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FATE Core - Bloodbath 1.4: God-ion Of The Galaxy
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Lorelei's Sister shows up to ask a very awkward favor, which leads in a direction that is quite opposite of the intended story; still a fun time though. Listen as David squirms with his own decision to go against the story hahahahahaha
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Transcript
Technical Troubles with Browsers
00:00:31
Speaker
says hold on oh wait david said don't push ah well now we pushed it's too late i've pushed it david's here his browser broke fuck oh shit all right do you mean like the zencaster browser broke david can you still hear us daddy no he still hears us so i don't know what happened and but I meant brave will not accept my mouse clicks. Well, that's what you get when you use brave. The only brave you need is the one with that little ginger girl in Scotland.
00:01:01
Speaker
think she's Scottish. I got to change my feet. I want her to change her feet. I love Merida. Oh, and David's offline. There he goes. He's dead forever. Do I just start a new one? because I don't know. It'll come back in. is this going to cause me heck later?
00:01:19
Speaker
Okay. We'll see. Hey, there he is. David, are you there? Yeah. Oh, perfect. him CPR right now. Yeah. I'm just leaving this in. I'm just leaving this in. yeah can yeah can you have one role for Can you have Roy roll for CPR? Mouth to mouth real quick. Hold on.
00:01:35
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. So... You guys are currently in the Ford Rapture, Rapture, Fraud Rapture. ah You guys just outran a giant. Well, let me just go with this.
00:01:48
Speaker
Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, ladies gentlemen. I've been every year. It is role players. and Welcome back to the game. This is it. I got a little distracted because David's shit broke just as I hit the record button, but that's okay. We're good now.
00:01:59
Speaker
um Hey, this is Bloodbath, episode four. If you don't know Bloodbath is episode four, then go listen to episode one.
Mission Recap: Escaping Hellhounds
00:02:05
Speaker
Why are you starting here, weirdo? um Anyway, so, a fuck, I lost my train of thought. There it is. I found it. Let's hop on.
00:02:13
Speaker
um Last time, what happened? You guys got sent on a job to go and blow up like a meat factory that was gluing like demon dog parts to other demons to try to make them juicier and stronger.
00:02:24
Speaker
And you guys blew that shit up and you blew up the leader and Roy did some really bad acting, which was fun. And then ah Agent 69 was pulling out explosives like it was no one's business.
00:02:35
Speaker
and Lorelai tried to be a little sneaky sneak and lie a bunch. It turns out that after you guys blew up all that stuff, a city doors open, you got chased by a bunch of hellhounds and motorcycles and giant walking fortresses.
00:02:47
Speaker
But agent 69 rolled so effing high and fucking you guys lost those guys. No sweat. And as you guys got off into the distance and you slowed down, um,
00:02:59
Speaker
Lorelai, as ah you were the only one sitting in the backseat and Roy is in the bed of the truck, you saw Materialite sitting right next to you was the little demon woman that you tried to fib to earlier with the wings.
00:03:10
Speaker
And then she would she dropped like an illusion that was cast upon herself or did she raise one? We don't know. And she revealed that it is, she says, sister, it's been far too long, which you know who your sister is,
Lilith's Revelation and Tension
00:03:23
Speaker
Lilith.
00:03:23
Speaker
So that's where we are right now. And I know that I cut it off in the episode when it comes out, but I cut off that David said I hit the brakes, but we can still say that he did that if he wants. I just didn't leave it in because it wasn't thematically as pleasing with what I wanted it to sound like. I hit the John Hitman slash Tobias Reaper slash Agent 69 hits the brakes.
00:03:43
Speaker
Hits the brakes. Okay, you hit the brakes. Really hard. Okay, you hit the brakes really hard. So you guys are in there with Lilith. Can you a roll? ah No, I think you can hit the brakes.
00:03:55
Speaker
think you know how to do that. um Unless you really want to roll just for fun. You don't really get anything for failing or passing. But if you want to roll just to kind of get the a good or bad roll out of the way, go for it. Can i roll my real dice?
00:04:06
Speaker
Yeah, roll your real dice because we can't see those. Yeah, was kidding. You don't have any fudge dice on you. I don't believe you. You don't have fate dice. No one does except for me. all right I definitely don't.
00:04:18
Speaker
So you hit you hit the brakes ah and you hear thump, thump, thump, thump as everybody hits the seat or the windows. um So I kind of gave a brief description of what Lilith looks like, but I figure since ah Cass, she's related to your character, do you want to tell us what you imagine she looks like?
00:04:34
Speaker
Oh, she looks almost basically like me because she's my twin sister. um She just has um probably... sh
00:04:47
Speaker
I'd say she had black hair instead of red hair because I have the cherry red hair and um she has black hair and then that's how people are able to distinguish us. Okay. exactly like Okay. She looks like you in every way except for your hair is red and hers is black.
00:05:02
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. Okay. Gotcha. All right. So yeah, John, uh, you only John hit man. Cause you put your name as John hitman, but Tobias hit the fucking break.
00:05:12
Speaker
Everybody hits the fucking thing, uh, hits their ceiling walls, whatever it is that you decide to hit when the breaks are hit. And then you see, she kind of slams into the front seat a little bit and she goes, Oh my word, darling. Did you see a deer up there?
00:05:27
Speaker
You must be careful when the roads, there's all sorts of, Animals, you know, that just jumped out in front of vehicles to
Lilith's Crush and Moral Dilemma
00:05:34
Speaker
be slain. aye Roy, kill.
00:05:37
Speaker
Punch in the face for me, darling. Wait, who's trying to punch me? Who's Roy? And she kind of peers behind her to see a large man with a large cross sitting in the back of the of the truck.
00:05:53
Speaker
yes Oh my look at you. as As soon as that happened, can like ah you you ah you told him to punch her, right? yeah Yeah, he doesn't. His fist goes through the window straight into her face.
00:06:06
Speaker
yeah You slug her and like Lorelai, you see his fucking fist comes through and like slugs her in the face. You see like her face turns into that like that demon with the wings that you talked to earlier for a moment, that succubus.
00:06:20
Speaker
like You see her face like turns into that and then like an illusion jumps back onto her face again. And she just kind of like holds onto her cheek and she goes... Now, I'm sure that whoever this is that I'm possessing is going to feel that when I'm done with them, but please don't undo my makeup.
00:06:36
Speaker
Can I roll my new fight skill to to throw her So you want to like, so you're in the seat. want to like reach in the back and like wrap that shit around and just like pull her up against this. I want to like grab her and pull her up against the seat.
00:06:53
Speaker
You know what? Sure. I'm going to, yeah. You know what? If you get at least a, I'd say a three, because it's kind of awkward to turn around over the seat and fucking like try to garage from the front. We'll see what happens. But this is my new fight skill, everybody.
00:07:06
Speaker
got a zero. You got You failed by a lot. ah ah fails it yeah like You're like reaching back. i Honestly, David, it's funny you say that. When I was tweaking the rules for this game for the podcast, I almost made a fail with style option. I was really tempted to make that.
00:07:22
Speaker
But I didn't because that was one more thing I had to remember and I didn't want to remember anything else. um so um So you're reaching back at this garrote. And you see she's just like – actually, I'd say you put the garrote like through around her neck for a second. And you just pull it straight through. And like for a second there, she's like incorporeal. And you just pull the garrote like back towards the seat.
00:07:42
Speaker
Okay, so it's not even like my fault, really. Yeah, no, it's not your fault. No, she's just really good at not getting killed. um And she goes, now I told you, darling, please do not mess with the makeup. What is wrong with you? I come here.
00:07:56
Speaker
If I had a white flag, I would wave it. Please stop assaulting me. I pull out a ah mini nuke fat man and shoot you at the truck.
00:08:08
Speaker
Ammo check. He just launches out and lands in front of us. Yeah, you roll my resources for that Yeah, you roll resources to see if you have a fat man. If you get at least a nine, I'd say you have a fat man. ah shit, wait till I can create an advantage. now i' was going to say, yeah, you're going to want to use all of your fate points right now. It's possible for me to roll a nine.
00:08:30
Speaker
It is very possible for you absolutely it is. It's uncommon, but it's not impossible. Absolutely. Anything's possible with fate dice and fatal points. I had a question. What's your question? How are you doing?
00:08:43
Speaker
No, I'm just kidding. ah how How am I doing? I'm great. Thank you for asking. I get my two fate points back from the previous session, right? Because of the refresh system. Yeah, whatever your refresh number is, that's what you get at the top of every session. So if you have three, then you get three fate points. Yeah, so I went down to two refresh because I have an extra stunt.
00:09:01
Speaker
Correct. So I get two points. Right. Oh, then I need to get rid of one of those for you. Okay, there we go. Let's get rid of that. Okay. All right. That's your refresh. Does anybody else have a refresh of two instead of three now? I do. You do? Okay, let me get rid of that.
00:09:13
Speaker
Yeah. the More for me. he Oh, damn. Yeah. So. ah So yeah. So she grabs a hold of your of your shoulder, Lorelei. And she
Debating Lilith's Offer
00:09:27
Speaker
says, darling, ah have you not learned to forgive and forget yet? It's been what? 300 years.
00:09:34
Speaker
Calm down. 400, darling. And you're the one that killed me and threw me into some weird thing. Well, to be fair, I didn't you going to be thrown into a soup. I just threw you into a pile that went into a soup.
00:09:48
Speaker
I didn't know. ah so, okay. Joke's on me, then. ha ha ha Great joke. um What is it that you want? Well, if i This is sort of a... Can I just relax? Because I feel i only have this body for a few more minutes, and I don't want it to be ruined by these thugs that you're hanging out with.
00:10:12
Speaker
No, darling, I'm not trusting you. What do you want? yeah Well, as you know, I'm a resourceful ah demon, and...
00:10:24
Speaker
I need a favor, and if you help me with my favor, I can get you into the Shining City on the Hill. Which, you know, what little I do know about your little task force. I know you're trying to take on the de devils and the angels and the mortals, right?
00:10:40
Speaker
Right, that's your whole thing. And I could give a damn if the angels go down. So I'll get you into the Shining City on the Hill. I have some connections. If you just help me with one little thing. i just need help with one thing.
00:10:53
Speaker
What, darling? You're talking so much. Because I'm nervous. I've never been nervous before and I'm nervous now. Why? These guys don't matter.
00:11:05
Speaker
What do you want? No, I'm not nervous about your friends. I'm nervous about the favor I'm asking. Oh, okay, darling. Sure. Whatever you want to tell yourself. They don't. Not everybody wants you. Just telling.
00:11:18
Speaker
Oh, here's the thing. i know that now, and I don't want them. There's just one that I want, and I'm nervous now. She has like her hands like clasped together. Like she's resting her chin on her hands on her knuckles.
00:11:31
Speaker
She like looks generally like I'd say like Tobias starts driving mid conversation. David types. Okay. So you guys start driving. And um so she just like she doesn't typically hold herself like this. She's kind of like scrunched over a little bit. Like she's usually much more like boisterous and tall and like very good posture.
