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Houston After Dark - Season 2 - Session 10
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Enjoy the season finale of Houston After Dark!
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Transcript
Introduction and Setup
00:00:16
Speaker
All right, shush. Greetings mortals, and welcome to what should be the season finale, maybe, of season two of Integrated Dice Management Presents Houston After Dark. I am your storyteller, Ron Bjork. And with me tonight is Hayden. Hey, it's good to be here. I'm excited to find out what happens to my sire tonight. Along with Hayden, we've got the wonderful William. Hey, everybody. I'm Bill. I'm going to be playing Jerry tonight. Let's see what what kind of high dinks our favorite therapist can get up to. And last but not least, we've got Frank.
00:01:05
Speaker
Hey, Gage! That was it. That's Frank.
Concerns and Humor
00:01:11
Speaker
Jayden is not with us tonight. He mentioned possibly popping on, but I doubt that'll happen.
00:01:20
Speaker
Let us all pray that he makes it home safe because he is working after dark today and we know we all know that he is has trouble staying awake.
00:01:33
Speaker
so
00:01:36
Speaker
um i can't find the button to make the pictures go away you know that's a valid point he might crash and die on the way home but speaking of on 99 today there was a guy like a middle-aged guy who ran over like 200 yards of the car rail um and i i will stop where the i could see the officer like knocking on the window when he opened up the car door the guy just like slumped out like either you like medical issues happened or he was like on drugs or something like a crash from drugs so frank go to audio video and then click video display and it lets you change the player video slash avatar so oh that's what that is okay yeah
00:02:21
Speaker
Yeah, it's kind of weird, but yeah.
Game Context and Recap
00:02:23
Speaker
OK, I got it. Yeah, she's been eating. All right. Today in the game, because Frank always brings up the real date in the game, it is Tuesday, February 4th, 2020. Forecast for the evening. Clear skies in the upper fifties. We have a waxing gibbous moon still red. Top news for today. High speed chase ends in downtown Houston. Suspect arrested.
00:02:47
Speaker
uh 40 000 square foot intergalactic arts installation size me coming to houston i've been to that uh rush limbaugh announces that he has advanced lung cancer and the app behind the iowa caucus chaos not vetted or properly tested says experts today's holidays world cancer day trending on twitter hashtag rush limbaugh hashtag world cancer day hashtag beyonce and hashtag rosa parks i guess maybe it's february black history month or is it her birthday or something i don't know i think february is black history month also it is tuesday it just is have used you your you just have the year wrong
00:03:34
Speaker
interesting it is tuesday and and the time that we are recording this it is tuesday february 13th in another year in 2020 but through audio magic yep uh so the last session um i don't have a lot of memory but i do know you guys met up with um a couple of vampires uh including um Yeah, Olivia Taylor and Frieda and maybe someone else. um We met there with Olivia, the Rat King. Oh yes, the Rat King. How could I forget the Rat King? Yeah, in Cassidy.
Mystery of Kevin's Disappearance
00:04:18
Speaker
And they told you about the sort of resistance to the Prince and um you know tried to recruit you guys and you guys were kind of iffy about that.
00:04:29
Speaker
Uh, so that's pretty much the main event that happened. I don't know. Do you guys remember if anything else happened? Uh, we drove to the place where I first got, um, vomited all over myself and shit myself the next morning when I got turned into a vampire officially. Um, I'm there with, uh,
00:04:54
Speaker
I can never remember her name. I'm there with Cole, not, not Jerry specifically told Jerry to stay away um and Olivia Olivia's with us with the new blood new blood Oh with the gang girl girl yes Wow I do not remember this part yes yeah Cassidy is also with us but also the the new homeless
00:05:25
Speaker
guy that I got turned with us ah yeah on the same date. Yes. His name was. I don't see his name anywhere, which is. His name was not important at the moment, I guess. It wasn't Liam Reeva. No, I don't know what his name was.
00:05:54
Speaker
Oh, is it? Is it Jeremiah? No, that is Jeremiah. Jeremiah is the guy who um mind controlled. Oh, that's that's full of Haden's wife.
00:06:09
Speaker
ah Yeah, I don't remember. That's all Jane's or Wesley's. Interesting that I've forgotten that. ah Oh, well, oh, well, he's in us. So when you guys wake up, you don't see him. He's missing.
00:06:24
Speaker
because he can turn invisible. ah So he could be anywhere.
00:06:33
Speaker
Wait. I wake up and he's not... So we haven't gone to sleep yet. we From last session, we haven't gone to sleep yet and I was still talking to Olivia a little bit. Right. But yeah, if we want to go to sleep... and So like when we wake up, I don't see him.
00:06:51
Speaker
Yes. When you wake up in the morning, he seems to be missing. OK, what's homeboy's name? I don't know. I don't remember. Kevin. That's why he's missing.
00:07:01
Speaker
His name's Kevin. I'm pretty sure it wasn't Kevin. Man, I can't can't remember that guy's name. Not this one. It's none of these people. ah Do I have notes from that? Did his character sheet not save or something?
00:07:19
Speaker
I think that has to be it because I'm looking all these names and I remember one of these people and their thing. Well, this is what happens when you drink alcohol while playing. You don't remember things. um This is what happens when I'm on the phone with you guys all day instead of listening to the vampire episodes like I'd planned to. ha That's entirely Hayden's fault.
00:07:46
Speaker
ah from um Like, literally, when you called me Hayden, I was listening to the, like, very beginning of last session. Damn. Sorry. I wanted to bitch and moan about the new book I was listening to. Yeah, that's OK. I forgive you.
00:08:08
Speaker
It's fine, he forgives you. Well, audience, um if you remember his name, please email us at id and roleplay at gmail dot.com. It will be probably like a year late because we've got quite a few episodes between what's currently out and when you hear this. But, you know, he's probably just going to vanish from our thoughts until I listen to that episode. So, yeah, you wake up and he's he's missing.
Jerry's Mission and Call
00:08:39
Speaker
For now, I guess we'll just call him Kevin I guess just he's Frank. Yeah So I I wake up and like I look around just to make sure Last place I put him I think personally I probably would try to put him down in the hole Would he have gone down there if I tried to do that um He Let's see, he might have gone, yeah, he might've gone down there with you.
00:09:12
Speaker
um
00:09:17
Speaker
So yeah, when you go down um and look in there, the grate that was on the floor, well, no, you've already removed that, haven't you? Yeah, I've already moved that. um You go down there looking for him, and the door is all his hinges.
00:09:39
Speaker
I like to start calling out his name. That's better at me, I'm sorry. And I go, Kevin? Kevin, where the hell are you? There's no answer. When did we fall asleep?
00:10:08
Speaker
It's the next day. Next night. um Did we ever go to sleep? is You don't really have a choice if it's ah if like the sun if the sun comes up. yeah um like Wait, I think Frank here, I think you're the only one that can kind of fight that for a little bit, right? No, I can fight that. You guys went to the meetup. Well, I can. And then, you know, after that was done, besides whatever Hayden was doing here, y'all just had kind of like a regular night off, you know? So after all the bullshittery, we just were off for a day.
00:10:44
Speaker
Well, what were you going to do? Bill, um what's his face? um Jerry returned. to camera I can't remember anything that happened. The sheriff told you she was looking into things. I know Cassidy is with us and Olivia. Did they stay? ah Yeah, they're there. They wake up you know around the same time as you. OK. Is Cole there? cole i have no why Why is Jerry not there?
00:11:10
Speaker
We specifically told Jerry to stay away because Max thinks he's bugged. Right, yes. Yeah. yeah i'm So because of that, and also because I don't know i don't know any better, Jerry's at like this all this all-night jazz jazz club called coffee place. Oh, god. Jazz coffee. Hey, he's trying to put on a show in case he is bugged. But while he's while he's there, he's ah
00:11:42
Speaker
He is messaging his, he wants to message his sire while he's doing that. And just making sure he's as close to the most obnoxious but jazz playing he can find, just in case. Nice. And he's calling his sire? yeah he's He's, yeah. but yeah Well, see he's not calling, he's messaging. Sorry. Messaging? Okay. What do you message her?
00:12:09
Speaker
Who do I talk, what who is the oldest living vampire i can talk that I can talk to? than Older than the prince.
00:12:21
Speaker
ah Man, you're gonna make me bust out some names. Hold on, let me... ah Oh yeah, I am. Let's see here. You can talk to Kane, who is Bigfoot. Well, here's a... The terminic truck in Florida flipped over.
00:12:38
Speaker
hope that i was nobody I hope a nobody I knew I met a lot of those i met a lot of those guys at a turnip convention. In Florida? on the Oh no it was here it was in Houston but they but they flew in people from all over the country and I met a bunch of people from the from the Florida branches.
00:12:58
Speaker
It's Terminix. They're international. they have They have a lot of disposable income to do stupid shit like that. Well, Terminix sucks my left nut. so Yeah, they do. All right. So after a few minutes, um you get a text message back asking why.
00:13:19
Speaker
that Just why, question mark. I'm going to message her
Security Footage and Inquisition Arrival
00:13:25
Speaker
back.
00:13:28
Speaker
do you really want to know, or do you want to be able to claim you had no clue what I was doing?
00:13:35
Speaker
um
00:13:39
Speaker
Your phone starts ringing. It's in your sire. Oh. He's going to pop on his phone. his little earpiece, and he's going, again, right next to the really, really pretentious jazz that's going on in the back. I have to imagine it's like really pretentious, you know. One of those guys, he listened to underground music. You probably haven't heard of it. He's as close as he can get to that, and he's gonna answer, hey, Mom. What's going on? Nothing.
00:14:24
Speaker
I'm going through a bit of a time right now. A lot has gone on. and you know what I decided I needed a night to myself. ah so and you know Fun fact, couldn't have come too soon. you know um I might be bugged right now. I'm not 100% sure if I'm being followed or anything. It seems a bit inconclusive as it stands right now. Along with that, I am caring about our orders for a 300-year-old maniac who is also a child. um I think I'm having some issues. And one of them, I feel like I can be ah can be alleviated by speaking to somebody
00:15:08
Speaker
who maybe has, oh, I don't know, maybe just one or two of their original marbles still in the bag. In the background, you hear the whistle flute chime in with the ukulele. Oh, God, that's the worst. Why? No, no, no, this isn't this isn't this is this is jazz. This isn't ukulele music. It's freeform jazz, my friend. I didn't say freeform jazz. Too bad. It is now.
