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Bonus Episode - The Grendel
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A new challenger approaches! We go back in time, back to the beginning.. of the podcast.. and introduce a new character!
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Introduction and Character Setup
00:00:19
Speaker
Greetings, mortals, and welcome to a bonus episode of Houston After Dark presented by Integrated Dice Management.
00:00:29
Speaker
I am your storyteller this evening, not Game Master, but storyteller, um And with me tonight is... ah Not the full crew, but but we've got...
00:00:44
Speaker
that was just weren good i will the first The first name I scrolled over was Jerry, and I'm like, nope. With me tonight is Hayden.
00:00:58
Speaker
Hey, it's good to be here. I will not be playing Max or Maxwell Cox. I will be playing Liam Riva at Nosferatu. And we're going to see how this game goes tonight.
00:01:11
Speaker
And um if I continue scrolling, the next character is also not here. So then we have Frank. Hi, everyone. I'm Frank. I will not be playing coal stone as in not the coal stone creamery, but I will actually be playing somebody else. You'll be playing two different characters.
00:01:30
Speaker
I'm going to be playing two different characters. I guess I can let you look at your other character. Hold on. It'll pop up underneath the... ah the The wrestler guy Chris is my brother who, you know, never... um so you're You're also going to be playing the the Rick guy. And Jacob is another
Setting the Scene - New Year's Eve 2019
00:01:53
Speaker
person. rick ricky disturb Oh, is that my cop guy?
00:01:56
Speaker
Nope. um Jacob ah was... Jacob was... um ah Jaden's friend who... do not like Rick.
00:02:09
Speaker
Um... rat man yes okay uh so oh and then also eric hey uh so i'm joining the vampire game with a brand new character that nobody knows yet indeed it'll be fun um yeah I'm not going to go through the normal Twitter stuff because I don't have any of that ready because this was a spur of the moment thing.
00:02:36
Speaker
um But ah the if you listen to season one, episode one of our podcast and listen to the whatever I said Twitter was on that, if I did that in that episode, I don't know.
00:02:50
Speaker
That's the same because we are going back to... December 31st 2019 New Year's Eve um and we are ah zooming in on um now here's my question for you Eric ah would you be wearing your mask while you sleep ah not right now yeah Jonas doesn't wear his mask while he sleeps
00:03:23
Speaker
Okay, so we we we zoom in on the face of Jonas, who was sleeping peacefully in his bed, but now it's time to wake up. Today is a big day for Jonas. He's um he's got a ah big match tonight, um the New Year's Eve match. It's going to be on pay-per-view, probably just local pay-per-view because, you know, there's weird like stuff like that. i don't know how that works.
00:03:47
Speaker
Okay. yeah yeah Yeah, sure. and ah um But you know he's got a a big match against his rival, the Defibrillator.
00:03:57
Speaker
um And ah he um ah the the match is being sponsored by a brand new company, IO, All-in-One Organic Health.
00:04:08
Speaker
So he's going to have to do like a... He's going to have to do like a little ad um you know ah before the match about like this this new app that he wants to... to you know Got to make that money. you know him and Him and the defer defer defibrillator will do a ah you know a little a little commercial or something before the match, but but then they'll they'll you know return to their hatred of one another.
Health Fads and Humor
00:04:35
Speaker
um But what does ah what does Jonas do um you know to kind of prepare for his day? ah So he gets up. ah He puts on his I'm going to smash a motherfucker's play ah face playlist, which has surprisingly not angry, angry music in it. It's mostly really emo.
00:04:58
Speaker
Yeah, yeah oh well, not bubblegum pop, but it's mostly like emo music that was really popular in like 2005, 2006, 2006.
00:05:05
Speaker
Right. So a lot of fallout boys, small American rejects, uh, seems really out of place. And then the very last song on his playlist that he uses as he's going to walk out the door is, uh, indestruct, indestructible by, what do you call it? Uh, disturbed. Right. So he says he's got his playlist on, he's doing like some little, you know, little combat things. Every now and he's like going through the, he's got a promo that he has to do to insult the defibrillator before the match starts. so he's saying like, so brace yourselves.
00:05:34
Speaker
Tonight, the legend grows. on ah ah Fans, you've seen me rise. You've seen me dominate. Like, he keeps going through his little lines and he knows he's got to say, right? Yeah. but for ah Before the match.
00:05:48
Speaker
Um... yeah A little bit into your day, you know you've had your your breakfast of probably something horrible like a raw egg in a cup. um Two and a half shots of raw is the worst. almost vomit every You've done that before?
00:06:07
Speaker
Yes. Why? Because it was such crazy... likes to gag. Yeah, I guess. Yeah. um um No, but yeah, it was such a crazy, like, the health community, and I was on the keto diet, and I was like, no, what's the worst I can happen? Throwing up, that's the worst. Yeah. Getting the cold sweats after that? Oh, my God. Well, the issue is you just didn't put any salt pepper in.
00:06:33
Speaker
No. just cracked it open and swallowed it. um oh that Does Jonas have like a wife or kids or anything like that?
00:06:45
Speaker
No, in his background, ah what I put was that he, while he is a good Catholic boy in name, he is not actually it good young Catholic boy. And so he, he just ends up in these random relationships with people that like, nothing lasts. Yeah. So everything's kind of very effervescent. Like he's dating Around but it doesn't really nobody's like grab Jonas there where he's like locked in the only people he really cares about her People that are with him in the end and stuff like that like ah Miss Carla really miss Carla the janitor and his cat muffins He doesn't have a cat he was gonna have anything was a dog fuck cats who's who's miss muffins and
00:07:27
Speaker
Um, maybe Miss Muffins is, uh, is the defibrillator's cat. Yeah, know. Uh. You Miss Muffins can sit on it. Yeah, so. yeah I imagine the defibrillator has, like, a teacup chihuahua.
00:07:44
Speaker
Your, um, your doorbell rings. Um, this is not something unexpected. You were expecting your brother and his kid to to come over. there're They're going to watch your match. Oh, yeah.
00:07:57
Speaker
How's it going, man? How's it going? How's it going, Jonas? You you you excited for the big match and your your your little niece comes running in and like hugs your gigantic leg?
00:08:10
Speaker
Of course, man. Of course. Beowulf has beow wolff' got slay another monster for the kids, right? I should point out that. This guy's called the defibrillator. fibrillator like like The thing that brings people back to life. like He says you know he stops the heart of his the opponents and he starts to hire the fans, you know?
00:08:28
Speaker
Nice. It's just cheese. Um... He, uh... I just have to point out that your brother's name is Jeremiah. He is now the third the third Jeremiah in this in this show. there's There's Jeremiah Wilson, Jerry. There is Jeremiah Doncu, the guy who mine controlled um who did the mind wipe for Wesley's wife.
00:08:55
Speaker
um and And now Jeremiah Thorne. yeah yeah Jeremiah Thorn, that's a pretty good name though. um It is, solid name. I feel like Jeremiah is not a common enough name for it to be occurring this much in this game. i In this game, it's very common apparently. Very common in this version of the United States of America. And then it's his nephew, right? Little Terrence. Little Terrence is there.
00:09:21
Speaker
little terry Oh, I didn't i didn't see You've got a one little... so Oh, that's your little sister. Never mind. Yeah, a little sister George. Okay. For some reason, I saw that as his kid.
00:09:34
Speaker
Well, Jeremiah does
Commercial Shoot for Health App
00:09:35
Speaker
have a son. His name is Terrence. okay Terrence w rus the Terror. the Terror. Yeah. um And, you know, y'all go out to lunch or something, you do some stuff. Your match is probably like at, I don't know, what time do wrestling matches happen? 9 p.m. or something? 7? 7? 7? 7 is okay, um because it'll be pitch black by on So,
00:10:03
Speaker
um one viewer oh is that's probably me i am also here okay um And, uh, what's, what's going on here? Oh yeah. I forgot to pop out the chat.
00:10:17
Speaker
Okay. Just in case we need to, in case someone joins us. Um, lost my train of thought. Yeah. Y'all go to lunch. Um, you know, you do your daily thing. Uh, um, you know, you're like, so, uh,
00:10:34
Speaker
You know that you've got to meet up with um with ah your quote-unquote rival ah before the match at at like 5 or something to shoot this stupid commercial for this weird app.
00:10:46
Speaker
wow ah So after a while, y'all you you head off to go do that. You arrive. What do you think your out-of-wrestler persona relationship is with... um with ah is this still Is his name still Brandon, Frank?
00:11:03
Speaker
ah Yeah. No. Frank Pantridge.
00:11:08
Speaker
Frank? Frank Pantridge. Yeah. Frank Pantridge. All right. Hey, it's going to be hard to forget his name. Yeah. Well, that's true. Frank. They're probably genial. Like, ah ah Jonas doesn't think he's long...
00:11:25
Speaker
Yeah. The like only on pay-per-view for the Berg Houston. Like he's, he's going to the show, right? he He knows he's going to be in WWE. He knows Beowulf, you know, a legend killer type deal. Like he knows that'll go well there, right? Like he can kill the monsters and stuff.
00:11:40
Speaker
He's, he believes in his thing. So he's always nice. Yeah. He's genial to everybody, but he's not like, he's not making friends. Yeah. Uh, in this, uh, organization. Yeah. Yeah, and of course, this organization, um they claim to be like you know just like every other um wrestling and claim to be like fully scripted and stuff, but they're not.
00:12:01
Speaker
um You guys really fight. ah you you you You're more of a UFC than you are a um wrestling, but but you know you've got the drama the drama of wrestling.
00:12:13
Speaker
So yeah, you guys you guys both show up to this that the set um before the thing, and um ah yeah and ah the the the your managers your respective managers and stuff, and the director comes up and he's like, okay, okay you you two have both downloaded this ah this app thing, right?
00:12:35
Speaker
Yeah, this i o something or other. Yeah, yeah. It's it's ah it's a big deal that the the launch party is happening and like in a couple hours. we're going to We're going to play the commercial right after the the app launches officially. It's going to be all over TV and YouTube.
00:12:50
Speaker
um and ah ah and And it's going to show up on on you know Facebook ads and stuff in it for for Houston locals.
00:13:01
Speaker
So should should get you two a lot of plus publicity, this app guy, this this Jeremiah guy a lot of publicity. um ah And it's ah it's actually a pretty good paying gig. um Apparently, ah there's this this company, I've never heard of it, but Isaac Genetics, they put a ton of money into this ah into this app for some reason. So it's paying you all pretty well. So try to try to sell it good, okay? And and then he's like, oh yeah he I don't know, gives youall yeah y'all are just going to make this up, okay? Because I don't have a script for you. But he's like, just just ah freestyle it. I believe in you. um
00:13:44
Speaker
And then, like, the camera, like, so you guys, um you're you you're you're in the ring, and you're, like, facing off against each other, and then both of you both get alerts on your phones, which somehow, you know...
00:14:00
Speaker
or I don't want to know where you keep them in your wrestling tights, but, you know. You don't want to know. You don't want to know. But ah both your phones go off, and you pull it out, and, you know, here, give y'all sales pitch for Jerry's app.
00:14:15
Speaker
Should we, like, describe our characters? Yes.
00:14:21
Speaker
Go ahead, defib. Yeah. Alright, so, um... If... A nurse's scrubs were like cut off and turned into jorts. That's the bottom height thing.
00:14:36
Speaker
ah
00:14:38
Speaker
Scrub jorts. I dig it. Scrub jorts. And then the same thing with the top, just with the sleeves ripped off. Yeah. And I also have like a big doctor's coat. Nice. And my mask, quote unquote, is like the like stereotypical doctor's mask.
00:14:56
Speaker
Okay. Alright, and then... It's like held in place with like bungee cords instead of, you know, the shitty little strappy things. And then, uh, Dale Wolf... For the streamers, I'm gonna show the players your your bio and info here.
00:15:13
Speaker
For the viewers. and For the viewers. He's got the heads that head app thing that doctors wear. Yeah. And then ah Beowulf looks like ah like a stereotypical Conan the Barbarian cosplayer. He's got lots of fur, lots of metal, and very little clothing in general, right? Like, he's got a big open chest with leather belts across it.
00:15:36
Speaker
um The biggest thing that stands out to people is he's got a full, ah like, it looks metallic, but it's this big plastic... helmet that ah you know covers his whole face. Like ah like a luchador's mask, but metallic and luchador. Lucha Libre is not his style. He's a different type of wrestler.
00:15:56
Speaker
But he looks like Conan the Barbarian knockoff. So, question. Is it plastic or is it metal? Well, I think right now, to save your fist, it's probably plastic. yeah Well, yeah, but like,
00:16:11
Speaker
I mean, if it's plastic, are we talking like motorcycle helmet plastic or are we talking like, you know, like ah like kids cheesy Halloween mask plastic.
00:16:25
Speaker
So this isn't like a super mass wrestler type thing. It's just a because that's just going to fall off. Well, yeah, just like your doctor's face thing is going to fall off. Right. He's got it strapped to him. And yet, like, somehow, despite being punched in the head numerous times, it doesn't fall off until, like, you're ready for it.
00:16:44
Speaker
Although this isn't fake wrestling. This is real wrestling. So, yeah. ah So, yeah. So that's what we look like. i pull my phone out. I look at it. I look at D-Fib. I was like, oh, man.
00:16:57
Speaker
this ah This app, man, it's ah it's really helped me yeah what you go step my game up, you know? Oh, yeah. With the... built-in secret no not secret the built-in shopper function I can get my entire diet regiment delivered to my door in as quickly as four hours and then the commercial uh he's uh he's sitting there and he's listening to him and he's like
00:17:26
Speaker
time to turn on the show. Like I mumble, like under my mask, I'm like, well, listen up, brothers and sisters, you know me as a man who takes on any challenge, who faces every opponent head on, and I thump a defib on the on the head. Boom, right?
00:17:38
Speaker
But even the mightiest warriors need allies in their corner. That's why I teamed up with IO. four The ultimate tag team partner for your health. Just like in the ring where strategy and strength lead to victory, this app provides you with the tools and guidance to conquer your personal health battles. Whether you're tracking your workouts, planning nutritious meals like the doctor here would recommend, or monitoring your progress, this app has got your back.
00:18:02
Speaker
Remember, it's not just about the fight. It's about preparation. <unk> the dedication, the commitment to being the best version of yourself. So are you ready to step into the ring of wellness? Download this app today and let's make every day a championship day.
Wrestling Match Begins
00:18:17
Speaker
Stay strong, stay healthy, and remember, victory favors the prepared. And then I kick D-Fib in the nuts.
00:18:29
Speaker
gotta love chat gpt i assume yeah animals yeah uh that's good that's good okay um d fib is probably the uh what do they call the villain in in uh wrestling uh the hill yeah is that what they call him yeah the heel the heel yeah yeah yeah he's probably a heel so he's he's he expects this you know that probably That probably wasn't a real nut kick for this anyway, you know. yeah yeah for this Not for the commercial.
00:19:04
Speaker
um
00:19:08
Speaker
Although that that, I just shared a picture in Discord, but I think ChatGPT doesn't seem to understand to give him ah a scrub top. I kind of like this better. Oh, that's fantastic. That's exactly it. That's it, ladies and gentlemen.
00:19:21
Speaker
all right that's it ladies and gentlemen but I'm going to add this to your character sheet so that we can show the fans.
00:19:30
Speaker
fifty
00:19:35
Speaker
There we go. Show to players. Here we go. All right, all right. And we'll just keep these two side by side as they are have their their match, you know.
00:19:48
Speaker
um All right. So... ah And then the commercial's over. You know, you guys have probably... That was around five. You probably finish up all that because you probably have to do that, like, multiple times. um You know, it's it's movie or or TV crap um where you have to do multiple takes, and they do different angles. and There's, like, a oh that when you say... um the the part about when when ah Defibrillator says the part about all of his shopping needs or whatever, it shows a UPS guy bringing a carton of eggs to the to the door, um and then Defibrillator just cracks an egg open and drinks it straight from the shell. Nice. Yeah.
00:20:41
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah. And yeah, then we we ah shift scenes um to a darker room um somewhere in Houston.
