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Session 13 - Ritual
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In this Season 1 Finale of Houston After Dark, our vampires investigate the witch who kidnapped the missing vampire and join in her mysterious ritual.
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Sensitive Topics 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!
Introduction to 'Houston After Dark' Finale
00:00:33
Speaker
Greetings mortals and welcome to part two of what might be the finale of this so-called season of Houston After Dark. I am your storyteller, Ron Bjork, and with me today is Bill.
00:00:55
Speaker
Hi, I'm Bill. I'm going to be playing Jerry Wilson, maybe also a scary dad biker named Spider. I forgot about that. We'll find out. No one forgets about Spider. But yeah, I'm lovable, I'm kind as long as I'm not too hangry, and I make people fall in love with me.
Character Introductions and Biker Gang Dynamics
00:01:18
Speaker
By the way, underneath NPCs, there's now a new tab called Biker Gang.
00:01:25
Speaker
and each of you character sheet for your bikers so in case they pop up again later I think I made it to where each of you can yeah I don't have pictures for any of them also today is Frank the leader of said bikers well now technically now that you're a vampire
00:01:54
Speaker
Wait, was I Junior? Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. According to a study, women are actually happier with less attractive men. Me, who girls don't even look at. Maybe I am handsome. Aww. That made me sad, Frank. Yay for dark memes on Facebook. Yeah, so I'm Frank. I'll be playing... What was my guy's name?
00:02:22
Speaker
Coal. Coalstone. No relation to the Creamery. Coalstone Creamery. Yeah, no relation. Then we have Jaden. Hey, I'm Jaden. Yeah, I'm Wesley Isaac and I'm Rich, so that's cool.
00:02:44
Speaker
and the biker that technically didn't actually play was Junior, who is canonically a mute. Which is perfect. He's gonna be a mime. And he's one of the most powerful of the NPCs. Awesome. God damn it. Yes. I thought that Killer the Chihuahua was the most powerful NPC I thought. Well Killer does have
00:03:11
Speaker
Of all the character sheets, it's the only one that I gave a picture to, so. Oh, it's perfect. And then we have Hayden. Hey, I'm playing Max and Fuzzy from the Biker gang. Yeah, Fuzzy, he's quite the character. Where's Assela's chaps to parties? As we would all. So we left off in the middle of the night last session. It was Friday, January 10th, 2020.
Plot Progression and Location Discussion
00:03:39
Speaker
partly cloudy and a full moon. So where we left off, Wesley had worked up a prototype for his quote unquote weight loss pills. However, after reading some rules, they may not work as well as you want, but your character doesn't know that.
00:04:08
Speaker
COAL. All fungi are edible. Them fungi are only edible once.
00:04:18
Speaker
Cole was meeting with his gang and they had all just left and then Jerry and Max are at the Raven Tower. Jerry mind-controlled their way into the after party, the special event. Although currently, as of when we left, nobody else was there except for them and the bartender.
00:04:46
Speaker
Um, so that's where we are right now. Uh, we will, um, what, let's, let's, let's find out what do Cole and Wesley, what are y'all
The Plan to Find 'The Prince'
00:05:00
Speaker
going to be doing? Cause the rest of your group, I believe they did text saying that they are at this place. Yeah. They're meeting. They said at 10 PM.
00:05:11
Speaker
The public bar, it closes to the public at 10pm for a special event at 11pm. So I'm gonna shoot a group text to everybody and be like, hey, I just realized something. The prince guy told us we only had to find him.
00:05:38
Speaker
They said nothing about like rescuing him or anything. And that's the group text I sent. I just text back K period. I read the text and I look over at Jerry, I'm like, he doesn't have a point. And you know, last time someone
00:06:06
Speaker
kind of in a different way disobeyed him, got his jaw punched off. Yeah. But also, you know, what if he, like, expects us to do it? Yeah. What if he has an expectation and just expects us to know? Also, we're we still haven't actually confirmed. The location yet.
00:06:35
Speaker
Ring, ring, ring, ring. Which one of those are you calling? Oh, okay. Hey, Jerry, it's Cole. So I'll just make sure I got my text message. This is when Max goes over to Jerry's gear and listens through the phone too.
00:06:57
Speaker
Because of the vague wording that the Prince gave us about the whole, you know, find him thing. If y'all won't, I can like head over to the museum or some other location that I'm sure we could probably find and let them know once we find the guy and see if we need more instructions afterwards. If y'all want to go that direction. At bare minimum, we need to at least confirm his location.
00:07:27
Speaker
I agreed. The prince did say you need to find him, or find these guys. What he did not say was we need to bring them to him. Yeah, but with how crazy he is, he might just expect us to bring him.
00:07:45
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, he's a, you know, century, he is centuries old vampire dude that would probably know the minutia of, you know, lawyering your way into and out of contracts or, you know, orders. So I would think he would more speak his meaning,
Communication Attempts and Concerns
00:08:07
Speaker
not speak his mind, if you know what I'm saying. Yeah.
00:08:12
Speaker
Yeah, I see where you're coming from with that, but at the same time, he did kind of declare himself come in, come out from a windowless, doorless room as... Do we by chance have, like, Jeeves's number? I think you did get Jeeves's contact information.
00:08:34
Speaker
Was that his actual does that what we actually called him? I don't know. This guy who got his jaw punched off, we did because he texted us. He was supposed to text us the information if we didn't. Oh, yeah. Right. That's right. So I'll be like, I'm going to be like, hey, I'm going to like 2000 this and three way of men. Hold on. At this time, I want to try to call Lori on a different line on my line. OK.
00:09:05
Speaker
So you're calling Jeebs and he's calling Laurie. I'll answer his Jeebs first and I don't remember what Jeebs sounded like. Hello! I don't remember him talking at all. No, he didn't talk. The Prince just got mad and punched his jaw off. No, I'm pretty sure he did talk. I don't remember what his accent was.
00:09:29
Speaker
I think Ron did a good job. All right. Hey, Jeeves. I think we said your name. Was that right? Jeeves? Yeah. Yes. My name is Jeeves and you're Cole. Yes. Uh, so, um, we're, we're just trying to verify some information. Oh, you know what? Hold on. Hold on. I need a one second and I do the clicky thing. I'd be like, all right, you're on with Jerry and Jerry.
00:09:57
Speaker
So, uh... Hi Jeeves, how are you today? Oh, I'm doing much better than the last time we spoke. Good! I'm happy to hear that it sounds like your jaw grew back.
Mysterious Event at Raven Tower
00:10:10
Speaker
I spoke with my eyes.
00:10:15
Speaker
So, hey, are you doing that now? I'll never see you in his eyes. Who knows? So, hey, Jeeves, we're trying just to verify some information. If I recall what the print says, we need to find the new bloods. He didn't say anything about bringing the new bloods in.
00:10:37
Speaker
Um, being as you've served, uh, the, the great dark prince of darkness guy, um, for a long time, do you by chance have any input? Should we actually try to bring him in or would just finding him be enough? Well, I can tell you this. The prince sometimes speaks in riddles and sometimes he speaks literally. It's a toss of the dice.