00:15:33
Speaker
god dam it is This is his cutscene. Leave his cutscene. However, you will hear you will hear the clarinet the clarinet player going into his clarinet solo. um How would she respond? Let's see. ah
00:15:57
Speaker
i There is someone I can i can introduce you to. Her name, his name is Evan Snavely. He is the clan whip. The clan what? Hold on, now I have to see what the hell that even means. Also, you said Evan Snavely? Yes. Okay. Is that is that Professor Wigglebottom's nephew? I thought you said whip meant work in progress.
00:16:31
Speaker
No, WHIP. Oh, quip. He is the the servant to the primogen of the clan, the head of the clan in Houston. How old is he?
00:16:50
Speaker
That, i I couldn't tell you how old he actually is, because I don't know. But he's far older than me. um problem possibly older than the prince, but ancient vampires don't tend to share their age. Right. But you said he's been he's been around for a while, and obviously if he's somebody who's under somebody's employ, that means he knows what they're like in the shadows, so to speak.
00:17:32
Speaker
Okay, what's the phone number? what's the phone number How soon do you need to speak with him? As soon as possible would be better, but not to ah but not for the next, I've got three nights at least, i don't try I don't trust anything. Don't come near me, don't come near my place. I see, well, I will arrange a meeting. I appreciate it.
00:17:59
Speaker
he He doesn't operate, well, he his he wouldn't just accept a phone call from a stranger, I i suppose I should say. So um yeah, I'll set up the meet with him and we'll speak then. Perfect. the mean In the meantime, if you give me any calls, just know you're going to you're gonna be able to hear this beautiful musak in the background. Did you just call it musak?
00:18:30
Speaker
Yeah, of course. but So, Jerry, while you're sitting there listening to this music, a um ah man,
00:18:41
Speaker
ah what what are you doing right now? Like, where are you ah in the club? I'm just some somewhere near somewhere where I can kind of, where it that's not obvious that I'm watching everybody, but somewhere where I can obviously just keep an eye on on stuff and pretend to drink coffee.
00:18:59
Speaker
And also somewhere where I can eye up potential potential food sources. All right. Actually, speaking of food sources, everyone needs to make a rouse check to see if they got hungry or this morning. Hmm.
Confrontation and Trial Setup
00:19:16
Speaker
I completely forgot about that. I always forget about that.
00:19:26
Speaker
Fucking shit.
00:19:35
Speaker
So Max does not get hungrier.
00:19:46
Speaker
ah Frank, you do get hungrier. And I suppose you would have, hmm, would you have a full flask on you if you spent the night not at your clan or not at your house? If you're with Max?
00:20:03
Speaker
If I, I only had one bubble, so I can only assume that I didn't get hungry. Yeah. Yesterday. So I probably would have my flasks coming. Okay. Well then you get, you can drink that if you choose. Um, what is that? and And what's everyone else's hunger at? I'm at two. I'm at two. Okay. So nobody's super hungry.
00:20:26
Speaker
Um, that's, that's good. Uh, Jerry, um, you, uh, so a man, are are you at a table, a booth? Are you at the bar? Are you on the dance floor? Um, Whoa. Okay. I made my way from a jazz, from a jazz, uh, from a jazz club to just a club. I'm down. I'm about it. All of those things can happen at a jazz club. Come on.
00:20:53
Speaker
Okay. That's a good point.
00:20:57
Speaker
Jerry's definitely in a booth. Yeah, ah yeah i'm probably I'm probably in a booth somewhere where I can quietly so quietly sit and look like I'm trying to keep to myself while reading a book. I'm going to be one of those people. I'm going to be one of those I'm at a club reading a book people. OK. Yes, and it's a jazz club, too. Got to find this character sheet real quick. Where is it? Why do I keep losing character sheets?
00:21:26
Speaker
I know I've got one for this character. Oh, there he is. So a man that you don't know, um or well, a man, he is ah kind of buff. He's wearing a black um like sweater top, tight fitting shirts, and black jeans. He has blonde hair, a square jaw. He looks like he could play Batman. Sits down across from you. Other than the fact that he's blonde. Other than the fact that he's blonde, yeah. Definitely of, did I say what descent he is?
00:22:16
Speaker
I guess I didn't, but is it in his details? No. I believe he is of, nor well, yeah, I don't know, Aryan descent, you know. he's he'd He'd make a, um you know, like, well, anyway. So you're saying he's got a very, very, we kind of kind of got a Norwegian thing going on then.
00:22:39
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. OK. We don't want to demonetize another episode, so let's stay clear of eating to do. Yeah, let's stay clear of that word in particular.
00:22:53
Speaker
Well, you know, he certainly fought against a certain regime so he's fine. um Yeah, no, ah he. um So he sits down across from you and while you don't recognize him immediately. um He seems to recognize you and he says.
00:23:10
Speaker
ah He says, Jerry, it's time. Come with me. And you ah are compelled to stand and come with him. Oh.
00:23:26
Speaker
this you don't get to roll against this uh oh shit you don't feel alarmed but also like it it seems like him sitting down across from you has triggered a uh a memory um you get a flash of a memory of you uh having a conversation with this guy um And you don't remember the specifics of the conversation, but you remember that there is a plan, um a plan that requires you not to remember the details of the plan. oh And you know that you need to go with this guy. God damn it. I've got these abilities now, too. God damn it. OK.
00:24:14
Speaker
Yeah, the memory, at least in your memory, you don't feel like there was anything untoward, like you you feel like you were down with this plan.
00:24:26
Speaker
um There, and so yeah, he he takes you to a car. There's someone waiting in the car with you. It's a, well, if there's someone else waiting in the car. It's a woman. She has dark hair. She's wearing a suit. She's got a briefcase. um And you get in the car with her and then, ah you know, y'all are in the back of the car and a driver, you know, there's a driver up front. It's, it's,
00:24:55
Speaker
it's It's not a limo, but it's like a um you know one of those black cars, tinted windows, you know like a mobster car, you know that sort of thing. And you guys drive off. um and get bumped off And then the scene shifts back over to Max and Cole and Cassidy and Olivia, who are all you know hanging out. and um but looking for the missing Nosferatu, whose name ah they think might be Kevin.
00:25:29
Speaker
I immediately shout, Cassidy, Olivia, where the fuck is Kevin? Cassidy and Olivia both come looking and they're like, what? We just woke up. We don't. Where would he have gone?
00:25:45
Speaker
And Olivia, it's like, well, he is a Nosferatu. Are we sure he's not just like standing over there and she points at an empty corner? And then she che she pulls out i look at a receipt. She pulls a receipt out from her pocket and throws it at the corner and it smacks them to the wall and and you know doesn't like smack into somebody invisible.
00:26:10
Speaker
um
00:26:13
Speaker
Knowing Max.
00:26:18
Speaker
o We're max frenzy because he's stressed about all this. You could roll one if you... You can always choose to roll and see. Yeah. um This will be a low difficulty though. We'll say just difficulty one. Okay. So modifier... No modifiers. Okay, I was wondering if that was a difficulty. Okay, there's a difficulty. Okay.
00:26:46
Speaker
Yep, so I restrained my frenzy because Max is stressed ah stressed out about this. I might just go, God damn it, as I like kick something across the room, probably like a broom or something.
00:27:04
Speaker
um
00:27:07
Speaker
I'm gonna insight plus wits, I guess, to if I was him, where would I have gone?
00:27:18
Speaker
Would that be the correct role? Yeah. um I'll tell you that'll be a high difficulty because you know nothing about him. Yeah.
00:27:32
Speaker
That's one one is not enough. You have no idea. You don't know this guy. Like maybe he went out looking for food. Maybe he um decided. Maybe he backed out on, you know,
00:27:47
Speaker
like has just decided not to to be with you guys, it's it's hard to say. You do know he was like with the Rat King and he's been kind of hiding with the Rat King, but that's that's more or less like what you know about him.
00:28:03
Speaker
that um Olivia says, Uh, look, he's, he is a NOS. Uh, there's a good chance that he is just off investigating something. Um, I know that, uh, you know, they're, they're always out spying on things and they, they kind of do their own thing. I don't think he's going to do anything to get us in trouble or, or turn us over to the prints or anything like that.
00:28:34
Speaker
Damn good thing I haven't called the sheriff then. Yeah, I do know that we need to introduce him to the prince, but I'm sure he'll hopefully he'll be back. That does make things a little harder. ah I know, but yeah, Nosferatu, they're pretty independent. They kind of do what they want when they want because nobody can stop them because you never know where they are.
00:29:07
Speaker
I guess I look over at Cole and I say, do you have anywhere to be? I do not. OK. I mean, my whole plan for this night was you know turning him in and thinking about what my sire is going to be doing tomorrow.
00:29:36
Speaker
um
00:29:39
Speaker
I swear to God, if he's not back in a few hours. The trial is today. Tonight. Oh, it's tonight? Yeah. OK. OK. I mean, I might have if I have the dates wrong, it's fine. It doesn't matter. It's tonight. OK.
00:29:54
Speaker
um
00:30:03
Speaker
Yeah, you do expect that Mikael will be around to pick you up. um Yeah. Around like, you know, 10 or so.
00:30:21
Speaker
So I guess I'm going to go outside and just see if I can like see his footprints or anything like that. Why are we looking for this guy exactly? You need to turn him into the prince. Oh, he's the last the last guy. Are there any security cameras or anything?
00:30:40
Speaker
um There are some security cameras outside and you've already hacked into them once. So you can hack into them again, assuming that your powers don't yeah your your curse doesn't stop you. The intelligence plus technology plus intelligence. Yeah.
00:30:59
Speaker
Let me go away. I don't know. OK, I'm not ignore that. It wouldn't go away. OK.
00:31:13
Speaker
There three successes is enough for technology to work. Nice. For this this. All right, I pull up the security cameras.
00:31:26
Speaker
um
00:31:29
Speaker
Also, you also give me a investigation plus... um i failed What was your role, Hayden? I went outside and I started looking around like for for footprints or something like that. With the computer, I'll let you do investigation plus intelligence. Me or him? You, but while you're looking on the computer. He's looking for footprints, you're looking on the computer.