00:11:51
Speaker
But she's kind of like hunched over and has her chin resting on her knuckles. She's like, I just... Promise you won't make fun of me.
00:12:01
Speaker
Fine, darling. Fine. I'll promise I will try not to make fun of you. Alright, but that's better than I thought I would get from you, if I'm honest. Um... Look, there's...
00:12:14
Speaker
this is There's a guy in a town that I kind of have a date with later tonight. And he's immortal, you know, and I haven't had one of those since before I became, a you know, what I am and what we are.
00:12:28
Speaker
um i mean, I have, but but ah but I like this one, you see. Don't make fun of me. I see you trying to smirk at me. Don't do it.
00:12:40
Speaker
don't know what you're talking about. I'm not smirking. Stop it. You stop it right now. Was
00:12:50
Speaker
but was that your phone? I got a text message for a lie. do not disturb
00:13:01
Speaker
that's a laurel brica no butli Lilith pulls out her phone. She goes, oh, that's him. He's checking to see if I'm coming. yeah What? Don't you judge me up there, human.
00:13:15
Speaker
It's pretty. ah Man, that's not very demon like. I know. okay I know. That's why I'm and embarrassed.
00:13:29
Speaker
You don't have to make me feel bad about myself. I already. Who is he, darling? His name is Adrian. Adrian. Yes, he's a little nerdy boy. yeah and He's not a boy, I should say. He's a man.
00:13:44
Speaker
i just call him a boy. He's like a cutesy thing or whatever. he German? What? Is he German? Maybe. I don't know what German is. He does have a cute little accent when he talks, though.
00:13:57
Speaker
Okay. Are we doing this? Okay. All right. ah What do you mean? know we did What? the What do you... Listen, listen. We don't owe you any work or jobs, nothing.
00:14:10
Speaker
And if you're going to be mean to my associate here, Lorelai, I don't know what... You claim to be sisters... I don't know if I believe that. She was a copy of me.
00:14:22
Speaker
I'm the original. copy A copy. I'm a copy of few other No, darling. We came out from the same womb. no that's just what they tell you to make you feel better, darling. But I am the originator.
00:14:37
Speaker
You are the replica. Okay? Are you sure? you sure I'm not the original? No, no, that's why there's no long-told tales of Lorelai and many of of Lilith, who was also forgotten.
00:14:55
Speaker
Only because everyone decided that you were the prettier one. Well, I mean, she kind of like fluffs her hair a little bit and plays with it. She goes, I mean, look at me, darling.
00:15:07
Speaker
You're the same face, you moron. oh Whatever you have to tell yourself, sister. Whatever you have to tell you yourself to sleep at night. Anyway, um look, I can feel your man in the back with a spike on his arm staring daggers at me.
00:15:25
Speaker
and i Can I just tell you... Look, all right. Look, sir, I'm not here. i would And any other day, i would flay your skin right off your bones, okay? But I just...
00:15:37
Speaker
today is not the day so were we not in unsafe driving conditions i would spike you ah would likely yes well the wheels are in motion i appreciate that roy oh is that your name tobias what a cute name While they're doing this conversation, I want to like stealthily draw my fucking ah pistol.
00:16:02
Speaker
Okay. All right. And i like you I would like to do it like so that she you know doesn't fucking notice. Casually driving in the car, very slow, methodical movements.
00:16:12
Speaker
Sure. You want to just roll? down to I want to shoot through the seat. All right. Uh, yeah, I'd say is Lilith or Lilith we're talking about here. So I'd say, but she is a little bit frazzled. So let's call it if you get ah four or higher, then you do it stealthily and she doesn't recognize that you're fussing around up there trying to get a fucking gun out.
00:16:34
Speaker
Yeah, I would say there's no fussing. Uh, but Oh, let's go. You got a follow four. rolled a four. i mean, so that makes You don't have to beat it further unless you really want to, but you've... I think that I... Yeah, I only have two points. We just started, so I'm like, all right.
00:16:49
Speaker
Maybe we just get the four, but I do want to see I do want to see her dip out of this truck right now. I don't like what she's doing here, so... She's going to see her... I can tell.
00:17:00
Speaker
You want to see her out of the truck? I would like her to get the fuck out. Yes. But I'm going to shoot her. Through the seat.
Confrontation with Lilith
00:17:10
Speaker
Alright, so you stealthily pulled out your gun. She doesn't know.
00:17:13
Speaker
Nobody knows that you've pulled your your gun out and that you're preparing to turn around. So are you still driving and trying to turn around and shoot through the seat while you drive? ah No, I would say that he could keep his eyes forward and then kind of glance over real quick and... Okay, and he's going to blast through your seat?
00:17:33
Speaker
It's like, you know, the gun's not visible, and he just pulls the trigger and, you know, it's going right through the seat. Okay, so before you do that, she goes on to say, like, he's got a cute accent, okay? Please don't just... I'm trying to just get to it.
00:17:47
Speaker
He... I put a hit out on him because I was worried that I liked him. And so I hired some people through unsavory channels to kill him. So I didn't have to feel this way any anymore, but now I feel bad about it and I don't want him dead, but I'm not allowed to void the contract because I hired angelic beings to do it.
00:18:06
Speaker
So now I'm in a bit of a bind because I did a bad thing and I don't want it to happen any anymore. So can you just go kill the hit men, the assassins,
00:18:17
Speaker
And then then I'll be done and I'll give you keys to get into the Shining City. Everybody wins. Right? Have you checked our alignment charts?
00:18:29
Speaker
No. What's that? Well, I would say at best we are... and look at Roy. and didn you I don't know actually know. Roy is an exception. I don't know what he is, but ah I don't think he gives a fuck, really.
00:18:43
Speaker
No, he doesn't. I don't think he gives a fuck about saving a human who's been fucking around with a demon. Right. Yeah, he, uh... Roy's debating whether or not he wants to kill a demon or kill a bunch of angels right now.
00:18:54
Speaker
And yeah it's a pretty easy debate to swing to one side of.
00:19:00
Speaker
And me, like well... don't know, it doesn't... I'm the hit... I am the hitman. So it really doesn't matter to me. However, Lorelei, I know for a fact she's not gonna give a goddamn fuck about this guy.
00:19:17
Speaker
Right, Lorelei? Absolutely not. I don't give a hot fuck. I'm not a hot fuck. Not even a cold fuck. Not even a cold fuck. I think you're out of luck.
00:19:29
Speaker
Because we don't give a fuck. Pull the trigger. ah Okay, go ahead and roll out... ah I guess that would be a shoot roll.
00:19:41
Speaker
Alright, you rolled a three on... You got a plus three. That's pretty good. That's pretty ah that's pretty solid. I'm going to say because you stealth it, she doesn't know what's coming, so she's not going to have like a ton of wiggle room to get out of the way.
00:19:55
Speaker
So I'm just going to roll an athletics at a fair to see if she can get out. She cannot. So yeah, you wound the body that she's inhabiting by one one damage. ah So you just blast through the seat.
00:20:07
Speaker
ah You know, you probably hit her through, I don't know, through part of the chest a little bit, and you see like a bunch of goop starts coming out. And she kind of reacts a little bit, and she goes, Darling, why?
00:20:19
Speaker
that is just simply rude. um And she goes, Stop the truck! I don't want to be here anymore! You guys are jerks! Lorelai, get the door open. You told me you would flay my skin word any other day. You would expect anything different?
00:20:34
Speaker
Well, any other day. Not today, you fool.
00:20:39
Speaker
She's like bleeding like all over the car seat. Oh, God, we should have put plastic bags on the seat. Yeah, that was that was my fault. She like she see like she sprouts like like her ah like the the avatar. She's using like their wings sprout like inside the back of the truck, just like creating like a whole mess back there.
00:20:59
Speaker
And she's like, that was mean. You all are mean. I just wanted to go on a nice date and get you guys into a nice place so that I could go and just see. This is why I hate people.
00:21:12
Speaker
Hang on, Lorelei. going to turn really hard to the direction of Lorelei. All right. So i asked Laura to open the door. Yeah. huh Did she open the door?
00:21:23
Speaker
I'm going to try to throw her out the door. Yes. I want to get her the fuck out of the truck. um She's going to wrap her arm around the seat belt and then throw the door open. All right. I'm going to turn really hard to in the opposite direction.
00:21:37
Speaker
Okay, this is not the direction I thought this was going to go, but I expected maybe something like this, but not quite. Yeah, no, I don't know what you expected. don't know what you expected but so know, I thought you guys were going to kill hitmen and... No. Are you kidding me?
00:21:51
Speaker
Sorry, Adam, you've got to call with something new There's an innocent Adrian out there that's going to die. ah that is true, an innocent young man. oh well, he was cavorting with a demon. He's not innocent.
00:22:02
Speaker
and He is innocent. He didn't know she was a demon. okay, well, Roy doesn't... but Okay, yeah, you I'd say you just fling her out, like again, like the body she's in, like, kinda just rolls on the ground behind you as you as you fling her out the door.
00:22:18
Speaker
Roy's gonna hit the top, could we stop the car momentarily? Yeah, sure. What's up, buddy? And I slam on the brakes. And then ah Roy, you know, he ah he jumps out of the vehicle and you hear the crunch of it. Like, I'm guessing gravel or asphalt or whatever.
Roy's Moral Contemplation
00:22:32
Speaker
Sure, whatever. and And then you know, of his shoes and the cross. Boom! As he walks towards the ah demon on the floor and says, Where is your true location?
00:22:44
Speaker
hear like she's like getting struggling to get up? You see like the fucking shoulders broken of like this succubus, but she took control over and she's just like bitching the whole time. She's like, of all the gods dams.
00:22:56
Speaker
See, now I'm using his name. Vain, Vain of all the petty. and she turns around and kind of sees you as like her arms like mangled. And she's like, as if I would tell you where I'm at.
00:23:12
Speaker
roy is goingnna Roy is going to squint his eyes. Would he possibly be able to find out? I know he's not good with magic, but he's he's good with demons. And if he could like ah ah figure out what type of demon this lady is, could he ah possibly figure out where she is?
00:23:28
Speaker
Or at least general location. She's to the south or something. I don't know if you would be able to know exactly because like she's in pretty much she's doing possession magic. So she's not like so.
00:23:40
Speaker
But I would say that, like, you know who Lilith is. Like, I don't know if you ever i don't think you've ever interacted with her before, but like you would know who she like who she is because of like what your art form is and your studies are.
00:23:53
Speaker
Mm hmm. So I don't know if I can, I don't think I can give it to you that you would know where she actually is. But I will say that Lilith is a talker. You know that she like she thinks very highly of herself.
00:24:06
Speaker
So like if you do want to find out anything about her, like or what she's doing, where she is, or any sort of clues, you have to get her to admit it herself because she's just a very arrogant person. Yeah. So he'd he'd go forward. um If I remember correctly, the demons don't go by those classifications, right?
