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Speaker: Hello mortals, just a quick disclaimer before we begin. This is a vampire podcast and as such we'll be dealing with issues like drugs, alcohol, mental issues, violence, adult situations, death, and of course blood. So enjoy the show.
Speaker: Greetings Mortals and welcome to a part two episode of Integrated Dice Management Presents Houston After Dark. I am your storyteller Ron Bjork and because this is a part two and this episode will be starting in media res right in the middle of where we left off last time the other players aren't here to introduce themselves so I'll go ahead and do it for them. We of course have the lovable Bill
Speaker: with his silky voice and not so silky internet connection the friendly Frank the horny Hayden and there might be a snippet of Jaden in this episode but he mostly was not in this this second half of session seven so I hope you all enjoy and on with the show
Speaker: Yeah, so I guess me and Bill, I guess I get a call from Bill whenever that Jerry. Wesley are doing this late at night, Wesley is in his meeting while this will be going on, so yeah.
Speaker: Yeah. So I hear that ring and I'm like, Oh God, I really need to change my phone, my ring notification. And that one's annoying as hell. Um, Hey Jerry, how's it going? Hey, Max, that's going pretty good. Just woke up a little bit ago. What's up? You say you need it. Yeah. So.
Speaker: There's no way to be like really soft around this but I need to fake my death. And I think you can help out. All right. OK. OK. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think I think I think I can figure that. Do you.
Speaker: I'm sorry. I never really, I never really asked. Do you have family? What do you need to fake your death for? Uh, yeah. So I have a kid and a Y and an ex wife, um, recently, uh, ex wife of like within the past year and a half. Um, but yeah, so I, I need to get out from child support.
Speaker: and all that other stuff because I won't have a job and I don't need people to come look for me. And, you know, that would not be good if government's constantly bringing down my neck. Um, all right. Give me one minute. I'll be right back. And Bill will also be back in exact in like 25 seconds. Yeah. I grabbed my phone too. And now there's awkward silence.
Speaker: All right, I'm back. Okay, okay. All right. Well, I've been reading up on some things about the vampires max. So one, you know, big advantage is that for this is that we don't need to breathe and we need to make sure that we basically finish out the whole process. Okay.
Speaker: Give me 20 minutes. Can you destroy the place you're living at now? Oh, OK. OK. Then we've already got one step taken care of.
Speaker: Do you have a rope by chance? All right, awesome. Then we're on the right path for this. Real fast, just to kind of get the feel for it because I have no idea how long you're gonna be there. You may want to...
Speaker: try, sorry for the turn of phrase here, but hanging out to kind of get used to it a little bit, because I don't know how long you're going to be there for. And okay, so okay, they're nine times out of 10 for a situation like this, they're going to, when if a body is found, a lot of times they're going to do,
Speaker: If they suspect foul play, there's likely to be an investigation and stuff. And they're already going to be informing people. If it just seems like something, we need to cover our bases because there's a chance that your family could request a investigation be done. So we need to try to cover our bases to make sure that if they do that,
Speaker: we make it seem like you were heading down this path. So what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna go ahead and fake, I'm gonna go ahead and add it into my ledgers that I've been seeing you for probably about, you said it was a year and a half you've been divorced? Yeah.
Speaker: Okay, we'll say about the last five or six months you've been coming to see me. I can forge the paperwork, make it all show that these are the signs of risks to keep an eye out for. And here in about 30 minutes, I'm gonna call the cops to your house for a welfare visit. Now,
Speaker: Do you are you an organ donor? No, I am not. Good, good, good, good, good, good. Yeah. Do you do you have? Oh, wait, you work for a security company. You work for you work security. That means that you have that means that they would have for a Fortune 500 company that I work in HR. Oh, wait, that's right. Oh, wait, you work for HR. That's right. I don't. Are you thinking of a call bird?
Speaker: that's
Speaker: That's that might that might give us I could go some problems I could quickly write out my wishes in a note that I'm gonna leave but besides that I don't think that would hold up too much. That shouldn't yeah that shouldn't be too much of a problem do you have a lot of assets financial liquid anything like that. Besides my.
Speaker: my Rolex watches, there's nothing too much going on about me because Brenda took everything else. Okay. Uh, I, I know you're going to be dead soon. You're going to be dead soon, but, uh, you know, if you want to talk about that at some point we can, but anyway, sorry, off topic. Um, okay. And all right.
Speaker: So call records are gonna be found of this call from your phone to my office phone, which with this paperwork should show. Okay, as soon as we get off this phone call, I'm gonna be calling the cops for a welfare visit. So while we're on the phone, I need you to go ahead and write out a note and I need you to list on there that you want to be cremated.
Speaker: All right, we'll do. Yeah, so here's here's the play. Jerry, your question. Yeah. Have you done this before? You seem to be like on the flip. You seem to be pretty good with this on the fly, my man. You know what, there's a level of confidentiality that I'm not aware of that, but we're not. That's OK. There's a level of confidentiality that we are not going that we are going to that
Speaker: We are not going to break right now. I will just say that I have had to help a number of patients escape and have certain people believe that they are dead so that they are not pursued. All right. Sounds good.
Speaker: I'll go ahead and get writing on that letter. Okay. Don't, don't hang up until you're ready for me to call, to call them. Cause, uh, if the, if with what I'm saying, they're going to go through, they're going to go through my and your call records. And if there's too long of a gap and they think I was worried they're going to, they're going to, uh, suspect foul play, in which case they're probably going to open you up and make sure that there was nothing, uh, there was nothing going on. And obviously we don't really want that. Yeah.