00:20:54
Speaker
Liam Riva, a do I don't think I have a picture for him yet. I don't have pictures for most of the NPCs in the vampire game right now. um i I can't imagine seeing my character just gently cracking in then...
00:21:09
Speaker
dipping the yolk. He just leave they ate it I didn't imagine it that way either, Well, the way he said it, he cracked an egg and then drank it out his shell. and I would have literally had to go like... You're right. simple whole thing his mouth and just chew My imagination of that was him just crushing the egg in his hand and drizzling, like letting it pour into his mouth. but Probably get some down his chin, you know? You gotta be specific, otherwise it just doesn't make sense. he filters the He just smashes the egg onto his mask and filters the eggshell out with his mask, you know?
00:21:44
Speaker
um ah Yeah, Liam Riva, a Nosferatu. I believe I did a vague description of him. He has deep, sunken eyes, and his mouth is widened beyond the normal. Think like the Joker. When he smiles, he reveals a sharp row of fangs. um His skin is pale and patches with patches of scales over his body, and he has a hunched posture.
00:22:08
Speaker
arm So Liam Riva ah is standing in a room with several other vampires that some of them we may recognize. Well, I guess at this point, most of them we may recognize. Carmen is in there.
00:22:23
Speaker
ah David, Murata, Imogen, Tiv is there. um And the the Prince of Houston is in the room, as well as um the Sheriff ah of Nottingham.
00:22:39
Speaker
of Houston, whose name I've already, for whose name I don't remember right now. Um, uh, cause it's been such a long, oh, Tufan. Tufan is there, um, standing menacingly, uh,
00:22:53
Speaker
And the prince has just finished delivering orders to everyone else, and he turns to Liam, and he says, "...and for you ah for you, Liam, I need you to go after a man who goes by the name of Beowulf.
00:23:09
Speaker
ah But not, fear not, not the Beowulf of legend." a modern Beowulf. His real name is Jonas Thorne. Uh, he's going to be at, um, insert random insert NRG theater. Is that what it's called?
00:23:28
Speaker
Energy stadium, the energy stadium, um, uh, for a a wrestling match. just imagine his assistant is like beside him. He steps up and he's like, it's an RG stadium. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Um, for, for, for a wrestling match. Um,
00:23:46
Speaker
I imagine ah ah it should be a rather quick match. um
Vampire Transformation Mission
00:23:50
Speaker
If I remember back in the ah my my days as a wrestler back in the the eighteen hundreds um ah ah But once he's done with his match, he's going to have another match with you.
00:24:06
Speaker
and And by that I mean you're going to grab him and he's he's the one you're supposed to turn. and And that's the last of them. Turn him and bring him to me on whatever day I said that you guys were supposed to meet up with the prince. you know And then he's like, and that's all. And then he steps into the closet and vanished and he's gone.
00:24:29
Speaker
and And Jeeves is there, and he's like, um here here you go. And he he gives each of the sires like an address to to where they're supposed to to find these people, most of which are at Jerry's launch party.
00:24:42
Speaker
um Though not all of them were. One of them is at a at a trailer park in Huntsville or something like that, and one of them was under a bridge, I think. I don't remember.
00:24:58
Speaker
Oh. oh i No, go ahead. By the way, as I've just revealed that Liam is hunting this Jonas, um if you listened to season two of our vampire game, the second to the last episode where I introduced the person who Liam turned, we're retconning all of that.
00:25:19
Speaker
So pretend that it didn't happen. um Some of it kind of maybe it would have happened, but most of it were just retconning. Because I, until today, completely forgot that I did that. so We also didn't know Eric was going to be joining us.
00:25:37
Speaker
um So yeah. What? we we coming all right So, in the second to the last episode of season two of the Vampire Game, which might have been like season four, I don't know, um we ah met a guy named Brendan, um who Liam supposedly turned...
00:26:00
Speaker
um and uh when max went to rat king when you guys meet met the rat king we met a guy named brendan and that's who liam turned i so we're gonna retcon that and possibly redo that whole scene if we get that far nice but we now shift over to um the wrestling ring um liam you are somewhere in the crowd um and uh the, the, you know, the, the, the people who, you know, fight before the like less interesting, you know, the, the, I don't know, the warmup show that they're just wrapping up and the announcer guy gets into the ring and he's like, all right, ladies and gentlemen, we are ready for the main events. Uh, and then, um Eric, your, your intro songs or no, no, no. Um,
00:26:59
Speaker
I'm thinking boxing, but I guess we got to do the crazy intros. So, um yeah. ah Sure. Eric. about the wild Yeah. Eric, your intro happens.
00:27:10
Speaker
yeah Yeah. So it's a bunch of fireworks and then some like crazy, like, ah don't even how you would say like, ah like war drums, like boom, boom, boom, boom.
00:27:21
Speaker
Right. And he just like big, like those, ah what are they even called, man? Like kettle drums, like boom, boom, boom, right? And then he comes in he walks into the ring. Ladies and gentlemen, warriors and fans alike, gather round because tonight the legend continues. I will carve my name into history in this ring.
00:27:43
Speaker
The Defibrillator. He thinks he can stop me. I kill giants, trolls, dragons. I've stopped them all. Here at Hellgate, baby, all that matters is whether or not you can bring it. He thinks he can start hearts with his little defibrillator pads. I will stop his.
00:28:02
Speaker
Bring him out. Bring out this chump. And then the theme song, The Scrub, starts playing. so Frank, do your intro. Whatever you want it to be.
00:28:17
Speaker
As if it was planned, like on his last like three words or whatever, the lights and in the theater go out. ahha and you And you hear, dead dump. you hear de dumb Dump. Like on a... Yeah. Oh, good. Yeah. do Dump.
00:28:34
Speaker
um And like with each dump, the lights kind of come on slightly and then go back out and off and back out. And then it flatlines. And you hear me yell,
00:28:47
Speaker
there And like like some really heavy like electronic guitar riffs come in. This is really giving vocals.
00:29:01
Speaker
Um, and at that point I step in and, um, in the background of that electronic guitar, like rifting, you still hear the me of the flat line. Yeah.
00:29:12
Speaker
Um, and like, as like I get closer and closer, you know, to the stage, um, I step up into it and I do like the, like rub together thing. Uh, and then I like do a wide stamps and like downward punch with like my fists. Yeah. Nice.
00:29:30
Speaker
And like, You hear them like the wind-up of the defibrillator. And as I do that, you hear the zap noise. And then the lights come on. yeah And then the... And it's up three. yeah And the the announcer, you know he says some more stuff. ah you know I don't know what announcers would say and before a wrestling match. But ah it's been so long since I've watched any sort of wrestling. um But then he's like, and in this corner we've got...
00:30:01
Speaker
Beowulf weighing in at 295 pounds, 6'6". And the defibrillator at whatever the heck he weighs. um And then the bell rings.
00:30:16
Speaker
And i I don't remember if there's initiative in the vampire game. um
00:30:25
Speaker
Both of you, I guess, roll
00:30:28
Speaker
Wits and dexterity. That sounds like a good initiative roll. You can click on either or one of them first.
00:30:41
Speaker
Oh, because then it goes to the thing, and then I come in here, and then i add dexterity. Oh, weird. Hold on, Frank. rolled a zero. don't know how that happened, but I rolled zero.
00:30:53
Speaker
a eight What do you mean pro account? Alright, try re-rolling.
00:31:06
Speaker
Okay, there we go. Oh, I should turn your hunger to zero. Alright, because you are not hungry. ah So it looks like Jonas with five successes on his initiative and you with four. So Jonas is going to go first.
00:31:19
Speaker
Jonas, you you get the opening move. Or, or sorry, Beowulf. So Beowulf, like, as soon as it ding-ding-ding, he just kind of, like, launches himself across the the ah the mat and goes for, like, a spear, right? He's just straight shoulder and then taking the defibrillator straight into the cage. Wow! right So... So is that Strength and Brawl? Yeah, yours would be Strength and Brawl.
00:31:46
Speaker
And then... um Frank, new wood i you have two options. you You can do a counterattack with Strength and Brawl, or you can do like ah a defend with Strength and strengthen athletics
00:32:03
Speaker
Or a dodge with Dex and Athletics, but... I think normally it's deck... I don't... Hmm. I think normally dodge is deck split athletics, but I do feel like wrestlers are just going to take that tackle and like try and grab the other dudes, so... I guess... Yeah.
00:32:24
Speaker
Frank's got a pretty good dodge there. He sure does. Oh, no, that's a brawl, so that's a counterattack. ah That is a bad counterattack, too. Um...
00:32:36
Speaker
for For you. Now, Eric, you can spend a point of of willpower, and to do that you click one of the green boxes once, and then hit willpower reroll.
00:32:49
Speaker
And you can reroll 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... You could reroll whatever the max amount of dice has been a while since I've... I think you can reroll all of those fails.
00:33:02
Speaker
So would be...
00:33:06
Speaker
Five, right? Yeah. We'll try. ah two more successes. That bumps you up to a four. So that's a better, though. So he's still he still overpowers you um with his critical hit.
00:33:20
Speaker
ah so yeah it happens So go ahead and describe a three. into the cage yeah and as you do that, I wrap my arms like around your chest and fling you um over the...
00:33:34
Speaker
bo The thing. Yeah. the um the the The ring? Yeah. ah So, Eric, you're going to take three points of superficial damage.
00:33:48
Speaker
um So that, I believe, you click it once. yeah Make it into a slash for your health boxes. Slash for the health boxes. Yeah. um
00:34:01
Speaker
And now it's your turn, Frank, I guess? Yeah. Even though you did a counterattack, now it's actually your turn. um i I...
00:34:16
Speaker
Would like to breakdance. Okay. Now, you have... um i was looking for like a performance. like I wanted to walk into the ring and... like So you have... um movie thing Intimidation a Ring Presence.
00:34:33
Speaker
But if you want to change that up to performance, um we could drop your like persuasion and put it as as, you know, we could adjust your sheet a little bit. Like you don't need the street wise. What are we doing here? here arm But you have a specialty ring presence and I feel like that could apply to multiple skills. um So basically with specialty, you get a plus one modifier um to whatever role.
00:35:00
Speaker
I don't see this thing that you're talking about. but It's underneath um your skills. It says ring presence. It's on the blind side. Yep. Yeah. All right. roll that.
00:35:11
Speaker
So you click the skill first. Intimidation Plus this sounds like a charisma. And then that and when it asks for modifiers, plus one.
00:35:26
Speaker
Because you have a specialty.
00:35:30
Speaker
Intimidation. plus whichwise I put it over to Persuasion, but we can put Streetwise back if you want. um that put one into Intimidation and the other two into... Well, you've already got three Intimidation.
00:35:45
Speaker
This isn't even towards him. This is just to hype up the crowd. ah Would you like it to be Performance instead? Sure. Alright, here. let's Let's... Boom, boom.
00:35:59
Speaker
There you go. Awesome.
00:36:03
Speaker
Alright. Perform H plus Charisma. So, you know, he he takes the first initiative. I do that. I just, just like, so walk away back facing him.
00:36:17
Speaker
Do my, like, fibrillation thing. Yeah. Oh, that needs be a plus one. Uh, just roll an extra d10.
00:36:31
Speaker
but okay um So you can always spend a point of willpower to to get even higher. I don't know what this will do for you, technically. um But four successes is pretty good. The crowd is cheering. like they They normally boo you because you're the you're you're the heel, but you know you're ah your fans, your bad guy fans, you know they're they're cheering for you. that They're into this. that like You just tossed Beowulf out of the ring.
00:37:01
Speaker
um i'll say i don't know you get like a a plus one on your next roll against him or something i feel like it should do something yeah um beowulf what do you do so he threw me out of the ring like out of the cage or just out of the ropes or how do we do this where where did i go i don't think it's a cage match were we in a cage match I said I was going to put him on the cage, but... Oh, yeah. He described it as a UFC-style fight, but... Yeah.
00:37:34
Speaker
But, yeah, well, okay, so it's more like the... It's more like the fight from from Spider-Man. i got you. Yeah, so maybe it is a cage.
00:37:45
Speaker
You threw him into the cage, then. You know, and he smashes against the cage. Dents it. Dents the cage. Because y'all are both huge dudes. Walks weird and falls the ground. Yeah. Yeah.
00:37:58
Speaker
Y'all are both very large men, so...
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00:38:02
Speaker
So then I guess i flop myself back up. I do one of those, like, kip-ups. And then he's got his back to me.
00:38:10
Speaker
And so I just... I guess I'm gonna run and try to grab the back of his head and ride it down. Right? all Like, smash his face. Doctor's mask on the ground. That brawling again.
00:38:21
Speaker
yeah, I'd just be brawling again. Brawl plus plus strength.
00:38:26
Speaker
Ooh...
00:38:30
Speaker
Do I have grapple? Does that count? um If you're just trying to smash his face into the ground, that doesn't sound like a yeah and then once it,
00:38:43
Speaker
o Man! brother o Our man is off tonight. You can spend another another re you can spend another willpower. This is his like big fight, so we'll try that again.
00:38:57
Speaker
Let's see how it goes. How many is that? A lot. One, two, three, four, five, six. Six dice! first three so right So Frank, um I'll say you can do athletics plus dex to dodge, but because you are facing away from him, you can't do the counterattack. However, I was going to give you a penalty, but we'll say because the child crowd's cheering, they they like you hear the you hear the shift, the the like tonal shift as they see him running up to you, and you realize he's coming at you. So no penalty to this dodge, athletics plus dex.
00:39:35
Speaker
Do I get the plus one from rearing up the crowd like I said I would, or no? I think the crowd is giving you a no penalty rather than a plus one for this. Okay.
00:39:47
Speaker
That's an even. um Unless you spend a willpower.
00:39:54
Speaker
It's dork. So... guys three yeah. Three Dsend. Just, yeah, that works. Two more, so that bumps you up. Man, Eric, you are... So he dodges you. um So the way dodging works, though, that's still that puts him at... Yeah, two more. So he dodges. Yeah, he managed to dodge.
00:40:18
Speaker
And then it's his turn. Yeah. He might not have needed to use that. I'll have to recheck the the combat pool, the combat rules later, but... Um, now he's, yeah, go for it. As he, like, dumps past to try to slam my head into the, uh, the mat, I miss, or the, not mat, whatever the, yeah, fucking, the ground.
00:40:40
Speaker
Um, I, I, like, I hear the tunnel shift in the crowd, and so, like, I duck my head, um, and as he, like, goes over me, i should attempt to, like, grab onto his body and ride him down.
00:40:56
Speaker
Okay. ah And then, yeah, Eric, you get to either counterattack or dodge. How did you try to grab my head? Like, were you like a just jumping?
00:41:08
Speaker
and like yeah like I just ran and then jumped to grab you. No, no, no, like the back of your head in my like in my hand. And then so like I jumped, grabbed the back of your hand, and I just like, was going to bring you face down.
00:41:22
Speaker
So like my head in your hand is what you're attempting? Yes. Okay. it wasn't like ah Like I was just going to slap the shit out of you, basically.
00:41:32
Speaker
Okay. Alright. Yeah, then I... Yes. Like the most ultimate gib smack of all time? Yeah. yeah I feel like if he's in the air, he should get a negative.
00:41:44
Speaker
Whatever.
00:41:48
Speaker
If he's what? Since he's in the air, well, I'm trying to grab him to write him down. He should get a negative. Okay.
00:41:57
Speaker
um No, it's fine. if yeah
00:42:03
Speaker
This is probably... I'll try to turn it... so i can't do like When I counter, I can... Can I describe what I'm doing or I just roll for a counter attack and then it happens?
00:42:15
Speaker
go at and i say look Go ahead and roll for it. grab me He's going to grab me. He's going to grab me. Now we're grappling because he's grabbing me.
00:42:26
Speaker
You know what I'm saying? Sure. So you get a plus one to the roll. one I need all the help i can get, buddy. Alright, that's five. um So that means your counterattack overpowers his. for So he takes two superficial damage.
00:42:46
Speaker
Yeah, so you you go to grab me from behind, right? And then you grab me, and I'm like, I don't know, man. It's like you would call me like a snake. I'm slippery like a snake. And then I'm suddenly behind you ah choking you a little bit, right? Like i got you in the half of a rear naked choke.
