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FATE Core- Bloodbath 1.1: Born Again Linchpin
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We're back with a new story, a new friend, and more weird characters! We're also trying FATE Core from Evil Hat! It's a game we've been wanting to try for quite some time, so we're giving it a shot with some slightly modified rules! Today, you'll meet characters who have crawled from the mysterious and powerful Bloodbath! Will they be what the rebellion needs to end the war of Angels, Demons and Mortals? We sure hope so. They should also give the war a better name. The Holy Hell War? That's kinda cool.
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Return to Recording
00:00:30
Speaker
It's your first day. Honestly, it feels like my first day. You're lucky I was muted. What did you say? I fucking just, I laughed so hard. Because I was hitting the wrong button. It was so, I was so lucky.
00:00:44
Speaker
You guys missed it, audience. I'm sorry. I was just, man, we haven't recorded in what feels like a long time. And so I'm kind of rusty. I'm a little nervous, but here we are. We're here.
Introducing 'Bloodbath' Podcast
00:00:54
Speaker
All right. good morning good afternoon and good evening ladies gentlemen non-binary folks is of universal non-notes and roebleys welcome to the first episode of something that we're calling bloodbath um and i'll explain further what bloodbath is but before we do that cas is here david's here and our friend jacob is here they're going to help us tell a story of a centuries-long war between angels demons and mortals how it started
00:01:22
Speaker
Remains to be seen. There's a lot of skepticism about where the demons came from. There the angels came from. It's been hundreds of years since this war started. And...
Rebel Coalition's Origins
00:01:31
Speaker
So you're about to meet a small coalition of characters that have been trying to rebel against all three factions of the war, the mortals, the angels and the demons and the mortals consist of like your standard fantasy character or like racial types like dwarves gnomes, all that good stuff, elves and humans and and whatever else.
00:01:52
Speaker
um And so. There are, ah well, you'll learn more about the world as you play, because what's about to happen is we're about to introduce our characters here in a minute, and they are going to be born from a literal bath full of blood and other organs, items, artifacts, magical pieces, clothing, gore, whatever it is that is found on battlefields of centuries long past has been put into this soup, and somebody is cooking it up, trying to pull new types of people out of it.
00:02:23
Speaker
to help wage like a subterfuge against the three factions to end this these centuries long war okay so Beyond that, I only know ah few characters that exist, and I only know a couple of missions they may send these guys on.
00:02:40
Speaker
But outside of that, these guys are helping me build the world, and I just thought it would be a really fun exercise to be a little bit edgy, but still very silly. Kind of think like Devil May Cry, but even weirder. um So having said that, you guys, um before we build your characters, help me think.
Imagining the Castle Base
00:02:58
Speaker
I told you guys that what what your situation is with you're going to be crawling out of this bathtub full of blood here in a minute, right? Your characters will be reborn or a combination of different types of people, items, animals, organs, ah magical artifacts, whatever it is. Like you guys are refused beings.
00:03:20
Speaker
or reborn beings with fusions of other items that were put in this cauldron. So having said that, when you imagine that you are part of a small rebellious outfit during a war with these different warring cities, sanctuary cities, small villages, whatever, what do you guys imagine your, like this base looks like this place of operations looks like?
00:03:44
Speaker
So anybody feel free to chime in David Jacob. Yeah, go ahead. I'm chiming All right. What do you what do you imagine? I mean, I imagine it kind of looks like you're in a castle, in like a dungeon of a castle. and Oh, man. I was literally going to say that, too. Yeah, yeah. I think that's pretty that's a pretty basic take. I feel like... You guys are in a... cat Is it like it like a still-functioning castle or like an old dilapidated one? or It's still functioning. it'd say half yeah I'd say half and half, though. like the There's one part of the castle where like it's all just
00:04:20
Speaker
crumbling to the ground that they haven't really had the chance to like fix up yet. But then like there's the dungeons underneath that no one really wants to get stuck down there. Right. And you guys kind of have the bloodbath like in the basement somewhere.
00:04:36
Speaker
Well, I was thinking, you know, um in The Witcher, where they make The Witchers, they have all those those are those tubes. um that's where That's like where I sort of imagine it.
00:04:48
Speaker
um the maybe Like maybe a little, not sci-fi, but a little like medieval science fiction kind of deal, a dungeon down there. Sure. Okay, okay. All right. So, yeah. So you guys have... All right. um
00:05:03
Speaker
Jacob, since you're our guest for a while here, tell me what what what was this castle before? Or you know what do you think? like Who did it belong to? i imagine it was probably the mortals who build it. But like, was this a has this long been forgotten? People don't even come here anymore. Is there like a moat is like, who owned this? What is it for? How do you think these people procured it? Like, like, what kind of area are we talking here?
00:05:30
Speaker
I'd like to imagine it was a hall for seekers of lore at one point. So maybe it's like like a massive like a wizard's college or something. Yeah. Kind of similar to that. Yeah.
00:05:41
Speaker
um But maybe, maybe not so much wizards, but people who like maybe more scholars. Okay. Okay. um But like of course, you'll ah the ah the above is, at least at one point, was ah ah pleasant to be in. you know the smell of ah The smell of a library of books and whatnot.
00:05:58
Speaker
But down below, there are other ways to gain scholarly or scholarly information. cool And of course, those less savory methods are often found in the dungeon where the pit is.
00:06:11
Speaker
OK, I like it. OK, cool, cool, yeah. Cass, what was this castle called? Like whether there's a sign on it that says, welcome to castle, blah, blah, blah. Or maybe the signs broken and it says something else so or maybe it's been rebranded or maybe just a nickname that maybe the rebels call it.
00:06:25
Speaker
Like, what do you think that they would if they were to say, hey, welcome to castle, blah, blah, blah. What do you think they would call it? Welcome to secret castle. Secret castle. It's it's like a not so secret castle, but it's, I love it. I think that's great. Secret castle. That's wonderful. I
Characters Emerge from the Bloodbath
00:06:42
Speaker
love it. Okay.
00:06:44
Speaker
Uh, welcome to, I can just imagine them being like, welcome to, um, the, uh, the, uh, the secret, secret castle. That's right. It's called secret castle. It's always been called that. okay, cool.
00:06:57
Speaker
All right. Last question before you guys get pulled from the black, the blood bath, David, Do you imagine that this outfit of people this I've introduced three of you guys character ah you of these characters off Mike?
00:07:11
Speaker
um But do you imagine that you guys will be the first other functioning creatures that crawl out of the bloodbath? Or do you think they have like a small outfit outside of the three I've introduced you to? No, eat that we eat the first.
00:07:24
Speaker
What kind of... So you think... do you think they have, like, a large coalition in the castle? Do you think it's, like, a smaller outfit? Like, what do you think? I think that they're... I think we're just, like, batch number, like, N, you know? Okay.
00:07:36
Speaker
However many. I don't think we're significant in any way. It's like, you know, they... Like the last one came that last guys that came out were like, you know, a mix of like, I don't know, like Mike Tyson and like, i don't know who else is a good fighter. Honestly, definitely not like raccoon or Jake Paul. I don't know which one it was, but i yeah, I imagine that it's just like the, you know, the last batch was like, I don't know.
00:08:06
Speaker
you know, like tough boys or something. i don't I can't think of any like tough boys from history. I guess I'm not cool, but ah yeah. So like Tyson and Gandalf as Jacob. Mike Tyson and Gandalf. Gandalf is real. Yes. Yeah, it's like Mike Tyson and like Genghis Khan or something, you know, mixed in with like Winston Churchill or something. I don't know. And OK, I mean, know they got all these famous people that gives me more silly people to be. So I was just curious if you thought you were the only ones or if there were other ones in the outfit.
00:08:35
Speaker
OK. Cool. Okay, so we set the scene. We're in the secret castle in the deep confines of the somewhat spooky kind of rancid smelling.
00:08:47
Speaker
I mean, it's definitely rancid smelling because of the things that are being brought there for the bloodbath. of the secret castle in the basement. We see books, like some covered in dust, some more used than others, um just like some kind of glowing liquid fluids in different cauldrons and bottles.
00:09:09
Speaker
We see a lot of like kind of strange looking pipes kind of feeding out through the walls. ah We hear like a lot of hustle and bustle like around the castle, but in this particular part, it's a little bit more insulated.
00:09:20
Speaker
And we see... a little gnomish gal. She's probably maybe three and a half feet ish tall, somewhere between there. She's got a little bit more of like a pointy ear look to her, like maybe a little bit elven in there somewhere in some recent like some family lineage down the road.
00:09:37
Speaker
um She looks like she's been sweating. She's been working a lot. She's wearing an apron over her like kind of just disheveled ripped clothes. um And she has a big old ladle in her hands. And like she's up on like this little kind of makeshift staircase that leads her up to this big cauldron that she calls the bloodbath.
00:09:56
Speaker
And Uh, she's just like mixing it around the best she can swirling it, stirring it every now and then you see like little sprinkles of like light, maybe emanate from it, or maybe like a couple little bubbles bloop from it.
00:10:10
Speaker
And yeah every so often, and now she knows she's onto something because she's getting resistance as she turns. It's getting more viscous. It's getting thicker. And you see her eyes light up.
00:10:20
Speaker
She's like, Oh, I think we got another one. I think we got another one. And she calls out and she goes, Retriever, hurry up. I need help pulling this one out. And you see this just you hear like a loud series of steps coming down these stairs.
00:10:33
Speaker
You see like a large ogre-ish person, like with their head barely passing underneath the ceiling to come down in. They got their arms full of like bones and flesh. And, ah ah you know, like miscellaneous clothing and robes and boots and chains and just they drop everything on the ground allowed like just series of things, just ding, ding, ding, rolling along over the place.
00:10:54
Speaker
And you see this ogre runs over and she reaches in and just like massive arms reaches deep, almost shoulder length, with her massive long ass arms into this bath and you see we see this gnomish gal like runs down those little stairs and backs up and she says all right now just pull out real good just like we always do and she pulls out someone and drops them on the floor um So I'm gonna draw some cards here to see who gets to introduce their character first.
00:11:28
Speaker
And David, you roll, you got a five of clubs. Everybody else got a four of three. Can I choose when I go? I wanna go last. You wanna go last? Yes, I have to be last. You know what, that's fair. You got your first pull, so we'll rearrange it.
00:11:41
Speaker
So then that would mean Jacob, you get to introduce your character first. Um, so he is, uh, he's probably on the ground, you know, like hacking his lungs out, given that he was just breathing in a ah ah pool of viscera.
00:11:55
Speaker
And, uh, and he he looks up and, uh, he looks around and, uh, he doesn't recognize this place as you wouldn't if you've been dead for, you 300 years.
00:12:08
Speaker
Right. And what does he look like what like? What do we see laying on the ground right now? Yeah. As he as he you begins to manage to stand up, he is he's tall and he's gone. He's humanoid.
00:12:19
Speaker
um In fact, ah given that his ears are not sharp, it's likely that he is fully human. um He is tall and he is gaunt. And at his right shoulder, um ah we with ah yeah he has dark eyes. and ah he's he's toned he's not whipped but ah He his musculature is very dense.
00:12:40
Speaker
um you know long corded Long corded arms and legs. um he ah Speaking of, his left arm is it seems to be stitched at the shoulder, and the tone seems to be a bit darker, and the arm itself is a bit longer than his right.
00:12:55
Speaker
And and he'd he'd look at it, and you could see it'd feel different than his right. And he is a man who understands his body implicitly. And he'd he'd look at it and see it's a different skin color, perhaps slightly more tan, and and find the stitching at his shoulder and realize that this is a different arm than what he was born with.
00:13:17
Speaker
And he'd shake his head, not understanding what's happening, and realize that... realize that He's well covered in viscera. His hair is matted. It's not long. It's ah i only about it was only about eye length.
00:13:33
Speaker
um But given that it is wet, it is covering his eyes, he wipes it up. and Yeah, and you see you see standing before you like as you're trying to get to your feet, you see like this massive probably like seven to eight foot ogre standing over you with like a bunch of blood coming down their shoulder all the way to their hands where they just dropped you.
00:13:50
Speaker
And you see this little gnomish woman with maybe like a few feet standing away from you with a ladle in her hand with like a like just a she's beaming. Her eyes are huge right now. he He looks at the both of them and ah he his he's already... ah ah What's the term when your eyebrows are turned the other... like ah Not saddened, but a ah not like not like ah when they're downturned. oh fuck. What it? What is it?
00:14:16
Speaker
like Like when they're like they're you're surprised? um Not so much surprise. it's It's more like his brow is lowered, but his ah his eyebrows are lowered to the outside. Furrowed. That's right. that's Thank you, Cassie.
00:14:28
Speaker
his eye His eyebrows are ah furrow a little bit further. and And he reaches unconsciously. No, listen, no. yeah conscious test Cass Furrowed is that Mad Max movie. Mad Max Furrowed. Mad Max Furrowed. Sorry.
00:14:46
Speaker
Huh? ah Sorry, I was not the one with ah no, is that the one with immortal Joe? um Anyway, yeah, that's Yeah, yeah. Anyways, he has subconsciously seeing these two stand before him reach for his cross.
00:15:01
Speaker
ah Would you say he has his cross? Or would you say it's lost in the sauce? ah You know what? I would say that like maybe like you probably don't have it in your hands, but then like I'd say that the little woman, like the little gnomish gal, like kind of like she does like one of those head tilts towards the bath and she sees it kind of like stirring around like it's kind of floating around a circle, kind of like a, you know like a spoon left in a pool or something.
00:15:25
Speaker
And so like like you hear like the ogre go. And like walks over and grabs this like, cross is it like a big cross? Like kind of like a, like a, it's, it's about, it's about, I'd say about seven feet tall.
00:15:37
Speaker
Yeah. yeah Yeah. You know, funny enough, he's one of my inspirations for this character. I kind of had a feeling. so yeah, he just drops this massive fucking, she drops this massive cross on the ground and just kind of lets out like a, yeah.
00:15:53
Speaker
And then you just hear, thank you, sweetie. I appreciate all your help. Now go get ready to fish out the next one, because I think we got a doozy of a batch. um And so like you see the the you see the ogre goes over and starts like fishing around in the pool again while you're there. So right now, the only person looking at you is this gnome.
00:16:10
Speaker
um Is the cross on his chest still there? ah that's up to you if you think it would still be there. I'd like to imagine that that it is.
00:16:21
Speaker
um Yeah, maybe the rope rope's a little frayed. he has a He has a somewhat large golden cross around his neck. Sure, I'd say maybe that never left you. Maybe that's like it reinforcing your faith. Maybe that is it's been with you the whole time.