00:11:08
Speaker
Which way he goes. That's not very helpful. Can you ask him? I... No. Did you... Did you get his... Straight up, no. Do you have his number? Can we like, four-way him in? The prince does not use cellular phones. Or landlines. You're not giving us much to go on here. We're just gonna find him and then we'll just get back to you.
00:11:39
Speaker
The Prince did say to find them. I'm going off the assumption that he just wants to know where they're at. Not so much he wants them in front of them. We were in front of him and he didn't do shit or tell us shit. He did punch my jaw off because they weren't at the meeting.
00:12:05
Speaker
Yes, but then all I did was tell us to find them. True. That was the extent, so... Well, you haven't been any help. Thanks, Jeeves. Click. Jesus, right? Oh, Jesus helping the best he can. Well, he was plenty of help. He told us that he got his jaw punched off because they weren't there, which means he probably wants to see them. Yeah.
00:12:33
Speaker
I still feel like we should just have to find him, and that's it. And that's where we may be going off here. Laurie answers the phone. Howdy, Han. Two calls in one night, huh? I know. I am so needy. But when it comes to you, it doesn't matter, right? So I was just wondering. I'm in a very sticky situation because I'm about to be in
The Witch's Arrival and Speculations
00:13:00
Speaker
a room full of witches.
00:13:03
Speaker
And they need to know if communications between vampires and witches are good or bad at the moment. Well, you asked me about witches last time, you called. Yeah. We don't talk much. I've never met a witch myself, but they tend to keep to themselves. Relations aren't bad. They're more non-existent.
00:13:34
Speaker
Maybe certain vampires might have a good or bad relationship with them, but as a whole, there's not really any sort of established relationship between our two kinds.
00:14:00
Speaker
awesome yeah um well hopefully i don't get murked in a room full of witches that'll be fun i sure hope not all right well you have a good one you too and then yeah yeah i look over at jerry i'm like
00:14:21
Speaker
So are we staying? Are we going? My vote, I mean, the others are probably not going to be coming. My votes to stay here. So at about this time, the first guest arrives and has an invitation and then just kind of goes and sits at the bar, like not next to you, but, you know, just, you know, like a few chairs down, like he's not like trying to avoid you or join you.
00:14:51
Speaker
And orders orders a drink What is the order fucking warlocks a warlocks whiskey Wait is he a he yes, it's a he
00:15:09
Speaker
Yeah, so he comes in. He's not doing anything. He does kind of eye you guys a little bit. But I mean, he doesn't really say anything. Just kind of when his drink comes, he does the raise his drink to you and then starts sipping at his drink, waiting around. It's maybe only like 10, 10. It's not that far after the place is closed. But he did have an invitation.
Ritual Intentions Revealed
00:15:36
Speaker
Cole, if you attempt to join them at the bar, it's a 20-minute drive. Same for Wesley because that's just what I've decided. Actually, Wesley is probably closer considering where this place is in real life and where you said your business was. Where is the place in real life? It's the Raven Tower. It's a bar in Houston.
00:16:05
Speaker
It's off of I-45, I think. Yeah, but, I mean, I don't know where Cole is, so... I mean, it'd probably take you also... It's 10 o'clock and... That's true. Yeah. Oh yeah, you... Both of you have the ability to join them before 11 o'clock when whatever this event is is supposed to happen, if you so choose. Um...
00:16:36
Speaker
I want to bring my product and leave. Okay. I think we said you had three pills. Okay. Yeah. That'll do. Three test pills. So can I text spike and ask him to gather a couple of guys and, and, and just come and hang out, out of sight near the bar.
00:17:05
Speaker
Yes, you can text him. I do that. He responds after a few minutes and says, Junior will be there, but I'll have to get a couple of the other guys because nobody else is ready to deal with this yet.
00:17:26
Speaker
Yeah, that's fine. It just bring in some of the other, you know, non-vampire initiated guys. So Junior is on his way, he gets a call and he just kind of answers and runs. Junior is in Spike's sidecar, so... Oh, nice. Yeah. Canonically, yes, that's exactly what happened. Okay. Perfect. I believe. Let me...
00:17:55
Speaker
I wrote the very most basic of notes. Junior is in Spike's sidecar and the sidecar has a gun mounted on the bottom of it that Junior can fire. It only fires forward. They head to the bar and they'll be in the general area. They don't have invitations.
Ritual Disruption and Chaos
00:18:22
Speaker
Jerry and Max wouldn't know who they are to get them in anyway, so. Can Junior actually have a sidekick power that he just like talks to people in his head? No, he's, he, he did. Damn it. Because of Cole's blood, he did gain the power of obfuscate. And so when he's not moving, he can turn invisible. Oh wow. Um.
00:18:48
Speaker
Yeah, Junior is stacked on his skills. I gave, like, that there's templates that I can build people off of, and Junior got it. He's... I mean, I won't reveal his secrets, but Jayden, since you play him, you can... Did I write a history for him? I didn't write a history for him, but you can, like, look at his... If you go to the Chronicle tab,
00:19:14
Speaker
You can see some things that give hints at his backstories. Oh, wow. Nice. Interesting. He speaks like... Negative four to verbal communication roles. Geez. He speaks five languages, but doesn't speak out loud, so... So, what's on his way with the pills?
00:19:42
Speaker
Yeah, Max. I guess Max will go ahead and tell Jerry that he's going to go up on top of the tower and go on part of the landing where he can oversee the street and the parking lot, both the parking lots. Nice. You're going to go do a Batman thing. He's going to brood over the city.
00:20:07
Speaker
He's going to do a Batman thing, or is he going to do a... He's trying to look casual, so he's probably going to get a drink, too. A Lawrence thing. You don't have the arm, cape, sleeves for that. So you get a drink and you head up. Obviously, no one's up there right now, really. The guy...
00:20:33
Speaker
Another guy another person shows up a woman shows up And she also has an invitation By the time everyone is Cole also coming to the bar Yeah after I set out that tech well should I go to the bar or should I go to see the prince and let him know we found the person and
00:21:01
Speaker
Well, you could go, yeah, I mean, you could go there to the last place you saw the prince. You guys were there for Elysium, a special event, so... I text Jeeves and ask him where to tell, who, what, where, why, how... To meet the prince?
00:21:31
Speaker
Yeah. Um, he says, uh, he texts back and says, um, normally gaining an audience with the Prince, um, uh, is something done at Elysium. Uh, however, um, let me, let me glance at something on your character sheets. Cool stone. However, for, for a favor, I could put you in touch with him tonight.
00:22:03
Speaker
Why would I grant you a favor? You're just supposed to do your job. My job is to be the prince's gatekeeper. And now it's a major favor. You know what? Fuck it. You can go suck a dick. And hang up again. While you are texting.