Speaker: All right. OK. So what's going to happen is you're going to do your thing up there. And when they find you, you're not going to be breathing. I'm sorry? With this being the only call that's been made between you two, it might look a little suspicious if you've been, you know. Hey, you can't tell them that. You're not there. That's true.
Speaker: I'm taking notes. Ron, why are you taking notes on this? Because it's a little bit scary that you're taking notes and not for in -game purposes. I never said that. I would like to have a manager following me from now on whenever we have a Ron manager follow, just to make sure, because now I'm getting nervous.
Speaker: Oh, I let's see. Wait, wasn't one of our other new baby vampires? Wasn't he into technology and stuff? Yeah, I think he was. All right. Yeah, it's that cold dude. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I remember him. Fun guy. Interesting guy. Yeah.
Speaker: I would love to have a conversation as to why he keeps asking if I put blood in my ass. But anyway. That is not a thing that has happened. That is literally a thing that happens every time. And it's can't happen now. All right. Do you think you'd be willing, before we do
Speaker: This you think he would be willing. To give to. Make it look like you've been calling me you've been calling me periodically for months. I think falsifying email records are probably easier. That would probably be easier. We could set this up as a as one of the first times you called to set an appointment. 2020. Who calls anymore? Nobody.
Speaker: Or as a very good friend of mine once said, only psychopaths make phone calls. Actually, you know what? That won't be necessary. I think we can probably set this up a little differently. You just walked in to set your appointments. We can still do that. I have a receptionist downstairs and the company you work for has been working with my company for months.
Speaker: Easy. Yeah. Explainable. Yeah. All right. So what's going to happen is they're going to find you. They're going to cut you down, find your note, that kind of thing. I'm going to go to, I'm going to meet you down at the, down at the mortuary. I'm going to do my thing and, you know, get in because I can, and I'm going to,
Speaker: We're going to get you out and then from there, we're going to see if there's anyone else slated to be cremated tonight. There was a paperwork error and you were cremated tonight. Sounds like your plan. All right. Give me just a few more minutes.
Speaker: All right, I've got all my notes set up for you for probably, let's say, eight sessions over the last four or five months, one session every couple of weeks. All right, I'm good on this end. If you're doing that, I'm going to need
Speaker: Sub subterfuge plus intelligence role. Who subterfuge plus intelligence from which one of us? From from you for forging these these things. Oh no, I don't have anything in subterfuge. OK, wow, watch it forgery. Now.
Speaker: You can always rouse the blood to get a, how many points is it? I think it's a plus two to your dice roll. You know what, I am gonna do that. Yeah, you can add. So basically it'll do intelligence and then when it asks you for the modifiers, put two. All right, subterfuge, we're going to.
Speaker: Add int. Now, I don't have anything in this. Watch me roll incredible because things I'm supposed to be good at I usually suck at. Wow. Successes. All right. And that was your that rouse check a button. Oh, no, that's an act. So also do the rouse check to see if you get hungrier by boosting your intellect.
Speaker: All right, let's go down to Rouse real fast. Okay, you do not get hungrier. All right, so two successes on forging that. Did I look legit? Do that for my letter that I'm writing? Yeah, for that, yeah, probably. So,
Speaker: What are you putting in the letter? Like, I don't know. I feel like a suicide letter might be a different, it wouldn't be intelligence charisma because I'm trying to persuade either persuasion plus charisma. Now, due to the fact, I also, I also suffer from pretty crippling depression and we can obviously skip the details on what your note says. Please, please. Thank you. Yeah, we'll do.
Speaker: Appreciate that. General things. And then the cremation and fetch you, Brenda. Give me back my son. I'm not alive without my son. So it'd be persuasion plus charisma. And then plus two for that rouse modifier I just cut out. OK. Five. Five successes. A pretty convincing note.
Speaker: Very emotional note. OK, so then I guess, Bill, you're going to make a phone call to the police. So Frank, well, no, I'll be the dispatcher. Frank, I've got a character for you, police, that's going to show up. Oh, boy. Yeah. But I'll be dispatch.
Speaker: 911, how can I help you? Or what's your emergency? Yes, hello. I am a psychiatrist or a psychologist. Sorry, I can't answer that question for you. Are you in distress? Yeah, there you go. I'm a therapist and I just received a call from a patient of mine.
Speaker: And I'm concerned and I was just wanting to see if I could ask for an officer to make a wellness visit. Are you concerned that he's going to hurt himself or someone else? I am concerned that he may cause harm to himself, yes. Okay, do you have his address and his name?
Speaker: I do. His name is Max Cox. Yes, it is. And his address is 123 Upyars Lane. All right. All right. I'll make sure to send an officer right now. Thank you very much. OK, is there anything else I can do with? How are you doing tonight? I'm doing wonderful. And do you want to know what will make me do even better?
Speaker: What's that? If you could please go to www .police .com and leave me a review. My name is Deborah. I'm assuming it's five stars or it's the equivalent of zero, right? Oh, yes. Okay, Deborah, I got you. I should do a breath of life like right before I
Speaker: do the deed, that way it actually shows the bruising and whatnot. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's good. That's good, smart man, smart man. I forgot that I was legit dead now, and I was like, oh, wait. OK, OK, I hang up now. Yeah, and me living in precinct five, it's going to take like probably like an hour for the cast to show up.
