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Houston After Dark - Season 2 - Session 5
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Episode Introduction
00:00:18
Speaker
Welcome mortals to another episode of Integrated Dice Management presents Houston After Dark. I am your storyteller tonight Ron Bjork as I am basically every night and with me is a limited crew tonight we've got Frank Hi, I was Frank, nice to see you.
Identity Jokes and Absences
00:00:41
Speaker
He was Frank, now he is something completely different. Who knows what he is. And we also had Hayden, or have Hayden. I mean, yeah, a lot of people did have a Hayden, usually girls though. um But yeah, it's gonna be an interesting night because the two of us have completely opposite storylines going on right now.
00:01:06
Speaker
Well, I already have a plan to merge them. ah Sweet. So we don't have Bill tonight. He had some family stuff going on. And Jaden, I guess you could say, also had some also had some family stuff. um And he's, you know, he's still wallowing in in newlywed bliss, I guess. So he's busy. I think he already has pictures back from his wedding, which is very surprising. That's what he says. Yeah.
00:01:36
Speaker
a friend of mine didn't get their pictures back for like an entire year and they were pissed also Craig you know he's he's hi Craig no listening to us but he doesn't speak anymore um it seems because being the bush he betrayed not you betrayed us so we open ah the cat the camera pans down on to um Cole, what kind of car do you
Cole's Car Upgrade Dilemma
00:02:07
Speaker
now drive? Do you still drive that same clunker that you drove in the first episode? um I would like to think that with the very slight increase in ah money, that he would have put more money towards getting it fixed up. You got a decent increase in money. Yeah. Like a whole... It's only been a few days since payday.
00:02:34
Speaker
Yeah, so I probably took a large portion of that and and since I don't have to pay for like, housing and shit I probably took a large portion of that gave it to a guy to get it just just just the general like really fucked up shit like I don't have to start it with a screwdriver anymore. um And it kind of runs a little better but still like backfire and We hear the rumbling and backfiring of the car as it drives down um mostly deserted streets. And you see in the distance up the road um the ah blue and red yes the the blue and reds of um police cars ah parked outside of a house that you know to be your destination for tonight.
Crime Scene and Vampire Abilities
00:03:21
Speaker
um your god damn it friend Maxwell apparently killed a dude and supposedly wipe all of the footage of that. So there are obviously cops on scene. um it And there's just one. Yeah, there's just one cop car and and you see a pair of cops um like on the ah the front doorstep chat like talking with a sobbing woman.
00:03:53
Speaker
Um, what do you do? You're far enough away that they definitely wouldn't have taken notice of you driving down the street yet. Um, they didn't hear me backfiring down the street. Uh, maybe they glance in your direction and see a crappy car coming down the street. But I mean, it's, it's, you know, it's a neighborhood. Um, and it's not like this is a, this is, um, a middle-class neighborhood, but it's not like your extreme place. Yeah.
00:04:23
Speaker
The serial killer was a rich man. I forgot that I was coming here. Yeah. um And so I I don't know if I would be bringing my vehicle to a murder scene. And so realizing that perhaps you go and park, um you know, a couple blocks away or something once you see the cop cars. Yeah, I forgot that's what we were doing.
00:04:50
Speaker
Um, yeah, so I park a good ways away. Um, a couple streets over. Uh, I don't know. ah Do you I have a grasp on my, my magical abilities at this point or not magical? Supernatural abilities. You definitely, um, the only ability that you wouldn't have a grasp on is the one that I just added today that you don't, you know, know anything about. Um, but you do have, um,
00:05:19
Speaker
your unseen passage ability which allows you to move around while staying invisible. ah That was something you bought at some point a while back. I'm looking for my my abilities at the moment. So if you go to your bio, and just the bio and info tab, I copy pasted all of your disciplines with their descriptions. So now you've got the full description of them. So unseen passage, the vampire. I thought there was a way to look at it from your discipline, though. The problem is the discipline is just that little tiny text. Oh, yeah, the details. Yeah. Yeah. You right. You right.
00:06:06
Speaker
But um you've got both Cloak of Shadows and Unseen Passage. Cloak of Shadows is free, but you can't move. Unseen Passage allows you to move while staying invisible, but you have to make a rouse check if you want to do that.
00:06:22
Speaker
So they apply influentively or ambient shadows. User masks hit their their appearance or seems more sinister. And then lethal body Cloak of Shadows. I also have Shadow Cloak.
00:06:36
Speaker
Yes. Can I use Shadow Cloak, Cloak of Shadows and Unseen Passage all at the same time? I mean, Unseen Passage basically cancels out Cloak of Shadows because you're fully invisible. I mean, you're invisible while moving, so it's basically the same power except one of them lets you move, one of them doesn't. Oh, then why do I have both of these? Because you started with Cloak of Shadows and then you bought Unseen Passage later.
00:07:04
Speaker
Oh, is it like the step-up? It's the Unseen Passages, the step-up, yeah. Okay, I gotcha. I guess I could put the levels. Yeah, I didn't put the levels in here. Not that that's super important to using the power, but... Yeah, so I mean, you can straight up go invisible and head on over there. Only mechanical or supernatural means can detect them. Those obfuscate the effect the last until these are moves, or they are detected by other means.
00:07:34
Speaker
So actually, only if I'm standing still does Cocoa Shadows work. Yes, but Unseen Passage lets you move. But Shadowcloak says, subtly apply the influence of Bluebeam or Ambient Shadows. These are masks of their appearance. What does it mean by masks of their appearance? Like, do I look like a just a deeper shadow? Or do I look like a clown and then like a cop or? It just makes you appear more sinister and threatening.
00:08:02
Speaker
Well, it says masks your appearance or seems more sinister and threatening. It's one or the other. Oh. um Is that not right? Am I not reading that? Yeah, no, you're reading it right. Let's see.
00:08:19
Speaker
It says vampire gains a two dice bonus to stealth rolls as well as intimidation versus mortals. Um.
00:08:34
Speaker
Let's see here.
00:08:42
Speaker
I think basically it would conceal your appearance but it's not going to make you look like someone else. I think if it was like allowing you to like straight up disguise yourself it would specify that. So I look like ah a darker shadow in a group of shadows. Yeah. While I'm moving and then once I stop moving I kind of disappear.
00:09:02
Speaker
Not with shadow cloak. Yeah with cloak of shadows you're invisible. Cloak of shadows you're invisible while standing still. um can can Can I do like shadow cloak and cloak of shadows kind of at the same time then? Because one does the shadow thing and the other thing does invisible while standing still. Yes or you could just use unseen passage and be invisible while moving.
00:09:29
Speaker
while saying hidden issues functionally visible per the usual obfuscation. When routes check system as long as user emits no overpowering odors in a sound, a lot of the whispers as power likely works. It sort of has their attention drawn so you can make them as usual. Unseen aspects when possible, like the hidden vampires, which you can use as part of the sphere, all of that being actively observed. So, hmm.
00:09:56
Speaker
i i would like I would like to do both. Okay, Cloak of Shadows and Unseen Passage. Well, I guess all three. Or Cloak of Shadows, or ah but Unseen Passage and Shadow Cloak. All three, I guess. because like I would like to think Shadow Cloak is just a step down from Cloak of Shadows, so using ain't both in conjunction, I could be an immaterial shadow Basically, yeah. um Plus using shadow cloak gives you... Let's do bonus on stealth throw rolls, yeah. Yeah. And an unseen passage, it costs a rouse check.
00:10:39
Speaker
at last one's seen, but you know move around while staying hidden. The user is functionally invisible per the usual obfuscated limitations. But down there it says, the user cannot use this power to disappear while being actively observed if automatically fails in such a case. So in like if using all three stacked on top of each other, like you know if I do something that makes a noise that makes me observable or whatever, you know it would just be a shadow moved away from a falling can or something.
00:11:10
Speaker
Yeah. So I would like to do all three on top of each other. I'm just reading the.
00:11:18
Speaker
In which case I need to do what one more. One thing I think you would know, um so obfuscate does not help you against um electronic surveillance. It's just because you're not technically invisible. It is a mental invisibility like they simply can't see you. So um but yeah. All right. So what are you doing?
00:11:39
Speaker
Uh, but the Oblivion powers do work on, like, electronic. Yes. Okay. Because they are, for lack of a better word, physically concealing you with shadow. So, shadow cloak is under Oblivion, but cloak of shadow is under obfuscate, so is used as an unseen passage. Yes. So, on video I would just appear as, like, a dark shadow moving around, whereas all three used together would be, okay, yeah, that works. Okay, cool. I'm cool with that. If we can do all three of it. Sweet. All right, in such case, I parked like a few streets down and I just stack all three of those on top of each other. So- All right, so you just need one rouse check. Cool. Let me get back up to the top, character sheet, go down to wherever the fuck rouse is at.
Cole's Hunger and Investigation
00:12:35
Speaker
rituals, hunger, resonance, remorse, rouse. You do get hungrier.
00:12:45
Speaker
I am and now at two bumps of hunger. Yes. I probably would have actually drank something before I left. so You were already at one hunger, so. So would I be at two hunger now? Yes, because the lowest you can go without killing somebody is one. Oh, god darn it.
00:13:04
Speaker
All right, so now I'm at Two Hunger, but I am practically invisible. Yes, you are very difficult to detect at the moment. Yes, okay, cool. um So I would probably like, you know, just... I wanted to use the word shimmy, but that's not the right word. ah Creep, creep, that's the right word. A shadow shines up to the cops to listen in on the conversation.
00:13:33
Speaker
Is that what you're doing? You're going to go listen to the conversation. Um, well, I would probably like a scout to see, you know, how many cops are there and see if I can't like get a premium preliminary, uh, idea of what's like been done so far. Okay. Um, give me a investigation plus wits. Okay.
00:14:00
Speaker
Investigation plus wits. I don't know how witty I am. I'm kind of witty. Two successes. OK. So yeah, you are you know basically invisible, so I'm not going to worry about stealth rules unless you do something that might make too much sound. um But I mean, your base stealth is already two stealth and three dexterity. So you're already base stealth.
00:14:29
Speaker
five die sort of stealthy and then you've got a plus two right now, plus you're invisible. So I don't think unless you do something crazy, they're hearing you. um So yeah, right now they are discussing with the- Quick question. Yeah. How did I somehow wind up building a rogue in a non-D and&D game? i That's what you ended up doing, yeah. You're a rogue slash hacker. Yep.
00:14:57
Speaker
Okay, sorry. So yeah, they are that basically right now what they're doing is just kind of talking to the wife about what's going to happen next. Like, you know, that they're, they're like, we, you know, we're, we assure you, ma'am, we are, we are going to look into this. Well, I would have, I would have scouted, I would have scouted the scene first and then got up and listened to them. Okay. So are you going to look at the garage? Oh, you're just looking around for more cops.
00:15:23
Speaker
Yeah, like seeing you know where everybody's at and what everybody's doing and see if like there's any evidence that I need to gather away from them that they haven't gathered yet. Inside the garage you do see someone kind of looking around moving around in there that they're there is already crime scene tape on the door to the garage. um the The car door is open right now someone is kind of like investigating the car itself. The trunk is open and there's a guy in, not a officer's uniform, but you imagine he's probably a, what did they call those people? Detective. No, a c yeah forensics CSI type person. um And he's he's like digging around in the the trunk at the moment and he's got like, I don't know, a black light or something. Who knows? The door's open.