00:24:22
Speaker
So I can't use that as a... ah Different demons might, but not always. But Lilith is just like in her own class. Yeah, yeah. um I had assumed so I wasn't going to put her in anything because she's probably beyond that shit.
00:24:36
Speaker
Yeah, she is one of the demon progenitors. Ah. Yeah, he he walks forward and goes, you were a demon created before the first day of Genesis, were you not?
00:24:49
Speaker
Oh, someone one has read my autobiography. What's an autobiography? Actually, I'm lying. i wrote that I wrote it, but an autobiography is where you write your own biography.
00:25:03
Speaker
see. But honestly, I didn't want to... It was boring, so i had someone else do it, but it still says autobiography on it. He'd like to go up, you know, maybe a solid yeah two two feet from her something, and then he's going to crouch down to her level, you know, his cross standing into the ground, and he goes...
00:25:20
Speaker
You know, i was thinking, and he he scratches his chin a little bit, if you were to tell me your location, we could save that young man. Well, you should save that young man. scratches the back of his head. I feel a little guilty for sort of punching you. My apologies for that.
00:25:40
Speaker
is there ah Is there any way we could learn your location? He sort of like gets in a little closer. and You see, Lorelai has, she's had a bit of a grudge for a while, but i I'm certain that those sibling bonds of yours could mend over time.
00:25:57
Speaker
Well, I'll have you know that Lorelai is not, you know, she's not some little princess who, i you know, does no wrong. She's a real see you next Thursday, if you know what I mean. Believe you me, I know.
00:26:13
Speaker
Well, I'll tell you this, right? The man, Adrian, that I wish to go and see, he's immortal just like you, okay? And I didn't show him that I was a demon, because originally I was going to bleed him dry and take a soul, but...
00:26:29
Speaker
But then feelings were caught, okay? This damn phone that he gave me. He's been texting me all the time. And I just, it's different. And I don't want to kill this one now. i changed my mind.
00:26:40
Speaker
So if you kill me, then an innocent man is going to be murdered and you'll have blood on your hands, young man. ah he Like, uh, Roy goes, what what do you mean? I wanted to kill you before.
00:26:52
Speaker
But now I realize an opportunity to make Lorelai less bitchy. Well, I'll have you know, the longer I'm around, the worse Lorelei feels. So the enemy of your enemy is... No, wait. How's that go?
00:27:05
Speaker
She's both our enemy, is what I'm saying. So we can be friends while we torture her, right? is there a witch She doesn't have a man. She'll be jealous if I get one. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Logic.
00:27:17
Speaker
It facts and logic time. who He's deceiving you, Roy. I'll have you know, darling, I have someone in my room right now that tells me wonderful compliments every day.
00:27:30
Speaker
Also, is that blood on our hands? You hired the hitman. You hired the hitman. That's not blood on... Yes, but now that you're aware that it's happening and you're not going to do anything about it, darling, it's on your hands too.
00:27:42
Speaker
Uh-uh, no. What kind of trolley problem is this? this The trolley problem is that you don't have me, and so you can't kill me, and yet this guy- no you're the guy in the trolley problem who tied the people down, and you're not facing justice for what you've done. Well, there's a world where just the trolley dies, darling. We can kill the trolley.
00:28:04
Speaker
no this is- And the end, you get off scot-free. No, not scot-free. I get a hot date. You guys get into the Shining City. Everybody wins, Dara. Can I kick her in the face? Sure, it's not really her, but you can kick the succubus in the face. I don't care. I'll kick the succubus in the face. I assume she feels some pain from it. Right. She has to, right?
00:28:24
Speaker
I would like to note, when ah Tobias said she's deceiving you, Roy says in his head, I know, god damn it. Yeah, I know you know, I know you know, buddy. I'll be honest, Lorelei, tell them.
00:28:37
Speaker
Tell them that this isn't my lying face. This is my truth face. I know you don't see it very often, but this is my truth face. This is also an illusion. Every face that you have, darling, is your lying face.
00:28:49
Speaker
Well, there you have it. Most faces, yes. and i And you're right, I'm wearing someone else's face right now. But I can assure you I'm very sad.
00:28:59
Speaker
can wear someone else's face. Shoot her in the face. Shoot her in the face? Shoot her in the face. Well, I'll let Roy do it. Wonderful. Mr. Roy, Mr. Roy, Mr. Roy, listen. This might be the last thing I get to say to you, but just listen. yeah <unk>s He's standing but he's standing up slowly so that i so that he could listen to what she has to say.
00:29:24
Speaker
Yeah, was going to say, look, innocent man is going to die if you keep me around and you do what I want you to do. Lorelai is more miserable. We both win here because I hate her.
00:29:35
Speaker
I killed her once. I want you to know that. I can help you kill her again. The point is, I don't want her miserable, I need to work with her so she needs to be less bitchy is what I'm trying to do here.
00:29:48
Speaker
Well, why don't you kill her and then I'll tag along with you. I'll be less bitchy. He like scrunches his nose and goes, your scent of sulfur is much more powerful than hers. My apologies. as he Oh, I did just put, I just just have a bath before I came here, darling.
00:30:03
Speaker
Yes, we bathe in uranium. so We bathe in uranium. As he, as he's, you know, he stands up and goes, the boy is innocent, but I doubt his fate would be much better with you.
00:30:21
Speaker
Not true. That's so sad. Oh, well, I'll just go find someone else to do it then. What is his location? if He's in Dulcet. He's in Dulcet City.
00:30:34
Speaker
Dulcet City. Yes. It's a, it's a little mortal town. Most people leave them alone, and it's just a nice place to meet people. Hmm.
00:30:46
Speaker
If we decide to change our minds, then so be it. ah He's going to raise his fucking Uzi that he received from from Tobias and says, So long, Lilith.
00:30:57
Speaker
And he's going to pull the trigger. as she As you go to pull the trigger, she like she yells, My number is seven. Text me if you do it. Pfft.
00:31:09
Speaker
yeah
00:31:13
Speaker
I'm guessing her form reverts back to the... or the Yeah, it was kinda fading in and out anyway. Right. So yeah, like, you just blast the succubus into oblivion, and then she just turns into a little pile of, like, ash on the ground.
00:31:27
Speaker
Can I block that number? Can I block the number seven? Yeah, you can block the number seven if you want, sure. Done. Roy's gonna walk walk up to the walk up to the the ashes and goes, succubus of the choir of unrest.
00:31:45
Speaker
She won't be missed. As he puts his Uzi away. And good job using the gun.
00:31:54
Speaker
Yay. I considered using the cross, but I don't know. I want to use something other than physique nowadays. what i want to change my skills. You were different, man. You changed, bro.
00:32:09
Speaker
You used to be about smiting people with crosses. now you turn your gun sideways when you shoot it. Gangsta Glocken. <unk>t help anymore I have, like, what's that, what's the fucking toy story to? It's like, I don't need you anymore. But no, he's he's going to, yeah, he's, he's going to keep in mind the boy that's about to be, or the I guess the man that's about to be killed as he climbs into the back of the truck.
00:32:36
Speaker
All right, let's go massacre about 50 more people. Let's see happens. if you don't want to go to Dulcet City, you can go wherever you want. I only had that planned for you because that's the only person you were going to talk to. But if you want to go back to base and get another job or if you want to just go explore the world, I mean, this can be... This was almost a different form of just like bottle episode kind of thing. So like, this could be whatever you want it to be. Right.
00:33:00
Speaker
Roy's going to like, as they're driving, he's going to lean um on the window and he's going to say... but It would be beneficial to have access to that city, no doubt. I'm guessing i close the window it's to leave it there.
00:33:15
Speaker
It's not an automatic window. His arm, like, if you could, like, his spike is trying closing. but like yeah He's got his ah his like arm on the window. Here he is, of course, oblivious to Tobias trying to close the window.
00:33:32
Speaker
Yeah, because, like, I mean, you would have to reach back through your back seat and then get the the window to try to shut it. There's no way, like, was just saying, Tobias, there's no way he gives a fuck about
Infiltrating the Shining City
00:33:43
Speaker
this, right? He does he does not care. Someone's like, if you don't do something, someone's going to die. You'd be like, if I do so someone die something, someone dies. But like I ro Roy he cares less about that. The man was cavorting with demons. He doesn't know that... Well, actually, no. Lilith did say that he didn't know, huh? but ah Yeah, she said that he she didn't reveal her demon side to him because she turned out to like him.
00:34:07
Speaker
to That's right. So um it's less that he ah he he cares about killing an innocent man. Because, I mean, ordinarily he he would somewhat care about that, but ah um he he he also feels that death is a better fate than ah dating a demon unknowingly.
00:34:24
Speaker
ah So the the main thing he has an issue with, though, is um this this is the city of angels that ah Lilith has access to, right? Yeah, it's the shining city on the hill.
00:34:35
Speaker
That would be of interest to Roy. um If it's not an interest ah to anyone else, then ah then you know it's to one. I mean, you can discuss that play to find out. You should bring that up with a group. Yeah, y'all can have that to have that scene, have a little discussion as you have a car ride. and that's that's what ah That's what he's doing right now as Tobias is trying to close the window.
00:34:55
Speaker
um He's like, access to the City of Angels would be beneficial, no doubt. i I would like to see the state of God's people. I'm sure it would be.
00:35:07
Speaker
um but probably find a clue Is that the only way we can get in? Does it take all this work? one edge chef I have no clue. I assume that her using that as a as a ah balance would would imply that the city is closed off to most.
00:35:28
Speaker
Yeah, maybe. Let me... Do you want to... Let me give Chef a call. You want to give Chef a call? I'm giving Chef a call and I'm putting it speakerphone. I mean, the only way you can call Chef is through the little console that you have in the truck. Because I don't think she gave y'all phones or that she has a phone.
00:35:42
Speaker
I'm getting a hold of her. You can dial her through, like, the brain's, like, little console there. Okay, I'm going to dial her up. So you dial through and you hear, like... Yes, this is the brain. How can I help you? ah Oh, well, we're trying to determine So we had a demon make us an offer ah to do some bullshit for her to gain access to the City of Angels.
00:36:08
Speaker
Which City of Angels, my friend? There's plenty of those. Exactly. You hear that, Roy? Yes, but this was the big one. The Shining City atop the hill, I do believe is what it was called. The Shining City? The capital? The Angel capital? Yes.
00:36:24
Speaker
What? How do you have access to this? i There was a demon who showed up and was like, he's apparently Lorelai's sister. Yes. Oh, which one? I don't, who? you're It's Lilith, numbnuts!
00:36:38
Speaker
Oh, Lilith, apparently. um Okay. oh oh Oh, that Lilith! Oh, dear. Um... So what are you going to do about it? Like, can we trust her? Probably not, right? i don't think so. Yeah, I don't think so. So it's probably not worth doing the gig for her, right?
00:36:53
Speaker
That is- Can you ask- Actually, Brain, Brain, can you ask Chef? Can you put Chef the line? Oh, yes. Um, Chefy, ah they wish to speak to you. And she comes over and she's like, you know, the only way i can really talk to you is if I put my head on his gross ass brain to talk to y'all. So what do you want? Oh, do you have a cell phone?
