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Session 2 - Realizations, Revelations, and a Much Needed Bathroom Break
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The characters awaken from their embrace and experience their first moments as a vampire. For some it goes smoother than others.
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Introduction & Disclaimer
00:00:02
Speaker
Hello mortals, just a quick disclaimer before we begin. This is a vampire podcast and as such we'll be dealing with issues like drugs, alcohol, mental issues, violence, adult situations, death, and of course, blood. So enjoy the show! Also, we're still figuring out how to record stuff here, so bear with us. Some parts of the audio is bad, some parts are recorded over my bad audio, but hopefully you'll enjoy, and I promise we get better and better with each episode.
Character Introductions
00:00:45
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Hello everybody, this is session two of Houston After Dark. And just to remind everyone who I am, I'm Ron, the storyteller. We've got Frank. Frank, who are you playing? Hey, I'm Frank. I am playing Cold Stone.
00:01:03
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the mild-mannered app developer. And then there's Bill. Hi, everyone. I'm Bill. I'm playing Jerry, Jerry Wilson, the primary health guru. Jayden.
00:01:28
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Hi, I'm Jayden and I am Wesley Isaac, the CEO of Isaac Genetics. And then last is Hayden, but not least. Oh, okay. I was going to include that I am least, um, well, yeah, because I play Maxwell and he works in HR, which is definitely the least of no, no one likes HR.
00:01:57
Speaker
Nobody does, that's true.
The Launch Party Incident
00:02:01
Speaker
All right, so last time you guys went to a launch party for, what was the name of that company? Let me pull up the notes. The company's name for Jerry's app, AO, IO. All in one organic health. IO, all in one organic health. Yeah, IO.
00:02:26
Speaker
You guys went to the launch party and then the after party where each of you were assaulted by various people and And each of you blacked out so then we're gonna start with Jayden since he's got a leave soon. All right, so The last thing that happened to you Jayden was you were thrown across a room by a
00:02:54
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this man who kept talking about how his boss is forcing him to do this and stuff like that. That's what he was talking about down at the party or up at the party. I don't remember. Oh yeah, that's right. And you went to go look for your wife and found her cowering in the bathroom. And then you were attacked by this dude. The last thing you knew was you felt a prick in your neck followed by
00:03:23
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some really good feeling and then you blacked out. So after an unknown amount of time has passed, slowly your eyes open, you groan and roll over. What just happened?
Awakening as Vampires
00:03:40
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It felt so good and now what do you feel? It's hard to say. It's like there's this burning hunger or maybe a thirst. Before you can really think about it, you hear
00:03:53
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A voice, a kind of familiar voice, although you're still a little bit groggy. I need your help, a voice says. You don't recognize it at first. I screwed up. Breach, I need you to come do a wipe. Yeah, the wife, she saw everything. At that point, you hear a whimpering from the bathroom and everything clicks back into focus. You remember your wife. You remember the man that assaulted you. You remember your wife's in the bathroom and the man's back is turned to you. What do you do?
00:04:23
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Um, first of all, I just scream because of all of the, all of the, the sounds and feelings and everything all came back at once. So like, and they are crisper and everything around you looks more focused your.
00:04:43
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It's not, none of it's really superhuman, but your eyesight's a little bit better, your sense of smell is better, especially the smell of, well, you don't know what the smell is, but something coming from your wife's direction smells good. Well, I obviously, well, not obviously, this is my choice. I'm gonna get up and I'm gonna look around and I'm gonna, is there two people you said?
00:05:13
Speaker
There's the man and he's on the phone and then your wife is in the bathroom. Okay. He's probably going to notice that.
Encounter with the Attacker
00:05:20
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Yeah. So I scream and I get up like in a, in a hurry and I go check on my wife. Okay. Okay. Um, so when you scream, you hear the mango shit and you know, I gotta go and, and you hear like, yeah, actually a lot of vampires use flip phones. You hear that like clack of a phone.
00:05:42
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flipping closed. The burner phone. But you probably wouldn't recognize that noise because nobody's used flip phones in forever. You run to the bathroom and you see your wife. She's on the floor. There's some broken glass. You don't know how that happened. But that
00:06:05
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no uh your eyes first you know you you look at your wife you see it you see her but then your eyes are drawn to the cut on her hand on her arm it's not a big cut but there's blood and that um stirs something in you that you've never felt before so if you open your character sheets on the main the core page okay scroll down all the way down to
00:06:35
Speaker
Um, frenzy. I want you to roll that. With zero modifiers. Zero modifiers. Difficulty one. Um, I'm gonna say difficulty. It's your wife, but it's your first time. So let's say difficulty three. Okay.
00:07:02
Speaker
All right, frenzy restrained, you luckily willpower. So yeah, so you something inside you that you're not entirely sure what the impulse is. You almost found yourself lunging at your wife and then you you regain control of yourself so you can act as normal. Okay. Is it kind of like a faint like like a
00:07:30
Speaker
Like intrusive thought, even? Yes. Okay. Um, so I'm like, I kind of like shake myself off cause I was really weird. And I look at her. I'm like, are you okay? Are you, are you okay? That man just threw you across the room. I don't know. I actually feel kind of good. I don't know. I mean, I mean, you don't, you don't look very good. Are you okay? Like there's like glass here. Like what happened? I'm fine. Is he still here?
00:08:00
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Yeah, he was just on a phone with some guy. The man actually comes up behind you and he's like, Listen, buddy, you're gonna have to calm down for a minute. And let me explain things. Okay, I mean, you busted in here. And I mean, I don't know what's happening. So I guess if you know what's happening, then that's cool. Oh, okay. Well, I didn't expect that to be so easy. Yeah, man. So
00:08:30
Speaker
Shit, your wife, okay. Let's come in here real quick. She can just stay in there. And he closes the door on your wife and takes you out. He's like, look, this is gonna sound crazy, but you're a vampire now.
Understanding Vampire Life
00:08:50
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What do you mean? Like a vampire? I mean this, and he opens his mouth and his fangs extend.
00:09:00
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and then he closes it and they, you know, pop back in, you're a vampire, you drink blood, the sun's gonna burn you, all that stuff. I look at him with a blank face, like I'm accepting what he's saying, but I'm like shocked. He's like, I know it's hard to believe, but he looks around the room for a minute and sees
00:09:29
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There's like a, uh, a metal, um, lampstand I get, or, um, in table next to the couch and he grabs it and just crumples it like with ease and then hands it over to you. You won't be able to do that just yet, but yeah, vampire. I, my hands and I looked down at it and my mouth is still open and I'm just sitting there in silence. Like I'm just like, what is happening? And.
00:09:59
Speaker
This wasn't supposed to happen this way. Your wife wasn't supposed to be down here. Look, I'll have to explain everything later, but someone's coming over. They're going to erase their memory, and then we'll be on our way. Do you just stay here? Look, she can't know about you.
00:10:19
Speaker
Where are we? Okay, so we're in my penthouse right now. Okay, so how did you get in here in the first place? One, two, what time is it? Three, what's gonna happen to my wife if she gets her mind erased? And four, where are we going? I'm a fucking vampire. I can get into anywhere I want. We're getting out of here. I'll take you someplace safe. Your wife can't know about us. We're just gonna erase the past, I don't know, past hour or so. She'll just think she had too much to drink.