00:16:20
Speaker
the The big garage door is open, yeah. You can see that the body is not there, but there is, and I don't know if they actually do this in real life, but there's that chalk line drawn around where the body fell. um and And the forensic specialist is here? He is currently digging in the trunk of the car, yeah. But the the the body is not here. The body has been removed, yeah. So they the coroner's had enough time to get there.
00:16:49
Speaker
You know, and it's time of death. And maybe I think you're right. The body would probably still be there because he called you right after he left. Yeah. um How far away we are.
00:17:01
Speaker
Not that far. I don't didn't decide where this was. Maybe a 20-minute drive, you know. You imagine more people will probably start showing up. Like, these two cops are obviously the first ones to arrive. And then maybe there is a... um Maybe this like tech just happens to be able to fly. Maybe he just happened to be nearby or something. you You don't know why he'd be here so fast. But you got three people on scene plus the wife.
00:17:28
Speaker
Okay. You hear a dog barking inside the main house. All right, what do I get a role to like investigate the garage for, you know, anything? it Go ahead like and do a stealth role, just to see if you make any sound. Okay, so it'll be stealth plus dexterity and then give yourself a plus a modifier of two.
00:17:52
Speaker
Plus two. All right. Submit. Oh, that's the wrong button. That is a massive. and That's wrong. That is wrong. That is completely wrong. I don't know what that is. That's a lot of dice. I press 21 instead of two. Oh, OK. Let's see. Stealth plus agility. Oh, God. Stamina, charisma, manipulation, dexterity. Dexterity. That's right. That's right. yeah Plus two, not 21.
00:18:21
Speaker
only Three successes. Okay. um That's, yeah. So the guy continues digging around. You are able to go in. um you Do you go um left around the car or right around the car?
00:18:36
Speaker
um where Where's the car parked? Is it on the left side of the garage or the right side of the garage? Or is it the middle? it's I feel like he would have parked on the left.
00:18:48
Speaker
Yeah, it's more on the left, but you know, it's ah this is inside the garage, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is inside the garage. Yeah. OK, because I remember last time when we were discussing this, he parked away from the door because we were having that whole conversation. Yeah, I guess you pushed. No, you would be pushed. You know, you're parked as far to the left as possible, probably so that you had space to work over on the right.
00:19:17
Speaker
Yeah, okay. um All right, so I probably wouldn't run the risk of squeezing on the left side because I'm sure there's probably shells with shit on it over there. I don't want to run the risk of knocking that shit off. I'd probably go right and so try to avoid the plastic to make less noise.
00:19:37
Speaker
So to your right, you find, and I'll say the chalk outline is around the guy, but he's still laying on the ground. You find the body um of a man who has had his head um shot by a bullet, you know, point blank. um And I don't know if Maybe there's some damage to his hand as well because the gun was shot out of his hand. um The body is on the ground. It has long since stopped bleeding, although you know if you're feeling peckish, that blood is still good to you. um and And standing next to the body,
00:20:23
Speaker
you see a shadow and you've seen these before but you've never seen them stay. They always are like there and then they're gone but this is the ah humanoid shape standing next to the body and while and and by next to the body I mean it's cast onto the wall next to the body um and while this is a 2D featureless shadow, um, other than, you know, it's vaguely humanoid, you get the sense that it is staring down at the body in front of it. Oh shit. Uh, okay. How does Cole react to, to seeing one of these things and more importantly to seeing it and it not, um, uh, you know, just that vanishing like it, they always do.
00:21:19
Speaker
Um, so like, did he hear the voices when he saw the body? Uh, they kind of, you kind of started hearing the voice like, as you came around the the the whispers as you came through the door and and then you saw the shadow there. Yeah. The whispers. Sorry. Yeah. Um, it doesn't seem like the shadows are whispering or the shadow is whispering, or is it just, it was just background, background ambient whispering around you for a moment. And then you notice the shadow.
00:21:49
Speaker
Gotcha.
Encounter with a Shadow Figure
00:21:50
Speaker
um So I would probably just freeze and lock up for a second and stare at this thing. Okay, I want you to roll. This is just gonna be difficulty one, but roll frenzy. this This could be a fear frenzy, you know. Frenzy down there at the bottom. Yeah, and it should ask for a difficulty. It says modifier. ah No modifiers. Okay. I mean, you should pass this, but on the off chance that you don't, yeah, you pass it, no problem. um What is it rolling?
00:22:20
Speaker
Uh, frenzy is, it's a mix of like your willpower and humanity or something like that. I can't remember exactly how it works. Um, i set the no yeah. Um, I can't remember exactly how it works. but so I've got seven little bumps of humanity. Plus my wits is pretty high. It's something like, uh, I'd have to look up the exact rules of frenzy, but, um,
00:22:49
Speaker
Yeah. Anyways, sorry. Um, so yeah, I lock up for a second and my brain shuts down and like fear process overload, but it just yeah comes back. And then of course, you know, nothing, um, the shadow just stares. Nothing happens. Uh, it doesn't seem to have acknowledged you. Um,
00:23:17
Speaker
I creep forward a little towards the shadow. Yeah, it still doesn't acknowledge you. um you ah You know, you get close. You can see like you just get the feeling that this this thing is staring down and maybe you like in your nervousness, you kind of instinctually taken ah a breath, like a deep breath. Maybe you close your eyes for a second and open them back up.
00:23:45
Speaker
And when you do close your eyes, you you feel something stir inside you that you've not you know felt before, that the whispers kind of increase for a second. And then you feel like maybe the the whispers do go silent from this. like I can't really figure out how to describe it. like Maybe you like suck something in, the whispers go silent. And when you open your eyes,
00:24:12
Speaker
um There's not a shadow there anymore. but It's still shadowy, but it looks much more human um and and vaguely resembles the the guy on the ground. like It's like a shadowy version of him. okay so um Also, it was you know if you glance outside, you can see perfectly in the dark. What?
00:24:42
Speaker
The Oblivion Sight also lets you see perfectly in the dark. i Gotcha. Okay. um So let me let me try for a little better description. Go for it. So, you know, I walk up, the whispers are going, and then I look over, I see the shadow, and ah the whispers, like, stop. And I freeze up for a half second.
00:25:07
Speaker
with like a fear. My mind just shuts down and then it it reboots. I close my eyes and I take a deep breath trying to recenter myself. And as I do so, I feel a coldness kind of come over me and I open my eyes and the shadow has shifted from just a plain shadow to a more humanoid shape. it's It's more than just humanoid. It definitely, you definitely recognize it as him. It's just a shadowy version of of him. okay Like it's like you're looking, um I mean it's it's like you're looking at him through, similar to like what you look like in the mirror now. It's like a blurry version of him, a blurry dark version of him.
00:26:05
Speaker
um Should I roll another frenzy on this? Because I'm pretty sure that would freak me out even more. Yeah, let's let's do it again and call it difficulty two now. Okay.
00:26:21
Speaker
Okay, it was harder, harder this time, both in the fact that you only got three successes and that the difficulty was one higher. Yeah. um So I probably like take a ah a quick and inhale, like ah almost a gasp, but I'm trying to be quiet as possible. yeah And like freeze and just stare at it. When you gasp um this time, and this isn't exactly how the power works, but I don't care, this time the shadow looks up at you um in in ah kind in confusion.
00:27:05
Speaker
It doesn't speak. It doesn't say anything. It just stares. It's looking at you now. It's staring directly at me? Yeah. Oh, fuck. um i i I start backing away slowly. ah it um It gestures in alarm um and and like tri tries to wave you back towards it.
00:27:34
Speaker
um i I continue to back away, ah like back towards the wall a little, like imagining atmagining the the layout of the room. um If I came in through the garage doors and like circled to the right, there's probably like filing cabinet, like table with like tools and things, and then maybe the knife, a bloody knife or whatever on top of it.
00:28:04
Speaker
um So I'd back towards the the table slash cabinet. Okay. Oh, just just for FYI purposes. um So frenzy role is your willpower plus one third of your humanity rounded down. ah Okay, versus whatever difficulty. So yeah, having high willpower and high humanity make it easier to resist frenzy.
00:28:29
Speaker
um Anyway, yeah, you back away. The shadow person tries to like take a step towards you um and and and it doesn't it doesn't move. It seems tethered to the body next to it. Like it, you know, it would be like seeing a 2D image try and take a ah step forward, but it goes nowhere. And then and then it looks down in confusion.
00:28:55
Speaker
Can I touch it? i I thought you moved away from it. I did, but like it's not doing anything. It's just standing there. So you can try to touch it. Alright, I creep back forward slowly um and reach my hand out to her towards the guy. Or the, the yeah, the guy.
00:29:21
Speaker
okay so
00:29:25
Speaker
Yeah, I didn't think it allowed you to. um it yeah but The new power doesn't allow you to make physical contact with ghosts, but definitely you feel a coldness and it watches your hand come towards you and doesn't move out of the way um when you kind of like basically you what you feel is the wall because this is still a 2D image that you're looking at. that you know it is This this ah shadow ghost, whatever it is, is you know functions like a shadow. So it's on the wall. Okay. Does he do anything? He just watches me wave my hand through him? He kind of looks disappointed that you couldn't touch him. um And it kind of mouths something at you. ah
00:30:14
Speaker
What do I have to roll to read his lips? I think maybe. I am not good with people at all, so.
00:30:26
Speaker
It would have to be probably like a insight plus wits. Yeah, we'll go insight plus wits. So just why not insightful at all. Yeah. Yeah, you don't know what it's trying to say.
00:30:41
Speaker
um Like, if I whisper, it said anything louder than a whisper, right? on the On the power list? I think so, yeah. You can whisper. OK. All right. I try whispering to him. Targenflog?
00:31:01
Speaker
What's Targenflog? Oh, that's what you thought he said. Yeah. Actually, you know what? This this tech, dude. would that's two successes even with four dice because I was gonna think this well he's probably not sound aware but two success I mean my stealth was a three yeah okay I'll give you that um yeah the the ghost looks confused um and then it kind of points down at itself um and I
00:31:41
Speaker
mouths one word, give me another roll. It's ah insight plus wits. Yeah, so just wits for you. You can always rouse two successes.
00:31:56
Speaker
um
00:31:58
Speaker
It says, ah so the word it's mouthing is is help, like help, and it's pointing at itself.
00:32:09
Speaker
um
00:32:13
Speaker
This guy is definitely dead, right? Uh, he's got a bullet hole in his forehead. Um, so yeah, you would assume he's dead. I'm wondering if blood is no longer pumping out. Okay. I was thinking like I could try to give him some of my blood to see, ah but I'm pretty sure he's been dead too long and he's got a bullet in his head. He hasn't been dead that long. It does have to be pretty soon after. Um,
00:32:45
Speaker
He's been dead for at least 20 minutes. Yeah. Let's see.
00:32:59
Speaker
Just see if anyone, what's the max amount of time? Okay, yeah, it it says ah about five minutes. So yeah, no, he's, I mean, I could try it, but it wouldn't do anything.
00:33:11
Speaker
I probably wouldn't want to leave blood on the scene anyways. And to be fair, Max didn't explain to you like why he healed this guy, other than he said he deserved it. yeah yeah To be honest, I just said the guy deserved it. Knowing Max... How much do I trust Max? To not just go murder somebody.
00:33:34
Speaker
right That's the thing I'm wondering is like, what was the thing that went through your mind of when Max was like, he deserved it and I murdered him? um I mean, we're not like super close friends, but we're like vampire buds. Yeah. So like, you know, he he's be I mean, well, he's kind of going through some shit right now anyways.