00:22:34
Speaker
I go to the bar. He's a prince. You can't just go meet him whenever you want. We were tasked by the prince. I'm going to make sure this fucking Jeeves gets his ass fucking slammed for this shit. But the prince is still crazy. Oh, yeah. I mean, I don't think I don't think the prince just because the king of a kingdom
00:23:01
Speaker
tells some mercenaries to go capture some dudes doesn't mean he wants to see those mercenaries faces in person yeah we're not important to the prince he told us to go and find him you know what we don't even actually have to tell the prince we found him
00:23:24
Speaker
Cause he did say, go and find him. He didn't say, go and find him and tell me. So we could just, we could just go find him and be like, okay, we found him and then go about our lives. Like, I mean, maybe he just wants you to find him for the experience. You know, he didn't. Yeah. We didn't ask too many questions to the Prince. So that's kind of our fault, but I mean, he was a crazy man. So.
00:23:51
Speaker
We didn't really want to talk to him in the first place But yeah, I'm watching everyone walking in while casually sipping a drink by the time Cole and Wesley get there There is a total of three people there now two men one woman one of them goes and hangs out up on the tower he does get a drink first and then he goes up and hangs out on the tower and He starts
00:24:18
Speaker
After a little while, he starts setting up candles and stuff. He's setting up candles and then eventually he'll turn off the lights that are up there and it'll only be the candlelight. But that won't happen until...
00:24:39
Speaker
So he's not like making them in a circle. He's just lighting my casual candles. Well, right now he's lighting candles along the railing to the tower thing. That's what he's currently doing. Candles that he brought. Are they scented candles? Maybe.
Negotiations and Witch's Vision
00:25:02
Speaker
They're all like mix and match. I don't know. Yeah, they're just candles.
00:25:08
Speaker
Like it looks like it went to Walmart and bought like a bunch of candles. There's like one peppermint flavored for some reason. Yeah, it's probably like a assortment of whatever Walmart had. Do we see this or is it like a different floor? Well, Max sees it himself because he's up there. And by this net, so you and Cole are gonna arrive about the same time. The thing is, you guys don't have invitations.
00:25:37
Speaker
When I see their cars pull up, I'm like, well, well, well. And I send them a text and I say, hey, just for now, can you guys stay in the parking lot? If things go bad, we probably don't need to announce our presents and have all of us trapped in one room.
00:25:57
Speaker
I send him a text back and I go, I am the knight. And I get out of my beat up old car and I go like stay in the shadows. Yeah, I will say there's not like really, I mean, there's probably. There's some security guard of some sorts, but it's not like it's a fortress we're at. It's a pretty open layout.
00:26:25
Speaker
There's an apartment complex right next to there. But there's trees in front, but that's for the building. I'm looking at it on the map right now. I guess I should pull up the map if we get tactical. Do we have cornhole? Yeah, so the part that I am in is in the very back of the place.
00:26:49
Speaker
Like the back left hand corner. Yeah. Yeah, and so like I'm high up so I can see everything but like I'm decently far away from Everything.
Next Steps and Balancing Decisions
00:26:58
Speaker
Yeah And I tell Frank if you're really gonna be hiding now, there's a tree on a by me but Down low that's by a taco truck. I Text him and I say is there cornhole? I
00:27:13
Speaker
Can I roll for cornhole? Yes. Okay, what do I roll for cornhole? I can't say that, what the... I don't know, give me a d10.
00:27:29
Speaker
Mmm, that's a low roll. Um, I guess there's not cornhole. Dang. How dare they? For non Texan listeners. Wait, wait, let me, let me check. Let me, let me check something. Um, in the photos, I think there might actually be cornhole in the photos. Yeah, I thought there was though. That's why I asked.
00:27:52
Speaker
There is cornhole. OK, so it's there. Yes, it's actually Raven Tower. It has their logo on it. Yeah. Yeah. See, I thought that was. All right. So is can I get to it and just play cornhole like this? Do you? Where is it? That's my question. It's so the way it was set up when I was there on the side where it says like where there's like a tree
00:28:20
Speaker
and says White Oak Events LLC. That's like an area where they have like, when we were there, it was like a farmer's market. Yeah, the booths you see, you know, in the pictures. That's where that's all held. So I would imagine on normal nights when there's not something like that going on, that's where that kind of stuff would be. Off over to the side. The building, the bar,
00:28:50
Speaker
The front, like, square of the building is actually just a covered, like, which area.
Cliffhanger Ending
00:28:58
Speaker
Yeah. And then the backside section is the actual inside part with the restrooms and the bar thing. Can I get to the back patio slash deck area? I think you would need to pass. Give me a stealth check. Stealth plus dexterity.
00:29:21
Speaker
Am I just sore and leap onto the roof? You can't do you have soaring leap? Yeah, then yes. I'll do that still. You might announce our presence, and that's like kind of our whole thing of there is someone up here with me. Is there any areas that are higher up above y'all? Above me at the highest area, that's for sure. Still plus what dexterity? Did anything happen?
00:29:49
Speaker
I didn't hear a noise. I didn't. Is there anything you knew about modifiers? I did it again. Anything happen that time? Move your character sheet. You might be blocking off the little pop-up that says for modifiers. Yeah, something that Bill and I talked about, we're probably not trying to show any vampire ability because we don't want to piss them off and or antagonize anything. But I wouldn't just go jumping up there and be like... What am I saying? Anything?
00:30:20
Speaker
No, I just tried to roll and it didn't work either. Uh-oh. I know, but if we start showing up like vampires or showing off our abilities and they're planning on sacrificing vampire tonight, might not go too well. Yeah. Yeah. I'm refreshing to see if, uh, maybe we're all twenties being stupid tonight. No, I can't do it. Do what you want. You can't roll anything.
00:30:48
Speaker
Maybe I'll call someone to buy the bar so we can just walk Well real life you don't you can't just buy bars out of nowhere like it didn't require some negotiations and Huh, I guess you've got five dice so 5d 10 let's see if just doing it this way works That worked
00:31:13
Speaker
I guess that's Jaden, if Wesley wanted to go, there is behind the parking lot. There is this house up on a hill. You could go be chilling up on the on the ridge. There's a river with a ridge. You could just go be chilling up there if you really wanted to be up high. Or there's this building right next to it that looks like the stage. Yeah, that's the stage. Yeah, there is a river with some kind of ridge thing.
00:31:43
Speaker
Or you could go to the white music hall and be chilling up on there. Yeah, I was there for one of my concerts. Oh really? So Frank, I just rolled 5d, 10, and you got three successes. Actually, that's a crit. So that counts as five successes. Sweet. Why the dice aren't rolling though, that's weird.
00:32:11
Speaker
So what do you roll for? Oh, sneak. Yeah. So yeah, you play the stealthiest game of cornhole. I mean, you can also like turn invisible and crap. So anytime someone looks over at you, you like just, I mean, you don't really have to move. You don't have to move much to play cornhole. Yeah.
00:32:33
Speaker
Well, I'm over there playing cornhole like super stealthily. Okay. Is he stealthy like no one can see him or is he like so like just blended and he looks normal that that is his stealth as he looks like he belongs. I did dexterity. Oh, okay. I would think you I guess I guess I could roll charisma or whatever. And roll to look like I belong there. That would be performance plus charisma.