Speaker: All right, so. That's what I told you to get used to it, because I don't know how long how long it was going to last. It was going to take for the cops there. Oh, I'm just like singing while the cops are knocking on my door. I'm like, I'm all alone. No one beside. I know one time I called the cops and it took and it was that it was until the next day that they got out here. So I think you're going to take two superficial damage for this. Well, just, you know,
Speaker: because you've got to take some damage when you drop. You can obviously heal that pretty easy. And let me see here. I am giving Frank access to a sheet so that he can play. Frank, you're welcome to change the name of this character.
Speaker: But you are going to be the police officer who shows up. So yeah, about an hour passes. And Frank, in the character sheet area, you should see an officer that you can access. And then, yeah, so this officer, you pull up to the scene.
Speaker: or to the to the apartment or whatever. So if we're probably rolling with partners, aren't we? Is it just me by myself? It's just you by yourself. OK, I think Jayden is gone. I'm here. He said he would be back, but falling asleep. OK, well, unless you want to. I don't know if I can very well. OK, yeah, Jayden never wanted to be a cop before. You're by yourself.
Speaker: I'm sorry. I'll be I'll be the cop. I'll be obvious partner. I'll be the rookie. I want to be the rookie. OK, the paramedic. Yet. They don't know there's an emergency. You can be the rookie. And you know what? You can just use the same dice pool, but any time you roll, do it at a minus one. So I'm editing it to where you can also see this your weak human plus worse.
Speaker: a minus one unless that will put you at zero. All right. So nothing in the background things. No, just just the stats. He doesn't need any of that extra stuff. I just I literally just threw this together for for dice roll purposes. Don't worry, we're going to make this a descendant of vernus where we're going to have three billion NPCs following us around. For sure. If if he is entertaining, we'll return.
Speaker: I mean, I created a sheet for him. I just used the standard. Actually, he is weaker than the standard police officer. The police officer in the book is pretty OP, actually. Jeez. Well, this is just a regular beat cop. He's not like a sergeant. He is considered a gifted mortal.
Speaker: And he's not that great. So. OK, so Frank, you pull up to the to the to the apartment. Who is my rookie or house or? Yeah, Bill, I am. I mean, my name is. Officer John Jack Daniel Doe, most people just call me John Doe. Nice.
Speaker: All right. So, uh, we pull up on, uh, on scene, um, I step out, um, click on the, um, dispatch. This is, uh, Randall Bitting's, uh, unit number one three. Um, I'm pulling up on scene with, uh, my boots, uh, Joe's on. Frank, you're cutting in and out. Hold on. Let me turn off push the talk. Okay.
Speaker: I'd probably do it. I was pretty sure I was cutting out earlier too. Yeah. Can you hear me now? Yeah. Much better. Yeah, it's that push to talk.
Speaker: All right. So yeah, pull up on scene, click on my radio. I say dispatch. This is Randall Biddings. I'm on scene at 123 Upyours. I'm on scene with Boots. Fuck. I'm on scene with my Boots. John Doe. Oh, I'm dispatch.
Speaker: I don't I don't talk unless I need to help the escalator unless I'm told to talk That's confirmed dispatch. Just let us let us know if you are Whatever
Speaker: All right. So I click off the walkie. I go, all right, let's get in there. And so we walk up. I'm guessing it's a probably a story walk up. I live in like a townhome condo type thing where it's like a house cut in half. OK. OK. So I go up and I'm like.
Speaker: I'm like this level of rookie where he's like ready for like a drug ring take down. Like, you know, he's still getting fantasies about jumping through the air and firing two guns at the same time. Okay, so we step out, we start walking to the door. I'll look back. Boots, you get out of the car, right? Yeah, I'm right next to you.
Speaker: Right there with you, partner. Did you lock the door? I can go do that real fast. Did you lock the door of the shop? It's day one, Boots. That's day one stuff. I don't think I did, no. So you're still standing here. Go lock the door. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
Speaker: As an aside, I'm like, God, the fucking rookies are getting more and more stupid. Sir, I locked the door, sir. But wait, didn't you have the lock on the key fob? I have the spare key in my pocket like you're supposed to. You lock the shop, you keep it running all the time. Yes, sir. Like last week.
Speaker: I swear to God. Sorry, sir. I'm really excited. It's a wellness visit. Yeah, a wellness visit. Our guy's name is Max Cox. God, I bet his parents hated him growing up. They did. We didn't get much information, but he did apparently talk to his therapist, and that's about all we know. So what's procedure?
Speaker: We approach the apartment in question. Knock, if we don't get an answer, we knock again and try to announce our presence. Yeah, okay, let's do it. Yeah. Do you want to do the honors boots? Yes, sir.
Speaker: And he's just he's just gonna really he's just gonna like really like obnoxiously loudly This the police All right, so so max here's that side does he do anything He stops uh Doing the worm and then he's like oh and then just like kind of just chills now
Speaker: I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, give me a second, I just, I actually hit my desk pretty hard, I just, I dropped a couple things, just give me a second, I'm so sorry. Alright Boots, no answers, so we do it again. And I knock a little more like, not like a freaking doofus, just kind of a... Police, open up! My next door neighbor opens the door. We're here for a wellness check. Cocks, are you in there?
Speaker: Okay, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. The neighbor next door opens the window and he's like, what the hell's going on out there? Sir, go back in your, go back in your apartment, sir, this police business. Rooking draws his taser. I'm like Super Ruck over here. It's 8pm at night. I'm trying to sleep up here. Go back to bed, you fucking nerd. God.