00:33:55
Speaker
um
00:33:58
Speaker
Uh, I would probably like take a picture of the body. Um, that was my, what, what that role was earlier, the, uh, um, fuck the technology plus whatever the fuck it was. Okay. Yeah. Two senses. You're good. Yeah. Um, so I would probably like pull out my phone and take a picture of the body in the shadow or the, the, the ghost like creature thing. Yeah. That definitely doesn't show up in the picture at all.
00:34:29
Speaker
I turned the phone around and show it to the ghost. like i I'm just gonna say, I'm just gonna say ghost right now, but I honestly have no idea. It's just the best description I have for this thing. Yeah. um It looks at the camera and looks confused. Mouths, you know, a bunch of stuff too much for you to um you know, roll for like it's it's basically just gone into like a rant or something. And it's motioning down in his body emotions.
00:34:59
Speaker
um ah I feel like it, um it's trying to communicate something to say, just minding my own business, and then it does a um ah ah puts a you know, finger gun to its head and blows out it, you know, pretends to blow out its brain.
00:35:21
Speaker
or that fucking liar? I whispered to it, dead how?
00:35:30
Speaker
ah points Points down at its body and then does the gun thing again and then but you know points at its head. um Or no. That might imply that it committed suicide. um How would you motion that you uh how would you uh do a motion that someone one else shot you um okay so he he would probably like point to himself point down at the ground and then like maybe like standing there like whistling and then like hold up one finger and then point to the door and then do like a walking hand yeah but okay that works over your hand
00:36:16
Speaker
and then make a little path to where he was and then like point to the hand with the little walking fingers and then the gun thing. Yeah. And you know what? I'm going to roll for him. ah Yeah, if he rolls low, like he'd just be like finger gun face. No, I'm rolling for his persuasion. Oh.
00:36:50
Speaker
Six, six, that is four successes. Damn, this guy's very persuasive. Pretty persuasive. Do I need to counter-roll him? Yeah, I think, let's see. Perception plus... No, it would be an Insight roll. Oh, God. Yeah, he's fucking... Yeah, it's plus Insight. I'll give you, because Max said the guy deserved it, maybe I'll give you a plus one to that, because you're more inclined to believe Max.
Doubtful Justifications and Evidence Gathering
00:37:17
Speaker
Yeah, no, I'm gonna. Three success. Three success. You are doubting what Max said. Not like seriously, but you're like, wait, this guy says he was, I think this guy's saying he was just minding his own business and Max came in and killed him. Like that doesn't seem right. So i'm I'm not crazy. Like, I mean, I know. I'm crazy, but I'm not crazy. Yeah. It doesn't sound right. Yeah.
00:37:45
Speaker
i'm I'm over here pantomiming to a ghost. Yeah. Yeah. A ghost which can see you while you're invisible. I didn't really think of that, but I've decided, yes, it sees you while you're invisible. OK. So i'm I'm not crazy, but this is a really fucking crazy situation. um I'm going to chalk this up to I haven't slept enough.
00:38:09
Speaker
Yeah. Now you do know you're also there to get camera footage, so like you could find the answer. It's true. I point to him and I like do like a pantomime of like a camera, you know, like holding up a thing to my face and then doing the little circle, like a movie thing that you're doing charades. Right. And then I shrug my shoulders and look around.
00:38:34
Speaker
He points towards the garage door, the regular door, but more towards the upper corner. OK, I look there. Do I see anything? You see nothing inside.
00:38:54
Speaker
Inside what? Inside the garage. Oh, he's probably pointing to the camera outside then. Yeah.
00:39:02
Speaker
um I do like a little clicky finger on a keyboard type of thing and then do a shrug.
00:39:12
Speaker
um I don't know what that means, but I guess you're trying to see if he has a computer. Yeah. ah He shakes his head, no. I draw a cloud with my fingers.
00:39:34
Speaker
Uh, thinks about that, and then points at the camera nodding his head. ah Uh... Okay, I need to go inside now. Oh wait, no. No, that... I think I deterred... No, yeah, no. You were able to attempt to hack into it, and you had a good firewall. Yeah, I had to go to the base, like his... Like, I need to find his, like, laptop, his phone, or whatever. Yeah. And go from that direction.
00:40:02
Speaker
You hear the um the the tech dude walk out of the room um and you hear him like saying to the cops, he's like, well, there's nothing into the in the ah in the trunk. um I guess next we're gonna have to search the garage or search the house. ah
00:40:21
Speaker
And yeah then he gets out of range for you to hear what he's saying. Okay, so what am I i have to roll to like quickly like rummage through this garage for any clues? So um you can do investigation plus I'll let you do intelligence this time um because you're you're you've got a little bit of time while this guy's talking. Yeah.
00:40:45
Speaker
three three successes. You can um a rouse and possibly get hungry or to add two bonus dice. You can also spend a point of willpower to reroll those two failed regular dice. I'm gonna do a rouse. Okay, you don't get hungrier. So go ahead and just roll 2d10.
00:41:12
Speaker
One more success, so four successes. um All right, so you're looking around, you like quietly open the the the freezer and see a bunch of, of um What you might assume is ground beef, except it's definitely stuff that he, you know, he's bagged himself. It's not in like, you know, those packages. It's unlike, you know, I don't know, homemade sausage packets. um i Is it like Ziploc bags or is it like freezer? Yeah, they're like Ziplocs. There's also... ah I grab one and I open and I sniff it. There's also a half-eaten bag of pizza rolls. um you I take those and put it in my pocket.
00:41:52
Speaker
its Okay, and then the I guess the ground meat smells like meat. I mean, it doesn't smell peculiar in any way. I don't know what's what human flesh smells human human flesh tastes like pork, apparently.
00:42:12
Speaker
But I doubt it smells like pork. Aiden knows this from experience. I will look it up, make my NSA guy hear this. I've already done it. What flesh smells like and it's a man po party flesh and smell was like pork, apparently. Oh, burning muscle smells like beef in a frying pan. Body fat smells like pork. Interesting.
00:42:40
Speaker
um But where, what does raw human flesh smell like? What does raw? Raw ground human flesh. I know that's the problem. That's probably not something where you're fine. Google, Google does not have that answer. I mean, API agents looking a little closer at your financials.
00:43:04
Speaker
Yeah, maybe it would just smell like raw ground pork, but it's like, even to my, my, my vampiric like senses. Do you, do you, do you taste it? Like put your time into it. Sure. I can't put your, I mean, you can't get sick. Yeah, you can't get sick. So yeah, when you put your tongue to it, now you've not tasted animal blood, but it does taste like human blood.
00:43:33
Speaker
I look back at where the ghost was, he's still there? He's still there, he's kind of like got his arms crossed and is like trying looking away from you.
00:43:44
Speaker
I put the the meat back in the freezer and walk it back over to him and I point at the freezer and I look back at him with like a like a disappointed father would look at a child.
00:44:01
Speaker
He, uh, pantomimes, um, like, uh, pantomimes, he points, do you know what? We're just gonna, I'm just gonna do a convenience thing. He points that, um, cause I feel like this could totally be in his man cave of a, of a garage. Cause that's what this is. He points at a, uh, a deer, you know, head that's mounted on the garage and then like shrugs.
00:44:27
Speaker
I,
00:44:30
Speaker
I look at the deer head, I look back at him and I'm like, hmm. ah The deepest of. Now with your three successes or four successes, you know, I'll say you get to continue your investigation. You're going around. Um, and, uh, you, you, at one point you, um, notice like the, uh, the ghost react, um, like, uh,
00:45:00
Speaker
like a no, no, no type of reaction until you look directly over at him and then he like acts some casual when you pass by a certain ah ah shelf with like some boxes and stuff. No, it's his treasury. I start opening the boxes. So as you're digging around, you find a hidden camera um with a ah little, as well, hmm.
00:45:27
Speaker
what it be connected directly to a computer uh it depends on if it's like a webcam or if it's like a i mean if you're looking for like really good video um or depends on if you it's just really cheap video i'm thinking it's it's probably directly can it so you find a camera with ah a wire coming off of it and the ghost is flipping out you know but you're ignoring him now because you're following this wire down you know you got to move some boxes to get to it but there is a small laptop um Very basic laptop, you know definitely not something you would use for gaming or video editing or anything like that, but perfectly capable of being a hard drive for a video camera. I is it i mean, I'm guessing it's like turned on and open, yeah. Yeah, I guess it would have to be. And it's you know you see like the room um because it's a live feed. And it's it is recording. um Do I find a charger as well?
00:46:28
Speaker
um
00:46:31
Speaker
I guess there would be yeah, because this just sits back there. Yeah, it's plugged in. I double check and see if there is a password lock on the device first. And ah if there definitely is, but since it's open, you know, you've you are, you know, have gotten around that at the moment. Yeah.
00:46:52
Speaker
um I quickly search to see if I can find cloud data information, like his his login stuff to ring or ah whatever camera system. um On this laptop, there there would not be any of that information. You find lots of video files, though. The thing's almost full. Okay, i I go to the one that's the most recent.
00:47:18
Speaker
Do you go to the one that is actively recording? Can you stop the recording? I do stop the recording. I pull out a flash drive because I'm a computer geek and always have flash drive on me. It's probably like a 128 gig ah flash drive. um and I start um ah downloading all the the videos yeah and then I would um like look at the most reading yeah recent recording.
00:47:48
Speaker
Okay. um You start playing the recording, you see ah like it starts with the guy's face and he backs away from the camera. um And you see that there is, you see his car is pulled into the garage.
00:48:03
Speaker
um and ah He goes over to the car and um opens the the passenger side door to the car and you see him pull out what, you know, at first you can't see him because he's in the way but then you see eventually Actually, no, I guess he's fiddling around for a while. And then you see him pull out a naked woman and set her in the chair. I would stop at this point. Go ahead and make sure that's the first thing that gets copied over. And then I want to delete that. And also make an awareness plus wits role. Awareness plus wits, awareness plus wits, awareness.
00:48:50
Speaker
Awareness. It's in the same column as investigation. switch Okay. Yeah. that the The tech guy is on his way back over. So you have a couple of seconds. I may immediately notice you, but boxes have been moved and stuff.
00:49:09
Speaker
um So I leave my USB plugged into it and let it you know keep moving stuff over, but I make sure the um the video the the most recent video is deleted. Okay. Do you make a copy of that video though? Yeah, it's on the USB. It's the first thing I move over. that I make sure it's deleted. All right. And then I just ah put everything back as quickly as possible.
00:49:34
Speaker
Yeah, and I'll say, so do you put everything back, um leaving your USBs? Yeah, USBs in there so it can continue to download the files. Okay. I actually know it. Fuck, I'm just gonna take the whole thing. I'll take the the laptop with me. Okay. All right, so you take the laptop and once you've like kind of like shoved it under your your, you know, jacket or whatever, I guess you, well, not that you are monitored by the cold. I don't close it.
00:50:03
Speaker
um I don't close the laptop. um I leave it open. um But I turn the screen off. Actually, as soon as you pick it up, it goes invisible um because stuff you carry is invisible. so Cool. I don't know that know you would necessarily know that. I walk out of the garage away from the tech guy. Yeah. Actually, you would definitely know that because you can't even see yourself. um So yeah, you see it go invisible and it's like, oh, sweet.
00:50:34
Speaker
Yeah, you walk out, the tech guy is looking around. And then, ah you know, as you're walking to wherever you walk in, you see him say, guys, I found a camera. And you know, you hear him start moving boxes and stuff. um So while that's all the videos are downloading, I'm gonna take the laptop and try to go inside the house. Okay.