00:33:02
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. Which I don't know if they're going to work, but... It's now about 10.30. There are five additional people, four guys and one girl. But you don't see anyone matching the description of the witch yet. But the guy upstairs up on the tower is now starting to like...
00:33:31
Speaker
In chalk, draw out a pentagram. Can I roll a cult? Yes. So basically just understand what's going on. Plus intelligence. Intelligence? Yeah. Any modifiers? Only if you have an applicable specialty. Which I doubt you do, but... Max.
00:34:02
Speaker
I'm trying to think. Well, your specialties are theology, negotiation, kindred, genetics, victims. And none of those are occult based. So I mean, other than in theology, pentagrams are often associated with, you know, satanic stuff and whatnot, like, but that's obvious.
00:34:30
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I guess in theology, I could just decipher what type of pentagram areas because there are different types of pentagrams. That is true. I wouldn't know the answer to that, but you can roll for it. All right. Should I add a modifier or roll that separately? Are you going to do theology? Your dice pool in a cult plus intelligence would be a bit bigger because your specialties add one extra dice. So OK. Yeah, I'll just roll. So no modifiers. Yeah.
00:35:01
Speaker
And it doesn't look like it's going to work. Um, I think we're just going to have to manually roll tonight, apparently. Cause roll 20 is being weird. Just type in slash R and then for this it's 60 10 for you.
00:35:22
Speaker
Yeah. It is six and above our successes. So one, two, three, four successes. You recognize this as a pentagram frequently used in
00:35:43
Speaker
Well, obviously on witchcraft, it might be a summoning circle or something like that. Yeah, this is possibly a summoning circle. Or let me think of that. This may also be that some of the accents he's putting on the pentagram at certain points at
00:36:14
Speaker
How many people did I say there? At five points around it and in the center may also be a pentagram designed to link the people in it together. As time goes on, it's just drawing that out and at, where'd my notes go? At 10 45, I'm pretty sure. At 10 45,
00:36:42
Speaker
car drives up and a woman that Looks familiar. Well, actually y'all may have seen her on with cold doing his Facebook stuff but a woman matching the description of the witch that That Cassandra told y'all about shows up Just to refresh y'all
00:37:11
Speaker
Lauren McDonald. Show to players. She's wearing red hair. Wearing red hair. Has red hair!
00:37:24
Speaker
She's wearing a very stereotypical all black dress right now. She has a large suitcase with wheels that she's rolling behind her. And when she arrives, the others get up and go to help her. She does pause and say something to them looking in the direction of Jerry.
00:37:53
Speaker
And, you know, one guy shrugs and stuff and, and, uh, she, she just, uh, she says some other stuff and then they take the suitcase from her and start dragging it up the stairs. It seems heavy. How large is this suitcase? It's one big enough to hide a body. Yes. One of those large kinds. Did I notice? Uh, yeah, I guess you should give a, do a perception to see if you noticed, um, that would be,
00:38:21
Speaker
Awareness plus... wits. But the buttons don't work, so you'll just have to type out however many dice that is. Two successes, do I notice? Do you notice? Yeah, you notice her arrive and stuff. Maybe you miss some of the subtleties of them noticing Jerry and all that. But you see her arrive. She's got a suitcase. She talks to him for a minute.
00:38:51
Speaker
guys drugs and then they start taking the suitcase up and then bill you are going to roll right yeah how many do I roll oh do awareness is two wits is two so for d10 got it that is two successes
00:39:15
Speaker
So that's kind of enough to notice. You notice her arrival. You don't notice the fact that she noticed you. Where exactly is Wesley? Huh? Where is Wesley? I'm there. I'm just outside in the car right now. Oh, you're just chilling in the car. I think I might jump on top of the music hall because it seems to be a little bit higher up in the tower and it's like kind of across the street.
00:39:45
Speaker
That's fine. Yeah, you can do that. Yeah. And you, you would easily notice, you know, her car pulling up and getting out and stuff. Lauren heads over to the bar where Jerry is and stops and stops next to you and says, excuse me, this is a private event.
00:40:13
Speaker
I don't even turn to her. I just keep sipping on my drink. She looks over at the bartender and it's like, what's with this guy? And she, the bartender says, he said he was with y'all. He seemed legit. It's like, I've never seen this person in my life. Now I turn to her.
00:40:39
Speaker
As soon as I turn, I am going to be using Mesmerize. Oh, I need to fix up Mesmerize real quick. Because you're trying to Mesmerize the supernatural. You're literally about to die, bro. Maybe. Okay, you can issue complex commands to a victim as long as they have the subject's gaze,
00:41:07
Speaker
Okay, cost is one rouse check, so roll a d10 to see if you get hungry. Actually, see if the dice button works to roll it. I did a thing that might have done something. You do get hungrier. What are you at? Four. So you're pretty hungry.
00:41:35
Speaker
What do you say? I say to her, you're going to tell everyone that I can be here. Okay, hold on, let me tell. So now you're gonna need to roll. You've got two dominate powers, so it's gonna be, you need to roll manipulation plus two.
00:42:05
Speaker
And then she needs to roll Intelligence plus Resolve. So for you, it's Manipulation plus two for your two points and dominate. Got it. Manipulation. Okay, I don't think it's... No, we're gonna go with none for that, but plus two. This should be the two, yeah. So you say that to her.
00:42:36
Speaker
And what did you say exactly again? You're going to tell everyone that I'm supposed to be here. She pauses for a moment and then looks over at the bartender and says, oh, sorry, I guess he's supposed to be here. And then let's like, I'm going to let her, what, did I accidentally close her sheet?
00:43:06
Speaker
Does she have any, like, beads or anything with her? Beads? Yeah, that, like, keep them from being able to compel. Yeah, I mean, you don't know. You're on the truth. She's wearing jewelry. Uh... And let me see, she says, um... Oh yeah, yeah, he's... That's right, he is supposed to be here. Um, anyone who wants to, uh...
00:43:34
Speaker
do some kind of an insight check can. That's her difficulty. Insight plus. It'd be insight plus wits. I guess anyone that would be you because you're the only one in front of her. Yeah, she seems compelled. She and she turns
00:44:01
Speaker
and says, well, the ritual will be starting soon in just a few minutes. And she's speaking to everyone in the room now. So go ahead and come on up and take your places. And one guy moves to go up. And let me see if there's any describing factors of this guy real quick. Nothing special.
00:44:33
Speaker
She stops one guy and whispers something to him. He sits back down and hands her a dagger, which she then turns to you and says, you'll need this. And then hands you this dagger and then starts heading upstairs. Me? Yes. And she said for everybody to come with her, except for the guy that she pushed back down. All right.
00:45:02
Speaker
I follow. Alright, she goes upstairs. Max, are you still on the roof being Batman? Yeah. Hayden, do you want to be seen? Do you need to make a stealth or something? I don't remember. Do you have any of those powers? I have. I am the night. I am Batman. Oh, you've got the silence one.
