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FATE Core - Bloodbath 1.3: Sulfur & Pine (And A Bone-Merang)
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Hey folks. Our reborn crew are sent on a mission to battle some demon baddies and eliminate a Butcher who plans to do similar work as The Chef herself. We can't have that now can we? We can't especially with a shady one-eyed demon! Agent 69 shows off his item-tossing skills, Lorelei likes to lie, and Roy gets really into method acting.
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Transcript
Recap of Chaos and Introduction of Julius
00:00:30
Speaker
right, and we're live. Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, ladies and gentlemen, non-binary, folks, and everyone. It is Roleplayers, and welcome back to another episode of Bloodbath, episode three. We've got ah David, we've got Jacob, we've got Cass playing characters that they've made.
00:00:43
Speaker
And we're in the Bloodbath world of of of a centuries-long war. Last time, what happened? Oh, man, fucking the chef was like, dude, oh, man, there's this backwater town. just going down. The bear's like, oh, man, there's something crazy going down. You should check that out.
00:00:57
Speaker
And they go do that. and it was like, whoa, everybody's like, let's go to church. And then Lorelai's like, let's burn down the church. And then ah Roy's like, don't burn down the church or I'll kill you. And then Agent 69's like, I'm going to play dress up and look really nice. Like I like going to church.
00:01:10
Speaker
And then they fought a redneck angel boy named Julius. And, uh, that was a whole thing. And they took his wings off and, uh, Lorelei captured him, took him home. But then because she set fire to the church, Roy was like, you butthole, and then tried to kill her for it. And then an Agent 69 hit him in the face with a Bible and knocked him out cold.
00:01:29
Speaker
And if that sounds like something ridiculous for a human to say into the world, that's because it is. And that's because that's what happened.
Agent 69's Bunker Enhancements
00:01:36
Speaker
Um, So, ah ah David, the man, the myth, the legend, ah how long would you say it's been since you guys went to go after the the angel in ne'er-do-well town? I just remember that's what that was called as I wrote it down.
00:01:52
Speaker
ah Three years, no. Three years, all right. I'm going to say three weeks. Three whole weeks, okay. And what has Agent 69 been doing in those three weeks since the attack?
00:02:05
Speaker
has enhanced his bunker more, and he's added better security, and he's been training. Training in what way?
00:02:16
Speaker
He's been learning how to throw things even better. Really? What does that montage look like when he's working on his throwing? um He's just going around the castle, and yeah he's just checking things at people, and nobody knows who who's doing it, but everyone's getting like headaches all the time, you know waking up in random places, yeah ah you know stuff like that.
00:02:37
Speaker
and Waking up in random places from being hit by random things? Yeah, yeah, and then he drags them and hides them. He's practicing his... wow is there is there anyone else who does has anyone discovered that it's you uh i would say chef has an idea but probably like has an inclination but has doesn't have any proof yet but sure you know he's probably not fucking with chef okay or or lorelei or lorelei okay what about me not lorelei and but probably not roy either but um yeah
00:03:10
Speaker
Have you had any sort of interactions with Roy or Lorelai since the book? i Probably not. Probably not. i'm gonna be you just avoided them since you hit them with a book? I'm serious.
00:03:20
Speaker
That's awesome, actually. I think that's great. They're just like, I'm just going to hide and here away from my mission. um Lorelai's been secretly following him. It's fine. Well, you know what? We need to have a roll off for that to see how well you've been at doing that because now you've made you've called a contest into order.
00:03:39
Speaker
So yeah i think
Roy and Lorelai's Tension
00:03:40
Speaker
i think you should roll aside her I think you should roll a notice versus ah whatever, um I guess, sneaking for... Beat a plus one. Huh? You have to beat a plus one to see if you've if you've noticed. So yeah, roll a notice roll against... Oh, no, not you. You don't roll notice. She has to roll a notice.
00:04:00
Speaker
You have to roll whatever it is your stealth skill is that you're using to throw. i guess it'd be resources. No, no, no, no, and no. Because she said she was secretly following me. Oh, you want to roll to see if you notice her.
00:04:11
Speaker
Oh, I was shy having her roll to see if she noticed what that it was you that was doing all the things. um So, okay. So she notices you unless you want to roll against that. But Lorelai, you should also roll a sneaking roll, like a stealth roll, to see if you're able to ah go undetected by him. Otherwise, you guys are just noticing each other. do. I'm just going down. I guess I do.
00:04:33
Speaker
yeah i am I don't have a stealth roll. i guess you just roll it at mediocre and maybe you roll lucky. you know Sometimes it happens. I got a zero. Actually, you rolled pretty well for just rolling four dice and nothing else.
00:04:46
Speaker
Yeah. yeah So he rolled one. So Agent 69, you just have to roll whatever your stealth roll is to see if she notices you. Otherwise, you're just noticing each other this whole time.
00:04:57
Speaker
Dude, I don't have a stealth skill. You don't have a stealth skill? Nope. I know that... Well, I guess you can roll your Deceive. You can roll your Deceive if you're doing it in disguise, but if you're just hiding and throwing things at people... Oh, yeah, I'll roll my Deceive then.
00:05:13
Speaker
Then that would just be... Wow, crazy. That was the shittiest roll ever. was going to say, you rolled one. So yeah, you guys are just noticing each other. Like, doing shit. Like, you know you're being followed. She's following you. She knows what you're doing. It's like a weird little like game of like... ah It's like a stealth circle between the two of you. have Cat and mouse. So anyways, yeah. So one day, ah Agent 69 gets bored and goes to see Chef.
00:05:39
Speaker
Okay. what did you do how do you What do you say? Where is Chef? Where do you meet Chef at? The bloodbath. Alright, she's in there stirring some shit up in there, as she always is. um And the the retriever is out collecting things, so it's just her and the brain is connected to his crystal in the other room.
00:05:56
Speaker
Chef. Yeah, what? It's been a few weeks. Don't you have anything for us to do? i always have shit for you to do. I just want to let y'all kind of just recoup.
00:06:08
Speaker
there's There's ne'er dwells afoot. And I'm cooking. You want like a job or Is what to tell Yes, want a job. i guess I could call everybody else up if you if you want to do it now. I mean, I was just getting ready to make dinner after I'm finished stirring the stoop, but I just got to tell you, you're fighting demons pretty soon.
00:06:28
Speaker
Okay. Are you comfortable with fighting demons? I've killed plenty of demons. Really? No shit. what was who Who was ah your first demon that you killed?
00:06:39
Speaker
I think he was an investment banker.
00:06:42
Speaker
Was he really a daemon or were you just using like metaphors to call him one? Do you really think investment bankers aren't demons? I don't know. If I'm being honest with you, I don't know what an investment banker is.
00:06:56
Speaker
You're so young. No, actually, I'm quite old. Right. Several hundred years, matter of fact. That was at the start of the war or beforehand, really. He's looking at his watch.
00:07:08
Speaker
Are you trying to say how old I am? No, I'm trying to say bored. Oh, and just say you're bored. Just use your words, mister. You're a very eloquent speaker. You're just going there and look at me. going to stupid that is.
00:07:21
Speaker
What? Come on now. All hang on. Let me just call up the others and see if they want to come do a job, I suppose. You know, I'll be honest with you. I was a little nervous with the whole aftermath of, you know, one of your friends trying to kill your other friend, and I didn't know if they want to still work together anymore. Oh, and then you hit a guy with a book?
00:07:35
Speaker
It's like, you know, might be a little awkward. Roy, is it awkward? A little. ah like If Roy it happens to be there, he he's he's kind of staring a hole into the back of your your head.
00:07:53
Speaker
Well, you understand why he had to eat you with the book, right? You should have let me do my job. You did do your job. She nearly killed 200 people.
00:08:06
Speaker
She didn't even come close. He raises an eyebrow. Are you trying to trick me? No, I'm saying i wouldn't have let that happen. He nods solemnly and says, just trust me, bro.
00:08:20
Speaker
He nods solemnly and says, I don't believe you.
00:08:27
Speaker
Have you played any of the Hitman games? I don't know what is. You should know what I'm capable
00:08:34
Speaker
You should know what I'm capable of. Lorelai, are you around anywhere? Like, have you been around or what have you been doing? I've been lurking in the shadows just watching. Yeah. And you have your you have have you had any conversations with your angel in your room?
00:08:52
Speaker
Oh, yes. Absolutely, darling. Don't you tell him that you want him... Isn't he just supposed to tell you you're pretty or something? I can't remember you had him go there. Yes, he's supposed to give me compliments, darling. And you know what? He is just the most wonderful person to give me those compliments. i just tell you, he is so sweet.
00:09:09
Speaker
He tells me that I have never looked better than an angel with 18 eyes and that I should just go burn myself at the stake. And you know what? I...
00:09:20
Speaker
I just never heard anything better. Wow. that's That's fantastic. just ah You know, I'm just so glad to hear that there's an angel on the premises who has nothing but nice things to say to a lady, such as, go to hell and burn on a stake and you should have 19 eyes or whatever. that you Wow. I mean, courting has come a long way since I was a young gnomish lady.
00:09:47
Speaker
I know. I think I'm going to see marriage later. It's coming soon. I just see it.
Humorous War-Ending Plan
00:09:52
Speaker
Ew. Gross. Marriage. Gross. I know it sounds terrible, but you know what? The tax at break is amazing, let me tell you.
00:10:01
Speaker
I don't know. if You know what? If we need to do anything, we need to get all them, that that shining city on the hill to to pay their fair share taxes, and maybe this war be over. You know saying? They all should get married. maybe maybe we'll all Maybe if we marry them, we'll end the war or something.
00:10:18
Speaker
That's a good, ah that is a good plan. Maybe we could um just force everybody to marry each other and then they can have a big old harem up there and then they'll be all be happy because you know what? They can all just love each other.
00:10:32
Speaker
What do y'all say about, what do y'all say about just, you know, got, we got Tobias here and Lorelai and Roy. What do y'all just feel about this arranged marriages at the, the city on the, on the shining city on the hill?
00:10:45
Speaker
What do y'all, you know, You want to go meet some nice people and make some babies or something? Get married? Tax breaks? What are even talking about? What are we even talking about right now? We're talking about getting married.
00:10:56
Speaker
You want to get hitched? Save some money? We're supposed to be just be working here. Oh, right. Yes, relationships between workmates should not be allowed.
00:11:10
Speaker
No, I don't mean y'all get married. I mean, like, I introduce you to some nice people at the Shining City on the Hill, and then maybe you end the war that way, right? Maybe you marry a king. A king of angels. Who's the king of angels, the way?
00:11:22
Speaker
Did you want me to kill the king of angels and then end the war? that what you're trying to say? I mean, potentially. Oh, that makes sense. Marry, and then he, like, puts two fingers up in quotations.
00:11:34
Speaker
Right, so you get it. I see, you. Yeah, yeah. So just you know if keep an eye out of for anybody you think it might be marriage material and then bring them on back. Just kidnap them and then we'll we'll ask them. but I see. can that somebody Hold them against their will. Maybe.
00:11:49
Speaker
Yeah, hold them against their will. I mean, they do it anyway, but this time it's for marriage. You know, if they stick around you long enough, they'll learn to like you and then you get married. I believe they call that Stockholm Syndrome.
00:12:01
Speaker
Stockholm Syndrome. No, that's the guy that, that's the great detective.
00:12:08
Speaker
you know I mean, studies have shown, you know, that um sex creates endorphins and dolphins make people happy. So, you know, if everybody is happy, then they don't want to make war. So I'm just saying make love, and not war.
00:12:21
Speaker
It's a brilliant plan. He grins out Lorelai and says, that must be why you're miserable all the time. Oh, shit. You know what you're talking about, darling? I am the happiest person on the planet. Do you not see the smile on my face?
00:12:35
Speaker
Wait, did you say endorphins? I think all those went extinct when all the bombs started dropping in the ocean. and No, darling, you're thinking of orphans. Orphans? No, I'm talking about those things that go, ee!
00:12:48
Speaker
They got the holes in the back. You're thinking dolphins. Dolphins, my darling. That's rights not endorphins. sorry. I thought you were talking about- They've gone extinct? Endorphins. Oh yeah, they've been gone a long time. At least as far as we know.
00:13:00
Speaker
He almost looks sad as he says that's unfortunate. Don't worry. They're a bunch of little sexual predators anyway. The world's better off at all. Trust me. They left us a note. He goes, dolphins are sexual predators?