00:50:57
Speaker
Um, the front door, the woman is like standing in front of the front door and it is closed. She's talking to the cops still. So that would be obvious. You could try a different backyard. Yeah. Go to the back. Um, back, you know, the, the back door is, uh, it's locked. Actually, I guess that would be the front door because we're in the back of the house right now. Yeah. Or is it the garage is on the side of the house on the side?
00:51:24
Speaker
So it would be the front door that they, that no, it would be the side door that they were at then. Well, the cops are who in at the front door talking to her, you know. Oh, okay. Gotcha. Gotcha. Gotcha. Gotcha. Okay. Yeah. So I go to the back door and I try the back door. It's locked. I just break the the fucking door. I don't like kick it in. I just turn the handle until it breaks because I'm a fucking vampire and have strength.
00:51:51
Speaker
Yeah. um ah Lethal body. I've got lethal body. Yeah, I'll say you can do that. I just want to like turn it until it breaks and and yeah, the door that happens. um Open the door. ah You are probably in like ah the door opens into like the laundry room. The lights are off, but you can see perfectly in the dark. Maybe now you're just now noticing that. Oh, I can see perfectly. That's fucking weird. OK. Yeah.
00:52:18
Speaker
I look through the house while I still make sure the laptop is downloading the videos, but I look through the house for ah phones, tablets, desktop computers, things like that. um She would have her phone on her because she called the cops. He probably had his phone on him. um You do eventually find a desktop computer for sure. I i take it. You take the desktop?
00:52:45
Speaker
Yes, and I, is the laptop, is the video files done downloading from the laptop? Yeah, it probably took like five minutes, but it's done. Okay, I put the laptop down where I found the desktop and I take the desktop computer. Okay. but Actually, yeah, fucking, I take the whole thing. Okay. um And I'm gonna leave now. and Okay. And basically, you can do all that with no problem.
00:53:12
Speaker
Okay, cool, all right, I'm done. Yeah, as you're leaving, I mean, your hands are full right now, but you feel your your phone vibrate in your pocket. Okay, I don't check it until I like get back to the the car and put everything in the car. You get back to your car, you put in everything in your car, the cops don't notice the thing. And you check your phone, and you've got a text from Lauren the witch.
00:53:38
Speaker
Um, and she says, Hey, uh, I was going to be meeting up with Max and some of the other, uh, uh, some other of your, your vampire people, um, to discuss magic. You're going to be there. Uh, if you're there, I'm there. Okay. And then she, she sends you, um, uh, she said, she says something like, okay, cool. And sends you like a, uh, dancing witch emoji or gif.
00:54:09
Speaker
Um, I send back, um, a blushing, no, I send back a broomstick. Okay. Um, so I let like, wait, wait, wait, wait. I send, I send a broomstick and then like some bells after the broomstick. Okay. Um.
00:54:34
Speaker
Because I know she knows exactly. She knows exactly what that means. Yeah. I don't. um I don't either. But I'm assuming that you know this me is, or not this me, but the coal that's me is more into the cryptography of of emojis.
00:54:54
Speaker
Yeah, and I guess she sends you the details of like the meetup.
Vampire Gathering and Ritual Discussions
00:55:00
Speaker
So I completely forgot like, I don't know when I was maybe, were you not here? I don't know when Hayden decided to set up this meeting. I completely forgot that she technically only gave you her number, but time has passed so I'm assuming she's at least gotten in contact with the other guys as well. I never gave her a number out. Maybe she asked for the rest of the group. In which case, yeah, I probably would have done that. So there, we fixed the in-game reason why Max was able to contact her.
00:55:34
Speaker
um But yeah, and and so that's that's basically what you're gonna move to next. You've got a desktop computer in your car and- Do I have enough time to to drop this off at my place and- You should be like a cop and be watching videos and doing reports while driving 80 miles per hour down the Houston freeways. Well, I was gonna like take it back, get my,
00:56:03
Speaker
see if the desktop is like encrypted, the the hard drive is encrypted, and if not, then go ahead and see if I can pull the information for the cloud storage. that yeah I don't think you'd have time for all of that right now, but you'd have time to run back by your apartment, but you know this video is happening shortly, very soon. I dropped that off and I quickly transfer the information from the USB over to my own computer. Okay. um it, ah well, a sandbox of my own computer. And then I bring the USB with me to the meeting. Cool.
00:56:40
Speaker
um And so the meeting, we never really just designated where it was going to be. ah Maybe it's just a Jerry's house because Jerry's not there right now.
00:56:57
Speaker
Jerry still in Huntsville, but nobody knows the ironic yeah that we're all meeting for a therapy session. I i like that. You are at Jerry's place. You know, there's plenty of room down in the therapy area. um It's yeah it is late night. You know, this is we've had like four episodes on this one night, so it's probably like four a.m. or something by now. But it's getting close. Yeah, maybe three a.m.
00:57:22
Speaker
um
00:57:26
Speaker
And yeah, so you and your sire were already there. ah That would be Max and McHale. ah Jerry is nowhere to be found, but you did invite his sire Imogen. um And you also invited Lauren and you don't know that Kohl's showing up so Lauren um and I also tried to invite Olivia I think but then she just kind of like not
00:57:58
Speaker
No, no, I think I texted her asking her. I don't think you. Yeah, I text her asking how she was. Yeah. How are you doing? And she sent you her TikTok feed. Weirdo. Yeah. I'm too old for that shit. She's like, I don't know, doing a weird new dance. Whatever the cop popular TikTok meme. I'm pretty sure that was during the time of bullying the furries. OK, I don't even know what that is.
00:58:26
Speaker
Bullying your furries.
00:58:29
Speaker
Because I'm sure Hayden can help you understand either of those subjects. considering Considering... Very good at one of those. I'll let you guess which one it is. um I'm a people person. I'm a geese goose. Geese goose? Oh shit, I thought I muted it. I'm sorry. It was an inner thought that came out. My apologies.
00:58:54
Speaker
So the next person to arrive would be Imogen. She's familiar with the place, so she shows up and walks in, looks around, and spots you. And she's like, Max, right? I hold out my hand, and I go, Imogen. Yes, I am Max. Oh, is she talking to me, or? She's talking to Max. Oh, OK. Yeah, I hold out. I hold out.
00:59:22
Speaker
I hold out my hand and go, yes, I am Max. I remember seeing you at the ah ah fancy hat party that we had. Was I invited to the fancy hat party? That that was the first Elysium. Oh, OK. We just, start nobody brought hats because I forgot that it was a hat party until it was too late. I will. It says, oh, yes, you're you're one of the
00:59:51
Speaker
the new the the ones who are all embraced on New Year's. And she shakes her hand. And then looks over at Michael, who kind of nods and says, you know introduces himself. um They don't know each other. ah
01:00:12
Speaker
and ah And he says something along the lines of, i I'm curious to see how this goes. I never thought I would.
01:00:23
Speaker
be studying magic with a Tremere. And then, um because the clans have had history. ah yeah And then Lauren shows up um not too long after that and walks in and ah looks around um you know looks around the room and then looks at you, Max, and says, oh, hi. ah Hello. Hi again. you know Hello again.
01:00:50
Speaker
ah max so uh what's what's all this well i guess i know it's about but what's the uh what's what's the plan tonight ah so i made a big goof when i stopped you from making that uh sacrifice with that vampire we were tasked to bring the remaining vampires back to the the, uh, the prints. Um, and so I was a little zealous about that. I wanted to prove myself and followed it directly to the word. And now it looks like we might be playing into the hands of the prints by causing some major chaos. And so I'm trying to figure out how to undo this. Okay. Give me a awareness plus wits.
01:01:49
Speaker
ah Awareness. Oh, there you are. Plus wits. Any modifiers? No. OK, Imogen at those words playing into the hand of the prince, Imogen looks surprised, um but says nothing.
01:02:14
Speaker
I guess I take note of it. And I look at her and I basically say, i i I give her a questioning look and I say, I'm sorry if I misspoke. And then Cole walks in the door before she gets a chance to respond. I look at Cole and I go, Cole, it's good to see you. What you doing here? Ron, did you see that?
01:02:46
Speaker
I said you walk in the door. did you Did you see what I meant? I think he sent me a private message. Oh, I did. No, I did not see. like And then moments later, you're like, and then Frank wants, or Cole walks in the door and I was like, the fuck? Did I just do that right? I share my screen constantly with, with Juan.
01:03:06
Speaker
just Nope. He is my FBI agent. I didn't mean to break the third wall. or Sorry, my apologies. Keep going. No, that's fine. You walk in um before she gets a chance to answer. Who's all here? ah So it is you, Imogen, who was Bill's sire, um a vampire you've never seen before, and then Max, and the witch, Lauren.
01:03:36
Speaker
um I walk in, I look over at Max, and I do kind of like a subtle, well, what do I roll to see if I do a subtle nod?
01:03:46
Speaker
ah To see how subtle it is. Yeah. I don't know, performance plus charisma. Performance. Two things I'm terrible at. All right, let's see what happens. Hey, success. Yeah, that's subtle. it You pull it off.
01:04:06
Speaker
Cool. So I look over at at Max and I kind of so subtly nod. And I like kind of like do a finger nose thing. um Like tap your nose? I'm trying to think like, I have information for you. But I don't know how to like put that across.
01:04:32
Speaker
ah Yeah, I think a ah nose tap I think a nose tap would indicate that because I previously asked you hey, can you fix my Maybe fuck up. Yeah, so I do I do a subtle subtle nod and then like a nose tap and then I kind of like look off in a direction and then I I walk in that direction I take a glance and do I see his shitty car outside and Yes. Well, yeah, I guess it'd be in the parking lot. I don't know what Jerry's exactly. Yeah, because we don't know what the vision is. Feel vision afield. And I go, I see I see him and I go, Well, I, I realized I didn't invite you. I, I apologize about that. But, you know, this is more magic. And I don't. Are you any good at magic? Cole?
01:05:26
Speaker
um i I make technology not work sometimes. With the plan, I guess that is magic and I look over at Imogen. You also, I mean, this is new but you also see dead people. Yeah, I'm assuming that I'm just having a slight psychotic break. Right. Because there's no way in fucking hell that I just saw a ghost.
01:05:48
Speaker
Like that's not a thing. I mean, yeah, I'm a vampire now, but seriously, ghosts, that's, I'm pretty sure I'm just, I need to talk to somebody about this. I'm i am falling into the deep end of a pool that I don't know how to get out of. But you know, you've probably played a lot of video games with magic in it. Yeah. Yeah. Probably.
01:06:16
Speaker
So it's just Imogen, Lauren, Michael, Mike. might Jesus, I can never say his name. Wait, and did Max ask me if I knew magic or was that? Yeah, I asked you. I was. I thought you were asking me, me, not Colby. No, I'm asking Cole. Oh, OK. Cole would not have responded with I've made things that work sometimes. That was that was totally ah that was totally a ah frank response. I thought, yeah, anyways. um I call it be like, um, I, I know magic. Uh, and then I do like a shitty ass fucking like card out of nowhere trick. I say shitty there. rest It's actually pretty cool. I was like, closeup magic.
01:07:05
Speaker
Cause I'm dorky, but Cole it's even worse.
01:07:12
Speaker
on and And then like you see like this just very deranged smile on my face afterwards. It's like see magic.
01:07:25
Speaker
Um, Lauren walks over and she's like, uh, I, maybe she was like, I don't know, grabbing some water or something from the, like, probably water cooler that Jerry has for his, his patients. Jerry definitely has a water cooler and coffee on tap and fucking AA meeting bro. Yeah. And she walks over. Um, well, the coffee is probably like ice cold by now, but, uh, um, if there's any left.