00:10:48
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And then what happens to me, I'm just gone, just from the party, she's just here. She'll be better off that way. This has been interesting at all, but I mean, I think it's just been a long night. I mean, if you wanna come back tomorrow or something, that'd be cool. But I mean, I- Damn, damn it.
00:11:18
Speaker
God damn Prince. I hate that son of a bitch. OK, look. He made some good music. So are you sure we're not talking about the vampire formerly known friends? Hmm. I think it is. He's just going to he's going to try to knock you out. So he doesn't. I figured. Yeah. He throws a punch.
00:11:48
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So you can either. I'm quite good at blocking or moving out of the way. Yeah. Are you? Yeah. According to my, uh, what is it? Oh, am I not anymore? There, there was something that I chose. It will be under the first page. Um, it was in my celerity or something
Maxwell's Transformation
00:12:13
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or potent presence. So one of those.
00:12:16
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Scroll down to disciplines so you don't actually have those yet. Oh. We can have them activate. Yeah, they come with it. Celerity is one of the powers from your clan. So yeah, you've got rapid reflexes. So can I roll for it? I want to try to grab his hand if I can. Yeah. Celerity rapid reflexes.
00:12:46
Speaker
Uh, while their bodies still can't defy the laws of nature vampires with this power perceive events instantly and can react to them with superhuman alacrity They can observe incoming projectiles to the extent that they can attempt to dodge arrows and even bullets. So cost is free With this power the vampires suffer no penalty to their defense pools for lack of cover They can also take a minor action worth up to two days for turns so what i'm gonna say Uh
00:13:16
Speaker
Let me see if he also has this. I don't remember which one I gave him. I'll open his character sheets. This guy's name's David Marotta. Yeah. All right. He's going to throw a punch at you. So what I'm going to do
00:13:37
Speaker
I'm going to say you can definitely catch it. So roll. You're fast enough to catch it. So honestly, you're just going to have to roll a strength check. So roll strength. Second attribute, none. Yeah, none, because you don't have a skill to go with it. Nice. OK. Now, unless he fails, because it's going to be brawl plus strength, which is unlikely. No modifiers.
00:14:07
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three successes. All right, so he punches at you, your hand comes up incredibly fast. And it does, you know, it certainly gets in the way of his fist. But his fist keeps on traveling with unbelievable strength into your face. For damage, he deals. So it's
00:14:36
Speaker
So damage is basically the difference between your successes and his. So there you had zero. He had three plus he adds half his potent rating to his melee damage. So that would be another two points. So it'll be five damage. All right. So I'm good. No, you're a vampire. OK, OK. So I'm going to do a screen share real quick to show you all damage.
00:15:06
Speaker
There's two types of damage. There's superficial and there is aggravated. Most things deal superficial damage to you. So on the health track, when you take damage, you click one of these boxes, it's going to change it to a slash mark. That means you've taken superficial damage. If you change it to a, if you click it again and becomes an X, that means it's aggravated damage. And if you do a blank, that means that you don't have the health at all. But we're going to change five.
00:15:36
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damage. Well actually vampires take half superficial damage. So in this case you'll only take two superficial damage. So it's still a it is a very hard punch. If you had been human you would have been knocked out cold.
00:15:55
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but because you are a dead person, it is not nearly as powerful or it doesn't affect you. Like you still feel the punch, the full force of it, but it doesn't knock you out. So he punches you in the face trying to knock you out and you remain standing. So did you all see how I did that? The slashes mean superficial, the X's would mean accurate. So if you ever get all of your health bars
00:16:24
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in superficial damage and continue taking damage, it then becomes aggravated. Okay. You can, once your characters learn how, you can heal superficial damage pretty easily. Aggravated damage is harder to heal, but we'll get into that later. So the guy says, he punches you in the face, sees you, don't go down, and he says,
00:16:52
Speaker
Shut the hell up. You're going to come with me. We're going to do this. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. I know you mean business that hurt pretty bad. I mean, not as bad as I thought it was going to. I was actually pretty scared for like a second, but then I was fine. But I mean, you seem like a reasonable guy. Yeah. I mean, with that punch and also welcome. Welcome to be in a vampire. Speaking of which you're probably pretty goddamn hungry.
00:17:20
Speaker
shit and your wife's in the other room. I can smell her blood. Does that mean I'm just gonna bite my wife now? Like, I mean, like, I don't understand like this whole, this whole thing, you know. So you you might. That's why it's dangerous for you to be around her. We're gonna he seems to consider for a moment. And then he, he
00:17:47
Speaker
He reaches into his pocket and pulls out his keys and slashes them across his hand. And he's like, look, you're just going to have to drink from this. And he shoves his hand out to you. You can just do it or you can try to resist, but there's more blood in front of your face and you're very hungry. I guess I'm just going to do it. I'm just going to get taken over. All right. So you're currently at for hunger. Um, how much.
00:18:15
Speaker
Do you want, well, this is your very first drink and it's of vampire blood even more, which is even tastier than human blood. He, he lets you feed for up to, to, to, to get you down one point of hunger. Okay. One. So for free, he'll knock you down, let you go down to hunger three. And then he.
00:18:40
Speaker
He tries to take his hand away. Do you let him? I don't know. I want to roll for this. I'm pretty hungry. Yeah. Go ahead and roll frenzy. OK. I'm just going to say you're at hunger three now. We'll say it's at difficulty two. All right. So you resist. You definitely something inside you site.
00:19:07
Speaker
just keep drinking, don't let go. But then your rational mind takes over and you do let go. When it takes- So does he have any powers that I just gained? No. Okay. Already tasted his blood, although you don't know that. Oh, that's right, because he bit me. Yeah. You don't know how this works, but his blood is in your veins already. He just didn't give you much. He just gave you just enough to bring you back. Kind of an asshole move on his part, but I mean,
00:19:37
Speaker
Well, it was, it was, uh, he wasn't quite prepared for this. I mean, he should. It's like, all right, look, my friends should be here soon. We'll, we'll take care. We'll take care of your wife. We'll make her forget all this that happened. You, you can, you can go to her if you want, but just remember, I imagine you're still pretty hungry. It may be better just to stay out here and keep her in there. She doesn't well.
00:20:06
Speaker
Let's just say I used one of my powers. She's pretty afraid to come out here right now. I didn't hurt her. I just made her terrified of me. It might just be the best for me not to even, I mean, no matter what I say to her right now, she's going to forget anything apparently, allegedly. So I guess I'll just, I mean, I don't, if I see her again, I mean, I understand, you know, I'm so hungry or whatever. So yeah, let's just, let's just go. Now let's move on to another character.
00:20:36
Speaker
You awaken to find yourself in a lab. You're strapped to a table, leather straps biting into your skin as you struggle against your bonds. Across the room, you see a figure, a woman, the doctor. What was her name? Imogen. She speaks as soon as she notices you're awake. I know, you want to know what's going on. First, you have to understand this. I was following orders from a man who, well, let's just say you don't want to cross him. If I'd had a choice, I would have picked your friend, the geneticist. But I didn't, and now you're my responsibility.