00:32:01
Speaker
And I just need to double check something in the powers.
00:32:17
Speaker
Yeah, OK. so um
00:32:25
Speaker
Yeah, okay. You are looking through the computer footage of last
Trial Proceedings Begin
00:32:29
Speaker
night. And when you get to very early this morning, literally just before you guys wake up, like a couple minutes before you guys wake up, you um see the the camera that is aimed at the underground, you know, the the basement room where Hayden was in, where where this guy was stored. um You see him wake up. He goes to check the door. It's locked. He shoves the door hard, and it comes off its hinges. He is very casually walking upstairs. ah Frank, you've got obfuscate powers, right? You've got the invisibility powers, right? Yeah, I believe so, yes. You do know your powers don't work on machines. They are a psychic-based power.
00:33:17
Speaker
um He's walking as if he thinks no one will notice. um He walks out the front door ah you know past you guys who are you know sleeping wherever you guys are sleeping you know on couches or whatever.
00:33:30
Speaker
um and heads out the front door. ah You see the camera footage. There are no footprints Hayden because it's a parking lot. um You see the camera footage of him like basically head off. He he pulls out a cell phone um and and starts walking off down the streets.
00:33:55
Speaker
I call out to fuck. Max. Max. Max. I call out to Max, hey, I got some video footage of him doing something stupid. I guess I. Whatever. Whenever someone comes outside to get me, I come inside, watch it. And I'm just like, they're seething and I'm like, I don't have time because kids bullshit. And I say, I'm, I'm off to go see my sire. I don't give a shit anymore.
00:34:30
Speaker
All right, so you head off. um
00:34:36
Speaker
like you don't where i head out of the think yeah Before I head out of the door, um I turn over to Cassidy and Olivia and I go, thank you guys for coming. It meant a lot. And then I just walk outside.
00:34:51
Speaker
Yeah. So the vehicles that would be outside are Cassidy's truck. um And Cole's car is probably there. But I don't think you have a vehicle. I do not. Yeah. But I walk down the street. OK. Do you go left or right out of the parking lot?
00:35:19
Speaker
as to cost which direction into what does that sco and well you I'll tell you that after Hayden rules. head Heads was left, tails was right, I chose right. Okay, you chose right? Yes, I went right.
00:35:46
Speaker
You went right, okay. um One is left, two is right. ah okay well you're Okay, so the guy went left. Cole, you know that, but Max is outside.
00:36:04
Speaker
attack i oh You can see the live footage of Max turning right. Like I'm like the element of general direction I'm walking in the general direction of where my sires I think that's where my side max would know where this Complex is where yeah. sir pleasantly is Yeah, so I'm walking in the general direction of that. Okay, it's gonna be a long walk That's that's fine. I'll figure something out. Yeah um ah Yeah Cole you can't text max because max I
00:36:39
Speaker
smashed his phone. I do have a new phone. Okay, then yes, you can text Max.
00:36:51
Speaker
Bill, if you want to jump in as Cassidy, since you've technically played her, you're welcome to while Jerry is indisposed. I'm trying to remember. I'm trying to remember Cassidy. She was the country girl whose brother was a werewolf.
00:37:09
Speaker
and your fiance well not yet fiance did you say yes we don't know but he got his throat ripped out he said yes you said yes to frank okay and and so he got his throat ripped out in front of your eyes and then you guys killed a vampire together with your brother and you should be able to check her sheet and stuff she is um now a gangro vampire she is um part of the, well she has kinda hooked up with the resistance. um ah Hey I think, I don't think it sent it sent me right, it basically just sent me a blank sheet. Show to players.
00:37:59
Speaker
Well it's the um the country girl that you you played before. I gotcha.
00:38:06
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, I can. I can absolutely do that. Sounds good. If you go into NPCs, the handouts and go to NPCs and then vampires, she should show up for you because you're able to play her. Her name is Cassidy McAllister. Yeah.
00:38:30
Speaker
There she is. Good. What is that thumbnail picture? What the fuck is going on with that dog? That's not a dog. There's something weird with her picture. If you want to actually see the actual picture, you'd need to right click and or here. Let me see. like Oh, I'm here. No, I'm here. I thought I could copy the image directly into the chat, but apparently not. I just copied my last copy paste. Is that a coyote?
00:39:04
Speaker
Yeah, she she killed a kind. She was a hunter, you know.
00:39:11
Speaker
um Yeah, she's got, you know, good firearms, a few other skills, and now she has vampire powers as well. Fortitude, which allows her to. She's got unswayable mind and then eyes of the beast, feral claws and shape change. She can shape change into a wolf. Oh, fuck, yeah. Oh, those are good ones.
00:39:34
Speaker
Oh wow, her powers her her powers are in protein. Protean. Yeah, Clan Gangrel is my favorite one because they're the animalistic vampires. See, this one looks cool.
00:39:53
Speaker
um Yeah, so um it really You gave her a country, you know country girl accent, but yeah, I got you You're welcome to pop in I mean Jerry will be back Depending on how quickly we move to the trial, but there's there's no rush. I've been waiting. I've been waiting on this trial for a minute. Yeah Okay, cool, what do you text max I Um, hey, Max, other way, the nose for auto do with that direction. And then I do like a little arrow thing behind him. All right. See if, am I still like within camera eyesight? Probably not. Okay. Um, but he smashed his phone. So you couldn't get that. anyway No, he got a new phone. Okay. Um,
00:40:50
Speaker
Yeah, so I and look at the text, and I reply back. OK, like I said in the building, I don't care anymore. I'm going to go see my sire.
00:41:08
Speaker
Two thumbs up.
00:41:13
Speaker
All right, so um you go walking off down the street in the direct general direction of where your sire is being held. um You do know that McHale is supposed to come pick you up um before the trial.
00:41:31
Speaker
but um
00:41:36
Speaker
Yeah, if I okay. Yeah, since I knew that know that I just kind of like stop somewhere like that's still on the way to the building where he knows I'm at and I just like chill there in like a place where he would see me. Okay.
00:41:50
Speaker
um
00:41:53
Speaker
Just for future reference. Let's see how bad that goes. Yes, let us just see how bad this goes.
00:42:05
Speaker
Okay, not bad. Could be worse. yeah He'll spot you when the time comes. I'm like, if he rolls nothing, he he'll just drive right past you.
00:42:17
Speaker
ah Okay, so um Frank or Cole, a little while later, there is a knock at the door to the warehouse.
00:42:35
Speaker
I guess if you are still watching the cameras after like 30 minutes, there's a not you see a ah vehicle pull in. It is a, let's just see, random car.
00:42:52
Speaker
Oh my God. Well, of course it gives me nothing but sports cars. Random. You see a Honda, a black Honda Civic pull in.
00:43:04
Speaker
um Into the parking lot and then a man gets out. He's got blonde hair and he's kind of buff and he's wearing a tight black sweater and black jeans um and ah And has a square jaw and looks like he could play Batman um if he was it wasn't blonde and he walks up to the door to the warehouse that you guys are in and gives it a couple ah loud knocks.
00:43:39
Speaker
should Should I know this person? No, I recognize him. Olivia um looks up. You I don't think have seen him either. Yeah. Is Cassidy currently with them? Yes, you are. with You know what, Jerry? Give before what here, I'll Let me roll something real quick. As Jerry, just real quick for you. Let's see.
00:44:15
Speaker
So Jerry, as you are sitting in the car, you know you're driving with this um other person who hasn't said much. ah But you do recall, you think about that guy and you think you you do vaguely recall him. um You think maybe he showed up at your your place one time asking about Max. That combined with the weird memory that you have, um you know, you're pretty sure whatever this is had something to do with Max.
00:44:47
Speaker
ah anyway Anyway, Cole, however, would have no memory of this man because he never saw him. but I turned to the people that are in there and I'm like, hey, do y'all know this guy?
00:45:02
Speaker
Nah, I don't recognize him. Yeah, Cassidy definitely doesn't know him. I'll roll something to see if Olivia would randomly have seen him. Looks like kind of a douche. Here, this is what he looks like.
00:45:17
Speaker
I thought he would have seen me. Not yet. um He pulled in from a different direction. I know he looks like kind of a douche. So this place um ah is an actual place in real life. And so I know which direction you're going and which direction he would have come from. um And he would not have come from the direction that you are going at the moment.
00:45:43
Speaker
um
Testimonies and Tensions
00:45:46
Speaker
But let me see, where is Olivia's sheet? There she is. Anyway, I need to organize my NPCs a little better. It looks like kind of a do. Should we kill him?
00:46:00
Speaker
Olivia looks at him, does not recognize him. Is that a crit fail? No, I think it's just a miss fail. It would have told me if it was a crit fail, I think.
00:46:17
Speaker
It's a one on the hunger dice. That might be a bestial, messy critical bestial failure. Let me check what that is. Bestial failure tells me what they are, but it doesn't tell me what call what triggers them. Rules.
00:46:48
Speaker
hunger dice bestial failure if you fail your role and at least one hunger dice shows a one the hunger interferes with your action and the beast manifests you cause some kind of problem for you and probably the party just like with with a mess critical while also failing spectacularly ah
00:47:15
Speaker
Yeah, Olivia looks at the camera, her eyes widen and she says, oh, no, oh, no, I know that man that he's with the Inquisition. God, Cassidy, you know what the Inquisition is because it also hunts where it is. And so, yeah, we do kill them then. Oh, crap. So the bitch.
00:47:43
Speaker
Can my character randomly just like start walking back because it's like getting a little iffy on the time? Give me a d10.
00:47:51
Speaker
know By the way, as soon as she as soon as she said that, her ah her fingernails grew into long-ass claws. You gotta put the slash before the R and put a space and after the R.
00:48:14
Speaker
Is it going? Did it go? It's doing something. There it is. Oh, that's below a five. You are still hanging out at the moment. Yeah, so Cassidy, your claws pop out. Cole, you don't know this guy, so you've got no... um
00:48:35
Speaker
no frame of reference to no otherwise. As far as you know, Olivia is trustworthy. um And she says he's inquisitioned. What do you think? What do you do? We think he's inquisitioned. Olivia he's inquisitioned. Her eyes widen, and she said, oh shit, that guy's part of the inquisitioned.