01:07:53
Speaker
She walks over and she's like, oh Cole, you're here. And you know, like, makes a move to, no, Lauren, the the witch. guess And makes a move to like go towards you, but then kind of stops herself.
01:08:09
Speaker
Like just kind of that like, well, I don't know, she understand half step towards you, but then stops. Like, yeah, that aborted half step. Yeah. um i I also perform an aborted half step towards her.
01:08:23
Speaker
Okay. I'm gonna roll to see if my guy understands what the fuck that just was. Why did I give her disciplines?
01:08:38
Speaker
I guess I was like, she's probably got stuff that works just like these. Would that be Insight plus wits? yeah any modifiers since I know that I have a plus one I know them yeah this one to success successes yeah I mean you picked up on it yeah that is just fucking awkward that it was awkward yeah oh I've got so many character sheets open right now dude yeah I have everyone that's in the group I have
01:09:16
Speaker
awesome character sheet open. So I have Cole, Max, Michael, Lauren, and Imogen. I guess I can minimize them so I can have some space here. There we go.
01:09:29
Speaker
That is the bane of a DM. I have to have everything. Well I have three screens and I don't use but two of them at a time. I currently only have one screen but I would offer you one of these because I'm planning on upgrading soon anyways, but I haven't got these. If you want to bring it over, you know. I mean, I would. It's just a little bit of a drive. A little bit, yeah. 36 plus hours.
01:10:00
Speaker
I mean, I wouldn't have to deal with snow and shit, so... That's true. Probably. It it was like 40 degrees this morning, but...
01:10:12
Speaker
Yeah, not not not too much snow, but there's still snow on the mountains.
01:10:19
Speaker
Yeah, well, I wouldn't be driving on the mountain. I'd be driving on the road. You do have to pass through a mountain range to get here. ah No matter which way you go, there's mountains you got to go through. Well, okay. No, I don't think there's a way around because I was like, maybe if you went all the way to Canada or something, but I'm sure there's mountains that way too. and There's probably more mountains in that direction. Probably.
01:10:41
Speaker
um Anyways, so back to on task. Yes.
01:10:47
Speaker
ah So I guess Lauren is like, yeah, so is ah she looks at the two vampires she's never met before, Michael and Imogen, and it's like, so are you tonight? I look at her looking at them and I go, oh, I apologize. This this is my grand sire, the ah the sire of my sire. um I just don't call him a grand dad. That's a little weird.
01:11:12
Speaker
And his name, I can never pronounce his name, it's Michael, right? Michael. Michael. I'm just gonna call him Kale. That sounds kind of Hebrew-esque. Hebrew-esque. And I say, this is Michael. And then I look over at Imogen and I go, and this is Imogen. She is another one of the sires of the group that messed with your ritual.
01:11:39
Speaker
Imogen looks at you and and are raises an eyebrow and and is like, I think I'm missing some information here. Why is... Please take no offense at this. And she looks, you know, over at her, but she says, why is this human here? And I go, cool. This is going to be a long story.
01:12:05
Speaker
And I do a chuckle, and I go, OK. And lo Lauren also chuckles, and then she like um ah like does like a little flourish with her hands. And I mean, I guess like I should roll for this, because it would be funny if it goes wrong.
01:12:21
Speaker
um
01:12:26
Speaker
ah What did I say her magic roll was? Magic occult plus resolve. OK. Lauren.
01:12:40
Speaker
Well, she doesn't look at that right now, Frank, but her fire phone buzz. you in pocket Yeah. Are you sending nudes? OK. Oh, yeah. OK, that's that's a big success. That's almost entirely successes. But somehow still not a crit.
01:13:00
Speaker
ah she ah She does a flourish with her hands and like a little like whirlwind appears you know above her hand. And she's like, I'm not what you would call a normal human. And then, you know like, it makes it go away. And Imogen just raises an eyebrow and says, I can see that. So you mentioned a ritual.
01:13:26
Speaker
And I go, I think this would be best if Lauren explains it, but through our perspective was we were tasked by the Prince to go and find the others. um And I'm like snapping my fingers and I go, what's that guy's name? We literally just rescued him. I can't remember his name. he doesn't And I look over at Lauren, I'm like, guy you had staked on the ground.
01:13:51
Speaker
Um, his name was, uh, Dexter Chapman. And I say, and we, Oh, that's right. Dexter. what Um, yeah, so we found Dexter first. Um, and Lauren said she had to do some type of ritual to make the end of the world not happen essentially and we were in a part of this giant circle where all this magical energy was supposed to be going rushing into the vampire and kill him um that was the point of the ritual was to kill the vampire this specific vampire that specifically him um due to a vision Lauren had however
01:14:46
Speaker
due to my desire to be obedient. I did interrupt the the ritual. He escaped. We eventually got him and brought another vampire back from, that was a solo vampire. And now their moon is red and everyone's pissy. And I looked at Lauren and I'm like, did I get any of that awfully wrong?
01:15:14
Speaker
So while um you were explaining that, Lauren like glanced at her phone for a moment and then shot Cola's smile, but doesn't do anything with her phone and keeps on listening. um And she says, yeah, you didn't, that I mean, that about covers it. Yes, I had a vision that's something that happens to me sometimes. um And essentially in my vision, ah parts of it were really clear, like the fact that this Dexter guy needed to be sacrificed. It was a new a newly created vampire um named Dexter Chapman, needed to be sacrificed. And um I didn't even know vampires were real before this vision, ah but I found the guy. um Conveniently, he was the friend of somebody I knew. I found him, and I had this vision
01:16:07
Speaker
uh shortly before new year's eve uh so this was all very hastily done um in the vision basically this guy needed to be sacrificed under the full moon or something bad would happen vision wasn't exactly clear as to what that bad thing was um these guys you know interrupted it uh and it didn't work out um and uh now the moon is red My coven and I have been trying to figure out a way around this. um And right now, the best we can come up with is we need to, well, we on the next full moon, we need to try again with the same guy.
01:16:57
Speaker
And then the image. Go ahead. OK, yeah, Imogen kind of lets out a ah um like ah a breath, you know, long breath and and or a sigh and says, I am familiar with the idea of rituals not going the way that was expected. My clan is actually the result of such a ritual, but ah killing this guy, this Dexter, that's going to be difficult.
01:17:36
Speaker
I don't, if that is what has to happen to fix this moon thing, that is going to have to be run by the prince. I don't even know where this guy is. But killing another vampire is very against the rules, as your sires should have told you.
01:17:59
Speaker
And if you go and do this without the prince's blessing, don't expect to live much longer after that. I have a question. And I i look at Lauren and I say, yeah, we have a sheriff that will come and hunt you down and murder you. And she's very good at it. And she looks at Lauren and and says, and honestly, I don't know if the prince found out about you. What would happen to you? I'll i'll admit, um I'm curious about you. I've never met a a human spellcaster. So I'm very curious about you.
01:18:38
Speaker
I have a question. Go ahead. Okay. I was shot with the weird green magic laser thing. Yes. Do we ever figure out what that did to me? No, you haven't really looked into it. But you know, you've been hearing voices. And all of a sudden, you can see ghosts. Also true. Okay. I was like, you should probably ask your witch friend. Yeah, I I I don't want to butt into the conversation though. Yeah.
01:19:09
Speaker
um I'm just kindnna standing awkwardly off to the side a little bit. And I and I say, OK, let's round back to the whole. It has to be this vampire.
01:19:23
Speaker
um We're not even sure if we kill him. Doing the ritual that it's even going to work. What type of ritual are we?
01:19:35
Speaker
What type of ritual were you doing? And I guess we we need the details of that ritual to find out. So she nods and says, essentially the Rick. Go ahead. I have another question. Yeah. What could we do to make this vampire guy no longer protected by um the the prince? Is that Cole asking? That's Cole asking.
01:20:08
Speaker
McHale Speaks up and he says well You would need to get him on the bad side of the prince he'd need to Break some laws basically earn Essentially get a blood if a blood hunt was called on him you could do whatever you wanted to him Okay um Can I get a list of those laws so we can see if we can make it? Max doesn't know that, but I know, Hayden knows that you have that list. You're given it to by the yeah the butler of the prince.
01:20:54
Speaker
was Yeah, but you were, I got to find them or emailed of it in my handouts just so you can you know glance at them. But yeah, you have a PDF of them. Okay. character ah Where the hell did I put those walls?
01:21:14
Speaker
I'll have to find it, but. um I'm just thinking that might be the easiest way to get around the whole prints protection thing.
01:21:33
Speaker
i mean he hasn't done anything per se, but the ritual was supposed to stop the Blood Moon from occurring. And we we fucked up and now the Blood Moon is here. So, you know, if we go about this a little more legally, we wouldn't have to worry so much about getting on the Prince's bad side. And when I speak up and I say,
01:21:57
Speaker
i say I'm not looking to kill this va vampire. I'm looking at how to reverse what happened. I know, Lauren, you had the vision and it had to be this way to the vision, but Since that timeline, that potential timeline is now non-existent, I assume these visions just happen randomly. They happen on their own accord. However, I'm i'm wondering if there's a new way that we can go about to rectify this. There has to be. Yeah, she says i I haven't had any new visions since then, so I don't know. And you're right. I don't know if just redoing the same thing will fix anything.
01:22:42
Speaker
um But it's worth a shot. And I i turn to Imogen and i say since and i turned to imogen mckale and I say, since the two of you are much more a versed in magic, in vampire magics, and I say, no offense, Lauren, but vampire magic,
New Magical Strategies and Humor
01:23:04
Speaker
is there anything that comes to your minds about anything that might assist in any of this? Let me do some rolls for them both.
01:23:23
Speaker
and she will have a plus two or plus one because she does have a specialty in blood magic only two successes she's going to go and spend a willpower this is and she's going to rouse and spend a willpower because it's an important thing to think about her blood potency
01:23:56
Speaker
First, let's do this. Two more successes, and why not spend a web power while I'm at it? Because she's an NPC.
01:24:12
Speaker
One more success. So that is a total of five successes for, and then for Mikael.
01:24:28
Speaker
One success. So Mikhail basically shakes his head and he's like, oops, I closed the sheet. He says, in truth, I don't know how much use I will be in the stitch in this situation. My knowledge of blood magic is focused primarily on what I can do to find my next target.
01:24:56
Speaker
I'm not exactly what you call a scholar. um I look at Lauren and I say, this does granddad give you any vibes of Batman? Lauren's like, well, I mean, I barely know him. ah So far, all I know is he doesn't know anything about magic.
01:25:21
Speaker
Imogen is lost in thought for a moment. um And she she says, well, this is beyond my my specific knowledge, but I do know there there have been rituals ah which can essentially create simulacrons. That's the word, yeah. Simulacrons of ah vampires, which are, to put it in layman's terms, sort of like clones.
01:25:57
Speaker
um Very, the clones are usually not um intelligent, very intelligent, but genetically they they share a lot of the same DNA. They're almost identical to their their creator.
01:26:18
Speaker
Perhaps that's a route we could go down. Perhaps we could use, create a version of him. And I look at Lauren and I say, this is about this is Hayden about to enter some Hayden's you know just yeah belief system. And I say, I was raised LDS or Mormon. And so Max was too. Max was too. Am I hearing this too?
01:26:54
Speaker
Yes, you you're hearing this. And I say, and we believe we had so we we have souls. ah I don't know if I have a soul anymore. The common vampire theology is that I no longer have a soul since I am dead. But I am sure. Are we dead, though?