Speaker: This is not indicative, this is not indicative of the Houston Police Department, just so we're clear. Yeah, the Houston Police Department's actually a pretty good guest. Yeah, we're just a bunch of idiots. What's your badge number? You want my badge number? Here's my badge number! And me as the rookie, I ripped my badge off and I hit him in the face with my badge. He's upstairs shouting out the window.
Speaker: Yeah, I thought you were going to like you want my badge number. It's one. It's one number and you hold up your middle finger. I do that. And Max, I hope you could hear all of this going on outside of your apartment. He's like, it's just like, Joe, don't be hearing from me and closes his window and goes back inside. I turn to the rookie. I'm like. Dude, seriously, I handled that. Didn't I handle that like a champ, huh?
Speaker: You handle that like you're like four. You went to name calling and throwing your badge, like, I'm writing you up on either ship. You have to know that, right? Yeah, OK. Go sit in the shop. Go sit in the shop. Can I have the key? No, wait. I walked back over to the car, and then I walked back. Can I please have the key?
Speaker: I pull out the father to handsome. You know, make this situation better is if the new guy was like 47 and Frank's character was like 27. It's completely different age groups, but like it's weird. OK.
Speaker: OK, I'm going back now. And the rookie sadly with his head hung walks back to the back to the cruiser. And don't turn the AC on. Well, luckily it's winter. Well, it's winter. It's January. It's January in Texas, sir. It's 68 degrees outside. Is it 68 degrees?
Speaker: I don't know. Do you guys ever do those services where like your, it's like cold outside, but you have the AC running in your truck because when you get back in your truck, it's warm and you're sweating now. Yeah. Yeah. All the time. Every day. Oh, oh wow. That was actually a, that was actually a lucky guess. It's 66 outside, outside my place right now.
Speaker: It's currently where I'm at. It's currently raining pretty hard. Sixty nine. Nice. Nice. All right. So Officer Randall turns back around and knocks on the door one more time, announces himself and then he kind of like walks along the front porch trying to see if he can see through the window. Does he see anything? The front porch window? No.
Speaker: All right. You see nothing. Make a, let's see. Give me, you are investigating, so give me an investigation plus wits. You're very good at this, actually. Three successes. Dang, I'm really good at that. Yeah, you do see definitely that the apartment, well, the condo, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Max, condo.
Speaker: Okay has been torn up So it looks it looks pretty ransacked torn up poorly Yeah Yeah, like like some man with so it's so it's soft with soft. I'm not working man hands Yeah, some baby hands came around throwing stuff around. It looks like a three -year -old had his heyday in here
Speaker: So I hop on the radio and I'm like, I'm like, dispatch. Um, it looks, uh, pretty shook it up in there. Uh, I'm gonna check around the side, um, check the other windows. And, uh, I kind of walked down off the porch and kind of waved to the rookie again to get out of the car. I wave back. That's affirmative. Just keep us, keep us up updated.
Speaker: I wave at the rookie again and point downwards to where I'm standing at. You slap your thigh. Here, boy. I look down at your shoes and I kind of do the gesture like me over there. Me over there. I just kind of knob ahead slowly.
Speaker: And I like clap my hands and jump out of the car and I run as fast as I can, like full -on sprint. And I get there and I get up against the wall right next to you and I got my hand on my side arm. All right, what's the plan? What's the plan, partner?
Speaker: I really hope when you're walking into my condo, you do the Cusco thing where you're like, on the side of the wall, not be noticed. The cronk side of the cronk. Yeah, the cronk thing, sorry. Yeah. Like jump forward roll into the room. Yeah. But fail the forward roll so you're just laying on your back.
Speaker: Um, anyways, so I'm like, okay, I looked in the front window. Um, it looks pretty disturbed. Uh, wait, did I check the front door? I don't think you like checked the front door. Um, I am going to write my report as if I did check the front door already. So, um, Yeah. So, um, I could just be walking around the house, um, try to get a look inside the windows. Um,
Speaker: And while I'm doing that, I'm explaining to boots. So, you know, the signs of disturbance front door was. Close, you know, we was locked by the way. It was locked. Okay. Yeah. So, front door was locked and closed. So we can't. 4th century, but there's a disturbance. So we're team. Keep an eye out so we can see it around the building. Looking in the windows, do we see anything?
Speaker: It's you get to the backyard you will Is there a gate into the backyard? Mmm. Yeah, but it's like one of those like metal gates where you can just easily like plop over it Is it open unlocked or is it yeah, it'd be open Okay, so we just like one of those mag lock things. I got it. We just open the gate walk And I'm like, all right, so clearly from the windows there's been disturbance could be you know, God knows what
Speaker: We'll walk up to the back door. We look into the back door. I'm guessing we're probably looking into the kitchen area. Yeah, so I mean, through the back door, you want to see anything, but. Through other windows. Do we see you any of the door in through any of the windows? Yeah, the upstairs window, you see a silhouette. But by the way, you get to the. By the way, you're only 64 degrees clear skies, 95 percent humidity.
Speaker: I looked up the weather for that day. Nice. It was very humid. Thank you. Very humid. Because my blinds are closed, but you see a silhouette at not an appropriate height. So the only way that I'm going to point ups.
Speaker: Sorry, go ahead. Did none of that come through? Bill was talking. Oh. So the only way that would work is I would like down a lamp or something that had a bulb, like a directional bulb or a non suffused bulb. You know, just because you said that my room has is like a tick tock room where there's light strips everywhere and it's like a frickin disco party in my room.
Speaker: Okay. That's why I was doing the worm. Okay. So we see that going upstairs. We walk around to the back door. We check the back door, see if it's locked. Yeah. Back door is locked, but there's a doggy door. Officer Benings. Yes, sir. Mr. Boots.