00:13:13
Speaker
Yeah, and then they all went to space to avoid the apocalypse. exactly They left us a note saying thank you for all the fish. Yeah, like yeah flipped in the I flipped on the bird on the way to the moon.
00:13:25
Speaker
knew it. I thought that was you It was me. But anyway, oh, I got a job. All right, here's a job. Look, look, I just want you to let y'all know before I forget, since you're all here, ah the brain, um he's on a little bit of a sabbatical.
Mission to Stop Demon Butchers
00:13:38
Speaker
He's not actually attached to his machine. He's just taking a long nap. It's hibernation week.
00:13:42
Speaker
um But I did get a job from him before he decided to go take a little nappy nap. So, turns out there's a small little establishment where, like, devil people and demons are running a meet a demon-run meat market that, like, takes meat and re- like, they butcher eldritch beings, and then they reconstitute them Frankenstein-style into super beasts and soldiers.
00:14:09
Speaker
It's freaking crazy, man. It's like a butcher shop and a Lego shop put together. And so, like, I need y'all to just go make that not happen anymore, okay? What if we reappropriated it for you? That is something similar to what you're doing here.
00:14:22
Speaker
ah yeah. Look, I'm not going to It is competition, right? So, like, if there's no more competition, then that's more market for me eventually down the road. I kind of want to be the only one that, like, staples.
00:14:36
Speaker
Say what? Understandable. I said the ebb and flow of free trade. Understandable. Right. Yeah. yeah Yeah, I know. It's just, like. What I'm doing is for good, you know, right? And they're doing it for the opposite of good. so You know, do whatever you got to do to get in there, but I'm just not going lie. There's like a whole just gaggle of just, just at least from the visions that I was watching, just a lot of just bad shit in there. So just like either go in there quietly and just take out the proprietor, blow the establishment up, just kill everybody there. They're all demons. Ain't nobody going miss them anyway.
00:15:10
Speaker
You know, but like whatever makes sense for you, just go ahead and just, you know, just make sure that market don't, don't sustain itself anymore.
00:15:21
Speaker
Who is the leader? Yes, who is the leader? Have you garnered that information by any chance? ah You know what, I don't know who the leader is, if I'm being honest with you, but you look just look for the guy with the apron and the butcher knife. He's probably one of the main ones.
00:15:33
Speaker
Hmm. So you want us to go to another castle or something and kill their chef? ah well Well, I mean, it's not a castle, if that helps.
00:15:47
Speaker
It is not nearly as exciting. Very well, I'm in. What do you mean it's not as exciting? No, as in they are not exciting as the castle. Right. Yes. Fleur gets like, eyeline with the chef.
00:16:00
Speaker
What did the other chef do to you? Did he break your heart? Uh, no. And she like, pulls down her shirt, and you can see there's like a big old like, X on her chest. She's like, I didn't remove that thing a long time ago, sweetie.
00:16:13
Speaker
It's in the bloodbath.
00:16:16
Speaker
How do you think I got this thing started? I can do something extra for him if he did. No, no, it's not. Nobody did anything bad to me. it's just that that's competition. You know, we got to go buy up that market. Bring all those juicy pieces. They're using the glue beast back together back here.
00:16:32
Speaker
Then I can use them. Okay, so I can bring him back here and get him for you. not Got it. She like winks at don't know nope don't bring Don't bring anyone alive here. You already got your pet in your room.
00:16:45
Speaker
I want just pieces of things here. Roy nods solemnly to the to the to the chef and goes, I understand you are pissed off at whatever he did to you.
00:16:58
Speaker
We will make sure he has just recompense. Wait, no. Oh, y'all shut up. That's not what this is. Quit it. You can see he, like, scratches the side of his eye. is you Touches his nose.
00:17:14
Speaker
I hate it when people break others' hearts. No, that's not. Like, come on now. i just And she, like, breaks her spoon in her hand. She's like ah, shit. Fuck. A broken heart just like a broken spoon.
00:17:28
Speaker
she She puts her hand out and another one, like Mjolnir, flies into her and thump. She's like, okay, you you know what? Whatever narrative y'all need to tell yourselves, you just go ahead and do that, okay?
00:17:39
Speaker
As long as that establishment don't exist no more, I don't care. But if you bring anybody back here thinking that like I'm going to want to date them or have something to say to them, I'm just going to drown them in the soup myself. So they're not going to stay alive and no matter what way you slice it.
00:17:53
Speaker
Can I drown them in the soup, darling? but No, you can drown drown them in your own soup. She was the one with the broken heart, Lorelai. She's the one who wishes to drown the man in the soup. Oh my god. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Okay, okay. I'll make sure to bring him back so you can drown him in the soup.
00:18:08
Speaker
Hey, Toby, could you just get these two out of here, please? ah jump coaching Could you just get a little Toby Reaper? Could you just get him in a truck and tot just get off to the job now already?
00:18:23
Speaker
It's Tobias. That's why I said Toby.
00:18:29
Speaker
yeah She like, she like kind of like gives you like a little like beckoning a hand. ah It's a bias to like crouch down towards her level because she's so short. Okay, come here a second.
00:18:41
Speaker
Do you know down? Okay, come on, you two. She's getting the raptor. Hey, just come here a second. Just come here. Oh my God. Me and you, just come here second. What?
00:18:54
Speaker
she like She leans up as close as she can to try to whisper to you. She goes, you don't believe all that shit about me having a broken heart and stuff, right? You know they're just fucking- I wasn't even listening. Oh, thank God. Well, then you ain't hearing nothing, right?
00:19:07
Speaker
Make sure they don't bring anybody back here alive, okay? In pieces or not at all.
00:19:14
Speaker
Got it? I'll do my job. Thank you. I knew I could count on you. There's a little something extra in it for you if you just make sure they don't bring anybody back here alive.
00:19:26
Speaker
He's walking away. all right. Well, y'all have a good trip. up Make sure you kill everything that you see. Okay, bye.
00:19:36
Speaker
she yeah She goes back to stirring the soup and she's just kind of like, ooh, it's getting thick. Time to add some salt. And she just kind of pulls it like a big old satchel of salt. Just starts pouring it in.
00:19:47
Speaker
I go to the cave real quick before we go? Tell you what? I want to go to the cave real quick. You mean like your bunker? Yes, my bunker. Sure. Go for it. I want to roll resources.
00:20:00
Speaker
um To see if I can get um remote detonated explosives. Remote detonated explosives. Okay. And i some automatic weaponry. autumn Okay, well, I'm going to need you to get at least a three on your resources. I got a five. You a fucking five. Okay, you can have whatever you want then. You have all the things.
00:20:25
Speaker
Okay. I have a jet. No. Yeah, yeah yeah you you have a jet as well, but and it fits in your pocket, you can summon it like a Pokemon. I'm gonna give, I wanna give Roy, wanna give Roy a fucking, like, Uzi.
00:20:41
Speaker
Okay. As he grasps- He did so well with the gun last time. as as As he grasps the Uzi, he goes, you are forgiven. as he puts it into his pocket.
00:20:55
Speaker
Now remember, you hold the trigger down and multiple bullets will come out. His eyes widen slightly goes, interesting. I'll let him demo it at the range. Damn.
00:21:07
Speaker
damn Nothing. Great. Here's a grenade. It's the best fire spell ever. Bad idea. You throw it at a church full of people.
00:21:20
Speaker
Maybe.
00:21:23
Speaker
right. You hop in the forward rafter. Does Lorelai get a grenade, though? That's all I care about. I just want to give her. She takes it. Yes. If she doesn't take then do that one. Oh, absolutely. I'll take it. Yeah. All right. She has ah she has her grenade ah that does grenade damage. It's in her pocket. oh Perfect.
00:21:40
Speaker
Great. All right.
00:21:43
Speaker
And I have, I'm going to also have like some kind of I'm to have like an Uzi as well. And ah I want to have like, you know, three, I want three remote ah detonated explosives.
00:21:55
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. You know what? I think that's fine. You didn't quite succeed with style, but you succeeded enough that sure, you can have three. think three is Okay. All right. all right Yeah. Three or above the target number is succeeding with style. Then you get like all the things, but you still roll pretty
Lorelai's Sneaky Intel Gathering
00:22:09
Speaker
well. So you can have, yeah, I think three is reasonable.
00:22:12
Speaker
um Okay, so anybody else grabbing anything from home before you head out into the Ford Raptor to the land of of the butcher shop?
00:22:24
Speaker
No, darling. I think Roy roy is gonna going to grab an anvil that he had prepped up earlier for a spy versus spy type standoff with Lorelai.
00:22:35
Speaker
He'll save it for later. He'll put it in the back of the room. A full on anvil? Yeah, just an anvil with a rope on it, you know? Oh my God. It says, a like like, I'd imagine, I'd imagine TV. Yeah. I'd imagine like for those three weeks, he's been trying to kill. He's trying to take a page out of, uh, out of, uh, Tobias's book and trying to kill Lorelai in obtuse ways.
00:22:57
Speaker
You some spy, dropping an anvil on her head, some spy, some spy shenanigans, it's like like shaking her head with a bomb behind her, behind his back. Yeah. Of course, none of them have been successful because he's not exactly stealthy.
00:23:11
Speaker
There's been lots of casualties otherwise. so yeah that there were The retriever's just throwing more parts back into the bloodbath for the chef cooking. He's all mad at Lorelai for almost killing people in a church, but he's like in turn killing illness innocent people trying to kill me.
00:23:27
Speaker
Yeah, there you go. It's every time Lorelai's, she's just doing something, she starts hearing clin like or clinking chains, and and it's like, oh, looks up, and an anvil falls on her seat that she just moved out of, kind of, dude. Yeah, I see the last interaction before this one that you had with the chef, was she probably knocks on your door in the middle of the night, Roy, and she, like, has, like, a bloody fucking anvil that she's been pulling upstairs, like, all fucking night to get to your room, and then...
00:23:54
Speaker
There's like a pair of glasses that are like like fucking stuck to it, like like some gore. And she goes, really Billy found your anvil. Just wanted to return it to you. Oh, Billy, no! Found it with his face.
00:24:10
Speaker
And then she takes the glasses and what's left of Billy, he's the one who dropped the Hitman games in the pool. Yeah, I remember. And she throws it back in. He goes to Billy, chunks of Billy on the anvil, and goes, your sacrifice will be remembered. As he taps his forehead's sternum in both shoulders.
00:24:29
Speaker
and as As she goes to drag the anvil back downstairs, she goes, he can't hear you, baby. He's dead. and and Just like drags it. Just pushes an anvil down the hill and you hear cats scream as you push it. There you go.
00:24:43
Speaker
um Okay, so you guys hop in the Ford Raptor. i let's have Let's see a driving roll from from Agent 69, just to kind of get a general gist of how he's doing. that A plus one, okay. plus So decent enough. As long as it's over a zero, I'd say you have little to no problems getting to where you to go Any Hell Knights meet on all the way or something?
00:25:06
Speaker
No Hell Knights this time, but though although Lorelai does still have her horses if she wants to take one. Oh, no, no, darling. I will sit in the back. all right, you sit in the back. No, you go unaccosted for the car ride so far.
00:25:19
Speaker
ah You drive out into like, essentially you see like a large city and um sectioned off by this massive stone wall kind of um with ah every so often like you see like little kind of guard outposts set up like these little towers.
00:25:35
Speaker
um But just shy of outside of that town, maybe I'd say like another 500 or 600 yards away, you can see that there are like these little kind of mini towers I don't exactly what to call settlements, but that's the best idea I can come up with.
00:25:48
Speaker
Just like small series of small houses or shacks made of like aluminum siding and just random pieces of wood and like duct tape together, shit like that, um or just like miscellaneous boards and stuff.
00:25:59
Speaker
And um you see like little encampments essentially um every so often. Um, and you can see it's just swarming with demonic activity. Like there's no, like this is a demon stronghold and these are like the demon peasants that live outside of the demon stronghold.
00:26:15
Speaker
Um, And so, yeah, so that's what you see right now. It's just like there's like kind of little little encampments like every every so many hundred yards kind of spread out from each other where there's like different activity of demons moving to and fro, arguing with each other. There's little shops that they're shopping at and stuff like that.
00:26:31
Speaker
um That's what you see. So what do you what do you guys do as you pull up the Ford Raptor towards these settlements? I'd imagine Roy is going to knock on the back window for Tobias to open it.
00:26:44
Speaker
oh And he says, pardon me, Reaper, do you by any chance have any incense? The smell is rather overpowering. I've never seen this many demons in one place or smelt it. Agent 69 reaches in the glove box and pulls out one of those car fresheners. Excellent. Pops it around his neck. Did I do it? There you I love that. Pleasant scent.