00:43:01
Speaker
Yeah. And the crowd is is just cheering and and there's like um ah commentators and they're they're they're just going on on and on about like y'all's techniques and stuff.
00:43:13
Speaker
and ah and And then there's then then the the commentator is like, and you know what a great way to track how good he's doing in this fight? this new app io downloaded everybody and then like io flashes on all the screens around you and uh the fight continues um i think that was frank's turn so now it's my turn yes yeah so then we'll keep going with the grapple and try to really sink it in and choke my man unconscious right you're trying to like
00:43:46
Speaker
ah We're not on the ground. We're standing up in your ground. Yeah, yeah. right like i Like I, you know, crawled around you like a spider monkey, which looks really funny for a six-foot-six man on another, you know, six-foot-eleven man something like I'm crawling around you.
00:43:59
Speaker
and so So I guess I feel like there's two ways we can win this. There's... there's Knockout, obviously, which is get the other person to zero. um but We won't do lethal damage, just superficial. Y'all aren't trying to kill each other, but knock out all their health and superficial. There's also um pinning them, which...
00:44:25
Speaker
um see i don't I think I have no idea how that'll work, to be honest. um Yeah, I'm trying to think how that would even work. Well, I'm en wrenching you back trying to you know so sink in the the choke. We'll just have to go for a knockout, yeah.
00:44:43
Speaker
I also have a grapple skill. ah Yeah, now that y'all are grappling, you you get the plus one bonus when you grapple. Yeah. Okay. um You also have something that you could use if you went out to the crowd, you know, but I think your skills actually are less than that. Yeah, it's it's just... But that would deal lethal damage if you were using that.
00:45:04
Speaker
So I need to counter this with Brawl plus strength? If you want to damage him, yes. Okay. Less strength. Do I get a plus one because he'll grapple? Yes. Yeah. Okay.
00:45:22
Speaker
So that is even. Even's I don't know what happened if you what happens if you spend all your willpower. I guess you just can't use it anymore. There's probably a more rule. I just don't take damage?
00:45:35
Speaker
ah Yeah, so you basically cancel each other out so that you don't take enough damage to actually like count as damage, you know? It's not like what y'all are doing doesn't hurt, but, you know, not enough to mark a health box.
00:45:49
Speaker
Gotcha. So my turn now? Yeah. Alright, and so I will tell you what I want to do, and then you tell me how to do it. Okay. So, I would like to... umm I'm assuming we're...
00:46:06
Speaker
center-ish of the ring, right? Yes. yeah at this point maybe maybe Maybe a little bit in one direction or another. I would like to walk to the nearest corner, climb up while he is on my back, and then and then like do a defibrillation motion to my own chest while jumping backwards to slam him the back.
00:46:31
Speaker
Let's see. so we're going to call that
00:46:36
Speaker
Damn. I mean, it really doesn't matter if you roll athletics or brawl. I think it honestly is the same roll, but I'm going to give you a plus one because it's cool. No,
00:46:48
Speaker
no no, no. What I'll say is I'll give you... There is something I've been doing wrong, but it doesn't matter. I'll give you a plus one to the damage. If you if you inflict damage, you you deal plus one damage.
00:47:01
Speaker
Okay. So brawl plus strength again? Yeah. Okay. And then do I get a plus one since we're grappling currently? Yeah.
00:47:12
Speaker
Four successes. Alright, Eric. Alright. So... I gotta stop him from throwing me onto the ground on his own back, right? Yeah. Or jump off while I'm in mid-jump.
00:47:28
Speaker
No, I'm going to try to do my snaky Beowulf fighting a troll thing and move to your front so that whenever you leap off, I'm ah on the turnbuckle and I kind of like, I give you an extra push.
00:47:41
Speaker
And I think you might get, o I'm wondering if this counts as parkour. ah i don't I don't think you can apply multiple specialties. I'm not sure about the rules.
00:47:54
Speaker
um Nah, it doesn't count as parkour because you're not the one doing the jumping. so But you do get it's still grappling. It's still grappling. Alright. Come on, big money.
00:48:06
Speaker
Come on, big money.
00:48:11
Speaker
Damn. Critical hit. I'm going to, of course, spin a willpower. ah Well, you would have needed to spin the willpower before he rolled. Because this is his counterattack.
00:48:24
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. So he counterattacks. Yeah. So he, what does this look like? So i I, let go, as he's going halfway, like he's mostly all the way up the turnbuckle or whatever. Yeah. And then I let go and through like, you know, the magic of crazy athleticism, I'm sitting on front of the turnbuckle now, like I've shimmied my body in front of him. And then I just push both feet out and throw him off the turnbuckle instead of him pulling on me. He falls on his own back. Yeah. For two damage, Frank.
00:48:56
Speaker
but that was my Critical hit for two. Well, yeah, but he got a six and you got a four. ah Yeah, it's the counter attack. And now it's his turn. This is how it works. This part I know is how it works. so But honestly, I think you actually would be dealing more damage than what I'm doing. but Because now I'm going to frog splash him.
00:49:18
Speaker
Okay.
00:49:22
Speaker
How do want to this?
00:49:26
Speaker
I am going to get extra high. Yeah. ah Like, you know, run and like bounce, bounce, jump and do like crazy aerial flip onto him and splash him. All right. That sounds like parkour. You get the bonus for that.
00:49:42
Speaker
Nice.
00:49:53
Speaker
All right. Five. Defibrillator, you're on the ground and and he is about to smash into you. Alright.
00:50:06
Speaker
Brawl plus strength.
00:50:10
Speaker
Would this be ring presence? i think it ruled No, ring presence is intimidation. I don't think he has anything for this one. Alright.
00:50:27
Speaker
Goddamn, this dude. So how do you how do you turn this this flying leap into a that he's doing at you into a counterattack for one damage?
00:50:38
Speaker
I would like to like donkey kick his ass. Oh, God. yeah And into the the side of the ring. So he hits you for one. happens. I'm on the ground and you come do the flying leap.
00:50:51
Speaker
I get my my feet up and like I like shoot them out towards you. And you then do like a roll backwards to throw you over my head into the ropes.
00:51:01
Speaker
Now Liam, you are in the crowd. What are you thinking of all this?
00:51:07
Speaker
Why did all the people prince told us to turn such losers? yeah Literally, and we looked at all of them, and all of them sucked donkey balls.
00:51:21
Speaker
ah
00:51:26
Speaker
And I get the one who sucks at his own profession. It will be funny if Eric loses this fight. Loses fight.
00:51:37
Speaker
Alright, that was Eric's attack, so Frank, it's your mere move. Wouldn't he have gotten two damage, not one damage? six Six versus five.
00:51:48
Speaker
yeah Oh, that's how that worked. Alright, my move. Um... I'm going to a backwards roll into a standing position um and then run and while he's getting up, try to do a flying kick into the ropes.
00:52:07
Speaker
Okay.
00:52:10
Speaker
I guess this probably should be athletics plus strength, though. Yeah.
00:52:18
Speaker
I honestly have no idea, but It's the same score for you, so five successes. He's flying at you. and he's rolling. He's rolling. a a wolf Yeah. i's hot Yeah.
00:52:29
Speaker
So he's probably like you're doing like a dropkick thing. Yeah. All right. And then of dodging is what? Pure dodge is just athletics plus.
00:52:41
Speaker
um Well, dodge, dodge is athletics plus decks. But if you wanted to do something weird like catch him midair, you know, you could do athletics plus strength.
00:52:54
Speaker
but the Because catching him midair, that's a counterattack. The dodge...
00:53:01
Speaker
I've got i gotta to play my dice too because I have to beat his five. Jesus. Well, I as well just try to fucking catch him and... Counterattack. If he hits me... And if I don't dodge though and he hits me, I take five.
00:53:17
Speaker
ah You reduce his successes by whatever your dodge score is.
00:53:23
Speaker
I get what you're saying. Yeah. Maybe we should try the dodge first. So yeah, I try to like, uh, don't know. So I'm on the ground.
00:53:35
Speaker
Matrix dodge. Yeah. Roll out of the way and climb up the ropes. All right. i but Well, no, in my mind, you had like, I, I think you were around and you were standing. Yeah. Oh, like know he's trying to drop kick you to the chest.
00:53:49
Speaker
Yeah. So matrix dodging, let him fly into the pole. Yeah. i would be I was aiming for the ropes, so I would actually probably go through the ropes, or split the ropes, which would be worse.
00:54:03
Speaker
There
00:54:07
Speaker
we go. Yeah, that's enough to dodge him. and then And then, you know, now it's your turn. So, he flies over you or past you or whatever smashes into the into the ropes in the cage because there's a cage don't think there's a cage with the ropes yeah yeah he smashes into the cage all right and then i guess i'll just uh lay back into him oh that's the wrong roll it's gonna tell me to strengthen strength we don't want to do that cancel double strength
00:54:47
Speaker
Y'all are rolling pretty well this whole thing though. Like, there's so many fives here. that's shouldn't That's another five. but it shouldn't be that. it shuts That's only your strength.
00:55:00
Speaker
Damn. ah and then my roll Go ahead and roll your brawl then. By itself. Yeah, or three d ten
00:55:15
Speaker
Oh, it's because you got a crit plus another 10. So that's two more successes. So seven success attack. Oh, God. Okay. What are you doing? ah So you threw yourself into the cage, right? So I'm going to run up on your back, grab your head, and just drag you all the way down the cage. Just scrape you bodily across the cage.
00:55:41
Speaker
All right. Seven successes. I don't know if I can beat that. Will
00:55:55
Speaker
we technically be grappling now?
00:55:59
Speaker
Probably. Yeah. I think I'm
00:56:08
Speaker
going to have to figure out a way to... like I can't think of Yeah, okay. um So while he's dragging me bodily across the cage, i want to grab onto the cage. Okay. And jerk him to a stop.
00:56:21
Speaker
Alright. I think that needs to be like brawl and drink. Well, jerking him to a stop jerking him to a stop at the light x plus strength. Because you're just doing a pure strength, like but not attack though.
00:56:35
Speaker
And then a plus one for grappling.
00:56:39
Speaker
that's Not enough. I think he might have just won because he was seven. Yeah. Can I burn a willpower? if You can, yeah. So you'd be able to reroll one, two, three, four of those.
00:56:53
Speaker
There's eight, four, so four d ten Yeah.
00:57:00
Speaker
One more success. So that's two two damage then. o Okay. Okay. Because I grind your face and body against the chain link.
00:57:11
Speaker
Yep. Yeah, your guy is struggling now. If we were playing full full rules, you'd probably be taking penalties and stuff, but I don't remember how to play right now, so... um So, my turn next, yeah? yeah Yep. Alright.
00:57:28
Speaker
So, I drag him to a stop. um I would like to like try to wrap my legs around him. Okay. and then like push off and ride him to the ground.
00:57:40
Speaker
okay and Brawl plus strength plus one for grappling. Yep. Oof, okay. I'm gonna i'm gonna burn a willpower.
00:57:50
Speaker
All right, your last willpower? Yeah. One, two, three, four, five, no that's my second from the last. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
00:58:01
Speaker
Eight, seven, five, maybe 10.
00:58:08
Speaker
Two more. So that bumps you up to a five. eating All right. So we are grappling.
00:58:18
Speaker
nice
00:58:22
Speaker
Oh, damn it. I did it again. Oh. Submit. One.
00:58:31
Speaker
All right. You all are even.
00:58:35
Speaker
Tisees. Unless you want to burn a well power.
00:58:45
Speaker
I do. And that is one.
00:58:50
Speaker
Looks like three. Yeah.
00:58:58
Speaker
Yeah. What? It doesn't look like I got. Oh, it's six. Okay. It has to be six or higher. Yeah. now now i'm doing Now I'm cooking with gas.
00:59:13
Speaker
Two more. That bumps you up. Alright, that's seven. Seven for your counterattack. So that's two. So technically, Frank, you take one superficial and one lethal damage now.
00:59:27
Speaker
But that also will will knock you out. So so this is like this is where it would be dunsies. So we'll go with the a finisher, and I yell out, Wolf Hammer!
00:59:38
Speaker
And then fling Frank up onto my shoulder. like he's He's completely vertical because we're playing the game, right? yeah So Frank is and head facing the ground, legs all the way up. right ah I hold you there. like I pause.
00:59:54
Speaker
so that everybody can see just how amazingly strong our boy is, right? And then ah pivot, shifting my weight, and I slam him into the, the the what do you call the cage and drag him down to the ground.
01:00:07
Speaker
Damn. Yep. That's... ah that's That's enough to knock this dude out. the The ref runs over, and he starts counting, and you know however many seconds it is to count you as out of the match, you know he hits that number. And they're like, and the the reigning champion, Beowulf! And you know they raise you know raise your arm. that The short little referee guy tries to lift your arm up into the air. Yeah.
01:00:36
Speaker
And the crowd is cheering and stuff, yeah, and all of that. and um And now I'm going to run to the restroom. So he does that for victory, and then he does the, like, bodybuilder where he's, like, dabbing, right? Like, he squats and he's, like, pointing to the sky, and he points to the other side of the sky, right?
01:00:57
Speaker
And then, I told you, warriors and dames and bards, tell the tale, Beowulf strikes Again, another monster slain.
01:01:10
Speaker
To stand against me is to challenge fate itself. Your destiny was written before you stepped in the cage, defibrillator.
01:01:23
Speaker
b you Thank you for a good fight, Frank. Yeah, that's good one.
01:01:33
Speaker
Now I have a no willpower left when I meet Liam. You're welcome.
01:01:50
Speaker
I'm back. Welcome back. Ron had a question. I have possibly an answer. How much did Liam lose... on a bet in this fight. You bet against... against... ah yes beulf Beowulf?
01:02:08
Speaker
Well, how much money did you bet? How much money did you bet? um Okay. it was as It was the most random human that I killed on the world over here.
01:02:24
Speaker
Random human that killed. William's piece of shit. Hold on, hold on. I'm seeing if... i
01:02:34
Speaker
Okay, this ChatGPT gives the the doctor a slight edge in this. ah So that doesn't work well for you. um I don't know how odds fully work.
01:02:48
Speaker
But let's just say you lost a hundred and... Wait, no, you just lose the whole hundred, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so, I mean, just lost a hundred dollars. It's not like you didn't bet money you didn't have.
01:03:00
Speaker
Yeah, if you won, arm you would have made more money because it was worse odds. It's like a minimum buy-in, but it's an asshole. Yeah.
01:03:13
Speaker
Yeah, I've never gambled on a fight before, so I don't know how odds work. I mean, I know how they work. I'm just like, all right. um I mean, I imagine that this guy is I don't know, what I mean.
01:03:30
Speaker
What's his sitting at? Oh, it's sitting at full. Well, they're both humans, so they would be full humanity, basically. Oh, your guy shouldn't be full. I don't know what he would be.
01:03:40
Speaker
um He'd be at probably more like five. He's addicted to alcohol. I would say he's probably down to five. drinks from alcoholics.
01:03:52
Speaker
Yeah. Or from drunk people. And...
01:03:59
Speaker
Yeah, mean... The full humanity, I think, is just what the default page leads it at, and I never changed it, but he'd probably be a five with his age. His his background, he has three points in criminal content.
01:04:11
Speaker
Yeah, this guy's an asshole. He just murdered someone on the way over here to steal a hundred bucks to bet against you.
01:04:19
Speaker
Maybe. Nice.
01:04:22
Speaker
Um... Yeah, so the fight is over. um you know they They help ah the deferb defibrillator off of the stage, and or the ring, sorry. they open up the The cage lifts back up into the air. um And, uh, they make a big show of it though. Like they, they come over to him and like the, the, the, the medics are like checking him and then they get a a fake defibrillator. Um, and they use it on him and it does like some fake sparks.
01:04:55
Speaker
Um, except that he's actually unconscious, so it doesn't wake him up. And so then like, oh crap. And then they like, bri they, they bring him out, you know, on a stretcher cause he's unconscious, you know? Um,
01:05:07
Speaker
They, course, are all wearing, like, nurse-slash-doctor-surgeon outfits. Oh, yeah. outfits Of course. Um... And they, uh... Yeah, and then, you know, your manager, whoever that may be, you know, he's like, you did good, boy! you know, and stuff like that. And, uh, yeah, you are escorted to the back. Now, Liam... Yes? What are you gonna do?