01:27:13
Speaker
and there's There's no blood. There's no pulse. And man has blood. um I don't have blood. um Kinda, sorta. Anyways, a lot of theology. um And they say, I don't think it was necessarily as important to kill him as it was to destroy his soul. Is that correct?
01:27:40
Speaker
um So, Lauren ah shakes her head. No, actually, I don't think so. um
01:27:49
Speaker
Not that I dabble in such things very often, but ah in magic, there is a large difference between the soul and the body. This this this ritual was to destroy his body. um I would have had to do a lot different things if I was trying to to destroy or capture or anything like that, do anything to his soul. So wait, are you saying there is a soul?
01:28:19
Speaker
I believe there is. i There's something that comes out of me when I project myself. um there is a there's definitely and the consciousness of some There's definitely some sort of afterlife. I mean, there are there are spirits and and things like that. And what goes beyond that, I couldn't tell you. There's there's definitely a barrier that that ah At least I've never tried to cross that barrier, but there is a barrier that you can only go so far into the spirit world before you hit that barrier. i'm not I haven't traveled even beyond just seeing the dead, but um but even that, you're dipping your toe into whatever is beyond life and death.
01:29:24
Speaker
Okay. But ah most of what the the sacrifice that I was um performing was to destroy his his life force, but not his soul. I wasn't after his soul.
01:29:43
Speaker
okay I'm not even sure a soul can actually be destroyed. probably It might be able to. I know you can capture them. Again, this is the stuff I've ever done. but In my theology, you can't. so Souls are eternal. um um' know oh this is and I I go back to Imogen and I say... so there is a ritual to create clones. And I look at Mikhail and I say, would that be a transgression of any sort that would cause issues to murder a clone?
01:30:38
Speaker
And I emphasize murder. yeah so mckail ah thinks about that as well and he says well i've seen some of the things that the tremeer have created i've never seen this soacculine whatever it's called that and lack room semilaqueum i mean he probably mis mispronounced it um but i've seen their gargoyle
01:31:09
Speaker
and and certainly I'd have no qualms killing those and I know they're made from blood and Imogen just kind of like uh uh snorts at that and she's like we don't make those anymore the ones the ones that are left there they're they're left over from from a long time ago But he's he's not wrong. The ah gargoyles, well, the gargoyles can sometimes have intelligence. But more often than not, they're mindless. they follow they They're simply following a set of instructions.
01:31:54
Speaker
I say, so what does that ritual need to create a clone? I assume we need either his blood, some sort of him. We definitely need his blood, for sure. Beyond that, I've never done it. And I don't know anyone who has. But there are those in the Shantry, I'm sure, who have done it. And I look at Lauren, do we still have the steak? There surely would be blood on that.
01:32:24
Speaker
um
01:32:26
Speaker
bornen Lauren She's like do we do still have the steak? I don't have it with me But of course that that would be a little concerning if you did and I'd make a chuckle She also chuckles. She's like, oh, yeah, I didn't even think about that You're coming to a meeting of a bunch of vampires she
01:32:49
Speaker
chiam she glances around the room ah and says, you know, well, and she's saying this to Cole and she says, well, I trust you. And also to be honest, I'm not, I think I have something that could give you guys a little bit of a problem. So if I needed to. Okay. I just want to make sure you're, you're I mean, I've already fought one of your kind and That wasn't super difficult. I mean, you shot me with a green laser and I knew I'm not talking about you. I'm not talking about you. I'm saying if I'm, if I'm weak enough that you can hit me with whatever weird green laser that was and I almost died from it, like I'm sure you, you can protect yourself. I was just saying, you know, and backup like wooden stake might be, and I not be a bad idea. I look at my, my kale, my kale and I say on
01:33:51
Speaker
Super bad ass Mikael to weak Maxwell. Where does Olivia fall into that? Olivia is on the same, um well, she is, would be the same generation as Tiv. But she doesn't, definitely doesn't seem like she was necessarily, well, she does have some of the speedy powers.
01:34:20
Speaker
um
01:34:23
Speaker
let me Let me take a look at Olivia real quick just to refresh me on what she does. Yeah, I'm just curious as to how Mike McHale would ah respond to that. Well, McHale also doesn't know who the heck she's talking about. Damn. Olivia is definitely very fast.
01:34:49
Speaker
She's got some knife skills.
01:34:53
Speaker
Specialty in knives But then the rest of her stuff is definitely freaking teenagers Michael doesn't look Well, he certainly doesn't look perturbed by what she said um But uh, you know, I mean he's not gonna give anything away Yeah, and I say, well, Lauren, I do appreciate, once again, i I really do appreciate you showing up and trusting a room full of vampires.
Blood Moon Implications and Clan Politics
01:35:26
Speaker
um And I do appreciate that you, yeah, that that we're willing to all work together, right? And I look at Imogen and Mikhail.
01:35:38
Speaker
And Imogen, you know, Mikhail says, you know, I'll help you in whatever way I can. But like I said, I'm not. i'm not what I'm not a blood mage. I know specific rituals to aid in my craft. um Imogen says, well, I mean, this blood moon is causing all sorts of problems.
01:35:59
Speaker
i
01:36:02
Speaker
I'm hesitant to, ah well, I'm not going to kill Dexter if that's what it comes to without the prince prince's blessing. Understandable.
01:36:15
Speaker
And Mikhail says, and I'm not going to kill him unless he deserves it.
01:36:23
Speaker
um And Lauren says, ah you know, actually, if one of you want to like, try to bite me, I kind of want to like, see, see, you know, see if this works. I like, squint my eyes and I'm like,
01:36:41
Speaker
I mean, you don't have to, but, you know, I, I met three hunger with that, like, no, she's not there something within me. It definitely stirs something within you. Um, and you know, her innocence is probably questionable. She was willing to kill. I mean, granted it was a vampire, but she was willing to kill a dude. Well, what do I need to roll to like, how much of a temptation that was, I guess.
01:37:10
Speaker
like you could do straight Like someone's like. You could do a friend might be. You could do a friend my difficulty one. OK. Any modifiers? No, just difficulty one and only reason I'm making you do it is because of the blood moon. Yeah, you're you're good. do You feel it. You feel that the beast you know the beast is interested.
01:37:38
Speaker
And I go. um'm I'm curious to what it is, but i I just don't feed to feed. I feed for a purpose.
01:37:52
Speaker
she says okay okay you know it i mean i was just you know but And I'm like, the curiosity is so much. How bad would I get hurt, Lauren?
01:38:08
Speaker
I'm not 100% sure, to be honest. you know This is a new spell. Would it kill me? I don't think so. But maybe, you know what? Maybe let's just, if if if i ever if it happens, you know if I ever. Yeah, I don't want to accidentally kill you. This is a new spell. So yeah. All right. um
01:38:37
Speaker
So i we're getting a little off topic, but you know this is this is a great meeting. I absolutely love it. um Does anyone have any thoughts, comments, questions, regrets, anything going on? Michael says, I will look into this Dexter, see if perhaps there's a reason.
01:39:04
Speaker
if the prince can be said to have a reason for anything. If there's a reason, he might have chosen this this man.
01:39:13
Speaker
But as I said, unless unless he is deserving, I won't kill him or be a part of killing him. In fact, I'll simply say right now, I'll stop you. And he says that to like the room. um Imogen says, and And I'm not doing anything without the Princess, I'm not doing that without the Princess Blessing, but I can try to get it. I'm not on that grade of speaking. I mean, I've got, the Prince doesn't dislike me, but I'm also not like friends with him or anything. But I could also, I think I'd be better off talking to the shant the the Chantry and seeing if anyone knows how to create one of these Simaculants, Simulacrons, and then we can go from there.
01:40:04
Speaker
We might even be able, if it's to save his life, this Dexter guy might even be fine with just giving us some fresh blood. it I'm pretty sure it probably needs to be fresh. We could try it with the with the steak, but you know that blood is is probably old by now. Yeah.
01:40:30
Speaker
I look at Lauren and I say, anything on your mind?
01:40:35
Speaker
I mean, if you guys can create a vampire clone, I'm definitely willing to try it. um The Coven back in Ireland is still looking into things. There are some, we would rather try the ritual again versus trying some of the other options. um Because the other options are a lot more unpleasant for those involved.
01:41:06
Speaker
And I say, on a side note, how does your coven feel about you meeting with a bunch of vampires? They they told me to be careful.
01:41:18
Speaker
understand But free to do as we wish. You know, do they do they like that I'm Well, I didn't tell them about this meeting. Um, they probably would have strongly advised me against being in a room with a bunch of vampires, but you know, you guys seem cool.
01:41:43
Speaker
All right. Um, yeah, we've, we've got some other options. If performing the ritual again, doesn't work. Uh, there are some more extreme things we can try and there's no guarantee any of those will work.
01:41:59
Speaker
I don't think this guy's gonna like him so I'm not gonna go into detail and she kind of motions that McHale. Let's just say witchcraft is not pretty. Only there is the vampire life.
01:42:18
Speaker
And the vampire un-life. and And I say, well, we we all have each other's numbers and I look at Imogen and go,
01:42:31
Speaker
how How do we get in touch with you? Because I i know I've been texting your... What's it called? um Jerry? Or no. With Imogen? Yeah, with Imogen. Because Imogen's not good with technology, so she can't text. No, anyway i think it time Imogen's fine with technology. It's Cole's sire that... and co Oh, Imogen is Bill's sire. Okay.
01:42:58
Speaker
OK, sorry, it was flipped in my mind. Yeah. And I say, all right, well, we all have each other's numbers, right? Everyone agrees.
01:43:14
Speaker
OK, well, and I look at the time, and I go, it's getting kind of close to knockout time for us vampires. Oh, yeah, I bet you guys.
01:43:30
Speaker
don't don't like to be out in the daytime. That makes sense. i seen you know i've seen them but So it's not like it's not like Twilight.
01:43:41
Speaker
Definitely not. No. It's a lot less ah stupid teenager-esque. She's like, well, that's too bad. And yeah know she looks at Cole as she says this. It would have been nice to like go to a picnic, you know, under the sun or something, but, you know, that's fine. I look at Cole and I go, could do one under the moon next full moon. Well, maybe the net, maybe not the next one. We're going to be busy. I think the one after celebratory full moon. There we go.
01:44:20
Speaker
You know, as long as like no like um like weird governmental lockdowns or something happened by then, you she doesn't say that. Yeah. But I'm pretty sure that would be April. And I feel like the lockdowns happened before April, maybe in April.
01:44:42
Speaker
Actually, I should Google that just so I know when it happens, it's supposed to happen again. When did the COVID lockdown start in the US? March 15th. Okay. and was more We got a while. Yeah. Okay. Wait, let me check in Texas. Cause other States, I think locked down before Texas. Yeah. Texas is one was one of the last States.
01:45:14
Speaker
Maybe it was March. Everything's saying March. In Texas, local lockdown orders began early and mid-March. Okay, so it was March.
01:45:28
Speaker
Now I just want to look at something real quick. March.
01:45:37
Speaker
Yeah, I believe probably the lockdown started on the 15th or 16th because we had a party the weekend before the lockdown. As a, you know, we're about to be not allowed to do things. We're having a party.
01:45:56
Speaker
Why did the sky rise?
