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Session 3 - Back Alley Brawls and Nightclub Seductions
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The fledgling vampires learn their most important lesson of all, how to hunt.
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Introduction and Theme Disclaimer
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Speaker
Hello mortals, just a quick disclaimer before we begin. This is a vampire podcast and as such we'll be dealing with issues like drugs, alcohol, mental issues, violence, adult situations, death, and of course blood. So enjoy the show.
00:00:34
Speaker
All right.
Podcast and Game Introduction
00:00:35
Speaker
Hello, listeners of the internet. Welcome to Integrated Dice Management. And tonight we're going to be playing Houston After Dark, a Vampire the Masquerade. Actual play. Budcast. First up, we have Frank.
Character Introductions: Cole Stone
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Who are you, the Crypt Keeper?
00:00:57
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I'm the silent, the quiet and mysterious storyteller of a vampire game right now. No, no, the Crypt Keeper, the guy from the PB series. That guy, yeah. What was he? The Crypt Keeper. Yeah. That was Tales of the Crypt Keeper. The on-camera puppet, host of Tales from the Crypt. Yeah, that's the guy. That's he's had a like while you're going through that.
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Anyways, hi, I'm Frank. Hell of an intro, buddy. I try. And Frank, who are you playing? Oh, uh, I don't remember. I am Cole Stone, your mild-mannered tech semi-denius slash programmer turns
00:01:55
Speaker
What was my favorite part? Lasombra. Turn Lasombra vampire. Twelfth generation. I'm done. That was it. Okay, then we have Hayden.
Character Introductions: Maxwell Cox
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Hey, my name is Hayden. I am playing Maxwell Cox, who is in... What clan am I in? I don't even pronounce it. I'm dyslexic.
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Banu Hakim. Banu Hakim. Also, also known as the Assamites. I'll say Assamites. I like Assamites for Maxwell Cox. Maxwell Cox, the Assamite. You're sorting into the asses. And then there's Bill. How's it going, everybody?
00:02:52
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I'm Bill, I'm going to be playing Jeremiah, Jerry Wilson, health guru, and all around great guy. And are you listening at home the random clicking and stuff because Bill has terrible internet?
Character Introductions: Jeremiah Wilson
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Yes. Bill, are you not tackling that? I'm just working on getting the keyboard because I can't I can't log into stuff without it.
00:03:24
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Dude, I offered you a wireless keyboard that you could take with you until you got one. I know, but I didn't want to ask. You've already done so much for me, damn it. It's Hayden. Hayden. Hi. I keep getting interrupted. I am Wesley Isaac, CEO of Isaac Genetics. My wife has an LX570.
00:03:55
Speaker
That's the most important part. That is the most important part. All right. Let's see here. So let's begin.
Vampire Awakening Experience
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Each of you during the last session were kind of left, well, with the exception of Wesley, you were kind of left by your sires to basically go to sleep for the day.
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Wesley, I'll describe what happened with you in a minute. But after your sires left, after a little while, morning came upon you. The sun rose and each of you found yourself unable to stay awake for more than even a few minutes if you even tried. For Cole, there was a cot to lie down on, not that his body cared where he slept anymore. He would not wake sore or stiff like he might in his mortal life. For Jerry, there was the medical bed he originally found himself strapped down to.
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Wesley was moved to a secure location before dawn, forced to leave his wife behind, whose memory of the night had been erased by another vampire whose name Wesley had not been privy to learn. And Max was left to sleep in his dungeon. You each fell into a dreamless, deep sleep. Any who came upon you like this would find only a lifeless corpse. Little, if anything, could rouse you until the sun went down.
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Sunset comes and your eyes snap open. There's no grugginess. There's no stretching out stiff joints and muscles. Instantly you're awake as if you've never been asleep and another night has begun. So you guys are in the place, the same place you went to bed. None of you wake up anywhere different. I guess Wesley, you are in what looks like a basement. It's got like a couch and a TV.
00:05:49
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Um, and, uh, so you're in a basement, basically somewhere. Uh, but you remember being brought there. It's not like it's a mystery. Um, basically, uh, what was your guy's
Learning Vampire Abilities
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name? David, the man who turned you, uh, brought you to his haven. Um, and he has a very rare thing and he's in the basement. Um, yeah.
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His haven is, which one is this? Oh, his haven is in spring. Nice.
00:06:30
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So he lives in spring in a neighborhood with, there's a pond in it, spiderwebs on the eaves all the time. Lakes of Cypress Forest is the name of the neighborhood. It's a, not a large house, just a small house, but it's a nice little neighborhood. Okay, so.
00:06:55
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Another night has begun. Today is the first day of the new year, January 1st, 2020. Top stories for today, first day of the new year, New Year's Day. 82nd Airborne Division preparing for deployment amid unrest in Baghdad. Militia leader who led a raid on US Embassy, now a White House visitor. Stocks post best annual gain in six years with S&P 500 surging more than 28%.
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And Michelle Obama beats Melania Trump as most admired woman of 2019. Trending on Twitter, hashtag Rose Parade. Welcome to 2020. Hashtag citrus bowl. Hashtag the roaring twenties. David Stern and goodbye 2019. All reports forecast a great year for 2020. You know, if y'all took your time to look on Twitter on your cell phones, um,
00:07:55
Speaker
Each of you wake pretty hungry. Let me check what your hungers are. We'll start with Jerry. So Jerry, you only have two hunger. So you're kind of the, it's nagging at you, but you can control it. You're hungrier than you were last night though. Last night you were given,
00:08:23
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No, I don't think you I don't remember. I don't think you were given any blood. What what does Jerry do when he wakes up?
First Feeding Lesson
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Jerry wakes up groggy holding his head. It's like, oh, no, no, no, you you wake up feeling perfectly alert. That groggy. Oh, shit. My apologies. I misheard them. I guess
00:08:50
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I guess honestly, I probably just shoot straight up, like surprised at how energetic I feel. Like I always get up and stuff, but it's always with, you know, a bit of soreness or that waking up period. But no, I just shoot straight up like, whoa, that's weird. And I go back to that pile of books that that one baby left for me and I keep reading where I left off. Okay, so
00:09:18
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All of you can look at this if you want, but if you look over in the things like where your character sheet and stuff is, there should be a folder called Notes for Players. And there's one for each of you. Basically, I gave you all the same information, but from the point of views of your sire, it's a bunch of lore. You can read it in your... You don't have to read it all right now, but it's basically kind of the...
00:09:47
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basics of vampire society, but from the point of view of the person who's teaching you about it. So Bill, I am going to read some of these things. All right. So I'll read for years, I'll read basic vampire powers. So you notice that the information you were given and Bill's
00:10:17
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Uh, sorry, Jerry is the only one who got a stack of papers about this. Everyone else, this is going to happen with y'all verbally. Um, but, uh, he's got the, uh, the doctor vampire. So, um, basic vampire powers as a kindred, there are several abilities that all of our kind possess regardless of clan. They're listed below healing. All vampires can heal their own wounds more rapidly than humans, depending on the potency of their blood. Superficial wounds can be healed in minutes.
00:10:46
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The more aggravated wounds may take a few days. Limbs can even be regrown in this manner. Blood surge. Again, the strength of this is dependent upon the potency of an individual's blood. But a vampire can enhance their physical, cognitive, and even social abilities for a short period of time by channeling the power in their vitae. Or vitae, I don't know how to say that. Vitae is what you call blood once it's in a vampire. Blood potency.
00:11:15
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Depending on their age and generation, our base power is determined by how potent our blood is. Blood becomes more potent with age and its base potency is dependent upon the vampire's generation. Generation, if you believe the myth, our generation is how many vampires we are removed from the first vampire said to be came from the Bible.
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Regardless of whether Cain was the first, the differences between generations are evident and can be tested.
Vampire Politics and the Camarilla
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I am considered to be of the 11th generation, which means that you are of the 12th generation. Blush of life. By channeling the power in your blood, you can appear to be living. You can even eat or drink temporarily, though you will expel the food or drink within an hour. The experience is unpleasant. And that's what she's got on basic vampire powers.
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As you're reading through the books, eventually the door opens and Imogen, your sire, enters the room and says, did you sleep well? Come on, come on, come on, load, load, load, load. I'm so sorry. For whatever reason, my phone is ticking. A minute to come back on to voice. Anyway, quite informative. Just one thing I had to ask, are you insane?
00:12:38
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Am I insane? What do you mean? I woke up on an operating table strapped to it with you just telling me I'm a vampire. And obviously I'm going with it because I don't want, I don't want to, I don't want to make. And I go to sleep at the crack of dawn.
00:13:05
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exhausted wake up better than i've ever felt since i was a child and just reading all this paper about vampires what the hell okay make a um let's see wits plus insight roll oh shit i pissed her off
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More successes.
Managing Vampire Instincts
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All right, let's see. She's going to do a, oh my god, it would be a messy critical. Yeah, I don't think it matters with something like messy critical. OK, well, her expression goes dark. And she says, well, we're all a little bit insane.
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In a speech, she's never displayed before she crosses the room before quicker than you can react. She's got a scalpel in her hand. Yeah, that's the word I need. Hand, and she slashes it across your throat. Oh my gosh. It kind of hurts, but honestly not that bad, and I'm sure
00:14:32
Speaker
I'm sure you're going to have a reaction to this, but one thing you notice is you're not dying. All right, so whenever you take damage, almost all damage you get except for fire, sunlight, and some magical things are going to be what's called superficial damage. So you mark that by clicking on your health box
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once and it turns it into a slash. If you click it again it turns into an X and that's considered aggravated damage. Click it again and it goes away completely but that would be if you're you wouldn't use that. So you're you are going to take two superficial damage but vampires take half damage
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from superficial damage. So you're only going to take one superficial damage from being slashed across the neck. You're bleeding, but you're bleeding slowly. Your blood isn't being pumped vigorously out. It more kind of trickles out whenever you move and stuff like that. And more importantly, you're not dying from this. I do like this delay.
00:15:55
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Basically, if someone just came up and did that, you realize they did that? Like, I fall on my knee, I start grasping my throat. She just calmly... Yeah, she calmly watches as you do that. Waiting for you to calm down. Then I come to the realization that I'm not dying. And I...
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look better. She offers you a mirror so you can see the gash in your throat. Do you believe me now? I grab the mirror and I, I grab the mirror and I look at it and I notice not dying. I look back up and I'm just going to say, yeah. Yeah. I, I, I think I'm, I think I'm starting to get it. It's hard to talk your throat is slashed.
00:16:58
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Oh, I can't. I can't. I think I understand. We've been smoking cigarettes for 40 years. She she frowns and then said, oh, oh, that won't do. All right. Next first lesson. I want you to close your eyes and focus on that wound and imagine that wound closing up. Imagine
00:17:26
Speaker
Imagine the blood inside you knitting the wound together. You can kind of describe how you want this to happen. But first, I need you to roll. At the bottom of your character sheet, click the button that says Rouse. OK, so you gain a hunger. So click yourself up to hunger three. Am I still at hunger three, or did it go back down?
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You're at the hunger that I set you guys at a certain hunger before everyone hopped on. OK. OK. But Bill just got hungrier. And you feel that, Bill. Your blood does knit. Your throat does knit back together. You heal that superficial damage. But you get hungrier doing it. All right. I'm going to be like, OK.
00:18:26
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I understand following your instruction. God damn, I need something to eat first. I'm dying over here. Oh, yes, well, that is that was going to be the first lesson for tonight. But yes, come with me. And she she leads you over to the door, which, you know, last night, the big burly guy was standing outside. Let me show you him. I created him a.
00:18:56
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character sheets. He says everything okay.
Ethical Feeding Practices
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Miss copish. And she said she she nods at him and just kind of ignores him and walks by. He falls into the step. Well, are you following her? Bill? I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and follow her. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna shut up at this point and just kind of roll with it.