00:21:09
Speaker
She walks over to you pushing your device on a cart. It looks vaguely familiar to you. You're pretty sure you've seen it before, or at least images of it. A heart monitor? What is she doing with that? And what is that nagging sensation in the back of your mind? You're thirsty, no hungry. No, you're not sure. Bill, what are you thinking right now that she walks over to you with this heart monitor? Do I have, am I able to speak freely?
00:21:38
Speaker
you're able to speak, you're just strapped down. All right, I'm gonna try to lift up against it. I'm like, what's wrong? What did you do? Where am I? I injected you with a tranquilizer. Now be still. And she takes one of the little diodes from the heart monitor. And maybe you notice this, maybe you don't, but nothing happens when she does that.
00:22:06
Speaker
She looks at the monitor pointedly and nothing happens. Then she, you know, if she has to struggle with you a little bit, she does, but she puts another sensor on your arm, one on your chest, your shirtless, by the way. And, you know, wherever else those sensors go and still nothing happens, no heartbeat. She looks at the monitor again and then looks back at you.
00:22:33
Speaker
She holds a mirror up to your face, too close to get a good look at your reflection, though you catch a glimpse. You look pale. She holds it up really close, right in front of your mouth. No breath fogs the mirror. And you realize that you haven't taken a breath since you woke.
Learning Responsibilities and Powers
00:22:50
Speaker
You gasp and force air into your lungs. She nods and takes a step back. You've undergone a change, a metamorphosis, if you will. What the hell did you do to me?
00:23:03
Speaker
Before she answers, the scene changes. Cole, the pleasure you felt in the darkness begins to fade. If you remember the last thing that happened to you was you signed the papers, everything went black, and then you got bit. The pleasure you felt in the darkness begins to fade. For a moment, everything seemed to stop. You could swear you felt your heart stop and that you took your last breath. And then,
00:23:33
Speaker
The shadows faded, and once again, you found yourself in the flickering light of the room. But everything was brighter than you remembered, sharper. You see everything in more detail than before. The bindings that were holding you are gone, and the woman is back in the chair sitting across from you. Before you are the documents that you signed, though there appears to be more pages than you recall, at least at first. Then your memories return, and you remember signing it all.
00:24:02
Speaker
You remember asking questions and you remember the woman, Carmen, her answers. You are a vampire. You agreed to become one, though you can't be entirely sure it was your own will that agreed to it or hers. But agree you did. You were shown proof. She cut herself and it healed before your eyes. Why didn't it frighten you? Why didn't coming face to face with a monster of legend make you think twice? Did you truly want this? Or again, was it just her will making you want it?
00:24:32
Speaker
answers you'll probably never get. She says, welcome to clan Lasombra. You have much to learn and much work to do. First, let me explain why this happened to you. I did not embrace you by choice. Embrace is what we call the act of turning someone into a vampire, or one of the kindred, as most of my kind prefer.
00:24:55
Speaker
You've been thrust into a world you never knew existed against your will. This city is run by a powerful man named Augustus Chapman Allen. I doubt you'll recognize the name, but he's actually one of the founders of this city. Now he's a prince, the ruler of all the kindred here, at least those who recognize his authority and that of the Camarilla, though technically he even rules the Anarchs here as well, whether they want to admit it or not.
00:25:24
Speaker
do you respond to anything that just happened? Bologna. Did you hear all that? Yeah. OK. It was a lot of information. And I'm sure I'm probably pretty out of it at this point. So I go the Bologna. Bologna.
00:25:54
Speaker
Do you not believe me? Do you need me to give you another demonstration? Do you remember? Sandwich. Damn it. Sometimes this happens. She points to a glass of liquid on the table in front of you and slides it your way. I promised you drinks, remember?
00:26:22
Speaker
Let's see, your hunger is, I set you at two. So you're not ravenous or anything like that, but, you know, you're thirsty. You may not, I mean, you were told you were gonna become a vampire, although your wits aren't quite about you yet, but you might realize it's blood, you might not. It looks like thick red wine, maybe. Mm, Bloody Mary is my favorite. I'm gonna grab it and then take a swig.
00:26:50
Speaker
The Swig, you recall the taste of Bloody Mary's, your favorite drink. They're trash compared to this. Complete and utter trash. This is the best drink you've ever had. It's like... Is it like a tall glass? It's a wine glass. You can reduce your hunger by one.
00:27:15
Speaker
All right. All right. I took my first sip and then like my eyes widen and I just keep gulping and gulping a little bit runs down the side of my mouth and down my chin. And I just like finished the whole glass and like slam it on the table. Not slam like, you know, like you would after you took a nice shot, like. Yeah. I assume the glass probably shatters from the intentional use of force. I mean, if you slam it down.
00:27:46
Speaker
You are a little bit stronger than the average person too, so. And yeah, so you have your first taste of blood and it's good. Then we switch things again. Fade to black. Max, Maxwell. What up? You've been awake for what seems like hours. Although you can't be sure.
00:28:12
Speaker
You're chained to the floor in a concrete room with only a single flickering light and a grate beneath you. You're naked. When you first woke, you were hungry. You were thirsty. You still are. But that was the least of your problems. Within an hour, maybe less, you started to vomit and shit all over yourself. More than you thought possible, as if you were expelling every bit of your insides. It lasted what-
00:28:40
Speaker
Oh, you laugh, Bill. Why do I? Why do I have the worst intro? I am vomiting and shitting on myself. God damn it. I, you know, I went to go get a hookup for the night and I end up vomiting and shitting myself chained on the fucking floor. It's kind of funny. It's going to happen to all of you, but yes. Oh, damn it. Lasted for what seemed like an eternity, but finally it stopped and you've been alone and trapped again for what seems like forever.
00:29:14
Speaker
Again, for what seems like forever, although something inside you, something deep and primal says it hasn't even been a day. Eventually, a door opens. Light shines in, not sunlight. A woman enters. It takes you a moment to recognize her in the bright light until she shuts the door. It was the girl from the party, the girl who assaulted you. She examines you for a moment.
00:29:41
Speaker
then walks over to the wall and fiddles with something, coming back toward you carrying a water hose. She sprays you down, regardless of any protests, rinsing the filth from your body and washes it down the grate. When it's done, she replaces the hose, then turns back to you, staring for a moment. You, you are not worthy, she says in a serious tone. Not yet, anyway. I bet you're thirsty, though.
00:30:09
Speaker
She withdraws a knife, the one she used against you, and slits her wrist, then holds it up in front of your mouth. Drink up. What do you do? How close is she? She's within biting range. You're chained to the ground, but she's within, you know, you could lunge at her, bite at her. I try to kick her kneecap in. Okay, give me a, that would be dexterity plus brawl.
00:30:40
Speaker
I need to open her sheet. Zero successes. You, okay. This is a, a messy critical, um, because you failed on your hunger dice. You've got a crit fail. So you lunge at her. Um, you try to kick out, kick her, you know, kick her knee, but the, uh, the beast inside takes over and you lunge for that arm with your mouth biting on exactly like she wanted you to do.