00:27:09
Speaker
Do I need to roll resources for that? you know what You know what? if if If you want to pick up a specific scent aside from just pine, sure. No, I want pine. That's only what I want is pine. Yeah, you just have basic pine that you pull out.
00:27:23
Speaker
yeah He just has a smell of tree around his neck. He almost says under his breath, thank God it's not myrrh. As he... Not chuffer. It's much better for that, darling.
00:27:37
Speaker
what's What's much better for this? All right, so are you guys nodd are you guys going to go to the settlement? Are you going to do any surveillance? Are you going to be in disguise? Like, what is your approach? Because this is just straight up a demon town. I would like to do some surveillance, please.
00:27:53
Speaker
All right, in what way would you like to do that? Are you doing something from the truck? take out the binoculars. Are you going survey from the truck? Yes, and I'm looking... i mean he I want to roll my Hitman vision. Well, I just noticed, but I want But this is really more of an... I feel like this is more of an investigate roll, because I'm taking my time. I want to find... I want to give it some time. Are you trying to find something in particular, or are you trying to piece some information together? I am trying to piece together who the hell the leader is, because I just...
00:28:26
Speaker
uh yeah i want to take a leader want to take a person let's let's do an investigation role then i think that's fair uh what do we do for your your hitman vision what do we even do that's just that's for notice oh right got it that's like in the moment i can see who's good and bad okay gotcha that's it Alright, well you see just nothing but bad here right now, by the way. Yeah, exactly.
00:28:49
Speaker
Wait, wait, hold on. All the old demons are bad? Aw, jeez. All the ones that are here are bad. Not all of of them. Okay, alright. Lorelai puts her hands up to her eyes like she's got invisible binoculars. She's trying to pretend to be like Tobias. She's like, oh my god, do you know who all these fuckers are?
00:29:10
Speaker
These are these bastards that used to make fun of me all the time. Looks like I get my revenge this time. I have to make sure they stay alive. David, you rolled all negatives on your roll. Holy shit. It's terrible. You rolled up. You rolled up. You rolled Roy kept yapping the whole time.
00:29:30
Speaker
like a colleague i imagine Roy, he's trying to he's trying to like not look into the binoculars, but like look where he's looking, so he's right on Tobias' shoulder. He's like, could you angle those towards me so I can see through one? There's two there's two glasses. I have ever You literally rolled the worst that you could roll. All four negatives. That's crazy. Yeah, so you have a negative two. So you, like, there's just a ton of chaos going on right now. Like, these demons, like, of different size, colors, shapes, like, they're all just running around just being absolutely crazy. Some are just fighting in the streets because they're bored.
00:30:06
Speaker
Some of them are fighting over just, like, what looks like a severed arm from, like, some mortal, um like... Yeah, there's just like – there's some some somebody yelling out like off in the distance. You can't quite hear it because – actually, it's a good idea.
00:30:20
Speaker
When you pull your truck because it's a sizable truck, like do you like turn off the lights? you How far away do you stay away from these encampments so like it's not noticeable that like a big-ass truck just drove up? I would – you know, typical like 500 meters away. 500 meters away. Cutting the lights, turning it off, sitting in the dark because I'm assuming we always go at night. and Gotcha.
00:30:41
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, you can. If you chose to go at night, you can say you would at night. I i can literally. I always want to go at night. All right, so you guys go at night. So yeah, so you go there um and the the moon is red like, you know, the day seven on seven days to die. It's all red in the sky.
00:30:59
Speaker
um And okay, so you're doing that. You're trying to investigate. Roy's being a bit of a pest, I guess. Lorelai, you're pretending to also look through binoculars trying to identify people that were mean to you.
00:31:11
Speaker
Could I possibly, well ah well they're while we're doing our little reconnaissance phase, could I roll a... Sorry, I have something in particular that may be useful here. What's that? ah don't remember what... Oh, lore when using knowledge against demons. Like, could I try and gain an advantage trying to figure out how... yeah yeah I want to use this.
00:31:31
Speaker
Yeah. I forget what it's called. ah Certainly. Oh, the cops are showing up. Oh, yeah. Sorry. Oh, shit. It's okay. was going to say, yeah, it's the angel cops are flying by and they're in their angel cars up above.
00:31:44
Speaker
The cars have wings, too. Yeah, their cars also have wings. Fuck yeah. And so, ah yeah, what was this? what was You want to gain a plus two when creating an advantage using lore, when using knowledge of demons.
00:32:00
Speaker
That's what I have typed in here. Gotcha. Okay. Yeah, ah certainly you can do that. I don't know if you added that to your character sheet or not. I have it on stunts, but I don't know if I like added all the modifiers. Oh, yeah. um Yeah.
00:32:13
Speaker
So you just get a plus two in creating an advantage using lore when using knowledge of Zemans. Sure. Yeah, go ahead. Roll a lore check and you'll get a plus two on top of whatever your lore skill is. I got a zero. So mediocre.
00:32:25
Speaker
Well, no, it didn't actually roll any dice. It just showed zero. So don't this just little lord roll lore skill. Just roll lore by itself. Don't roll it off the skill. Yeah. Oh, plus four and then plus two off of that, right?
00:32:38
Speaker
ah Yeah, and I didn't give you a number to beat, but it was going to be something my usual go-to. If I don't give you a number, usually it's if it's like a real rudimentary roll, it's always going to be as a flat zero. But if it's something that involves a little bit more thought and challenge, usually I just bump it up to two.
00:32:52
Speaker
So yeah, you beat it by way more ah than what I would put it either way. So you've created an advantage giving your party two communal fate points that you can use.
00:33:04
Speaker
So we're going to call that just like As you're looking, you're kind of like clocking some of the different activity out there. You can kind of just determine just based off, you don't have to use this right now. You can just kind of say you're taking it all in.
00:33:16
Speaker
And then when it applies, you can say, oh, I looked earlier and I recognize this is this and this has a weakness of that. And then you can apply that to like, yeah so we'll just call each one of these points like a demonic weakness that the team can use when it applies to fighting demons.
00:33:31
Speaker
So maybe he yanks the binoculars out of Tobias' hands, um because Tobias not doing doing too hot. And he looks looks among them and he goes, They are the choir of madness.
00:33:44
Speaker
And as the name suggests, they bring about madness. They act against balance and can be deadly, or deadly to just about anyone in the way that we become mad around them over those those that are slightly mad themselves can oppose it for a time.
00:34:00
Speaker
They oppose the fourth day of Genesis when the moon and the stars were created. And he like puts the binoculars down. and They oppose and destroy clarity, and vision, and knowledge.
00:34:11
Speaker
This will be a difficult fight. So while you're saying that, Lorelai, you kind of hear him kind of speaking about the different types of creatures that are out there and and the madness that they bring.
00:34:24
Speaker
Are you looking to take any action or reconnaissance? or ah what is what would Lorelai's next steps be?
00:34:32
Speaker
Well, knowing that all of her bullies are here in this town, which is pretty much everybody, on I feel like she would like just kind of slip out of the truck without the other guys try noticing or she would try to anyway.
00:34:52
Speaker
um Just so she could like slip out through the darkness to get closer. Okay. I mean, I don't know exactly if you'll be able to just open up the car doors without like the lights coming on and then be like, oh, they didn't get out the car.
00:35:09
Speaker
But if you want to try to roll a sneak to see if you can- oh Or maybe she could like summon her demon magic from within and just teleport out.
00:35:21
Speaker
like teleport out You could maybe do a short range teleportation. Sure, I could i could see that. I see, David, you've rolled dress up time. I forgot you have that. yeah I will say at least for enough for Roy, he he will ah he won't recognize Lorelai's getting out. know He's been tracking her via scent.
00:35:39
Speaker
And given that this place is full of demons, he cannot really track her. Smell demons in pine right now. Yes, sulfur in pine. Yeah. so so So when she gets out, he won't he won't notice her, especially because it's preoccupied.
00:35:54
Speaker
Right. So I think, ah yeah. So why don't we have you just roll your demon magic stunt and we'll call that if you want to, if you at least roll a two or a higher, I'd say that that's a success.
00:36:06
Speaker
Okay. Holy shit. Holy shit. got a plus seven. Damn, you really, that's a waste of a roll, man. You could have used that for something later. Damn. Seriously. Damn. Damn. ah So you rolled, ah you got your five plus two zeros and two so two pluses. That's great.
00:36:21
Speaker
ah Yeah, fucking, honestly, I'd say I called it a short range teleportation, but ah you, we're just going to call that an overcome roll. And you did that very well. So you succeeded with style. So I'd say like, if you want to do something immediately after to kind of give yourself a better advantage, you can get a boost off of that to give a free plus two. If you do something like wherever you want to go next, like you can go.
00:36:46
Speaker
Okay. She's going to find a really crowded area where she has like ah her hood pulled up so that nobody can really see her face. And then um she's got one of those like ah those really nice coats from back in the day that have like the really big hood, you know? Sure.
00:37:10
Speaker
And so, Well, I guess they still make them now, but they're not near as popular as he's. Yeah, the coach from back in the day, the hoodies from back in the day. But the hoodies, like they're like a long coat. I know what you're talking about. It's just a duster with a hood on it. It's all it is.
00:37:29
Speaker
A really big hood, like a large hood. Like you see on- Sure, I feel like- I don't know what author did this, but I get the idea that it's a jacket with a hood on it. Let's just move past the description. Shut up.
00:37:41
Speaker
Anyway, so she her face concealed as she's walking through the crowd, and she's trying to basically figure out um where the chef is at Well, first, before you can do that, ah I want you to roll a stealth roll. So that way, since you're trying to like kind of go unnoticed in a world full of demons and hide your face, because you've put in the lore that these people would know who you are.
00:38:09
Speaker
So now you have to make sure that they don't know who you are. um and So yeah, so you you have a boost from rolling so high. So you can have a plus two to a stealth roll. And I'm going to say, I'm not going to roll for all of them. Let's say if you at least beat a two, I think that's a good number. There's a lot of demons there to avoid.
00:38:26
Speaker
um then we'll say that you've succeeded. If only she had a literal master of disguise. Yeah. Yeah, but she's very impulsive. You know she doesn't think about that, darling.
00:38:38
Speaker
She's very impulsive, that Lorelai. I got a plus two with it. ah So she got a zero plus a two. So with the boost, you just make it on the on the success. So yeah, like you kind of have your hood up. You have your face kind of hidden a little bit and you're just kind of walking amongst the crowd right now.
00:38:54
Speaker
You hear a lot of clamoring of just like, someone smells extra hot here. Who's getting hotter all of a sudden? who's getting hotter who fucked my wife did you thank you because that's really nice of you to do that uh and there's just kind of weird kind of conversations like that going on in the demon clan um but yeah like as you're getting in there there's like a kind of a very loud uh uh presence of just like you hear just like a crowd starting to roar like down the street a little bit towards like this other encampment so you're at like a little bit more of like a
00:39:28
Speaker
like a residential encampment and you see across the way there's like another one where like they've kind of set up their own little shops and such um you can maybe start making your way that way to see uh but right now you're just kind of in like people just kind of hanging out residential they're playing like stupid games like knuckle bones where they just roll uh a man's knuckles at each other and then that's the game um uh no i'm playing bobbit around this place you guys are boring No, the Angels are really big in the bop it these days. They kind of picked up on after watching a TikTok video.
00:40:02
Speaker
About that one place in Montana. Indeed. So you're over there kind of in the shit right now, kind of but nobody knows that you're there. So while you're doing that, Tobias, aka Agent 69, she's disappeared. ah Roy is currently spouting out some lore about the demons. What are you doing?
00:40:25
Speaker
getting distracted and failing my role, and then ah I did notice that Thorlai dipped. Yeah, you don't know where she is, but she's definitely not in a truck anymore.
00:40:37
Speaker
She gone. She's not with us. She's gone. Right. Or split up, per usual. I love it. ah
00:40:47
Speaker
Roy.
00:40:49
Speaker
Our friend dipped. He puts the binoculars down and then looks to the truck and goes, she joined them. i don't know about that. She's saying some shit about how they all, like, hate her or something. or Demons are weird. They enjoy people fucking their wives and whatnot. I'm sure she's into it.
00:41:12
Speaker
Right. I'm sure she is. Anyways, we'll have to be careful if we decide just wantonly open fire on this crowd of demons.