Speaker: there in that window there's a light in that and what does that shadow look like to you on the window we cannot assume anything unless we can actually see it there's a doggy door big enough for we're not calling it to it that is going through the doggy door that is an unlawful
Speaker: We check the front door is locked. We check the back door is locked. We can't see much of the windows except a little bit of the servants in the furniture and what have you. So at this point, what do we do? Now, actually, I do have a quick question for you, Hayden. On your back porch, would there be? To me, it's a glass sliding door. Yeah.
Speaker: Is there anything on your back porch? Yeah, there's like patio furniture and whatnot. I live behind a golf course. Okay. Okay. Okay.
Speaker: The reason I ask is that basically for this for boots, I am channeling as much Andy Dwyer from as I can. And so he's so as soon as you ask what procedure is, as soon as you ask for procedures, I turn and instantly my foot catches on one of your on one of your outside chairs and I fall through your glass door. I love it. Oh, yeah, procedures.
Speaker: So I just kind of like lower my head and I get Are you are you injured I get like No, and then I hit my shoulder rate I wait I hit my shoulder radio and I'm like entry into premises accidental entry onto premises dispatch Imagined as like you continue to fall you should accidentally start falling up the stairs as well
Speaker: So as of right now, following police procedure, I don't think we can still, like legally we're not allowed to enter. I mean, we have seen a small disturbance. We are there for a wellness check. And yes, the door is now open, but legally and being officers of the law, that's what we're supposed to follow. That depends. Do you, because officers are able to determine if they feel like
Speaker: they shouldn't like I can't remember the word but officers are able to Basically make a judgment call on whether or not they should enter What should I roll to see if I get a bad feeling from this house See if you get a bad feeling Probably insight
Speaker: plus wits. Insight plus wits. Yeah. There's so many insight plus wits. While you're rolling that, I am standing up now. Now that I'm inside, I now fully have my hand on my sidearm.
Speaker: I mean, things definitely seem weird. I wouldn't necessarily say you have a bad feeling, but things seem weird. You know, this house is messed up. Nobody has responded to any of what's happened. And there's a strange... All the neighbors are going nuts.
Speaker: Well, I mean, if it's still out there, it's still out there. I told him to go in. He now is in the investigation. I'm going to go and arrest him, sir. I'll be right back upstairs. He's not out. If my boots, John Doe, had not fallen through the window, this could have been easily rectified by just leaving. Now, if there were other people around
Speaker: And we were able to talk to him instead of throwing a badge at the face of a god in the second story of the house next door. This has just turned into a complete and utter shit show as far as police protocol is concerned. So I am going to just say that we're going to go ahead and search the house. And I say most of this to me. Yeah. So to search the house,
Speaker: You know, give me an investigation plus resolve role. And with a five successes, I mean, you find a body upstairs. Now, where did Max leave the note? Would they find that before finding Max? It'd be like actually a question in his hand.
Speaker: OK, OK. So yeah, yeah, you're searching around the house. And when you get upstairs and into that room, there's a pretty clear guy, you know, there. OK, OK. So we searched downstairs. We don't find anything. Is Boots just kind of like leaping from wall to wall and rolling across the ground? I do a single roll across the ground. And then I get up and I'm like, ow, there's stuff on the floor.
Speaker: And then at that point, I basically just follow you. So we clump upstairs. We go to the disco ball light room. And I'm like, we check, of course, the door if you don't see anything. And I'm like, OK, be prepared for anything, Boots. I want you to get out. OK, I've got my gun. Yeah, this looks a little odd. There we go.
Speaker: So now for a wilderness check, yeah And then I rush inside boots I'm guessing rushes inside after me oh Yeah, and as soon as I see body contact and I unload two shots right into max Okay, give me
Speaker: I don't really I don't really I've just been a dick. I was gonna say give me 5d I I like we should do it just because I feel like that's what the rookie would do give me 5d 10 I
Speaker: Hayden, I am so sorry. I was just trying to make up funny. God damn it. Give me a second. 5D10? Yeah. 5D10 roll. I'm so disappointed in myself. Oh my god, I can't believe I've done this.
Speaker: And you know, someone's losing. I rolled. It's not. I I can. It says it's rolling the dice, but nothing's coming up. There is. Oh, that's wait. That's fine. Oh, wait. And well, OK. Can I opt to take the can we can I opt to say that my gun does the lower number because it's my gun? Sure.
Speaker: That's still, let's see, it's a six to success. I don't remember. Oh, let's see. One, two, three, four. Yeah, six is a success. So two successes plus a pistol. That is a. Plus two damage. There's my role. OK, one, two, three successes plus
Speaker: 2. So vampires take half damage from bullets, so 5 damage because a pistol has a plus 2 damage value. So 5 divided by 2, you take 2 superficial damage. And superficial is just a slash, right? Just a slash, yeah. What does all slashes mean?
Speaker: If you take any more damage, you will start changing it into aggravated damage, which is an X. Okay. Well, no dealing damage to me, all right? I swear. If you deal damage to me, your role -play sessions will be damaging to you. If you are mortal, this would mean you now fall. But you're not mortal, but you have been shot
Speaker: Yeah, so that happens. As a vampire, you feel. You do feel something. It's not as bad. Now, I want you to give Hayden, give me a performance. I don't know. Performance what? Performance will be a good stat for pretending to be dead. Composure. Sure. Performance and composure.