00:31:10
Speaker
Um, I want you to drink up. So you start to drink. She, uh, she lets you drink, um, all the way down to, uh, one hunger. And then she, she says, stop. Do you stop with her hands down my mouth? I would say, fuck you and keep drinking.
00:31:32
Speaker
Okay. Um, she, she just, she rips her arm away from you, you know, tearing, you know, a big gash in her arm. Doesn't seem overly concerned by that. Uh, and then let me see what I got next for her. So she put you down to hunger one. She, she, she backs away from you and then kneels down in front of you, ignoring her, uh, her, her bleeding arm.
00:32:01
Speaker
which you notice, uh, it's not like dripping blood, like, you know, a normal human wound would. The blood's just kind of, it's there. It's not really flowing though. So she, uh, where was it? She backs away and, uh, and kneels down in front of you. You, you're a vampire. Yeah, I know. I know. Think about it. You just drank my blood. It was good, wasn't it? Tomorrow I'll let you try a human. Are you going to be a good boy if I let you out of these chains or should I leave you tied up
00:32:31
Speaker
tied up for the dawn How does it matter if I'm a good boy like how the hell did I get here what the fuck is going on well you you if you're ever I Took you down, you know after the party and Turned you into a vampire and now you're here
00:33:03
Speaker
So now if I'm good after you hold me over... You've turned me into a fucking vampire? Yep. That's what I just said, isn't it? Fuck is my life now? Uh, it's gonna be a lot different- Hey, shut the fuck up! I don't care what you have to say! What the fuck am I supposed to do? You're supposed to do what I tell you. Oh, like I'm gonna listen to some short bitch over there.
00:33:33
Speaker
Oh, you'll listen to me. You'll listen to me or. Pretty simple. Yeah, you know, it's a simple your brain. Get the fuck out of here. She chuckles and gets up and walks out of the room, leaving you chained to the floor. Nice ass bitch. And let's see now we shift back to Jerry.
00:34:03
Speaker
Uh, so Jerry, let's see, she held the mirror up in front of your face, said, you're going to change orifices, if you will. And then. I forget what you said exactly, but we faded to black. Basically I shout, I shouted at her. What, what the hell did you do to me? Um, I've turned you, I've turned you into a vampire. Okay. And.
00:34:33
Speaker
on, on hearing that Jerry's going to do like that slow blinky thing. Like, okay. So, uh, okay. Um, ma'am, uh, I, you know, I, I deal, I deal with, I, I, you were at one of my groups. Um, you know, I do help people with psychosis and, but I do want to admit, uh, this is about on the level where, you know, we might want to get some professional help in here. Um,
00:35:05
Speaker
Uh, okay. I was getting, Oh God, the crazy ones. Okay. Um, okay. Okay. Um, Oh, she, she smiles at you and you notice she's got things. Um, and she's like, I was much like you when I was embraced, but don't worry, you'll come to realize the truth.
00:35:32
Speaker
Um, and then she takes off the monitor things and you notice that you still have no heartbeat. Um, also you notice that you only breathe when you specifically think about taking a breath or right before you need to speak. But other than that, unless you make yourself breathe, you don't. Okay. And then she, um, let's see, she, she goes over to a, uh,
00:36:00
Speaker
She goes over to the door and opens it and speaks to someone outside the door and then comes back. Let me check what hunger I put you at. Real fast, when I see she opens up the door and she's talked to someone, I'll be like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, help me. Help me. This lady's kidnapped me. Yeah, nothing happened. Nobody responds to that.
00:36:30
Speaker
She walks back over to you and she says, I guess we'll just go for the more vulgar. And she takes a scalpel and squirts her throat. And it bleeds, but like with the other woman,
00:36:59
Speaker
blood doesn't really like flow out it just kind of like the blood happened to be there slowly seeps out and then she closes her eyes she you know doesn't fall down dead from having slit her throat barely seems bothered by it so she barely seems bothered by having her throat slit she closes her eyes and focuses um and it closes right back up
00:37:27
Speaker
What is Jerry's reaction to that? Like when she, right from the moment she slit her throat, Jerry was like, Oh, like just mouth dropped open. He's like just shocked. Like what he just witnessed. And then it's just like staring with staring with like, I guess you might call it disgusted curiosity. I guess you might call the look on his face as, as, as her, as the wound on her throat starts to close up.
00:38:00
Speaker
says, you'll be able to do that too soon. Though I probably wouldn't try it right now. You'd be a little bit inconvenienced. It wouldn't kill you unless you took your head all the way off. She motions to, you see a couple, a stack of a few books on a table, kind of not far from
00:38:32
Speaker
says there's there's a lot of information in those books that you'll want to pour over. She points to a door on the opposite side of the room from the one she came through the there there's room and there you probably won't need that but there's a shower. You're going to need that in about an hour. She she points over. You shouldn't be hungry but if you do
00:39:00
Speaker
If you do find yourself with a craving, open the door over there and let the man outside know. To point out, she walks over to the door, opens it, and a big, big burly man steps, walks into the room, and he's like, this is Dustin. He'll be watching over you tonight.
00:39:30
Speaker
Uh, don't even try to get away. She does like motions to him. It's this huge, you know, size man. And he's got a large gun, uh, at his waist in a holster, an overly large pistol of some sort. I don't know guns, so I couldn't say what it is, but, uh, and, uh, then he steps back outside.
00:39:56
Speaker
Feel free to, once you need it, use the restroom and feel free to look over these books and I will be back before the dawn. And then she goes over and starts to unstrap you. What do you do? Okay. As soon as my arm is released, I'm going to go for the throat. I'm going to grab her by the throat.
00:40:26
Speaker
It'd be like, you're going to let me out of here right now. She doesn't seem phased by you, uh, grabbing her by the throat. Um, doesn't, you know, that doesn't hurt her. She says going anywhere. And then, uh, I guess it's a little bit muffled by you grabbing her throat, but she doesn't seem bothered in the least by what you've, by your having.
00:41:00
Speaker
Well, OK, well, but did or did did the big guy you said his name was Dustin. You got her in her hands. Yeah, Dustin. Did did he do make any movements when I when I grabbed at her? I have to back out. He's back outside, outside the door. Say that again. Oh, OK.
00:41:27
Speaker
Okay. I'm going to, I'm going to, okay. So each, okay. Oh, I'm going to sit there. I'm going to sit there holding the throat for just a minute. I'm like, the scene, she's not, she's not worried by it. I'm going to be like, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to let her go. Be like, release, release me the rest of the way. And I think you and I need to have a bit of a longer conversation.
00:41:57
Speaker
after you've read the documentation that I've provided you, we'll come and have an educated conversation. Right now it's like speaking to a child. All right, I can see I'm not going anywhere with this conversation, so then I guess that's what we're doing. Yeah, so assuming you don't continue to try to stop her or attack her or anything like that,
00:42:27
Speaker
She walks over to the door and walks out and you do see Dustin, you know, outside the door. He nods to her as she goes. The door closes and you hear it lock. And let's switch scenes. We are back to Frank. Let me find where I left off for you.