01:05:35
Speaker
i So... I am a hideous, hideous man. yeah Yes. am I wearing a mask? Am I blushing to save my life out in the streets, like in public? Or like, what's going on?
01:05:49
Speaker
ah You're probably wandering around invisible, to be honest, with um Unseen Passage. Yeah, you've got Unseen Passage, so you can move move while invisible.
01:06:02
Speaker
but Okay, yeah. I guess I'd be doing that. And, and ah yeah, if you check your bio and info tab, it has all of your powers. um looking at it Yeah, you've got cloak of shadows, which is the one that you can't move, but you also have unseen passage. And then you also have cloud memory when you need it. So.
01:06:26
Speaker
I guess I would just be like stalking him and staying very close. like Right. Yeah, he presumably goes back to longgo about his the the locker room area. yeah
01:06:41
Speaker
Would I know where he lives, just in case? you Yeah, you were given that sort of information, yeah. Yep, if I go in the locker room and it's like he's taking a shower...
01:06:55
Speaker
you call You go in the locker room, he's in the shower, his penis is extremely small because of all the steroids. I'm biting it. It's all the steroids. That's just your ballsack, guy.
01:07:07
Speaker
It's all the steroids you've been fucking
01:07:12
Speaker
in.
01:07:15
Speaker
I guess I didn't have you do the thing that I put in your quick notes, ah but you can do that after you after you grab them
01:07:25
Speaker
Quick note. It's at the top of bio and info. I'm going back to the locker room. My brother and nephew meet me there, and he's like, oh, yeah my God, Wolfhammer. we all yell, Wolfhammer.
01:07:38
Speaker
Right? I could text.
01:07:44
Speaker
Does the other receive text? He does. Okay, I will send a text to him. Yeah, he basically told you to go along with it, but bring the guy to him afterwards.
01:07:57
Speaker
Gotcha. Yeah. And then I ah text Frida and basically ask her the same thing. Like, why does why is everyone returning?
01:08:09
Speaker
Except maybe for the slight possibility of David's new guy all suck and fall. ah Frida is not involved in this. um You would be... Because Frida is the grandsire of the gangrel. It was Jesse Krauklis, who is in the pod... Well, in the future, dead, but right now is still alive. She does die. Unfortunately.
01:08:43
Speaker
Well, we changed Jesse to a man because you you yeah you thought um Jesse was a man's name. Sorry. Even though, like... Never mind.
01:08:56
Speaker
So... ah I, you know, give my brother and nephew a hug, tell them that i can't wait to see them later at our family's New Year's Eve party, right? Okay, I'll see you mom's house or dad's house and save the house.
01:09:08
Speaker
And I got to get changed. I smell like defibrillator right now. Why does he put off so much a gel on his chest? Jesus. And then ah we also wave the song say go and take ah take a quick shower, right? Like my plan is to take a quick shower, throw on my street clothes and head on out.
01:09:29
Speaker
Nice. Do you catch him before he does all that, or do you wait till he leaves? When he's in the shower and you'll fall behind him. Of course you do that. um When you're most vulnerable, when your dick's out.
01:09:45
Speaker
ah Yeah, so probably need to make a stealth check. um Presumably you're invisible. I assume that power... I mean, ah you you should get a bonus just for not being seen. Yeah, unseen passage with this power... As long as the user admits no overwhelming odors or nose sounds louder than a whisper... Do you stink?
01:10:07
Speaker
No. Only if the observer as their... Observer has their full attention drawn to the user to make detection rolls.
01:10:21
Speaker
Hmm. I do want you i want you to roll for it, but I'm only going to say it doesn't work if you get a fail, basically. You've got a pretty good dex but it be stealth plus dex, but if you get no successes, um then I'll say he hears you, like, he won't see you necessarily, but he hears he he's something's off, you know.
01:10:48
Speaker
I'm also going to do a
01:10:53
Speaker
A Rouse, right? Yeah. give me bos And for Liam, I'm going to change your page for a second. Liam gets a plus two. Yeah, plus two.
01:11:05
Speaker
I get a plus two? From Rouse, yeah. You do get hungrier. That's fine, because you're about to feed. Hungry. boy's hungry.
01:11:17
Speaker
So a plus two bonus to this roll. Plus three, right? Plus two for the roll. i get a Don't I get a plus from the rouse? Yeah, that's that's the rouse. But then I already get a plus two from my normal thing, right?
01:11:34
Speaker
Do you?
01:11:39
Speaker
It's stealth plus dex, which is like six dice, plus the... um
01:11:47
Speaker
Plus the plus two for rousing. Basically I'm only having you roll this to see if you get a failure and see if you're allowed, essentially.
01:12:00
Speaker
Okay. Because otherwise you're invisible.
01:12:07
Speaker
Yeah, you're not loud. So there's there's no chance of him seeing you. I won't have you roll, Eric, because he's invisible. you know I was just rolling for sound. and what in yeah Is he stinky? Is Liam one of those smelly?
01:12:20
Speaker
I to don't think he is, no. i don't All I smell is Irish sp Spring? Nah. oh yeah
01:12:28
Speaker
I'm sitting there rubbing soap on my chest. may be piece of shit, but I might smell like alcohol. It was over here. You deep sunken eyes, large mouth. Yeah, nothing about smell over here. You had to ask me.
01:12:43
Speaker
Yeah. I might smell like alcohol. It smells like a Irish spring in here. I'm soaping my chest up, maybe a little too much. Right, because ah I'm sore. i mean, we might as well for official we might as well let you roll. If I firm remember right, awareness plus wits.
01:13:00
Speaker
But because he's invisible, I'm going to give you a minus two. So just just roll like... I mean i can't can't beat him at all. or did it again. You could get double crit. Minus two?
01:13:11
Speaker
could get a double crit
01:13:18
Speaker
minus two Yeah, I think, so yeah, because he's got two in um the stealthy thing. Yeah, I know. um One. You theoretically could have beat him, I think, if you got, because if I remember right, the way a crit works is you then roll, no, no, it just doubles your successes. So you would have only got up to four, but yeah. No, you don't notice them.
01:13:39
Speaker
I mean, this is Nosferatu's thing. They're stealthy. There you go I'm soaping myself up. I'm having a good time in the shower. I'm still the champ. Yeah, there's an excessively large, soapy, sweaty man. I will say grapple checks are going to take a minus one penalty against him.
01:13:58
Speaker
Because he's soapy. he like You need a bite you got it yeah but ah yeah just don't need to roll in an attack. Now I think you've got some crazy...
01:14:12
Speaker
Prowess gives you... If you activate it, it boosts your damage. um Brutal Feed. That's the one where you can take me to to nothing real quick. yeah
01:14:26
Speaker
But then you gotta get my completely drained body out of there. Yeah.
01:14:35
Speaker
Yeah, you could drain him within a single second. oh immediately immediately after a successful brawl attack using fangs.
01:14:44
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. yeah bruis
01:14:58
Speaker
You know what? What if I rouse again? Because, you're I mean, you're going to drain all of his blood anyway, so. Hunger gain, I'm at four hunger. get real news and e Oh, yeah.
01:15:11
Speaker
Oh, what kind of blood do I have? youpressing I get ah another plus two, right? Yeah, two more dice. Four. Four successes.
01:15:23
Speaker
um I don't know that you get a dodge here. ah because you're unaware of him. um I'm just checking something so... combat...
01:15:35
Speaker
um
01:15:41
Speaker
i know fangs have like a ah certain type of damage they do...
01:15:52
Speaker
Darn, it's not conveniently on my... um it It really should be on this... ah I've got a um DM screen. I'm surprised Fang damage isn't on the DM screen, because that's like a you know a common attack.
01:16:07
Speaker
um
01:16:14
Speaker
So, what is your power? So... ah Every point of hunger slaked causes one point of aggravated health damage to the victim. ah oh so yeah, how you can take... Well, because you're intending on killing him, you can just... If in combat, Brutal Feed comes immediately after a successful brawl attack using Fangs, the victim first takes bite damage, then damage from this power.
01:16:40
Speaker
um Armor doesn't a protect against it as the wounds... And he's already pretty hurt. So even if it doesn't immediately kill him because of the fact that you're down to... Well, you've still got four regular health. um Bite. Let's see if the compendium shows me Bite.
01:17:00
Speaker
Bite attacks. Strength plus Brawl.
01:17:12
Speaker
It deals 2 base damage. looks like it's 2.
01:17:23
Speaker
So the bite alone deals 2 lethal damage. um which will put you down to two regular damage, Eric. But yeah, he can base yeah it sounds like basically you can just wipe him out in this one turn. So yeah, you're showering and then all of a sudden just One thing with brutal feed is it's not a pleasurable feeding like it is with other vampires.
01:17:49
Speaker
ah So yeah, you are suddenly just grabbed from behind. and go this yeah and and Liam's mouth is not a normal mouth either. He's got like, so you know, pointy teeth. Yeah, rows of pointy teeth.
01:18:06
Speaker
um So it's not a ah pleasant bite as he just... short yeah So yeah, um he just you know immediately basically kills you. Boom, boom.
01:18:17
Speaker
um So Liam, you drain him fully, which means you are no longer hungry. You have to give him a point of hunger to turn him into a vampire.
01:18:28
Speaker
I'll take another one point hunger. One point of hunger. and I said Liam was going to be 5 humanity. um and just want to see what rolling humanity does real quick. I don't remember. Modifiers?
01:18:44
Speaker
Sure, we'll go with that. i'll have to look up the rules on that. I feel like you should have had modifiers, but You don't lose humanity from this. You're just doing what you were told. um Yeah, so he... you You are just brutally drained.
01:19:00
Speaker
Rapidly drained. um Everything goes dark around you.
01:19:06
Speaker
Liam, how do you give him back blood?
01:19:11
Speaker
the
01:19:15
Speaker
I guess the the first thing that came to my mind... is I just, like, spit it back into his own mouth. I'd vomit it back up to him. I guess that works. I'm really going for like, the whole protest thing. Yeah. that was his own nasty Yeah.
01:19:34
Speaker
It does have to be your blood, though. Yeah, it has to a bit become processed, so I don't know if that works. I mean, i would imagine... But it's also magic, so...
01:19:48
Speaker
i like I like this i' vomiting it back into him. Yeah, i wear I'm good with that.
01:19:55
Speaker
So yeah, you do that, and now what are going with this body? Yeah, I'm in the middle of the shower. Yeah, we're in the shower. NRG. At NRG Stadium. I have...
01:20:09
Speaker
I turn off the shower. Well, I rinse him off of all the soap, so at least he's not soapy now. Okay. um Because you don't come back immediately. Can I retcon a little bit? Sure.
01:20:19
Speaker
um Because I have those three points in contact. Uh-huh. Can I have some boys willing to help me out and drag him into a van?
01:20:31
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah, I don't see why would you wouldn't. You know, weekend it burnies me to the van? Yeah. Yeah, so basically down in the loading dock, I'm van ready, and some boys come in with a body bag. Okay.
01:20:48
Speaker
And we are dressed up as part of the team of the other guy. Okay. With the doctors. Yeah. And we just try to blend in as like, you know. You're his nurse staff. Yeah. Yeah.
01:21:04
Speaker
Yeah, so you guys carry them out to the van. um it takes a couple hours before they come back to life, so you got time to get them to wherever you want to get them to. Yep.
01:21:15
Speaker
and I take them to the rat king. All right. So, couple hours later... um Or or you you bring him down, you know, you to get to the Rat King, you have to, so you're going to have to leave your guys um because you head off to, ah the Rat King lives near the Woodlands Mall. You know that water, the Woodlands, you know the Woodlands Waterway?
01:21:43
Speaker
Yeah. Um, you have to, so you've got to take his body into the water there, swim, and you swim down into an entrance that gets you down under the Woodlands Mall. literally a Nutria rat. What the fuck? Yep.
01:21:56
Speaker
He lives under the Woodlands Mall, and the the only entrance is the, uh, the water, through the water. Um, when the player, when you guys met him in season two, it was at a random location. Um,
01:22:10
Speaker
but this is where his lair is, down under the water... and then you you you enter some tunnels. Of course you don't need to breathe, and Grindel is dead. or Beowulf, he isn't Grindel yet, is dead. um And so yeah this is no problem for you. You you swim them down, you swim them through, and you come out.
01:22:33
Speaker
ah It's one of those, like, you know in a submarine where it's got that like room with the water in it that somehow doesn't you know flood the submarine? um Yeah, water tension. Yeah. ah You go in there, and Frank, are you still awake?
01:22:52
Speaker
Nope. Frank, are you there? You muted? I am unmuted. Give me two seconds. Okay.
01:23:04
Speaker
I feel like... bet he's pooping. and I feel like the Rat King would specifically be living under... Macy's. The the Lego store. The like ah Lego store.
01:23:20
Speaker
Alright. Yeah, in the woodlands. That would be an interesting place.
Were-Rat Introduction and Lore
01:23:24
Speaker
Yeah. ah So Frank, as ah Ricky Thurman, um what ah of those three forms in the image are you waiting for him as to greet him when he comes up through the water?
01:23:36
Speaker
Am I the Rat King or am I just a random dude? You are Ricky Thurman, the other NPC that i I made for you. um but in that near So you are... No, no, no, no. The Rat King is a vampire.
01:23:50
Speaker
You are his were... You are a were-rat. Yeah, you are his were-rat blood-bonded servant. Gotcha. o Let me take a second to look at the picture again to see what i would look like.
01:24:05
Speaker
Sorry, I wandered off because I had the key. No, it's all good. Let's see.
01:24:15
Speaker
Ricky Thurman. ah you um Probably the semi-rat, semi-hairless cat looking...
01:24:27
Speaker
Okay, you're in you're in the were-mode then, were-rat mode. Yeah, the were-rat mode. Now Liam, you've of course seen this this being. Were-rats are extremely rare, as it says in his bio, they were basically kind of exterminated by the werewolves, and he is a rare one who was born um to a human. you know Well, you know a human with blood. DNA. Yeah.
01:24:56
Speaker
and
01:24:59
Speaker
Every time I see you, I still want to drink your blood. A roast motherfucker.
01:25:08
Speaker
I'm like bent over. i'm I'm doing the perpetual hand cleaning thing that rats typically do. Okay. one You can... i like me you know do you guys Do you guys know of Skaven from Warhammer 40k?
01:25:21
Speaker
Yeah. Please speak like that. Please. I don't know who you're referring to. Hold on. Look at that. You said Skaven? Skaven Warhammer 40k.
01:25:32
Speaker
then Warhammer 40k. Boss. Video.
01:25:44
Speaker
This is a character I created a long time ago, actually. Really? Yeah. I love it. You guys just didn't meet him when you met the Rat King.
01:25:57
Speaker
Mostly because I was deciding whether or not to keep him, because the werewolf the new Werewolf book kind of... I've got an echo going, man. can't find a video of this person. Is a person or is it a species? It's a species. It's a species. That's 7-1-4-4-3.
01:26:19
Speaker
Um, but, uh, the, um the, the werewolf book that, that kind of almost erased the other lycanthropes from like that. They don't even mention them. They don't even mention them. Um, Well, yeah, they don't even mention the other lycanthropes because there's were-rats, there's were-tigers, were-boars, you know, all the were-things. Even were-dragons, which are extremely rare and ancient, but, you know, they were like the first shape-changing beasts or something like that.
01:26:53
Speaker
um Yeah, if you did if you delved it into the ah the werewolf lore for World of Darkness, there's like a whole bunch of lycanthropes.
01:27:06
Speaker
So I'm not hearing it's not that far off from what I was planning on doing anyways, so should be fine. All right. Okay, so reset the scene. He comes up out of the water. I'm standing there like hunched over, cleaning my hands.
01:27:19
Speaker
Yeah. And what does he say? Every time I see you, I still have to convince myself. Wait, fuck, that's not what he said um I said. I would never drink your blood, you ugly motherfucker. Okay.
01:27:37
Speaker
Which one is this? What's this guy's name? I am Liam. Liam. And I am an ugly motherfucker, by the way. um I am no vampire, but I am... A were-rat.