00:19:25
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So she leads you into another room. In that room, you, well, she leads you down a little hallway and then enters another room. This hallway, it's got fluorescent lights. It's, you know, obviously it's light at night, but in the room, you see a little, what would you call this? I don't know what you'd call a room
00:19:51
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patient who's staying overnight but yeah a room for a patient in a medical in a hospital or whatever that's staying overnight and there's a an old man sleeping on the bed and she says this man came in to see me he's he's been having some issues but his blood will do don't worry you won't hurt him as long as you don't take too much
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And she motions for you to come over. OK, I walk over. I looked at the guy. I'm going to look back at her. Who's going to ask? Fuck, is he organic? Well, he does he no.
00:20:47
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He's got a sedative running through his veins at the moment. And also some other medications. Oh, wonderful. Hey. All right. What exactly do I do? Do I just bite him or? So if you focus on it, you'll
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realize that you've got an instinct for it as you lean down and, you know, Bill, you are quite hungry. So probably your fangs, the moment you think about drinking are going to pop out. You probably don't even have to try to make it happen. And she says, Oh, your body will know what to do. Eventually, you'll learn to do it on your own, but your body will know what to do. Just lean over and pick a spot and take a drink.
00:21:46
Speaker
It won't hurt him. OK, then I guess I grabbed his arm, I guess. Go for that artery that they poke you whenever you donate plasma or blood. And so as you go for that, she says, wait, stop. Do you stop?
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Speaker
Sure. He should roll a hungry meter. What? God, I'm getting to that. I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. I'm seeing if he wants to stop. Oh. I apologize. Oh, shit, no, I do. Can I stop? You can say you want to and then I can make you roll. Yeah, well, yeah, kind of like. And so.
00:22:41
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Yeah. So do you want to stop, but will the beast let you? I believe it is. I believe you just roll your willpower. All right. We'll do willpower for the moment, but I got to figure out what it actually is. I mean, willpower sounds right. All right. One success. Wow. Oh, one.
00:23:09
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Success, we'll say for now, one success is enough just because I don't know. God, there's so many rules to this game that make it seem like a simpler system, but it's not. Let me double check what to roll. I'll Google it real quick. It was probably a frenzy check, but I feel like it's just a willpower check.
00:23:33
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But you do feel like this feels wrong to you. So yeah, one success I'm gonna say is enough. But she stops you and the beast inside you, you feel your hunger well up for a moment, but you do stop. And she says, no, this isn't right. I need to teach you how to properly hunt before you start so you don't get used to beating off of easy prey.
00:24:03
Speaker
I really, I hate doing this, but come. We'll go find us something more appropriate. And, uh, she waves for you to follow. Um, what, what did I name that guy? Dustin, but no Jones, uh, bring the car around and the, uh, the, the bodyguard nods and he, he, he kind of goes ahead and runs outside. Um, and when y'all get outside, it's nighttime. Um,
00:24:33
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You find yourself at a medical, like a small medical center. It's closed. Probably doesn't usually keep patients overnight. Trying to figure out where it is. Let me see if there's any identifying features. You are on, do you notice the street sign at the corner? You're on the corner of
00:25:03
Speaker
BAML and TC Jester. I don't know if your character would know where that is. Yeah, I don't know if your character would know where that is, but that's up in spring. And you guys get in the car and we're going to move over to Jaden's scene. So Jaden. Jaden, you wake up or sorry. What the heck is your name? Wesley.
00:25:32
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Wesley, you wake up in the basement where David left you. David is already downstairs waiting for you to wake up. So he'll be in the room when you wake up. Okay. I need to. In the basement? Yeah.
Camarilla Hierarchy and Feeding
00:25:48
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He's in there with you, but he's already awake. So I kind of want it to be like a Superman scenario, but I want to like, okay. So I pop up.
00:26:00
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Yeah, it's it's in like an instant. I like have to like do like a double take on the amount of time it took me to get out of bed. It was almost like it was just like a flash and I was up.
00:26:13
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And then I want it to be like the next day where it's like how Superman first gets on earth and he's like starting to hear like more and like see a little bit better or whatever, you know what I mean? So I'm like kind of confused a little bit. Like I was like, man, this was real. And then I looked at the guy and I'm like. What? That's all I say.
00:26:41
Speaker
You remember what happened last night? I do, actually, quite well. That's interesting. All right, well, I just got a text message. Your wife's fine. She's sleeping off a hangover right now. Or wait, it is night. It's been like 12 hours. Hell, she was partying all night long. Yeah, she's still sleeping off a hangover.
00:27:10
Speaker
But so we don't have to worry about that right now. And yeah, so I've got some stuff we've got to do so I can get you ready to meet up with the prince. Actually, you know what? Let me go ahead and explain that to you real quick. So the prince, he's part of this thing.
00:27:36
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Basically, he's the ruler of the city here, and he's part of this thing called the Camarilla. And the first thing you need to know about the Camarilla, fuck the Camarilla. Goddamn cami bastards.
00:27:48
Speaker
are why you and I are here. Fucking Prince Augustus Chapman Allen, better say his full fucking name. He's picky like that, except when he isn't. Man's a fucking psycho, Malkavian. They're a clan of psychos. Anyway, I don't roll with the Camarilla unless I have to, and the Prince, well, he's top dog in the city. My advice, avoid him and any of the Cam, unless you want to get sucked into a bunch of talk with Kindred way older than you and way more fucking insane. It's all conniving and backstabbing, rules and etiquette,
00:28:19
Speaker
Fucking hate it. Anyway, the Camarilla is an old organization, and here in Houston, they're the ruling class, at least for now. The Prince's word is law, and he's got enforcers to make sure we carry it out. That's why I turned you. It was that, or get my ass handed to me and left out in the sun. That's your lore on the Camarilla. I wanted to read his. Yeah, so anyway,
00:28:47
Speaker
Basically, I got to show you the ropes so that you can be presented to the prince in all his glory this weekend. Probably the most important thing, and I bet you're feeling that right now, is finding something to eat. And you're at hunger three, so you're pretty damn hungry. I was going to bring it up, but I didn't want to interrupt you. You seem like you're kind of going off on these guys, so. Oh, yeah. God, I hate their asses.
00:29:18
Speaker
Well, I'll be happy to beat him. I mean, if it was up to me, I'd find a way to bring him down. But, well, we just don't have the manpower for that. And that's... Well, what kind of manpower we think we need for this kind of stuff, you know? Like, I have a lot of money. Like, not a lot. But, you know, I know Seth Rogen. Well, I'm Dan. Well, you know... What can I say?
00:29:45
Speaker
These guys, they've been around for a long time. There's a lot of old money in the Camarilla. Anyway, you're probably fucking hungry. I know I am too. Yes. So let's go get something to eat. And he takes you out to his car. Is your plate still open? You know, it probably is. But I got something better than that.
00:30:13
Speaker
Interesting. He just drives, I don't know, generic Ford's car. And let's see how this drive goes. All right. Y'all get to where he's taking you one piece. So he starts driving you. Yeah, he starts driving you into Houston. You guys are coming from, where does he live? Y'all are coming from
00:30:41
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Lakes of Cypress Forest. So it takes you a little bit. He's driving you deep into Houston. He's like, I figured for your first time, we should go to...
First Feeding in the City
00:30:53
Speaker
Well, actually, we're gonna go meet up with a friend. And we'll all get some food together. And he's driving you into Houston. It probably takes like 45 minutes to where you're going. He takes the back roads. You're from Houston? Well, are you from?
00:31:10
Speaker
Yeah, you probably know Houston. I know Houston pretty well. I probably own a tower somewhere. Yeah, so he's taking you into some pretty shady looking area, like the fifth ward or third ward or whichever one of those wards. Am I still in my suit? Yeah, you're still in your suit. OK.
00:31:39
Speaker
Yeah, we're going to pause you because you are meeting up with someone. So we're going to go and swap over to the next person. Max, you wake up in the dungeon. Oh, hell yeah. You've got the, I think she gave you your outfit back last night. But yeah, what are you doing when you wake up?
00:32:07
Speaker
Um, door's still locked, right? Yeah.
Max's Dungeon Awakening and Training
00:32:13
Speaker
Oh, there's not much for me to do. The door's not unlocked anymore. Like if you go and check the door, it's open. I, I opened the door and I take a quick look around and see what's going on. Um, the door is, uh, it, it's kind of a short hallway then, then there's a ladder.
00:32:38
Speaker
OK, I guess I'll go to the bottom of the ladder and look up. You see, well, all you see really is darkness, but you can kind of make out the outline of a trap door type situation up there. What I want to do first is, are the chains still there? The chains, yeah, they're still down there. OK. I want to get one of the strands, at least
00:33:06
Speaker
A foot and a half of the chain and I want to use my blood to. Acid cut through that and I'll keep that on me. All right, I believe you probably have to make a rouse check. Let's check corrosive blood. Okay. Yes, it requires a rouse check. And, you know, you have to self inflict a wound, but that doesn't require any checks.
00:33:36
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Just so, uh, you do get hungrier. What are you at now? Three, three. All right. So yeah, but the blood, the blood turns to acid and it works. And, uh, you know, through that chain. Okay. So I, I grabbed the chain and I imagine I was wearing like.
00:34:00
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business casual with a blazer on. So I put like the chain kind of like around my waist, I guess. Um, like on my, on my back essentially. Um, and I climb up fee and I try to climb up the ladder. I guess I stopped my great by the way, the great from the, to the drain. Oh yeah. So you climb up the ladder. Everybody needs a great. Yeah. The, uh,
00:34:30
Speaker
The trapdoor is open. Well, it's unlocked. I look around. What do I see? When you pop your head through the trapdoor, you see kind of a large warehouse.
00:34:46
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You quickly spot Tiv over sitting on just like a randomly placed couch in the middle of the warehouse, and there's a TV. And she's just kind of sitting there watching TV. She glances over at you. Damn, she saw me. Yeah. Well, you didn't say you were being stealthy. Oh, that's true, I guess. Oh, she was kind of waiting. She was waiting on you. OK. It's kind of hard to stealthily open a trap door when someone knows where it is and is waiting on it.
00:35:17
Speaker
Granted granted. Yeah, the and the lights are on in here. So yeah Says evening sleep ahead Yeah, so what's what's the plan? Well, the plan is I've got a I got to teach you how to be a vampire So that you can be set off set set off your leash
00:35:48
Speaker
Yes, this, you know, it's going to take me a while to get used to this fact that I'm a vampire now. How how did you how did you overcome this? Like, what was what was your first action? My first action. What would you do? Honestly, I was recruited.
00:36:18
Speaker
So I'm 148 years old, just so you know. And I'm from a little island in Indonesia called Sumatra. And basically, I grew up during this big war on the island. And I was embraced by this Dutch guy. And he kind of
00:36:46
Speaker
Basically my life up until that point kind of sucked. I was, you know, always in fear of my life. And then he, he recruited me and told me he could give me a better life. And well, I wouldn't necessarily say it was better, but I definitely was given the ability to punish the people who made my life so bad. And since, so that's kind of the first thing I did.
00:37:12
Speaker
And since then I've been just basically dealing justice to whoever needs it. Interesting. Now you, you got a raw deal. Uh, normally we recruit really carefully. Um, and, uh, it's not this surprise business, uh, but unfortunately.
00:37:37
Speaker
It was kind of a, I had no choice. It was either do it or die type of scenario. So was I, was I handpicked or you just like took a quick look at the crowd and said, Oh, that's, that's the bitch right there. Well, you weren't handpicked by me, but yeah, you were handpicked, I guess. Interesting. I honestly, I don't know anything about you other than what I could find on Google. Yeah. So not much. Not much.