00:41:24
Speaker
Unfortunate. yeah He'd probably return and says, very well. What is the plan? Well, there's a lot of them. think it'd be foolish of us to do a frontal assault.
00:41:39
Speaker
I think we'll need to pick a couple off. How many are there, by the way, Adam? That's a phenomenal question. Scores of them. Scores of them. Scores. Scores of them. Poor score. Yeah, there's like there's multiple encampments around the city, and you can see at least two from where you're at from the one angle.
00:41:57
Speaker
ah just There's just dozens upon dozens of them just running around. Yeah. And I doubt that there's any like sense of of, I wouldn't say uniformity, but ah cohesion. So it's not we can't be like, okay, there's this flag, there's 15 of them per flag, there's 15 flags in here kind of deal, we can't do any of that.
00:42:14
Speaker
No, I would say, Roy, you would at least know that, like, at least from what you can see right now, these are all just a bunch of puny little lesser demons that, like, that like they're so far down on the totem pole that that's why they they have to live outside of, like, the city.
00:42:30
Speaker
That, like, even their own kind thinks, like, they're not good enough to, like, walk through the town. but You know, it's it's interesting. Yeah. These types of demons used to never be powerful enough to go across the veil, yet here they are in droves.
00:42:45
Speaker
They must have weakened while I was dead. so what you're saying is it'll be easy to just grab one and see what we can discover from them. They are very weak.
00:42:56
Speaker
Very minor demons. don't even know what you would call them. More than imps, that's for sure. Well, let's try to... so wrong above ah so theyre called They're called gimps.
00:43:09
Speaker
They're called gimps. get one of these gimps. You can see the rubber suits. That's how you know. Yeah, exactly. like We'll go those gimps. Little imps running around in rubber suits.
00:43:22
Speaker
Well, let's go grab one. ah So you guys are going to go try to kidnap like a gimp? Yeah. We're just going to grab one. You're just going to walk into town? No. Well, we're gonna wait till, like one like, one drunk stumbles out of town and like to take a piss on the wall or something, and then we'll grab him.
00:43:40
Speaker
and Okay. So, let's have you guys roll a stealth roll first to see how close you get town. I'm adding new stealth skill in. was gonna say, maybe Roy maybe roy simply acts as reconnaissance. Do we have radios or something? Because he is not good with stealth.
00:43:54
Speaker
Nah, you gotta stealth in, buddy. I was gonna say, that depends on if, Roll. the ah say Tobias would be the only one that would probably have like communication gear outside of like whatever magic they talk to you from the truck.
00:44:07
Speaker
right um I'm going to roll anyways. He's following Tobias in a moment of madness, given that that's the choir he's dealing with. Minus two. shit ah What did you roll? You rolled just a standard stealth. Did you say you were rolling like a new skill, David?
00:44:24
Speaker
Yeah, because I had a blank skill. Oh, I see. see, I see. ah Well, the blank would be at a plus one, right? Mediocre is a zero.
00:44:35
Speaker
Right. So I guess you technically have... Oh, no. You did do that at a one. I don't know. Oh, you landed at a mediocre. I'm sorry. I misread. ah Yeah. ah Neither one of you passed a good check on that, by the way. oh If we get one of them to kind of be like, hey, who the hell is walking around back there? What are you doing? And and then come...
00:44:55
Speaker
If can fight us or something, that'd be great. Lorelai, you hear a commotion as you're getting ready to go towards the other town. So you fellas are trying to sneak through the shadows.
00:45:06
Speaker
ah You knock over... ah You knock over like a couple of, ah I don't know. Skulls. ah Yeah, you knock over couple of skulls. There's a skeleton man who's trying to pee in the bushes, but he keeps forgetting he doesn't have organs.
00:45:19
Speaker
um And you knock him over and he just makes a loudest series of clangs and clatters on the ground that you've ever heard in your life. Sounds like a fucking xylophone. Yeah, he's like... um tip deep And everybody everybody goes, hey, I hate bone music.
00:45:32
Speaker
um And a bunch of people come running. They're like, I thought I told you to get the fuck out of our town, Boney. And then they run around. and You see um there's probably about like seven, seven like little gimps in their rubber and leather outfits run around. They see you guys um and they all just start screaming like, oh, guys, we got some fresh meat. We don't got to eat the shitty stuff anymore.
00:45:53
Speaker
I but imagine Roy looks at the looks at the skeleton and goes, yeah, you stupid boner, and he kicks it to try and meld it with the ah with the rest of them, trying to convince him he's one of them or something. ah You know what?
00:46:07
Speaker
I like that. ah Let's do a deceive role. Deceive. I am shit at deceive, unfortunately. You know what? They are a just petty gimps, so I'm going to call that just like if you get above a zero, like a one or higher,
00:46:19
Speaker
Um, well, you didn't, you got you got two. Yeah. So his, i that I didn't roll that. Yeah. That was ah my stealth role. Oh, that was your stealth roll. Okay, it didn't show up. I got a zero, so I didn't pass anyways. Oh, it's not showing the name of your skill when you roll it.
00:46:33
Speaker
um Yeah. um So, yeah. So, you stupid boner, and then, like, I think I'm just going to have one of them just straight up, like, try to attack you.
00:46:43
Speaker
um Because... Yeah, um I mean, maybe the cross gave away that he's ah he's... Yeah, you have a massive fucking cross on your fucking back. And they're like, okay, sure, whatever, guy. Yeah. I don't Yeah, ah but I'm going to say their fight's not particularly good. So I'm just going to have them roll on you at an average of one.
00:47:01
Speaker
But they rolled really well on their dice, that's a four. Okay, so- Yeah, I think the one is just like kind of, I think he just pulls out like a i don't know like some sort of blade that he probably sharpened from bones or something, and he's just chucking it at you. I think that's probably what's happening. I see. so No, not going to say he's going to chuck it at you. I think he's just going to come and try to stab you because they're dumb little gimps. They don't know any better. They're going to come and try to stab you.
00:47:23
Speaker
Killer. All right. So then- So you have to try to dodge out of the way. Usually that's athletics unless you have- I have a keeper of a bloodstained cross that makes a physique. It wouldn't have mattered because my athletics and physique are in the same place, but- Sure, but hey, you know what? Things can change. hey You can use physique because you're defending against demons, so you can use your cross as your shield.
00:47:43
Speaker
Yeah, but I rolled a plus two, so I didn't pass. ah do you yeah No, so they they hit you for two shifts of damage, so you have to absorb two on one of your tracks.
00:47:54
Speaker
And so, yeah, they just run up and like, they're they're little guys, so they're not huge. So they probably just like, start like cutting you up on the legs as the other ones are like, yeah, fucking get them. um So we'll say Agent 69, if you want to take a quick action before we jump to Lorelei. I'm picking up a bone and chucking it out on him.
00:48:12
Speaker
I'm going to roll my resources to see what bone I picked up. All right. Wow, you rolled a four. Yeah, that's a big bone that you found that you picked up from Boney. Hey, look, it's a femur.
00:48:24
Speaker
watch Yeah, it is. ah Okay, do you want that to be your your attack roll? is your resource but I want to hit one of the guys who's fucking attacking Roy with a knife. Okay. Yeah, I just have to have them do a dodge roll to see if... ah ah to see if they can do that. um I'm going to also say they just have a... You know what? They're little wieners. They just have a zero. I don't think they're good at athletics.
00:48:46
Speaker
o and They rolled that negative four. You succeed with style by like eight. So yeah, you fucking obliterate. Uh-huh.
00:48:56
Speaker
Bone meringue. It comes right back to Bone meringue. Yeah, so you throw it in. Oh my god, that's awesome. You chuck a fucking femur in like a little circular motion that spins like a goddamn boomerang. Fucking bounces right off that dude's skull, obliterating him.
00:49:09
Speaker
Like, just he turns to ash right away as the bone bounces back into your hand. Just turns completely to ash. Can I maybe save him like a point of damage or something? that That was my goal.
00:49:21
Speaker
ah No, sorry. You can't. ah You know what? Sure. You know what? Fine. but you know I don't know, dude. How many he kill if I succeeded with a style? and It's like, don't Succeeding with style on one character, you you know what? ah I'll throw you this. Either you kill two and then it comes back or you save him a point of damage and you kill one. Save him a point of damage. All right. You know what? I'll say that. Okay. So you only take one shift of damage instead of two, Roy. Oh, fucky.
00:49:46
Speaker
Yeah, so like before he can really kind of plunge the knife too deep into you, like a massive femur comes and just conks him in the head, turning him into ash right away as it bounces back into into ah Agent 69's hand, and do you give like a cool one-liner or anything when he do it?
00:50:02
Speaker
He just got boomed. No, he doesn't do a cool one-liner, he just says boomerang. Boomerang. Boomerang. How did you do Chicken Jackie. Chicken Jackie. We need to get Jack Black in here. but Okay.
00:50:21
Speaker
All right. So, Lorelai, there's commotion going on behind you as you're approaching towards the ah towards the other encampment. What do you do as you make your way over there?
00:50:35
Speaker
Is there like a bigger tent or like house or something that would possibly be like holding the other like tub or whatever?
00:50:49
Speaker
is there like a way to differentiate like the buildings or are they all the same? I mean, they all kind of have a similar look to them, but like you could probably differentiate like the different kinds of... Why don't you just do a quick ah notice roll for me, and then we'll do... um We'll do... Depending on what you get, I'll kind of like... You get a minus one. and i get Okay. okay Do you want to keep that roll?
00:51:16
Speaker
ah You can use a a fate point like. Oh, right. I do have fate points. Half at the top of every session. So, yeah, I want to go ahead and use one of those just to see if I can find. aspect are you invoking? So.
00:51:32
Speaker
because you got to pick one of those about you. I'm trying to think. I'm trying to think. I'm trying to think. Okay, so she's going to use a part of her like magic that she has, um her demon magic. She's going to use like a kind of like a foresight to where she can like see through buildings.
00:51:50
Speaker
And which aspect is that that you're invoking again? aspect and you remember magic Remember aspects and stunts are two different things. I'm talking about your aspects that are at the top of your character. I know it is in my aspects uses demon magic for stunts since she got killed by her sister.
00:52:06
Speaker
That's your that's an aspect. Oh, OK. i I don't remember that being there, but ah because that's also one of your. OK, I guess. Sure, we can call it that. Fine. all right. So that's ah that puts you at a one as opposed to a negative one.
00:52:22
Speaker
um I didn't, get we we might need to tweak that one just a little bit. So it makes a little bit more, ah makes a little bit more sense. Cause I just realized that's a catch all for everything. So need to tweak that just a little bit, I think when we're done, but for right now, I think that's, that works.
00:52:37
Speaker
So you're, yeah, sure. Okay. So yeah, so you, um I'm sorry, what were you looking for? were looking for like a particular. yeah, again, so yeah again It's not necessarily there's a bathtub.
00:52:51
Speaker
They're just like stitching. Like they're literally the way she described it to you is that they're cutting up other things and then re-putting them together as other things. So it's not exactly like a tub. They're just literally just stitching. I was just looking for the other chef. Yeah.
00:53:04
Speaker
Yeah, so they're stitching other things together. So you wouldn't be looking for another bloodbath. You would be looking for just like a slaughterhouse or a butcher. Oh, I thought they were pulling it out of the bloodbath and like stitching them together. Okay. No, they're just like slaughtering different creatures, like different hell beasts to make more mutant hell beasts.
00:53:21
Speaker
Gotcha. I saw it a completely different way. Okay, so she just basically wants to see where, like, the main house or building or whatever that they're doing this particular thing. Yeah, I would say, like, you see there's a ah line of, like...
00:53:36
Speaker
of people of like different ah demons of different sizes that are there's like a little bit of a line towards the back of the town and as you make your way over there kind of sifting through the different chaos of the town of the little encampment you can see that there are people standing in line for what looks like Like, you see somebody kind of walks around the back of this building. It's kind of set up, looks like um like a lemonade stand almost. Like, there's kind of like a wood table, like a few, like, two-by-fours and such, holding it up in a little sign that just says, like... It just says butcher, misspelled on it.
00:54:10
Speaker
And, like... you can hear a loud series of like roars and gargles and like screams on the other side of this, on the other side of this countertop. And they're like, you can see kind of towering over it just a little bit, of like these large, like kind of red and black beasts that are kind of like, just like,
00:54:29
Speaker
almost like Cerberus-looking creatures, but like without without the multiple head, just like giant hounds and different like large toothbeasts and things. And every so often, you see one just kind of gets like yanked down behind the counter, and you hear like a loud roar, and then a few seconds later, you hear like ah the sounds of like fire and sparks and flame kind of erupting from behind it, and then you see what looks like a little gimp guy not walking out, and he has like two large... like demon dog legs um as he walks out. And everybody goes, yeah, OK. All right. Yeah, it's pretty good. You're looking good there, Dave. Very good. Yeah, I think a little bit different seeing a little guy with big legs, but I think that can work on you.