00:42:56
Speaker
Ah, yes, here it is. Okay. Well, after after you drink, let's see. She she starts talking again. The last thing she had said before, you know, before you were having trouble was something about something called the Camarilla. She says our clan was was we were not always loyal to the Camarilla. But in
00:43:23
Speaker
recent decades, we made a decision to join the winning side. The Camarilla are the ruling force here in Houston and much of the world. They are old vampires who keep the status quo between us and humans and the other vampires. We used to be not on their side. Now we must work to prove our worth, at least
00:43:51
Speaker
In this city, at least, the prince looks favorably on us. One of our own is his sheriff, his enforcer. You'll meet her later, I'm sure. There's a lot to learn, but instead we're going to talk about you and what you're going to experience soon and what you can do to make yourself useful. Usually you must be tested before embraced into our clan, but I had my orders.
00:44:15
Speaker
I'm hoping that you can prove your worth by solving a problem for us. And she tosses you a phone. Your phone, you realize. Turn it on. I look at it dumbly, and I look at her, and I'm like, should be. Did I agree to be a vampire? You should have all your memories back and stuff. You remember you signed a rather large document. You did agree to be a vampire.
00:44:45
Speaker
and stuff like that. She didn't specify what she wants you to work on, but that there's a problem that you need to try to solve for them. You did agree to everything, but you agreed to it very easily. So it's a little suspect how easily you agree to everything.
00:45:11
Speaker
So my memory of this occurrence, even though it seems suspect, do I think that it was on the up and up? Give me an insight plus wits roll. OK, one success.
00:45:36
Speaker
It doesn't feel like something you would have necessarily, oh wait, why does that say the beast? That's not a crit fail. Ignore that. That's odd that it would do that. Yeah, not a crit fail. So it's not a beast and it's not a crit success either. Okay, yeah, one regular success. So you feel like that's not something you would have agreed to, but you remember doing it.
00:46:08
Speaker
OK, at least maybe after one conversation. All right, so I sat there pondering that for a minute and I'm like. That this doesn't seem like something I would have agreed to. So read it simply. But I see my name on the contract, so I grab my phone and I turn it on. All right. And attempt to turn it on.
00:46:37
Speaker
Yeah, after you fiddle with it for a minute, the screen kind of glitches out, and then it shuts off. I fiddle with it some more. All right, so you get it to turn back on, but the same thing happens after a few minutes. She lets you do this once or twice before speaking up. It's not broken. It is us. Advanced electronics malfunction around us, phones, computers. We also don't show up well on videos or in mirrors. I'm not worried about that part.
00:47:07
Speaker
But I want you to find a way to make technology work for us. It's a weakness that must be driven out of our clan. And if you can find a way, it will prove your worth. Not only that, it will prove the clan's worth to the Camarilla. But first, you have a bit of an ordeal. You do realize that I'm more of the software side of things. You need an engineer.
00:47:34
Speaker
Not a programmer. Like I can do some engineering, but I'm not like great at it. I'm going to be honest with you. I was ordered to embrace you. I'm trying to give you a way to prove your worth. If you think that there's another way you can do it, that's fine. I saw you were good with tech. Thought maybe this would be something you could try to work on. Uh, you didn't do much research beforehand, did you? I literally was ordered.
00:48:03
Speaker
earlier tonight to do this. Ordered by who? I need to talk to somebody above you. I need to speak to your manager, because we clearly have something going on miscommunication-wise. You'll meet my manager. No, the prince ordered it. And it was either it was do it or meet the final death. You or me? No, me. Why would you meet the final death?
00:48:31
Speaker
because if I disobeyed the order then that no this electronic thing the prince doesn't care about that I was ordered to make you a vampire why honestly I wish I knew the let's just say the prince he's uh so there are many clans of vampires as I've told you you're already of clan lasombra
00:49:02
Speaker
He is of the class do I get to choose that like can I change? Cuz like I work with tech all the time this this glitching out thing. I don't think it's gonna work for me. I'm So unfortunately, it's it's in your blood now. There's nothing you can do about it And it can I turn the fusion like Believe me many have tried to change their clan. It doesn't work The prince's clan
00:49:29
Speaker
Let's just say they're known for their eccentricities. And he's a very powerful man. When he tells you to do something, you do it. Hold on. Your phone's working pretty well right now. We'll switch back to Hayden while Frank does this. I'm back. Oh, OK. Sorry.
00:49:55
Speaker
I just had to take a call real quick. You saw my phone turn on. So clearly, we don't have that big of an issue with technology. Well, sometimes it works for us. Sometimes it doesn't. And yeah, it doesn't make a lot of sense. Some people seem to be better at getting it to work as well. So maybe seeing that, you might be one of those people.
00:50:22
Speaker
Like I was saying, the prince ordered it and you're a vampire now. He didn't tell me what to do with you. He literally just said, you must make this man into a vampire tonight. And when the prince commands, you do it or you die. Simple as that. All right.
00:50:47
Speaker
So me trying to figure out a way to make shit work is just something you want me to do, not the prince. This is me trying to find a way for you to prove your worth. Do I need to go talk to the prince? Because he wanted me to become one of you guys. You will get to speak to him at the end of the week. I'm supposed to educate you in our ways.
00:51:15
Speaker
until that point and you and it wasn't just me. You and several others will be introduced to the prince at the end of the week. Okay. Well, I mean, I didn't have much of a life to begin with, so this vampire thing could be kind of cool. Do I get any cool powers or special abilities?
00:51:40
Speaker
Like, this technology not functioning is kind of a turnoff for me. Like, there's got to be some sort of incentive to this package. Well, for one, you're, for the most part, immortal. You will likely find yourself stronger than mortal than you were before, and possibly even stronger than other vampires. You may find yourself
00:52:08
Speaker
with better sensory capabilities, better able to manipulate the mortals around you and maybe even some vampires. The true power of our clan, however, is our command over the shadows. You may recall that you were tied down when I bit you. Those were shadows holding you in place.
00:52:37
Speaker
You wasn't tied down, though. You won't be able to do that yet, but you you probably can see in the dark. I don't remember what powers you took. What did you take? I didn't do the see in the dark when I did the hide in plain sight when. From oblivion. Yeah, you took shadow cloak. That's right.
00:53:04
Speaker
Our powers do manifest in different ways. You'll discover yours over time. But yeah, you'll have, there will be many powers. You do need to drink blood to live. Fresh blood is best. Human blood is best. But as you can see, she points at the shattered glass. It doesn't always have to be fresh.
00:53:33
Speaker
Um, so let's let's jump to Hayden because. We've been going. So, yeah, you're you're you're chained up in a room. Um, bruh, what what do you got ass naked? Yeah, you're naked chained in a room. There's a great in front of you, but thankfully you're not puking or vomiting or any of that anymore. Okay. Um, three as you were, you're you're pretty good.