00:38:06
Speaker
Yeah, so basically, you know, I spent probably the better part of a century fighting against our clan's enemy. Once I realized there were worse things in the world than people, basically other vampires, they're called the Sabat, and they're the ancient enemy of our clan.
00:38:30
Speaker
They're true monsters. Most of the time we deal out justice and judgment among the rest of the kindred and sometimes to humans too. And we try to be fair about it and make sure they deserve it. But there is no need to dig into the innocence of the Sabbat. They're all servants of their beasts. They commit atrocities wherever they go against kindred and kind of like. And they're trying to bring about the end times. So that's not good for anyone. That's kind of my deal.
00:39:00
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And, uh, you know, you don't, you don't have to do the same things I do. Uh, I'm definitely, uh, my, I would be considered a, a just a car. I'm sort of the strong arm of the clan, but, um, I really don't know where you're going to fit in, but we're not all, all sword and daggers like me.
00:39:28
Speaker
Some of us, some of us act as more judges rather than executioners. Okay. Yeah, I mean, I guess, sorry, I just have to take all this in. I understand. It's gonna be a bit, but what you watching?
00:39:57
Speaker
She glances at the TV and it's just like some random,
Cole's Technology Struggle
00:40:01
Speaker
uh, um, what, uh, CW drama, whatever is currently, whatever was playing during 2020. Uh, I have no fucking idea. She, she flicks off the TV. Honestly, I'm ready to get to your lessons. Uh, the sooner, the sooner we get this over with the better.
00:40:26
Speaker
And your dad, you can't skip school. Fuck this. Well, you've got a week to graduate or or will both be killed. So a lot more tons of squirts. Yeah, first things first, I got to teach you how to eat. So I figured that one out when I was four. I'm going to make a role for her real quick to see if she notices something.
00:40:56
Speaker
That would be plus awareness. She did. She noticed it. Yep. All right. So she says. So so as long as so. So follow me and go ahead and bring that that that chain you got tucked under there, you might need it. And then she gets up and and walks out of the room.
00:41:26
Speaker
almost blatantly turning her back to you. Like, you know, daring you to try something. Daring, freaking daring me. But you won't. Yeah. Not when she suspects it. Yeah, so if you follow her out, let me see, you are. Yeah, where am I? What part of Houston am I in? So you, when you guys head out, you see nearby, there's a big highway.
00:41:57
Speaker
I don't know if you can necessarily recognize the highway from just seeing it. Actually, I don't know if you could see the highway from here. But during a big parking lot, there's a few warehouses around here. You guys exit one warehouse. This particular warehouse doesn't look like it's seen much use, but some of the others definitely have forklifts
00:42:26
Speaker
parked outside and things like that. So they obviously get some kind of use. But yours seems to be maybe not completely abandoned warehouse, but it's much less used. She's got a car. Did I put her, give her a car? She probably drives a cool car. I asked, what part of Houston are we in right now?
00:42:57
Speaker
Let me check where this actually is. Let's see. Well, I'm about to share the map with you all, but you are south of Beltway 8. You're between Beltway 8 and 249, where it kind of pinches off Northwest Green Business Park. Yeah, you wouldn't know that, just off the top of your head.
00:43:26
Speaker
I think this is too far south to be considered Tomball. So she leads you out to her car. She drives a cool car. No, she drives a motorcycle. She drives a motorcycle. She's got some kind of crotch rocket and emotions for you to get on back. When I sit, I look at her and go, you know, this is a lot more accumulating than my high school brom.
00:43:56
Speaker
But all right, I get on and right behind her. You get on. She takes off. She actually doesn't have any points in drive, but she has high dexterity. Oh, shit. I'm going to give her a point and drive just to. You know what? No, it's more funny this way. Yeah, I know. Hold up. She's going to she's trying to be cool. She's not as cool as you think she is first. Who? She got hungry.
00:44:27
Speaker
But that's going to give her a boost here. Plus three successes. Yeah, she drives three successes. She doesn't do anything too fancy, but she does drive kind of fast. She drives a little recklessly, as if she were already dead and has nothing to fear of crashing. But you guys, she heads in deeper into Houston heading for,
00:44:56
Speaker
I can't remember which is the bad one, the third ward or the fifth ward? Probably both of them. The fifth ward. So she's heading for the fifth ward. And now, who haven't we done? Oh, no, we did, Bill. We haven't done Frank yet. Cole, you wake up in the same room that you were turned in.
00:45:25
Speaker
Did you choose to lay on the cot or what did you do? And what do you do when you wake up? I probably just put it around the room for a while before I went to sleep and I decided to just lay on the couch, or the cot rather, when I would sleep. Sorry, say it again, what did you do when you wake up? When I wake up? Yeah. So I open my eyes, I feel great.
00:45:56
Speaker
I kind of sit up on the cot in a stretch, like not to work out any kinks, but just because it's what I always do in the mornings. And I realize that I went to work out kinks and I'm like, Hmm, that's, that's interesting. And then I stand up and I look around the room. All right. Um, so the room is much like you left it's, um, your song is sitting on the, uh, on the table. Um,
00:46:24
Speaker
You're only a hunger too. So it's not, it's not driving you insane or anything like you're, you know, you're parched, but, but it's, you're not gonna lose control or anything like that. Um, you've already tasted, uh, blood before, um, because she had offered you that wine glass or that glass of blood the night before. Um, I don't remember if you drank it, but probably you did. Yeah, you did. Cause you didn't know it was blood until after you drank it. Yeah. Or something like that.
00:46:54
Speaker
But unlike everyone else, you, in a weird way, agreed to do this. You're not 100% sure if you agreed of your own will because your memory was then erased and then you signed it.
00:47:14
Speaker
A bunch of weird stuff happened. You're still hazy on exactly what happened, but you know you're a vampire. You know that for sure. You knew that before she bit you, even though you also didn't. And you know that for some reason you agreed to it. And you know she wants you to fix her problem with technology. She's currently not in the room.
00:47:44
Speaker
I look over at my phone, I'll walk over and grab it. Okay. It's time to turn it on. All right. What I'm going to need is a technology plus turning on a cell phone. We'll call that dexterity. See how dexterous your fingers are. Dex plus tech.
00:48:13
Speaker
Okay, that's only one success, unfortunately. So you try to turn on your phone, it turns on for a second, flickers and turns off. What does it mean when it says the beast down there? That, I don't know why it says that, but it means nothing. It only means something, I think it's probably a glitch in the character sheet. I haven't seen anyone roll a beast shield failure yet. So I don't know if it'll say anything different, but every time it pops up with a beast, I double check.
00:48:44
Speaker
And a bestial failure is if you have no successes at all and a one on the hunger dice. You do have a one on the hunger dice, which is probably why I threw that beast on there. But you also have a success. So it's not a bestial failure. It's just a regular one success. But you needed two successes for the technology to work. OK. I try to turn it back on again. All right. I'm going to say it turns on this time.
00:49:16
Speaker
OK, I check Facebook. OK, make a technology role plus. What would Facebook be? I guess it depends on what he's going for. So you're just casually, I guess, checking Facebook. So let's do it'll be the same amount of dice, but technology plus wits. OK. Yeah. OK, so it works this time. You're able to do for the rest of the scene whatever you want on your phone.
00:49:48
Speaker
I browse Facebook and check my text messages and my phone calls, see if I had any missed anything while I was asleep. No missed calls. Oddly enough, work. You don't have anything. I don't know if you're supposed to work the next day, but if you were, there's no calls from that.
00:50:11
Speaker
So none of that, everything seems normal. Facebook, there's a few people talking about the big party last night, how fun it was, how wasted they got and hungover. And man, it wasn't that crazy when that one dude did that thing. And yeah, all sorts of stuff like that. Somebody's posting about how Michelle Obama was more beautiful than Melania Trump.
00:50:41
Speaker
you got any stocks you know they're they're probably up uh doing doing pretty good right now um for now invest you better uh pull out that not invest in a zoom you know then game stone invest in zoom or dogecoin yeah invest in game stone into that dogecoin that would be a perfect time unfortunately
00:51:08
Speaker
You did not take all specs and you cannot see the future. So you don't even know what the heck a Zoom is. At least I didn't know what Zoom was before 2020. It's Zoom, the in. Is it Zoom? It's Zoom, I have one. No, that is an MP3 player. Oh, you're talking about Zoom,
00:51:35
Speaker
Yeah, the thing that everybody started using. The voice chat thing. Right. No, I actually have my Zoom. It's in my drawer over there. I don't know what happened to mine. I had one back in the day. I liked the Zoom. But anyway. And you know, Cole probably has a Zoom too because he's a tech guy and probably has random tech stuff laying around his house. So after you're done fiddling with your phone, let me
00:52:05
Speaker
You know, give me a awareness plus wits role. Okay. Wow. Uh, you beat her stealth role. So, um, you know, you're messing around on, uh, your, uh, phone and you notice that, uh, Carmen moving quietly walks into the room, but not quietly enough. You notice her.
00:52:28
Speaker
I glance over my shoulder and I'm like, hey, Carmen, what's up? And I start playing some random music. I don't know, I'm scrolling through the Facebook posts and there's random videos playing. At first she seemed surprised that you noticed her, but then her eyes kind of widened for a minute. And she's like, are you using that? Wasn't that supposed to? No, no, you're supposed to. It's working for you. It hasn't shut down. Yeah, totally.
00:52:58
Speaker
you know, hand it out to her. So she gets a roll of technology. As soon as the phone lands in her hands, it shuts down. Do I know that? Am I looking at the phone when this happens? Did you see it shut down the moment it touches her hand? What did you do to my phone? And I take it back. She lets out a sigh and says, well, when you take it back, do I want it to line up for you? No.
00:53:27
Speaker
It won't light up until you try to mess with it again. It's turned off. So you have to turn it back on. I just, I just rolled again to turn it back on. It turns on. Yeah. It takes, what kind of phone is it? I don't know. Do other phones turn on faster than iPhones? Cause iPhones take forever to turn on. And, androids aren't like super fast, but they, they're quicker than iPhones. Yeah. Yeah. It takes however long it normally takes. It works just fine. It's like, how, how are you doing that?
00:53:58
Speaker
I I OK, so. With with technology, most of it has a power button. And you have to press the power button to turn it on. OK, she she mutters under her breath. She mutters under her breath. It's like, is this is this why the Prince ordered me to do this? And then she kind of mutters that and based on your last awareness role, I'll let you hear that mutter under her breath. But then she changes the subject. It's like, all right, well.
00:54:29
Speaker
Hopefully, this is a sign that you're going to be able to make some progress on that for us. But before then, I've got to teach you our ways so you don't look like an anarch whenever we go talk to the prince. Well, since I fully agreed to this for some reason, I guess lead the way. Or is this going to be an online course? Because I don't have my desktop. Nope. Nope.
00:54:57
Speaker
Tonight, especially, this is going to be in person. We're going to be doing this in the flesh. I'm ready.
Camarilla's Technology Avoidance
00:55:06
Speaker
So is it going to be like a question answer, or is it going to be like a lecture and then test period afterwards? Think of it more like a lab. OK. All right. All right. So she leads you outside. She takes you out to. I'm playing Candy Crush.
00:55:26
Speaker
Candy Crush, OK. She takes you out to a car. She's got a driver. It's not a limo, but it's one of those black rich people cars, like a black car with tinted windows. Cadillac. Yeah, and a man opens the door for you all, and you all get him back. And then it's got a glass window between. It's basically a normal sized car, but limo style. So you're separated from the driver.
00:55:57
Speaker
I am looking for something, but I've had an unknown amount of glasses of this wine and I cannot remember or find what I'm looking for. Oh, right, I have to read. Allure to you and her wrong. Are the cops going to pull this over for DMing while the while intoxicated? DMing while intoxicated, they might, I don't know. Alright, so we've talked about she mentioned an arc, but Frank didn't say.