01:27:52
Speaker
A were-rat. And I am a servant of the Rat King, who is a vampire. Yeah. yes So I'm still under Liam. You're a blood-bonded servant. Yeah.
01:28:03
Speaker
Okay. I won't blame you for- and the ah I was- I've been waiting for you. hu What? I can still never understand you. Every time- Get the fuck out of my way!
01:28:17
Speaker
of but ah Of course. Stop talking for the love of God.
01:28:25
Speaker
who Thank you. And I just continue. hey Yes. it's Oh my God, what did I just say? I will eat you and then I will vomit you up.
01:28:41
Speaker
yep um i go quiet and I like lead the way. Okay. Yeah. So, um, who's that one guy from Harry Potter in the movie went after he, uh, inflates Mark, aunt Marge.
01:28:58
Speaker
And that like hunchback guy come isn't, is waiting. with the With the Prime Minister, or Minister of Magic. Oh, the hunchback guy?
01:29:09
Speaker
yeah Yeah, the hunchback guy from the movie that's not mentioned the book for some reason. Tom. Yeah. I imagine you like that.
01:29:20
Speaker
That's what I imagine the the human form of him looks like.
01:29:26
Speaker
Um...
01:29:29
Speaker
Yeah, so you guys lead him through the tunnels to the ah to the the Rat King's audience chamber where you lay down the body bag. And um then you just kind of have to wait.
01:29:43
Speaker
ah Watching the transformation, actually I wonder if Nosferatu transformed before they regain consciousness or during. I wonder if it says that. let's just Let's just do a quick grand glance at them real quick. I doubt it's it says that, though.
01:30:00
Speaker
I bet in the older books it would have. i would like it to be... They wake up, they can see themselves changing. I feel like that's what it would be, to be honest.
01:30:12
Speaker
Yeah. um So yeah, it takes a little while. It's a slow change. It's a gradual, horrific transformation. Okay, so okay cool. Yeah, it takes a little while. um And then... ah Yeah, Eric, if you want to describe you awakening. um oh Oh, how much blood did you give him?
01:30:34
Speaker
Just one point. I'm not... So you are at four hunger, Yeah. I'm going to wake up like my health is back? I guess... Sure. Yeah, maybe your health is back.
01:30:54
Speaker
I don't know how that one works. Would we just have, like... He's supposed to come back with, like, one point. knowing Of health? knowing me Yeah, because he gave him one point. Well, he gave him one point of blood.
01:31:05
Speaker
Knowing me, and knowing that I'm a dickwad in general,
01:31:11
Speaker
I would probably have, like... I'd probably have someone... unconscious for him to eat when he wakes up. Okay, yeah. Just kind of, like, feed in the whole, like...
01:31:23
Speaker
You can eat them now, or you can starve. Yeah. sure How much of a dickwad? I feel like it would be a really big dick move if it was like his nephew. No.
01:31:34
Speaker
I'm not going to go that far. out i mean, need you to have venge against me. yeah Unless Eric wants that you know for for his character. Unless you do want that. I have Prey Exclusion children.
01:31:54
Speaker
That could be a reason why that's your prey exclusion, because you're first feeding. You know. My nephew parents, sons of bitches. No, it wouldn't be your nephew. It would turn up be a random child some kid and random orphan.
01:32:08
Speaker
But let's not go in there. Okay, we don't have to. Little Timmy. Yeah, we... Little Timmy by the well. It would be like a very unfortunate homeless man that is very obviously crippled.
01:32:22
Speaker
oh okay
01:32:26
Speaker
He's a paraplegic. Not paraplegic. I'll give him a fighting chance, you know, but he's very, very crippled. Okay. All right. He's a weak mortal um for for my dice rolls. Yeah. So Eric, you start you you start regaining consciousness.
01:32:43
Speaker
Did you open the bag or y'all just leave me in the bag closed? No, you're you're in the bag closed. Yeah. So he wakes up. He's in darkness. ah I guess, is he in pain?
01:32:57
Speaker
He just is really hungry. He's naked. you Yeah, you're naked. You're extreme. You're like in pain. So you are quite hungry, um though it's not a normal hunger, but you are hungry, I'd say. It's more like a hungry from something within you that you can't describe to anything, but it's like.
01:33:19
Speaker
bloodlust essentially the pain is is the pain is like a uh a dull ache like you register that you've been
Jonas' Struggle with Vampiric Hunger
01:33:28
Speaker
mostly bruised like you've got this aching wound in your neck but mostly it's the bruises from the fight but you know it's it's like an echo of the pain you know of what it should be okay So then I started like scrambling against the bag for a second, like trying to open it and then sit up and I'm in the bag. The bag is still moving around. Right. And then I guess I would need to roll strength or something. But fingers come out, you know, in the middle of the zipper and just kind of rip it open.
01:34:02
Speaker
Right. wait And then wait he's awake. Is it like ah so have I started changing already or? Some of you has probably started changing. but And just just keep in mind and Keep in mind... Keep in mind for this part, like your disciplines, um your strength-based ones and stuff like that, from what I did with everyone else, those do kind of already exist.
01:34:28
Speaker
Unless you spend experience points on it, whatever your starter stuff was, that exists. okay i guess um you You just use them instinctually. Uh, so then I guess I rip open and I'm like, what the fuck?
01:34:44
Speaker
Why the fuck am I naked? what What the, what the fuck? What the fuck? look What is wrong? Where am I?
01:34:58
Speaker
Where am Some hidden corner, because i I became Unseen Passage. So I used Unseen Passage, that's why the the Hunger Game is there. at okay another hand I'm at two Hunger now.
01:35:09
Speaker
um So he probably can see me. Yeah, he can see you. You're were-rats. I'm fucking terrible. In were-rat form, yeah. yep um And so in some hidden corner, because I'm still trying to like not be completely obvious, I say...
01:35:26
Speaker
Looks like the defubilator gave us a present. That was a... almost very unfortunate showing that you had. And I bet you have some questions of why you're here.
01:35:40
Speaker
Yeah, mainly why I'm naked inside of a bag. And... But...
01:35:50
Speaker
My voice. What the fuck? Is that a dog? yeah you asking really ugly And there's like also a couple mirrors that I set up around the room. That way, no matter which way you're looking, you can see yourself slowly changing. Because I think that's that would be a ah dick-ass move for me.
01:36:09
Speaker
Yeah. Hey, this works for the... much version of Yeah, this works for the um the kind of like backstory stuff you sent me earlier today where It was kind of a ah a mean a mean guy changing you. yeah Yeah, yeah. They wanted to humble me. yeah He doesn't like how pretty I am, or was. ah I'm hungry.
01:36:35
Speaker
Ow! ah and What's wrong with me? why is In the corner you do see a not not not quite...
01:36:47
Speaker
Uncapable moving homeless man that you could assume is homeless, but you do see him and I say, you feel that inside of you? That desire to bite? What were you doing?
01:37:00
Speaker
To fight or bite? To bite. Yes. To drink blood? Yes. Doesn't he smell terrible, but also good at the same time?
01:37:15
Speaker
Yes. Roll frenzy. on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. hot Right. So do I know, like, I don't have control of anything, right?
01:37:25
Speaker
But I have powers. Blood will send you basically, like. It's all it's all sort of instinctual right now. Yeah. Okay. So I have ah since the beast.
01:37:40
Speaker
So I know that there are other things around. Yeah. I can smell them. I can feel the beast inside of them. right so then and I'm not in front of the rat king. I'm actually in front of the act ah the the rat king. The rat king is yeah he's not here yet.
01:37:56
Speaker
right So then I can feel the powerful beast from Liam and then a less powerful beast from the rat. I know that. like the human sized rat the rat is actually fairly on even terms with Liam though he does not present himself in that way but power level wise wait he's as powerful as me? holy fuck yeah right he's a power he's he's yeah werebeasts are powerful especially in his rat form if if it comes to combat you'll get um like plus two to all physical rolls
01:38:35
Speaker
Because ah my first thought is like he's trying to coax me into biting the person, but I'm going to bite the rat. Oh, I did want to say he's slightly cut up, so that would be the first one you go for, is the the homeless man. Fulfill the frenzy, right? he's ah Yeah, you could roll for frenzy and see what happens, yeah. um So, he does have it let me up get my...
01:39:01
Speaker
just where a party for let me um Let's see, frenzy. ah So you're taste of blood.
01:39:16
Speaker
So it's only difficulty two. sight of blood Sight of wound or overpowering smell while at hunger for or higher difficulty two.
01:39:27
Speaker
thing And so you would roll the press the frenzy button and then when it asks you for difficulty, there are no modifiers. arm Maybe a negative one modifier that if it asks you for that because it's your first time.
01:39:47
Speaker
I'm just seeing if I can do anything to stop it. Because I have all the boosts to my willpower. would that Would that matter here? ah Can you use...
01:40:01
Speaker
I don't think that would matter. You you mean like your fortitude thing? unsplayable mind Yeah, And then my other... my I have a merit that also gives me a bonus to that kind of stuff. Let me look at that real quick. What merit is that? That is somewhere... one right underneath toughness.
01:40:21
Speaker
Iron will. Hmm, you know... ah
01:40:27
Speaker
I just want to double check what Iron Will does. Of course, it doesn't show up because it's probably from that other book. It's from that other book. yeah Yes, it is. Iron Will. You're especially resistant to... No, it's Mendel Intrusion.
01:40:39
Speaker
Not that. Okay. Alright,
01:40:44
Speaker
I just wanted to see anything I could do to help him, but there is not, so we will roll the dice. it but It's frenzy time. And then you said minus one?
01:40:55
Speaker
Yeah.
01:40:59
Speaker
Because you just woke up and he's already exp exploding exposing you to blood. Yeah. Zero successes. Yeah, you go for it. man you So i what I will do is um once you get down to... You'll take to two blood from him and then you can reroll ah for your your frenzy check to see if you um regain control.
01:41:25
Speaker
So you drop two down off of the hunger thing? And then and then it's difficulty you one with no penalties.
01:41:38
Speaker
No penalty. Submits. Difficulty one. yeah Submits. Damn. Still going. I'll let you roll again for for drawing drawing the last drop. That's all I'm at. One.
01:41:51
Speaker
I believe you can also burn a willpower um to stop a frenzy, but that would make you be out of willpower, which I would need to see the rules for that one. I'll take a minus two to social combat type shit.
01:42:09
Speaker
I'll submit. One. Okay, for so yeah. So you end up yeah you end up taking three from him, which is not lethal, you know.
01:42:22
Speaker
um
01:42:25
Speaker
so yeah you you and so feel free to describe as you can yeah so yeah the only way to get down to zero is to take a life um at one hunger you've just got that kind of like nagging you know you're kind of hungry you could eat but you know it's you know it's like not that big of a deal type of feeling it's it you know unless you kill someone your hunger never goes away So his ah teeth have started to change and his head started to get wider as he sat there talking to you guys, right?
01:42:56
Speaker
And like I said, he's looking like a fleshy version of the thing, right? if you think about the thing from the Fantastic Four made of meat instead of rocks, right that's what he's slowly turning into. And so his jaw, like his face is expanding and those teeth start to come out of the bottom of his mouth.
01:43:13
Speaker
And then he kind of like dislocates his jaw a little bit like a snake. And then, you know, basically, like, his whole mouth wraps around that guy's neck. And he's, you know... Nice. And he can't stop himself, and he's, ah you know, freaking out. His eyes say, what the fuck, what the fuck, what the fuck, what the fuck. And and the mean you didn't take any of the merits or any... You didn't take the flaw that, like, makes your feeding deadly, did you? I don't think you did, or anything like that. So, yeah. um So, yeah, you don't have to worry about killing him by this. It's still freaky as hell, but...
01:43:46
Speaker
Yeah, so I throw them away. like and did I like launch him across the room. Away from me. Yeah.
01:43:55
Speaker
Oh, that's just... oh Why? it was delicious. Why? It was delicious. It was delicious. Yeah. why Except that do it but he was a dirty old man.
01:44:09
Speaker
He did have a dollar over his alcohol and drugs in his system. Mostly ecstasy. um
01:44:20
Speaker
Was he afraid? Oh, yeah, I should roll his... I mean, yeah, he would have the fear resonance. That was um his resonance, ah which won't probably come up in this tonight's session, but um damn, I don't know which one that would be. well i need to know if he had an adrenaline spike before I ate him. That's funny.
01:44:41
Speaker
Probably. Why? Probably. That's one of my things that I actually realized that I didn't write down on my thing. i have addiction to adrenaline. Oh, okay. um So ecstasy does not um make you ah
01:44:56
Speaker
not fear things. It makes it worse. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
01:45:07
Speaker
Kind, yeah, it can.
The Rat King and Supernatural Hierarchy
01:45:10
Speaker
you know he still like every He'd feel the blood leaving him. Oh, he would. only He would. I'm an asshole.
01:45:25
Speaker
We won't worry about resonance for now. um That's a rule that I gotta... I have have a a one hit point. Does any of those... like Do I only have the one hit point? So... again more hit points but you Yeah, you've got to...
01:45:41
Speaker
rouse checks. Now, that is something that you can instinctually do. It kind of depends. Like, with some of the guys, I let them... Well, no, I did make Bill learn to do it.
01:45:53
Speaker
So... Well, my neck hurts, right? I stand up. My body's, like, warping and changing. my skin's getting hard, right? And I, like, fall on the ground.
01:46:05
Speaker
And then, uh... I guess, how can i Can I... See him? Like, I have the beast thing. Can I find him? Can find Liam? I don't know if... Let me let me just double check since the beast real quick. Since... I have an idea if you do roll to find me. So you can since the beast present in mortals, vampires, and other supernaturals.
01:46:30
Speaker
A win allows you to since level hostility and determine whether they harbor a supernatural... I don't think it lets you since someone one who's invisible.
01:46:41
Speaker
Yeah, it's it's not a um counter to obfuscate. ah That would be the all-specs disciplines.
01:46:52
Speaker
But you have heard his voice and stuff, so you know there's someone there you can't see. What about the rat? Does the rat like me? I mean, so, I don't think either of them are necessarily hostile to you.
01:47:07
Speaker
um Not yet. And there is a roll for this, but I don't think we need to do the rolls right now. um I think you can you can just sense... ah Neither of them are really hostile to you right now, but you do sense the supernatural beast inside both of these. Well, inside the rat, for sure.
01:47:28
Speaker
The rat man. then, I guess I'm going to turn on the rat man. The really ugly master splinter. you Yeah. Tell why... Tell me why I'm here, right fuck brutal and like roar and like kind of like stomp angrily at him. ah And I'm going to try to scare him into telling me what the fuck is going on.
01:47:52
Speaker
So I'm going to throw intimidation and what I do Charisma, manipulation, what i do do there? You want to intimidate him? ah So the intimidation skill plus composure, I believe, is what it normally is.
01:48:11
Speaker
Any modifiers? no
01:48:17
Speaker
And then for Frank, um that would be Resolve plus Composure to resist it. So anytime you roll a 1 on a Hunger Dice, it shows the beast. But that it's only a crit fail if if you have no successes. it's I think it's like a glitch. um i get you Yeah. don't see Resolve anymore.
01:48:40
Speaker
Yeah, they're both at the top. Yeah.
01:48:47
Speaker
Yeah, you're you're you're not frightened by him. um that He's a newborn. yeah He's a big newborn, but he's a newborn. you know Oh yeah, I got bigger. That's part of it. i'm I'm getting bigger.
01:49:03
Speaker
I'm getting bigger. ah of fuck So what's the point of this? all And Ricky could probably lay him out flying. face and He don't know that.
01:49:14
Speaker
Yeah. No, i'm i'm just saying that's probably the reason why Ricky ain't afraid. I kind of hop forward and then, like, clean my hands and hop forward and clean my hands again. and I'm kind of like, flip my head sideways staring at as he transforms. and I'm like, you know, it it's not up to me. can see what you've changed. it It's just kind of fun.
01:49:37
Speaker
And then um right beside you, materializing out of the shadows, is a tall man. ah he is um He's got scaly skin. He's wearing old-style clothes along... um don't know that I guess trench coat would be what it is. a top hat.