00:16:34
Speaker
Right, right. Yeah, and so she's she's she doesn't really... ah Do you stand up? Do you kneel? Are you sitting? Like, how do you... He's he's gonna stand up. He's gonna, like, attempt to, but I'm guessing his muscles are a little atrophied right now.
00:16:47
Speaker
um So, you know, he's a little shaky. um and And he's going to... Maybe he understands, you know, seeing that... ah ah what What she said about fishing out another one, and he's gonna look to the pool to see what else this ogre fishes out.
00:17:02
Speaker
ah they Sure. yeah and And just just for funsies... Just for funsies, real quick, roll a physique roll of physiquel just to see if you can get yourself zequel just to see if you can get yourself to stand up.
00:17:13
Speaker
Yep, yep. So if you get a two or higher, we'll say you pass. um Also, i should tell the I should tell the audience, we're playing Fate, and so you're going to hear a lot of different terms and things being used as we play. So you rolled your your physique, you got a two total, which is exactly what you needed. So you feel your muscles are...
00:17:33
Speaker
But regardless, yeah. No, no, no. That was just like where it felt falls on your on your sheet. But the the the where the plus is is like what you actually got. Yeah. Okay. I'll quit. So you got it too. So you you you bring your, like you're shaky, your legs are wavering, but you manage to stand to your feet.
00:17:50
Speaker
And you see, like, at the more you're able to stand up and as quickly as you're able to stand up. Again, as you before you look back at the pot, you see this gnomish lady. She's just like so giddy. Her her entire smile is so big.
00:18:02
Speaker
It's like, oh, my Lord, you can stand already. Oh, my God, I think we got some winners, boys. And she looks right she's like, where are my boys? um She says, anyway, um excuse me, mister. I'm just going have to get with you one second. Just take your time. Remember how to breathe.
00:18:16
Speaker
I'll explain everything in a minute. Okay. um and ah she just like skirts past you, she's like skipping away, she sees ah the ogre reaches in and grabs the next person.
00:18:27
Speaker
ah So Cass, would you please describe, as we see again, the the ogre reaches in, pulls another body out of this big vat of blood and viscera, tosses you on the ground with this big sploshy thump.
00:18:41
Speaker
um What comes out?
00:18:44
Speaker
So what you're going to see is a very pale woman who has very chiseled features in her face, very cherry red hair with a long black dress.
00:19:00
Speaker
She looks to be about mid-forties, about 44 or so. flops down ground flops down on the on the ground in oh
00:19:14
Speaker
What the hell? So you just you're wearing this dress. You got your red hair. Do you try to get up right away or like do you look around like because right now all you see is as you're on the ground kind of getting your bearings.
00:19:26
Speaker
You see a little gnomish lady runs by. She does like jumps up, does a little heel click real quick and then lands in front of you and kind of just she doesn't have to squat, but she kind of leans a little bit to look directly in your face. And she goes, now you look familiar, don't you? Why do I know you?
00:19:41
Speaker
Oh, why? How? Where did you come from? ah You can blame my parents about 400 and some odd years ago. Got a little bit of elf in me too. And my great, great, great, great granddaddy was an elf.
00:19:55
Speaker
Oh, then that that would make a lot of sense. Yes. Because um as you know, I'm very, very thousands of years old. Do I know that? I don't know who you are, but it's possible that you maybe, I don't know.
00:20:07
Speaker
The retriever gets a lot of different pieces. So I'm curious where they got you. Oh, um well, you know, i was Lilith's twin sister that no one ever knew about, and um she got tired of all my shenanigans, and so she had this ah really powerful vampire bite me and then throw me into the cauldron here, and um She ah apparently cursed me to stay in there for at least 400 years. So that makes sense. you know Well, there's no way she put you in my cauldron, baby. I was going to say, the Retriever must have found you somewhere. She put you in somebody else's pot, and maybe we just stole you.
00:20:50
Speaker
I don't know. i just remember my body going to a huge bathtub of blood. in ah We probably saved you then. That's all I remember. Okay, cool. All right, right, right. Okay, Lorelai, you said it was...
00:21:04
Speaker
Yes, I'm Lorelei, darling. Hang on one second. And she like runs over to like there's like a series of steps that go up to like different levels of like this, like library she has down here.
00:21:14
Speaker
And she's like kind of scooting around and like this a little electronic like wheeling ladder, these wheeling staircases that move. And she pulls one out and she starts flipping through a book and she jumps down and shows you a picture of yourself, like a drawing of yourself in a book.
00:21:28
Speaker
And she says, this year. Yes, that's me darling. yeah I knew I seen that face somewhere. so you never, you never forget a pretty chisel face like yours. I knew I seen it somewhere. Oh, don't tell anyone, but you're my favorite. She grabs the by the chin.
00:21:44
Speaker
shit
Mission Brief: Artifact Retrieval
00:21:45
Speaker
Ew, bloody. And so she ah she she she sets the book and like with precision throws it up on the bookshelf and it lands exactly where it's supposed to go. It's like a Hawkeye arrow. It just goes exact. She's like and just curves and goes in there.
00:22:00
Speaker
And she's like, hmm. OK, baby, I just need you to wait right here for a second. I got one more. I think I'm like, is there anything supposed to be coming out there? You got any items I'm supposed to pull out of there? Are you good? This guy had a cross.
00:22:11
Speaker
What's he compensating for? my right Look at that thing. um Oh, yes. No, I didn't have anything on me, darling. I was in the middle of a battle, and then my sister decided that she was going to, know, backstab me and use that vampires. Be a bitch is what it sounds like.
00:22:28
Speaker
Yeah, she's a bitch. Oh, I'm sorry. but Well, you know what just you know what? Do me favor, see if you can stand up, okay, sweetie? I just want to make sure before I go get the next person out. um And so again, that would be a physique role and just roll.
00:22:40
Speaker
Just roll to see if you can get a two to stand up. um If you can't, then it just means you're a little shaky and you need time to to recover. If you do, then you're good. Like youre you recover right away. um which So and that would be physique. And if you don't have physique as a roll, if you have any room on your character sheet, you can put it in somewhere.
00:22:57
Speaker
Or if you don't want to take up a slot, you can just roll a mediocre on your character sheet and that'll be at a plus zero.
00:23:04
Speaker
I am laying there on the ground, darling. I cannot move. Yeah, so you rolled minus three. s So, yeah. So how how dice rolls in this game for people who've never played Fate before is like there's four dice that you roll for everything, and they all either have two pluses, two minuses, or a blank on them, and you...
00:23:22
Speaker
you factor that into your role. And so if you're all three minuses and a zero, which is what Cass rolled with no other bonus that goes with it, that's a minus three to the role. So she, her character, her brain perfectly working, which is very astute because she has a high will skill, but her body, not so much. She still needs some time to recover.
00:23:40
Speaker
I'm very weak, darling. Don't you know, I'm still recovering from this vampire bite. Hey, that's okay. You know, here, yeah here, take a little. And she like reaches into her pocket and there's like a little bloody apple. She's like, what?
00:23:51
Speaker
You're probably part vampire. You like blood right here. Just go ahead and have some of this and I'll right with you in a second. um I hope I'm not vampire yet. i I mean, I'm already a demon. So, you know, I just don't. You said you got bit. I mean, i don't know how it works if demons get bit by vampires, but you could be.
00:24:07
Speaker
I don't. Can a demon turn into a vampire? You can be a demon. pyre I've heard of them. I got books. You do? Okay. that would be so interesting. Thank you, darling. I'm going to eat this so I can turn into a demon vampire. Listen, if you turn into a vampire, look, two things.
00:24:23
Speaker
Don't you suck my blood and don't you drink any of the blood out of that vat because that is not the kind you want to drink. Let me tell you what. um No promises, darling. well, you better promise you're going to die. and just see like She skips past you. she She looks up at the ogre and she goes, all right, how many more you got in there? And then you see yeah you see the ogre lifts up like one big fat finger.
00:24:46
Speaker
um And like um she ah she says, all right, well, go ahead. And you see the ogre reaches in one more time, reaches real far down, pulls out. Can interrupt?
00:24:58
Speaker
Can interrupt? Yes. As the ogre goes over to the cauldron again, ah and assistant walks in. Jesus Christ. And he's like, hey guys, what's going on here? And as the ogre is coming over, accidentally bumps into the assistant.
00:25:15
Speaker
He bumps into the assistant. Drops his bag into the cauldron. Oh no, my bag containing all of my copies of Hitman games and merchandise, including Hitman Blood Money.
00:25:30
Speaker
That was the last copy. Oh no, it's in the cauldron. Oh no. Yeah, and you see you see the Gnomish woman is like, why did you even bring those in here?
00:25:40
Speaker
What's wrong with you? ive told you to keep your dang video games away from here. I know, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. And then at that moment, the cauldron starts bubbling up. something but cooking even Something's something just got added to the pot during the last second, and something's bubbling up.
00:25:57
Speaker
and And then, do you do do you does the ogre help you out, or do you crawl out? i I'm just gonna go over the top. All of a sudden, a bald man comes out of the comes out of the pot. like he is just He is just standing, and he's got two fucking handguns with suppressors on him.
00:26:20
Speaker
And he just slowly rises out of the pot until he's standing on top of the blood. He's standing on the foot. And he steps down off the pot. Yeah, as you step down off the pot, you feel like a massive hand just like grab you by the scruff of the shirt. or this I don't know. Are you wearing a suit?
00:26:39
Speaker
Yes, he's wearing a suit. It's a bald man in a suit. It's it's literally just think of Hitman. right That's what I'm doing. okay and yeah They pick you up by the scruff of the jacket and just like drop you on the ground.
00:26:51
Speaker
Yeah. And you see her, you see her the over just gives you like a scoff, like, oh um and then just like walks away and starts cleaning off her arm. And you see a little gnomish woman walks over to you.
00:27:02
Speaker
She says, why aren't you a cypher sore eyes? I've never seen such an instantaneous reaction to something being added to the cauldron before, but look at that. Yes. There's a first time for everything, isn't there?
00:27:14
Speaker
It seems to be. ah So what's your deal? You can call me Mr. Reaper. Tobias Reaper.
00:27:28
Speaker
Okay. oh that, man. was that Is that the name you were born with? Is that the name that you chose?
00:27:35
Speaker
That's the name I was born with, of course. Oh, wow. that is um That is something. Hey, let me let me let me let me ask you something. Do you remember where you came from?
00:27:50
Speaker
It's confidential. Oh. I see. ah see. Well, all right, then. ah You know what? Don't kiss and tell, or whatever. ah ah Okay. Well, then, why don't you go ahead and see if you can stand back up? I know you just walked on water or whatever, but just let let's just make sure your leg is still working. I think I am standing.
00:28:15
Speaker
Let's see if they see if they continue working. you know I have seen some tough guys crawl out of there and then they just you know collapse. ah So go ahead and roll a physique roll just for fun. See if you can also get your bearings.
00:28:30
Speaker
Alright. Yeah, be plus physique.
00:28:36
Speaker
or I roll these plus six. Holy shit! You rolled a plus, plus, plus, zero, plus three. Jesus Christ. Yep. You are like, you're fucking, you're solid, bro. was to say, if there's anybody who this was going to work out for, it was you. Holy shit. He just, he just wipes the blood off his suit. I imagine the blood just falls off because it's like magical or something. Yeah. Your suit's just like, it cleans itself. It's a self-cleaning suit.
00:28:57
Speaker
Um, and she, you see like this girl's eyes are like just huge. She's like, well, I'll be. Holy pejeebos. Um, and she says, all right, well, um,
00:29:09
Speaker
I don't know if I got this fella's name over here, and she points over to Roy, and she's like, and what and you were again? Roy Vinail.
00:29:21
Speaker
You say Roy Vinail? Yes, W-V-N-A-I-L. It seems like that W's a bit redundant, don't you think? You already got a V in there. I would think so, too.
00:29:33
Speaker
Unfortunately, my ancestors saw fit to name themselves that way. yeah yeah he yeah He'd probably reach to the ah go over to the cauldron and then he'd he'd look inside to see what's in there. And then and then ah and I, yeah, he'll find something in there later because he has one more weapon, but ah that'll come later.
00:29:52
Speaker
ah Which weapon are you still missing? Oh, ah well, he so he does it because he's never used it. He's just kind of looking in there. But his stake driver, he'll ah he'll grab that later.
00:30:03
Speaker
I mean, you can have it now. You can say as you look in there, it just floats to this ah is floats to the surface and you have it. Yeah, I'd say, yeah, it floats to the surface and he grabs it. It's like ah it's it's sort of like, you ever play Bloodborne? It's pretty much the stake driver, except for the stake is not on top of the fist, it's on the side of the fist.
00:30:20
Speaker
And it's a more form-fitting glove. And and ah he ah he grabs it and slips it on his left hand and it's a perfect fit. As if it was meant to be. Yeah. As if it was meant to be. I like it.
00:30:34
Speaker
um And that's like a close-range weapon, right? Where you get close to somebody it like, so jabs out? Yeah, I'd imagine it uses, like, gunpowder or something to launch the stake forward. Alright, so as you grab that, like, you see this gnomish woman, like, she's, like, kinda, you see the ogre comes back and tosses you guys just, like, ah bunch of towels that are already kinda bloody.
00:30:57
Speaker
ah but they don't toss any to ah the ah the agent. um just What did you say your name was again? Tiberius? So his my character's name, he's actually Agent 69, because it's funny number.
00:31:12
Speaker
yeahp but he so he's like the iteration of... ah you know, Agent 47 or whatever, like he's in line of agents. ah But his code name and is what he tells people his name is this Tobias Reaper.
00:31:27
Speaker
Oh, Tobias. It's a direct reference to the games because I can't make up but anything. yeah Actually creative. So I gotcha. All right. Tobias Reaper. Well, she doesn't know that. So right. yeah Yeah. The little assistant goes Tobias Reaper. That sounds just like ah the in the game.
00:31:45
Speaker
Whoa.
00:31:48
Speaker
and you hear what you're talking about no one was like you're just dismissed billy ah you're dismissed oh really ge billy just walks out solidly she's like go play your god wars or whatever why couldn't you drop that in the cauldron idiot um And um so she says, all right, so we got Mr. Tobias here.
00:32:11
Speaker
We got Lorelai, sister of Lilith. And we got Roy WV w v guy, ah who seems to be really big into religion, it would look like.
00:32:22
Speaker
um Anyway, have y'all met before? And she looks out like a little chuckle, wishy gestures all three of you.
00:32:29
Speaker
oh No, darling, no. Doubtful. Oh. Oh. Oh. So what's your deal? will you like you know You got like a big old cross. Are you like anti-demon or something there, mister? I am a demon hunter.
00:32:44
Speaker
Oh dear, Lorelai, you hear that shit? he He glances over at Lorelai. he Perhaps. We'll have to see it where this goes.