00:56:27
Speaker
What's an anarch? And also, her blurb on anarchs are very small. What about anarchs? She just said, I need to teach you how to be one of us so you don't look like an anarch. But while driving, she's going to say one of the reasons we need you to figure out how to make technology work for us is the Camarilla
00:56:57
Speaker
for the most part, they kind of have banned technology. But it's just because they don't understand it. They're all ancient vampires and they think that just because one network was hacked, that all networks are going to be hacked and that we're all going to get found out. But not using this technology when the humans have it, that's a weakness. And the humans have rediscovered our existence.
00:57:25
Speaker
And to be honest, they want to annihilate us. They have weapons, intelligence. I didn't let them do that. If you let me finish my story, do I talk about that in this? No. I didn't let them do that. That was the Nosferatu's fault. They're the ones who got careless with their little shrek net, as they called it. They have like bat ears and like a really drawn out face. Yeah, they're the freaky looking ones. Or even their character.
00:57:51
Speaker
I'm in character. Oh, okay. Just the word Nosferatu just brings forth the idea of a bat-eared, elongated, ugly-looking motherfucker. Actually, yes, they do look like that. Oh, okay. I'm asking some pictures of them one time. Well, yeah, there's a movie called Nosferatu, and at least the way they look is disturbingly accurate. Ah, I suppose so.
00:58:18
Speaker
possibly another slip up. Yeah, so like I said, it wasn't our clan's fault, but before it happened, the Kindred made, we made use, well, everyone else made use of the internet, cell phones and all manner of technology. And especially the Nosferatu, they kept all of our secrets because they love their secrets, but they stored it on this private internet server of theirs and the CIA and other agencies eventually found it.
00:58:48
Speaker
and found out about us. And a lot of vampires were killed. Of course, we La Sombra weren't involved in that, but we still suffer the consequences. So you always need to be careful and beware of the Inquisition. That's why the masquerade, the keeping our people secret, that's why it's so important. No one expects the Spanish Inquisition. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. But not using technology
00:59:18
Speaker
That's a weakness. And it's a weakness our clan has suffered for too long. But if we can be the first clan to master it once more, then we'll have an advantage over all the other Kindred out there. And so she's saying all this as she's driving. And you pull up to a car or the driver is driving. The driver is driving.
00:59:45
Speaker
Um, and you guys about halfway through, I started playing flappy bird and just didn't listen. Right. So you guys pull up to this, uh, nightclub and in front of you, another pair of people get out. One of them is a, uh, if you're even paying attention, an Egyptian woman, although I don't really know how you tell the difference between an Egyptian woman than anyone else, but she's an Egyptian woman. That's part of her backstory. Uh,
01:00:14
Speaker
an Egyptian woman and someone you do recognize, uh, Jerry. I look over and be like, Oh crap. And we'll switch over to, we'll switch over to Jerry and Imogen. It's like this, though, Imogen, before she gets out of the car, as you guys are pulling up to the club, um, she says, this isn't really my scene, but it's, it's more of a,
01:00:41
Speaker
a common feeding ground for our kind. And this place is neutral territory. The vampire who owns this place allows anyone to feed from any one of their choice so long as they make sure that to keep it tidy. And this will be a more practical experience for you. You're not always going to have easy knocked out patience to feed from or
01:01:11
Speaker
you know, whatever method you end up choosing. And she, she gets you out, you know, gets out of the car and takes you out. And the, I guess she's, well, she was, yeah, y'all are both already dressed. You know, it's day old clothes now, but you are already dressed
Vampire Social Influence
01:01:31
Speaker
for a party. So you're appropriately dressed for this, this club. And, you know, she, she gets in line.
01:01:41
Speaker
Cole, when you guys get out, Carmen leads you to the front of the line and they let you in immediately. Do you say or do anything before you go in? I'm probably still playing flabby birds and not paying attention. All right. Well, she just kind of views, kind of follow her while staring at your phone. You hear loud music, you know, probably like some kind of techno music or something inside. There's like, you know,
01:02:09
Speaker
flashing lights and stuff of a club. I don't go to clubs. I hate them, but it's a club. There's loud music. There's people dancing, people drinking, all that sort of stuff. Probably people doing other things. Is Cameron describing all this to me or is this you describing it? I'm describing it. There's all this going on and she's leading you over to a booth to sit down. All right.
01:02:37
Speaker
And to get to this booth, they have to remove the red, the felt rope thingy and let you into the booth. So it's a private booth. I probably glance up as soon as the music starts blaring. And when I realize we're kind of in an upscale techno place, I kind of probably turn my phone off and put it in my pocket. OK. And I'm like, hey, why are we here again?
01:03:05
Speaker
Well, I've got to teach you your first lesson how to hunt. I don't like guns. Jerry, what are you doing now that you've seen where you're at and you're in line outside this random club? The only club that I only know two clubs, Numbers and Kryptonite. Pick one.
01:03:31
Speaker
fuck uh just just just go with your numbers let's do numbers numbers okay numbers that's the upscale club it's not the cd um club that i went yeah numbers is a very upscale club in houston um yeah so you guys are there's a lot when i went to numbers the one time there was a long line so there's a long line and y'all are in the back all right i'm just going to turn the image in so
01:04:00
Speaker
We still wait in line, huh? Oh, yeah. Like I said, this isn't really my scene. But this is kind of how most of us feed. I mean, unless you've got some way to get out of this line, I don't remember what powers you have. Jerry has.
01:04:30
Speaker
See if you've got anything useful as far as powers. You should, yeah, you know, you've got dominate. No, you've got all specs since the unseen. No, wait, that's not, that's not the power presence. You've got all. So, so just, I'm not going to tell you what to do as your character, but you could make everyone here think that you are like, you're it. You're like.
01:04:59
Speaker
the most important person here. And this would be something that would pop in instinctually. You could activate all without thinking about it. If you decide you want to get to the front of the line. OK. Well, I'm hungry as hell. Yeah. So I'm going to go ahead. Where do I find that ability? I'm going to describe it here in a second. I just want to know where to find it. Do you guys have access to the compendium? It should be next to the journal, a little I.
01:05:28
Speaker
Yeah, if you just type in all. Good, I'm glad you have access to that because I paid money for that. Nice. What is that? AWE? AWE. OK. Alright, so you don't have to do a rouse check for this. It's free to activate and then you roll one of those or you roll manipulation plus presence.
01:05:59
Speaker
Okay, that's manipulations presence. Oh god. I've only got one into manipulation You would roll that in reverse too. You need to click on presence. That's under disciplines the little dice button Here it is. I found it. Sorry. That took me a minute. So you said presence and then over on the right if you yeah, oh it only matters if they If they're trying to resist it and humans don't resist
01:06:41
Speaker
I can't believe I'm going to be this douchebag.
01:06:57
Speaker
No, wait, it's January. It will be better if I was inside with some tequila in my stomach. Wouldn't that be nice? Here, come on. You, me, and this lady right here, follow me. So we walk underneath the roof, walk up to the front. And as I'm walking, I'm basically enacting my awe.
01:07:25
Speaker
And I walk up to the bouncer like, hey, man, how's it going? Jerry Wilson, you're pretty stacked. You're pretty cut. Do you use my app? So when you activate, oh, let's find out if he does. It just launched like two days ago, but. Yeah, I know. But I'm a bit of a local known name in a lot of workout stuff.
01:07:51
Speaker
As soon as you walk up, he, his eye, he's got eyes only for you, Jerry. Um, actually everyone around us, even he drops his knees in front of you. No, but he's, he's very impressed by you. He's like your app. No, but you must, if you've got an app, you must be, you must be pretty important. Come on insert. And he opens, he lets you inside.
01:08:14
Speaker
And as long as I'm walking past him, I want to actually look at him. Hey, is there any way we can get this line moving any faster for these guys? A lot of these people are out here. It's January. It's freezing out here. We got to get some business rolling through here. You know what I mean? He glances at the line and he's like, these, these chumps? Nah, none of them are worthy of coming in here. Not like you.
01:08:36
Speaker
What are you talking about? These are our family, local Houston. Man, you've got to open your heart to all people of Houston. So you can do a persuasion, persuasion plus charisma. Man, you've got a lot of charisma. And then for modifiers, put one modifier for having presence. You said it was charisma. It was manipulation with charisma. No, persuasion.
01:09:06
Speaker
So persuasion first, and then add charisma to it. And then on modifiers, put plus one for your all. All righty. Hey, that's. Ignore the beast. Yeah, four successes. He's like, you know what? You know, man, anything for you, sir. And he starts letting people in.
01:09:33
Speaker
like anyone, he's still checking IDs and junk like that, which he didn't do for you, but he's still checking IDs and stuff, but he's pretty much letting anyone in. He's not worrying about the cool factor right now. And real quick, I'm going to stand right next to him as he's doing IDs, and I'm going to start patting people on the shoulder. Hey, welcome in. Get out of the cold. Go on. Go up to the bar. After he's let, you know,
01:10:00
Speaker
He's let some people in, but the club does have a limit, and eventually he has to stop letting people in until people leave. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. I just kind of wanted to help him get a bit more of a crowd in here. You know, if things become difficult to focus on around you, there's more people. After all said and done, Imogen has been silently just like watching you in awe this whole time. Finally, she does snap out of it and says,
01:10:30
Speaker
All right, come with me. And she takes your arm and brings you inside. And she's kind of like leading you, but like walking next to you as if she kind of falls into the role of, you know, she's here with you, not like leading
Club Encounter and Feeding
01:10:49
Speaker
you. I don't know how I'd word that, but you know, she's here like as your girlfriend slash guest or whatever versus the other way around.
01:10:56
Speaker
and she leads you. This is going to get really awkward when I start checking out the bartender. Yeah, eventually. That's good looking man right there. That's all I'm going to say. Look at him. She kind of pauses for a moment, tilts her head, and then leads you over to a booth.
01:11:13
Speaker
talks with the guy standing guard at the booth for a minute and then he lets her in and you sit down across from someone you recognize and another woman, Cole, and some Hispanic woman. And now we're going to switch over to Jaden and Hayden because we've been on you guys for a little bit. So Jaden would be next in line, yeah. So Wesley, you're in that
01:11:41
Speaker
whatever the heck you called it, Encore or something. And you guys drive into the fifth ward, you're driving around, and eventually he kind of parks the car just at some random gas station. And he's like, come on, let's go for a walk and heads off down an alleyway. Okay. Yeah. And so you guys start walking down an alley. Max,
01:12:07
Speaker
you end up in the same place. You park next to, what did, Jaden, what was the name of that car? Buick Encore. Okay, you park next to this Buick Encore. And she hops off the bike. She was not wearing a helmet, but she had offered you one. Did you put it on? No.
01:12:31
Speaker
OK, I can't be shown up. Yeah, the helmets just strapped to the, you know, the rack on the back of the bike then and neither of you used it. She does hand you. Let me make sure she's got this. I'm pretty sure I put it on her sheet. OK, she holds out to you two things. One is a knife, like kind of a long knife. And the other is a pistol. And she's like, whichever one you prefer.
01:13:03
Speaker
Is she asking me or Hayden? Yeah. Uh, uh, Hayden. Okay. This is too fucking. Okay. Yeah. Um, yeah. I take a look around what. So you're in a shady part of Houston. Um, at a, at a random gas station, you parked in the same place that, uh, that Hayden and his guy parked, but you, you haven't seen them yet. They got here a little bit before you take the gun. All right. So she hands you the gun.