01:50:00
Speaker
He's got a top hat on and a monocle for some reason. um He's almost got a an orcish jaw. His fangs. He's got like his bottom ah what do you call those canines poke out like like in an orc, but not quite as you know wide as an orc mouth. um and Scaly skin. He materializes and says,
01:50:25
Speaker
and and materializes and Pat lays a hand on ah on Ricky's ah shoulder and kind of like pets him a little bit and he's like, pets is... I think you would have fur. I feel like you would have fur. This picture doesn't show fur, but feel like you've got fur in that form. Werewolves have fur. um you know Kind of scritches you behind the ears and he's like, is easy now, Ricky. He's going through a A traumatic event.
01:50:57
Speaker
um And the ah he glances over at the corner where... um ah Wait, where's his sheet? I feel like he might have the ability to see you, does he? No, he doesn't. He doesn't actually have the ability to see you, but he knows you're over there somewhere. um Glances over there and he's like, i it's going to be up to his sire to help him through these changes.
01:51:24
Speaker
I start like hitting my back leg on the ground like a dog does. yeah Oh god, you
01:51:33
Speaker
And then the Rat King looks looks down at um at a Jonas and he says, I'm sorry this had to happen to you, my friend. But know this, you are now among friends.
01:51:52
Speaker
Uh, and I guess it's stupid time. He's going to stupid time because he's freaking out and he's in pain. and the, I guess, would he jump at the rat or the rat king?
01:52:06
Speaker
We're among friends. That's what makes him angry. You're among friends. Yeah. And he just lunges forward to try to attack the rat king. Okay. I will lunge forward too.
01:52:18
Speaker
I will also lunge forward. newborn
01:52:24
Speaker
I'm gonna go into torpor on my first night, boys!
01:52:32
Speaker
Did I lose you? So Ricky... Oh, actually yeah, Ricky, leave your hunger. For hunger, that's basically like canthropic rage. Because they have a rage mechanic. You have throbbing rage? My god.
01:52:52
Speaker
so happy with yourself. almost died on my soda.
01:53:03
Speaker
I need to check what something does. Frank. oh Please describe what your throbbing rage does to me.
01:53:14
Speaker
Let's see, what does this do real quick? Oh, just that's... Okay. That's what I thought. Alright.
01:53:26
Speaker
Jonas attacks first because he's the one who triggers this. I see that Frank already rolled. Oh no, that's a resolve roll. Okay, so Jonas would would do his attack. Alright.
01:53:38
Speaker
Roll. Boom. Boom. Boom. I don't have what I would have spent experience on yet, right?
01:53:49
Speaker
No.
01:53:52
Speaker
Okay. Three successes. um
01:54:00
Speaker
So of that same move that I did at the ah the opening of the wrestling match, that's what I'm doing. I'm just trying to spear him into something. Right.
01:54:09
Speaker
Uh... Now everyone is reacting. um i don't think that Liam would get to him in time to actually do anything effective, or at least not immediately effective, but ah Ricky, you could do something. think have Soaring Leap.
01:54:27
Speaker
Okay.
01:54:33
Speaker
And notably, ah the Rat King doesn't make you know any real move to dodge.
01:54:41
Speaker
He's going to let me hit him Yeah. He has plenty of strength.
01:54:49
Speaker
I've got Claw and Brawl. And it would be strength, Brawl, plus one, because of Claws. um Plus one, and then because you're in Wair Rat form, an additional plus two.
01:55:06
Speaker
So plus three total? Yeah. Yeah.
01:55:11
Speaker
So two successes. so not So you're it's enough to distract him, basically. But he's still... wheel that Okay. This is your master.
01:55:24
Speaker
two three four five six seven minus two Now you can't re-roll the hunger dice. Why do you have two hunger now? When you had one hunger... Oh no, never mind. that was some Actually, why do you have two hunger?
01:55:38
Speaker
Maybe I put you at two. I probably put you at two rage. so But yeah, you can't re-roll hunger dice, just FYI. So 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 with one of the hunger dice?
01:55:52
Speaker
You would roll three. You cannot re-roll hunger dice. We said it should be only at one hunger, yeah? no, no. I think I purposely put you at two rage because I set that at the start.
01:56:04
Speaker
Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Alright, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, minus 2, 3, D10. Okay, no extra successes. Alright. It's enough to distract him. I don't think that Liam would reach him before um he connected with the Rat King, because the Rat King was right there. um Three successes. So...
01:56:32
Speaker
so Vampires take half damage from... One. so one It would be one. Do I want him to even bother to move?
01:56:44
Speaker
Nah, he just he's just takes it. yeah he you know he he It's not like you don't make him stumble slightly. um He stumbles slightly, ah and and instead of attacking you, he kneels kneels down because you tackled him, and he kind of like pushes you back and and kneels down.
01:57:06
Speaker
And he's like, he kneels in front of me. Yes, he kneels in front of you to to be even with your, you know, tackling fit. Like after you've hit him in the, you know, like midsection and he just kind of like stumbles back one step.
01:57:19
Speaker
um he He then sinks to a knee and set and and he he will do like a ah strength type thingy for this um just to kind of hold you still.
01:57:31
Speaker
Damn, he's got some stuff. I got to actually what a boost his roll. um Because Prowess, I believe, just boosts damage.
01:57:45
Speaker
Yes. He adds 2 to whatever you do strength-wise. He's got uncanny grip, but that... Yeah, the potent new round half their potent trading round up.
01:58:01
Speaker
So now I want to double-check something. Um...
01:58:14
Speaker
Oh, wow. Okay. Actually, going to make him roll rouse just because I want to see what happens from this, you know just because it's unnecessarily... um Rousing success? Yeah, no, you hit him. He does not stumble. in this He negates all superficial damage from that rousing success.
01:58:34
Speaker
um Is it all superficial? i think It reduces whatever damage it would take by his fortitude rating. So yeah, he negates it down to so zero. He doesn't even stumble when you hit him. It's like tackling into a brick wall almost. And then he kneels down in front of you like and he says...
01:58:55
Speaker
um
01:58:58
Speaker
Let's see, he's gonna use a move. Let me see what it does. I think I know what it does, but... Nope, nope, that's handouts.
01:59:18
Speaker
Oh no, that's not what I thought it was. Okay, he does not do that to you then. um That's taking over the body of an animal. ah
01:59:28
Speaker
okay you're not an animal you're a person um yeah no vampire not a person so yeah he he drops to to one knee um now seeing that he basically harmlessly bounced off your boss do you continue to um soaring leap at him liam yes okay because i need to put him in i need to put him in his place okay He still is going to kneel down as you're doing whatever you do. So go ahead and do whatever you do.
01:59:59
Speaker
Alright, so I do another Rouse check because it's prowess. um Get another hunger. I'm at three hunger. And then I get additional two points to my brawl.
02:00:17
Speaker
It's to your damage, I think. Not to the roll. Okay. Okay. Yeah, let me read that again.
02:00:26
Speaker
When activated, the
02:00:30
Speaker
add half their potency rating round up to their melee damage. Yes. Yeah.
02:00:39
Speaker
For all the strength, right? Yeah. Any modifiers? I am invisible, and I just kind of left out of him fucking nowhere. And he is on the ground. um
02:00:52
Speaker
I mean, I guess I'll give you plus one to the roll because he's not... You know, he doesn't... He can't see you. Okay.
02:01:01
Speaker
Yeah, you go overboard with this. Um... Damn. My true ugly side comes out. Like, just beyond the point of, like... With him only being at one...
02:01:17
Speaker
um regular health, like... mean, you would black you could definitely knock him to unconsciousness with this. So go ahead and describe what you do to this guy.
02:01:32
Speaker
we Did we just kill Eric's character? No, it won't kill him. It won't kill him. he just gets knocked out, basically.
02:01:40
Speaker
i guess I would have, like, soaring leaped and grabbed him by...
Vampire Society Dynamics
02:01:46
Speaker
his wannabe massive pecs pinned him up against the wall and then just like showed him my face obviously and sucker punched him right in the fucking face.
02:01:56
Speaker
Okay.
02:01:59
Speaker
Yeah and this ah punch is more than anything any wrestler has ever done to you. And you were already pretty wounded so you you black out from this. You know you're you're down for a while. um An unspecified amount of time later Oh, and to heal my hunger, I kill the homeless man in the corner.
02:02:19
Speaker
Okay.
02:02:24
Speaker
Finish him off. Um... He only has two points of blood left, but one thing you can do is um go ahead and roll for... Humanity. No, wait, you didn't take any damage. Never mind. yeah you You clear your hunger, so you'll be at zero hunger now.
02:02:43
Speaker
I need to find out how much a fist damage does, just for future reference, but that's for other campaigns. um Yeah, and so then... ah an unspecified amount of time later, but to the vampire who's in Tor, you know, who's unconscious, I guess, technically in Torpor, um, it passes with the blink of an eye.
02:03:10
Speaker
Uh, you taste, you know, more blood, um, in your mouth as you, reawaken, um, and are healed by one point, so basically back to right where you were, uh, um, as a, uh,
02:03:29
Speaker
you know just some unfortunate mortal um you know has their arm to your mouth do you stop at one point of blood oh hungry am i uh you're just at one hunger so you're not very hungry but there is a dull it's enough to wake you up yeah uh who is the human there by themselves Hmm.
02:03:53
Speaker
No, I think either the prince or not the prince, either the Rat King or Liam is probably administering this person to you. Which one? um I feel like the Rat King probably scolded Liam, and um told you, you know, you need to fix this. You know, this is your your child.
02:04:16
Speaker
um Whether you wanted him or not, it's he's your responsibility. That's why I punched him in the damn face. Yeah. He's like, thou that was unnecessary and you know it, Liam.
02:04:29
Speaker
Look, I understand that he just woke up and this is happening to him and yeah, sure, being turned into my specific type, probably not the best.
02:04:42
Speaker
Our specific type? I know how you didn't... You you could have given him a friendlier opening. yeah I'm just saying.
02:04:56
Speaker
And look at the rat guy, I'm like, that was actually kind of funny
02:05:04
Speaker
funny. It's like, wake him up. Wake him up, yeah. The rat king is, you know, he's probably like he's probably in the room. You're probably in the same room. But,
02:05:18
Speaker
yeah. If yeah If we have time, could give him, you know... oh I mean, I imagine the Rat King in his lair has, like, the blood... Bag blood.
02:05:30
Speaker
Yeah, shell sure, he will not... He'll have to drink a little bit. We could do bag... He's only at one hunger. Yeah, he's only at one. He's not hungry, he's just... yeah He just needs to... He just needs some blood to heal up.
02:05:44
Speaker
You know, heal a point. yeah That's only my vampire, where i have to take... more than more bag blood to heal yeah yeah in general to so is it a person or a bag of blood and is liam giving it to me um liam's definitely giving it to you um i'd say it feel like probably just a bag of blood at this point yeah yeah just okay so he's freaking you out He's holding it. He's trying to give it to me, right?
02:06:18
Speaker
And then I have that weird snake mouth, so I bite Liam. I fucking bite Liam. I bite him as hard as I fucking can. I'm going to take some blood from him. trying to get Liam's blood. I want... Fuck him. I'm getting Liam. He punched me. I'm biting him.
02:06:30
Speaker
Doesn't he have a bond towards me? ah Uh... Technically, level one. Um... Let's see... let's see
02:06:44
Speaker
Blood Bond. i think he just has to do a willpower roll, but it's only probably... Granted, your willpower is not at max right now. Um... Well, been asleep for like two weeks, right?
02:06:55
Speaker
None of that comes back? No, you're probably only been asleep for like... Nah, they woke you up with blood right away. Um... Of course this doesn't say... Uh... Does this one... Oh, Blood Bond System.
02:07:13
Speaker
Um...
02:07:16
Speaker
To attempt something against their person's wishes, they must succeed in a resolve plus intelligence versus bond strength.
02:07:27
Speaker
So resolve plus intelligence, difficulty one. Because he's only blood bonded one to you.
02:07:35
Speaker
And drink drinking this blood, it's technically in the same night, therefore it's not, um it wouldn't increase the bond level either if you do bite him. You said it's resolve plus what? Intelligence.
02:07:50
Speaker
Resolve plus intelligence.
02:07:57
Speaker
it's No modifiers? No. Yeah, you can do it. bet I'm biting him. Um... I guess that's a... Brawl plus... Brawl?
02:08:16
Speaker
I feel like you need to be quick to pull this off, so let's say Brawl plus Dex this time. Me? No, to to... You can dodge, so yours will be Athletics plus Dex to dodge it. Okay. To... to And then I can rouse, right?
02:08:33
Speaker
fucking You can, yeah. yeah Because that's an instinctual thing? We're going to rouse first. you know Alright, so you do not gain you do not get hungrier, so I believe it's a plus you' get a plus plus two. two yeah Brawl.
02:08:55
Speaker
Dex. Submit. Two. Submit. Wow. um Yeah, so to pull your hand away before he bites it, that's an athletics plus dex.
02:09:14
Speaker
I might just take the bite and do
02:09:24
Speaker
Would a brutal feed kill him?
02:09:28
Speaker
It could, actually.
02:09:31
Speaker
It does superficial damage to vampires, and then I guess, what does superficial damage do after that? Well, none if he's drawing out your... it eventually becomes aggravated damage, because you're so low health that any overflow damage becomes aggravated. But if you withdraw all of a vampire's health, you do what's called... Diablery. Diablery, which is draining a vampire's soul, basically. So it's probably not something you want to risk...
02:10:03
Speaker
I wouldn't necessarily bite him back.
02:10:07
Speaker
Fuck it, puppy. Yeah.
02:10:11
Speaker
You bite me on my ear? You stupid fuck. Yeah, I guess I'm just going to do another of my own strength. So it's going to be Brawl plus strength.
02:10:28
Speaker
Do I get any? Oh, wait, yeah, I rouse, so I get plus two, right?
02:10:34
Speaker
i miss it no you fuck got you boy So he's grabbed hold of you. arm Basically, you exchange hunger for hunger. So he'll take a hunger, you you gain a hunger. ah Or, you know, you know what I mean.
02:10:52
Speaker
um yeah But then at that point, the Rat King walks over and he's like, enough of this, children. And he's going to watch him roll badly.
02:11:06
Speaker
Six successes. um You know what? I feel like the Rat King needs to give a better showing than that. One, two, three, four for their willpower reroll.
02:11:21
Speaker
Maybe it willpower you only can reroll three. I don't know. um No extra. Six successes to just kind of toss you guys apart from each other. Yeah.
02:11:33
Speaker
Yeah. So what i if I want to stay attached to Liam... Jeremy Ramsey? Is that what I made his real name? Wow. Okay, well, what ah you guys get to know his real name.
02:11:46
Speaker
but Out of character you know that. Out of character you know that. So I'm going to try to stay latched to him? Is that what I'm trying to do? You can, yeah. um Yeah.
02:12:00
Speaker
I'm grappling him, I guess. ah Sure. With your mouth, sure. yeah I mean, I'm going to grab him. Yeah. It's not like I'm just holding on to him like a puppy.
02:12:15
Speaker
let's One. Oh, you know what? Fuck it. We're gonna just going to keep doing this.
02:12:24
Speaker
You get hungrier. Oh, I got hungrier, so even better.
02:12:31
Speaker
Because I can't go to zero, right? Unless I fucking drain him to ride. Yeah.
02:12:41
Speaker
The switching back and forth between pages is little bit of a tape. Mm-hmm.
02:12:48
Speaker
Six is as messy. Damn! I mean, the messy critical is definitely you hold on with your mouth. um I feel like maybe you inflict some actual lethal damage with your fangs, so ah fang damage is two damage.
02:13:05
Speaker
i'm dragging like I'm dragging his arm deeper into the creepy mouth thing that I have. oh The Rat King sighs, and he's like...
02:13:18
Speaker
um Man, what would he do? He doesn't have mind control powers. ah I do. Huh? I do. have cloud memory. You've just got cloud memory. That's not really helpful.
02:13:32
Speaker
um But let's... I don't know that this... Let's see.
02:13:41
Speaker
Ah, damn it. I keep clicking on the wrong spot. I keep clicking on handouts when I'm trying to search.
02:13:52
Speaker
This power, what does this one do? this is This is why we don't like each other. Liam, this right here. This moment.