00:32:56
Speaker
Tell me, Gnomish woman, what is your name? Oh, forgive. I just, you guys are the strongest people that I have pulled out of the cauldron in a long time. So I, I, so I just forgot my dang manners is I'm so sorry.
00:33:10
Speaker
You can call me. My code name is the chef on account. of I'm the one that's usually working in the cauldron and pulling people out the bloodbath and whatnot. Do you have any chains? The chef chains like, you know like you put on your tires, they get better traction in the snow and prefer for what is a tire?
00:33:30
Speaker
You tire, it's like you it's you put on like a wagon or a car and you got, blow you know? You put chains on wagon wheels. so Yeah, sometimes gives you better traction as you're ah you know went in and inclement weather.
00:33:43
Speaker
I suppose that does make a bit of sense. Yeah, what do you want chains for? To wrap around the cross. Sort of works as a pseudo seal, else the demons that are trapped in there will be released, and, well, there are far too many out there for us. Hey, listen, if you release demons inside this
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00:34:00
Speaker
castle, I'm gonna be pissed.
00:34:01
Speaker
That's exactly why I need the chains. Yeah, the ah the ogre runs away real quick and, like, fucking, like, just grunts the whole way up the stairs, um comes back down a few moments later, just, oh, actually, don't come down, they just chuck just, like, massive fucking chains of different sizes and colors, like,
00:34:20
Speaker
Like, oh, geez, I didn't ask you for like a bunch of charging cable. Oh, wait, no. These are. Why are these? Why are these pink chains? What the hell? Um, she's. So she's like, I'm sorry. You know what? You're good at your job.
00:34:34
Speaker
Yeah. it's just like but She's like, okay, so, okay, here's your chains or whatever. Look, I know you guys are probably curious what's going on. Here's the thing. I don't know if y'all know this, but in some way, shape or form, y'all have been dead for God knows how long, hundreds of years, if, you know, maybe, maybe only 50, maybe only one, but y'all have been dead for quite some time.
00:35:00
Speaker
Lorelai, you seem to already know that on a account of your sister done did that stupid shitty thing to you. Mm hmm. Darling. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And Mr. Roy, it kind of looks like I don't know how I don't know.
00:35:12
Speaker
You know, you can be a combination of anything from the bloodbath. So I don't know if what I'm looking at is all you or if you got pieces that are different. I don't know if you got the right brain. So do you remember who like what brain do you have? Whose brain do you have?
00:35:24
Speaker
Roy Vinaels. I am as I should be. Right, like, from where? What do you remember before you died? I remember I was hunting a particularly powerful demon.
00:35:36
Speaker
It had wings for whatever reason. Huh? I mean, I guess some demons have wings, right, Lorelai? For some reason, for some reason, my cross was unable to absorb its blows. Oh, there was probably not a demon in there. There was probably an angel.
00:35:54
Speaker
His his brow fur. Yes, they are very evil, darling. Don't you know? Yeah, he's sort of a law says he sort of ah looks at her with a glare that I could strip the paint off a car and goes angels are evil. You say.
00:36:12
Speaker
She looks at him with like a super like serious glare. yes darling. I was one of the good guys. They were awful.
00:36:23
Speaker
If I recall, it is demons that came from hell. He sort of walks forward and- yeah Where do you think that rumor came from? and he sort of hefts it up. The rumor came from from the mouth of my god.
00:36:38
Speaker
a Sure. And he- What do you want to believe, darling? I can show you other ways. You'd note that as he lifts his cross, he has a surprising amount of strength for such a gaunt figure.
00:36:51
Speaker
And it's like this cross should weigh like, how much would a giant wooden cross weigh? Like six, 700 pounds, maybe 500?
00:37:00
Speaker
guess it depends on how thick it is, but maybe if you to have. It's a thick cross, and it has ah it has metal, and like dark metal embellishments and a bunch of symbols written on it, and you could see those symbols are have a slight glow to them, and maybe that's the seal that seals the demon ah those demons he has sealed inside.
00:37:16
Speaker
And as he heves sit up, and the yeah he sort he walks a few steps forward, but not too close, given that he is he is currently pretty much unarmed, given that he can't really use the cross as a weapon until he gets the chains.
00:37:30
Speaker
and And the he ah he says, well, it is demons that slaughtered cities back in my day. Though I don't know what year it is today.
00:37:42
Speaker
Not angels.
00:37:45
Speaker
Are you sure Because they have wonderful ways of changing their appearance. Just saying. They can make it look like us any day. you care to wish how I know?
00:37:58
Speaker
ah How you ah do you know? how do you know that they weren't a figment of your imagination where they made it look like they were us, but it was actually them? Because this cross.
00:38:13
Speaker
He slams it to the ground and, uh, and, uh, you know, he I would say he pats it slightly and says, uh, this cross knows what a demon is
00:38:24
Speaker
Oh, really? You know, like, as it gets closer to you, the light begins to pulse a little bit more.
00:38:33
Speaker
Are you sure about that? one hundred 100%. ah so Crystal. Oh, you mean this this is, like, some juicy stuff right here. And, you know, as much I'd love to watch this soap opera continue, I gotta get y'all up to speed, because, like...
00:38:48
Speaker
I brought y'all back from the dead because I need your help with something. So, you know, I'm going to get y'all fed, get you nice room, get you a place to stay. And then I need to tell y'all about the really big favor. I need to ask if you want kind of you're alive now when before you weren't.
00:39:01
Speaker
Okay.
00:39:04
Speaker
I suppose I do owe you a debt in that manner. I'll put you in the cross later and or I'll nail you to a cross later. he He grabs a towel and wraps it around his nether regions.
00:39:17
Speaker
whoa, whoa, whoa, listen, listen. I wasn't looking, by the way. I wasn't looking. i You know, whatever. um she looks over She looks over at Agent 69, Tobias.
00:39:29
Speaker
She's like, honey, you hungry or something? You look like a, you what, you you human? You human guy?
00:39:39
Speaker
Yes, I assure you I'm human. And I could really use a bite to eat. You like, what kind of food do you like? You're like, you' like ah you're not like a vegetarian, are you? Because we've got mostly meat products in here.
00:39:52
Speaker
No, I have no special dietary requirements. Oh, well, that's fantastic. Do you like nuts? These nuts in your mouth? No. Oh, shit. I was going to say that to you. You got me.
00:40:03
Speaker
Oh, shit. Oh, man. Okay, you funny. Okay, okay. So, do you remember where you're from? Nuts are nutritious and all that. Yes, I will eat them. Excellent. So whose brain do you have? Do you remember where you're from? How wait how you died? When you died? Do you remember?
00:40:19
Speaker
As I said, that's all confidential. and You don't come to tell me anything? I'm here to offer my services to you. Well, you know, I know that you're a hitman on account of all those hitman video games that were dropped into the vat just a minute ago.
00:40:34
Speaker
so Well, I consider myself more of a hunter than a hitman. Oh, well, that's perfect. Because I've got a lot of things that need to hit. um So... So I just need y'all to know the world that you're in right now is you are in a, well, let's just call it.
00:40:53
Speaker
We're kind of in the middle of a big old war that's been going on for about, I don't know, give or take 400 years. Um, um And the demon showed up.
00:41:04
Speaker
Angels showed up. Mortals started fighting back. And now there's a three-way war going on. there's different areas that have been taken. Cities built. Retooled. Redone.
00:41:15
Speaker
ah And let me just tell you what. I know you might think that the mortals are the good guys in this war. Let me tell you. They were always cruel people. Now they're just mad that they got competition from angels and demons. Alright?
00:41:26
Speaker
So they're all shitty equally. So we... Here at the Coalition, we don't really have a name for ourselves, but like this is the secret castle that we call it. So we're kind of like our own secret society.
00:41:39
Speaker
And we are here to try to take down the factions that exist to level the playing field. So that way we can hopefully end the war. So how do y'all feel about ending a war between angels, demons, and people?
00:41:50
Speaker
How would we go about that?
00:41:54
Speaker
Oh, well, that is a wonderful question, which leads me to introduce you to a couple more people. And she gestures over to the the large ogre who is picking up all of the large, the vat of items that she dropped when she came to pull you guys out originally.
00:42:10
Speaker
um And she goes, this here, this here is the retriever. If not for her, you guys wouldn't be alive right now. So she goes out onto the battlefields because she's big and scary and people typically leave her alone and she picks up you know, from grave sites, uh, burials, uh, you know mass grave sites, just from battlefields, just old houses, wherever she can find items, uh, artifacts, magical clothing, dead bodies, pieces of bodies, bones, flesh, teeth, whatever.
00:42:42
Speaker
And she brings it all back here and we'd chuck it into the vat and spin it around until eventually something forms in there. Um, So you guys can thank the Retriever. That's her code name because she brought enough parts back for y'all to kind of find yourselves to piece together to make what you are right now.
00:42:58
Speaker
So that's the Retriever. And to answer your question, how do we go about taking down the factions? That leads me to our second introduction. And she says, follow me, y'all. And she ah she throws her ladle over you guys's head that lands in the in the vat and.
00:43:16
Speaker
She walks to a few feet and opens up a door, a pretty wide door that's kind of like. ah It's just two like bookshelves in disguise, but they're just flat. It's just they're just doors. They're not bookshelves at all.
00:43:28
Speaker
And she pushes through them and you see standing and laying inside, almost looking like a rug, is a massive brown bear. And. um they They have like a little crystal ball like on like a table next to their head.
00:43:47
Speaker
And it's glowing and projecting images on the wall. And this bear just looks like totally like... not comatose, but like kind of just not with us. Like they just like totally out of it. They're just like drunk or something. Their their tongue is on the floor.
00:44:02
Speaker
Their eyes are kind of like droopy. And you see like a little energy beam, like little lightning cracks go from their head to this crystal projecting onto the wall.
00:44:13
Speaker
And every so often, like just a bolt of like magical lightning will jump through the crystal to the wall every so often doing that. And she goes, this here's the brain. And the brain is the one that tells us who we're supposed to hit next, to where we're supposed to hit next.
00:44:28
Speaker
And I take it all down and we formulate a plan on how we're going to do that. Right now it's all small potatoes, but small potatoes better than no potatoes. Am I right? um And so that's what you see. So that's our answer to your question is like, that's how we do it. um Any questions?
00:44:44
Speaker
Who's the first Mark? Well, that's a good question, actually. um And so she looks over and she she reaches up onto the table and gets a finger on the on the yeah on the crystal ball.
00:44:56
Speaker
um It's not exactly a crystal ball, but it looks kind of like that, like an orb of sorts. um And it's projecting onto the wall. And so as she touches it, like it kind of makes the images clearer. And you see like different flashes of like a grave site. And there's dwarves that are digging like under this like into the ground and drilling.
00:45:16
Speaker
um And just throwing a lot of corpses to the side as they do it. um Some of them are robbing the corpses. Some of them are just like throwing them to the side they can keep digging. um And you see there's very... like rippling, um, images of different spirits and stuff that seem to be walking amongst there. as Some are a little bit more corporeal than others.
00:45:35
Speaker
Um, you see, it looks like they're pleading with the dwarves to stop doing what they're doing, but the dwarves aren't like either. They can't see them or they're ignoring them. You see one dwarf, like swings his pickaxe at it to like evaporate it for a minute.
00:45:47
Speaker
Um, so it like leaves in the fuck alone. Then he goes back to digging. Um, and you see, uh, You see then ah the chef takes her finger off of that orb and then ah she moves it a few feet to the side and then like the lightning bolt leaves from the bear and the bear kind of like stands up and you see ah the chef says to you like...
00:46:12
Speaker
So we kind of use this for the brain to talk to us when he's having a vision because he can't really tell us with his own brain. So I came up with this little device to ah to help him talk to us when he's having visions of where we should go next.
00:46:26
Speaker
And then you see see the bear kind of stands up on all fours, kind of shakes their head back and forth a few times. um Their eyes kind of like stop glossing over and they go, my word, I say, I just never get used to that. Holy crap.
00:46:40
Speaker
um And then um he turns his attention to you guys and he says, oh, new newbies, eh? um And then she says, the the chef says, brain, this is Lorelai, Tobias and Roy.
00:46:56
Speaker
Roy, Tobias, Lorelai, this is the brain. Say hi. Nice to meet you, sir. Good evening. Hello, darling. Oh, wow. For such manners, so last the last batch that came in was just like, oh, God, the talking bear, as if that's weird in the world that we're in.
00:47:14
Speaker
I'm the freak. So thank you for being so kind. darling. you're You're not even close to the weirdest thing I've ever seen. What is the weirdest thing you've ever seen?
00:47:27
Speaker
i don't know if you would be able to stomach it, my darling. I mean, I've seen some stuff. We can talk later. course. and he says to you, Tobias, he says, so, I mean, I overheard you were asking for who the who the mark was. Apologies, I couldn't answer you directly.
00:47:48
Speaker
um But now that ah now that the images are cast, I can kind of make more sense of them. And he turns his head over to to the images that are like, still like, kind they're kind of like emblazoned on the wall.
00:48:03
Speaker
um and he says, well, it would seem that there is a gravesite that these awful greedy little dwarves are digging into, and it's disrupting a lot of spiritual essence there.
00:48:16
Speaker
So, I mean, if you guys look, if you feel like you're ready to do a job already, I don't know how long ago you've been reborn, but it looks like we need to, usually when I have these visions, it means there's something of high value there.
00:48:29
Speaker
So, you know, look for some sort of relic probably. i mean, there could be maybe some ah magical body there, but like if it's showing me a grave site, just history shows us, usually it's some sort of artifact or maybe even a grave marker itself, something that holds high powerful importance there that seems to be keeping the spirits where they're, where they're locked in.
00:48:53
Speaker
Their spirit should have been passed on by now. Um, And if my money is on anything, it's something that the dwarves put in place to keep the spirits at bay so they could dig. So find that thing and bring it back.
00:49:05
Speaker
And we're going to use that in the rebellion. How does that sound? Can you do a little fetch mission for us there, guys?
00:49:14
Speaker
I mean, I'm not somebody's dog. Now, I used fetch loosely. I don't mean go fetch, Lorelai. I mean, can you please go retrieve it for us? Because we can't send the retriever into dangerous missions. She has other things to do.
00:49:32
Speaker
What do you mean? That's like part of her job in her Yes, but she's the retriever, not the fighter and retriever. She goes to places that are abandoned, that have less dangers, to go retrieve the things we use to make people like you.
00:49:46
Speaker
Well, why do you not i have bodyguards for her? That's insane. That is incredible. That is asinine. She is a strong, independent ogre and doesn't need no man to guard her.
00:50:01
Speaker
whatever Whatever floats your boat, darling. I always need a bodyguard. See, I've got this big lug over here, and I've got this thing here. and know It's not really a bodyguard, though, but this big old love of muffin over here, he's wonderful, don't you think? He's looking.