00:48:58
Speaker
um Well, I'm not a very physical person. Yeah. um Um... I can craft something. Oh, I've got two in firearms. Is there any firearms nearby? I don't think you've ever mentioned owning a gun, or at least never carrying one with you. This is true. Cassidy has one. I might just go invisible in this situation. Yeah, you'll be Cassidy has one. And she's about she's about to fucking die.
00:49:33
Speaker
She's about to go ham. Yeah, Olivia draws her knife. I do all of the free powers I have. The shadow cloak, oblivion sight, you're going this lethal body, cloak of shadows, and unseen passage. Yeah. Oh wait, unseen passage. I need one rouse check.
00:49:57
Speaker
um But Bill, you would not have your shotgun. Well, you know, you probably would have brought it inside, to be honest. I also i I'm not saying my shotgun. I have honestly thought I should probably have a pistol on her. You definitely have a pistol. Your shotgun's probably on the gun rack in the back in the truck cab. Oh, God, of course it is. What's what's up with this humanity check? Frank. yeah That was supposed to be a rouse. Was that not a rouse? Yeah, you clicked the wrong button. You roused.
00:50:34
Speaker
The thing's happening. What are you doing? It's rousing over and over. You got a rousing success. OK. Which means you do not get hungrier. Gotcha. All right. I just straight going biz and I hide in a corner of shadow. OK. Cassidy is going to turn to Cassidy is going to. Oh, shit, that's right, because Max isn't in the third in the room with a sissy. Yeah, he's he left.
00:51:03
Speaker
Oh, fuck. Which way did he go? He went, he's outside and went down the street. To get outside, you've got to go through this one door. Oh, fuck. You can always text me. She, uh, Cassidy's gonna text, gonna text you real fast, uh, gonna real fast. Just swipe, uh, swipe texting all over the place. Like, she, she, she's retracted her thumb claw. Send you that the Inquisition is here. Now.
00:51:32
Speaker
send and then if you go that's okay yeah that's what she sends i go when i get the text i'm only like a minute away yeah yeah i i look at the text the inquisition is here son of a bitch and so that's when i
00:51:59
Speaker
Max would go back, and but like he he wouldn't like be super obvious about it, but he is going to start walking back towards the like speed walking back towards the building.
00:52:12
Speaker
yeah Okay. Actually, what, what clothes am I wearing? Am I wearing my normal clothes? I wouldn't see why you would be wearing anything else. Yeah. Um, well, no, you are wearing, no, yeah, nevermind. It's not the night of it's not the same night. So yeah, you probably changed out of whatever Super Bowl attire you were wearing, but, um, yeah, Cassidy back in business casual. And I see that my, I guess I started a light jog back.
00:52:40
Speaker
the door. From walking this power walking to a light job yeah the door yes- that the the figure knocks on the door again. All right. Olivia and I text on I'm gonna get a cat. Open the door when I tell you to. She's gonna get right up next to the door
00:53:06
Speaker
you know, just out of view. she's and She's going to go ahead and signal Olivia to open the door. And she's going to take aim right right at where his head is going to be for right when he walks in. All right. So Max, give me another detent. I'm seeing what're you general generally how quickly you get there.
00:53:34
Speaker
All right, you get there just before the door opens. And I go, Michael! Because I see him. I know that guy's back to him. And he turns. OK, so he turns to face you and says, Max, and the door opens.
00:53:52
Speaker
Does he step in? No, because he's now got his back to you. Oh. Olivia is in the door. He's turned around to look at Max. Oh, Max, you got here just in time. And well did we hear him? makeator attack him ah Give me a wits plus awareness awareness plus wits. And I'll roll that for Olivia.
00:54:20
Speaker
You said wits plus what? ah Awareness plus wits. Awareness plus wits. That's one success is not enough for Olivia.
00:54:33
Speaker
where news
00:54:38
Speaker
met Oh, no. ah No, you're fine. um That's only a crit fail if ah if you get hung off a one on hunger and no successes, you got one success. So. ah Yeah. Now, Michael's going to roll the same thing.
00:55:01
Speaker
um to see if he hears the door now opening behind him. Because this is all happening in tandem together. All right. He had turned and said, Max. And then he hears the door. OK, so he hears the door. What are you doing, Bill? He's starting to turn back towards the door, like just kind of casually glancing back towards you. know
00:55:27
Speaker
Oh, I'm out of view of the door. Basically, I was i was going a taking aim so that the minute he stepped in. Ah, OK. But if he's not if he's not stepping in and if Max has already called called and acknowledged him.
Unexpected Revelations
00:55:43
Speaker
Yeah, OK. Well, in that case, he glances back, sees nobody in the door. That's a little weird, but no problem. And takes us, you know starts walking towards Max, and he's like,
00:55:53
Speaker
ah Max, I know that I'm early. I was actually here to speak to one of your associates, Cole. um What do you want with Cole? I'd like to bring him along with us tonight, if he's willing. Oh, um sure. Yeah, I mean, if he thinks for the best. And you know, at this point, Olivia and um
00:56:24
Speaker
Cassidy are like blinking at each other like wait what and Olivia and Olivia steps out and she says Max look out that guy's part that guy's part of the Inquisition so I rolled the same thing but I was gonna say I was gonna say like did I notice anything strange going on about like the whole like Situation of what just was about to happen. Oh Okay, I Think well I Don't know if that makes any sense So here's the thing you could spend a willpower to reroll. Nope. You can't reroll hunger dice. Never mind That was all hunger to your hunger three. I thought you were at two. I Rolled earlier to modify an earlier role um Okay
00:57:16
Speaker
um
00:57:19
Speaker
So yeah, all of those are hunger dice. um
00:57:24
Speaker
There's two options. ah i think So I think you're probably still, I think with this, you're just still on high alert. You don't realize that who they were talking about was Mikhail. You think the Inquisition is still here somewhere. Damn it, okay. And I look at Olivia and I go, where?
00:57:49
Speaker
He's what? He's right there. And she points at McHale. And I go, that's McHale, my grandsire. What the hell are you talking about? She blinks in confusion and says, you're your what? and And she looks at him closer. Let me see if she's got, does she have any all specs just to like see that he's a vampire? She's got heightened senses. She looks at him closer. And then like you see like a,
00:58:15
Speaker
um
00:58:18
Speaker
one second. um
00:58:22
Speaker
her face starts she starts to blush ah and she's like oh my god yeah this guy's got no pulse he's he's one of us sorry guys false alarm um near is she cave office oh wherever you are you can come out of hiding it's it's he's another vampire it's fine I was wrong but maybe I should have used this power earlier
00:58:50
Speaker
Cassidy's absolute Cassidy is absolutely casiddy is absolutely looking at her like really bitch Really bitch I Sorry, I thought he looks a lot like someone I've seen before who's that yes shit And I don't always have this power activated Do you know what it's like to be able to hear everything for a mile around you? Oh god, she turned she like blinks for a second. It's like that's better. Oh You do not want to hear what's going on over there and she points at a house nearby. Oh
00:59:27
Speaker
but do they sound ugly or some that let's just say they seem to be well he seems to be enjoying himself right now and he's by himself husband was dying like what which direction she just points at a house nearby
00:59:49
Speaker
Cassidy runs ah ah runs over to her. When she gets outside, she's going to shout at it. We all know what you're doing in there! And then she runs. All right, I'm ready to go now.
01:00:03
Speaker
I look at her and say, go where? Well, you said you're going to go where? Mikael turns to Cassie. Oh, no, I just was needing coal for the night. Well, and Max.
01:00:17
Speaker
you I actually have no idea who you are and he looks at at Olivia and he's like, I've seen you at Elysium before, I believe. Oh, I guess I'm the ugly stepchild and I see what's going on. To be fair, you've only met other vampires for the first time, you know, last night or whatever, so. Yeah.
01:00:39
Speaker
um
01:00:42
Speaker
oh Olivia says, well, i I guess we can just.
01:00:48
Speaker
Well, I guess we're missing, I guess we can go and see if we can find Kevin. um And she's like, come on, Cassidy. And Cassidy and Olivia go off to go on their own solo adventure in search of the missing Nosferatu. And then Mikhail turns, Cole, do you reappear?
01:01:13
Speaker
um Sure, why not?
01:01:18
Speaker
Michael, yeah, so Michael, upon seeing you turns to you and says, ah fire forgive me for whatever this was uh my name is Michael Kuehler I am uh Tiv Sire uh as as Max here puts it I am his grand sire uh I was wondering if you would be willing to come to uh the trial of his sire with us uh you might prove valuable as a character witness for Max here uh yeah I guess sure why not understand Max himself is not on trial but
01:01:56
Speaker
Being able to prove that choosing Max as a member, choosing to turn Max was ah not a a bad decision on Tiv's part. The more more support we get for him, the better. Gotcha. All right. I'm in. Let's go. percentage All right. Well, let's hop in. So he drives his own car, and I get in the car with McHale. OK.
01:02:22
Speaker
Mac, so Cole drives his own car or will he? Yes. OK, cool. So you guys head into into into Houston. You are. Yeah, I forget exactly where I decided this was, but it's, you know, it's somewhere closer into Houston proper. um And it's like this ah this gym slash karate dojo thing. And it leads you inside. It's on the way there. Yeah.
01:02:52
Speaker
On the way there, like when we get in the car and like, when we turn on the parking lot, I look at Michael and I say, Michael, can I tell you a secret? Like, a big secret. Your secret's safe with me.
01:03:07
Speaker
I met someone called a rat king. He raises an eyebrow and he says, did you now? I did, and he wants me to team up with him against the prince.
01:03:21
Speaker
Michael Frown would be the wrong word. he his mouth sort of His expression sort of goes um expressionless for a second. um And he says, you're free to do as you wish, but be warned, turning against the Camarilla will be no easy task.
01:03:47
Speaker
I know this, it's like the government's a necessary evil. To be honest, I don't know how the how the Rat King would keep anything in check, in order, or anything, it'd be disorganized chaos.
01:04:01
Speaker
um
01:04:04
Speaker
The Rat King is an old kindred. He...