00:54:03
Speaker
Um, there's just in the back of your mind, there's that, that knowing sensation that some more blood would be, would be pretty nice. Do you, does your, do you have any thoughts or do you try to break free? I, I'm thinking like, uh, the chains, how exactly am I chained up? You are chained hands and feet to, um, uh, four different, um,
00:54:32
Speaker
like loops, I guess, or hook rings on the ground. It's enough for you to stand up if you want, like you're just kind of, you're, you're chained in the area, but you're not, you're able to move around a little bit, but both your hands and feet are chained. Is there anything else in the room? There's a water hose and a door. Can I reach the water hose?
00:55:00
Speaker
Nope, it's just out of reach. She had to be with it. OK. Can I reach the drain? Or I imagine the drain is like one of those like small little things. Yeah, it's a drain. It's it's like one of those floor grates. It's not like a I mean, you can tell by looking at it, it's not something big enough for you to crawl through, but you can. Yeah.
00:55:30
Speaker
Am I able to pull up the grate on the drain? You can try. Yeah, I'll try. A strength check. Athletics? Yeah, well, you don't have it, so you can just roll plain strength. OK. All right, so you've got it. Gosh, I am doing bad tonight. So it's hard. It's a heavy grate.
00:56:00
Speaker
You try to lift it, but you just can't. But you feel something in you, something stir. You feel like, I'm just double checking your sheet. That's why I changed. Oh, OK. I was like, ooh. I'm seeing what you can do real quick. OK. The power inside you starts to stir.
00:56:26
Speaker
You feel like you should try again, but scroll down to the bottom and click. Click what? It says rouse. Rouse all the way down at the bottom. Yeah. Next to frenzy. All right. So, um, that's a success. So you don't get any hungrier. Your strength temporarily increases by one. Um, so you, you feel your blood stir and you get a little bit stronger.
00:56:55
Speaker
Um, and you can try again if you want. So I guess just for now, put a dot in there. Would it be a dot or her? Let me see with no second attribute. I think a modifier gives you an automatic success. I guess for now, put a dot in there. We just have to remember to lower it back. Yeah, yeah. I'll do right after I'm done rolling.
00:57:21
Speaker
All right. So you get it this time, um, two successes that, yeah, I'll say that's enough to lift it up. So you feel yourself get stronger and you lift up the, the, the metal greats. Okay. Um, yeah. So I keep the metal grate in my hand, like the, the ape I am. Um, and I assume there's blood on the floor from when it like, I try to rip her hand off. Yeah. Yeah. There's some blood on the floor.
00:57:49
Speaker
I put my fingers in it and I investigate him, this is straight up blood. I ingested this, but it's cold and it shouldn't be cold. Yeah. I go ahead and taste it. It tastes good, but not as good as when you first drank it. It's been out of the policy for a little bit. Okay.
00:58:20
Speaker
I kind of want to go ahead and try to break my chains again or break my chains with this great help now that I have. Go ahead and roll for it and just keep your strength at two. You mean, can I still have that one dot or no? Well, your strength was originally one, wasn't it?
00:58:46
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, I was rolling some athletics. Sorry. I had to roll back up, but yeah. Yeah, keep it at two. It doesn't go away until the end of the until we, you know, it lasts. Oh, fade out. OK. So no, just put none attributes. All right. Yeah. I mean, that's pretty good, but to break the chain, not good enough. It's going to say you would need it. You would have needed a crit. OK.
00:59:15
Speaker
So I look around, are there bolts or is it screwed? It's. I would say it's probably bolted in. Shit. Wait, the great. How big are these great holes? Probably like maybe an inch wide. They're not. And I assume the bolts are. Not going to fit it. Maybe, maybe should we roll like a 50 50?
00:59:47
Speaker
I'm trying to see if you've got a skill that might, do you have craft or anything like that? No. I have firearms, stealth, one an animal can, etiquette, insight, I can roll, insight, investigation. I don't think your skills would let you figure out a way to make that work. I have one in technology, one in science.
01:00:16
Speaker
technology. Yeah. At that point, the door opens and she walks back in and, you know, looks at you holding the grate and kind of raises an eyebrow. And she says, have we calmed down yet? I'm trying to think like, Max, Max, my boy. Would Max be calm?
01:00:46
Speaker
I feel like he would, and he's getting desperate because this is extremely new. And he just like, why? I wish I knew. And he just sits down on the floor and looks up at her. She doesn't come closer, but she sits down too and says, I wish I knew, to be honest.
01:01:15
Speaker
Actually, hold on. She reaches for something through the door and comes back with a towel and tosses you a towel. Like a big towel. Wait. She says, I wish I knew. So there's a lot you need to know. And I'll be honest, this wasn't fair to you or to me because now I have to deal with you and train you and make you
01:01:44
Speaker
worthy member of vampire society, otherwise they'll probably kill us both. Anyway, so there's a hierarchy of our kind. The elders, they're the powerful ones, they rule over us younger ones. And mind you, I'm still like, how old is she? I'm almost 150 and I'm considered young. So
01:02:12
Speaker
We're talking 150. Yeah. Yeah. I look great. Don't I? Anyway, we're talking. I was going to say it's like 150. How? Oh, wait. Vampires. Yep. Yeah. I was born in 1872. I'm sorry. That's rough. And I died in 1904.
01:02:39
Speaker
and been this ever since. So yeah. We died right before World War I, or like around that time. Yeah, right around that time. I wasn't here in America for that, but yeah. She does, she looks, well, she's got a, she's technically from Indonesia, but she's got a whole history about Indonesia.
01:03:09
Speaker
Anyway, I was given no choice. I was ordered to take you, make you a vampire, and really, other than I have to introduce you to the prince at the end of the week, that's all I was given. Normal rules say, now that I've created you, I'm the one responsible for you. If you mess up, we both mess up.
01:03:39
Speaker
So yeah, I'm just going to be honest. Can I roll to see if she's lying to me in any way? Go ahead and roll an insight. Any modifiers on that? Charisma. Actually, charisma, right? Insight plus charisma would be for persuading. This would either probably be composure. Maybe, yeah. Says, yeah.
01:04:08
Speaker
Chris plus composure. Yeah, so she's definitely telling the truth. You can you can tell she's she is not happy about this situation. This is not what she wanted to do. You can even tell that her anger is not, you know, she's not angry at you. She's angry at the situation. This isn't something that she would normally do. And
01:04:38
Speaker
You don't know why she decided that she needed you to chain you up naked in a room and leave you for the first. But you can tell that it's not necessarily the way she would prefer to do things. OK, go ahead. Yeah, so anyway, yeah, ordered to turn you.
01:05:07
Speaker
A few quick rundowns. The city's ruled by a really powerful old vampire. We call him the prince. He basically his word is law. While you might be able to escape one angry old vampire, he's got the loyalty of a lot of angry old vampires. So pretty much if the prince tells you to do something, you do it or you die. Honestly, usually,
01:05:36
Speaker
Usually I'd spend years watching you before deciding to offer you the chance to become one of us. I had a matter of a couple of hours to watch you. Our clan, oh yeah, vampires were broken down into different clans based on who our ancestors, I guess you could call them, were from a long time ago
01:06:03
Speaker
thousands of years. But anyway, our clan's called the Banu Hakim. We're, I guess you could call us the judges or the justice dealers of the clan. Honestly, what I did to you, if it wasn't under the orders of the prince, I'd be punishing myself for this, or at least our clan would. Honestly, I might take some punishment for doing this, but we'll just see.