00:55:10
Speaker
And so everybody kind of claps. And then he walks in walks away. And then you see somebody else goes behind the counter. And so you can kind of tell like that's where like the different like they're augmenting different demons with like demon animal parts.
00:55:25
Speaker
OK. Yeah, so you've kind of seen roughly where where that is. And you see you see kind of like a a demon woman kind of approaches you. She's got like like a long black kind of ah open vest on that goes down to her feet. She's got giant black wings that stick out the back of it.
00:55:43
Speaker
And she's got kind of like orange tinted skin and kind of like these emerald eyes. And she kind of out nudges you a little bit and she goes, you're not going to go do that, are you? You're not considering getting augments.
00:55:55
Speaker
No, darling, I'm perfect exactly the way I am. Right, I'm just saying, I don't know why all these little, these little you know, gimps and imps need to feel like they gotta, like, what are they compensating for? Like, you know, lesser demons are fine, too.
00:56:10
Speaker
We're just as cool, if not cooler. I happen agree. Yes, I agree, darling. We have to use the lesser ones so that we can use them as toys so that, you know, we can um make sure that they worship us, not the other way around.
00:56:25
Speaker
What talking about? Worship us? We're all lesser demons out here. what What are you talking about? No, no, no, no, darling. I mean, i mean the you know, our partners, you know, we have to have them worship us, not the other way around.
00:56:37
Speaker
but too We're too wonderful for that. Sure, right. Yeah, I don't, yeah, okay. I don't know what partners you're talking about, but I mean, I suppose, you know, I'm ah i'm a progressive demon. You can have whatever partners you want, I suppose.
00:56:50
Speaker
Yes, exactly, darling. I don't know what you mean, though. Do you mean like lovers or do you mean like... oh yes, darling. Of course. Oh, okay. No, no, no, no, no. Yes, of course. Our lovers must worship us because we are perfect, darling. Look at you. You're beautiful.
00:57:06
Speaker
Oh, yeah. I mean, that's kind of like my design, though. I was... That's what... That's kind of why I was born was to be beautiful so I could, you know, you know suck out the life or force force from, you know, humans mostly. But, you know, I've learned to enjoy it from elves and gnomes and on the occasion a dwarf if he showers first.
00:57:26
Speaker
I understand what you mean, darling. Yeah, yeah. What's your name? What's that? What's your name? Oh, what is my name? I don't know. I've always just gone by my my my title. I'm a succubus, as if you couldn't tell.
00:57:41
Speaker
ah But I don't know if I- I always wanted a succubus as a best friend. This is wonderful. I don't know if I have a name. i don't yeah We don't typically just get names. where you know That one just goes by Dave because he found somebody's costume in a garage that says, hi, my name is Dave on it.
00:57:56
Speaker
But most of us don't have names. We're just, you know you I mean, you know that. You don't have a name, right? Of course I do, you darling. How do you have a name? Did you pick one from someone's costume too? Of course, darling. Oh, no, no, no, darling. i was, um, I'm actually not a lesser demon.
00:58:17
Speaker
Oh, then what are you doing out here? Why, i mean, are we in trouble? no No, no, no, no, darling. I'm just making sure everything's running perfectly. You know, i have to stay in the shadows. see you they don't They're not supposed to know that I'm here. You know, have you ever seen that show, um Undercover Boss, you know, where um we have to come and make sure everything's running smoothly? mean, I kind of have to be an undercover boss.
00:58:40
Speaker
Well, sounds like you're being a total liar, so you should totally roll deception right now to see if to see if she buys it And she's going to roll against you, because I think she's a little suspicious of what you're saying to her right now.
00:58:54
Speaker
I don't have a deception. You don't have... You, of all people, don't have a deception roll? No. No, because I didn't expect to be so deceptive, and here i am. ah Okay, well, again, she's a lesser demon. I'm just going to give her a plus one ah to ah on an average show.
00:59:13
Speaker
She has a three in her deception role. Not her deception role, excuse me, but in her ah empathy role too like figure out if you're bullshitting her. ah gotta of make it Wow. So she did, she beats you with style and then some, and she's, she just kind of smiles at you a little bit and she goes, okay, cool. Well, Hey, I hope, um, I hope that we're all doing exactly what we're supposed to be doing undercover boss. And she kind of gives you like a half-hearted wink and then just kind of her wings open up and she flies off like towards, uh, uh, towards a different part of the encampment.
00:59:51
Speaker
Um, And that's, that's the end of that conversation. Um, thank you phil ah nothing wrong can go there. um Nope, nothing wrong is going to go next.
01:00:04
Speaker
Yeah. Uh, so agent 69 and Roy, you guys are still together. You currently are being accosted by six other lesser gimps. Uh, you just boned one in the face. And, uh, so yeah, what do you guys do?
Deceptive Demon Interactions
01:00:17
Speaker
Like you're still surrounded.
01:00:19
Speaker
Um, Roy is going to he's going to fall to his knees and grasp at the dust that's just... Like like ah like in a... What's the term? ah Like distraught. He's like, no, no, no, no! no And then ah he's he's going to look at ah he's going to look at ah the other gimps and go, why did you do this?
01:00:37
Speaker
And he's going to try and look like he's crazy. You know what i mean? Because ah being of the Choir of Madness, if he looks like he's one of them, then... ah they might let him in, you know?
01:00:48
Speaker
You're gonna try to fool him again with that giant cross on your back? He's gonna be like, I was taking the cross to burn it, you bastards. Okay, alright, so it's gonna be another deception roll.
01:01:00
Speaker
right I'm gonna roll them again, I'm just gonna give an average of one, just to like, try to pick up on your bullshit. um Wait, did we not get any outfits on? I could have sworn we had an album. Agent 69, I don't know if he ever announced that he dressed y'all up. Okay, that's fine.
01:01:17
Speaker
It would have been great, though, if he made you guys like a demon outfit. Yeah, really. Zero again. They have a chance. Zero against plus one. God damn. So you do, if you can justify invoking an aspect to use a fate point, you could beat him because he only has a one and you have a zero. So if you get a plus two, you win.
01:01:35
Speaker
Okay. I might use it. So I'd imagine his whole shtick is that ah um he's only ever fought like singular demons or maybe maybe two at the same time as the most he's ever fought before.
01:01:47
Speaker
But um with this this many, is like he he's like, I have to try out a new technique. I'd imagine it could be useful in this future and in slaying demons kind of deal because he's always trying to, uh, always trying to improve as, you know, said zealous demon hunter. He's always trying trying to improve as, uh, in his profession.
01:02:06
Speaker
Also, if I may interject, you guys still have two advantage coins that you made earlier you were scoping out the demons. I might just use one of the advantage ones. You can. You can absolutely do that. That's for free. These guys' weaknesses is they're ah they're they're mad, they're kind of crazy, or maybe I don't Okay, yeah, if you want to take one and use that, ah then yeah, I think you invoke like you know about these guys, you know if you act crazy enough, like they're gonna like buy into your bullshit.
01:02:32
Speaker
Like they're getting ready to like go after like knife agent 69 as well because he threw a giant bone. And then you just start like rolling around on the ground acting crazy throwing dirt up and everything talking about burning your cross.
01:02:43
Speaker
And they all just kind of stop. And they're just like, uh, Fuck. ah we Did we do we just eat them now? This is the first time I've seen this work in a long time against somebody who has one of those things.
01:02:56
Speaker
And right now, they're all just kind of standing around Agent 69 watching as your friend thrashes about on the ground, acting like he's mad. So is there anything that you would like to do in this moment while you have like a moment of ah distraction or ah you know diversion, I should say?
01:03:14
Speaker
Maybe ah take the Uzi out of the briefcase and then start mowing them all down? he did such stary hours too I mean, you can. You certainly can. if you just want me it's right Yeah, they're just like little guys.
01:03:26
Speaker
um it don't take I got an average. You got an average. Well, let me just roll ah for them to see if they can even dodge. they Again, I think they have just an average.
01:03:38
Speaker
They also rolled one, so it's a tie. So you do have a free fate point floating out there if you want to take one start gunning some people down. Yeah. Wait, so if I roll, if we get a tie, what happens?
01:03:50
Speaker
Then in in ah in a in a tie for an attack, ah you don't do any harm, but you get a boost. So like maybe if you shoot at them, they duck and cover. They're kind of like nervous. They're scrambling.
01:04:04
Speaker
Whoever acts next could get a free plus two on something, but you don't do any damage because there's no shift in like there's no higher number. But if you want to use a fate point, you can boost it to a two to a three, and then you would do two points of damage to who you're shooting at So if I fire like a burst, you want to fire at a pissance.
01:04:24
Speaker
Because there's like 20 of them. ah Sure. Like we're going to individual combat for each one. Is that what you're telling me? What I'm telling you is you've done zero damage to anyone because you have a tie number. that's you have all right have to have a higher number than them. I'm rolling collectively for some of them. So you can take out several, but you've rolled one. They roll a one. So you're tied. So you've done no damage. Okay, that's silly. That's how fate works. I know. I'm just not used to it. I'm just not used to it.
01:04:54
Speaker
I don't. All right. You're used to monster of the week. We're just like we interact with whatever the number is. Yes, it's just, all right, they're just used to that. In this game, it's whatever the higher number is, like, is how you determine what damage is done.
01:05:09
Speaker
All right. I guess we'll use the fate point. Right? I mean, that's how, like, D&D works. You have to roll higher than their AC to hit them, right? And then you roll your damage to see how much. In this case, it just tells you, based on how much the difference is, how much damage you do.
01:05:23
Speaker
so Right. if you'll see know i'm not a let so say I'm not a huge fan of that either. You know what I'm saying? Oh, David. Okay.
Podcast Debate and Strategy Discussion
01:05:31
Speaker
Okay. Listen, they all can't beat Monster of the Week, my guy. They can. They should. They can't. They can't.
01:05:38
Speaker
All right, guys. The podcast is canceled. David doesn't like the game. Thanks all for coming out today. appreciate I want to just be able to mow down little pissant demons and I can't. Well, and I'm just about to tell you that you can if you just use the fate point and I'll tell you what happens. I'm telling isn but No, no, no. I'm using it. Of course. was say, i was just telling you, I'm rolling for the collective of them.
01:06:00
Speaker
but So that means that you are hitting multiples of demons once. It's got to be my Adam, or the highway, as Blimp Biz said. But the thing is, I'm leaving this all in. I'm not cutting this out. The thing is, you are oozing multiple demons, but you did not do damage to any of them because you didn't roll a higher number than them.
01:06:23
Speaker
You understand? So if you have a higher number, then you hit multiple demons. Let me be clear. I understand all this. I'm just trying to weasel my way out of this in metagame. You could just not fight them.
01:06:35
Speaker
You don't have to fight them. well but i Yeah, it's just the whole like he's really out here rolling around on the ground doing some weird shit and... you know Well, they're distracted, so they're not fighting you right now. Yeah, so um I have an opportunity to make an attack. You do several. So yeah, if you use that last fate point, you get a three, which is two damage, and these guys are a little weenies, so they don't really have much damage absorption. So yeah, I'd say, ah you know what, go ahead and roll a D6, and we'll see how many you get. All right.
01:07:08
Speaker
And if you roll a one, that's all on
Demon Battle and Capture
01:07:10
Speaker
you, buddy. Okay. You're ah say you rolled five. Hey, guess how many you killed? You killed five little weenie demons with your little strafing Uzi run.
01:07:19
Speaker
Great. While they were all watching in awe at like a large man with a giant cross rolling on the ground being crazy. So you just like, how do you, what does that look like? Tell me how you kill five.
01:07:31
Speaker
Um, well, he does a little bone ring thing and Roy starts going nuts. Uh, It's like rolling around on the ground and writhing and Mr. Reaper is kind of like looking around like, okay, well, I guess.
01:07:51
Speaker
And he puts his briefcase on the ground and opens it and then takes out his Uzi or whatever it is. You know, loads it and cocks it really slowly over the course of like, you know, a minute or something and then just takes careful aim and then just blows five of them away. Yeah.