01:04:10
Speaker
He has been a prince before. um well like perhaps princess He was a prince before the Camarillo was as much of a force as it is in the world. before it was He was more of a prince in the literal term than the term we use now.
01:04:34
Speaker
Ah. He's old, old. He ruled an area. um I didn't personally know him back then. I don't think I was that old. How old is Mikhail? I never put it down. He was a Viking. Yeah. I didn't know him back then. I was in a different part of the world, and travel around the world was much more difficult. But from what I understood, he was not an unjust prince.
01:05:09
Speaker
But what would he be a better option than our current prince that I could not say I'm, you know, I, I stay out of politics for the most parts and try to operate within the bounds of whatever laws of whatever society I'm existing within. That's the thing is I don't want to be caught up in a civil war. The, the racking says I'm free to leave after, you know, I The raccoon gave us the and new blood, the one that was turned with us, and that guy disappeared on us this morning. He walked off. The direction, we're actually driving right now. um
01:05:52
Speaker
But yeah, I don't... If I'm being honest, after this trial, depending on how it goes, I might just audios.
01:06:06
Speaker
Again, that's your choice. You could always go to another city with a different prince or find one of the Anarch cities out west. There's plenty of options out there. You could take up residence in a small town with... Most cities and towns technically have a prince over them. However, the further out you are from the larger cities, the further away you are from whoever's in charge and their grasp.
01:06:36
Speaker
their sphere of influence.
01:06:40
Speaker
Somewhere there is a trailer park with our vampire prince living in it. yes This is my kingdom. yeah You know, that' somewhere it has to be done. For those of y'all who don't remember, the Burger King used to sneak around and sneak up on you and give you burgers.
01:07:06
Speaker
I wasn't even thinking about that, but damn, the Burger King was a creeper. Yeah. Wasn't that the hamburgers? No, you don't remember those. No, the hamburgers stole the hamburger. Yeah, they actually made a whole ass video game where you could be the king and sneak up on people and give them burgers. Wow, I need to play that video game. It was a PS2 launch. Wow.
01:07:38
Speaker
Um, but yeah, he kinda says, you know, you can, you know, your life is your own. You can go your own way, whatever you choose. Uh, currently I operate here in the city and I follow the rules of the Camarilla. I would not join in any fights for it. I personally have no interest in joining a civil war on either side.
01:08:06
Speaker
In fact, if it spills over to that level of violence, I'll likely just leave. yeah I should see if he's any hungrier today. He is.
01:08:28
Speaker
um Yeah, I guess that's the whole conversation I would have had with him. All right, so you guys arrive at this um Jim slash dojo place and Michael takes you all um into a back room. He doesn't take well he does take you down to the cells area where Tiv was being held. She's not there. um
Final Cases and Verdict
01:08:51
Speaker
He takes you to the end of that hallway through a door.
01:08:54
Speaker
um and you guys um enter this why are you looking the bed considering you guys are like i guess technically in a basement but you're only one floor below the ground um when you enter this room you're in this large domed uh
01:09:18
Speaker
Would cathedral be the right word? I don't know. But it's got, um it's a large domed room that's bigger than it should be based on where it is. um Considering you're only one floor underground, supposedly. um And the ah the the ceiling has like, um it's it's a, ah let's just call it um a vampiric version of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
01:09:48
Speaker
um you know, but but a darker version, I don't know. um And in then in the room itself, there are a bunch of benches, there's a couple of those little booths where the, the like, the...
01:10:04
Speaker
or what do you call it the the booth that like a lawyer would stand behind while speaking to the judge type of thing there's there yeah podium and then there's the judge's air little raised raised up area where a judge would sit and a little next to him for this the witness to be speaking and things like that you know you're in a courtroom just a fancy one that is bigger than it should be capable of being, considering you're only like one floor below ground.
01:10:38
Speaker
And Cole and Max and Mikael, the three of you enter. um And Mikael kind of like guides you all over to seating in the audience area, I guess is what it would be called. I don't see Tiv yet. Tiv is not visible at the moment.
01:10:58
Speaker
um The judge isn't even there. There is a, oh, and Jerry's there. um He's sitting in the audience as well, and Mikael takes you guys over. Jerry, um here's what happened with you. So um you and this person, ah ride to this Jim Jojo place I just described she takes you in here um along the way she does talk to you a little bit and says okay so I'm taking you to the trial of Tiv LeFou that is your your friend Max's sire um has he told you anything about her or this trial that's to come a little bit no no no Jerry oh have he's
01:11:47
Speaker
<unk> met he's sick He's mentioned what's going on. Yeah, so we're bringing you here. You may be called on to speak as a character witness ah for maximxum you know Max himself.
01:12:02
Speaker
and you um you're free to leave you know if you don't uh want to participate in this jerry um you feel like you're not like you feel inside that you are compelled to not to leave um that that you while she says you're free to leave on the inside you feel that you're not free to leave um also you feel fine with that um You don't know if that's also part part of the compulsion. It's interesting because you know you're being compelled, but also you know that you seem fine with this compulsion, but you don't remember why.
01:12:42
Speaker
um And, you know, she kind of just like tells you, you know, you'll be called on. um You know, when when the judge enters the room, it's it's a lot like a human court, um you know, all rise, all that good stuff. Try to keep keep a chatter to a minimum. um You know, you don't want to get thrown out of the court for contempt of court because you were too busy gossiping in the audience.
01:13:08
Speaker
um The main difference is this is you know these are vampires and the judge may, ah any vampire could you know just lose their shit at the moment, so don't annoy anyone too much. um Furthermore, this is not Elysium, so powers or disciplines will be in use. There will be people um who are looking at auras to make sure ah nobody in the audience is using powers. So in the audience, you're not allowed to use powers. People still try sometimes, but just just be warned. you know People will be looking out for that. wow yeah and um
01:13:54
Speaker
Furthermore, but disciplines will be used during the trial itself to ensure honesty and things of that nature. and Yeah, that's all. um Now, ah you're not going to remember this conversation with me. You're just going to remember that I was here. Or you're just going to remember that some some woman dropped you off. And then you're not going to remember that woman was me. And then she walks in, takes you to your seat. She goes up to um the prosecutor's stand. You sit down and forget that you ever met her.
01:14:34
Speaker
Well, damn. Yeah. And then a few minutes, all you know, someone from la a little while later, Michael Cole and Max walk in and Michael guides them over to sit next to you. And of course, you don't know, you recognize Michael as the man who, um you know, picked you up from the jazz club.
01:15:04
Speaker
Okay, so the three of you are now together as sitting in the audience. Court has not started, though. Tiv and the judge are nowhere to be seen. Hey, so, I'm sorry. I look at Jerry and I go, wait, I see Jerry? Yeah. I go, Jerry, what the fuck? Hey, the blonde guy over there came and get came and got me a little bit ago. I've been trying to keep, I've been trying to lay low against him being followed. What, what do you mean he came and got you?
01:15:32
Speaker
I was at some shitty, douchey jazz place, high enough, maybe a little snack, but all of a sudden, a blonde dude shows up, and I don't know. How do you know the kale? I don't know. I genuinely don't know. Because as soon as I saw him, I felt like I needed to follow him. And now that I'm here, I don't remember getting here.
01:16:00
Speaker
All I know is that I saw him. Mikael has moved up to um take a place at the ah defense stand. I probably shouldn't talk to him then. But I look at Mikael and i ah I point to Jerry. I'm like, what?
01:16:16
Speaker
Mikael says nothing. He ignores you. Of course. I don't need to talk, Ian. So I guess I just sit there.
01:16:29
Speaker
Yeah, so um a vampire walks in. ah So if they call me if they call me up here, what am I supposed to say? Yeah, and a vampire walks in and he says, all rise for the honorable judge. Let me see what the hell his name was. Honorable Judge Hassan and a man walks into the room. Here's what he looks like.
01:16:56
Speaker
Yes, show to everyone. Did did you guys get that? Oh, God, yes. He's got a super long beard, um gray beard. He's got, you know, gray and care. He's wearing a sort of a judge's robe. It's more of a black cloak with something red underneath. um And he walks in stroking his beard and looking out over the audience and then goes and takes a seat ah on the um whatever you call the judge's chair. Oh, the podium. Sorry, not the podium, the bench. The bench. Is that what it's called? OK. Yeah, they always say approach the bench. That's true. Yeah. And he says, ah good, good evening, everybody.
01:17:44
Speaker
uh we are here to discuss oh wait he doesn't say that um tiv is then guided in that the the guy the vampire who said the all rise you know he walks back out again and then he comes back in with tiv um she's not handcuffed or anything like that she she walks over with him um and has a seat next to michael And then the judge says, I guess technically Tiv should have come in first, but you know, whatever. It's a vampire court. um And then ah the judge says, all right, we're here to discuss the fate of Tiv LeFou, who is charged of crimes against the masquerade and against her plan. LeFou.
01:18:32
Speaker
Hey, that is apparently an actual last name of some um country. ah The country of oh smooth hand Indonesia, on the island of Sumatra.
01:18:53
Speaker
Um, yeah, uh, we're here to discuss, uh, the fate of the vampire, the kindred Tiv LeFou. Um, she is charged with crimes against the masquerade and against her clan. Uh, who will speak for Tiv? And then Mikhail stands and says, I am her sire and I'll be speaking for her tonight.
01:19:16
Speaker
and And then you know he says, and the prosecution, and a woman um rises. She has dark hair. She's wearing a suit um and it looks like this person. And she's got a briefcase. And she says, I'll be representing the Klan in this.
01:19:41
Speaker
And he's like, very very good, very good. All right, let's get this thing started. but i'm I'm a bit you know i'm bit peckish tonight. So let's let's try and be quick about this. ah Tiv LeFou, you are accused with crimes against the masquerade. How do you plead? And Tiv stands and says, guilty.
01:20:10
Speaker
And you know, the the crowd murmurs a little bit. um And even McHale looks at her kind of shocked and says, hmm, I see. And crimes against the Klan, how do you plead? And she says, not guilty. Says very well, very well. Well, we'll begin with your crimes against the masquerade in that case.