01:06:33
Speaker
So we, we judge the others. We, we usually in the, in the hierarchy of the city, we are the ones who are sent to punish those who, who do wrong. Um, you, you probably remember how fast I was. That's one of our, our specialties where we can be really fast. We can be really sneaky. We see what we see more than others and, uh, and where we're kind of mages.
01:07:03
Speaker
So, and she kind of starts going into just kind of the explanation of, you know, you're a vampire. After a while, you know, she gives you the explanation about her clan and all of that. And then after a while, she asks you again, Sophia and Chaim, are you going to be calling this time? I go, you know, I've ended up in a lot of situations
01:07:33
Speaker
Um, and I, I'm sorry, like, yeah, sure. This is very traumatic for me and I still have no idea or why idea is going on. Yeah. And I'm sure it's traumatic for you as well, but I don't even know your name and I woke up naked in a room vomiting on myself. Can you explain why I was vomiting and shitting everywhere? Yeah.
01:07:59
Speaker
that was your new body getting rid of all that stuff it doesn't need all that food all that water all of that those those uh do they vomit up organs i don't know all that that uh stomach acid um you don't need any of that anymore and unfortunately it's pretty gross and uh i didn't feel like being around while it started
01:08:23
Speaker
That was not a nice choice of me necessarily, but I'll be honest, I was kind of in a mood. So sorry for that. And she doesn't ask you again. She tosses you a key and reaches through the open door again and pulls out the clothes you were wearing before and sets them down near you.
01:08:53
Speaker
Um, I guess I unlock myself and I go, I never got your name, by the way. My, my name is, uh, you can call me Tiv. Tiv. Tiv. All right. Well, Tiv. All right. Well, Tiv, um, what's the plan now? Now you got to present me in a week. Yep. Now I'm going to teach you how to be a, uh, a good little vampire. So you don't get, get us both killed.
01:09:21
Speaker
And we'll switch back to finish Frank's intro poll. I don't remember what we were talking about. I know what is in my notes to go into next. Yeah, anyway, I'll just say, yeah, so the prints forced me to do this to you.
01:09:50
Speaker
This is the best way I could think for you to prove your worth to the clan. Otherwise, if the clan doesn't accept you, you'll be, well, you won't be left completely alone, but you'll be lacking a lot of resources that other vampires have. And trust me, you're going to need those if you want to continue to live. Well, continue to exist.
01:10:14
Speaker
But first, you do have a bit of an ordeal to go through. You can probably feel the stirrings in your stomach already. You had a drink, so that'll help. But she points to a door, and she's like, there's a bathroom in there. Once you feel the need, head in there, and you're going to be in there for a while. Is there a constitution check of some kind they can make?
01:10:44
Speaker
Uh, let's see there. I would say, um, I would say stamina plus resolve if you're trying to resist it. Resolve. They're, they're the, um, both in the top. So click on one of those and then add the other one. Click stamina and then click resolve. Well, click one of them and then they'll give you the option. And they'll like choose a messy critical, huh?
01:11:15
Speaker
How does a messy, critical, how does the beast? I assume you're trying to resist the urge to expel your insides. Yes. Yeah. You're holding it off. Every time you feel like you're about to start vomiting, you punch yourself in the face. And it's just watching you like, what? Just let it, I mean, dude, just let it happen. I mean, it sucks, but man.
01:11:45
Speaker
It's going to hold it all forever. You like run into the, you know, you like look at the bathroom for a second and go in there, but then you just kick the, you rip the toilet out of the, out of the floor and toss it out of the room. It's like, well now I'm just going to have to use the sink. Cause it's not a, it's not, it doesn't have a shower. It was just a toilet and a sink. It's like a bathroom at a, at a, it's not a, uh,
01:12:14
Speaker
Uh, penthouse. Yeah. So I don't know how long you hold that off, but eventually there's no way to stop it. Your body does get rid of all the unneeded stuff that you needed in life. And that for all of you takes about an hour to get rid of it all. It's not very pleasant, but, uh, you feel better once it's over. I wanted that.
01:12:41
Speaker
You wanted all your poop and blood, stomach acids and water. Well, I wanted to try to hold on to a shred of humanity there. Well, she did. Do you say that or something along those lines? Yes. She she sighs and says, well, you you're not going to you've got iron gullet that lets you drink bad blood. It doesn't let you eat.
01:13:11
Speaker
Yeah. Um, she says, well, do you, unfortunately you can't hold onto that stuff, but you know, if you ever do find yourself wanting, um, you know, to eat a, eat a taco or, or, or drink something other than blood, um, you can do it. Uh, we've got this, this ability. And, um, so she's, she's pretty pale. Uh, but, uh, she,
01:13:39
Speaker
She, hold on, I gotta roll her hunger check. Her rouse check. All right. She concentrates for a moment and then you see kind of the like, the color in life come back to her skin. If it were cold in the room, steam would come from her breath. She looks alive again. She says, with some focus and practice, you can do this. You can appear
01:14:07
Speaker
more living, you can actually eat and drink. Although I'll be honest, once you're going to have to get rid of it later. So, um, in much the same fashion, but that's, that's about the best you can hope for. You can take a drink, but eventually you're going to have to get rid of it all again. I do it. Okay. So give me a rouse check.
01:14:35
Speaker
scroll to the bottom of your sheet, and there should be something that says rouse. All right, so you do it. You appear more alive, and you don't get any hungrier doing it. So just so I know, a rouse check, any time you do something that requires that, if you fail the rouse check, you still do the thing. You just get hungrier. So all it is is seeing whether or not it makes you hungry to do it. Yeah, so you feel more
01:15:05
Speaker
mortal um your your skin is warm you're breathing like a normal person would it's not a um your your heart starts beating again um and uh as far as anyone would be able to tell you seem mortal while you while you continue to do this does does she notice it she she does she she uh she
01:15:34
Speaker
She nods impressed and she's like, yeah, that's how you do it. That's actually a really useful skill to learn early on because now when you need to feed, you can more easily appear like a normal person to people. I just want to go back to work. Well, to be honest, you're still going to have the technology issues until you figure out a way around that.
01:16:04
Speaker
And, um, I'm going to leave it up to you. You can, you can go back to work. Just know that if you go out during the day, you will die and, uh, you just have to keep what you are a secret. Why? Well, if mortals ever found out we existed and they have in the past, they'll come for us. They, they have a distinct advantage against us in that they can operate during the daytime.
01:16:34
Speaker
The last time this found out, I'm sure you've heard of the Spanish Inquisition. Well, that wasn't just witches. It was all supernatural creatures, vampires, witches, werewolves. Werewolves exist too, by the way.