01:08:06
Speaker
Yeah, you and you do that. And you know the thing is, you know what's funny? It's like they all lined up perfectly that just one burst from the Uzi just got them all at once in a straight line. um And it's just like freakish in nature how you did it.
01:08:21
Speaker
And there's only one left because there were seven that attacked you. another There's only one left? There's only one left because there were seven that attacked you. Oh, okay. I open myself up to an attack after that?
01:08:32
Speaker
Uh, no, I mean, he could attack you if he wants to, but I'm going to say that from the excellent performance on the ground and then you shooting them, I think that little wiener guy knows that he's... That's one way that it's, yeah, that it's better than, you know, yeah because i could have opened myself up to an attack there.
01:08:47
Speaker
No, he would have to roll on it, uh, and you can still defend against it, and it doesn't guarantee that you would get hurt. There's advantages. Certainly. And so he's just like, well, cool. ah Yeah, I'm cool. Because you guys want to question him anyway, right? You guys wanted someone to talk Exactly. I'd imagine i'd imagine like Roy seeing him mow down that ah that group. you know He like rolls, I wouldn't say onto his stomach, but rolls onto a foot and boosts forward and snags the dude.
01:09:15
Speaker
And then goes, ah in the garden of madness, understand that we are one of you. the... at the I don't know. He's trying to act mad, and he's trying to get the to- Well, you got the guy now.
01:09:28
Speaker
If you want to interrogate him, you unless you want to keep the act up, but like all his buddies that were there to fight you guys are dead right now. I'd imagine Roy didn't realize that first, and then he grabs the guy and then he looks around, it's like, shit.
01:09:40
Speaker
Drops the guy, stands up, and like dusts himself off, strains his coat. I was hoping you would play along, Reaper. Oh, well. Yeah, I was hoping you'd play along, Reaper. Oh, my God, you're the Reaper? Oh, my God, that explains everything.
01:09:52
Speaker
my God. Heaven and hell are all afraid of the Reaper.
01:09:57
Speaker
That's right. And I can send you to meet your maker, whoever that is. he post That was Right. Do you want to go see Mephistopheles again? You know, i haven't seen him in a while, but it takes forever to get back to her. Why?
Explosive Plans Against Demons
01:10:13
Speaker
I'm just a gimp. Listen, I'm doing the talking here. They're going to tell me he's in charge here. ah That would be Crux. Crux, thank you. He blows my way.
01:10:26
Speaker
Roy just like like puts both of his hands and is no other information. We're not going to get anything else from him.
01:10:35
Speaker
And, uh, Reaper walks away. He keeps, no, we're gonna go find Crooks. He turns on the hitman vision. Okay. Okay. You see, you see Boney on the ground whose, you see Boney on the ground whose femur you have is blue.
01:10:52
Speaker
Boney, I'll carry you with me to victory. he said He says, he says, wow, that was amazing. Oh, he's a swell guy. We should take him with us.
01:11:04
Speaker
Are you Agent 68? I think I knew you. 69. It's Reaper now. Oh, man. Rest in peace to that other guy. He was such a nice man.
01:11:16
Speaker
I knew him when I had skin.
01:11:24
Speaker
Well, you're going to save my skin, okay? Oh, that's cool. Can I have a femur back by chance? Because I can't walk around without it. Yeah, sure. He throws a femur back. sick nico Where's this Crux guy? I kind of lost my temper there.
01:11:37
Speaker
Yeah, you sure did. um Yeah, i was a white skeleton, but now I'm all sorts of patchy gray. Kind of like that have some some color now. That's cool. um But yeah, Crux is that way. He's over there stapling animal parts to gimps to make him look tougher.
01:11:54
Speaker
Can I roll notice to see if I actually see... Like where he's doing this stuff. Sure. Yeah, I suppose. Yeah. That's a one yeah one. Plus one. You can look through your binocs or whatever if you're just clocking down like with your vision. was feeling the Hitman vision vision maybe would be like some- The Hitman vision you see off in the distance. It was like- Yeah, there's like a large like outline like you can see through buildings of just like large beasts that are being like hacked away by someone.
01:12:22
Speaker
um Okay. Yeah. Pretty obvious. Yeah, it's pretty obvious like now that you're like, you know, now that you're like not being surrounded by demons and shit. But also, while you're doing that, Lorelai, you're down there. You don't know the name is Crux, but you were talking to a demon lady. She flew off after you had a terrible lie to her.
01:12:41
Speaker
um And so what do you do? Well, I'm sure she hears like the Uzi going off. Probably. I'd say like there's a commotion. People are like, what the fuck's going on? Somebody find a gun? Like they're like, you know, there are definitely people who are looking around looking for the commotion.
01:12:57
Speaker
Yeah. So she's going to see if she can just like make her way to where Agent 69 and Roy r so that she can make sure that they're staying out of trouble.
01:13:15
Speaker
I'm sorry, what was the first part you're doing? What to Agent 69 and Roy? She's going to make her way to them. You're turning around to go back? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I mean, you can do that. like Everybody's kind just looking around right now like for just like there's signs of struggle. They hear gunfire going off.
01:13:30
Speaker
I see like where you are actually, though, because like these beasts are so loud as they're being slaughtered to be glued to other people that I'd say you probably don't hear the gunshots as well, but you do since you're on the outskirts of the town looking.
01:13:43
Speaker
ah But you can, as you look back towards the other end of like where that first encampment is, they're all just running around like crazy. Like there's gunfire going off. People get killed. Is that Dave? No, Dave's over there. He just got new. He's got new dog legs.
01:13:54
Speaker
um And like, they're just like scrambling around looking for like the source of the noise. They're like, oh, I bet you it was Boney. Boney probably found a fucking gun. That's just like Boney. um And you see some are running towards where the the truck was parked.
01:14:08
Speaker
Okay. What do you do? Um, she's just gonna, like, follow the crowd and, like, make it her way back to the boys to make sure that, uh, when they're still alive, um, and to...
01:14:27
Speaker
Basically be back up for whatever they need, i guess. Okay, I mean, yeah, you can make your way back over there, sure. um As you make your way over there, see- He knows where they're coming out of, so she can, like, lead them to that spot now.
01:14:40
Speaker
yeah, yeah. She's not going in there by herself. Yeah, no, I say as you walk back, you like, you take a few paces towards that town, and they're already making their way up that way. um ah you see You recognize that giant cross anywhere, and you see, like, as they're walking, you see, like, when they just see, like,
01:14:57
Speaker
You hear them like, oh my God, he killed them all. And then like ah Roy and Agent 69, you see that these guys are just looking at the piles of ash on the ground and they're recognizing like, oh shit. And like, as you walk with your massive cross, like wielded in your hands, like they're all giving you a wide berth. Like they're all afraid to touch you now.
01:15:13
Speaker
Like now that they recognize the power of that cross, like they're just like giving you a wide berth as like Agent 69 is following the breadcrumb trail. And like, you see just like constant fear in the eyes of these little gimps. Yeah.
01:15:24
Speaker
and' I'd imagine he's still like, since they've started walking forward, he's starting to play the part as well. You know, he's twitching, his forehead is sweaty really bad, he's mumbling under his breath, you I burn the wooden dog, I see the doubleteure and I follow.
01:15:38
Speaker
And that shit like that, just spouting nonsense. Yeah, I mean, honestly, I don't know if you want to keep up that act. I mean, that's up to you, but like right now, these guys are just straight up. I don't even think it's as they want to believe that you're under their spell. They're just genuinely afraid that there's like a bunch of their dead friends over there and you have a massive cross in your hands.
01:15:56
Speaker
True enough, I suppose. But if you want to keep that up just to kind of like go into it, I think that's practicing, you know? Yeah, sure, sure. used to Yeah, there's like an almost like an energy field, like a bubble around you and Tobias that um They just will not enter right now. They won't come near you.
01:16:13
Speaker
um So yeah, you see that as you're walking up, you can feel the presence of his cross, Lorelai, as they're walking up. And hey, look, it's your friend Lorelai, Tobias and Roy, you found her. Well, or she is she has like a hood on, right?
01:16:27
Speaker
Yeah, but I mean, like, you guys know she's wearing a hood. Yeah, you don't know my body. blue or red. Her aura is mixed. It's blue because you know her, but there's some red there too. little purple. She's purple, yeah. yeah see that see that purple blob over there?
01:16:44
Speaker
if you see that purple blob? um um I see red blobs on the floor. I think it's blood. i don't see anything purple. Oh. Very well.
01:16:54
Speaker
I think Lorelai's right there. Are you colorblind? Just to see everybody could see that.
01:17:00
Speaker
like Like Roy, like, looks at Tobias and goes, are you sure you're not falling under the spell yourself? Is this an act? ah No, I can see. I have special powers.
01:17:13
Speaker
That's just the whole explanation. I have special eyes. I have very special eyes. I'm happy to hear you. Look with your special eyes. He, like like, puts up you both of his hands, like, disarmingly.
01:17:24
Speaker
I'm glad to hear you have special powers. Yeah. Yes, yes, we all believe in your powers. Yes, I believe you great deal.
01:17:38
Speaker
So you guys meet up with Lorelai, and then you guys hear just like a commotion coming from that other encampment, where you see just like a shattering of like, like just shrapnel flying everywhere from like, just like splintered metal and wood from like these little buildings and stuff.
01:17:54
Speaker
And you you feel the ground shake beneath you is like a bunch of these different augmented gimps some have like massive legs that are kind of glued onto them or fused onto them some of them have like giant claws or one arm's really big and the rest of their body's really small um and you see as they're all approaching you you see there's another one that has like a large like uh um oh my goodness i forgot the word apron god i forgot the word apron what the fuck They have a large apron covered in ash and blood on them. They're probably about like six and a half feet tall. They're kind of like heavier set, little more rotund with like very beefy arms and just big old kind of ogre-looking teeth and just like one massive eyeball in the middle of their head.
01:18:36
Speaker
um And they kind of yell out, Oi, hey, who's fucking up my business over here, Come on now. I'm just trying to make an honest living. Who's fucking around? I'm the health
Aftermath of Demon Camp Explosion
01:18:47
Speaker
inspector.
01:18:49
Speaker
Well, I don't believe in health inspectors on account I'm not making healthy things. I'm making new people. I'm making dreams come true. I just gave that girl dog tits. Right. I'm the health inspector, the FDA, whatever you, whatever regulatory agency you respect here.
01:19:06
Speaker
That's me. You think I respect the regulatory agency? Who called you? Was it Dave? Because I just gave you new legs and you squealed on me. You ever heard of Mephistopheles?
01:19:18
Speaker
Heard of him? I used to be roommates with him back in Devil College. Yeah, well, he sent me here. Oh, Methy sent you? Oh, and what what did he say about me? a He said you're embarrassing him.
01:19:33
Speaker
What? No, not me. He would never. That's my best friend. Well, he's not my best friend. I'm not his best friend, but I think of his as my best friend. I'm going hand a remote detonation thing to Lorelei, and then...
01:19:46
Speaker
tell her pointer towards like the bloodbath or whatever the fuck it is and tell her <unk>s butcher shot and i'm gonna tell her to go i want to under my breath i want to tell her to go sneak over there and fucking plant some shit and Alright, let's have it be a Deceive roll to see if you can make all that happen while nobody knows what you're doing. Because you're also lying on being the health inspector. what Yeah, they should probably Deceive roll for that, and not a Stealth roll. It'll be a Stealth roll for the Whisperer, but a Deceive because you're saying, I'm the FDA and I know Mephistopheles. Oh, I got plus two. Oh, shit. A plus two's not bad, but I'm going to roll for him. He is a little bit more of a tougher guy, and I'm going to just give him a solid two ah for that because I think...
01:20:27
Speaker
you know, he's he's a little bit, he's he's a lesser demon, but not a lesser, lesser, lesser demon like the rest of these guys are. Alright, let's see what happens. Fuck, what are you rolling today, Adam? He rolled all four pluses, plus a plus two.
01:20:40
Speaker
So he got a six. So he goes, oh yeah, bro, you know Mephi, of course. And how has he been since he got his cat? He didn't have a cat.
01:20:50
Speaker
He never had a cat. Lawyer! He got three cats, and it looks like Cerberus, but it's a three-headed cat, and his name is Perberus. Idiot! You don't know nothing! yeah are not We are not members of the personal lives of Mephistopheles. We are simply employees.
01:21:08
Speaker
Oh, yeah? Tell me more about that. You're right. You caught us in our lie. um Right. You guys are terrible liars. You're lying to demons, right? That's our whole thing.