00:45:32
Speaker
I mean, you can make a stealth roll to just kind of be out of sight if that's what you want. I don't know if you're trying to stay out of sight because everybody's heading upstairs now. Can I also head upstairs? Including Jerry, you can. Do I need to use my magic powers? At the moment, nobody's paying attention to you because she was the first one to head up. Besides the guy who was already up there. And everyone else is just going.
00:46:02
Speaker
I merged in with the crowd at the back-ish. Like near almost the very end. Right. I guess I'll try to roll. Okay. Stealth plus dexterity. One, six, six. Success, all right. Let's go ahead and see if she notices you or not. Can I also try to roll? Wait. I was going to roll to look like I tried to belong there.
00:46:32
Speaker
Uh, performance plus charisma. Yeah. It's plus charisma. Any Mars hours for this, probably not. Okay. Um, so when she gets to the top of the stairs, she definitely does a double take when she sees you and then, um, uh, but then moves to the center of the pentagram where
00:47:03
Speaker
the suitcase is waiting. One of the other guys comes up or two of the guys go and flip open the suitcase and a body falls out with a wooden stake protruding from his chest. As vampires, if your sires told you, which I think they all probably would have told you about stakes, that does not kill you, it simply paralyzes you.
00:47:31
Speaker
Um, uh, she, she, she positions the body in the center of the circle and stands next to it and says, all right, everybody take your place. I see we've got, and I guess if you're, I guess with her role, Frank, are you trying, you just merged with the crowd. Now she's looking in your direction. Is she, are you going to attempt anything? Um, can I cloak of shadows? As soon as you stop moving.
00:48:02
Speaker
I mean, as soon as we got out the stairs, let's get moving. Yeah. Yeah. So she, she says, um, uh, I see we've got some new people here. Uh, and, um, let me, I don't, she, she does like, she says new people, her eyes darts towards, um, towards Jerry for a moment. And then over to max and says, uh,
00:48:32
Speaker
Gary, why don't you go check the stairs? She says, I don't remember your name. She points at you, Max. I just say, what did Cole roll? What did Cole roll? Oh, technology for summer.
00:49:03
Speaker
Are you trying to use your phone? Huh? Oh, yeah, sorry. I was thinking out loud in my head. Well, you're fine. It doesn't work with that role. I'm trying to get the camera at like... Yeah, it definitely doesn't work. That's a zero success. So your phone won't work for this scene.
00:49:29
Speaker
hit okay yeah um okay so i guess i'm gonna roll to see what she actually meant by what she said like does she know like jerry is like is a vampire because she isn't commanded wits plus insight can i get like five minutes to go grab some watermelon yeah okay
00:50:02
Speaker
Wits plus Insight? Sorry, Insight plus Wits is the order you have to do it in. Because the sheet's weird. Any modifiers, no? No. Two successes. Two successes, she... What were her previous roles?
00:50:32
Speaker
You got two successes. Okay, so with three, she seems, as far as you can tell, she seems to think you belong. She just seems to not remember your name. Can I read the room? Everyone else, except of course, Jerry, who doesn't know what's going on. Everyone else is just following her lead.
00:50:58
Speaker
but yeah so i guess my character really does believe her i mean yeah i mean do you think that she is um more or less like i mean doesn't seem
00:51:12
Speaker
suspicious of you necessarily i guess is what you would think um obviously you know that you don't belong and you probably think it's weird that she thinks you belong yeah that's that's what i was trying to justify was why do i think that she thinks i belong if she's never seen me before yeah and everyone else is following her but maybe your character also knows about you know he knows about jerry so maybe he just that maybe that's what you would think like
00:51:43
Speaker
Your thought process would say, oh, maybe Jerry did something, which Jerry thinks he did something. So of course, since I don't hide their roles, you know that she got more, she resisted him. So Lauren asks Max who he is. I said, my name is Max.
00:52:10
Speaker
uh... she's so okay are you with uh... uh... she looks at jerry are you with him i think i come i come up and i i i guess i go to shake her hand i go to shake her hand and i say behind her and i say this is this is max he's with me he's a new initiative okay do you still go and check her hand she says all right well uh...
00:52:37
Speaker
Would you like to participate? And she's asking you, Max. I notice him with a knife. And I look at the knife because this will surprise me because now I see him. And I see if I can see any recognition on her face or anything.
00:53:05
Speaker
like she notices me noticing the knife and she gives off like a yes. No, she I don't think she would necessarily react to that. I mean, he's not hiding the knife, so. She says if you're if you're not going to participate, I am going to have to ask you to at least go a few steps down the stairs. Stay out of the or or stay out of the pentagram.
00:53:35
Speaker
But you're welcome to join in. I'm happy to let new Initiates join in. Anyone else who wants to make Insights can, because she's got this three success subterfuge. Max already failed his, but anyone else can make a Insight plus wits roll. Do we all come with Vamp hearing just casually? No, you don't. Dang it. Yeah, you're the only one not close right now. Cool.
00:54:04
Speaker
And Jerry, all of you think she's legit going along with all this. And because Jerry's there, y'all probably also just assume that she's been mind controlled by him, so. This is why we shouldn't have shown vampire abilities. You can't divide us in the ass. You'll know. She motions to one of the woman and says, Levon,
00:54:33
Speaker
Give Max here your dagger. He's going to participate. And LaVon comes over and offers you a dagger. I guess in the words of Bill Yolo. All right. So she says, all right, now, everybody, take your places. And she guides Jerry and Max to their points on the pentagram. OK, yeah, go ahead.
00:55:00
Speaker
Okay. Um, and then, uh, she is, she goes over to, um, the vampire, uh, and, uh, stands next to him, holds up her dagger and says, all right, with me. Uh, and then she, you know, the three remaining people in her group, um, lift their daggers in unison with her and she waits for you guys to do it. If you do it.
00:55:31
Speaker
I lift up my dagger. And then she draws her dagger across her palm. And so do the other three. I activate my blood magic, my acid blood. Okay. I do the same. I'm curious where y'all are destroying the daggers.
00:55:59
Speaker
No, I'm not trying to, I'm not trying to destroy the dagger or anything. I'm just trying to have ass blood on my hand. Yeah. Oh, okay. But you do cut your hands, but you don't melt, you don't melt the daggers. Right. Okay. All right. So everyone cuts their hands and she says, all right, now just stay there for a bit. Um, she turns back to the, to the body, um, and begins to chant,
00:56:24
Speaker
In an ancient language, lorem ipsum dolorsi amet. Consecutor. Yeah, anyway, weird stuff. I take my hand, the bleeding one. Go ahead. And when did it stop bleeding immediately? Only if he kills it. You have to will it to heal. Yeah. Yeah, it's not the originals.