01:13:33
Speaker
and she's like, yeah, tuck that away somewhere. And then she, she reaches into her pocket and pulls out this like really expensive looking watch and also hands it to you. Hey, that's my watch. Is it your watch? I had a Rolex. Oh, okay. Well then you've already, sure. She hands you back your watch. She's like, sorry, I forgot to give this to you. Put that on. Forgot.
01:14:00
Speaker
She quickly puts on these, um, like diamond earrings. You guys are already dressed in your party attire. Um, so you're looking out of place in this neighborhood and she's dressing you up even more, um, with these expensive items. It's like, all right, let's go this way and heads down an alleyway. You see a couple, a couple of guys up ahead and she's like, David and you know, David stops and turns is like, Oh, Tim, I, I, I'm surprised I beat you here. And he jogs over.
01:14:30
Speaker
Um, and he's like, so is this the guy? Yeah, this is him. Uh, his name's Max. Who's your guy? And, and he, uh, you know, points out like motions to Wesleyans like this year's Wesley. Uh, so, uh, so we, we think in, uh, we think this, we think in this good spot and the, and she's like, yeah, it's, it's one of the best. They're like, all right, guys, let's go for a walk. And they take you guys.
01:14:59
Speaker
I look at Wesley and go, what's up, boss? Yeah. A nice big fat pat on the back, like, you know, like a. Like I'm asserting, you know, a little bit, but, you know, like, what's up, Max? Oh, you know. And you feel a chain under my blazer. Well. Oh, wait, never mind. I was going to say that's probably extra hard, but no, you took the soaring leap. Yeah.
01:15:29
Speaker
Yeah, I just like push them onto the ground on accident. That is funny. Next level, you can choose to just add your potency to any strength based stuff. Hmm. So let me see here. So they lead you down an alley and they're honestly they're just kind of walking around the fifth ward waiting for something to happen.
01:15:58
Speaker
give kind of slows down and, uh, um, you know, it's next to you too. And, uh, she's like, so, so David up there, he'll, he'll kind of go after anybody, but me personally, I prefer to at least feed on people who deserve it. We're not, we're not going to kill anybody. Okay. That's not what we're here for. I mean, unless, unless you absolutely have to, but we're here to teach you to feed and
01:16:30
Speaker
Uh, and then a group of guys step out and, and when they step out and she says, and we want to make sure they deserve it. And then, um, we switched back over to, uh, Cole and Jerry, uh, you guys have, or Cole, no, Jerry just sat down across from Cole and, um, uh, Carmen nods at Imogen and says, Imogen, I didn't expect to see, see you here.
01:16:59
Speaker
And Imogen just kind of, if she could one up, she does blush because she's using the blush of life right now. She blushes a little at that. And it's like, well, I figured my usual methods weren't good training. And, you know, she's got to learn. What are you and Jerry and Cole, what are you all doing? Well, if I notice Cole, I'll probably walk over and talk to him. Well, you all are sitting at the same booth.
01:17:29
Speaker
OK, do I know that he's he's also also a vampire? You do not know that now. I'm going to be like, how's how's it going? Yeah. You notice he's looking at both. You both notice that each other are looking a little paler than usual. Maybe you notice that. It's it's going. It's been a. Been a weird couple of days. Yeah, been been there.
01:18:00
Speaker
Oh, have you seen the numbers on your app? It's taken off pretty well. No, I haven't actually. What are the numbers on that? I pull out my phone and attempt to show him the numbers. Do I need to roll, or is that? Yep, because it's a new scene. So let's do, you're showing the numbers, so intelligence plus, or technology plus intelligence.
01:18:27
Speaker
All right, it's going to work for the rest of the scene, so while you're at the club. OK, so I pull up my phone and I go to whatever back end stat checking thing I have, and I pull it up for them and I show them.
01:18:44
Speaker
I'm like, they're looking, the numbers looking really good. It's had a couple thousand downloads in the first hour or so. It's got some pretty raving reviews so far from some well known and some not well known people. You even have a particular celebrity that's giving you a pretty good review. Is it Seth Rogen? It's Seth. It's Seth Rogen.
01:19:13
Speaker
Oh shit. Awesome. Look at that. We're doing pretty good. I'm going to turn back to call. I'm just going to be like, Hey, we're doing pretty good. Thanks so much for setting this up. Uh, you know, it's, it's no problem. I'm glad we, uh, we got it launched when we did and it's doing pretty well. Um, I mean, you know, a couple thousand downloads in the first couple hours and you know, as it, it's been almost a day and change since then it's been steadily increasing at that rate.
01:19:40
Speaker
So I think we're up at, I think, 50 ish thousand downloads. But from the projections and from the reviews, I think what's going to start and proceed even more. That's awesome. So I know it's basically just code and everything, but just for the future, can I keep working with you so we can keep updating this?
01:20:03
Speaker
I'm more on the back-end development side. I don't do much of the maintenance, but if you feel the need to keep this relationship going, then just give me a shout and I can... Or rather give the boss man a shout and he could probably get you over to me. You have my number, so you can always just give me a shout if you have any questions or anything like that. Yeah. Yeah. Sounds good.
01:20:32
Speaker
Looking a little pale, I notice. At that, Carmen interrupts and she's like, gentlemen, it looks like you two have something in common. And Imogen, she nods. She seems very uncomfortable here. So it looks like you two both shared a common experience the other night after the party.
01:21:01
Speaker
I don't know why I'm being around the bush. You're both vampires. Oh, thank God. What the fuck's going on? Oh my God, thank God. I woke up and I won't, I won't blood. What the fuck's wrong with me? Hey, hey, if it makes you feel any better, this bitch cut my throat.
01:21:18
Speaker
Oh God, what have we gotten into? It's so fucked up. I don't understand. I can't tell you how actually comfortable it is to find another one I guess so young? Let's say fresh. Let's say fresh. I like fresh.
01:21:41
Speaker
I don't even know. I'd like 12th generation. I don't know what that means. It's so weird. Don't worry. I read in the paperwork. Basically, we're only 12 little marks away from Cain. Yeah, that one. Like the Bible Cain? Like the guy that killed the other guy with the bone of a sheep or something? Yeah, that's the guy. Carmen says, gentlemen, pay attention.
01:22:11
Speaker
Make intelligence, roll intelligence plus resolve. You mean resolve plus intelligence? It doesn't matter, because those are both abilities. Or those are both traits. Are they? Yeah. Resolve plus intelligence, he said. Roll plus intelligence, or vice versa. And she rolls. She got three. You, three, and two.
01:22:38
Speaker
Okay, cool. So you immediately fall silent and start paying attention. Jerry, do you feel something similar to what you imagine the people in the place we're feeling their interest in you?
01:22:56
Speaker
Um, but a little bit different, a little more forceful, but you're able to, to resist it. Um, however, it does catch your attention. You just don't have to keep paying attention if you don't want to. It's like, please pay attention. We're here for, we're here for a purpose. Like, does she know that that, uh, that that's what she did didn't affect me? Yeah. Um.
01:23:18
Speaker
OK, then I'm going to hold eye contact for just a little bit and be like fine. Continue. She says you're here to learn the most one of the most important things about being kindred, and that is. Quelling the beast inside you. In other words, drinking blood and getting away with it. Honestly, this isn't either of our scenes. She motions over to Imogen.
01:23:47
Speaker
But these kind of places are one of the easiest places to get away with doing what we do without having to resort to more violent methods. Hopefully, both of you have at least spoken to a woman in your life. So how about you two head out there and see if you can convince someone to come back with you.
01:24:17
Speaker
and bring him back to the booth. Okay. When Jerry hears her say that, like if you've ever spoken to a woman, Jerry's gonna make like the most sarcastic face in the world. All right. And he's gonna stand up. He's gonna go over to the bar. Now, how many bar strangers are working tonight? Four? I don't know, I don't remember.
01:24:47
Speaker
I'm gonna walk over to one of the ones that looks less busy, but still looks kinda, you know, kinda okay. And I'm gonna, can I activate all again? Or is that still going? Up to you. If you turned it off, you can have turned it off. It's free to turn on and off.
01:25:06
Speaker
Although, do try to tell me when you turn it off and on. That way, I know how to make people react to you. Yeah, I don't think I actually turned it off, because I don't 100% know if I would have known. I'm kind of playing with all this stuff for the first time. So it's like, kind of just turn it off. So I'm going to walk up to him and be like, hey, can I get a long island? The guy turns.
01:25:36
Speaker
very obviously eyes open down and says, it says, sure, think, hon. And goes and starts mixing it up. Oh, we got it. We got someone taking the bait. Yeah, so he mixes up your drink. And because of all, he's interested. So. OK, we got the hunt is on. All right. So Cole, you have been magically ordered to go find a woman.
01:26:07
Speaker
and bring her back. Can I ask questions before I had to go bring one back? All right, so I probably sit there meekly as Jerry walks off. I kind of raise my hand a little bit and just kind of sit there.
01:26:27
Speaker
Yes, yes, Cole. I haven't spoken to a woman in a while. I don't have the best. What's the word?
01:26:51
Speaker
Shit, what's the word? My brain's not working. What's the word? Social skills? Okay. I don't exactly have the best social skills when it comes to talking to women. I don't know if I could do that. She kind of looks at you and
01:27:18
Speaker
And moreover, do we have to drink it? Can we just like get it? Like, I don't, I don't know, like in a, in a tickle cup or like a, like a, like, is there like a 7-11 we can go to for, for vampires and just get some blood there? Like we, I don't know if I'll just want to be drinking like straight from the track. Like I don't want to hurt people. Like I don't, I don't. She, she sighs for a minute and says the point of tonight is to learn not to hurt people as far as your,
01:27:48
Speaker
troubles with speaking to the opposite sex, don't worry. Simply go over there and order one to come back with you. Oh, okay. Um, I can try. You have just, just by the way, quick question, you have, so that that's what she's, you know, you don't know that you can do this, but you can, um, you can compel people, right? Right.
01:28:15
Speaker
Um, so as bagger, I don't get any sort of penalty freaking drinking directly from attack. There's no penalty. That's just your preferred method. You didn't, you didn't actually take prey exclusion. Um,
01:28:28
Speaker
Yeah, so you're perfectly capable of drinking it. It's just your preferred method would be not drinking it directly from the source. Okay. I just want to make sure I didn't know if I need to incorporate that into the character. Okay. All right. All right. So Cole stands up and he kind of like meekly walks over to a group of females. One of them has a tiara on that says,
01:28:52
Speaker
bridesmaid and they're all wearing like like like dick themed like uh like paraphernalia like necklaces with dicks on them uh like earrings that are dicks like they're drinking up dick cups um there's like a group of four or five of them um and i walk over to them and and i uh um look at like the ugliest of the five
01:29:18
Speaker
And then I look at the second ugliest and up to the prettiest one. And I'm assuming it's like the bridesmaid. Because nobody wants to be with the bride. The first bridesmaid's always the best. I don't know how true that is. But I'm like, I command you to come with me. She briefly glances your way.
01:29:45
Speaker
like, snickers, and like, they start whispering to each other. Like, face probably goes red. And I say, please? Well, no, I can't. Well, I can do Kiss of Life. No, I'm not doing Kiss of Life. Fuck that shit. You know, I get embarrassed, and I go, please? She finally turns to you and says, in what world would you think I would ever come with you?
01:30:15
Speaker
In the world, what's your hunger too? Give me a frenzy check. You're a little bit hungry. How do I do that? So down at the bottom of the thing, there's the dice for frenzy. I don't know if frenzy check is the right one for this, but we'll see if your hunger makes you become assertive. Difficulty? There's a difficulty. I don't know, difficulty. Right now, just difficulty too, because you've got 200.
01:30:47
Speaker
Alright, I'm not going to say you friends me from that, but the beast inside you, I got to double check the rules on how that kind of thing works, but the beast inside you gets angry at her words and the next words you say will be make them assertive and compelling. Okay, she's immortal, so you don't even have to roll for it.