Speaker: Plus, plus three because you are a corpse, technically. And I'm so sorry, I was only trying to make funny. OK, I'm going to say that's enough that you don't give any visible reaction to being shot. Other than what a body would do when dangling. So you're telling me his eyes don't shoot open, and he doesn't just look down at a hole in him and just go. Which is because because he chose composure,
Speaker: He manages to keep his cool. So that. So. Officer. Officer Randall. Like looks. At. Boot his boot, Mr. John Doe. Like takes his gun away.
Speaker: takes out the clip, ejects the round in the chamber, and hands the gun back. Then holsters his own weapon, and then walks over to him and pokes him. You poke Max? Yes. Well, yeah, he wobbles.
Speaker: The alien bursts out of my chest and attacks your face. Is there any blood coming out of the bullet holes? I did do a breath of life, so. So quite a bit of blood. I don't know. Where did you shoot me? Yeah, I was about to say I am for center of mass. I would say it was already dead.
Speaker: therefore his heart wouldn't have been. So it's the amount of blood that would come out if you shot a corpse. And you shot me in like the heart area, which is a significant amount of blood in the center mass. So some got a whole lot. Frank, did you want did you want to be a cop in your past life? But you ended up working pass control. I did take the entrance exam and I passed the entrance exam and I failed the background check so.
Speaker: OK. Um. Yeah, I mean trying to determine if what is your goal in looking at this blood and stuff? So if there's quite a bit of blood coming out, that means he might. Still have a possibility of being resuscitated. If so, yeah, but I'm currently. Regardless, I have to cut him down and follow procedure as in. Call in in a.
Speaker: a uh an ambulance and um oh i would say give them CPR the holes so actually Hayden you wouldn't even need blood of life at this point because you're now pretending to be dead the holes will be draining gravity draining essentially once you lay them down basically it's kind of done the heart's not beating so well i cut them down anyways um i i uh pull out my little
Speaker: my little medical kit, I plug the holes and then I begin CPR. You hear on the radio, Officer Binnings, I'm getting calls saying that people are hearing gunfire coming from near your location. So I get boots over there and I tell them to continue CPR, make sure he does the, you know, 10 pumps and then a breath into the mouth.
Speaker: Okay. Bill, give me a 1D10 for your medicine check. And while I am doing that, you will actually outlive your medicine. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Stayin' alive, stayin' alive. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Hey, you do it properly. Alright!
Speaker: Or does it, Max? Do you decide to wake up? You know what? Max, you will - This night is wild. You will hear me - My breath. You will actually - I'm so sorry. Please tell me I didn't kill you. Please tell me I didn't kill you. I'm so sorry. So sorry. You know what? Why not? Let's wake up.
Speaker: I go... Officer Baddix! Officer Baddix! He's alive! He's alive! I saved him! I saved him, Officer Baddix! So I had already walked away to respond to the call. I told him fast. But please tell me after you do that, you give me mouth to mouth just to make sure. Oh, actually, wait, wait. I'm doing the ha, ha, ha, ha, staying alive, and just as I come in for the kiss, I imagine that's when you wake up.
Speaker: And we're like, I wake up and I complete the kiss and then start screaming. Officer Banix, I kissed the zombie. He used tongue. He used tongue, it's so grossed. I walked away, responded to the radio. My rookie shot somebody who clearly appears to have
Speaker: tried to hang themselves. We need medical personnel and possibly a corner on site. And then while that's happening, I hear that screaming. I burst back into the room. Before you burst back into the room, I grab the cop by his shirt and go, you killed me, you bastard. And then I go. So, you know, because you don't have to beat your heart, any attempts to check if you're alive will show that you're dead.
Speaker: Did you wait for Officer Benning to see that though? Like, did he see that happen or does he just think the rookie is crazy? You know what, let's let Officer Benning see that just to throw another card into it. Alright, so you saw him say you killed me and then fall dead. Yeah.
Speaker: Um, so I, I run over, I check us for pulse and I don't feel a pulse. I'm like, rookie, keep, keep doing CPR. And then I, I'd rush away to the ambulance to grab the defibrillator. And while that's happening, I'm over the radio. I'm like, I need immediate assistance, immediate, uh, uh, uh, ambulance, um, on scene. Um, he was conscious for a moment, but he's, uh, not responding anymore.
Speaker: And they, they confirm the ambulance on the way. All right. I get the defibrillator. I run back inside. I'm guessing, uh, John does CVR. Yes. Cause that's all, that's all too. All right. I put the defibrillator, like I rip open the shirt, I put the defibrillator pads back on them. Um, and then I charge it and I'm like clear and I hit the button.
Speaker: Is the officer still like... Yeah, when you say clear, I lift my head up and I look at you and I say, what? Just as you hit the button. And his hands are still on my chest. Yeah, they are. Wait, what? This is not going well for you, Hayden. Because that has to deal at least some damage. Different lighters aren't good for you. They bring you back, but they're not good for you. No, they're not.
Speaker: So I would add three shots from a defibrillator will destroy your heart. Yeah, I would say you take one more level of damage. So that's one aggravated damage now. Motherfuckers, if you kill me. Yeah, if you're allowing this to continue. Here's the thing that you decided to be alive. Yeah, that they technically can't kill you doing this, but they can send you into what's called torpor, which is basically
Speaker: Not happy mode. It's like they can only kill you if they light you on fire or expose you to the sun. Wait, where did he get a defibrillator from? Or chop your head off. Officers and them carry one inside their vehicles. Interesting. It's not necessarily always part of every police officer's kit.