00:50:21
Speaker
Right. are you Do you guys all know each other before you died, or... oh no no, no, darling. this This is the first time we've met. ah Roy, was it? You don't seem very happy to be alive i mean, do you not want a second chance at life?
00:50:40
Speaker
think you woke up on the wrong side of the cauldron, darling. ah woke up next a demon is what happened. Oh, boo-hoo. Where, where, where? Do you want a tissue for your issue?
00:50:52
Speaker
i would like a tissue to wipe my eyes, yes. They are covered in blood still. Oh, well, it Chef, why didn't you give them a towel? i use Agent 69 walks over to Roy and hands him a fucking handkerchief.
00:51:06
Speaker
from Oh, Keep it. one pops up from that one. know yeah ah ah Roy gives a solemn k nod of his head as he ah uses the handkerchief to you know wipe his eyes and nose and mouth and shit.
00:51:24
Speaker
His extremities. All right, well, look, you can certainly say no, but that was kind of the purpose that we reborned you was to help us do this. So, you know, we're just going to find other stuff for you to do if you don't want to go.
00:51:40
Speaker
This one's an easy peasy job just to see if y'all can get along because you don't know each other. There's no reason the bloodbath would spit y'all out if it didn't think you could have a chance to work together. So I just need to see if it's right.
00:51:51
Speaker
And it's been right like 99% the time. I'm supposed to work with Fine, I'm calling. The incantation cast upon the cauldron dictates that whoever is born at the same time from the cauldron typically are destined to be able to work together.
00:52:08
Speaker
Now, did we have had a few that just did not work out. That's true, but for the most part, you know if the spell works properly, y'all should be able to get along just fine. Usually that means there's a bond somewhere with all of y'all that makes you more powerful together than you are separately.
00:52:25
Speaker
So I need to see if that's true. If y'all make it back alive, it's great. If you don't, then something got fucked up and I need to put some new more sugar in the batch or something.
00:52:37
Speaker
I suppose for now to end this war I can work with you, but do not expect me to save you if ere if the going gets tough. i I'm not expecting you to save me, darling. Look at you, you're such a toothpick.
00:52:56
Speaker
My strength comes from my faith. And then he like like gives her the cross, could you carry this? but with my pinky darling guy come on guys come on now please please be nice be nice keep us seat off give it a try oh my gosh i do not do any heavy lifting for peasant anyways let's go i just don't want to deal with this any longer let's just go i would like you here as well Oh, yeah. yeah
00:53:27
Speaker
yeah Retriever, you were supposed to pull his clothes out from the bath when you did it, idiot. had clothes in the bath. The retriever's like, hu and like walks in, like reaches her she just cleans off her arm from all the blood and gore, and she reaches back in, and pulls out like a yeah know like what kind of clothes you think you wore? Like a long trench coat, like a duster or some shit?
00:53:48
Speaker
um I feel it would be cloth. um itd It'd be like a navy blue cloth, a sort of robe coat over a ah Just, like, not form-fitting, but ah normal cloth trousers and shirt and whatnot.
00:54:04
Speaker
um Well, she throws that outfit, like, just over to you. Like, before she throws it over to you, she blows on it. Like, just like a real quick, like, oh and, like, all the blood just flies off it onto the wall. And it's, like, it's clean.
00:54:16
Speaker
And she hands it to you and grunts. She beats on her chest real quick and then walks away. yeah um What interesting modeling services. Yeah, you hear the shepherd just like, no, goddammit, retriever. I just, oh oh, she's sassy today. And she starts walking off.
00:54:33
Speaker
like She's just like she's taking off her belt, like cracking it. She's like, I want to whip your ass, bitch. And like she's just like all us she follows her up the stairs. It's like massive ogres leaving like this tiny woman.
00:54:46
Speaker
And you just hear like, I see Charles just like, No, I'm serious. When I'm able to catch up to your long-legged ass, I'm going to whip the shit out of you. If I can ever catch up to you.
00:55:01
Speaker
If I can ever catch up to you. Like one of her steps is like nine of the chefs. yeah And like, so you see you see the brain is just kind of standing there awkwardly looking at you guys. and goes, so you guys want to do the job or what?
00:55:18
Speaker
Well, sir, I'm typically not sure um typically not involved in hunting objects. but i can What if I told you that there would be people to hunt too?
00:55:34
Speaker
That is typically my job. it's However, there's nothing that says it's required. Oh, well, I can assure you that we never ever just have a clean job or we don't meet resistance.
00:55:45
Speaker
And if it helps you feel better, those dwarves are not good people. They're not just run-of-the-mill workers mining. They're sent from one of the bigwigs in one of the towns on the hill to go and find more ways to create weapons of mass destruction with the ore that lies beneath.
00:56:02
Speaker
So I can tell you first-handedly that they are not good people and they all signed up willingly to be a part of it.
00:56:10
Speaker
Okay, well, i assassinate away my score goes down if I kill anyone who's not the target. Well, let's just call them sub targets. The main target is to find whatever the artifact is that's keeping the spirits there.
00:56:24
Speaker
But if you happen to find that you can slay a few dwarves along the way, none of us are going to miss them and you can bring them back to throw them in the cauldron.
00:56:37
Speaker
What do you say? Of course, sir, that sounds acceptable to me. Will you be will you be providing transportation? Actually, I'm glad that you asked. um And ah you see he yeah he walks in back into his little room where he was like projecting those items.
00:56:55
Speaker
um And he starts like kind of like nuzzling a few buttons on the wall, like amidst these different baubles and bits. um And you hear just like a quick, and he says, your ride will be outside when you're ready.
00:57:11
Speaker
Will there be sustenance the any chance? Oh, We don't have walk. wonderful, darling. Thank you. I always needed a shofar. I'm so glad that you knew. Well, well i but I'm not your shofar.
00:57:24
Speaker
Now, what were you saying, Mr. Roy? Will there be food by any chance? I'm famished. Oh, yes. There's plenty of snacks on the way out the door. Don't you worry about that a little bit. The chef is always cooking up something.
00:57:37
Speaker
Oh, buffet. Wonderful. She's an actual chef. Interesting. Oh, yeah. That's why she calls herself the chef. She had the title before she started making revived, reanimated dead people.
00:57:48
Speaker
Okay. She just needed to have that identity in the apocalypse, too. Trust me, she she she was a chef long before she made dead people come back to life. Hmm.
00:58:01
Speaker
Interesting. Yeah, her name used to be like Cassandra or something.
00:58:09
Speaker
But she goes by the chef now because she her that's what she calls her her her her name from her former life.
00:58:19
Speaker
I see. She never required anybody to tell her to call her chef. So so now she just calls herself Chef, right? Yeah, she claimed it herself as a way to contribute in a way against the war effort that she knew how, which was to kind of work in, you know, the chemistry of cooking in a way.
00:58:41
Speaker
Wonderful. Let's go, guys. ah Yes, and Mr. mr ah Tiberius, or Tobias, was it? Mr. Reaper? yes Mr. Reaper.
00:58:53
Speaker
Mr. Reaper, I was just wondering, are you proficient with driving?
00:58:59
Speaker
Let me check.
00:59:02
Speaker
Let me check the menu. Looks like i took it off my skill sheet before the game started. Presses start. Yeah. But I'll edit my god. Well, I hope one of you is good at driving, because you're about to get a pretty nice whip.
00:59:16
Speaker
Alright. A whip would be useful. it looks like is it like one of the Millmont's whips? I mean, we do have those. They have been thrown into the cauldron, yes.
00:59:28
Speaker
Unfortunately, the Belmont family didn't make it.
00:59:33
Speaker
Oh, mediocre, sir. Yeah, there were yes, they were ponces. ah But yes, Mr. mr Reaper, um you know, just um treat the ride with respect. It's one of the few that we have left.
00:59:47
Speaker
Of course, sir. um okay and then you see that little assistant who spilled all of the games into the the vat comes running down he says uh i have to take you to your ride sirs and ma'am are you ready and he's like reading a little piece of paper like to kind of remember his his words he's like ah i am good how are you are you ready to go and get into your ride ask ah wait for a response And he looks up at me. that's awesome. Go fetch my suitcase out of the yeah cauldron over there.
01:00:22
Speaker
He like rolls up a sleeve, kind of like a little tear comes out of his eye. goes, okay. Okay. um And he rolls over and reaches his arm in and like, it's so cold. um And he pulls out a suitcase and throws it the floor next to you. Briefcase. Or briefcase, excuse me. Oh, sorry, that's your suitcase. Throw it back.
01:00:41
Speaker
And that's briefcase, of course. That's not yours. He sits down a briefcase that says Samsonite on it and puts it down on your feet. Hell yeah.
01:00:52
Speaker
She goes, oh, that reminds me. She starts patting herself. Did you find a whip made out of two angel spines, by the way? ah the You know, the retriever is really supposed to be pulling that out of there.
01:01:07
Speaker
Did you actually have a whip made of two angel spines? That was your weapon. No. okay so he's just reaching in there for nothing she's she's poking at the other guy yeah yeah yeah roy is you know you he gives her a side glance at ah and with it his eyes you're the burning with a righteous fury but he's he's mellow right now typical of a demon to cause a young man suffering he's like crying he's like i can't fight out i want to be thrown out into the cold
01:01:39
Speaker
and I don't want to go back to the wargrounds! um Miss Lorelei. Wait, what's it in there? That's alright, darling, I'll make a new one Miss Lorelei, this is not a whip, but ah I'm sure you'll find use for it. and ah Agent 69 hands Lorelai a ah like the piano wire or the garrote from the hit series Hitman.
01:02:10
Speaker
So you could add a garrote to your... soul here Yeah, this will this will leave people breathless. who I love the way you think, darling.
01:02:22
Speaker
You see like the guy, like he's like, so do I have to, can I stop looking for this whip um No, keep looking for it. And like he rolls up his other sleeve and puts both arms, is like he's like up to his neck almost. like
01:02:40
Speaker
ah Roy, in a- You'll find it eventually, darling. Roy, and in it like a feat of pity, he you know puts down the cross and takes off the yeah ah the glove, and he like takes off his shirt that he was putting on and goes, I will assist you.
01:02:53
Speaker
And he starts to do it around in there, too. As you go to do that, you see like the chef like comes rolling down Sonic the fucking hedgehog down the stairs and fucking crashes into the wall. And she goes, all right, bitch, we'll call it a draw. And like stands up. She she she stands up, like cracks her neck a little bit. And she's like, she like lucky I'm immortal.
01:03:15
Speaker
Goddamn. um and uh she's like she's like billy what the fuck are you doing in my cauldron get away from that you know you're not allowed to reach your hands in there and he's just like crying he's like i'm supposed to find the whip and this nice man was gonna help me um and she's like you fucking know better that the retriever reaches are yeah and she's like she's like lady do you have a whip you're supposed to get her wet because the retriever would have found it if you're supposed to have one Of course, darling, had an... Oh, wait, no, I left that in my other dress. I'm so, so sorry. I'm so sorry.
01:03:53
Speaker
Alright, Billy, that's what you get for dropping shit in there. You ain't supposed to be dropping. Get out of here. um She kicks him in the calf and he runs away. like, I'm supposed be getting to getting work. Go out there and get your get your vehicle already. Jesus.
01:04:11
Speaker
If he still exists, Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. um She's like, that might be a mission we have to go, is to go capture that guy eventually. i don't know. I hope not, though. He seems like a chill dude. me um And so, like, she mushes you on the way. She, like, just gives you guys, like, a little smack on the leg. She's like, just go. Go and get. Yeah. I'd imagine Roy. There's coordinates already for you.
01:04:36
Speaker
Roy picks up the big old massive chains and and begins to follow suit. All right. So you see Billy leads you guys out to your vehicle and it is a four seater Ford Raptor.
01:04:51
Speaker
um This like massive, but it's like a modified Ford Raptor and it has like a huge bed you can put your cross in. um And he says, we we we just got done fixing it up for you guys. It took us a long time to put it together. Finding vehicle parts is not easy.
01:05:11
Speaker
So please take care of it. um Actually, I think it's a fraud Raptor. I think the ah the letters are in the wrong place. I think it's FROD Raptor. um ah She says, which one do you guys wants the keys? And he holds up like a little little set of keys.
01:05:27
Speaker
Rolai immediately gets in the back seat. Yeah, Roy is here studying this thing intently. He has no fucking clue what this thing is. ah Agent 69 already has the keys.
01:05:43
Speaker
Oh, shit, how'd you that? He's just getting in. shit He says, now, Mr. Roy, I understand you might be from a time that maybe you didn't have these. um Is it like a wagon? We're in kind of a...
01:05:56
Speaker
yeah Yeah, it's kinda like a wagon, except like, um... I see. Except like there's no horses, and ah the horses are under the hood. This is what's known as a horseless carriage.
01:06:07
Speaker
Now get in. Yeah! It's fascinating. He says as he hops into the back of the truck so he can start to wrap the cross with the chains. Nice. So we got Lorelai in the back, you in the bed, and Agent 69 in the front.
01:06:20
Speaker
Even though would be kind of funny to also sit in the back with the big-ass cross, you know, pressing Lorelai. It's like her seat or the window. Yep. yeah But i he's going to sit in the back. That's on par for Jacob. Yeah. I'm not going to it this time around. He's either riding in the back or on the top. Yep.
01:06:37
Speaker
So, uh, okay. So when, uh, so Agent 69, when you start up the engine, you see, like, in the center dial, or center dash, like, a little screen turns on, uh, like, little, like, cracks of lightning kind of like, flash over it every few seconds.
01:06:52
Speaker
Um, and, uh, it says, you can hear the brain talking to you through it. And he says, okay, I'm just gonna think real hard about where you're supposed to go, and the coordinates should appear on your screen any second now, and then just go there, and let me know what you find if you come back alive success if you didn't well um sorry um and uh then uh you see like on your little map coordinates you see like a little blue ping starts to show up uh and then um schmoogle maps starts to show you guys the way to get there uh all right i hit the gays agent four is it
01:07:32
Speaker
Alright, let's see you roll a drive skill to see how efficiently you get there and how quickly you get there. I rolled a zero.
01:07:40
Speaker
Oh, you already rolled one? i was shit. Alright, so I should say, in this game, like we're going playing it like a little looser than how it plays. It's going little bit of Powered by the Apocalypse, mostly the Fate.
01:07:51
Speaker
So, for like real rudimentary rolls, I'm not going to say... like There's four main things you can do. You can roll to overcome, you can roll to create an advantage, you can roll attack or roll to defend. In a lot of these more rudimentary rolls that don't really mean that much, they would probably be an overcome roll, but they don't mean that much. So I'm just going to have them do a flat roll and see how they do and interpret the rolls.