00:37:13
Speaker
No, I don't have a cell phone. Why don't you have a cell phone? Because I don't want people to know where I am. Okay, well, all right. Listen, we're trying to determine if it's a worthwhile cause to go and stop a hit for a demon who claims she'll get us into the city, shining city on top of the hill. Is that it?
00:37:33
Speaker
The shining city on the hill is the angel capital. Yes, it would behoove us to get in there. And frankly, I don't have a plan to get in there. But at the same time, like, I don't know. Let me ask you this.
00:37:44
Speaker
if Do we have some sort of way to make sure that this demoness keeps her word? Because I don't know enough about how to like shackle demons to their word. No. right That's actually surprising to me, though.
00:37:57
Speaker
Like, ah Roy looks to Lorelai to see if she has any input, because this is something he's curious about, too. He's never heard about shackling a demon to their word. I was going to say, we got a damn demon hunter and we got a demon lady on our team.
00:38:11
Speaker
You think someone there would know how this shit works? Because that's why I pulled y'all out the bath in the first place. I killed demons. I never cavorted with them. This is new. Well, kill and cavort sound the same to me, okay? It's just all the same.
00:38:25
Speaker
Lorelai... Lorelai is catatonic right now. I don't know what's going with Lorelai, Listen, it sounds like this is your sister, right? So, like... I don't know. Can you trust her? do you Do you think she has the ability to get into the shining city on the hill?
00:38:40
Speaker
No, darling. I can't trust her for anything. I'm just so mad right now. but But does' do you think that she could have a possibility to get in there? You know her better than we would.
00:38:51
Speaker
I mean, probably, darling. She's like one of those people that can just, you know, fudge her way into everything. So um sound jealous. Yeah. I know, right?
00:39:03
Speaker
Are you jealous of your sister? No, I'm not jealous of my sister. She always just takes everything from me. Like, this book was actually written about me and not her, then they decided to write it about her, and then now she has to try to take everything from me, and finally have friends, and now she's taking them from me, too.
00:39:26
Speaker
Well, so what does she what does she want y'all to do exactly? Because, I mean, listen, I don't want y'all to do anything right now if you don't feel like you want to do it. I got other shit needs done, right?
00:39:37
Speaker
But if you think that there's even a small chance that we can get into the Shining City on the Hill, do you know how big of a deal that would be if we brought that shit to its knees? Holy hell. Probably. I'm sure we can find a better way in there.
00:39:52
Speaker
Roy, uh, she asks who Roy is going to say. She called a hit out on a mortal, yet she regrets the decision. She is asking us to prevent the hit. What the fuck? Why would you put a hit out on somebody and ask someone to prevent it? That's weird.
00:40:06
Speaker
Apparently she has a crush on the guy or something. I don't know. We all know demons ain't got feelings, right, Lorelai? You don't have feelings. Although you sound like you're little hurt. Maybe you have a little feelings. I don't know. feelings.
00:40:18
Speaker
Oh, well, fuck me wrong. Apparently demons have feelings. Look that. Yes, we just don't have like a stop button, darling. We don't have like a medium button. So like if we love you, we love you. So it's not it's not I don't love you. It's I love you. And then if it's I hate you, I hate you. It's we don't have no medium button.
00:40:39
Speaker
Right. OK, so. OK, so do you think it's possible that your sister is in love with a guy And that maybe she is having second thoughts. I don't know.
00:40:49
Speaker
i mean, one less demon in the world that ain't on our team, I'm fine with. But, you know, I think we all need to weigh our options. What do you think there, Mr. Tobias, if that is, ah you know, your real name?
00:41:01
Speaker
and It sounds like a waste of time to me. Sounds like a waste of time to you. Well, what what would you rather be doing with your your reborn life? Like, what do you want to do? Well, to be honest, I don't know. i've I feel I'm a little beholden to you as the person who... I don't even know if I was resurrected.
00:41:20
Speaker
ah Sort of. I mean, let's call it more like, not so much resurrected, but like rebooted, so to speak. As the person who rebooted me, I feel a little beholden to you.
00:41:34
Speaker
And your cause seems, I don't know, just. You don't trust me, do you? Well, no, I don't really have a reason not to trust you yet, but. Okay, good.
00:41:45
Speaker
ah Please trust me. Your cause seems pretty justified, so I prefer furthering that along, i guess. And really, as long as I can keep upgrading the bunker, um I'm fine.
00:41:59
Speaker
well Imagine the wonders. Have y'all seen the the shining city on the hill? Is that it right there? Yeah, you can see it from you can see it from literally everywhere. instead like could probably get in there. There's a hole in the wall.
00:42:17
Speaker
Look, if y'all can if y'all just want to drive up and try to get in there, I have not even tried to approach within like a couple of miles of that place. So I don't know what to expect. We have never gotten that close. Most things that try don't make it.
00:42:29
Speaker
If you have a way, go for it. If you don't think you can trust Lilith, fine by me. But if you think you can get in there, shit, go do it. The brain hasn't had any visions about getting in there yet.
00:42:41
Speaker
So I just haven't been trying to send y'all that way. The one that has the brain scene. Say what? What has the, put the brain back on, please.
00:42:53
Speaker
As much as I prefer talking to you. This whole conversation is going to be a phone call. This whole episode is a phone call and love it. It's yeah. it's It's the best kind of bottle episode.
00:43:06
Speaker
It's just three people sitting in a truck yelling at a console while they fucking drive. We had some fight. We had a fight scene. I think it's fantastic. I fucking love it. Uh, We had an episode of Phony Express like that once where they just hung out in the brothel all day and just talked.
00:43:21
Speaker
Yeah. um It's literally called a brothel episode. Well, we need clicks, so we're trying to keep this interesting. I think that's hilarious. okay so's so Okay, so you put the brain back on.
00:43:34
Speaker
So he says, yes, this is the brain speaking. How may help you?
00:43:41
Speaker
Were you not listening to that whole conversation? No, when someone has their hand on my brain, I'm just kind of a conduit. Neat. Well, unfortunate. We're trying to determine what the next best course of action for us to take is. and are you trying in influence Are you trying to influence one of my visions? I mean, I could try.
00:44:03
Speaker
I'm not trying to influence your visions. I'm trying to see. but I'm not trying to influence it. I'm just trying to see it. Well, I can tell you this much. From what I remember that was said before my brain turned off, I remember the Shining City on the Hill, which is one of our primary targets.
00:44:19
Speaker
We also need to get into the Gates of Tardis, which is another one of our primary targets. so Okay. um And we're still trying to figure out which ah mortal capital is the best one to infiltrate. So if you figure that out, please let me know. Mortals are very, very tricky.
00:44:35
Speaker
What'd you say? Washington, D.C. Probably that one. I mean, we could try. I've never been there, but I haven't gotten any visions of Washington, D.C. yet. Okay, what visions have you had? um I haven't really had any as of late, if I'm being honest with you. I've been a bit tuckered, but I'm just telling you as far as the Shining City on the Hill and TARDIS, those are two of the targets we know that are kind of the capitals of the angels and the demons here on Earth.
00:45:01
Speaker
Do you want me to show up with some fucking ayahuasca and paint thinner or something to get you going? I mean, if you want to bring any sort of edibles or any sort of hallucinogens when you're here, I mean, I'll take what I can get.
00:45:15
Speaker
I don't have any thumbs, so you're going to have to do it for me. Jesus Christ, we've been taking orders from a tripping brain. Well, it's worked so far, hasn't it?
00:45:25
Speaker
That's true. Right? Do I jump into your truck and tell you how to hit, man? No. You could. But I don't want to, because I'm a nice bear. Okay, well, you do tell us what to do, technically, so... I give you suggestions on what to do. The chef tells you what to do. Okay, so chef's given the orders, I see. Yeah, chef's the boss, the lead bitch around here. see.
00:45:48
Speaker
That makes a lot of sense. Yes, i'm just I'm just her side bitch. Okay. Well, I guess we can... So...
00:45:59
Speaker
This will be my toughest gig yet. All right.
00:46:05
Speaker
How close are we to Washington, D.C.? That's my question for the for the game master. ah You know what? I haven't really chosen where you guys are, so it can be as close or as far away as you want it to be. Washington, D.C., 30 miles. Shining City on the way to play 50 fifty miles so you guys are somewhere in either... ah Now, Washington, Maryland.
00:46:34
Speaker
I mean, it could have been. They could have renamed the city. it's true It would be cool if like split off of the country and it's just floating on the ocean now or something. Yeah, I mean, it could be. It could be underground. You don't know.
00:46:44
Speaker
It could be a lot of things. um So, yeah. And the brain chimes back in and he says... Well, why don't you all just take a vote? you're ah You're supposed to be working as a team, right? So just, there's three of you. Nobody can, you know, there can't be a tie. This agency agency that we have now is just, it's very sudden.
00:47:07
Speaker
The agency that you have? Well, I don't have a job for you. I mean, I've had visions, but nothing was very substantial yet. Okay, well, if you don't want to tell us, that's fine.
00:47:18
Speaker
Look, the only other thing that I know to tell you is that I had a very, very brief vision about a bathhouse, but I don't know why or what's in it. I just know I pictured a bathhouse.
00:47:30
Speaker
More to come next time I plug into the crystal. Okay, well, I don't know. Where are the bathhouses? They're all over the place. I don't know which one it's supposed to be. That's weird. All i know is that there was a bathhouse that I saw.
00:47:44
Speaker
And ah so if you want to look into neat bathhouses while you're out and about, this could be just a little explorative ah exploration episode if you want.
00:47:57
Speaker
Yes, I know I'm in a podcast. You're not. Lorelei. Lorelei.
00:48:06
Speaker
Yes, darling. What should we do?
00:48:09
Speaker
We're certainly not going to help out your, uh... Oh, definitely not. don't know if want to call her a sister anymore, but... No. No. I'm up for whatever you want to do, darling. I just don't. Oh, so we just have no plan, huh? No, you can't.
00:48:26
Speaker
I've had many of episodes like this. I'm fine with it. All right Roy, Shining City. Don't we want to don't we want to go, you know, scout out the the the Shining place and yeah see maybe if, you know, she's lying or something. Maybe we could just scout it out.
00:48:46
Speaker
Yeah, we could bring up the fact that there's a high-level demon who claims they can get in here, so. That is true. I'm sure there are demons that get in there. I'm certain my word would hold sway, given that I am, you know, a demon hunter and I carry the cross or something. I don't know.
00:49:00
Speaker
We could figure it out as we go along.
00:49:05
Speaker
Yeah, we'll see. That's a wonderful idea. Let's see. Oh, here's a sign. says Shining City on the Hill. i shit now. However, and then Roy is going to look to Lorelai and go, I wonder if you are having you here would hinder our progress inside.
00:49:24
Speaker
i'd assume they are not too fond of demons. Oh, you're such a boss kill, darling. I will wait in the truck then. she looks at her nails. I think I can do something about that.