02:14:10
Speaker
This is a ridiculous power. Uh...
02:14:16
Speaker
Let's just see. what Does he get any hungrier? Nope. The Rat King's not getting hungry at all. Okay, let's see. But then he's going to also rouse for the extra dice. It still doesn't get hungrier.
02:14:29
Speaker
um We're going to go... Boom. Four. ah messy critical. as it could Um...
02:14:43
Speaker
He again tries to rip you apart. ah And literally, you know, your mouth is locked in. he just He rips you two apart and you rip a chunk out of Liam's arm. You know, it'll grow back.
02:14:56
Speaker
ah ah And hes he's using Fist of Cain, which basically allows him... itler It says you can literally tear limbs from supernatural mortal creatures alike, literally rind flesh, blah, bla blah, blah.
02:15:11
Speaker
So he does, you know, he basically rips the two of you apart and is holding you two at arm's length. um And he's like, that's enough.
02:15:23
Speaker
That's enough, you two. ah And um he's like he he turns to um Jonas and he's like, ah what would he say?
02:15:36
Speaker
Yeah. He's like, I know you're you're freaked out right now, but Stop attacking each other and listen to me for five seconds.
02:15:46
Speaker
God, and he he he flings you both away from him.
02:15:53
Speaker
Stand up and I'll wipe my mouth. You taste like shit.
02:16:02
Speaker
I wish I could kill you. You can still try. And he gives, ah ah the Rat King gives Liam a sharp look and then turns back to um to Jonas. And he's like, ah you know, then he kind he he's going to basically, I'm not going to go through it all, but he's going to give you the whole, like, this is what happened to you. This is why it happened to you. There's a madman named...
02:16:29
Speaker
ah something Augustus Chapman Allen, who who are um ordered you yeah ordered your death and ordered your you know he explains to you you're a vampire. He says, Liam, you're sorry. yeah He gives you the rundown and stuff because we're getting late, so you know we're going to fast forward now.
02:16:50
Speaker
um And he kind of gives you the rundown, then he... and then he you know tells you all about Augustus and how he's got this iron fist on the the the ah the city. he's he's forcing people to turn people He's forcing people to turn people against their will. you know just Everything that's been happening with the prince... um And, i you know, a few days later, I think it's about a week in-game, something weird happens and the moon turns blood red. That happens. Thanks, Max. Yeah. um ah
02:17:31
Speaker
You guys, you know... I don't really know, you know, we can go into more what your character has been up to, ah you know, bet when we start up again, but, you know, we've gotten, we we're pretty late now, so I don't want to, you know, go into all of that, but, um and then we get to a scene where um finally, um what Yeah, Frida um is leading a Maxwell Cox and a Coal Stone. I don't know if Frank is still here.
02:18:02
Speaker
um He's been quiet. A Maxwell Cox and a Coal Stone. Now, so Frank, I forgive you if you don't remember any of this, because I didn't until I listened to the episode a few hours ago.
02:18:13
Speaker
But you guys went and met the Rat King in a... random basement beneath a a ah bar, a dingy bar. or yeah And everyone down there was kind like half supernatural and the other half not.
02:18:29
Speaker
With you is so it's Max Cole, um Olivia the TikTok vampire, ah freedomda Frida the Viking chick.
02:18:42
Speaker
I don't remember if her if um Cassidy is there or not. I don't think so. Yeah, I think it's just you guys. She's Frida's grand grandchild, basically. she's the The country girl. Yeah, the way the the werewolf. sister The sister of a werewolf.
02:19:01
Speaker
um Yeah, I don't think she was there. don't think she was there. They introduce you. let's we'll We'll delve more into this relationship through flashbacks, Eric, but let's assume that you know you are at least on... oh we had exactly Well, with you and the Rat King, what's your relationship, do you think, towards the Rat King?
02:19:20
Speaker
Well, if he keeps, like, stroking, like, telling me that Liam's a dick, then I like him a little bit. Yeah. And he probably is manipulating Grendel because he's going by Grendel now. Yeah. ah Because he likes that I don't like the prince because I don't like the prince because it's all the prince's fault. Yeah.
02:19:40
Speaker
Right? the reason I'm like this is the prince. and So whatever the reason that the prince made, had him make Grindel, it doesn't matter because the you know like if he wanted like a soldier, like a big strong guy or whatever, right?
02:19:55
Speaker
Now he's the Rat King. Like, I'm the Rat King's man. Yeah. In my mind, at least. I'm probably more loyal to the Rat King than I am the domain, right? The...
Identity and Acceptance
02:20:07
Speaker
The Camarilla, yeah. um So yeah, Max and Cole, you guys are down here because Frida invited you guys to... you guys expressed... Displeasure. Displeasure with the prince.
02:20:22
Speaker
um And she said, you guys should come to a meeting. And so you guys, um basically, the Rat King reveals himself and he's he he motions over to this huge, shily motherfu scaly, the mask now yeah masked figure, and he's like, this here is Grendel.
02:20:46
Speaker
He's the one you've been looking for. The last of the ones the prince ordered embraced.
02:20:55
Speaker
What the prince, I don't think, realized was he created a soldier against him.
02:21:05
Speaker
and And you guys are now your main characters. You know you can respond to things. um
02:21:12
Speaker
I look up and down. Max looks up and down at
02:21:19
Speaker
whatever you were introduced to me as. Grindel. Grindel. He's all seven feet tall now. And at this moment is wearing like jeans and a hoodie.
02:21:30
Speaker
But he's seven feet tall. And what little skin you can see, it's like, again... As if the thing was made out of flesh. Right? I walk up to you and I go, ah name's Maxwell.
02:21:42
Speaker
I'm sorry that this happened to you. And I go for a hand.
02:21:46
Speaker
I just growl.
02:21:50
Speaker
But it's not like an anger growl. It's like acknowledgement. like
02:21:55
Speaker
You'll have to forgive Grindel. He's not had the best introduction to our society.
02:22:02
Speaker
You could say that again. don't think any of us have the best. Fair enough. From what I've heard, fair enough.
02:22:14
Speaker
you're the Rat King. That's what they call me, yes. What do you call yourself? m You can just call me the Rat King for now.
02:22:29
Speaker
Oh my god, i just realized if his name is Jeremy Ramsey, that's another Jerry. There's another Jerry. Fuckin' give them Jerry's, bro. Here's yeah three of them now.
02:22:40
Speaker
Four. um yeah ah Yeah, you can just... just you don't ta I don't expect you to to treat me like a king or anything like that. It's just a title they've given me. um But...
02:23:01
Speaker
he He pauses for a moment and and ah um considers for a moment this didn't happen the last time. None of this happened the last time. And then he
02:23:13
Speaker
sighs a bit and he says, you can call me Jeremy. Another Jeremy. No, no. Actually, I'll say, you can call me Ramsey.
02:23:25
Speaker
Ramsey. Yeah, by his last name. I offer my hand and I go, it's nice to meet you, Ramsey. He extends a scaly clawed hand to you and shakes it. and then i and wouldn't touch that you don't know where that's been And then I look over and go, and that was Cole, and over here is Olivia. And Cole, he tosses you a um Lego Batman.
02:23:49
Speaker
I catch it.
02:23:56
Speaker
i catch it turn pleasure to meet you both condition oh yeah um he he points up and it's like the lego store is right up there hit okay also meet you do we go like i've always wanted to be there at night no you can't go they'll see you are you new to this
02:24:28
Speaker
To be fair, they really can't because the cameras don't work too good.
02:24:35
Speaker
take it from Take it from me. He's gotten me out of a pickle once or twice. Cole's a whiz with computers. I have got this bloodline thing.
02:24:48
Speaker
Get over the bloodline thing and he's a whiz with computers. Also true. So you would risk...
02:24:58
Speaker
the game, the masquerade for Legos? What would you risk the masquerade for? Freedom? Everything.
02:25:10
Speaker
Everything. And is not everything a form of... but Small potatoes. Small potatoes. Small potatoes. And then i I point to a poster, and it's me on a poster, like in a cage.
02:25:27
Speaker
and you're set he goeslls don't know but i go like They don't stop me because they're afraid of me. But you do Legos. So i if any either of your characters watch wrestling at all, ah underground wrestling... we're gonna pass it ah Even Even in passing.
02:25:47
Speaker
Grindle has been a rising star. He was once Beowulf and then came back as a... I guess you're now a heel almost, but... um Oh, yeah.
02:25:59
Speaker
A heel that can't be beat. ah And he's still wrestling. um Olivia actually is like, wait a minute.
02:26:10
Speaker
She pulls up her phone and like, oh yeah i follow you and she she she shows you're like you don't even probably don't even know you have a tick tock because somebody else i definitely don't yeah actually my actually i don't have a tick tock one of my touchstones is the guy that runs my tick tock yeah because it's the kid whose name i don't know okay that is like he's a fan like he's like a hardcore fan of beowulf so like He runs the TikTok as a like, can you believe he became Grindel? This is so stupid. Beowulf would never do this.
02:26:45
Speaker
Oh my god. she But i I love him for that. She holds out her phone and she's like, yeah, this ah this kid used to be a big fan of yours. He still is.
02:26:58
Speaker
He still is.
02:27:01
Speaker
Puts her phone away. Black and yellow, black and yellow. ah So the Rat King's like, So... I believe you've now found all seven were all three of the the missing the missing vampires. Yes.
02:27:21
Speaker
yes My recommendation is we continue to play along for now. ah I know you've got a trial for your sire coming up soon, but after that...
02:27:35
Speaker
ah I suggest we introduce Grindel to to to our good our good prince and see see what it is exactly he's got planned for you all.
02:27:49
Speaker
Should be fun.
02:27:53
Speaker
And he like pats himself on the pulley. right like it's I'm confused. Is Grenade over there planning on eating the prince?
02:28:08
Speaker
Eating him?
02:28:11
Speaker
i don't know. You just patted your belly. I'm confused. No, just... It's a twitch. People do weird things sometimes. You don't get out much. I don't.
02:28:25
Speaker
But he's got a ho he's got a a sexy witch girlfriend, so there you go. There's a question. they all Everybody came in, right? anybody does anybody not like grindle
02:28:39
Speaker
and if don Are they hostile towards you? yeah ah Are they hostile towards Grindel? I don't think any of... Well, I mean, I can't speak for... frank The NPCs are not.
02:28:50
Speaker
um Frida and Olivia are not hostile towards you. Frida is wary of everybody, but... In my deep subconscious, you sense a lot of my frustrations for not towards you, but your situation.
02:29:05
Speaker
And you probably... be i can just tell if you're mad, like, if you want to fight... Oh, no. Yeah. Does it let you sense their power level? um It does as well, yeah. How strong the beast is in them. Yeah, Frida is on a similar level to um the Rat King.
02:29:23
Speaker
To the Rat King? Yeah. Hmm. Well, i haven't bit him yet. I'm thinking. Probably not. I don't think he was messy. She's like viking? Like, she's dressed like a viking? Yeah.
02:29:35
Speaker
Yeah, that's her. I'm not going to share pictures of any of these NPCs because i picked random stuff from online, whereas I need to AI some pictures so we can share them on stream, but...
02:29:47
Speaker
You should be able to find it, yeah. She looks like a Viking. You know, she's got the Viking tattoos. um And she does she does have a um a um a battle axe on her back. or Or like a... Probably not a two-hander. Just ah a one-hander. You know.
02:30:05
Speaker
A war axe. A Viking war axe, you know. and I guess... i wonder would Maybe not on her... belt <unk>le
02:30:16
Speaker
for lunch anyway. Beowulf and Grindel. Yeah. Now is that even, um, I mean I know it's, I don't know that it's a, is, but is the legend itself of Scandinavian origin? and Like, was it invented by them? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah Okay, it was. Okay. Yeah.
02:30:38
Speaker
yeah I mean, you one sure yeah you wouldn't be able to tell you know what she thinks, but certainly a name she's heard. Well, like her reaction whenever I'm walking around like, I'm the Grindel. Yeah, certainly certainly a name she's heard.
02:30:51
Speaker
hu
02:30:57
Speaker
And yeah, you sense that she is of a similar, i guess it's blood potency probably that you're picking up on. She is of a similar blood potency to the Rat King.
02:31:10
Speaker
Not quite as potent as him. But, you know, she's... Age-wise, they're both they're both old. Yeah. She's very old.
02:31:22
Speaker
But I'm three months old. Yeah, they're both they're both they're both seasoned vampires, yeah.
02:31:31
Speaker
So, uh... Let me compare these two. Do you guys know anything? Like, what what kind of... I know that he's crazy. They said he's crazy.
02:31:44
Speaker
But uh, does he, what's his and plan? Rats. They put me in a room. Rats. Rats would be crazy. Sorry.
02:31:57
Speaker
There's lots of rats here. I think we actually say that. you in a room with rats. There's lots of rats here. I look at Ricky. Making fun of my friend.
02:32:10
Speaker
You don't get a lot, out a lot do you i guess you i guess you? I guess now you guys notice um Ricky the were-rat.
02:32:20
Speaker
In rat form or it's probably his preferd It's probably his preferred form. I mean, it's his most powerful form. He's over there like cleaning himself. it Are you related to... this New York...
02:32:36
Speaker
is this de york I hu
02:32:43
Speaker
heard they grow big in New York, but damn.
02:32:48
Speaker
No, he's just a servant. He does what he's supposed to, right, Ricky? You do. You're a good boy. Ricky's a good boy. Ricky is maximum blood bonded to the Racking, so he's a good boy. He's a very good boy.
02:33:04
Speaker
So, yeah, like I said, he's crazy. He's That's about the extent of what get. Does he have a plan? like What do you know? Max, what are you trying to know with that occultural?
02:33:17
Speaker
What do I know about were-rats? Uh, there, so there's not, wasn't a lot because you got a five. Um, and perhaps just from general chatting, maybe with, um, Mikhail, not even Tiv.
02:33:32
Speaker
Um, you, you're vaguely aware that there are other lycanthropes or maybe even from chatting with, uh, let's see. No, you've only known Cassidy for like a day. um at this point in the story. But maybe for Mikael, you're vaguely aware that um There were, or there are other lycanthropes out there.
02:33:56
Speaker
They're just extremely rare. Mikhail wouldn't have known really why. he just knew, he knows that, like, the different lycanthropes, for so whatever reason, don't seem to like each other. Yeah, they are very, the yeah.
02:34:11
Speaker
They're very, especially the werewolves. They're the racist ones. But, yeah. so Yeah. yeah they and i go there was like a There was like a purge or something way back when. And I go...
02:34:30
Speaker
Is it obvious that he's blood bonded? Is that an obvious thing or is that just like something that you would pick No, yeah you wouldn't like... There's no visible... you know he He obviously is subservient to the Rat King, but um yeah yeah there's no visible... like yeah This could also just be a loyal follower of the Rat King for normal reasons.
02:34:55
Speaker
I mean, his name is the Rat King, so... yeah
02:35:02
Speaker
Um, but what were you saying before we went down this whole rat thing? Um, Rendell? Say one more I lost you for a second. in Yeah, what are we doing? Like, uh, I understand I have a job do.
02:35:21
Speaker
Yeah. And, uh,
02:35:25
Speaker
when Honestly, whenever we last spoke with him, like he's given us no information whatsoever on why he wanted us turned or anything. He's just like... the exact What we're exactly supposed to do is bring you to the prince.
02:35:41
Speaker
No, not bring. Find. But you did figure out that he kind of does want you to bring him. like I remember this. Well, no, no. So he did say find them.
02:35:54
Speaker
but then he seemed pretty happy well seem pleased when you brought them. In episode 2, he did say, bring them.
02:36:03
Speaker
I feel like we had a whole big thing on this what that it was find them. but maybe yeah We did. ah Ultimately... go back and listen to episode 2. Ultimately, he does want you to bring them to him, regardless. like so out of the group of... The only the only members of the group are...
02:36:23
Speaker
that are here, like the seven, are the three of us and... ah Jerry? Yeah, so there's Jerry. and Jerry is not here. um And Jerry wasn't... Yeah, Jerry wasn't here in the episode either, so it it works.
02:36:40
Speaker
Okay. Yeah, the only two that are here are Max and Cole. Olivia is here...
