened him and said, help us or we'll tell the prince. No, that that's definitely not what I tried to say. What I tried to say was if you help us. We'll let the prince know, but if you don't want the prince to know that we helped you, he won't know whatever you want, like whatever you want the prince to know, we'll say that to the prince.
02:12:07
Speaker
I'm thinking that's probably going to be a persuasion. Are you telling the truth or lying? I'm telling the truth. Why do I have a reason to lie to somebody to murder me right now? Persuasion plus manipulation, I would think. Tell you what. Do you know what? You seem like a good kid. You owe me a minor favor.
02:12:35
Speaker
later in the future. And yeah, I'll tell you, I'll tell you where where Liam hangs his hat. Minor favor vague, just as much as I like my women. There we go. Yeah, he you like your women vague, huh? He gives you the last known address of Liam, whatever the hell his last name was, Rivas Liam. Was it Riva? I don't remember. Liam Riva. Yeah, Liam Rivas. Last known address.
02:13:03
Speaker
He does move around a lot, but this is where he was staying last. I honestly I gotta say I was I was pretty surprised that he wasn't here tonight. Last I heard he really he he was planning on doing what the Prince said and and he should have been here. So you know friends with Jess. Or friends might be a strong word, but does he associate?
02:13:33
Speaker
Not as far as I know. Okay, because I heard Jess had a, there was an animal attack with him, right? Yeah, I heard something about that, but she is a gangrel, so, you know. Comes with the territory. Yeah. Is that, so I heard that from, obviously you probably know Lori, right? I know of her.
02:14:03
Speaker
Is Crangle would that she said it was like she said in the way that made it seem like it was abnormal for that to happen. Well, yeah, the bunch of it was a bunch of humans that got attacked. Oh, so that's like breaking one of the rules, right? Like keep it secret, keep it down on the down low. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure the sheriff's looking into it. But yeah, I mean, it could have just been an animal attack, but
02:14:31
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Yeah. A bunch of humans were attacked happened to be where happened to be near the, the bridge she, she tends to call home. So it's, you know, it's, it's suspicious, but it, you know, could have just been a pack of wild dogs or something. You know, that's like the third time I've heard of attacks occurring. Well, you've heard of the animal attack a few times. And then Bill got a mention of, Oh no, it wasn't an attack. He got a mention of the vampire club, but yeah.
02:15:00
Speaker
The animal attack, everyone's heard of it. And it only stands out because it was near her Haven, but there hasn't been an, it just happened, you know, a couple on New Year's Eve. Haven't had time to really find out what the heck's going on yet. And of course the specifics of any investigation would have been done by the sheriff herself, which she did say she would get you more information later.
02:15:29
Speaker
I guess really the only thing is to wait for broken jaw boy to come back, give us the information that he has or is going to get and then go and talk to either the sheriff or animal control about this whole situation to get some background information going on. And then also to visit Liam and his last known address and to go to Black Spire, the nightclub, see if we can run into Olivia Taylor.
02:15:59
Speaker
Yep. So y'all got your three, your three quests. And and we owe a minor favor to Oscar. Yes. No, you owe a minor favor that I never agreed to. True. You're part of the party. I am for the party. But yeah, I guess he could ask a favor that only I could get. Yeah. Yeah.
02:16:25
Speaker
Yeah, so I'm not saying I wouldn't help. I would totally help. It's just for clarification. I don't really find out any more useful information on those guys. If you just stay much longer, what is this guy's name? Well, Wesley Sire, I guess he doesn't matter, but he dips out pretty damn early. Imogen doesn't stay for very long.
02:16:53
Speaker
She tells Jerry, she's like, you're welcome to come back to the hospital, but now that you've been introduced to the prince, you are able to do as you please so long as you don't break any of the rules. You can go home if you want or wherever you think that you would like to sleep. Tiv gives
02:17:23
Speaker
gives you the same information, Max. You're a free man now. Well, as free as you can be in the hierarchy of vampire society. She's like, I'll be hitting you up with more clan-related information later. And I'll definitely check it in to make sure everything's going well for you. But same thing. She's like, you can use the warehouse for a couple more days if you want.
02:17:51
Speaker
We need to close that thing down. We can't be using it for much longer. It'll start getting suspicious. But yeah, basically, you're all free to go wherever the hell you want now. And you have a quest with, oh, the Jeeves does. Basically, he gives you the names. He gives you the names and the clans. So you already found everything out.
02:18:15
Speaker
That's more. Yeah, he doesn't give you any useful information. Like, I guess it would have been useful if you hadn't found out anything. But he gives you the names and clans of the three people, the three Sires. You know nothing about who they were supposed to turn. Apparently, nobody knows that except for the individuals. And your Sires could confirm that they were specifically told one-on-one, go turn this guy.
02:18:45
Speaker
So, like, nobody knows who the other people were supposed to, you know, turn. And they didn't really know who each other was supposed to, like, who the other, you know, people who were supposed to do that was. So, yeah. Is my guy self-aware enough to understand that he should be blood bonded to Tiv? As blood bonded as as much as he's drank from
02:19:15
Speaker
So he's supposed to be like positive. Well, you drank from her twice the same night. So you would only be blood bonded one. But let me see if I mentioned blood bond in your thing. I might have left that out. I don't know. It does say our blood combined others to us, essentially making them our slaves if we give them enough. I mean, that's kind of what she told you about that.