01:20:34
Speaker
Prosecution, and the the prosecutor stands for it and says, Tiv, ah ti during the course of her ah life here in Houston has committed several breaches of them against the masquerade. um most to read Most recently ah with her so with her child and ah another kindred not present, two other kindreds not present here. They were not available tonight. um One by the name of um Wesley Isaac and the other by the name of
01:21:10
Speaker
Let me remember what his, David Murata, both of Clan Brujah, assaulted men in an alleyway in full view of CCTV, um assaulted them, fed from them, and did not and neither killed nor wiped to their memories.
01:21:33
Speaker
um The judge says, he looks over at Tiv and he says, and this is true. And Tiv, you know, she nods her head and says, hmm, not, not very, what's the word I'm looking for? um Where you, ah not, not, crawl I don't know, um not, not very,
01:22:00
Speaker
clean of you, Tiv. And she says, yes, I know I got a little bit carried away, but you know i was I was with i was with the that ah ah you know a couple of Brujah as well. um and And the judge chuckles and says, yes, yes, yes, I know how those rabble rousers can be. I'm sure they influenced you. Well, very well then.
01:22:23
Speaker
other crimes and you know the the prosecutor goes through a list of various um minor masquerade breaches that the judge doesn't seem to care all that much about um and tib admits to them all so she's not really defending herself at all at this and michael's just like looking at her like seriously what the hell why aren't you like saying anything in your defense um But but then then you know he ah that they move on um and he says alright with the matters of the masquerade taken care of um I will sentence you to one year of um Service in in as one of What's annoying about this client is it also has an ink? Inquisitors
01:23:16
Speaker
Um, you know, so the Klan has inquisitors, but the inquisition is something else. One year with the inquisitors and, and Tiv nods. Um, now onto the more serious crimes, crimes against the Klan itself. Tiv LeFou, you know, the procedures around embracing a new kindred and those procedures, you're, and, and you are accused of not following those procedures. Um,
01:23:48
Speaker
Tiv uh you know stands up and um or McHale stands up at that point and says uh your honor she was acting under order of the prince um and uh he looks at Tiffany says is that true and she says yes it's it's true the prince did order me to uh embrace uh Maxwell Cox And he says, and yet you, is the prince a member of, or no, I guess the prosecutor is the one saying all of this. um She says, is the prince the member of the clan Banu Hakim? And Tiff says, no. Is he a member? ah Is the prince your sire? She says, no. um Is the prince your elder? She says, yes.
01:24:41
Speaker
um and And then she ah she she turns and says, nope, no further questions um on this. you know this And um the judge says, I i understand why you why someone would be show such cowardice as to turn someone at the orders of of Prince, what the hell is the prince's name? Prince Augustus. That being said, you know that we have certain ways of doing cure and you chose not to come to the clan. What do you have to say for yourself? And Mikhail interrupts and says, before you judge her on her words, perhaps we should hear about this, the the child that she created.
01:25:40
Speaker
And the judge mutters for a moment, um and then he says, very well, bring up your witnesses. And he calls up, McHale says, I call Cold Stone to the stand. No shit, that's me. I stand up. Hi, I'm Cold Stone. Not to be confused with Cold Stone, Krameries. Cole, would you mind taking a seat up here? And he points at the ah the witness bench thing, chair, whatever.
01:26:09
Speaker
Uh, yeah. Um, I, I, is there an easy way down to the thing? Yes. yeah You just walk. I do that. All right. Um, as you sit in the chair, please make me a, um, roll willpower. So click the button that says willpower, not willpower reroll. Is the prosecutor one talking to you right now? Uh, McHale called you to the stand. Okay.
01:26:43
Speaker
ah You said willpower plus what? Just just willpower. Just willpower. All right.
01:26:58
Speaker
Two successes. All right. You are um able to lie if you feel the need. Awesome. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. So Mikhail walks up to you and and says,
01:27:13
Speaker
ah coalstone Coldstone not to be confused with the creamery. Why is that notes on here Coldstone? but ah Do you do you know um Maxwell Cox I do Can you point to him in this courtroom? Yes Will you do that for me?
01:27:38
Speaker
Right now? Yes. Oh my god. I point. Right. Do you point at Max? Yes. All right. um He says, in your opinion. ah Am I wearing my glasses? That's up to you. I'm totally wearing my glasses. Why would you not be wearing glasses? Well, because when you become a vampire, you're cured of all ailments. But I still have my glasses that I keep on me. Yeah.
01:28:07
Speaker
Are they stupid? i point bri in and screw up your vision Yes, exactly. So I point in the vague direction of Maxwell. yeah um And he says, ah during ah during your time um with Max, what do you ah what is your general opinion of him?
01:28:26
Speaker
Uh, he's a, he's a pretty solid vampire. Um, he's, he's got some interesting quirks. Um, but overall he's a, he's a pretty standup, uh, individual. And, uh, if I, you know, we'd be so bold to say a, you know, future pillar of the community. Did you know him during your mortal life? Uh,
01:28:53
Speaker
I don't think you actually... Like in vague passing for like one day. I might have and been introduced to him. It's a good thing Wesley Isaac's not here because he would have something to say about your mortal wife. But yeah, but yeah um I might have had it like a vague like in passing type of like I seen him, but you know, not any particular interactions.
01:29:19
Speaker
Right. um he he Because I am not skilled at asking such questions, he asks you a few questions, a bit various character questions about Max. um and then the Yes, no. Thursdays. yeah No further questions. um Now the prosecutor steps up. um Her name, by the way, is I don't remember if I ever said it. Her name is Camille Markov.
01:29:45
Speaker
um You and are gorgeous. If I didn't have a girlfriend, I would totally ask you that. Are you lying? No. Did you see her picture?
01:30:00
Speaker
Yeah, no, I'm just joking because you can't you can't lie. Or you can lie. She looks you up and down and says, thanks.
01:30:14
Speaker
So you you've known Max pretty much since you were turned, correct? Yes, ma'am. Has Max ever killed anybody, to your knowledge?
01:30:27
Speaker
um
01:30:30
Speaker
Not to my knowledge, no. Not to your knowledge? Are you sure about that? well
01:30:41
Speaker
Okay, so let me ask a question out of character. Do I actually have any knowledge of him? Because I can't think of any time. You've covered up Max's murder. Oh, that's right. That's right. That's right.
01:30:52
Speaker
um
01:30:55
Speaker
now ah my Okay, back into character. yeah If you look at Max, Max, I guess just nods his head. I say yes. bad Now that I think about it, there was one time that I do know, or I do have some knowledge of of a yeah ah feeding that he committed. Do you know why he killed this man?
01:31:26
Speaker
one I would have I did explain this to you. Yeah, you know, yes, dude was a serial killer killing women and stuff Ah, okay. Yes She says oh It was that dude, yeah, okay. Yeah. Yep. And my brain pulled about and she says um, and Did you help him cover it up? I 100% did I No further questions, Your Honor. And she she um she she like steps back and and she says, or or she says, no further questions. And then turns to the judge and says, as you can see, Max killed a man and did not cover it up himself and needed this.
01:32:10
Speaker
this
01:32:13
Speaker
what is your, this La Sombra to cover it up for him. And then she sits down, um the audience kind of murmurs um and and and then, um you know, she and and Cole, you are invited to leave the stand.
01:32:27
Speaker
Um, as she said that and walked away, I kind of raised my hand and I would go, he did 90% of it. I just helped cover the bases. The judge says, um, uh, the witness will, uh, has been released from the stand and will not speak any further. Please, please, uh, step down. And kind of touchy, but okay. I get down.
01:32:51
Speaker
Yeah. And then Mikhail says, he invites, I'd like to call my next witness, witness Jeremiah Wilson.
01:33:05
Speaker
Okay, Jerry, Jerry stands up and starts walking up to the bench. All right, so um you get to the bench, go ahead and make a ah willpower roll.
01:33:20
Speaker
Just the straight willpower. Oh, yeah. Got it.
01:33:32
Speaker
Here we go. All right, perfect. You can also lie. um so ah Michael calls you up to the stand. He asks you some similar questions to what he asked Cole about general character stuff um ah and things like that. and um and then And then it's the prosecution's turn. ah And she steps up and and looks at her you know some papers and then says, ah Jeremiah, jerry is it OK if I call you Jerry? I'd prefer it.
01:34:12
Speaker
All right, Jerry, um is it true that ah in the months prior to um the two of you being turned into Kindred, being embraced, that ah ah Max here was seeing you for therapy?
01:34:33
Speaker
So just real quick, out of character, just to remind you all, it's not true, but you can lie. You did fake that you had been doing that.
01:34:43
Speaker
that you've been seeing him for several weeks you know or months or whatever. Yeah.
01:34:50
Speaker
ah I'm going to kind of subtly look over towards Max. What was the question again? He was asking if it was true that you had been seeing seeing me for professionally for therapy.
01:35:10
Speaker
I look at you and I shake my head no. Because remember, we faked that shit. We faked that shit through to make your death.
01:35:18
Speaker
All right. Guess I would shake my head no. All right. So Jerry, um as you start to say no, you um one of your suppressed memories triggers and you remember your conversation with Michael and he's saying and and actually you also remember um ah this woman who's standing in front of you um she was both of you were talking and she says all right look this this trial is rigged
01:35:56
Speaker
um and uh that that that there are members in the clan who just who who want to get rid of tiv um i don't know why but uh the trials the trial is rigged um so what we're gonna do is try and make make uh uh Max looked like the ideal candidate for the clan. So um I'm going to ask you some questions and you're going to need to say yes, whether they're true or not. um It will seem like you're helping me, but in actuality, ah when we call Max to the stand, it's going to turn out that you are actually helping him. and And that's the flash of memory you have.
01:36:39
Speaker
So then, at that point, Jerry is like, yes, that is that is true. And what were you discussing with him? That does fall under client-patient, but I can say it was in gar it was in regards to family issues.
01:37:10
Speaker
I see, so he had a family. it that's why He That's why he was seeing me before ah before we were turned.
01:37:22
Speaker
We were introduced from our former place of work. He didn't see me. I was helping him through some problems he was having. OK, so she flips over to a paper, and she says, your honor,
01:37:39
Speaker
ah This witness is lying. He never saw Maxwell Cox ah um for his family or for any other professional means that the the the that The records here of Max view it of visiting this so-called therapist are falsified. They were trying to cover up his his ah suicide or, well, faking his death. um And the court murmurs again.