01:31:14
Speaker
All right. So, um, I lean, I lean forward, like kind of get close to her ear and go, listen here, bitch, you better come with me right now. Or I'm going to kick your fucking ass. She.
Street Thug Confrontation
01:31:27
Speaker
Jesus fucking Christ, Frank. She, uh, she's surprised for a second and then like her eyes kind of glaze over a little bit and she's like, okay, where do you want to go? Just come with me.
01:31:41
Speaker
Why is your voice? And she follows you back, back to the... I'm sorry, but I... She follows you back to the booth. I'm that man. All right. So, so, yeah, let's now that you two have, uh, sedute, well, you know, whatever you want to call it, we won't go into what's actually happening here. Um, now that you've, uh,
01:32:09
Speaker
Oh, god damn. I was going to go through some really flirty stuff. Oh, no, no. We can do that. I just want to go back to the other two. Some guys step out of an alleyway. And let's say, we're going to say there's five dudes. Because now we get to learn about combat while you guys learn about social. OK, so yeah. So there's five dudes. They step out.
01:32:38
Speaker
And none of them are armed. At least they're not brandishing weapons, but one guy kind of steps forward. He's like, he's like, got like some rings on and he's wearing a big chain around his neck and he's like, he looks at, at a Tiv and he's like, those are some, those are some nice earrings you got on there, lady. How about you hand them over? And she's like, how about you come and take them?
01:33:08
Speaker
And then another guy's like, you give me that watch. He says to, uh, uh, Max. And I don't know, Wesley, you're probably wearing something expensive too. Another guy like steps up and he's like, I like the look of that, that cummerbund you're wearing now. I like to, I like the look of that jacket. Yeah. I like it too. Yeah. It's Italian. That's some of that Italian leather. Italian leather.
01:33:37
Speaker
Oh, oh my God, they became they became New York street cops real fast. So that's that's my look over at Tiv and I gave her like a look like saying. This is where we just go like, yeah, kick his ass. All right. And then that's when I pull out my chain and go, come on, fuckers, let's go. Oh, rich boys got some rich boys got a dick after all. And that the one dude pulls out
01:34:06
Speaker
One of the guys pulls out a gun and points it at you sideways. So combat is weird. Do I want to do initiative or do I want to try to do the weird thing? Because initiative is an option. What's the weird thing? All right. So more or less I determine what's going to happen faster by what makes sense. And there's kind of like a hierarchy. I'm trying to find the damn section on that. I should have had that ready for when you guys, because I was intending on putting you in a fight.
01:34:36
Speaker
But if I recall, melee goes before ranged if you're in melee range.
01:34:43
Speaker
Yeah, y'all are in melee range. So I'll say the vampires are going to be faster than humans. So the vampires can act first. These are just random thugs. They're not, they're not, no one's specially trained. So yeah, y'all can be faster than them for now, especially, uh, the guys with celery. So the fastest is going to be, um, would be a TIV because she's got celerity higher than yours.
01:35:08
Speaker
So she goes after the big guy that will the guy who first walked up. And she's. In a in a flash she. Well now.
01:35:20
Speaker
Sure. It's in a fight. Nobody knows what's going on. She moves faster than a normal person should be able to move and moves and, uh, and like cuts him, you know, just like flashes out her knife and cuts him right across the, the like chest and a dude like stumbles back and surprised. Hayden, you're the neck classes. What do you do?
01:35:39
Speaker
With my chain, I go and try to wrap it around the guy with that guns pointed at me, try to wrap it around his neck. So give me a melee plus dexterity. Now, at any time, you can choose to do a rouse check and get a plus two bonus to your role for you. So the rouse. So rouse is on the core page and it'll be at the bottom. Yeah, yeah. But what's the downside? You might get hungrier.
01:36:11
Speaker
Oh, that's fine. I'm going to fight. I don't care. You get hungrier. You're up to four. You are really hungry. I get hungry. Oh, I am thirsty. And then dexterity. Yeah. So with a plus two modifier. All right. One success. Damn. I will ask. Yeah. You succeed on that. So you managed to, are you trying to wrap them with the chain or like smack him with it? Or what are you doing with it?
01:36:39
Speaker
virtually trying to choke them out because she said, don't kill. So I'm not, I'm following as much as I know. You know, you're fast. Uh, you're not necessarily using celerity, you know, to do this, although you do have rapid reflexes, but you are fast, faster than, uh, you know, most people and you're able to, uh, get this guy, get this chain around him. And, uh, so one success where can I see my abilities? You're a disciplines there on the core page.
01:37:13
Speaker
So I'm trying to look for them again. So they're under disciplines and then the ones you picked would be under powers. Um, but you'd have to go to the compendium or to my handouts that I created to find a description of those powers. The ones that apply to this really are only going to be your rapid reflexes. I mean, acid blood, yeah, you could, you could burn somebody with it, but, but that's not super practical in combat. Almost like a cut.
01:37:39
Speaker
All right, so you got that dude. Next fastest would probably be David. So David, he, let's see, he goes after guy number three. Where the heck did I put David? There he is. Gotta open his sheet. He like walks up and just snacks the guy, his guy in the stomach, and the dude stumbles back and falls to his knees. And Wesley, what do you do?
01:38:10
Speaker
I'm trying to think of whether I have Compel or Cloud Memory. I'm just trying to look at my disciplines to see what I can hear. Disciplines, I think you've got Cloud Memory. I think you took that. Yeah, you took Cloud Memory. You do have, you've got all, which wouldn't be all that useful in a fight, Soaring Leap, and you've got,
01:38:31
Speaker
Rapid reflexes, I think is what you took. Yeah, I mean, I guess I really can't do anything. I mean, I don't have a weapon. Yeah. I don't really have any. You can just do it. You can do a straight punch and and do a rouse check and get a plus two bonus to it. Or you can or you can just do a straight punch. You know, you don't have to risk getting hungrier. Yeah, I just do a straight punch then. Which is terrible. OK, so
01:39:01
Speaker
Yeah. So you swing at the dude and miss. Um, the guy manages, he jumps back out of the way or a punch. Um, he, uh, he's going to counter attack. I don't have sheets for these guys. So let me just do, I don't know. They probably have been, been in a fight. So he gets one success. All right. So, so you can, so you can choose to take the punch or you can try to dodge it.
01:39:32
Speaker
Dodging it would be a dexterity plus if I remember right. Oh my god combat so complicated in this game I mean, it's not complicated once I remember it all but uh Yeah, it's dexterity plus It just be straight dexterity since you don't have any combat skills If you if you want to dodge it Also, you've been hit before and you know, it doesn't hurt as much as normal
01:39:58
Speaker
And I got hit by a vampire and this is just a normal dude. Well, I mean, I might as well just try to dodge it. Nice. Yeah, it definitely connects. So the way damage works for a vampire, a punch is superficial damage and vampires take half that. So in your case, you take no damage. The punch lands, doesn't even phase you. It's not a very good punch. The guy's surprised though. He was thinking, he was thinking I was going to take you down. Let's see. Max.
01:40:27
Speaker
Your guy is going to try and break free of that. That chain grapple you got going. Probably just going to be a straight strength check for that plus athletics. So it gets one success. So if you want to keep them in, it'll be keep them bound like that. It'll be a strength plus melee, which I don't know if I don't remember. Right. You said you didn't have combat points either. So.
01:40:58
Speaker
you know. All right, well, okay, so he struggles against or manages to get loose from the chains. The guy that David punched, he struggles back to his feet and throws a weak punch at David, which David steps just
01:41:21
Speaker
gracefully dodges it. And Tiv, her person, he's bleeding. He kind of seeing everything that's going down. Well, no, they're not being beat so bad yet. Only one guy really landed a heavy hit. So he's gonna, you know, he pulls out a knife of his own and stabs at her. But she kind of just, you know, deflects the deflects the blade. And, and in a in a flashes behind him, and, and cuts
01:41:50
Speaker
you know, cut the back of his leg and, or no, in a flash, she's behind him and has a throat, the knife to his throat, much like when she grabbed you. Just like, be still, little one. Now there's the guy with the gun. The guy with the gun who nobody was paying attention to, aims his gun at David, aims his gun at David. David does not have rapid reflexes. The gun.
01:42:19
Speaker
Pops David, uh, so he fires the gun. I guess I should roll for that. Three success is a six of success. I don't remember at least two successes. David is, uh, I don't think he can. No, you can try to dodge a bullet for remember, right? Two successes versus two successes.
01:42:39
Speaker
So David fails to dodge, takes the bullet in the shoulder, the bullet with two successes, doesn't deal much damage to him, doesn't seem to bother him too much. And then we are back to Tiv who, she like pulls her guy off down the alley and like between some houses and she's gone. Next up is Max.
01:43:07
Speaker
So Tiv just ran her guy out of sight. And I say, you go, Tiv. And then, I guess, knowing that I'm not very good at this whole martial thing, I'll go ahead and pull my gun. So you can pull your gun and fire it on the same turn. OK, sweet. So that's firearms. You can also just intimidate. That's firearms plus. What?
01:43:37
Speaker
Yeah, how would what my character want? Yeah, you don't necessarily have to shoot. I mean, they just threw you into this situation. You could also just try and scare him away or something. I mean, I have to feed. That's the thing. I'm very hungry. Would my character want to shoot him or? He does. I'd say I'm shooting his foot or something, but I guess I'll pop him in his kneecap and then I'll try to persuade him.
01:44:06
Speaker
They're letting shit out of this guy. So that's a firearms
Post-Combat Dilemmas
01:44:09
Speaker
plus dexterity. No modifiers, but any time you want to, you can you can do a rouse check and get that plus two bonus. On any roll. Oh, what if I go to like full hunger, though? What happens then? Yeah, I only got one dot left. I ain't doing that. No. All right, let me roll firearms. One success. Well.
01:44:37
Speaker
Are you shooting at which guy are you shooting at? The guy you were fighting or the one who broke out? That is a success. Yeah. So you pop the dude in the leg. And and he goes down on one knee like, oh, shit, what the fuck? You know, he's like holding his bleeding leg. That blood, though, make a frenzy check. Yeah.
01:45:05
Speaker
Frenzy Restrained. You don't lose. Nice. There we go. OK. Actually, Wesley, you're also at hunger three, aren't you? Make a Frenzy check. There's blood. Make a Frenzy check. I guess I should have done that when she cut the dude, but. Frenzy Restrained. All right. So y'all are both remaining in control. Let me see what his hunger's at. David's. Oh, he's at three also, so. Eight. OK.
01:45:36
Speaker
Oh, it's because it's probably because it's a difficulty one, but we all we all that's fine. I don't know what difficulty it was supposed to be. So, yeah. So can I try to intimidate him now or let's have Wesley or no, David, David grabs hold of his guy and leaps onto a nearby roof and he's he's now gone and it's you two versus three. One guy with a gun, Wesley.
01:46:06
Speaker
Guys, I'm going to try to punch him again. One success. That's going to hit him. So you pop him in the face, and he stumbles back. And then Guy, so that dude's stumbling back. He's a little bit stunned. Hayden's guy is on the ground, on his knees. And should I try to go in and bite while he's stunned? You can do that on your next turn. Guy with gun. Guy with gun. I'm going to roll.
01:46:35
Speaker
Because he just sees two of his buddies. He fails. Yeah. So he's like, what the hell is happening? He turns and runs. Yeah. Oh, I'm going after him. So it's your turn. All right. So I'm going to pursue him. And I'm probably trying to shoot him, too. And so firearms.