02:19:45
Speaker
But she didn't go into any detail. And you haven't tried to drink her blood. She's not specifically offered it. So as far as she knows, you are blood bond one to her. But you should look upon her favorably. I guess to keep up that image, I give her some of the information.
02:20:13
Speaker
Um, so she probably already knows the names. Um, but I'll let her know. She didn't know any of the names. I'll give her the names then. Yeah. She's like, yeah, thanks. Um, I mean, if you need help with this, I can help, but that was specifically my job is the task. So I not, I mean, like.
02:20:41
Speaker
Yes, I'm willing to help you if you need backup or something. But yeah, it's your task from the prince. All right. You know, I mean, yeah. Well, go do your skulky thing, Sire, and I'll do the hard work then. Yeah, I'll be getting back with you later. The clan will want, you know, the clan will be wanting to meet you and things like that. But there's no rush on any of that.
02:21:11
Speaker
Like you don't have to sleep in the dungeon anymore. Your un-life is your own for the time being, as long as you don't piss anyone off. And sorry for doing this to you. And her usual chipper, she got really awkward with that. And she's like, yeah, I'm going to go now. And actually,
02:21:39
Speaker
you do notice that she gives, well, I guess give me an insight role. Let's do Wits, or no, insight. Insight's a skill, right? Insight plus Wits. One success. You notice that she gives a look over at someone else. She leaves with someone, and she's definitely the submissive person in that.
02:22:09
Speaker
Relationships like what this person now ranks her and she doesn't She like based off of that weird awkwardness at the end there She seems nervous about whatever's happening next and she leaves with someone What does that someone look like have I seen them before now? Do I have enough to Like do I did I see them good enough to be able to describe them? I
02:22:36
Speaker
Uh, yeah, I mean, I don't have a description for them, but yeah, you would recognize them again. Like you could describe them to others. Okay. Because that's someone I would talk to. Well, bio, I would talk to Oscar about. Yeah. Or why, why talk to Oscar when I can go to my homie Lori? All right. Yeah. You can do that. Yeah. I, I shoot Lori a text.
02:23:06
Speaker
I go, hey, does this person sound familiar? And say, no rush, though. She's like, yeah, I think that's one of your clan mates. I mean, that's all you get for now. Yeah, yeah. I'm just putting that in my notes. Yeah. Tiv. There's Tiv. Oh, there you go.
02:23:33
Speaker
I guess if you wanted to, based off of that, maybe like, because you noticed she was nervous. I'm trying to think. She did mention something to you at one point that could give you a clue. I don't think. I think with only one success, you wouldn't be clued in on what it is. But we did mention something in a past session that if you had rolled a lot,
02:24:00
Speaker
you would have possibly been able to link the two things together. And so the night winds down. You guys are free to leave whenever you want. But eventually around like four in the morning, the prince at some point leaves. He left before it was even over. But eventually, the sinus shawl person says that we're closing it down for the night.
02:24:28
Speaker
that way because they've got to clean the place up for the mortals to come in the morning. Because, well, technically, I'm pretty sure the museum is probably closed on Sunday. But the cleaning crew, the mortal cleaning crew will be here soon. I guess I do drink some of the glasses that are going around during the night so I can get my hunger down. Yeah, you can get it all the way down to one if you want. Yeah. Yeah.
02:24:58
Speaker
Yeah, that's pretty much it. You've got the last locations, as much information as you can get for all three of the people, the three sires. Hopefully, they also sire to the people they were supposed to sire. Yeah, I guess the Jeebs guy,
02:25:28
Speaker
would have indicated, like, there's no, or one of your sires might have pointed out that there's no, like, no deadline on this. The prince just said, find them. So, you know, that, like, one of them recommends maybe by the next Elysium, but also you guys can attend to your own affairs as well. So, yeah. So.
02:25:56
Speaker
sessions, you know, think about like, a, we want to find these people, but also what things do your characters want to do to figure out their own on lives and what the heck they're going to do with their lives now? Yeah, my guys got a lot look for a new job. Yeah, that or he's got to convince them to let them work the night shift. And I work H or night shift. I can use I can use someone for nighttime security. There we go.
02:26:22
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Yeah. Hey, I mean, your character is not not a necessarily a combat character. He just got the combat clan. Yeah. But that doesn't mean he can't become one. I mean, Tif herself is basically an assassin. Who doesn't know how to drive. Yeah. I mean, most of my stats are charisma and intelligence. But then again, you know, James Bond is very I guess he's not an assassin.
02:26:54
Speaker
And he's also good with guns. Anyway, I guess we should say goodbye to our listeners that may one day exist. I'm going to do much more editing while I'm on vacation. So that was another episode of Houston After Dark from the
02:27:25
Speaker
integrated dice management podcast. Uh, this was StoryTeller from New York signing out. Hey, this is, this is Bill. I played Jerry. Don't bother trying to find me anywhere. You won't. Oh, I guess you can find me on Twitter at Verillian. Uh, I go. Yes. Uh, I am somebody and you can
02:27:54
Speaker
Probably find me somewhere. If I find me, I don't mean you'll actually find me. Well, I'm on Twitter, but I've never logged into it. That's not true. I have, but. You had to make it at some point. Yeah. OK, baby. All right. Bye, guys. All right. Later.
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02:29:21
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02:29:52
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02:30:22
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alright everyone we have to be quiet Hayden hasn't finished his test yet oh god yeah dude that shit was real and then I found I was fucking dyslexic bro that bro if you had a teacher that did that you'd had a you had a fucking sadistic asshole of a teacher that's why I have mommy kinks now bro
02:30:49
Speaker
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