Power Plays and Authority Challenges
02:36:48
Speaker
What even happened to... Oh no, yeah, ah her her the one that she created, um Dexter, he's he's fine. he's so He's off doing something, yeah. Very good friends with the prince. but lawence Lawrence is good friends with the prince. Oh, that's Lawrence. Yeah, dexter Dexter kind of just fell fell behind the scenes. um But you guys did show him to the prince, and actually I don't think you've shown Cassidy to him yet either.
02:37:19
Speaker
Yeah, I'm at the episode where Cassidy comes up right now. I just listened to, unless it happened in the episode before, I don't think you've introduced, well. I think we did introduce Cassidy. Did you? A whole thing of like, a lot of shit started going down is like when she got brought in. Yeah.
02:37:38
Speaker
And that's when, what's her bucket? Frida came in and she started like. Well, Frida showed up before Cassidy showed up.
02:37:49
Speaker
I actually don't think you guys have introduced Cassidy yet either. So you got two to... yeah have capities Either way, that that'll happen when we do the full group episode. you um yeah well So we know nothing.
02:38:09
Speaker
Yeah. The Rat King's like, so he... What what did he do when you introduced um Dexter to him?
02:38:21
Speaker
oto um He to him? So he actually was like, cool, good job, and then was super interested in Lawrence, the abomination. Yeah.
02:38:32
Speaker
Yeah, he... I mean, when we introduced each of the the people that we found, nothing really happened. It's just... except Lawrence. Yeah, and also nothing special happened when you guys met him other than he told you to find the rest of them.
02:38:50
Speaker
Did anybody call Lawrence an abomination just now in conversation? No. no What is Lawrence? Lawrence?
02:39:02
Speaker
He's a he's a dude the vampire.
02:39:07
Speaker
He's one of the seven. Was he though? I thought he got turned back. Grindel holds up his hands and goes... yeah Yeah, Lawrence was turned in a weird way.
02:39:21
Speaker
Some people have been calling him an ah an abomination because he wasn't turned normally. He drank Olivia's blood. And you know what? Maybe Olivia um explains this. She's like, yeah, so Lawrence is kind of a weird situation. So he...
02:39:39
Speaker
He's this really weird guy who was obsessed with vampires and and he wanted like some of my blood and so i was like, sure, here, have some of my blood. Gave him a taste of my blood and then i ended up having to kill him.
02:39:55
Speaker
I did not embrace him, but he still came back. My blood was in his system, but that's not how it's supposed to work. The blood's supposed to be introduced after death, not before.
02:40:05
Speaker
um So some people are calling it an abomination because we don't really know what's going on. But at the same... time you could call any tremera well the first tremere abominations because they weren't embraced in the normal way either so they were born out of magic they were born out of magic whereas lawrence was born out of vax-ident i don't really know but the prince he was born out of a broken condom the prince the prince was really interested in that guy
02:40:41
Speaker
Yeah, so as far as we know, the the whole Seven prophecy thing could have either been for Lawrence, because crazy dream that we haven't heard any expounding upon. There's also this... could have been for the Blood Moon. Yeah, there's also that whole Red Moon thing that seemed to happen because they wanted to kill... because the witch wanted to kill Dexter.
02:41:02
Speaker
Now there's witches. oh yeah, my girlfriend's a witch. Your girlfriend's a witch. I don't question it. She's hot. I don't know how it happened.
02:41:15
Speaker
I was very surprised. and Then the Grindel steps forward like towards Olivia, right? Uh-huh. Then it's like, you know but know, granite moving, right? Like a pillar. yeah Yeah.
02:41:28
Speaker
Is your blood special? Is that why... And like he bends over, and I don't know how big Olivia is, but he's seven feet tall, so he bends over and that big metal helmet comes down and he sniffs her.
02:41:42
Speaker
right like definitely special Definitely not that tall. like I'm looking to see if she's got anything interesting. He
02:41:53
Speaker
doesn't know what personal space speed is. Yeah, she definitely takes a step back as you do that. Yeah, I'm going to put myself between Olivia and you. Your smelling doesn't notice anything different. You can tell that she's um a little older than the others the other two in the room. yeah Well, older than Max and Cole, but nowhere near as old as um Frida.
02:42:18
Speaker
She's like, not that I know of. I don't think it was me. I think it was i think it was him.
02:42:27
Speaker
Oh, and then whenever you stepped in between us, I growled an appreciation. do i Wasn't he messing around with witches before this whole situation anyways?
02:42:39
Speaker
Magic. he He was friends with benefits with the witch, yeah. yeah So, who knows? Maybe some magic witchcraftery bullshit went on in one of their orgies that had.
02:42:52
Speaker
Oh, and then, so he stands up from smelling her and you stood in between us and yeah he looks, you know, the helmet looks down at you and he just growls in appreciation. It's like a happy growl.
02:43:05
Speaker
Yeah, you can tell that I am no physical feet. You have no physical feet? Yes, no I have one point in strength. He hovers nubs.
02:43:18
Speaker
yeah I have one point in strength. And then I smell you.
02:43:25
Speaker
Did you want me to smell you? i mean, you can't smell me. I can't stop you from smelling me. Yeah. ah Did you want me to? Is that why you... Oh. yeah No, I just... You're sniffing people and it's kind of weird.
02:43:39
Speaker
Oh, I'm misunderstood. You thought you could stop me from doing something. No, I'm simply just... Okay.
02:43:48
Speaker
Trying to remind of social etiquette.
02:43:55
Speaker
Okay. Yeah, so she's not special. She's not special. I asked the wreck and she's not special. do you have something about special? Is there something you're trying to figure out?
02:44:07
Speaker
Oh, yeah. She made a freak, right? I mean, I'm a different type of freak. I wear this. But she made a freak. The Rat King... She's special.
02:44:19
Speaker
The Rat King says... told me i was special got it we We've been over this. You put your finger up your butthole and it solves it.
02:44:30
Speaker
The Rat King says she's not special in the way you mean. is
02:44:41
Speaker
and then I look at... um Cole and Olivia. I kind of put like my hand on Olivia's shoulder and look over at Cole and go, are we going to go explore Legoland?
02:44:58
Speaker
Can we?
02:45:02
Speaker
don't you Don't you need some views, Olivia? Livestream in the Woodlands Mall when it's closed. Olivia chuckles and says, hmm, Cassandra breaking and entering. Ah,
02:45:17
Speaker
And the Rat King says, um i invited you you two here. um Under the pretenses we won't do that?
02:45:29
Speaker
Well, no. i mean If you go through that hallway any points, you'll find yourself in the mall. ah You may have to shimmy through some sewer grates. they still have a Wetzel's Pretzels?
02:45:42
Speaker
No idea. let me No idea, says Ron, who hasn't lived in Texas for, what, three years now? And and and the Grindle is like, yes, they do have pretzels.
02:45:56
Speaker
This was in 2020, by the way. We're in maker February, I think, at this point of the thing, because, yeah, the next month would be March that we play in. um Yeah, it might be closed, actually.
02:46:09
Speaker
The mall might be closed. Yeah.
02:46:14
Speaker
In 2020? No, no, it's it's open right... Well, it's closed for like for the day right now. yeah um Well, 2020 was the year of the... well COVID hasn't started yet.
02:46:27
Speaker
Yeah. COVID starts up season three of Vampire, because that'll be March. I believe the COVID lockdowns are like March 15th or something like that.
02:46:39
Speaker
um When did the COVID lockdown start? In Houston. Oh, yeah. In Houston.
02:46:51
Speaker
Because Texas was behind. Yeah. March 19th.
02:46:57
Speaker
Which we will probably just jump very near or right to that when we start the next season. Um...
02:47:05
Speaker
Yeah, so... ah
02:47:10
Speaker
In the episode that we're writing... In the episode that we retconning, the Rat King kind of said, you know, he wants to... The prince has gone too far with forcing all these embraces. He's gone too far with his crazy visions, and it's led to whatever this Blood Moon stuff is. he doesn't Nobody understands what's happening.
02:47:36
Speaker
The prince needs to be removed. the He says, i don't, I'm not suggesting myself necessarily to take over. I i don't desire the throne.
02:47:47
Speaker
Though if I must, I will step into it. I think I was part of the Red Moon thing.
02:47:55
Speaker
you... the two of you may have been involved, but if the the... I don't doubt for a second that the prince... that everything that has happened has been according to his plan.
02:48:09
Speaker
It's... defeating someone who can see the future is tricky. We have to do the unexpected. oh yeah. forgot he can see the future. Like, prank me nut. Yeah.
02:48:22
Speaker
Yeah, he has crazy visions. That's part of his plan. where's not that youbar The fact that all of this has happened, this red moon, whatever it is going to lead to, that has to be part of his goal, and perhaps even this abomination person.
02:48:46
Speaker
If it was just he wanted seven random vampires, seven random people embraced, I could perhaps just call it a quirk of his insanity but it has led to too much to just be coincidence
02:49:04
Speaker
we've got witches we've got red moons we've got werewolves involved we've got too much it's it's all too much to be coincidence oh don't forget the crusaders are back yes I've heard rumors of the inquisition and in town
02:49:28
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. They're here.
02:49:37
Speaker
We're almost done.
02:49:41
Speaker
I just want to know if we're going into Lego line. I would like to go into So yeah, the prince kind of... We're going to find building that humongous Star Destroyer.
02:49:57
Speaker
The prince ah chuckles at this and he's like, to be young again. Just take that hall, take the second hallway, take the second tunnel on the right. You'll have to squeeze through a sewer grate in the bathroom, but don't ask me why Legoland has a large bathroom grate, but conveniently it does.
02:50:19
Speaker
I'm pretty sure you had something to do with installing that.
02:50:24
Speaker
He, um... You also liked Legoland... It's okay. You can admit you like Legoland. he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a um a Lego ah Skywalker and looks down at him. He's like,
02:50:40
Speaker
um he's like I chose my lair very carefully. Well, uh, well ah You guys have fun. I have to go to work.
02:50:53
Speaker
Boss, if there's nothing else, have a match. And he nods. You know, in in dismissal, you know, like, go for it. So the Grindel trumps off in the sewer to go to work?
02:51:06
Speaker
Yeah, Grindel still wrestles, so. Yeah. And yeah, so ah Cassandra, you know, she's going to do a TikTok video. He would exchange...
02:51:18
Speaker
numbers. Yeah. Also, in this time, we are going through burner phones like crazy. For sure. Oh, yeah, but that's the thing. like
02:51:31
Speaker
I'll call you. like You're like, can you give me my number? No. We we have you will we have all your phone numbers. Yeah, we always have your phone number. That's what we do. at least it's they do. Yeah, and then when you
Vampire Heist and Conclusion
02:51:44
Speaker
meet up with us, we'll give you another phone number.
02:51:47
Speaker
you are now part of the Burnathon game.
02:51:53
Speaker
Sure.
02:51:56
Speaker
Alright. um So I think with you guys breaking into Legoland, that's where we'll end the episode. um And what what Lego do each of you steal and or play with?
02:52:11
Speaker
Oh dude, I am so going for like the gigantic Scrub Destroyer. The massive thing.
02:52:23
Speaker
Olivia gets herself a ah ah Tuxedo Cat Lego set. Nice. There's a Viking Village that i pick up that going to give to Garbage. Frida.
02:52:36
Speaker
Yeah. Frida didn't go, by the way. She stayed to chat with them the Rat King. I'll pick something up for Tiv, too. Okay.
02:52:49
Speaker
i think' get I think I get the Lego Harry Potter for Frida. What would Tiv like? What would Tiv like? I get the Viking Lego for Grindel.
02:53:04
Speaker
I'll decide what Tiv likes later.
02:53:08
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And for myself, if they have it, i would like the big AT&T walker. I mean, this Lego store conveniently has everything, okay? yeah It's a bonus episode, so it has everything.
02:53:27
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do Alright, so as everyone is running off... The ATT driver ATNT at at fucker driver a helmet. Can you put it on your head?
02:53:41
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Huh? That would suck if you couldn't.
02:53:46
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I think it might be miniaturized. They've got an infinity gauntlet. Is it big enough to wear?
02:53:56
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um mean, you could put the little Lego man helmet on your head. Xenomorph Facehugger. Heck yeah. That's the one you want. yep Oh, I also grabbed the Endurance.
02:54:08
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yes I like we're committing theft now, like straight up. Eh, you're vampires. It's all good. um Yeah, so let's ah call this a night then. um We have now met... ah
02:54:24
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Grendel, Eric's character, and retconned episode like seven of season two. That Brendan guy. Yeah. Brendan is no more.
02:54:36
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It's now Grendel. And that motherfucker doesn't leave us. And now we have to search for him again. Well, maybe you know why he left you in this case, because he went to work.
02:54:48
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thought going work. no well in yeah and in the last episode, um, they wake up and, uh, we like all forgot Brendan's name.
02:55:01
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Um, and so I was like, you know what? He's just not there. i was like, he's just not there. I don't remember who he was cause I was drunk last time or whatever. Um, uh, and so, yeah, maybe you just went to work. Um, but everything else went as normal. You went to Tiv's trial and all of that stuff happened. So, um,
02:55:22
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the The main difference is instead of a homeless man as ah the missing vampire, you now have a gigantic wrestler man. That's a big difference. It's a fairly large difference.
02:55:38
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And they were just like, oh he's a homeless man, but it was in fact just the giant wrestler guy.
02:55:45
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Well, like, most of what happened, you know, still works. You met the guy. um Instead of Homeless Man, it was eric scott Eric's character. And he did leave, and I guess your character just forgot he's got a job.
02:56:01
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You know, he he goes to work. The Homeless Man has a job? No, Eric's character has a job. The homeless man... We're retconning the homeless man. He's gone. I so did not care about him that i apparently never even made a character sheet for him.
02:56:18
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like I do have a question. That's why we couldn't find his... That's why we couldn't remember his name, because i there's he's not in here. So I never even made a sheet. Go ahead. go So does Grindel now live in the sewer, or does he go back to his house?
02:56:34
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He has an apartment. He lives in an apartment. Okay, but do you go back to your apartment looking like that? or He wears a mask and and stuff. All the time. yeah I don't take it off. was going to be like, you live in a sewer. You are obviously the homeless man. No, no, no. He doesn't live in a sewer. He just comes and checks in with his boss every night and then goes to work. Yes, no. If you were living in a sewer, that was going to be stupid. Yeah. Don't stop.
02:57:01
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Yeah, no, he's got a job that pays well and has an apartment and all the resources dots imply.
02:57:09
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All righty then. They've got a Trevi Fountain Lego set. Well, um I was your storyteller for the evening, Ron Bjork, and signing out tonight was Frank. Frank.
02:57:27
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Hi everyone, I was Frank. I played Frank and... You did play Frank. Roddy, Rennie... Ricky, Ricky. ricky player christmara You played to Ricky. I also also played myself, so... And the Defibrillator.
02:57:45
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and then And the Defibrillator. I played a lot of people. I forgot what I was even doing at at one point. i walked off. But it was great. i I enjoyed it. I'm glad you all were there to hear the
02:57:59
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stuff. Hey guys, hey guys, um we SoonBrianRYR pop into our stream and said, cheap viewers on streamboo.com Nice. Alright, hey look, hang know it counts, okay, he counts as a viewer. Alright.
02:58:20
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also had somebody pop in as FK Lightcastle saying, this show is rock. Yep. I think Beowulf sounds so sexy. Ha
02:58:29
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Yeah, yeah also Hayden. Hey, it was good to be here. I played Maxwell and Liam. um It was good to do a lot of combat roles.
02:58:50
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It's not something that we're used to in the game. Yeah, yeah. Good use of voice. My name Maxwell will soon die. I'm going to teach you how to love the fights, Max. I'm not very good at doing things.
02:59:05
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You've got other ways to get around combat. um the Hey, Max is good with guns. yeah Yeah, I can shoot you. yeah um And occult you.
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of And then we had Eric. Hey folks, so I'm joining the Vampire Game. i am the Grendel. ah yes Looking forward to powerbombing, werewolves, vampires, and Inquisition members. It'll be great.
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Alright, thank you everybody and goodnight. The end. Stop streaming.
03:00:39
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