Speaker: But I would assume that being a trainer or a CO training officer, um, I probably carry a little more than necessary to perform my ring duty. So, um, anyway, so, you know, I yell clear, John Doe's hands are still on, on your chest whenever I hit shock. So John Doe flies back. So, so.
Speaker: Presumably Hayden doesn't wake up or Max doesn't wake up. And I don't know. Are you going to do this again? Because I'm saying you can now hear these sirens in the distance. I probably just keep doing CPR. Yeah, yeah. I would probably just leave the defibrillator in place.
Speaker: The ambulance shows up a few minutes later. The paramedics come running in. Actually, hold on. Rewind. So a defibrillator puts your heart, if it's already in a regular state, it puts it into a non -regular state. So I would literally have to go over and start working on the officer. So I probably wouldn't even worry about Max. OK. So you're now dealing with your rookie who
Speaker: might be charged with manslaughter for this. And the ambulance gets there. The paramedics come running in. They check. Well, first, they go to the person who was shot, check him. They can tell he's dead. He still has to be taken to the hospital because doctor has to do his thing and confirm death. But two of them start wheeling.
Speaker: Well, now they zip you into a body bag, I guess. Or now. So they're in the corner for that, don't they? Or the medical examiner? This is now a crime scene. We're not going to go through all this, because it's it's almost 1030. But, you know, this. Say that, Hayden, you are getting antsy because this is because it's getting dangerously close to sun sunrise before they finally zip you into the bag.
Speaker: and will you off to the morgue or wherever they take such bodies. And that is where the night is going to end because of the shenanigans that happened. You are arriving at the morgue much, much later than you thought you were, than you thought you were going. Well, well, yeah, a little bit crispier. But much later than you thought you were,
Speaker: I don't know exactly, granted your body is currently part of a crime scene, so they will not be cremating you anytime soon until the investigation is over. There will also be an autopsy. That will come. That will be something for next session, I guess. God fucking damn it. You just had to be alive, didn't you?
Speaker: You're the one that shot me and Frank is actually over here playing like boot licking cowboy over here. Yeah. So, um, no, no, no, no. Yes. I shot, I shot you, but I did say that the entire time I've been channeling Andy Dwyer and along with that, my direct supervisor, officer Beddings over here was like, get ready. And he was, and he had, he had his weapon out too. So I was like, you should have, y 'all should have known that I was going to come in guns. Literally.
Speaker: I said be ready for anything. Yeah, there's a lot of there's a lot of things included in anything that a gun can be. It makes me ready for. The other thing is, you know, Hayden's getting to the hospital, you know, just like he he gets inside, brought inside down to the morgue in time. For the the sun sleep to take over, basically. That's a good thing, morgues usually are usually don't have windows.
Speaker: Yeah, there's no windows. He doesn't have to worry about the sun or anything. But because he was in an active hospital with people wheeling him around a junk like that, he couldn't really do anything. He had to continue pretending to be dead unless you decide otherwise. But more or less, you are wheeled and put into one of those little drawers until the coroner gets there to do the autopsy. And you've been
Speaker: You're down in the room. I guess you're not in a drawer. That wouldn't put you on ice just yet. But you're down in that room, but the sun has come up. So we'll see what happens during the day. You'll have a chance to wake up. Thing is, the autopsy will probably be done during the next day.
Speaker: Yes, so he's gonna get that depends ought to be perfectly honest is How many how many bodies are they already working on? They may not get to you. They may not get to him that day It's an officer -involved shooting of a armed individual although corpse and the other part of all this is no
Speaker: Nobody knows that this just happened. So there's no sort of Jerry knows. Jerry knows that he was supposed to get picked up. Jerry doesn't know what happened specifically, I guess. Jerry, honestly, because because Jerry had planned on it, Jerry was already planning on meeting him at the at the nearest morgue that night. OK, so Jerry, you're at the morgue way. You know, you're I don't know how you're I guess you're just hiding.
Speaker: you know, like watching the place. And it's getting close, like sun rises in like an hour away. Where's Max? Like where's this ambulance bringing him in? Like, you know, you're starting to get concerned until finally, you know, it's getting dangerously close to where you need to head out. Otherwise you'll be caught in the sun. When you finally see the ambulance and they wheel out a body bag and you finally see them,
Speaker: them bring in what you can only assume is Max's body in just before you need to start running away to find shelter. The sun's not right now coming. It was getting to where it would be dangerous for you to stay any longer. But I would have time to make it back to my place. Yes, you would have time to make it home. Any longer and you wouldn't have had time.
Speaker: All right. Now, I can actually make this next part really quick because I only need I these are just regular people. So I imagine that it's just one person wheeling him in. There's I know there's there be a driver in the guy in the back, I guess. So, you know, there's there's. Would they both be bringing the body into the into the morgue? Probably not. OK.
Speaker: I'm pretty much I'm pretty much just going to do what I told you what I told you about earlier. I'm just going to do that. Forget and just, you know, walk past and they forget like the last 10, like 10, like the last couple of minutes to be like, oh, wait, what's going on? And then it's just your. Hey, sorry. Your character, is he by chance a Jehovah's Witness?
Speaker: No, obviously not. Yeah, I know I know about their religious beliefs. I talked with a lot of them. The autopsy thing. So Bill, so you make this person forget the last couple of minutes to honestly, just so I could walk past them. Oh, OK. You know, I imagine there's someone up front so I can just be like,
Speaker: Hey, don't I know you? You don't know anything for the last five minutes. OK. They are very confused, yes. And it works because that's how that power works. And I'm just going to walk up, be like, hmm. All right. Do you feel the ambulance?