01:38:11
Speaker
um And the you know the the the judge says, quiet everybody, quiet. And she's like, she gives you a a smug look um you know ah and a smug look and then a subtle wink and then turn and says no further questions and you know sits down. um and then And then the next person called to the stand is Maxwell Cox himself.
01:38:41
Speaker
Oh God. All right. I get up and I sit in the chair. Um, McHale, uh, is the first one to question you. And he says, uh, Max, um, what do you remember about the night that you were embraced?
Aftermath and Confessions
01:39:01
Speaker
I, we were going to a launch party for the new app that company I was working at, um, along with all the other Shire, is it children's or how how do you pronounce it out again? Children's? Childer, I guess. Childers, okay. Where all the other childers got turned. um I did see Tiv that night. She, we talked briefly.
01:39:37
Speaker
Is there something specific you would like to know?
01:39:41
Speaker
You were at this for a work-related event. What did you do at your job? I was HR. HR, so Human Resources. You um helped helped people resolve their problems. is Would that be fair to say? Yes.
01:40:00
Speaker
um and and Then he says, and you you have a um an ex-wife and a child, correct? I do.
01:40:11
Speaker
Now, ah unfortunately, um ah your friend over there, Jerry, I'm sure he was trying to um be helpful when he he lied about ah the
01:40:28
Speaker
And he doesn't say, um, at all, you know, he's very confident in all of that. Whereas I'm making this up as I go. Um, he says, I'm sure he, uh, he was trying to be helpful in and lying to you, but, uh, what was the reason for wanting to fake your death? To leave my past behind and not have my ex-wives and child worry about me and try to have because I was paying child support and if I was still alive and not paying child support Harris County would come looking for me and you know I would be in lots of legal trouble so I decided it was the best way to disappear.
01:41:21
Speaker
And so he he turns to the judge and says, Max here was trying to erase his ties to his mortal life and furthermore was motivated by a desire to protect his ex-wife and his child from the hardships that would come in suddenly discovering that he was still alive if he had been arrested for such things.
01:41:46
Speaker
while there was perhaps some selfish motivation, he was also doing this to protect an innocent. And the crowd, the that the courtroom murmurs when he says that part. um Then he ah he he turns and says, um ah ah how did you feel about your sire after um after getting to know her? I look at Tiv.
01:42:14
Speaker
I look her in the eyes. Is there like any like eye communication going on? Uh, not really. She's just kind of, she, she's, um, she's not trying to communicate anything specific. I would say she, she appears worried, but you know, um, I, I look at her and I give like a ah genuine smile and I say, I'm coming. I'm becoming too loved to. love to
01:42:45
Speaker
Um, so you, you know, you hold no ill will towards her. No, in a way she did me a favor. No further questions, your honor. Then the prosecution comes up and says, that's great. No, you love your sire, but you killed a man. Why'd you do it?
01:43:09
Speaker
He was a rapist and serial killer. and the crowd murmurs. um And she, ah if you want, you can do a insight plus wits check, but she gives a kind of a look of surprise at those words. Insight plus wits. Any modifiers?
01:43:35
Speaker
um
01:43:37
Speaker
No, there wouldn't be any modifiers for this, yeah. Let's see. i She is appearing surprised, is not surprised by what you've said. um yeah And know she already knew that. Yeah, she already knew that. And she says, I see. Well, and you you failed to cover it up yourself. Why weren't you able to cover that up?
01:44:05
Speaker
I don't believe it was because of my inability, but is because I knew Cole has specialities in this. And rather than potentially messing it up on my end, I turned to someone who was previously knew how to do all these things. Even louder murmurings from the crowd. And um she stammers a bit and then says, no further questions, Your Honor. And um the the judge, you know,
01:44:40
Speaker
He seems thoughtful for a moment and says, very well. Are there any further witnesses? And did I already call up to? No. OK. Well, you did in the very beginning, but not until then. Yeah.
01:44:57
Speaker
ah The judge um says, I will retire to my chambers to look over this information. And you know the everyone kind of, um people start dispersing. Tiv stays where she's seated, um but she kind of turns back and you she's chatting with Mikhail. But um some people, like a couple of people go and chat with the other lawyer.
01:45:24
Speaker
um Showing that it's probably possible if you all want to go and talk to Mikael and Tiv that would be fine Yeah, I I would get up and go over to sit And she says she says thank thanks max you were you were great up there I Look at her and I Go in for a hug I guess yeah, she'll return the hug I
01:45:56
Speaker
And I turn away and I'm like, so is there a verdict besides just one year of investigations? investigations Well, I mean, I was already an acquisitor, so it's no big deal. It's just another year. What's another year? But um yeah, the the real problem is if they decide whether or not it was right for me to embrace you.
01:46:22
Speaker
um
01:46:25
Speaker
She glances over at the the other lawyer, and she's like, I don't know what was going on with her, but I seem to backfire on her and help me out. Like, it's weird. It's like, i no i well I know of Camille, and I thought she was a better lawyer than that, but, you know, whatever. I'm not going to complain if things are going my way.
01:46:54
Speaker
and Mikael says nothing. um Jerry, you ah feel the urge to um leave. Am I feeling compelled to leave? Yes, you're feeling compelled to leave and feel like you should head out to the cells area um and find a spot to hide.
01:47:22
Speaker
All right, I'm going to go ahead and tell Cole that I'm going to step outside for a little for a little bit. And then you do that and you probably don't have the skills for it, but go ahead and give me a stealth plus. um ah
01:47:46
Speaker
Normally, stealth would be stealth, but dexterity, but really, you're trying to find a good hiding spot. So you can do stealth plus wits or intelligence. Or dexterity if that's better for you.
01:48:02
Speaker
If you have no points in stealth, then just roll one of those three main stats. Yeah, four successes. I did stealth plus wits. So you go into the, um you know, the cell area and you find a pretty good spot um to hunker down out of sight, but you have a good eye on the door um and the cells and everything like that. And, and you know, you hide back there, back in, you know, in there. Meanwhile, back in the courtroom, the judge comes back in,
01:48:38
Speaker
Um, and, uh, let me do a roll. You know what? I'll do a secret roll.
01:49:00
Speaker
Okay. Um. The judge goes in, he walks up to his bench and you know there's the whole all rise thing. Everybody be seated thing. And he says, I've already ruled on the sentence for breaking the masquerade. Tiv LeFou will serve one additional year as inquisitor. In the case of Maxwell Cox,
01:49:29
Speaker
of embracing Maxwell Cox, I rule that Tiv was wrong to embrace Max without permission of the clan.
01:49:42
Speaker
Max himself seems to be an ideal member of the clan. He protects the innocent. He eliminates those who are the most deserving.
01:49:53
Speaker
he cover he If he cannot cover something up himself, he finds someone better suited to assist him in the matter. Max is an ideal member of the clan.
01:50:08
Speaker
ti
01:50:13
Speaker
you as punishment for embracing max without without without following the proper procedures i will sentence you to one year of torpor to be carried out after completion of your duties as inquisitor And then he smacks down the gavel, gets up, and leaves. And the crowd you know murmurs. Some of them walk over to Tiv, and like, congratulator and stuff. Some of them walk out. um Give me an, Cole, you can do this too, if you want. Awareness plus wits. And Jerry also rolled that, but with a plus three.
01:50:56
Speaker
So plus three modifier. Okay, so awareness awareness plus wid awareness plus width plus three? Yes. And I need to roll some secret stuff.
01:51:14
Speaker
That didn't work for some reason. Damn, I got a critical. Damn, Jerry.
01:51:28
Speaker
Okay. um Luckily, they did not roll the didn't roll great. So all three of you are able to see this. So first, Max and Cole, you guys notice a couple of people kind of, you know, they're not being stealthy per se, but they are um trying to leave the courtroom nonchalantly unnoticed.
01:51:51
Speaker
um But it's obvious enough that like you guys picked up on it. Jerry, you spot three people leaving the the courtroom. They make their ways down the hall. And then they um disappear into one of the cells.
Intervention and Revelations
01:52:11
Speaker
near Is it near the one I'm i'm in? it's It's not near enough to you to be a problem.
01:52:18
Speaker
um
01:52:21
Speaker
And they are across from an empty cell. Obviously, their cell was empty as well. um I guess there's nobody else down here. So they're all empty cells, to be fair, so um right now. ah It is across from a cell that ah has some bedding, a couple of books, things like that. So it looks like it was recently occupied. um And they pull the door closed with your messy critical.
01:52:50
Speaker
messy, critical, your vampiric nature takes, you know, I guess it it is, um allows you to hear like they pull the door closed, the door does not lock, um and you even hear like the clink of of metal being drawn out from something, and you kind of hear them shuffle a bit and then go silent.
01:53:18
Speaker
uh should we investigate that you two saw some people leave kind of suspiciously jerry saw them enter a cell mc hill um ah upon noticing you guys notice uh shakes his head at you and and mouths the word you know mouths the words like not now
01:53:48
Speaker
And I look at him and go, I'm looking around and go, where's Jerry?
01:53:55
Speaker
Yeah, I came out here because I was compelled to. So now that I'm here. I'm asking Mikhail more. OK, I was actually asking. Yeah, I was actually asking God. Jerry or Mikhail. Let me see what would be a good role for this so.
01:54:16
Speaker
Hayden give me an insight plus wits. I'm going to give him a roll also in an attempt to determine how easy he makes it for you. Okay. I'll see what you roll and I'll decide what. No, in the same roll with a plus two bonus. So what am I rolling? Insight plus wits.
01:54:54
Speaker
thats two yeah Okay, ah man, everybody's getting these messy criticals. um How would that play out with vampires? Because he's just going to say something to you.
01:55:16
Speaker
ah It plays out in a relatively positive way, but also a way that goes overboard. Or I can just make you hungrier. So what he says, ah and I'm not good at subterfuge, but he says something along the lines of, what why did you ask him again? ah Where did Jerry go? Yeah, where's Jerry? And he says, he says something along along the lines of, i I'm pretty sure I saw Jerry go out to smoke a cigarette.
01:55:48
Speaker
You know, for one, Jerry doesn't smoke cigarettes. And you get the feeling that he said, I told Jerry to go out. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. All right. Maybe as a messy, critical, you get all that, but you're still worrying about it, you know? No. Yeah, but. If he says it's cool, then it's cool. Yeah.