00:49:37
Speaker
Oh, that's right, darling. You have the way to be able to make me look like someone else. That's wonderful. Also the smell. ah Yeah, Roy was about to say, it's like, I know I can avoid it. And then he he lifts up the, ah what was It was like the little pine tree thing that, that, uh, This certainly helps, but not everyone has one of these.
00:50:01
Speaker
i named the I don't know if you guys wouldn't know this yet because the episode didn't come out, but I named that episode Sulfur and Pine and a Bone Meringue. You sent that in in the Discord. Oh, did I? I probably have.
00:50:13
Speaker
ah Yeah, so I just thought about like you wearing the little pine air freshener. He always has it on now. it's it's it's right below his cross. He always has it on. Incredible.
00:50:24
Speaker
um So, are you guys going to... Are you taking the exit to the Shining City on the hill? Yeah, it's like that meme where the car is like taking the exit and it's like, you know...
Driving to the Shining City
00:50:36
Speaker
we're like Straight it would be like, yeah not, shy I don't know where else. Straight would be like, ah sitting in the car talking and doing nothing, or like, exit now and I'm like, sideways. Shining City on the hill. literally You drive, ah you take the exit to the Shining City on the hill.
00:50:54
Speaker
And as you take that exit, you don't see a road. You just see, like, just a drop-off. um as you approach like it's like because you're such a good driver i would say that you clock it before you just drive off a cliff but you notice that like as you're coming down the ramp you can see almost immediately uh just there's no road after about like 200 yards it's just air it's just empty space do i see the shining city on the hill
00:51:26
Speaker
ah You can't see the Shining City on the hill from where you are right now, no. As you took the exit, you don't see... I hit the brakes.
00:51:35
Speaker
So what do you do? Well, so there's just nothing there. It's like it's like the like a chunk didn't load in in Minecraft or something. Yeah, kind of like that, sure. It's not rendered fully. yeah Is there a stone nearby or something? and No, I'm going to flip a coin on it.
00:51:49
Speaker
you going to flip a coin on it? Yep. You throw a coin on it, and it just goes...
00:51:56
Speaker
Alright, well, looks like we don't have that DLC yet, so... this is it This isn't to say you can't... What's that, Roy? Oh, no, no, I was just gonna make a joke. You joke you go ahead.
00:52:13
Speaker
I was going to say was this isn't to say that you can't get there, but let's just say there's a way you have to get there. ah So you have to figure that out. Ordinarily, there would be a quest giver there to tell you, but I'm just letting you know. There's a get there. Can you notice skill to find a quest giver with an exclamation mark above their head?
00:52:30
Speaker
You know what? Yeah. Why don't you go ahead and roll a notice skill? ah I got a zero. Damn. Yeah. You have a fate point if you want to use it.
00:52:41
Speaker
Can we spend more time here and just use an investigate roll? yeah Sure, go for it. Whatever you want to You guys can all roll investigate if you want, if you're really that curious. yeah I want everybody to feel included in this endeavor.
00:52:53
Speaker
No, it's just me. everybody else just make it It's just me. Lorelai's barely paying attention. Thanks. Yeah, Roy's just looking out over the edge at the corner to see if he can spot it.
00:53:07
Speaker
Roy's like, I got something in my shoe, goddammit. Goddammit, I hate when that happens. And so, yeah, you start looking around and you can see that there is a bush that like seems to have like a very faint amount of... like like blink and you miss it like just very like like you know on a really hot day how like the air starts to ripple a little bit um you kind of see like a little faints of like kind of smoke like that like a real quick little ripple of heat over by the like like a little section of foliage that surrounds like the drop off from the road uh you notice that that you didn't see the first time around oh you god does he answer oh did you did you say oh oh did you say that out loud oh god yeah
00:53:50
Speaker
You say, oh God, and you see just like the, ah you see like a flame just like burst. Oh, no, burning bush. Around the bush. ah
00:54:03
Speaker
And he says, he says, what do you want? oh and We just want to get on to get into the city on the shining hill or the sure everybody wants in the shining city on the hill. Have you repented anytime recently, sir?
00:54:18
Speaker
Yeah. and and hit Hitman blood money. Um, I start the game as i think it's blood money. I start the game. I started the game as, uh, like literally going to confession every day. And have you committed murder since then young man? Cause I know everything.
00:54:35
Speaker
Uh, Yes. I'm omniscient. Well, if you know everything, then i you know I have. And I'm not going to lie to you. As you lie to my bush.
00:54:49
Speaker
What?
00:54:52
Speaker
Who is this that brings this massive non-Christian cross to me?
00:54:58
Speaker
non-christian what what god do you worship i have a bottle of water worship like roy scratching the back of his head and then he goes you usually sound like val kilmer why do you sound like this now
00:55:20
Speaker
Actually, I usually sound like Morgan Freeman, but I'm changing it up this time.
00:55:27
Speaker
What about that time it was Jim Carrey, though?
00:55:31
Speaker
No, I just gave him some of my powers, but I'm still gone at the end of the day. but other little fellow sounded like my friend Marion? Hmm, that sounds weird. That's because he's just the cutest little guy, and maybe Marion is God. We don't know.
00:55:46
Speaker
Is it really you, Marion? No, it's God, Dean. Guardian is my name. I don't know. You sound like my friend Marion. No, I'm the guardian of the galaxies. I knew it. I knew it.
00:56:05
Speaker
Do have a bottle of water? ah Yes, you have a bottle water. You rolled two in resources, so yes. You have a jug in your truck. water like Can you throw me the jug out of the back of the truck? Yes. Hold on one moment. Thanks. but Yeah, he's going to toss it to a... I'd like to imagine, like... I'm going to pour the jug on the burning bush.
00:56:25
Speaker
Yeah, let's do it. shit You pour the jug on the bush, he goes, hey, no, don't bring that over here. That's not necessary. That's really not something you should be doing. That's unsavory. Okay, well I'm going to... Can I roll a pour?
00:56:40
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, you roll the pour, and you pour. And you down some of the flames, and you see, like, this snail-looking creature stands up.
00:56:50
Speaker
He has, like, a little backpack on, and he's, like, just covered in, like, twigs and leaves and shit, and he goes, Ah, man, I'm gonna lose my job again. I'd imagine, at this point, Roy is standing above him, your shadow covered over him, and to impersonate God is blasphemy. You do know that, correct?
00:57:08
Speaker
To be fair, they hired me to do it, so. Doesn't make it much better. Well, a paying gig's a paying gig. Somebody from The Shining City gave me some mud money. Exactly, Hitman, mud money.
00:57:21
Speaker
and yeah And they said to just be the guy, know, who says the riddles and stuff. Then in return for me not cleansing your soul, you could tell us how to get into The Shining City.
00:57:36
Speaker
Well, to be fair, I don't really exactly know i know how to get close to it. Well, that's better than nothing. You just have to have faith. You ever hear that song?
00:57:46
Speaker
You gotta have faith, faith, faith. You gotta have faith. You know that one? Yeah, I have faith. I have faith that will fall. Well, then that's why you'll fall. You have to have faith that you won't fall, and you'll make it.
00:58:00
Speaker
Well, alright, if this coin... This coin is going to... i' in Hang on. What was that? Was that Roy? I know everything. Your name's Roy. What'd you say? I said it could be that Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade type thing.
00:58:16
Speaker
i haven't seen that one. That's a blasphemous movie.
00:58:22
Speaker
roy ah Roy, like, he he side glances at the Marion, you know burning a hole through him. So, uh, Roy, is he's going to look at Tobias and say, what are you planning at this point?
00:58:36
Speaker
I was just going to step onto the No, I just wasn't. I'm kidding. Just drive on it. You have a car. Well, look, and I want to flip another coin onto it.
00:58:47
Speaker
And I want to say out loud. No, I want to say out loud. This coin is going to land perfectly fine and it'll be safe to drive on. But do you believe that? are you just saying that to be a liar? I'm really trying to believe that. You're trying to believe that? Is that truly true, true what you believe?
00:59:03
Speaker
Well, I'm trying to. That's not how shit works. What do you mean? That's not how shit works. know You have to test things, you know, you gotta have, ah you can't just have faith, that's nonsense.
00:59:15
Speaker
Well, then yeah, the coin falls, because you don't believe that. Then can Roy, can Roy you ask, Roy's gonna go to Tobias, can I have a coin momentarily? Yeah, of course. He hands him like five.
00:59:26
Speaker
just Just walk. Just go on it. You just have to have a face. Thank you. I mean, hell, the demon woman can at least do it, right?
00:59:37
Speaker
You know you won't fall. She can teleport and fly, so it doesn't really matter for her. roy Roy goes, I've certainly seen stranger things. Me too, it's a great shark. I haven't seen that, but I have seen ah more different things as he yeah eff flicks the coin ah into the into the ravine.
00:59:56
Speaker
And he, I'd say he he believes, I could roll something if you would like me to. I was going to say, like yeah you have to tell me truthfully, like you know your character, I don't.
01:00:07
Speaker
Do you think your character believes that if you walk on this empty space that you will fall or that you will stay? um He believes that ah that ah he's seen Indiana Jones in the last crusade, so he's seen it happen before. He believes it'll it'll be all right.
01:00:21
Speaker
So if you believe that you just would you can just walk on it, if you think that like your faith will keep you from falling, then you can do it.
01:00:32
Speaker
That's what Marian's trying to tell you. That's what Gaudian is trying to tell you. If you truly believe that you won't fall, you won't fall.
01:00:41
Speaker
I'm guessing the coin still goes through. ah Yes, because the coin cannot believe things. the coin is love the coin now if you have Now, if you keep the coin in your hand and you walk with it, then the coin will stay.
01:00:52
Speaker
So that's really up to you. I see. He like comes out like he's like walking at like a half a mile an hour and he's just trying to push you guys. He puts a hand on Lorelai and a hand on you. And she's like, just get on it. Just walk. I'm trying to help you.
01:01:06
Speaker
Would you care to do it first? Her me? Lorelai definitely does just because she's like, and it's my friend Marion. So does Lorelai actually believe that she can just walk on the verveen and not fall and die? Yeah.
01:01:20
Speaker
Yeah. If she truly believes that, then yeah, Lorelai, as she's trying to push you, she walks out and stands on open air, not falling. She's just over the ravine, not plummeting. Interesting.
01:01:33
Speaker
See, I tried to tell you. I knew Marianne wouldn't lead me astray.
Navigating the Invisible Path
01:01:39
Speaker
Wonderful. She blows him a kiss. I'm going to save that for later and mix it in a mud pie.
01:01:45
Speaker
Typical demon would blow a kiss to a blasphemous creature like that, impersonating God. Excuse me, I told you I was hired by angel people to do it. Be mad at them.
01:01:58
Speaker
I will.
01:02:00
Speaker
yeah the shining The people in the Shining City are jerks, brother. Don't tell them I said that. Oh, God. then then why i mean Oh, God. Oh, God. Not that. Hold on. I know a great way. I know a great way to get across this. All right, Lorelei. Here, take the keys. Who's going to have her drive? Nice.