01:08:10
Speaker
When the rolls really, really matter, I'll tell you what it is that you're rolling against. So for right now, a zero, you're just you're adequately driving the car where you're supposed to fucking take it. um Nothing super crazy going on there.
01:08:22
Speaker
um Well, what do you see as you're driving? What kind of stuff do you think you're driving past? Do you think you're on like paved roads? Do you think you're on a back road? Do you see towns? Do you see trees? Like what kind of world are you driving out into when you set the truck? The way I imagine it is.
01:08:37
Speaker
As we head out from the castle, you know, like we're in like some like basically mountains or like a hilly region, right? And it's ah out in the middle of fucking nowhere. And then i imagine it as we like the further we go away from the castle, it starts to become ah more modern looking.
01:08:57
Speaker
Like you start to come up on like gravel roads and paved roads and stuff like that. we definitely hit a paved road, of course. Like we hit like a modern like highway. And, ah you know, we're driving through like small towns basically the whole way there. I would imagine it's a pretty rural area.
01:09:11
Speaker
Sure. ah Do you see any animals in these rural areas? And, but you know, like how sometimes you pass farmsteads and stuff like that? What what do you guys think? Yeah, do you guys think that, yeah, you don't see any livestock?
01:09:25
Speaker
maybe Maybe a few cows here and there? Probably more dystopian than... So every so often, maybe you see a cow, but like it's not like a fields of them everywhere. There might be like a few stragglers that made it, but for the most part, it's just...
01:09:39
Speaker
um So yeah, so every now and then you might see a random chicken or ah or a cow, but for the most part, um you don't see anything. um And then you start to come up and you see like there's a sign that says ah that says like ah the dump site this way, um two miles.
01:09:59
Speaker
um And that goes along where the map route is and it takes you eventually a few miles down the road and you get to the point where like the road ends and you're just on like dirt. You're just driving in the middle of like a dirt area. And you can see off in the distance, it's pretty hard to miss.
01:10:13
Speaker
You can see just like a whole horde of like, I'd say at least two dozen like dwarven guys and gals are just like digging into the ground. They have a couple of pieces of machinery that have like drills on them that are like driving into the earth.
01:10:29
Speaker
Um, You see that there are quite a few dwarves that are like picking up bodies and just throwing them over the hill as they roll farther down. um So ah that's what you see.
01:10:40
Speaker
I cut the lights on the truck. and Okay. And go slowly. we get as We get closer, and i would say when we're like 500 meters out or something, we cut the truck off.
01:10:55
Speaker
Cut the engine? Yep. Okay.
Ghostly Scouting and Spirit Communication
01:10:57
Speaker
Alright, so you do that. So let's ah let's kind of get into it. So I'm just, you know what, I'm going to do the same thing I did earlier, and I'm just going to draw cards and see if anybody wants to take any sort of initiatives.
01:11:11
Speaker
So it looks like Lorelai. Lorelai, what do you want to do first? It's like you see, you you hear Agent 69 cuts the lights, he cuts the engine as you guys get close. You can kind of see like, you know, as you're looking out the windows and maybe through the front dash, you can see the scene that I've described a bit. You you can kind of see also, like as you get closer, it's darker.
01:11:31
Speaker
um You can see like remnants of spirits, like some of them are just like glowing colored orbs. Some of them are like you can see just different remnants of people. Some of them, You know, of all different shapes and sizes and ages, you see these spirits are kind of wandering and they look like they're trying to yell at these dwarves who are paying them no mind as they work.
01:11:50
Speaker
What do you do?
01:11:54
Speaker
So... She's like kind of magical. Could she...
01:12:04
Speaker
Could she create a duplicate of herself, like an image, so she kind of looks like a ghost, and just kind of scout out the spot to see if she can find the object that they're looking for this? Hmm.
01:12:23
Speaker
Um...
01:12:25
Speaker
You know what? I don't know if this would technically be an overcome role because this it's a little bit more of a, a you know what? Let's call it a create an advantage role to see if you can make it easier to do that.
01:12:36
Speaker
ah So ah yeah, I would say maybe let's call it a will check. Like you just, like I say, will, I usually associate will with like the magic so ah skill in this game.
01:12:50
Speaker
ah So let's say if you get it at like a, Wow. Holy shit. I was going to say if you get it out of three, but wow. Holy fuck. um So, yeah, that's an epic. So, yeah. you So tell me kind of like how you do you cast it from the vehicle? Do you get out and kind of pick a spot? Like, can you are you casting your range or are you casting her beside you and then kind of manipulating her like as if you're the camera?
01:13:11
Speaker
Like, what does that look like? So she's going to like whisper to herself and cast the image of herself just outside of the truck. And then that way it kind of looks like um like a ghost flicker just kind of shows up.
01:13:30
Speaker
OK, just looks like a ghost image of herself. Sure, and since you rolled an epic roll, so you beat, I was going to say a three, you beat it by way more than that, ah well, originally.
01:13:41
Speaker
So that means that when you roll to create an advantage and you succeed with style, which means if you beat the score that you needed by three or more, you get two what I'm calling community fate points, or like advantages that you've made. So these are floating fate points within this scene that you and anybody else can use if they apply to what you're doing.
01:14:02
Speaker
So like anything involving your ghost, something you're doing to help, anything that these guys want to do to take advantage of and they need to bump up their score, you guys can use this to get a free plus two or a free reroll on any of the dice that you roll each time or we're without having to use what we call fate points that you have that are just yours.
01:14:21
Speaker
So these are community fate points you can use whenever, as long as it's in this scene. So nice work. You've created this phantom. You're out there scoping out so we can say, um Yeah, like you're kind of walking your your spirit out there, to your little image to kind of check the scene out.
01:14:36
Speaker
You can see that like these spirits are screaming like as you're up close, but there is no sound coming from them. They just cannot make any noise. They're pleading. Some of them are like trying to like grab on to the dwarves as they work.
01:14:51
Speaker
ah trying to speak to them to tell like you can kind of see when their lips are moving. They're saying, please stop. You don't know what you're doing. Let us go. Like you get a very plain as day. They're crying. they're They're screaming at these guys.
01:15:02
Speaker
And like you see, like just keep waving their hands at them as if they're just like a bug in the air as they walk past them and through them to continue working and throwing more bodies over the hill. um That's what you see.
01:15:14
Speaker
You can't quite so clock the artifact yet, but I'd say that you would know that but just like the brain said, now that you kind of have your own magical energy out into this world, you can tell that he's right. There is something here that's keeping these guys from interfering and from leaving.
01:15:31
Speaker
They cannot interfere with the living right now, um which could be good, but it could also be bad. You know, you don't know these spirits. You just know they're upset at these dwarfs. They could be bad spirits. They could be good spirits. You don't know that.
01:15:45
Speaker
Okay. So you could relay that information back out to your team, or you can continue trying to make your spirit walk further in as we go to the next person. She's going
Dwarves' Excavation and Artifact Influence
01:15:55
Speaker
to continue to walk further in.
01:15:57
Speaker
Okay, so she's going to keep that information to herself? Yep, she's just going to assess the situation. Very good. All right, so up next, that would be Agent 69. So Agent 69, what do you want to do? So, like, you're in the driver's seat right now. You can kind of, I'd say you can at least, like, hear Lorelai, like, whispering to herself in the back, like a magical energy comes from her.
01:16:17
Speaker
I don't know if you would necessarily clock. Yeah, i don't know if you necessarily clock what she did, but she's doing something back there and just like in her own kind of like trance. ah Well, he's going to ignore that and just get out of the truck. Okay. And he's going to pull out a pair of binoculars that he has.
01:16:35
Speaker
Oh, nice. He has them. and Yeah, you definitely do. You would. you would He's going to try to look for a way in. Okay, let's have this be a notice roll. and This would just be a simple overcome roll. You're just going to try to see what you can see. I should i can add that as a skill.
01:16:54
Speaker
If you have a spot for it and you don't have it, you can certainly add it. Perfect. i think no That's why you play to find out, baby. For him to have. oh Excellent. So now you have the notice skill. That's how fate works.
01:17:07
Speaker
That's how fate works. You can build your character as you play. Yep. It's crazy. Yeah. Hey, he's going to roll a notice me senpai. All right, let's see. That's mediocre. That's a zero.
01:17:20
Speaker
So that just means that you succeed, but maybe at a minor cost on a zero. So like i would say maybe like what the minor cost is, is like maybe like people start to kind of I don't know, maybe like a spiritual, something rather reflected, maybe the moon reflected off of your fucking binoculars as you're pulling them out.
01:17:41
Speaker
Maybe one guy like who's on the closest to the edge of where you guys are might have like, he's not coming to look, but like he's like, oh, so like maybe they're just like noticing something they didn't know, but like you haven't been made yet.
01:17:53
Speaker
um But I'd say, yeah, you you're looking out. So what you're trying to look for a way in, you said. ah Yeah, so I would consider this more of an investigate role, I guess. But I'm looking for weigh-in, holes in their defenses, if they have any defenses.
01:18:10
Speaker
so what is in? When you say a weigh-in, into what? Oh, I imagine they like... they're they have like some work site, right? Like where they're throwing bodies over the hill, right? So wherever they're throwing the bodies from. Yeah, I mean, that would be quick enough that you can see very easily they're all walking kind of like the same line to throw these bodies in. You notice they're walking the same path. They walk straight. They throw the body over the hill.
01:18:34
Speaker
They carve up a little bit to the right. They snake back down towards where other bodies are, and they walk that same path. There's people who are dedicated to just finding bodies and walking the same path to throw it over. So you can just notice that's a very quick notice that like, oh, they're just if you're looking for like how to get around to where the body's being thrown, they're walking the same path over and over and over again. Okay. So we just walk around them basically.
01:18:57
Speaker
Yeah, so there there are other workers that are like digging and or they're using the mining equipment. it is a little loud. Like every time they do use the drill, it gets really fucking loud because they're like drilling into rock. um But like when the drill is not on, it's like kind of – you just hear like the tink, tink, tink, tink. It's like shovels and pickaxes. I guess I'm not clear on what is actually going on. Are they digging into the side of a hill or like – It's in the side of the hill and into the grass. So it's kind of like both. They're trying to create like ah an operation there to work.
01:19:25
Speaker
So like some guys are dedicated, just like test the ground like they're, ah you know, hitting in into different spots to say like, oh, is this a good place to dig? Is this too hard? They're putting down like little markers like some guys are just like clearing the way because they want to dig here.
01:19:39
Speaker
Some them are just digging into the wall to see like, oh, is there anything in here worth getting or can we build into here? So just like they're trying to like assess the area to see if it's a good place. You don't know anything further than that because you haven't talked to anybody, but that's like pretty standard operation of like, is this a good place to work?
01:19:54
Speaker
But and they think, you know, from what the brain is saying, like they may think there's something valuable here because there's a lot of spirits here. um So that's what they, that's what his guess is as to what they're doing, is they're creating a worksite in ah in this place, hoping they'll find something valuable.
01:20:11
Speaker
if you want to roll an investigation roll, you can certainly do that if you want to kind of maybe kind of piece some more information together. So it's like an excavation almost. um Essentially, they're trying to make like an an excavation site. At an average. All right, so you got a one. That's still a success on that overcome rule, so you get to learn exactly what you're looking to do.
01:20:28
Speaker
So yeah, you can tell, like, so you can kind of overhear. You're looking through your binoculars. Like, the drill goes down for a minute, and you hear, like, one of the guys yelling over, ah you know, like, barking orders at him, and you can kind of tell, like, you can overhear the conversation just like some guys are just like, I hope that magical order's under here. It'd be really nice to be a part of that.
01:20:49
Speaker
you know you know so they're just like they're just like having very flickerly open conversations and one of them just like fuck these ghosts though am i right um and so they're just kind of digging they're trying to like find something valuable underground um and so they're and again piecing the information you know from what the brain told you they're using something here to keep the spirits at base they can work without being accosted by ghosts um so they're disrupting a mass grave site full of ghosts so dig here And they have some, yeah, and that's the thing. The thing they're using is what we need to recover.
01:21:23
Speaker
Correct. The thing you're using, you have to figure out what it is and where it is ah and recover it. But also not knowing like if the spirits will also come after you when you do it. But ah you can also see them because you're looking through your binoculars.
01:21:37
Speaker
You can see just what I was saying to Lorelei. They're upset. They're pleading. Many of them look angry, sad, crying. They're trying to grab onto these people, but they can't. They bad thing. They're pissed.
01:21:49
Speaker
They're sad. like they're pissed they're sad Okay. But you hear no voices coming from the ghosts. ah You just see their lips moving. And actually, as you're looking out, since you did, ah since you got that one in the investigate, you do see like kind of like one of the spirits as you're like looking around looks an awful lot like Lorelei, like a little kind of shadier version of her walking around where the rest of the spirits are.
01:22:13
Speaker
All right. You see, you see Lorelei in the backseat just kind of a whispering to herself. Um,
01:22:21
Speaker
Well, Roy, i'm I'm standing outside the truck. I imagine like I'm on the hood of the truck right now. Okay. And I'm like, you know, and Roy, you rode in the back of the truck, right? Yeah, but he he's he'd have gotten out by now. Yeah, okay.
01:22:33
Speaker
Well, it appears like they're looking for some magical aura. And they're using something to keep these ghosts at bay. And it's probably what Just as the brain said. Just as the brain said, right.
01:22:46
Speaker
Just as the brain said. Just as the brain said. Pinky on the brain. Mm-hmm.
01:22:53
Speaker
good eye so what do you do roy um so like i'd imagine you know when the car parks roy uh he hops out the uh the bed and uh the uh cross follows after him and uh it stops right before it hits the ground because he knows uh like he he hoists it up before it hits the ground and you notice he's holding it by the chains that are currently wrapped around it so do you remember when i said that uh the cross glows when around demons or the sigils at least Well, the caveat to that is now that the chains are covering it up, he can't see the sigils glowing.
01:23:24
Speaker
So, um yeah yeah. Anyway, so that's just so it's not too overpowered. um So, he you know, his ah right arm is ah wrapped in chains as well, and he's holding it onto his back, the cross, I mean.
01:23:38
Speaker
And he he he what's the term when you're carrying something on your back and and or or whatever he I wouldn't say stammers, but I guess walks. He walks up to ah ah to Agent 46 and or eight no, eight not Agent Agent Agent funny number. Thank you.
01:23:56
Speaker
Yeah. Tobias. Yeah. Tobias. Tobias Reaper. And you know him as Tobias Reaper. Yeah. Yeah. He doesn't know your agent. Yeah. You don't know. Right. He doesn't know that ah Tobias is Agent 69. Anyways, he walks forward and um he looks around. Could he – but possibly given that we're sort of doing a reconnaissance round, could he possibly taste in the air? see Maybe I've got to figure out a way to flavor.