01:46:10
Speaker
Sorry, responding to a message. I'm just looking at my call that I have three bumps in. It's pretty much useless. it can do stuff this is just say um this is uncharted territories uh yeah yeah um so lauren says she's gonna you know she's gonna head home and she will bring this information to the coven see what they think about uh vampire clone guy um and uh and she kind of heads out um lingers around
01:46:47
Speaker
Cole for a minute and and like pauses near him. And Frank, are you even still awake? Yes. Okay, you've just been quiet. um Lingers near Cole for a minute and she's like, everything been good with you? I haven't heard from you in a while. I missed the conversation up to this point. No, you're fine. she's She's leaving and she stops and it's like everything good with you, I haven't heard from you since in a while.
01:47:16
Speaker
And you know, you've been distracted from voices, so you haven't been texting her. Yeah, um I sent you a toast emoji and the egg eggplant, not eggplant, the dolphin, not dolphins. Yeah, I mean, that was just now. She said it's ago. Yeah, now. I mean, like, I was trying to ask you to see if you want to go grab, like, some food or something. I wanted to talk to you for a minute. Oh, fuck yeah, let's go.
01:47:47
Speaker
I mean, I can't eat the food, but I'll i'll sit with you while you eat food. I mean, isn't the sun about to come up? Do you want to try this like tomorrow night? Yeah, let's just tomorrow night. OK, OK. She she she's like she texts you and says it's a date. And then. um And then, you know, he's going to head out. I don't know when I say I forgot my life. Keep a blush of life in your pants, bro.
01:48:16
Speaker
i don't I don't know what that means. when When she walks out. You want to be in my pants? By the way, I'm saying tomorrow because Frank is clearly passing out, and it's also pretty late, so. um i'm awake I'm awake now. He said my name, so I said I'm awake. No, you're good. i was I was on the edge, and now I'm awake again. I mean, it's it's time for me to go take a shower anyway. Yeah. Because I am covered in pesticide. All right. I guess Max for the night.
01:48:45
Speaker
Well, is he allowed to go back to where Tiv is being detained? um
01:48:53
Speaker
Yes, Mikael. Mikael says, I don't know if they'd let you see her, but you're certainly allowed on the grounds. Like inside? Yes. superally If you're looking for a new place to sleep, um they could definitely uh accommodate you just keep in mind the more again as i've said before i'm not trying to force any decisions on you but the more you uh the more hospitality you take from the clan the more they will assume that you are going to uh follow in one of the traditional paths
01:49:43
Speaker
become a full-fledged member of the clan Right now, you're in a... Have they even accepted me as a part of the clan yet? That's the real question, considering they were planning on murdering... Yes, there's... Well, there is... That will probably come up in the trial, but also, um you are in a unique case in which you were... You weren't embraced the right way, and as I've said before, if you choose to leave the clan, no one will stop you.
01:50:16
Speaker
I mean obviously you can't change the clan in your blood but you don't have to participate in being a member of the clan if you choose not to. and Right now you're in a um sort of a limbo state with certain advantages. if you If you, I'm not saying that spending the night at the dojo will make them automatically think you're joining a clamor. Right now you're sort of in a state where the clan rules don't fully apply to you.
01:50:48
Speaker
The no slumber parties. You're not officially a member of the clan yet.
01:50:55
Speaker
Yeah, and they're... And I think Mikael would pick up that Max is, like, still very pissy about them even contemplating about killing Tiz. Yeah, I mean Mikael doesn't really show emotions, but he's not happy about it either, so... Yeah.
01:51:17
Speaker
was luring around for that conversation I know she's gone I don't okay I didn't care if she was button and I real quick before time and mentioned and i kind of like awkwardly standing around yeah and I I turned to image in real quick and I go I said something in the very beginning of the meeting that you showed
01:51:39
Speaker
a reaction to, I couldn't tell if it was positive or negative, my comment was, playing into the hands of the prince. Did I misspeak? And I also look at Mikael when I say that to see if I get any like, don't be a bad boy and disrespect the prince, kind of vibes. You get nothing from Mikael, although he does. Of course, Mikael is a steely cold boy. He does lock eyes with Imogen, um and Imogen says,
01:52:11
Speaker
I serve the Camarilla, which means I serve the prince. And I won't do anything that goes against against that. that's That's what my reaction was, playing into the hands of the prince. I understand that the prince is ah hard prints to follow and I'm not saying I like everything he does, including being forced to embrace Jerry.
01:52:44
Speaker
But I'm also not willing to ah damage the both my own and my clan's tentative place in the Camarilla. And she looks over at Mikael and says, I think you would understand that as well. The Banu Hakim are even in a less, ah for in a less have an even less solid position than the Tremere within the Camarilla.
01:53:16
Speaker
And Mikhail nods and he says, we we are good at maintaining the status quo. where We're not worried, but i do know what you mean the banu hakim only recently joined with did they um might be getting them mixed up with a little slumber whatever bannu hakim only recently joined with the cameraia
01:53:48
Speaker
But you're right, it would look bad on our perspective clans to blatantly go rebel against the prince. But i that's not what he's talking about here. He's talking about correcting a wrong. And from what I've been able to tell, the prince doesn't even care about this this newborn. He cares about the the abomination that was created that same night.
01:54:14
Speaker
And Imogen, Imogen chuckles at that and says, I don't know if I'd call him an abomination, more of a curiosity. And Mikhail just shrugs. We're talking about the vampire, right? We're talking about the strange man, Lawrence, who was oh created in some way outside the embrace.
01:54:46
Speaker
Wait, we create a vampire out of thin air? From what I understand, Lawrence was never... ah Lawrence was not fed the blood after death. he was he the The rumors going around is that he tasted of Olivia's blood before he died, which shouldn't have worked. That would have made him a ghoul, not a vampire. When he died, he should have died.
01:55:14
Speaker
Considering a witch was involved, perhaps that has something to do with it. He he glances over at Imogen and Imogen shrugs and says, I've got no experience with human witches.
01:55:28
Speaker
I wonder what, when I say, I wonder if Lauren has like magic books or anything like that. Imogen, does your clan deal with magic books at all? she chuckles and she's like, oh, we've got a entire, you'll have to ask Jerry about it sometime. He's been there. um Actually, speaking of this clan stuff, she glances over at Mikael and she says, I'm not trying to steal him away or anything, but in the past, members of the Banu Hakim have been accepted into the Shantry when they were outcast from their clan. You could,
01:56:07
Speaker
feasibly gain entrance, you don't even necessarily have to leave the clan since you are friends with a member of our clan. you Jerry may be able to speak for you and get you into our libraries. And considering we have a common goal of solving this issue, I would also speak on your behalf. I would really appreciate that to happen, and I highly doubt it's going to happen anytime soon, since bureaucracy is a thing.
01:56:35
Speaker
um I say, but I think for tonight, I'm going to go back to the dojo and be as close to my sire as possible. And she nods and and says, well, I guess I'm gonna, uh, she glances at her clock and she's at her watch and it's like, yeah, I'm going to get out of here. It's time to go. And it's probably like, it's definitely 4 AM m by now. Yeah.
01:57:05
Speaker
And as as she's walking out, I say, thanks again, Imogen, for coming by. I really do appreciate it. that it's of course by the way do you know where the hell jerry is and I woke up and...
01:57:18
Speaker
Yeah, and I say I woke up in a ceiling and that's where I've been sleeping for a while up in the ceiling, just as a joke, honestly. um But I woke up and he just wasn't there. So i I, I don't know. No, and I, he hasn't responded to any of the texts I sent him. Wait, Max, you're still in the ceiling. And I look over at Cole and like, damn, i'm dude, you're silent as shit.
01:57:45
Speaker
And they say, yeah, I still sleep in the in the ceiling. I need to find a place of my own. Has Jerry not offered you a bed yet? Like, bro, I got I have a townhouse with like two extra bedrooms if you need one.
01:58:04
Speaker
I might take you up on that after tonight, but we'll see. ah I. I mean, you you wouldn't have to go to the dojo and be, you know, some, you know, weird limbo state with the, uh, not cold fucking plan. plan Yeah. I'd say, well, I appreciate the offer, but my sire, I know I can't do anything for my sire at the moment, but it would make me feel better if I was.
01:58:37
Speaker
showing her as much loyalty at the moment as I possibly can. All right, well, just say no, I have a coffin with your name on it. I appreciate that. Oh, by the way, how did the thing go? We can talk once everybody's gone. Well, Imogen is gone. Mikael is standing around, but he says, oh, I suppose I can go. And I say, anything you can say to me, you can say to Mikael.
01:59:05
Speaker
i Mikkel's just saying. Hell, Mikkel was there. Oh, okay. Well, um he's definitely dead. There's no doubt about it. and um um I'm pretty sure ah he also kidnapped somebody at some point. ah is it yeah Is that about accurate? he's He's been doing that. Did you ever look in the freezer?
01:59:32
Speaker
Yeah, um it was full of meat. um It tasted like blood. Oh, that makes sense why it tasted like blood. um That being said, the guy was a psychopath and murdered his women.
01:59:50
Speaker
Well, I have some videos you might want to see. um i i hand them I take out the USB and hand to them. I was like, ah the most recent date one is the one you might want to check out. It's ah your prime time. I have a lot of those running around with shit. Well, hey this one it should be the only copy minus the one I've got back at my place. OK.
02:00:17
Speaker
I didn't want to watch it just in case you kind of got freaky with them or whatever, but I didn't have much time to get in and get out, so I just copied the files and deleted the originals. I figured leaving the laptop um so that they can find the evidence is probably a good idea.
02:00:36
Speaker
um Yeah, I left I left the video playing on repeat in the office. So, you know, which video? Not the most recent one that was deleted, but you know, I would just to rain a random video of him murdering someone. Yeah. Good. Good. the I also put some like tissues off to the side, kind of water them up. Roll me a um ah technology plus intelligence. I mean, you're going to get this, but um unless you create fail, just technology plus intelligence.
02:01:16
Speaker
okay now you okay i don't know what that would mean but no i was just seeing to see if you remembered um to also empty the recycle bin you you definitely and yeah and yeah that video is completely deleted you know i actually i actually had that thought after i i made it to the uh the meeting yeah um and i was like you know what if it comes up then i'll i'll mention it but right yeah it's i feel like i would have done more than just put it in the recycling you intocycle you did you know something more than just that to delete this thing there is no chance of recovery video
Dark Web and Crime Tracking
02:01:54
Speaker
Yeah, he went into the hard drive and yeah deleted it yeah it's it's gone forever. ah there's no layer bleach split it no chance you're solid you're You're solid, but there's some some weird snuff porn on there. um I don't know if we can imagine you wanted that, but there's like a couple hundred videos. Nope. The purpose of this was to and focus is to get rid of that stain.
02:02:21
Speaker
I know a guy that that knows a guy that that runs a site for stuff like that, so... When I look at Michael, like, next target? he He doesn't do any of it, he just, you know, videos are found. Do you know a man who runs a site of a man murdering women? No, no, no, no, a snuff site.
02:02:46
Speaker
um Like it's a, you know, deep web type thing where, you know, they, they, they sell subscriptions and they receive, uh, like stuff from, from people to post on the site. No murder is actually occurring on the site. It's just a snuff site. What it what is a snuff site? Because I, I have a different understanding, I think.
02:03:15
Speaker
I don't think he means they're snuffing out to their lives. I think that's just a term for a, you know, dark web porn site. Yeah, but I mean, because it's now many women. So I saw I have naked woman getting pulled out of the thing. You killed them. I assume there was some sort of murder rate bullshit going on. So You know, I kept the videos if he, if he, if he enjoys it or not, to but if the company says this video or this website shows videos of the women getting murdered. Uh, you know, I haven't actually looked at the site. I just know of a guy that knows a guy that runs a site for snuff videos.