01:02:21
Speaker
Is it because you don't have faith that you want her to drive even though she's standing over it? Maybe. Okay? Hey, look, if you really think your character would just not buy into walking in a ravine, that's a great idea. I think it's perfect.
01:02:32
Speaker
Lorelai, here, take the truck and try to drive on it. Because you're clearly just standing on fucking nothing, so... Okay. Uh, yeah. You can get in the truck and drive it over there if you want.
01:02:44
Speaker
Let's see here. N is what now? Okay, so you just, here, foot put your foot on the brake. and but No, that's the left one. Left one? Ooh! No, the clutch is on the very left level. Okay, now you use one foot to drive. There's no clutch. It's an automatic. Oh, it's an automatic. Okay.
01:03:04
Speaker
ah like Oh, all right. our break um Now you're just going to put it a D for for for drive. for drive that makes so much sense.
01:03:15
Speaker
So, okay, you're just going to keep the wheel straight. All right, yep, good, good, good. Okay, now let go of a brake, and it's just going to coast forward. Oh my god, this dulling her. This is weird.
01:03:27
Speaker
Okay. do I go faster? We'll go faster in a sec. Does it like... Okay. Lorelei, roll a drive check.
01:03:38
Speaker
It just goes off. I don't have one of those. Zero. You're rolling mediocre. ah thanks Oh, unfortunate. I mean, a negative one is to be expected.
01:03:52
Speaker
So you roll the negative one. it's not it's It's not that it's not going. It's just not smooth at all. You're like you very much like new driver, like like full throttle, then hit brake. It's just jerking the whole time as you hit it.
01:04:06
Speaker
like it' like like It's not smooth at all. Your drive sucks. And you're just like inching this car like cockeyed shit like like you're trying to parallel park it onto the fucking ravine.
01:04:17
Speaker
And like, eventually like you like half of the truck is like leaning out over under the ravine, but it's not tipping over into the ravine. So perfect. You got it about a halfway onto the, onto the hall.
01:04:28
Speaker
All right, Roy, let's go. I'm jumping in the back. Roy jumps into the, well, uh, yeah, Roy jumps into the, the bed of the truck as well. yeah ask You guys can both get in the bed of the truck if you want. Yeah, we're both on the bed of the truck. All right. See you Marion.
01:04:42
Speaker
Alright, see ya. Thanks for your time. You're most welcome. Remember, you and the truck have to have fun! So... Well, I have faith in the truck, and the truck has faith in Lorelai, and Lorelai has faith in the ground, so... Why do you transit property that works? and And I have faith that I am going to kill you soon, blasphemous creature. Roy, like, points at both of his eyes, you with his two fingers, and then points at Marion.
01:05:04
Speaker
And you see Marion points up at his eye stalks, because they're a little higher up off his head, and he points up at his and then to you. He's like, you don't know what you're messing with, bitch.
01:05:15
Speaker
um
01:05:18
Speaker
And so, okay, so you guys have this, you want to do another drive check, Lorelei? We're going to drive off the cliff and all our characters are going to die. We're already off the cliff.
01:05:30
Speaker
like Hey, she got a zero. That's that's better. That is better. Would anybody like to roll to create any advantages for Lorelai? Do you want to maybe roll like a Like some sort of skill, like a drive check to create an advantage to help Lorelai do better. Like you can coach her from the back of the truck.
01:05:44
Speaker
I imagine I'd be coaching her the entire fucking time. got a plus one. You like do the D, the D? Nope, it's D. D, you have to keep it in D. Stop touching the gear. Just keep your foot on the pedals. um Okay, so you create an advantage with one free fate point. So if you want, you can use this free community fate point cast to give yourself a two since you rolled a zero earlier.
01:06:06
Speaker
Okay,
Surreal Driving Experience
01:06:08
Speaker
I'm to do that. So you have a two. So gradually with the coaching of Tobias yelling from the bed of the truck, uh, Lorelai gets like a little bit of a handle on how to drive the vehicle and drives it at a steady, maybe 22 miles per hour until gradually she gets a little bit more, uh, roguish with it.
01:06:24
Speaker
And then you guys are flying at almost top speed because there's nothing in your ways. You're driving in open air. Um, driving across this ravine um and eventually you just drive so fast and you drive so straight that like you start to see clouds you start to see um like these little kind of streaks of gold um flecks of dust and uh uh just proofs of clouds and then just like you start to hear music and you start to hear like orchestral sounds you start to hear um like very kind of almost like lo-fi beats start to play eventually kind of around you that's interesting yeah like like it gets right it starts like real high like oh
01:07:07
Speaker
And then just your graduate is like that, like low hum of that, like loud horn. Just have to go to to to
01:07:18
Speaker
ah laura like yeah and essential so get in contact the gra um na i got it i got it you focus on the road He like climbs through the back window.
01:07:33
Speaker
was going to be like, and how do I do that, darling? And then all of sudden I swerve. You start to swerve like onto the other, like you start to turn around. The
01:07:45
Speaker
brain this is the brain. Who am I speaking to? How can I help you? ah
Debating the Faith Journey
01:07:51
Speaker
Roy? We seem to be making our way closer to the to the city.
01:07:57
Speaker
We're currently driving on air, walking on sunshine, as they say.
01:08:03
Speaker
Was this known before? That you had to have faith in ah in in the ravine that ah you will not fall in order to get to the city? I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about, but this is great information as I prepare to engage with the crystal once more. Maybe it'll influence something. So you're driving on air right now, you say? Correct. And you guys haven't taken any of those drugs that Tobias was offering earlier.
01:08:33
Speaker
I do not do drugs. Oh, well, you're missing out, brother. i'm just kidding. So you're driving on air. You had to have faith to drive.
01:08:46
Speaker
Into a ravine, okay. And that does what now? eight I suppose it makes the air solid, as long as you have faith that you won't fall.
01:08:57
Speaker
Okay. um Neat. So, what is the plan now? so you're driving on air to what? To the city. I suppose we just... Have you seen the city yet?
01:09:11
Speaker
Not yet, no No, there it is. Oh, you see it? Oh, good. yeah okay see it We can see the spires. Yes. Okay, well, good luck. tell me Tell me everything. If you get closer to it, great.
01:09:25
Speaker
If you die, um try to die in a place that we can get you so I can put you back in the bath. Roy looks over at the ravine and says, I don't know if that's possible. and least I mean, anything is possible if you believe, apparently, if you have faith. Well, no, you see that? See down there? All the way down there?
01:09:43
Speaker
Yeah, that's ah that's that's actually... That's Detroit. So... The city atop the hill rose from Detroit. There's no way we're getting out of there. Let us not fall.
01:09:59
Speaker
Yes. um Are you sure, Lorelai, are you sure that you're going to be able to get into the Shining City? a little worried about you. I'm... You know...
01:10:12
Speaker
Not really sure, darling, but we're gonna find out. Well, I suppose you will. um
Driving Challenges and Humor
01:10:17
Speaker
You sound a lot closer. Are you so are you riding Shotcut now? No, I'm driving, darling. Can you believe it?
01:10:25
Speaker
You're driving the the Raptor. wow Well, good for you. Cars didn't exist when you were born. I know, isn't it wonderful? I hope you have wonderful insurance.
01:10:37
Speaker
i We don't know what that is. ah So we don't have it. but Good luck then, darling. How do you know what it is? um She's a demon. Of course you know what insurance is Sorry.
01:10:50
Speaker
Fair. That's fair. right. Well, let me know how it goes. And um if you do make it back, I need more filler for the visions. So, you know, Tobias, I hope you were serious about bringing the good stuff because I definitely wouldn't mind getting a little freaky when you get back.
01:11:06
Speaker
We'll see the angels have. Oh, you know they got that good stuff. Darling, please do not forget to feed the angel that is you know, held captive in my room.
01:11:17
Speaker
i don't know what they eat. want to come back. but You're going to have to ask him because I don't know either. He's been getting the little squirrel guy to go get the food for him while I'm not there. So um I just want to make sure that he's getting fed because you never know with that squirrel. It likes to, you know, eat sometimes. likes to reduce competition.
01:11:38
Speaker
Is that Lorelai? Tell her he's chewing on that squirrel's nuts right now. but
01:11:45
Speaker
Stop doing that, darling. I don't know if you heard that, but, um, yes, he's chewing on the squirrel's nuts, apparently.
01:11:57
Speaker
oh Tell him to stop doing that and make sure that they're behaving. leave them for a second. Well, you know, survive the city and then we'll talk. Otherwise, you know, I might have to let him go or throw him in the soup to make a new one. And by me, I mean the retriever. I don't have thumbs.
01:12:17
Speaker
Fine, darling, that's fine. okay, bye, tutty-bies. And then the call connects. um
Checkpoint Tense Interaction
01:12:25
Speaker
And you guys, as you're driving, you get approached, um yeah or rather, you approach a stopping point. You approach a checkpoint in the middle of this ravine where you see that like there are these probably about four or five ah ah humanoid people that are like like standing out in the middle of this just open air amongst the clouds in this kind of gold flecks, and you hear like the lo-fi beats playing.
01:12:49
Speaker
um And they're standing there and like they one of them starts to approach your truck and puts their arm out to you as if to say to stop. I'm going to put up I'm going to put pine around Lorelei.
01:13:01
Speaker
You're going to put pine. You're going to put it an iron mash around her neck like straight up just like around her neck. OK, so you just live through the back of the truck and just like fucking drape on her. Yeah, ambition I'm sitting shotgun right now.
01:13:12
Speaker
Oh, so you clen- okay. You know, uh, Tobias, you should do the same thing. It actually makes being around her bearable.
01:13:22
Speaker
You know, put the, uh, piner on your neck. Alright, I cracked like eight of them and just like put them around the car. fuckin' like incense, I'm like... Perfect. Alright. She doesn't have horns, does she?
01:13:35
Speaker
No, darling, no. Okay, I didn't think so. And a tail, any other demon demon features, that would be obvious. No, I look like a ah basic human, darling. Cool. Basic human.
01:13:47
Speaker
Yes. I'm just more beautiful. Okay. You hear somebody say, yo, that chick in the front's way too beautiful to be a human fucking gator. All right. ah No. ah So you guys approach and you see that there's like probably four or five of these dudes. I would say there's four
Confronting the Angelic Guard
01:14:06
Speaker
for people standing there in this like kind of this invisible roadway.
01:14:10
Speaker
Um, And one of them approaches the front end of the truck, or the driver's side of the truck. um And it's like a tall, probably like six and a half foot um ah angel, like wearing kind of like blue and gold vestments.
01:14:25
Speaker
um And they have like long silver hair with like kind of gold streaks kind of going through their hair. And their eyes are just pure white. And they lean down and they look into the into the ah truck and they say,
01:14:39
Speaker
Um, it smells like trees in your vehicle right now, ma'am. Let me let me talk. I'm going to lean over.