Speaker: Uh, I went into, I went into the morgue. I was assuming I, I was assuming I immediately, I went in immediately following the drop off the body. Right. And whenever I'm alone, uh, whenever I am alone, I'm going to, uh, you know, knock on his box, be like,
Speaker: I'm going to be like, listen for a tap back. I tap back. Okay. Oh wait, you're in a bag. So it's kind of more like a, and then I hear that scratch back. So then I unzip the bag and I'm like, did you get shot?
Speaker: Yeah, awful officer titty wacker over there fucking shot me twice. What are you? Oh, the the EMS guys just left. I honestly I honestly just I just said hello. I just said hello to the front to the front desk person and walked past them. It's and the medical examiner and the rest of the and most of the rest of the staff aren't going to be here in here for another probably hour and 10 minutes or so. So we need to get the fuck out of here because the sun's coming up. Come on.
Speaker: Yep, just real quick. Find another shirt real quick. From what I saw, there was some boxes of personal effects in there. Sweet. Grab one and throw that bad boy on.
Speaker: I'm running. And real quick, real quick, before we leave, I'm going to be like, okay, one last thing before we leave, because we're going to need to make a little bit of confusion for these guys. And I'm sorry, and I'm sorry, I'm going to turn back to the, to the, you know, the, the wall of body refrigerators. And I'm just going to turn to all of them. And I'm gonna be like, I am so sorry to all of you for the disrespect I'm about to commit to some of your bodies. And I just start opening up the fridges.
Speaker: Just a couple of them not all of them just so just so I can let the coal air so that you know Some of them some of them are going to start when someone realizes that something's going on in here They're gonna need to be like oh, no, then we gotta get this done. What's what what happened last night? I don't know Don't you see the bodies are melting? All right You can probably just turn off the fridge unit. Well, he doesn't know how to do that. I
Speaker: Um, I don't, I, I know, I know that when I, I know that when you open the fridge and leave it open for an hour or two, all the milk and eggs boil. Yeah. Okay. Okay. And then you guys.
Speaker: of their max size tomb is going to be sleeping at Jerry's tonight or today. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And honestly, on the on the way out, whenever whenever we're walking past the front desk person, even as soon as they look at us, I'm just going to put my finger up on his lips and I'm going to go. And he's going to do the exact same thing I did on the way in. All right. Um.
Speaker: OK, so yeah, this will be quite the investigation in the future. But for now, everyone assumes you're dead. And yeah. Yeah. So that's fun. Max, you're dead. What did you get your name to? I was hoping that this would go a lot smoother.
Speaker: I might have to kill, I might have to kill myself again. Frank can't. And there was a rookie with him, I was like, oh yeah, I need to be as stupid and incompetent as possible. Yep. Well, this is still be alive at some point. This did this turned out to be, you know, maybe it wasn't the smooth thing you were hoping for, but it definitely turned out to be interesting, so.
Speaker: I mean, without the body, they can't really do any sort of investigation. Oh shit, that means that John Doe might still have his job on Monday. They can investigate what happened to the body. They can, but if they can't find the body, they can't go ahead and fire John Doe from the force if they don't have a body to show that he killed somebody.
Speaker: This is ratting myself out, but I'm pretty sure there's cameras everywhere. Yeah, I wasn't going to say anything, but... Don't worry, I know a guy. That's a problem for another night. Don't worry, I know a guy that's... Oh, and by the way, I guess I never mentioned this, but I 100 % walked in with a hoodie and a doctor's mask and sunglasses.
Speaker: OK, I'll let that. And he changed his clothes on the way out. I will say this, it kind of looks like that stereotypical, oh, I don't want to be noticed, so I'm kind of waiting out. Like, if you were at the park and you saw this person dressed like this, you'd be like, oh, yeah, that dude's up to something. Yeah. All right, so I guess that'll be the session for tonight then.
Speaker: Complete another shit show. Oh, yeah. Every session. Yeah, pretty much. So that was yet another yet another exciting episode of Houston After Dark. And I am your storyteller on New York signing out. I'm Hayden signing out. It's great playing with you guys.
Speaker: I'm Frank. You can find me on some sort of social media, if you look hard enough. I'm Bill. I was Jerry, and I was also the chief visionary officer, and I was also a rookie officer, John Jack Daniel Doe. And you can find me on Twitter.
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Speaker: licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 4 .0 License, creativecommons .com, licenses by 4 .0. The night is over and have a great day everyone. The camera fades back into view and we see the Houston PD precinct
Speaker: We zoom into a room inside where we see Officer Randall Binnings and an irate man currently in the process of yelling at the officer in front of him. God damn it, Binnings! What happened this morning? You've got the rookie shooting a corpse that may or may not be alive, and now that corpse is fleeing the hospital somehow. What the hell happened? I did not tell him to shoot that corpse. He...
Speaker: Well, you just said that no, I did not I did not command him in any way to shoot the dead body I do not know how it jumped up and ran out of the hospital
Speaker: Nor do I remember. We've got a real problem here, Binnings, and I don't really know what to do about it. And at that point, the door opens and a man looking somewhat like Tommy Lee Jones walks into the room and you see some sunglasses in his shirt pocket and he walks in and he's like,
Speaker: It's like, I'll take care of this captain. This case belongs to the feds now. The captain's like, what? And then the door shuts and shuts onto the camera and we hear, we kind of zoom out and hear the mumbling, you know, irate mumbling, but we don't know what's happening behind the scene anymore.