01:21:18
Speaker
as All day right. I'm handing some shit off to Lorelei. I'm assuming Lorelei has not made herself known this point. No, I don't think they recognize her yet. Can I stealth hand her some fucking bombs?
01:21:31
Speaker
Yeah. I'd say give her, ah if you get at least a two or higher, I'd say that you could do it. so Because you are right in front of them doing it. Plus two, baby. So you you you met it with an overcome roll.
01:21:42
Speaker
Okay, so yeah, you slip her, somehow you just like step near her and slip her a couple of bombs. ah Maybe mayor temporarily distracts like slightly when he jump goes forward and says that. Sure, I'd say like you do have a massive cross that like the one-eyed guy probably sees and you he's just like,
01:21:58
Speaker
Now you're over here trying to pretend like you work for a devil when you have a massive cross clearly built for someone who thinks gods are cool. um Why would I have a cross in here? I'd probably get killed. I'm here to burn it, you asshole. Jesus.
01:22:14
Speaker
Does no one understand the point of wielding a cross in a demon village? We've already established that you guys are bad at lying, so do you want me to take your parts now, or do you want me to kill you and then take them?
01:22:28
Speaker
um Because I can do it while you're alive if you prefer to be alive while I do it. Is that anesthesia? That would be pretty interesting to see. Yeah, anesthesia's- of ah We feed you a giant knuckle sandwich to knock your ass out.
01:22:42
Speaker
Ah, I see. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, so while he's kind of having this debate with you guys, Lorelai, he gives you some bombs. Like, do you just leave? Um, so I was thinking, like, I could make a duplicate of myself and then disappear so that it still looks like I'm still standing there. Uh...
01:23:04
Speaker
Yeah, okay, why don't we do that? why don umt Okay, so... Well, the duplicate is for something else, isn't it? Isn't that for, like, avoiding damage? It's to create advantage.
01:23:14
Speaker
Uh... Oh. What? It says spend spend a fate point to use... A second mental stress box to absorb one hit. So that one's the one that wouldn't really be- I think I fucked that part up. I don't know what yeah to that means. So that, I think- But I meant to put just create a second part.
01:23:33
Speaker
What? There the hell, the hell did that come from? Because you were trying to copy my my sheet. Oh, that's right. You made skills very similar to the ones that I had examples of. so i was So we can tweak that one. If you want to make that be just like, I want to use it to create an advantage, then we can change it to do that.
01:23:51
Speaker
I'm totally fine with Well, have creating an advantage in there, but I don't know what the hell. Yeah, we can rewrite it. We can rewrite it. That's fine. We just have to change this that way. It's less of a defense move and more of a I need to use it to create an advantage move. Okay, that's fine. I'm fine with that.
01:24:05
Speaker
See, that's part of the way that we learn to play the game, guys, is we just got to like apply it and see if we understand it until we get it.
Escape and Magical Challenges
01:24:13
Speaker
um It's a new game. The only way to learn it is to play it.
01:24:16
Speaker
um So, yeah, we can change it. So, yeah, so then you can just roll... um ah to create an advantage and we can just say that you're doing that with your duplicate. So why don't we just say that um we have to make it more specific. So in such a, we'll call it like a stealth advantage, right?
01:24:35
Speaker
Cause you're trying to do something to fool other people. So it's either a deceive or a stealth. You can pick um what you want this duplicate to do. Do you, i'm I'm saying for right now, we have to pick in this moment. You can have one.
01:24:46
Speaker
Is it stealth or is it deceive? ah you sure you're using it to sneak away, but also you're trying to fool people. So it could be either one. You get to pick. Yeah, that's or let me think. I would say probably deceive.
01:25:02
Speaker
All right. We can have that be. So when you just like trying to blend in. uh, or just like, kind of like kind of create an illusion. We can call that just to deceive. So your duplicate, you can get a plus two when you're rolling to deceive in a situation where you need to escape without people noticing.
01:25:16
Speaker
Uh, we'll say for you, the lie is that I'm still here. Um, So, okay, so go ahead and roll your deceive roll, and you can add ah add a plus two to that.
01:25:28
Speaker
And then um I'm going to roll for big boy here to see if he can detect what you're doing. Again, I'm just going to give him a two for his just general understanding.
01:25:39
Speaker
So he rolled the three, you rolled a three, but that's a plus two that you get for your skills. So you beat him by two. So yeah, you just kind of subtly create an illusion of yourself and you just kind of make off somewhere else.
01:25:50
Speaker
And he's none the wiser that you're not there. He just sees you standing there with your cloak up, your hood up, standing with Reaper and with Roy. um Cool. So you make your way away from there. So what do you do? He gave you some remote bonds, but you also have a grenade that he gave you.
01:26:07
Speaker
He did give me a grenade. Yeah. um So I'm just going to go back to that building where I saw them putting together people. Uh-huh. And... um Just toss it into whatever.
01:26:22
Speaker
I'm just going to blow the building up. Sure, yeah. You can just throw them in there. So, yeah. As you look beyond the the building and where like the little setup is, you see that there are like a bunch of these different hell beasts. Some of them are just kind of like laying there with like little nubs, or some are missing their heads or their eyes and stuff.
01:26:36
Speaker
There's like a bunch of these just like gruesome, eldritch-looking demon beasts that just like kind of laying behind this building that he's using to like ah augment people. I'm going to put them all out of their misery.
01:26:48
Speaker
Yeah, honestly, youre might I mean, they are demons, but you would be doing them a favor and sending them back to hell. ah At least they're not in pain. and They'll be in a different kind of pain in hell, but they're not being ripped apart on on land. Yeah. um yeah So, yeah. So, ah you ah David, how many did ah Agent 69 give to her? How many remote bombs?
01:27:07
Speaker
I would say he he gave her two of his three. Two of the three. So we have two remote bombs you can like place there to set up. um like little adhesive they have little like you know it says like remove here you know get to it put on surface it's like a command hook yeah it's like a command one in the back and then she's gonna throw the grenade inside yes throw the grenade in there too want to create an advantage if she's gonna do a stealth if she has to do a stealth check on that i want to try something on this guy okay sure go ahead and do that uh what exactly you're trying to do yes you've uh you've caught us we're actually salesmen
01:27:46
Speaker
Now that I can believe. What are you trying to sell? Well, here in my briefcase, if you'll let me open it. Sure. I love briefcases. There's always cool stuff. and Is it money? I love money.
01:27:59
Speaker
This is here and he takes out a sticky bomb. Oh, what's that? So this is a new is a new type of ah fire magic device created by the humans, by the mortals.
01:28:14
Speaker
that you could use to implant on your, you know, your, sp you whatever your subjects are here. I figured you just, you know, here, do you want to take a look at it? i You know what? I think I might want to take a look at it with my with my big old giant eye here.
01:28:30
Speaker
um he threw yeah he He walks it up to him. Okay, and what are you trying to do so I know what to make you roll for it? Just trying to hand it off to him. You're just trying to hand him a sticky grenade?
01:28:43
Speaker
Alright, do another deceive roll to see if you can lie to him about the fact that the the fact you're trying to make fact, which is... I get a plus four. Let's go. right I'm going to give him a two in his ah his ah empathy roll.
01:28:59
Speaker
He only rolls a two, so you beat him. So he he says... Oh, yeah. i know what um I want to succeed with style on this one. and i want to use my desires murdering targets in obtuse ways. so Okay, and you're trying to create an advantage, right?
01:29:14
Speaker
ah Yeah, I guess. Okay, so if you do that and you succeed with style, then you then you create two coins that guys use. to do that, yes. Yeah. So, yeah, I like that. you So you channel that energy that you wanted to murder and in in interesting ways.
01:29:28
Speaker
He holds on to the bomb. You create two free fate points for your partners. And he kind ofs he puts it like right up to his giant. eye And he goes, well, that is fascinating. That is just fascinating. At this point, as Lorelei planted them.
01:29:40
Speaker
yeah Sure. I'd say at this point, no one's looking back there anymore. I'd say you've probably garnered the attention of all the other demons that are surrounding you. you're like, wow, fire magic. And you kind of mortal fire magic? Wow, what's that about?
01:29:52
Speaker
And he's like, all right, guys, come on, come on. ah I got my hands on it first. I'll show you when I'm done with it. See with your eye. Well, eyes, right? Not your hands. ah So yeah, I say you have the attention of- You can put your hands on it.
01:30:07
Speaker
It's safe. You want all these guys to come and touch this? Well, everybody can gather around and get a close look at it. It's safe. All right, guys, everybody come on over.
01:30:18
Speaker
um And they do that. ah So a lot of them like kind of come in and they start he starts like passing it around for people to touch and kind of hold like, wow, it's got a good weight to it. It's about five pounds or so. Wow. um As soon as Lorelai throws the grenade, I'm fucking detonating it.
01:30:34
Speaker
Okay. Well, yeah how far, how close are you to these guys? I have stepped back to to where Roy is at this point. And Roy, what are you doing? Because like, you see, like, he's like kind of like easing back as these guys are like crowding around this.
01:30:48
Speaker
Clearly it's a bomb that he's not going to just give to them. Um... Roy, he's ah he's probably gonna just follow, because he doesn't know. i he He could take a gander, but he doesn't really know what Tobias just passed to them, so he's gonna follow his lead and back up a few steps as well.
01:31:05
Speaker
Okay. Yeah, and you see like all the other demons that want to come around, they have their hands up to their eyes, like the sun's in their eyes, and as you back away, they like relax, because like the radiance of your cross is like searing their skin and their eyes now.
01:31:17
Speaker
And maybe he's like, he's like waving a hand, like, so it doesn't look like he's backing up. It looks like he's trying to make room for people to go forward. You know what I mean? You know what? Just for funsies. Why don't you also roll, I'll either say rapport or deceive, uh, just to see if like, they're just like trusting of you because you have that giant cross.
01:31:35
Speaker
Uh, and I'm also going to have you have that do a create an advantage role. Cause I think that'd be really fun if you do. Right. Um, Plus one. right. That's a one. I'm going to roll for all these little wieners just to kind of see like how they're feeling. nothing There's going to be no super ramifications. I just kind of want to see how they do.
01:31:53
Speaker
I just rolled a one. ah Yeah. So like they they trust you. like Nothing super crazy. You guys tied. They're like, oh, okay, cool. As they're going across, it's like, as I said, we brought the cross here to test the explosives on it, or to test the fireball on Okay, cool, great. wasn't lying to you earlier.
01:32:09
Speaker
I mean, come on. Oh, we're so sorry. You know, yeah, let's burn. Let's burn that sucker here in a second. Let's use a sticky bomb, right, boss? And they all run over to to to Crux. um And so as they're there, we cut
Mysterious Encounter in Escape
01:32:21
Speaker
back to Lorelai. Lorelai, you're planting your bombs near where all these like kind of severed, beaten up creatures are.
01:32:26
Speaker
um ah but Like it's practically a ghost town where you're standing right now, except for all like the beasts that are back there in cages and and behind the building. um So what do you do? she ah did she blow up the building yet are you just gonna chuck the grenade in there with the sticky bombs and have them set each other off yeah uh okay so yeah okay um yeah i would say go ahead let's just make it um let's make it ah an athletics role to like since you're throwing a grenade in there with it um
01:32:59
Speaker
just to kind of see how you do. five. Holy fucking balls. Yeah, like just like just a goddamn baseball player. You chuck that grenade like straight in there through the slats, lands right next to all the sticky bombs. You don't even have to remote detonate it. The grenade does it for you.
01:33:15
Speaker
um Hits the other bomb, just like, could keep you um and yeah, you just hear like the sound of just like, jesus these did These demonic beasts just like wailing as they just turn to ash, ah creating this massive explosion. It sets off a series of other explosions, shrael turning other buildings in into shrapnel.
01:33:35
Speaker
And um I manually press the button. on my press the button for the sticky bomb yes okay uh you know what let's have that be your resource do you want it i don't know if that's recent because you did pull it from resources and like it's not really an attack and it's not really a throw i don't really know what else to call that so like i guess you can roll your resources to see like how much of a how many things you take out with it including crux who is the one holding the fucking thing um
01:34:07
Speaker
So I don't think I'm going to roll for him to avoid the damage because I don't think he knows it's coming. I'm going to take a fucking security point on that one. You can. So you have a two. I'm not going to. You know what? I'm going to have them.
01:34:20
Speaker
I feel like I should have them rolling on the off. I'm just going to roll it as a flat mediocre. Like just because I just in case like to give you it at at a chance to maybe do more damage. I'm just you know, I'm going to roll it as a terrible. I lied. I'm going to roll it a minus two because there's no way he fucking knows you're going go to blow it up on him.