01:24:23
Speaker
Yeah, taste the air, see if there's sulfur, or see if there's anything in particular. I'd imagine that. ah Or smell the air or something. See if there's evil about. oh my god i I see what you're trying to say. You're trying to see like with like your demon sense, like you would know. like You would be able to clock pretty quickly. Like, oh, is there a fucking like demonic presence here? yeah Well, I'd say not even just demons, but is it possible for him to see if there's just evil in general? Like ah if this this specific artifact has a specific feel about it, you know, uses sense? You know, I would say i would say if you roll high enough, maybe out it depends on what you roll.
01:24:57
Speaker
I see. So let's make it a notice roll because if you're trying to use your senses to kind of like determine something, that would be a notice. yeah yeah um So I would say, I tell you what if you get if you get at least a two in notice, I'd say you definitely be able to feel like what around here could be. But if you get like, if you succeed with style, which would be a five or higher, I'd say you'd be able to clock everything.
01:25:20
Speaker
Okay, let's see. ah Fingers crossed. and I rolled a one. Now you do have community fate points you can use if you wish, because you do have a familiar presence who is out. I don't know if you know this, but she's out and about.
01:25:34
Speaker
You could maybe be able to clock her and kind of like see her interacting with the other spirits. You could use that. So if you want, yeah you that would give you a plus two, which would give you a three. So you would succeed. You know, what the hell? I'll do it.
01:25:45
Speaker
And then I'll see if I can make myself some more community fate points for everyone else. Hey, that's what they're there for. So Lorelai created that advantage for you. She's out there kind of walking amongst the spirits.
01:25:57
Speaker
maybe you like Maybe you kind of clock her and you're like, oh man, that evil wench. I know she's evil. I knew she was up to something. She's smudging the air, goddammit, with her sulfur scent.
01:26:09
Speaker
Interestingly enough, like I'd say, like you feel it on your skin from the air. You get a little bit of a tingle in your nose. Like, you know, you've been fighting demons for a long time. you You know, you have a lot of experience. You have a lot of experiences with evil in general.
01:26:23
Speaker
You do sense a little bit of that energy coming from Lorelei, but like not the amount that like now that you're like really trying to use. She's in the car, but she's also over there. And so like you're kind of wielding the energy. So like her being there kind of helps you, like you said, triangulate to other areas of true evil.
01:26:41
Speaker
And the thing is, you feel it a lot in the hearts of many of these dwarves. Like, there's something about them that just seems very cold. They seem almost like, you know, I know they're dwarves, but like there's something very inhumane about like the things they're doing and saying, um you know, like,
01:26:59
Speaker
you can kind of just see like you see off in the distance like as you're trying to determine like what's going on here you see one of the dwarves drops one of the bodies like as he's like struggling to pick it up because a larger guy and he just starts kicking the corpse he's just angry he's just beating the shit out of the corpse like just you can hear him cursing over the in the background just like stupid fucking fat fucking oh god i hate non-dwarfs so much why god i'm gonna enjoy watching you burn um and like he's just pissed and like he's struggling to pick him back up like there's just like there's no sympathy for any of these people um like any of these people that have died here um and so like the evil that you're sensing is like these are not good people i see i'd imagine that evil is sort of overpowering whatever artifact they're looking for so he's unable to figure out what it is Yeah, I would say that it's so overwhelming, your senses, because like it's everywhere.
01:27:52
Speaker
Like, you know, you know, there are people who are victims of circumstances or who have to work in situations they don't want to work in. But like none
Lorelai's Necrotic Magic Attack
01:27:59
Speaker
of these guys seem sad about what they're doing, at least none of the ones that you can see. They seem pissed that like they even have to touch things that aren't dwarven.
01:28:07
Speaker
I see. They're like, fuck these stupid non-dwarven people. like They're throwing orcs and humans and gnomes just over this hill, like and they're making a sport of it. The little ones, you clock, like they're throwing the fucking gnomes like they're goddamn basketballs. like They're just chucking them to see how far they can throw them over the hill. like There's no sense of sympathy for these people.
01:28:30
Speaker
I see. Do I see that as well? suppose that clears it up. i Well, he'd relay that you. would out You probably wouldn't know kind of the maliciousness that's here completely, but you would absolutely see as you're surveying where the bodies are being thrown, like just just how poorly they're treating the bodies. And you would probably have also seen like the guy kicking the dude before he picks him back up.
01:28:54
Speaker
um But like to know that it's like true evil, like here in this moment, you probably wouldn't know that. But you could probably infer like these are bad dudes. Yeah, Roy Wooda. you'd relate ah He'd relate to ree Mr. Reaper.
01:29:07
Speaker
um that yeah Yes, these are evil or these are evil folk.
01:29:13
Speaker
I suppose I'll have no sympathy dis or dispatching them. So he'd, I guess, yeah, he'd probably wait until ah Reaper and Lorelai give the A-OK, that they're they finished up with their reconnaissance.
01:29:28
Speaker
Until then maybe pray a little bit. Do I see how many there are? I just have one more question. ah Yeah, you can see there's at least 20. Oh, okay. oh There's a lot of dudes here. Well, Roy, and on different would I would not advise a frontal assault in this case. Agreed. Especially because I got a giant drill machine. yeah go in Trust me, i've I'm experienced in this. I'll get us in Then I suppose i will follow your lead. I'm not one much for stealth. If you, any sort of nods his head at the cross covered in ah jingling chains, I'm not one much for stealth.
01:30:10
Speaker
uh lorelei what do you do as they're having in this conversation you're out there kind of looking around you you see the spirits are not happy you see that they can't interact with the with the dwarves uh you've also i would say you also with your spiritual form before it starts to dissipate you can see you know you you see you hear the guys just complaining like and so many of them like they're wearing these like thick ass gloves and they're just the ones that are on like body duty are just complaining about the fact that they have to even touch non-Dwarven people.
01:30:43
Speaker
Okay. So my idea is is that she's going to see everything and pull her dope but duplicate back. And she's just going to slide out of the truck, put her hand so the ground, and start to summon her underworld magic to...
01:31:07
Speaker
do like an area effect spell that basically summons up
01:31:15
Speaker
a necrotic magic that will basically kill all of the little guys that are and Okay, you're doing a few ask here. Kill everyone. You know what? You can try it. I think that's a great character beat, but you're going to need to get a really big fucking number to do that. So this is going this is going to be an attack roll on everybody that is in that area. So this will be an attack.
01:31:43
Speaker
And you will need to get at least, I'm going to say a legendary roll. You're going to need an eight. hey If you get an eight, you fucking torch, you hit everybody here at least once.
01:31:57
Speaker
At least in the area. That's really close, though. Holy shit. I got a plus four. You got a plus four. um Now, ah now you can keep that result. At least in the closest vicinity, maybe.
01:32:13
Speaker
The ones that are closest to her. Here's how the game of fate can be played, y'all. okay You got a four. Mm-hmm. You have a free community fate point that you created earlier, which can make that a six.
01:32:26
Speaker
And you have three fate points left if you can find a reason to justify using them to bump your score up. So you would meet that eight, which would mean you would at least succeed.
01:32:38
Speaker
Now, how much damage you do depends on how many more past that eight that you get. So if you really want to burn some fate points, you could actually do some damage to these guys. Otherwise, the area of effect will hit and you will I will say at least maybe you get a boost and you stagger them all. They all fall. They're all little singed.
01:32:54
Speaker
But however many more past eight you get dictates how much damage you can do.
01:33:00
Speaker
As if you want to, or you can say, no, I don't want to spend my fate points and just keep your four, which means you failed.
01:33:08
Speaker
But you will have attracted a lot of attention doing it. Yeah. So what do you want to do? Because that's how fate works. You get to see the role effect. You get to see the results and then determine if you want want to use fate points.
01:33:22
Speaker
Yeah, I'm going to use them. All right, so you can use the first community fate point to ah to bump that up for free.
01:33:34
Speaker
And so then you have to look at your character sheet and tell me what do you think you can, what aspects can you tap about yourself? Hold up, hold up, hold up. Sorry, I don't think she actually rolled. i don't think it actually rolled.
01:33:45
Speaker
Huh? I don't think it actually rolled. What are you talking about? It rolled. It rolling four equals four.
01:33:54
Speaker
Huh? Mouse over her wall. Oh, you did. Oh, you click the skill button, Cass. You have to click the your. Yeah, no, no, no. You don't click the underworld button. So the stunt is just there to show you what you can do.
01:34:05
Speaker
You still have to roll the appropriate skill. So actually, so yeah, so you need to actually roll the your will skill first. Okay, yeah i got it so you still got a three you still got a three, which is pretty high, honestly.
01:34:18
Speaker
So again, you can decide to use all your fate points plus the free one to try to actually hurt these guys, or you can just accept that you failed and get a lot of attention. and no I'm going to kill all these guys.
01:34:31
Speaker
I didn't say you'll kill them. You'll hurt them. Hurt them. Whatever. So you can. So you use your free fate points. That gives you a five. So you need to get at least to an eight to be successful in at least shaking them.
01:34:45
Speaker
If you get every
Agent 69's Tactical Assault
01:34:46
Speaker
point you get past, that is a shift of damage you give them. So. You have three fate points on you that you start with every game. You have to find a way to tap different parts of your own aspects to make that happen.
01:35:04
Speaker
So how are we going to do that? Since the she's the original historical that bitch... She's going to really deep down, like get all of that anger that she has against her twin sister for banishing her.
01:35:24
Speaker
um Because she is, I guess, more I want to say she's more evil than Lilith is um So she's going to real dig down deep in there.
01:35:37
Speaker
and get that real bitchiness out of her and her eyes are going to turn bright red. That's one fate point that you're using. Okay, so that puts you up to a seven. So you got a five. You used a free one that puts you at a five.
01:35:49
Speaker
You used one fate point to get you up to a two, so that's seven. So if you use one more, that'll put you at a nine. So that'll at at least be one shift of damage you give to all of those guys.
01:36:00
Speaker
Um... Which, for a little weenie dudes, is like they only really get like one or two, so you're already hurting them pretty significantly. um So the next time they take a significant amount of damage, that's like a consequence, and they usually just die.
01:36:14
Speaker
um So that's still pretty good, unless you really want to push it. But if you spend one more fate point, you can push it over to a nine. Oh yeah, we're definitely doing that. So what do you want to use?
01:36:25
Speaker
So because I don't think you can use the same aspect twice. Actually, you know what? I take it back. You can because you're spending fate points. So I don't think it matters if you are going to burn that many fate points on a turn. I'd say you can use the same one a couple times if you really want to.
01:36:40
Speaker
You can say you channel your inner bitchiness even harder. well she was gonna she was gonna grab her snail shell that she has connected to marion and be like marion i just need little bit of boost give me your boost buddy then she can you see like you see like in a call center you see like in a call center somewhere in the middle of time jail you see like a marion with a say with a headset on yeah he's like huh where's that hang on gotta take a new call but the Hello, Lorelei?
01:37:11
Speaker
Hey, what's up? It's Lorelei. I need you. ah thought you died. That's shit. That means i have to reopen your case file. I'm sorry. I just need your help.
01:37:22
Speaker
Just a little bit. I just need a little bit of your positivity in inside my chest so that I can get these terrible, terrible, evil people dead. All right, fine. I'll make your chest bigger. Jeez.
01:37:35
Speaker
Yes, thank you. So, and and then your chest gets like a, your chest gets a little bit bigger and then your flame gets a little bit more powerful. um Because Marion controls fate, guys. That's how that works.
01:37:49
Speaker
um Okay, so that puts you at a nine, right? So, so describe to me what it is that you did again. you're You put your hand to the ground, you're summoning some sort of spell. What does that look like?
01:38:03
Speaker
It's like a necrotic damage spell, so you'll see like a bunch of black smoke come from the ground. It's just starting to just rise and rise, and you'll see like different skulls and crossbones coming up from like the vapor of this like black smoke, and you'll see it just so seep across the ground as it like attacks each little dwarf that's... um Okay.
01:38:32
Speaker
All right, so you guys are surveilling the scene, watching the cruelty of these dwarves, getting ready to make a plan of action to go sneak in. And then you see a bunch of black smoke and skulls seeping up from the ground and then just wrapping around like all of these dwarves in the area. I'd say at least.
01:38:50
Speaker
A baker's dozen of them are just engulfed in golf and fucking just black smoke and like gripping little hands and magic. And they are like writhing all over the place, just screaming, dropping the bodies, dropping their tools and just running for the hills.
01:39:06
Speaker
um ah Very cool move. Agent 69, what do you do as you see that happening? Well, this isn't typically how our missions go, but Well, when in... Where are we?
01:39:22
Speaker
i don't even know. and They never said, and I don't know. and he reaches down to his suitcase. He pulls it up on the truck, opens it, and there's a sniper rifle in there.
01:39:34
Speaker
And he just starts unfolding that bitch. You're just going to start sniping people? He's just going to start... He's just going pick them off. he's just going finish them off. That's his goal. I was going to say, you also could... I mean, again, I don't want to discourage you, but you can also just start like sneaking up on them because they have no idea you're you're there. They're just in like fucking... ah like They're just panicked right now. If you want to start cracking shots, I think that's also super cool.
01:39:58
Speaker
um He's going to try to get a couple kills in the confusion. Okay. Very cool. So you're just going start shooting them? Yeah. I want to try to
01:40:09
Speaker
Kind of make it look like an accident, though. like Do I see the drill? I don't see the drill, do I? Oh, yeah. With a sniper rifle ah scope and on your binoculars, yes, you can see the big drill that they're using. It's very loud and very big.
01:40:21
Speaker
All right. um Yeah, I want to hit that. like I want to hit, like, a... like a some i don't I don't know. Could I identify a critical component, like a gas tank or something, and like shoot that and have it explode?
01:40:32
Speaker
ah You know what? I'd say since you did an investigation earlier, yeah, you could probably see that. um So the way I'm going to do this is like ordinarily when you would shoot, somebody would roll to defend, but they don't know they're being attacked. So I don't think I'm going to let them roll. I'm just going to give it like a simple like.
01:40:48
Speaker
like a simple number you have to hit as opposed to them just trying to roll for it because I just don't think they could actively oppose it because they don't know what's happening. um So I'm just going to say if you at least roll, as long as you roll above a zero, you'll hit it. It just depends on how much damage beyond zero that you hit. going shoot then.
01:41:07
Speaker
Okay. That's a two. right. Now, you still have a community fate point left. If you
Roy's Attack and Intimidation
01:41:15
Speaker
want to do more damage, you can. I want spark the gas tank and have that blow up.