01:16:52
Speaker
Oh, wait, whoa. So not only vampires, but other magical beings exist in our world that that's just crazy. I, me personally, I've seen a werewolf. They're terrifying. Stay away from him. And I've seen something that I don't know what it was, but it was immortal like us, but but different. For one, it could go out in the day. So I don't know if it's
01:17:21
Speaker
something that we can become or something else, but there's something out there that lives as long as we do without the same restrictions we have. Okay, I got a serious question. Do we sparkle? No, we don't sparkle. Well, thank God. You might spark before you burst into flames.
01:17:52
Speaker
Yeah, that's that's true. OK. Honestly, I feel like whoever wrote that book had to be one of us and they they were just trying to come up with the most ridiculous thing to throw the mortals off. I don't know. Sparkling is maybe not the most ridiculous. The most ridiculous was falling in love with somebody and then having a half vampire baby with them. OK, that was that's ridiculous. That was a little bit. That was a little bit of a lot.
01:18:23
Speaker
There have been cases I've heard of things like that half. Was the half vampire half human or is it? Yeah, that vampire half human, right? They usually don't live long, but things like that have happened in the past. Clan Clan Tremere has been known for such experiments. Course they have.
01:18:54
Speaker
God damn it. I got, I got lumped in with a fucking vampire weirdos. So as you all, um, you know, learn from your sires or in the case of, uh, Jerry read, um, Books worth of information about clan Tremere and the vampire state, um, very professional, very, um, something that a doctor would write, uh, um,
01:19:21
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As you all do that, Dawn eventually approaches and you find yourselves getting sleepy.
Adapting to Vampire Lifestyle
01:19:28
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Anyone who tries to leave their area, their tires and or guards don't let them. Either in those of them who are more friendly with their people say, it's not a good idea to leave this first night. Dawn is almost approaching and this is a safe place.
01:19:47
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with the exception of Jaden's character, he gets taken somewhere else, but that's all off screen because he's in a penthouse with windows. Do we not have windows in the room that I went into? No, you're in a you're you're in like an inner room of some building. She says it's one of her buildings or her organization's building and
01:20:14
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Bill, you're in some sort of lab. You think maybe it's underground, but you're not sure. And Hayden's obviously in some sort of underground dungeon. Yeah. So yeah, you guys are all in secure rooms for the night. None of your sires stay in the room with you when dawn comes. They all leave shortly before dawn and say, stay here for the night. I'm going to go to my
01:20:44
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sleeping place. None of them seem willing to spend the night or spend the day in the room with you. But they all had their way. And as the dawn comes, you can resist it. But eventually, you do all fall unconscious into a dreamless sleep. Vampires don't dream, except for Malkavians, who
01:21:11
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Have visions do it. Do we get a do we get a coffin or is it just like a bed? I'll say like Wow, dude. Wow. That was so goddamn 13th century of you. What the hell was that? What the hell was that ignorance there? Do you think we sleep in coffins, sir? Are you asking yourself? You're cool. Or just asking. I hear I asked the sire for chilies.
01:21:39
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Okay, she chuckles and says, well, you can do that if you want, but for tonight, there's a cot over there. And honestly, you're not even gonna notice, because once we fall asleep, we don't really feel anything. Okay, night. Good morning. And she walks out of the room. Shit.
01:22:07
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bill that's like a that's like a faux pas among vampires jerry uh you've got um just the the bed you are strapped down to that you can lay down on if you want uh and um
01:22:25
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As to be honest, I think I'm just going to I think I'm just going to spend most of my time on on the on the toilet reading the books, especially once I get to the part in there about you'll want to be reading this on the toilet because you're about to violently shit yourself. Yeah. Yeah. That's definitely. And yeah, and then Hayden, she kind of leaves you unchained, but in your room and she says, I'll be nearby.
01:22:51
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Uh, and then, you know, heads out as the dry, no bed, just like straight up, just howl. Like she, uh, reaches, um, to apparently there's just some sort of like clothes rack or something next to the door because she pulls, she grabs a couple more towels and, and tosses them to you. It's like a fetching magician's hat in there. What else do you got in that? You keep pulling stuff out of that door.
01:23:22
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She's like, Oh, I. I didn't wasn't sure how much cleaning that I was going to have to do. Is this is this your house? This is your dungeon, your whole. This is a part of my place, yeah. Oh, that's awkward. And so have a good day and I'm going to go to my room.
01:23:53
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And I'll see you. You better stay there until you think about turning people into vampires, as I say, with a slight chuckle. She chuckles, too. And she's like, that's all I'm thinking about for a while. And then closes the door. She she you do hear that it locks. She doesn't fully trust you yet. I mean, it's not your night.
01:24:22
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And then I still have the great. I still have the great. We're doing it, boys. Somewhere above ground, the sun rises and the vampires fall asleep into their death like sleep until the next. Sunset, it's so hard not to say the next dawn until the next sunset. Yeah, just watch this carry over to indeed just so confused.
01:24:52
Speaker
Yeah. Yes. Cause a good replacement for Dawn. Yeah, there you go. Um, and yeah, so that's, that's where we'll end it. Uh, next week you guys will hopefully be released from your various cells. Yay. And I'll give you the, I want to see if by chance I can make one more role, see if I can break through that door with my great.
01:25:19
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Um, so I don't know if you have melee, but I would consider that a strength plus melee. Yeah. I more like when I like try lock pick it. Oh, okay. With the great, with the great. Uh, because I can imagine with the great, I can like file it down for some time. So I'm going to stay up quite a bit of time. And then I can also use the bolts, your focus, the bolts out.
01:25:48
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You're focused on this, filing it down and stuff. So focused that it activates your discipline of corrupt by trying to file down the great. You accidentally cut yourself and notice is corrosive. Um, and it melts a portion of the great. Hell yeah. Character development. Yeah. You, uh, you activate your, your power of corrosive blood and realize when you're focused on something, you can.
01:26:17
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Your blood can melt stuff. Yeah, that's what I was trying to get at. I was like, I just can't know that about myself. Yeah. Yeah. And this is something that my sire doesn't know about me, right? This is just unique to me. She doesn't have blood source. Oops, did I show you her character sheet? No, you just show me her face. Oh, OK. She. Yeah, she doesn't know that about you.
01:26:49
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Dope. Are we sure that the clan doesn't have that? Let me double check. Handouts. Clans. Wait, that's not clans. That's disciplines. Clans. Your clan disciplines. Oh no, blood sorcery is one of yours.
01:27:15
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It's blood sorcery, celerity, and obfuscate. So your protean is the extra thing you took. Your predator type. So yeah, she would know that you, I mean, she might not know that you specifically have the corrosive blood power, but she knows that you are. She knows it's the possibility. Yeah. Well, I want her to trust me, so I'm not actually going to do it now. Considering both of our lives are on the line. So yeah.
01:27:45
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So I think we will call it a night. Yep. Thanks for the game. It was a lot of fun. Yeah. That was session two of Houston After Dark. And I guess we should do our sign off. This is Ron signing off. This is Bill signing off. See you next week. Bill, I can't get up.
01:28:15
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I can imagine I can actually see that happening to you though. Oh it did happen to you You can do whatever you set your mind to you got it This is Frank signing off and stung the floor
01:29:40
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01:29:49
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