00:56:54
Speaker
I know. I flick my hand to my blood in the face of the person next to me. Okay. How close am I am to the body of a vampire? You guys are all equal distance. Maybe, I don't know how big this tower actually is, but I'd say like,
00:57:17
Speaker
the center of the circle is 10 feet from each of you, from everybody. Y'all are popping off so early, we have to get information. Oh, don't worry, this is just the nameless guy. Um, I'm gonna- Um, do I have the speed ability? Is that what- Have, I know you-
00:57:39
Speaker
Protean is strength, or no. Protean is your eye stuff. You have celerity, but you have rapid reflexes. Does that mean I can try to pull a steak out of a vampire? You can't move super fast. You can react to things super fast. So you wouldn't be able to cross the distance any faster than normal. You can blink.
00:58:07
Speaker
Like, if someone throws something... That blink is a specific power. He doesn't have blink yet. He has rapid reflexes. No, I'm just... I admit, he could literally blink. Like, if he can't move super fast, he can just react super fast. Like, about all he can do is blink. So he can perceive, you know, kind of like... When speedsters see stuff coming at them... Bullet time. He can see in bullet time, but his actual speed is not bullet time, but, you know...
00:58:36
Speaker
So you can react to things and react faster than a normal person will be able to react, thus allowing you to possibly dodge bullets, but you're not fast enough to just easily dodge bullets. You're able to react to them before a person would be able to. This is all going to shit.
00:59:00
Speaker
yeah it has but you know what yolo why why okay so you flick i'm not going to lie i'm not going to lie i actually forgot the plan you i literally said in the beginning um yeah i literally be secretive can i can i try to retcon a little bit before i see him trying to flick i can like react to it
00:59:24
Speaker
Can you cloud her memory extremely quickly? Okay, I'm going to react to him trying to flick. Okay. And I guess, how far away am I from Bill? Am I right next to Bill? I'll say y'all are in the spots next to each other. Yeah. I grab his hands super fast. So you're at the points of the pentagram, basically. We're like feet away. Yeah. Like motion.
00:59:53
Speaker
Yeah, I motion him to quit that shit. I do like a little a little double take with my eyes. I don't move my head. I just kind of. And I just kind of, you know, basic acknowledgement, like, OK. And then as she's chanting light, well, more like mist becomes starts flowing from each of your cut hands, you know, all five of you into
01:00:22
Speaker
and from hers into the, well no, it flows into her hand. She does flinch when the acid blood comes her way, but she continues chanting. Each of you take one point of damage. What is it? Like the X? The X, yes. One point of real damage, yeah.
01:00:54
Speaker
as do the humans who are currently participating. So one damaged each of them. And I mean, it's uncomfortable, but it doesn't seem life threatening. And the people in the middle seem fine. The glow goes to her hand, and she
01:01:24
Speaker
She continues chanting and puts her hand in the air above the paralyzed vampire whose eyes are open, staring up, but he's unable to even move his eyes. And the mist or whatever it is begins building in her hand as she continues to chant for a while. And assuming you guys stay there, eventually,
01:01:53
Speaker
a little bit more life, a little bit more health damage will happen as her chanting begins to crescendo. Quick question. Okay, go. Is the pentagram a major part of the ritual that she's performing? She's got them aligned around it, but you don't know.
01:02:21
Speaker
Nevermind. Okay. I wanted to like walk. I wanted to like slowly walk up and like mess it up. You're the chalk lines. Um, and you know, if, if nobody's doing anything, one more point of health comes from you. And assuming you guys are letting this happen, she, she does seem to be ramping it up. Like, like, uh, her chanting, you know, y'all don't speak whatever language she's speaking from, which is,
01:02:49
Speaker
the language of those words that they use whenever you're filling text, that's what I was chanting. The Lorem Ipsum text filler. Honestly, at this point, I'm kind of curious. This is going very well, unless Cole's about to run it.
01:03:12
Speaker
Did I go up and smear the chalk? Oh, I thought you were right. Yeah, you can do that. Can I do it without being seen? That's what we're going to find out. Because you become visible when you move, so you'll need to do a stealth roll. And I need to see if she notices you. I thought you said her eyes were closed. Her eyes are not closed. Is she still taking acid blood from the both of us? I mean, it is acid blood that's happening.
01:03:43
Speaker
Um, and I am marking her health, but, uh, it does not appear to have been harmed by this. Like she, she does. Well, yeah, I mean, it's, it's more of a continuous like mist of, of blood coming from you. Like, but, um, it doesn't look comfortable and you don't know if it's supposed to be comfortable or not.
01:04:11
Speaker
You know, she first flinched when y'all's streams went into her hands and just has an uncomfortable look. Hayden, we're not supposed to cross the streams. Yeah, Frank, I'll need a stealth plus dexterity roll if you want to try and do that without her noticing. Okay. All right, so I'm going to roll a rouse check real quick. You do not get hungrier?
01:04:40
Speaker
Sweet. I want to like lay down on my belly and creep along and just like in obscure places that are hard to see as part of the pentagram just slowly start smearing away the chalk. Okay. I'm going to add difficulty to her role that she's about to make. What was it? Cult plus resolve.
01:05:13
Speaker
Let's see. And I continue to like, as I smear away chalk while she's doing her chanting, like once I get to a point where there's not any that's out of the way that nobody can visually see, I start taking more and more away from the areas where people might possibly see. I'm like, I'm doing a risk analysis while doing this. And yeah, anyways.
01:05:31
Speaker
You've done that, you've damaged the Pintagram.
01:05:39
Speaker
To a certain degree until it's like, I can't take that away without somebody noticing. Yeah. So with all that, I'm going to give her a negative four to this role and it's, she's got to get four successes for it to work two successes. So it has not yet worked, which means she's going to have to continue chanting and take more life force. Um, she, she Christiendos and like thrusts her hand downwards toward
01:06:09
Speaker
the vampire and it glows and the mist rises in the air above him but she holds her hand for a while and nothing happens. And she pauses for a moment and then starts chanting again.
01:06:33
Speaker
and, uh, and continues to chant. Um, this does cause some of the people to like, um, that the people on the stairs who are, who are waiting, like the, the woman who traded her spots with, uh, max to like start looking around confused. And, um, let me, let me roll for her. I did make sheets for them. So I should probably roll to see if she notices what's wrong.
01:07:01
Speaker
Uh, where is it? I, of course, after that, like go into another out of the way area. Yeah. Um, so that would be her occult plus wits. She does not have a lot of points in this. I'd probably give her at least a plus one because it's, I took away a large portion of the very obvious. Uh, zero successes. Did it work? Normal dice roll two.
01:07:31
Speaker
Why is it showing a weird like that? Oh, because I got to click that box. She doesn't notice what's wrong and everybody else is focused on what's happening in the center of the circle. Max and Jerry, are you guys interrupting? Wesley, are you doing anything? Nothing particularly exciting is happening because nobody's doing anything.
01:07:58
Speaker
I don't know what's happening. So the... the chant is basically stopped, right? Like not the abilities of the chant. She started it back up again. The blood is still flowing and stuff like that. So she started back up. It's been 30 minutes. After what happened, I'm kind of following Max's lead on this one.