01:41:20
Speaker
ah Well, with two damage, you're probably not going to blow the whole thing up. But if you do boost it with your own ah aspects or your community fate point, you can spend a fate point to do that to jack it up and give yourself more damage. So I have that aspect that's like, I need to murder targets in obtuse ways. ah Yes, yes, you do. I would like to use...
01:41:41
Speaker
Can I invoke a bat to get one of them that are fate points? Yeah, I love it. You can spend a fate point and absolutely bump that up to a four. I can only move the cards, so you can't move with the... no no no, just put it on your character sheet. I'm just leaving them there to represent how many you get with your refresh.
01:41:57
Speaker
um So yeah, so that's ah succeeding ah with style. So you succeed and you gain a boost that you or your teammates can take advantage of in the next ah like next turn. So you crack off that shot.
01:42:10
Speaker
ah You hit it right like we're like the fuel tank is right away instant because like there's like other things going on. They're digging sparks are flying instant. Like just I'd say you probably like knock down three other dudes that are like running in that direction away from Lorelei spell.
01:42:26
Speaker
um completely knocking them over. I'm going to say that's your boost. I'm going to say that that explosion not only takes out the drill, but I'm going to say, you know what? I'm just going to roll D6 here. And then you got two other dudes like that were running towards that, just like get blown away and they're on the ground charred, like just, so the boost is a few of the guys are now completely incapacitated. You've taken out more than just, um,
01:42:52
Speaker
the thing So if you if any of you guys take advantage of the fact that some of these guys are down, you can get a free plus two without having to use a fate point. All right, Roy. So now I think that gives us a nice...
01:43:06
Speaker
good little opportunity to try and approach these fellas and, you know, i we can solve this non-violently. do you feel about that?
01:43:19
Speaker
Roy's going to shake his head and go, I am not good with rapport, believe it or not. um But I'd imagine that, like, is it Roy's turn now? Is, uh... Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Reaper done with this thing.
01:43:31
Speaker
So Roy is a yeahp so like I'd imagine, you know, because it's all happening at the same time Soon as Lorelei starts to cast her spell, his his nostrils are going to flare and he's going to whip around and you round on her and see that she's doing that. And goddamn fucking demons.
01:43:46
Speaker
as he ah As he looks, you know, he, ah I'm probably going to use a fate point for this if push comes to shove. I'm going to use that, you know that fury from ah ah having to work with a demon.
01:43:58
Speaker
um So, okay. If you say no, I understand. So say, how far are we? Are we like on top of a ridge looking down? ah Actually, no, you guys are on a little bit more of a flat surface. like I'd say the whole thing is on the ridge that they're throwing the bodies over.
01:44:14
Speaker
Okay, I see. Okay, because I was going to say he was going to throw his cross and ride it onto someone, but he can't throw that far. Unless he was on top of the ridge. And we parked like, I don't know, 500 meters away.
01:44:25
Speaker
Yeah, you're about 500 meters out from where like they're like doing their patrols and digs and stuff. Yeah, well, ah Roy ain't got no ranged options, so he's probably just going to wait there for the two... ah for the Well, is there something I can do?
01:44:42
Speaker
ah Maybe with the... um At least during... ah ah Because he he really can't do anything unless he's up close. So I'm going to say... You can go get close. 500 meters in one turn.
01:44:55
Speaker
I mean, if it works, it works. Not everybody is 500 meters away from you. Just like that was like where he parked were like the main operation are. But there are like some stragglers on like the outskirts that are like currently in the middle of trying to run away from like a bunch of fucking.
01:45:10
Speaker
So like. but Also, you're a superhuman fucking demon killer. you might want to sprint 500 meters right now, go for it. Maybe could he could he throw his cross and, I don't know, the chain yank him over to one of the stragglers? that are like What's the closest one?
01:45:27
Speaker
Uh, you know what whatever you want to do, I'm gonna say it works. Or at least you can try it. So, like, whatever you want to do, man. Yeah, that's that's what he's gonna do. He's gonna throw his cross, and, uh, maybe the- big if he were throwing it down, he'd ride it down, but now, instead, it's just going to be the chain Yanks' arm.
01:45:43
Speaker
And, uh, he's going to hit one of the nearest stragglers, wherever they are. Okay, so, um... Would that be fight with physique? know what, how about we do this? How about we do this?
01:45:54
Speaker
Um, How about we say that your chain, what do you call it? Your drill? but What the fuck is your arm attachment? A stake driver. The stake driver. Why don't we modify it a little bit so that way like it has like a stupid long range. That way it can work up close as a quick like cha-ching, cha-ching.
01:46:11
Speaker
But if you do want to like do a ranged attack with it, I would say, like again, it's on a chain, so it would have to go really far. But you could do it if you want to yank yourself to someone or yank them to you.
01:46:22
Speaker
I see. So it's like a Sekiro. I see. Like a scorpion thing. Or scorpion. Yeah, that works too. um If you want to do that, you can. Or if you just want to throw your cross, the only thing is you might not be able to yank it quite back, depending on how shitty the roll is. At least you know you can get your chain back if you... So he doesn't want to he wants to throw the cross and have its momentum take him over there.
01:46:44
Speaker
I see. that doesn't work out, then that's fine. um Actually, okay. Okay. Okay. ah You know what?
01:46:52
Speaker
Are you trying to hit someone with it are you just trying to ride it over there? Kind of kind of like that dude in Dragon Ball that just like throws a pillar and then... That's exactly what I was thinking. Yeah. um Okay. You know what? Let's call that... Honestly, I would call that physique. If you're just going to fucking just like chuck a big ass cross in like a direction. There's no like aim to it. You're just throwing it in a direction and trying to ride it.
01:47:15
Speaker
I would say that's physique. Go for it. Okay. No, I would say this. Let's see.
01:47:21
Speaker
ah I was about to say, two is usually my minimum for like meeting like the requirement to do the thing. So like, yeah, you you hit it. It's not pretty, but you just like chuck this thing and just like ride the momentum. Hell yeah. Could he possibly accidentally strike someone if I use a fate point or two?
01:47:38
Speaker
Uh, well, why don't you try to make an attack now? Okay. And because right now you're just throwing it to get over there to bridge the gap. That's you, you didn't do a fight role. That was an overcome role.
01:47:48
Speaker
So if you're looking to attack right now, yes, you could try that and then see what the, what how it shakes out. I see. Yeah. So I'd imagine he like, he like hoists it up to, and throws it kind of like a javelin.
01:47:59
Speaker
And then the chain, uh, you know, immediately like, uh, the rope runs out and he, uh, or the chain runs out and he, he goes flying as well. And, uh, right I got a four okay for the fight. So you roll a four for fight.
01:48:11
Speaker
I'm going to say again, these guys aren't actively like dodging right now because they're just panicked from getting shot at and like burned by devil magic. So I'm not going to have them oppose this time. So I'm going to say that, you know, yeah, I would say that you just like, are you just bringing the cross down and squishing somebody? um So here's here's how I'd like to. ah And if you if you don't like this, then that's fine.
01:48:33
Speaker
So he's going to throw it like a javelin. The chain is going to yank him. And you know when the when ah something yanks, so it's like there's more momentum. So like the chain is going to yank him and he's going to ah you know eventually be yanked faster than the ah ah fucking than the cross. He's going to land on it. And I'd just like to imagine that ah um he the cross lands on someone and that's what the fight is.
01:48:56
Speaker
Sure, yeah, that's what I was saying. The cross comes back down from being thrown. I'd like to imagine it impales a dwarf or something, because it's ah it's got like a... Sure, i was on the bottom of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No more flavor necessary. i I see exactly what you're saying. Yeah, yeah you bring it down, like you land like you know in a sick-ass style, the fucking cross comes down.
01:49:14
Speaker
That's way more than enough to like punish them over the edge of the damage they've already taken to just they get a... You know, so that one particular dwarf, you got the first kill of the game. Fucking thing comes down, impales him to the ground ah instantly, ah turning him into like an effigy of a dwarf.
01:49:32
Speaker
And ah yeah, so you did that. And then all of a sudden people are running and like one guy looks and goes, the fuck you come from? um And now you guys are in trouble. So, like, now they just saw you just, like, slam the fucking cross into someone's throat.
01:49:48
Speaker
ah And, um yeah. So... I'm following him. ah I'm following him. You're following him? minute Are you driving in are you running in? um Well, I carefully... i imagine I take the shot and I well, that gives us an opening and I fold up my sniper rifle and...
01:50:08
Speaker
At that moment, as I like close the lid on like on the on the suitcase, I see this i see Roy throw this motherfucking cross or whatever. um I'm like, oh right, that sort of that is our opening, I guess. ah yeah and Also, that guy just threw like a 600-pound cross and rode it. yeah he's gonna I imagine it was like, a how but how how far was that throw?
01:50:31
Speaker
oh Like 500 meters? Oh, okay. I have to drive up. We have to drive up then. Yeah. So, he's gonna... I'm gonna try get up there quickly. Quickest form of transportation. Throw a pillar and then ride it.
01:50:42
Speaker
um Yeah. Alright, so you hop in the truck, you you gun it down that way with Lorelai. Well, Lorelai, you're standing outside casting a spell. Do you hop back in the truck as you see Tobias's... thought she sitting the back still.
01:50:54
Speaker
Well, she climbed out to cast the spell into the earth. Aw, shit. Aw, shit. Yeah. Aw, shit.
01:51:00
Speaker
So do you hop back in as he goes to peel She's like astray protecting, right? No, she stopped doing that. She cast a spell afterwards and covered everybody in black smoke.
01:51:11
Speaker
I could like... I would say like I watch him like just take off without me and I'm just like, whatever. And I just slowly walk that way.
01:51:22
Speaker
she is it's just saunters in that direction. I'm just like, whatever. You
Confronting the Foreman
01:51:28
Speaker
see her in the rearview mirror just walking casually behind you.
01:51:34
Speaker
She's not gonna chase, so she's gonna saunter. I don't think I see her. i think i just You want to roll a notice roll to see? Sure, I can roll a notice roll. Roll a notice roll. If you get above a zero, you got a negative two.
01:51:49
Speaker
You didn't see her? oh there yeah She's just like, whatever. yeah Man, that a shit roll. You rolled three negatives and a zero. Damn. They make sense. Yep. So you don't see her. Sometimes the dice agree with what's going on. And so, yeah, you blast past her. You you ba blast without her. So you're getting into the into the way you see him landing on top of a dwarf up in the in the distance. I'm slamming on the brakes as soon as I see him. Like as soon as I see that you're saying on the brakes.
01:52:17
Speaker
Everybody goes, oh, fuck, a fraud. And they get out of the way. Getting out of the car. Closing the door, adjusting my tie.
01:52:29
Speaker
Nice. and then when I'm going to look at the one of the dwarves who's like freaking out. Uh-huh.
01:52:41
Speaker
Well, you're not going to believe this. But that was only a warning shot.
01:52:48
Speaker
And now you need to trying to shut down this operation now.
01:52:54
Speaker
want to Oh, I see. oh You're trying to scale the fear of... we have you We have many, many more shots, as I like to call them, where that came from.
01:53:07
Speaker
Now, are you trying to lie to him because you don't have that many shots? Well, think we can kill him all anyways. So, yes, but I am lying, of course. I'm just trying to get him to like surrender. because Because when I got that, when I get the kill, I saw on my... By the way, I saw on the UI pop up and said, you know, invalid kill or whatever. It was like ah non-target kill.
01:53:28
Speaker
Okay. ah You know what? I am going to give them... I'm going to say just a flat zero. So I'm just going to roll four fate dice and have them oppose whatever your role is.
01:53:38
Speaker
This will be the first like active opposition that... um that they do. So if I do have a question, Adam, could ah so yeah could Roy, he's not going to do anything, but could him just being there having previously impaled a dwarf, you know, the fire ah behind him, illuminating his, ah his features, would that act as like a good little fear factor to ah add to Tobias's or not Tobias? It is Tobias, right?
01:54:08
Speaker
yeah That's what he's going by. okay yeah Tobias' role or anything like that? Well, I think you could in the future if you wanted instead of I want to attack a guy, if you would have thrown your thing you wanted to land and create more like I want to land and look like a scary dude that's here to destroy the world, then you would have wrote a created advantage role versus an attack role against that one person.
01:54:34
Speaker
um So that would be an instance in which you could like create that like way to help out. Okay. I'll remember that. Now, you could, if David wants to allow you to kind of like step in halfway on his turn and try to roll a create an advantage, you can.
01:54:48
Speaker
But I will say that this guy rolled a negative one on his opposition roll. Okay. Yeah, no you go you go for it. I won't step in. Yeah, so he only has to beat a negative one to win.
01:55:00
Speaker
So you're going to roll a deception against his ah will, and he did not roll well on that. I rolled a plus two. Oh, you're old. co you see that So that's a shift of three, which is a success with style on overcoming this opposition. So um yeah, I'm going to say, so you succeed and you gain a boost. So I'm going to say the boost is like you get a free plus two if you use it really quickly.
01:55:24
Speaker
But I think the guy is just going to like start like yelling out like like like, do you say who you are? Like, like why you're doing this? Like, how do you like, what do you want him to yell out to like stop this?
01:55:37
Speaker
ae du be did they tell us They didn't tell us the name, did they? They said the coalition? That we're like the coalition or whatever? No, they didn't give you a name because they don't want people to know about them. Where do they get coalition Well, she did say our little coalition, but they didn't give you a name of what they're called.
01:55:54
Speaker
has she She just said that they're like the rebellion. So you could say like there's a rebellion or something if you're trying to say that. But I guess technically the chef didn't tell you they were a secret, but like they're trying to keep a low profile. I'm not gonna tell him who we are.
01:56:08
Speaker
Nah, fuck that. Okay. So, you just he just kind of yells out and he says, he says, everybody, everybody stop! There's murderers here, they have a whole army and they're trying to shut us down! I think it's the the inspection!
01:56:24
Speaker
Um... Uh... OSHA! I think it's OSHA! They're trying to shut us down and shit!
01:56:34
Speaker
Uh, and so, yeah, I'm going to say that for the moment, uh, you know, like a lot of the guys that like, like the hellfire starts to like the hell smoke starts to leave them and they all drop to the ground panicking.
01:56:45
Speaker
And you see like over like kind of where like the other drill is like that's the little digger it like in the sidewall like jumps out and like he's like a little bit more of like a kind of a gruff looking dwarf.
01:56:56
Speaker
He says, all right, everybody bow down, sound down. Hang on a second. And um he starts to approach you guys. He says, what's all this about? Who's you trying to shut us down?
01:57:08
Speaker
um And so while he's doing that, Lorelai, you're having a leisurely walk. Yep. um So what do you want to do? Again, you see, ah remember, your mission is to find the artifact.