02:04:07
Speaker
what do I need to people people getting roll people getting snuffed out like yes I would like this websites and I roll let's see if I roll it would be technology plus wits for what to see if I've because I'm seeing if like I worked in a giant corporation. So would I ever had to deal with someone getting around firewalls and basically watch... Because I know there's plenty of cases where people have watched porn on... This is like dark web shit. like oh yeah Yeah, but like, definitely have they ever gone on the dark web and that's a part of me having to be HR and be like, you broke some major rules. I mean, you can roll for it. What would what would the world be?
02:04:55
Speaker
Can you put a modifier on that? Because I feel like that's not something the average Joe would be looking at. I don't think I don't think you'd have any. Well, just give me some memory role is composure plus resolve. With the negative modifier of like one. Yeah.
02:05:15
Speaker
No composure. They're both composure is under the social traits and resolve is the. Yeah, I'm just trying to find composure. in the top um sets of three.
02:05:33
Speaker
Oh. Composure and resolve. I mean, he pays good money to get the the videos. Three successes, and I did put in a minus one.
02:06:18
Speaker
There was a movie came out a while back about like people that got abducted and taken to this place and they were like videoed while they were murdered or like just torture and shit. Y'all remember that movie? i've heard yeah I'm basing my understanding of how like dark the human psyche can be. And assuming that there is a dark web type website for something like this. Oh, I would. Yeah. Oh, there there is. I don't. I'm aware that you hope. I hope that you don't know of such a site in real life. But I just I just I just want to put that out there for all the listeners. yeah um You know, I don't know if this is an actual thing, but understanding human psyche, they're more likely is this actual thing out there somewhere. Yeah. And I'm sure Cole doesn't even know the address off the top of his head.
02:07:04
Speaker
But Mikael's like, give me that address so I can look into think into this. Yeah, if you could look if you could not murder the guy who runs it ah until after I get my finder's fee of the videos, that would be really appreciated. Unless the man who runs it does the murdering himself, he's safe from me. um I do not know if he does or not. Do you mind if I give it to you in like a week? um Because usually he gets back to me, or he should get back to me within like a couple of days.
02:07:34
Speaker
love you That's fine. it's There's no urgency on this. It's just... Yeah, of course. yeah If there are videos... Don't totally find and murder the people that are doing the murdering. I completely agree. But, you know, if I can get the finder's fee out of them, that'd be awesome. Fine. like i Yeah, he pays like, you know, a couple hundred to a couple thousand per video, like if it's a good video. so Like I can even cut you in on this. If we could track them down, find the whole stash of videos and see what, know you he'll get out of it. Like, you know, we can make this little enterprise.
02:08:11
Speaker
We will talk about that later. Yeah. Cool. Because, you know, it can be pretty lucrative. Like, yeah, we're sharing murder porn, but I'm not going to allow. Well,
02:08:25
Speaker
Because it's already happened. i can it is him If I can use him to lead me to the murders, I don't really care what happens to the money. Don't get me wrong, I'll take a cut. I've got expenses, but... Well, yeah, I mean, straight up, but we we can do this like a 70-40, like you track it down, kill it, call me in, I'll all' go in and... you know, pull any videos I can find, sell it back to the guy, and then we can just, you know, make the big circle around it. Actually, you know what? Because of my abilities with hacking and shit, I could probably just find the submitters and track it myself and give you the information. And he ah he nods and says... Going through Tor and Onion. He says, we'll talk. And then you hear his watch. It um starts like a little high-pitched, quiet beeping.
02:09:13
Speaker
And he looks down and is watching and it says, it's time for me to go. Max will will we'll discuss more tomorrow night. And then um unless one of you has anything else to say, he straight up just vanishes. um kit Can I retroactively say that I've got two USBs with these videos on it? Yeah, that's fine.
02:09:37
Speaker
I offer him one ah for use in you know tracking down families or whatever. if he needs to Oh, you have two extras? I just assume you meant one for Hayden and one for... Yeah, one one for one for each of them. I have a copy at the house on my own personal hard drive. but um like I don't know why you would have brought to two USBs with you in that case, but i mean he can always get it from Hayden.
02:10:02
Speaker
I think he always has us. I think he wears cargo pants and one cargo pant side is just completely full of USBs. We already talked to about how yeah on the drive home, you want to have time to make multiple copies. So sure. Sure. You give it to Bob.
02:10:16
Speaker
OK, so each of them have a USB with all the hundreds of murder porn from this guy. So, you know, either. Well, one for the guy so that, you know, if he wants to track down families and sink condolences or, you know, the videos or, you know, yeah just give them, you know, whatever. Closure.
02:10:39
Speaker
Yeah. And then he takes the USB, says goodnight and then blinks out of the room.
02:10:46
Speaker
And I say, well, I'm off to the dojo and, uh, Cole. Yeah. Do we, do we, sorry thisyns this is a game of question. I text you the address of my house. So if you need to come crash, you are yeah welcome to. And then I, so this is a out of game question, but do the vampires use blush of life? Like that's an actual term. Yes.
02:11:13
Speaker
Okay. And I say, well, keep the blush of life in handy. And I say, thanks for everything and thanks for the invite. um But I gotta go if I make it to the dojo in time. yeah And i I leave. I go back to my place of residency.
02:11:34
Speaker
All right. um and If I've got time, whenever I get home, I want to try to like quickly hack into the cloud and delete any video of that night. Okay. Give me technology plus intelligence.
02:11:49
Speaker
Because just because I, you know, I want to get it done before and the wife thinks, you know, it just occurred to me. I believe, let me, let me check your character sheet real quick.
02:12:02
Speaker
Yeah, you did choose hacking as one of your specialties. So technically anytime you're hacking, you've got a plus one bonus, but five successes without any bonuses. That's enough to do it. Cool. Yeah. but All right. Yeah. So I hack in. Yeah. Um, I watched the video of what little video of Hayden on the cameras there is. And I delete just that. Yeah. This time there wasn't much you like catch like a glimpse of the back of his head but that's about it and you you kind of um you catch like yeah he he was stealthy about it so he never really got caught on those cameras um like definitely there's video of the camera suddenly being knocked down and thrown across but it never shows his face in any of it now on the one on the hidden camera of course he was all over that but um
02:12:56
Speaker
Yeah. You know what? I think a vigilante out there hunting murderers is a good thing to have out there. So if you can't tell jack shit about Max, then I might just leave that on the cloud. OK. I probably text Max and make sure that's cool.
02:13:15
Speaker
I don't want any more ideas from the Second Crusade. so Because if they me think they know they know the back of my head, They might, yeah. That's a point. I don't think the Second Crusade cares that I'm being vigilante and murdering murders. All right, well, I don't think there'll be any of them. All right, the video is gone from the cloud. And anywhere else. That's not how the cloud works. Huh?
02:13:52
Speaker
I don't know how the cloud works. I'm just assuming that's not how the cloud works, because everything's backed up in the cloud. Well, you delete it the backups. I want to delete the cloud. Delete each bit. Well, deleting the cloud itself is probably more complicated than the five success. That's probably what I would call. And of course, I also am aware that there's, well, you can't really delete the cloud.
02:14:20
Speaker
without well finding the, because okay you're right, you are. I probably have like a worm set up um that I'm just kind of keeping my back pocket. yeah um So I just go in there and change the code around a little bit just to hunt for that video. No, you can definitely delete specific videos on the cloud. It hasn't been dispersed across the internet or anything. Okay. All right. In which case, I'm just going to delete that video. Yeah.
02:14:50
Speaker
That video is gone. You know what? I need to try to see if I can... Hold on. Well, I'll have to... Fuck. I'm going to say I do it now, but I want to see if I can make that worm go and hunt down any other videos with the word words of triggers of, like, Max, that day, that time, or Vampire, that day, that time, or anything else, any combination thereof that I think there might be.
02:15:19
Speaker
Okay, it's probably gonna be like a negative modifier like three because there's no way I can think of all the Well, just go ahead and roll um okay Because this may be a Success over time time a deal. So you've got two successes banked towards it right now Okay And then I released that first version and I'm just trying to wipe the what little of their, what I can think of out there. yeah Okay, I'm done. I lay in my coffin. Okay, do you actually have a coffin? I feel like i would I would think it was funny in a very sadistic kind of way. So yes, I actually have a coffin. You had to um order it on Amazon probably because Carmen would have just provided you with a bed.
02:16:10
Speaker
See, I feel like I wouldn't have gone for... So, okay, the problem is that nowadays, like we don't use coffins, we use caskets. Yeah. um If you want an actual coffin, you either have to get it specially made, specially ordered, um or ah like go out to like a resale shop or a antique stealer and see if we can locate an actual coffin.
Vampire Lifestyle Humor and Frank's Return
02:16:34
Speaker
Because the coffin is the thing that's shaped Coffin esque whereas the the cask is what's used now. So you want a real coffin? Yeah, like a freakin 1940s the vampire. Okay. What was that vampire movie shit?
02:16:55
Speaker
I Mean we know what's what you're talking about when you say coffin so vampire movie name It's the one where the dude like
02:17:06
Speaker
Beauty, of no, that's not it. The Return of the Vampire, no. Shit. It's the one, like, the super fake-ass, like, vampire movie. Okay.
02:17:20
Speaker
ah the Anyways, it doesn't matter. I gotta go to the bathroom, guys, so... Okay, well, let's close it out. um ah I was your storyteller, Ron Bjork, and with me tonight was Hayden.
02:17:33
Speaker
Hey, this session was full of a lot of interesting stuff and I'm excited to see where it goes. And furthering the plot. And we also had Frank. Hi, I was Frank and I also played Cole. My coffin also has a hinge and it's padded inside. It's not just a wooden box.
02:17:56
Speaker
You can find me sometimes streaming on so social media sites like Twitch um or recently on, what was that other one? I don't know, it's it's a different one. I don't play as much since the whole cancer thing, but I'm planning on getting back into it. So if you see me out there, ah my tag is FK Light Castle, I believe.
02:18:22
Speaker
and you can find me on Twitter at beryllium1 and you can find our show at idmroleplay you can also email us at idmroleplay at gmail.com and send us any of your you know your how much we we inspired you to play vampire or scared you away from playing vampire and uh um many ya Tell us how many times how many times you've you've been offended by our jokes, you know um and and maybe we'll have a patreon when this episode comes out and More than likely everybody who's listen to this is like yeah, there's no way in hell We're subscribing to their patreon, but it gets better. We promise Yeah, yeah it does start to get better the audio sounds better and I think we just get better at playing our characters and
02:19:14
Speaker
And you've also, by the time you get to this episode, you've listened to a season of our D and&D game as well. So there's that. Which one? Stranded. That's a good one. You should go back and listen to that if you haven't already. It'd be strange if you skipped. Yeah, if you started at this episode, then you need to go back and listen to the first season, which is the first vampire of the masquerade, and then come back, listen to this one, and then go to the second season.
02:19:44
Speaker
That's the proper progression of how this should be listened. right yeah if you're If you're listening in real time, then you're just fucked. And there's going to be some bonus episodes in between each season of like the other stuff we play. So you can know and listen to the bloopers. Listen to the bloopers. This might be in the bloopers. Oh, I'm sure it will be.
02:20:06
Speaker
Um, and good night it should be bloopers like put on season two. It's like blooper reel It might be on our paper patreon. We'll know we'll we'll we'll know more once this comes
02:21:16
Speaker
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02:21:31
Speaker
The night is over, and have a great day everyone.