01:08:24
Speaker
But see, like the thing is like. She took down like a vampire that was like 300 years old, right? Or something like that. She could easily wipe the floor with us, so I'm not trying to get any confrontation. Well, I really wish we could have talked to her before all this. Yeah. The vampire she took down, it's like 300 years old, was not a combat vamp. She's a. And neither are we. Look at me, I'm sexy vamp. And I'm the same thing. Although the vampire she took down did didn't.
01:08:54
Speaker
No, wait, it was probably the witch who killed someone. I don't remember, but, um, yeah. Uh, well, she's going to continue chanting. It's drawing close to midnight. Um, and one more point of health comes from everybody. Uh, one of the people, one of the humans is kind of like, you can tell he's having some trouble with this now. Um, it's not, again, it's not necessarily like super painful. It's just.
01:09:24
Speaker
You know, it's kind of like donating blood, probably what it feels like for your victims. Um, minus the like vampire's power of it makes it super pleasurable, but like what it feels like for them afterwards. But of course you two vampires, you guys are fine. Like you can get all the way down to one health and feel normal. You don't get bothered until you know, you pass out basically. Uh, um,
01:09:50
Speaker
And it crescendos again. The damage to the thing is still done. So let's see what it is with another minus four. So while the second round of stuff's going on, can I go like Whisper and Max's ear? Should I pull the stake out of the guy? Just like... Yes, that's a yes. Yes.
01:10:15
Speaker
Okay. Um, so like while she's continuing to do her chatting and it's building up to the crescendo, I kind of want to try to sneak into or sneak, not sneak, but like belly crawl over to the guy and whisper in his ear. I'm about to pull a stake out your chest. I need you to like run and jump out the window. Or jump off the roof or not roof. He does not respond because he's paralyzed.
01:10:40
Speaker
Alright, what I gotta roll to pull out the steak without being seen? You can, without being seen, uh... Stealth plus dexterity. Alright, let's see... Without noticing the steak popping out. Stealth plus a dex. Come on, good numbers. Ooh. Two successes. No, you don't get hungry, you're from that.
01:11:08
Speaker
Oh, that's what the beast was. It's only, it's a, does a different thing when you actually have a crit fail or success. That just is cause you happen to roll a one and it does that for some reason, maybe the beast hints at you, but it's no mechanical effects. Okay. So you've made it. So you pull the stick out as she's chanting. Let me see what her role is. Okay. So that puts her at a total of five.
01:11:33
Speaker
Um, you pull the stakeout as the mist shoots down towards him, the guy jumps up, um, and starts to run. Uh, and, um, Lauren has stopped chanting, but then she screams in surprise. And then suddenly everyone in the circle, uh, or pentagram, um, now takes two damage. I don't know how you and Hayden are doing, but two damage that, that drops the humans. Is that me too?
01:12:03
Speaker
No, the people who are linked to her. Okay. Okay. Um, that drops the humans. Um, she screams, pulls extra life force from everybody and then thrusts her hands out towards the guy. And now she's going to make a magic roll cause he's trying to run. Um, can I try to dive in front of in between them? Yeah. If you do something, you're diving in between them. Yes.
01:12:34
Speaker
And I'm jumping back. I'm jumping back out of the pentagram. Yeah, now that now that yeah, I'm jumping out of the pentagram. OK, she just did a boost, so she's not doing that chant anymore. She's she's attacking now. But OK, that's a lot of successes. I'm dead hits. I have six health.
01:13:02
Speaker
So you've jumped in between them, which means the mist is now hitting you. Also the fire. This wasn't what hurt. I was not expecting this.
01:13:28
Speaker
You feel your life draining from you. Her eyes widen and surprise as you appear out of thin air.
01:13:37
Speaker
And I will say you drop. You're not dead. Because she drops her hands in surprise and the mist dissipates. You do take a bunch of damage. You're knocked unconscious. You drop into what's called torpor. He gets away. He's running. He doesn't know what the heck's happening, but he's running. Hold on. He should do a frenzy check.
01:14:08
Speaker
Let's see here. Let me see here. He's hungry because he hasn't fed since he was turned. But it's going to be a fear frenzy. So let me see. Fear... Because the fear would take precedence over the hunger this moment. He's probably frenzying. Let's see.
01:14:38
Speaker
Yeah, he frenzies. Well, no, he's fear frenzying. So he runs in. I'm going to say one is towards the stairs. All other directions are not towards the stairs. He does not run towards the stairs. He runs in a direction and falls off the balcony.
01:15:06
Speaker
Uh, and just like jumps over the railing without thinking. Um, I don't know what his powers are. Let me see. He does not have a power to help him with this. So he's got to take some fall damage from this. Uh, he's a sexy time vamp too. Yeah. He doesn't know how to use any powers though. Um,
01:15:29
Speaker
17 damage. No, I was rolling for successes. That was no success. I feel he needs to take some damage from this, but it's not enough to drop him. He takes one damage. He stubbed his toe on the railing. He falls off the railing and hits the ground.
01:15:46
Speaker
his frenzy itself doesn't care. He's running off into the distance. She drops her hands in surprise, the mist dissipates, and she lets out a string of Irish curses that
01:16:07
Speaker
I don't know. Um, uh, because this is a rate of G podcast, obviously, but, um, and then she, she, she turns towards, uh, Jerry and max and says, what did you do? Who is this? And as I fall into tour, poor, um, I would just like to, to kind of whisper shout I am the night.
01:16:38
Speaker
He's the night and then I'm going to run towards the stairs after the vampire that just escaped because he's fear frenzied and running through the night and very hungry and he's going to get us all exposed. She cuts her hand again as you're doing that and thrusts out towards you.
01:17:01
Speaker
I flicked my bleeding hand at her this time. Okay. Like, at her face. I'm trying to get her in the eyes, like, you know, acid mace. Ha! Pocket sand! Ha! She, um... Make it effect roll. I guess you should make something, some kind of roll. Three successes. Not an insane roll of hers this time. Let's see, acid hand flick.
01:17:30
Speaker
Brawl is unarmed, so Brawl plus Dex to successfully flick it in her direction, I guess. You need three or more. Come on! Come on! Fuck! You wave vaguely in her direction.
01:17:50
Speaker
I will say though that her, whatever she was doing, it blasts the acid blood, just like blasts it in the air and it explodes into like, you know, harmless mist and vapors, but you get down the stairs. Now she turns towards Max. Max, what are you doing as all this is going on? And Wesley, you see all this going down.
01:18:18
Speaker
I'm low key falling asleep, but I can wake up. Try. Wesley wasn't involved. He was getting, he was getting bored. For real. You went and got him doing it. He got hungry. Oh yeah. I saw like, I don't know. You saw one dude just jump off the tower and run away. The guy who was laying down.
01:18:45
Speaker
And you see Jerry heading down the stairs after him. We can go back to Hayden. I guess I'll look at her and I'll just try to start talking to her. Okay. She doesn't immediately attack you. Yeah, I go, Lauren, I know a lot of shit just went down, but we honestly just want to talk.