01:34:35
Speaker
So he gets a minus four. my god, oh And you took a fate point to give yourself a four. that's already an increase of eight. um If you want to use the second one, you can if you want to make it a ten, or you can just keep it at an eight.
01:34:49
Speaker
I think an eight be okay. Okay, so yeah. So what does it look like as you like detonate this thing? like yeah So we step away from him, and I have the but i have like the detonator like behind my back as we're like slowly backing away from him. Uh-huh.
01:35:05
Speaker
And just more demons are filling in the space as you back up. They're all like crowding around him like, okay, and this is pretty interesting. And then, you know, I see Lorelai just behind Crux, I imagine, ah chucking a grenade.
01:35:19
Speaker
with like precision, you know pinpoint accuracy into this building. see an eruption of flame. As soon as it explodes, he's pressing the frickin' button. Yeah, you see the explosion goes off, and then like for a second, like you see Crux's eye gets really fuckin' big and goes, huh? And then like you detonate that behind you, and then just obliteration like Just like a shockwave goes out from this sticky bomb.
01:35:45
Speaker
Like Crux is just in pieces. ah Dozens of these other guys that like crowded around absolutely obliterated. They're all little wiener guys turn just piles of ash everywhere around you with like a few miscellaneous like just lesser demons just like lying on the ground.
01:36:00
Speaker
You've practically taken out the majority of the town at this point. um it's all just laying there uh in piles of ash or like missing limbs uh and you've detonated the butcher shop and Lorelai you return to see the carnage that Roy and Agent 69 or that uh Tobias has has wrought uh what do you guys do now that you see all that Roy do you do anything Um, he's kind of just like kind of is like, I certainly could have used those a couple hundred years ago.
01:36:32
Speaker
Tell me, Roy, do you have any more of those that I could have? Yeah, we'll have to see what I roll. I see. Well, right now you have one.
01:36:46
Speaker
yeah Otherwise gonna have like a Bugs Bunny bag of just shit that he pulls out of nowhere. It just has Acme on the front of it. Yeah. Um... So while you're doing that, ah you hear like, you know, because again, you guys are like a few hundred yards out from like this giant city. Right. And like, so there you kind of kind of see that there's, you hear alarms going off in the distance because you guys just made a massive series of explosions not far from this stronghold. Yeah.
01:37:14
Speaker
You hear alarms going off. You hear people starting to scream. ah You see fire starting to alight within the town. The big commotion. You feel the ground start to rumble beneath you. like You guys know for sure that you have gotten the attention of the people inside the town.
01:37:28
Speaker
um And ah so what do you do knowing that like there's about to be a huge horde of like demonic soldiers about to come after you? Well, we should probably bounce and hope that none of them are members of the Choir of the Abyss.
01:37:46
Speaker
Come, let's go. Yeah. yeah so Yes, let's get the fuck out of here, as they say, darling. So we're going to have a chase scene to end this episode. So um can Roy grab one of them and throw his cross using across the way and take him, take whoever it is with him.
01:38:02
Speaker
You want to take like a, not a demon, like either, ah either Tobias, but probably Tobias. Cause he doesn't like, you know what? I'm going to have your role for it. If you're going to try to take someone with you. and Yes.
01:38:13
Speaker
ah Because that's quite a jarring thing for non, for people who aren't used to that, to be yanked by a giant cross across the way. Can I roll to assist? Yeah. i mean but i mean, you've already kind of done that by creating and a a free ah fate point for him to use. Yeah, that's true.
01:38:29
Speaker
What would you like me to roll for that? Because I can't roll. ah Just physique. If you're just straight up, just chucking the fucking thing, I'd say physique. And as long as you don't get a negative number, I'd say you probably succeed. Okay. yeah Depending on how many notches above, you probably, it depends on how well you do it.
01:38:43
Speaker
Roy is going to assume Lorelai already has a way out of there because she you know teleported in, even though he didn't know that. and So he's going to throw the cross, and then the chain's going to like start the ah shrinking, and he's going probably wrap an arm around Tobias and say, brace yourself.
01:38:59
Speaker
As he rolls a plus four. Wow. Okay. Fuck yeah. So yeah, you just like yank on like a goddamn cartoon character, like up and into the air. And then like you, I'd say since you rolled so high, you like cushion his fall on the way back down. Cause he is a human.
01:39:14
Speaker
It takes fall damage. So um you throw your cross up in the air and then like you're able to cushion the blow on the way down. Cause your knees can take, can take it, i guess. It just leaves a trail in the,
01:39:26
Speaker
Yeah, you land next with a loud thud near the truck and Lorelai, I'm just going to say you can return back with your teleportation magic back to the truck if you like. Okay. So you guys are there, you hop in the truck. ah Agent 69, I'm going to need a drive roll from you and I'm going to need you to do a really good one at at least a plus three.
01:39:46
Speaker
At least a plus three. I don't know any Mediocre. Zero, baby. Let's go. What happens? Now I still have points. I still have fate points.
01:39:56
Speaker
was going to say, you still have fate points if you want to use them, um but you don't have to. but yeah I guess I have one left. You have one left? You have one free one left that you didn't use that technically is still on the scene so you can use it, but that'll put you at a two.
01:40:10
Speaker
and you still have all three of your other fate points too, right? Or did you use them? No, he channeled one earlier for his I want to kill people in interesting I really have an aspect that would make me a good driver. either I could create a duplicate of the truck.
01:40:28
Speaker
Maybe we could do... You would a plus seven for that. you know what? You know what? I'm going to say, sure, you can try to do that. I never want to say no to a roll, but it is going to be very difficult for you to create an illusion of a truck.
01:40:42
Speaker
It's not really going to help him drive, but I guess it'll help deter who's chasing. So I'd say if you can get a five or more, you can duplicate the truck.
01:40:52
Speaker
Might as well go for it. Now we're rolling shit. Yeah. so So the truck for some reason is like not even starting right now. It's like... where ro um let Let's push started and can Roy try to push it from behind? Some demons stole a catalytic and burned it out of it. There you go. You just notice it's up on blocks and it doesn't have any wheels on it. shit like it's like It's like classic horror movie shit where just like, you know.
01:41:27
Speaker
And then, Roy, you notice that there is like a strange shimmer on the truck. Like that like you didn't notice at first when you were trying to help Tobias escape. And you notice there is like some sort of like strange shimmer, a demonic essence on it.
01:41:43
Speaker
um That is like, it's a spell that's been cast. ah It's ah a holding spell. Holding spell. Lorelei, instead of ah making that other truck, could you destroy this spell? I'm not good at her magic.
01:41:56
Speaker
Yeah, you made like a matchbox version of the truck on the trailer earlier. It's Hot Wheels. Yeah. I'm sorry, I i tried, darling. I told you, I'm not that good at magic very well. I try and I You're a fucking liar. Sometimes I'm very good, sometimes I'm very bad.
01:42:14
Speaker
um And so as you guys are trying to start the truck, you notice the spell. You have to dispel it. You notice like you see off in the distance about like 600 yards out, like on this like on this long distant road. You see this these massive doors in the stronghold open and you feel the ground again shake beneath you as you see these massive like quadrupedal hell beasts with like giant like saddles on their backs. And you see they have multiple riders up on them.
01:42:40
Speaker
They have these huge fucking war cannons like a blastoise. like mounted on their backs um that they're starting to ride. And you see coming between all four legs, you see there's just a shit ton of like these demons, these big blue glowing flaming demons on motorcycles, like hell cycles, like fucking just like blasting past them coming towards you.
01:43:01
Speaker
And some of them are swinging chains. Some of them have guns mounted on their bikes. um Some of them have like flames floating up in their hands. They're getting ready to throw. And they are careening towards you at incredible breakneck speed as this massive hell beast is just walking very ah lumber-like towards you. lumber What's word I'm looking for? Lumbering?
01:43:20
Speaker
Yeah, lumbering towards lumbering. um Uh, as you guys feel the ground shake beneath you agent 69, I'm going to need you to do one more drive check. And if, uh, Lorelai, if you want to try to disarm the trap, you can.
01:43:32
Speaker
Can Roy try to do the same thing? Maybe like, maybe he, uh, maybe he realized, oh shit, this is demonic magic. My cross is good against that stuff and roll like a will or something to get rid of it. If you don't know how exactly to disarm spells, willing it won't exactly do that, but maybe you could roll to create an advantage to help Lorelei to disarm it.
01:43:51
Speaker
I think that's what I'm going to Maybe with the knowledge you know of that. so you go Yeah, maybe he looks like he uses his stunt on demons? or yeah Sure, sure. I'd say that works, absolutely. sure so well just like He puts like his the tips of his fingers against the side of the truck and it feels it feels grainy almost. It feels like it's crumbly and it reforges itself in time.
01:44:11
Speaker
And he says, lower plus two. for So a six. I rolled a six. Wow. Okay. and so that So that is, ah you created two fate points that you can use for the party because like you're describing to Lorelai like, oh, this is what the magic is. It's a hold spell. You have to remove it. That's why we can't move.
01:44:29
Speaker
So Lorelai, you can now roll up to like like a will check with your magic to try to disarm that spell knowing the information that Roy is giving. Fuck yeah. Plus four.
01:44:40
Speaker
ah Holy shit. I was going to say roll at least a three, ah but you did that. so You got those two fate points. You can make it like, what's the term? You can make it a roll with style if you if you do that. And that would really supercharge the truck for the drive check.
01:44:57
Speaker
Yeah, I'll do that. Okay, so yeah, you disarm this spell and not only do you disarm it, but you give it like a super charge. So Agent 69, AKA Tobias Reaper, you have another advantage point that you can still use. And I'm going to say that you get a plus two already. They've given you a boost to your next drive roll.
01:45:15
Speaker
Not to have an extra faith point as well. If you can get at least the three. Oh, four? Oh, fuck yeah! Plus a few! it it So that's what? That's six? And then there's that extra fate point if you want to do an eight.
01:45:29
Speaker
Culmination of generations of Hitman, which I can use for anything that I want. Yep, so you ah you guys all work together. if If you want to use that last fate point, you can, otherwise you can save it.
01:45:41
Speaker
ah So you want to use it, so that puts you at an eight at a plus eight. This fucking truck is supercharged. You do all the correct inputs in the truck. Fucking fire shoots out the back like just purple flame. Just you guys just go fucking flying down this road as you see behind you like lumbering beast and and flaming motorcycles are chasing behind you.
01:46:01
Speaker
and But you leave these goddamn motorcycles in the fucking dust and they are just but specks on your radar as you blast out of there. um incredible driving. Like they have not been able to find you yet. You guys just like lay on the gas for as long as it needs until you don't hear the sounds of motorcycles anymore.
01:46:17
Speaker
Spraying the Uzi anyways. Just spraying the Uzi out. Just doing it. You know, sure. You know, roll an attack. mo Just roll shoot check. ah Just watch it and giggles. Yeah. Uh, yeah, you know what I'd say?
01:46:29
Speaker
I'd say that there's one bike that has just like a bunch of little gimps that are trying to balance it out to ride with the big boys. And, uh, you shoot out the wheels on one of those. It's they're already like 700 yards behind you, but somehow that Uzi hits one of them.
01:46:40
Speaker
Um, uh, I don't know what the range is on an Uzi, but I don't know if it's 700 yards, but, um, but you ping one of those tires and it just, you see a small explosion in the background of orange and blue flame, uh, as you careen off into the distance.
01:46:54
Speaker
Um, And as you guys are kind of finally maybe starting to slow down as you realize that like you you don't hear the sound of the motorcycles anymore, they've probably given up. These demons are quite lazy.
01:47:05
Speaker
They like to just do things where there's an advantage to do it. um They thought they were going to get the drop on you, but you guys teamworked your way out of it. um And you guys are in the truck ah driving at a more normal pace now ah as you as you escape this hell.
01:47:25
Speaker
And as things get quiet, and you guys are kind of riding in silence for a second, Lorelai, you notice kind of sitting next to you in the back of the truck is that winged ah demon lady that you talked to earlier.
01:47:39
Speaker
um And you see, like, she drops her guise, and she has, like, this very fair skin, very puckered lips, like, very sharp eyes, like, very sharp-looking eyes as she stares daggers into you. And she goes... Sister, darling, it's been far too long.
01:47:56
Speaker
Ooh.
01:48:40
Speaker
well Does it look good already?