01:14:54
Speaker
Yes, we like the smell of ah trees. If you get what I'm saying. Oh, I see your husband speaks for you as he should. um ah Yes. So he he he walks around to the other side of the truck and see the drunk. mess I appreciate you coming around my side.
01:15:10
Speaker
um And he says, yes, you speak for the woman. um I'm surprised you let her in the driver's side of your metal carriage. Well, I can't be bothered to drive myself, you understand. Ah, yes, yes, you you must, ah she is an indentured servant to you. Well, I wouldn't say that, but... I would.
01:15:28
Speaker
Well, I guess we gotta agree to disagree, sir. You shouldn't disagree with me, I'm an angel. Well, you know, i know, everyone knows that you guys are enjoyers of the marketplace of ideas.
01:15:43
Speaker
ah You know, I dabble. Sure. No. um But what is it that brings you to the ah to the shining highway? Well, we're seeking entrance to the city, sir. And you hear like all the other people across the way laugh. All three of the other guys go, they wanted the city.
01:16:01
Speaker
Okay, tell them. Go ahead, tell them. Like, uh, yeah, we're not taking any visitors to this city. I don't know why people keep trying to do that. Well, hold on. I'm not a visitor. Oh, and what are you?
01:16:14
Speaker
I'm a customer. We have no customers here that don't already reside within the city, sir. You and I both know that's not true. No, and you and i both know that angels can't lie, so it is true.
01:16:26
Speaker
That's Roy. Wait, no, not Roy. Never mind. ah but I see you have a man with a massive cross of swords in the back of your truck. Yes, yes, he's my bodyguard.
01:16:39
Speaker
ah a bodyguard. Oh, I see. You cannot fight the battles of your own. Oh, no, I can't. it's not Oh, it just seems. Roy? is far more proficient in the out of combat than i am i'm just for sure roy What are you trying to say?
01:16:56
Speaker
Are you trying to say you don't need a bodyguard, but you have one anyway? No, I'm saying there are people who are after me. oh and you need a bodyguard to fight your battles? It never hurts to have allies.
01:17:08
Speaker
Yes, well, you'll find none here. We have nothing for you to purchase. We have no valuables for you to have. Are you sure about that? Are you sure about that?
01:17:19
Speaker
Yes, I'm quite sure, as you do not bear what is necessary to get into the city. Oh, and are you sure that Mr. Benjamin Franklin?
01:17:37
Speaker
Sorry about my own jokes. Can you...
01:17:42
Speaker
give you roll resources. And if you get, I don't know. Well, first roll resources just to see if you have a Benjamin Franklin on you. ah plus three. You got a plus three. You know what? You still have cash left over from whatever jobs you did before. You have a couple of Benjamins in your pocket.
01:18:01
Speaker
Maybe two Benjamins would change mind. And he says, I'll have you know, Benjamin Franklin did not make it into the Sky City. Well, of course not. He was an atheist. Yes, that's why he did not come in.
01:18:14
Speaker
Right.
Denied Entry and Options
01:18:16
Speaker
He said, God does not exist. And then we said, neither do these gates for you. And we sent him down to hell. Yes, but I see your hand is still taking the the paper with his face on it. I will happily take paper with his face on it, sure.
01:18:37
Speaker
Now listen, Heaven has ah certain goods that ah can't be acquired. Not Heaven. Sorry, ignore that, please, GM. ah The Shining City has certain goods that can only only be acquired here. And we're, well, I am a purchaser of those goods.
01:18:56
Speaker
Oh yeah? And what goods would that be, liar? I'm not fucking lying. And I'm going roll deceive to convince you otherwise, and I got a plus four. Well, was going to say, before you roll next time, I need to set a number that you need to beat.
01:19:09
Speaker
um So I'm going to instead roll for this person to try to beat you, because you rolled already. um I can mean roll again. We can roll again you would like- No, You can keep your four. It's a good roll. But instead of having it be a passive roll that I was going to set, I have to make it an active roll now to beat you.
01:19:25
Speaker
Or to try to beat you. So this is an angel that you're trying to lie to. So... You rolled six. Ah, shit.
01:19:36
Speaker
You rolled a plus six. ah Plus seven! Huh? He has plus seven? He's an angel and you're lying to him. Well, hold on. It doesn't mean... a So first all, because angel, it doesn't mean shit, as we've all seen.
01:19:50
Speaker
it does for these guys. The other angel you work with is a little fucking country bumpkin outcast. This one's an actual, like, guard of the Shining City. So I have to burn two fate points to get a... and He rolled pretty shit, too, because he had a plus seven and he rolled two minuses and a zero. So he has a six.
01:20:05
Speaker
Yeah. Don't forget, I also have fate points, so depends on how many you want to burn. all right. Well, all right. oh i'm I guess Agent 69 just jumps out of the car and dies. I don't know.
01:20:19
Speaker
I like how immediately you just give up when there's any sort of opposition. Yeah, if he catches on to my lie, it's over, right? It's just done. i've already tried to bribe him. You could use a fate point to try to beat him. You have to. I'm just saying.
01:20:33
Speaker
I'm not going to do that, because yes fate you're like, I have fate points too. so so know, I was just letting know that... I'm just letting you know if I ever want to use them. i do have some basic ability. Yeah, let's take a loss and see what happens. Okay, that's probably better, honestly. Alright, he rips of the car, throws me on the ground, and I don't believe the ground exists, so I die. Alright, cool.
01:20:50
Speaker
Next character. Back to the bloodbath. Alright, so while that's going on, you're lying. Lorelai, is there anything you would like to do, since he's on the other side of the car talking to...
01:21:03
Speaker
Agent 69 in the driver the passenger seat. You're in the driver's seat. What would you like to do? Right now, you just stink of trees so they don't smell your sulfur scent yet. You see how easy it is to deceive these motherfuckers?
01:21:17
Speaker
She's going to be like, forgive me, sub. click over to reverse goodbye and then just slam it onto her gas pedal just try to get out of there you're just gonna back up you know you're not even gonna try to continue the lie you're just gonna leave Yep.
01:21:39
Speaker
We're all still in the truck. We're going to try to regroup and try to figure out a new plan in. Okay. He falls out of a truck. I was going to say, before you hit the reverse button, because we know that's what you're doing, and I will need you to do a drive droll here in a moment, but don't do it yet.
01:21:54
Speaker
um roy is there anything that you are doing or would like to do while this conversation is going on? You can tell agent 69 is lying to this character. it doesn't seem like it's going well, but he bribed him anyway. He gave him $200.
01:22:08
Speaker
you know like so What ah is there anything you would like to do or say you do have moves you can make if you'd like, uh, that you do know the timeline. Roy wouldn't know this, but you know, the timeline that the reverse is about to get hit.
01:22:24
Speaker
Um, Yeah, Roy goes, ah we have pertinent information for the city. Something that is incredibly, oh fuck, what's the word?
01:22:37
Speaker
Something that could jeopardize the safety of it. Are you trying to like ah boost the the lie that Agent 69 is telling? Could I possibly, because Roy has as selling nothing when it comes to deceive. So could i possibly roll contest to see if could I possibly roll contacts to see if this angel possibly has heard of Roy by any chance?
01:23:02
Speaker
Like ah a demon hunter who wields a giant cross or something like that. You from the long past.
01:23:10
Speaker
yeah Sure, it would be very unlikely, but not impossible. um So with ah are you trying to just roll a straight overcome roll? Are you trying to create an advantage?
01:23:21
Speaker
ah Probably overcome because he's trying to he's trying to start, like, not a rapport, but sort of catch the eye. I'm going to say you're going to need at least a five to be like remotely... like I'm not going to say they would know exactly who you are, but they might be like, oh, I heard about that guy with the big cross.
01:23:39
Speaker
I see. yeah so if you want to roll contacts, you need to get at least a five. I see. What if you were to go... Again, not impossible, but it's unlikely.
01:23:50
Speaker
What if you were to go... ah this in There is a leak inside the city. Someone has found a way inside. but demon. Are you still trying to use your contacts about that? or i'd say I'd say at this point, Rapport would probably... Would it be less of a role for Rapport?
01:24:09
Speaker
If he's... To do what? Like, they're not just going to let you in because you buddy with them, but like... Convince the angel that something fishy is going on with... um Then that would be probably more of a create an advantage.
01:24:22
Speaker
Okay. So if you want to roll rapport, then I would lower it to maybe like a four. That you're trying to like build that rapport with them and also like have them believe like that.
01:24:32
Speaker
there's some But again, but at the same time, are you lying? Because you're saying there's a demon inside the city. Well, not inside, but the demon knows a way inside is what he's saying. Yes.
01:24:46
Speaker
Oh, okay. So you're not saying there's a demon in this He's not saying there's a demon. He's saying that, you know, Lilith, he's not saying names right now because he doesn't want to give all his cards, you know? So he's saying a demon knows a way inside the city and we need to notify the ah appropriate personnel.
01:25:01
Speaker
Okay. Then, yeah. Okay. Then I'd be a rapport. I'd say you have to at least get a four ah to, like, kind at least have him listen to you. And that would be a creating advantage. If you get a four, at least between a four and six, then you can create a fate point. And if you get three or three higher than four, which is a seven, then you can create two fate points.
01:25:19
Speaker
Otherwise, he just thinks you're full of shit. A zero. And I need a four, you said, right? You need at least a four to... I see....create one.
01:25:30
Speaker
um Um... Yeah, so that's up to you. You can also use a fate point to re-roll if you like. I think I'll do that. I'll try. Even if it fails, oh well.
01:25:41
Speaker
I'll use a fate point to re-roll. You never know. Yeah, because you rolled pretty
Escaping Angelic Pursuit
01:25:46
Speaker
shit already. Minus two, god damn. What do you got? I got a minus two.
01:25:53
Speaker
ah Two. You're not doing great. Also, you're cutting in and out a little bit there. So a apologize does if I ask you what you said a bit. No, it's all good. So you roll this report. You got really, really bad. I Holy fuck. You...
01:26:04
Speaker
You roll this rapport. You're trying to say there's a demon that knows their way in. And the guy just like shushes you. He says, there is not a demon on earth or in hell that can breach the shining city.
01:26:16
Speaker
And if so, they would have to be mighty powerful. And would that would mean that there are corrupt angels in that city. And I refuse to believe that anyone is corrupt within our vast, wonderful, golden, shining city on the hill.
01:26:29
Speaker
um And so you see to make her eyes go black and go, then how do you explain me, darling? and unfair guys He goes, I'm sorry, what the fuck? And you're not in the city yet.
01:26:42
Speaker
and then you And then you hit reverse. I know. Yep. All right. She says her eyes go black. She says how to explain me. He goes, I'm sorry. What the fuck? And then you go. So I'm going to need you to do a drive.
01:26:53
Speaker
I'm going to need you to do a drive check because you're still new to it. You've only been driving straight this whole time. um so I'm going to need you. to What's that? I want to put my hand on the wheel to help. Do you want to roll to create it? Do you want to roll to create an advantage with your drive? Oh, yeah.