01:19:15
Speaker
If you just wanted to talk, why did you try to infiltrate my ritual? Why did you stop this? Because you're killing a vampire. And she says, and who the hell is that? And points down to him. Also a vampire. Yes, we are all vampires, Lauren. I won't say a single lie to you. We are all vampires. I was here to kill one vampire.
01:19:44
Speaker
because it needed to be done. She glances at him again, at the guy on the ground again. I could have used him, but that's not what my vision told me to do. When she looks down at me, I fart. Can I go vision? I don't want to pry, but we had a vision as well.
01:20:09
Speaker
I saw that on the night of the new year, a new vampire would be made and that vampire needed to be sacrificed tonight or there would be a calamity. Visions aren't clear. I don't know what's going to happen, what's going to go wrong, but something's going to go wrong if he doesn't die tonight and it might be too late. Calamity, can you be more specific for who? For what?
01:20:39
Speaker
The vision wasn't specific. Did I just destroy the world? You caused COVID. God damn it. God damn it, Frank. I don't know what the calamity is. Sometimes it's literal. Sometimes visions are literal. Sometimes they're more figurative. She glances in the direction he's running. Maybe the calamity is not even for me. Maybe it's going to be for all of you that there's now a vampire running loose in the streets.
01:21:08
Speaker
are the prince of vampires told us to find Dexter. We all got turned on the same night and Dexter was the only one that didn't show up and the prince was living. I didn't get turned on on the same night. She glances down at this vampire who can't speak because he's sorry I'll mute myself.
01:21:38
Speaker
and says, I don't know anything about your prince. I knew your kind existed, but I'd never actually had dealings with you until last week.
01:21:56
Speaker
I know and I apologize for anything that might have happened. We did run into the person that you ran into. All I'm trying to do here is keep unforeseen circumstances from happening because our prince is crazy. Like he punched off a jaw of another vampire because he didn't show up. And who's to say he won't come looking for you? I mean, so in all reality, we're trying to protect everyone.
01:22:27
Speaker
The prince is just crazy. She, uh, lets out a sigh and says, I didn't really want other than him to be hurt either. That's why I, I invited you to, um, I guess Jerry's not there, but I invited you to, to join this thing because she, she looks at the unconscious people because it's dangerous and.
01:22:56
Speaker
I assumed you guys could take it, which you did. But there wasn't time to explain anything, and I didn't know what your intentions were, but you were playing along, so I played along. And then this guy appears out of nowhere, right when it was about to end. She turns, uh, Jerry, you are now chasing the dude.
01:23:20
Speaker
Um, let's jump to you real quick. Well, you know, I think the chase, I think that, I think we're at a good stopping. Well, I wanted to conclude this, but no, we're at a good stopping point, a cliffhanger. Um, she's, she turns and, and says, maybe the calamity is simply that he's out in the world now. And we need to, we need the, your, your prints told you to find him. Well, now he really is missing.
01:23:50
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Maybe the acclamity is my prince. It may be. And I turn off my acid blood and I go to shake her hand. She shakes her hand. And I say sorry about the acid. I was wondering what was wrong with your... I just thought it was because you were vampires. No, that was...
01:24:17
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That was us not being afraid of not knowing what to do. He looks down at... Now the three humans who collapsed, they're breathing, they're alive. She looks down at Cole and says, does he need blood to wake up? I assume you guys do drink blood? We do, yes. But... She goes over to Cole and it's like,
01:24:46
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Do I just she holds up her bloody hand like do I just like rub this on his mouth like Yeah Yeah that way come up for sure probably She's she's gonna do that. She like opens your mouth and just like palms, you know like Rubs her like hand to where some blood gets down into your mouth and
01:25:16
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This isn't technically how it works, but I'll say it gives you back up to one health so that you can wake up. And of course, you're not happy, because that's straight from the source, but also you're dying, so. Do I feel his flask on him? You could easily find it. Yeah, I'm going to pull out his flask and start feeding him his flask.
01:25:41
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Okay, well, she does the blood thing. But yeah, I'll say the blood thing and the flask can get him back awake. Okay. You can unmute yourself now. I forgot I was muted. I'm talking about it every time. Yeah. And she says, I guess now we have a mutual problem.
01:26:09
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Uh, and she, you know, whenever Cole does come to, she's like, sorry about that. I wasn't expecting someone to jump in front of the stream. That. So, but before she said anything, like as soon as I wake up, I kind of like stretch again, even though I don't need to stretch it, be like, man, that was a good nap. Did we kill her asses? And then I look at her, I'm like, Oh, no, Lauren at the moment is a mutual friend.
01:26:41
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I don't know that I would go so far as to say that, but it seems like we've got the same problem now. I wasn't even supposed to be here. I thought we were just supposed to see that there was a vampire here and then report back to our guy. And now we know where he is so we can report. Do we know where he is? He just jumped out the window or something, didn't he? He's running, yeah.
01:27:08
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Jerry's on his tail. Yeah, Jerry's chasing him. And the scene switches, the camera switches to Jerry running after a frenzied vampire who's running in fear, not caring about who sees him or what. And he doesn't really even know he's a vampire because he's spent his life as a vampire so far with a stake in his heart. And yeah, and I think that's a good place to end.
01:27:38
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this this session with jerry in pursuit of the mad vampire yay i i almost died well that was turned out a lot better than i thought
01:27:57
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So that was our, I think, season finale, maybe, of Houston, of Vampire the Masquerade, Houston After Dark. Next, we'll pick up next time and see what happens with Jerry chasing after this vampire. I am Ron, your storyteller, and
01:28:24
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with me tonight was if he's still awake, Jaden. The sleepy. Jaden, the sleepy. Yes, Jaden, Bill. Hey, I was Jerry. I had fun, y'all. And I'm chasing a guy. You're chasing a guy. Hayden. Hey, I played Max. I had pure anxiety this entire game.
01:28:54
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and frank oh i was frank uh well i was frank yes you were yeah you're almost knuckle in traditional frank fashion you caused the chaos without fail if you if y'all listened to any of the other podcasts if we even uploaded them um i am the
01:29:19
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chaotic neutral party member of from hell yeah so I played neutral is a bit is a bit generous you're chaotic evil but yeah so I played Cold Stone it was great playing with y'all guys or
01:29:37
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Yeah, you guys tonight, and I hope everybody had fun listening. Y'all can probably find me on social media somewhere, if you look hard enough. I do stream occasionally on FK Light Castle on Twitch, or yeah, I think it's Twitch. So yeah, see if you can find me. All right, and we'll be back next time.
01:30:55
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To all our non Texan listeners or southern listeners, the game of cornhole is a game where there is a board with at least one hole in it and you throw beanbags at it. Is cornhole not universally known?
01:31:10
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I thought they played a lot in Midwest. It's not, it's not a, everybody knows what it is. Like I was talking to somebody the other day, it was from New York and she was like, I don't know why the game cornhole actually came out, but we started talking about bar games and she's like, yeah, darts and this and that. I'm like, yeah, cornhole and the fucking weird stick one with the, the bolos.
01:31:35
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