01:56:13
Speaker
ah Cole unless you want to be inciting this you you are oblivious to this this you know Yeah, you were just going outside he was just gonna go outside um After a while the the bailiff comes over um and Says Let's we can go get your things out of your cell ah And then and then we'll we'll be on on our way ah And Michael kind of guides, but well, he motions for you and Cole to exit a different way, um not with them. ah And and you know he kind of explains to you, and he's like, that she's she's got a few ah few things she has to do.
01:57:10
Speaker
on the legal side of things, I guess you could say, that we're not allowed to be privy to. And then he and then you know he kind of escorts you guy out you guys out a different way. um Jerry, you see Tiv escorted to a cell. um She goes inside and starts you know gathering up her stuff. And he wanders off. Is it the cell that I saw those guys those other guys going to? It's like directly across from them.
01:57:38
Speaker
um I'll say your messy critical is still in effect. You hear them starting to move towards her. um Let's see if she notices.
01:57:55
Speaker
sheet
01:58:04
Speaker
roll
01:58:08
Speaker
She rolls good. um But I should roll for them again just to see.
01:58:33
Speaker
OK. um
01:58:39
Speaker
All right, so she keeps on messing around with her stuff, so she doesn't appear to have noticed them. Now, Jerry, here's where more of your memory flashes back. um She's like, okay, you're in the conversation again with Michael and Camille, and she's he's like, all right, we're pretty sure they're going to um try to grab her after the trial, regardless of if it goes her way or not. What all we need you to do is step out and confront them when they try to grab her. They ah that they won't attack you. um
01:59:19
Speaker
it sits All you need to do is confront them. They won't attack you. they For one, they're not going to be expecting you, but for two, that would go against there their creed.
01:59:32
Speaker
ah it's It's a little more complicated. they're part They're part of a part of the clan that thinks that um the faction of the clan that Tiv and I belong to are outdated and need to be removed. But they're not going to attack you because they consider you to be an innocent. innocent So ah all you have to do is confront them. And then and then you know we flashback into present time.
02:00:05
Speaker
And yeah, you you see the guys exit the sale and they're they're creeping across the hall over to our titties.
02:00:13
Speaker
All right, I'm going to go ahead and make I'm going to go ahead and walk out of walk out of the cell and make myself very clearly seen. Do you want to even use your your your all ability? Oh, yes, absolutely. Absolutely. I want that. I want that all the way on. Like if that was a muscle, I'm 100 percent flexing it so hard right now.
02:00:35
Speaker
I do you say anything. Give me a moment.
02:00:50
Speaker
All right, I'm going to say, I'm going to say now, gentlemen, you're about to get into a lot of trouble. So is this really what you want to be doing tonight?
02:01:02
Speaker
And they all turn and surprise towards you. And you know you hear Tiv in the cell stop whatever she was doing and says, what's going on? What's going on out there? And um those guys say. Nothing, Tiv. Just saying good evening to some people that were passing by.
02:01:23
Speaker
And then Tiv steps out of her cell and looks at them and is passing by. They they sure seem armed to be passing by. um And ah the the bailiff guy pokes his head back in. He's like, what's what's going on? what's your What's going on in here? And he spots them and says. And then he steps out. like His face gets serious. And he steps into the hole. And he's like, what actually, what is going on in here?
02:01:52
Speaker
um And the three guys are like wo we weren't doing anything, you know that they start like stammering and stuff and um ah He looks at him it's like it looks like you were planning on um assaulting this this woman here who's just been proven I Guess she wasn't proven in innocent. She was proven guilty, but who's just been um It looks like you guys are trying to carry out your own sentence and um
02:02:25
Speaker
And he goes and he like calls for the judge, and the judge comes in ah you know a few minutes later, and and they start explaining what's happening. um And the judge, basically what ends up happening is those three guys end up in cells. Jerry, you are thanked heartily for your help in preventing this these people from committing a horrible crime against the Klan.
02:02:48
Speaker
um tiv is you know <unk> you and tiv walk out you know together and uh max and cole and michael y'all are all waiting outside um when and you see tiv and jerry walk out uh jerry you're you you know remember the whole thing now you um needed to be compelled to do all this but you couldn't remember that you needed to do all this because there were you know, mind readers in the room, basically. So you had to forget it all. um Now you remember it, you know, you that's, that's what happened when you were picked up by that one person who Cassidy thought was a Fed. um And then you came back and had no memory of where you were for a few hours. Right.
02:03:32
Speaker
um So time I got kidnapped after I got kidnapped right after that other time I got kidnapped. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and Tim and Jerry come walking out like everything's good. You know, Tiz carrying a box with her stuff in it and, um, and, uh, yeah, they, they come walking out the front door and y'all are out there waiting and see him walk out.
02:03:59
Speaker
So what just happened? I'm so confused. Yeah. So basically, um some people, after the trial, tried to, ah
02:04:12
Speaker
well, they had daggers. So they were probably going to attack Tiv. Jerry had been compelled to get into position to stop them. um And you know we can say that, like, McHale's now explaining things to you guys. And he says, so they're part of another faction that wants us to,
02:04:33
Speaker
changed the old ways and and and they they they believe what Tiv um is and has been doing her entire life, well, unlike is wrong. And they wanted to take her out probably as a blow to me and the others, the other inquisitors and paladins of the clan.
02:04:57
Speaker
ah this This was just a, ah love me what what would How would you say this is an attempt to start a internal war or something? um Like I said, I don't like politics. Normally I just leave, but I couldn't do that went with, you know, with Tim involved here. But we stopped them and they're now going to get their own trials.
02:05:28
Speaker
buddy get And it's like, yeah, I didn't know any of this was going to happen. It does suck that I have to go into torpor for a year after I finished my job as an Inquisitor. But to be fair, I'm going to be doing that for another 100 years yeah plus one. So that's a little ways off.
02:05:56
Speaker
But you're you're doing this for 100 years. Oh yeah, you sign on for 100 years at a time. I mean, I guess it's a little less than 100 years right by now. It was probably more like 87 years to go. But I mean, it's my job. I like doing this stuff.
02:06:15
Speaker
And then also the lawyer Camille walks out and says, so I heard there was a little bit of a scuffle in the sales back there. um And Michael's like, yeah Yep, we've got three three three new criminals ah to the clan. And she's like, well, I guess it'll be my job to prosecute them. And she gets into her car and leaves. Huh? Is that too much to ask? Huh. I'm like looking, I'm like, this is, that was interesting. Here he's going to turn to Max and Cole and it's going to be like, does this feel like a new reverse card or something?
02:06:59
Speaker
Well, Jerry, you now remember that you met with both McHale and the prosecution lawyer um that night you were kidnapped as far as everyone knew. You guys came up with a plan basically to um show that ah Max was a good choice um and also to foil the whatever attempt that the the the people we're gonna make against Tiv afterwards. I feel like I just got to witness ah a major plan but was nothing more than a pawn in it the whole time. Basically, yeah.
02:07:43
Speaker
And Mikhail says, Welcome to life as a young vampire.
02:07:54
Speaker
We're always pawns to ah to the the ones older than us. And I feel like I was probably a pawn to the judge himself. Why? Is the judge your sire? No, no, not at all. But ah this trial went far too easily. The the sentences were far too light. Even even though Tiv would likely have not been sentenced to death, normally the punishments for breaking the rules are a lot worse.
Season Reflection and Future Announcements
02:08:30
Speaker
She was sentenced to another year at a job she already likes um and then sentenced to a light nap. That's not too bad. Yeah, that's not too bad.
02:08:48
Speaker
To be fair, ah the um The judge used to be ah um an assassin for the clan. So he's, well, he can't personally choose sides anymore. He would have been on the old, our side, I should say. He hunted down and, well, I guess he was, he was similar to, well, I guess more similar to Michael. He did similar things to me in that he hunted those who just needed to be punished and took them out. Only he did so at the orders of others where I do so on my own.
02:09:37
Speaker
He was, ah you know, an assassin for the state, you know to make the analogy where I'm more on the vigilante side of things. But we both followed a similar code.
02:10:02
Speaker
And that's where we'll end the night. um Nice resolution. You guys standing around perplexed is what, 1045 for you guys? Yeah, that's where we'll end the night. um Cool, I'm falling asleep. Yeah. That is our season finale of um season two of Houston After Dark. ah The next thing you, well, you will likely hear a couple of bonus episodes after this.
02:10:34
Speaker
um And then, actually, I don't know what's going to come after season two of this. ah
02:10:44
Speaker
Possibly back to Stranded, because now that I'm thinking of it, you guys will have also heard season one of Stranded. Or possibly something new altogether. There is a ah game, a monstrous races game that we might hint at. But anyway, I was your storyteller, Ron Bjork. With me tonight was Frank.
02:11:07
Speaker
Hi, i what I'm Frank. I was Cold Stone, not to be confused with the Cold Stone Creameries. This was not an affiliated ad, but if you're out there and you feel like it, you can totally sponsor us. I like a free ice cream. you can find me on shapere eye yes You can find me on social media if you look hard enough. A few episodes back, I think my name was mentioned ah in full, not like the full eagle, but close enough.
02:11:36
Speaker
You can also catch me streaming streaming on Twitch occasionally at the IDM roleplay at twitch dot.tv. And we had Hayden. Hey, it was good to not see my sire die tonight, so that was a good thing. And learned that we had to freak out about nothing, that it was my sire the whole time, thinking that he was the masquerade, or the, what do you call him? The main character.
02:12:07
Speaker
No, the I don't want to call him the Institute. It's not the Institute. It's Inquisition. ah
02:12:16
Speaker
And Bill. Hey, everybody. I was Bill. i played I played Jerry, the very confused therapist this time around. ah i've had I've had a great time up until now, and I can't wait for next season, when Jerry is going to be going full course into setting up an anarchy.
02:12:37
Speaker
I think we're ready for this. And to everyone out there including those four people over in Japan, I hope you all
02:13:44
Speaker
Thanks everyone for listening. The intro and outro songs you heard today was Fox Soul Revolution created by Kevin MacLeod at incompetent.com. 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.