01:47:07
Speaker
two successes that's the difficulty so yeah he's a difficulty two guy yeah so you hit him where are you aiming um try not to kill so once again i probably try to hit him in the knee he drops to the ground too um and uh so
01:47:27
Speaker
Yeah, Wesley you can you can lunch with the dude now if you want should I? Grab him and use soaring leap to try to get away and so no one sees I'm gonna do that so Would I need to roll? Um, he's done so Give me a strength roll but with you immediately friends plus one modifier
01:47:58
Speaker
or one modifier or whatever. Okay. Oh my God. Massey Critical. Yeah, you grab him and you grab him and go flying into the air and land on a tall building. I go back to the woodlands. You're a fucking bird, mate. Yeah. So yeah, you land on a nearby rooftop and yeah, do you bite him?
01:48:26
Speaker
Okay, you start drinking and it is absolutely amazing. This is the first time you've tasted blood since you resisted drinking from your wife. So yeah, it's so good. How much are you gonna take from him? Okay, so that will put you down to hunger one. Now. Okay.
01:48:56
Speaker
you want him to be almost dead but you something inside you doesn't want to stop give me a uh it's a willpower rule yeah give me a willpower rule two successes so as you're feeding from this guy and you hear his heart is starting to beat slower he's not struggling the moment your teeth
01:49:22
Speaker
sunk into him he stopped trying and he honestly he seems to be enjoying this almost as much as you are maybe even more um it's so tempting to just keep drinking until there's nothing left but something in you some last shred some shred well not even a shred you've got plenty of humanity something in you says no stop we're not i don't need to kill this guy and you do stop
01:49:51
Speaker
And the guy kind of slumps to the ground in a state of ecstasy, but also a state of you, you drained a lot of his blood. Um, so he's pretty woozy. And, uh, and he, I just want to leave him up top on this rooftop. Um, across on the other rooftop, you see David and he gives you a thumbs up. That is his dude knocked out on the ground. And, you know, you see,
01:50:18
Speaker
Uh, he, he hops over to your roof, you know, jumps across cause he's got the same power and it's like, all right, now what you do, you gotta lick the wound. I gotta lick it. You gotta lick it. Just do it, do it and see what happens. All right. And then I lick it. And the wound closes up. Wow. Yeah. You gotta remember to lick the wound.
01:50:46
Speaker
so there's no evidence of what happened. Hey, now you get him in his knee and blow up his knee. You got two dudes who have had their knees shot out. Oh yeah. Two knee. Can I just say that I throw them together and then be like, which one of you should I drink from first? That's your choice, whatever you want to do. Look, just let us go.
01:51:11
Speaker
And I, I let my fans wait. Will they remember any of this? I don't technically remember at all. This. Oh, they're technically remember at all. Fuck. I guess I. His to whip the both of them then. And I'm like. Two meals one night, here we go. All right, so from the first guy, how much?
01:51:41
Speaker
How much do you take? I think you're also at 103. No, you're at four, aren't you? I'm at 104. Yeah, I'll take two dots from both of them. OK, same thing. When you want to stop, the beast says no. Yes, I do. Give me a little power or frenzy. Frenzy. Difficulty of two. So modifier is two? No, not the modifier. It'll be the next one that pops up.
01:52:12
Speaker
Does it ask you for difficulty? Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to take him until he's almost dead. Not to kill this dude. All right. And so I take off 200 points. Yeah. All right. And then from the next guy, I have to roll again. I'm going to say now that you're not as hungry, you've got self control now. So you can now you do want to drink him dry. And if you don't drink him dry,
01:52:42
Speaker
You're able to stop yourself. You don't have to do the frenzy check anymore.
Feeding Technique Guidance
01:52:47
Speaker
But for both of you, assuming unless you do drink them dry. Assuming you don't drink them dry for both of you, there's still a little edge to your hunger like it's still there. It's not gone, but you've got so satisfied. Yeah, you're satisfied enough. But you know.
01:53:09
Speaker
the beast inside you is never really satisfied. Not unless you drink it all. Can you drink it all and then give them some of your blood? That would turn them into a vampire, yes. OK. Which, if you read the, you know, whenever you all get the chance, read your lore note packets and it'll tell you that creating a vampire without permission is against the law.
01:53:39
Speaker
Doesn't mean you can't do it. Yeah, that's under. Yeah, that's under accounting. Doesn't mean you can't do it, but it's against the law. Unless I ask her if I have a. Yeah, you've got to have reasons. You've got to have permission. You pretty much have to ask your sire or the prince to do that. Yeah. Now, let's switch back over to Cole and Jerry. What what what they've doing is to tell me to lick the wound.
01:54:08
Speaker
Oh yeah, she does come over and she appears next to you just in a flash. And she's like, all right, now you're going to have to delay both of those next or wherever you bit them. Did you see that? I got two of them. Yeah, you did. You did a good job. Both of these guys deserve it too. I do kind of like a half high five. I don't know if this is.
01:54:37
Speaker
She gives you the high five. She meets you. Oh, hell yeah. Yeah, I like the wounds. All right, and they close up. And yeah, you guys have had your first successful feeding. Bill or Jerry and Cole. Cole, you've got a complacent woman following you back to the booth. And Jerry, you've got an interested bartender. Do you knock both out? Yeah, I do. What are you saying? The bartender brings you your drink.
01:55:09
Speaker
Okay, as soon as he sets down my drink, as he's setting it down, I bring my hand out, and just as he's about to let go of my drink, I cup his hand in mine. I'm looking deep. Yeah, oh yeah. I'm gonna look deep in the eye and be like, why don't you take a little 15 minute break? Yeah, he looks back at you and then glances over at a clock on the wall and it's like,
01:55:37
Speaker
Yeah, I think it's my break time right now. Yeah, I kind of thought it was. All right. Why don't we go somewhere a bit more quiet and private? OK. So he goes with you. Where is he? He knows the layout of this place. I don't. Where does he break it? He leads you to a back room. Yes. Ooh, back room. Back to a private room.
01:56:08
Speaker
Oh my. Depending on what you allow to happen, this might be a fade to black scene because we're not allowed to talk about it. It's we're we're not. Oh, don't worry. It's not going to get it's not going to get x-rayed. I promise. It's like I think so. You're you're. Oh, my God, what's the phrase? You're the.
01:56:36
Speaker
You're you're a cold drink of water, aren't you? Let me have a sip. Oh, my God. This is a lot different than ours. Oh, God. Ron, Ron, let how it just no judgment here, Ron. I love you. I got to throw in drinking. Ron and my missus lay off, Bill. I need a buzzer just because just. No, no, let's not. Please.
01:57:04
Speaker
I don't worry. It's gonna be fine. Okay as soon as we're as soon as we're all good I Grab him by the collar and bring him in for a deep deep kiss. Yeah, he doesn't he does not resist Yeah, and then I break off the kiss and start doing like that thing you sometimes do Where you start kissing them on the side of the face and you work your way down to the neck well when I'm gonna kiss them a few times on the neck and then I'm going to I'm going to
01:57:34
Speaker
kind of give them a little bit of a hickey. And then right there, right there. That's where my, that's where I'm going to say. Yeah. Whether you wanted to or not, them teeth pop out because you're hungry. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. You popped off early. So it, your, your teeth pop out and that. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. It's my first time. That flash, that gush of blood into your mouth is just so good.
01:58:03
Speaker
and you've never tasted anything so good and you're not. The best horrible herbal blend you've ever blended up could not even compare to what you're feeling. You can tell he's enjoying it in more ways than one. He thinks it's all part of the experience.
01:58:31
Speaker
You're a little kinky maybe, but he's into it. And yeah, how much blood do you take? I'm going to, enough to, enough to where I'm going to be, I'm going to be, I'm not, I don't want to drain him because he's got to go back to work. And I can't, I can't be, can't be that obvious. That yet. Do you drain him? How hungry do you want to be at the end of this?
01:59:00
Speaker
I wanna be pretty, I wanna be pretty well saved. I'm not gonna kill him, but I'm also not gonna lose him out of commission. Give me a frenzy check. Difficulty, I've been doing one for everyone else, I think. So except for Max who had four hunger. So difficulty one, wouldn't ask you for that. Alrighty, difficulty one. Okay, that's already set.
01:59:28
Speaker
Oh my god. Oh no! Oh my god. So you... Oh shit. You murdered this bull in front of everyone. And I want to point out, I want to point out real fast, just real fast, I want to point out, I know this, the way I've been acting is not really to Jerry's character, but he's, but he's, as he gets, I'm playing it, as he gets hungrier, he gets more aggressive. Okay, so.
01:59:56
Speaker
Yeah, you. Well, you got as you're a frenzy, like you, that's enough friends. Yeah, you, you frenzied. So you're drinking and the thought crosses your mind. Maybe I should stop. No, no, you shouldn't stop. Why would you stop Jerry? Just just keep drinking. Imagine how he's so good. And, and you keep
02:00:24
Speaker
Do I even have like a little voice in my head trying to trying to tell me stop? Oh, yeah. But he's he's so delicious. Why would we stop? I don't kill people. I don't hurt people. That's why you keep drinking and his heart is starting to slow down. And then the door to the room bursts open and she's like, Jerry,
02:00:51
Speaker
Stop and you're yanked away. The guy flops onto the ground, um, still breathing, but Imogen pulls you away from him. Um, give me, you're pissed. You're frenzying right now. Um, well, no, you're not like full on frenzying, but yeah, I'll say that snaps you out of it. You realize what almost happened though. Why did you take him to a private room? You were supposed, she told you to bring him to our booth.
02:01:21
Speaker
She looks down at him, she kneels next to him, takes his vitals because she's a doctor, you know, she checks his pulse and all that stuff and like pulls open his eyelid and like looks at that and it's like, God, do you know what you almost did? She, uh, she, she goes into her medicine or she, she, she pulls out her purse and, and, uh, pulls out some like various things. Um, first.
02:01:47
Speaker
Orange juice, cookies. First, she pulls out a syringe of red fluid and injects him with it. And after a second or two, he starts breathing better, like his breathing becomes deeper. And then she pulls out another fluid in a syringe and injects him with that and leaves the needle in.
02:02:11
Speaker
And she's like, we need to get out of here. Come with me. And she grabs your hand and drags you and you guys leave the club. Cole, you are back at the booth with your compelled woman. And Carmen's sitting there. Do you sit beside Carmen or across from her? Imogen and Jerry are gone.
02:02:41
Speaker
Am I still being a dick? You've got control of yourself now. Is that still part of- Yeah, you've got control of yourself now. Okay. Um, I probably sit down like a space or two away from her. Like around the half table thing. Um, the girl sits down next to you and kind of just is like looking around, but she doesn't really know what's going on. Um, I, I pour her a glass of what I assume is champagne and what I assume is a
02:03:10
Speaker
a champagne holder next to the table. And I lean back and I hand it to her. She takes it. Carmen looks across at you and she says, very, very good. I see you've already discovered one of your abilities. She like goes over to the, like reaches across the booth and pulls like this little cord and a curtain comes down and now
02:03:38
Speaker
The already private booth now has a closed curtain in front of it. It's like, all right, now all you need to do is drink from her. Do I have to? If you want to keep living, you should. It's an important lesson to learn. But I mean, I'm sure there's probably another way of going about it, right? Drinking.
02:04:04
Speaker
So you are hungry, by the way. It's only hunger too, though. So you've got some self-control. There are other ways, yes. You can feed from animals, but they're honestly not nearly as satisfying as feeding from a human. If you have access to it, perhaps you could find some
02:04:32
Speaker
uh, stored blood somewhere. Although that, that gives most, most of us, uh, can't draw much sustenance from that. Um, honestly, this is what you need to learn to do. See, I just, I really don't want to have to drink like, like from her. She, uh, she looks at the woman and, and uh, seems to ponder for a moment.