01:57:21
Speaker
ah There's spirits everywhere just kind of walking around. I'll say, you know, just for sake of expediency, it's not going to take you with forever in a day. Like, maybe just, like, Marion warps you, like, 200 meters or so just to get you closer. I feel like she was talking to, like, a couple of the ghosts on the way there, like, and as they were doing it, they just kind of, like, uh...
01:57:45
Speaker
Increased her speed as she was going. Yeah, like, you know the you know, the more ghosts you collect, the faster you walk. We all know this with demons. So, like, the more ghosts you walk with, the quicker that you stroll. And so you make it there, problem.
01:57:56
Speaker
Yeah, they escort you on a beautiful glide up to yeah the the the edge of the the mining site. um So what do you want do? Yeah, is royalty, darling. She doesn't run for no one. So...
01:58:11
Speaker
so
01:58:15
Speaker
No one has noticed her yet, right?
01:58:19
Speaker
Except the ghosts? No, I don't think anybody, yeah, nobody except for the ghosts know you're there. And where the other two are at is where the artifact is at? ah You don't know where the artifact is, but you know it's somewhere on this mining site that's keeping the ghosts at bay.
01:58:35
Speaker
Okay. Can she see where they're at? ah Yeah, yeah. I was going to say, like, ah Roy is not making it, like, quiet where he is. He just, like, slammed it. He says he's, like, currently prying his cross out of the chest of a fucking dwarf while lab while ah Tobias is, like, ah is confronting one of the dwarfs off in the distance. So, like, yeah, you can see them.
01:59:01
Speaker
Okay. What
01:59:04
Speaker
what do you want to do was trying to think of a way to just, like, sneak around and find the artifact and then just like show up behind the boys and be like, oh, I think we're looking for this, darling, but I don't, I don't, is that something that she can do?
01:59:24
Speaker
You want to try to like locate it how? Um,
01:59:31
Speaker
I guess I mean, you can talk to the ghosts like you can try to get them to tell you like you. Yeah,
Artifact Retrieved Amidst Chaos
01:59:36
Speaker
I feel like while she was walking to the spot as she was talking to them, she was trying to get information to that, like to see where if they knew where the artifact was at. and Yeah, why don't we roll a rapport roll to see if you can just like speak to them directly and like maybe through your own demonic energy, like you can find a way to communicate with them to like have them tell you.
02:00:00
Speaker
Okay. So yeah, I would say this would be a ah this would be an over... If you want to know where it is directly, it'll be an overcome roll. ah So yeah, you can just kind of roll, and I'd say, you know, they're like they're not going to oppose you. Let's just call it, like, if you can get a one or more.
02:00:14
Speaker
Like, they're not mad at you. They're not trying to actively oppose you.
02:00:19
Speaker
Lore? That would be rapport. Rapport, okay. Yes. ah Plus two. That's a two. So yeah, you you beat it by one. So yeah, I would say like maybe through some sort of telepathy or maybe like maybe you you're mirroring, you know, they can hear you, right? Like they just can't speak. So like maybe some sort of wave from you saying, you you know, show me where this is. I'm looking for this thing, whatever that may be.
02:00:44
Speaker
I'd say maybe they all just start to form like a line and they all start like kind of pointing to where it is. They all like join like their ghostly hands together and like just like create like a chain to show you exactly where it is.
02:00:55
Speaker
Um, and I'd say that like, even, even like as, as, uh, Tobias and, uh, Roy are fighting those guys and questioning them. And like the, the foreman comes out, they can see like these kind of faint figures. He's like kind of greenish gray, semi translucent creatures are like pointing off into the distance.
02:01:13
Speaker
And you can see, uh, kind of on like, I don't know what they're called. Like there's, a um, there's like these, uh, um,
02:01:25
Speaker
I can't think of the fucking word. You know, like there's like those big spools, you know, like those. um It looks like a sideways spool that sometimes they usually is like a lot of cable on them. You know what i'm talking about? And they kind of look like little tables when you flip them to the side.
02:01:37
Speaker
yeah um Like there's like these giant spool ah things kind of set off to the side that are wrapped in a bunch of different cables. And one of them are empty there as they're feeding it into the ground. And ah you can see as it's turned sideways, there's kind of like a. What?
02:01:55
Speaker
you don't like the i don't know what you call the shape of a glow stick, but like think of like a much, much thicker version of like a glow stick that kind of has two little like little ah standing legs that kind of holds it up, and it's sitting atop one of those spools.
02:02:09
Speaker
and you can As you kind of see it, like it looks very kind of like... There's nothing very exciting looking about it. It just looks like an ornament sitting on top of one of these spools. You don't see any energy coming off it. You don't see any magical dust.
02:02:21
Speaker
No effects. It just looks like it's just like a stone fucking like a knickknack just sitting there. But they all look really afraid of it and they keep pointing at it.
02:02:33
Speaker
She's going to go grab it. You're just going to walk up there amongst all the dwarves and go grab it? Yep. Okay, so like as you're walking up, they're going to go do that, and the ghosts tell you, um ah Tobias and Roy, you guys are standing before the foreman who walks over to you after you declare that you're going to start bringing more firearms, and he says, Roy, what's this all about then?
02:02:58
Speaker
Well, sir, you ah appear to be in terrible, terrible violations of basically every single regulation for magical ore dig sites.
02:03:12
Speaker
Regulation? We're here to make weapons of mass destruction and you think we care about regulation? Uh, yeah. Because you have to. Oh, because I have to.
02:03:24
Speaker
Says who? Uh, well, uh, do I see Lorelai coming over yet? that I mean, Lorelai is not trying to be sneaky and she's just sauntering over, then yes.
02:03:35
Speaker
If she's actually trying to be sneaky, then she has to roll for that. But right now, yes, you can see her. I literally just like walk up and just grab it. You can absolutely see the ghost pointing as she's like passing up the chain of ghosts walking towards like where the foreman walked from to go grab that.
02:03:52
Speaker
You don't know which thing is the the artifact you need, but she seems to be walking with intention. Yes. And it well, it appears you also have an artifact here to, you know, disrupt the.
02:04:06
Speaker
Spirits that were laid to rest here. Which, as you know, is illegal. So we are shutting your operation down. I do. Right, well, is it part of your organization? He just killed one of my boys. I've seen it.
02:04:21
Speaker
Yes. he points over at Roy and is like, bloody cross, and he's like, what the fuck kind of justice is that? I ought to just have a mind to blow you away right now. Well... My partner here, and he points to Lorelei as she's just calmly walking over.
02:04:37
Speaker
um She's going to go take that device now and we're going to be on our way.
02:04:43
Speaker
ah He turns his head and he goes, wait, what? Wow, she's fucking hot. I mean, I usually don't say that about non-dwarven women, but bloody hell. um I might make an exception for her.
02:04:55
Speaker
Careful, Icarus. Careful, Icarus. Roy, do you want to do anything while i wal Tobias is like having this conversation and Lorelai is sauntering and this guy kind of clocks it as she's walking up?
02:05:12
Speaker
Yeah, Roy, he's yeah after prying his cross out of ah out of this dude, Roy is going to put it back onto his back and say, You wonder why I killed the man?
02:05:25
Speaker
um And then he he looks around at all the spirits and they are all disrupted. Their rest has been disrupted. They should move on. Yet here they are trying to prevent you from doing something.
02:05:37
Speaker
There is a reason for that. We must listen to the spirits. They understand more than we ever will. And then he, he, Roy is going to point his, uh, uh, his left hand, uh, you know, that direct, so like, you know, it's straight in front of the foreman, you know, uh, the ah prod his chest with the, uh, stake driver. He's not going to like launch it, but you know, the stake, even when it's in, and in its unlaunched state, it's still slightly, uh, uh, past his fist and he's going to prod the foreman with the, ah point.
02:06:06
Speaker
And we will end at all of you if it requires these, or if it ah allows these spirits to go back to rest.
02:06:14
Speaker
Okay, so are you trying to just straight out convince him ah to kind of stand down? Are you trying to create an advantage for your friends to kind of get the artifact? Like, what exactly is the outcome you're trying to do think I'll create an advantage because I don't...
02:06:33
Speaker
um Yeah, I'm gonna create an advantage. Could I possibly convince you to let me use physique to create an advantage? Or no, maybe not physique. Something that, what would make it scary or frightening? Not unless you build stunt that would say so. Yeah, I so build a stunt ah Now, if you want to, if you want to make one, you can certainly work on one. If you want to try to use your physique to intimidate people, you can certainly do that. But as of right now, you wouldn't have used physique to do it. You and you you would need to use probably...
02:07:05
Speaker
um I would say probably ah the Rapport skill, or there's not really an Intimidate skill in here. Yeah, Provoke is close, but that's like provoking someone fight. Provoke, I guess.
02:07:16
Speaker
um ah Not exactly. You can also get under a skin and create that advantage. You could do that. You could use Provoke as well, I'd say. I'll give Provoke i'll i'll give ah ah provoke one of the the skills. Yeah, I'd say so. Yeah, go for it. I'd say that's a good idea. Go ahead and roll Provoke, and I'm going to have him oppose that because he's the Foreman. I'm going to say... um you know i'm going to say he probably... Because he's not directly trying to convince him to stop. He's trying to assist...
02:07:45
Speaker
um Yeah, I think I'm just going to give him a 1 on his will check. Because he's mostly just a dude that's here to work. All the rest of the wieners don't have anything. Right. Well, fingers crossed. He gets a minus 2. Well, that'd be a 1. So he has a minus 1. Okay.
02:07:59
Speaker
Okay. Okay, plus three. oh Holy fuck, that's a plus three. You succeed with style, my guy. You got more than a plus more than three on his because he had a minus one, so that is a total of four, right?
02:08:14
Speaker
um So that's a so success with style and create an advantage. So you create...
Mission Success and Aftermath
02:08:18
Speaker
two uh advantages that you and your teammates can use so you guys now have three fate points that are floating in the thing so yeah you get under his skin you fucking talk at him you say you like all these intimidating things you flex on him you say that you're gonna murder them if you have to he's like just straight up like his eyes are darting like his like big tough demeanor when he was he was looking over like trying to be suave as he saw lorelei approach then he sees you his shoulders are sunken like
02:08:44
Speaker
all of the And the reason why you get these advantages is because everybody else in the vicinity like looks up to the boss, and if he's scared, they're all scared. Nice. So like now you guys have like the attention of everybody in in the vicinity.
02:08:58
Speaker
um So that was a really good play. Sorry, just for flavor, could he maybe put his ah his fist directly on the guy's nose and launch the spike and annihilate his ah the foreman's ear?
02:09:08
Speaker
Or maybe not annihilate, but just really close to the foreman's ear. I was gonna say, yeah, you can't hurt him because that wasn't the role. But yes, I'd say that like maybe you kind of like you're like, cha-ching, and just like you see he just like flinches.
02:09:19
Speaker
And like when he flinches, everybody else is kind of, yeah. um So yeah, very good. so ah ah So now there's some advantages created. ah Lorelai, I'm going to say, so you're just going to walk up and go grab that artifact?
02:09:33
Speaker
Yep. So you walk up, ah you see like this this show of force between ah Tobias and ah and Roy, between the foremen, and you just walk past them. Is there anything that you say to them? Anything that else that you want to do? or do you just want to go get the artifact?
02:09:51
Speaker
She was actually just going to blow a kiss to the big, the forming guy because he was, you know, complimenting her and use her provoke roll just to let her walk away with it.
02:10:04
Speaker
ah Okay. You know what? ah I think that's great. I think you should do that. And um yeah, go ahead and roll provoke. ah I honestly, I don't know. i don't think I'm going to, I don't know if I'm going to have them actively.
02:10:19
Speaker
You know what? I'm just going to give him a flat zero. I'm not going to let him actively do it. I think you guys humiliated him enough already. So like the base was zero. So that's a two on a success. If you want to like just kind of roll up on him and do that as like a provoke attack.
02:10:33
Speaker
Now, if you want to just do more psychic damage, mental damage to him so you can get what you want, you have three free fate points you can use to increase that. um I will say like probably another two points. He'll probably just collapse.
02:10:45
Speaker
um I used on my fate points. you can have the free ones right in the middle. yeah Oh, that's right, the ones on the map. I have my sheet up, so I forgot they were there. Yeah, so you have three free ones. You can invoke one you can invoke one to make that into a four.
02:11:02
Speaker
Yep, we'll collapse him. Night-night. Okay, you you invoke that fate point. ah Just the intimidation he's feeling already. He's nervous, he's anxious. He has two guys that rolled up on him that are blowing shit up, killing his guys.
02:11:14
Speaker
He looks to you as you blow him a kiss. He takes four shifts of psychic mental damage where he's just like, ugh! And then just like he just fucking like collapses from just like pure exhaustion, scared and horny as he just collapses to the ground.
02:11:29
Speaker
Um... and So you've blown a deadly kiss and just knocked him unconscious. um And ah very good. So, yeah, he's down and you just walk away with the artifact as like all the rest of the crew just like they're shaking in their boots. They don't know what to do.
02:11:46
Speaker
And as you have it, like you see, like the spirits are kind of like walking around you because they don't want to be near it. um But you have a hold of it. So before you guys leave, Tobias, you see Lorelai has it. Your adversary has collapsed in front of you.
02:12:02
Speaker
um Agent 69, what do you want to do? going to open the door for Oh, what a gentleman. is and she Thank you, darling.
02:12:17
Speaker
yeah He opens the door, you slam, you shut the door. um Okay, so ah do you guys just hop in the truck and peace out? I think Roy, he's going to look, as Tobias opens the door, he's going to give one last glance to the lot of them and say, go home.
02:12:36
Speaker
Cease this incessant mining. or else you'll end up like him. Before hopping into the back of the truck. Okay, you hop in the back of Chuck with your thing. You know just for funsies, roll another provoke roll just to see like if you get any extra effects from any of these fools.
02:12:53
Speaker
um you know If you get at least over a zero, something good happens. I think we have one more community. yeah team more you have to You have two more communities left if you want to use them. And those those ah end once the scenario ends, right? Those disappear. Correct, so you might as well burn them now. I'm going to use both of them.
02:13:08
Speaker
well Would it matter if my if I used one and or or two, would it matter? Would it change anything? Yeah, the higher it is, the better you do against them. I'll just do two. So yeah, so that gives you a three instead of a negative one.
02:13:22
Speaker
And they all just start fucking like running for the hills. As you guys get in the car, Agent 69 whips the fucking raptor around and starts taking off. As you guys get out of distance, the artifact loses its control over that area.
02:13:34
Speaker
And you can see as all of the dwarves are running away from this site, they are besieged by just scores of angry... and just fucking infuriated spirits who descend upon them and then just start ripping them apart.
02:13:52
Speaker
The end.
02:14:37
Speaker
well does It look good already.