01:27:08
Speaker
Alright, so we'll let you have you do that first to see if Lorelai will need it or can use it. So, ah let's have you get at least... I'd say for use, since Strive is kind of your thing, if you get at least a two or higher, you can get an advantage for her.
01:27:19
Speaker
So that's a two, that's one free Fate Point that you can use, Cass, if you need it. um As you punch it in Reverse, so please roll... Oh my god, it's three! I didn't give you a goal that you needed to meet yet, but it was gonna be a four, so you have a Fate Point if you want to use it to get to ver five, which would beat it. Yes, please.
01:27:39
Speaker
Uh, so yeah, you send in the reverse, uh, he's got his hands on the wheel, creating that advantage for you. So like you guys both just rip the roll ah together. You do like a sick, like 180 burnout, fucking like leaving them in the dust as you like turn around and drive away.
01:27:51
Speaker
um and now you are being, uh, pursued because like the guy that you just like left in the dust, he's like covering his face with like, you know, he's got shit all up in his eyes and stuff. But you see one of the angels, like their wings open.
01:28:04
Speaker
And they fly up high into the sky and they're having a pursuit. So they're flying while you guys are driving on this open ravine and they are in hot pursuit of you. What do you do? ah Jump out of the back of the truck and die and start over. just Give up.
01:28:23
Speaker
It never gets old, David. It never gets old.
01:28:29
Speaker
She's going to look at Agent 69 and go, hold the wheel for me, darling. she's just going to reach back with her, like her pointer finger.
01:28:40
Speaker
like a she's doing like a finger gun and she's just gonna shoot some of her necrotic magic like uh like a bullet okay ah thats gro magic okay to the angel uh all right so let's have this be a contest i think for you your magic is plus your will um so i'm gonna roll this so i just think how many times has david said his character dies since we started back up it used to be jack walks off the podcast and now it's like oh i just throw a grenade at my feet and blow up it's hilarious i love it i love it um okay so uh i'm gonna roll um i'd say that they are a more elite angel so i'm gonna roll a plus three for them to a dodge so they got a six for their uh holy fuck holy shit
01:29:41
Speaker
Damn, dude. Wow. So as fast as this thing was flying, I'm going to say you took a couple of pot shots like pee-pee when he like easily dodges. But then like you hone in on him like some fucking like space invader shit is like he's flying behind you and you nail him for two ah for two damage. And you see like you scathe like one of his wings with necrotic damage and he falls and he kind of rolls a little bit as if he's on ground because he believes it's just like rolling. Yeah.
01:30:09
Speaker
Kicking up dust, which is weird because there's like nothing to kick dust from. um And he's just like laying on this road. And like you see, as you guys are getting away, um you wounded his wing so he can no longer keep up with you as you um as you drive back off. So where do you go? Like now that you have time between and space between him and you guys.
01:30:28
Speaker
um She's gonna find a spot to just kind of like park so that she can give the wheel back to the... No, you don't need to slow down here. Just just climb out. Just just here. And he... Tobias just kind of like... climbs over her lap. No, he just like, he just like lifts her out of the seat and just... so but it's like He's like, alright, time for some uppies. Here you go. Out of the seat.
01:30:56
Speaker
So, somehow you switch seats. ah So you're in the passenger, your passenger princess again. He's back in the driver's seat. ah Where do you take the vehicle, Tobias? I fucking turn it on.
01:31:08
Speaker
Did you see that? I really want to get into the city now. I mean, you can, you just might not be able to go that way. Roy really wants to get into the city now as well. He's got a vengeance.
01:31:19
Speaker
Did you notice how we're not falling?
01:31:23
Speaker
Yeah, you're not falling because you believe. i am believe. in we start falling. but you call Everybody meet new characters. We're landing in Detroit.
01:31:34
Speaker
yeah um yeah so um you make it back onto land uh you go back up the exit uh and you guys are back towards where you started essentially was it just one d one angel there's one angel that was chasing you but she winged it uh but there were three other ones that were back there that might be in pursuit of you you can turn back around if you want but yeah no i don't even want to like get off the i don't even want to get off rainbow road or whatever i want to fucking like uh see if they're chasing us first off like we're we're still driving we're still in perspire we're still so you don't want to go back up on land you want to stay like on the open air oh oh yeah yeah yeah uh okay yeah then yes you start to see like the sun gets blotted out by like a bunch of wings uh it's like you see like over it' over on the over on the shining city on the hill you just see like as if like arrows blotted out the sun just like a bunch of wings just like fly up out of it uh i think we keep driving this way
01:32:29
Speaker
And you see that like, you know, that you can hear off in a distance, like some sort of alarm has been sounded. um probably They got alarms on both of these fucking cities, man. Like, it's crazy fast. It was like 30 seconds.
01:32:42
Speaker
I mean, I mean, they're angels. something I mean, the demons, same thing. That's crazy. Well, that was more the alarms went off ah because you guys are right next to the entrances where like the people were guarding. But yeah.
01:32:57
Speaker
Angels, they pray. All they got to do is pray to like communicate. It's like telepathic communication. That's nuts. Anyways, they just put their hands in prayer and then they talk into it like it's a phone and they talk to other angels.
01:33:09
Speaker
Sorry, guys. This was a waste of an episode. We're leaving. No, you can stay on the open air. You can do whatever you want, buddy. I'm just saying now
Lilith's Supernatural Intervention
01:33:16
Speaker
there's angels coming looking for a Ford Raptor truck. yes Yeah, so we're out on an open road and imagine we're literally the only thing around. Besides the checkpoint.
01:33:26
Speaker
On the air? Yeah. Yes. So it's kind of obvious where we are. So help make make yourself disappear. You're the hit man. You have magic people. What?
01:33:38
Speaker
Disguise your vehicle. Do something, you know? going to disguise it. Or you can create complicate the truck. Send them the other way. It's true. you could Yeah, you can do that. I'm not going to be able to do that or remember to tell you to do that. I'm just going to drive away.
01:33:54
Speaker
um as you ah As you guys are driving away, are you going to cast a spell to disguise your truck? Yeah. are you going to create a duplicate? I'm going to create a duplicate.
01:34:07
Speaker
Maybe that gives me an advantage on my drive check or something. I don't know. Sure. You could do that. You could roll to create advantage with Will, if you like, as trying to like wield your magic to create like a duplicate of the truck.
01:34:18
Speaker
I think that sounds good. I'd say, you know what? You're know you're being pursued, but not super actively. So if you get, I'd say three or higher, you'll be fine. Do I do will or deceive? Ooh, that's a good question. Actually, I probably would be deceive.
01:34:33
Speaker
Okay. Yep. I got a zero. You got a zero. It didn't happen. You didn't you didn't do it. Unless you want burn some fate points to make some fate points. Yeah. Yeah, let's do it.
01:34:45
Speaker
a bird We're going to make a duplicate truck. All right. So what do you what do you what what aspects are you invoking about yourself to create this to make this happen?
01:34:56
Speaker
Okay, so since Marion was at the entrance of this silver city, she is gonna call upon her Marion. She's got a little seashell and on a chain in her chest, and she just pulls it up and just talks into it. She says, Marion, I'm going to need your help.
01:35:13
Speaker
I need some stronger magic to make a duplicate of this truck. Okay. um So he said he sends some magic through your seashell. of What else do you invoke?
01:35:25
Speaker
um And then she's going to be ah that historical or original whatever that bitch. And yeah, and just going to make it. She's going to make the truck drive like towards her, like towards the angels that are coming at us.
01:35:44
Speaker
So it looks like she's going like run them. Okay, cool. All right. So you burn two faith points. You make that happen. Now you have two freebies that you can use Tobias that are out in the world. um that you guys can use.
01:35:56
Speaker
ah So, yeah, and you can see as you're driving towards, like, you see the one that you winged is, like, back up in the air again. He's, like, about to come towards you, but then, like, he doesn't see that that you've duplicated, and he starts chasing back after the other one.
01:36:08
Speaker
And you see, actually, made a good decision to do that, because, like, he just starts to wield, like, these, like, just these... um these like spears of lightning that he just keeps like throwing down at the truck, trying to hit it, um, that you sent off in another direction.
01:36:22
Speaker
So like, you know, these dudes now you've sussed out that they can like throw fucking literal lightning spears, uh, at you to try to kill you. Um, so. No. So Tobias, Roy, ah Roy, do you want to do anything? Tobias is currently driving. Is there anything else you would like to do?
01:36:36
Speaker
Anything you'd like to say, anything you'd like to add? we haven't heard from a minute. Um, ah, fuck. I don't really know. Roy is much more proficient up close. He has a couple of guns. He could probably use that.
01:36:51
Speaker
Um, sure. But then again, that would attract the angels towards the specific truck. You know, oh shit, that's where they are. um also they're angels. well Yeah, the angels are the angels are after the duplicate truck.
01:37:04
Speaker
Yeah, he doesn't want to attract them towards this one. um Sure. I mean, if you don't want to do, you don't have to do like a fight action or anything. Like, there's nothing to fight right now. i don't know if there's anything just want to add or say or or change.
01:37:17
Speaker
but I'm trying to think of a way to maybe suss out a way to actually assist, but I don't really know anything within Will's skill set that or a Roy's skill set that would ah allow that. Right.
01:37:31
Speaker
ah Yeah, that's okay. Sometimes it's good. You're just there. Could he maybe, ah yeah he's going to stand up, you both hands on the cab the cat truck and he's going to try and find a ah a better path.
01:37:44
Speaker
um Like see if he could suss out a better way to get away from the angels. Sure. do you want to roll a notice roll ah to see if you can see anything or maybe investigation if that's easier if you're trying to figure out like if you're trying to piece together where you could go or anything about angels that, you know, you can do that.
01:38:02
Speaker
Cause he, he doesn't have anything proficient. Fuck. Why am I rolling so shit today? ah minus one. um Yeah. ah So yeah, I mean, you guys are also going pretty fast as you're going down the, down this invisible road is, ah ah as Tobias is driving away. um And as you're trying to look around trying to clock a better path to go again, like there's not a whole lot to take right now.
01:38:26
Speaker
um because you're out in the middle of nowhere. um Maybe you're clocking like some land masses in the, in the you know, off in the distance, maybe you can drive up to. um But as you are looking around, you notice that like all of a sudden your feet are dangling over the ravine and the truck is getting smaller in front of you.
01:38:44
Speaker
um And as you realize, like just in a brief moment, as you're trying to look around, trying to find something, Like, just a truck is just, like, sped off in a direction without you. And you're just hovering.
01:38:58
Speaker
Have I been gripped by an angel? As you... Do you say that out loud, or you asking me? ah maybe both. um As you say, have I been gripped by an angel, ah you turn your gaze behind you as you see that holding you by the scruff of your clothes is Lilith. and Lilith kind of looks at you with like fire burning in her eyes she says, my boy toy is gone now. So now I need a new one.
01:39:28
Speaker
Tag, you're it.
01:40:13
Speaker
well Doesn't look good already.