02:05:03
Speaker
And she says, no, you need to experience it at least once while you're in control of yourself so that you know what to expect when you lose control. So the entire time we've been sitting here talking, this chick is just sitting there drinking her swimming. She's kind of starting to come back to her senses, but she was told to come with you. And as far as she can tell, that was her choice to do so.
02:05:31
Speaker
So she's looking a little confused and doesn't know what the heck's going on. But at the same time, you're not entirely certain because you can't sense each other's powers. But the girl's not leaving. So maybe Carmen is doing something to keep her there.
02:05:54
Speaker
Okay, well, I guess there's not really any way to get out of this, but... I understand your hesitation. It was hard for all of us at first. I mean, what if I hurt her? What if I kill her? Like, that's on me. You won't kill her. I won't let you. But let's do it easy. Simply take her wrist. I take her wrist. All right, now just...
02:06:24
Speaker
Bring it to your lips, as if you're about to give her a kiss. And the girl has gone kind of catatonic. So clearly Carmen's doing something to her. Bring it up. I do the thing. And without even, like, your beast is like, yes, yes, drink, and your fangs pop out. I take it like a big old...
02:06:55
Speaker
Yeah, you're that the beast wants it says take a drink. I I I flip it over to expose the inside of a wrist and I I just I chomped and it is good. It's it's so good that the blood that you drank the night before the cold blood. And the wine glass was nothing compared to this like you thought that was good.
02:07:24
Speaker
But now that you think back on it to be, I thought being a bagger, I prefer the bagger doesn't prefer the flavor. They are doing it because they don't want to drink from the source. Is that what it is that I've actually preferred the flavor of.
02:07:44
Speaker
No because the beast wants the living blood Like it's the beast that makes you want blood and the beast does not want a dead person like does not want cold blood Like you because you're a bagger and because you've got the iron gullets and all of that You can you can do it and you can get more sustenance than a normal vampire can but it's it's like drinking flat coca-cola like You know, it's like drinking a flat soda
02:08:15
Speaker
Um, that's a good comparison actually. Like the, the, you could, there were hints of what could be in that cold blood you had, but this is straight from the source. This is pure. This is a, it's, it's so much better, but also because you're a bagger. It it's like, it's good, but it's like, it's, it's good in a way that you know, it's wrong. Like this does not feel right to you. Yeah. It's like drinking a flat.
02:08:45
Speaker
Coke versus drinking a flat hot Coke from a car versus drinking a like a fresh one from a glass bottle like Mexican. It's like drinking a hot hot Coke that's flat versus drinking McDonald's Sprite right out of town.
02:09:05
Speaker
Oh, whoa. Oh, no.
Reflection and Future Planning
02:09:08
Speaker
All I'm going to say is that McDonald's Sprite right out of the tap is like seriously some acid. It burns like like there's something extra in that shit. But it wakes you up and you can get those last six jobs done in a quick burst. That's true. Like it feels like my mouth is melting when I drink Sprite from sites.
02:09:30
Speaker
Um, now you're only at hunger too, so you can easily stop yourself from taking too much. There's in the back of your mind, you know, there's that temptation to take more, but you can, you can easily choose not to. You can always give in. The beast would love it if you gave in, but you're not compelled to give. Um, I grew, I grabbed the champagne bottle and, and pour out all the champagne into the bucket. Okay.
02:10:00
Speaker
And then and then I pull away and then I hold the champagne bottle up to her wrist. All right. Some more blood dribbles into it. Like I'm I'm I'm massaging her arm to make it go faster. OK. And Carmen raises an eyebrow at this, but doesn't stop you until like once the glass is full, it's like. Not not a glass. There's not enough.
02:10:30
Speaker
OK, yeah, I guess you can. That's you can get that much blood from a person and not hurt them too much, right? Yeah, not kill them, yeah. They're going to be pretty woozy afterwards. Yeah, like I'm not looking for like a full bottle like I'm looking for like a half. Yeah, you get some blood from it whenever once you stop. Whether you wait till the bottle is full or whatever, Carmen's had her eyes locked on this this, you know, she's been watching you, but she's also been watching the woman to keep her in check.
02:10:57
Speaker
And then once you're done, she says, you need to lick her wrist now. I look at her wrist, and I look at the bottle, and like, I'm like, what the fuck am I doing? Like, lick her wrist. And it feels right after you can do that. Like, as your tongue leaves the wrist, you notice the wound from your bite is gone. And yeah, you've got a bottle, a half bottle of blood.
02:11:27
Speaker
The Carmen leans over and says to the woman, forget everything that just happened and go have a good night. And the woman, pretty woozy from losing blood. And you could taste like a hint of the alcohol in that blood when you drank it. She stumbles out of the booth and off to go back to her friends. It's like, so.
02:11:53
Speaker
I look I look over to her and I kind of lit my lips and I grabbed the napkin off the side of the champagne thing and kind of wet my mouth and I'm like Hmm, it's a good vintage 23 years. Hmm. Yeah She chuckles and says so anyway, that's that's how you do it. Yes. There are other options. I
02:12:16
Speaker
It's good that you were able to maintain self-control this time. It's not always going to be that easy. You can avoid drinking straight from the tap, I think is what you said. You can avoid that as much as you want. Oh, I'm changing your hunger down to one. I don't care. I actually don't like it almost right. You can try to avoid it, but eventually you're going to get hungry and someone's going to have a cut. Someone's going to get a paper cut. Something's going to happen.
02:12:45
Speaker
and you're going to lose control, and you're not going to be able to resist it. And the important part is resisting it before you take that last drop. I hold up the button. I'm like, and I am prepared. Yeah. Boy Scouts caught me one thing. I'll warn you, that might not be good for very long. Of course, out of character, you're a bagger. You're able to drink old blood. She doesn't know that.
02:13:14
Speaker
I'll warn you, that's not going to be good for very long. You should get that. We should get back to my place or your, well, probably my place because it's set up to block out the sun already. We should get back and get that on ice if that's how you want to do it. That'll be good for a couple of days, but you're going to have to find a better source if you're going to try to live that way.
02:13:39
Speaker
Can't I like drink like out of character? The bagger, like I can drink like putrid blood. Yeah, you can drink. I've got that iron gullet thing. You can drink like terrible, just like shit blood. Like crackhead dead for two days, lying on the ground in the back alley. Like I can drink that shit. That was the iron gullet. Iron gullet. So I brought my hunger down to absolutely nothing. Do I have to keep it at one block, one dot? It has to be a one dot unless you drink the last drop.
02:14:11
Speaker
So not even I drink from like two people. Nope. The only thing that can quench your hunger is to kill. Yeah, so iron gullet, you can feed from cold blood, rancid blood and fractionated plasma. So yeah. Yeah, you can pretty much drink from any blood.
02:14:30
Speaker
So you can drink from plasma like go to a plasma bank and yeah, he because because of that Because of the bagger thing in a marriage he can drink from basically any blood source. Whereas a Non bagger vampire if they drink from a blood bag, it has to be non it has to be relatively fresh like less than a couple of days old and Non fractionated so it can't be like they can't it can't be having
02:15:00
Speaker
haven't been putting, uh, whatever the heck you call this spinny thing. Centrifuge. Yeah. So it has, yeah, blood from the body into the bag and nothing done to it. Otherwise it provides you nothing. Defractionated. And then it goes bad after a couple of days, which I believe also happens in real life. Blood goes bad after a couple of days for, you know, whatever purposes normal humans use it for.
02:15:31
Speaker
The cells start to die, they stop being able to carry oxygen. It's basically poison at that point, because at that point you're putting in a bunch of dead tissue right into your body. Yeah. So yeah, it has to be good fresh blood if you're going to drink it from a bag without the special ability that Frank has. I put a cork in the bottle and put it into the ice chest thing, or the ice bucket thing.
02:16:00
Speaker
And yeah, so that's basically where we're going to end it tonight. You guys, your various sires probably take you back to their places. They, you know, they tell you, you know, we'll work on setting up your, your Haven's tomorrow. You know, no, presumably nobody's house is completely safe yet, because whether that's because of windows or because of other reasons, they recommend staying at their place.
02:16:31
Speaker
They recommend strongly to where it's like, yeah, you don't really have a choice in this. Basically, you're stuck with them for at least this week until the prince says, y'all are good to go out on your own. And they bring you back to your respective sleeping places. Frank, you, well, it's the same. No, she, yeah, she takes you to the same place.
02:16:57
Speaker
you know, with the the cottons, like, you know, if there's anything else you need, you know, we can get that for you. Hey, maybe a bed. Well, this is an office building. So I don't really think we're going to. And we're vampires, like, come on. I mean, it take me I could maybe get you a bed by tomorrow night, I can get one of my people on it.
02:17:28
Speaker
And yeah, Jerry, she brings you back to the lab. She says, she kind of goes over the paperwork with you. And honestly, she's going to stay with you till dawn. She's going to pass out in the same room as you. And she doesn't even bother to lay down anywhere. She just kind of passes out on the chair. You can lay down on your medic, whatever the heck you call those,
02:17:56
Speaker
beds in the doctor's office, you know. The gurney cot. Gurney. Huh? Yeah, I guess it's a gurney medical cot. I don't know. Or you can pass out wherever you want. For Max, she does bring you back to the warehouse, but she doesn't bring you, she doesn't tell you to go down to the dungeon. She just kind of like says, you can take the couch if you want or, or you can, you know, you can go down to your room. It's up to you. Go down to my room.
02:18:25
Speaker
OK, Mom. She does not go to sleep. Be sure to wash behind your ears for bed. So she doesn't go to sleep in the same building as you. She leaves. So and she does not lock the door this time. It's only about until sunrise, but if you want, you can run. And we'll deal with that next time.
02:18:52
Speaker
but I won't run. Okay. Um, but I want to search around, see if there's anything inside the warehouse there. I'm not prepared for this. So we'll talk about that next time. We can do that next week. Um, and who else have we not talked about yet? Oh, and Wesley, uh, he takes you back to his basement. It's, it's honestly a pretty nice basement. Like it's comfortable down there. There's TV, there's like a PS five and.
02:19:23
Speaker
and uh and like Dude, your parents let you live down here? My parents have been dead for like 100 years. Yeah, I know. That's so cool. He plays like I don't know what's uh he plays some some like he's playing some Call of Duty and he's like we want to play and like that's kind of how he spends the rest of the night until uh
02:19:49
Speaker
until the sun rises and y'all kind of forcibly pass out. Okay. And yeah, that's the end of the night. All right, y'all. All right, this is integrated dice management signing off. Later tonight. Bye. Bye.
02:20:18
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02:20:26
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02:20:57
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02:21:47
Speaker
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Mystery Man's Investigation
02:22:11
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The camera fades back in to reveal a dark room. A man sitting at a desk, his face illuminated by the screen of a computer. Our view shifts to reveal what's on the screen. The man clicks a folder labeled, Strange Happenings in Houston. We see a number of files. He clicks on one. An article. Members of local vampire club found dead on New Year's Eve. The next, a gruesome sight of a corpse covered in gnawing rats. Below the image a description. Woman found dead in her home.
02:22:39
Speaker
calls uncertain due to damage to the body from rats, husband missing, signs of a struggle. The next, an image of a body with large claw marks ranking across the chest. After that, a video clip of a parking garage showing two figures, though identification is impossible to make out due to the distance and poor lighting. One of them, seemingly a woman,
02:23:02
Speaker
approaches they appear to speak for a moment then suddenly the woman seems to teleport and reappear behind the other grasping him it's hard to be certain what exactly happens next perhaps the woman behind is kissing the other on the neck but shortly after the man slumps seemingly unconscious the woman shoves the unconscious figure into the trunk of a nearby car and drives off
02:23:28
Speaker
The man reaches for a phone next to a computer and lifts it to his ear. We don't hear who answers, but the man simply says, send a team to Houston, and then hangs up.